MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dijit | 2025-05-25 14:53:35+00:00
Tangent;

A lot of people forget that the basis of the European Economic Area and European Union was to promote free trade with the sole intent purpose of making future wars unthinkable.

As in, if Britain depends on France for power, and France depends on Britain for pharmaceuticals- going to war with each other becomes intentionally difficult to the point of near impossibility without extremely good reasons.

If you want your opponent to know that you don't mind going to war, a good option is to ensure you don't "depend" on them for anything, and to cut them off from getting good things from you that might aid them.
by Aachen | 2025-05-25 14:54:06+00:00
Nah. I'm not an expert code auditor myself but I've seen my colleagues do it and I've seen ChatGPT try its hand. Even when I give it a specific piece of code and probe/hint in the right direction, it produces five paragraphs of vulnerabilities, none of which are real, while overlooking the one real concern we identified

You can spend all day reading slop or you can get good at this yourself and be much more efficient at this task. Especially if you're the developer and know where to look and how things work already, catching up on security issues relevant to your situation will be much faster than looking for this needle in the haystack that is LLM output
by bediger4000 | 2025-05-25 14:54:40+00:00
These efforts won't satisfy election deniers because their objections to format of ballots, location of voting, identity of voters, etc etc, are shams. Those objections are not offered in good faith, because election deniers have an underlying belief that unless their party wins, the election was rigged.

Something this sensible and considered is not going to make a dent. In fact, it may do the opposite, supply more super-technical objections for bad faith election denial.
by dsr_ | 2025-05-25 14:54:42+00:00
When people decide that the nannycam works, they will rely on it. Then, when it fails, their inaction will kill babies.

It is amazing/horrifying to me how many people are intent on reincenting the reasons why we have UL, the FDA, the FCC, traffic laws, seatbelts, electrical codes, fire marshals and unions.
by yoyohello13 | 2025-05-25 14:54:48+00:00
Just because it’s not the main bottleneck doesn’t mean it’s not worth optimizing. Also, yes I have seen devs that type so slowly they really would benefit from learning how to type properly.

I actually switched to an alternative layout and minimal keyboard like this just because it’s fun. If I can make my work day more fun, that’s a win in my book.
by janice1999 | 2025-05-25 14:55:25+00:00
> I'd like to buy a BYD Electric Car, but apparently the US Government (Biden and Trump Admins) think that is a bad thing too.

It's a bad thing if you believe China is subsidising BYD and others (including with the use of slave labour) in order to destroy non-Chinese automotive makers by flooding external markets with cheap cars. Add on top the fact that modern EVs are rolling surveillance platforms...
by guilamu | 2025-05-25 14:55:26+00:00
I consider it better than 0 source at all. I also have access to the decrypted assets of the game and can personally confirm but the value of that is nil since I can't bring proof.

I'm pretty sure you could find dozens of sources confirming that too, but I don't have the time atm.

Confirmed here : https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/1agkxcd/the_gia...

(only one skin is a pay to lose skin with a bigger kit box)
by mpweiher | 2025-05-25 14:55:34+00:00
> web CRUD boilerplate is definitely a missing abstraction,

NeXT's Direct2Web[0] did a pretty good job of this, though I think it might have been too much of a black box. We need to figure out the parts first.

First is direct support for REST, by having it be not just a "Web" thing, but instead supporting in-process REST[1]. Objective-S[2] does this[3][4]. This includes better support for composable storage.

With that and a templating engine that supports URL as well as HTMX's support for URIs and verbs, I think we are getting really close.

Finally, you need to have some support for tables not at the UI and not at the database level, but at the model level...which can then be mapped fairly seamlessly to DB and UI. In progress.

> I've been pondering how to tackle this one for quite a while.

Any thoughts you can share?

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Le...

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-9299-3_...

[2] https://objective.st/

[3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2508168.2508169

[4] https://2019.splashcon.org/details/splash-2019-Onward-papers...
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-25 14:55:40+00:00
>Doesn't this end up being a trap though?

Yes, but did that stop the entire western private industries from collectively moving their manufacturing to China leaving the west exposed to the CCP? When do CEOs ever think long term about second order effects or national security interests? It's all about the shareholder returns and next quarter baby.

And if your competitors are moving to UAE and have cheaper compute than you, that automatically puts you at a disadvantage so you'll have no choice but to move to the UAE yourself or go bust. It's the China playbook all over again.
by scrollaway | 2025-05-25 14:55:48+00:00
Just a couple of months ago here on HN, I sent a "message in a bottle" for US-based founders who are looking to move to Europe and contribute to a more stable future. I have personally helped several take the leap in the last few years, and I wanted to do it in a more structured way.

The response has been astonishing. I have talked to over 50 founders with sometimes up to 25-30 years of experience, who want nothing but the opportunity to do just that: Uproot their life, move their company, start again in Europe.

I took time to restructure this as an incubator, which I have designed with constant feedback from the founders who reached out. What you see at https://sevenseed.eu is the result of this work.

I've founded startups and exited in both US & Europe. The EU mindset is different - sometimes that's for the better, sometimes not. There are many flaws and issues, but I can attest that Europe is working on those (for example through EU Inc: https://www.eu-inc.org), whereas the US is simply not going in the right direction.

My goal with Seven Seed is to create a space and 6 months program specially crafted for founders currently residing in NA, wishing to make the leap. Brussels is the perfect place for it. It's extremely international (one of the most international cities in the world), making it extremely welcoming to English speakers. It's geographically convenient, within 2h train rides of London, Paris, Amsterdam (and many more if you take the plane). As a human sized capital city, it's super walkable; you don't need a car. But despite being human-sized it's still buzzing with activity. It also has no capital gains tax, something most people seemingly don't know.

Many EU programs are very inward-looking. We are not. The program looks towards all of Europe and we bring expertise in tech, AI, cybersecurity, climate and defence. We are privately funded (part-cohort, part-angels), which gives us a lot more flexibility and neutrality when it comes to helping startups make choices.

One last thing... everyone in the program is automatically invested in each others' exits. We have a profit sharing system which redistributes 25% of all proceeds from the startups directly to all the other members of the same cohort. I have yet to see another incubator/accelerator do this, and I hope this will change because IMO it creates an amazing incentive to help each other within the program.

I'm around for a while, but my email's in my profile as well!
by throwanem | 2025-05-25 14:56:18+00:00
I've recently quoted on here something about learning to spend what's in your pocket. That is a special case of the same general principle evinced here, which is that if you don't put work into maintaining a broad perspective, you lose the ability to distinguish what you're used to and what's ordinary.

It's worth worrying about in the general case, too. There are subtler and much more noxious failure modes here than merely getting beaned with a Swedish nut rounder.
by throw0101d | 2025-05-25 14:57:14+00:00
> Why is selling China AI a bad thing? Free market is better.

For one, China isn't a free market. If they were perhaps it would be more fair to allow them to easily compete.

For another, countries having (access to) certain capabilities may be negative as life is more than just about commerce and money:

> Democratic countries’ economies are mainly set up as free market economies with redistribution, because this is what maximizes living standards in peacetime. In a free market economy, if a foreign country wants to sell you cheap cars, you let them do it, and you allocate your own productive resources to something more profitable instead. If China is willing to sell you brand-new electric vehicles for $10,000, why should you turn them down? Just make B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps, sell them for a high profit margin, and drive a Chinese car.

> Except then a war comes, and suddenly you find that B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps aren’t very useful for defending your freedoms. Oops! The right time to worry about manufacturing would have been years before the war, except you weren’t able to anticipate and prepare for the future. Manufacturing doesn’t just support war — in a very real way, it’s a war in and of itself.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now

China (and others) may have goals other than just making money or a middle-class life sty.e
by neom | 2025-05-25 14:57:24+00:00
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/12/01/dodge-v-ford-what...

If directors consistently chose "do less with more" - they'd certainly lose under virtually any legal standard?

Edit: I guess it's technically Michigan law, but as far as I'm aware is de facto? Even Aronson v. Lewis wouldn't allow that. (IANAL)
by moron4hire | 2025-05-25 14:57:50+00:00
It seems to me that most people say, "don't reinvent..." because they believe there is an existing, ubiquitous, sufficient solution (well, that's why they think it. Why they say it out loud as a response to someone's project, I have different theories on that).

But in ubiquitous solutions, we also find assumptions and trade-offs that require constraining the application to fit the solution. Thus it is there, in those assumptions and trade-offs, as these literal wheel examples demonstrate, where we find the ability to usefully reinvent.

I have to laugh a little seeing your reference to Mecanum wheels and your post being dated 6 hours ago. 12 hours ago, I rewatched the Star Trek reboot film. In it, there is a scene where the characters are all loading into shuttles to head off to their assignments. In the background, we are supposed to be impressed with the technical advancement of the machinery in view, e.g. how something as familiar as a forklift has "futuristic" details like strange wheels. And those wheels on that forklift are Mecanum wheels. In-story, that makes them something like ~300 year old technology.
by microtonal | 2025-05-25 14:57:51+00:00
Some observations from someone who has also used minimalist layouts on similar keyboards for a while:

- Thumbs can also get overuse. I would generally only recommend to use one key for each thumb very frequently to avoid too much lateral movement. Also don't go overboard with layer holds on thumbs.

- The thumb key placement on some of these boards, e.g. the placement of the inner thumb key on the Ferris-based keyboard in the linked post, is quite disastrous. Unless you have very small hands, the thumb will be very close to the palm or even under the palm, and this can get very painful over longer periods. Even worse is that if you type very fast, the index finger can cross the thumb. Just try it a few times. If you keep your thumb on the thumb key while doing that, there is a lot of tension in the fingers.

- The obsession with minimalist layouts is to minimize finger/hand movement. But I could find not much evidence in the scientific literature that less movement is actually good. It's also a huge trade-off, because you end up with a lot of holds (which are probably not great for your fingers either) or additional key presses (Callum mods). There are also other ways to decrease finger travel, like using a key well keyboard, which not only reduces distances, but also puts your fingers in a more natural resting position and makes the finger movements more natural (since keys are laid out along the natural arcs of the fingers) [1].

I went away from small keyboards and minimalist layouts. I certainly use far fewer keys than most people and some layers. But I have found that key well boards make more keys reachable and have superior ergonomics.

Also, if you have a finger/hand issue as a result of keyboard/mouse use, visit a medical expert, not /r/ergomechkeyboards .

(I am not a health/ergonomics expert, just speaking from experience. Though it's probably best to ignore this and consult an expert.)

[1] There is a lot of pseudo-science in the whole ergo keyboard community, with folk wisdom like "Dactyl-style squeeze thumb clusters are better, because we naturally squeeze our thumbs to grab objects", meanwhile a lot of folks had thumb injuries from that type of cluster. The only types of keyboards that I could find research papers about were Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard-style boards, which seem to have their design decisions grounded in actual human trials and some of the early Maltron keyboards.
by e40 | 2025-05-25 14:59:20+00:00
I don't understand why this isn't more obvious. I understand why industrialists want us to ignore working conditions in other countries (the extra money goes into their pockets), but why regular folk (which I assume most of us here are) don't care about the conditions of labor in other parts of the world. It baffles me. If it can happen there it can happen here (obviously it is not going to happen here soon, but given the right conditions... and conditions seem to be changing quite fast these days...).
by throw0101d | 2025-05-25 14:59:20+00:00
> A lot of people forget that the basis of the European Economic Area and European Union was to promote free trade with the sole intent purpose of making future wars unthinkable.

And that was one of the reason for letting China into the WTO: the thinking is they'd prosper and the citizens would see the advantages of capitalism and economic liberalization would lead to political liberalization.

How's Chinese political liberalization coming along?

(Remember that Europeans generally had political liberalization before WW2.)
by blibble | 2025-05-25 14:59:22+00:00
> It’s honestly a little discouraging to me that the state of “research” here is to make up sci fi scenarios,

it's not research, it's marketing

the main aim of this "research" is making sure that you focus on this absurd risk, and not on the real risk: the inherent and unfixable unreliability of these systems

what they want is journalists to read through the "system card", spot this tripe and produce articles with titles like "Claude 4 is close to becoming Skynet"

they then get billions of free publicity, and a never ending source braindead investors with buckets of money

additionally: it worries clueless CEOs, who then rush to introduce AI internally in fear of being competed out of business by other sloppers

these systems are dangerous because of their inherent unreliability, they will cause untold damage if they end up in control systems

but the blackmail is simply parroting some fiction that was in its training set
by constantcrying | 2025-05-25 14:59:42+00:00
Because they want to work less. Let's not make it more complicated than it is.

People work for a mixture of money, status and fulfillment. If Money is either unavailable or unnecessary to them or if status is either unavailable or unnecessary to them or if fulfillment is lacking, then people are going to put in less work.

What is very interesting is the simultaneous rise of "hustle culture" and "quiet quitting", because it heavily suggests that young people want more status/money, but see it is unavailable through a normal career path.
by mystified5016 | 2025-05-25 14:59:42+00:00
Is it destroying a market or is it out-competing? US makers are not at all interested in building EVs that Americans want or need, they only want to build luxury adware platforms. If another country builds an EV that Americans do want, why is it suddenly a bad thing? Is this a capitalist economy where anyone can compete, or is this a communist country where only government blessed companies can compete?

It can't be both.
by martythemaniak | 2025-05-25 15:00:05+00:00
> It is possible, given sufficiently strong agreement details (which are not yet public and may not be finalized) and private unvoiced considerations, that this deal contains sufficient safeguards and justifications that, absent ability to fix other American policy failures, this decision is superior to the available alternatives.

This is a great example of how incredibly stupid smart people can be. They take obvious bullshit at face value, then spend their lives arguing over insane made-up details of that bullshit. It'd be funny if they didn't end up enabling the bullshit grifters.

Trump is very simple. Give him praise, give him money and he'll give you some public concession he controls. He operates like every other despot in the history of the world. Nothing new or interesting about it.

You're an Emir and want some chips? Give him praise, give him money, and he'll change the rules so you can have your chips. If your thinking is more complicated than this, it's wrong.
by horhay | 2025-05-25 15:00:05+00:00
I mean I'm gonna say this with the hype settling down. But it's pretty on par with visually Kling 2 and Veo 2, it happens to output sound pretty ok but having it be one general output along with the visuals is the gamechanger. Beyond that, eh. I've kinda seen people try to take it to the limit and it's pretty much what you'd expect still from their last model
by roenxi | 2025-05-25 15:00:57+00:00
In corporate environments people often get into a frame of mind where they acknowledge they are behaving irrationally but are convinced - convinced! - that behaving rationally would bring terrible results and everyone is going to move in mad lockstep. I think it is some sort of groupthink-related phenomenon. They're pretty much always wrong about the bad results if someone can force change.

It can be true that sudden change can lead to bad results and I wouldn't necessarily advise shock therapy, but making the basis of a system more rational usually leads to good outcomes. Being honest about how valuable something is won't cause society to sink beneath the ocean and neither does letting people just build houses on land they own. Someone is already eating economic losses here, we just don't quite know who or how much. Letting them do better will surely outweigh the negatives.
by mmooss | 2025-05-25 15:01:13+00:00
Enemies of universal human rights - of freedom - throw everything they can think of at it, including this thin argument common to them: That it's just a cultural thing, like certain kinds of beer.

I don't know that the idea was invented in Anglo culture - what about the rest of Europe? What about so many other places in the world that have rights of different kinds? It seems anglocentric to think it was invented in the anglo world.

Regardless, universal human rights has been embraced by cultures all over the world, with the exceptions almost always where thugs have stopped them (and people who already have it quit and deny all their personal responsibilities to their communities). They are embraced in all of the Americas, East Asia (Japan, South Korea, China (anywhere people have an option, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tiananmen Square; and China was democracizing before Xi), South Asia, Europe, parts of Africa, etc etc. People fight and die for freedom everywhere.

Universal rights (which include democracy) also provide freedom, peace, and prosperity on levels never seen in history.

And they are self-evident, as Jefferson says: By what argument do you get to tell people in other cultures what to do? It should be there choice, not yours; their self-determination; their freedom; their right.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-05-25 15:01:52+00:00
The EU explicitly does not promote free trade. The countries within the EU are almost all countries with a very long history of protectionism, there are significant NTBs in every industry, there are specific industries where there have been decades of massive subsidies, and...perhaps the most funny...there isn't free trade within the EU. EU politicians talk endlessly about free trade but these are rules for other people, not them. The lack of harmonization INSIDE the EU in services is significant (and btw, this is also true of other economic blocs, for example this is true of the US to a certain, far lesser, extent). Finally, the issue with free trade for the EU is that their products aren't competitive. They have 2 countries which run massive trade surpluses because due of the Euro and obviously bad central bank policy, if this wasn't the case then there would be rebalancing (EU's persistent trade surpluses contribute to financial instability in the same way that China's trade surpluses contributed to instability pre-07, it is very bad for everyone but politicians in two countries in the EU).

Also, there was significant trade before WW1 (we didn't recover that peak in terms of trade until the late 90s) and it didn't stop war. Saying that opposing free trade is the same thing as declaring war on your neighbours is nonsensical (and I assume relates to something going on US politics).
by happyopossum | 2025-05-25 15:02:10+00:00
Lots of breathless waxing about the ambition and scope of the project, so I was surprised that when I followed through to source material I found this:

> 9,543 single and 3,996 semi-detached homes while 5,000 apartments

So 18.5k homes of one kind or another over ~2 years. That’s, umm, nothing? Like seriously - the current rate of housing completions is over 2 orders of magnitude above that (it’s hovering just over 1.4M/yr right now).

[0] https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/current/index.html
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-05-25 15:02:14+00:00
> Baby safety is serious business.

Are "regular" baby monitors any more complicated than a dumbed down cheapest you can build it walkie-talkie? Society really needs to stop wanting other people to be responsible for their actions. The choice of what devices you use on your kids should first and foremost be on you. AI or no AI. Fear mongering with literal "someone think of the kids" is getting old, IMO.
by rs186 | 2025-05-25 15:02:24+00:00
Not to mention that a phone screen provides a fast, efficient output that is good for vast amount of information -- text, image or video, etc. If I need to know local weather for the next 5 hours, a glance at the screen is much more efficient than waiting for AI to summarize that for me.

There are objectively situations where other widgets (and other ways to interact) can be helpful, e.g. if my hands are full of stuff, or when I am lying on my bed and too lazy to pick up my phone. But those situations are very limited. Amazon has learned the hard lesson that people don't really use Alexa other than a smart timer, after billions of dollars of investment. I don't see how that changes any time soon.
by jpc0 | 2025-05-25 15:02:33+00:00
I don’t disagree, the world is much much more nuanced than a black or white take can express.

I just think we don’t need to debate this, things are better than a century ago but they are still not great.

Quality of life isn’t solely based on basic needs alone, but for the vast majority of people those basic needs are now met when they weren’t before. That doesn’t mean we get to say, “That’s good enough let’s pack up” there’s still a lot of work to do.