MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coldtea | 2025-07-02 10:34:27+00:00
You might enjoy this then:

Davenports and kettle drums And swallowtail coats Tablecloths and patent leather shoes Bathing suits and bowling balls And clarinets and rings And all this radio really needs is a fuse A tinker, a tailor, a soldier's things His rifle, his boots full of rocks And this one is for bravery and this one is for me And everything's a dollar in this box Cuff links and hubcaps Trophies and paperbacks It's good transportation But the brakes aren't so hot Neckties and boxing gloves This jackknife is rusted You can pound that dent out on the hood A tinker or tailor, a soldier's things His rifle, his boots full of rocks Oh, and this one is for bravery, oh, and this one is for me And everything's a dollar in this box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwC8ETa0pg
by DimKat | 2025-07-02 10:36:57+00:00
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Would love to hear how it runs on your machine, especially if you’re on something older or multi-monitor. Also happy to answer anything about how we built it, or trade horror stories with other indie devs.

Thanks for checking it out and your honest feedback :)
by MrJohz | 2025-07-02 10:37:44+00:00
Hmm, I really don't like the idea that you would have these kinds of directives as specialised tools, rather than having a single standard approach. From experience, it's often hard to explain the differences between these sorts of different directives, especially if someone is coming from a React/VDOM perspective where everything Just Works™. This feels like a very significant impedance mismatch that will cause problems in practical usage.
by throwaway41597 | 2025-07-02 10:38:39+00:00
Trees excel at harvesting water. When you water a tree, there is evaporative cooling like an artificial cooler but during the night, the dew falls back on the leaves and the ground where some of it finds its way back to the trees (possibly via an invertebrate first). Also the reflectiveness of leaves helps. Then there's the soil where layers of dead leaves, wood and others accumulate, sequester CO2 and create a sponge. Finally, by virtue of making the region cooler, rain is more likely to fall. Humans can probably engineer something better but the bar is high.
by imartin2k | 2025-07-02 10:39:20+00:00
Lots of promising AI startups from Sweden now are gearing up for global conquest (mostly AI apps though, there are fewer foundation & AI infra startups). The success of Lovable fuels this, plus the founder Anton Osika is friends with many of the other founders, so there’s a lot of mutual supporting going on.

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by yieldcrv | 2025-07-02 10:41:44+00:00
Interesting article about hair salons. Someone research the ones performing lip injections too.

My observations so far have been that many women are peer pressuring otherwise attractive women to get botched lip injections, or she performs the botched injection on the client. There seems to be an even greater lack of assertiveness with women towards other women (compared to men and well documented power dynamics). This is also immunized from criticism by saying it was for themselves, as opposed to anything to do with the male gaze.

Would love a study corroborating this.
by smt88 | 2025-07-02 10:41:47+00:00
This is almost a parody of pointless social science.

Assuming we can find a reason this topic deserved study, does it generalize to other countries? Will it be true in 10 years? Was it true 50 years ago?

And if it does generalize, what is interesting about the revelation that women sometimes intentionally give sabotaging advice? It's either common or obvious enough that it appears unquestioned in mainstream entertainment regularly. Do we need to empirically confirm every detail of human experience?
by diggan | 2025-07-02 10:42:04+00:00
> might i suggest purchasing a bidet. you can get one for less than $50 on amazon and it will help you dramatically cut down on toilet paper

You may suggest whatever you want :) We do have an installed bidet in our main bathroom, as most houses where I live has those. Tried it, didn't like it, will proceed with using paper as currently it doesn't have many drawbacks and doesn't leave me feeling "more dirty" afterwards than using water would.
by whymememe | 2025-07-02 10:43:01+00:00
???

I haven’t seen the narrative that Ukraine is winning the war for at least 2 years. You should maybe choose better news sources, there’s a huge amount of very accurate reporting on it.

Additionally, the Russian economy is a wartime economy, which runs hot till it collapses or wins. It’ll be fine till it’s not, but it’s very hard to predict what that point is.
by ben_w | 2025-07-02 10:44:18+00:00
20 years is far too long a time horizon to make a sensible prediction, to even say if the other post is an overestimate or an underestimate by either time or percentage.

20 years ago, the state of the art in AI was so bad that it predates reCAPTCHA being a functional business model for how to get labelled training data for an OCR to read scans of books. In cars, the DARPA Grand Challenge (2004) had no cars able to complete the route, and the winner only got 11.78 km (of 240 km) before getting stuck, and the subsequent Grand Challenge had yet to happen because that was October 8, 2005.

I can't sensibly forecast past 2032, because that's when various things currently under exponential growth reach absolute levels that I think suggest the exponential assumption may stop working. But also, I don't expect wild AI-induced economic disruption* before then, because one of those exponential growths is renewable energy getting to near-parity with current global electricity supply by about then, and the fact that the current global electricity supply is "only" 250 watts/capita, which means** there's just not enough electricity to run enough computers to disrupt that many jobs.

But if the question is "when will the AI be good enough to do ${task}?", rather than "how fast can we deploy the AI when this happens?", I have seen both (1) people claim we're decades away from AI doing things mere months before AI did those things, and also (2) Musk repeatedly saying FSD is 0.5-2 years away every year for the last decade, and when he finally soft-launched his robotaxi it was 6.5 years behind Waymo's.

* by which I mean international >20% unemployment that's not just due to a war or a global financial crisis or a pandemic

** absent algorithmic breakthroughs; I don't expect enough of those to matter, but I do expect some. I am also accounting for computers getting more energy efficient, because that's still happening and we're a long way from the theoretical limits.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-07-02 10:44:51+00:00
I did maintain a list of all my subscriptions in FreshRSS for a while. I started doing this after I noticed Youtube was withholding videos from the subscription page and then showing them too me as something I might like on the home page. This really irritated me it broke my process for finding where I last was.

The problem was while I migrated in a big chunk using some jank javascript this wasn't a process that kept in sync and gradually over time it got out of date and the initial problem was fixed and I removed them all. I haven't yet seen an open source self hosted solution for this for getting the list and providing an Atom feed but its definitely something I want.
by nashashmi | 2025-07-02 10:48:39+00:00
Ok, others have more runway, and less research talent.

OpenAI has enough runway to figure things out and place themselves in a healthier position.

And come to think of it, loosing a few researchers to other companies may not be so bad. Like you said that others have cash to burn. They might spend that cash more liberally and experiment with bolder riskier products and either fail spectacularly or succeed exponentially. And OpenAI can still learn from it well enough and still benefit even though it was never their cash.
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by jwr | 2025-07-02 10:48:57+00:00
SaaS founder here. I'm assuming you got the basics right, so you do have a product market fit proven by having paying customers who are happy with your product. With that assumption:

Marketing became much more important than it used to be. I used to be able to rely on organic growth from people finding my SaaS using search engines. But this ended several years ago. Marketing also became much more difficult than it used to be. Generic ads on Google or LinkedIn no longer work, unless you can spend huge amounts of money on testing. I found all paid ads to be a waste of money.

If you have a B2B SaaS, you run into the additional problem of people being busy and not hanging out in forums. With consumers, things are more straightforward. You can generally blast an ad on Reddit, Instagram, and some other sites, and people will see it. Not so with B2B. Many of your customers will be busy working, and they will not pay any attention to work-related ads outside of work.

Content marketing also became more difficult. With search engines, especially Google, going down the drain and the deluge of crappy SEO-gaming and AI-generated content, it's difficult to rise above the noise.

I haven't found the right solution yet.
by SilverBirch | 2025-07-02 10:49:46+00:00
I'm incredibly skeptical of this idea that AI is creating such efficiencies that employers can hire fewer engineers.

Firstly, there's the massive confounding factor of Covid, the stock market went crazy, companies went on crazy hiring sprees etc. and the tail of that bullwhip effect is clearly still putting downward pressure on hiring from organisations that overhired.

But secondly, are we seriously saying that in the last 2 years, relatively slow moving companies adopted AI LLMs to help coders, integrated them into our work flows, and saw the results of those productivity gains in business outcomes?

I think it's unlikely. I think it's much more likely that CEOs love to watch where the crowd is going and then run to the front and shout "follow me". You don't actually need to have productivity gains for shareholders to reward you for saying how this is going to boost your margins and cut your costs. And this is even more true for companies like Salesforce for whom "AI" is a product they're selling. Marc Benioff isn't actually doing "AI is great I'll fire all my engineers", he's saying "AI is great, come buy Salesforce's AI products!". As for Microsoft, they employee almost a quarter of a million people, laying off 6,000 is a drop in the ocean, that scale of layoffs happen frequently at companies the size of Microsoft.

It's very much more just vibes than real data driving this. "<CEO who sells product> says product will cure cancer".

The underlying truth is that the competitive environment hasn't changed, if you can hire fewer engineers to do the same job, great, but your competitors are going to hire more engineers and out-compete you.
by saubeidl | 2025-07-02 10:49:51+00:00
I have a different interpretation of this. As our economy and expertise grows, we move further and further into foundational parts of the stack while leaving the implementation details to less developed countries.

All modern semiconductors need ASML machines.

All modern AI is based on research by Sepp Hochreitner.

The www is based on work done by CERN.

Most factories are run on Siemens automation systems.

We've moved on from lower-level concerns like building chips to a higher level, directionally controlling the way economies and societies develop.
by i_don_t_know | 2025-07-02 10:50:03+00:00
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by nosianu | 2025-07-02 10:50:40+00:00
Plus, according to the article, even sinking relatively slowly the crew did not even manage to launch all the lifeboats they had, so more of them would probably not have made a difference.

They also based the decision for the number of lifeboats on empiric data. According to the article, until then lifeboats launched from ships out at sea had a very bad track record. Rarely did anyone survive, they just died from lack of food and water.

Instead, they started to making the actual ships much more survivable. The main purpose of those lifeboats then was to ferry passengers to rescue ships, so a full set for every single person on board was not needed.

It is a very interesting article. Every time I hear some simple story, as soon as someone more knowledgeable has a look it begins to look very different from the little snippet known and spread by the public. I never trust simple stories any more, so I am glad I heard a different version of the simple "The Titanic did not have enough lifeboats".

Reading the whole still short article is worth it! I'm summarizing a few additional points because I am definitely not complaining about common habits of readers who are more likely to read the comments :-)
by dinfinity | 2025-07-02 10:50:47+00:00
Depends on the definition of "same" for the cell. It's not straightforward at all.

Most symbols in language where you try this refer to macrostates, collections of microstates that conform to the relevant macrostate pattern. Assigning identity in the first place is highly dependent on what purpose/function you're assigning identity for: what are you trying to achieve by labeling a macrostate as such?

The Ship of Theseus is a classic example in this regard, but complicated by the 'of Theseus' bit: Are we trying to determine ownership? Who built it? Who is standing on it? Those questions lead to very different answers for the thought experiment; they depend on how you define "The Ship of Theseus". Sidenote: examples that include consciousness such as teleportation thought experiments complicate matters even more.

The Sorites paradox / paradox of the heap is one of the simplest thought experiments in this category that mostly avoids that but still runs into the "well, what are you defining a heap for?" issue. One way out is fuzzy membership: Unless you have to act on whether something is a heap or not it is also fine to say "this is 80% like a heap", but as soon as you do have to act on it the 80% membership doesn't cut it.

We don't really have to act on heaps in a way where a sloppy assignment of membership matters, but there are similar things where it matters a lot. A relevant example would be abortion: half-aborting a baby isn't going to work; you're either going to end up with an alive or a dead baby. So defining a fetus fuzzily as "80% human" doesn't help. You are going to have to define a cutoff to achieve a binary distinction and make a decision. Another sidenote: converting fuzzy input patterns to better defined output patterns or even binary distinctions is kind of what neurons do.

edit, addendum: There are of course many dimensions along which to define cutoffs for abortion. The 'is/is not human' distinction is mainly relevant if you start from the premise 'no innocent humans should be killed intentionally' or something similar, which isn't necessarily a given.

A very compressed form of the way I look at it, but hopefully clear and interesting enough.
by eclecticfrank | 2025-07-02 10:52:58+00:00
Germany technically has a wealth tax. However, it is supended since 1997, because the methods of how real estate wealth was calculated were outdated and thus considered unconsittutional.

Tax is not collected, but the supporting law has never been revoked.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verm%C3%B6gensteuer_(Deutschla... (Sorry, no translation available)
by tliltocatl | 2025-07-02 10:53:10+00:00
Sorry, sounds like total bullshit. The weights aren't going to do anything. And if you are worried about the code, with current deployment practices of curl | sudo bash there are much more low-hanging fruits out there. That's not even mentioning the possibility of running the model on a PC without internet access (no matter how good the new Chinese AI is, it's still not good enough yet to convince you to let it out of the box).
by coldtea | 2025-07-02 10:54:06+00:00
>does it generalize to other countries? Will it be true in 10 years? Was it true 50 years ago?

Does it matter? Contemporary and local phenomena are also worth studying.

Besides, the conclusions from such a research, assuming it's done well, are not about the specifics (hair length advice, US) but about competitive character in psychology and social dynamics in general.

Like the already generic takeaway "intrasexually competitive people sabotage others through means of advice" (that can just as well apply to ancient Rome or space colonies in 2500).
by lioeters | 2025-07-02 10:54:36+00:00
> vaguely repressive surveillance

It's authoritarianism, and frankly paving the way for fascism. People are already getting visits from the police for unsavory Facebook posts. Be careful not to criticize your government online, because soon every post will be instantly judged by an AI system and you'll be flagged as a disobedient citizen in need of a bit of the old boot.
by sofixa | 2025-07-02 10:56:32+00:00
Nobody is saying that Ukraine is winning the war. Like, genuinely, go find me any reputable news source saying anything of the like from the past 3 years.

Russia is definitely losing it though. Morons got themselves into a war they cannot win. Nothing Ukraine will accept can be considered a victory for the strongman dictator who needs a victory. And it's obvious now that regardless of brutality and war crimes, Russia cannot force Ukraine to accept their terms, nor can they actually occupy the whole country And they only have multiple times the population and economy and army.

> Their economy is dying crashing but it is actually doing better than most of Europe.

Based on what? Look up the parable of the broken window to understand why some of their economic numbers are looking decent. Them losing most of their export markets, replaced by others that pay less for the same stuff (India, China, buy discount oil and gas because Russia doesn't have that many options who to sell to) isn't a benefit for Russia.

> You should stop following western main stream media as that is as controlled in its own way as Chinese or Russian state owned media. You just have an illusion of freedoms.

This is an insulting false equivalence that can only come from a profound lack of knowledge or a profound personal/financial interest.

"Mainstream media* in the "west" is very varied. From the Financial Times to the Guardian to New York Times to Le Monde to whatever you can think of. You would never see Russian or Chinese state owned media criticising the dear leader nor the regime. Le Monde don't even flinch reporting on various political scandals of French politicians, including the sitting Prime Minister. Nor will they shy away from an apology and correction if they got something wrong. Same goes for most reputable and quality "mainstream" "western" media.

You'll never see anything of the like in China or Russia. Especially in the later, journalists literally get murdered for reporting on the regime. (Novaya Gazeta have had how many employees killed).
by Fluorescence | 2025-07-02 10:57:03+00:00
IANAL but the EU legislation is very broad about what it covers e.g.

"AI systems should fall within the scope of this Regulation even when they are neither placed on the market, nor put into service, nor used in the Union."

I don't really understand the limits of it's scope e.g. the difference between making a system available vs. controlling how it's used is not clear to me. I don't think you can escape the regulation of high-risk uses by offering a "general purpose" AI with no controls on how it's used.

In terms of the open-source nature - I can see it being treated like giving away any other regulated product e.g. medication, cars, safety equipment etc. The lack of cost won't transfer the liability from the supplier to the consumer.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...
by dgb23 | 2025-07-02 10:57:12+00:00
For reference:

Switzerland has one of the highest percentage of foreigners in Europe, four official languages, a decentralized political system, very frequent direct democratic votes and consensus governance (no mayors, governors and prime ministers, just councils all the way down).

Switzerland set up in such a way that it absorbs and integrates many different cultures into a decentralized, democratic system. One of the primary historical causes for this is our belligerent past. I'd like to think that this was our only way out of constantly hitting each other over our heads.
by mikepapadim | 2025-07-02 10:57:36+00:00
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by dspillett | 2025-07-02 10:58:17+00:00
> This is the first study to find that new, made-up “swear” words do not have similar pain alleviation effects to regular swearing.

I think this is in part due to the nature of the words, they “appeal” (perhaps come from) a much older part of our minds than the idea that they might be offensive. The most effective swears are generally about procreation and other bodily functions - the things that we cared about before we even had that much of our current language.

Another side effect of this seems to be visible in those with dementia and other age or illness related degradations: some can barely say a few words normally but can still string a perfectly coherent set of expletives together when they need or want.