MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by madaxe_again | 2025-07-02 10:58:18+00:00
So here’s the rub.

Your product is almost irrelevant, as long as it is at least mediocre at what it does.

What matters is your marketing and your positioning. From how you describe it, it sounds like you’re selling steak, not the sizzle - you say what it is capable of but not what it does for you. You mention that it could save “ten hours for real”, and this is the point you need to drive home - this will save you money, make you money, make you more attractive to investors, give you time and peace of mind.

As to channels - social media rules the roost. Pay YouTube and TikTok influencers to shill for you. If you don’t believe enough in your product to pay for marketing, why should they believe in it?

Push out hype-laden press releases. Thump your chest. Drop emails to journalists in the space, with pre-written soundbites and a link to the release. Make it easy content for them to sling up on their platform. The bar is low.

Pick a vertical. Work it, target it, saturate it with your product. If you can find a vertical that’s underserved, then start there.

Finally, make sure your landing page speaks to the above, and hammers the point home right out of the gate. “Vidlify will help you get that Ferrari you always wanted. Here’s how:”

Save jargon for the “I’m excited, tell me more”.

Then, either it will fly, and you can progress to a broader market, or it won’t, and you either accept your loss and move on, or tweak and try again - but don’t get caught in the sunk costs fallacy - just because you’ve already spent X time and Y money, it doesn’t mean you have to commit more.

Good luck.
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-02 10:59:00+00:00
Meta's play is to make sure there isn't an obvious superiority to one company's closed LLM -- because that's what would drive customers to choosing that company's product(s).

If LLM effectiveness is all about the same, then other factors dominate customer choice.

Like which (legacy) platforms have the strongest network effects. (Which Meta would be thrilled about)
by ikr678 | 2025-07-02 11:01:21+00:00
If I was a highly competitve salon owner I would be encouraging all clients to have short haircuts, because I wanted the repeat customers (short hair cuts require more frequent visits). Same for colouring hair, nail, eyelash extensions etc. These are all treatments, that once started, require ongoing maintenance $$. It's beauty as a service, not social science.
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by ben_w | 2025-07-02 11:04:43+00:00
From what I've seen of American cities, I can easily believe there are many in those cities who have a 30 minute drive to a store. And while it's only one specific category of product, I keep hearing about "food deserts" in the USA, where poorer communities are only served by dollar stores that don't have a good range of stuff, so I can easily believe that there's worse than what I've seen in all product categories.

I'm in Berlin, so I'm a 25 minutes walk from three supermarkets a bike shop and a pharmacy, despite being in one of the remote corners of the city. Our previous place was much more central so it had a dozen or so supermarkets, a building supply store, and a shopping mall in that distance. Both new and old place have excellent public transport, I have literally seen someone transport a kitchen sink on one of the trams.
by anticodon | 2025-07-02 11:04:58+00:00
Most of the sanctions are whac-a-mole game played by the West (mostly by USA): as soon as one of the peripheral countries starts developing its economy, gains more wealth, starts to produce something the competes with products of Western companies, or attempts to avoid use of USD (because it allows immense enrichment of USA simply by printing it in whatever quantities), soon there starts:

- firstly, media attack ("they're dictatorship!", "they're genociding someone", etc), preparing population for stricter measures

- secondly, color revolution, which, if successful, puts puppet malleable government in power, and makes the country ultra-poor (most of the countries, where color revolutions staged by US/West succeeded, became significantly poorer)

- if color revolution didn't work, there's always an option to just bomb the country, because it's always ignored if all the international treaties and laws are ignored if USA or Israel bomb any other nation.
by doop | 2025-07-02 11:05:06+00:00
It's lost at Boltzmann's "molecular chaos" or "Stosszahlansatz" step. If f(x1,x2) is the two-particle distribution function giving you (hand-wavingly) the probability that you have particles with position and velocity coordinates x1 and others with coordinates x2, then Boltzmann made the simplification that f(x1,x2) = f(x1) * f(x2), ie throwing away all the correlations between particles. This is where the time-asymmetry comes in: you're saying that after two particles collide, they retain no correlation or memory of what they were doing beforehand.
by cogman10 | 2025-07-02 11:05:20+00:00
Tell me, what's the different principles that an BEV motor uses and a golf cart motor?

What's the fundamentally different principle that the battery operates on?

Rather than just say "nuh uh". Educate me and other commenters on where the differences lay.

Because honestly, I think you're the ignorant one. You think because they are a different shape they have different operating principles.

There are differences, obviously, a golf carts doesn't need airbags, HVAC, or crumple zones. However, when it comes to the drive train, about the only fundamental difference is that BEVs have bigger motors and bigger batteries.

There's a reason average people have been able to convert their ICE vehicles into BEVs. It's that the most complex part is storing the batteries and attaching the motor.

https://youtu.be/dXCTXxL5lr0?si=8FF_5_bkErZVl5UD
by Daneel_ | 2025-07-02 11:05:25+00:00
So if I said "hand me a couple of screws, would you?" - you'd give me exactly 2? If you know you want an exact number I would always use the exact number. I'd never say "give me a dozen screws", I'd just say "give me 12 screws". Named quantities are almost always a range rather than a definitive number as far as I'm concerned.
by fantispug | 2025-07-02 11:05:38+00:00
Meta's primary business is capturing attention and selling some of that attention to advertisers. They do this by distributing content to users in a way that maximizes attention. Content is a complement to their content distribution system.

LLMs, along with image and video generation models, are generators of very dynamic, engaging and personalised content. If Open AI or anyone else wins a monopoly there it could be terrible for Meta's business. Commoditizing it with Llama, and at the same time building internal capability and a community for their LLMs, was solid strategy from Meta.
by ridgewell | 2025-07-02 11:05:48+00:00
>The thing I found most remarkable is that house prices there are not much less than in Seoul proper (that's what I was told at least), which just seemed utterly absurd - what market forces could drive prices of a farmer village (because that's what it is, really - although the houses looked nice) surrounded by landmines and that is a pain in the ass to get in and out of to that of a first world metropolis?

You are literally paid to live there and be a human flagpole through a tax-free salary of $82,000 USD for agriculture (as of 2013, likely higher now), as well as free education, agricultural incentives and preferential tax treatment. [1] On top of that, there's only a handful of homes, effectively amounting to an artificial housing scarcity.

[1] https://modernfarmer.com/2013/11/guarded-growing-farm-centri...
by tim333 | 2025-07-02 11:06:24+00:00
I've used it for legal assistance which was probably worth something. There was a lady in HN discussion where her life was saved by ChatGPT - it diagnosed some bad blood condition while the real doctor was too backlogged to deal with it.

Not sure if that's a provable economic benefit. Also programing tools - they haven't replaced programmers but have increased productivity. There will probably be more along those lines.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-02 11:08:11+00:00
> It powers the baseband processors found in most leading smartphones, including every iPhone since generation 12 except iPhone 16e and all Snapdragon-based devices.

Utterly unbelievable that no Western government has tackled that situation. The market for basebands is completely and utterly rotten:

- Qualcomm dominates the industry and can get away with pretty much all sorts of behavior

- Samsung has their own basebands but only uses them on their premium phones

- Huawei has basebands but IIRC they're only used in data sticks and the likes, and on top of that Huawei is subject to sanctions so it's even more unlikely to see them in a major phone sold in Western markets.

- Mediatek covers the rest of the market, especially the low end.

That this lack of competition disincentivizes all actors from making investments into code quality and security is obvious to anyone who has ever looked even a bit into the phone BSP side - it's hard to imagine the baseband binary blob is any different.

Another problem is that it's a highly difficult market to enter. Pure 2G and 5G implementations exist in Osmocom, but they're practically useless in a consumer environment and anything in between is locked hard behind extremely complex standards on one side, regulatory enforcement in the middle and finally patents. Even Apple hasn't managed to kick Qualcomm and Broadcom to the curb where they belong.
by diggan | 2025-07-02 11:08:12+00:00
> Right now if I'm not mistaken in Spain the most taxed people (in terms of ratio) are those who earn < ~300K per year.

You are mistaken. Currently, the higher income you have here, the higher tax rate you have, where the highest tax rate on income sits at 47%, which you get hit by when your income is above 300K/year. People between 60K and 300K sits at 45%.

And then there are regional differences, someone in Andalucía don't pay the same amount of taxes as someone who lives in Catalunya for example, where the top tax rate is 50%.

Even taking into account other taxes we have, you still end up paying more in taxes the more you earn, unless you start engaging in schemes to lessen your tax burden, obviously. Although the social security is capped, so it does increase slower once you go beyond the cap, but it doesn't start regressing which your comment hinted at.

Edit: important to note that the tax rates are all marginal tax rates, maybe that was a bit unclear.
by highfrequency | 2025-07-02 11:08:31+00:00
Thanks for sharing - this architecture post is also a great read: https://madebyevan.com/figma/building-a-professional-design-...:

> Our vision for the future of design tools is one where both the tool and the content are easily available to anyone, anywhere

> The reason this is hard is because the web wasn’t designed as a general-purpose computing platform.

> We fully control memory layout and can use compact 32-bit floats or even bytes when appropriate instead of JavaScript’s 64-bit doubles...The generated code is completely in control of allocation, which makes it much easier to hit 60fps by avoiding GC pauses. All C++ objects are just reserved ranges in a pre-allocated typed array so the JavaScript GC is never involved.

> One big issue for us was that certain browser configurations couldn’t allocate large ranges of continuous address space for the huge typed array that contains the entire emscripten memory space. The worst case was 32-bit Chrome on Windows which sometimes couldn’t even allocate a 256mb typed array because ASLR was fragmenting the address space. This has since been fixed.

A great example of making a single bold architectural decision (building a design tool on the web instead of as an app) in service of a vision (prioritize live collaboration), and then thoughtfully resolving all of the performance tradeoffs that stem from this route.
by niemandhier | 2025-07-02 11:08:44+00:00
There are specialized companies selling components, what you cannot get you manufacture yourself. Assembling the device for prototypes like this is usually done in house.

Established labs often have a specialised section that cultivates all the little tricks how to do these things.

Knowledge is transferred by hiring postdocs that have the skills you need or by sending a phd student over to be trained.

As a scientist, if you do this for a while you end up with insane skills, but there is no place for them on the job market.

Everybody else is living 15 years in the past from your perspective.
by yorwba | 2025-07-02 11:09:33+00:00
The AI Act isn't just a one-size-fits all solution, but classifies many different scenarios and the requirements for each one. "Assessing the appropriate level of education for an individual and materially influencing the level of education and training that individuals will receive" is indeed classified as high-risk, but if SmallGoodStartup thinks their clever system for detecting which regional variety of Spanish a student is using is actually low-risk, they can just write up their assessment and don't need to bother with ongoing human oversight or quality management and all that jazz. It would be a bit embarrassing though if they were to miss that students making lots of mistakes get matched to lessons of the "full of mistakes" variety, providing negative educational value.
by mettamage | 2025-07-02 11:10:36+00:00
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by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-02 11:11:39+00:00
More like the phrase comes from observed behavioral patterns in reproduction habits of women stemming from biological evolution. The more they can back-stab each other and drag the others down, the higher the chance of getting a higher value male.

Women don't have the testosterone fueled violent tendencies of males to get into physical competition to assert dominance over sexual competitors, so they resort to more subtle and cunning ways of "thinning the herd" of sexual competitors.
by charlescearl | 2025-07-02 11:11:40+00:00
“I am proud of how mission-oriented our industry is as a whole; of course there will always be some mercenaries.”

In the context of the decisions of largely East Asia born technical staff, can’t help but reflect on the role of actual western missionaries and mercenaries in East Asia over the last 100+ years & also the DeepSeek targeted sinophobia.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Boxer-Rebellion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_missions_in_China

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Beleaguer

https://monthlyreview.org/2025/02/01/imperialism-and-white-s...
by yogifismart | 2025-07-02 11:11:40+00:00
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by defrost | 2025-07-02 11:12:23+00:00
You're asserting AU TLA's are outperforming the UK's GCHQ et al., the US's NSA and friends, the private company Palantir, Isreal's Unit 8200, etc?

Might want to wind back that Aussie Exceptionalism a notch or three. That or read up a little more.
by diggan | 2025-07-02 11:12:33+00:00
Why is that? Sure, not all of it goes directly to people who need it, but I generally feel fine paying that amount of taxes, because I myself got helped by others paying taxes when I was dirt-poor but still needed to go to the hospital.

If/once you reach that point (+60K/year), you already live a above-average life, why not share some of that with others who aren't as good/lucky as yourself? Seems like a no-brainer to me, but I might be too European to really grasp the problem.
by careful_ai | 2025-07-02 11:12:35+00:00
Skills that blend human judgment, ambiguity management, and emotional intelligence will likely take the longest to be replaced. Things like navigating complex interpersonal dynamics, making context-aware decisions across business, ethics, and technology, and designing systems with built-in human fallback—all require nuance that current AI still struggles with.

Even as AI becomes more capable, I think roles involving coordination, trust-building, and cross-disciplinary thinking will remain resilient. These aren’t just hard to automate—they're what make many organizations function in the first place.
by AlexandrB | 2025-07-02 11:12:43+00:00
Very true. Two other things are happening.

1. The whitelabeled junk is getting very good. In some categories, the brand name stuff has degraded to the point that the aliexpress version is better and cheaper.

2. The IoTification of everything means that a lot of traditionally long lasting items are as durable as their WiFi board - i.e. not very. This also plays into number (1) - where cheap, Chinese, items either lack IoT features or provide them only locally instead of requiring an online account.
by account42 | 2025-07-02 11:12:54+00:00
> If you did make your way down to the footnotes, I hope you appreciated that I set the text size to be a little smaller than the 'ideal' size that I chose for the main body content, making them harder to read, such is the tradition within the footnote community.

Your "ideal" body text size (an line spacing) is way too large anyway. Even the footnotes are still well above ideal size.
by v5v3 | 2025-07-02 11:13:29+00:00
Trying to make all your products domestically may be the wrong approach for many. Instead make specific lines domestically.

There are lots of companies who standard ranges are made in China, but they also have a Made in America/other for their premium range.

That way customers who are less price sensitive can choose to pay more. And those who can't still buy regardless.
by seguri | 2025-07-02 11:13:37+00:00
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by BlueTemplar | 2025-07-02 11:14:09+00:00
No, they are general purpose computers that can also work as cellphones.

The first iPhone technically wasn't a smartphone (unlike its competitors at the time) because it did not have a way to install third-party programs. This situation only lasted a year though.

It did have a pre-installed Google Maps app, very much not a toy...

And don't game consoles typically come out bundled with some first party games too ?
Show HN: Greger.el – Agentic Coding in Emacs
by fagerhult | 2025-07-02 11:14:43+00:00
I was torn between using my beloved Emacs or using coding agents in Claude Code and Cursor. So I decided to have my cake and eat it.

Greger uses Claude with a set of built-in tools for editing code, running shell commands, searching the internet, etc. It also has a simple interface for adding custom tools.

The entire chat is a plain Emacs buffer, with markdown-like syntax. Which means that you can yank and kill and edit it like any other text file.

Every file that Greger changes gets tracked as a separate commit in Git, so you can roll back if it goes off the rails.

Most of Greger was written in Greger, with some light human review and refactoring. Claude is okay at Lisp, but I had to add a check for parens balance before accepting Claude's edits.
by aeonik | 2025-07-02 11:14:54+00:00
SmarterEveryday is trying this right now too.

He details all the challenges, and it's a pretty good watch.

The grill brush they made is a bit on the expensive side, but I bought one.

https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY?si=TP1ez9tIEkpEu1Xf
by dale_glass | 2025-07-02 11:16:18+00:00
How big are those in terms of size on disk and VRAM size?

Something like 1.61B just doesn't mean much to me since I don't know much about the guts of LLMs. But I'm curious about how that translates to computer hardware -- what specs would I need to run these? What could I run now, what would require spending some money, and what I might hope to be able to run in a decade?
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by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-07-02 11:16:46+00:00
There is a fairly strong scientific/historical argument that suggests neither mercenaries nor missionaries have had made any significant contribution to the outcome of any important human conflict or endeavour. Rather microscopic life is in control, and we are keen to rationalize the outcomes into stories of human heroes and villians.

Therefore, wish for the army with the best immune system.

In other words, we should probably be asking what viral/bacterial content is transferred in these employee trades and who mates with who. This information is probaly as important to the outcome as the notions of "AGI" swirling around.