MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-04-15 06:09:34+00:00
stremio works fine and is quite popular.

It's similar to popcorn time that was killed by legal ways so I'd say they did take off.

Stremio smartly avoids being killed by making pirating an optional plugin you have to install from another site so they get deniability.

It works well and save my ass from needing 1000s' of subscriptions.
by treebeard901 | 2025-04-15 06:10:36+00:00
I've been following this the past few years and have tried to warn about it. The article does a good job explaining the problem. There are other factors and sources of liquidity they can use to cook the books a while longer. Never underestimate their ability to kick the can down the road or rob Peter to pay Paul.

How this isn't front page news every day is beyond me.

The U.S. has run on debt to keep up the appearance of competing with China for decades While behind the scenes, it has all just been a money game to simulate GDP. As they ran up trillions doing this, they began to favor quoting the resulting debt in terms of percentage of GDP. At the same time, GDP at increasingly large levels was the result of the debt being created. This is a path where eventually reality sets in and suddenly you're not at 130% of GDP. You're at 250% or 300% because most of your GDP for twenty years has been this QE money.

The debt was funded partially by the reserve currency system which leads to trade deficits. China did a study that said for every $100 in goods sent to the U.S., it costs $0.17 cents for the U.S. to print a $100 bill (really free with digital currency). So at some point that trade deficit and foreign owned debt is a large part of your reserve currency.

The triffin dilemma is turning into a slow motion financial nuke. Because once the reality hits the market that the upcoming $9 trillion this year and $27 trillion over the next few years simply cannot be rolled over without either a massive crash or a form of hyperinflation, because the Feds QE will be the only source of liquidity.

Then again, maybe it's time for another Bretton Woods style conference. The U.S. might not like the terms the rest of the world decides to set for it.

EDIT: As far as using debt fueled fiat currency to trade for goods, or to fund wars to destroy Russian tanks, or whatever, I mean, it makes sense that the U.S. did that for as long as possible. Who wouldn't? But great scams don't last forever
by refurb | 2025-04-15 06:10:59+00:00
Your answer begs the question - why is the 1960’s the right target?

And if the Gini coefficient is calculated pre-tax and pre-benefit distribution, it’s not going to change with high taxes and high redistribution (and yes you mentioned it may not be the right measure).

And if the Gini coefficient is calculated based on income data from the US, do we know if the better Gini from 1960’s wasn’t just due to income not being reported to the IRS?
by tdesilva | 2025-04-15 06:11:48+00:00
As with many startups (especially ones with high burn rates) OpenAI is risky. It could take down SoftBank and its data center vendors. 6% of nvidia’s revenue is not that concerning, as I’m sure they can find other buyers for those GPUs. But I really don’t buy the argument that OpenAI is the gen AI industry. If they ceased to exist tomorrow, the tech/genAI industry would just trundle along. At this point the tech is quite commodotize.
Show HN: We launched an AI tool to analyze Fed economic data
by adaro | 2025-04-15 06:11:54+00:00
We just launched a new tool this week that makes it way easier to understand what’s going on in the economy.

This tool lets you quickly check key economic stats like GDP, inflation, and interest rates using official data from the Federal Reserve. Just type a question, and it pulls up the latest numbers with easy-to-read charts so you can get a clear picture of what’s happening in the economy.

But it doesn’t stop there — you can also ask the AI to analyze these data sets and help you understand what they mean. Whether you’re looking for trends, comparisons, or deeper insights, it can break down complex relationships and give you answers in plain language.

Watch the video below where we go down a rabbit hole analyzing consumer debt and spending.

https://x.com/rhuncapital/status/1910819028056379413?s=46&t=...
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-15 06:12:43+00:00
‘OUTSOURCING’ isn’t software engineering. It throws away decades of software engineering principles in favour of CHEAP output by clicking “I AGREE” on a contract.

You would certainly NOT use ‘OUTSOURCED’ slopware that powers key control systems in critical infrastructure such as energy, banking, hospitals and communications systems.

An incident involving using ‘OUTSOURCED’ slopware is just waiting to happen.

... oh, wait...
by nick_wolf | 2025-04-15 06:12:54+00:00
Great point, thanks for raising it. You're spot on – the client currently sends name: 'mcp-shield', enabling exactly the bait-and-switch scenario you described.

I'll push an update in ~30 mins adding an optional --identify-as <client-name> flag. This will let folks test for that kind of evasion by mimicking specific clients, while keeping the default behavior consistent. Probably will think more about other possible vectors. Really appreciate the feedback!
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-15 06:13:25+00:00
I worked for a company called Streamroot which sold exactly this, and I can tell your first paragraph is indeed correct but the second isn't: we had major streaming platforms as customers when I was there (not global giants like Netflix or YouTube, but big european players like Canal+ or Eurosport) and we also had plenty of warez websites (streaming sport, animes, porn, etc.).

I then left and the company later got acquired by Level 3 so I don't know exactly how it evolved but it's likely that they abandoned the illegal streaming market for reputational reasons and stuck with big players.
by gentoo | 2025-04-15 06:13:32+00:00
The "disparate impact" test applies mainly in civil rights act litigation, and it's extremely hard to make a case under that theory. It's a three-part test, and showing that a particular policy has a disparate impact on one race is just the first hurdle.

You also have to prove that the party acted with malice: either the policy exists for explicitly racist reasons, or the race-neutral justification is pretextual. If you can do that, you _also_ have to prove that there is a less-discriminatory alternative policy that achieves the same goal.

see, e.g., https://www.justice.gov/crt/fcs/T6Manual7#C'

It is definitely not de facto illegal to have a racially lopsided student body -- the school might be asked to justify the specific policy or practice that led to that outcome on race-neutral grounds, but saying "GPA and test scores" would be more than enough.
by lordkrandel | 2025-04-15 06:13:42+00:00
You get something right, something awfully wrong. It's true that machines dont sleep, but less true that every software engineer costs 230000$ an year. Maybe (!) that's true in Silicon Valley. In Italy, it costs 35000E. And we don't see many software companies in Italy. Why? Because I'm sad to have that explained, code is 10% of development. Whatsapp was sold for 17 billion dollars and it was 55 employees, and it's an IRC chat made mobile. At the time, it didn't have video. I can keep going on, but this discussion sounds so out-in-space that only USA people could not see. Sorry if you're from somewhere else.
by frankacter | 2025-04-15 06:13:45+00:00
I did and got back what appeared to be an automated reply given the near immediate response.

>Thanks for submitting an appeal to the Reddit admin team. We've reviewed your request and your appeal will not be granted and your ban will remain in place.

>-Reddit Admin Team

>This is an automated message; responses will not be received by Reddit admins.

It's really a bummer to lose an 18+ year account that I've accumulated so many friends and community relations, and one that is tied to a common public nickname I use on socials and is literally tattooed on my arm. So I figured I'd wait a year and request again.
by pveierland | 2025-04-15 06:14:17+00:00
Considering the extremes of prolific developers gives interesting contrast to dogmas such as "functions/files should never be above x lines", where `quickjs.c` is 50k lines and has functions that are hundreds of lines long:

https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/quickjs.c

(Obviously different approaches suits different circumstances.)
by az09mugen | 2025-04-15 06:16:07+00:00
As you said, I think also the key differences between skilled and unskilled devs in the context of AI tooling are :

1°) Know how to diagnose and fix critical problems by themselves, because there will be bugs in production for which AI won't be any help

2°) Write maintainable code, AI doesn't care at all of maintainability of code while devs should (must imho) consider pasting AI code as a merge/pull request.

For 2°) IIRC, I read somewhere that more and more code published on i.e. github is AI-generated. While this means the quality of code is decreasing, i.e. Copilot is also trained on more and more % of AI-generated code. So the quality of AI-generated code is decreasing globally.

As time passes, I think skilled devs will become more skilled and unskilled will become more unskilled.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-04-15 06:16:08+00:00
I have a fairly successful heuristic - the more words about "empowerment" or "democratization" are being spilled around, less power and democracy common people have. There is a reason corporate snakes love these words so much. But hey, enjoy your vibe-coded app and believe that this tech is hyped because of perspectives on betterment of human society and individual emancipation, not because it will allow our technocratic overlords tighten the leash.
by mleroy | 2025-04-15 06:16:22+00:00
Over the past 30 years, computers and software have dramatically transformed our world. Yet many sectors remain heavily influenced by their analog history. My understanding is that the HN community has always recognized that the future is already here, just not evenly distributed across work environments, administration, and general processes. Didn't many of us believe that numerous jobs could be replaced by a few lines of code if inputs and outputs were properly standardized? The fact that this hasn't happened or has occurred very slowly due to institutional inertia is another story altogether. Whether software development will become a "bullshit job" or how the world will look in a few years remains unknown. But those who constantly praise their work as software developers while simultaneously acknowledging that other non-physical jobs and processes could be fundamentally overhauled are living in a cognitive bubble—something I wouldn't have expected in this community.
by car | 2025-04-15 06:16:25+00:00
As an almost radiologist, it’s exciting to see how MRI technology is making these strides.

Another area that seems to be coming into its own is using hyperpolarized isotope Carbon 13 as a contrast agent. It can be incorporated into metabolites like pyruvate and show tissue with rapid uptake. This is used in the detection of cancer, where the cells are extremely hungry for glucose/pyruvate, a phenomenon known as the Warburg effect.

https://hyperpolarizedmri.ucsf.edu/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect_(oncology)
by fhd2 | 2025-04-15 06:17:01+00:00
Tangential, but an entry level developer at 190k USD per year seems nuts, is that really a reasonable number? From a quick search, I find numbers below 100k USD for the bay area, which seems more reasonable.

In a well off European country, you'd pay around 45k USD for a strong entry level developer. I can imagine 2x salaries, considering costs of living, fire at will and all that, but >4x? Not sure how to back that up.
by lordkrandel | 2025-04-15 06:17:07+00:00
Also, calculators did millions of operations, but the were 99.999999% right all the time. That's what set the apart from human people: eternal reliability 24/7. AI is about right 1% of the time, a human is needed to recognise when the machine is wrong, and it keeps repeating the same mistakes when identified and corrected. People WISH it was like a calculator, but you know, magic thinking doesn't make things happen.
by ghoul2 | 2025-04-15 06:17:20+00:00
Google does this: 100% discount for upto 100K of usage the first year, and 25% discount upto 100K for the second year.

But I disagree: I think what AWS does is a LOT better: credits last two years, which is a lot more practical (if i migrate to AWS for the credits, I have two years during which I don't have to consider migrating again), plus with the upfront payment plans, I can even stretch the credits to a third year. I like that a LOT better.
by beAbU | 2025-04-15 06:17:42+00:00
You can't lump shein and temu in the same bucket. My wife is an avid shein user and from what I can tell the quality so far is really good for what you pay.

Shein is in reality just an aliexpress/baba wrapper, but they put huge amounts of effort into accurate sizing charts for their clothing, and their customer reviews system actively incentivises buyers to upload pictures of themselves wearing the purchased clothing. So as a potential buyer you can actually see the piece of clothing being worn by someone with a similar body shape than your own.

My impression of temu is they are trying to be as misleading as possible with their listings, and the value for money is absolutely terrible because of that: you think you are getting a 6' xmas tree for $20, but when it arrives it's 6".
by stevage | 2025-04-15 06:18:01+00:00
Wow, that is completely wild. I have done an absolute ton of cycle touring (at least 60 trips, in 5 countries), and the idea of buying a bike 2 weeks before a trip, and embarking on a solo journey like this with no experience blows my mind.

He seems to have made some really savvy decisions though, like getting a proper bike fit, and knew enough about camping and meal prep etc to make it work.

Kudos to him.
by intelVISA | 2025-04-15 06:18:24+00:00
Truth is we've been post-developer for a while; powerful machines and high level abstractions has made good developers into managers, translating business objectives into software products and managing the outcomes with much less typing of code -- they're still called software engineers for legacy and cultural reasons, of course.

Sadly most shops greatly overlook this reality, stuck in 1991, and continue to add redundant layers and staff thinking it makes them 'agile'.
by guappa | 2025-04-15 06:18:53+00:00
I hoped you had some real data, but all you had was a joke.

Ok it's not zero. Is it 0.0000000000000000000000001?

Surely you're aware that obtaining 0.50$ is not going to have a large impact? Even if the sum is 3000$ the impact is extremely limited.

But you had to go and be a r/iamverysmart material because you actually have no more information than me.

Also learn to spell therefore please.
by yurishimo | 2025-04-15 06:18:55+00:00
The US shifted their focus from domestic to international politics after WWII. They were brought in as arbitrators for world peace, and in a lot of ways, stepped up to the task. Military expansion and spending went through the roof and the Cold War and Vietnam didn't help build public trust in government to do big things at home. Behind the scenes though, politicians could work with other nations to organize the reality that we all live in today in the West. Later, politicians began organising free trade and technology became the next frontier. Why spend hundreds of millions on a bridge when I can send an email instead of a letter? The USA really is a "marvel" in the fact that most of her problems were caused and exacerbated by success and enough competent people in power to keep things moving.

It's hard to discuss the United States without mentioning Trump who believes that undermining the past 100 years of Neoliberalism will bring America back to her "glory days" while completely ignoring the reality on the ground that led from where they were then to where America is today.

So maybe there will be more public works projects in the future for America, but I fear that they will be more focused on appeasing dear leader instead of meaningfully improving the lives of the average American citizen. But until someone turns on the lights and shuts off the music, America will continue to spiral and cry about "unfairness" while her created reality crumbles due to lack of maintenance and care about the subtle realities on the ground that were once central to her rise in the first place.
by WalterBright | 2025-04-15 06:19:24+00:00
> There's no federal inheritance tax. Only some states have it. You're thinking of the estate tax.

They're the same as far as this discussion is concerned, as the amount that the beneficiary gets is (roughly) the same.

> "The loan" otherwise known as "income" because that's what it really was

Borrowed money is not "income" in any sense of the word. When I was on summer vacation, I decided to take a class in accounting. One of the most productive uses of my time. I recommend it. P.S. if your business tries to classify borrowed money as "income", that's called fraud.

> If you read the link I posted

I rely on my CPA for tax advice, not the internet, nor do I care much for misusing accounting terms. I've read too many articles that confuse income with revenue, wealth with income, and so on.
by commandersaki | 2025-04-15 06:20:38+00:00
IIRC AES GCM does about 40-70 MB/s per core on Pi4, and ChaPoly does 150-200MB/s.

On Pi5 AES GCM does 1.5-2GB/s per core, and ChaPoly is still something like 150-300MB/s.

You can do experiments yourself with `openssl speed`.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-15 06:21:49+00:00
My point was that a blanket generalisation is bad because it's a blanket generalisation, the details are unimportant.

Yes, outsourcing is famously difficult to get right, and yet we've been doing it in every industry for decades now. And the famous examples become famous when something fails (boeing et. all) but there are also success stories out there. The trick, as always, is in the implementation.

My other point was that every "new thing" gets the same treatment. It doesn't work. Oh, it works but on toy problems. Well, it works on some complicated problems, but it's expensive. Ok, it works on a variety of problems, it's cheap, but it's unmaintainable. And so on, and so forth.
by stevage | 2025-04-15 06:22:34+00:00
Yeah, I'm always amazed what young people can get away with on the spur of the moment.

Was in Kyrgyzstan recently, and there's a popular hike that everyone does (Ala Kul). But it's HARD. And the people that do it are often not hikers. It's 3 days, but it involves a massive climb at altitude, and you have all these random backpackers attempting it because...well, that's what you do. And by and large they all seem to get through it ok.
by adrianmsmith | 2025-04-15 06:23:15+00:00
I've only ever left one bad review on Amazon. Chopsticks, they came bound together with some sticky tape. Sticky tape left a very sticky area just where your hands go that I was unable to get off despite a lot of effort scrubbing, washing, and so on. I left a polite constructive review saying they were good chopsticks but watch out for this stickiness issue. My review was declined by Amazon on the grounds it didn't meet their "community guidelines" (without elaborating further on which rule I'd supposedly broken).
by edg5000 | 2025-04-15 06:23:53+00:00
With the Altair you had switches to input bits of CPU instructions. Then punchcards. Then Telex. Then assembly in a terminal. Then C, Pascal and Smalltalk. Then Java, C++, Python, PHP. Then the mountains of libraries and frameworks, realtime indexers, linters, autocomplete, suggestions.

The next step seems that we will write programs in prompts. Maybe we will get a language that is more structured than the current natural language prompts and of much higher order than than our current high level programming constructs and libraries.
by ungreased0675 | 2025-04-15 06:23:53+00:00
This critique feels similar to the “agile was a bad idea” articles lately.

Here’s what I think is really happening: A new, radical way of work is developed and introduced to the world.

Most large organizations are incapable of radical change, but they also don’t want to be left behind.

So, they adopt pieces of the new thing, up to the change tolerance of the organization. Existing processes that they are unwilling to change get renamed to mirror the new thing.

This hodgepodge of processes underperforms expectations based on what would have happened on full adoption.

Employees grow cynical and resist adopting any new hotness/flavor of the day practice, when in reality the organization hasn’t ever changed much.
by notpushkin | 2025-04-15 06:24:12+00:00
> Encryption (can work with sharing), signatures, fall back to CDN. Control is not an issue.

And of course if an encryption key gets leaked, you can just rotate it. Since it’s a stream, past content is not as important.

(That said, I don’t think it will help — any DRM can be cracked, and there’s plenty of online TV streaming sites even with the current centralized systems.)
by jb1991 | 2025-04-15 06:24:31+00:00
Since the discussion is entirely about their motivation in buying Instagram, it’s certainly not moot at all. They wanted to have a monopoly and remove the competition. That was the motivation.

The FTC investigation specifically had a condition that they would reevaluate the acquisition in coming years. This was widely expected to be done, and everyone knew about it at the time of the acquisition.
by wredcoll | 2025-04-15 06:24:49+00:00
> I think that one of the most self-defeating things that some of Trump’s opponents do is to ignore the fact that many of his actions are based on actual problems in the US. In my mind, bad things really were done on college campuses. Awful things really were done in the name of DEI. Cancel culture really was out of control. The US really does have economic deficiencies in the manufacturing sector

The problem, as it were, is that most of these "problems" are invented by "news" agencies and then repeated over and over until people believe them.

For example, in this conversation, there is literally no fact I could mention, no study I could cite, that would convince you that any one of these things might not actually be a real problem because you didn't use facts and science to develop them in the first place.

I do think the answer isn't to play defense to made up problems but talking about reality is always harder and more complicated than emotive sound bites.