MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adverbly | 2025-07-17 11:59:32+00:00
There's some truth to this take but it's not nearly as bad as most people think.

Many people look at the economy and see that it is bad and so they think the economists must be bad at their job, but in many cases people in power simply don't listen to economists.

The best example of this in my opinion is land value tax.

Milton Friedman is an Nobel prize winner on the libertarian side who called lvt the best tax policy. Joseph Stieglitz is a Nobel prize winner who is a socialist who also advocated for lvt. A recent survey showed something like 83% of economists saying that lvt would significantly increase growth.

And yet zero countries have implemented an lvt rate that is much higher than inflation.

Good and smart policies do not need to be accepted by economists to be implemented. They need to be accepted by those in power and by the general population.

In my opinion, if anything we should have way more economists on the news talking about the economy than the political pundits that you typically see - not the other way around!
by bmacho | 2025-07-17 11:59:34+00:00
> Who's actually being hurt here? No one is buying 20 year old consoles and games that probably aren't even sold by the original company anymore.

People are buying them, they just pay the Chinese, and not Nintendo/SONY.

"Who's actually being hurt" and " aren't even sold by the original company" is not a good argument. Nintendo clearly can sell those games for a sum anytime it wants to. They are just manufacturing a scarcity right now, or at least they are trying. They are the ones "being hurt", in the standard sense.
by lastcat743 | 2025-07-17 11:59:56+00:00
You think it a joke! Those unwilling to deny the exogenous of Power will note how many mystical occult references are wholly explained by our minds entangled.

Our minds may be entangled and a rare few “get stuck” in the minds of others, causing these demonic spectacles.

It still happens to this day, though modern thought control is far more elaborate and invasive than such “accidents”.
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-17 12:01:22+00:00
Did you condemn Obama when he droned an American child and laughed that the kid had chosen bad parents? Did you call for his impeachment then or now? How about when he sicced the IRS on conservatives?

Did you call for Biden's impeachment when he coordinated with social media companies to violate American 1A rights?

Did you vociferously condemn what Biden enabled in Gaza?

Unless you too add these boiler plates on your messages you are full of it.
by dartharva | 2025-07-17 12:01:29+00:00
Sounds like a ton of arbitrary gatekeeping. If it is a computer I can use on my desk, it is a desktop to me. Why should a user bother about what window manager or whatever is being used when he gets to use the computer as he wants? I still fail to see why Android can't be counted as among those plug-and-play immutable Linux distros.
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-17 12:01:32+00:00
I can't "not use it" when my medical insurance sticks an AI between me and the ability to talk to a human or uses an AI to deny my insurance claims.

I can't "not use it" when my VP uses an AI to decide who to lay off in the next wave of cuts.

I can't "not use it" when my governor sets up an AI review of statewide regulation to decide what regulation to remove.

"My boss says that I have to use an LLM to program" is way way way below my worries of "society's bosses use LLMs to entrench their power and abuse labor because they are upset about the labor gains made in the post-covid era."
by avs733 | 2025-07-17 12:01:48+00:00
> What in the world? This is the exact opposite use case for unions.

Trade unions tend to have a large focus on training and skill building. Yes they make firing people harder but the flip side of unions can be increasing the average quality such that firing due to quality or skill is less often necessary.

If I have need 10 people and I have a choice between two looks. Pool A is harder to fire and costs more but has a 95% competence rate. Pool B is easy to fire and costs less but has a 70% competence rate.

Setting any contractual rules aside I’m going g to find myself firing from pool B more often, and it is easy to attribute all of that to the rules that make A harder to fire. They are easier to fire (component of variance), they are more likely to be bad (component 2), and because they are easier to fire in going to be more likely to fire than coach for quality (component 3).
by elric | 2025-07-17 12:02:20+00:00
I was briefly hopeful that we'd see meaningful copyright reform in the EU back when the Pirate Party had its moment in the spotlight. But nothing happened.

Now LLMs are stealing everyone's data, claiming be "fair use", getting away scot free, while irrelevant YouTubers are facing threats to be jailed over nothing whatsoever.

Make it make sense.
by gmac | 2025-07-17 12:03:23+00:00
I have plenty of right-wing economist colleagues, thanks. And these data are for Germany, while we’re commenting on a thread about the UK.

I suspect this is also a hard thing to ‘prove’ with data, since it’s importantly about a shift in how people label left/centre/right. (No left-wing parties I know of are currently suggesting returning income tax rates on the rich anywhere near to historically normal levels, for example).
by reddalo | 2025-07-17 12:03:37+00:00
>didn't realize Italy was like that

Italy doesn't really care about copyright violations, unless it's soccer or if it's for profit.

Normal people pirating movies, songs, etc. for their private use are not usually prosecuted (there's no need to use protections such as VPNs in Italy). There are some big piracy communities, they use both torrents and an old file-sharing software called eMule.

But if you try to earn money or if you pirate soccer, then it's super risky.
by majewsky | 2025-07-17 12:04:28+00:00
(Disclosure: I work at SAP, though not on the ERP stuff or anything of that sort.)

From what I've been told, this is actually supposed to be a selling point of SAP: They have built tools to fit the processes of the industry leaders, so by buying into SAP, you're buying into the winning way of doing business.

I am not endorsing this opinion or making a claim regarding its veracity, just stating that that is what I have heard.
by mrb | 2025-07-17 12:04:39+00:00
This is the scariest part: “That will cause interest rates to rise. Within a decade, interest is going to be one third of all of your taxes, and in a couple decades, interest could be 80% of your taxes.” So I was curious and looked up the evolution of federal interest payments over time as a percentage of federal income, so I made a custom chart on the Fed's website: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1KFPP#

We see that the percentage rose from about 12% in 2022 to about 21% today, a very sharp increase indeed, as the article points out. And the article's authors project it to rise to ~33% within a decade. But interestingly we see the percentage was historically quite high in the 80s (peaked at 29% in 1985) before decreasing through the 1990s and 2000s. So at least we have a precedent that it is possible for the US government to get a grip and manage to reduce the share of interest payments. How they did it, I don't know.

PS: when making this custom chart I wasn't quite sure what data series to take as federal income. There seems to be two options:

1. Federal Government Current Receipts, Billions of Dollars, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (FGRECPT)

2. Federal government current tax receipts, Billions of Dollars, Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (W006RC1Q027SBEA)

I took the first. The chart has generally the same shape with #2 but I am not quite sure what the difference is. You can click the button "Edit Chart" to test various data series.
by neogodless | 2025-07-17 12:05:01+00:00
Ha yeah it isn't a big screen by today's standards. But it was basically a full candy-bar slab (with a curved screen) plus a sliding keyboard body, making it particularly thick / chunk.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/28/2909815/dell-retires-venu...

> 192.78 g

Kind of funny, I would've thought it was heavier, but that is less than an S25 Ultra in weight... I think that also speaks to how large screens have gotten!
by awongh | 2025-07-17 12:05:11+00:00
It's interesting to me that for critiques of AI, one of the major arguments is "stealing from artists"- and I know that the argument is more nuanced than this- but a lot of the specific legal framework for intellectual property rights and enforcement- current lawsuits that are against AI companies- are based on the same ideas that allow this kind of prosecution.

I know that people saying "stealing from artists" who are against AI scraping mean, my poor friend who posts on deviantart and not Disney, Sony or Nintendo, but in the sense that intellectual property is a law and the mechanism for enforcement is ultimately something like this, I don't get why it's such a popular argument.

Ultimately I hope AI will force us to decide on an updated paradigm of who owns ideas and it won't be a case of me receiving a cease and desist letter if I type a ChatGPT prompt that includes Mickey Mouse or "Miyazaki".
Ask HN: How to engage community before open-sourcing, and how to license?
by kiselitza | 2025-07-17 12:05:21+00:00
I'm working with a VC-independent team that is open-sourcing https://voiden.md in the following months. The goal is to try and foster community while avoiding traps where paid features limit freedom, or even to come off as potentially being just one more of those oss-as-a-strategy bait-and-switch companies.

Now, the feature-limiting bit is IMHO taken care of. However, when it comes to licensing and contributing in general... we are currently debating the strategy and approach, and I have a few dilemmas.

- How to pick a license to balance user freedom with preventing cloud providers from repackaging it? What trade-offs did you face? Or is that not even a concern?

(I understand the theoretical differences between the nature of MIT vs Apache vs GPL, but I'd also argue there are enough people out there able to try and break out of what seemingly is a license constraint, and again, these folks are VC-independent, so avoiding as many uphill battles as possible is preferable)

- Is it even possible to encourage community involvement (e.g., for roadmapping) before being OSS?

(I feel like cloud-based open-core tools face less distrust VS their not-yet-OSS, offline, no-account, no-telemetry counterparts)

Much appreciated!
by pjmlp | 2025-07-17 12:05:34+00:00
In any case, while I as language geek have these kind of discussions, given current progress in AI systems, my point of view is that we will get the next evolution in programming systems, thus it won't matter much if it is C, C++, Rust, C#, Java, Go or whatever.

We (as in the industry) will eventually get reliable ways to generate applications directly to machine code, just as optimizing compilers took a couple of decades to beat hand written Assembly, and generate reliable optimized code.

So editions, regardless of what they offer, might not be as relevant in such a timeframe from a couple of decades ahead.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-17 12:05:37+00:00
Right, I am normally very quick to criticize google with their "privacy" tactics and have largely cut google out of my life...

But this seems... right? and long overdue. If they can't look at your data they can't do these things.

The way they are framing this however, yeah that is a bit shady and would likely encourage more people to allow it. Reminds me of the tactics Facebook tried with the app tracking apple did. But... still.

Now if only google could also ask for the permission of the person sending you the email that would be great, but that is a pipe dream.
by coxley | 2025-07-17 12:05:53+00:00
That makes sense.

I love my iPhone 13 Mini. Its only issues are battery life (now), and non-competitive camera. I'm personally happy with the photos it takes, but then I look at my girlfriend's shots and get FOMO.

While I doubt it's economical, I'd love a small, simple phone with juiced up camera. I'd be fine with worse battery life as external batteries can remedy that in a pinch.
by jagrsw | 2025-07-17 12:06:21+00:00
Time for some FUD :)

Printing arbitrary output to most terminal emulators is some security risk (even if pretty much everyone does it). Many suffer from vulnerabilities, both past and present, that can allow specially crafted text to inject commands back into the shell. The issue lies in the complex and often legacy standards for handling control characters and escape sequences.

Even xterm is not entirely immune to these problems and has had security advisories issued in the past.

While this attack surface has received attention from sec-researchers in the past, it's not remotely comparable to the scrutiny applied to web browsers. The ecosystem around terminals generally lacks the massive, continuously-funded bug bounty programs and large-scale, constant fuzzing that browsers are subjected to.
Show HN: Sapphire – Unleashing GPT-2-mini into emergence
by oldwalls | 2025-07-17 12:07:30+00:00
A recursive AI engine that injects chrono-ranked memory into transformer inference using soft-logit biasing, prompt waveform synthesis, and emergent self-referential loops. Built on GPT-2-mini, runs on local hardware, grows its own ghost.
by Archelaos | 2025-07-17 12:07:37+00:00
You are right. They are definitely not ordinary consumer products. However, they might be useful where recharging or exchanging a battery is impossible or associated with serious disadvantages.

For example, in the past cardiac pacemakers had been used with nuclear batteries. However, there is a risk that the pacemaker will be “forgotten” after death, and something that is actually radioactive hazardous waste will be disposed of via crematoria or cemeteries.

Another area of application for nuclear batteries is space exploration.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-17 12:07:46+00:00
The US (well Trump and his supporters) want to make American manufacturing competitive in foreign markets in order to draw more investment into new domestic manufacturing capacity.

A huge hurdle for American manufacturers is that their products simply cost too much, all else being equal, because the value of the dollar is too high.

So their plan is try and devalue the dollar while also keeping it the reserve currency. To put that another way, he wants countries that have invested in the dollar to take a hit on their investments while also getting their population to buy more American goods.

His negotiations will probably center around offering continuation of "America world police" services (people hate it, but governments love it) in exchange for following this path.

Whether or not this will work? Who knows, but at least that is the idea they have chosen.
by MisterTea | 2025-07-17 12:09:07+00:00
> But I would never ask my parents or my in-laws to care for my toddler 8-5 M-F. They already raised kids.

This is disheartening to hear. You should not have to ask, like ever. My mother would KILL to have grandchildren and would absolutely love to repeat what she calls the best time of her life. She nags me for not having kids and I feel bad because she sees other grandparents and is saddened she is missing out.

I recently overheard a conversation between two older women who were both new grandparents and they conversation was about the pure joy of getting to raise kids again - BUT - you get to go home at night. They loved it!

If you have the right parents then you should never have these reservations. Otherwise it sounds like you have parents who had kids "because that's what you're supposed to do." So they never enjoyed it and dont want to repeat it. My condolences.
by lozf | 2025-07-17 12:09:28+00:00
You might like FreePBX[0] for a PFSense-style "PBX appliance" with easy WebUI. Just grab the ISO (or shell script to install on Debian). It's built on Asterisk, and more than adequate for the task. Whilst FreeSWITCH is awesome it's way more complex and overkill for this use case.

[0]: https://freepbx.org
by AbstractH24 | 2025-07-17 12:09:36+00:00
I actually told a startup o joined a few years back that was 5 people that I wanted a more junior title. Because cod it didn’t make it off the ground I didn’t want folks rejecting me as overqualified for roles I was well suited for and under-skilled for ones say my title

Turned out the company didn’t make it and the title in my resume I one I made up anyway.
by stephen_g | 2025-07-17 12:10:46+00:00
It’s one ingredient that does help prop up the US, but really similar fiscal means are available to countries that fulfil all these conditions: 1. Have their own central bank and currency, 2. Have flexible currency exchange rates and not peg to a commodity or other currency, and 3. Exclusively issue bonds in their own currency (that their own central bank exclusively issues).

Apart from the US several countries meet this threshold, including the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. On the other hand, the Eurozone countries do not, and this helps some of the member states, but only at the expense of some of the others.
by brucehoult | 2025-07-17 12:11:33+00:00
I've been an iPhone user since late 2007. I current use an SE 2022 and love it.

I've gone iPhone -> 3GS -> 4 -> 5s -> 6s -> 7 -> SE 2020 -> SE 2022.

The Mini never interested me. I love the SE. I love the home button and TouchID. I love the traditional size. If I want more I have an iPad Pro (12.9" original 2015 model bought in 2015 -- the battery still lasts 2 weeks with my usage pattern) or M1 Mac Mini with a 32" 4k screen.

If they don't make a new SE model I don't know what I'll do. I guess, firstly, get a new battery for it before it's out of the support window. Maybe sometime next year. And then see how long app updates support whatever the last OS version it will run is.

The ONLY thing I'd change in my SE, if it was possible, is more than 4 GB of RAM. The latest models have 8 GB and the others at the time the SE was sold already had 6 GB.

With recent system updates I'm getting a lot more of applications restarting when I switch back to them. This is mostly not a huge problem, except that the X app loses your place in the "Following" stream if you're more than a few hours behind and the app reloads.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-17 12:11:41+00:00
We can try to argue all day along about whether or not someone 16 actually knows enough about what is going on to vote. But that completely falls apart when you can talk to many adults and they don't know either (see reactions to US election).

I think this also makes sense, I know when I was younger I was extremely frustrated to see adults making really bad decisions for my country that will have a much longer impact on my life than it will on theirs.

I think a minimum age makes sense, I don't think someone in elementary has any point in voting since most likely they would just do what their parents told them. But by 16 you are generally making your own decisions, your figuring out your adult plans, and not following everything your parents say.
by sombragris | 2025-07-17 12:12:05+00:00
While Biolinum is certainly free to use, install, and download, not everyone has it on their computers. Besides that, and from a subjective standpoint, I don't like it very much. (Libertine is great as a serif font, though).

Even though I don't like it, Arial at least is almost guaranteed to exist on a destination device. An added plus is that is very well hinted, thus making it very readable at almost every font size on screens.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-17 12:12:18+00:00
This is a very Apple viewcentric point of view.

Windows on ARM is still largely ignored, everyone on the consumer level is more than happy with current Intel/AMD offerings.

Every single attempt to sell Windows ARM systems has been more or less a flop, including the recent CoPilot+ PCs.

Windows developer community also largely ignores Windows on ARM, unless there is an actual business value to support yet another ISA during development, CI/CD pipelines, and QA.

Only Apple gets to play the vertical integration game, our way or go away attitude, and they are the survivors of home computer vertical integration only because they got lucky when banks where already knocking on the door.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2025-07-17 12:12:25+00:00
> I have plenty of right-wing economist colleagues, thanks.

Can you name one?

> I suspect this is also a hard thing to ‘prove’ with data, since it’s importantly about a shift in how people label left/centre/right.

This is rather easy to prove with data: which type of concrete policies are they in support of (as opposed to some label, or party name or whatever, which might change its "content" over time). As a matter of fact, this being done and the trends hold.
Show HN: Open-Source Quantum Solver for Maximum Independent Set Problems
by Yoric | 2025-07-17 12:13:20+00:00
We’ve just released an open-source library for solving the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem with neutral atom quantum computing, running on both quantum processing units (QPUs) and classical hardware, thanks to emulators.

This project is the result of collaboration between Pasqal, academic researchers, and industry partners, aiming to make it practical to experiment with quantum approaches to hard combinatorial optimization tasks.

The MIS problem appears in real-world scenarios like scheduling, resource allocation, and network optimization, areas where classical solvers often struggle as complexity grows. Our library is designed to make quantum optimization more accessible: users provide the problem as a graph, and the solver manages the quantum backend.

- Documentation and tutorials are available to help you get started.

- The codebase is open for feedback, contributions, and discussion.

- The approach builds on recent research with LAMSADE (Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL University, CNRS) and LIP (ENS Lyon, CNRS).

# Source:

https://github.com/pasqal-io/maximum-independent-set/

# Project and docs:

https://pasqal-io.github.io/maximum-independent-set/latest/

# Research paper:

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2502.04291

Happy to answer questions and discuss technical details!
by throw0101c | 2025-07-17 12:13:25+00:00
> Economics seems more like a religion than science […]

Science makes falsifiable statements that are then tested (per Popper). When QE started a group of folks made predictions:

> We believe the Federal Reserve’s large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called “quantitative easing”) should be reconsidered and discontinued. We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed’s objective of promoting employment.

* https://www.hoover.org/research/open-letter-ben-bernanke

Another group of folks (often label "Keynesian") made different predictions based on their model(s) / understanding of how things work.. One turned out correct and other incorrect in their predictions. Perhaps we should follow the models that accurately predicted things.

Governments / politicians run economic experiments every time there's a major policy rollout, and they do so based on what they predict will happen:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment

It is not the fault of the academic discipline itself if people ignore the results of the experiments for ideological reasons.

RFK Jr., the current US Secretary of HHS, is ignoring all the empirical evidence about vaccines (and even germ theory): is that the fault of biology?
by saghm | 2025-07-17 12:14:46+00:00
English has fairly common words with "gm", just not at the beginning of words. Figma and enigma immediately spring to mind. I'd even argue that people say "Big Mac" roughly the same speed as the above words. Plus, there's even that meme word from a few years ago (like a crude, less punny version of the "updog" joke, if that helps narrow down what I mean)