MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bunnie | 2025-06-10 10:00:41+00:00
Fair enough, that was not the best example.

But I'd also observe that since business owners have to capitalize the wages of the machine operators producing injection molds, then there is an advantage to outsource the whole operation.

Comparing a procurement manager and a CNC operator [the person running the milling machine making a mold] paid the same amount, the CNC operator has a bigger negative impact on the businesses' bottom line, because the business can't expense most of the CNC operator's wages in the current tax year, whereas the procurement manager is generally accepted as fully deductible expense.

Of course, the labor that went into making the mold is effectively built into the acquisition price of the mold, so you haven't gotten rid of it by outsourcing it.

But, by building it into the price of an outsourced mold, one can delay the purchase of the mold to next year to improve the P&L this year, but you can't similarly delay the wages of the tooling operator to a later date.

So, when a CFO is looking for a way to improve the P&L in a given calendar year, there's an incentive to cut operators who build factories, tools, and other assets that have to be amortized, and replace them with more flexible outsource options.

Of course, part of the reason mold making left the US is wages are lower outside the US. But I'd say the current situation with software engineers is a datapoint that demonstrates the impact of expensable versus amortizeable labor on employee retention. It could be that if the tax code is not fixed, the same "CFO logic" would lead to more and more software being outsourced over time, as management is an immediate expense, but software engineers are not.

I suppose one can then argue, why should software engineers get special treatment compared to tooling operators; but then I would counter-argue that perhaps tooling operators should have gotten better treatment so we could have retained more of them in the US.
Ask HN: What Are Your Most Useful Everyday AI Use-Cases? Here Are My Top
by kotyk | 2025-06-10 10:00:43+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been building a few personal GPT-powered tools to simplify and enhance daily tasks — and thought it would be useful to open a thread for sharing AI lifehacks in one place. Here's what I'm using:

1. Profiler Assistant This GPT knows my professional background (skills, past projects, industries I care about), and helps me:

write cover letters tailored to specific roles,

generate Upwork proposals based on job descriptions,

respond to business emails in context of my domain,

refine summaries for resumes or LinkedIn.

Basically, it's a memory-augmented writing assistant for my career.

2. NotAtKer (Notetaking Assistant) A GPT that takes rough text or voice transcripts — including “ums”, filler words, disorganized thoughts — and converts them into:

cleanly formatted notes,

logical outlines,

bullet point action items.

Great for stream-of-consciousness dumps, voice memos, or transcribing meetings.

3. Daily AI Digest This GPT agent checks a list of hand-picked sites (e.g. arXiv, HuggingFace blog, OpenAI, news aggregators), then gives me:

a short daily summary of key AI updates,

high-signal articles, releases or tools,

optional commentary or context (e.g. “this update might be relevant if you're working in X”).

No more FOMO across 10+ channels.

I'd love to hear what you are using AI for on a regular basis — especially the lesser-known workflows or clever setups that really save you time or boost output.

What are your everyday AI lifehacks?
by guappa | 2025-06-10 10:01:33+00:00
Sure much more money but:

No time to enjoy said money

No time with your family

Extremely easy to get laid off

If you are laid off, all your savings can easily be used up if you need healthcare, sending you into permanent poverty.

If you consider that a better quality of life… sure… but not everyone likes betting their existence on the lottery.

edit: forgot to mention, if you get laid off you also get quickly deported.
by rwmj | 2025-06-10 10:01:38+00:00
It's still a problem for containers-in-VMs. You can in theory do something with either memory ballooning or (more modern) memory hotplugging, but the dance between the OS and the hypervisor takes a relatively long time to complete, and Linux just doesn't handle it well (eg. it inevitably places unmovable pages into newly reserved memory, meaning it can never be unplugged). We never found a good way to make applications running inside the VM able to transparently allocate memory. You can overprovision memory, and hypervisors won't actually allocate it on the host, and that's the best you can do, but this also has problems since Linux tends to allocate a bunch of fixed data structures proportional to the size of memory it thinks it has available.
by josevalim | 2025-06-10 10:02:19+00:00
My understanding (which may be wrong) from the exchange is that they literally search for "elixir programming" on several websites, including Amazon. So it is very sensitive to whatever changes those websites do to their own search engines. I can no longer reproduce the behaviour from back then but it is very understandable that websites like Amazon are optimizing their search results for sales and other key metrics rather than term precision.
by chongli | 2025-06-10 10:02:29+00:00
Here’s a sample problem from discrete math when I took it in university:

For any integer n ≥ 0, let Cn be the set of all integer compositions of n with odd number of parts, and each part is congruent to 1 modulo 3. Prove that:

|Cn| = [x^n] (x - x^4)/(1 - x^2 - 2x^3 + x^6)

Where [x^n] indicates the coefficient of the x^n term in the formal power series generated by the rational function (rational representation of the ordinary generating function).

I doubt many elementary school students would be able to solve problems like this.
by Quarrel | 2025-06-10 10:02:31+00:00
Yes, if you are on the board of a company, with wholly-owned subsidiaries in many jurisdictions around the world, even where the local operations are theoretically through local corps with independent management, you absolutely still need to use your control of those subs to take effect of these types of extra-territorial laws (I can't speak specifically to US executive orders though).

In the anti-money-laundering world for instance, this is very real. When a person gets sanctioned in parent company, you need to action it all the way down your subsidiaries. If that action is at the root of the company, then all subs get caught. The AML world is even weirder because of the overlapping jurisdictions of you and your banking/money-transmission partners (even if you, yourself, are a bank).
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-10 10:03:21+00:00
>and if they have both no employees and no fancy farm-automation equipment, then it's pretty easy to check if they have illegal immigrants.

That's not how it works in practice. They use someone else's SSN and proper withholdings so nobody's the wiser unless the owner of the SSN being used both gets audited and has some portion of their income bumped into another bracket, which is rare.
by davedx | 2025-06-10 10:04:05+00:00
It's not the same though:

* when used domestically, it's under the Minister of Justice and Security

* there's also no Dutch equivalent of the U.S. presidency with unilateral executive control over the military

I'd argue this kind of danger is something you get more in presidential systems. Not that we all shouldn't be wary of military forces within our civilian populations.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 10:04:06+00:00
> He says that people who are illegally present don't fall into that category

The term domestic violence cannot be decomposed into domestic and violence. It's a term of art referring to "[i]nsurrection or unlawful force fomented from within a country."

> of course, "domestic" is qualifying "violence"

No, it's not. It would be like arguing that a law that talks about the United States of America doesn't apply if the states aren't united at the time of its application. (It's even stupider, since this is not only a term of art, but an archaic one as well. Decomposing it is akin to using the modern definition for domestic violence to interpret that text.)
by komali2 | 2025-06-10 10:05:09+00:00
Your understanding of American immigration law is incorrect, I'd like to correct you to perhaps help align your understanding of American history with the somewhat wrong-headed idea you have of American values. America didn't become "the melting pot" by having communist-style border checkpoints.

For basically the entire first 80% of our history, the most the federal government would do in regards to immigration was write down someone's name and nationality, then send them on their way. You're right that in the early 1900s, there were finally some restrictions passed, but by that point the national fabric of America was already sewn, and even those restrictions only applied to specific countries. Right up to the modern era, millions and millions of people have been moving to the USA, and only very, very recently has there been an extremely formalized process, or efforts to go out of the way to deport people that aren't committing actual crimes (overstaying visas is a modern thing, and isn't the kind of crime I'm talking about) (and before you get on me about breaking the law making someone a criminal, lemme know how many times you've driven over the speed limit, and whether you verify your turn signals, headlights, and brakelights work every time you operate a motor vehicle).

I grant you that the government is often at odds at our values, such as with the Chinese exclusion act or when they put Japanese in internment camps, but the American culture has been pro-immigration and pro-refugee for our whole history. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses..." No way in hell bureaucracy is more important to us than that value.

American conservative media are really good at repainting history, so they seem to have convinced some people such as yourself that American sovereignty is predicated upon a tightly controlled and monitored border, but that's basically the opposite of the truth of our history. My guess is that the conservatives need scapegoats to distract from the collapse of the living conditions of the working class from the true reasons (higher concentration of wealth) and so they've picked immigrants this time, a typical target. What genuinely surprises me is that people on hacker news, who I consider typically more media-savvy than the average person, are falling for this as well.

Anyway maybe take a quick scan of the wikipedia article to get a better understanding of our history in relation to immigration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_immigration_to_the_...
by lproven | 2025-06-10 10:05:15+00:00
I went through Wuppertal on the train in February after FOSDEM and saw the schwebebahn with my own eyes for the first time.

I wish I'd jumped off and taken a ride... but I was on an Interrail ticket, and my seat cost me €50. If I'd given it up, I'd have had to buy another one...
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-10 10:05:19+00:00
The police are not serving the people except if you use using "clearly the patriot act is good it has patriot in the name" type reasoning to define what that looks like. They're just serving your state and local government instead of the feds. They only serve the people in so far as doing so advances the interests of their employer. And that overlap is less than a lot of people make it out to be, especially when you look at specific issues.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-06-10 10:05:55+00:00
One case brought before the Supreme Court was the humanitarian legal status for migrants, which it was struck down and they can be sent back.

The other was about the deportations, which the court said they need to serve deportees a notice of deportation before they are actually deported.

There is no ruling that says ICE can't go after them wherever they are and arrest them.
by Y_Y | 2025-06-10 10:06:32+00:00
Amazon (US) is right there, we can try it:

"python programming" : 6526 "uxntal programming" : 2 "elixir programming" : 2085 "kotlin programming" : 390

I tried a couple of very new/niche languages like granule/futhark/carbon/jasmin but got either no results, or only obviously unrelated junk. For the languages above I quickly scanned the top result and they looked relevant.
by pmontra | 2025-06-10 10:06:59+00:00
You are right. I also read other comments pointing at that. Nevertheless it's often debatable what's maintenance and what's a new feature. Hopefully nobody is looking at it in too much detail.

Example: a one line change to ignore non Unicode codepoints in PDF files loaded in a web app (I did it yesterday.) Is that a new feature? Is that a bug fix? And if it's a bug fix, is that part of a feature that we should have developed before putting the sw into service? Is that maintenance? And what if that particular code point that triggered the issue did not even exist when we released the sw years ago (the code around it is from 2021)?

I believe that nobody has the time to dig the (tens of?) thousands of issues that a company opens and completes every year but there are a lot of gray areas to exploit if somebody has any reason to be pedantic.
by bambax | 2025-06-10 10:07:19+00:00
If true, that's a very convincing explanation of why this new rule is wrong.

I'm not a US taxpayer so my opinion really is irrelevant, but I was so far in the camp of "there's no reason to make a special case for big tech".

But if what happened is actually the reverse, ie, the rule makes a special case of tech/developers and pretends their salary is not a cost but an investment, that's clearly absurd and indefensible.
by Amezarak | 2025-06-10 10:07:33+00:00
> I studied political sciences twenty years ago - even then it was established consensus that presidential democracies are vulnerable to authoritarian takeover.

Democracies are vulnerable to "authoritarian takeover" has been known and understood for 2500 years.

> The position has too much power, is easily abused and there are not enough checks on that position.

In most parliamentary democracies, the Prime Minister is much more powerful than the US President. This is particularly the case since the PM is PM by virtue of his party having the legislative majority.

> And all who cry "if the democrats win everything will be ok again!!!!" - not it won't.

A better argument would be that this isn't a partisan issue. The last President declared a Constitutional Amendment by fiat and attempted to do (good) things like student loan relief with blatantly illegal authoritarian methods due to the perpetual Congressional gridlock.
by hoseyor | 2025-06-10 10:08:08+00:00
You are not actually leading until you win/achieve something.

Europe has severed itself from major sources of the fundamental driver of civilization, energy, it has bet on “renewable energy” in reckless ways, which was demonstrated by the small black swan event energy grid collapse just mere weeks ago. Germany has totally abandoned nuclear energy and has no real alternatives as it imports the majority of its energy and all its renewable energy sources are subpar, at best, and are unsustainable without massively distorting government command economy subsidies keeping afloat what is essentially a Ponzi scheme with decreasing real marginal returns. Germany, the engine of Europe, which keeps the whole EU boondoggle afloat has an avg of €0.44/kwh electricity prices.

That does not really indicate energy leadership.

Maybe Germany can get productive fusion energy online, but it also does not solve the deeper issue of a political system and control mechanism that is self-harming.

It’s the near future: Germany has successfully provided operational fusion energy. German politics and psychological control will all the sudden just give up on blaming, punishing, and hating its own people?

Everyone in Germany gets free AC and free unlimited heating? Free cars and free transportation because fusion basically nullifies the cost of energy? No, the German/EU political class loathes its own people and is recreating aristocracy, which for its own purposes relies on control and suppression of the masses. If anything the EU Lords would use that de facto unlimited energy to create unlimited AI surveillance and thought-crime robot armies to control the serfs.
Show HN: Ish – a grep like CLI tool using SIMD/GPU alignment, built with Mojo
by totalperspectiv | 2025-06-10 10:08:48+00:00
Preprint can be found here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657890v1

Code can be found here: https://github.com/BioRadOpenSource/ish
by kalaksi | 2025-06-10 10:09:08+00:00
Seems a little contradictory.

For example: "Constraints scale better because they don’t assume knowledge. They are adaptive. They respond to feedback. A small team that decides, "We will not hire until we have product-market fit" has created a constraint that guides decisions without locking in a prediction. A founder who says, "I will only build products I can explain to a teenager in 60 seconds" is using a constraint as a filtering mechanism."

I think sensible constraints are based on knowledge. Goals can also respond to feedback, not be indefinitely locked-in. But they do differ as tools.

The small team that decided to not hire probably created that constraint to get to some goal, e.g. profitability, and the constraint is based on a prediction about what should work best.

Similarly, the 60 sec constraint probably serves some goal. Why are goals so bad again?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 10:09:49+00:00
> would rather let his home country pay for that. The US have too many incarcerated as is. We should be focusing on dealing with our citizens.

Then you're empowering the President to detain someone solely on suspicion of being a noncitizen. Which will be mighty convenient for a future President when someone says or does something they don't like. (Irrespective of whether they are or are not a citizen.)

Also, these Marines are being deployed against American citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble and speak. Whenever the bill comes in, it will easily have costed many orders of magnitude more than the cost of even a death-row inmate.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-06-10 10:09:56+00:00
(Of course Ali & Stone were both generationally-talented communicators, but) there is such a stark difference between the sincerity and honesty with which difficult questions - race, reparations for slavery, etc - are being approached by those present in this clip, and more generally in popular media from previous decades, compared to the mode in which these discussions are had in pop culture today.

It feels refreshing and invigorating to watch people state their sincere opinions on a topic, very plainly, then debate them with those who have plainly stated oppositional viewpoints. It’s also actually engaging, and entertaining, whereas contemporary broadcast discussion of politics makes me want to scoop my eyeballs out with teaspoons from boredom alone, let alone the frustration of watching intelligent people very carefully avoid saying anything of substance which might be interpretable as an opinion.

I don’t think it’s survivorship bias due to preserved clips being particularly engaging, because the general public hasn’t lost this mode of communication. In most places I go, people don’t mince words or obfuscate their positions in the way people in broadcast media choose to. Real people seem disagree quite happily.

So it’s almost uncanny seeing such sincere expression on camera!

I’m not sure what happened - whether it was the branding of ‘speaking out’ as ‘courageous’ which led to public figures fearing sincere communication (as if it is something to fear!) - but I do feel that we’ve lost something.

And of course we have lost one of the great composers and bandleaders of the last century in Sly Stone. It would be very difficult to overstate the influence of his compositions and style on contemporary music. A true genius, and, like Ali, a true innovator within his chosen form.

RIP!
by wiz21c | 2025-06-10 10:11:01+00:00
Several DNS... Strange names...

Protective Resolution - IP address 86.54.11.1 Protective + Child Protection - IP address 86.54.11.12 Protective + Ad blocking - IP address 86.54.11.13 Protective + Child Protection + Ad blocking - IP address 86.54.11.11 Unfiltered Resolution- IP address 86.54.11.100
by jstimpfle | 2025-06-10 10:11:19+00:00
That sounds really weird. Why are you keen to hold a human accountable? In my book it's an improvement that autonomous driving is significantly lowering the fatality rate (and we can expect it to decrease further), while simultaneously lowering the direct accountability of single humans. I wouldn't wish anyone the misfortune of being involved in a fatality. The less involvement the better.
by ta1243 | 2025-06-10 10:11:21+00:00
For 750 people I would expect something like 600 developers (qa etc) and 150 support staff, maybe as low as 500 developers, 100 for tech support, and 150 support (lawyers, accountants etc)

I don't know how many people who have say "commented on a pull request in the last 12 months" that mozilla employs. Maybe it is hundereds.
by totalperspectiv | 2025-06-10 10:11:25+00:00
ish is a CLI tool for searching records using alignment methods. It’s record-type aware and supports lines, FASTA, and FASTQ. I was really pleased with the dev experience using Mojo. It’s still pre-1.0 and missing a few things, but overall it came together smoothly. Performance-wise, Mojo held up well. There's no direct apples-to-apples comparison for ish as a whole, but the core alignment algorithms are on par with the C++ reference (faster in one case, see preprint linked above). Writing and shipping a GPU kernel as part of a CLI was especially cool. This was my first time with GPU programming, and Mojo made it feel first-class, though I don't have much CUDA experience to compare. Excited to see where Mojo goes. Once the compiler is open-sourced, the possibilities look wide open.
by wtcactus | 2025-06-10 10:11:51+00:00
No, it's 5 out of 10 not working if you count everyone. What I'm saying is that even among those that are the population that can work, more than 1 out of 10 are also not working.

So yeah, every worker, is not supporting himself and somebody else. And even when you discount children and older people, more than 11.5% of them don't want to work already.

This is completely unsustainable and has nothing to do with AI replacing us.

P.S. Never mind that Portugal (and from what I understand, most Europeans countries) don't have a proper Retirement fund, and present workers are basically paying the retirement of retirees. This is because they contributed too little compared to what they receive now, and the state never invested their money - but used it to pay people that came before them and never made discounts for retirement.