MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by graemep | 2025-07-02 15:44:43+00:00
you are still arguing for a special exemption for the rich - or do you think that anyone who invests abroad should be exempt on tax on income from those assets? It would also create more loopholes. It would also create an inceniltive to invest abroad.

A shift from taxing income to taxing assets instead might work. A wealth tax instead but its not easy. Land can be valued, so can publicly traded investments. What about ownership of privately held businesses or works of art? Where are yachts and aircraft taxed?
by ookblah | 2025-07-02 15:44:53+00:00
honestly my theory is part of it is people who are very caught up in the "craft" part of it and now hate these LLMs for producing shit that pretty much works but isn't like this "perfect specimen" of coding architecture that they now have to pour over.

honestly, the vast majority of basically CRUD apps out there we are inflating our skills a bit too much here. even if the code is junk you can adapt your mindset to accept what LLMs produce, clean it up a bit, and come out with something maintainable.

like do these people ever have to review code from other people or juniors? the feedback loop here is tighter (although the drawback is your LLM doesn't "learn").

i wouldn't use it for anything super novel or cutting edge i guess, but i don't know, i guess everyone on HN might be coding some super secret advanced project that an LLM can't handle....?
by pimlottc | 2025-07-02 15:44:54+00:00
To be fair, the question implies the port number of the local service is the problem, when it's more about making sure users can access it without needing to specify a port number in the URL.

Yes, an experienced person might be able to suss out what the real problem was, but it's not really the LLMs fault for answering the specific question it was asked. Maybe you just wanted to run a server for testing and didn't realize that you can add a non-standard port to the URL.
by xoralkindi | 2025-07-02 15:45:08+00:00
"zero sum: relating to or denoting a situation in which whatever is gained by one side is lost by the other."

The data from the Fed show great inequality which can be expected from a zero-sum game. Another example check how under develop DR Congo is in the electronic age, while hardware (and to an extend software) companies are some of the most valuable companies, they all source raw materials from Congo.
by nico | 2025-07-02 15:45:21+00:00
> Managing a codebase written by an LLM is difficult because you have not cognitively loaded the entire thing into your head as you do with code written yourself

This happens with any sufficiently big/old codebase. We can never remember everything, even if we wrote it ourselves

I do agree with the sentiment and insight about the 2 branches of topics frequently seen lately on HN about AI-assisted coding

Would really like to see a live/video demo of semi-autonomous agents running in parallel and executing actual useful tasks on a decently complex codebase, ideally one that was entirely “manually” written by devs before agents are involved - and that actually runs a production system with either lots of users or paid customers
by DragonStrength | 2025-07-02 15:45:50+00:00
That narrative is BS. Kids stopped going into CS in America because of the Dotcom bust. The number didn't recover until 2014. Driven in large part by the Great Recession encouraging more kids to go into STEM -- certainly my Land Grant school in the Deep South could barely keep up with the surge. Kids that did STEM recently? Worst entry-level job market we've maybe ever seen. But the kids who did a different major and likely have better short term prospects are the problem?

But that narrative certainly shifts any blame away from the winners in recent years and onto "flyover state" Americans. And now the same folks who told kids to learn to code want them learning woodshop? Come on.
by kadhirvelm | 2025-07-02 15:45:56+00:00
I wonder if this is as good as LLMs can get, or if this is a transition period between LLM as an assistant, and LLM as a compiler. Where in the latter world we don’t need to care about the code because we just care about the features. We let the LLM deal with the code and we deal with the context, treating code more like a binary. In that world, I’d bet code gets the same treatment as memory management today, where only a small percent of people need to manage it directly and most of us assume it happens correctly enough to not worry about it.
by mentos | 2025-07-02 15:46:00+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with making my last meal of the day as far from my sleep as possible ideally waking up at 5am, drinking water / vitamins, exercising by lifting my dumb bells in my studio apartment, eating a 1k calorie breakfast and 1k calorie lunch and done with eating by ~1-2 so I have 4-6 hours to digest before bed

Best sleep I’ve ever gotten.

You don’t know what you’re missing out on until you’ve experienced not good but GREAT sleep.

if that’s too extreme avoid too much water before bed if you’re getting up to pee you are ruining your sleep
by tantalor | 2025-07-02 15:46:18+00:00
> too small

Eh?

* Gemma 1 (2024): 2B, 7B

* Gemma 2 (2024): 2B, 9B, 27B

* Gemma 3 (2025): 1B, 4B, 12B, 27B

This is the same range as some Llama models which you do mention.

> important historically

Aren't you trying to give a historical perspective? What's the point of this?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-02 15:46:20+00:00
It's really about who is getting the value from the work of the content. If content creators of all sorts have their work consumed by LLMs, and LLM orgs charge for it can capture all the value, why should people create to have their work vacuumed up for the robot's benefit? For exposure? You can't eat or pay rent with exposure. Humans must get paid, and LLMs (foundational models and output using RAG) cannot improve without a stream of works and data humans create.

Whether you call it training or something else is irrelevant, it's really exploitation of human work and effort for AI shareholder returns and tech worker comp (if those who create aren't compensated). And the technocracy has not been, based on the evidence, great stewards of the power they obtain through this. Pay the humans for their work.
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-02 15:46:24+00:00
Recent government payroll data has been hugely suspect. On the big release day the numbers are rosy and get reported to much hoopla and "told you" celebration, but then are subsequently revised downwards to little fanfare or notice. And for those who wonder "why revise downward if it's a lie?", because the numbers eventually are going to collide with reality so they need to be right sized after the fact.
by cornfieldlabs | 2025-07-02 15:47:10+00:00
For me it's the opposite. Autocomplete suggests the lines I just deleted and also suggests completely useless stuff. I have a shortcut to snooze (it's possible!) it. It interrupts flow my flow a lot. I would rather those stuff myself.

Chat mode on the other hand follows my rules really well.

I mostly use o3 - it seems to be the only model that has "common sense" in my experience
by collingreen | 2025-07-02 15:47:22+00:00
For me, undisclosed self promotion puts a very bad taste in my mouth, to the point of coming off as bad faith. I dislike pretending you're just mentioning a cool service since you're effectively trying to trick me with false social proof.

If the post had said "I made xyz which could auto generate domains for these ideas using ai to fully close the slop gap" I wouldn't mind and might even appreciate the additional fun.
by xpe | 2025-07-02 15:47:49+00:00
And AI in general* poses existence-level questions (that could go either way: good or bad) regarding military applications, medical research, economic benefits, quality of life, human thriving, etc.

The idea that the future is going to “more or less be predictable” and “within the realm of normal” is a pretty bold claim when you look at history! Paradigm shifts happen. And many people think we’re in the middle of one — people that don’t necessarily have an economic interest in saying so.

* I’m not taking a position here about predicting what particular AI technologies will come next, for what price, with what efficiency and capabilities, and when. Lots of things could happen we can’t predict — like economic cycles, overinvestment, energy constraints, war, popular pushback, policy choices, etc. But I would probably bet that LLMs are just the beginning.
by jassyr | 2025-07-02 15:47:52+00:00
I'm in a similar situation but with multiple sclerosis for over 15 years. I love to exercise, however on some days a medium-intensity cardio session will leave my brain functioning at like 50% which is not great for my job. I gotta work hard to make sure my gas tank has enough for all the tasks planned for that day. My neurologist calls it Energy Management.
by ethbr1 | 2025-07-02 15:48:23+00:00
> if Gates, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Page had not had the wealth to create the businesses that made them billionaires, those businesses wouldn't exist

Bullshit. They would have all created those businesses as long as their personal financial situation improved through them.

Arguing that it takes 0.1% wealth payoffs to incentivize business creation is false.

Someone would do it for anything greater than average, if there were global minimums, and a tax structure that allowed corporations to retain capital was used.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-02 15:48:27+00:00
If you look at the income curve of household income over the last 100 years, you will see that the curve went from clumped around $60k to flattened and rolled out extending up to hundreds of thousands.

Put simply, back in the day everyone earned pretty similar pay. Nowadays pay is much more spread out and lots more families make way more money than they would have 40 years ago. The market really loves these high earning households (not billionairs, I mean $100k+) and naturally gravitates towards catering to them. The $60k households get left out.
by devilbunny | 2025-07-02 15:48:41+00:00
The federal government has encouraged all this; if Medicare/Medicaid didn't cut payments, the private insurers likely would not have followed their lead.

One of the big ways that cost containment has been done is forcing more efficiency. That should be a good thing, right? Except that small rural hospitals will never, ever be as efficient as large urban ones. And the "disproportionate share" (overly large amounts of Medicare/Medicaid patients) payments aren't enough to keep those places open. So while it's definitely saved money, that's not much help when you live an hour or more away from any healthcare facility.
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by 1dom | 2025-07-02 15:49:01+00:00
Haha, it was made up on the spot, thank you though! I think your articles and notes are proof that there's a lot of value and use in "trivial" examples. They're very close to the sort of examples a lot of tech people can actually use as individual professional engineers.

I think the void where non-trivial examples should be is the same space where contrarians and the last remaining few LLMs-are-useless crowd hangout.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-02 15:49:30+00:00
> Curtis Yarvin and the Boys that follow his philosophy

Curtis has done a good job of getting people to forget his white nationalism, though he insists he isn't one, but he's quite comfortable with it.

> It should be obvious that, although I am not a white nationalist, I am not exactly allergic to the stuff.

And though he later wrote articles saying "I'm not a white nationalist", they were largely sympathetic to the "cause" and then just said "but I'm not one."
by mekoka | 2025-07-02 15:49:38+00:00
> How do I sell my SaaS to SMBs and large corporations when they don't even reply.

If that's your target, then you might possibly be operating under at least a few wrong assumptions.

As they say, you always want to sell to stakeholders. In large orgs, most people you can talk to just earn a salary. If you're selling time, money, or savings for the org, they're rarely interested. What usually holds their attention are magicians that offer to make their problems disappear.

You're trying to sell a DIY kit to companies where, past a certain size, the type of competency required becomes a rare commodity in-house (regardless of how ridiculously simple the solution). So they typically avoid upgrading themselves into new problems. Integrating a SaaS is always a new problem.

In addition to selling the tools to solve their problems, can you also offer to sell the service that makes them go away? Can you be the magician that makes entire problems disappear? What if you told them you'll take them away for a fee, could that get their attention? Try it and see if it at least gets the conversation going. If it does, you can lay out a price table where you charge a premium to hire a few people to work on it with your own tools.
by AznHisoka | 2025-07-02 15:49:45+00:00
“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.”

Thats a huge assumption IMO. 99% of people never even reach this point. It depends on a lot of domain knowledge, a market, differentiation from competitors and luck too.

Marketing is important, no doubt but mo amount of marketing can overcome a product nobody has the urgency to buy
by nicbou | 2025-07-02 15:49:48+00:00
I use footnotes abusively on https://allaboutberlin.com. I also use all the tricks mentioned. I exclusively use then to cite sources.

I can tell that some readers check sources, because the links sometimes shift around and users report those errors. They're a good way to get clarification on certain things.

I do think that the markers are distracting. They also get included in copied/pasted text. I tried different fixes but they all fall short. Numbers work best.
by oytis | 2025-07-02 15:49:53+00:00
That's very touching, but not very nuanced - which is fine for a 6 minute video, but maybe it's just not the right format for this topic.

Like, yes, if the regime is planning extermination of your people, you'd better run as soon as possible. But in case of milder authoritarian regimes like Russia, emigration only made ths regime fiercer and stronger as society gets more homogeneous when dissenters leave. Centres of resistance in safe places is a fairy tail, you can't resist if you are not there.

I think it's way too early to give up on America - the authoritarian turn there has just started, and it's a duty of Americans to stop it while it's still possible. Otherwise eventually they will discover they have nowhere to run, it's going to have a domino effect if American democracy falls
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-07-02 15:49:58+00:00
Americans focused on other things: software, product development, high tech higher value stuff and so on. Our success there might not have been possible without the rise in manufacturing in China to actually make the things designed in the USA, we definitely didn’t have the population to do both, even if we did have the money.

But now we are in a hard spot because China has been focusing on STEM while we’ve been importing a lot of our STEM needs (from places like India and China). China is now in a position to do both, and they have the population, skills, and resources to do both.
by AsmodiusVI | 2025-07-02 15:50:04+00:00
Just saw this in the release notes, super excited to try it out.

Compose supporting an AI agent stack out of the box could be a big deal. I just saw a Reddit thread around using compose in production and I'm thinking I can put these two together. The idea of spinning up a whole multi-container setup for an LLM app (like a vector DB, orchestrator, backend, etc.) with a single compose up could work to actually get stuff to prod. I’ve been hacking around and struggling with this. Curious to see how far I can push this, might finally be the clean setup I can share.
by repelsteeltje | 2025-07-02 15:50:12+00:00
> Overall simple security design flaws but it's good to see a company that cares to fix them, even if they didn't take security seriously from the start.

It depends on what you mean by simple security design flaws. I'd rather frame it as, neglect or incompetence.

That isn't the same as malice, of course, and they deserve credits for their relatively professional response as you already pointed out.

But, come on, it reeks of people not understanding what they're doing. Not appreciating the context of a complicated device and delivering a high end service.

If they're not up to it, they should not be doing this.
by emilecantin | 2025-07-02 15:50:20+00:00
I'm in a similar boat. I've only started using it more very recently, and it's really helping my "white-page syndrome" when I'm starting a new feature. I still have to fix a bunch of stuff, but I think it's easier for me to fix, tweak and refactor existing code than it is to write a new file from scratch.

Often times there's a lot of repetition in the app I'm working on, and there's a lot of it that's already been abstracted away, but we still have to import the component, its dependencies, and setup the whole thing which is indeed pretty boring. It really helps to tell the LLM to implement something and point it to an example of the style I want.
by Ray20 | 2025-07-02 15:50:30+00:00
> seeing a shitload of links demonstrating that 12.8% of US households are food insecure.

This is definitely not a manipulation of statistics and not a trivialization of food insecurity that are relevant to many parts of the world. And then they wonder why people choose to support billionaires instead of you lying cannibals.

> such as India

> Madagascar isn't capitalist? Palestine?

No? This countries has nothing to do with an economy built on the principles of the inviolability of private property and economic freedom. USA has more socialism than this countries have capitalism.

> How can someone not be an enemy of society when they maintain artificial scarcity by hoarding such a massive portion of society's output

because it is not portion of society's output that matters, but size of that output. What's the point of even distribution if size of the share is not enough even to not to die from starvation?

> Since when has "greed" not been a universally reviled trait?

Question is not either greed reviled trait or not. Greed is a fact of human nature. The question is what this ineradicable human quality leads to in specific economic systems: to universal prosperity, as under capitalism, or to various abominations like mass starvation, as without it.
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by igor_strelkov | 2025-07-02 15:50:31+00:00
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by wing-_-nuts | 2025-07-02 15:50:33+00:00
>This is captured as part of the "U-6" figure for unemployment.

I always wonder how this is captured. For U-3, you could go with the number getting unemployment benefits. For U-6, you'd have to literally call people and ask them, and I've literally never been called to ask if I'm working in my field and I'd guess most of us haven't either. I have to think if they are sampling, it's a very narrow sample likely biased by geography, industry, age, etc.
by dardeaup | 2025-07-02 15:50:35+00:00
In my opinion, the following are additional factors that are often overlooked when discussing the competitiveness of USA manufacturing:

1) OSHA - if you have more than 10 employees, you're subject to OSHA regulations. Do other countries have comparable regulations for keeping their workers safe and healthy? 2) Decline of shop classes - shop/industrial classes used to be widespread in high schools. Not as much these days. Why? 3) Litigious society - our society is quick to sue and the legal standard used in civil trials is "more likely than not". 4) Drug addictions - look at any job posting for manufacturing, labor, construction, etc. and you'll see mention about drug screening. 5) Fat, dumb, and happy society - we care more about Super Bowl Sunday, Hollywood, reality shows, etc. On average, we're lazy and care more about being entertained.
by edmundsauto | 2025-07-02 15:50:40+00:00
Current state AI is a best fit for jobs that can be easily verified as correct. In my 20+ years, this is at least 75% of the work I’ve ever done. Maybe 99.999% (I have led a very boring career.)

There’s an enormous amount of value in doing this. For the harder problems you mentioned - most IC SWE are also incapable or unwilling to do the work. So maybe the current state has equivalent capabilities to 95% of coders out there? But it works faster, cheaper, and doesn’t object to tedious work like documentation. It doesn’t require labor law compliance, hiring, onboarding/offboarding, or cause interpersonal conflict.
by quacked | 2025-07-02 15:50:41+00:00
I don't disagree with anything you're saying. I think we're making the same point, namely that if one business operates American-style and the other business operates third-world style, the third-world style business will win on price every time, making it incredibly, prohibitively difficult to operate "American-style" at scale.

America itself operated "third-world style" for centuries.
by danans | 2025-07-02 15:50:46+00:00
If your metric is "more/better jobs", then yes tariffs are a failure.

But in a roundabout sense ... yes they are working. At least if the goal is to discipline and squeeze labor, and return leverage to employers.

Part of the goal of the tariffs (and other non-tariff related policies) seems to be to reset leverage at all layers of the labor markets, pushing higher skilled and paid workers into lower skilled and paid manufacturing jobs by increasing the labor availability pool (primarily via workers being unable to get jobs at their previous skill/salary level).

For example, imagine a former software engineer taking a lower paid job as an IT admin at a mining company.

Similarly, cutting Medicaid benefits and adding work requirements could trigger increased availability of the lowest skilled labor, thereby reducing the wages that people doing that labor can demand.

That is all a boost for employers seeking lower cost but high skilled labor, but a knock down for all the workers.
by rockeetterark | 2025-07-02 15:50:59+00:00
It depends on workloads, in most cases, there is at least 3x perf gain. One of our customer get 20x perf gain(point search).

Another significant improvement is `select count(*) from SomeTable` in MyTopling, I optimized such query by 30x+ faster than MyRocks, 10x+ faster than InnoDB, while the multi-thread scaling is near linear -- better than InnoDB.