MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hobs | 2025-05-13 17:09:15+00:00
Well you are insanely lucky, its the default in most startups and many companies that I have seen consulting, working directly with, or otherwise. Leadership has no strategy, the business is growing or shrinking regardless of their decisions, the rank and file are restless because its obvious they are led by folks who have no idea what's going on, and nobody is allowed to talk about it.
by rpnx | 2025-05-13 17:09:16+00:00
I actually disagree. I think that people will pay more for higher quality software, but only if they know the software is higher quality.

It's great to say your software is higher quality, but the question I have is whether or not is is higher quality with the same or similar features, and second, whether the better quality is known to the customers.

It's the same way that I will pay hundreds of dollars for Jetbrains tools each year even though ostensibly VS Code has most of the same features, but the quality of the implementation greatly differs.

If a new company made their IDE better than jetbrains though, it'd be hard to get me to fork over money. Free trials and so on can help spread awareness.
by bilbo0s | 2025-05-13 17:09:37+00:00
Not really.

There's plenty of wealth in the EU.

What they don't have is an appetite for risk. You could lower taxes to zero, but you'd still not get the level of speculative investment in the US without cultivating a much larger appetite for risk. Similar issue exists in places like Japan. Investor classes that are, at the median, more conservative than they are in the US. So in the US we "lose" bigger, but we also "win" bigger.

(Of course all of this was pre-Trump. Now, I'm not sure there is enough certainty out there for even the big risk takers. But, historically, we in the US have been more risk-phillic.)
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-05-13 17:10:23+00:00
Why is the headline written like another remote work hit-piece? They go on to state overwhelming positive traits of remote work policies in the actual content. WTF?

The article also uses COVID-19 as the catalyst. If you consider that most people were fearing losing their jobs or were under threat to lose their jobs (and RTO mandates were occurring even in the early days of the pandemic!), it makes sense that an increase in entrepreneur activities would have happened.

> "It's good that we have people creating new firms, new jobs, and new innovation. This is presumably better reallocation, because essentially remote work allows you to better explore outside options in entrepreneurship."

Maybe don't put a rage-bait spin on the title of the article?
by thisisit | 2025-05-13 17:10:24+00:00
> you think it's bleak that one's research now has to be profitable rather than being subsidized by people paying taxes?

I honestly don't understand why people don't get this - Government is not supposed to be "profitable". The whole reason to collect taxes is for good of the society. It sounds like your view is that rural towns, which are already in crisis, should be left to rot away because it isn't "profitable". The callous and lack of empathy is seriously astounding.
by maccard | 2025-05-13 17:10:28+00:00
For all the people who are doubting that applications are slow and that it must just be me - here [0] is a debugger that someone has built from the ground up that compiles, launches, attaches a debugger and hits a breakpoint in the same length of time that visual studio displays the splash screen for.

[0] https://x.com/ryanjfleury/status/1747756219404779845
by ncr100 | 2025-05-13 17:10:38+00:00
Impact illustration:

> [...] the contents of the entire memory to be read over time, explains Rüegge. “We can trigger the error repeatedly and achieve a readout speed of over 5000 bytes per second.” In the event of an attack, therefore, it is only a matter of time before the information in the entire CPU memory falls into the wrong hands.
by hollerith | 2025-05-13 17:10:49+00:00
>American multinationals flourished under this system far more than the companies of any other country, including China.

International trade has never been a critical or essential component of the US economy -- or at least not during the last 170 years -- because there's always been a healthy domestic consumer market in the US. In the US, the consumer market has constituted close to 70% of all economic activity for over a century. In contrast, when China was starting to get rich in the 1990s and 2000s, the consumer market was tiny. Ditto postwar Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. International trade was way way more important to those countries in the post-WWII era that it has been to the US: the US would have remained a rich country even if there was zero international trade (although granted probably not quite as rich).

Free trade was used by the security establishment in Washington during the Cold War as a bribe to induce countries to side with the US against the USSR. The bribe was relatively easy to make because the US ended WWI with the world's dominant navy (needed to fight piracy and to guarantee that the smaller countries of the world could engage in international trade on the world's oceans).

Some Americans are "globalists", meaning they think the idea of the nation state is obsolete or undesirable, and of course they try to promote economic interdependence between countries as much as possible. Also, even though they have never been essential to the US economy, the big multinationals have significant influence on the public discourse in the US and on Washington. So, the general public estimates international trade as more important than it actually is to the US.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-05-13 17:10:53+00:00
The ones who would have actually put the brakes on this are already trying to do that without your call. The ones who don’t care will ignore your call. Tellingly everything has fallen on party lines aside from maybe 1 or 2 republicans who realize they can deviate and save a little shame but never enough of them to affect the overall vote.
by rad_gruchalski | 2025-05-13 17:11:33+00:00
You are wrong. Pdf.js can extract text and has all facilities required to render and extract formatting. The latest version can also edit PDF files. It’s basically the same engine as the Firefox PDF viewer. Which also has a document outline, search, linking, print preview, scaling, scripting sandbox… it does not simply „render” a file.

Regarding tables, this here https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf-table-extractor does a very good job at table interpretation and works on top of pdf.js.

I also didn’t say what works better or worse, neither do I go into PDF being good or bad.

I simply said that a ton of problems have been covered by
by mlsu | 2025-05-13 17:11:41+00:00
The tech looks cool.

But it does seem that your platform ingests video content without the permission of the person who creates these videos? The value of your platform is driven by the people creating the videos. You say that you do revenue sharing, and that you have done 5 partnerships. But you have 400 courses, so what about the other 395?

Putting it as kindly as I can: this is ethically fraught. Really, did nobody in the room point this out? You do not come off looking like a partner here.

You need to make this opt-in, not opt-out, and specify revenue sharing terms up front. Those terms need to be generous. The people who produce video content are producing the majority of your product's value. Opt-out, of an ambiguous revenue sharing agreement, is not enough.
by no_wizard | 2025-05-13 17:12:16+00:00
>The only people who can say they didn't understand that would have to be people who not only didn't know what tariffs were in the first place, but who also didn't bother to listen to the many many people trying their best to explain it to them

anti intellectual sentiment runs deep in many parts of US society. Having experts out explaining things - particularly via news media outlets - has unfortunately become an ineffective tactic as a result. There are many people, across different areas of US society, that reject any expert explanations in favor of their own beliefs, or things they read that re-enforce their beliefs.

We live in an age where 'vibes' and anecdotal experiences override facts based on well gathered evidence and history.

I believe quite strongly the average Republican voter is heavily weighted toward dismissing public experts out of hand.

All this is to say, I'm surprised that didn't have much impact. It should have completely destroyed his campaign to be honest, as many of his actions should have, but this was an indisputably bad idea from any reasonable economic standpoint.

>Only his ego is getting in the way now

I largely agree with this. I will only add that I can't tell where Trump ends and his donor class setting the agenda begins.
by IshKebab | 2025-05-13 17:12:40+00:00
> The whole "I hate Jira thing" is a meme among a very vocal minority of tech enthusiasts.

It absolutely isn't. My colleagues are not very vocal tech enthusiasts and they hate it too.

> They don't have tens of millions of users because Jira is awful.

They have tens of millions of users because Jira isn't awful for the people paying for it. But those people aren't actually using it to create & read bugs. They're looking at pretty burndown charts and marveling at the number of features it has.

It's classic enterprise software - it doesn't need to be good because it isn't sold to people actually using it.
by 00N8 | 2025-05-13 17:13:10+00:00
I worked for a 3rd party food delivery service in the summer of 2007. Ordering was generally done by phone, then the office would text us (the drivers) order details for pickup & delivery. They provided GPS navigation devices, but they were stand-alone units that were slower & less accurate than modern ones, plus they charged a small fee for using it that came out of our pay.
by davidthewatson | 2025-05-13 17:13:11+00:00
Thanks for your comment.

Indeed. Therein lies the rub.

Why?

Because no matter the fact that I've spent several years of my latent career crawling and parsing and outputting PDF data, I see now that pointing my LLLM stack at a directory of *.pdf just makes the invisible encoding of the object graph visible. It's a skeptical science.

The key transclusion may be to move from imperative to declarative tools or conditional to probabilistic tools, as many areas have in the last couple decades.

I've been following John Sterling's ocaml work for a while on related topics and the ideas floating around have been a good influence on me in forests and their forester which I found resonant given my own experience:

https://www.jonmsterling.com/index/index.xml

https://github.com/jonsterling/forest

I was gonna email john and ask whether it's still being worked on as I hope so, but I brought it up this morning as a way out of the noise that imperative programming PDF has been for a decade or more where turtles all the way down to the low-level root cause libraries mean that the high level imperative languages often display the exact same bugs despite significant differences as to what's being intended in the small on top of the stack vs the large on the bottom of the stack. It would help if "fitness for a particular purpose" decisions were thoughtful as to publishing and distribution but as the CFO likes to say, "Dave, that ship has already sailed." Sigh.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by gruez | 2025-05-13 17:13:30+00:00
>Look at the things you're comparing: a misreading of a somewhat-common yard sign plus what Fox News and Mark Levin say the democrats support

You're over-indexing on the influence of "Fox News and Mark Levin". Most people aren't news junkies. The whole contention is that people who aren't going out of their way to find uncharitable interpretations of "no human is illegal" will think that it's a pro-immigration message. By that I don't mean something like "we should use better names", I mean policies like unlimited migration, or even something like amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the US. You reject this premise[1][2], but haven't really provided any justification for why that interpretation is unreasonable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973117.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43973295

>Show me something actually equivalent, and you'll have a point. Find me the most-influential think tank you can that supports stuff like "abolishing the police force" or "denying the basic right for country to have an immigration policy".

>It's correct to say it's a problem for democrats that people think they hold these positions. It's incorrect to say it's because they in-fact do. It's because of effective propaganda.

>You folks are assigning a caricature of their positions to them and then blaming them for adopting those caricatured positions. WT literal F.

Again, my contention isn't that the Democratic party or left-leaning think tanks hold those positions, it's that they're poorly worded, leading independents and centrist Republicans to misinterpret their message, and pushing them away from the Democrats.

Note the original comment you replied to claims that "those kind of positions are a notable and visible part of progressive/Democratic culture". It says nothing about whether such positions are the official policies of the Democratic party.
by bestwillcui | 2025-05-13 17:13:30+00:00
Lol yea not just poaching, we do revenue sharing (signed deals with a bunch of top creators). They get the majority of all revenue from courses.

For instance we worked directly with Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't & Faculty of Khan etc. to get official courses that they also had input in, and 3Blue1Brown is on board with us having his content on our site.
by nerevarthelame | 2025-05-13 17:13:31+00:00
It's notable that while the initial announcement promised an "immediate" investment of $100 billion, nearly 4 months later SoftBank "has yet to develop a financing template or begin detailed discussions with potential backers."

I'm sure tariffs are partly to blame, but it seems criminally misleading to be nowhere near ready to provide that $100 billion.
by rpnx | 2025-05-13 17:13:51+00:00
I think this honestly has more to do with moslty Chinese sellers engaging in review fraud, which is a rampant problem. I'm not saying non-Chinese sellers don't engage in review fraud, but I have noticed a trend that around 98% of fake or fraudulently advertised products are of Chinese origin.

If it was just because it was cheap, we'd also see similar fraud from Mexican or Vietnamese sellers, but I don't really see that.
by lucasban | 2025-05-13 17:14:07+00:00
Well, it is a vote for whoever wins their state. I know several people who didn’t vote back in my home state because the outcome for that state was already a given. The current way the electoral college works effectively disenfranchises people living in “solid” D or R states.

Yes, I know that there are down ballot races on the same day that matter, but many don’t, for the same or similar reasons. We need elections that let everyone’s vote matter. Things like the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, working to end gerrymandering, and open primaries would all be helpful reforms in different ways.
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-13 17:14:10+00:00
> Everyone was really quick to call out that lie though.

Not on the channels they watch.

There's an entire separate Fox News Cinematic Universe safe space you can immerse yourself in exclusively.

Even when they bring on a sacrificial lib to yell at, humans in general are phenomenal at ignoring or explaining away clear evidence their strongly held beliefs are wrong.
by dmonitor | 2025-05-13 17:14:10+00:00
Copyright does discourage DRM. Even the most egregious DRM these days can be bypassed with minimal effort and is mostly just a nuisance. Take away government enforcement of copyright and how profitable your digital product is will be directly tied to how advanced you are in the DRM arms race.

Steam is the classic example of how this is effective. You compete with pirates by offering what they can't: a reliable, convenient service. DRM becomes more of a hindrance than a benefit in this situation.

Allowing pirates to offer reliable convenient pirate websites that are "so easy a normie can do it" would be a disaster for all the creative industries. You would need to radically change the rest of society to prevent a total collapse of people making money off art.
by rsynnott | 2025-05-13 17:14:17+00:00
Weighted mean applied tariffs in developed countries are normally in the 0.5-3% range; the US was a little under 2% pre-minihands, Europe's a little less than that, as was China pre-minihands.

In general, tariffs which work out to >10% mean applied are only found in the poorest countries (where high tariffs arguably _can_ make sense if practically all industry is extractive/agricultural, on the basis that they may spur development of local secondary industry), or in weird micronations.
by chfritz | 2025-05-13 17:14:43+00:00
> "A key challenge of deploying learned VMPs is their lack of interpretability in failure cases," Amazon’s researchers observe in the Pick robot paper. "While it is often easy to fix a simple bug or improve algorithmic limitations of heuristic approaches, VMPs have to be re-trained or fine-tuned to learn about failures while maintaining their previous performance."

Exactly! This has been the issue with ML and especially NN based approaches for a long time. Really disappointing that we still haven't solved this problem. It's a real limitation.
by skydhash | 2025-05-13 17:15:00+00:00
> Nothing comes close to changing one condition of a test and having the AI autocomplete magically suggest the correct series of ten updates that fix the test. In under the blink of an eye, too.

But why are you doing this? Granted, you may have a longer career than I do, but I never once think: The test condition is wrong, let's update it. Oh, I wish I could update the code alongside it!.
by abutbul | 2025-05-13 17:15:32+00:00
This is a 100% open-source project, I am a non-profit LLM hobbyist/advocate. I hope people find this interesting or useful, I’ll actively work on improving it.

How this idea was born: I was looking for an easy way to integrate new MCP capabilities into my pair programming workflows. I found that some tools I already use offer OpenAPI specs (like Swagger and ETAPI), so I wrote a tool that reads the YAML API spec and translates it into an MCP server.

I’ve already tested it with my note-taking app (Trilium Next), and the results look promising. I’d love constructive and orientating feedback from anyone willing to throw an API spec at my tool to see if it can crunch it into something useful. Right now, the tool generates MCP servers via Docker with SSE port exposed, but if you need another format, let me know and I can probably help you set it up.

The next step for the generator (as I see it) is recursion: making it usable as an MCP tool itself. That way, when an LLM discovers a new endpoint, it can automatically search for the spec (GitHub/docs/user-provided, etc.) and start utilizing it.
by piperswe | 2025-05-13 17:15:58+00:00
> * Video streaming services

Netflix video streaming launched in 2007.

> * VSCode-style IDEs (you really would not have appreciated Visual Studio or Eclipse of the time..)

I used VS2005 a little bit in the past few years, and I was surprised to see that it contains most of the features that I want from an IDE. Honestly, I wouldn't mind working on a C# project in VS2005 - both C# 2.0 and VS2005 were complete enough that they'd only be a mild annoyance compared to something more modern.

> partial autopilot features aside from 1970's cruise control

Radar cruise control was a fairly common option on mid-range to high-end cars by 2007. It's still not standard in all cars today (even though it _is_ standard on multiple economy brands). Lane departure warning was also available in several cars. I will hand it to you that L2 ADAS didn't really exist the way it does today though.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-05-13 17:16:00+00:00
Declaring gatekeeping to be always and forever bad is an unhelpful, untrue thought-terminating cliche. A wide variety of situations can be described as "gatekeeping", and while some are nonsense some are very good to keep. It's bad if we say "you must be 6 feet tall to be a doctor", because that has nothing to do with being a good doctor. But requiring that doctors get a medical degree and pass certification requirements is also gatekeeping, and it would also be insane to do away with it. Any time you call gatekeeping bad for its own sake you are engaging in a gross oversimplification, and should stop.
by jeroenhd | 2025-05-13 17:16:08+00:00
FWIW, Vista's level of prompts is the only way to run UAC in any kind of secure fashion. The configuration that has been the default since Windows 7 makes it trivial for a low-privilege application to gain UAC privileges.

Microsoft doesn't regard UAC as a security boundary if you're logged in as an admin (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archi...). You can use UAC as one as part of a defence-in-depth approach by logging in as a non-administrator user (like everyone tells you to do but nobody wants to do) and entering a password for every prompt, but for that to work well you'd need to make sure to turn UAC prompts back to max (read: Vista level or worse). I don't think I'd set up a system like that without a fingerprint reader or Windows Hello facial recognition camera, because typing out the password that often is just a massive pain.

Windows, as configured by default, barely runs any downloaded files. You can pay hundreds of euros for a certificate, sign your installer, and still have users get told off by SmartScreen for daring to open an executable file. I don't think Apple's notarization has done anything useful so far, but their security prompts are a lot less scary than Windows'. I think it's a matter of time before unsigned Windows executables with the MotW simply won't open by default like those on macOS.
by jakevoytko | 2025-05-13 17:16:37+00:00
It's kinda always been this way (I just turned to dust thinking about this, but I've been posting to it for like 18 years), but it's worse now.

r/programming is the only subreddit I regularly visit where there are a bunch of posts with 0 upvotes in the top 30. There are 16 right now on the Hot view.
by bee_rider | 2025-05-13 17:16:39+00:00
Pedantically, speculative execution isn’t the vulnerability, it is a necessary mechanism for every high-performance CPU nowadays (where “nowadays” started, like, around the turn of the century). However, bugs and vulnerabilities in speculative execution engines are very widespread because they are complicated.

There are probably similar bugs in AMD and ARM, I mean how long did these bugs sit undiscovered in Intel, right?

Unfortunately the only real fix is to recognize that you can’t isolate code running on a modern system, which would be devastating to some really rich companies’ business models.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-05-13 17:16:43+00:00
Despite this one company becoming the only culturally/socially acceptable way for most people to pursue a relationship (easy monopoly!), match group refused to do anything to improve people's experience (requiring face/photo verification to reduce spam, displaying if the users location is verified, and lifetime permanent bans of users who act inappropriately towards other users on and off platform). So it makes sense why their subscription revenue is going down. Good riddance.
by Boogie_Man | 2025-05-13 17:17:42+00:00
This may be well known, but I'm posting it because I didn't know: "very-hard" science fiction in this context means extremely plausible science fiction, as opposed to extremely speculative science fiction. The author explains how these fantastic things exist in a way which is realistic.

Originally, I thought it meant "very hard to understand" i.e. very technically complicated