MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by feoren | 2025-04-03 21:37:22+00:00
> There's a tremendous amount of waste in the economy related to reconciling different companies' records of who owes what to whom and then getting that info to the bank and then hearing back from the bank about whether the debt was fully or partially paid and then relating that to whether the service continues to be rendered.

Is all that really a tremendous waste, in the days of databases and instant communication? How much waste are we talking about here? I'd wager a lot of money it's at least one order of magnitude less than the literal heat waste produced by validating bitcoin transactions. Crypto is much more wasteful.

> Moving from an accounts-receivable/accounts-payable model to a insert-coin-receive-service model

The monetary system isn't what's preventing this. You can't provide a service and also charge for it in the exact same instant. If I hire a contractor to renovate my bathroom, there's a ton of negotiation, possible disagreements about whether the work is "done" or not, payment deadlines, etc., and crypto vs. fiat currency changes none of that.
by sokka_h2otribe | 2025-04-03 21:37:28+00:00
Some may be application notes from the manufacturers.

Jameco also supplies mid level engineering firms, so similar to application notes. Think automation integration company buying xyz specialty robotics controller.

I think of mouser as more like digikey, so I don't really know why they would have similar educational information above the level of PCB board component. But, they may also have business in the low-quantity higher margin business.

Tldr: not seo. Customers actually need to know about the product
by olejorgenb | 2025-04-03 21:37:44+00:00
How is it easier for the European companies to compete when the US companies have the same conditions?

Not everyone is an expert in this field. If you are, I'm sure you can provide a more understandable explanation.

It's not obvious to me that the different rates of sales tax/vat matter for competitio either. An example is worth thousand words here...
by crscrosaplsauc | 2025-04-03 21:38:18+00:00
How so? The study is about leadership, decision making, and risk vs reward. Is there not demonstrable (and multiple levels of) leadership within sports teams?

I'm genuinely curious if you've participated in collegiate above sports - or at maybe even High School level. I would be very surprised if someone who played or participated seriously in sports said they didn't take away lessons about leadership and decision making.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-03 21:38:29+00:00
> But I can hire an artist and ask him to draw me a picture of Indiana Jones,

Sure, assuming the artist has the proper license and franchise rights to make and distribute copies. You can go buy a picture of Indy today that may not be printed by Walt Disney Studios but by some other outfit or artists.

Or, you mean if the artist doesn't have a license to produce and distribute Indiana Jones images? Well they'll be in trouble legally. They are making "copies" of things they don't own and profiting from it.

Another question is whether that's practically enforceable.

> Where did I (or the artist) violate any copyright (or other) laws?

When they took payment and profited from making unauthorized copies.

> It is the artist that is replaced by the AI, not the copyrighted IP.

Exactly, that's why LLMs and the companies which create them are called "theft machines" -- they are reproducing copyrighted material. Especially the ones charging for "tokens". You pay them, they make money and produce unauthorized copies. Show that picture of Indy to a jury and I think it's a good chance of convincing them.

I am not saying this is good or bad, I just see this having a legal "bite" so to speak, at least in my pedestrian view of copyright law.
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-03 21:39:19+00:00
>I just don't understand the mentality. Sure, I can see how it can be fun to make an aimbot, and I can see how playing with it for a little while might be fun--or more accurately funny. But I just don't understand why you would routinely sit down with an aimbot. Why not just watch someone else play at that point?

Vindication. The average cheat buyer is someone who gets beat down in the game, and feels personally slighted. This is also why avoiding detection is more important than just worrying about bans. The whole point of modern cheating is to be subtle enough to pass yourself off as a top player, with all the social/financial perks that entails, not to run around in god mode griefing people.
by kiitos | 2025-04-03 21:39:32+00:00
> Simply change the domain from github.com or github.io to gitmcp.io and get instant AI context for any GitHub repository.

What does this mean? How does it work? How can I understand how it works? The requirements, limitations, constraints? The landing page tells me nothing! Worse, it doesn't have any links or suggestions as to how I could possibly learn how it works.

> Congratulations! The chosen GitHub project is now fully accessible to your AI.

What does this mean??

> GitMCP serves as a bridge between your GitHub repository's documentation and AI assistants by implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP). When an AI assistant requires information from your repository, it sends a request to GitMCP. GitMCP retrieves the relevant content and provides semantic search capabilities, ensuring efficient and accurate information delivery.

MCP is a protocol that defines a number of concrete resource types (tools, prompts, etc.) -- each of which have very specific behaviors, semantics, etc. -- and none of which are identified by this project's documentation as what it actually implements!

Specifically what aspects of the MCP are you proxying here? Specifically how do you parse a repo's data and transform it into whatever MCP resources you're supporting? I looked for this information and found it nowhere?
by echelon | 2025-04-03 21:39:50+00:00
I think there's a similar analogy here for products in the AI era.

Bolting AI onto existing products probably doesn't make sense. AI is going to produce an entirely new set of products with AI-first creation modalities.

You don't need AI in Photoshop / Gimp / Krita to manipulate images. You need a brand new AI-first creation tool that uses your mouse inputs like magic to create images. Image creation looks nothing like it did in the past.

You don't need Figma to design a webpage. You need an AI-first tool that creates the output - Lovable, V0, etc. are becoming that.

You don't need AI in your IDE. Your IDE needs to be built around AI. And perhaps eventually even programming languages and libraries themselves need AI annotations or ASTs.

You don't need AI in Docs / Gmail / Sheets. You're going to be creating documents from scratch (maybe pasting things in). "My presentation has these ideas, figures, and facts" is much different than creating and editing the structure from scratch.

There is so much new stuff to build, and the old tools are all going to die.

I'd be shocked if anyone is using Gimp, Blender, Photoshop, Premiere, PowerPoint, etc. in ten years. These are all going to be reinvented. The only way these products themselves survive is if they undergo tectonic shifts in development and an eventual complete rewrite.
by evanelias | 2025-04-03 21:40:05+00:00
Yes, although the article isn't claiming to have invented declarative schema management. They're just saying it is now available as a feature in Supabase. (Personally I think that's great!)

Regarding prior art: Django migrations are indeed declarative, and were very early in this space. But they're tied to Python model definitions in the ORM, which is a bit more of a special-case than the native SQL CREATE based approach described here.

As for Prisma Migrate, they directly copied several innovations from my tool Skeema [1] which has been available since 2016, so they can be equally accused of "reinventing" things :)

Not that I invented pure-SQL declarative schema management either, by any stretch. I was largely inspired by the workflow at Facebook, who adopted declarative table management company-wide back in ~2012. FB found that having a declarative reconciliation loop is an operational necessity with a massively sharded system, given some hardware just dies every day. And centralized SQL-based schema management is advantageous when applications are written in many different programming languages.

[1] https://github.com/skeema/skeema
by tombert | 2025-04-03 21:40:28+00:00
I bought the tombert.com domain about eleven years ago, forgot to renew it, GoDaddy auctioned it off and a squatter sat on it, and they wanted $1800 for it back, which of course I wasn't going to pay for my dumb internet alias. I tried calling the squatter and offered to pay them $200, and they said that maybe they could setting for $1000, but this domain is in "really high demand" so they can't go lower than that.

I would occasionally check it, and the price would vary by hundreds of dollars, but never a price I was willing to pay. Eventually I think it lapsed again and was picked up by some Chinese site that (I think) was trying to sell massages.

Finally, in 2021, I guess they got tired of paying for it, and it fully lapsed, and I was able to purchase it, so I bought it for ten years.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-03 21:40:52+00:00
Great. AliExpress was the RadioShack of 2025. No way I’m spending $25+ for a strip of SMD resistors, and I expect to never see them available in the US at a price that makes sense as a hobbyist. This isn’t helping anyone, will prevent a lot of prototyping, and just be a bad experience in life. Thanks for ruining the fun of the last 5-10 years of DIY electronics golden age.

I had plans to build some animatronic Halloween decorations for this year over the summer. I’m not going to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on parts that nominally cost less than $50.

My own pain is minor though compared to everyone I know who uses Temu and other things to basically outfit their life. This will be insanely regressive as they have the least to spend on “on brand” products, which themselves are imported too. This is like “super sales tax for the poor.” Me, I’ll just save my money and wait for the next president to undo the mess. My buddies not as successful monetarily as me? Their quality is life is going down the drain.
by godelski | 2025-04-03 21:40:57+00:00
> he seems to completely equate ease of language with ability to do undetectable mistakes.

I do not believe this is his argument. He was making the point that there is a balance. You need to consider the context of the times, and remember that in this context a language like C is considered "high-level", not a language like Python. He later moves on to discuss formalism through mathematics (referencing Vieta, Descartes, Leibniz, and Boole), in how this symbolism is difficult to perform and many are adverse to it, but that through its birth we've been able to reap a lot of rewards. He precisely makes the claim that were we not to move to formal methods and instead maintain everyday language, we would still be stuck at the level of the Greeks.

Actually in one season of An Opinionated History of Mathematics, the host (a mathematician) specifically discusses the transition in the Greeks and highlights how many flaws there were in this system. How the slow move to mathematical formalism actually enabled correctness.

The point is that human language is much more vague. It has to be this way. But the formalism in symbolics (i.e. math) would similarly make a terrible language for computing. The benefit of the symbolic approach is the extreme precision, but it also means the language is extremely verbose. While in human languages we trade precision for speed and flexibility. To communicate what I have with a mathematical language would require several pages of text. Like he says, by approaching human language this shifts more responsibility to the machine.
by datavirtue | 2025-04-03 21:41:23+00:00
That free GitHub Copilot though. Microsoft is a relentless drug dealer. If you haven't tried Copilot Edits yet, hold on to your hat. I started using it in a clean Express project and a Vue3 project in VS Code. Basically flawless edits from prompt over multiple files, new files...the works. Easy.
by do_not_redeem | 2025-04-03 21:41:28+00:00
No, even homomorphic encryption wouldn't help.

It doesn't matter how complicated the operation is, if you have a copy of the Chrome binary, you can observe what CPU instructions it uses to sign the challenge, and replicate the operations yourself. Proxying to a real Chrome is the most blunt approach, but there's nothing stopping you from disassembling the binary and copying the code to run in your own process, independent of Chrome.
by necovek | 2025-04-03 21:42:04+00:00
I do plan on experimenting with the latest versions of coding assistants, but last I tried them (6 months ago), none could satisfy all of the requirements at the same time.

Perhaps there is simply too much crappy Python code around that they were trained on as Python is frequently used for "scripting".

Perhaps the field has moved on and I need to try again.

But looking at this, it would still be faster for me to type this out myself than go through multiple rounds of reviews and prompts.

Really, a senior has not reviewed this, no matter their language (raciness throughout, not just this file).
by pso | 2025-04-03 21:42:13+00:00
Dwarkesh, is one of the better tech podcasters. Scott is well known for blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten. Daniel resigned from OpenAI in 2024,and is known for prescient AI boom predictions made in 2021. https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-... Today they jointly published their 2027 predictions https://ai-2027.com/
by elpocko | 2025-04-03 21:42:23+00:00
>hyper realistic photo

Never use the words "hyper realistic" when you want a photo. It makes no sense and misleads the generator. No one would describe a simple photograph as "hyper realistic," not a single real photo in the dataset will be tagged as "(hyper) realistic."

Hyperrealism is an art style and only ever used in the context of explicitely non-photographic artworks.
by Jensson | 2025-04-03 21:42:29+00:00
> That is generalization, even if it's domain specific

But that is the point, it is a domain specific AI, not a general AI. You can't train a general AI that way.

> For self updating I said it's an engineering choice. You keep moving the goal posts.

No, it is not an engineering choice, it is an unsolved problem to make a general AI that self updates productively. Doing that for a specific well defined problem with well defined goals is easy, but not general problem solving.
by mmooss | 2025-04-03 21:42:35+00:00
It's the enshittification of the US economy, in a way:

The method of enshittification, as I understand it, is to create businesses with a moat that prevents competition, cheapen the product in every way possible, and squeeze as much rent out as possible. Also, extract as much as possible via debt.

The tariffs are the moat. The debt I don't need to explain (though Dems aren't great with it either).

It's all the opposite of competitive business and free markets.
by Melatonic | 2025-04-03 21:42:51+00:00
If you're using Windows on it I highly recommend looking into the last version of Windows 10 LTSC - it's basically a completely stripped down version without all the crap (no spyware, windows store, candy crush, etc). Anything you really need to add back is easy (like if you do need a windows store app for example)

With an SSD it boots insanely fast and consumes very little resources at idle. And will get security updates for many years to come. It's really the perfect OS for the T420 (or Linux of course - although I'd actually prefer Windows for a classic Thinkpad).

Bit hard to buy legally (you need to go through a VAR - there are some who will definitely sell you single copies). Core Windows 10 without all the bloat is actually a really impressive and lightweight OS considering the massive backwards compatibility and huge backlog of free software. Not to mention the insane breadth of hardware it will run on.
by Retric | 2025-04-03 21:43:19+00:00
> If a single market participant finds utility from the use of that commodity, distinct from hoarding, then acquiring access to more is beneficial. Your hoarding helped.

Talking about marginal quantity for tiny fractions of a commodity get abstract so let’s scale it up and the assign a fraction of the difference to that 1kg.

Total quantity of gold in earths crust is constant, so let’s assume what changes is the timing of when a mine gets opened. IE a bit of land is either mined in 1975 vs 2025.

Everything else being equal it’s more efficient to mine today vs 50 years ago both from an effort perspective and environmental impact. EV mining equipment for example is a lot more common today than 50 years ago, they are also a lot safer. Thus removing 1kg of gold from the market for 50 years is also a dead loss.
by Marsymars | 2025-04-03 21:43:51+00:00
> Doesn't the US already have the most progressive tax system in the world?

It's arguable, but it's safe to say that it's one of the most progressive among development countries, but that's in large part a function of the comparative inequality and low tax rates to start.

> If you want more public services the tax rate would need to increase at all levels but dramatically so at the middle to low end.

Yeah, but the net effect can be an improvement in terms of inequality. See e.g. https://www.cbpp.org/research/what-do-oecd-data-really-show-...

"As a result, the latest OECD data show that while the United States has the tenth-highest level of income inequality of the 31 OECD countries examined before considering taxes and transfers, it has the fourth-highest level of inequality after considering them."

"As the OECD report notes, if two countries have identical tax schedules that include graduated marginal rates, the tax system will have a more progressive impact in the country with higher pre-tax inequality, because a larger share of that country’s income will be taxed at the top rates."

"Because of their comparatively small size and below-average progressivity, U.S. cash transfers do less to reduce inequality in household cash incomes than those in any other OECD country except Korea"
by nradov | 2025-04-03 21:44:32+00:00
Many of the workers in the 1950s were combat veterans who had lived through some shit and weren't as easy to push around. Contrast that to today when a lot of people tend to panic over minor hazards like a respiratory virus with a >99% survival rate. That cowardice puzzled me until I realized that a lot of younger people have led such sheltered lives that they have never experienced any real hardship or serious physical danger so they lack the mental resilience to cope with it. They just want to be coddled and aren't willing to fight for anything.
by torginus | 2025-04-03 21:44:41+00:00
Much has been made in its article about autonomous agents ability to do research via browsing the web - the web is 90% garbage by weight (including articles on certain specialist topics).

And it shows. When I used GPT's deep research to research the topic, it generated a shallow and largely incorrect summary of the issue, owning mostly to its inability to find quality material, instead it ended up going for places like Wikipedia, and random infomercial listicles found on Google.

I have a trusty Electronics textbook written in the 80s, I'm sure generating a similarly accurate, correct and deep analysis on circuit design using only Google to help would be 1000x harder than sitting down and working through that book and understanding it.
by imiric | 2025-04-03 21:44:47+00:00
> They’re very good at honing bad code into good code with good feedback.

And they're very bad at keeping other code good across iterations. So you might find that while they might've fixed the specific thing you asked for—in the best case scenario, assuming no hallucinations and such—they inadvertently broke something else. So this quickly becomes a game of whack-a-mole, at which point it's safer, quicker, and easier to fix it yourself. IME the chance of this happening is directly proportional to the length of the context.
by afarah1 | 2025-04-03 21:45:14+00:00
>AI is supposed to be able to [...] make extremely labor intensive things much easier

... as showcased by the cited examples?

More so, this derivative work would otherwise be unreachable for regular folk with no artistic talent (maybe for lack of time to develop it), but who may aspire to do such creative work nevertheless. Why is that a bad thing? Sure, simple posts on social media don't have much work or creativity put into them, but are enjoyable nevertheless, and the technology _can_ be used in creative ways - e.g. Stable Diffusion has been used to turn original stories drawn with stick figures into stylized children's books.

The author argues against this usage for "stealing" the original work, but how does posting a stylized story on social media "steal" anything? The author doesn't present any "pirated" copies of movies being sold in place of the originals, nor negative impact on sales figures. In the case of the trending Studio Ghibli, I wouldn't be surprise to see a positive impact!

As for the "soulless 2025 fax version of the thing", I think it takes a very negative mindset to see it this way. What I've seen shared on social media has been nothing but fun examples, people playing around with what for them is a new use of technology, using it on pictures of fond memories, etc.

I'm inclined to agree with the argument made by Boldrin and Levine:

>”Intellectual property” has come to mean not only the right to own and sell ideas, but also the right to regulate their use. This creates a socially inefficient monopoly, and what is commonly called intellectual property might be better called “intellectual monopoly.”

>When you buy a potato you can eat it, throw it away, plant it or make it into a sculpture. Current law allows producers of a CDs and books to take this freedom away from you. When you buy a potato you can use the “idea” of a potato embodied in it to make better potatoes or to invent french fries. Current law allows producers of computer software or medical drugs to take this freedom away from you. It is against this distorted extension of intellectual property rights that we argue.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4980956_The_Case_Ag...
by elicksaur | 2025-04-03 21:45:23+00:00
Note the market resolves by:

> Resolution will be via a poll of Manifold moderators. If they're split on the issue, with anywhere from 30% to 70% YES votes, it'll resolve to the proportion of YES votes.

So you should really read it as “Will >30% of Manifold moderators in 2027 think the ‘predictions seem to have been roughly correct up until that point’?”
by b0bben | 2025-04-03 21:46:01+00:00
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(macos is signed, windows is not, waiting for MS to approve me for certificates, dont download unsigned binaries from internet strangers...i'm nice tho)
by overfeed | 2025-04-03 21:46:11+00:00
> Let me ask you a hypothetical instead: if those 'ways' are gone, is it automatically a given that new ones will emerge?

It's important to remember those were not the only ways, they just happened to have be the most effective, and became notorious because of it. Tax havens still exist, and we are still far from taxing corporate in the same stringent ways we tax individuals. The fact that governments only chipped at the edges with no systemic changes is telling.

> I don't want to write too much of an obvious comment, but.. how is it different from existing pre-Trump green cards sold to interested parties

You need to be specific about how green cards are currently sold before I can attempt to explain the difference. Further, if there is no difference IYO, then why is Trump proposing something new?