MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sandpaper0897 | 2025-07-02 11:49:25+00:00
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by rkaid | 2025-07-02 11:49:26+00:00
There was a contestant on a recent season of Survivor who, iirc, gave up on a challenge because the host said it would take "several hours" to finish. Later the contestant explained that "last I checked several means seven", and about an hour into the challenge he realized he wouldn't last for seven hours, so he quit.. (When the host said "several hours" I believe he meant about 4 hours)

This of course led to much ridicule and many memes in the fandom, and Survivor even titled the seventh episode of that season "Episode Several". In post-season interviews the contestant is still adamant that several means seven.
by defraudbah | 2025-07-02 11:49:28+00:00
my contractors provide me paid versions and it's my choice which one to use. Most of the time I use them as a sanity check and autocomplete. Anytime I get to anything complex like writing rust - every AI is useless to different levels

PS. Maybe I am a bad example, since I don't even track with model was where. I tick different boxes and see which one works better. In general, not a good experience
by Xss3 | 2025-07-02 11:49:58+00:00
It is a dichotomy though as its confusing correlation with causation.

There is no causal relationship between open platforms and being bad for privacy. Look at bluesky vs facebook.

Just because android failed in some ways doesnt mean apples way is better. Its a duopoly. There are open source alternatives focused on privacy...with very low user bases.
by k__ | 2025-07-02 11:50:00+00:00
I think, the issue is about producing the same stuff people already buy overseas.

Can you make a shirt for 10 cents in the USA? Probably, if you get innovative on automation and remove most human labour you might get there in a few years or a decade, but not tomorrow.

If you can get creative with new solutions those products solve, you might get a foot into the door.

What does the shirt solve for a customer? Could there be a (better) alternative that could be built in the USA?

But yeah, you won't compete on price...
by tim333 | 2025-07-02 11:50:03+00:00
From that by the way

>...one hand The Mercenaries they have enormous Drive they're opportunistic like Andy Grove they believe only the paranoids survive they're really sprinting for the short run but that's quite different I suggest to you than the missionaries who have passion not paranoia who are strategic not opportunistic and they're focused on the big idea in partnerships. It's the difference between focusing on the the competition or the customer.

It's a difference between worshiping at the altar of Founders or having a meritocracy where you get all the ideas on the table and the best ones win it's a difference between being exclusively interested in the financial statements or also in the mission statements it's a difference between being a loner on your own or being part of a team having an attitude of entitlement versus contribution or uh as Randy puts it living a deferred Life Plan versus a whole life that at any given moment is trying to work difference between just making money anybody tells you they don't want to make money is lying or making money and making meaning Al also or my bottom line is it's the difference between success or success and significance.
by digital_voodoo | 2025-07-02 11:50:40+00:00
> unceasing growth

As someone with a finance background and job, this deeply annoys and irritates me. Even made me quit a market finance path for something more realistic. As the saying goes, "you can't have infinite growth on a finite planet". I don't know why we need to explain something so obvious to people who (1) have the power to make and (2) are making decisions with large scale impact, every minute. Unless there's something (pure evil, maybe?) I haven't uncovered yet.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-02 11:50:49+00:00
> Make things that empower people and give them the ability to be class-fluid. That's what the world really needs, after all.

The problem is: by the way you were raised, you have become deeply brainwashed into the social norms of your class for decades. Becoming class-fluid means getting free of this whole brainwashing, and then get a brainwashing for your destination social class. This also implies that you have to give up all your friends (if you keep them, they will back-brainwash you into your old habits; additionally, by the reprogramming these old friends will be unable to get on with you anymore because you have become a "different person" for them).

Thus, I believe only very few people want that.
by wiradikusuma | 2025-07-02 11:50:51+00:00
I built a niche SaaS and did Show HN, zero interest. I know the demand is there because there's a dozen competitors and they're still around after few years. Recently I got some paying customers, including the country's oil and gas company. None of them came from digital marketing (organic/paid). All from personal connections.

With me preaching textbook digital marketing to my team, I feel dirty and like a fraud.
by fidotron | 2025-07-02 11:51:23+00:00
> Um, why was someone's perfectly reasonable take downvoted to oblivion? Too much of a newcomer? Too many Welch devotees here?

At the risk of a serious tangent, the bots here have become so out of control that there is also a major anti-bot pattern that downvotes anything that remotely looks like a bot.

I know we aren't supposed to ever say HN is in decline, but LLMs really do look like they've killed it.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-02 11:52:17+00:00
The force has a light side and a dark side. Apparently Switzerland is so famously neutral because their national export was mercenaries. You can't take sides in wars of you want to sell soldiers to both sides...

But also I imagine that it helps when you wish to stay neutral if people are afraid of what you could do if you were directly involved in a conflict.
by twoodfin | 2025-07-02 11:52:21+00:00
The median American household has a >30% higher real income today than in 1985.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

Personal income is up more than 50%.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

And that doesn’t account for demographic changes: Households are smaller on average than 40 years ago and there’s been a significant surge in the foreign-born population, mostly from much poorer origins.

Further, while the inflation calculation includes some hedonic adjustments, it’s really hard to capture the aggregate of the thousands of diffuse lifestyle benefits of living in 2025 v. 1985. Personally, I’d miss burritos.
by samiv | 2025-07-02 11:52:38+00:00
I hope this works. The only way to save the economy and the society is by taxing the rich.

Think about it for a minute. The rich people hoard all the resources, financial assets, means of production and in the competition for resources they will (and are doing so) displace everyone else in the economy (and really from society also).

This means that those who are displaced have no means to participate in the economy. And not only that but also they will be pushed to the fringes of the society and exists in slum conditions. This will stiff the economy and hollow it out.

Let's say for arguments sake that the government taxes X hundred of millions of $ from the bezos/musks/gates/etc. and put that into the economy by

- indirectly or directly hiring people - building infrastructure - providing services for the citizens (education, health care etc) - providing benefits to those who need.

All that money will immediately go back into the economy stimulating all kinds of economic activity. And essentially two weeks later that same X hundred million is back in the bank account of bezos/musk/gates and it can be taxed again!

By letting the uber rich hoard the wealth that wealth is essentially away from the economy providing very little economic activity.

In economy this is known as the "high propensity to spend". The "poor" (i.e. working/middle class people) have high propensity to spend, the rich have low propensity to spend.

Tax the wealth, not the work!

This has been done before and it can be done again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
by camillomiller | 2025-07-02 11:53:42+00:00
The fundamental problem I have with this analysis is that it won’t consider a simple assumption: Jack Welch was just better at the capitalism game than others. He didn’t rewrite the written rules, he just didn’t care about the ethic-based unwritten ones. With the decline of historical ideologies, hyper-individualism took over. Welch was just very good at understanding that some invisible boundaries didn’t apply anymore, and that the zeitgeist was shifting in that direction.
by firesteelrain | 2025-07-02 11:53:46+00:00
The issue is not fear but strategic control. The United States and European Union form the backbone of the global semiconductor ecosystem, from design software like Cadence and Synopsys to manufacturing tools from ASML and Applied Materials. Huawei’s chips depend on this infrastructure. When entities use US-origin technology to build AI hardware, they fall under export control regardless of where the chips are used. This is not about competing in a fair market but about controlling the development and use of advanced computing in areas like defense, surveillance, and critical infrastructure.
by littlestymaar | 2025-07-02 11:54:11+00:00
> and on (relatively) good terms with the Western powers?

In recent years the relationship between Turkey and Western countries has been OK-ish (though far from stellar, see the S-400-related tensions or the French-Trukish tension in the Mediterranean).

But if you look at it on a longer perspective, the relationship used to be very tense, first there was the Cyprus crisis leading to pretty harsh western sanctions on military equipment, and then the cold war between Turkey and Greece in the Aegean see, with occasional real fire air combat and casualties.
by rglullis | 2025-07-02 11:55:03+00:00
A bit off-topic, but I really wish we had a system where we could make bets to pit public companies that develop closed source software against its FOSS alternatives.

In the example here: people would bet by either buying $100 worth of Figma shares, or they could buy $50 worth of put options and give $50 to the developers of Penpot.

Would something like that be legal or does it violate any type of trading regulations?
by myrmidon | 2025-07-02 11:55:11+00:00
I'm not saying that things are necessarily gonna get worse-- just that human work decreasing in relative value creates huge (new!) problems for our current wealth distribution mechanisms.

Maybe there is an easy way to have our cake and eat it, too (like consistent wealth taxation like the article suggests), but I'm doubtful.

In the past, basically every form of investment used to involve human labor to some degree-- meaning that every rich industrial magnate also automatically created opportunities for zero-net-worth workers/builders/employees.

But when your big investments just become server racks and industrial robots, then you no longer have this balancing mechanism, and you probably need to do something to prevent wealth concentration without bounds (and to guarantee opportunities for "worthless" individuals).
by louiechristie | 2025-07-02 11:55:47+00:00
Location: London Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React Native, iOS, Android, React, Next.js, Gatsby.js, 11ty, ghost.org, Node.js, APIs, SQL, HTML, CSS, COBOL, UX, AR Résumé/CV: https://www.louiechristie.com/tech/ Email: foxhole.buzzes2b@icloud.com
by toastal | 2025-07-02 11:55:48+00:00
Looking for a role doing front-end programming and/or dev ops

Location: Eastern Thailand (UTC +7) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Nix, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, OCaml, PureScript, Elm (& others); general web / front-end, build scripts + pipelines / dev ops Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills/ Logistics: US passport, native English speaker, night owl

I have done a decade & a half of front-end programming from static pages to SPAs to full web apps — mostly in functional, compile-to-Javascript languages — but would also be interested learning other UI frameworks like Qt (but probably still in functional or concatenative languages). My education was in art / design. I’ve participated in open source for ages. In recent years, I have gone deep into Nix for packaging (almost 300 commits in Nixpkgs), builds, deployments, & I would be very interested in taking this as a new arc. Open to both full-time & especially part-time opportunities.
by ta1243 | 2025-07-02 11:55:50+00:00
That's about 3 times median income in Spain.

In California someone on the median personal income of about $50k pays 18% income tax. In Spain (Madrid) someone on the median income of about €23k pays 19% income tax.

Double the median income and it's 27% in California and 27% in Spain

Four times median income and 33% California, 34% Spain
by Nursie | 2025-07-02 11:56:03+00:00
I went as far as to look up the last ‘consultation’ on this, and yep, all down to the plumbing lobby, expressing their horror that the general public could be ripped off, scammed even, by unqualified “handymen”, so it must remain illegal to do even the basics if you’re unqualified, even on your own house.

Total rort.
by daswolle | 2025-07-02 11:56:31+00:00
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We're building an AI care platform to reduce ER visits, close care gaps, and guide patients to the right care at the right time. We're a stealth-stage healthcare startup working with major providers to drive real outcomes. We just closed our pre-seed round and have great runway; at the same time, we're moving fast. We also believe in compliance and security from day 0.

We're looking for a pragmatic generalist who is comfortable at any part of the stack.

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by bluecalm | 2025-07-02 11:56:45+00:00
>> perfectly fine businesses being closed and employees being laid off because they don't give double-digit returns

Sounds like an opportunity to me.

>>empty shop spaces because it would diminish their value to lower the rent

Sounds like a problem land value tax solves - it should cost you to hold land ad if you can't pay you should give it up so others can make use of it.

>> excessive appartement rents

Sounds like land value tax + removing bureaucracy around building should solve that.

>>And an economy oriented only along the wishes of the super-rich.

I am not sure why you think anything in EU is along wishes of super-rich. It seems to me it's to the wishes of political cronies. I can guarantee you that "super-rich" would structure it differently.

>>Money is the way you "vote" into the economy, and the more money is in the hands of a few, the less the economy actually adresses the needs of the many.

And yet populist parties introducing anti-business policies win all the time. It's true our parliamentary systems are terrible and undemocratic but it's not because super rich, at least not in EU.
by augment_me | 2025-07-02 11:57:17+00:00
The trade-off here is a social connections versus privacy/integrity.

I can make the decision to use Signal or whatever, but as long as my whole social circle does not do the same, it wont be useful. And since when they do the swap, they have to convince their whole social circle to do the same, this becomes an impossible task. Either you have 10 different apps for different friends that lie on different places on the ethics of privacy, or you just take the easy way out and use what everyone uses.
by careful_ai | 2025-07-02 11:57:55+00:00
Bracing and surprisingly personal. That line about AI predicting “your next vacation before you booked it” hit hard.

What stood out to me was how these systems don’t just learn preferences—they increasingly mirror our thinking habits and biases. That mirroring may spark convenience, but it strobes trust. And once systems predict too well, they start nudging us into behavior loops, not just tracking us.

We need to strike a balance—AI that appreciates nuance without becoming a puppet master. The flavor-of-the-month recommendation isn’t the problem—it’s the loss of serendipity and self-direction that really matters.
by ur-whale | 2025-07-02 11:58:09+00:00
> Ideally there'd just be a 10% tax

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.

Socialism, a.k.a. a picture perfect example of the maxim "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions".

High taxes that supposedly lead to social justice via re-distribution of wealth ALWAYS end up driving countries into the same ditch: gross abuse of public money making the poorest part of the population suffer the most.

Look at Venezuela, California and Cuba for perfect examples. Spain is not far ahead of them, check out their sovereign debt in case you have a doubt, and how many times they've had to be bailed out.

And if you have doubts that low taxes lead to healthier societies, it is indeed possible, I'd invite you to take a look at Switzerland, where taxes are super low, the institutions work like well-oiled Swiss watches, crime is quasi non-existent, infrastructures work, corruption is one of the lowest in the world and - yes - there are filthy rich people (who gives two fucks if they're rich? As long as your life is good. Unless jealousy of course.) but the so-called "poor people" in Switzerland have a way better life than most supposedly rich people in the rest of the world.
by careful_ai | 2025-07-02 11:58:19+00:00
Plainspoken and unnerving. Schneier nails it: LLMs become mirrors that reflect, amplify, and exploit our own signals.

What resonated with me: every prompt, every correction, every hesitation feeds a profile the model refines over time. It’s not just personalization—it’s psychoanalysis-by-proxy.

This matter needs more than opt-out buttons. We need transparency and circuit breakers. Give me AI that explains why it suggests a certain answer—not just adapts forever without oversight.
by samiv | 2025-07-02 11:58:22+00:00
The bureaucracy and the regulation isn't the problem by and large. If anything it just needs to be easier and more automated to navigate the regulation when setting up business.

I know that the capitalist really like to sing this song. "It's the regulation, just let us self regulate and we'll create so and so many jobs".

Yeah, just like they did in the 1800 hundreds. Abysmal working conditions, minimum pay, toxic waste dumping etc. etc.

Or how the banking sector has managed to blow up several times since "deregulation" in the -80s by Reagan. 2008 market crash anyone?

The problem is that there's less and less purchasing power. Even if you have a proven business case such as hairdressing or serving food your most important asset is a customer base who have money. You start by putting money in the pockets of the people and suddenly all kinds of lucrative markets and business ideas become viable.

The regulation is needed to protect the society from all the harmful shorcuts that businesses would otherwise take. Such as poisonous food, toxic waste dumping, ponzi schemes and insider trading etc. etc.
by careful_ai | 2025-07-02 11:58:30+00:00
Clear-eyed and sobering. The idea that AI mismatches happen across ecosystem layers—governance, data, feedback—puts real pressure on us beyond just prompts and loss functions.

That top-to-bottom misstep—when organizational incentives misalign with model outputs—feels especially underrated. It’s not just the tech that’s flawed—it’s the system around it.

Shaping alignment isn’t just ML science. It’s design, ethics, team dynamics, and long-game governance. Without those layers, alignment stays theoretical, not structural.
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by jay_traction | 2025-07-02 11:58:41+00:00
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by phh | 2025-07-02 11:59:09+00:00
> - Samsung has their own basebands but only uses them on their premium phones

Uh? There are Samsung Exynos devices not using a Samsung baseband? (Exynos spans a large size of the range, just not the sub-100$)

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

There is a global problem that in a lot of areas there is a monopoly lock-in via standards. Those companies are growing their strategies to control the way standards are written, to make it more complicated and costly for 3rd parties to implement.

One example of making standards more complicated which adds more patents is DVB-T2 [1]. 95% of the usage of DVB-T2 compared to DVB-T1 is increasing modulation rate and improving FEC, but it also adds PLP (which I've seen maybe three demos of), which is covered by several patents, largely increasing complexity and patent cost.

FWIW, I love standards and I agree that the industry should largely participate in making standards. I agree that standards needs to have "SHALL", you can't make everything optional to allow for lower costs. And I won't pretend there is an easy solution to those problems.

Sadly, the only way I can see to improve this situation, is to increase government's public funding into standardization.

[1] FWIW, I know nothing of how DVB-T2 has been written and who did it, so it's just an example of complicated requirements increasing the number of patents and thus cost of implementation. It's possible that those requirements have been added in good faith.