MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by em-bee | 2025-07-24 14:18:47+00:00
Values tend to be either innate, or deeply ingrained and mostly immutable

i strongly disagree with that. values are learned, and they can be unlearned. people can change, and someone who kicks puppies can not only be made aware of the pain they are inflicting, and also completely turn around and reject their previous behavior. there is no invisible line that if you'd cross it, you wouldn't be able to turn back from. believing that denies others the power to change themselves.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-24 14:18:55+00:00
>but the Eurozone Crisis (2007-2014, 2018 for Greece) was also extremely severe and out of corporate leadership's hands.

What does Greece's economic crisis have to do with the way European companies are run?

>In the US, enforcing vendor arrears and collecting dues from bankrupt customers is much easier. These are business law issues that business leadership within the 26+ EU/EFTA nations cannot solve, as this is a legislative issue.

I think you'll find it's exactly the opposite.

In many EU countries, if you're behind on payment, the government's debt collection agency comes after you and seizes your assets to pay off your debt, while in the US a lot of people have 5 figure debts spread over 20 different credit cards, debt they'll never repay because the collection process is up to the CC companies, not on federal government, so CC companies give up after a while since the cost to chase down people to collect a 1000$ debt is not worth it.

This doesn't work in the EU. If you have 20 Euro unpaid debt, the state's debt collection agency will slap a 1000 Euro collection fee on that and seize 1020 Euros worth of your assets be it from your home, bank account or from your pension fund.

That's how Swedish payment provider Klarna si going bust in the US due to how many people are defaulting on their debts from buying burritos and pizzas off DoorDash, probably because Klarna naively assumed it was gonna be like in Sweden where the government goes after you to collect the 20 Euros you owe.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
by softwaredoug | 2025-07-24 14:19:15+00:00
Obviously AI is a massive and important area for economic growth. But so is clean energy. And both right now are at an inflection point.

It seems the US is going to thrive with the former but naively stick our heads in the sands with the latter.

We’ll cede economic leadership, and wonder in 20 years what happened as other countries lead in energy. Even worse, the administrations stance will encourage US energy companies to pursue bad strategies, letting them avoid transforming their business. In 10-20 years they'll be bankrupt and the US will probably have to bail them out for strategic reasons.
by SH_Oh | 2025-07-24 14:20:00+00:00
Thanks for checking this out.

I built this after-hours as a way to explore AI not just as a tool, but as a mirror — something that could reflect the shape of human reasoning itself.

It’s still very early, but I’d love to hear what feels valuable (or flawed!) about the idea, the architecture, or the use cases.

Open to all thoughts — critical or curious.
by AvAn12 | 2025-07-24 14:20:06+00:00
The budget is the policy, stripped of rhetoric. What any government spends money on IS a full and complete expression of its priorities. The rest is circus.

What increased and decreased in the most recent budget bill? That is the full and complete story.

If no $$ for open source or open weight model development, then that is not a policy priority, despite any nice words to the contrary.
Show HN:Turn any YouTube video to structured data:youtube.com → indexyoutube.com
by tatiats7 | 2025-07-24 14:20:13+00:00
Built a simple tool inspired by GitIngest and DeepWiki — it lets you extract structured data from any YouTube video by changing the domain:

youtube.com → indexyoutube.com

You get: - Auto-generated summaries - Keywords - Full video metadata

Great for building smarter discovery/search apps. Here’s a quick demo video: https://youtu.be/2jarm3P0aE0 Would love your feedback!
by seangrogg | 2025-07-24 14:20:31+00:00
A 5-20% markup on CPUs isn't the worst thing, but those still need a mobo to socket into and as far as I'm aware we still don't have much capability on the availability of boards. Are there any companies that are spinning up board production, or even just broader consumer electronics in general (arduinos, pis, general controllers and the like)?
by sofixa | 2025-07-24 14:21:01+00:00
> I'm sure you feel the same way about cutting down on cell phones right

How many people die in cell phone accidents yearly where you live? How many have reduced lifespans due to the pollution of cell phones? And how many hours can be saved per year per human with good cell phone sharing? I would guess the number is 0 for all of those, but quite a bit higher for cars alternative transportation options.

If you feel personally offended by the mere idea that there might be alternatives to cars, and that at the scale of a human settlement, they're often better, you need to take a step back and consider why you identify yourself with cars so much. And if that doesn't help, consider that more people having alternatives means less cars on the roads, so more space for you to vroom vroom around and less people bothering you on the road!
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-24 14:21:09+00:00
Demand traffic lights using a loop sensor that can pick up a car through magnetism are nothing new. They can be a problem for cyclists because many bikes don't have enough metal.

There used to be a traffic light in Ithaca where if you were heading out of town via the South hill you could bypass South Aurora St and instead go up a residential street up a steep hill with very little traffic, hang a left and trigger the light and almost always get the light to turn red in front of the person who was in front of you on the main road.

They retimed it so this didn't work anymore.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-07-24 14:21:18+00:00
> Added complexity in compiling is a tradeoff to consider, of course, but "bad idea" is also nonsense there. It requires a different set of priorities, but those priorities may very well be exactly what a project needs.

Yes, there are cases in which CGo’s tradeoffs are appropriate, but you’re rebutting my claim that CGo is a bad default, so you need to show that CGo is appropriate in the default case (you went so far as to call it “nonsense”), not merely that there exists some project for which CGo’s tradeoffs are appropriate.
by JustExAWS | 2025-07-24 14:21:47+00:00
Why do I have the feeling you are not a minority, have never been stopped or questioned for being some place you “didn’t belong” or had to tell your six foot 3 step son to make sure that he and his other Black friend (two of five Black guys in the entire school) didn’t walk to the Waffle House to meet their friends after the football game unless their White friend was going with them because they would get harassed by the police?

No I’m not saying “everyone is racist”. But it’s not my responsibility to spend my energy educating racist and to proffer myself as “one of the good ones”.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-07-24 14:22:08+00:00
> Do any claim it is likely that LLMs are conscious? Or do they agree with me?

Overall no claim was made by me or anyone that they are likely conscious. No claim is made that they are unconscious either. That is inline with my claim and in total agreement with that we don’t know.

Your claim is that LLMs are extremely likely to be unconscious and the answer to that claim is NO. The general sentiment is not in agreement with you on that. There is no hard sentiment that we know for sure.

>Look at yourself. When did I claim it’s impossible? Never did. I said it’s unlikely.

Did I say you said it’s impossible? I didn’t. More hallucinations.

> But we aren’t at that point with LLMs. Hence, I say it’s unlikely. Not impossible.

We are. The LLMs are displaying output and behavior that is consistent with people who are conscious. And we have zero insight as to why. That is the point we are at. There is zero evidence that can lend credence to say it is low probability that an LLm is conscious or there is high probability that an LLM is conscious. But the LLM is outputting text that is indistinguishable from text outputted by beings who ARE conscious.

> You’re so wound up you’re projecting and doing exactly what you falsely accuse others of doing.

No I didn’t. You’re hallucinating this. I am 100 percent referring to your statement that there is a low probability chance an LLM is conscious. My claim is that you have zero evidence to support that claim. There is no information and knowledge available for you to logically come to that conclusion.
by flatline | 2025-07-24 14:22:23+00:00
Crypto moves the problem from payment providers like Visa to central exchanges like Coinbase. Until you have a completely decentralized ecosystem built around crypto, you run into trouble when offramping to fiat. If I recall, backpage accepted bitcoin when Visa dropped them, but it was way too much hassle to be useful. If you could pay rent and utilities and buy food using some sufficiently decentralized token, crypto may become a viable alternative.
by krapp | 2025-07-24 14:23:00+00:00
Yes, that's always been the case.

There were times when Nazism was openly supported in the US, and when the KKK was mainstream, but there has never been a time when socialism was broadly acceptable. We had McCarthyism to "root out the Reds" but even the slightest attempt to push back against capitalism or the right meets with widespread backlash and oppression and violence by the state.

Even the so-called "leftist" party of the US - the Democrats - are pro police, pro imperialist, pro military industrial complex, anti-union and absolutely in bed with corporate interests. They may give lip service to some socially progressive ideologies but they will never do anything to threaten the status quo, and they can't even function without constantly moving to the right, whereas the right gets away with open sedition and treason without consequence.
by worldsayshi | 2025-07-24 14:23:08+00:00
So, I'm not versed enough in legal matters to be certain about this, so I tend to fallback to caution, but (A) customers I've worked with in the past seem to be wary of such copyleft licenses and (B) the contagious nature of such license would make me think twice about using it in a project of my own as well.

It would be nice to have such notion challenged but I'm not sure what would change my mind.

I would expect that most commercial companies that use Grafana would obtain a commercial license?
by madcaptenor | 2025-07-24 14:23:12+00:00
The 25th amendment says that "In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President." But it doesn't say what happens if the president starts out dead. The 25th amendment also provides for the VP and a majority of the cabinet to be allowed to declare the president unfit, but in a world where a dead person gets elected things may be sufficiently weird that they wouldn't do this.
by orochimaaru | 2025-07-24 14:23:21+00:00
I have mixed feelings about this. I’m not a Wix user so this is a general comment on the substance of this.

As an open source project no one is forcing you to maintain it. Every fix you put in is something that you do of your own volition. No company can force you to accept a PR or work on it. I think FOSS developers often get stressed about this but unless you personally have financial motivations around what you’ve written you can tell people to fuck off. Yeah they can complain, but you have zero obligation to fix.

The sponsorship seems to introduce a business model around what is FOSS, then it’s not FOSS anymore. The entire purpose of FOSS is anybody can copy and repurpose what you’ve built. They can fork it, take it in a different direction and create a business off of it. Depending on the license you’ve explicitly agreed to that.

This sentiment is going to be unpopular but I think the outrage is unwarranted.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-24 14:23:27+00:00
Yes, ... but if the server is compromised, they could also just inject malware directly into the binary that it's installing, right? As I see it, at the end of the day you're only safe if you're directly downloading a package whose hash you can confirm via a separate trusted source. Anything else puts you at the mercy of the server you're downloading from.
by fouc | 2025-07-24 14:23:35+00:00
I first encountered `curl | bash` in the macOS world, most specifically with installing the worst package manager ever, homebrew, which first came out in 2009. Since then it's spread.

I call it the worst because it doesn't support installing specific versions of libraries, doesn't support downgrading, etc. It's basically hostile and forces you to constantly upgrade everything, which invariably leads to breaking a dependency and wasting time fixing that.

These days I mostly use devbox / nix at the global level and mise (asdf compatible) at the project level.
by ameliaquining | 2025-07-24 14:23:52+00:00
The article attributes the "too socialist" comment to a "leaked memo", but neither claims that it was leaked specifically to this publication, nor cites another source for it. No other news outlet besides this one has reported this story, and this website appears to lack any particular indications of reliability (e.g., it doesn't have a Wikipedia page). So for now I'm skeptical of the veracity of this story.
by kylebenzle | 2025-07-24 14:23:58+00:00
YouTube only still "works" because of the cat and mouse ad blocker game. I don't know how but my new ad blocker seems to fast forward through all the ads. For a little while YouTube had them licked and I was watching 10 to 20 second ads all the time so temporarily gave up on YouTube until the ad blockers caught up again. Now YouTube is still functionally broken on TVs and mobile phones but works fine on a desktop computer still.
by em-bee | 2025-07-24 14:24:10+00:00
I can highly recommend social dancing

as an introvert who is uncomfortable to expose themselves to much i prefer more formal dancing, that is, where the rules of how to move are predefined and you are all learning those exact moves without having to be creative in any form. (once you learned a couple of traditional dance moves you can take them to somewhere where more creativity is asked for)
by inanutshellus | 2025-07-24 14:24:48+00:00
> meanwhile, everyone everywhere is npm installing and docker running without second thoughts.

Well... sometimes like, say, yesterday [1], there's a second thought...

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/npm-package-is-with-28m-weekly-downloads-infected-devs-with-malware/
by jerojero | 2025-07-24 14:25:01+00:00
This might be a hot take but I'm usually fine with this... If its authentic which most of the time it isn't.

But I don't know, I feel like personal stories are what really makes a blog worth reading?

I don't like it when it's unnecessary "info dump" type. Like, "we all know the benefits of garlic (proceeds to list the well known benefits of garlic)". It's not personal or relevant.

I just want there to be a well formatted way of viewing the recipe at the bottom for quickly checking the recipe on a second or third visit.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-24 14:25:05+00:00
Yes, startups tend to be corporations.

And really, the model is "sell the startup to American corporations, who then milk Americans". Pfizer bought BioNTech's (Turkish/German) mRNA tech, for example.

Insulin's price skyrocketed, despite being a hundred years old. It didn't get harder to make, distribute, sell. They just wanted more.

Or Shkreli's purchase of Daraprim (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34917918), a ~70 year old drug. They hiked the price from $13.50/pill to $750/pill. Did it get 55x harder to make suddenly? Of course not. It still costs $1/pill to make.
by Szpadel | 2025-07-24 14:25:22+00:00
other downsides, cloudflare, PayPal and all kinds of finance related sites will assign high threat level for you and you will make your life miserable for causes ranging from captcha through rejecting your purchases to even blocking you access.

and the worst part is that this didn't changed the fingerprint generated by mentioned here site just increases suspect level to 9
by cardanome | 2025-07-24 14:25:43+00:00
I just have Cursor open in another window for the agent mode while I do my editing with intellij (or other jetbrains products).

I would never voluntary do any editing in VS Code or forks of it. It is just so slugish on large files. Plus there is always subtle things that annoy me, I can't even describe it, it just feels off. I hope Zed takes off as it is a bit more tolerable though still not there yet.
by empressplay | 2025-07-24 14:25:44+00:00
Creative coding (still art and animations) combines these in a way, often people see something they like that someone else has done, and figure out how to recreate it in their language of choice, then put their own spin on it. Concepts range in technical complexity so it can be a great place to get started coding, there's no giant expectation of making a game or app.
by reactordev | 2025-07-24 14:26:09+00:00
UPI is just fast ACH. It’s still built on top of IMPS, which is regulated by RBI. India’s version of US Treasury. A more mobile and grass roots version of Plaid.

All it takes is for RBI to say “This kind of content isn’t allowed” and you’d have the same effect. Here in the US, we didn’t build an IMPS like system until way too late in the game.
by dimitri-vs | 2025-07-24 14:27:15+00:00
Have you tried datalab-to/marker with the "Use LLM" option? They have a playground you can test it out on https://www.datalab.to/playground but I use their local CLI option: https://github.com/datalab-to/marker

I just tried it on a fairly ugly TD Bank statement PDF I have and the markdown of the whole PDF (tables and all) is very accurate. Here is the config I use:

marker_single --format_lines --use_llm --llm_service marker.services.gemini.GoogleGeminiService --gemini_model_name gemini-2.5-flash --disable_image_extraction --output_format markdown --output_dir "$OutDir" ` "$In"

You might be able to tell the LLM to directly output the data in CSV format - granted it will still be in a .md file - using the `--block_correction_prompt` which apparently is "useful for custom formatting or logic that you want to apply to the output"
by JohnFen | 2025-07-24 14:27:34+00:00
> It does feel like there should be some compromise.

Why? It's a serious question. Why should a business exist if the only way it's feasible is to violate other people?

I think there needs to be some protection against AI scrapers. That it's impossible to protect against them means that it's not feasible for me to have anything substantial on the public web at all. That's why I removed my sites and code once it became clear that AI companies were doing this and there was no defense against it.

I would be thrilled if it became possible to substantially engage on the web again.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-07-24 14:27:39+00:00
drinkboy.com used to be my go-to for cocktail preparation. I liked that some of the articles had a bit of history behind them. Plus, in an era before YouTube destroyed all other video hosting sites, it was nice to see a video of the drink's preparation.

Plus I figured the HN crowd would enjoy that it's managed by Robert Hess, longtime Microsoft employee.
by atsbbg | 2025-07-24 14:28:41+00:00
That's exactly the context of where this quote comes from. He wanted to introduce Unified call syntax[1] which would have made both of those equivalent.

But he still has a preference for f(x,y). With x.f(y) gives you have chaining but it also gets rid of multiple dispatch / multimethods that are more natural with f(x,y). Bjarne has been trying to add this back into C++ for quite some time now.

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n44...
by numpad0 | 2025-07-24 14:29:15+00:00
I'd call it delusional than weird. US is clearly controlling Ukrainian churn rate so that Russian military and Ukraine as nation burn down at the same rate into disappearance so that the postwar Ukraine can be rebuilt with more Western leaning meatbags from surrounding nations. And some of people here are framing exactly that as utopian bloodless fights of machines. Calling it weird is itself almost weird.
by saghm | 2025-07-24 14:29:41+00:00
Yep, and that itself was similar to the rationale for introducing `?` as a postfix operator where the `try!(...)` macro had previously been used. In retrospect, it's kind of funny to look back and see how controversial that was at the time, because despite there being plenty of criticism of the async ecosystem in once, the postfix `.await` might be the one thing that seems to consistently be praised by people needing to use it. People might not like using async, but when we do use it, it seems like we're pretty happy with the syntax for `.await`.
by com2kid | 2025-07-24 14:29:44+00:00
This is true to an extent and I'm very fond of the saying, but beyond a certain point you can indeed outrun a bad diet.

I used to spend ~4 hours a day training martial arts (kickboxing, BJJ, etc) during which time I could eat almost anything I wanted without gaining weight.

I'm sure if I had downed a cheesecake a day it would've been bad for me, but I was able to get away with a level of excess back then that I am unable to today.

So you can indeed outrun a bad diet, it just takes more running than most people want to do!
by allthedatas | 2025-07-24 14:30:02+00:00
Very urban focused of course given the site and there's nothing wrong with an urban focus for EVs.

EVs as they are being pushed on us are made for cities. Outside of a dense urban area, EVs without a gas/diesel powered charger (aka hybrid) are much less useful, but I do not want to see charging stations everywhere either.

Kinetic recovery is great, but as there are orders of magnitude less braking required driving outside of cities, the recovered energy is also much less, and the brake dust generated is also much less. Also there are far fewer cars per mile of road (let alone size of the area) and any brake dust pollution is spread over a much wider area.

Many of the negative pollution issues associated with cars are due to excessive density in urban areas, the added amount of braking, the added idling, and the extra acceleration repeatedly required in a city with a stop light every block.
by amusingimpala75 | 2025-07-24 14:30:09+00:00
(To be clear I quite happen to like EVs)

And those people who would lose money are the EV manufacturers. AFAIK in the US EV manufacturers are barely making money even with gov’t subsidies (baring Tesla). They can’t charge what would be necessary without subsidies because most people simply wouldn’t want or couldn’t afford such a product at that price point.
by JustExAWS | 2025-07-24 14:30:09+00:00
At 51, that’s not my responsibility. We have seen that much of rural America have no desire to get out of their Fox News induced bubble.

It’s even worse than I thought it was before 2020. When Fox News called the election fairly in 2020 and any other time it veers slightly off the Trump bandwagon, even it is punished by the viewers.

It’s just like with religious people (subject change I’m not trying to imply all religious people are racist). I once read about a deeply religious lady who had 7 kids and 6 of them died during a tsunami and she said she was so grateful to God and how good he was for saving one.

You can’t change people’s deeply held beliefs. Sure you might be able to get people to see different about right vs left policy decisions or at least respect your viewpoint. But people’s value systems are about identity and community especially in the rural Bible Belt where their shared culture and since of belonging is based on the church and now the church has based its culture on populism.