MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by turnsout | 2025-04-04 10:24:00+00:00
I looked for a blog post announcing this, and couldn't find it. But Antiwork's Github profile mentions:

> Antiwork emerged from Gumroad's mission to automate repetitive tasks. In 2025, we're taking a bold step by open-sourcing our entire suite of tools that helped run and scale Gumroad. We believe in making powerful automation accessible to everyone.

That's pretty wild! I've always loved Gumroad's simplicity for creators and buyers. Now I guess people will have a pretty compelling option when searching "Gumroad open source alternative"
by SwiftyBug | 2025-04-04 10:24:08+00:00
Making compilers are not that hard. Sure, it grows in complexity as you make it more feature-complete. But writing compilers is actually a lot of fun. If you're interested in compilers you should definitely try making a simple one. This book is free and a great starting point: https://craftinginterpreters.com/. I'm not associates with the book author in any way, I just found incredible value in it.
by kryptiskt | 2025-04-04 10:24:29+00:00
I'd have expected better from Warren Buffett. It's not a zero-sum game, the developed countries running chronic trade surpluses like Germany and Sweden (my home country) are fooling themselves, because the only way they can do that is by putting a brake on domestic consumption by keeping wages low.

Everybody in the EU would be better off if those countries actually let their consumers spend the money that they're hoarding. All of that spending wouldn't go on foreign goods, so it would even benefit their own producers as well. Yet German politicians indoctrinated in stupid frugality (that once had a point, but is completely outdated) continue to scold countries that run trade deficits in order to buy German goods instead of suffocating their economy and making it even worse for everybody, especially Germany.
by roenxi | 2025-04-04 10:25:46+00:00
> Sure, India was a colony and not a mere trading partner, so no need to argue about that. But the US is also an empire that has bases around the world and has many countries in an economic chokehold.

That seems to resolve the question you put. Britain and India weren't independent, so talking about a trade balance between the two doesn't really mean anything. If it favoured India, that was good for the British Empire. If it favoured Britain, that was also good for the British Empire. It didn't matter who was favoured or by how much because the British capitalists and Imperial officers were in control of both sides of the trade.

I personally think the US trade deficit is a huge problem ... for the US's trading partners who just gave it real stuff for paper. But your argument for why Britain-India experience was relevant doesn't hold together.
by zurfer | 2025-04-04 10:25:56+00:00
In the hope of improving this forecast, here is what I find implausible:

- 1 lab constantly racing ahead and increasing the margin to other; the last 2 years are filled with ever-closer model capabilities and constantly new leaders (openai, anthropic, google, some would include xai).

- Most of the compute budget on R&D. As model capabilities increase and cost goes down, demand will increase and if the leading lab doesn't provide, another lab will capture that and have more total dollars to back channel into R&D.
by Xmd5a | 2025-04-04 10:27:09+00:00
>After some back and forth they restored it for a day and let me buy one item for personal use.

I used Spreadshirt to print a panel from the Tintin comic on a T-shirt, and I had no problem ordering it (it shows Captain Haddock moving through the jungle, swatting away the mosquitoes harassing him, giving himself a big slap on the face, and saying, 'Take that, you filthy beasts!').
by balamatom | 2025-04-04 10:27:51+00:00
Probably the majority of people in the world already "accept pirated movies". It's just that, as ever, nobody asks people what they actually want. Much easier to tell them what to want, anyway.

To a viewer, a human-made work and an AI-generated one both amount to a series of stimuli that someone else made and you have no control over; and when people pay to see a movie, generally they don't do it with the intent to finance the movie company to make more movies -- they do it because they're offered the option to spend a couple hours watching something enjoyable. Who cares where it comes from -- if it reached us, it must be good, right?

The "special status" you speak of is due to AI's constrained ability to recombine familiar elements in novel ways. 64k MP3 artifacts aren't interesting to listen to; while a high-novelty experience such as learning a new culture or a new discipline isn't accessible (and also comes with expectations that passive consumption doesn't have.)

Either way, I wish the world gave people more interesting things to do with their brains than make a money, watch a movies, or some mix of the two with more steps. (But there isn't much of that left -- hence the concept of a "personal life" as reduced to breaking one's own and others' cognitive functioning then spending lifetimes routing around the damage. Positively fascinating /s)
by lupusreal | 2025-04-04 10:28:01+00:00
Why should the AI be made to emulate a person naive to extant human society, tropes and customs? That would only make it harder for most people to use.

Maybe it would have some point if you are targetting users in a substantially different social context. In the case, you would design the model to be familiar with their tropes instead. So when they describe a character iconic in their culture, by a few distinguishing characteristics, it would produce that character for them. That's no different at all.
by diggan | 2025-04-04 10:28:26+00:00
> My main gripe with this is how do you charge users? They can just put the browser in offline mode and continue to use the app forever.

Let users pay a price to download the application, do some magic key activation (that could work offline too) like countless of professional software? Ableton, Spine2D and Cascadeur are some recent software I've purchased that works just like that.

> Syncing means that you probably have to have a complicated logic, especially if the data you are seeing can be modified by others.

Yeah, I think if you have an existing application/architecture/design and you try to shoehorn in local-first with sync in there, there will be some additional work. But if you design your data structures with that in mind, it gets a lot easier. So as always, way easier for greenfield projects than migrating existing ones.

> How do you solve merge conflicts?

Depends on your application. In many cases, CRDTs (just one example) can automatically resolve things based on however you set it up. And for when that doesn't work and you need manual solving, that gets easier too as you can easily see exactly where it doesn't merge, and it gets a lot easier to build the tooling you'd expose to the user to resolve it.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-04 10:28:47+00:00
> It's natural that if you don't optimise for GDP then GDP will probably not be maximised.

They're not unrelated though.

Suppose that at a 30% tax rate you long-term end up with a GDP per capita of $50,000, whereas at 20% it would be $80,000. Then in the first case you get $15,000 per capita to provide healthcare and things, whereas in the second case it's $16,000.

There is a point where that stops working. If a 15% tax rate would get you a GDP per capita of $100,000, 15% of $100k isn't more than 20% of $80k. Then whether the extra GDP is worth having lower government revenue becomes a more complicated question. But if the tax rate is too high, it isn't even a trade off, the higher rate is just a net loss to everyone.
by dctoedt | 2025-04-04 10:30:07+00:00
>> The two major political parties fundamentally realigned during the civil rights era of the 1960s.

> This is an incorrect analysis looking at the wrong causal factor (civil rights rather than economics).

Boy, is THAT ever a contrarian take, verging dangerously close to crank theory. Economics was distinctly in third place as a factor in the political parties' realignment. In first- and second places were the Vietnam War (nationwide) and civil rights (in the South, with race riots and black militarism being a factor nationally).

1. VIETNAM: I came of age during that era. I was very politically aware. My family on both sides had been Democrats for decades. Most of my family switched to the GOP in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their main driver was dislike for the Vietnam War protestors (and for race rioters).

Most of my family regarded support for the government's war policy as a patriotic duty, even if they happened to harbor doubts about the merits of specific policies. That was true during both the LBJ and Nixon administrations. (The men on both sides of my extended family were pretty much all veterans, from WWII, Korea, and/or the Cold War.)

2. CIVIL RIGHTS: I grew up in various southern states during the 1960s and early 1970s (my dad was military, we moved around). You need to read up on the GOP's so-called Southern Strategy, starting with Nixon's courting of George Wallace voters and continuing with Reagan's dog-whistle support for "states rights," Lee Atwater and the Willie Horton campaign ad for GHW Bush, etc.

A signature moment was when arch-segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond switched from being a southern Democrat to the GOP — and was welcomed. Sure, other reasons were cited for these switches, but those were mostly window dressing.

The race riots of the mid- to late 1970s, and the publicity attending the Black Panthers, were also a factor in my extended family's switch to the party of "law and order" (the GOP). Example: During the rioting after MLK's assassination in 1968, my dad carried a .45 pistol on his commute to work in downtown Washington D.C. And in our suburban Maryland neighborhood — populated largely by military, CIA, Air America, etc. — my dad and other men on the block loaded up their hunting rifles, put them close to the front door, and gave us kids strict instructions not to touch them. They did that because of rumors that carloads of black rioters were roaring down the streets in white neighborhoods, throwing Molotov cocktails. (That certainly never happened in our neighborhood — or anywhere, AFAICR.) My family members weren't racist, but they regarded obeying the law as paramount.
by ForHackernews | 2025-04-04 10:30:26+00:00
I'm sorry, on the Blockchain we don't recognize legacy concepts like dead-tree nation state laws or ancient superstitions purporting to define morality. The future is all about registering ownership information in digital ledgers.

If you wanted to retain control of your keys, you should have encoded them in a secure, nonfungible image of monkey on the Ethereum Blockchain. That way, everyone would know those keys belonged to you.
by carlosjobim | 2025-04-04 10:31:19+00:00
European VAT is significantly higher than any US sales tax, reaching as high as 25% or more. Also, foreign manufacturers do not get any VAT credits.

Also, every person in the US can import goods to a value of $800 per day without having to pay any duties. In Europe you have much less generous rules, and sometimes the limit is €0.
by mort96 | 2025-04-04 10:31:22+00:00
I like to quickly at a glance be able to distinguish between "this is a member access on an object" and "this is referencing something in a module".

I like that the compiler can distinguish those two things too, so that I can refer to things within modules even if I happen to also have a local variable with the same name. Go sometimes annoys me because I need to rename a module or a variable just because the syntax doesn't distinguish between the two things.
by vkou | 2025-04-04 10:32:01+00:00
If the past decade is any indication, nothing has stopped the long list of cancelled right wing grifters, racists, and various other flavors of fools and bigots from finding gainful employment and signal boosting and platforming among like-minded people who do exercise their right to associate with them, despite their behavior.

For (allegedly) being so persecuted and silenced, it's weird how so many of them have so much more power, reach, and wealth than ever before.

Perhaps getting booed at in the last college campus they held a rally at is not quite the yellow star, or the mark of Cain that they convinced you it is.
by thyristan | 2025-04-04 10:32:40+00:00
Well, when it comes to conflating, I'll take your calling Israel a terror state as a standard: The democratically elected government of Gaza-Palestine is the Hamas, which is a terrorist organisation. Thus by your conflation regarding Israel to be a terror state, the Gaza strip part of Palestine is as well. Its population chose a known terrorist organisation, everything is run by a terrorist organisation, they did terrorist things such as bombings, abductions and murders of innocent civilians. Thus (Gaza-)Palestine is therefore a terror state. Supporting it is therefore supporting terrorism.

Thus either you apply your conflating standard equally, Palestine and Israel are both terror states, and any support of them is supporting terrorism. Or you rather differentiate, and separate Palestine as an abstract concept of a hypothetical future homestead of the Palestinians from the Hamas, the Fatah and other (mostly terrorist) organisations that govern it, and the population that, in parts, is governed by them and elects and supports or opposes them and their actions. But if you do that, you will also have to differentiate between Israel as a state, its military, government, parties, population and their respective support and actions.

In that second case you can support Palestine as an abstract idea without supporting terrorism, you can support the population and their rights, hopes and struggle. As you can do with Israel and their people. However, on pro-Palestine protests, I've never really seen this kind of differentiation applied, I've seen far too many Hamas flags, heard far too many calls to wipe Israel from the map, far too many praises for terrorists (called "martyrs"). Thus, in practically all cases, I'd without hesitation call supporters of Palestine supporters of terrorism.
by aurareturn | 2025-04-04 10:32:45+00:00
How will things be for the US if China and the rest of the world reduce tariffs for each other?

Trade will be less centered around the US and US products and services will take on less importance.

Yes, other countries will be hurt. Some will be hurt more. Seems like the US will come out worse than the average country.

Am I seeing this right?
by avan1 | 2025-04-04 10:32:51+00:00
Thanks a lot for the review you did which was much more than i requested. i noted all the 4 comments you did to apply on the package. Thanks again. Also currently we have Laravel backend and Laravel + Redis + Horizon [0] + Supervisor as a queue runner for our production and it's working fine for us. but would be great to can access Hatchet from php as well which we might switch in future as well. Another thing since you mentioned handling large work load do you recommend Hatchet as kafka or Rabbit message queue alternative to microservice communications ?

[0] https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/horizon
by sandworm101 | 2025-04-04 10:33:11+00:00
>> the US is not the ultimate global hegemon anymore

The hegemon concept is also out of date. World trade is not dominated by countries but by multinationals. For instance, there are no real "US" car companies. There are a handful of huge conglomerates who can choose to operate wherever best suits their needs. These respond to edicts from individual countries but operate at a level above nation states.

This is why international cooperation on things like taxation or environmental protection is so important. And it is why petty bickering by individual nations will be so damaging.
by diggan | 2025-04-04 10:33:28+00:00
Ah, for more a DIY approach, if you have an arduino and/or some basic components laying around, connecting a USB port that can do MIDI (or a DIN MIDI port) together with an Arduino or similar platform and some pots/buttons shouldn't be that hard and also there is a ton of resources online for building just that.

Just Hackaday have 45 articles on the subject of "MIDI Controller" :) https://hackaday.com/tag/midi-controller/
by johnisgood | 2025-04-04 10:34:06+00:00
I bet the downvotes are done by people who have absolutely no need to take any medications, or have no clue what it is like to be called a junkie for the rest of your life for taking medications that were prescribed to begin with.

Or if not, then what, is it not true that both substances and AI can be used responsibly, and irresponsibly?

"People is why we can't have anything nice. It sucks." is also true, applies to many things, just consider vending machines alone, or bags in public (for dog poop) and anything of the sort. We no longer have bags anymore, because people stole it. A great instance of "this is why we can't have nice things". Pretty sure you can think of more.

Make the down-votes make sense, please.

(I do not care about the down-votes per se, I care about why I am being disagreed with without any responses.)
by mk89 | 2025-04-04 10:35:12+00:00
Come on, did you see the trade for goods and services deficit with EU? It's ludicrous. But hey, the president decided to focus only on goods. Why not on everything? Because it's unjustified. He needs money. A lot. And throwing out accusations at other countries is the only way he can get out of it fine. If he had just set a 10-15% tax on all imports "just because" people would have never approved. Now, on the other hand, look at those unfair European, Canadians, Mexicans, ... penguins :)
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-04-04 10:37:03+00:00
Warren's plan was to sell to exporting nations import credits (ICs) that are less fundamental than national bonds, and that diminish intergenerational unfairness from foreign real estate holdings. The proposal sounds like a gentle version of capital controls or outright bans on foreign land ownership, which US trading partners implemented.

The irony of course is that Warren is a leader of the very business community that struck this Faustian bargain, and he probably accumulated a fair quantity of land and bonds through exactly this process. He's basically pleading with politicians to change the math so he can make money a way that is better for the nation.
by huksley | 2025-04-04 10:37:12+00:00
We at DollarDeploy building a platform to deploy apps to your own VPS. For now we just run it on one server, but plan to use DigitalOcean and Hetzner load balancer offering to offer workload scaling beyond one server.

Why did you choose fly.io? The traffic there are very expensive which is an issue for people who would want to run LB.
by thyristan | 2025-04-04 10:38:03+00:00
While the protests are per se not illegal, the people arrested aren't accused of just protesting, they are accused of supporting a terrorist organisation. The right to free speech isn't as all-encompassing in Germany as it is in the USA, so shouting the wrong slogans can very well get you in trouble.

Also, the right to protest in public only applies to German citizens: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_8.html

Foreigners are usually still free to do it, but they don't have a constitutionally protected right to public protests.
by saaaaaam | 2025-04-04 10:38:15+00:00
I've found the reference now: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sticks-discovered-...

Based on this article I think that there's is a reasonable body of evidence to suggest it might be true. Sure, not irrefutable evidence, but evidence does exist.

I'd be genuinely interested to see evidence that it doesn't happen, too, though.

> The fact that this mechanism of loss exists is already sufficient to prove that a tradition can't last 10,000 years.

That seems a bit of a non-sequitur, and without being a glib keyboard warrior Sagan's "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is pretty relevant here.

As I argued previously, there's a fairly strong line from ancient fertility rituals to Christian tradition, and I'm not sure that those syncretic routes are particularly disputed at a top level. I agree that there are definitely people who run away with those sorts of inheritances and make all sorts of claims using them, but the simple thread of "moon > fertility > Iah > Osiris > Dionysus > Christ" is not (as I understand it) particularly contested.

So I'm not sure that a "mechanism of loss" is proof that a ritual can't last 10,000 years in native populations with an exclusively oral cultural tradition - it might be fairer to say that we have no proof that it can persist.

Again, I don't have the reference, but I remember reading something that was essentially "the archaeology of story telling" tracing early oral tradition through to things like fairy tales, to the modern day.

Similarly, things like flood myths and myths around the seven sisters - the latter of which astronomers think could be as much as 100,000 years old - indicate to me that stories, and by extension ritual, could persist for far longer than 10,000 years.
by lproven | 2025-04-04 10:38:23+00:00
> I can't imagine there would be any green-field deployments in the last 10 years or so - I'm guessing it's just supporting legacy environments.

This is not entirely the case.

I have been writing about VMS for years. The first x86-64 edition, version 9, was released in 2020:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/openvms_92/

Version 9.0 was essentially a test. 9.1 in 2021 was another test and v9.2 in 2022 was production-ready.

There's no new Itanium or Alpha hardware, and version 8.x runs on nothing else. Presumably v9.x is selling well enough to keep the company alive because it's been shipping new versions for a while now.

Totally new greenfield deployments? Probably few. But new installs of the new version, surely, yes, because VMS 9 doesn't run on any legacy kit, so these must be new deployments.

It's been growing for a few years. Maybe not growing much but a major new version and multiple point releases means somebody is buying it and deploying it. Never mind no new deployments in a decade... more new deployments in the last few years than in the previous decade.
by globular-toast | 2025-04-04 10:39:50+00:00
I'm someone who has used and continues to use desktop applications like that. I'm old enough to know what "work offline" and an email "outbox" is. Those are not the same things.

The always-online apps bring a lot that is not possible with such software, even simple stuff like editing the same file at the same time. Try that with tools like Dropbox and you'll get conflicts that you need to resolve. It's totally possible to get offline software if you either give up on many features or accept complicated conflict resolution etc. The basic options are either immutability, like email, or conflict resolution, like git. This is about not making those sacrifices.

"Local first" is a misnomer and that misnomer does probably reflect the different experience of youngsters, but if you can get past that there is something new here that is interesting and challenging.
by lproven | 2025-04-04 10:40:37+00:00
HP box. It is a former HP product.

Version 9.x has been out for 5 years, stable for 3, and primarily targets and supports hypervisors. It knows about and directly supports VMware, Hyper-V and KVM.

So, yes, get a generic x86-64 box, bung one of the big 3 hypervisors on it, and bang, you are ready to run VMS 9.
by graemep | 2025-04-04 10:40:55+00:00
As an individual you would own consumer goods.

A lot of international trade is other goods. Think of how much the UK has paid for things like American aircraft, ships, machinery, or materials used in manufacturing. Our armed forces use a lot of American stuff, and often even British made things have American parts (and a lot of it is covered by ITAR, to an even greater extent than the rest of Europe).

People also tend to hugely underestimate the amount of British manufacturing for the same reason, and because of lot of it is Foreign branded (e.g. Nissan cars).