MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atoav | 2025-08-02 08:25:32+00:00
Yes, but in the past decades the elites have accumulated wealth and resources at rates we haven't seen probably since before the French Revolution, depening on the metric you could also call it unprecedented.

Additionally many of todays elites have a social-darwinistic view where everybody that is not on top actively deserves to suffer and perish.

And this unfortunately falls together with the moment where AI reduces the number of real people ultrarich people need to control a population to a historic minimum. It is going to get much worse, before it is going to get better.
by barry-cotter | 2025-08-02 08:26:34+00:00
You get a job offer for very large amounts of money and their HR will handle you getting a work visa. If you’re making very large amounts of money and still feel like living in China after five years apply for a green card.

You would have to be insane to consider founding or investing in a Chinese startup when you could do so in Silicon Valley or even NYC or Austin.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-02 08:28:10+00:00
> Normally you have a master of science as well. And for that you require a bachelors.

Many Master’s programs require Bachelor’s as a prerequisite for admission, and some of the others include a Bachelor’s at some point, but not all do. (The same is true of the Ph.D. and the stereotypically preceding degrees, and also of some professional degrees and Bachelor’s degrees.)
by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-02 08:29:13+00:00
You're absolutely right about these concerns, and I should be more honest - we don't have a magic solution to groupthink. Even our transparency isn't absolute - we only guarantee proposal transparency, not complete visibility.

But I think a community's real vitality might come from self-direction rather than top-down solutions. Democratic processes themselves promote community self-purification.

In our ideal community, everyone has the right to propose. Every proposal goes to public vote with open voting. When proposals pass and get executed, that execution itself improves the community. This might be closer to what an ideal community looks like.

Our ideal community has only one rule: community-driven. That's all.

I tend to describe it as a kind of utopia - where the community continuously evolves through its own collective decisions rather than having solutions imposed from outside. Maybe the answer to groupthink isn't preventing it, but creating systems where the community can organically correct itself over time.

It's admittedly idealistic, but I think there's value in experimenting with these utopian concepts, even if they don't solve every problem perfectly.

What do you think - can democratic self-governance actually lead to self-correction, or am I being too optimistic about human nature?
by dzaima | 2025-08-02 08:29:28+00:00
Can't solve the issue of "you just don't have the library (or a specific version thereof) installed".

But you can make it worse by changing "You must have version X of library Y installed" to "You must have version X of library Y compiled by compiler Z installed".

As-is, one can reasonably achieve ABI stability for their C library if they want to; really all it takes is "don't modify exposed types or signatures of exposed functions" and "don't use intmax_t", and currently you can actually break the latter.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-02 08:29:34+00:00
Ideally I absolutely agree with you - I think everybody would. The problem is reality. Companies that make/sell real things, and not software, have almost shockingly low profit margins, with labor costs generally being their greatest expense by far. WalMart's net profit margin, for instance, is less than 3%. And as they have an absolutely massive number of employees (they're the third largest employer in the world in fact), their profit per employee is quite low - somewhere around $7,000.

Software and tech companies don't treat their employees better because they care more about their employees, but because they're drowning in money owing to ridiculous profit margins. Apple's net profit margin is > 24% with a greater than $2 million profit per employee!! [1] They could buy every single employee a new Ferrari every single year and still have [literally] more money than they know what to do with.

So you have this imbalance in the economy that employees working jobs that pay stupidly high wages are the ones where the companies could generally afford to pay them even more, dramatically more, but instead just hoard all the money. Whereas low wage jobs are the ones where companies themselves are also just 'barely getting by', but at a large enough scale - that can translate to billions of dollars, even if it's not much per employee.

[1] - https://appleworld.today/2024/10/apple-generates-2-3-million...
by jasonm23 | 2025-08-02 08:30:32+00:00
I have to add that working effectively with LLMs is a skill too, mostly in terms of prompting and system level prompts to skip _most_ of the fabrication and nonsense.

They have to be explicitly told often to keep things brief, non-fiction and non-sycophantic.

Then you still need to curate responses, but less so.
by undebuggable | 2025-08-02 08:30:51+00:00
> I must have changed that back from miles once a fortnight since Google Maps launched 20 years ago. That's 500 times. Totally ridiculous for a company who core goal is profiling their users...

Similar with "privacy popups" everywhere. Similar with every bank with "remember this device" feature. I add exactly the same device on every login, until it fills entirely the limit of allowed devices.
by widdershins | 2025-08-02 08:31:46+00:00
Yeah, but at that point is the company that developed the superintellegence really relevant any more? Doesn't the superintellegence take over and capture all the value for itself? If the concept of 'value' even has the same meaning any more. In truth at that point the foundations of our economic system have been profoundly reconfigured. Your VC investments may be completely irrelevant.
by yorwba | 2025-08-02 08:33:33+00:00
> [2]

In the comments, zero_k posted a link to the SAT competition's parallel track. The 2025 results page is here: https://satcompetition.github.io/2025/results.html Parallel solvers consistently score lower (take less time) than single-threaded solvers, and solve more instances within the time limit. Probably the speedup is nowhere near proportional to the amount of parallelism, but if you just want to get results a little bit faster, throwing more cores at the problem does seem like it generally works.
by bloomca | 2025-08-02 08:33:41+00:00
I really hope they do and the rendering engine is decently decoupled, I'll give a try building a framework on top of it.

I wish all platforms gave access to their rendering engine similar to DOM on the web, imo SwiftUI/WinUI (or WPF, but they are very similar) are not that good.

Haven't built anything native on Linux, though, no idea how good those are.
by phito | 2025-08-02 08:34:02+00:00
You forgot the enormous learning curve of understanding how browsers work and how to write proper code in Ladybug that doesn't waste the maintainers´ time.

Last time I tried, I couldn't find a website that worked with it. Where do you even begin contributing to such a large, complex, very much WIP project? The barrier to entry is daunting.
by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-02 08:35:06+00:00
I owe you an apology - your brilliant analysis deserved much better than my brief response earlier. You provided the most thoughtful theoretical framework in this entire discussion, and I responded with just a throwaway line. That wasn't respectful of the depth you brought.

Your analysis of Habermas and "perfect deliberative process" is exactly what we're grappling with in GistFans. The tension you identify between early adopter quality and scalability, the corruption of sustainable organizations vs the power of "structureless" activism - these are the core contradictions we're trying to navigate.

We're experimenting with a "Stars" system where users earn influence through contributions, then spend these stars on governance decisions. The hypothesis: when participation has real cost (earned influence), people might act more thoughtfully - potentially addressing both the good faith problem AND the "believing others act in bad faith" issue you mention about Twitter.

But your point about "benign despotism with exit rights" is fascinating. Maybe the key isn't eliminating hierarchy but making it transparent and merit-based rather than arbitrary?

We're deliberately staying small and experimental rather than chasing sustainability/growth. Better to run genuine experiments that inform future builders than create another corrupted institution.

Have you seen any examples where contribution-based influence actually improved deliberative quality? Or do the fundamental human nature issues make this unsolvable through design?
by laardaninst | 2025-08-02 08:36:19+00:00
I have found a debt entrapment scam at the city center of a major European capital, being run inside a notable and ostensibly fair trade company.

It was kind of crude, just by reading terms of services and contracts on offer it jumps out of the pages. But I also saw someone start there accepting and signing and going along with everything with minimal thought. Did not read anything, clicked through everything and walked right into the trap. I feel bad for them but the scammers are clever enough to establish plausible deniability. Short of an official investigation with interrogations and subpoenas I don't think anything will change.

Beware out there people. Read everything very carefully, if anyone or any organization requires you to use any website or app, read the terms of service carefully.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-02 08:38:38+00:00
Nah, we’ve seen that big firms that have control of substantially influential media platforms will be able to get Trump to save them—all they’ll need to do is meet some “mild” ideological demands on content that leave them plenty of room to make more money for their investors than if they didn't play ball. (And if they don’t, the Trump Administration can find more bureaucratic jeopardy and cost to impose until they do.)
by jusonchan81 | 2025-08-02 08:39:56+00:00
Unmeshed.io is a newer startup in the space - and works like a charm. Temporal seems like more targeting durable executions, but scheduling a different game. It starts with crons but soon you got to deal with holidays, adhoc skips and holds and more especially during maintenance and upgrades.

Unmeshed has all of these, managing holiday calendars etc and makes it super easy. It even has agents for AS400 server commands if that is still a thing you need.
by demurgos | 2025-08-02 08:40:01+00:00
> The ECMAScript/JavaScript language itself, however, exposes characters according to UCS-2, not UTF-16.

The native JS semantics are UCS-2. Saying that it's UTF-16 is misleading and confuses charset, encoding and browser APIs.

Ladybird is probably implementing support properly but it's annoying that they keep spreading the confusion in their article.
by eastbound | 2025-08-02 08:41:21+00:00
> Googles entire business model is built around search. They have augmented search with AI

No, it’s that Google Search doesn’t find anything anymore. You write a class name—it doesn’t index those anymore. So you revert to asking it a question about your bug, it’s no AI-fied enough. Perplexity and ChatGPT find what Google chose to stop indexing.

Google may be built around advertising, but certainly not around Search.
by RangerScience | 2025-08-02 08:42:47+00:00
Haha. No. I spent hours before hand talking with involved other people, and then I spent hours talking with these people, and then hours more processing the conversations (on my own and with advisors).

It’s just that in the end, it turned out that the things that decided it one way or the other had come up pretty early in the conversations with the accused.
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by frereubu | 2025-08-02 08:45:07+00:00
I would love to get a motorbike - I enjoy cycling and love speed - but I've had three people in my wider circle of friends suffer life-changing injuries while riding motorbikes, including one just before his wedding that they had to cancel because he was in hospital. They were all careful riders too, the incidents being caused by distracted / aggressive drivers. The odds just don't stack up for me.
by therein | 2025-08-02 08:45:51+00:00
>Last time I tried, I couldn't find a website that worked with it.

That was the case for me last time I tried it as well, which was a few months ago. Tried it again yesterday and I could load many pages. Could even render complex real life pages like YouTube.

I recommend anyone to build it themselves. It is a very simple and smooth experience.
by roenxi | 2025-08-02 08:47:07+00:00
The US BLS does seem to have a bit of a history [0] with their job reporting though. The process they've been using appears biased to over report initially and then get revised down over time. I'm sure there are a lot of political considerations, but from a raw statistical perspective there is a pretty easy path to getting better results. They could eliminate the optimistic bias and aim for accuracy.

If it were me I'd be sacking people until they started getting a mean adjustment somewhere around 0. I doubt that is what Trump is doing, but the managers left themselves vulnerable to technical criticism.

[0] https://mishtalk.com/economics/in-honor-of-labor-day-lets-re...
by nosianu | 2025-08-02 08:48:57+00:00
Just for the record, not just on StackOverflow but everywhere it is good practice to not just post a link and nothing else. One should always include a TL;DR summary so that it is clear what the link is about without having to click. Especially on mobile, having to click to even know what some link is about is bad.

Linked article summary:

"UCLA agrees to $6.5m settlement with Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests"

> The University of California, Los Angeles, will pay nearly $6.5m to settle a lawsuit by Jewish students and a professor who said the university allowed antisemitic discrimination to take place on campus during last year’s pro-Palestinian protests.

> The lawsuit alleged that with the “knowledge and acquiescence” of university officials, protesters prevented Jewish students from accessing parts of campus, and made antisemitic threats.
by john01dav | 2025-08-02 08:50:09+00:00
This is another reason to do it as a header -- you can make lgbt its own category, instead of pretending that it's porn. This isn't perfect though, since children need to be able to learn about that even if their parents are bigots. The child could themselves be lgbt, and honest information instead of rumors of taboo can help them not develop similar bigotry.
by happymellon | 2025-08-02 08:50:37+00:00
> Unfortunately I don't in it's at the root of entitled customer behavior in the States, I think there's a deeper cultural contempt for service workers.

Completely agree with this position. I didn't mean to say that removal of tipping would solve the problem, more that it is an enabler of toxic behaviour. The more opportunities provided, the more likely assholes will be emboldened causing a normalisation effect both in them, and others around them.
by TheChaplain | 2025-08-02 08:50:43+00:00
Getting a motorcycle license was a very good thing I've done for my life. Cruising on long roads, beautiful views, wild camping and meeting other people in a like-minded community. It really heals your mind and body.

But obviously it comes with higher risk as you are more exposed and higher demands on your abilities. And good gear can help, but if it is not combined with training and of course a sound attitude, you may sooner or later find yourself in an undesirable situation.

Go to refresher courses. I do it every year to update myself and get an idea of my current limits. It really helps.

To see what I meant about attitude, just go on Instagram and check for motorcycle reels, you'll see soo many examples of how to not act in traffic or what to do on a motorcycle.
by apineda | 2025-08-02 08:51:26+00:00
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by sfaist | 2025-08-02 08:54:32+00:00
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by davrosthedalek | 2025-08-02 08:55:14+00:00
Also: Even if they could, why would they? Grants are for research. Research only very indirectly affects their income. They could probably accept more students (so more tuition) if they would say to the faculty: no research, more teaching.

An uber driver who gets rich by other means will stop driving for uber, not drive for uber for free.
by weitendorf | 2025-08-02 08:56:13+00:00
I am pretty sure with the right tooling JWTs (or something similar) could be much easier to use and serve more needs/use cases than they tend to be used for today.

Even the very foundational libraries needed to create/sign/handle JWTs in many programming languages are kind of clunky. And I think subconsciously as developers when we encounter clunky (ie high accidental complexity) libraries/apis we sense that the overall project is kind of amateurish, or will take some trial and error to set up properly. Sometimes that's no big deal, but with auth you can't afford to risk your company or product on someone's side project.

For example, in Go, there is really only one major jwt implementation in use [0] and it's the side project of some guy with a day job working on protobufs [1,2]. Also, with all due respect to the contributors because it's a good library considering the level of support it has, it is just not easy to use or get started with.

Part of the problem is also that the JWT specification [3,4] is a bad mix of overly prescriptive and permissive regarding "claims". I actually think it needs to be replaced with something better because it's a serious problem: it adds a bunch of unnecessary fluff to deal with special claims like "email_verified" when that use case could easily just be treated like any other application-specific jwt payload data, AND it then adds a bunch of complexity because almost everything is optional.

Then of course there's the giant problem of handling your own private keys and identity/security infrastructure + all the associated risks. Nothing mature makes that easy, so everybody naturally prefers to delegate it to auth providers. But that tends to make it hard to fully leverage the underlying jwts (eg with custom claims) and might force you into an authorization model/impl that's less flexible than what JWTs actually support, because now you have to use your auth provider's apis.

I think there really needs to be some kind of all-in-one library or tool for developers to operate their own hmac/jwks/authn/authz safely with good enough defaults that typical use cases require ~no configuration. And maybe either a jwtv2 or second spec that strips out the junk from the jwt spec and prescribes basic conventions for authorization. That's actually the only realistic path to fully leveraging jwt for identity and authz, because you couldn't build something like that on top of auth providers' APIs since they're too restricted/disparate (plus the providers are incentivized to sneakily lock you in to their APIs and identity/authz).

Anyway, this is a project I've been toying with for about a year now and we have some funding/time at my company to start tackling it as an open source project. Hit me up if you're interested.

[0] https://github.com/golang-jwt/jwt

[1] https://github.com/golang-jwt

[2] https://mfridman.com/

[3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519#section-4.1

[4] https://www.iana.org/assignments/jwt/jwt.xhtml
by simianparrot | 2025-08-02 08:56:48+00:00
Parent didn't say _anything_ and frankly doesn't really meet HN's criteria for good discourse. All it said at time of my reply was "He is not doing that".

He is doing that. Whether you believe him, or whether he succeeds, or whether he's lying, is an entirely different conversation and something I can't _prove_. All I can prove is that there are public claims he is doing it, and he keeps saying it in interviews.
by carlmr | 2025-08-02 08:56:49+00:00
My biggest Amazon annoyance. I'm often looking for some product, reading Reddit and other reviews. They usually link to amazon.com.

Then it asks me to switch my profile to American/$. But then in order to order I need to switch back to Germany/€.

It's just super cumbersome. Just let me view stuff from any region without switching profiles. If I order from that region you can tell me to switch profiles. But not just for viewing it.

In the same vein. Why is there no, I want this thing, but from a German seller.
by xandrius | 2025-08-02 08:57:14+00:00
I love the idea but our roads almost worldwide are cursed with ever-present cars which do not cars about anything else. I've heard lots of and lots of near-misses, accidents and bullshit interactions between bikes/motorbikes and cars.

I just finished reading a travelogue about the dude who cycled around the world in 1800s. Sure, one could do it today but the roads he was riding on were almost empty, now you would have to be cautious every time, since 1 asshole and you're out.
by trhway | 2025-08-02 08:57:41+00:00
Among the impacts of suspension of such science grants is the impact on PhD students. The PhD students themselves would do fine - they would just leave science and go to programming, finance, etc. - and most will that way do financially even better than staying in science. The issue here is the future of the science - for the precedent one can look at the Russian science today as similar thing - leaving science for better pastures en masse - happened there in the 90ies.

China is producing 77K STEM PhDs in 2025 and that number is quickly growing year over year, US - 42K/year. (and just ponder for a moment that those 77K are the smartest out of 1.5B population of a country where STEM is all the rage - those 77K are really top line smart and driven ones with all the support from the state)
by dzaima | 2025-08-02 09:00:05+00:00
It's not cleanly one or the other, really. It's UCS-2-y by `str.length` or `str[i]`, but UTF-16-y by `str.codePointAt(i)` or by iteration (`[...str]` or `for (x of str)`).

Generally though JS's strings are just a list of 16-bit values, being intrinsically neither UCS-2 nor UTF-16. But, practically speaking, UTF-16 is the description that matters for everything other than writing `str.length`/`str[i]`.