MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9dev | 2025-07-29 10:05:21+00:00
> The entire Agile Manifesto was written about how teams don't need leaders.

Have you read a different manifesto than I did? It spoke of empowered developers and self-organised teams, but never about leaders no longer being required. I'd even say it is directed at leaders to improve the structure of their development teams.

> I'm not really sure what this means. It doesn't seem to have any connection to the original discussion. Where are you going with this?

You seem to imply—at least that's how I understood it—that leaders aren't needed and ICs do their thing regardless of what managers do. Which to me sounds like plain ineffective leadership, not an inherent truth.

We may agree to disagree, but I don't see an entire organisation (not just a single team of developers within a larger organisation) to work completely devoid of leadership. My developers should not have to put up with customer success, or business requirements, or budget constraints. They should focus on working on the product as directed by the product owner. My role is clearing the path in front of the team, keeping distractions at bay, planning ahead for technological changes, and aligning the product trajectory with the company vision. These are things you just cannot do properly while simultaneously focusing on the finer details of application code. And even more importantly, most people I know appreciate good leadership that helps them perform well, and guides them forward. I realise that's subjective though.
by breppp | 2025-07-29 10:05:42+00:00
It's very doubtful the US will bomb Egypt over that, it didn't even bomb Egypt when it was directly involved in wars with Israel. Currently the Egyptians are in violations of the peace agreements with Israel over stationing military forces in Sinai, yet no bombs are falling.

Generally I think they targeted the US because of Islamist Ideology. Islamism links conquest and imperialism to a proof of the religious validity of Islam. Once the West has begun its control over Arab countries the idea in the 1920s has emerged where the reason why Islam lost its prominence is because they lost the "true" islam. Therefore the solution is to return to medieval Islam, similarly to fascism nostalgia to the Roman/German empires.

In that context, even the fact that the United States exists as a cultural force and influences arab teens to wear jeans is a major threat. Don't be naive that it is all over Palestine, Islamism started prior to the existence of Israel.
by maxglute | 2025-07-29 10:05:55+00:00
>massively subsidizes the shipping costs

This another one of those allegations where muh PRC subsidies makes no sense, especially since we're 5 years past UPU reforms... as in PRC companies haven't had preferential postage rates for years. They're just good at logistics now... bulk ship via air / preloading local ware houses then have local shippers hand last mile to keep per item shipping low. TEMU/Ali still has pretty healthy markup, like 100-200+% vs domestic. That's basically enough for margins and offset air shipping when dealing with trinkets. Order any big item and shipping price explodes, proportional to weight. Buying straight from PRC is cheap because you're not paying multiple middle men for same item. Sometimes middlemen is worth it, i.e. Amazon where you pay 10 dollars from transhippers vs 7 dollars directly from PRC vs 20 dollars from retailer because Amazon refund policy worth it small premium.
by andrepd | 2025-07-29 10:06:05+00:00
Everything you say here is correct. Democracy is not a binary where if you have an election no matter how indirect then it's a "democracy™".

The EU is governed by backroom deals and is extremely opaque. Adding to everything you said: there is no accountability, there is little presence of EU matters in newspapers, EU leaders hardly even attempt to communicate with their people (practically only von der Leyen or António Costa make public speeches).

Just compare: you surely know the names of all or almost all ministers of your country. Do you know the names of even 2 out of the 27 commissioners? Scrutiny of their doings and the laws that are proposed appear in news regularly. Does such scrutiny exist of EU institutions?

It's not a democracy.
by Jensson | 2025-07-29 10:06:21+00:00
It is easy to control for that, just look at the best man from a very small population.

For example, the fastest male swimmers in Iceland are still much faster than the fastest female swimmers in the world, and Iceland has 10 000 times less people than the world.

There aren't 10 000 times more men trying to become elite swimmers than women.
by camgunz | 2025-07-29 10:06:34+00:00
The way these work is they're net profitable given all users, so you have to recategorize users in one of two ways:

- a user subsidizing other users

- a user subsidized by other users

I don't know what OP prefers, but given that people are saying "woof, API pricing too expensive", it sounds like the latter.

The problem, of course, is the provider has to find a market where the one sustains the other. Are there enough users who would pay > $200/mo without getting their money's worth in order to subsidize users paying the same rate, but using more than the average? I think the non-existence of a higher-tier plan says there probably isn't, but I don't want to give too much credence to markets, economics, etc.
by sarabande | 2025-07-29 10:06:35+00:00
Consider outbound AI calls as a weapon against inefficiency. What is the game-theoretic equilibrium when faced with adversaries like call centers & other businesses with labrynthian customer service?

I bet it leads to more efficiency for everyone. When inbound robocalls deluge a business, the business pushes to cost-optimize its own service.

Business replaces humans with similar AI solutions to handle the phone modality, but hopefully then reverts to great service via email/API to reduce costs further.

Then, humans using AI voice services can "de-escalate" and revert to email/API AI, e.g. going from:

1. Business: AI (Voice) or Human | Customer: Human

2. Business: AI (Voice) or Human | Customer: AI (Voice)

3. Business: AI (voice) | Customer: AI (Voice)

4. Business: AI (Text) | Customer: AI (Text)
by pluto_modadic | 2025-07-29 10:06:53+00:00
future hardware costs do not erase losses on existing capex expenditures, if they bought an (overpriced) nvidia GPU and then it turns out local LLMs or a Chinese competitor can do it for much cheaper investors effectively notice the mortgage is underwater. Tech getting cheaper is only handy if your company (e.g. ChatGPT) didn't already make a big gamble they can't sell off (for fear of hurting the cost of the asset they're trying to sell) see also coin "reserves".
by hollowonepl | 2025-07-29 10:06:55+00:00
The way article is formulated little bit as clickbait.

Title tries to scare while content says it's just a topic being reintroduced. If anybody knows EU laws and is aware that to introduce such change all states need to agree... then I just wish DK good luck until it's anyhow confirmed at _all_ not many states do support this.

I come from different EU state and I first time hear this is big topic, seems then it's not such a big topic outside Denmark maybe?
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-29 10:08:08+00:00
Both of your comments have a grain of truth, just doesn't apply to this scenario.

what halayli wrote is spot on in this context. If you're writing a blog post and call it a day, then you're not trying to change the status quo. If he's giving talks, seeking out interviews etc to address this issue, you'd have a basis to argue your points...

But like this? No, it doesn't hold up.

It's super normalized however, and not specific to this blog. Most blogs seem to call on the reader to do things. And even if every reader did, you still wouldn't have changed the status quo, because that needs a way bigger investment.
by DoctorOW | 2025-07-29 10:08:23+00:00
Apologies for being unclear, it's true Microsoft didn't have the option of Windows Phone for their Surface Duo devices, so they had no choice but to use Android. To clarify, when I phrase something as being an unwilling outcome it does not mean both were equally viable options and they picked the one they wanted, rather that Microsoft's hand was forced due to this development. I hope this helps.
by lm28469 | 2025-07-29 10:08:43+00:00
Delocalising everything to Asia certainly did not play any kind of role, you're right. It's such a simple problem that it can only have a single cause, which can be summed up in a single sentence as you did so nicely, one could even shorten it to "regulations bad" and be happy

> Our firms had no incentive to be efficient since they had a captive market

Efficient compared to what ? Chinese working conditions ? Good luck lmao

If slave labor, 1950s style working hours, state controlled economy and international dumping is what you want the EU to compete with one to one we're dead
by runboya | 2025-07-29 10:11:22+00:00
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by microtonal | 2025-07-29 10:11:23+00:00
As people have repeatedly pointed out to you, it's not just about VAT and import taxes (do not forget that most European countries have around 20% VAT, which is often also not paid). In contrast to Temu, European companies have to deal with:

- Safety testing to ensure it complies with European laws.

- Liability. If a product causes harm to someone, they can sue you.

- Warranty returns, if a product breaks, you have to repair it or replace it.

- Other returns, at least in the EU you can return a product bought online within two weeks, no questions asked. This should not be underestimated, e.g. for European online clothing stores, this is a significant chunk of their orders. People order three pairs of shoes, try them on and return the pairs that they don't want to keep. Best case, the product needs to be inspected by a (paid) human, worst case they have to trash it.

Temu does exactly none of that.

The reason we have these laws are: companies try to maximize their profits. Getting your house burnt down, your kid lead-poisoned, or getting a broken product without any course for replacement just sucks. So we make companies responsible for what they put on the market. Temu makes money by skipping all of that and externalizing the cost.
by josephg | 2025-07-29 10:11:45+00:00
I guess. But, the conflict in the middle east is insanely complex. Anyone claiming you can simplify the situation into "good guys" vs "bad guys" just doesn't understand the history of the region. Or they're lying about it, because they want a sports team.

> It’s sort of like saying “All Lives Matter” at every police shooting.

Eh. I hear that as a less articulate, more annoying way to say "I care more generally about police violence more than police violence against black people, specifically." Seems reasonable to me, even if people bring it up in an oblique way.
by kidnoodle | 2025-07-29 10:11:57+00:00
I think at least initially the ‘product’ is datasets which don’t show individuals. You could of course build out a future direction which is differentially private.

More or less my initial approach to this is you take a grid, and you show movements/density on that grid. If necessary you coarsen the grid to avoid reidentification of individuals, and ultimately to get a good picture of the population given the biased sample which is the union membership, you need a statistical model on top which also helps from a privacy perspective.

State actors demanding individual location history is definitely an issue. I have a few possible approaches in mind to defend against that.
by HenriNext | 2025-07-29 10:12:08+00:00
Having 4 separate limits that all are opaque and can suddenly interrupt work is not ok.

We don't know what the limits are, what conditions change the limits dynamically, and we cannot monitor our usage towards the limits.

1. 5 hour limit

2. Overall weekly limit

3. Opus weekly limit

4. Monthly limit on number of 5 hour sessions
by dspillett | 2025-07-29 10:12:43+00:00
> That is because the introductory prices were not 1 to 1 to the business’ existing revenue streams from cable and satellite transmission fees.

Bad pricing descisions are a them problem, not a me problem. But it isn't just pricing of individual services that is the issue, it is the separation of content amonst many services which is the companies gauging out what they can with no care for how inconvenient it is for the audience, at least those who don't turn back to the high seas.

> without advertising breaks

Despite the increasing prices, and the need for multiple servies at those prices, the adverts are very much coming back. All the conveniences of streaming are being taken away and companies are surprised that we aren't happy paying for that…

> People are spoiled […] see that streaming isn’t the cash cow people think it is

If they are, then they were spoiled by the companies being deliberately misleading to get them hooked in the first place. My level of sympathy is limited by their level of honesty and “prey I don't change the deal further” attitude.

When the question is “but how did you expect us to make good business under those conditions?”, a perfectly valid answer is “you very much lead us to believe that you could”.
by brabel | 2025-07-29 10:13:09+00:00
> Everyone looking to Denmark as a model state should beware what happens when you have a population with such high trust in its government: the roots of autocracy are allowed to grow unfettered.

Denmark is currently one of the nicest places you can find in the world. If that’s what happens when you trust the government then sign me up!

PS. I know the situation can quickly deteriorate if you’re not constantly monitoring what the government does and agree with OP on that. Just thought it was incredibly naive to try to make the point that this can lead to an autocracy while showing one of the most well functioning democracies in the world. The USA seems like a much better example, and even then compared to most countries in the world, as you can see by the amount of people trying to move there, it’s still a pretty damn nice place to go.
by ivape | 2025-07-29 10:13:17+00:00
Here’s a live video version of exactly what you described. The Sky News anchor is exhausted:

https://youtu.be/28B07vqKinI

It’s Rumsfeld level of denialism.

”I just can't imagine that ycombinator would allow the exact same rhetoric from literal Nazis to justify or deny the holocaust ever happened or that jews inflated or made up the number of victims of the holocaust.”

They allow it because they are human. Not everyone can actually believe a genocide is happening whilst also being defended by what many would consider educated professional peers. See, it’s unbelievable, so have to forgive people who are truly bewildered (”this can’t really be happening, can it?”). It’s really happening , and HN is suffering from the fog of war that an ongoing atrocity creates. If I punch you hard enough, you may not actually perceive what just happened in the contemporaneous. It’s intellectual and moral shell-shock.

Reality check:

Your world is not just software and a first world country with a nice economy, and neighbors and countrymen that would neeever do anything wrong. Your world is full of a lot more sin, believe it.

When they allow the journalists to finally enter Gaza, where reporters will fly a simple $500 drone over Gaza, we’ll see all of our world.

HN calls outa lot of bullshit, and there’s no way that virtue should be put aside for this obvious genocide.
by Gibbon1 | 2025-07-29 10:14:55+00:00
I've read a few references to electrocatalysts where you use electricity to promote reactions potentially ones that are endothermic.

One wonders a bit, you take hydrogen and nitrogen to make ammonia. Then you spray that on a field and grow plants to turn it into protein. What if you skip the plant step and convert the ammonia to amino acids directly.
by noelwelsh | 2025-07-29 10:14:55+00:00
You can reasonably assume that some NBA players are using PEDs. However, the effect is different. To be an NBA basketball player you need to have several attributes, such as height and hand-eye coordination, that cannot be affected by PEDs AFAIK. If basketbally are using PEDs, it is probably to recover faster, which means coming back from injury or training more. More training can lead to a higher level of skill, but it's a second order effect. It's not like cycling where, for example, EPO directly affects performance on the bike.
by CLPadvocate | 2025-07-29 10:15:17+00:00
1. Similarly or larger sized military in the region: Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Pakistan - depends a bit on how you're comparing.

2. Having no right to return to the country you fled is pretty common situation in the world and by no way specific to the Middle East. An additional point is that people were not fleeing Israel - they were fleeing e.g. the British Empire and Israel has absolutely no legal obligation to allow the refugees from the British Empire to enter. And, additionally, nowhere else in the world are descendants of refugees, who are born in other countries, are considered refugees. They may be considered illegals, though - which is still a completely different situation.

3. Syria and Lebanon are basically failed states with no real power to expel anyone. Situation with Jordan is even more interesting - the Kingdom of Jordan actually occupied (1948) and annexed (1950) the West Bank, making "Palestinians" in the West Bank actually Jordanians. So calling anyone of them "refugee" is more than questionable.
by karolinepauls | 2025-07-29 10:15:35+00:00
It's as ridiculous as the comparison of the most recent 12k years of the holocene to the age of plant life on the Earth.

As for using lumber for timber, when eventually disposed it would have to be turned into charcoal rather than burned for energy or let decompose in conditions that don't sequester carbon.

You also missed the point about using charcoal for soil enrichment.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-29 10:16:42+00:00
With such sanctified list of libraries, I think it is not unlikely, that more packages exist out there, that are simply not listed, or that there are repos out there, showing how to do things, but are not isolated libraries.

Maybe a third-party awesome list or so would be interesting.

Other than that, I guess one could get involved in the community to ask questions about things one needs for some project, or search more specifically for things one needs and hope to then find them.
by jiggawatts | 2025-07-29 10:16:44+00:00
You have no idea how much we all value the effort you put into moderating HN!

It's one of the last bastions of large-scale intellectual discussion that hasn't be overrun by bots, teenagers, or trolls. Digg was destroyed, then Slashdot, and now Reddit is mostly AI spam.

Hacker News is a place where when I see spam, it looks obviously of place. And then an hour later... it's gone.
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2025-07-29 10:17:04+00:00
In america there is 0 corelation between middle class voting preferences and what their elected officials voted for. There is a closer aligment with upper class voters and lobby groups. It is arguable america is not a democracy based on those facts despite nominally voting every few years

https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/the-...

Basically if 0% of americans want a law it has 30% chance of passing, and if 100% of american want a law it has 32% chance of passing. For lobby groups it goes from 0% = 0% to 100% = 65% chance. Much closer to preference based lawmaking.
by NullifyNAN | 2025-07-29 10:17:47+00:00
DeepSeek has shown that it makes 500% profit and it sells tokens for far lower than any big AI company.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-deepseek-claims-th...

These companies are unprofitable because of balance sheet shenanigans. See “Hollywood Accounting”.

There is absolutely no way they are not turning massive profit. They are serving relatively similar models to open source at 5-50x the price.

GLM 2.5 is $0.60 in, $2.20 out and it’s basically equivalent to Claude Opus.

Opus is $15 in and $75 out.

No way they’re operating at a massive loss.
by azalemeth | 2025-07-29 10:18:10+00:00
Denmark is very liberal in some ways but very much not in others. MitID -- digital id-- is a gateway to everything and is very much gated in terms of access; it took me months to sort out. It's a crime to not tell the state where you live, or to have too many people living in your house (I'd love to know what happens if you give birth on a "full" house -- is there a grace period, or do you have to move?). The work laptop I have been issued with is filled with invasive spyware that no British university employee would tolerate, and it is run (very well) as a benign dictatorship. You can't get a phone SIM card without personal registration. The tax agency know exactly to the øre how much money you received and what you spent it on in a given year as basically every transaction is recorded.

I'm not complaining that much about it -- you have a fantastic social security system, low inequality, high pay and high taxes, leading to a happy and well educated population and great food (no upf!) -- but it is a vision of the 1960s nanny state that really does think it knowd best.
by machiaweliczny | 2025-07-29 10:18:28+00:00
Given you C++ skillset I would look into less obvious "jobs", like maybe creating mods for games (not sure if minecraft mods can make you real money but at least it seems like fun thing to do).

I suggest trying to do some small 2D game like vampire survivors like and publishing on Steam - this is what I would do if I was me at your age today. (but also training competitive programming if you want interesting jobs later)

Or mobile games, like idle games like Idle Iktah, and other clones of RuneScape like idle games are good starting point.

Other idea I have is just make a good voice note taking app using Whisper etc on mobile with some niche use-case. It's easy 1 man job.

Other niche is making Android apps that are very low-resource for old devices that people use in Africa and Asia. In Poland one guy created chess on side and is millionaire from that because it was not using much resources and got popular in emerging markets. Thing very "boring" but popular thing like crossword puzzles, sudoku etc - execution and luck is key there.

Also bots for games are good money but questionable and kinda hard these days, private servers etc. In games it's seems like tough market but you could get gigs easier.

Also freelance platforms but it's mostly web stuff. You can also make side money doing programming tutoring maybe if you like that.

Or just invest your time into winning competitive programming contests and in 3 years get job at FAANG and it's reliable way to get rich still. Money will come to you if you are good don't worry about it too much.
by Neurrone | 2025-07-29 10:18:39+00:00
> Though you can also get trapped in a fractal of polish-chasing

I think this applies to anything :)

> You quickly realize the behavior you see is an idiosyncrasy in the screen reader itself.

Yeah this is definitely a pain point during development. There is standardization and efforts to reduce these differences though, so I hope this gets better over time.