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by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-07-02 12:24:12+00:00
> With the added value that it mechanically keeps governments lean and fit, instead of the bloated, taxpayer money wasting leeches that they are in most socialist countries.

OK great, what do you want to cut?

Generally, it's about 25% on education, 25% on welfare, 25% on health and then everything else is another 25%. Which of those things do you want to cut?

Education is generally net positive as you need future taxpayers to pay for your pension, health could be privatised but then you'll have lots of avoidable deaths, one could additionally cut welfare but then you're basically hurting poor and old people, or cut everything else which means no roads or public transport which seems less than good.

I think the big misconception people have around taxation is that some level of government revenue makes the entire economy much more productive. Is there waste? Yeah, of course, but it tends to be much lower than in the private sector.
by logicchains | 2025-07-02 12:24:36+00:00
>Once you put that money into the economy it will flow all around it and most of the money will end up in the same place again. I.e in the bank account of Zuckerberg and it can be taxed again.

Money is not value, it's a proxy for value. By taxing capital and using it on handouts, you're essentially burning that value; it's like a farmer eating all their seeds rather than saving some for the next year's crop.
by CodesInChaos | 2025-07-02 12:24:36+00:00
The tweet claims that "Assets left on an exchange for 3 years will transferred to the state, and can then be claimed by the owner." That sounds rather crazy to me.

People leave assets, be they stocks or crypto-currency, on broker accounts for many years all the time. Is there an equivalent law for stocks as well? And how can a customer reset the clock? Just by logging in?
by samiv | 2025-07-02 12:24:46+00:00
Investing in passive assets such as property that already exists does not create new economy.

"Rich people don't "hoard" the means of production, they create it."

Actually they do. Look at the GDP growth rates across western countries. 1-2%.

The wealthy people (since pandemic) have grown their wealth 10-20%. Where did that come from if the GDP didn't grow.

The only way they were able to do this was by literally hoarding wealth and by buying assets that already exist and by doing so displacing other people with less assets.
by Macha | 2025-07-02 12:24:47+00:00
Luckily

(a) I generally don’t schedule things in the middle of the night

and

(b) it’s well understood amongst my social circles that if you’re for some reason trying to schedule something at the end of a party at 2am Friday then for basically all purposes it’s still Thursday

—-

But also once time zones are involved it’s better to just give a date, time and zone for clarity. That doesn’t mean people need to apply the same to their personal life and use it even where shorthand is unambiguous.
by robin_reala | 2025-07-02 12:24:54+00:00
If you think about this from an accessibility point of view, screen readers for blind users present a linear view of a page. To escape from the linear view, they also typically allow users to access lists of elements like headers and links, out of context of their original position. If every link is labelled “click here” then you’re effectively removing non-linear access from those users.
by TZubiri | 2025-07-02 12:25:46+00:00
Side note.

One of the advantages of using proprietary packaged software is supposed to be a unified support and product.

In this case the maintainer redirects the issue to some other team and passes the ball as if it were an open source project with 50 dependencies with thin responsibilities "no, if there's an issue with a button, you should report it to GUI-button, we do GUI-form and we just pass the button generation to their library"
by luizfzs | 2025-07-02 12:25:48+00:00
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by pezezin | 2025-07-02 12:26:04+00:00
> The music for example is good, although it is not the best that the Mega Drive has to offer as that would probably be Thunder Force IV.

I don't know if it is the best, but the music of S3&K absolutely slaps. I have yet to play Thunder Force 4 though.

> Can relate, but I wonder if what you are describing here is the excessively zoomed in trend that we had from the late 80s and throughout the 90s.

Ah, I had never considered that but now I realize that you are right. Many games of that era pushed huge sprites to show their graphical prowess, but that had the nasty side effect of reducing the FOV.
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-07-02 12:26:21+00:00
It'll be a sad type of fun watching him become another disgusting and disconnected bazillionaire. Remember when Mark was a Honda Fit driving Palo Alto based founder focused on 'connecting people' and building a not yet profitable 'social network' to change the world?

This is a repeat of the fight for talent that always happens with these things. It's all mercenary - it's all just business. Otherwise they'd remain an NGO.

I can't help but think that it would have been a much better move for him to get fired from OpenAI. Allow that to do it's own thing and start other ventures with a clean reputation, and millions instead of billions in the bank.
by Someone | 2025-07-02 12:26:33+00:00
I disagree with the comment

“Both Math.Pow and std::pow invokes the pow function in UCRT, which is shipped with Windows. The issue should be reported to MSVC instead”

It’s not the job of a bug reporter to figure that out and to verify that nothing goes wrong in setting up stuff for invoking that function or in getting its output back into the C# world.

That’s even more true because the dynamic nature of .NET code makes it far from easy to verify by inspection that that function is just calling the pow function in UCRT. The C# compiler might do constant folding wrong and there might be several ways in which the runtime compiles the CLR code (fast compilation to start running it quickly, slower compilation that produces faster code later if it turns out to be called a lot, etc)
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-02 12:27:35+00:00
Reposted because

1)you might have been too young to have read it (1992)

2)outsourcing and trade balance was in the full quote

>When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:

music

movies

microcode (software)

high-speed pizza delivery

--Snow Crash,1992
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-07-02 12:27:45+00:00
Assuming that all their examples are consistent and actually download "Amaya", I'd prefer simply the hyperlink [Download Amaya](http://link-to-file).

Preferably with a download icon to indicate that it's going to be the actual file and not just a link to another page with the real download button hidden among 4 ads that are just download buttons.
by rerdavies | 2025-07-02 12:28:52+00:00
Their recommendation is very different.

W3c says:

Get *Amaya* Read more about *Amaya*

The home office says:

*Get Amaya* *Read more about Amaya*

which seems much more sensible, but suffers from a different problem when used in context.

Personally, I think both are confounding two different use cases. Links are often used inline in text. The use case that W3c and the Home Office are addressing are use cases that would be better address by out-of-line buttons:

[Download] [Documentation]

But both seem broken when the use case is hyperlinks in inline text.

To use a concrete example, how should one rewrite the following?

PiPedal is a guitar effects pedal that runs on Raspberry Pi. To download PiPedal, *click here*. To read the documentation, *click here*.

I get the objection. But the fix seems unacceptable:

PiPedal is a guitar effects pedal that runs on Raspberry Pi. Get Pipedal. Read the documentation.

Nuh uh. Not happening. I'm not sure what you would call that. Meta-grammatically incorrect? Whatever it is, it is not idiomatic English.

Pipedal is a guitar effects pedal that runs on Raspberry Pi. To download PiPedal, visit the *Download Page*. To learn more about Pipedal, view the *Documentation*.

Perhaps. That is the actual text I used in my documentation. But, speaking from personal experience, the challenge is that it is often very difficult to nounify "click here"

Ubuntu Server installs don't suffer from this problem; but before choosing an Ubuntu Server install, you should read the *Ubuntu Server* section of the "Installing on Ubuntu" page.

Which makes one wonder, what exactly is the foul that's being committed when "here" is used as a pronoun for the content that's being referenced? In this use case, there is not an actual accessibility issue, because the the link sits inline within a sentence that provides all the context that's necessary to indicate what to expect when you click.

And in the very first example given, the text is from a lede in a web page where concision matters.

To download PiPedal, click *here*.

Is that really an accessibility issue? particularly when there's are buttons right above it that say

[ Download ] [ Documentation ]

The actual metric that counts here is: how many times will people visit the Download page? And from that perspective there is significant doubt in my mind as to whether the following text will be better.

To download PiPedal, visit the *Download Page*.
by artiscode | 2025-07-02 12:29:25+00:00
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by stevenAthompson | 2025-07-02 12:29:26+00:00
>the engineering is rather a problem

I suppose that's my point. It's really just a series of maybe-not-that-easily solvable engineering problems, and it would allow us to not only explore further but to do it at a relatively low cost and with the ability to "upgrade" the network gradually as each generation of probe improves. More importantly, it would allow us to finally get around that pesky rocket equation and do it cheaply enough that we might actually get political buy-in.

> nuclear power supply

This was my exact thought, a small RTG power supply in each could provide enough power for hundreds of years with no moving parts. Not enough for billion mile transmitters anymore, but now they don't have to be.

> phased array that can steer the beam at each target

That's a great idea, and like most of the individual pieces of the plan it's kind of a thing we already know how to do. Sure, you could dedicate the next decade to solving it well, but you COULD solve it today with variations on off the shelf systems.

Really, the power source and antenna design are just a few of several hundred (thousands?) of engineering problems that would need to be solved, but all of the engineering challenges I can think of are solvable with variations on current tech.

The only reason it isn't being done is that nobody is doing it.
by xbmcuser | 2025-07-02 12:29:53+00:00
Don't count the Chinese out when ever they have been side lined they have copied then innovated and gotten ahead. Now their economy in real terms is actually bigger than the US economy and more well rounded so sanctions or any kind of restrictions boost their local companies by removing any competition.

And looking at how the recent wars and skirmishes in Ukraine, Israel and Pakistan/India have gone I think western military superiority is no longer real. In a conventional war of today US will lose and most likely nuke the other country so I think its best for the world if China gets so powerful that USA accepts that it no longer is the sole super power and we can avoid a nuclear war. As that is where we are heading either a multi polar world or a nuclear holocaust.
by like_any_other | 2025-07-02 12:30:21+00:00
You make good points, but I'm not convinced this isn't deliberate on the part of Amazon. First, Amazon deliberately keeps buyers in the dark - e.g. sellers can pay extra to avoid comingling, but Amazon gives buyers no way to find this out. Second, this kind of reckless approach to fakes is what enabled Amazon's rapid growth over traditional retailers with hand-picked, verified goods. It's not surprising they try to sweep problems with their approach under the rug.

Perhaps not 'complicit', but with a reckless disregard towards fraud.
by 999900000999 | 2025-07-02 12:30:56+00:00
Dart/Flutter imo is basically a better React Native.

It doesn't have 30 years of JavaScript legacy code.

The problem is Google cut significant funding to Flutter, it's not clear if it'll be supported for much longer.

I've built several toy apps in flutter for myself and friends. I like Flutter. But Google's lack of commitment is concerning.

Dart itself feels like a safer Typescript. The tooling is just better.
by lo-c | 2025-07-02 12:31:14+00:00
My company has plans to evaluate AI use in performance reviews. (Don't ask me how that will be measured—I'd love to know myself.)

We've also been forced to use it for a few projects that it ...didn't work very well for. (Though to be fair other departments have found some valid and helpful uses for it.)

It feels like way more time is being spent trying to make AI work than will ever be saved by using it—at least for me. The time spent finding + giving context, prompting, generating, sifting through garbage outputs, then finally editing whatever output is given (which is required 100% of the time) is usually greater than the time required to just do the thing.
by throwaway290 | 2025-07-02 12:32:05+00:00
No you go. It is allowed to diss a thing in the thread about that thing if we think that thing is bad. People here dissed Dropbox when it was launched... and this is no Dropbox.

There are things that are not allowed. But here someone made a good point without any personal attacks. You silencing people is probably the least appropriate thing in this thread.

> make a meaningful contribution

What was not a meaningful contribution, mentioning the relevant schema? Saying using the LLM is bad for example because it is trained on our content without permission and payment? or that this steals from people who provide you content for free and make money from ads?
by amiga386 | 2025-07-02 12:32:24+00:00
It's only doing what the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator does in C

Why you'd use it? Probably for reducing statements to expressions, e.g.

PROC lower_delta(a1,a2,b1,b2) IS (da:=a2-a1) BUT (db:=b2-b1) BUT (IF da<db THEN da ELSE db)
by bArray | 2025-07-02 12:33:02+00:00
I disagree. I think we need to make it clear that following hyperlinks should always be a cognitive choice.

> To download W3C's editor/browser Amaya, [click here].

This gives you an option, where multiple options may be available.

> To download Amaya, go to the [Amaya Website] and get the necessary software.

This is even better, as 'click here' assumes the input device.

> Get [Amaya]!

Whilst being simpler, it does not make clear that the action is optional.

Whether I click something may require some additional information around the link, for example:

> To download W3C's free editor/browser Amaya, go to the [Amaya Website] and select the latest version on the home page.

Now I know that it's free, and I have instructions to carry out to find what I'm looking for.
by kelipso | 2025-07-02 12:33:09+00:00
That’s definitely enough numbers to change to a different bristle. Basically no effort to change a bristle. If you had to free climb a mountain to get a new bristle, then I would understand.

And think of the number of people who found a metal bristle in their mouth and didn’t go to the ER. It has to be many many multiples of the number of ER visits.
Show HN: Leading LLMs recognise bias but also reproduce harmful stereotypes
by dberenstein1957 | 2025-07-02 12:33:23+00:00
We released new findings from our Phare LLM Benchmark on bias in leading language models. Instead of traditional "fill-in-the-blank" tests, we had 17 leading LLMs generate thousands of stories, then asked them to judge their own patterns.

In short: Leading LLMs can recognise bias but also reproduce harmful stereotypes
by elcritch | 2025-07-02 12:34:42+00:00
The ethic based unwritten rules are actually required to make capitalism sustainable long term. If you don’t have those foundations capitalism will turn into oligarchy and eventually feudalism.

What many free market advocates don’t seem to understand is that free markets aren’t actually a default but require the right environment with certain government regulation and societal norms.

Folks like Jack Welch and Milton Friedman helped diminish those conditions. Now after 4 decades we’re seeing the results.
Show HN: LLM Prompt Engineering Game
by tobilobaolufemi | 2025-07-02 12:35:13+00:00
I've been working with AI for a while and what really hooked me was prompt engineering - writing text that creates dynamic results. This simple concept felt like it could revolutionize creativity and how we interact with digital worlds, so I decided to build a game around it.

I created "Second Chance" - you play as someone who died and got brought back to find and eliminate your killer. Every input you type is a directive that the AI turns into narrative. No menus, no preset choices. You want to investigate the docks? Write it. Want to seduce the suspect's spouse for information? Write it. Want to burn down their business? Write it.

It's strategy, negotiation, and risk-taking rolled into one. The possibilities are infinite - you just have to write the right prompt. The AI becomes your collaborative storyteller, building consequences and plot threads based on how cleverly you can communicate your intentions.

This game mixes both human creativity and AI creativity together. We realized that AI was bad at creating new stories so we opted to design the stories, the characters background motives etc. We let AI do narrative design, Claude is pretty good at writing compelling narratives if the constraints are set right.

It seems like very few AI developers are taking this path. I would love more feedback
by mrweasel | 2025-07-02 12:35:13+00:00
If we stick to Zuckerberg or Musk, a lot of their money isn't real, you can't really tax it directly. They'd have to offload a crazy amount of assets, including stocks. They'd lose a lot of their value if you had to sell it all of at once.

It's only real in the sense that they can use it as securities for loans or purchasing other assets. I'm not an economist, but it sounds like that would slow down the wealth generation of the riches people, and that would mean less taxable wealth next year.

You may be right. I still think address the increasingly egotistic and damaging behaviour would be better.
by samiv | 2025-07-02 12:35:19+00:00
"By taxing capital and using it on handouts, you're essentially burning that value; "

If you tax the money from Zuckerber and give it out as "handouts" as you say, what do you think happens to the money?

You think it just disappears?

What happens that every $ that is given out to people who need it will use the money to buy things they need, their food, energy, their utilities etc. This consumption and the flow of money is exactly what lubricates the economic machinery and creates new growth.

When people have money to spend there are new things and services to build and sell!

If you deprive people from money, how do you create business when nobody can afford to buy whatever it is that you're making?

Henry Ford already knew this that if people don't have money to buy his cars he has no business!
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by Bender | 2025-07-02 12:35:59+00:00
HN must be humans only. AI is not going to add to curious discussion and humans would be driven away once the slop reaches critical-mess. Eventually it would be a small handful of humans and a myriad of bots discussing topics much like what 4chan has devolved into. AI would make the site appear active whilst actively killing it and discussions would eventually be driven entirely by AI by which point the only logical direction would be to remove the news subdomain.
Show HN: CineMath (Free Professional Cinema Calculator)
by samuelgursky | 2025-07-02 12:36:18+00:00
Hello HN!

Over the last 15 years, I’ve worked as an AE/Editor, DIT, Colorist, Online Editor & Post Supervisor and based on my experience I've built a tool that I hope will be useful for some of you!

It's a cinema calculator (aspect ratios, target speeds, target bitrates & more...) called CineMath and it's available for free download in the Apple App Store.

I would be immensely grateful for any feedback and hope that it helps someone in their workflow!
by vrighter | 2025-07-02 12:37:03+00:00
The deduplication in the product I worked on was implemented by me and a colleague of mine, in a custom format. The point of it was to do inline deduplication on a best-effort basis. I.e. handling the case where the system does NOT have enough memory to store hashes for every single block. This might have resulted in some duplicated data if you didn't have enough memory, instead of slowed down to a crawl by hitting the disk (spinning rust, at the time) for each block we wanted to deduplicate.