MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ljf | 2025-07-02 13:34:53+00:00
I've never had to return to AliExpress - if I've had an issue they (AliExpress) have just instantly refunded me without having to go through the seller(admittedly this is maybe 2 items in nearly 10 years).

Similar with Temu - my wife ordered some homeware that was awful and looked nothing like the pictures - Temu provided a pre-paid returns label for some of it, and the rest just refunded and said 'please donate locally'.

I forget the clothing company (wasn't Shein but similar) again same - she kept some, but most of it needed retuning - within minutes she had a refund and 'please keep or donate the unwanted clothing' - simpler than many UK companies returns policies.
by jerf | 2025-07-02 13:35:00+00:00
Having to lift them via some other means first eats away almost all their advantage.

However I believe your point holds more generally for nuclear-based space propulsion. That we fear "NUKULAR!" by about two to three orders of magnitude more than is justified has kept us from having halfway decent space travel for at least a good two decades, most likely. There are a number of nuclear propulsion mechanisms that would make things like going to Mars halfway feasible instead of flights of fancy, or doing science missions in months instead of years or even decades, but people hear that you're thinking of lifting nuclear material into space and all rationality goes flying out the launch window. Nuclear is so bad that it basically reaches out through outright magic and guarantees explosions and there's no conceivable amount of preparation that could be done in people's minds to prevent the evil radiation!!!!1! from escaping and eating people's puppies.

The funny thing is that even so quite a bit of nuclear material has been lifted into space, but hearing that doesn't make people go "oh, well, maybe it's less dangerous than I thought".

I mean, I know this isn't the safest stuff in the world but I sure hope all that anti-nuclear propaganda in the 20th century actually did help prevent nuclear war because it has certainly had massively negative impacts in energy generation, environmental damage, space exploration, and who knows what else.
by doop | 2025-07-02 13:35:53+00:00
I don't think it really helps - you're already working in something like a probabilistic formulation. If you want to use a quantum mechanical justification for it then you need to look at some sort of non-unitary evolution.

Besides that, I don't think anybody is really arguing that the correlations are actually lost after a collision, just that it's usually a good approximation to treat them as if they are.
by _xgw | 2025-07-02 13:36:12+00:00
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by usrusr | 2025-07-02 13:36:40+00:00
We've seen effectively zero interest rates for longer than many can remember. If there's no investment it's not because of lack of capital but because of lack of optimism. When generationally rich do invest in something outside the safe game of landlordship (which is primarily defined by limited supply making chart lines point northeast just by merit of more capital joining the game) it's usually not because of n aeed or greed, but because they already have so much invested in the easy game that they feel a desire to risk some tiny fraction of it in something more exciting.
by bilbo0s | 2025-07-02 13:36:53+00:00
You would think people like HN User corimaith would have learned from the ISS fiasco.

I've gotten to the point where I no longer even listen to people who underestimate the Chinese. Whatever points they're making can be safely ignored. Indeed, strategic sense demands we ignore them. The time for underestimating the Chinese is long past. That's not the reality we live in any longer.
by bluGill | 2025-07-02 13:37:17+00:00
Right, as a small operation patents are rarely worth your bother. You might eventually win in court with a patent, but by then your company is bankrupt. Just make the thing, and hope that you can develop a good name and reputation for quality that keeps you afloat, even if you only are 1% of the market, that can be a lot of money. Avoid selling on Amazon where you are more likely to be noticed by cloners, at least until you already have a business.
by tom_m | 2025-07-02 13:37:58+00:00
And illegally too. Anthropic didn't pay for those books they used.

It's too late at this point. The damage is done. These companies trained on illegally obtained data and they will never be held accountable for that. The training is done and they got what they needed. So even if they can't train on it in the future, it doesn't matter. They already have those base models.
by cluckindan | 2025-07-02 13:38:01+00:00
They definitely should. However, those will be large investments, so at least JAWS and VoiceOver are going to be waiting for WCAG 3.0 before tackling that. NVDA is open source, so I guess you could help them out with it. ;-)

The larger issue is that developing software for multiple platforms and multiple browsers and multiple different types of human interface devices (from eye tracking to sip-and-puff joysticks) from dozens of vendors is an extremely complex affair.

Users may even employ multiple different screen readers in different contexts to work around incompatibilities.
by deltarholamda | 2025-07-02 13:38:13+00:00
>We’re he and the other guys at the plant proud of their work? Absolutely. Does nearly everyone wish their kids would do something else? Absolutely.

Most office work is not terribly satisfying. It turns out that work is work. And while working in AC with a coffee maker is "better" than sweating it out over a crucible, the drudgery is the same.

I spent some time with a large group of teenagers at a summer camp where the kids do a lot of the work, including activity scheduling and such. I worked in the cafeteria kitchen, which was hot, hard work. But the kids that were doing the administration kept coming over to offer to help: mop, sweep, serve food, whatever. I tried to take a mop bucket away from one of them, and she said "I've been staring at spreadsheets all day, I want to do something."

It's not 1850 anymore; we don't have to have industry be dehumanizing quasi-slave labor. If we decide to, we can make things in America again without Triangle Shirtwaist-style horrors.
by orsorna | 2025-07-02 13:38:14+00:00
> had a much higher living standard and much more money than service or office workers

I don't see how you could say this with a straight face. We know at this point that factory jobs inflict physical damage to the body, a priceless artifact that no wage could replenish. I find it difficult to address your last paragraph as it's just not based in reality. Anecdotally, many people I know who take an hourly wage at factories never shift elsewhere. There is no waiting, and often they will start their families younger than their salarymen equivalent, 30 years ago or now. Perhaps they failed by your standards?
by joshuaissac | 2025-07-02 13:38:31+00:00
Their customers who would have bought Nvidia chips are instead giving money to Huawei even though they prefer Nvidia. With more money, they can deliver better tech faster. It is costing these customers more, but in return, they get domestic capability with better supply chain security, and a possibility that it can eventually become cheaper than imported chips. Meanwhile, Nvidia gets less money from those lost customers.
by user3939382 | 2025-07-02 13:39:02+00:00
My perspective is that consumers have come to feel that price is far more important than quality whereas I feel exactly the opposite. I take pride in the things I make for a living and I prefer to be surrounded by products of a similar ethos. I buy products to solve a problem and I want the problem optimally solved. In the cases when the quality is a toss up I don’t mind paying a premium to support our domestic economy.
by techpineapple | 2025-07-02 13:39:19+00:00
Don't have an answer to your exact question, but waxing philosophical for a moment, it's interesting that if you were talking to a person they would use their experience to maybe redirect you if they thought your intentions were wrong - subtly or overtly. It's probably really hard, in a casual way to get all the biases right in an LLM. When should it listen to you directly, and when should it say, no your wrong? There are probably a ton of use cases where you want the "wrong" answer, almost anything innovative is going to go against the grain of what a system would think is "right" by definition. Be 77% confident in your answer is hard to tune and a bad UX.
by a4isms | 2025-07-02 13:39:21+00:00
Louis CK deserves credit for calling this out in a brilliant bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl-1jc1oDRk

(Yes, this video is framed and has Italian subtitles, but all the others I found do weird things with panning and clipping to evade censorship filters, and I believe that his body language is an important part of the delivery.)
by snickerdoodle12 | 2025-07-02 13:39:34+00:00
The point is that it's not really my (or other web developers) their responsibility that some 3rd party tool is garbage. It's like designing your whole website around some esoteric browser's behavior that less than 1% of your users use.

Sure, sure, we need to accommodate people with disabilities. First step to get there is to make sure the accessibility software isn't trash.
by alpaccount | 2025-07-02 13:40:11+00:00
I've replied to a comment with this but I'll leave it here.

Reducing inequality in Brazil (even a tiny amount) is a DEAD SIMPLE problem that is not in any way related to the government taking more money from people (rich or poor), but, rather, in taking LESS money:

> The collection of federal taxes on the reserve base, shows that of the amount collected by the IRS of Brazil, the majority of the taxes are based on consumption, with approximately 53% on average of the funds raised by Revenue Federal Brazil and continue accounting for more than half of tax (52%) charged by the agency. This tax structure is even more perverse when we add the taxes collected at the state and municipal levels, which bring in the largest source of revenue. The tax burden on consumption is regressive. In Brazil those who earn up to twice the minimum wage spend 26% of their income to pay indirect taxes, while the tax burden for families with income higher than 30 times the minimum wage amounts to only 7%. Excessive taxation on consumption depresses demand directly affecting the economy, reducing the consumption of the middle and lower income families.

We're talking about a country where minimum wage is 260ish dollars a month, and a macbook costs TWICE what it costs in the US, where people make much more. We're structured in a way where only rich people have access to anything. You can tax said rich people more, but they'll just keep being the ones that can afford anything at all.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Brazil
by dmoy | 2025-07-02 13:40:12+00:00
Man I disagree with this on multiple points:

I wouldn't describe a team full of people who don't want to work 60 hour weeks as "eroded", cus like... That's 6x 10 hour days leaving incredibly little time for family, chores, unwinding, etc. Once in awhile maybe, but sustained that'll just burn people out.

And also by that logic, is every executive paid $5M+/yr in every company, or every person who's accumulated say $20M, also eroding their team? Or is that only applied to someone who isn't managing people, for some reason?
by dpcx | 2025-07-02 13:40:38+00:00
If you watch [this Climate Town video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CkgCYPe68Q), then absolutely not, the disposable fast fashion we have today is not better. It's cheaper, but it's not higher quality, it requires trans-continental shipping, and it absolutely gets thrown away in ridiculous amounts.

Overall, it's worse in just about every metric other than "I can get this fun shirt online at 2am for $6."
by rich_sasha | 2025-07-02 13:40:55+00:00
In fairness, the general power function might well be complicated. Dealing with fractional base and exponent, signs (-1^2 makes sense but -1^0.5 doesn't in real numbers). I don't know how that works in code but I can see how this gremlin sneaks in.

I don't see how it gets past the test suite though.
by phkahler | 2025-07-02 13:41:02+00:00
Google AI response says this for compressed size of wikipedia:

"The English Wikipedia, when compressed, currently occupies approximately 24 GB of storage space without media files. This compressed size represents the current revisions of all articles, but excludes media files and previous revisions of pages, according to Wikipedia and Quora."

So 3x is correct but LLMs are lossy compression.
by pdabbadabba | 2025-07-02 13:41:02+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean by "genuinely." But in the coding context LLMs answer novel questions all the time. My codebase uses components and follows patterns that an LLM will have seen before, but the actual codebase is unique. Yet, the LLM can provide detailed explanations about how it works, what bugs or vulnerabilities it might have, modify it, or add features to it.
by kamaal | 2025-07-02 13:41:31+00:00
>>I suppose some Americans would have preferred a situation where China stayed Communist or collapsed.

The definition of Communism per the west, is something that always fails by default. The way Chinese define communism is doing whatever it takes to win.

When you remove all the abstract words behind this game, a simple philosophy is if you do the right things you win. You can call it capitalism, communism or whatever you want.
by tom_m | 2025-07-02 13:41:46+00:00
Yea, that dipshit judge just opened the flood gates for more problems. The problem is they don't understand how this stuff works and they're in the position of having to make a judgement on it. They're completely unprepared to do so.

Now there's precedent for future cases where theft of code or any other work of art can be considered fair use.
by throw0101d | 2025-07-02 13:42:55+00:00
> Modern Australian roads in the bush have inexplicable kinks, 100km of direct, then a bend. I think Fred on the tractor got bored.

Or long stretches of monotonous driving can cause people to'self hypnotize' and 'zone out', so a bit of 'variety' very so often may help with alertness.

See perhaps:

> The Autovía del Olivar which unites Úbeda with Estepa in Andalucia in southern Spain. A geometric design saved on construction costs and improved visibility with the intention to reduce the likelihood of traffic incidents

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_design_of_roads

Also maybe:

* https://ssti.us/2019/10/28/more-sharp-curves-make-roads-safe...
by davidee | 2025-07-02 13:42:55+00:00
Same. Got one as a gift for someone.

There was a book making the rounds recently that also details some of the discussion around skills being the thing the west exported: https://appleinchina.com/

The author readily admits in a podcast that while Apple plays a big part in the story it's a clickbait title because no one would buy a book titled something along the lines of "supply chains and China."

Decent (if superficial) interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAj9zB4vaZc
by ta1243 | 2025-07-02 13:43:02+00:00
Housing costs in the western world is the root cause of everything. Housing costs on a monthly basis increase to take all income, because the demand for housing is higher than the supply.

You can't simply reduce your consumption, because you are reliant on everyone doing the same thing.

Rent controls don't help because that means housing simply has to be rationed in another way which is typically worse.

The solution is to increase housing supply in high demand areas.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-02 13:43:03+00:00
> or just "wearable"?

wearable where? A choker is not some niche garment. It is a well understood accessory that maybe not everyone wears, but it's not because it is not well known. Describing it as a man-choker while a made up word, get over it that's how language evolves, is very descriptive. Calling it a choker means that it will be around the neck. Wearable could be a watch, and that's not what was meant. Using the word choker explicitly tells you where it was proposed to be worn.

> and then there's a reference to "both devices" - what devices?

one is the speech device, the other the glucose monitor. separate devices, but worn on the choker which is now becoming a tool belt. But I'm guessing you'd have a problem if it was described as a tool/utility belt worn around the neck like a choker???
by bonvoyage36 | 2025-07-02 13:43:35+00:00
In derivations of the Navier Stokes equations from reversible particle models, the former get their irreversibility from some approximation, e.g. a transition to a less detailed state and a simpler evolution equation for it is made. Often the actual microstate is replaced by some probabilistic description, such as probability density, or some kind of implied average.
by alpaccount | 2025-07-02 13:44:04+00:00
Absolutely spot on:

> Many people choose to sacrifice an additional portion of their income (on top of what they already pay in taxes) to access these services privately.

In Brazil you pay taxes which are supposed to grant you health care, education, safety. None of that happens, so you pay (again) for private school, healthcare, insurance and so on. Anyone that lives/lived there knows this.
by cluckindan | 2025-07-02 13:44:35+00:00
I get where you’re coming from, but this garbage is not optional everywhere around the world. Not in the US, even less in the EU.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The ADA, specifically Title III, applies to public accommodations (including websites), requiring them to be accessible. Section 508 mandates that federal agencies ensure their electronic and information technology, including websites, is accessible to people with disabilities.

The EU Web Accessibility Directive and the European Accessibility Act (EAA) are key pieces of legislation aimed at improving digital accessibility for people with disabilities within the European Union. The Directive focuses on public sector websites and mobile applications, while the EAA expands accessibility requirements to a wider range of products and services, including those in e-commerce, banking, and travel.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-07-02 13:45:17+00:00
You’ve articulated one of my biggest, cash-under-the-mattress, doomsday fears: that if the US continues this path of removing those corruption / rule-of-law guardrails, there is a lot at stake for us to lose.

Maybe I’m just paranoid, and I know it doesn’t happen overnight, but my goodness… that keeps me up at night.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-02 13:45:28+00:00
You're no dick just not fully aware of the situation :)

As of today China hasn't totally, or indeed really, caught up in the first 3. (Think about why). You might argue the Eurozone is up there in music but then you remember TikTok isn't quite YouTube.

High speed pizza delivery is the most hilarious because it's the only material domain that they won't make progress at (in the foreseeable future). They have better EVs better batteries and maybe better food (in general). Just not pizza because pizza is pizza, and drones still lag behind the fastest nuclear bike when it comes to shipping frozen pizza from Shanghai to your doorstep (is there even a market for frozen pizza in Hong Kong?)

(I'm glad he didn't mention games at all because it would have been the obvious one in 1992, but wrong 2025)
by zdragnar | 2025-07-02 13:46:17+00:00
> Sure, but how well are those without income supported in those states?

No income at all generally means you're eligible for either Medicaid or Medicare, or COBRA coverage if you're recently unemployed.

The worst off are people who have low paying jobs- they make too much for benefits (typically 138% or more of the federal poverty level) but not enough to afford employer-sponsored or private-market insurance.
by piker | 2025-07-02 13:46:35+00:00
Just saw this - it's actually pretty custom. I use the text edit and label components extensively, but generally the bulk of the work is somewhat custom (i.e., the text layout). The font framework is super handy for getting going with a font atlas, etc.

Compiling to WASM was a breeze. Web preview is a toy though so I don't really struggle too much with the incompatibilities that bite.
by Alifatisk | 2025-07-02 13:46:50+00:00
> The problem is Google cut significant funding to Flutter

Just to be clear, Google slashed teams across their entire organization, not just the Flutter / Dart team. So it wasn't like Google targeted the Flutter / Dart project

> it's not clear if it'll be supported for much longer

> Google's lack of commitment is concerning

I had similar feelings. When looking this up, it showed that Google continues to actively develop and invest in Flutter, with regular updates, new features, and performance improvements being released for both Flutter and the Dart language.

The official Flutter roadmap has been updated through 2025

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1jrz4cd/googles...
by pdabbadabba | 2025-07-02 13:47:06+00:00
I'm not sure what "just guessed" means here. My experience with LLMs is that their "guesses" are far more reliable than a human's casual guess. And, as you say, they can provide cogent "explanations" of their "reasoning." Again, you say they might be "just guessing" at the explanation, what does that really mean if the explanation is cogent and seems to provide at least a plausible explanation for the behavior? (By the way, I'm sure you know that plenty of people think that human explanations for their behavior are also mere narrative reconstructions.)

I don't have a strong view about whether LLMS are really reasoning -- whatever that might mean. But the point I was responding to is that LLMS have simply memorized all the answers. That is clearly not true under any normal meanings of those words.
by bko | 2025-07-02 13:47:12+00:00
How are you trying to reach out?

Paid marketing doesn't work in my experience. Social media is cheap. I've had an app get thousands of views based on a reddit post, and not one person (literally 0) bothered to click outside of the page (i.e. were curious what app this is). Social media is a false sense of validation, even if you get a hit.

Direct sales is the only thing that I found that works consistently. Get in front of anyone in this organization.

My guess is you're trying to do too direct so you send a spammy email telling them how great your product is. Don't do that. Don't try to sell them anything. Don't even tell them you have a product. Just get them on a zoom call and ask them what they do now and why it sucks. People are much more receptive to take a call and tell you about what they do or their problems than they are to hear a sales pitch.