MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryandrake | 2025-07-29 03:18:46+00:00
> These technologies didn't fix the problems. There is too much regulation, you can't do anything without a license. The only solutions are political, not technological.

> Everything feels like a scam within a scam. I feel dizzy just thinking about it. I'm completely demoralised. Everything related to career feels pointless, sisyphean because of the bureaucracy. Any work that pays well is useless at best, harmful at worst. It's either illegal or impossible to do anything which might provide value to people. Even if all the hurdles could be removed, I'm not even sure I want to contribute... For whose benefit?

None of this is because of regulation. It's all because of greed and unchecked grift and profit capture. Technology is making the world worse because of greed and capturing profit, not because of regulations. The work most of us are doing is harmful because of greed and capturing profit, not because of regulations. Everyone is living a lie because of greed and capturing profit, not because of regulations. These uncountable scams are all because of unregulated greed and profit. People on HN are mad, but they're acting out against an imagined "regulation boogieman," not what's actually causing all of the shit.
by defrost | 2025-07-29 03:18:57+00:00
Much of my generation (hitting their twenties in the 1980s) went to university if they had the interest and Tertiary admissions scores over the threshold.

University was free, rent was cheap, particularly in shared houses, and part time work abounded (I worked three months of the year in mining or agriculture).

Many of those at the time were idealistic to a degree, almost all wanted to better themselves in some way or another.
by stx5 | 2025-07-29 03:19:14+00:00
oh really？ China considers itself a democracy with its own characteristics. According to China's White Paper "China: Democracy That Works" published by the State Council Information Office, China practices "whole-process people's democracy," which integrates process and results democracy, procedural and substantive democracy, direct and indirect democracy, and people's democracy and state will.

China's democracy is described as "people's democracy" where people are the masters of the country, which is considered the essence and core of China's democracy. The Chinese perspective emphasizes that democracy is not a decorative item but a means to solve problems that need to be addressed by the people.

However, China's democratic system differs from Western democratic models, which typically feature multi-party systems, competitive elections, and separation of powers. China argues that democracy takes different forms rooted in each country's historical and cultural traditions, and that its model represents "the most extensive, most genuine, and most effective socialist democracy."

The classification of China as a democracy ultimately depends on the definition of democracy one uses, as different countries and scholars have varying criteria for what constitutes a democratic system.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-29 03:19:29+00:00
> nowadays the louder voices on the left have sometimes been over-invested in freedom for culturally marginalised groups and under-invested in freedom for economically marginalised groups

That's just marketing from the right to discourage people with average income to vote left ("they want to give all your money to the immigrants!"). The only people the left doesn't want freedom for is those who are actively trying to take it away.

The bigger issue is that the left hasn't really existed in most countries for a long time, like the UK. "new labour" betrayed their heritage and adopted conservative points of view. Leaders who are trying to bring it back like Corbyn are ridiculed and marginalised.
by happytoexplain | 2025-07-29 03:19:59+00:00
It's not a "certain segment" that changed their mind. It's the reality of what's happening to our country (countries). We can no longer, at large, afford the luxury of spending so much money ONLY to "learn to think". We also need practical education more than before. That's the undeniable nature of what has happened to the economy, especially in software.
by lettergram | 2025-07-29 03:20:02+00:00
Agreed here, the description under the headline is important:

> A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety of Denmark’s childhood vaccination program.

Breaking it down --

1. The study was Denmark specific 2. The study inspected aluminum specifically 3. (Based on reading, it seems to) Reaffirm the findings that the vaccines are safe, conducted / funded by those who set the policy

Here's the actual study: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00997

Note the main researcher is funded by Novo Nordisk: https://researchleaderprogramme.com/recipients/anders-hviid/

And is frequently trying to debunk criticisms of drugs, often with phrasing such as this.

https://www.contagionlive.com/view/hpv-vaccination-does-not-...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/740704

and the list goes on...
Show HN: StoxGPT – type "add RSI" and the indicator appears on the chart
by kdautaj | 2025-07-29 03:20:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I built *StoxGPT*, a TradingView-powered chart where you control everything by chat. Example:

> *You*: add RSI > *Chart*: (RSI indicator appears) > *You*: change ticker to AMZN > *Chart*: (switches symbols)

No menus, no hotkeys—just natural language mapped to the TradingView JS API.

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### Why? I got tired of drilling through panels to add indicators or tweak settings. A chatbot front-end felt faster, so I wired GPT-3.5-Turbo to TradingView’s `widget.activeChart()` calls.

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### How it works * *React + Next.js* front-end * *Dummy OHLCV generator* (open-source) for this demo * Simple command grammar → LLM → function-calling layer → TradingView injection * Hosted on Vercel; cold start ~ 400 ms

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### What I’m exploring next * *Plaid auth* → live Robinhood balances & fundamentals * Back-testing via OpenAI function calls * Sharing indicator “recipes” between users

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### Looking for feedback * Would live data make this a daily driver? * Any killer feature missing? * Is the chat modality actually faster for you?

Thanks in advance—happy to answer anything!
by protocolture | 2025-07-29 03:20:30+00:00
Eh nuance. Accept anyone who can accept they were wrong. But it has to come with that understanding, that they were wrong. Growth and understanding are great. "I love bombing civilian populations, I just hate the consequences of bombing civilian populations" is not the amazing support that people on the ground are looking for. Gotta attack the why. Why would you support killing civilians who pose no threat to you in the name of defense.

Its been the common theme of anti war sentiment for the better part of a century. "Never Again". "Lest We Forget". etc. What was all that holocaust remembrance for if not to get ahead of and prevent situations like this (While Gaza doesnt have a lot to do with the holocaust in totality it sure looks like a Warsaw Ghetto).

Its kind of useless to get people along for a single issue, ending the genocide in Gaza, but for them to not understand why the things that lead up to the genocide in Gaza are bad also. Mobilising a military, into a civilian area, that has been trained from birth to resent the people in that space, that they own that space, told that the government will support them killing civilians, is going to cause this. Supporting that action is bad actually. Wanting that military, in that area, is something an Asshole would want.

The phrase "Mowing the grass" was coined in like 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowing_the_grass

Its like closing a ticket without addressing the root cause. Just gonna come up again.

>but now that it has turned into a brutal siege with mass civilian casualties on a horrific scale

Its been that(again) since the IDF got organized, late 2023.
by godelski | 2025-07-29 03:20:45+00:00
A lot of tech is very weird, as the author suggests. It often seems like there's good ideas but everything must go through a hype wave. Unfortunately, the hype wave makes it difficult to distinguish good actors from bad ones. Consequently the bad ones win because it's easier. It's like we've designed everything to be a lemon market. It's like we're not trying to build tech to make life better and make money along the way but to find the most exciting looking or sounding thing and figuring out how much money we can make with it.

I mean look at something like the Rabbit R1. I'm an AI researcher and I saw my peers get fucking excited about it because it was a leap ahead of all the state of the art research we knew. Sorry, but what? It takes time for research to get into a product, sometimes years, even in tech, even in the fast pace AI world. Like you think they put what normally takes at least one $10k GPU and put that into a $200 device? That they could leverage GPT and not have a subscription fee? You're not going to beat ChatGPT by using ChatGPT lol.

Somehow stuff like this keeps happening and we never learn our lesson. Author is right, they're just chasing. And the irony is that that chase is actually preventing us from getting what we're really chasing
by uint23 | 2025-07-29 03:21:47+00:00
I have thought about this because I do it for my friends anyways by RustDesk but currently it seems all the repair shops (like GeekSquad but in the UK) are just fronts for illegal vape shops - who also do repairs. I also tried to sell the same RustDesk service via Discord but no luck with that either.

I also normally do phone, computer repairs and small fixes for family friends and people I know but it's not that frequent and again I've tried to contact most businesses in my area but I don't think they take me seriously due to my lack of qualifications etc.

Do you know any other options for the second option?
by trustinmenowpls | 2025-07-29 03:22:42+00:00
If they had done this they would be accused of ethnic cleansing as well as genocide. the negev isn't an altogether welcoming place, any death natural or otherwise that happened there would be blamed on the jews as proof and it would be an even bigger PR disaster. Egypt and the sinai would have a similar problem. Even Trump's recent suggestion of temporary resettlement to a populated area has been met with calls of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Most of the supposed supporters of the palestinian people don't care so much about their fate so much as they hate Jews and love the easy cudgel they make for attacking jews.

Putting that aside, no one, not Hamas, not the Israeli public, not Netanyahu, and certainly not the IDF, not any neighboring countries, not the wider world believed the war would drag on this long. Everyone thought it would be over fairly soon. Hamas probably didn't think there would be a war because israel itself was on the brink of a civil war, the Israeli public with their strong belief in their military might thought the war would be over before the new year and the IDF and politicians (BN included) likely had a similar belief, that A) Hamas didn't have an apatite for a long war, and B) the IDF would be able to quickly return the hostages. Everyone else also believed in the might of a stronger more organized force against a much weaker force that supposedly also had to care for their own people.

Instead Hamas showed they had no concern for their own people, and they had significantly deeper fortifications than the israeli security establishment knew about. So here we are almost two years later, and no end in sight.
by Tokumei-no-hito | 2025-07-29 03:23:29+00:00
sorry i went looking but couldn't find it. asked grok to search too. it wasn't creative use imo, it was extremism for the sake of attention since as far as i could tell they weren't producing anything (i'm sure they would have told everyone). although to be fair, the recursive opus chaining could be considered creative but only if it had a practical application.

not the tweet but here's a leaderboard of claude clowns bragging about their spend. maybe you can find their handles and ask them what MRR they hit spending $500k (not a typo) in credits.

https://www.viberank.app/
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-29 03:23:58+00:00
This reminds me of something I read here the other day. There was an exchange about social implications of technology, and the idea of designing software based around our understanding of these matters more in the future.

Someone responded like "lol, sure, we can find some sociologists to start programming our apps", and I thought Damn. That's really missing the point. And it seems so arrogant. Like, not only do we laugh at the idea of people doing our jobs, we also need to laugh at the idea of the relevance of their fields.

Yet we really should depend on their insights to further our field, in my opinion. No profession truly stands alone, just like no person does.

I think we'll get better about this over time. Right now we've definitely got some growing pains.
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-29 03:25:14+00:00
Ideas are cheap. Most ideas are dumb. Some ideas that sound good need operators to execute.

Can you sell? Can you build? Can you pivot without ego? Can you deal with snakes/assholes who try to sabotage you? Can you fail? Can you deal with no profit for some time? Can you do all these and way more at the same time?

Congrats you might have a chance!

Maybe you can do consulting? Or some other services based thing? Might be easier and give you a good income to live on.

If you want to do venture scale (read: 1 billion USD outcome or bigger) you need to answer those questions I asked.
by dang | 2025-07-29 03:25:29+00:00
> You Zionists are really not even putting any effort into your hasbara anymore.

Please omit swipes and flamebait from your posts, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This is also in your interest, since you can always make your substantive points without it and it will make your comments more persuasive.

edit: I appreciate that you edited that bit out of your comment, but once there are replies, you should make it clear how you edited it. Otherwise you deprive the replies (like this one) of their original context.
by EasyMark | 2025-07-29 03:25:36+00:00
I've been warning people in the USA about this for well over a decade. Laws like the states passing porn laws are the foot in the door to expand it to -any- internet activity. Freedom is had to take in a coupe, it's a a lot easier to nip at it around the edges until the structure cracks. Strange how people here in the states value the 2nd amendment so much (including me, I'm a proud gun owner) but they will ignore the 1st, 3rd, 4th .... This is particularly true here in Texas.
by YZF | 2025-07-29 03:26:04+00:00
I don't know and neither do you. Here's some claimed footage of a Gaza market these days: https://youtube.com/shorts/vwG5NjDj780?si=nVoR5hayUykTKz_F

EDIT: more recent images from Gaza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-SinKRcVwQ

There's a war and a siege. I'm sure it's a great place to be.

The Warsaw Ghetto comparison is despicable. Jewish people in Warsaw weren't holding German hostages or fighting a war with the Germans. They didn't murder and kidnap German or Polish civilians. The situation in the Warsaw Ghetto was an order of magnitude worse than what Hamas is saying the situation in Gaza is. Hamas has a very clear option here, to surrender and release the hostages.

Israel is now delivering a lot more aid into Gaza. The Jews in Warsaw were sent to death camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto#Treblinka_deport...
by jibal | 2025-07-29 03:27:02+00:00
I've seen the video on Twitter but no confirmation that it was actually an IDF soldier -- Grok claimed it was authenticated as such but when further challenged said it was a South African satirist. I don't know one way or the other but again cannot find any confirmation. (But I'm aware of plenty of other unspeakable horrors committed by IDF soldiers and similar horrible things said.)

As for Netanyahu ... the Overton window in Israel has shifted far to the right so one can say in those terms that he's a "moderate", but I think it's a bit of a semantic game. His behavior is extreme, regardless of the fact that the behavior of the whole damn country is extreme.
by dang | 2025-07-29 03:27:12+00:00
Whoa. I just replied to you upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718657) before seeing this, but you really can't post like this to Hacker News and we ban accounts that do. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.
by frahs | 2025-07-29 03:27:26+00:00
Ah yes, the west bank, where they have a leader who's graduate thesis is in holocaust denial[0] and where they incentivize murdering innocent civilians[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_...

Until these things lose popular support among the west bank, I don't have a ton of sympathy. Yes we can get into tracing back the chain of causation -- these people grew up in an echo chamber and they had no outside source of information, and Israeli soldiers likely killed family members of theirs unfairly when they were little, so of course they're going to say things like Death to Israel [2] and have a countdown timer until when they want to genocide the entire country [3]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_Israel [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Square_Countdown_Clo...

(These examples actually stem from Iran, where most of the funding for Hamas comes from)

But don't you think it's a little unfair to only defend one side with fatalistic determinism? Israelis are treated as humans who are making horrible decisions. Mahmoud Abbas is treated as a poor innocent bystander who is just the product of his environment, so of course he's going to think those things. I think he's a human too, and he has made very bad decisions too.

Somehow western people always forget this stuff, but luckily the religious fanatics just love to do religious fanatical things, so it makes it easy to point to examples.
by wk_end | 2025-07-29 03:28:04+00:00
The question of whether you can find third-hand (or even first-hand) accounts of Zionists saying or doing bad things doesn’t really have any bearing on the question of to what extent Jews faced persecution, or to what extent that persecution motivated the Zionist project.

Incidentally, the idea that persecution or trauma necessarily makes a person (or a people!) better is flatly untrue; anyone familiar with psychology knows that. And, after all, we can find lots of examples of Palestinians doing bad things too.
by protocolture | 2025-07-29 03:28:17+00:00
>I'll give you my honest opinion here and a criticism of Israeli government all at once. Israel should have moved the Palestinians civilians into Israel proper, e.g. the Negev. It should have created refugee camps for them there and provided them with all the support/aid while it went after Hamas. They'd be able to filter the people going in, make them surrender their weapons etc. No tunnels, no weapons caches, etc.

It should have simply returned the refugees to their land. But then they wouldnt be stateless individuals, they would have (minimal, as second class subjects) rights, and present a greater challenge to settlement like those in the west bank. Ultimately this is a settlement project, and distracting from that, and the right of those refugees in gaza to return to their land, is the ultimate point of the conflict.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-29 03:28:18+00:00
But how do you decide, when they come back together, which side was right?

I'll confess to sort of making this up as I go along, so I don't have any sources to cite here, but when I sit down and think about it I come to the conclusion that partition tolerance means that when you come across a disagreement of this kind, you can't just let the more powerful partition win (We already have that, both in banking and in blockchains. Snore.)

Consensus has to come from the circumstances of the transaction. What's the intersection of the people I trust with the people you trust? Are there transitive trust pathways between us? Calculate the consensus value based on those pathways. It comes not from whether one of us is backed by a bigger bully, but rather because we've both personally chosen to trust the people that we have, and we've provided incentives for them to continue to be trustworthy.
by const_cast | 2025-07-29 03:28:20+00:00
I just fundamentally am resistant to calling the "little people" the assholes.

Look, in my view, Anthropic made a mistake. And that's okay, we all do.

But I'm not going to let a multi-billion dollar company off the hook because some nobodies called them out on their bluff. No, Anthropic made the mistake, and now they're fixing it.

Ultimately, this came out of greed - but not the greed of the little people. Anthropic chose aggressive pricing because, like all somewhat large corporations, they usually opt for cheating instead of winning by value. What I mean is, Anthropic didn't strive for The Best product, they instead used their capital as collateral to sell a service at loss to squeeze competitors, particularly small, non-incumbent ones.

And, that's fine, it's a legitimate business strategy. Walmart does it, Amazon does it, whatever. But if that backfires, I don't care and I won't extend sympathy. Such a strategy is inherently risky. They gambled, people called their bluff, and now they're folding.
by godelski | 2025-07-29 03:29:25+00:00
> but you can't care about someone more than they care about themselves.

I just finished introducing Avatar the Last Air Bender to my partner. I'm pretty sure you have a lot to learn from Iroh.

Human history tells us that we don't make it through alone. We thrive on social structures and forming coalitions. Sometimes we get down and our friends and family put in work to pull us back. Your claim is the mental equivalent of "I can't lift someone up more than they can lift themselves up." Sorry, but if all they've got is bootstraps then you bet I can lift them up high into the sky while they can only lift themselves as high as they can jump. I'm pretty sure most people can't jump onto my shoulders and I'm confident none could jump that high and stay without support. Stop asking people to fly and look down at who's shoulders you're standing on
by macinjosh | 2025-07-29 03:29:32+00:00
I don't like vaccines and its hard to say why. I was vaccinated as a child and I am fine. My wife and I fully vaccinate our kids per doctor's recommendation. I guess you could say I trust the doctors advice more than my silly gut feeling.

However I can articulate that:

I don't like that vaccine makers get special immunity from lawsuits.

I don't like that pediatricians get payouts from big pharma based in what percentage of their practice received their vaccine products.

I don't like that the definition of a vaccine was changed to accommodate the mRNA COVID shots while other valid treatments that already existed were pushed aside to enable the emergency use authorization.

It's just enough to give me the ick, but their benefit is generally obvious so I hold my nose.