MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wnc3141 | 2025-06-30 04:36:31+00:00
agreed. however the rate of wealth creation and concentration of capital are inverse to one another. Creative destruction does stem through market activity and the creation of Amazon did add to the collective wealth of America, as much of the digital economy lead to increased living standards.

However since the entrenchment of Amazon's market position, I would argue that the recent meaningful contribution to the overall wealth has been slight at best and creative destruction in their marketplace's has diminished. Amazon has increased shareholder value recently in ways that do not create, but transfer wealth. Share buybacks, layoffs etc. Creative destruction (i.e wealth creation) is iterative and requires open participation. I should be able to create a business along the value chain and experience competition from other businesses, equitable access to litigation, and benefit from my labor to freely make choices of my purchases and work place.

In in the most extractive economies, wealth is concentrated in capital to the point where no meaningful market activities occurs between capital and labor. The Confederate South for example - labor had zero value, no access to a legal system, and there was no resulting value chain development or internal consumer market. Nearly all wealth generated in such an economy came from the yield on capital, rather from wages. In today's modern economy an increasing share of the wealth comes from yield on capital relative to wages. Decreased competition of deployed capital results in an increase in unearned margin, thus higher yields. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA

An illustration I always share: Imagine how rich someone earning $1 million a year would be. Certainly rare, and would lead a lifestyle unrecognizable to most. $200k a year puts you solidly in the upper middle class in most of America. To earn a billion dollars, you would need to earn $1 million for a thousand years. For a techno-oligarch, that would be closer to 100+ thousand years. Therefore that level of wealth must only come from the tremendous yield on capital significant shares of the corporations afford. While it's great that people should create such successful companies and retain shares, the intensifying inequality faced in America more closely resembles a more extractive, oligopolistic economy. In these economies, value creation is passed over in favor of preserving the pathways of existing wealth and power entrenchment.

Here's a brief snippet of Acemoglu and Robinson's argument. https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/10/14/g-s1-28...
by ggap | 2025-06-30 04:37:14+00:00
I am working on MediaReduce https://mediareduce.com/, AI-powered media editing studios for videos, images and documents.

It has gone through several iterations over the last year. It was initially focused on file compression & editing but I have added video & image enhancement, background removal, smart video trim, video subtitles generation, dubbing, watermark removal, cropping, resizing, etc.

I'm continuing to fine-tune the performance and while enhancing my UI skills to polish the studios. I built a desktop version but currently released it for Linux (it's in beta), I plan to hopefully make the desktop version free.

I'm currently working with a few clients and using their feedback as guidance. Let me know your feedback if you use it.
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 04:37:56+00:00
Great analogy! I still use my iPod, because for whatever reason the OG battery hasn't died even though it is a FireWire model. It also, shockingly, sounds WAY better with any pair of decent headphones than any of my AirPods including the Max.

Not a fair comparison since a wire will always have more bandwidth for fidelity, but the difference in listening experience on an old iPod vs a modern iPhone is so shocking I find that modern iPhone listening is like diet soda and is somewhat unfulfilling (I have Apple Lossless turned on, but the sound chip + low power of modern headphones + no wired connection... loses something)

I don't mean in a "vinyl is better" sense... I mean, everyone I've demo'd this to has looked at me with big eyes when they put the iPod on and listen to the same song vs. the same headphones plugged into a modern phone. It's weird, especially since the iPods of this era can't do anything close to Lossless... they're 160-192k AACs so the limited RAM cache can play a full song without pausing on an old iPod.
by geoctl | 2025-06-30 04:38:19+00:00
If anything I am actually thankful to HN for the opportunity letting me show my work here. Negative comments are not really that big of an issue for me. I just wish they were generally clearer and more specific so that I can easily fix whatever needs to be fixed. Most of the complaints were simply related to the README while I was expecting and honestly hoping for critique for the architecture and internals of Octelium itself.
by skybrian | 2025-06-30 04:39:13+00:00
Performance is scarcely mentioned. It probably doesn’t matter that much for a build system. But for projects where it does matter, you won’t get performance in the same ballpark as a Lua interpreter written in C if you use Go.

In particular, because Go is memory-safe, you don’t have the control over memory layout you need to do tricks like NaN-boxing. Anything that requires a union with a pointer (which will be every value in a dynamically typed language) must be represented as a value of interface type, and interface values are quite fat - 16 bytes on a 64-bit machine.

Interpreters are atypical programs to optimize. Few other programs use unions so much in their inner loop.
by fumeux_fume | 2025-06-30 04:39:28+00:00
ACSM download, DRM-stripping and uploading to Dropbox can be automated with a python script if you buy from the Kobo store. It requires Calibre, but you just need it for the CLI. Another python library is needed for automating the ACSM auth and download. KOReader's UI is awful, but once you get the hang of it, importing books from Dropbox to read on your Kindle device is pretty nice.
by asveikau | 2025-06-30 04:40:57+00:00
In the 1950s, we taxed income over $400,000 at somewhere around 90%. Anything you made less than that was taxed much less, but every dollar above $400,000 the government took most of it, which effectively put a cap on wages.

Won't be popular on HN, I think we need to move closer to that again. Maybe not that extreme, but that's the proper direction. We can then use that income to tackle big problems.

We also need to tax interest, capital gains, dividends etc. at the same rate as wages.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-06-30 04:41:40+00:00
Chan & Zuckerberg acted much more responsibly here than Elon and Trump:

> CZI has promised a parting gift totaling $50 million to the community. Parents were told students will receive $1,000 to $10,000 for their future education based on age, and the school district received $26.5 million in grant funds last month. The district declined to comment for this article.

They understood that they were breaking commitments that they had made to parents, and that they were putting an unexpected burden on a local school district, and they tried to address that.

By contrast, Elon and Trump abruptly broke commitments that the US made all over the world. Stopping clinical trials midway, leaving food and medicine sitting to rot in warehouses, etc.
by tsimionescu | 2025-06-30 04:42:24+00:00
English being just one of the official EU languages would not have mattered much. No one is picking up Portuguese or Polish, even though they are also official languages and have been for a long time.

The important fact is that English is the lingua franca of both trade and administration in the EU. People sometimes still learn some French and German, but the vast majority of international EU discussions are in English, both in the EU bureaucracy and in business circles.
by throwaway422432 | 2025-06-30 04:42:33+00:00
You would only have a TFN if you are working and potentially paying tax. So generally anyone under 16 would not have one.

Closest might be a Medicare Card which gives you access to free/discounted public health that can be used as part of identification. Usually children are on their parents card.

Drivers licence is also a primary identifier, and students can use their school student id.
by Sweepi | 2025-06-30 04:42:44+00:00
>EU offers up to 10k EUR subvention for electric cars and with that in mind you can get something like BYD Dolphin for slighly less than 20k EUR.

"The EU" does not offer subsidies for any car, some member states do (And I have never heard of a subsidy of 10k per car). On the contrary, Chinese cars are strongly tariffed by the EU.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, however, until someone provides a link, I label this post "hyperbullshit".
by brunocvcunha | 2025-06-30 04:43:02+00:00
Did you read the post?

> CZI has promised a parting gift totaling $50 million to the community. Parents were told students will receive $1,000 to $10,000 for their future education based on age, and the school district received $26.5 million in grant funds last month. The district declined to comment for this article.

And after the end of the 2025-2026 school year is far from overnight.
by buttercraft | 2025-06-30 04:44:07+00:00
> he ends up paying more for the labor, because he is competing in the same labor market as everyone else

You'll have to explain that more. Ship builders aren't competing with plumbers.

>Don't you think spending the working time of 4 million labor hours a year, building megayachts, is perhaps not the most productive/ROI generating activity for society at large

Well, that's a drop in the bucket. But you could apply this reasoning to any form of luxury goods. Where do you draw the line? Nice clothes? Fancy watches? Sports cars? Five-star restaurants? Are any of these "the most productive/ROI generating activity for society at large?" Who decides what goods and services are worthy?

> and perhaps, uh, have _children_

You think people are having fewer children because luxury yachts are being built?
by leviathant | 2025-06-30 04:44:22+00:00
Philly's transit access can be hit or miss, but when transit lines up, it's transformative. I moved from central PA to a Philadelphia suburb in 2006, a three minute walk to a regional rail station. It was an hour fifteen into the city (most of the time), and I'll take 1:15 on the train over 0:45 of driving every time. After a few months of figuring things out, we dropped from two cars to one.

Now I own a rowhome in the historic district of the city, we're opening the first floor as a museum within the next year, and I walk everywhere. All forms of transit (bus, trolley, trackless trolley, subway, light rapid transit, train, ferry) take contactless payment (finally) and these days, rideshare fills in the gaps.

Wages are higher in the suburbs, but I can get to a sizable international airport in 15 minutes by car, to the Amtrak station in 20 minutes via $3 subway, and I can walk to grocery/hardware/bakery as well as bars/restaurants/galleries/venues/museums/etc.

A car used to be a very, very important part of my life, and now it's more of a luxurious convenience.
by darth_avocado | 2025-06-30 04:45:04+00:00
Just because it’s in top 10 within the country doesn’t mean it is great and that people don’t need to rely on cars most of the times. “Just live near BART” is a laughable proposition since half the BART stations outside of SF do not have enough housing around them and the ones that do, have high density luxury apartments that aren’t exactly affordable to people outside tech and other high paying careers. Then there’s the question of “do I also work near BART?”, “buy groceries near bus stations?” Or “go to the hospital only near public transit?”. Answer to all of those questions is “No and I still need a car”.
by crooked-v | 2025-06-30 04:45:48+00:00
Well, usually. There have been some absolute low-quality fiascos like the whole butterfly keyboard thing.

But one thing that really stuck with me was a few years back when I was making a spreadsheet of standard tech choices available for new employees for a startup, and almost all the Linux or Windows laptops out there that I could trust to last out of the box as long as a (non-butterfly-keyboard) Macbook had a baseline of 1080p screens, with upcharges just to get to 1440p. It might be better these days, but I felt like I was taking crazy pills just trying to find a certain baseline of quality for tech that would be getting used all the time every day.
by xmasterdev | 2025-06-30 04:46:20+00:00
Yes, it can handle very large photo and video libraries! Users have reported successfully backing up over 20k photos and videos without issues. I don't have 150k photos and videos for testing.

Currently, direct backup of photos and videos stored only in iCloud is not supported. I will consider adding iCloud integration in a future update.

The original album and photo information will be preserved. Photos and videos will be organized into backup folders by Device Model/Year/Month.
by fjfaase | 2025-06-30 04:46:39+00:00
Now that women delay their first pregnancy till their early thirthies, they often experience problems with getting pregnant when they are ready for it, especially when they are having a busy life with a job. Knowing when you are fertile, which is in the days before the egg is releases, is important knowledge if you want to become pregnant. The stress related to not getting pregnant makes things worse. Many IVF treatments could be avoided if women had a simple and reliable method for knowing when they are fertile.
by aurizon | 2025-06-30 04:47:18+00:00
Africa and China are awash with fake meds - perhaps even in India. Large amounts of fake drugs are common in Africa/China = deaths are common. Pharmacies are very aware of this and watch their sources. The big problem is very good copies of the container, box and printed insert that mimic exactly the true drugs are everywhere. A copied box/insert/vial/tablet that costs $1 can hold drugs worth $200 or more. There are gangs that buy them from China and try to insert them in the supply chain. I was with Sanofi-Pasteur(before I retired) and we had strict QC controls on every batch(every single ingredient). Every ingredient was sampled and tested locally and a sample sent to various head offices in USA/Canada/UK/etc. Batch ingredients were kept in locked areas and only allowed out in a weighed batch amount. The whole area was a clean and watched area with limited access badges on each person working there. You could only enter your zone and use your lunch/toilet area. Some ingredients are active and can have high values. Some are inert fillers. 1 milligram of fentanyl is minuscule = it ends up in a 25 or 50 milligram pressed tablet for ease of patient/pharmacy handling. Even adding the inert is complex as the active and the inert must mix with no settling or gravity segregation. Often the active is mixed with an intermediate diluent and a fluid that will not dissolve either and mixed in wiped surface mixer to make a very uniform paste which was then dried and granulated and this was added to the final diluent and a 'binder'. The binder is a material that will glue the tablet together in a high speed press. Some tablets get an enteric coating that resists acid but dissolves in the lower gut alkaline state = breaks and dissolves. Fentanyl and other strong opioids are killers in small amounts, so extreme precautions are taken to ensure correct doses.
by kragen | 2025-06-30 04:47:40+00:00
Size of machines is pretty amazing. The PDP-10s and 360/67s Knuth was talking about in 01974 were about 1 MIPS (with 32-bit or 36-bit operations) and could scale as high as 16 mebibytes of RAM. Today you can put 6 tebibytes in a 384-core two-socket AMD server that can do in excess of 10 trillion 32-bit operations per second: 6 orders of magnitude more RAM, 7 orders of magnitude more arithmetic.

But that's really understating the case, because those were large shared mainframes. Today's equivalent would be not a 2-socket rackmount server, or even a whole rack, but quite plausibly a whole data center, three more orders of magnitude. 9 orders of magnitude more RAM, 10 orders of magnitude more arithmetic.

Probably also worth mentioning that the absolute number of computers has also increased a lot; every USB-C power brick contains a multi-MIPS computer.

I agree that the number of devs has increased by only about four or five orders of magnitude. In 01974 I'd guess there might have been 50,000 programmers; my grandparents took programming classes around that time involving batch submission of punched cards, and that was a reasonably common thing at US universities. Today, Roblox has 380 million monthly active users; what percentage of them write their own games in it? And the popular programming environments Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets have over a billion users each.
by Marsymars | 2025-06-30 04:49:46+00:00
If you don’t drive much yourself, “low miles” after a couple years doesn’t matter quite as much. e.g. I bought my car at a couple years old with 40k miles already, but in the following twelve years I’ve only run it up to about 115k miles, so I’ve turned it from a “high-mileage two-year-old car” into a “low-mileage 14-year-old car”.
by HaZeust | 2025-06-30 04:49:49+00:00
Of course, this won't be popular on the HN crowd, but I'll say it anyway: What we need is securities tax.

Absolutely any conversion, collateral, or divestiture of securities need to be taxed at the rate of those securities at that time. A lot of plutocrats are playing the system by just basing their loans and the collaterals thereof, and their payments for things, on stocks and securities because they are "unrealized gains".

If securities are enough of a bearer instrument to give loaners confidence for otherwise no-collateral loans, they're enough of a realized gain to be taxed when you use them for a purchase - or alongside one.
by gertlex | 2025-06-30 04:50:37+00:00
As the other comments note, yep, it's been done.

It seems there's a whole spectrum from lifting houses to put a new first floor below them, to moving them a bit, to moving them several blocks in a city. (to big building projects too, historically)

I saw a house in progress being moved, 30 years ago. Great thing to take a kid to see!
by msgodel | 2025-06-30 04:50:44+00:00
Firstly it's all very intentionally coupled together. There are strict rules around how the UI and notifications are used specifically so that they can sell your attention.

Secondly I think the only thing I really miss that's particular to smartphones is the map. Everything else is either a dumb gimmick or actually bad and all of it is to just get you're attention so they can sell it.
by djur | 2025-06-30 04:51:01+00:00
Stelo is basically just a consumer packaged version of the Dexcom G6, and in both cases they warn you to use a finger stick to verify unexpected readings. But finger sticks can be really inaccurate, too. For many diabetics it's not a life-or-death matter (only 1 in 4 type 2 patients end up using insulin), and the important thing is the trend over time.

I've personally found my CGM to be really useful in understanding the effect of diet, sleep, stress, etc. on my blood glucose, like the OP says, but you definitely get some weird readings sometimes. Yesterday a new unit told me that my blood glucose dropped below 70 for 2 hours. It definitely didn't! After a while it got itself straightened out in time to scold me for eating some corn chips.
by leakycap | 2025-06-30 04:51:10+00:00
I've been using https://www.dueapp.com on my iOS devices since pre-iOS 7 and it has offered features this article makes sound impossible before iOS 26.

The local notifications chain on iOS may still be limited to 64 alerts, but an app can easily just schedule the next 64 pending items and update that when any background app refresh or app launch occurs.

I think this developer might quickly find what I often do on v1-v? of Apple "Kits" ... it won't be that useful and will have some serious drawback and you'll still be working around it to do what you want. Hope I'm wrong, but also, it can likely already be done like Due app shows.
by Klaster_1 | 2025-06-30 04:51:38+00:00
So much this! During my 20s, English took over a significant chunk of communication. Years later, I mess up noun genders in my native language all the time and developed a strong distaste for formal forms of you/nouns - so much so, that I still dislike these in Greek that I'm currently learning. Although, sometimes it is a fun challenge when you use the wrong gender and scramble to find a matching noun/verb, making my speech kinda weird.
by hinterlands | 2025-06-30 04:51:40+00:00
These MCUs are generally targeted for low-power uses and various industrial & automotive stuff. They're not meant for anything high-bandwidth - you'd be using a 32-bit ARM or RISC MCU for that, or a SoC.

So, think of it more in terms of offloading simple automation or logic glue to dedicated hardware to save a microamp or keep the state machines tidy.
by wasabi991011 | 2025-06-30 04:51:50+00:00
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Also, my partner likely has DID and is struggling with it somewhat. If you have advice or are willing to answer some questions, I'd appreciate talking about it. But I know it's a big ask, respectfully, so I understand if not.