MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WillPostForFood | 2025-07-03 01:18:03+00:00
To what end? You want to fingerprint all AI images and video to catch people who make racist videos in order too to do what? It isn't illegal. If TikTok doesn't like the content they can delete the video and the account. If Google or OpenAI doesn't want the content being created, they can figure out a way to block it, and delete the user's accounts in the meantime.

If I told you many 14 year olds were making very similar offensive jokes at lunch in high school, would you support adding microphones throughout schools to track and catch them?
by mindwok | 2025-07-03 01:18:28+00:00
I suppose it's possible, although the models would have to have a really nuanced understanding about my tastes and even then it seems doubtful.

If we use a real world analogy, think of someone like an architect designing your house. I'm still going to be heavily involved in the design of my house, regardless of how skilled and tasteful the architect is. It's fundamentally an expression of myself - delegating that basically destroys the point of the exercise. I feel the same for a lot of the stuff I'm building with AI now.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-03 01:19:10+00:00
I think we disagree what a healthy society and culture looks like, and your mental model is firmly rooted in the idea of children and parenting being a core component of a meaningful, required life experience. I can respect the opinion, but the data tells us otherwise in the aggregate about human desires and outcomes in this regard.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545397/empty-planet... (“Once a woman receives enough information and autonomy to make an informed and self-directed choice about when to have children, and how many to have, she immediately has fewer of them, and has them later.”)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30677-2 ("Our findings suggest that continued trends in female educational attainment and access to contraception will hasten declines in fertility and slow population growth. A sustained TFR lower than the replacement level in many countries, including China and India, would have economic, social, environmental, and geopolitical consequences. Policy options to adapt to continued low fertility, while sustaining and enhancing female reproductive health, will be crucial in the years to come.")

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-... ("Our World in Data: What explains the declining fertility rate?")

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68402139 ("Why South Korean women aren't having babies: The reason women are not having children now is because they have the courage to talk about it. ... But Minji says she is grateful she has agency. "We are the first generation who get to choose. Before it was a given, we had to have children. And so we choose not to because we can.")
by pphysch | 2025-07-03 01:20:17+00:00
> But the main reason why that cost of living is ridiculously cheaper is because human labor is so much less expensive.

That's a really bizarre take that is obviously false. The disenfranchised migrant laborer or prison slave producing your American groceries is earning approximately as much as a Chinese peasant, i.e. basically nothing.

There is however a vast difference in what the organization looks like above the laborer. In America: vast profits and consolidation. By contrast, China has more small businesses (think street food) and large enterprises are SOE or otherwise constrained by the political system.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-07-03 01:20:56+00:00
I agree wholeheartedly with some of your premises. Melbourne zoning, public transport, uniform white plaster cubes. All need unconditional improvement and some of it is simple rule changing to allow better solutions.

I contend other aspects of your ideas are not bad but need some work.

> The solution here is to build more higher-density housing options.

and

> undesirable compared to free-standing homes or semi-detached houses.

Any good idea for housing won't please everyone. In this case, when you see anything about the rich and famous are they likely to live in "high density" the way developers think of it?

space is desirable. Space you control (rent vs own.. another can of worms.) even more so! High density housing may help - any bloody action at all would be nice - but it isn't what people desire.

As for "covering our farmland and wildlife reserves"... Australia is a huge country and comparatively tiny population as yet. There is a looooong way to go before a significant area of the country is covered. However I would argue that we don't try to have a continuously expanding population - which would also help with housing costs.

I have mixed feeling on "NIMBYism" too. On the one hand we need solutions for people. On the other hand, the general idea of "people chasing happiness" means they should be free to oppose actions too. You can characterise it as a class battle of the rich opposing solutions to homelessness but usually each such situation is not clear cut, usually being muddied by developer profiteering too.

To throw another idea in there.. why is it that all the infrastructure monies are being spent in our capital cities? We have a crap ton of towns in the countryside - many of which are dying or barely holding steady. Why can't they grow at similar % as Melbourne? Where are the jobs there? After COVID they got a shot in the arm but it wasn't sustained.
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by HaZeust | 2025-07-03 01:25:31+00:00
This isn't actually true, because interference is illegal ONLY when you physically obstruct or deceive officers - warning others about police or ICE presence is speech that courts protect as a First Amendment right.

A federal judge in Missouri barred tickets for drivers who flashed headlights to signal a speed trap, the Supreme Court in Houston v. Hill affirmed the right to challenge police verbally, and other federal rulings in Florida and Tennessee reached the same conclusion.

Alerting neighbors that agents are around is expression, not obstruction. And case law protects it in case they want to try (though this is becoming increasingly irrelevant, which - at the same time - makes our social contract to honor such institutions proportionally irrelevant)
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-07-03 01:26:14+00:00
> It's labor that is abused, sometimes enslaved.

Maybe 20 years ago? Wages are rising salaries and employers are playing nice so their employees don't jump ship elsewhere. The day of your employer keeping your ID card captive is long gone (unless you are a naked official).

> China has environmental regulations but they don't always demand compliance.

That was also a lot more common 20 years ago than today. These days, cities/provinces are held accountable for AQI reductions, so pretend inspections no longer help their metrics. But I totally get it, there is a lot of material from 2000 to 2015 or so, and they basically live forever on the internet.
by corimaith | 2025-07-03 01:26:35+00:00
>And the only low-harm way - that I can think of - how to put this genie back in the bottle is to make sure everyone is well aware about how their attention is the new currency in the modern age, and spend it wisely, being aware about the addictive and self-reinforcing nature of some systems.

Gonna be hard to admit, but mandatory identity verification like in Korea, i.e attaching real consequences to what happens in the internet is more realistic way this is going to be solved. We've have "critical thinking" programs for decades, it's completely pointless on a aggregate scale, primairly because the majority aren't interested in the truth. Save for their specific expertise, it's quite common for even academics to easily fall into misinformation bubbles.
by gnabgib | 2025-07-03 01:27:57+00:00
I think I would separate nightmares (horror/death/being chased/night terrors) from bad dreams (embarrassed/uncomfortable/worry/fret/didn't enjoy).

We sometimes use the term _nightmares_ to describe both, but only the former causes a cortisol reaction (in the article).. the latter, which would include worrying about bad sleep or bad dreams doesn't cause the same response.

How do you know it caused a cortisol reaction? - Your heart is pounding, you're probably awake and probably have a hard time getting back to sleep. Your sleep tracker will show it too (if you have a ring or watch, your heart rate will visibly jump into your exercise range).

Worrying about sleep/lack thereof/bad dreams sucks, but it's not the same as nightmares.

Worth also mentioning - not everyone experiences/remembers dreams (which sounds amazing)
by sershe | 2025-07-03 01:28:33+00:00
As someone who grew up in 5th percentile or higher of Soviet citizens (Moscow, 2 engineer parents) I can tell you that American poor live much better. Think 700sqft flat considered good for a family with 2 kids, not really being able to afford a car, grandma constantly reminding us to not throw away any glass jars - containers to preserve vegetables for the winter were hard to come by.

And that's Moscow. Most of the country could be summarized by a riddle - long, green, smells like sausages/groceries, what is it? An intercity train departing Moscow.

The Soviet citizens wanted American lifestyle because Soviet lifestyle sucked. The only poor who might be worse off in the US are the completely dysfunctional ones like alcoholics or whatever. At least in the USSR it was hard to sell your flat and drink away the money. But, to me that's not even a tradeoff, it's an additional benefit.
by jlaneve | 2025-07-03 01:28:46+00:00
We’re seeing this all the time - taking traditional workflow orchestration tools and instrumenting LLMs as part of it. It becomes a lot easier to build these because the complexity comes from a) the model, which frontier labs are making easy and b) productionizing a workflow, which workflow orchestration tools make easy. It’s also easy to recognize value because these workflows are often grounded in existing work and thus easy to measure.

We see these patterns do much so that we packaged it up for Airflow (one of the most popular workflow tools)!

https://github.com/astronomer/airflow-ai-sdk
by jbc1 | 2025-07-03 01:29:01+00:00
Even if the final nod of agreement happens in real time the actual decision making process for critical product features should involve planning, thinking, research, etc. There should be a strong paper trail such that everyone knows what the decision is going to be prior to the "everyone gets together and declares this is how things are going to be" step.

If them missing some meetings means they're in the dark as to how those features were decided on then I can't see that as a defence of attending every meeting so much as a statement of BS meetings being so predominant in the company that all decisions are made through a BS process.
by smokeydoe | 2025-07-03 01:30:04+00:00
Just an anecdote, but Modafinil is one of the worst stimulants I have tried. It’s great as a one-off tool for something like staying awake to drive late at night, but every time i have taken it I get intense depression and aggravation for the next 2 days. It’s really strange. Things that normally do not worry me cause great mental suffering. If it wasn’t for that and the deep sleep impact, it would be great. I read the half life is ~16 hours.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-03 01:30:21+00:00
I've seen less than a handful of, usually shorts, on YT purporting to be body-cam footage, but they all seem too well-framed and fairly obviously scripted / staged / fake to me, because I'm actually paying attention to the 'environment' not just the 'action'.

But I doubt most doomscrollers would notice that in their half-comatose state.

It IS real, unfiltered bodycam footage. From an actor, following a script, in front of one or many other actors, also following scripts. I think that's how they get away with it, they don't specify it's bodycam footage from actual law enforcement. Yes, gross.
by monkeycantype | 2025-07-03 01:30:37+00:00
Some influential people in my life were quakers, which has given me a lifelong interest in quakerism, but in my one interaction with a quaker meeting, I was surprised that it seemed much closer to bible based church than I had expected. I think I had expected a skepticism about holy texts as literary/cultural creation rather than the direct word of god, a philosophical attitude of god as an abstract anthropomorphism because 'god may be addressed but never comprehended', but apart from the chairs and egalitarianism, it could have been any other bible group.

Did I misunderstand something, what's your better informed take?
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-03 01:32:44+00:00
Tech leadership always treats new ventures or fields that way, because being seen to treat it that way and selling the idea of treating it that way is how you attract people (employees, and if you are very lucky investors, too) that are willing to sacrifice their own rational material interests to advancing what they see as the shared religious goal (which is, in fact, the tech leader’s actual material interest.)

I mean, even on HN, which is clearly a startup-friendly forum, that tendency among startup leaders has been noted and mocked repeatedly.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-03 01:33:23+00:00
If there's a real deficiency, it should be managed with blood tests.

Growing up and recently, I've been anemic (iron deficient) without any obvious medical cause. That requires supplementation with an unusual amount of iron.

Also, I'm vitamin A deficient at baseline and have to take large amounts, around 15k IU/day, to stay within the "normal" range. (50% above ordinary UL.)
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-03 01:34:04+00:00
Where did you get that $1 billion figure from? From what I can see[1][2], it's more like $4.6 billion? In that case it would be more like $920/person/year.

[1]: https://www.fpol.no/det-norske-statsbudsjettet-2025-gir-en-n...

[2]: https://nifu.brage.unit.no/nifu-xmlui/handle/11250/3166076 (second page, first section)
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-03 01:34:26+00:00
I’m going to tell you something from the other side…

A few jobs ago, I worked for a struggling startup that was trying to pivot and we had one large customer that kept the lights on. I was over the project that kept the lights on and survived every round of layoffs.

The customer was hesitant about giving a small struggling startup money and made us put our code in escrow that they would have access to under certain conditions. The startup failed, they got the code and the company that acquired us for scraps added an addendum to my severance agreement that released me from my non compete and allowed me to have access to my work laptops and work for the client.

A few years later I was the dev lead at another company and I found the perfect SaaS product for our needs. But the CTO wasn’t comfortable basing our entire project around a one man startup. I suggested an escrow agreement, the lawyers got involved and we signed the contract and we were now 80% of his business.

I’m not suggesting you so an escrow. I am saying that many businesses aren’t going to trust a no name one person startup until you have some referenceable clients, provide an easy migration path if you go tits up and they know you aren’t a fly by night company.

Personally, I’m in the camp of “no one ever got fired for buying $WellKnownIndustryStandardProduct”

But I don’t have too much actionable advice when it comes to top of the funnel sales. I’m a “post sales architect” as part of my job. The next step below sales.
by piplio | 2025-07-03 01:34:33+00:00
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by noosphr | 2025-07-03 01:34:35+00:00
The biggest thing was an internal system for medium frequency trading.

It had a lot of moving parts of which agents were the top 30% other systems would interact with. Storing, retrieving and ranking the information was the more important 70% that isn't as glamorous and no one makes courses about.

I still have no idea why everyone is talking about whatever the hottest decoder only model is, encoder only models are a lot more useful for most tasks not directly interfacing with a human.
by kristianp | 2025-07-03 01:34:37+00:00
A lot of the reason Tech layoffs are happening is because developers' wages can't be deducted in full immediately any more [1,2]. (Dev wages are classed as R&D spending). The "big beautiful bill" will reverse that, I think, reversing the original change which was legislated by the previous Trump government. What's weird and confusing about this, is that (IIUC), all other wages/salaries are immediately tax deductible.

> And so, on schedule in 2022, the change to Section 174 went into effect. Companies filed their 2022 tax returns under the new rules in early 2023. And suddenly, R&D wasn’t a full, immediate write-off anymore. [1]

[1] The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533

https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-micro...

[2] Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145
by ViscountPenguin | 2025-07-03 01:35:12+00:00
For me, the inherent problem is that people have a right to self defence (and I'd argue to self defence by proxy of a states army), but states have no such right.

A lot of the more horrific acts of war seem designed not to defend the people who happen to live in a state, but the state apparatus (or the interests of that states stakeholders) itself.
by monetus | 2025-07-03 01:35:15+00:00
How in the world did Juche become our national philosophy? I'm not sure, but I think about it all the time now.

I'm on HN, so I tend to want to blame the ad industry. It's pretty nebulous to think that "made in America" directly snowballed into this; so many things did. The freakier nativism in advertising really could use a break right about now though.
by leptons | 2025-07-03 01:35:43+00:00
No, it is a very important distinction. Only one side is fascist authoritarian, the other side has no power to stop them. It's not "the US government", it's 100% Republicans. Yes, "it's what Americans" voted for", but even that is debatable. Quite a lot of America didn't even vote, were prevented from voting, and there's evidence of irregularities in the results. But yes, Republicans won, and they are doing their best to dismantle democracy. The Left is nothing like them at all, so the distinction is very important. Both sides are not the same.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-03 01:36:20+00:00
> Rational people tend to not like being associated with fascists

This is fair, but I don’t even think it’s that. They just don’t want everyone walking into their garage to immediately associate them with Musk. This is true for folks on the left, who call out his fascism. But it’s also true if someone with MAGA leanings walks in.
by thimabi | 2025-07-03 01:36:49+00:00
Can you share some examples of things you’ve been building with AI?

From your comments, I’d venture a guess that you see your AI-assisted work as a creative endeavor — an expression of your creativity.

I certainly wouldn’t get my hopes up for AI to make innovative jokes, poems and the like. Yet for things that can converge on specific guidelines for matters of taste and preferences, like coding, I’ve been increasingly impressed by how well AI models adapt to our human wishes, even when expressed in ever longer prompts.
by eithed | 2025-07-03 01:37:08+00:00
My mom was affected - I've spent multiple hours trying to find a way to unblock her account. From searching around the issue is self-inflicted by Meta account interconnections between Facebook and Instagram. Hackers create an account on Instagram using email used in Facebook, then upload images to Instagram resulting in a ban of both accounts.

While she's based in Poland and under EU guidelines Meta should provide a way to reach for customers, in such case all help articles keep you in a circle referring from one place to another. We've finally tried paying for company account (found articles on internet suggesting that Meta HAS TO reply to paying users), but couldn't even set that up - she already had company account (without ever registering), she had multiple people, with clearly dummy names / avatars, attached to her account with each person having a Facebook page. All these accounts flagged due to ad violation.

Thinking her account was compromised I've asked her to change her passwords - to no avail, connected accounts still were multiplying. Some we were able to delete, some, when trying to delete produced errors (unable to detach because of payment or card). My mom was considering paying for these ad usages because she just wanted to get back access to her account. I've convinced her otherwise, because all of this were 1) bots that will not stop 2) there's no proof that paying will help - what's to prevent this to continue.

There's a court case in Poland regarding exactly this [1] - no human point where affected users should resolve this issue, no place where reasoning behind the ban is explained and can be challenged. There's also a DSA that, while introduced through EU, has no progress in Poland [2]

[1] https://en.panoptykon.org/case-challenging-metas-arbitrary-r... [2] https://edri.org/our-work/6-years-in-court-fighting-against-...
by sershe | 2025-07-03 01:37:10+00:00
I wish these kind of comments were backed by some numbers. European welfare states are paid for by taxes on the middle class. The wealthy already pay taxes disproportionately and taxing the wealth itself has an obvious problem, it's stock not flow, so given government spending it will last you a few years at best. Then what? The way to fix the economy is to bring one metric back to what it was when the economy supposed ly worked in the past - per capital government spending