MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by meesles | 2025-05-10 14:55:45+00:00
I think you can tease this out a bunch of ways.

>where one side has a lot more power than the other side

This is life, in its entirety. Even those who feel like they live a 'free' life should realize they depend on things like national security and access to healthcare, right? So the power dynamic there doesn't make sense to me, unless you're also constantly in fear of all these other systems falling apart. Humans have worked to earn money to live forever. There wouldn't be money to give to workers if there wasn't an imbalance to begin with. Even farmers sustaining their own land have to pay workers to harvest.

> whether or not you worked "hard enough" is judged by other people

This IMO is a personal failure. Others don't determine whether I'm satisfied with my work, I do. I'm proud of my work even if others don't care for it.

> not the entity responsible for putting humans (and therefore you) on the planet in the first place--you're already here so you obviously are supposed to be here, otherwise you wouldn't be

There is no entity responsible, just like there is no reason for 'being here'. Your parents are to thank for raising you, but it could have just as well been other parents or another child! Our lives are a gift we're lucky to experience and we should enjoy it to the fullest on our own terms. If work fulfills you, great. If it doesn't, then do something else.

I really dislike people putting their value systems on others, especially around these kinds of topics. Telling people that what they think is valuable is in fact not is akin to telling people to believe in your faith, or how to raise their kids, etc.

Edit: Also curious why you would create a throwaway for this kind of opinion.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-05-10 14:56:05+00:00
Yeah, my opinion is a bit more pragmatic and attached to reality, where context, environment and your actions matter, not some "empirical" study done by universities.

Personally, I love my cats so I let them roam outside instead of keeping them inside like a prison. Then I also care about other animals so naturally they have a bell so they cannot (successfully) hunt other animals. But again, pragmatic approaches aren't for everyone, some people love books and/or data instead :)
by myHNAccount123 | 2025-05-10 14:56:05+00:00
> None of the decision-makers seem to have the sense or incentive to say "no" to anything.

How could you know that? Not all the 'no's show up as a proposal. The proposal template also has an "Impact on ABI" section which you can use to guide your "can I ignore it"-sense.

> It sure feels like Swift governance is broken.

What is the actual problem though? Not enough features that you would use? But I don't see how this is a governance problem

Java governance: slow at times but mostly sane. C++ governance: I won't even open this can of worms. Swift governance according to you: too many features I will ignore.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-10 14:56:47+00:00
Let’s not pretend that YC and other VCs are noble. They get rich and pawn their money losing investments to the “bigger fool”

https://medium.com/@kazeemibrahim18/the-post-ipo-performance...

> In aggregate, the average return across these YC companies is -49%, with a median return of -46%. To put this into perspective, over the same period, the S&P 500 yielded a positive return of 58%

And for the rest of the companies, they aren’t trying to compete with BigTech, they are trying to get acquired by them. Out of the literally thousands of companies that YC has invested in, only about two dozen have gone public
by lazyhummingbird | 2025-05-10 14:57:03+00:00
Windsurf user here too. Same issue with autocomplete being tough to target / control, and often the weak style difference between my code, diffs, and suggested makes my files unreadable in ws. It is straight up BUGGED on console command auto run too —even on Turbo mode, if a console command requires any interaction or takes a few seconds to run, sometimes the status of that command hangs forever. That said, the tool is as good as the rest as far as generating, maybe cleaner in terms of conversation and action flow tracking / versioning. Conflicted.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-10 14:57:06+00:00
The exoskeleton is hard and it doesn't rot very fast. If there no biologist or chemistry nearby, you can imagine it's made of something similar to plastic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod_exoskeleton#Chemical...

And as a sibling comment says, there is too few oxygen down there so it rots even slower.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-10 14:57:40+00:00
> By having search monopolies, they've gamified paying for placement above your competitor's trademarks. Rather than spend on engineering or lowering costs, you have to pay to defend your brand.

I would love to know how much money Google makes just from this extortion.

… which is enabled by their intentionally-misleading search ads, which also enable scams. I’d further love to know how much money they make promoting scams.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-05-10 14:59:09+00:00
Absolutely no problem, I mean it, too. Got a Hetzner account and spare CPU.

I really think it might be easiest to go far with the Wordpress plugin idea — platforms are great to sell into because people are unlikely to shift and you can detect when they’re in use and sell. And of course, you can put the plugin on the marketplace. Solves the distribution problem efficiently.

Another decent ecosystem is probably shopify. Just clone the 5th most popular type of extension/plugin. There is no shame in that.

Another good ecosystem is Rails — rails people love rails, and if you can solve a pain point there, it can be really valuable.

Yet another such ecosystem is Heroku! It’s still around and people on it now are much more likely to spend money (free tier got nuked).

I used to run an idea newsletter (execution is still king) — I can send you all of the ideas for free and you could use it to get the juices going.
by galangalalgol | 2025-05-10 14:59:13+00:00
Because rust is paying the price to compile everything fromch scratch on a release build, you can pay a little extra to turn on link time optimization and turn of parallelism on release builds and absolutely nothing gets compiled in that you don't use, and nothing gets repeated. Also enabling symbols to be stripped can take something with tokio, clap, serde, nalgebra (matrix stuff) and still be 2-5Mb binary. That is still huge to me because I'm old, but you can get it smaller if you want to recompile std along with your other dependencies.
by Retric | 2025-05-10 14:59:25+00:00
> Wikipedia's list begins in 1605, four years prior to his death, and in Germany

I’ve generally seen it listed that Shakespeare died in 1616. EX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

> No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

That requires you to reject all the people we just talked about. It is to suggest the world would be no lesser without Moby Dick etc etc.

The most generous interpretation is it’s a delusional take where the people he admires must have written it for the sake of art despite living off their art for years. A classic true Scotsman argument devoid of substance.

> You seem strongly wedded to your views and unwilling to consider alternatives.

I’m perfectly willing to engage with reasonable debate but you keep bringing up inaccurate or meaningless points. Books sales aren’t dependent on mass market advertising, you can make a good living if 25,000 people buy your book that’s an infinitesimal fraction of the market.

There’s ~1 Billion English speaking book sales per year, most people can’t hack it despite today being the easiest time to be an author ever the arts are difficult. It’s not a problem of publishers, it’s not a problem of readers, it’s solely an issue of people deluding themselves into thinking they are more talented than they are.
by time4tea | 2025-05-10 15:00:50+00:00
This could be interesting, but all the example code is so poor, and the extent of the fix so limited that it feels like this is 'AI' for the sake of it.

Stringly-typed, catch-log-ignore, generates warnings in IDE anyway...

Fixed 90 of 125 errors that were found by a different technology... probably.could have been fixed by one developer in 1-2 days anyway - how long did this take?
by crawfordcomeaux | 2025-05-10 15:00:56+00:00
There's also the added issue that binary logic (what most people use when they say "logic") is only slightly less constrained than unary logic and is insufficient for modeling reality. Without uncertainty logic, the wisdom available is highly limited. This allows for every emotional story to be engaged and worked through without declaring it immediately and absolutely false, allowing emotions to inform while not letting them drive the decision-making process.
by fullshark | 2025-05-10 15:02:01+00:00
You should read Zero to One if you really want to unlock Thiel's thinking re: business. It's both the best business book I've ever read and the perfect distillation of the core soullessness at the root of the matter. The goal is positive cash flows that can't be successfully attacked by competitors. That's the game, that's all everyone here is working for.
by statusreport | 2025-05-10 15:02:33+00:00
Co-founder & CTO of Lightricks here. Cool to see our new model gaining traction on HN!

If you’re looking for the official LTXV model and working ComfyUI flows, make sure to visit the right sources:

- Official site: https://www.lightricks.com

- Model + Playground: https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-Video

The LTXV model runs on consumer GPUs, and all ComfyUI flows should work reliably from these official resources. Some third-party sites (like ltxvideo.net or wanai.pro) are broken, misconfigured, or heavy on unnecessary assets—so stick to the official ones to avoid issues and missing content.
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by tzs | 2025-05-10 15:02:36+00:00
Most people have no trouble getting clean clothes from any washing machine that gets a high rating at Consumer Reports or Wirecutter.

The main reasons for going with a commercial Speed Queen for people other than the few who can't manage to get consumer washers to clean their clothes are:

• They last a lot longer and are usually easier and/or cheaper to repair if they do break.

• They have more models without internet and apps. A basic commercial model will often be like the washer you might remember your parents had: something with a simple interface that just had a few basic cycles and washed your clothes well for decades. (Their fancier commercial models aimed to bigger laundromats might have internet and cloud based management, which can be very useful commercially for managing a fleet of machines).
by tekla | 2025-05-10 15:02:40+00:00
It's really only on HN that I find that people reject the liberal arts so ardently.

Liberal arts was a fairly decent chunk of my engineering courses, and maybe I was annoyed while in school since I was trying to not flunk out, but after some time I came to appreciate them as some of the best education I've ever had.

Old-School scientists were called natural philosophers for a reason.
by echelon | 2025-05-10 15:03:09+00:00
> Let’s not pretend that YC and other VCs are noble.

I'm fine with that. Let them make money at the expense of big tech.

Breaking up big tech benefits financial/venture capital, but it also benefits labor capital as well. More opportunity for more startups to succeed, more competition for engineering talent, less market distorting wage collusion.

Big tech already won. It's benefactors already reap the benefits. Break them up and a new generation of engineers can grow wealthy on the field they contribute their labor to.

Right now the proceeds of tech go to hedge funds and pension funds. It's venture capital and entrepreneurs that take risks. They're the ones that should see upside. Unfortunately, big tech monopolies put a ceiling on this.
by bob1029 | 2025-05-10 15:03:32+00:00
> Also, look at demoscene. 4k (4 kB is the size of executable) can do crazy things

There are limits to how Kolmogorov complexity scales up. Many of these tricks are exploiting procedural techniques that can be expressed in minimal terms. Once you start feeding in actual information that is not feasible to express procedurally (i.e., is already compressed/high-entropy), you are forced to accumulate bits. An obvious example of this would be incorporating a texture that is multiple megabytes when compressed as a jpeg on disk.
by fn-mote | 2025-05-10 15:03:42+00:00
> Someone needs to do some minor matrix math, so they install numpy

I’m just not convinced that it’s worth the pain to avoid installing these packages.

You want speedy matrix math. Why would you install some second rate package just because it has a lighter footprint on disk? I want my dependencies rock solid so I don’t have to screw with debugging them. They’re not my core business - if (when) they don’t “just work” it’s a massive time sink.

NumPy isn’t “left pad” so this argument doesn’t seem strong to me.
by dahart | 2025-05-10 15:04:18+00:00
It’s super easy. ShaderToy draws a rectangle on the screen and runs the given shader on it. There’s a small amount of plumbing to wire in a few variables like time & mouse position, and your texture coordinates. The rendering part of ShaderToy is simple enough that you can make your own clone in a day. The rest of the site is the hard part, the editor, the API & saving shaders in the cloud, getting lots of people to write awesome shaders, etc., but the rendering part is near trivial.
by gitremote | 2025-05-10 15:04:20+00:00
"Q: Is it true that under the SAVE Act married women will not be able to register to vote if their married name doesn’t match their birth certificate?

A: The proposed SAVE Act instructs states to establish a process for people whose legal name doesn’t match their birth certificate to provide additional documents. But voting rights advocates say that married women and others who have changed their names may face difficulty when registering because of the ambiguity in the bill over what documents may be accepted."

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/02/will-save-act-prevent-marr...
by hu3 | 2025-05-10 15:04:31+00:00
These are the key points as I understand them:

Amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief is being submitted by Y Combinator to pile on the US vs Google anti-trust case.

YC asks court to basically cripple Google in their Search, Advertising and AI endeavours:

- Open access to Google's datasets and search index.

- Restrict Google's expansion into AI through monopolistic practices.

- Limit Google exclusive agreements and pay-to-play distribution deals.

- Enforce anti-circumvention and anti-retaliation mechanisms.

IMO, from a VC standpoint, it's in YC's interest to give their privately funded startups the best chance possible to thrive. If that includes destroying solid giants of the industry, so be it.
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-10 15:04:47+00:00
That's true, but if it weren't for Google's monopolist position, I doubt they'd have the money to throw at the wall for random research. For every AI transformer they revolutionized, there's a self-driving car project that's dragging on for decades.

Had Google operated like a normal company, the risk/reward of this kind of research would've looked completely differently.

Google's monopoly helped research along in the same way totalitarian countries like China are developing infrastructure at break-neck speed: if you don't need to care about pesky rights and regulations, you can do things that would otherwise be impossible.

I don't think Google's monopoly is worth having the current generation of lie generator bots around, but I don't think generative AI would be where it is right now had Google been forced to comply with antitrust regulations ten years ago.
by kittikitti | 2025-05-10 15:05:12+00:00
Google's research departments hyped up DeepMind's success in board games and enabled huge amounts of marketing which makes you believe this. However, DeepMind was a resounding failure after GPT's were released. If you look at the multiple documentaries, they now seem cringeworthy because of Google's arrogance about AI. Google did not simply do a better job, they acquired the companies that did and then convinced you that they were part of Google the entire time so they can take the credit.

I'm really glad that YC brought this against Google but it should be clear that YC also enabled them. It's a lie that YC is independent from Google as it partners and promotes their engineers and Big Tech allies. They see the writing on the wall and their lawyers see this as a hedge against lawsuits against them. "We didn't cause this mess, see look! We're trying to help!" YC also doesn't serve American startups at all and their entrepreneurs strongly favors California or India.
by jmogly | 2025-05-10 15:05:24+00:00
It’s a crisis of faith, caused by a 10,000 year search for meaning that isn’t there. We had our first surplus as a species when we discovered agriculture and husbandry. The human mind has wandered since. We’ve built systems of belief, technological systems, political systems, every possible system you can imagine. All to deal with the simple fact that our minds feel like they should be doing something, but there isn’t actually anything that needs to be done; surplus.

Since our first surplus all those years ago, we have continued to increase our surplus relentlessly. The problem is the more surplus we have, the more the mind idles, the more we try to invent things for the mind to do.

That is where I see the cult, the cult consists of faithless wanderers who have decided that the only valid use of surplus is to gain more surplus, whether it’s through positive means like improving technology or business, or negative means like slavery and exploitation. It’s a hollow existence. There is a righteous path, it’s using our surplus to embrace the positive aspects of our spirit rather than the negative ones.
by voytec | 2025-05-10 15:05:37+00:00
The aggressive marketing of Chrome on Google Search website to users using other browsers was a significant part of Chrome adoption success.

And no - some people didn't willingly and consciously switched to their search engine. It was pushed down their throats by browser vendors being paid-off by Google for setting it as the default one. Mozilla has overwritten user-changed search engine setting in Firefox with several updates.

Non tech-savvy users simply accept changes made in software they use.
by Closi | 2025-05-10 15:06:10+00:00
I think the story is probably something like:

* AutoStore sold a solution to Ocado

* Ocado started modifying their own installation. AutoStore gave them the rights to do this naively thinking it was for their own use.

* Ocado started aggressively patenting their own modifications.

* Ocado then decides it’s going to build everything themselves, and also start selling their own version of the solution and compete directly with Autostore.

* Then the legal battle begins!

Broadly the main thing in contention is that Ocado patented the concept of the robot sitting above a single cell (ie tote). Autostore thinks this is obvious and shouldn’t have been allowed - their main reason for usually implementing a lower robot that sits across two cells is that it’s more reliable (lower centre of mass, simplified mechanics) but that they have now been blocked from just doing a smaller design of their original invention.

Autostore were probably naive at the time (they were still reasonably new to the automation market) and Ocado definitely had better patent lawyers - or at least as they were UK based had a better grip of UK patent law.
by gammarator | 2025-05-10 15:06:41+00:00
> The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% and accounts for roughly a quarter of American productivity growth since World War II. The authors, economists Andrew Fieldhouse and Karel Mertens, conclude bluntly: “Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”
by hilbert42 | 2025-05-10 15:06:58+00:00
Even so, I'm surprised there'd be much of a cockroach left after 500 years or so. Presumably, they were in a well protected part of the wreck not exposed to flowing water. After water rushed in it must have essentially stayed there and any oxygen in it absorbed by nearby wood, etc. and not replaced.

Similarly, with the cat DNA. It would be interesting to know the exact circumstances of how they were found.
by roenxi | 2025-05-10 15:08:35+00:00
> Since you keep posting the same debunked narratives and obviously have an interest in this topic, why not spend some time to learn about the actual history of relations? Why keep reposting the same propaganda talking points that have no substance?

I don't know if I ever mentioned it to you so I will talk to this because clear communication is important - I can tell you're very passionate about this topic but your posts are long rambling tangents that don't address the points I'm making. They're not persuasive to me, and they look a bit desperate if I'm being frank. I don't mind you posting because it does seem genuine and if it makes you feel better who am I to complain just because I disagree? But if you actually expect me to change my opinions tangents and random trivia aren't likely to work.

Eg, in this case (1) is a non issue. Russia has disputes like that with pretty much all their neighbours as far as I know. Things like that don't stop countries having good relations. India and China have similar disputes and they still manage a reasonably productive working relationship. If that was where Ukraine-Russia relations were right now that'd be a fantastic improvement over the status quo and I'm sure in such a hypothetical the Russians would be overjoyed to have such a tolerant government running Ukraine.

(2) is a wild claim that a coup over international relations is normal where I really don't see why you feel that is a justified position or how you expect to persuade anyone. There is a photo floating around of Victoria Nuland handing out food to protesters in Ukraine; that there was US involvement at some level is beyond question.

(3) Military bases are a reasonable hypothesis. There was talk about bringing Ukraine into NATO and even without that it has been established that there were CIA bases [0]. It isn't a big step to go from that to a proper military installation. And you can see on the map that NATO is indeed encroaching on Russia's borders [1]. That is just a matter of fact; no matter how you feel about Russia's response.

[0] https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-maintains-12-secret-bases-212...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-10 15:08:41+00:00
You're right, YC is far from a neutral party here. But then again, I don't think any for-profit organisation spending the money on lawyers to write amicus briefs is.

They're looking for free data for their AI startups to make money off of, and with Google being in the middle of an antitrust catastrophe that may very well collapse web browser variety to two options in the next years, there's a lot of money to be made by stoking the flames.