MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mfrye0 | 2025-08-05 00:48:12+00:00
Congrats on the launch! Love seeing modern manufacturing systems.

Do you handle supplier master data management? We're seeing procurement teams struggle with duplicate vendors in their ERPs - same supplier gets entered 5 different ways, messes up spend analytics and supplier relationships.

We're building AI agents for business data cleanup (still in stealth, docs coming). Manufacturing/supply chain customers seem to have the messiest supplier data - way worse than other industries.

Curious if this is something you're thinking about for Carbon? (CTO here, happy to chat)
by Nevermark | 2025-08-05 00:48:54+00:00
> While I'm all for it, the real impact of this would likely be on the order of a few billion dollars, if that.

The collateral loan -> invested -> growth, collateral loan -> invested -> growth cycle doesn't just result in tax avoidance on a one-time basis. It's a way to indefinitely grow capital at a higher rate, by pushing taxes further and further into the future.

And when any wealth gains are finally accounted for as taxable income, it's a one time tax that doesn't reflect all the compounding. So a huge time-value of money break.

So there is a compounding of the tax that is avoided over time, despite actual liquidity accessed and deployed all along.

This is one of the primary loopholes that lets wealth gains made from capital get taxed far below wealth created by labor (which gets very reliably taxed, and at higher rates). The percentage of wealth growth that actually gets taxed as a running number keeps growing, despite the ability to make those gains liquid via loans.

Imagine if you could do labor, then instead of taking your income and getting taxed, accept loan proceeds against your "delayed" salary, and invest the net gain from not being taxed. Indefinitely. (With interest on your loan, cancelled out by the "interest" on your delayed salary.)

That would be like being able to choose to pay your own IRA instead of paying taxes.

That's how the unrealized (but real) wealth gains -> leverage (the practical and very real realization) cycle works.
by kevindamm | 2025-08-05 00:50:25+00:00
I think a lot of people underestimate the most valuable resource at universities: the access to specialized experts who love to talk with a curious and interested audience. Going through college by only kind of attending class and doing only the required work and exams, yeah the whole thing might feel like a scam, I could see that. But attending office hours, taking interesting gym classes, auditing a random class in a peripheral interest, involvement in clubs, and many other side quests will elevate that experience significantly.

If that were the only thing, yeah I could see it being a hard sell.. especially as costs have gotten a lot higher than when I went to university at the beginning of the millennium. But add in the peer network and the ease of making friends because of repeated random encounters.. and I think it's still worth it.

The whole "companies expect a degree, at least to show that you can finish a multi-year effort" was always an afterthought for me.
by Waterluvian | 2025-08-05 00:53:02+00:00
This is one of those really common misunderstandings in my experience. Indeed JSON doesn’t encode any specific precision at all. It’s just a decimal number of any length you possibly want, knowing that parsing libraries will likely decode it into something like IEEE754. This is why libraries like Python’s json will let you give it a custom parser, if, say, you wanted a Decimal object for numbers.
by aydyn | 2025-08-05 00:54:23+00:00
> The rule of thumb is that you should study 3 hours for every hour of class. I found that approximately correct. Some classes took a lot less. Some took a little more.

lol stop the cap.

Its more like 0.5 hours of grand total work for every hour of scheduled class, since most kids are skipping 50% of the classes and using "chat" (a really fetch name for a new digital drug btw) to make up the rest.

College is just a hoop, remember?
by jandrese | 2025-08-05 00:54:50+00:00
If it's malign there's really nothing we can do about it. A technology that can traverse the distance between solar systems is so far outside of our technology that it might as well be magic, and our current level of technology is already adequate to obliterate all life on the surface of the Earth. If you have power to travel interstellar distances the power to obliterate all life on a planet with no warning is trivial.

Ironically we might be in less trouble if they have FTL technology, since that might not require quite the outrageous level of technology you would need to do the journey with the physics that we know. The rocket equation is a harsh mistress.
by mullingitover | 2025-08-05 00:55:09+00:00
GP was saying that there are hardly far left politicians, saying that the few that exist are Sanders/AOC/DSA.

I was just pointing out that even these are not actual socialists, they're Democratic Socialists of the stripe you find in the mainstream in a lot of staunchly capitalist European nations. There are definitely zero literal far-left politicians, objectively speaking.

Socialist/social democrat are two related but distinct concepts are confusing for those not versed in political science, but their definitions have certainly not changed: democratic socialists for example don't advocate for communal ownership or central planning. The actual policies put forward by DSA candidates in the US, viewed through a political science analysis, are vanilla liberal. The only thing making them 'far left' is that actual far right monied interests have systematically dragged the Overton Window into a place where "public figure performing the Nazi salute on the capitol steps" is "controversial, in some circles" rather than "immediately career-ending."
by varenc | 2025-08-05 00:55:20+00:00
This is a great use for privacy.com generated credit cards! Basically, you create a unique credit card number but set its budget to $1. They won't be able to start charging you until you raise the limit on the card. That's how I think all trials should work: requiring an additional confirmation to start charging you.

Also pretty ironic that this site is designed to trick you into paying for a subscription you've forgotten about...but that's the entire subscription/free trial economy of course.
by pxc | 2025-08-05 00:55:24+00:00
The FSL, like the BuSL that Hashicorp Terraform is now under, is a proprietary software license.

"Partially" makes sense for something where some component or subproject is released under a proprietary license and other components or subprojects are released under a free software license.

Software that will eventually be open-source isn't yet open-source. A once-F/OSS codebase that was closed and removed from GitHub two years ago also has all commits that are 2+ years old open-source, but that that doesn't make such a codebase open-source, either.
by retroflexzy | 2025-08-05 00:55:37+00:00
Or, at least, not giving a fair take on its particular approach to open source.

We both self-host and pay for the service. There is ample engagement from the development team with the larger community. There are also a myriad of open source projects without the same licence restrictions that Sentry-the-company publishes or maintains which make up key functionalities in Sentry-the-product.
by ronameels | 2025-08-05 00:55:41+00:00
Do you have any users yet? What’s your target size manufacturing company? I’ve been in the industrial software space for a while, and at least for large MFG, you only see the major players, with SAP being the most common. There is this “UNS” concept that’s been around for 5ish years now and has caught steam (unified namespace, google and you’ll find it). It has holes from a technical standpoint, but it will get attention if you can show how it works with factory data in a UNS. Happy to help if i can. I work at a company that does industrial dataops now, focused on getting shop floor data in/out of the factory with context.
by RugnirViking | 2025-08-05 00:55:45+00:00
> candidate time is free and manager time is massively expensive

This is a naive view of the proceedings. Why not hire literally the first person that applies? That would reduce your cost even further.

The point is to figure out who would be good at making you money. The question is, does an ai chatbot wasting your prospective candidates time make you more, or less, likely to find people good at that? Perhaps it reduces the amount of cost reviewing applications, but I imagine it also drives away a good number of the better candidates, those that have more options, away. If you're cutting corners and cost this much, why are you even hiring? surely the point of the exercise is looking towards future growth.

Naturally, there is also a limit to that line of thinking also - spending weeks reviewing each one of the ten thousand applications to your junior developer role wouldn't be the most efficient way to grow. But surely there are better filtering methods you can think of than this, which is imo the equivalent of planning on reducing the number of candidates by lining them up in a room for hours in sweltering heat and hurling verbal abuse at them until only a couple of the wretched ones without a shred of dignity are left
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-05 00:56:25+00:00
Yea, it seems like you could design a cooling loop that runs just off the latent heat. Im sure somebody in reactor design has sketched it out.

Some napkin math based upon heat capacity of water and assuming a 20 degree celsius input and 80 degree celsius output and 30MW heat results in about 120 liters per second of water flow needed. That is about 10 million liters of water per day, or about 4 olympic sized swimming pools. I don’t know how long you need to keep cooling for, but 10 million liters of water per day seems not insane and within the realm of possibility.

If you allow the water to turn into superheated steam you can extract much larger amounts of heat off the reactor as well.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-08-05 00:56:31+00:00
Well France does, I do forget how pugnacious they are at times. UK obviously doesn't matter in discussion of EU. However here is a list of countries with overseas military bases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_oversea...

outside of France and Italy it seems all EU countries that have overseas military bases still have those bases in the EU, furthermore looking at that list you can see that the U.S has significantly more military bases in Europe than the EU countries have military bases outside of EUrope.

on edit: so in conclusion I am sorry about forgetting that there was in total 6 military bases outside of Europe maintained by EU lands (hopefully haven't miscounted here)
by duduzeta | 2025-08-05 00:57:16+00:00
Today, leaked screenshots from WhatsApp groups involving Supreme Court justices revealed that some people have been imprisoned since January 8, 2023, even without having done anything.

The problem is that this particular person was among the protesters, selling t-shirts.

The justice system combed through his social media and found posts criticizing Lula back in 2018. That was used as justification by the court to keep him in prison, even without a trial.

Arbitrary arrests are happening in Brazil.

In situations like this, where the highest court is making decisions like these, I believe the only reasonable stance is paranoia—because if they can imprison you without trial, without evidence, without anything… who are you supposed to turn to?
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-05 00:57:21+00:00
There is a widespread belief on HN, however, that people are generally very dumb and will mistake autopilot for something more like FSD.

I think the error here is that you're underestimating just how rare accidents are. Let's imagine there's some monstrously dangerous feature X that results in fatal collisions 10% of the time when misused. If we assume a person either uses it correctly or consistently misuses it, how many people (1 in N) need to be misusers to double the US fatality numbers?

You only need about 1 misuser in every 500-2,000 drivers, depending on how you do the numbers. Now obviously autopilot isn't as dangerous as our hypothetical feature X here, but do you think it's reasonable to argue that a small fraction of a percent of autopilot users might be misled about its capabilities by the name? I think that's a long way from saying "people are generally very dumb".
by MutedEstate45 | 2025-08-05 00:57:23+00:00
Thanks. That Pareto trade-off is exactly what I'm trying to quantify not just qualify. For example, if I've got a $50 budget, what's the sweet spot?

Scenario A: 100 agents × GPT-4o-mini × 500 steps Scenario B: 500 agents × local Llama 3-8B × 1,000+ steps

A quick table like "X agents × Y model × Z steps → tokens, $, convergence score" in the README would let new users budget experiments without having to read the whole paper plus run expensive experiments just to discover basic resource planning.
by barbinbrad | 2025-08-05 00:59:30+00:00
Hey I'd love to learn more about your thoughts. We have a discord if you'd like to join.

I see the market like this: - small job shops and startups are using it now (we have 5 customers today using it to run operations) - mid-market manufacturers with 200-ish employees are where i'd like to go, but many want all the accounting baked in and that's still a WIP - large players have to use SAP for accounting because they have multiple-ledgers, but i see this as a good "custom MES starting point"
by bjackman | 2025-08-05 00:59:37+00:00
I visited India about 10 years ago and I often saw hand-painted advert murals for global products like Coca-Cola. I thought this was a really cool thing to see! It's nice to hear these things are still visible. I wonder if anyone is still painting them? It would seem surprising, but then it was certainly surprising to me 10 years ago too so I would not bet my life against it.
by BobbyJo | 2025-08-05 00:59:51+00:00
I feel like you're glossing over the contexts of "acceptable" and "questionable".

The tool itself is not questionable or acceptable, it becomes questionable or acceptable depending on the usage. A pencil and paper can be questionable if the test is designed and expected to be completed without it.

You can design tests where an LLM spitting out python is an expected tool, but what are you testing for then? I doubt there are classes that teach whatever that test would be for yet.
by haswell | 2025-08-05 00:59:56+00:00
Genuinely very curious: are you finding that meaningful numbers of experienced developers are turning to these visual workflow tools instead of writing code for substantial use cases?

I was a bit confused by the post because it seems to be written about a persona that I haven't personally come across: professional developers who choose visual workflow tools as a primary solution over building with code the "right way".

I'm still a bit confused because you make broad statements about these tools and their users while actually you seem to be focused on this specific subset of users. e.g. when you talk about why these tools are successful, was your intent to limit the scope of your comments about the success of this category to just professional developers?

In a separate comment, I criticized the post before I fully realized you're specifically talking about developers, and not the typical audience for these products. I'm trying to understand if that's the lens through which the entire post should be interpreted. If so, making that more clear would strengthen the post I think.

I'm still a bit skeptical about the existence of said persona, but happy to be shown I'm wrong.
by api | 2025-08-05 01:00:12+00:00
And then do that gargantuan feat more than once, with every colony growing exponentially until it can do it again.

We haven’t been back to the moon. Maybe some much more advanced civilization would do one star shot, found one colony, and be like awesome now we are in two solar systems and that’s enough.

A solar system is huge. It’s probably a lot easier to terraform terrestrial planets or build a living Dyson swarm of Stanford toruses than build a starship. Certainly easier than building more than one starship. The human race could probably expand for hundreds of thousands of years in this solar system before we would ever feel any actual pressure to go elsewhere.
by goosejuice | 2025-08-05 01:00:21+00:00
Critique of the output is fine in my eyes. If you don't enjoy the style, format, choice of words, etc I think that's fair game even if it's superficial/subjective. It often is with art.

Placing a value judgement on someone for how the art was produced is gatekeeping. What if the person is disabled and uses an LLM for accessibility reasons as one does with so many other tools? I dunno, that seems problematic to me but I understand the aversion to the output.

For example maybe it's like criticising Hawking for not changing his monotone voice vs using the talker all together. Perhaps not the best analogy.

The author can still use LLMs to adjust the style according to criticism of the output if they so choose.
by apsurd | 2025-08-05 01:00:33+00:00
Yep, not disputing the data. Seems we agree: the premise is people go to college with the expectation of higher earning power. The product is earning power, less so "learning", but we don't have to argue semantics.

Now the more controversial stance is we can't say this earning power is causal. That's why specifically I said people buy the gateway ticket into these higher earning jobs. It's self-perpetuating.

I can't disagree with the data, what I can say is people that out-earn non-college people is not _because_ of college. The population represented by non-college goes really down really deep for large variety of socio-economic reasons let's just say.
by RGBCube | 2025-08-05 01:00:41+00:00
If the `A` generic parameters were changed to be ?Sized, it would still be possible to make `read_to_end` support custom allocators by changing the signature to `read_to_end(&mut dyn Vec<u8, Allocator>)`

Not sure if that is a breaking change though, it probably is because of a small detail, I'm not a rustc dev.
by decimalenough | 2025-08-05 01:03:22+00:00
It's not useful to paint Hirohito as a religious leader. Yes, he was technically the head of State Shinto, but he was not the one issuing orders.

Depending on how you look at it (and reams of paper have been expended on this topic), he was somewhere between a puppet and a symbol. Certainly not innocent, but also not the instigator.
by jignb | 2025-08-05 01:03:25+00:00
I've been working on an open specification for services that want to provide ID verification while preserving users' privacy and anonymity. It's built on top of W3C Verifiable Credentials and compatible with any VC implementations out there. The project is still in its very early stages, but I've released a whitepaper to explain the approach. I'd be interested in feedback from anyone following the current landscape of ID verification law.
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-05 01:03:29+00:00
How well can one learn financial literacy and how to manage money when one lacks financial assets and money of any significant amount?

I am not questioning that one can learn enough to pass the lessons, but often times, lessons fail to prepare for the real world.

I personally consider myself to be quite keen in the areas of financial literacy compared to most people. To be honest, I owe most of what I learned to two things:

1. Being addicted to Runescape in my youth back in the early 2000s. I am dead serious too. For a boring grindy point-and-click adventure, the game really had a lot of real world lessons packed in to it -- predominately to much of the game's economy depending on interactions with other players at the time.

2. Some unpleasant experiences growing up, but I do not feel like those had as much as an impact as #1, oddly enough.

One important point about the game is that I had stake in the game, so to speak. I put a lot of (wasted) time and (wasted) effort into the game in order to earn more and more fake, virtual currency. However, that in-game currency, at the time, had a lot of value to me. Every decision I made with the in-game currency had to be calculated and tact. "How do I earn enough for <x>?" If I spend <y>, I can afford <z>, but won't have enough for <a>" And so on.

I feel like in a lesson on a platform like EconTeen might lack that "stake" or "value" that MMORPG resources or real world money has. I am not trying to say EconTeen is a subpar product or anything like that. I am just thinking about myself, once a teenager, and I know I would have learned just enough to make it through these lessons as fast possible so that I may return to my video game as fast as possible.
by iknowstuff | 2025-08-05 01:03:50+00:00
For what it's worth:

Hsu v. Tesla, Inc. (Los Angeles Superior Court, Case No. 20STCV18473). Autopilot allegedly swerved a Model S into a median on city streets; plaintiff also claimed an unsafe airbag deployment and misrepresentation. Final result: Tesla won (defense verdict). Jury awarded zero damages and found no failure to warn; verdict entered April 21, 2023.

Molander v. Tesla, Inc. (Riverside County Superior Court). Fatal 2019 crash (driver Micah Lee) where plaintiffs said Autopilot suddenly veered off the highway into a palm tree; suit alleged defective Autopilot and failure to warn. Final result: Tesla won (defense verdict). Jury sided with Tesla on October 31, 2023; no plaintiff recovery.

Huang v. Tesla, Inc. (Santa Clara County Superior Court). 2018 Mountain View fatal crash (Walter Huang) while Autopilot was engaged; wrongful death, defect, and failure-to-warn theories. Final result: Settled confidentially in April 2024 before trial.

Estate of Jeremy Banner v. Tesla, Inc. (Palm Beach County; related 4th DCA appeal). 2019 Delray Beach fatal crash where a Model 3 on Autopilot underrode a crossing tractor-trailer; plaintiffs alleged Autopilot was defective and oversold. Appellate development: In Feb. 2025, Florida’s Fourth DCA limited the case by blocking punitive damages that a trial court had allowed. Final result: Settled in July 2025 (confidential) before a compensatory-only trial could proceed
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-05 01:03:51+00:00
I have almost never had an LLM not do the task I wanted. Either I'm asking it very easy things (not really, you definitely couldnt Google the entire task of what I wanted, although obviously each tiny subsection you could), or it's important to scope what you're asking for well.

But as a general statement, you cant just Google a comprehensive summary about beta glucans from chanterelle mushrooms, dosages, cooking methods, immune benefits and processes and get a 10 minute read about exactly what you asked for. But with Gemini deep research you can.
by barbinbrad | 2025-08-05 01:04:11+00:00
right now, we're just targeting small-medium manufacturers. there are two types -- one for job shops, and one for assembly type work. we're trying to target both.

imo though, it's fairly straightforward to go from a manufacturing ERP to a non-manufacturing ERP -- but it's very difficult to do the opposite because of the complexity of manufacturing.
by NoPicklez | 2025-08-05 01:04:20+00:00
A little ironic given how badly their initial adoption of AI was on their devices. Their implementation is still fairly bare bones for what it can do and is still heavily based on inputs into an LLM.

Also, the bezels on the 10 look a heck of a lot like an iPhone.

"If you buy a new phone because of a feature that's coming soon...

But it's been coming soon for a full year...

You could change your definition of soon. Or you could just change your phone... soon, just sooner than the iPhone but still not just yet."
by barbinbrad | 2025-08-05 01:07:20+00:00
for the supplier problem, we just use a typeahead/combobox component.

but for raw materials, we auto-generate the ids like this: https://x.com/barbinbrad/status/1947682873416221184

also working on some agents: https://x.com/barbinbrad/status/1903047303180464586

would love to talk, i'm brad@carbon.ms