MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kgdiem | 2025-05-10 21:19:58+00:00
The problem is that the wealth tax is based on your assets. 51% ownership of your $10M early stage startup is $5.1M in wealth, not a liquid asset. Nevertheless, you will owe $51k/yr to the Norwegian government.

If you raise a second round at $15M, next year you owe $76k, so on. This creates an impossible situation for a founder of, let’s say, a fission reactor startup.

I could be wrong also, I was curious to hear a real life Norwegian’s thought about it.

A system like this only serves entrenched interests, not entrepreneurs or workers. Want to make a life saving drug? Have to sell off ownership of your company or use runway to pay taxes on something that could be absolutely worthless in the end or wind up losing control. Better off selling to Novonordisk!
by cogman10 | 2025-05-10 21:20:01+00:00
> innovation than would happen under a socialized central planning system where government bureaucrats allocate funding for all trials.

What innovation? All the innovation with the current system happens outside the big pharma companies. They are merely swooping in at the final steps and manufacturing to benefit from the public investment.

The actual innovation is happening because of public social investment. Not because if private investment (at least in terms of medicine). Private investment here is simply leaching off of the public investment.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-10 21:20:04+00:00
Maybe my single least favorite thing about modern cinema is that movies across the cost spectrum have stopped giving a shit about original soundtracks. That’s how we can have 30+ damn Marvel movies and nobody remembers anything about the original music except one run of like seven or eight notes. It’s why the ones with the most style and most-effective soundtracks just used existing friggin’ pop rock songs.

It has to do with modern very-flexible digital editing (don’t want to lock in a Final Cut early enough to allow for production of a quality score timed to the edit) and editors/directors extensively using placeholder music, editing to that exactly, then just asking for a clone of whatever lame tune that was, as I understand it. Basically, having a shitty soundtrack just lets them get done with post-production faster, and keeps them more flexible until closer to release

Middling 90s movies like Twister and The Ghost and the Darkness punch way above their weight thanks to the soundtrack. You almost never see that any more.
by michaelt | 2025-05-10 21:20:14+00:00
There are websites that provide tracking for a lot of ships.

For comparison here's Tilbury, near London in the UK: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?p=GBTIL001 you'll note that big cargo vessels are shown in yellow.

And here's the port of Seattle: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?p=USSEA001 You'll note a distinct lack of yellow. If you zoom out a bit you can find some 'bulk carriers' but those aren't container ships.

So when the article quotes the Seattle port commissioner who says "we currently have no container ships at berth" that might be literally true right now at that specific port.

Other US ports seem to be doing better - Perhaps Seattle is badly located or expensive, and has taken a disproportionate fraction of the 30% drop in volumes? There are certainly larger ports on the same coast https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Top_container_ports_...
by ilaksh | 2025-05-10 21:21:19+00:00
I am not talking about a layperson building their own therapist agent from scratch. I'm talking about an expert AI engineer and therapist working together and taking their time to create them. Claude 3.7 will not act in a default way given appropriate instructions. Claude 3.7 can absolutely come up with unusual solutions. Claude 3.7 can absolutely tell you "no".
by Velorivox | 2025-05-10 21:21:33+00:00
> I suspect they have bots to upgrade the brand image

I disagree with the conclusion but I agree with the premise. Man is a rationalizing animal, and one way to validate one’s choice in paying for a search engine (whether it is better or not) is to get others to use it as well. Kagi is also good at PR, they were able to spin a hostile metering plan as a lenient subscription plan.

Word of mouth is often more prevalent than we think, and certainly more powerful than botting. I would not be shocked if the author of that “AirBnBs are blackhats” article was interacting with real users of Craigslist spurred on by some referral scheme.
by tannhaeuser | 2025-05-10 21:22:05+00:00
Indeed, generating Prolog for robotic and other discrete planning has been pursued. From [1]:

> Rather than having LLMs perform planning itself, it's thus only natural to complement LLMs with the raw combinatorial power of Prolog, much like a human would be reaching out to a pocket calculator.

[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/llm-demo/part1.html
Show HN: Experimental Postgres-to-SQLite Sync via Logical Replication
by enadzan | 2025-05-10 21:22:46+00:00
In a previous project, I had a few tables in Postgres that weren’t too large but were read frequently — things like configs, permissions, and feature flags. I thought it’d be cool to have a cache for them with an SQL interface. I ended up loading them into memory and invalidating the cache when a user made changes.

Lately, I’ve been playing with PostgreSQL logical replication in C# (using Npgsql), and figured it could be used to keep those in-memory rows updated. If I stored them in SQLite, I could even query them using SQL or through an existing Entity Framework DbContext.

Haven’t tried it in a real project yet, but thought it was an interesting idea worth sharing.
by jerlam | 2025-05-10 21:25:16+00:00
The "free" color rotates - the current one for the Model 3 is "Stealth Grey".

According to the site below, white was the free color from 2020 - 2024, which was probably when the bulk of Teslas were sold, especially to places like Hertz who have been dumping them on the used car market.

https://www.findmyelectric.com/tesla-colors-model-s-3-x-y/#m...
Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass
by the_othernet | 2025-05-10 21:25:21+00:00
LoopMix128 is a fast C PRNG I wrote for non-cryptographic tasks.

GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/danielcota/LoopMix128

Highlights:

* ~0.37 ns/value (GCC 11.4, -O3 -march=native), 98% faster than xoroshiro128++ and PCG64.

* Passes TestU01 BigCrush & PractRand (32TB).

* Guaranteed 2^128 period.

* Proven injective (192-bit state) via Z3 SMT solver; allows parallel streams.

* Core requires only stdint.h.

Seeking feedback on design, use cases, or further testing.
by rsyring | 2025-05-10 21:26:34+00:00
> Since, as you might imagine, the planes themselves are an airline's biggest expenditure...

Is that true?

I'd have expected that, over the course of the life of a plane, the costs to fuel, maintain, or pay the humans associated with it's flights would be bigger than the initial purchase cost.

Edit: ChatGPT thinks fuel is the biggest expense at 2-3x the original purchase price over the life of the aircraft.
by walterbell | 2025-05-10 21:27:12+00:00
Are you looking for software to?

(a) emulate platform (e.g. x86/Arm SoC) running "firmware" = OS/drivers/userspace (b) emulate devices (e.g. MCU, sensors, gateware, firmware) communicating with (a) (c) simulate behavior of OS+userspace software running on (a) (d) other

Variations of (a) are available from:

QEMU (OSS) Ant Micro Renode (OSS) Arm FVP (commercial) Intel SIMICS (commercial)
by justanotheratom | 2025-05-10 21:27:25+00:00
I understand the hypothetical trend being mentioned, and I would even agree with it in absence of stablecoins. See, today, if China & Russia want to trade, they may trade in Ruble or Yuan. Ruble or Yuan don't have to be universally accepted for them to trade. But if I am transacting in stablecoin, I don't want to use anything that is not universally accepted from the get-go. Otherwise, I might as well use Ruble or Yuan. So, even if in theory the stablecoin could be backed by any currency, I am not going to use just any stablecoin, only the one most widely accepted.

In other words, I think Stablecoin is winner-take-all, and USD has already won.
by flutas | 2025-05-10 21:27:51+00:00
That's why OP mentioned a spicy HDMI splitter. HDMI splitters are allowed to break HDCP, which means that protection doesn't really matter.

I use a setup like this frequently for work to demo our Android TV based apps with full content even though it all has DRM applied. Always leads to a "how did you get this footage" line of questioning for anyone who knows that we use DRM.
by efitz | 2025-05-10 21:28:19+00:00
I don’t want a “safe” model. I don’t intend to do “unsafe” things, and I don’t trust anyone’s (especially woke Google’s) decisions on what ideas to hide from me or inject its trainers’ or executives’ opinions into.

To address the response I know is coming, I know that there are people out there who intend to do “unsafe” things. I don’t care and am not willing to be censored just to censor them. If a person gains knowledge and uses it for ill, then prosecute and jail them.
by mattw1810 | 2025-05-10 21:29:06+00:00
This is no different from a web app though, there’s no obvious need to reinvent the wheel. We know how to do this very very well: the underlying TCP connection remains active, we multiplex requests, and cookies bridge the gap for multi-request context. Every language has great client & server support for that.

Instead we ended up with a protocol that fights with load balancers and can in most cases not just be chucked into say an existing Express/FastAPI app.

That makes everything harder (& cynically, it creates room for providers like Cloudflare to create black box tooling & advertise it as _the_ way to deploy a remote MCP server)
by thih9 | 2025-05-10 21:29:17+00:00
> Leading LLMs in 2025 can absolutely do certain core aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy very effectively given the right prompts and framework and things like journaling tools for the user.

But when the situation gets more complex or simply a bit unexpected, would that model reliably recognize it lacks knowledge and escalate to a specialist? Or would it still hallucinate instead?
by johnea | 2025-05-10 21:29:45+00:00
Really only as a matter of scale.

The main vendor locking practice of M$, has been to cut deals w/ h/w makers to preinstall windoze on their new computers.

This caused many many more people to face childhood indoctrination into windoze than into macOS.

Tangentially, over many years apple was a less malicious company than M$, but that advantage has waned in recent years.
by ilaksh | 2025-05-10 21:30:37+00:00
I've built a therapy agent running my own agent framework with Claude 3.7 based on research into CBT (research aided by my agent). I have verified that the core definition and operation of therapy sessions matches descriptions of CBT that I have been able to find online.

I am very experienced with creating prompts and agents, and good at research, and I believe that my agent along with the journaling tool would be more effective than many "average" human therapists.

It seems effective in dealing with my own issues.

Obviously I am biased.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-10 21:30:40+00:00
I have some friends who work in a medical facility. They get an extreme amount of training on patient privacy laws and constant reminders not to get sensitive patient information on to their personal devices.

Despite the intense training and constant warnings, it happens constantly. And that’s just the cases they know about and address.

You have to be able to trust your staff, but you also have to be realistic that any organization at scale will have people who either don’t care or don’t think and it happens frequently.
by somat | 2025-05-10 21:32:08+00:00
99 percent of the time the x11 select middle click paste behaviour is more ergonomic, to the point where when I don't have it I get cranky.

Another case of where because the better system is suppressed on the more common environment, We are unable to advance the desktop metaphor.

If I am fair I think lack of middle click paste is the main reason I don't enjoy using windows much.
by Hizonner | 2025-05-10 21:32:19+00:00
Because PPE is uncomfortable and safe practices (including PPE) slow you down. If not forced by management (or the government), many people will do stuff that shortens their lives by 30 years, and push others to do it as well.

Because a lot of preventative measures for this stuff affect how the facility is built and how the process is designed, and an individual worker can't change that.

Because if you're running a business and you don't actively push your workers to cut corners, you will get outcompeted by businesses who do. And then the workers will go work there, because those are the only businesses left and this is the trade they know. And if they try to do it the safe way, they'll get fired because they're 5 (or 25) percent slower than the workers who don't.

Because unions, which might be able to do something about some of those things, are (a) fighting game theory a lot of the time, (b) captured not infrequently, and (c) legally hobbled more often than you'd hope.

All of which is obvious if you're not intentionally trying really hard to ignore it.
by sho_hn | 2025-05-10 21:32:46+00:00
> Leading LLMs in 2025 can absolutely do certain core aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy very effectively given the right prompts and framework and things like journaling tools for the user.

What makes you qualified to assert this?

(Now, I dislike arguments from authority, but as an engineer in the area of life/safety-critical systems I've also learned the importance of humility.)
by chevman | 2025-05-10 21:33:31+00:00
Most folks know this is easily defeated typically by viewing the content on another device (eg via casting it, remote desktop, phone mirroring, etc) or viewing it from within a VM, and then using the native screen capture functionality on the viewing device to record/screenshot whatever you need.

That being said - guessing they are doing this for their enterprise customers mainly, where alot of those other options are locked down. But plenty of people already know to just record their screen from their phone anyway - impossible to block that and much safer way to exfiltrate whatever info/data you need.
by ilaksh | 2025-05-10 21:33:47+00:00
SOTA models can actually handle complexity. Most of the discussions I have had with my therapy agent do have a lot of layers. What they can't handle is someone who is mentally ill and may need medication or direct supervision. But they can absolutely recognize mental illness if it is evident in the text entered by the user and insist the user find a medical professional or help them search for one.
Ask HN: What do you think of this idea for a two color Rubik's Cube variant?
by amichail | 2025-05-10 21:35:21+00:00
The cube stickers would be black or white.

The solved state is all white or all black.

Rotations are just like those in a Rubik's Cube.

At any time, you can tap the center piece to toggle the colors of all nine stickers on that face.

Do you think this would make an interesting variant of the Rubik's Cube?

How would you solve it?
by ashoeafoot | 2025-05-10 21:35:27+00:00
Protestant tradition was to declare sinful almost every expression of sexuality. Leading to a ton of supressed non normative sexuality.

Whose owners then migrated into state bureaucracy and public services . From prussia to the pentagon, the smithers clichee is very much alive and a byproduct of that culture.

And rules based and hierarchy based as such systems are, they develop a live of their own. Until a monarch as pope competitor appears, takes over or copies the machinery for the catholics, or a protestant develops rigor by internalizing the inquisition and deciding to dedicate his life to paperwork for jesuses justice and to escape temptation .
by shever73 | 2025-05-10 21:38:20+00:00
I was wowed when I first got home Internet in 1995 because it was so much more than the BBSs I’d been using up to that point, but nothing has recreated the sense of wonder I had on 8-bit machines in the 80s. Even when I bought a secondhand PC in the late 80s, going through the hand-labelled disks was like a treasure hunt. That’s how I first discovered Hack/Nethack, played Leygref’s Castle and started learning Borland Turbo Pascal.
by gibbitz | 2025-05-10 21:39:01+00:00
This is due to the same market pressures faced by TV commercial jingles. It's cheaper to license a pop song for the number of impressions than to pay a composer to make something for your brand. The needle drop wins and even the creator of the pop song loses since often the publishing house and whomever owns the rights make the money. It's no wonder AI is the Belle of the ball these days. Anything business can do to avoid paying a person for their talent they will do. Even if audiences stopped showing up, they won't stop doing it. They aim to reduce the cost enough that they'll make money if only one person shows up. The quality will continue the trend we see here.
by nataliste | 2025-05-10 21:39:42+00:00
What happens to the assets of the dead Google? Will regulators actually let FAAN take over broad swaths of it? Not likely. It's much more likely that regional or smaller businesses will enter the vaccuum. Similarly but from the consumer side, I already know for many of these, there are already viable alternatives that would easily scale with demand.

Even further, if your business is coupled entirely to the continued existence of a single corporation, or if the totality of your economy is entirely coupled to the continued existence of a single corporation, we have a word for that: a monopoly. As far as I know, permitting the existence of monopolies is broadly agreed upon by experts to be a bad idea for many reasons, the least of which is the stifling of viable alternatives. The most severe is that it threatens the legitimacy of the entire government through regulatory capture and, at root, there is no organization that I think is actually "too big to fail" except the actual government.

Breaking up Google creates short-term disruptions and penalizes those that let the market even get to the point that the FTC and DOJ needed to intervene (I'm looking at you Mozilla). Everyone, including those now dependent on Google, is benefited in the longterm.
by l72 | 2025-05-10 21:39:56+00:00
The search part of Google doesn’t bother me. I have other options and I now reach for an llm first, then fall back to ddg. What I do think needs to be separated are: 1) Ads and analytics 2) Chrome 3) Google Play Services.

Googles ad platform and analytics are difficult to avoid. Even with browser extensions, dns blocking, and aggressive firewall rules, this is virtually impossible to avoid. I am shocked at how many websites and apps break when these are blocked. There needs to be a much healthier ecosystem without a single company gobbling all this up.

Chrome is also a big issue. Google has regularly used its web sites and android to heavily push chrome. They also use that influence for web “standards” that are not really standards. On top of it, even googles own sites are often terrible with non chrome based browsers. We need a variety of user agents and we need real standards that a truly independent body has a say in. The web has matured and we don’t need to be in a race for new apis and features right now.

Google play services are also a huge pain point. When developing for Android, you almost have to use them. Running Android without Google Play services or with an alternate is a futile effort if you want any sort of main stream app. My degoogled work phone is mostly useless for anything. We definitely need standards for these services with replaceable components that are transparent to the apps.
by dismalaf | 2025-05-10 21:40:19+00:00
And this is a corporate take...

What I don't understand is why, with the myriad of Java-like languages out there (types and all), corporate types still want to Java-ify languages like Ruby... Like, just use Java, Go, Typescript, etc...

It's nice that there's still a language and framework that optimizes for solo devs/small teams and startups.

> It's better even for my personal projects

Does your personal project make money and/or need to be launched quickly? I've also got personal projects in statically typed languages (been playing around a lot with Odin/Vulkan) but those have no due date or expectations. Also declaring types only prevents a very small amount of bugs. And it's not like Ruby doesn't have linters, tests and other tools. Direct feedback from the REPL also makes it easier to write correct code.

Better is also a meaningless word when it comes to software. Does better mean you can ship faster? Or that it's more performant? Unfortunately no language has given us the productivity of a dynamic language with compiled language performance, so everything is a tradeoff...
by nickjj | 2025-05-10 21:40:38+00:00
It's interesting because when I read "For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price" all my brain does is parse that sentence as they are charging double what they should because there's no competition.

It's not until I scroll down to the pricing table to see what they really mean is their machine is half the price while having more features than the rest.
by ccppurcell | 2025-05-10 21:40:53+00:00
I think comparing to banks is silly. Banks don't have competitive advantages like Google has. When banks fail it is not because they lost a competitive advantage (other than the competitive advantage of competent management). The catastrophe associated with a major bank collapse has to do with the specific function of banks in the financial system, not just: oh where are all their customers going to go?
by Frost1x | 2025-05-10 21:41:02+00:00
I don’t know about you but sometimes it’s some small piece of information that isn’t worth contacting the presenter about. I need to call or craft an email, be polite and come up with some nonsense greeting maybe for a bullet point or two or a string I don’t want to rapidly shift focus to duplicate by hand. Then I have to sit around and wait for a response where they have to do the same, and I’m definitely not their priority.

Businesses want to control everything, so this will become a common default for people to use. It’ll be embedded in all sorts of company policies and I wouldn’t be surprised if Teams clients in some corporate domain can set it as a default option to help promote the policy (by default block screenshots on all our presentations to reduce liability risks).

If it’s like a paper, some data advertised, or some significant work that’s when you generally want and need to contact the author.
by ezfe | 2025-05-10 21:43:09+00:00
There are two ways to remedy an anti competitive monopoly:

Behavioral remedies where the government gets involved with google’s business and maintains ongoing control to ensure they behave.

Structural remedies where the government separates the company into parts and then-crucially-leaves them alone for the most part.

The “ideal” solution is to magically stop Google from being anticompetitive but that is unrealistic.

The realistic solution is to split Google apart and kneecap its data flywheel to force it to compete.
by the_pwner224 | 2025-05-10 21:43:20+00:00
Yes, it's readily available to buy online from India for <$1/pill.

In practice there aren't legal repercussions. If you import scheduled drugs (adderall, opioids, etc.) and get caught that's obviously going to be a big issue. But with most prescription medications, the worst case scenario is that Customs will just toss your package. And the likelihood of that is low; the majority of the time it makes it through undetected.

I've done this in the past with another drug. In the US it was $30/month but from India I got 1000 pills for $30 + $40 expedited shipping. For me the big factor wasn't cost, but rather the convenience of not needing to go through the process of getting a prescription.