MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by underlipton | 2025-07-02 22:54:08+00:00
Unless workers unionize and demand higher wages.

High-prestige work as an escape hatch from poverty has failed, and that may be a good thing. When people accept that dirty or "unskilled" labor has to be done, and that it deserves a living wage as much as any educated position, we'll be stronger as a country. Perhaps we'd even see, with the influx of people who haven't yet accepted being stuck in monotonous, menial labor and with an outsider's perspective, a renewed emphasis on bottom-up innovation and efficiency-creation.
by dotnet00 | 2025-07-02 22:55:17+00:00
Hell, you have Jared Isaacman, who also donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration to show some support, hoping to become NASA admin (for which he'd have been an uncharacteristically decent choice, being someone with a genuine interest in aerospace, and not having been all that outspoken politically).

Only for Trump to throw out the nomination as part of his falling out with Elon, saying Isaacman was a democrat.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-02 22:55:58+00:00
> How long can you keep it without a job?

Forever. That’s how free works. If you can get to an American city, which most American towns will happily help you out with, you can access free food and shelter virtually limitlessly.

> if the market needed those workers and jobs it would have created at any price , no price would be too low or too high

Market failure is real. Rates, regulations and barriers to entry can and do inhibit labour demand formation.
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-02 22:56:09+00:00
Evidence suggests ~30% of people are content to be worse off in order to inflict a larger loss upon others. This paper makes for rather grim reading but imho provides a very useful heuristic for understanding the political enfironment in an era of mass communication.

Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451
by twoodfin | 2025-07-02 22:56:16+00:00
If you want to build your entire assessment of economic progress around the ratio of home prices to incomes, well, OK.

Obviously policymakers haven’t over-focused on that number, and to some extent that’s a big mistake that is hopefully now being corrected.

But it’s one number, and doesn’t even tell the story of housing affordability, let alone the state of the economy for the median citizen.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-02 22:57:18+00:00
USAID was charity in name only. It is, or was, more of a marketing and not-quite-coercion-but-something-softer-and-gentler-than-that body.

And it was a pathetically small attempt at it, too.

Bureaucracy is irrelevant. What matters is bribes. China and Russia are bribing the shit out of everyone and everything.

USAID was practically our only way to do that quasi-morally and almost certainly on the order of their masters the administration destroyed it.

All to save a rounding error’s worth of annual spending we fucked ourselves and its absence will only benefit our adversaries.

Edit: it could just be stupidity and not conspiracy. These are the same people who think vaccines cause autism and don’t understand how space research leads to cordless power tools, a hippie studying lizard spit in the 70s leads to GLP-1 drugs, and nuclear warheads lead to microprocessors. The simple clay of the new America. You know, morons.
by slyall | 2025-07-02 22:57:24+00:00
There will be versions of the machine that automate more of the process. But they will cost money and require maintenance too look after and adjust.

I used to work a similar job[1] at a plastics factory. We had about 12 machines in the area I worked. Some machines automated remove stuff from the mold, some removing the excess, some putting though the leak tester. Each stage of automation was an additional thing that had to be configured and adjusted.

Often we'd only make an item for a shift or two. At one point the company bought a new machine (the size of a 2 car garage) that automated some more bits. The machine took 18 months of adjusting before it worked reliably.

[1] Blowmold, ranging from 750ml bottles, 5-20 litre jerry cans, sections of culvert pipe.
by LightBug1 | 2025-07-02 22:57:26+00:00
That's the only way I'd even have a second thought about Tesla ... but this is the cost of being all-powerful ... the inability to give up that power.

Even then, Tesla's duck is cooked. They're facing strong winds, reputational and otherwise, at the exact same time as the competition have come of age.

The perfect storm. It will take time, but Tesla are done.
by taeric | 2025-07-02 22:57:47+00:00
Even when I started Adderall, I never felt anything amazing from it. Self reporting mood, as it were, I would think it is not working. It is only that I know I have more patience with things going wrong, that I know it is doing something.

That said, sounds like we are largely in agreement? I have gotten where I assume everything is dominated by noise.
by erickhill | 2025-07-02 22:57:59+00:00
This is likely going to look really cool and feel even better on iOS and iPadOS. The phones haven't changed visually (hardware or software) a ton in a decade because, frankly, they are a really mature and solid product. There's a reason not many iPhone 15 users upgraded to 16. With Liquid Glass, for once in a long while iPhone users will look down and instantly see drastic change. Remember iOS 7? That took a long time to iron out all the "oof!" as well. But it slowly did improve.

On MacOS, though, I really do worry it's going to take several iterations before things make a lot of sense. God forbid this new UI layer hurts performance, too, on these exceptionally fast machines.

Good news is things are still in beta. Some ideas can always be walked back.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-02 22:58:40+00:00
> do people upvote these tangents to prevent discussion on the threads original topic?

No, they upvote because they agree with it.

Just as some people flaunt their incompetence with basic math or civic involvement as a point of pride, it’s somewhat common in tech for folks to hold their lack of familiarity with economics, particularly econometrics, as a point of pride. (If you wanted to bury it, you’d flag it.)
by helixten | 2025-07-02 22:59:58+00:00
This is very American, The Green Book guided Black travelers to safe businesses during Jim Crow. The Underground Railroad was literally an information network to help enslaved people reach freedom. During WWII, communities helped hide Japanese Americans from internment. LGBTQ+ people created networks to find safe spaces during decades of criminalization. Native communities have long shared information about safe passage and resources.
by onlypassingthru | 2025-07-02 23:00:34+00:00
Las Vegas averages ~4 inches of rain (a little more than 10 cms) per year with less than 2 days of precipitation per month, mostly in very short intense bursts. In June and July, when a tree needs it most because of the ever intensifying heat waves, the rains may not happen at all. Even the desert trees struggle in such an inhospitable environment and can be drought deciduous to conserve water (a notable desert adaptation among many). Without tons of water, an oak doesn't stand a chance.
by mlyle | 2025-07-02 23:01:27+00:00
I do feel it's a bit excessively "this is very deep." But I don't think he's equating himself to Escher; I think he's just saying that Escher's work is a good metaphor for the kinds of thoughts he's engaging in right now-- for a shallow pass of much the same purposes that Hofstadter used Escher and Bach.
by freefaler | 2025-07-02 23:01:28+00:00
The landlord can raise the price because the supply of new apartments is low. With limited supply, the supply/demand equilibrium is going to a higher point.

Why is there a limited supply if people need places to rent? Governmental regulation, financial regulation (e.g. Freddie Mac & Fanny Mae), zoning laws, overregulation on building that eats the margins and the with low supply the most profitable market is for "luxury" apartments with wider margins.

So if you want cheaper rent it's not that the landlord is greedy, it's that his greed can thrive because the market forces aren't working.

As Adam smith in 1776 wrote: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

e.g. it's not from the benevolence of the landlord that we expect low prices, but from their regard of their own interest to rent the property that competes with many other properties available to rent.
by Aachen | 2025-07-02 23:02:01+00:00
Indeed, a quick lookup doesn't give many reliable-sounding sources but they're all on the order of zettabytes (tens to thousands of them), also for years before any LLM was halfway usable. One has to wonder how much of that is generated, thinking of point of my own websites where the pages are derived statistics from player highscores, or the websites that jokingly index all Bitcoin addresses and UUIDs

Perhaps the 50TB estimate is unique information without any media or so, but OP can back up where they got that number from than I can do with guesswork
by brudgers | 2025-07-02 23:03:22+00:00
When you are willing to pay for your RDBMS, you are likely to get an optimizer that does algebra for you (and does algebra pretty well).

On the other hand, if you are hand coding the query, you are hand coding whether you use SQL, Linq, or anything else. And a strength of SQL is a robust ecosystem of documentation, tools, employment candidates, and consultants.
by mrtksn | 2025-07-02 23:03:39+00:00
Right, nice savings and opportunities for fossil energy industry. Good job.

So what is the plan for handling the US nuclear warhead stockpile as the empire crumbles? I'm worried about billionaires with nukes. Maybe not the person directly but people behind all that envision super wealthy city-states and I totally expect those to have nukes.

The nuclear codes won't stop anyone with time and engineers. These are intended for physically arming the strong link in the warhead that is supposed to send the signal to the exclusion zone but someone with unrestricted access should be able to override it and send the signal directly. Although over the years the mechanical systems were replaced with electronics that eventually become encrypted microelectronics, IIUC the actual device that does the kaboom remained with its original design and applying voltage will be able to trigger it. Safe against rough handlers(i.e. crazy solders) but won't stop people with unrestricted access.
by apgwoz | 2025-07-02 23:03:51+00:00
I got your point (after the Free Parking clarification).

(To be clear, my comment wasn’t on Double specifically. No clue how strapped for cash they are while winding down. They seem to be doing right be people (paying fees and such), and that’s great.)

Finally, maybe it’s unintentional, but you seem to be implying that “it’s not worth burning your life on a failed startup,” which seems like a bad take.

If you spend 5 years on a startup that shows promise but ultimately doesn’t pan out, is that always worse than spending 6 months on a startup that fails fast? First, this would be wildly hard to prove, and second, there are obviously counter examples.
by FilosofumRex | 2025-07-02 23:04:02+00:00
depends on what you define as "force". Force doesn't necessarily come from the barrel of a gun - Sean Diddy was just tried for forcing women into sex trafficking under American law.

Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, El Salvador, and just about the entire Africa & South America have complained about political strings attached to USA-ID. yet, they'll gladly accept Chinese aid because it often only comes with economic conditions.
by ranger_danger | 2025-07-02 23:04:13+00:00
> loss of revenue

That assumes people were going to break the law in the first place by speeding... you can't be guilty of the crime of not helping someone else commit a crime.

Maybe if they had some way to prove that you knew it would help them avoid police in order to speed... but that seems like a pretty high bar of evidence would be required (and they would have to attempt to go after you in the first place).

>Reporting on the presence on police is protected first amendment activity
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-02 23:04:20+00:00
One might argue networking got Ramanujan to where Canterbrigians can now be proud of him :)

My favorite recollection in that place was going through Ken Wilson's notes. IIRC there was FORTRAN. Most interesting was a proof of Dyson's conjecture. Cant really remember because it wasn't that useful. Thought it was weird that he left-- gossip says it was the wife-- but nice that some people still bothered.

Institutions rise & fall. Become cringe. Achievements can endure, but only thru the effort of wider communities to distill and distribute.
by NomDePlum | 2025-07-02 23:04:28+00:00
When it comes to nuclear weapons I'm located within 50 miles of a nuclear military base so it is something I am keenly aware of.

I don't see Israel making itself or others safer by pursuing illegal wars. The reverse is Ukraine which is the recipient of an illegal war.

There are very few actions that make the world less safe than this sort of reckless and unjustified action. It just reinforces to me why they are illegal.

More knowledge and context always help of course, but I do see a lot of rhetoric being put forward on this subject. My replies may be imperfect but I do think they help with balance. Is there a particular point you believe I should be considering?
by XorNot | 2025-07-02 23:05:19+00:00
For a decade? The politics has been a recent problem. For a decade though Tesla has had serious production problems that were dismissable under "but they're ahead".

Except it hasn't happened - they still have trouble with QA and building enough cars cheaply enough, and now the market has caught up with them.

And then into this mix, Musk decided to publicly side with the political aisle which hates his core customer base and his core product line.
by derf_ | 2025-07-02 23:06:42+00:00
If everyone's real wealth doubles, that is great, but it is not a stable equilibrium.

If a very small percentage of the people own a large percentage of the wealth, it compounds. They literally cannot spend all of their income on consumption, except maybe by lighting piles of cash on fire, but that is not a route to doubling the real wealth of everyone in society.

That means that asset prices rise, and fewer people can afford property. Jobs concentrate near where rich people live, because they are the ones with disposable income to spend, making this worse. Transfer payments (rent) from ordinary people to the remaining property owners are high. Wages stagnate, because wealthy people spend most of their money on assets, not goods and services. Consumer demand decreases. Capital moves away from producing things that ordinary people need, because they can no longer afford them, and is instead allocated to producing luxury goods. Social mobility is low because low wages and high property prices make it impossible to work your way up.

The cycle is self-reinforcing, not self-correcting. Most of history throughout the world has consisted of a few very wealthy feudal lords and a large population of serfs.

Strengthening the political system might be nice, but post-Citizen's United, that does not seem to be the direction the US is headed, at least, nor is it in the interests of those who benefit most from the current system.
by dszd0g | 2025-07-02 23:07:20+00:00
If you read Section 1798.140 of the Civil Code: “Commercial purposes” means to advance a person's commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction."

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/civil-code/civ-sect-1798-140/

Basically SB690 means that a business can spy on us including our most private data and use it for anything that makes them money like selling it to data brokers or to the government.
Tell HN: My fish died because of CoderPad
by RomanPushkin | 2025-07-02 23:07:20+00:00
I'm not writing this to be dramatic - just wanted to share something that happened, and maybe it'll be useful to someone.

I have a small apartment with a few fish tanks. When one of my fish gets sick, I move it to a separate "quarantine" tank where I can monitor it more closely — especially water temperature, which can spike due to direct sunlight.

To help with this, I built a small JavaScript script that runs in my browser via TamperMonkey. It reads from a temperature sensor (via a local API) and plays a loud alert sound if things get too hot. It's not fancy, but it's worked fine for months. I'm not a hardware or desktop dev — the web is my platform, and this was my DIY solution.

Some time ago, I had a two-hour technical interview using CoderPad. I stayed focused in the browser tab the whole time. At some point, the alert I normally hear when things go wrong didn't go off. When I finished the interview, I checked - the quarantine tank had overheated, and the fish didn't make it.

After digging a bit, I suspect what happened is this: CoderPad (or something in its environment) intercepts and blocks fetch calls from browser scripts. Maybe to prevent AI helpers or tampering, I'm not sure. But my alert system relied on those fetch calls to read from the temperature sensor. During the interview, those calls silently failed, and I never got the warning.

So now I'm left wondering: who's at fault here? Me, for building something fragile? CoderPad, for blocking browser functionality in the name of test integrity? Or maybe it's just one of those weird, sad intersections of code and real life :(

Anyway. Just needed to tell someone.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-02 23:08:59+00:00
If nothing else, switch to Tidal, who 1) pay 3x more per stream to the artist than Spotify, and 2) also has a much more egalitarian algorithm that doesn't funnel most of the money to the big names (in terms of how they "cut the cake", their payout thresholds basically steal revenue from smaller artists to give to bigger ones).
by all2 | 2025-07-02 23:09:14+00:00
There's an adaptation in there somewhere, though. Humans have a 'field of view' that constrains input data, and on the data processing side we have a 'center of focus' that generally rests wherever the eye rests (there's an additional layer where people learn to 'search' their vision by moving their mental center of focus without moving the physical focus point of the eye.

Then there's the whole slew of processes that pick up two or three key points of data and then fill in the rest (EX the moonwalking bear experiment [0]).

I guess all I'm saying is that raw input isn't the only piece of the puzzle. Maybe it is at the start before a kiddo _knows_ how to focus and filter info?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNSgmm9FX2s
by WalterBright | 2025-07-02 23:09:30+00:00
The in/out features come into their own when inheritance is in play, i.e. for member functions of classes and interfaces. See https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#in_out_inheritance

`import` is so cool we extended it to be able to import .c files! The D compiler internally translates them to D so they can be used. When this was initially proposed, the reaction was "what's that good for?" It turned out to be incredibly useful and a huge time saver.

The concept is sort of like C++ being a superset of C and so being able to incorporate C code, except unlike C++, the C syntax can be left behind. After all, don't we get tired of:

struct Tag { ... } Tag; ?
by deltarholamda | 2025-07-02 23:11:04+00:00
Absolutely it's hard work, and dangerous too. In the case of steel, in the early 2000s they would be competing more or less heads-up with foreign steelmakers--mostly Chinese--and that puts a kind of pressure on working conditions.

Most people wouldn't mind hard work if it's rewarded with home and family. It's the idea that we have to work in a sweatshop and live alone in a fifth floor walkup that makes people pause. To avoid that situation isn't easy, there are a ton of factors involved, but it is possible. In the end, a country that doesn't make things is a country beholden to others.
by LordDragonfang | 2025-07-02 23:12:18+00:00
You're assuming that more than a fraction of users will know that setting even exists. The majority of people with vision impairments aren't people who are used to thinking of themselves as disabled and know their way around an a11y menu; they're 60-something grandparents trying to navigate their iphone to see photos of the grandkids.

Good defaults are extremely important.
by defrost | 2025-07-02 23:12:39+00:00
Exactly the point, requires clarification, doesn't stand on it's own, is hardly unambiguous.

Moreover most people are surrounded by by people using the same calendar and don't clarify, it's an issue for travellers and data reconciliation across boundaries.

That said, it's the month and year that are most lacking from a simple { Dayname, day of month } pairing.
by Animats | 2025-07-02 23:12:47+00:00
Aw. Those are cool demo mechanisms.

I hope they keep the collection. We've lost so many. The U.S. Patent Office collection of patent models was sold off. The Smithsonian's collection of clock escapement models is no longer on display. (At one time they were all wound up daily.) The Borg-Warner mechanical linkage exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, left over from a World's Fair, is no longer on display.
by freeone3000 | 2025-07-02 23:12:50+00:00
No. Because any explanation will come from someone invested in the subject, so will all sound completely reasonable and may even contain aspects of truth.

I want to play games with my friends, not consider how the landscape of always-online services have distributed brokerage connectivity services, global banlists, and whatever powers microtransactions into what should be a game with four little dudes running a kitchen badly. I especially don’t want to consider how rising requirements for stability and cross-platform connectivity which have prompted these services means that P2PoverIP simply won’t work in the face of CGNAT or Sony’s distribution policies or fucking Comcast not having IPv6 yet; and I especially don’t want to think of the lower average technical acumen of the individual gamer has caused dedicated servers to completely fall out of fashion due to user confusion.

I really don’t want to think about the “paradox of polish”, where smaller games can get away with such things like dedicated servers and p2p networking that don’t work sometimes; whereas everything in an AAA title has to work flawlessly out of the gate or it’ll be panned despite the horse’s left testicle contracting appropriately in cold water.

Man, I don’t wanna be sad about market forces encouraging centralization for the efficiency necessary to stay competitive. I just wanna play dead or alive 2 with my bros even tho the dreamcast server’s offline.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-02 23:12:58+00:00
> autonomous taxis are inevitable for Tesla and others

I agree. But I think the autonomously native are going to eat the legacy manufacturers, including Tesla, for lunch.

We haven’t even started seeing partisan regulatory backlash against Tesla’s autonomous taxis yet. I’d be shocked if they’re ever permitted in New York or California, for example. I wouldn’t be surprised if they wind up banned in Europe, China and India, too. And that’s before weighing how Trump could dick Tesla around.
by jbverschoor | 2025-07-02 23:13:14+00:00
Same. I hosted do many people. Super interesting, sometimes weird. I have soo many good memories and I still gave many Of them as my friend.

Unfortunately the whole platform changed a few years ago.

Very low quality requests, hosts had to paid, bad support, and bad filtering.

It’s too bad, bc it left a sour taste at the end. Many people would chat in English, but in reality they can’t speak nor write English. Also, the last few years pale just use it as a cheap hotel. No interaction and sometimes plain rude behavior. I even had to kick someone out.