MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by twoodfin | 2025-07-02 13:47:32+00:00
Now we’re moving from broad income & wealth to a very specific good in housing.

Yes, housing supply should be much more abundant. The constraint on supply has not been the 1%, but government regulation through zoning and environmental restrictions.

This is belatedly being recognized and addressed in a shockingly bipartisan manner for now.

But also worth noting that the median home today is much larger and nicer than in 1985. Interest rates have (even today) been low enough—and incomes high enough—that ownership rates for these bigger, better homes are a few ticks higher than 40 years ago, as well.
by craigtp | 2025-07-02 13:47:40+00:00
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by smjburton | 2025-07-02 13:48:35+00:00
Another benefit of using text other than "click here" is that it's helpful for web crawlers too. Google, Bing, and other crawlers use link context (e.g. "lawn care in new jersey" vs "click here") to establish authority/relevance for the site being linked to. The closer the context of the link, the more authority a website (generally) gets for that topic.
by bluGill | 2025-07-02 13:48:44+00:00
There is plenty of employment in the US. What there isn't in the US is employees for someone wanting to pay less than $12/hour - and to get that low you need to find a small rural town in the middle of nowhere with nobody else paying, which in turn means you can only get at most 200 low wage employees in your factory, and you are risking someone else moving in offering more pay. Or you can go to China and pay much less (I don't know wages in China, but I'd guess under $5/hour), or some other poor country and you can pay $1/hour.
by jchw | 2025-07-02 13:48:50+00:00
I don't think this recommendation is suggesting it would be any better to do that; having a bunch of different links be just Amaya would be wrong too. If you had this situation you'd probably want to carefully choose different selections, e.g. "get [Amaya]", "Amaya [documentation]", etc.

If you need to disambiguate or further clarify links, well, you should also set the title attributes too. That ought to help.
by Nevermark | 2025-07-02 13:49:19+00:00
A) it’s not irrelevant at all. Perhaps you don’t do web design, or perhaps you restrict your designs to functionality Apple doesn’t actively or passively prohibit.

Then you might not be aware that Apple does not support everything other browsers support. Or takes longer to support some things.

The internet has two ends (at least), media source and media user. Both ends require compatible software for any connection to work or work fully.

B) Of course I omit other irrelevant issues. No need for argumentative non-points.

A suggestion that would help me understand you better:

Instead of simply dismissing points out of hand, respond with reasoned thoughts.

Maybe you have a sensible viewpoint?

I have no issue learning from you.

If you can communicate how Apple blocking alternate browser engines doesn’t actually block other browser’s additional web functionality, please explain your work around.

I would appreciate any solution you have. So would many others.

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Apple also prohibits (via there App Store) non-browser apps based on how they use the Internet. So that’s additional gate keeping of Internet functionalit.

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Read Apple’s App Store guidelines for developers. Apple is up front and clear about all these restrictions and prohibitions.

I am lost as to what you are trying to claim they allow, that they openly document they don’t allow.

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Perhaps you have confused internet functionality with Internet addresses.

Indeed, Apple doesn’t block IPs.

But some kind of software at both ends is still required to communicate across the Internet. And blocking specific kinds of Internet functionality at one end, effectively blocks it from both ends, on their locked down devices.
by craigtp | 2025-07-02 13:49:30+00:00
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Hi. I'm Craig. I'm an experienced Senior Software Engineer, Systems Architect and Microsoft Certified Professional with a passion for software development.

I work primarily, but not exclusively, with Microsoft technologies and the .NET / .NET Core frameworks, leading complex and challenging enterprise software development projects to successfully deliver robust, secure, scalable and efficient software solutions, encompassing over 20 years of experience in the field.

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Throughout my career I've helped numerous businesses of varying sizes in varying industries get their technology investment right and I can do the same for you.

Recent projects include:

+ Architected and executed a comprehensive overhaul of a core legacy system, migrating it to a robust microservices architecture. By strategically applying Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, and Event Sourcing, we enabled a prominent African FinTech company to seamlessly scale from 1 million to 10 million active users while achieving a remarkable 30%+ reduction in cloud expenses.

+ Successfully delivered an ambitious project to re-engineer a number of monolithic applications to cloud-native, event-driven distributed services for a leading hospitality software provider as part of a company-wide effort to modernise their entire software estate including training and mentoring staff on event-driven architecture and distributed system design.

+ Designed & delivered a large, global SaaS product to manage and automate music royalty collection and payment for one of the UK's largest and most demanding independent music publishers including full cloud geo-distribution & redundancy to ensure high availability & reliability for the worldwide client base.

+ Spearheaded the creation of a groundbreaking anti-motor fraud solution for a prominent UK law firm. This industry-leading platform combined a user-friendly web application, powerful API, and sophisticated data systems, including Europe's largest anti-fraud database, giving the firm an edge in fraud detection.
by Balgair | 2025-07-02 13:49:57+00:00
Or scrunched up tin foil at ~$2 / 100 ft.

Look, I love Destin, watch all his stuff recommend it all the time.

But I'm never going to buy this product, it's just too expensive for what it does compared to the alternatives.

And I know he knows that. He's clearly at least 'not stupid'.

So something isn't squaring with this.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-02 13:50:10+00:00
1. "raw text continuation engine"

https://gist.github.com/rain-1/cf0419958250d15893d8873682492...

2. "superintelligence"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence

"Meta is uniquely positioned to deliver superintelligence to the world."

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/mark-zuckerberg-creating-met...

Is there any difference between 1 and 2

Yes. One is purely hypothetical
by dmoy | 2025-07-02 13:51:01+00:00
> defense

By defense do you mean like weapons development, or do you mean the entire DoD-and-related contractor system, including like tiny SIBR chasing companies researching things like, uh

"Multi-Agent Debloating Environment to Increase Robustness in Applications"

https://www.sbir.gov/awards/211845

Which was totally not named in a backronym-gymnastics way of remembering the lead researcher's last vacation destination or hometown or anything, probably.
Show HN: Humans need affirmations, just as AI needs prompts
by dongnaebi | 2025-07-02 13:51:07+00:00
Positive Affirmation Cards, also called mindfulness cards, serve as powerful instruments for guiding individuals to embrace life optimistically, affirm self-worth, and accept their authentic selves. Each card carries uplifting or motivational statements specifically crafted to cultivate positive thinking patterns and behavioral habits, ultimately empowering users to evolve into their most resilient inner selves.
by rvnx | 2025-07-02 13:51:14+00:00
Of course I exaggerated it on purpose, but think about it:

Remember, in ~2010, it was a trend to add toolbars to Internet Explorer (it was called BHO I think?)

These toolbars were changing the search engine for Bing, Yahoo, etc. This is why they were called "Yahoo toolbar".

But then, came Chrome, which was bundled among other in:

- Adobe Flash Player updates

- Java Runtime Environment (via Oracle)

- CCleaner

- Avast and AVG installers

- Many download portals (e.g., Softonic, CNET Download.com, SourceForge)

So, the objective of Chrome, instead of replacing the search engine with a toolbar, it was to do it by installing a new app, but this is exactly the same goal. At the end, the goal of Google was not the save the web, it was to replace the search engine and display ads on these pages (+ make sure that the targeting + rendering is under their control).
by dylan604 | 2025-07-02 13:51:23+00:00
would you need an antenna for your brain implant to tx/rx those signals? what shape would that antenna need to be? would it need to be a rigid antenna that would have to stick up out of one's head? would it be a curly pigtail style or straight semi-rigid yet flexible so it could bend when passing through doors like the CB antennas of yesteryear? Could it be very flexible like a cable so you could run it down your back and under your clothing?

would your antenna be susceptible to crosstalk, and would that interference come across as new voices in your head? in fact, i wonder what the signalling protocol would be so that the message is only be received by the intended recipient, something like wifi? to that, would someone be able to tune into the spectrum around them and see the metadata of these telepathic signals to see who was talking to whom, when, and for how long. obviously, i'm assuming the actual signals will be encrypted so that these conversations will be private. will the NSA be able to pick up these signals from their satellites and be able to listen in? or will the gov't force backdoors into these communications?

i know this might sound conspiratorial, but all of these are valid concerns being dealt with now, and only sound conspiratorial if you've have your head in the sand. these are also questions that startups tend to ignore. look at the IoT market that never considered any potential security issues, and now we have massive bot farms. i know i wouldn't want to be used as a bot because my neural implant manufacture never considered what a hacker might do once they gained access
by inkyoto | 2025-07-02 13:51:39+00:00
There is no need to respond if you can't hold a civilised discourse and choose to descend into directed insults instead.

One can't install a Ford made shock absorber on a Honda Civic and vice versa. The time of interchangeable spare parts came to an end some time in 1980-90's where the car manufacturers started actively embracing the vertical integration. If somebody makes compatible, third party parts, it is mostly for a small selection of performance and sports cars and is not mainstream. I just replaced the chipped and cracked windshield last week, and I had to wait for 2 months for the replacement to arrive because only the original glass existed out there, with no cheap Chinese alternatives being available – they don't exist, either.

And I had a continuous problem with spare parts for my previous 20 years old car that was more than 10 years out of production, and the car manufacturer stopping making them after 10 years. Lucky for me it was just zero problems, but lately wear and tear turned every other annual safety inspection into a 1-2 week long wait with the mechanic trying to hunt something down. The last time they just gave up and fudged it.

My new car comes with a non-negotiable condition of first five years of regular service getting done at an authorised dealership as a condition of the car warranty. If I were to do it elsewhere, the warranty would lapse automatically. After the end of the warranty, I can take my car wherever I want.

No, you can't install your own or 3rd party software in a modern car, either. This is well known and is indisputable.

So all of that rings true.
by ForestCritter | 2025-07-02 13:51:41+00:00
Faux fur retail costs 20-45 dollars a yard and requires a multithread overlock machine. Liner fabric costs 1-4 dollars a yard and requires less skill and a plain (single stitch) machine. Obviously they will be paying wholesale prices but the cost difference remains. The real difference in the costs between China and the US is the labour. Americans want cheap prices at the store but a living wage at their job. China is the capital of slave labour and Americans are supporting it with their wallets.
by jchw | 2025-07-02 13:51:49+00:00
I don't think it's suggesting "Amaya website" is an incorrect or bad phrase in and of itself, I think it's just using the different passages to show how they'd prefer you style links in hypertext.

These days I don't think you'd find many people following this style guide, but I think I understand what they're going for. They seem to be making the prose neutral to the technical details; after all, if you're keyboard navigating, maybe you're not "clicking" per-se. Maybe the pages are printed onto paper, etc.
by tomhow | 2025-07-02 13:52:15+00:00
Yes, as dzaima wrote, the displayed timestamps on comments are adjusted if a submission has grace time added, which happens when we put a story in the second chance pool [1]. This is because the time-since-posting is a signifiant factor in the gravity calculation that pulls a submission's ranking down over time.

I know it's confusing, but if we left all the comment timestamps as seeming much older than the submission, then it would be even more confusing to other readers. (That said, I generally try to avoid doing this, given the confusion it causes).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
by rpd9803 | 2025-07-02 13:52:23+00:00
Ah the fallacy of 'universal accessibility'

Not everything done in the name of accesility makes it accessible to all, nor does accessibility have a necessary correlation with 'good design'.

That's not to say we should't strive for both and require accesible solutions, but let's not pretend putting lightswitches 40" from the floor or those bumpy concrete pads in grocery store parking lots are better for everyone.
by the__alchemist | 2025-07-02 13:52:52+00:00
You have missed something: It's not feasible to compete with China on price and availability, compared to any other country. Challenge: Try designing something, and figuring out how to get the parts. Or, try to have a custom circuit board made. You will find the difficulty goes way up for countries that aren't China.

If that isn't enough, imagine you are choosing Hard mode by sourcing non-China, and your competition chose Easy mode.
by crowcroft | 2025-07-02 13:53:08+00:00
Jack's greatest sin was transforming a manufacturing company into a financial institute. Similar to a family that takes on debt to appear wealthy it looks good in the short term but the debt always comes due eventually.

It never came due in Jack's time and he looked like an absolute genius. His successor should have been able to defuse the debt bomb over time, but because of the expectations of success that Jack left behind (and some glaring failures of the new CEO) the bomb was left in place and debt continued to pile up.

Of course the bomb went off eventually and the rest is history, GE is not a company anymore.

Aside from the moral issues of Jack's approach (layoffs etc) the true sin is the over financialization of everything in America which I think Jack really set the tone for.

I would highly recommend the book Power Failure with William Cohan. https://www.amazon.ca/Power-Failure-Rise-Fall-American/dp/05...
by JohnFen | 2025-07-02 13:53:10+00:00
I don't think being commercial or volunteer affects this. The end user shouldn't report it upstream, not just because that's putting more burden on the user than is called for, but because the end user likely doesn't know enough about how the component is used in order to make a good bug report or answer questions the upstream component may have.

That some OSS devs don't work that way isn't really important in terms of this point. If the project isn't going to address the bug, they should just say so without implying the user did something incorrectly.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-02 13:53:11+00:00
I don't like the term "compression" used with transformers because it gives the wrong idea about how they function. Like that they are a search tool glued onto a .zip file, your prompts are just fancy search queries, and hallucinations are just bugs in the recall algo.

Although strictly speaking they have lots of information in a small package, they are F-tier compression algorithms because the loss is bad, unpredictable, and undetectable (i.e. a human has to check it). You would almost never use a transformer in place of any other compression algorithm for typical data compression uses.
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-02 13:53:14+00:00
> I’ve said this before, but Apple is forcing third party devs to be in service of Apple. The guidelines and rules are meant to sublimate the brands of the third party, and replace it with Apple.

I have the same impression. Frankly I believe the whole purpose of "Liquid Glass" is to create an exaggerated version of the GUI Apple intends to use later-on in AR glasses, which is then toned back again in later releases to match the feasible implementation on the glasses.

The expected migration curve seems to be to force all applications now to become more bland and less distinguishable from the OS (and Apple services), so that at the end of the journey (in a future AR-product) Apple can #1 render those apps consistently without disrupting their UX and #2 present itself as the user-facing service provider for all the value created by those apps (with the app-developer being responsible for the integration and UX-compliance).

It's a dream-scenario. Need a ride-hailing service? Let "the Apple glasses" do it for you. Under the hood the apps are then hopefully so streamlined already that service-providers will compete to be the fulfilment entity for this task.
by ben_w | 2025-07-02 13:53:15+00:00
Even by the start of the 20th century, 50 MB is definitely far too low.

Any given English translation of Bible is by itself something like 3-5 megabytes of ASCII; the complete works of Shakespeare are about 5 megabytes; and I think (back of the envelope estimate) you'd get about the same again for what Arthur Conan Doyle wrote before 1900.

I can just about believe there might have been only ten thousand Bible-or-Shakespeare sized books (plus all the court documents, newspapers, etc. that add up to that) worldwide by 1900, but not ten.

Edit: I forgot about encyclopaedias, by 1900 the Encyclopædia Britannica was almost certainly more than 50 MB all by itself.
by strict9 | 2025-07-02 13:53:16+00:00
It will always be like this until scale ramps up and costs come down as infrastructure ramps up. China's advantage is always communicated as cheap labor but it's also the ability to almost infinitely scale production lines in a short period of time. America has mostly lost the muscle memory and tooling to do this. And that ability to scale matters with materials costs.

There are incentives that would benefit domestic producers and companies but those take time and don't make good soundbites for politicians.

The blunt tariff sledgehammer that was dropped isn't going to do it. Small experiments like the one in the article will try and mostly fail. Meanwhile producers will find loopholes and workarounds to tariffs. And the margins and viability of domestic designers and businesses will continue to weaken.

Consumers will increasingly eat the cost and lose the convenience.
by 7sigma | 2025-07-02 13:53:33+00:00
"Seems to me you are really hard trying to ignore reality that the very next day after Israel was granted independence by the British, all the surrounding Arab nations tried to destroy Israel"

This has been debunked many times by Jewish Israeli authors like Illan Pappe and Benny Morris. Arab nations intervened 6 months after the start of the zionist ethnic cleansing campaign.

Seems like you are fully into the zio nazi alternate reality, no point in arguing and anyway you don't cite any sources for your claims.