MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-07-05 21:08:47+00:00
Some are, some aren't.

You can tell the ones which aren't by watching them getting removed in a hurry when the government finally notices too many people using them. 10-15 years back, some colleagues had made businesses for themselves just so they could receive their real jobs' income at the lower rate of dividend income rather than the income tax rate. I am told this is no longer possible.

Conversely there is (or was) what I think was a deliberate loophole for UK inheritance tax — if I remember right (not a lawyer) it works like this: physical objects in your home are all bundled together and valued at £1 for inheritance tax purposes, so fancy art, stamp collections, etc. don't get taxed.
by mkaic | 2025-07-05 21:09:35+00:00
I feel a bit shaken after reading this comment, to be honest. I don't think I've ever heard someone so perfectly describe such a major component of my life experience. It's like you read my mind.

I was a "gifted kid", now I'm a lonely adult living by herself constantly cycling between complacency, failure, panic, and productivity. Diagnosed ADHD, choose to stay unmedicated, sometimes the best employee in my office, usually one of the laziest and most disappointing employees in my office. Constantly daydreaming about how better circumstances would change things for the better even while knowing deep down I'd cause the exact same set of problems for myself all over again even if I got my Dream Job.

Spent my whole life being told I was exceptional, and, to be fair, I lived up to it as a kid. These days I'm so terrified of regressing to being "normal" that I sabotage myself at every turn.

Thank you for leaving this comment. I may bring up the concept with my therapist and see what she thinks of it.
by simonw | 2025-07-05 21:09:43+00:00
Yeah, it did almost all the work for that demo but that's mainly because I let it - I didn't have the time or inclination to take over and knock the code into the actual shape I wanted.

I also think that even the few prompts I gave it require pretty deep knowledge and experience - many professional software engineers don't know that SQLite has good FTS baked in!
by Lichtso | 2025-07-05 21:09:50+00:00
> Why bother developing chatbots

Maybe it is the reverse? It is not them offering a product, it is the users offering their interaction data. Data which might be harvested for further training of the real deal, which is not the product. Think about it: They (companies like OpenAI) have created a broad and diverse user base which without a second thought feeds them with up-to-date info about everything happening in the world, down to the individual life and even their inner thoughts. No one in the history of mankind ever had such a holistic view, almost gods eye. That is certainly something a super intelligence would be interested in. They may have achieved it already and we are seeing one of its strategies playing out. Not saying they have, but this observation would not be incompatible or indicate they haven't.
by rsolva | 2025-07-05 21:10:48+00:00
Just watched this talk and posted it to HN (sorry for the dupe!), Bert made a lot of great points in under 45 minutes!

There was some technical trouble in the first minutes, so skip to 4:46 (https://youtu.be/XntLynSlYjI?t=286) to get to the talk.

tl;dr: Measure the energy use of your systems! Both on the server and the client side. You could save energy and money, and also have a really good excuse to have fun optimizing your code :)
by not_kurt_godel | 2025-07-05 21:11:58+00:00
I don't necessarily disagree (or agree) with the calculus that we arguably could and should be injecting SO2 into the stratosphere right now as an emergency measure, but your acquaintances are certainly not the only ones thinking about it. As the first article I linked mentions, the idea has been around since at least 1965 and references a 2021 landmark report. The White House OSTP also released their own 44-page report on it in 2023 (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/30/white-house-releases-report-... , https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/...), pursuant to the research plan from the 2022 article I initially shared.

I'd also probably agree that there is likely misguided opposition to it as a tool in the climate change arsenal as well from "climate advocates" (taboo). The same could also be said for fission nuclear power which, unlike SO2 geoengineering, would substantially address the root cause of the problem - emissions - with fewer risks and unknowns. (France, for example, being a real-world example of how many countries could almost completely decarbonize their electric generation in a proven and scalable way with nuclear fission.)

If we further broaden our scope of misguided opposition from just "climate advocates" to voting polities in countries that are positioned to meaningfully address climate change at a global scale, then we're really getting to the root of the issue. The single most impactful action the average person could take to fight climate change in the US is to vote blue. It's an effectively binary choice to give badly-needed societal support and investment to climate-relevant initiatives like your friends' and so many others.
by free_bip | 2025-07-05 21:11:59+00:00
This comment is deeply confusing. I'm really not sure what the argument is. Are you trying to say that any profession that has occupational hazards should be outlawed? In that case I hope you're ready to outlaw policing, firefighting, military, most professional sports, logging, and certainly a bunch of others I can't remember right now.

Or perhaps you're saying that specifically because it ranks high on the list of most dangerous professions, that it should be outlawed? In that case I hope you're ready to outlaw (again) logging, fishing, roofing, aircraft piloting, derrick operators and more. I hope you've also considered that the reason it's dangerous in the first place is because of the criminalization and lack of regulations governing sex work.

Or perhaps you just think that people are being pressured into doing sex work by their families, and therefore we should throw out the entire profession? In that case we need to be throwing out doctors, lawyers, and engineers.

I'd appreciate some clarification on what exactly the argument is.
by jug | 2025-07-05 21:12:34+00:00
Yes, I like how they're striking a balance between minimalism and skeumorphism. They often try to do more with less. The Photo Booth one is a good example. Away with that camera: Let's focus on the strip from a photo booth (and don't use actual photos because that's too messy at smaller sizes).

It looks like sometimes this approach has led to more details or an entirely different design, and sometimes less details. Almost like a normalization of sorts to better standardize around a level of details and amount of contrast and brightness.
by TheBlight | 2025-07-05 21:13:01+00:00
He has a fairly large h-index for someone with an alleged "poor reputation."

"Avi Loeb's H-index, which measures a researcher's scientific output and impact, is 132. This indicates the high level of influence and recognition Loeb has garnered within the scientific community based on the number of his publications that have been cited a certain number of times."

- Google Gemini
by saulpw | 2025-07-05 21:13:14+00:00
Most of what you are saying makes sense, except this:

> I think it's about as wrong as getting your iphone screen fixed by someone who couldn't cut it in "real" IT work. Or getting your garbage picked up by someone whose only marketable skill is emptying a bin into a truck. Society is full of people doing jobs they hate because it's all they got.

Selling sex for money is not in the same bin as other jobs people hate. Sex is an intimate act for humans, like it or not, and being coerced into sex, whether physically or economically, is especially toxic. Like long-term PTSD toxic.

This is not the same as cleaning latrines or collecting garbage (which yes, can be a foul work experience). Although as I'm thinking about it, there are other jobs which have a similar soul-toxicity as sex work, like industrial animal slaughter or mass executioner (e.g. in a concentration camp). Jobs that require you to give up your humanity in exchange for a paycheck.
by rmason | 2025-07-05 21:13:25+00:00
I'd encourage you, that's only a few years older than when I started back in the eighties. I began with desktop software and quite frankly there was a lot less to learn than you need with web development.

I'd encourage you to find a local user group in your area. You need a few people that can help you avoid dead ends of which there are many when you are starting from a blank state. In general there are going to be a couple of people that enjoy helping people learn. I've run a local user group for a quarter century and I always have gone out of my way to help newcomers.

My experience is that it is far easier than asking questions online. There are people for whatever reason love to criticize folks asking beginner questions. I have never understood that behavior but it serves to discourage people. I've experienced it myself when trying to learn something new and it is counterproductive.
Show HN: Web Metadata search. Search for headers, web apps, CMSs, and versions
by danielcid | 2025-07-05 21:13:45+00:00
we have been building DNSArchive (a DNS repository) and recently launched the web metadata search.

It allows you to look for specific patterns on headers, links and other hard to search parts of sites.

For example, you can search for all sites using PHP/5.2:

https://dnsarchive.net/web-search?q=PHP/5.2

Or WordPress 5.2:

https://dnsarchive.net/web-search?q=%22Wordpress%205.2%22

And things like that. Feedback welcome!
by gond | 2025-07-05 21:15:24+00:00
Are you saying that if some person is making a mistake, is angry about making the mistake at all, that this person will just happily do the mistake again because being angry about one’s own mistake is such a beautiful state of mind?

I am unsure of how your mental model of ‘error correction’ is working without starting at the point of recognising an error in the first place - just deliberately ignoring for a moment whatever you emotionally might attach to it.

I would say the just checked the fist step with bravery by openly admitting the mistake.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-05 21:15:39+00:00
I think we are agreeing here. We can guess that the original law's intent was that mobile phones were not to be used for any purpose while driving, with a specific narrow carve-out for "hands-free listening and talking." But, instead of saying that, it was written both too narrowly and too vaguely and had to be expanded and clarified later.

I also agree that the next fight is going to be about mounted vs. unmounted, and the distinction between a driver's phone attached to the vehicle vs. what we are starting to see in cars now, which looks and functions exactly like a tablet rigidly attached to the vehicle, except the tablet itself is made by the car manufacturer. If one is not legal to use by taking your eyes off the road to tap and swipe, then the other one should not be legal either!

Honestly, I wish we could just legislatively get touch screens out of cars in general. The roads would be safer overall.
by standardUser | 2025-07-05 21:15:44+00:00
Laws don't solve those problems, as has been proven over the course of a hundred years in a hundred different nations. Only the most brutally repressive regimes can actually eradicate the types of sex and drugs they don't like. None of us want to live in that kind of society. So if eradication is impossible, and suppression has proven expensive, ineffective, and a constant assault on basic human rights, maybe we should try something else.
by RHSeeger | 2025-07-05 21:15:49+00:00
Is it unrealistic to include something like an "abstract/summary/intent" with the law? Something like

> This law is intended to make it illegal for the driver of a motor vehicle to use a mobile device in a way that it is distracting to the goal of driving safely. One one end, holding it in one hand up to their head while talking to someone, or playing a visual game on it, would be distracting and negatively impact their ability to drive. On the other end, having it mounted on their dashboard and using it as a source of GPS would be considered reasonable. While it's true that any level of "use" of a mobile device can prove to have some level of distraction, the goal of the law is to allow such uses where it's clear the benefit of the use (to driving or health) outweighs the negatives.

^ The intent there is to demonstrate the idea of "a summary of intent", not to put forth what the summary should be. Don't sweat the details of my wording.
by bqmjjx0kac | 2025-07-05 21:15:53+00:00
I agree the law should attempt to be specific, but I have to point out that this is still quite ambiguous!

Is it permissible to dictate/listen to text messages on my handheld smartphone, so long as I don't hold it in my hand? Can I click "next track" on the steering wheel, but not on my phone screen?

What about smart watches? They are not handheld, but they are equally distracting, if not more so than a phone because their screens are so tiny and fiddly.
by osivertsson | 2025-07-05 21:16:04+00:00
I did not know Christian Schulte had passed away! That is sad news that reaches me now five years on from his passing.

https://intra.kth.se/en/eecs/nyheter/in-memory-of-christian-...

I met Christian at a conference in Lund back in 2005 as I was doing my master thesis within the constraint programming area. He came across as both very knowledgeable and very kind and caring. RIP Christian.
by MrDarcy | 2025-07-05 21:16:23+00:00
We’ve been able to buy used OptiPlex 3060 or 3070’s for about $100 for years now and they tick all the boxes for Plex and QuickSync. Only two NVME and one SATA slot though, so maybe not ideal for a NAS but definitely fits the power and thermal profile, and it’s nice to reuse perfectly good hardware.
by bgnn | 2025-07-05 21:17:21+00:00
It depends. I have been in this situation several times. The benefit of the current regulation is that you can pay 0 income tax over stock options if you exercise them at the value of FMV. This is extremely beneficial for early employees. The disadvantage is that the tax service treat them as any other asset and if the company valuation skyrockets your shares might worth more than the 100k or so threshold they have for Box 3 tax. Ecen in that case you do pay a fractional tax over potential income they calculate over this. This might be tough but a very privileged position to be in as a good lawyer can come to an agreement with the tax service if the prospects are looking good (a potential IPO or acquisition). You will not pay ANY income tax over the profit you made in this scenario.

The same applies to house ownership too for example. I did pay 0 income tax over 150k profit I made over my previous house when I sold it. When the money was on my account the wealth tax started to kick in, but it is after you make the capital gains not at the moment you make it.
by ericmay | 2025-07-05 21:18:15+00:00
> Now everything is this sad rounded cornered square.

You see this a lot in the absurd “modernist” design of clean lines, sharp edges, and lack of texture and depth across all industries.

Whether that’s your Thuma furniture where the price is high and your marketed to be told that the design is good, but it’s not at all - devoid of meaning and a sense of place, never mind that the quality of the materials are low and have no specific origin, or your run of the mill drone light show where we are fooling ourselves into thinking that drawing pictures of things like the Statue of Liberty (oh after the drones do the ads, brought to you by your local auto dealer) are good and should be appreciated instead of the vibrancy and brilliance of fireworks instead.

Apple has begun to transition this way too. There aren’t any designers working there. Look at the Calculator app as a great example.

They say perfection is not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. But there is a point where you take away more and more and more and your left with creations devoid of meaning or purpose.

Once you start seeing this in your day to day life you can’t unsee it. Sorry ahead of time for those who read this comment and become more attune to this phenomenon.
by standardUser | 2025-07-05 21:19:28+00:00
I absolutely insist on living in a society that permits people, including me, to get naked or have sex for money, or for whatever other reason they like. That's a preposterous question to me.

Obviously, I would prefer to live in a society where no one needs to do work that does not align with their moral or ethical beliefs. Though I have never heard of such a society.
by theshrike79 | 2025-07-05 21:19:52+00:00
The AI will run whatever command it figures out might work, which might be wasteful and taint the context with useless crap.

But when you give it tools for retrieving all client+server logs combined (for a web application), it can use it and just get what it needs as simply as possible.

Or it'll start finding a function by digging around code files with grep, if you provide a tool that just lists all functions, their parameters and locations, it'll find the exact spot in one go.
by grishka | 2025-07-05 21:20:56+00:00
Well, that's the thing — if you understand the technology you're working with and know how to verify the result, chances are, completing the same task with AI would take you longer than without it. So the whole appeal of AI seems to be to let it do things without much oversight.

The common failure mode of AI is also concerning. If you ask it to do something that can't be done trivially or at all, or wasn't present enough in the learning dataset, it often wouldn't tell you it doesn't know how to do it. Instead, it'll make shit up with utmost confidence.

Just yesterday I stumbled upon this article that closely matches my opinion: https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
by bgnn | 2025-07-05 21:21:37+00:00
It works differently as it is after you make the gain, not at the moment. You can have a start up, buy the inital shares for 1k, sell it for 1M, pay no weakth tax (or close to 0) if your valuation during filing a tax return wasn't above a certain amount, get the cash and move somewhere else. If you stay here you will be taxed slowly every year but the rich doesn't do that as they put their money in LLCs etc.
by Spivak | 2025-07-05 21:21:58+00:00
I feel like the author is undermining their own complaint in regards to Rekognition. Anyone can just sign up for an AWS account and start using the service, pretty much the same as anything else AWS sells. Then in response to specific bad behavior by US police departments Amazon cut off their access, a practice they've kept up to this day.

Amazon could have quietly (or loudly in 2025) lifted the ban at any point in the last five years to much nothing in the terms of pushback.
by WJW | 2025-07-05 21:22:55+00:00
> There is a massive AI fatigue going on in the Sales, CxO circles.

> If you are selling "AI-powered" or "AI based" software,

Seems like you just answered your own question. Don't sell "AI-powered" software, or at the very least don't market it as such because there is too much AI fatigue for that to work. In any case, in my experience the technology a product is built on has never been a significant selling point in CxO circles. Focus on how your product will increase income or decrease cost.
by TrackerFF | 2025-07-05 21:23:26+00:00
Here in Norway, it has been illegal some years. The fine for using a cellphone while driving has been going up year after year.

Right now, the fine is equal to around $1035, with a couple of "marks" on your drivers license (if you get too many of them, you lose your license for some time).

IIRC, the only exemption here is if your phone is mounted to the dashboard.
by akomtu | 2025-07-05 21:23:48+00:00
A comment above is right: what works for a 20yo college grad won't work for you. If I were you, I'd find my passion, an idea that I believe in, then find OSS projects on github that are aligned with my passion and start contributing. Slowly you'll build a reputation in that circle and friends who would vouch for you when you try to get a job. Because the today's reality is that unless someone you know invites you, you won't get a chance.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-07-05 21:24:54+00:00
Remember "Don't they know we're brothers??" from Supernatural? This was the site. <https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Dean%20Winchester*s*Sam%20W...>

XKCD on index number exhaution: https://xkcd.com/865/ Remember Data and the Borg? "Accessing... accessing... accessing... accessing..."
by corimaith | 2025-07-05 21:25:26+00:00
>So it's up to the USA to take a hit and fix the balance?

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/rebalancing-the-world-eco...

It's better to say that rebalancing is a painful affair. But account balances should be naturally self-balancing in the first place, the imbalance today is the result of policies that the surplus nations, China foremost, is unwilling to abandon easily. If they all opened up their capital markets, currency controls and removed subsidies and tariffs, if they seriously committed themselves to free trade the problem would solve itself in time. And most economists would agree with me on that.

But if they are unwilling to do that, and the last 20 years of negotiation have been fruitless, then unfortunately America may need to resort to unilateral actions to resolve it themselves. And if you run the simulations, America will win that fight for escalation. It will hurt for us all, but inflation is nothing compared to the mass unemployment surplus nations will suffer.

I don't paticularly agree with Trump's methods or his flip-flop execution in attempting to resolve the problem, but it is a problem that many would agree needs to be resolved. China, Europe all themselves have agreed now that they need to raise consumption instead of doubling down on manufacturing, and that's very much convergent with what the Administration seeks to achieve overall.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-05 21:26:08+00:00
The problem seems to be distinguishing the real, trafficked, coerced victims from entrepreneurs who are voluntarily building their career and earning a solid living. I highly doubt that many well-paid and successful OnlyFans models see themselves as coerced victims, as they manage their business with the agency and market-savvy of a startup founder. How do you write this distinction into the law, though?
by quelsolaar | 2025-07-05 21:26:37+00:00
I'm saying that hiring people to do a job that is extremely dangerous, and likely to cause the worker harm, especially for your own enjoyment is exploitative.

Most of the jobs you list are FAR safer then prostitution. But yes I would argue there are lots of other jobs that i would outlaw for the same reason. Like Bumfighting, a lot of dodgy construction, self harm, jobs without proper safety equipment, gladiators, and a lot of military recruitment. You are exploiting, or are very likely to be exploiting people in dire situations.
by ajross | 2025-07-05 21:26:50+00:00
I guess, but Amazon gets me stuff tomorrow or the next day, reliably, week in and week out. Yeah, I could find this stuff elsewhere on the internet. But not for Tuesday delivery. And not without opening another account. Also, right now, often only by paying a tariff-adjacent fee to cover the import costs of the vendors that didn't have the foresight to pre-stock imports like Amazon did.

People who want to write stuff like this really need to reckon with the fact that Amazon is and remains the superior product, and by a very significant degree.

They're not winning because they "hate democracy" or are "full-stop evil" or whatever. They're winning because they're the best.