MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IshKebab | 2025-04-10 09:54:51+00:00
I bought it for £12k when it was 3 years old (Skoda Octavia) and I'm hoping it will last 20 years at least. Service is like £200, insurance £230, MOT £50, tax £130 or something. Ok maybe more like £1.3k. Still waaaay less than €6k.

Park it on the drive. Yeah I wasn't including fuel costs because they depend on how much you drive. I'm probably about at about £500/year at most (I work from home).

When I commuted by car it would have been maybe £1k/year (£10/day but I lift shared).
by caseyy | 2025-04-10 09:56:59+00:00
This is a major "vector" of abuse in the games industry. Right now, you could go on certain Discord servers and find tens of jobs that "can't pay right now" but will have various benefits in the future.

I'm happy it worked out for you, and maybe the 90s was a different time. But now, to go for the same deal would be foolish. And come to think of it, people were raising hell about it in games, even in the late 90s.

I'd say this practice today needs to die out. I'm sure 80% of companies with a temporary cash crunch (but a legitimate business model) can get bank credit to cover salaries. It's not even a big hassle - the business banking app usually approves the line of credit automatically in a few seconds, anyways. Depending on the regular cashflow, it can be up to small five figures - enough to pay a month or two of salaries. If they don't want to pay, that's a different matter.
by alxlaz | 2025-04-10 09:57:02+00:00
More abstract arguments about taxpayer money aside, English expertise on a citizenship level is actually quite the counter-argument for this move.

A significant number, or possibly a majority of, adult native English speakers in the US actually speak English significantly below their formal education level: around 90% of them have at least graduated high school, but 54% of them read English below sixth grade level.

Standard English competency testing for the citizenship test is a joke (you have to read and write one of three sentences in a manner that demonstrates basic comprehension and familiarity with the language). But even so, there's a sizable number of native adult English speakers who would fail it.

So while they may have had to learn English in school or used it to pash their citizenship test, that's no guarantee that adults still speak it well enough. That's not particularly surprising, given that there are large, non-English speaking communities in the US. Someone who's passed their citizenship test in the 1980s and has spoken English maybe once a week afterwards in a shop or a restaurant is likely to have forgotten most of it.

inb4 "but you have to know it to come here": kind of (adjusting for the barebones testing), but the largest group of low-English literacy adults is actually white, native-born Americans, and most low-English literacy adults are native-born: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-10 09:57:51+00:00
>Drivers are precisely the reason we only have Windows, Macos and Linux as viable options

That is one big issue and another one is software.

Writing drivers and porting software means both time and money.

How ever if a new OS would bring lots of benefits to both users and companies, it might tip the scale and make the time and money investment worthwhile.

Of course, by a new OS I don't mean just another platform that ebables us to run software and use hardware, as existing OSes do that just fine.

By a new operating system, I mean one that enables us to use new computing paradigm, enable new types of software to software and software to hardware interactions and would make a big disruption to the market. Something with the same kind of impact as AI or the introduction of smartphones.
by Ekaros | 2025-04-10 09:57:52+00:00
>Law § 229 of Hammurabi's Code

>If a house builder built a house for a man but did not secure/fortify his work so that the house he built collapsed and caused the death of the house owner, that house builder will be executed.

If even professionals did get it wrong so often that there had to be law for it... Yeah, maybe it is not that simple.
by rodrigodlu | 2025-04-10 09:58:06+00:00
The biggest things that our dumb oligarchs here profit from are almost 0 or zero.

It's only the shit that we want to buy retail on Amazon US that are crazy expensive. And a big chunk is ICMS, that is state wide, not federal tax.

On top of that DHL charges a premium.

I know because sometimes I can buy directly using my prime subscription my beloved Nintendo games (that I hope I can buy directly from Asia now and cut one big middleman).

Brazil's deficit in the last decade accumulates hundreds of billions USD already, but only benefits a few. Yet as a good dogs we feel relieved that is only 10%. But you forget our biggest export products are already 35% on top what was before (steel).

This is a oligarchy fight that will splat on everyone, including my eggs since we quintupled the exports to cover someone's asses.

By the way, why do we need to buy expensive ethanol abroad since ours is cheaper, but in my state ethanol is never cheaper than gasoline?
by pseudalopex | 2025-04-10 09:59:19+00:00
> I hate to invoke Godwin's law on the very first comment on a post, but the industrialization of deportations seems to have alarming parallels to the mass murder Jews and other minority groups in 1930’s and 40’s Europe.

You have Godwin's permission.[1]

[1] https://archive.is/1x5OZ
by moomin | 2025-04-10 10:00:12+00:00
If you're in London, check out John Soane's museum. And then, on the other side of the square, the Hunterian museum where the original collection has been presented in a more modern style. Some Hunterian artifacts turned out to be useful in the development of modern medical artifacts. Soane's gives you an experience closer to the original. Hunterian shows the evolution described in the article.
by noahjstreet | 2025-04-10 10:00:36+00:00
We talk about the Right to Repair our devices, but what about our minds? This essay explores how opaque social media algorithms shape thought, fuel anxiety, and compromise autonomy—and what we can do to take back control. From feed detox tools to policy pushes, it’s a call for cognitive agency in the age of engineered attention. Would love feedback from the HN crowd—especially those building in this space.
Why do the latest 4o model (OpenAI) images have a yellowish tinge?
by ChaitanyaSai | 2025-04-10 10:00:40+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTPro/comments/1jmszh1/why_is_every_image_yellow/ Here is one thread talking about this. We've noticed this in our image generation as well. Strange.
by decimalenough | 2025-04-10 10:01:28+00:00
They're not saying the incremental cost of making a single shoe is $25. They're saying that, after everything is accounted for, it costs Nike approx $25 to get a $100 retail shoe onto a boat in China.

And yes, Nike has cheaper shoes too, but per article, if it's retailing for $50, it probably costs $12 tops to make.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-10 10:01:48+00:00
> 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million,

>The packaged weight of an iPhone 14 and its charging cable come to about 350 grams (12.35 oz), Reuters measurements show, implying the total cargo of 600 tons comprised about 1.5 million iPhones, after accounting for some packaging weight.

You rarely see iPhone treated as bulk cargo.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-10 10:05:58+00:00
They likely mean US-domiciled ETFs which hold foreign shares. The big providers (BlackRock, Vanguard and friends) typically have copies of their big funds domiciled in, at least, the US and Ireland (or sometimes Luxembourg); the European versions are UCITS-compliant, and often offered in an accumulating variant (not tax efficient in the US, but it is in some European counties), but otherwise basically the same thing.

For instance, here are two BlackRock ETFs tracking the MSCI emerging markets index, one US-domiciled and one Ireland-domiciled: https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239637/ishares-msci-emer... , https://www.ishares.com/uk/individual/en/products/251857/ish...

They are for practical purposes the same thing.
by pjerem | 2025-04-10 10:06:20+00:00
Well, I see your point, but given the answer to op was "Ok, sad to see you are not loyal to the company," he effectively dodged a bullet.

It's probable that your experience was successful because you already had personal trust on behalf of your company.

You never owe free work. You can choose to do it anyway because you trust someone, but nobody is entitled to act as if you owe them any loyalty.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-10 10:06:24+00:00
>From this model, you can see a few things.

First, adding $26 tariff at the port doesn't just add $26 to the final price. Everything here works off of percentages. In this simple model, we say Nike has a landed cost of $25, sells it to Footlocker for $50, and they retail at $100

Not sure I agree that everything works on percentages. Shipping has a fixed cost, etc.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-10 10:06:54+00:00
The Pentateuch has multiple injunctions against defrauding workers of their wages [even merely overnight!]

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19?13

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/deuteronomy/24?14

I discovered not long ago that it's actually considered "an abomination unto the LORD", so imagine the ancient world equating homosexual buggery with failure to pay wages. If only we still adhered to such moral standards. But seriously, it's true, the USA seems to have strong protections about this sort of abomination, and I am thankful that I've always worked W-2 and never 1099 or under-table for reputable corporations who were always above-board with their payrolls.

Of course I've also donated thousands of hours to my church, including genuinely skilled, high-level sort of labor, and it took me several decades to figure out that I really need to expect nothing at all in return for that kind of service!
by mikker | 2025-04-10 10:07:57+00:00
I'm currently building one called Nitro Kit.

Everyone seems to have their own opinion on what something like this should and should be or do. Nitro Kit is my opinion and I'm getting a lot of joy from using it on my own sites and services.

It's free and open source and, full disclaimer, there's a paid premium offering too.

https://nitrokit.dev/

Here's a video about my reasoning behind building it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li-RPk561l8
by paulgb | 2025-04-10 10:07:59+00:00
This isn’t really “allowing” fraud though. From the memo:

> Prosecutors shall prioritize cases that hold accountable individuals who (a) cause financial harm to digital asset investors and consumers; and/or (b) use digital assets in furtherance of other criminal conduct, such as fentanyl trafficking, terrorism, cartels, organized crime, and human trafficking and smuggling. Seeking accountability from individuals who perpetrate these types of wrongdoing deters future illegal activity, compensates victims, and promotes the public’s confidence in the digital asset markets and broader industry. On the other hand, criminal matters premised on regulatory violations resulting from diffuse decisions made at lower levels of digital asset companies often fail to advance the priorities of the Department.

I read this as switching from proactive enforcement (stop the act before it causes damage) to reactive regulation (punish the guilty after the act happens). Proactive regulation of public markets makes sense because the general public has an interest in well-functioning capital markets even if they are not direct participants (markets are essentially the capitalist replacement for central planning).
by callamdelaney | 2025-04-10 10:10:17+00:00
It's the policy of this country, it doesn't matter who sets it.

It doesn't matter if it's set by parliament. It doens't matter if it's set by an independent body. The fact is that you will receive a harsher sentence for being a white male than you will if you belong to any other group. That is the policy. The Conservative government thought that was the right thing to do.

Apparently the new government 'will' introduce a bill to stop this, but they haven't yet. So it's still the policy.

Meanwhile it's legal and popular to discriminate against white men and women on the basis of being white - the government, police and military regularly put out jobs only for none whites. But if I were to put out a role only for whites, that's against the law. This discrimination extends to our top universities where it's becoming much more difficult (relative to population %) to obtain a spot as a white student.

That's why people think this country is now a two tier system, and they're right. Opportunities are being taken from those who have earned them and given to those who have not. Meritocracy and equality under the law is already long gone.
by louthy | 2025-04-10 10:10:22+00:00
This wasn’t a new role, I’d been working at the business for about 18 months by that point. It doesn’t sound like what you describe at all.

I believed in what we were doing. I’d built a new game engine for the Dreamcast (the only nextgen console available at that point), we’d created two good game demos, the team was full of industry veterans and I liked and respected everyone I worked with. I also saw the lengths my boss was going to to make it work (including remortgaging his house to finance the short term).

In hindsight it was obvious where it was going. But I wasn’t being manipulated or abused. And I will argue vigorously and vehemently that we weren’t being taken advantage of. We were fighting to save what we felt was a good thing.

> I'm sure 80% of companies with a temporary cash crunch (but a legitimate business model) can get bank credit to cover salaries

This wouldn’t be an option in the situation I describe. You would need orders and evidence of delayed payments that can be used to cover the loans once they arrive.

That kind of finance is actually quite hard to get in the UK.
by microtonal | 2025-04-10 10:10:28+00:00
Interestingly, I found operating at this level to have been a necessity if I wanted to fix or write a derivation. Otherwise I would face random errors and be left clueless as to what the problem was.

I have used Nix on and off for work since 2018. We are using Nix at my current employer for two projects. I agree that if you want to go beyond some simple dev shells, for any realistically complex project you really need Nix Pills-level understanding (+ a good idea of how things work in nixpkgs).

It's a two-edged sword - the learning curve is very steep, but once you have that level of understanding, it's a superpower. We heavily use CUDA/ROCm machine learning stacks and Nix makes it much easier to ensure everyone is using the same development environment. Switching between different branches that may have different sets of dependencies/dependency versions always works. Also, it's much easier to stack custom patches on dependencies and caching avoids all the rebuilds.
by bluehatbrit | 2025-04-10 10:11:02+00:00
I'd be very curious to know how these results would differ across other LLM providers and education levels.

My wife is a secondary school teacher (UK), teaching KS3, GCSE, and A level. She says that most of her students are using Snapchat LLM as their first port of call for stuff these days. Many of the students also talk about ChatGPT but she had never heard of Claude or Anthropic until I shared this article with her today.

My guess would be that usage is significantly higher across all subject, and that direct creation is also higher. I'd also assume that these habits will be carried with them into University over the coming years.

It would be great to see this as an annual piece, a bit like the StackOverflow survey. I can't imagine we'll ever see similar research being written up by companies like Snapchat but it would be fascinating to compare it.
by cess11 | 2025-04-10 10:11:16+00:00
"Tyler was a Sr. Data Science Engineer at MZ (the company behind Game of War and Mobile Strike). Prior to working at MZ he was an engineer at Apple. Tyler holds a Masters in Distributed Systems and Machine Learning from Johns Hopkins University."

"Alessandro was a Sr. Software Engineer at Bloomberg, LP where he worked on high throughput distributed pricing systems. He holds a Computer Science and a Biomedical Engineering degree from Johns Hopkins University."

Looks like they've built stuff before.

I don't like this database product because it lacks SDK:s in languages I would touch without getting paid, but I think the idea is sound and rather attractive. For many years I've used Picolisp in a similar way, it bundles an object database with a logic engine and a small Lisp-like programming language, which makes it easy to throw in some data and relations and slap on a web page with standard library widgets.

The BEAM is similar, you push some modules into it and store stuff in ETS and don't bother with RDBMS until you need it. If your data is small or trivially shardable you can get persistence too, with Mnesia.

I'm not so sure they'll be making a lot from that game of theirs, but if their database turns out to be robust it could become competitive with things like Supabase/Firebase and such, because there will be modules for serving web and auth and dashboards and whatnot you can just push in there and you're good to go. One-click-install for applications, similar to cPanel and Wordpress rigs, but less messy on the ops side.
by alxlaz | 2025-04-10 10:11:42+00:00
> Citizenship and residency have both benefits, but also obligations. GP moved to France without a good grasp of the local language.

A good grasp of French language is not a requirement for French residency. Some visas require it, but not all, and if you can travel and reside in France without a visa, you don't have to know it. For EEA and Swiss citizens, all you need is a valid ID and a clean record.

> Note: I'm importantly not talking about the native minority languages in France.

Why not? NWS translated languages in minority languages of the US, that's exactly what this is about.

English was mentioned above the GP, which is why it was brought up, but European institutions commonly provide English translations along with regional languages in part because a lot of the EU population is bilingual. That actually helps a lot, especially since state regulation is a little slow to catch up with society at times. E.g. where I'm from we have a sizable Turkish population, and while Turkish is an officialy-recognised minority language, some local institutions are slow to catch up with population dynamics, so a lot of Turkish residents end up perusing the English version instead and they're fine with it.
by nsteel | 2025-04-10 10:12:19+00:00
> most workloads would be nearest-neighbor

Thank you very much, that is the piece of the puzzle I was missing. Naively, it still seems (to me) far more hops for a 3d torus than a regular multi-level switch when you've got many thousands of nodes, but I can appreciate it could be much simpler routing. Although, I would guess in practice it requires something beyond the simplest routing solution to avoid congestion.
by xenonite | 2025-04-10 10:12:49+00:00
sorry I was not joking. If flouride (also in toothpaste) would be enough to stop the typical tooth decay with the current habits of eating sugar, soda etc., well then fine.

But it is not enough. However I believe that stopping sugar, soda, bread etc. would be enough. In that case, the fluoride neurotoxin would not be necessary anymore.
by rglullis | 2025-04-10 10:14:47+00:00
For your commute?

Yeah, I can also take a plane from Germany to England and pay less than what it costs me for the taxi that I will need to get to the airport. Does that mean that flying EasyJet should be considered the most efficient means of transportation?

What exactly are you trying to argue, here?

- That the cost of one train ticket is higher than the cost of a car trip?

- For one single passenger or for a family?

- In the US or overall?

- Are externalities factored in?
by HansardExpert | 2025-04-10 10:14:56+00:00
Yes that is correct

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-54121151

The museum is still pretty much curated as it was, I have been going on and off for the last 40 years. The glass roof refurb made a huge difference and they seem to rotate their large animal skeletons more than they did, which my friend's children are always thrilled with.

But it is the subtle bits of the museum I enjoy, the aforementioned roof and things like the fact that on the first floor every 'marble' pillar is actually a made of a different stone (i.e not all marble at all).

It's a joyous way to spend an afternoon.
by IanCal | 2025-04-10 10:16:01+00:00
But so much more besides that, including the model itself, RAG, the agentic workflow control, moderation, etc. There's also a huge factor of maintenance, that's a key reason why companies have different internal and external APIs - they don't just open up everything internal and hand the code for managing all of that to you. Interface design is really important.

Not to mention the cost being a factor here - who pays for which part.
by chii | 2025-04-10 10:17:57+00:00
THe question is would those students have done any better or worse if there hadn't been LLM for them to "copy" off?

In other words, is the school certificaftion meant to distinguish those who genuinely learnt, or was it merely meant to signal (and thus, those who used to copy pre-llm are going to do the same, and thus reach the same level of certification regardless of whether they learnt or not)?
by inejge | 2025-04-10 10:18:31+00:00
> Spotify CEO stated on X that before asking for more headcount they have to justify not being able to do the job with an agent.

Spotify CEO is channeling The Two Bobs from Office Space: "What are you actually doing here?" Just in a nastier way, with a kind of prisoner's dilemma on top. If you can get by with an agent, fine, you won't bother him. If you can't, why can't you? Should we replace you with someone who can, or thinks they can?

Spotify CEO is not his employees' friend.
by herbst | 2025-04-10 10:18:53+00:00
That's a lot more than I remember, but doesn't surprise :)

You are right tho. If I would live near a bus station that has more than 3 rides a day (which 98% of all Swiss do, rough estimate) I would probably just use a halbtax and a Region specific subscription.

But if I use regular SBB tickets for like 10-15 short trips a year you are already getting closer to the GA. Depends on your patterns :)
by rsynnott | 2025-04-10 10:19:04+00:00
The whole point of imposing retaliatory tariffs is that it puts pressure on the aggressor to give up, on the basis that you will then immediately drop the retaliatory tariffs. The point is to produce a quick end. Retaliatory tariffs with a _minimum_ duration would be counterproductive.

I suppose you could have a kind of tariff equivalent of the doomsday machine from Dr Strangelove, in principle; a set of automatic measures to come into force if the adversary does [whatever]. However, Trump strikes me as a bit of a General Ripper, so it might not be a _great_ idea.
by hermitcrab | 2025-04-10 10:19:34+00:00
I hear about 'intern' posts where young people are expected to do a job for free, for extended periods, in return for some industry experience. Mostly I hear about it in the US. I don't think it is a thing here in the UK (is it even legal?). But it sounds horrible.

How common is unpaid intern work?

Why should big, wealthy companies expect young people to work for free?

Is this a deliberate form of gate keeping so that only people from wealthy families can get a foot in the door?
by chii | 2025-04-10 10:20:52+00:00
> It's like expecting them to do arithmetic by hand. No one does.

But those who traditionally learnt arithmetics have had this training, which _enables_ higher order thinking.

Being reliant on AI to do this means they would not have had that same level of training. It could prevent them from being able to synthesize new patterns or recognize them (and so if the AI also cannot do the same, you get stagnation).