MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xbmcuser | 2025-04-12 16:03:53+00:00
The US economy was not built on a free-market. US private capitalists have been built on a free market; now that their profits are under attack because they are being outcompeted by China, so they are running away with the ball. American economy real growth, where most white Americans gained wealth, came after World War II, where it was government led and controlled. It was the same for Europe, where they had to rebuild all that was destroyed after the war. It was all mostly government controlled and financed.

The problem today is that US and European capitalists are in power and do not want to admit that the Chinese economic model of government-controlled economic direction, though not perfect, would work better and help all the world's people rather than the select few. As China becomes the dominant economy, the rest of the world has to follow to stay competitive. So these are the death knell of a dying economic and government system. The US had the chance to bring real change for the people with Bernie Sanders, but that was scuttled by the capitalist non-democratic forces, allowing for the rise of Trump. US citizens have been hoodwinked by linking socialist thought, where caring about your fellow man is undemocratic, i.e., socialism.
by isaacremuant | 2025-04-12 16:04:26+00:00
Your profile is a fun read. As long as you don't go and try and harm your mother because "she's been taken by alien visitors" you're free to believe whatever you want just like religious people believe in their own stuff.

Edit: by fun I don't mean necessarily good fiction, the typical self aggrandizing stuff you hear from religions, but it's just fun to find it in a forum like this, played straight.
by asadotzler | 2025-04-12 16:04:50+00:00
So all anyone has to do to qualify is produce some of the most complicated electronic devices and components in the history of the world at the largest scale possible, without which there is zero chance of being sustainable or competitive, and then they can benefit from the gifts to the established giants?

What a gift. What a great idea. That'll surely spur innovation and domestic production and have no effect to further insulate the giants from competition.
by ItCouldBeWorse | 2025-04-12 16:04:50+00:00
They mythos of the genius is riding on the long coat tails of the post-worldwar research/coldwar researchers, where there were hard, cold result deadlines. Todays genius produces "papers" about how "all the low hanging fruits are gone" - as if what was archieved back then was easy because its today served in easy to diggest pedagogic pieces. Then the whole research caste is now in "optimizing tasks" that basically rearrange the economy in a ever belt tightening to exclude the average joe, instead of driving developments, that increase the overall cake for society. How to say it without hurting feelings, but nothing of value was lost...
by raincom | 2025-04-12 16:05:24+00:00
Insurers have another weapon: Insurer's preferred telehealth provider is the only one who can process PA(prior authorization). If your PCP prescribes an expensive prescription, PBM(say, optum Rx, owned by UHC) will tell ur pharmacy to have the prescriber get a prior authorization. When your PCP tries to get a prior authorization, insurer will say "the insured party should go through a telehealth provider for treatment". Now that telehealth provider creates more hurdles for patients. For instance, UHC uses Transcarent/join9am.

Insurers will add more and more indirections instead of outright denial. First indirection: get a prior authorization(PA). Second indirection: only a particular telehealth provider has the authority to ask for a prior authorization--and this is a new trend. Expect more layers of indirections.

I understand that healthcare costs are exorbitantly high. The people who have the power to control these costs are politicians, super wealthy, and the elites (lawyers, executives) serving the super wealthy. The latter groups get the care they want without any hurdles. Others just pay all insurance premiums, only to find that they are denied care when they need the most.
by _mlbt | 2025-04-12 16:05:28+00:00
Honest question, what would be gained by moving from America to China? Their government is by nearly all measures less tolerant, less free, less friendly to foreigners, more racist, and at least as morally evil, but probably more so considering their treatment of the Uyghurs and other minority populations.

At least in America if you’re not a fan of the Trump administration we’ll have another leader in a couple years. You can’t say the same for China.
by tom_m | 2025-04-12 16:05:37+00:00
I believe it. This is what typically happens. I would go to AWS re:invent and just watch people in the audience either cheer or break down as they announced new offerings wash away their business. It's very difficult to compete in a war of attrition with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

Not just small startups - even if you have ungodly amounts of funding.

Obviously the costs for AI will lower and everyone will more or less have the same quality in their models. They may already be approaching a maximum (or maximum required) here.

The bubble will burst and we'll start the next hype cycle. The winners, as always, the giants and anyone who managed to sell to them

I couldn't possibly see OpenAI as a winner in this space, not ever really. It has long since been apparent to me that Google would win this one. It would probably be more clear to others if their marketing and delivery of their AI products weren't such a sh-- show. Google is so incredibly uncoordinated here it's shocking...but they do have the resources, the right tech, the absolute position with existing user base, and the right ideas. As soon as they get better organized here it's game over.
by gaiagraphia | 2025-04-12 16:06:01+00:00
Fascinating looking at the valleys across the Sahara, and imagining rivers once running through them.

There's some fascinating fuel for imagination when you focus on the Sahara, and some very surprising features and remnants of life hanging on. The best example is Siwa, which is an utterly magical place to visit, and feels like a real edge of civiliation.

Climate change is always spoken about with negativity in the mainstream narrative. However, I always wondered whether more heat = more evaporation = more rain = more life; bringing regions like the Sahara (and periphery regions like the Sahel) back to life .

Makes you wonder whether - in an alternate timeline - if a Mongol messenger hadn't been backstabbed, Baghdad hadn't been sacked, and the Islamic world went on to become today's centre of science, finance, development, etc, wohether our current perception of climate change would be seen as a global positive and catalyst for life?
by simonw | 2025-04-12 16:06:33+00:00
Because doing so is computationally expensive and would be making false promises.

False positives where it incorrectly flagged a safe package would result in the need for a human review step, which is even more expensive.

False negatives where malware patterns didn't match anything previously would happen all the time, so if people learned to "trust" the scanning they would get caught out - at which point what value is the scanning adding?

I don't know if there are legal liability issues here too, but that would be worth digging into.

As it stands, there are already third parties that are running scans against packages uploaded to npm and PyPI and helping flag malware. Leaving this to third parties feels like a better option to me, personally.
Show HN: I built a tool that uses AI to turn Git commits into Discord updates
by Miguel07Code | 2025-04-12 16:06:48+00:00
Keeping a community updated with the latest project developments often involves manually reading through Git commits and crafting announcements. This tool was born out of the desire to automate this process, making it effortless to generate clear, engaging updates from commit history and share them directly where the community gathers, like Discord.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-12 16:07:18+00:00
Absolutely. They could take large sums of money to insert ads into the training data. Not only that, they could also insert disparaging or erroneous information about other products.

When Gemini says "Apple products are unreliable and overpriced, buy a Pixel phone instead". Google can just shrug and say "It's just what it deduced, we don't know how it came to that conclusion. It's an LLM with its mysterious weights and parameters"
by bsder | 2025-04-12 16:07:27+00:00
My point is that lead for batteries is aggressively recycled while lithium is almost exclusively pulled from primary extraction and rarely recycled.

> Despite the smaller supply of lithium, a study earlier this year in the Journal of the Indian Institute of Science found that less than 1 percent of Lithium-ion batteries get recycled in the US and EU compared to 99 percent of lead-acid batteries, which are most often used in gas vehicles and power grids.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/lithium-costs-a-lot-...

Whenever I buy a lead-acid battery, I always have a core charge and it is a non-trivial percentage of the total cost of the battery. I get that core charge back when I return the old battery.

Lithium batteries have nothing comparable.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-12 16:07:27+00:00
The government gave them the visa. When you apply for the visa you interact with the government and they give you the visa. If you check the terms and conditions of your visa, they're tied to you following the laws and not causing any issues otherwise it gets revoked.

The moment you try to swing a punch against the government that gave you that visa, then that contract is void, and you're out.

I don't see how this is an issue. Are you OK with foreigners coming into your country and starting to go against your democratically elected government(in principle, not just the orange man specifically)? I don't know anyone who wants that. Let citizens deal with their elected government, you can too once you become a citizen, if you want.
by betaby | 2025-04-12 16:07:40+00:00
Article is built on false premises. Notably citing: "in 2022-24, by our calculations, 20m well-educated people wanted to move there, compared with 14m who preferred Canada (which has a much smaller population). "

Two things: "wanted" and "actively doing so" are worlds apart. Additionally, other countries have about the same or even more complicated immigration rules.

The USA are safe from brain drain. And I'm saying that as a one living in Canada with close friends at McGill University - students still see the USA a primary destination of their interest.
by publicola1990 | 2025-04-12 16:07:43+00:00
India possibly. It's not much in the geopolitical discussion, but in 50 years time, may be earlier, India will have a larger economy than the US. That will truly be then end of the "American Age". Whole playbook which has been applied to USSR, China won't apply either.

Even as on today, moving to India and Indonesia and similar countries will bring similar quality of life that people get in the US at a lower cost. Rents, Healthcare, labour all are much cheaper. Interest rates are much higher.

You'll even get things like quick-commerce, which isn't really taking-off in the US.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-04-12 16:07:46+00:00
> I'm curious if America will soon reach a tipping point where a sizeable portion of its population actually makes an effort to emigrate, rather than just talking about it.

Emigrate where? The parts of the world where quality of life is equal or better don't just have open door policies letting Americans in freely, last I checked. I imagine it's going to get even harder.
by insurancesucks | 2025-04-12 16:08:00+00:00
I'm on the hook for $128k for a no complications birth and 5 days my newborn had to be on a CPAP machine after blue cross denied the claim. I picked the plan only after confirming all our providers were in network, but failed to check if the building where the delivery was occurring was in network.

The plan at this point is to just ignore it and hope it goes away, since they can't put it on your credit anymore.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-12 16:08:05+00:00
Except the insurers increasingly own the cost centers.

The big insurers own the PBMs, the specialty pharmacies, the doctors, the urgent care networks. United Healthcare is the country’s single largest employer of physicians. https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/07/unitedhealth-surgery-cen...

They pay their controlled ones higher rates, even. https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/unitedhealth-higher-paym...
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-12 16:09:02+00:00
Go back in time and stop this any of the other times we took a big step this direction. The thrust this direction has been going strong since the '70s.

We wrote out a detailed plan for jumping off a cliff, took several slow but steady and large steps toward the edge of the cliff, inched our shoes right over the edge, grabbed the railing, leaaaaaned way over, a little farther, a little farther, released finger go, then another, then completely let go. We're in free fall, the decades in which anyone could have stopped it are all in the past. There's nothing to grab, no path to turn around on, we're just falling now.
by jorvi | 2025-04-12 16:09:14+00:00
No, your claim was that integrators get hate for not immediately integrating upstream changes. Which is patently false, because users would rather have the packages tested for breaking changes and either patched or have a deprecation warning, rather than having the changes blindly integrated and having their legs pulled out from under them by a breaking change. No one is hating on distro packagers for taking a slight delay to verify and test things.

I brought up Arch because they get a lot of hate for exactly doing that and consequently pulling people's legs out from under them.
by threeducks | 2025-04-12 16:10:06+00:00
> That was not with Google's consent

The NSA does not need consent from Google. Google is simply ordered to comply. See https://policies.google.com/terms/information-requests?hl=en...

> FISA orders and authorizations can be used to compel electronic surveillance and the disclosure of stored data, including content from services like Gmail, Drive, and Photos.

If you look at the content requests under FISA, you can see that there were over 118000 requests for user data between July 2023 and December 2023. https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-...
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-12 16:10:13+00:00
It feels like important details are missing here. First of all, 6100? That's an oddly specific and small number of people. There are many millions of immigrants and some millions of illegal immigrants. What makes these 6100 special? I've found dozens of articles on the web that say the same thing as WaPo almost verbatim. Who here is from the corporate media? What are the missing details?

The only hints in the article are "The White House told The Post that the roughly 6,000 immigrants all have links to either terrorist activity or criminal records." but there are going to be a lot more than 6000 people with criminal records alone. If they are counting people with criminal records then there should be tens or hundreds of thousands flagged as deceased.

Perhaps they were doing purges manually and got caught / interrupted? If so, why? Cherry picking would take forever. If Team-Elon were doing this I would expect automation.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-12 16:10:23+00:00
That's another patronage angle. When the feds buy Lenovo laptops, they have to comply with TAA. So they ship the laptops to Texas, "materially transform" them, package and ship to the customer.

You can be sure some crony owns the company that screws the display and puts stickers on the laptop with minimum wage workers.
by brontosaurusrex | 2025-04-12 16:10:29+00:00
Is there a version of this that would support my custom presets for AVC/HEVC mp4 encoding with video filters like deinterlace/resize and similar (and/or audio filters like ebu R128)? (p.s. Also my usual input type is cinefrom/mov, which this one is not happy with for some reason)
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-12 16:10:44+00:00
Why would you move to a country that does terrorism?

And I'll let you in a secret: the legal definition of what is terrorism and what is not, is the one the government and courts decide, not you as a non-citizen. To me what Busch did equates to terrorism, but that's not what the courts decided, so there we are.

That's not your government to protest against because you can't vote as your not a citizen of that country, so that country's leadership is not accountable to you, it's accountable only to its citizens.

Leave that protesting to the citizens, or move to your country and protest in front of the US/Israel embassy from your own country's soil, that's the legal way to do it.
by tfsh | 2025-04-12 16:10:55+00:00
I don't think you're wanting to converse in good faith, but on the off chance this is a question - yes, GCP was revenue losing for a number of years, but since Q1 2023 they've been profitable. It takes money to bootstrap anything - obviously - this is the case for the vast majority of companies and their offerings, especially so for one which requires vast amounts of compute resources, SREs, legal, etc.
by miros_love | 2025-04-12 16:11:09+00:00
Has anyone looked at similar studies from, say, five years ago? I worry that half of what was labeled “delusional” back then is now a widely accepted opinion.

Feels like we're one step away from a follow-up paper titled "We regret to inform you: The paranoid were just early."

Not saying everything turns out to be true - just that social consensus tends to shift a lot faster than clinical definitions.
by mindslight | 2025-04-12 16:11:19+00:00
> The more economic crisis there is is, the weaker the government, and the more women will need men

So, to put a finer point on it - you decided that aiming to destroy the United States, and the Pax Americana underlying western civilization, was an appropriate response because AOC and Macron (who represent "everyone", in your apparent media diet) hurt your feelings. As a fellow man, this is just pathetic and entitled.

There have always been groups in society you cannot criticize. There has always been groupthink bullshit that you just smile and nod, and then later share your real thoughts with your trusted close friends. The growing prevalence of talking about men's rights issues was the painstaking path to them getting better - there are some pretty harsh biological reasons why custody courts are slanted towards women, right? If you really wanted to phrase this in terms of "men", then maybe you needed to listen to your fellow wiser men telling you to hold your nose and vote conservative/democrat instead of lashing out with histrionic destruction. Alas.
by walterbell | 2025-04-12 16:11:39+00:00
Are you in the wrong subthread? This one is about venmo lidar scans.

> underlying devaluation of American currency

Outside of XKCD cartoons, there are years of data showing that exporters can devalue their currency to make their exports more competitive. This took place in the first round of tariffs, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661441

Current short term (days, not years) movement in the bond market is due to selling and unwinding by Europe and Japan, not China.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-12 16:11:40+00:00
> Actually moral rights is what allow you to say no to AI.

The US doesn't really have moral rights and it's not clear they're even constitutional in the US, since the copyright clause explicitly requires "promote the progress" and "limited times" and many aspects of "moral rights" would be violations of the First Amendment. Whether they exist in some other country doesn't really help you when it's US companies doing it in the US.

> Further making a variant of a famous art piece under copyright might very well be a derivative.

Well of course it is. That's what derivative works are. You can also produce derivative works with Photoshop or MS Paint, but that doesn't mean the purpose of MS Paint is to produce derivative works or that it's Microsoft rather than the user purposely creating a derivative work who should be responsible for that.
by skullt | 2025-04-12 16:12:01+00:00
It's a common extension but it's not standard. Both C23 and C++23 only allow identifiers to start with a Unicode XID_START character, which excludes $. And with older standards, it was just Latin letters, the underscore, and explicit \u escapes.

If you look in the project's pedantic.cmake, you'll find a add_c_and_cxx_compile_options("-Wno-dollar-in-identifier-extension") just to suppress warnings about this.
by gs17 | 2025-04-12 16:12:19+00:00
I've never heard anyone (at least not anyone who wasn't already using GIMP) complain about the concept of paying for it, it's always been the way Adobe tries to squeeze extra money out of you. First it was bundles where you'd have to buy software you didn't need to get what you do. Then it was a subscription. Also, each CS version seemed to add very little for the price.
by smegger001 | 2025-04-12 16:12:32+00:00
I have been threatening to do this for a while just put all of my dvd rips on a server on make channels based on genera scifi (star trek stargate etc) cartoon (loony toons popeye...) sitcoms (scrubs HowIMetYourMother Frasier Cheer) all of my kids horrible shows on another. i often find i end up flipping thorugh netflix with option paralysis when i mostly want background noise this would be nice.
by sightbroke | 2025-04-12 16:12:39+00:00
I am curious as power demands for AI/Data centers increase if either/or both algorithms & transistors will become more power efficient.

Then energy consumption won't double because we're computing more efficiently.

OR because we are computing more efficiently increase in energy consumption will grow all that more rapidly and still result in doubling by 2030 for this particular area of industry.
by AlexGrothen | 2025-04-12 16:13:13+00:00
>hand-picked

cherry-picked, actually

1. Almost exactly the same incident happened in the USA, NYPD sodomized Michael Mineo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park_alleged_police...

None of the NYPD officers didn't have any sentence for this

2. That's an old conspiracy theory, even the Russian opposition (at least the reasonable part of it) doesn't support this theory. There are plenty of publications about it in Russian, and if you will do some effort you will find why