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by eloisius | 2025-04-26 07:59:37+00:00
Interior and exterior design are applications of art/design, not reasons. The other three things are human experiences. I’m not saying a human cannot create art using gen AI. In fact, whoever thought of making Gemini generate a “17th century British monarch eating watermelon” created a piece of art as provocative commentary on gen AI itself. But if we remove the artists and just have machines churning out materials to consume, maybe based on some signal of consumer preferences, I do not believe that is art. What fun, inspiration, or expression would be enjoyed by either creator or consumer?
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by tttym | 2025-04-26 08:00:15+00:00
Hi HN,

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Under the hood, it’s webhook-first, so you can plug into Stripe, QuickBooks, Xero, or any custom stack. Every follow-up message, escalation path, and schedule is configurable via API or UI. The dashboard surfaces trends—like which clients are slowest to pay or which days see the most delays—so you can tweak terms or reallocate resources.

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Lmk what you think
by ggm | 2025-04-26 08:00:28+00:00
The amount is tokenistic and would not have caused dissent held by a school for teaching purposes. He is a good person and this is a stupid application of the law to no benefit.

Since it was imported through postal services and identified there were heaps of opportunities to avoid this.

This is the least worst outcome having had charges brought but it was an overreaction to bring charges.
by atoav | 2025-04-26 08:01:00+00:00
As a practicing musician of 2 decades I of course have opinions on what good music is and what isn't on multiple layers. So I will critique music (the thing) but not musicians (the people). Receiving good criticism by other musicians is really good way to get better, as they will notice things you wont — provided they are open for the type of music you're making.

However I noticed a peculiar thing. In every field you will find people who are really enthusiastic for the field without doing it themselves. Maybe we could call them "enthusiastic consumers". These are very often the people giving the harshest, most unfair, least constructive critiques for some reason and the closer your thing is to the thing they love the harsher they can become. To them consuming that thing is their identity, so which thing they consume is existentially important to then. To me music is much more about the making, and while listening about countless things. Musicians tend to be more open about what constitutes good mhsic than these enthusiasts.

As a former art student one important leason I have learned in countless group reviews is that criticism based purely on taste are utterly worthless. If a classical music nerd dislikes your noiserock piece purely because of taste that just tells you something about them. This is what the criticism of most entusiastic consumers looks like. Another thing I have learned is that people are usually correct something feels wrong to them if they are really going into the thing with open eyes and an open heart. But people totally suck at telling you how to fix it.

So my advice on how to deal with criticsm is:

1. Figure out the nature of the criticism and judge accordingly. Is it purely a matter of taste? Is the root cause of observation valid?

2. Most criticism can help you getting better or worse, which one depends a lot on how you deal with it. You can reframe criticism to not be about you, but about the thing you do (and try to do well!). In that case every valid point someone makes will now no longer be an attack on your person, but a chance to make your work even better

3. Do things for their own sake and you're somewhat immune to criticism. If you enjoy playing guitar, it should not matter to you that you suck while doing it. Everybody good sucked for a long time before they were good and many of the most innovative new developements were made by people who did not care they were "doing it wrong"

4. There is no single correct way to do a thing and thus there are always people who will hate your stuff for a various number of reasons. This means nothing unless they got a valid point be it in terms of craft or emotion.

5. In German there is the notion of "Wer macht hat recht", which very loosely translates to "those who do are in the right". Action beats opinion. Talking is cheap.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-26 08:02:52+00:00
It is an interesting idea, but there is obviously a lot which can go wrong here.

Can you actually build an EV like that, conforming to all regulations, with significant cost reduction? VW is currently trying to build a 20k EV, which seem extremely difficult in Europe and US labor costs are probably higher. The Dacia EVs (which seem closest in concept to a pickup) suffer from many downsides, to make low prices happen.

Do people actually want less screens or do they just say that?

Is customization a road to profitability? VWs ID.1 concept has a similar idea to lower entry price, by making several upgrades user installable, so they can be bought over time.

This is obviously a US only car and the US is very lacking in EV adoption. Will this sell in significant numbers?

Can you actually make it cheaply? Rivian is notoriously unprofitable and making cheap cars is, far, far harder than making expensive cars.
by nwienert | 2025-04-26 08:03:04+00:00
It is in fact the Biden admin that played the game to win - importing tens of millions of people by opening the borders, loosening prosecution, flying them in, and basically doing anything and everything to allow it.

The American voters were never for this, always overwhelmingly against. It’s a non-partisan issue. Only big business and Democratic politicians benefit.

Then, when the new admin tries to remove illegal entrants, suddenly they care a lot about the law. Well, it was illegal for them to come, it’s legal to remove them. Due process only applies to citizens. There’s nothing more legal (and frankly popular with voters) than removing people who are here illegally. To import tens of millions without due process only to turn around and cry about needing it to remove them is the height of hypocrisy and also would be giving them de-facto citizenship, it would take years in court to process each one, where it takes only a couple days to cross the border.
by a_dabbler | 2025-04-26 08:04:13+00:00
"Wealth inequality, while high, is still roughly where it was in 2007"

This is not whats represented in the source you cited?

In the graph titled "Top 10% and Bottom 50% Wealth Shares in The UK 1900-2020" you can clearly see the wealth owned by the top 10% increased from 54.4% in 2007 to 57% in 2020 and likely even higher now 5 years later.
by teamonkey | 2025-04-26 08:04:40+00:00
Gini coefficient usually only measures income inequality. Wealth inequality is hard to measure for various reasons but…

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk/

“for the UK as a whole, the WID found that the top 0.1% had share of total wealth double between 1984 and 2013, reaching 9%.”

“If the wealth of the super rich continues to grow at the rate it has been, by 2035, the wealth of the richest 200 families will be larger than the whole UK GDP.”

Etc.
by exe34 | 2025-04-26 08:05:34+00:00
> you try to understand the code, and it's all spaghetti, and you loose more time understanding the code than it would take to just reimplement it.

I agree with you in general, but maybe the jump would be similar to the one from hand-written punchcards/assembly to higher level compilers. Very few people worry about the asm generated from GHC for example. So maybe a lot of code would be like that. I also imagine at some point a better intermediate language for LLMs to generate will be discovered and suddenly that's how most programs will be written.
by jampekka | 2025-04-26 08:06:10+00:00
The court proceedings and decisions are public and can be followed on site and the documents can be acquired by anyone. This is indeed important for transparency and accountability of the system.

However the proceedings aren't streamed and the documents aren't online. Some cases can be published online (e.g. supreme court ones) but with identifying information redacted. I think this is good.

The policy is voluntary by the press, not a law. Although in some cases publishing such information could be deemed violation of privacy if it's not deemed of public importance. And compiling databases of the personally identifying information could be illegal.
by yannis | 2025-04-26 08:08:06+00:00
Wikipedia is the best source of humanities "common knowledge". Yes there are users that abuse the system to push their own point of view. Many articles in Wikipedia have improved tremendously over the years; many times it is not unusual for an article to have over a hundred references. It gives you all the info you want to understand the subject before you delve further through books. Now for politics I can see the problem. Even on a well behaved site like HN you can get polarized views. Just say Israel is committing genocide or ethnic cleansing and you see the reaction. Ditto for Ukraine and now Trumpism. So yes there are pages that reflect views. Take them as such. Another advantage of Wikipedia is that many references are pushed to archive.org and saved.

"DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS IN THE ADMINISTRATION KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF THE WIKIPEDIA"
by constantcrying | 2025-04-26 08:08:59+00:00
Are you serious? EVs have been the biggest disruption in the auto industry. It has created major corporations who made the attempts of traditional manufacturers seem obsolete.

VW Group and Stellantis totally failed to compete with Chinese manufacturers and were driven out of the Chinese EV market almost entirely. Competition is extremely fierce.

>That EVs are still expensive

Look up what they cost in China.

>So long as production is limited EVs will remain a luxury product

Around 50% of new sales in China. Not "luxury" in any meaningful way.

The issue is that EVs do not differentiate themselves by power train. They differentiate themselves by battery and software.
by incangold | 2025-04-26 08:10:26+00:00
“About the same” is not “the same”, and there are tipping points. The gini coefficient has still seen a decent bump.

But anyway, gini is a coarse measure. Look at the chart below that, showing income percentages going steadily upwards for the top 10 and 1%.

Most worryingly, look at the decline of the middle 40%. A healthy middle class keeps countries stable. You need a good chunk of society who feel like the system works for them.

And it’s not just perceptions, it’s fundamental stuff. A teacher could afford a house in the 90s; they can’t now. For all the boomers bang on about mobile phones and flat screen TVs, in the end those are luxuries compared to clean, secure accommodation. The days of getting a mortgage on one income, or having access to nice council housing are gone.
by boramalper | 2025-04-26 08:10:46+00:00
Genuine question: if it's so easy and cheap to host a relay, why then "Free Our Feeds" initiative [0] looking to raise $4,000,000 [1] to establish a second relay [2]? Most of that money must be earmarked for administrative and human expenses then, right?

[0] https://freeourfeeds.com/

[1] https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-free-social-media-from-bi...

[2] https://freeourfeeds.com/ § FAQ § What will the money be used for?
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-26 08:10:53+00:00
Do you have any examples to show why I shouldn't trust it in regards to political topics or history?

You also really avoided the "what's better"/"what's a better model" question.

Social consensus, consent, and political mandate aren't ideas that can be hand waived away, they matter and they effect you and they are deeply impact by what people perceive to be true.

So the question still stands, if you mention a topic like Mao's cultural revolution, where should I go to get a primer and verify that the way you're talking about it appears to be grounded in reality.
by kcexn | 2025-04-26 08:12:03+00:00
There are technical benefits to using serverless functions. As mentioned, there is autoscaling and the delegation of infrastructure management to a vendor. But you also create clearer language/runtime independent code encapsulation. This means that you can reuse this code for other purposes in the future, even projects that use different programming languages.

It's a little bit like the difference between writing a monolithic piece of software and writing a bunch of command-line utilities and scripting them together using the shell.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-26 08:12:25+00:00
>I think that it would be possible to make something like this in the US for under $15K even.

The closest this comes to is a Dacia spring. Which is not a great car. The dacia could not be made at US labor costs. 15k is an absurd price, Chinese companies can do it because they pay Chinese labor costs and have serious economies of scale. Unless you sell hundreds of thousands of these a year AND pay US workers like Chinese ones, 15k will not happen.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-26 08:12:29+00:00
There is no exploit... for this specific site.

But the WAF rule is not site-specific.

Almost all of your comment is asking site-specific questions, but that's barking up the wrong tree. The WAF is working under a completely different paradigm.

It especially doesn't know about specific user rules within a specific site! Or file permissions. None of those are in scope for the WAF. The WAF is trying to protect a million sites at once.

> Isn't it defeatable if I chop up the keywords into benign ones, store as variables, and then expand them?

That might work half the time, but not the other half. The filter isn't pointless, it's just being badly and annoyingly applied.
by stingraycharles | 2025-04-26 08:12:53+00:00
Because most of my neighbors are expats and only renting and don’t actually own the property they live in.

Local authority doesn’t care, because it’s a very western problem. Locals rarely have problems with it, and use “go left the second street after the big tree near the market, and then it’s the third house on the right”.

Local people generally don’t use navigation apps like Google Maps, they don’t know how to use it.
by edurevilla | 2025-04-26 08:14:58+00:00
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by verzali | 2025-04-26 08:16:42+00:00
A couple of reasons spring to mind. The obvious one would be this is a person engaged in work that gives access to restricted materials and who also appears to frequently travel to countries like Russia and China, at least from what they have written on the rest of their website. That alone might warrant suspicion of espionage or simple carelessness in handling restricted data. They also seem to be very active in online spaces and possibly they have been skirting close to the line of what they have shared, and thus triggered an alert. It wouldn't be the first time I've been aware of people thinking they are sharing harmless things that in reality are restricted. Of course there are darker possibilities here, and a guilty person presumably wouldn't admit to them in a blog.

Australia is also a member of the Five Eyes. It is not impossible that someone in the US asked Australia to add him to their list.
by uwagar | 2025-04-26 08:16:43+00:00
the book author says "There’s a website (I won’t link to it) that has kept on running a survey of the worst places in the UK for years and years- and, honestly, when I look at it, I hate it. Partly because I feel like they’re ripping off my project"

this is why we should cherish the [indie] web. we can still almost publish anything in incredible detail, keep it alive for a long time and not worry about being canceled.

plus i have low opinion of people that wont share a link they know is relevant to the topic.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-26 08:17:04+00:00
>This has much the same design philosophy as the original Land Rover: tough, reliable, simple and maintainable

Where do you get any of this from? Especially EVs are not something you can easily tinker with as the risk of killing yourself is pretty high. In general they are also more integrated and less maintainable and it seems unlikely that this won't be the case here. Maintainability costs money and to make a 20k car happen every cent needs to be saved.

As for reliability it is obviously one of the first things to sacrifice to make low costs happen. We have seen nothing of this car, I doubt the engineering is even far along.
by atoav | 2025-04-26 08:17:57+00:00
Good observation: The biggest critics are indeed often the biggest fans — but funnily enough often just in a consumerist way.

If you listen to interviees with great writers, musicians, painters or actors you will often find it surprising when they tell you which other arrists they like. That is because the people making the stuff often have a much more open mind about what constitutes interesting and/or good writing, music, paintings or acting.

To me as an practitioner it feels at time that these "enthusiastic consumer critics" are incredibly bitter about not being able to live from the art they love like the ones they critique, so they carve out their niche and give themselves self-worth by playing a strong role in the field they love.

With good critics this love is the predominant message, with bad critics it is the bitterness.
by tw1984 | 2025-04-26 08:18:36+00:00
kids need to learn science and some basic market economy. if they do that, they won't be stupid enough trying to collect the "entire periodic table". with Fr priced at like $100m AUD per gram, how would some dude living in his parents' apartment going to afford that? some primary school knowledge would be enough to teach him that gold is actually one of those pretty affordable elements to collect when compared to all sorts of those stupidly expensive & rare ones.
by jltsiren | 2025-04-26 08:20:04+00:00
In the almost 20 years I've done academic research, I've met thousands of scientists. Some of them have been involved in various scandals, but as far as I know, none of the scandals were about scientific integrity. When it comes to academic scandals, those involving scientific integrity seem to be rare.

The reproducibility crisis seems to be mostly about applying the scientific method naively. You study a black box nobody really understands. You formulate a hypothesis, design and perform an experiment, collect data, and analyze the data under a simple statistical model. Often that's the best thing you can do, but you don't get reliable results that way. If you need reliability, you have to build models that explain and predict the behavior of the former black box. You need experiments that build on a large number of earlier experiments and are likely to fail in obvious ways if the foundations are not fundamentally correct.

I'm pretty bad at getting grants myself, but I've known some people who are really good at it. And they are not "playing the game", or at least that's not the important part. What sets them apart is the ability to see the big picture, the attention to details, the willingness to approach the topic from whatever angle necessary, and vision of where the field should be going. They are good at identifying the problems that need to be solved and the approaches that will likely solve them. And then finding the right people to solve them.
by arrowsmith | 2025-04-26 08:20:05+00:00
Yes, that's only a 2.6% increase. I don't think it's unfair to call that "roughly where it was".

In fact, according to that chart wealth inequality today is much lower than it was in the 1970s, although it increased throughout the 1990s.

The same link shows that the UK has unremarkable wealth inequality by the standards of developed countries: we're bang in the middle of the OECD, with lower levels of wealth inequality than Sweden, Denmark, Finland or Norway. (That's funny, I thought the Nordics were egalitarian utopias?)

I'm not saying that wealth inequality is low, or that it's not a problem. I'm merely responding to the claim that "wealth inequality is through the roof", which I take to mean that wealth inequality has increased substantially in recent years. As far as I can tell that's not true.

Personally I think we need more economic growth, not more taxes. We already have the highest taxes since WWII, soon to be the highest taxes in the entire history of the UK, and all it's doing is strangling the economy and making productive people flee.
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-04-26 08:20:11+00:00
Even worse is that if you google the poor blokes name they had the paparazzi out taking courthouse photos.

The gutter press in Australia have a field day at peoples expense.

Plenty of precedent of throwing high profile court cases too (hard to find unbiased jurors etc). Lately there's been a number of important cases being declared mistrials.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-26 08:20:15+00:00
Trials are public. This is a feature. This means everything can be reported unless the court puts a ban on it. Note, too that the guy pleaded guilty in this case and I think it is right to publicise the court's reasons for the penalty, or lack thereof.

In the UK they release mugshots, full names, and approximate address in the media, after a guilt verdict. Names and approximate addresses are published before since trials are public.

Finland, Germany, France, etc. have gone to another extreme. In France they now even withhold the names of people arrested in the act of murder or terrorism because "people are presumed innocent" and "their privacy must be protected"... which is pushing it beyond sensible and common sense, and is fairly recent practice that seems to have spread from Germany.
by irusensei | 2025-04-26 08:20:35+00:00
Nostr relays are in essence extremely dumb websocket servers. The most popular relay software is nostr-rs-relay a single binary written in rust that automatically spins up an SQLite database.

Bitcoin discussion yes, but mostly because bitcoiners are avid self hosters. Cryptocurrency not much. The “crypto” people created their own thing if I’m not mistaken.

Nostr was spun out as a truly censorship resistant protocol so it’s a given people who distrusts both centralized services and island style moderation are there don’t you think?

dergigi once described Nostr with an analogy to a gay bar. The place is nice, the furniture is fancy, the drinks pleasant and the people who frequent it are mostly nice but if you are not gay you won’t stick for so long.

Nothing keeps you from creating a moderated relay or curate your feeds though.

One of the coolest things about Nostr IMO is how extendable the protocol is and how easy you can develop crazy stuff for it.

Ah and for some reason there are some Japanese users.