MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by salawat | 2025-07-02 15:03:13+00:00
Welch in his early career was kept in check in part by Oldtimers who were alive for the experience of the time of the Robber Barons, and the heyday of the American Labor Union. These times were characterized by men willing to do violence to break strikers and likewise to coordinate to make it nigh impossible for the more narcissistic to ascend to power due to actual class solidarity.

Welch wasn't a problem until what he feared, backlash from people who had been around for the last cycle of cruelty precipitated by his ideas, sufficiently died/attritioned out.

Give Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames a read.

He does an excellent job at laying out the pedigree of thought from slave/plantation management to modern American management theory, and charting out the trends and consequences that arise from political shifts in the equilibrium between capital and labor.

https://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Col...
by seanwilson | 2025-07-02 15:03:24+00:00
It's worth emphasising that if something like "learn more" does work fine for non-screen-readers (like for a call-to-action button at the end of a section, which makes sense to me), you can add extra text just for screen readers so it reads something like "Learn more _about Amaya_" only on screen readers (via aria-label or a CSS class that hides text).

There's also SEO benefits here as well because the more descriptive text helps search engines understand what search keywords might be relevant for the page being linked to.
Show HN: BeepThatOut – automatically filter out profanities from audio/video
by hubert022 | 2025-07-02 15:03:30+00:00
Hi all,

my friend and I have built an AI-powered (whisper) editor for youtubers, podcasters, and video editors, that should cut down manual editing time by a lot.

It's 'a bit' more than just a whisper wrapper, because you can configure a lot:

- what kind of profanities to filter

- add your own words (i.e. 'covid') to prevent demonetization on platforms like youtube

- adjust the transcript in the editor like in google docs

- readjust the position of each word

- use 1000Hz beep, silence, or your own sound

and more.

You can export your work as audio, video, or as an .xml project for popular video editors. Almost everything (except the transcript part) happens in the browser by utilizing ffmpeg.wasm.
by ARandumGuy | 2025-07-02 15:03:35+00:00
Tesla's stock price has always seemed completely irrational to me. Tesla's market cap is over double Toyota, BMW, Mercedes, VW, GM, and Ford combined. All while selling far fewer cars then any of those manufacturers.

For this market cap to make sense, Tesla would have to eventually become the dominant car manufacturer worldwide. And that just doesn't seem like a reasonable prediction, given that legacy car manufacturers are starting to figure out EVs, and newer EV-focused manufacturers are making huge strides.

I don't know when (or even if) Tesla's stock price will fall back down to Earth. The old saying is that the market can remain irrational longer then you can remain solvent. But I do know that Tesla's stock price is not a good indicator of how well they're doing as a car manufacturer.
by kenmacd | 2025-07-02 15:03:36+00:00
Are you arguing against the automation here? Because if so it seems we could bring back a lot of employment by simply getting rid of machines, but would we really be better off? Is it better for humans to spend their short lives working as telephone operator, knowing it an entirely pointless job?

If you're not arguing against automation then I think we need to think about what happens when we expand your timeline a little. Are there really enough 'employment' jobs that can't be automated for billions of humans of different intelligence/physical abilities?
by niteshpant | 2025-07-02 15:03:36+00:00
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by PaulHoule | 2025-07-02 15:03:47+00:00
I'm proud that Vera Rubin discovered evidence for dark matter at my Uni. I'm proud that Douglas Osheroff discovered Superfluid Helium 3. I'm proud that Gerald Salton invented full text search and that Ivan Sutherland invented 3-d graphics rendering as used in video games.

I'm even more proud that our ag school is helping farmers in New York and the rest of the world make money and feed a growing population that expects to eat better (however they define "better") in a challenging climate. That our vet school trains vets and farriers. That our ROTC trains officers for all of our armed services. I don't see a contradiction that I'm also proud that Catholic priest and activist Daniel Berrigan against the Vietnam war escaped the FBI in the same building where those officers train.
by Fluorescence | 2025-07-02 15:04:12+00:00
It would be a misreading to think that example implies a more limited scope. The passage as a whole is pretty clear why they are they so broad: in order to avoid circumvention. I can understand why - it seems to be both a necessary yet unacceptable way to write laws!

The passage continues:

"To prevent the circumvention of this Regulation and to ensure an effective protection of natural persons located in the Union, this Regulation should also apply to providers and users of AI systems that are established in a third country, to the extent the output produced by those systems is used in the Union."

An AI would come under this regulation even it's just the outputs that are used in the EU. Interesting to think about what that could lead to.
Show HN: Puteron, Systemd Competitor
by rendaw | 2025-07-02 15:04:27+00:00
I was debating when to post this, but I've been using it locally in a variety of situations for several months and I think it's pretty stable (and usable!). There are more features I'd like to add, but I wanted to see if there was much interest before spending much more time on it right now.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-07-02 15:05:22+00:00
That "...severely life threatening reasons..." made me immediately think of Asimov's three laws of robotics[0]. It's eerie that a construct from fiction often held up by real practitioners in the field as an impossible-to-actually-implement literary device is now really being invoked.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-07-02 15:05:23+00:00
> In in ideal world, a government should stick to regal functions: externals security (army), internal security (police), justice (enforcement of laws, property and contracts). End of story.

OK, so you want a 19th century government. That's a position that one can hold, but (unfortunately or fortunately) this is never gonna get voted for, so unless you're also against democratic voting, you should probably think about how to accomplish some of your goals in a society that actually can exist today.

> And when that's all said and done, cut every department budget equally by 50% the first year.

OK great, how do you choose who lives and dies? Cos that's basically what a 50% cut across the board will mean. Personally, I like that people without as much money as me don't starve to death on the side of the street, but obviously opinions differ.

> In an honest retirement system, you should mostly rely on what you have set aside during your work life, 401k style.

OK great, so your proposition is that poor old people should just die?

> And certainly not pray that there will be, 50 years down the road enough of the same suckers you are now to pay for your sustenance. When people stop making babies, guess who's going to be left holding the bag? You. That's who.

This is basically all developed world social security systems, so you're proposing again, that poor old people should starve to death on the side of the street.

More likely, what will actually happen here is that the voters (most of whom are poor) will vote themselves confiscatory taxes on people who have saved. And that's the better option! The worse one is that they'll just bring back the guillotine.

Note: I apologise for the potential emotionalisation of your points, but it's important to keep people aware of all the consequences of approaches like this.

While I definitely think that lots and lots of state problems exist, and could be fixed, I reckon that in many cases fixing these problems will require insourcing a bunch of work to the public sector. Good examples of where this would probably work are in constructing tendering and design, as well as software tendering and esign.

> But if we're talking impressions, my observation after a rather long life is the exact opposite: the private sector is far, far more efficient than governments except when corporations get to monopoly status and essentially become mini-governments (via crony capitalism) and with the exact same illnesses.

Having spent a bunch of my career in public sector orgs and the rest in the private sector all I can say is that they're about equally inefficient and stupid, just in different ways.

> I'd love to see the data backing this claim.

I'd love to see data backing your claims of the stupendous waste in government, but we can't always get what we want, I suppose.
by throw0101d | 2025-07-02 15:05:26+00:00
> What immediately sprung out to me is that Amazon isn't held accountable for selling goods that directly violate patent laws, which should protect small business and reward innovation.

(IANAL) This may fall under a DCMA-like concept where sites are not responsible for 'user content'. The 'user' in question is the vendor and their 'profile' of sellable items is the content. Similar to how eBay is not (?) responsible for the items put up for sale.

(Not saying this is (morally) right, just describing the situation. I would really like to see some accountability as well.)
by Hackbraten | 2025-07-02 15:05:59+00:00
On a related note, maybe the world is ready for an AI-first esolang, too.

Assign variable x = 4:

it_is_not_just x it_is 4

Invoke the function `myfunc`:

delve_into(myfunc)

Raise an exception:

sorry_i_cant_help_with_that("missing argument")

Em-dashes denote a ternary-if expression:

1—if condition holds—else 2

Main entry point:

The kicker? Print("Hello, world!")

Line comments (instead of `# this is an ugly hack, gotta fix before going live`):

It is important to note that this is an ugly hack and must be fixed before going live.
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-02 15:06:05+00:00
I knew this was coming when Microsoft brought Activision. As ex game industry I nearly started crying at the news.

Mergers always lead to layoffs, games aren't doing great as they're not essential in an iffy economy.

Microsoft is seeing the writing on the wall and cutting internal studios. It's much cheaper to just pay 3rd parties to release on Gamepass vs having to fund an entire games development.

I don't think we even see a real "Xbox" in the future. You'll have Xbox branded living room PCs with Windows. They're working on a gaming mode that I guess optimizes Win 11 a bit.

Getting a AAA games job will be much more difficult in the future.
by ben_w | 2025-07-02 15:06:05+00:00
> So something isn't squaring with this.

Lots of smart people get hooked onto extremely specific solutions that aren't even improvements.

I saw it in software development with many things (VIPER and SwiftUI both reduce development velocity compared to MVC and old-school Interface Builder); I've seen it with Musk trying to do tunnels even when roads would be cheaper and safer; there's also (infamously) Juicero; and in the UK in the 80s there was the Sinclair C5.

That said, is this really an example of that?

Myself, I barely use my electric barbecue, so I don't know the best way to clean things (it's not yet become dirty enough to bother cleaning). But I have seen the brushes he's complaining about, and I have not previously considered using tinfoil, so it's not a completely crazy idea that people might want a better brush.
by rorylaitila | 2025-07-02 15:06:48+00:00
Yeah I agree with you. There is also a subtly incorrect belief people have that employees are just costs. Therefore increased efficiency = fire people = increased profits.

The more accurate frame is that employees produce more value than their costs, so each employee is actually a profit producer. If you can increase their efficiency, then they produce more profit. Firing profit producers decreases your profit, not increases it.

"if you can hire fewer engineers to do the same job, great, but your competitors are going to hire more engineers and out-compete you." - this is correct in aggregate across the market. Of course any individual company may have other constraints that makes hiring additional people unviable. I think this is the common mistake, its easy to look at an individual company and believe that the constraint applies to all companies simultaneously.
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-02 15:07:02+00:00
> The OS has an established design language and really should be used for most applications.

This is a valid point.

The other side of the story is that the iOS ecosystem is a marketplace where merchants offer goods and services, including Apple themselves.

Apple increasingly wants to decide how you present your brand, to the point that the only brand-language Apple allows on its devices is its own.

I think it's reasonable that merchants in this marketplace feel the increased pressure to work less on creating and refining their own identity and more on normalizing their offer like it could come directly from Apple, at their own expense and financial risk.
by Nedomas | 2025-07-02 15:07:56+00:00
two weeks ago I started heavily using Codex (I have 20y+ dev xp).

At first I was very enthusiastic and thought Codex is helping me multiplex myself. But you actually spend so much time trying to explain Codex the most obvious things and it gets them wrong all the time in some kind of nuanced way that in the end you spend more time doing things via Codex than by hand.

So I also dialed back Codex usage and got back to doing many more things by hand again because its just so much faster and much more predictable time-wise.
by psunavy03 | 2025-07-02 15:07:57+00:00
We really need better ways of measuring economic health. I could lose my six-figure job, turn around, and get hired on as a server at Applebee's for minimum wage, and the "unemployment" rate would stay the same. Not to mention that it doesn't include those not actively looking for work.

Either way, "full employment" doesn't mean much unless you take into account whether people are actually able to live a stable lifestyle or are burning the candle at both ends just to put food on the table. One of these enables folks to buy nonessentials and fund all those sectors of the economy, the other doesn't.
by MangoCoffee | 2025-07-02 15:07:58+00:00
People on HN are so delusional it's funny.

The semiconductor industry is always a key industry for China. They laid it out in Made in China 2025.

Huawei designed and developed its own chip before any sanctions, and the Chinese government never stopped throwing money into the semiconductor industry.

In the short term, money can go to Nvidia, but it won't be long before China creates its own "Nvidia" like BYD.

The sad part is America elected Trump, and he's gutting American research and cutting out the CHIPS Act.

One country is going for the long term while another country is short sighted
by jfax | 2025-07-02 15:08:02+00:00
I'm reminded of this post I read regarding links that read "I forgot my password". I thought maybe wording it as "click here if..." would improve that but I somehow intuitively knew that's not right either.

> Ignoring the garbage on Web pages is a skill that some people don't have, and I don't know how to teach it. I'm reminded of this each time I try to help someone who doesn't have my background, use the Web; there are users who look at the literally first thing on the page and think about it carefully, even if it's "Please enable notifications," before they see the second item on the page at all.

> With Google searches now offering multiple screenfulls of garbage before the actual results, well.

> A related issue is failing to understand the epistemic status of different kinds of text on a page. E.g. the user who sees a clickable link with the text "I forgot my password" and believes that that means it's telling him he did forget his password (and it somehow knows this?), rather than just being the place to click if he forgot his password.

> The death of UI standardization, of course, makes this issue much worse.

https://mstdn.io/@mattskala/113188291223682980
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-02 15:08:20+00:00
> Under the hood the apps are then hopefully so streamlined already that service-providers will compete to be the fulfilment entity for this task.

Probably going to be against the hivemind on this one, but I for one welcome this. Public transport, taxis, flights, hotels, to a degree even restaurants are fungible. I want to get from A to B, I want to have a bed for a few nights in some other city, I want to get some specific food.

That's what I need. What I do not want is to waste time to get what I need with bullshit.

That's why I love the "evil B" of hospitality - I see all available hotels for my travel, the associated price and pictures. I select an offer (usually the cheapest one that still has decent reviews), I click on "book", I confirm my data, that's it. I don't need to wade through dozens of websites, enter my data a dozen times, and then finally enter payment data on yet another shady website that's probably gonna get hacked sooner or later.

I don't want to waste my time researching the phone number of the local taxi company, so taxi.de it is, I only select where I need to go and a few minutes later a taxi shows up, no need to call someone, spell out the street name I live in to someone barely understanding me on the phone because Germany's phone service is dogshit.

I don't care about which specific Chinese restaurant I want, so I go on Lieferando, and half an hour later a nice load of fried rice with greens shows up at my door. And every time I have to go to a specific place (say for an anniversary) I know exactly why I despise the old way - everyone does seat reservations differently, no integration with anything.

What still irks me is flight booking, because while Google and a fair few other resellers/brokers do at least compare available options of different fulfilment providers, the actual booking I have to do is still on each airline's different web page. And rail travel is similarly annoying once you try to leave Germany.
by nh23423fefe | 2025-07-02 15:08:29+00:00
Agree. I was a little curt saying "weird".

Probably the most persuasive point you make is about non-local couplings. I think that's the strongest evidence for me that macroscopic observations don't bind the microscopic ontology. I probably buy the "everything is relational/consistent histories" story the most.

> There is no comforting continuous existence across time

I think I agree. Using differential equations to model everything makes us think that the entities are really there and being pushed around by laws. But that's the map trying to sneak into the territory imo.
by comrade1234 | 2025-07-02 15:08:34+00:00
Yes it sucks and the documentation sucks even more. I think azure and whatever you call the google cloud configuration site are both so complicated because they're best for giant corporations with thousands of employees and many many roles in the organization with different privileges. However if you're just a single developer setting up something simple it's hellish.

It would be nice if they provided a simple setup configuration option for simple setups.
by kentm | 2025-07-02 15:08:54+00:00
> Gender affirming care is unsupported by evidence, so it is inaccurate to say "unilaterally".

It is supported by evidence -- plenty of research around outcomes and comparisons to the alternative. The right wing does not engage with that evidence. Your denial of this is exactly an example of "unilaterally" denying it.

> Trans woman tend to dominate their sports. There are so many examples of this. We don't need to have opinions on this: just use the evidence.

There aren't, actually. You say there's so many examples but I have failed to see any of them. They tend to dig up examples where trans women just manage to place at all, usually in lower ranks. Hardly an example of domination, and even if it was its an anecdote and not statistical. In fact, the right was so desperate for examples that they leapt to conclusions at the Olympics and claimed that a cis woman was trans.
by runjake | 2025-07-02 15:08:57+00:00
Didn't Satya or somebody state in recent months that it was a tactic to get rid of low performers? I believe Meta is doing something similar.

Edit: Allegedly not.

https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-microsoft-c...

"Nadella addressed the recent layoffs, clarifying that the decision was not based on individual job performance. “This is a structural change, not a reflection of how people were performing,” Nadella explained. He emphasized that Microsoft is shifting its strategic focus, with a renewed emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI), which the company views as a key driver of its long-term vision and growth."
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-02 15:09:05+00:00
Ideas for a browser plugin:

- Toggle/hide aria-hidden items from the page so you can ensure only the important components are there

- Show the ordered list of links, headings, landmarks you'd see in screen readers like when you use the VO+U rotor in macOS VoiceOver

- Toggle on a mode where a little "?" appears next to anything with an aria-description that can be hovered as a tooltip

Prob would be a decent start.

Though I recommend the more curious HNer to fire up macOS VoiceOver, do its tutorial (Settings -> Accessibility -> VoiceOver -> "Open VoiceOver Tutorial..."), and then navigate your own website. Use Safari for this since it has the best VoiceOver behavior.

It's very eye opening (heh) and helps you understand what things like aria-hidden actually are for.

If that's not enough, it also prepares you for bad luck in the future, and it's also just cool being able to use your computer with your eyes closed.

I had some classes in uni where we weren't allowed to use our laptop screens, and I bet I could have gotten away with having my hands inside a half closed laptop with an airpod in my ear scrolling HN/Reddit while the professor droned on for an hour.
by tpm | 2025-07-02 15:09:10+00:00
> Of course maybe this will change.

It's possibly already changing? 3D-knitting (of shoe uppers is what I have noticed) can make some sewing redundant. How far that can be taken remains to be seen.

ah there are already sweaters made using this technology it seems: https://www.oliver-charles.com/pages/3d-knitting
by blonder | 2025-07-02 15:09:14+00:00
I would counter your charging anecdote almost entirely with my anecdote. I have never had to worry about arriving at a destination without enough to make it to another supercharger, that worked great in 2022 when I got my model 3 and works great today. I have never had so much as a single issue with a supercharger not working or being out of service and not saying it on the car screen. I don't have any rebuttals for your other points: winter range stinks, and tires wear faster than gas equivalents. EVs really need a battery innovation to add another 100 estimated miles to really push them into the mainstream imo. If we can get to the 450ish range that would help a lot.