MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by falcor84 | 2025-06-30 14:15:59+00:00
> However, these broader improvements are not benefiting all parts of the workforce equally. Graduate job postings dropped by 4.2% in May and are now down 28.4% compared with the same time last year—the lowest level seen since July 2020.

> More broadly, entry-level roles (including apprenticeships, internships and junior jobs) have declined by 32% since November 2022, when ChatGPT’s commercial breakthrough triggered a rapid transformation in how companies operate and hire.

> Entry-level roles now make up just 25% of all jobs advertised in the UK, down from nearly 29% two years ago.

That's such a poor presentation of the numbers. If only they could have included a small data table with something like date|total-jobs|entry-level-jobs|percentage-entry-level.
by bko | 2025-06-30 14:16:00+00:00
Capital isn't a group of people. What does this mean? People who own capital? Like there is some proxy sent to Blackrock about "should we shorten the work week to 4 days" and they vote on it. As someone with a 401k, I must have missed that one.

What's with this low quality comment. If you have nothing productive to add, don't comment.

Or try to make a change yourself. Start a business and try a 4 day work week. Everyone should love it according to your world view and you could just be slightly less "greedy" and hire immigrants and trans folks and every other 'misfortunate' soul.
by ttul | 2025-06-30 14:16:27+00:00
Are you by any chance a lawyer? I’m asking because I’m genuinely curious whether lawyers are starting to use the SOTA LLMs in day-to-day drafting and review work. I use the LLMs as a CEO as a poor substitute for my in-house counsel when I just need _an_ answer quickly (i.e. when counsel is literally asleep); however, for anything serious, I always defer to them because I know LLMs make mistakes and obviously cannot offer professional liability cover.
by sergeyfomkin | 2025-06-30 14:17:16+00:00
Totally agree with your last point — I’ve tried exactly that model myself: working a little every day, remotely, and it works incredibly well. It keeps the pressure low, the mind clear, and people don’t mind doing an hour or two even on a Saturday if needed. But yeah, it only works for people with high self-discipline — otherwise it just turns into doing nothing at all.
by JeremyNT | 2025-06-30 14:17:22+00:00
This is a very reasonable question.

When you control the propaganda that lies between the data and the public, the underlying availability of the data is irrelevant. The propaganda already overwrites the data.

Honestly I would suspect that limiting the data is a strategic asset. The US can use its knowledge of weather events as leverage to cow other countries, or a weapon against countries it dislikes.

"Hello <other_country>, are you worried about the impact of weather on your population? Lower your tariff rate on us and we will be glad to help give you advanced warnings so you evacuate your people"

And likewise they would completely withhold such data from "enemy" countries.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-30 14:17:48+00:00
The demand for energy isn't changing. If you're charging 5 times as much, but only charging 1/5th as often, you aren't taking more from the grid, you're just making demand on the grid more inconsistent.

There are two main ways of handling that randomness.

1. Spread it over a large number of vehicles, and let statistics average out the demand spikes. We're doing this at a significant rate, adding > 1 million EV's to American roads every year. Also, we already have superchargers with 98 stalls. There's going to be little demand difference between 98 350kW chargers vs 32 1MW chargers. 9 350kW vs 3 1MW chargers loads a grid harder, but 98 vs 32 not so much.

2. Batteries. Charging stations are already large enough that many are utilizing batteries to smooth electricity demands.
by Biologist123 | 2025-06-30 14:18:20+00:00
A college-friend from the Unviersity of Oxford, where students write one or two essays a week, got the top first (best mark) in his history degree. Initially impressed, one day I asked him his exam method - where each student must produce 3 essays in 3 hours (or did then) across about 5 or 6 papers. My friend’s approach was to thoroughly research 12 essay questions and pre-write 16 page essays for each paper, which he would then learn verbatim and trot out word-for-word the best fit to each exam question.

This compared to my method of reading widely, learning quotes and ideas and then writing each essay fresh in the exam hall - and I would typically manage about 3-4 pages per essay. (Reader, I did not get a top first).

I relate this anecdote as I don’t really see my friend’s method as being much better than using AI. Although I do acknowledge his 16 page essays must have been reasonably good.
by jjallen | 2025-06-30 14:18:25+00:00
Can't help but wonder/predict that this will cause a long-term deflationary trend. Basically labor is going to peak and then get cheaper and cheaper. So those with capital are going to benefit from this (obviously).

Hopefully this transition benefits everyone. I just don't see how those with zero capital are going to survive well. Most of the US economy (sorry to be US-centric but I am American) is people performing services and information based work (or at least _tons_ of it is). This is the portion of the economy that is going to be the most and first affected by AI.
by acrostoic | 2025-06-30 14:18:41+00:00
thanks! Ontocast currently supports openai (subscription) and ollama (self-hosted) APIs.

At current openai pricing for GPT-4.1 mini $0.4/1M tokens we expect the cost of processing of 100 pages of text to be in the range of $0.02-0.08

NB: small models (< 14b) available on ollama struggle with structured output in our experience.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-30 14:19:29+00:00
If there were some kind of organization like that, mobsters would take it over, and they'd collude with the business to squeeze the workers for all they're worth. Believe it or not, some of us have first and secondhand experience with unions, so we don't pay much attention to the communist propaganda bragging about them. Besides, in an economy where many are unemployed and desperately seeking jobs, they tend to want fewer barriers to getting hired, not more. Only the most mature companies can afford the extra overhead of a unionized workforce... how many of the people here reading your comment work for startups? Do you think that they read it and say to themselves "gee, I know that we can barely afford to keep the lights on and we're just six, but I wish there was a union here holding the CEO's head under water until he gives us more raises"?
by EGreg | 2025-06-30 14:19:37+00:00
Boom, this.

Institutions that prepare people for future jobs have an even harder time to justify what they’re doing than the people who are looking for jobs right now. It’s just inertia at this point.

Not to mention that AI can educate the people better by solving Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem.

So colleges are obsolete except as four year cruises for entertainment and networking.
by nyrikki | 2025-06-30 14:19:49+00:00
There is a bit of nuances here that is difficult to explain fully but note from the paper.

> Our simulation reduces the problem of simulating time-bounded multitape Turing machines to a series of implicitly-defined Tree Evaluation instances with nice parameters, leveraging the remarkable space-efficient algorithm for Tree Evaluation recently found by Cook and Mertz [STOC 2024].

The "time-bounded multitape Turing machines" with bounded fan-in means that that particular abstract model has access to the bits of those tapes current head position.

Mapping the quirks of the various abstract models can be tricky, but remember having access to the symbol currently under the tape head is 'free' in TMs.

It is a useful abstraction but doesn't directly map to physically realizable machine.

It is still an interesting result for trees in physically realizable machines.
by supplied_demand | 2025-06-30 14:19:57+00:00
I am working on building a prototype for a simple 4-track recorder. It would be a cross between a Yak Back [0] voice recorder and a Tascam DP-004 [1] mixer.

My 7 year-old has gotten into music and is trying to record his own ideas. We have found the existing tools to be either too simple (Yak Back) or way too complex (Tascam). I want to make him something that has a simple interface, few buttons, and simple recording/mixing. The idea is to avoid the software programs like Garage Band and Logic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak_Bak

[1] https://tascam.jp/int/product/dp-004/top
by codr7 | 2025-06-30 14:20:05+00:00
From what I've seen, worrying about reactions and resisting the effect, for whatever reasons; which makes you see exactly what you expect and experience the effects stronger.

Like many here, I finally managed to fix that by leaning into it for a while, which wasn't always pleasant, but fixing internal issues is rarely pleasant. For me it was a lot about letting go of fear, which is always a good thing.
by calebh | 2025-06-30 14:21:17+00:00
I wrote a blog [1] a couple years ago about this solution - it turns out it is possible to use timestamp authority servers in combination with hashing functions to create a verified edit history. Like the other comment said, it merely starts an arms race where the AI side is likely to win, which is why I haven't pursued this further.

For something like digital art creation verifying the edit history is much more fruitful since the diffusion process is nothing like how humans create art.

[1] https://helbl.ing/Written-Proof-of-Work/
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-30 14:21:22+00:00
>There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who would definitely have more children if they won the lottery tomorrow.

If this were true (and I don't concede that it is), then you've just stated that the minimum bribe sufficient to persuade someone to become a parent is a lottery jackpot.

Mostly though, people who won lotteries would rather spend that on themselves. Demographic collapse is inevitable, and you'll die without even understanding why it happened.
by nerdjon | 2025-06-30 14:21:40+00:00
I will never forget one of my earliest Apple purchases being a macbook pro. I was convinced that I needed a certain specd machine that was more expensive. The person I was working with instead of just accepting what I thought I wanted asked me about what I was doing with it and really encouraged the lower cost machine.

I ended up getting the lower cost machine and it was still great. It was still a Macbook pro. I don't remember what the spec difference was now but I do remember thinking back and realizing it was right. The higher specs really would not have added anymore life to the machine so it wasn't like I upgraded sooner than I would have otherwise.

Complete opposite of nearly any other tech purchasing process, always seem to want me to spend as much money as possible.
Show HN: I created a free web widget that does cross promotion for me
by tratteo | 2025-06-30 14:21:52+00:00
I ship products and I'm launching a B2B SaaS in Italy, so I have a lot of domains and websites. In each one of them I had to edit & deploy a new version if I wanted to update contacts & personal info, links to other launched projects, link to temporary new offers that I might create for products, YouTube embeds (I started a personal channel).

I got really tired, this does not scale well, it is basically O(kn^2) where n is the number of products I have and k is the number of modifications. So I created a plugin that embeds a widget. I can update data from a single place: update once enjoy everywhere.

It has been a lot of fun to develop and I am planning a lot more integrations: - YouTube: show automatically most popular videos and most recent (already done) - Stripe: to flex your revenues in real time (I have 0$/m for now, so waiting to develop this LMAO) - Github: to show stats and repositories.

The project is 100% FREE, at least for now. I would love some feedback from all the nerds here ♥.

Cheers!
by eru | 2025-06-30 14:22:12+00:00
> It also coincides with the end of the post-pandemic hiring boom and the UK bank rate going from 0.1% to 5.25%.

I agree that the former is a strong signal. However the latter doesn't tell you anything without further context: did interest rates go up, because the economy was strong, or did rising interest rates dampen the economy?

(It's similar to how you can't tell how hot it is in my apartment, purely from looking at my heating bills: does a low heating bill mean that it's cold in my flat, because I'm too cheap too heat? Or does a low heating bill mean it's summer and really hot anyway?)
by glancast | 2025-06-30 14:22:13+00:00
JSON API to integrate with QuickBooks Enterprise / QuickBooks Desktop https://qubesync.com

Spent 14 years slogging through a custom implementation with my previous company, and didn't want my pain and suffering to go to waste. Just spent a few hours yesterday to replace that app's integration with my new api and got a pretty good diff:

117 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 10032 deletions(-)
by seanwilson | 2025-06-30 14:22:20+00:00
> But it also isn't that much of a burden. So my take on it is just do it and then it never is a problem.

What are you meant to do when you have an existing site with a brand that has inaccessible colors for the headings, buttons, links, backgrounds, text etc.? Sometimes it's not as easy as making a few colors darker/lighter, and it's a huge ask to get the client to modify their brand for this, as well as updating the styling code everywhere.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-30 14:22:44+00:00
You can't really compare prices for "European cars" like that without specifying the country you're buying in. When I go to Renault's website, the starting price is €24990. Prices vary country by country, as do incentives, subsidies, and taxes.

Still a €25k car, but that's still a $29k car.
by ramanchugh | 2025-06-30 14:22:47+00:00
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by alephnerd | 2025-06-30 14:23:35+00:00
Toyota uses a separate platform called IMV [0] in developing countries that doesn't meet safety standards in EU, Canada, Japan, the US, or the UK.

A lot of safety features such as around crumple zones or even airbags (in the case of the Toyota Champ) don't exist in the IMV platform.

Australia allows them (excluding the Champ), but they watered down their car safety standards in order to seal FTAs with ASEAN (2009), China (2015), and India (2022), leading to the last Australian automotive factory shutting down in 2017.

Once you start adding those safety features (and build the associated testing infra), costs end up comparable to those in Central Europe - as can be seen with the domestic and international prices of Western-oriented export models from China (Zeekr X/Volvo XC30) or India (Toyota Hyryder/Toyota Urban Cruiser).

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_IMV_platform
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-30 14:23:41+00:00
It's not weird or creepy to follow the politics of another country, especially when it has deep political implications in your own country.

For example, my country routes internet traffic to Australia solely to take advantage of its pro-surveillance laws while undermining my rights as a US citizen to resist unauthorized search and seizure. Australia is a global player in the intelligence community and that should not be ignored.

Furthermore, the great barrier reef is of global importance, but Australia's government often works against the UN's preservation efforts and doesn't take preservation or climate change seriously. That is something that should alarm someone from any country. So let's dispense with the pejoratives, and dispense with the bias over protests I had no part in and shouldn't be associated with just because I'm American. This is a big country, with lots of opinions.
by dgfitz | 2025-06-30 14:24:10+00:00
I read this sentiment a lot, and it is true for me too as a completely average software engineer.

Makes it seem like the actual problem to be solved is reducing the amount of boilerplate code that needs to be written, not using an LLM to do it.

I'm not smart enough to write a language or modify one, so this opinion is strongly spoken, weakly held.
by knowaveragejoe | 2025-06-30 14:24:49+00:00
For what it's worth, headlight alignment is not something a lot of people think about or even realize is a thing - it's just changing bulbs, right?

With any DIY car repair, you always run the risk of things like this, where you don't-know-what-you-don't-know. But it's still worth the ride and the lesson, imo.
by neya | 2025-06-30 14:24:53+00:00
I'm building (and have been for the last few years) an open source high-performance Wordpress alternative on Elixir. It aims to achieve 1:1 feature parity. One thing that Wordpress has built up over the years that will take a little long for me is the plugins eco-system. But, other than that, I think everything else should be on par. IF you're an enterprise, you should easily see over 30-40% in server costs just by switching from Wordpress. This has been tested and proven with one of our enterprise clients who just recorded 500 million requests on a fork of the CMS.

But, I'm determined to see its completion even if there is just one user. I didn't take the Wordpress fiasco and how they handled it, lightly at all and it only fueled my motivation even more. ETA is by end of this year right on time for Christmas.

If you'd like to read more, here's an article about my CMS: https://medium.com/creativefoundry/what-i-learned-as-an-arti...

If you'd like to get Beta access, my email is listed in my profile.
by bradleykingz | 2025-06-30 14:25:01+00:00
my solution has been somewhat similar... i only smoke once a week.

in my experience, weed 'flips the world' so that 'stuff' is no longer 'shut out'.

if you've lots of issues you'd rather not deal with, you're probably in for a bad time... depends a lot of course - where are you, how you feeling, who you with, do you trust them, the weed itself,

to me the experience is like a waking dream, where a very raw version of you comes out...

but that only works if you take massive breaks (1+week?) in between. give time for the 'stuff' to build up again.

excellent for meditative activities, but incredibly difficult from a self control perspective
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-06-30 14:25:05+00:00
I have the same experience as you. It has definitely increased the speed with which I can look up solutions to isolated problems, but for writing code using agents and coming up with designs, the speed is limited by the speed with which I as a human can perform code reviews. If I was surrounded by human 10x developers who wrote all the code for me and left it for me to review it, I doubt my output would be 4x.
by eru | 2025-06-30 14:25:05+00:00
I wouldn't be too worried about the atrophy. Or at least not much more than you already were: you get the same atrophy effect just from IDEs and compiler errors and warnings.

To give a concrete example: I'm pretty good at doing Python coding on a whiteboard, because that's what I practiced for job interviews, and when I first learned Python I used Vim without setting up any Python integration.

I'm pretty terrible at doing Rust on a whiteboard, because I only learned it when I had a decent IDE and later even AI support.

Nevertheless, I don't think I'm a better programmer in Python.
by javier123454321 | 2025-06-30 14:25:07+00:00
We turned higher ed into a qualification producing factory subsidized by the government at the expense of the kid's financial future. We overemphasized passing over learning, as the education is about the title, not the knowledge. It's not the student's fault that we created this incentive structure. The students that want to learn can still learn, those that come to higher education with a transactional mindset now can just pay for their degree. The truth is we are at the point where the logic of the commodification of our higher education system is being taken to its logical conclusion which is its own undoing.
by txbrown | 2025-06-30 14:25:12+00:00
I am close to releasing an iOS Camera app (yes another one lol) called Invisible Camera. It's a minimal app that works the way I like to shoot with my Fujifilm camera: focus on what I see, quickly apply a look / filter with a slider and shoot. The processing pipeline reduces the default color science applied by iOS to result in a more pleasant look.

You can join the beta https://testflight.apple.com/join/LEJk313o

When I can, I am also working on some features for https://midicircuit.com Beta here - https://testflight.apple.com/join/pNyAUEac
by pastage | 2025-06-30 14:25:13+00:00
The point is that Linux is not worse it is just different. What you do on Windows or iOS will not be the same as on Linux. How you adapt and if you want to is the point.

I am horribly ineffective on Windows even if I am forced to use it. The only reason for me to use it is to play multiplayer games though, and it is the default install on new laptops before installing Linux. So Windows sucks because it does not have what I need, and I see no reasons to change my ways to Windows.
by ThinkingGuy | 2025-06-30 14:25:15+00:00
I was there in the 1980s; writing your own Infocom-style text adventure games was a common project among my peers. There are probably lots of unfinished (or even finished-but-unshared) games out there on old floppy disks in closets.

I have a couple of my own, now archived on my home server.
by andoando | 2025-06-30 14:25:15+00:00
I also went back to it over the years because I wanted to "beat it" and I think there is truth to what you're saying. The biggest help I got that seemed to work was a reddit comment that said the best way to fight the anxiety was essentially to not be scared if it and egg the panic on.

Start feeling panicky? Come Your heart is racing? Ok Go head and beat faster fucker.

But anyway I don't think its worth it.
by kat_tax | 2025-06-30 14:25:57+00:00
https://figma-to-react-native.com

Plugin to convert Figma designs to React Native code fully client-side.

And a complimentary service that syncs the code directly to your filesystem in real-time, as well as an optional MCP server to flex the generated code to your codebase to fit your framework/libraries.

Source: https://github.com/kat-tax/figma-to-react-native

(includes cool tech like lightningcss-wasm for styles conversion and esbuild-wasm for client-side previews)
by thorin | 2025-06-30 14:26:09+00:00
Lightbulbs are horrendous these days. On my first car they were like changing a room light bulb, you just reached in and changed the bulb. More recent cars I've had to take the battery out or pull out the whole headlight assembly. It's good to have an idea of how the bits of the car fit together and the main components but significant maintenance is only for hobbyists or people with a lot of time on their hands.

When I was first driving I went through how to change a wheel with my dad and also brake blocks, oil changes that kind of thing. Even my dad who has rebuilt engines from scratch normally goes to the mechanic for everything now.
by ziml77 | 2025-06-30 14:26:42+00:00
But the problem here is that with a dataclass you never explicitly defined any parameters. It's the dataclass annotation that defined them for the constructor based on the order of the fields. So, yes the solution is to never re-order the fields and only add new ones to the end, but this can be a surprising requirement because normally the order of fields in a class doesn't matter to users of the class.