MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jheimark | 2025-04-30 20:45:10+00:00
> That's the job of each employee, CTO, and architects, together. Not the CEO. The CEO shouldn't make technical decisions like that.

Using your company's product isn't a technical decision. This is a ridiculous statement.

> OTOH, I remember all the toxic managers (along with the HR, CEO, and other spineless people) who told me to chill out after having verbally abused people

Why are you verbally abusing people? That is not very nice. I agree that you should chill out and stop doing that.
by mbrameld | 2025-04-30 20:45:15+00:00
I agree with everything you said, just want to point out that there's a "street to seat" program for Army aviators, so the warrant may have never served as an enlisted soldier. I still don't think a reluctance to act based on rank was the issue, like at all. Aviation is different from the rest of the military, there is generally a culture of safety that supersedes the rank structure.
by decimalenough | 2025-04-30 20:45:28+00:00
China faces many long-term headwinds but they're not in crisis yet. The Chinese housing bubble has been deflating since 2020. The state pension and healthcare systems are less than generous so care for the elderly is not that expensive (yet). And Chinese government debt is less than half the US despite being 5x the population.

At the end of the day, the US represents only 8% of China's exports and only 2% of China's GDP. Losing that will hurt, but China is far better placed to weather the loss than the US.
by endofreach | 2025-04-30 20:45:55+00:00
Just be thankful for all the companies destroying their "products" in favour of AI. They show that they won't be worth it in the future. A lot of companies will go away, and it won't be the ones "missing out" on "AI"... most of them will be the ones who cripple their product for some pseudo hype.

It just shows they have no idea what to do, so just squeeze "AI" in... there are too many SaaS out there anyway.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-30 20:45:59+00:00
Pretty sure this is intentional to encourage doom scroll and to make the giant video titles and shocked-face-tiles easier to see and thus click on. Whatever gets you to click faster and make those ad dollars.

I'm more than a little disgusted by how moronic we are made to look now that every video tile caters to the dumbest person with the most base instincts. If YOU aren't SHOCKED by this TITLE how will we get you to CLICK IT? :O :O :O MUST SEE this video BEFORE YOU CONTINUE READING HN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFZjo5PgG0
Show HN: AI Virtual Influencer That Posts for You (Fully Automated)
by Tima_fey | 2025-04-30 20:46:12+00:00
I’ve been building this over the last six months — it’s an AI virtual influencer that posts content as your digital self, fully automated. You choose or create a custom avatar (with your voice, if you want), pick topics that matter to you, and it starts creating short-form content — script, voice, visuals, and captions — then posts it across your connected social media channels — so you stay active online with zero effort.

It’s free to try. You’ll need to sign up, though, since custom avatars are tied to your account for privacy (so no one else can use them). It works on mobile (Flutter-based app), but for now I recommend using the desktop version — mobile’s still a bit glitchy.

Would love your feedback on two things:

1. Is the UI/UX intuitive? 2. Do you see real value in this product — something you’d use or recommend?

Thanks! Here’s the link: https://evatar.ai

Happy to answer any questions.
by sjs382 | 2025-04-30 20:46:40+00:00
Seems that for a FAC 1, UH-60, 48 hours is required semiannually (every 6 months) and 12hr of sim can be applied to meet those flight time minimums. For FAC 2, it's 30 over 6 months, also allowing 12 hrs of that as sim time.

One source among many: https://helicopterforum.verticalreference.com/topic/24169-ar...

This is one of those situations where common intuition doesn't match reality. I've similarly been wrong in the past where my intuition was off wrt/ to hours on industrial equipment compared to their expected life.
by gwbas1c | 2025-04-30 20:46:46+00:00
> These people do need a firm, top-down push, or they will be left behind.

> even for things we now consider near universally

We aren't at the point where AI tools provide a major productivity boost. Sometimes they help, sometimes they don't, sometimes working with AI has negative productivity.

Assuming AI improves to the point where employees who use it are significantly more productive... They'll excel relative to their peers. The people who can't figure it out will underperform.
by npteljes | 2025-04-30 20:46:59+00:00
I was thinking that Shorts is popular, and it seems like it is. What I estimates I find put it from half as many users as TikTok to on par with TikTok. With regards the flywheel, I think that it works better than your example, and I think that the existence of the myriad product bundles that we see are why. That strategy works so well against competitors that sometimes antitrust comes into the picture, to break something up that's too encompassing.
by HanClinto | 2025-04-30 20:47:01+00:00
I've found it very useful for providing accessible introductions to technical papers that are otherwise difficult for me to get started with understanding.

If I encounter a paper that is too difficult for me to digest just by reading, then I take a step back, feed it into NotebookLM, and listen to that summary. I've only done this a few times, but so far it hasn't failed to give me the overview and momentum that I need to take another stab and successfully dig into the paper and digest it on my own.

As others have noted, it can gloss over certain details and miss important points from time to time, but overall it does a fantastic job of giving me an introduction to a complex topic and making it far less indimidating / overwhelming.
by mathgradthrow | 2025-04-30 20:47:02+00:00
A big problem with the idea of physical reversible computing is the assumption that you get to start with a blank tape. Blank tapes are trivial to acquire if I can erase bits, but if I start with a tape in some state, creating working space in memory reverisbly is equivalent (identical) to lossless compression, which is not generally achievable.

If you start with blank tape then it isn't really reversible computing, you're just doing erasure up front.
by moffkalast | 2025-04-30 20:47:26+00:00
> Assigned by Dun & Bradstreet

Uh huh, Google just blatantly requiring every app developer on the planet to register with some specific random company. Absolutely no corruption to see here, none at all.

This is the kind of shit why smartphone vendors can't be trusted with their own walled garden stores, the EU has not yet stomped them into mulch hard enough yet I see.
by ericmay | 2025-04-30 20:47:28+00:00
Well I don't think it'll be that much of a hardship, but yea I don't think everyone is exactly aligned with how the Trump administration is going about it. Generally speaking "we have a problem with China - they took our jobs!" has broad consensus, at least in my experience. Also politically the Biden administration and others have undertaken steps to defend US economic interests against China.
by j_walter | 2025-04-30 20:48:06+00:00
Private sector can make it more efficient for some things...but what I'm referencing is the use of NGOs for public services and the most wasteful I've seen are in the "Large Blue Cities". CEOs of relatively small firms that get millions of dollars in funding but also give themselves 6 figure salaries for "charity work".

I saw a recent article about an NGO that was going to not be able to help immigrants learn how to navigate the path to citizenship. Big story about losing $300K a year in federal grants. However they also took in $2-3M a year in other funding and spent most of it on lobbying for immigrant law changes, as well as paying their CEO a decent 6 figure salary. However the sob story about cutting services to immigrants was the only thing they talked about cutting.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-30 20:48:28+00:00
This response captures it perfectly. I started at Google in 2006 and the "mini kitchens" (essentially a convenience mart) were just getting "re-organized" The new CFO was out to "cut unnecessary costs."[1] While Google was banking billions of dollars in "Free Cash Flow" every QUARTER than were cutting the 'unnecessary' costs that were something like $12,000 per employee per YEAR. So with 20,000 employees, that is about 1/4 billion dollars a year, or roughly 3% of the free cash flow. I called Eric on it at a TGIF[2]. The gist was "We're going to lose all these great employees because you want to keep more of the free cash than you currently do?"

And people quit, lots of people, and the flow moved out. And people who joined had no idea it had been "better" than what it was, this was just the standard which was admittedly still better than other companies. Eventually everyone for whom this affront was to high left leaving an employee base reasonably happy with the status quo.

They continued to "downgrade" the 'lifestyle benefits' the entire time I was there and it continued to piss people off who left.

As margin pressure grew the need to monetize grew and Marissa Meyer who had been the 'brick wall' between the user experience and monetization left the company. Others who felt as she did also left for a variety of reasons. Leaving only those for whom monetization was just the cost of doing business and hey, "We're Google!" right?

This opens up the opportunity for disruption. There is a hysteresis effect though, everyone has a different tolerance for crap. More and more people I know are not "Google" users anymore, they are 'search' users and if their OS pre-loads Bing they use that, sometimes they switch to DDG or Kagi. Once that takes hold in the bulk of the addressable market, Google will go the way of every other tech company before them. I used to point out to people that the "GooglePlex" was the dead hulk of SGI. Like wasps Google was living inside the corpse of a formerly big player. Everyone would tell me, "We're different, we're always going to be around." And like the Zen quotes from "Charlie's War" I would say, "We'll see." :-)

[1] I believe that this statement is perhaps the single most destructive thing any CFO can do. In part because they don't define 'necessary.'

[2] He was not amused :-)
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-30 20:48:28+00:00
> The basic definition of a state is “a centralized government with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force

I'm not saying otherwise (I've even referred to this in a later comment).

> But violence comes first, then statehood, then trust.

Nobody said anything about the historical process so you're not contradicting anyone.

> Attempts to legislate trust don’t really work

Quite the opposite, it works very, very well. Civil laws and jurisdiction on contracts have existed since the Roman Republic, and every society has some equivalent (you should read about how the Taliban could get back to power so quickly in big part because they kept doing civil justice in the rural afghan society even while the country was occupied by the US coalition).

You must have institutions to be sure than the other party is going to respect the contract, so that you don't have to trust them, you just need to trust that the state is going to enforce that contract (what they can do because they have the monopoly of violence and can just force the party violating the contract into submission).

With the monopoly of violence comes the responsibility to use your violence to enforce contracts, otherwise social structures are going to collapse (and someone else is going to take that job from you, and gone is your monopoly of violence)
by Faark | 2025-04-30 20:48:47+00:00
Social responsibility?

I have a few colleagues who like the way they work and would prefer everything to stay the way it is. Such "skilled artisans" might be on the way out, replaced by "Ai factory" mass production.

Sure, they could just be kicked out and replaced. But they worked with the company, in some case for a decade plus. Giving them a fair picture of what seems to be down the road is the very least I'd expect of a company treating it's workers as more than just replaceable cogwheels.
by libertine | 2025-04-30 20:48:58+00:00
> They are targeted because there was an effort put in identifying the accomplices and finding the appropriate way to sanction them precisely.

I'm not talking about sanctioning individuals, I'm talking about sanctioning Russia - visa bans, economic sanctions, seizing assets of the Russian state. That affects people, not a select group of individuals. There were additional sanctions for particular individuals, as you stated.

> This is factually not correct. Russia recognizes Ukrainian ethnicity and Ukrainian language

I can't believe I'm still arguing this in 2025, but here we are, from the dictator himself:

> Vladimir Putin reportedly claimed that “Ukraine is not even a state! What is Ukraine? A part of its territory is [in] Eastern Europe, but a[nother] part, a considerable one, was a gift from us!” In his March 18, 2014 speech marking the annexation of Crimea, Putin declared that Russians and Ukrainians “are one people. Kiev is the mother of Russian cities. Ancient Rus’ is our common source and we cannot live without each other.”[0]

> That’s complicated. They did move Ukrainian children from the war zone into Russia.

It's not complicated at all, they kidnapped children from Ukraine, their state. They could have allowed for humanitarian corridors, they could have requested the UN, or other organizations to take the children back to their parents and guardian, they could have ALREADY RETURNED THE CHILDREN - SINCE 2022.

I'm sorry, but it's absurd that you're trying to wash one of the most despicable crimes of genocide.

> War crime. Not genocide.

According to the definition: > Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;[1]

Russia didn't destroy and brag about destroying Ukraine's power grid in the winter to bring them good health. You don't destroy medical facilities, including children's hospitals and maternity wards to help them thrive.

> You missed the most important part. The definition actually starts with intent: following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such

No, it's YOU WHO MISSED THE IMPORTANT part by disregarding Putin's speech with the intent to wipe out Ukraine:

" In a televised address to the nation, Putin explicitly denied that Ukraine had ever had “real statehood,” and said the country was an integral part of Russia’s “own history, culture, spiritual space.”"[2]

There's the intent, Putin own admission of genocide is more than enough, the problem is that it was when he thought Russia could take Kyiv in a few days.

[0] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/07/01/there-is-no-ukraine...

[1] https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

[2] https://time.com/6150046/ukraine-statehood-russia-history-pu...
by terminalbraid | 2025-04-30 20:50:03+00:00
> The spokesperson added that the company could have done better

They seem to have to say that a lot about this product, yet they don't really seem to learn any lessons. When the original flood of bad reviews came it it was because they made that plugin bundled with the IDE and then had a "bug" where it couldn't be effectively removed. There was no precedent for bundled a paid plugin nor need for it to be bundled with the IDE. Just their desperation to cash in. They then walked that back with the same "we could have done better".

This is more of the same. The "AI Assistant" still lives on the default side bar regardless if you have that plugin installed or not.

At this point, they know they could do better yet are choosing not to.
Show HN: Kanbanish, yet another kanban board
by mcrittenden | 2025-04-30 20:50:31+00:00
I finally just rage-built the Kanban board I've wanted for years, mostly for retros and other structured discussions:

https://www.kanbanish.com

Features that I wanted, which I couldn't find all together in any other apps:

- No signups at all

- Anyone can edit anything on the board

- Comments, voting, emoji reactions

- The ability to vote multiple times on the same card (useful for Lean Coffee)

- A bunch of templates for common retro/discussion formats

- Export the board contents to plain text or markdown for meeting notes
by jsnell | 2025-04-30 20:50:35+00:00
For me the really unreasonable change was the app testing requirements on non-corporate developers. Having to get 20 users to beta test an unlisted Android app for two weeks before getting it on the store is not a reasonable thing to require for hobby projects. I'm not sure I even know 20 Android users well enough that I'd feel comfortable asking for that level of engagement from them.

It's a particularly bad policy to launch with existing developers grandfathered out, because the policy probably looks really successful to start with due to the difference in new developer vs. old developer populations -- the entities who are right now making most of the quality apps aren't affected. What's being affected is the pipeline of new developers, but the effect of killing that pipeline won't become obvious for years.
by twothreeone | 2025-04-30 20:51:17+00:00
> They can’t win a war with China

Nobody wins in that war, that's why either side is so reluctant to start it.

> BRICS is larger than G7 now by GDP

That's BS. Easy to debunk. Try harder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS#/media/File:BRICS_AND_G7...
by ajross | 2025-04-30 20:51:21+00:00
Yeah, this turns into senseless flaming very quickly. But to be blunt, the fact that puts the lie to your point that all those technologies are "revitalizing" or whatever is that basically no one uses them[1]. They're interesting ways to win an argument on the internet (with which I won't engage), but not evidence that you're doing something actually important.

[1] Obviously people use them! But not at scale and not in such a way that it provides meaningful advantage over the people who don't use them. Again, they're fun things to argue about but not transformative in the way that early SunOS was.
by epistasis | 2025-04-30 20:51:28+00:00
A small amount of selling T-bills from bond vigilantes already caused Trump to drastically pull back his plan once. If a holder as large as China started a big dump of T-bills it would cause a massive financial disaster. China would feel some pain too, but the US having far higher interest rates as it rolls over new debt into new T-bills would be extremely difficult for us. We are at economic Mutually Assured Destruction levels this is still a lever that China can pull that is in their favor.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-30 20:52:26+00:00
I didn’t notice any difference since I uses customized prompt.

“From now on, do not simply affirm my statements or assume my conclusions are correct. Your goal is to be an intellectual sparring partner, not just an agreeable assistant. Every time I present an idea, do the following: Analyze my assumptions. What am I taking for granted that might not be true? Provide counterpoints. What would an intelligent, well-informed skeptic say in response? Test my reasoning. Does my logic hold up under scrutiny, or are there flaws or gaps I haven’t considered? Offer alternative perspectives. How else might this idea be framed, interpreted, or challenged? Prioritize truth over agreement. If I am wrong or my logic is weak, I need to know. Correct me clearly and explain why”
by pjmlp | 2025-04-30 20:52:29+00:00
It doesn't surprise me.

There are more apps than people care about.

Nowadays I only install games, or apps for services where I can't do otherwise.

The time for "there is an app for that" is long gone, and the push for developers to artificially update their apps for whatever was presented as great Google IO innovation, or be out of the store, can only lead to outcomes like this.

I imagine that the numbers on Appstore aren't much different.
by moribunda | 2025-04-30 20:52:45+00:00
You should check new features - like asking questions as a listener.

I don't use it a lot, but it's useful when you want to have an engaging audio interface to long (50p+) reports, which you wouldn't normally read because it's not your area of expertise or you don't have time, but you can listen while doing some cardio or chores.
by otterley | 2025-04-30 20:53:59+00:00
> There is nothing "dictatorial" about the President withholding taxpayer dollars from a university that is in violation of the law

Hey now, wait a minute. Has the “violation of law” been established yet? There’s a pretty wide gulf between “I believe a violation of the law has occurred” and having the matter adjudicated.

You’re clearly an intelligent person; there’s no need to try to sneak bullshit in through the back door. Let the strength of your arguments and facts speak for themselves. And make sure they are actual facts.
by kiitos | 2025-04-30 20:54:13+00:00
I'd default to CategoryID being a string, with uniqueness constraints defined on the categories table. And UnitPrice to be a composite type, containing a [u]int amount and a string denomination, e.g. `10000 USD_CENT` or something like that.

But what you or I or anyone thinks is the right type for these or any columns, is totally beside the point. The point is that the type for a column isn't really assume-able by an LLM, at least not automatically.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-30 20:54:25+00:00
Sure, but what's going to cause a recovery from the Trump-cession we're about to enter? The pain is obvious, but where's the gain? America can't compete on cost with Chinese manufacturing, else it'd already be doing so, so you just end up with expensive "made in USA" stuff rather than cheap "made in China" stuff. The price hikes will be here to stay if that's the path we're going down.

How do we get cheap fruit & veg in the winter when it's not growing season in the US? If we're not going to import it, then I guess we need to grow it here in hothouses, and that's not going to be cheap either.

I'm guessing the midterms will be a bloodbath for the Republicans, and Trump is unlikely to care unless he takes his own 3rd term talk seriously.
by endofreach | 2025-04-30 20:54:40+00:00
What's your benchmark? How many paid subscribers do you have that actually use it while browsing?

And why do you think did duolingos competitor "toucan" not take off? How does nuenki do the job better?

Seriously interested and happy to read more insights.

Disclaimer: i did create an MVP of this exactly. But it was just to try and generate some cash quickly to finance my main project (dumb idea, of course). I did get some signups but never even launched the app (and not planning to). Just curious what your experience is.
by surgical_fire | 2025-04-30 20:56:06+00:00
As I said before, you very much downplay the sort of damage the US is causing to its relationship with former allies. For example, you seem to forget the very real threats of US annexing Greenland, which is part of Denmark. Such an act of war would force every EU nation to go in its defense, even non-NATO ones. This is far beyond political grandstanding.

As for the rest, I think you very much downplay the gravity of going in a trade war with the whole world at once can do to the US economy, while you massively amp up the damage simple trade between China and EU can do to EU.

This conversation quickly got nowhere anyway, and I already said everything I wanted to. Time will tell who is right. Feel free to have the last word, and have a pleasant evening.