MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kibwen | 2025-09-26 14:43:30+00:00
> Wilson rejected the idea of mass joblessness due to AI as "a very silly fear because human desires and human wants are infinite, and therefore, we always find new things for people to do."

While I'm highly skeptical that the current iteration of LLM tech will lead to mass joblessness, the reasoning above is flawed. If it costs less to employ a bot than to employ a human, then the price of human labor will fall until it reaches equilibrium with the bot. And if that equilibrium price happens to be below what it takes to keep a human alive, then it doesn't matter if "human wants are infinite" because it would be cheaper to fulfill those wants without paying a human.
by michaelt | 2025-09-26 14:43:34+00:00
> Whose pockets are being filled when one transit agency is paying 2x what another one does for the same bus.

I mean, that could just be normal, routine failure to negotiate effectively. If every bus vendor says "call for pricing" and your organisation has "always" paid $940k per bus, when you're told to buy some more buses, you might not even know you can get them for half or a third of that price by getting competing quotes from other vendors.

And if you're an ambitious, hard-nosed type that can really turn the screws on vendors, leaving no stone unturned in your search for savings - would you be working in the purchasing department of a municipal bus company?
Show HN: FounderAI AI-powered startup roadmaps and validation tools
by altuzar | 2025-09-26 14:43:34+00:00
Hi HN,

I built FounderAI after watching too many great startup ideas die in notebooks (including several of my own). The problem isn't lack of good ideas – it's the overwhelming journey from concept to execution.

FounderAI gives you: - Weekly personalized roadmaps based on your specific idea and market - AI-powered market analysis and idea validation before you build - Progress tracking and a community of founders facing similar challenges with ala-Github calendar - Step-by-step guidance instead of generic business advice

It's not another "business plan generator." Think of it as an AI co-founder that keeps you moving forward when you'd normally get stuck or give up.

I've been testing this with a small group of founders for the past few weeks. The feedback has been encouraging – people are actually shipping products instead of just planning them.

Would love your thoughts, especially from anyone who's been through the early startup grind.

Live at: https://founderaiapp.com/ Also launching on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/founderai

Happy to answer any questions about the tech stack (it was RN+expo first, then moved to Swift and Claude Code coz dont talk Swift haha), approach, or anything else!
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-26 14:43:41+00:00
Chinese manufacturers use more advanced processes, not just cheap labor. For instance they built a mushroom factory in Shanghai where they only touch the mushrooms with a forklift -- contrast that to the "big" indoor mushroom farms in Pennsylvania that make those Agaricus white button mushrooms where somebody has to cut each mushroom with a knife. They just opened one in Texas.

BYD constructs cars with radically different methods than Western manufacturers, who can close much of the gap when they catch up in technique

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1mnel0i/f...
by sidewndr46 | 2025-09-26 14:44:10+00:00
This is so abundantly hilarious to read. Cooperating with the Federal government cannot plausibly be a crime in the United States. It'd be like if I was sentenced to a Federal pentitiary, reported in to serve my sentence and was then found guilty of collaboration with the Federal government in some state court.

Realistically if Flock didn't cooperate, the Federal government would just show up with a warrant, subpoena, or other document. Given that Flock themselves is not being investigated, there isn't really any incentive for them to go that route.

Now the state may be abundantly pissed that the Feds are in their backyard, but they have the right to regulate interstate commerce. They are entirely within their rights to also terminate the contract of course.
by voidUpdate | 2025-09-26 14:44:34+00:00
The government has been able to do checks on me using my passport number etc, like when I was getting my provisional driving license, so somewhere there is a digital version of it on a government server or something. Can't they just make that information available?

What impromptu checks would you need this ID for? The use cases I've seen for it are to make sure you are legal to work, and when renting a house, both of which are circumstances that you can be told about beforehand
by mallowdram | 2025-09-26 14:44:35+00:00
The criteria for learning in this model has nothing to do with biological intelligence.

Segmentation is a cog-sci hold-over of vision science and Marr and isn't how brain's perceive scenes/objects/events.

There is a relatovely new approach to perception that ML has ignored that's integrative, coordinated, holistic. These new approaches, affective, coordinated-dynamical, ecological (optic-flow) are the likely routes to consciousness.

What ML does with images like these are retrofit, they're imposed ad hoc on imagery as a pretend form of intelligence.
by gill-bates | 2025-09-26 14:44:36+00:00
In these times I'm finding myself more drawn to reading and trying to understand christian views on a number of modern issues.

Does anyone know where to find more? Where are the modern christian scholars? Are there christian publications easily available? In the universities I found those sources are available, but only in the specific context of studying religion but much less so as another voice on the subject at hand.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-09-26 14:45:03+00:00
Easy and cheap regular checks on the spot presential or/and online, as frequently as you want vs rare scheduled difficult and expensive checks.

Possibilities get realised such as regular remote checks (ie selfie to prove you are the id owner holder, address proof, etc, flagging odd id holder behaviour or employer, etc). Currently, you cannot do this, no visibility into who works where and where that person even resembles the person meant to be working for [insert gig company].
Show HN: PossibleWorldWikis – LLM-based fictional world wiki generator
by ruthvik947 | 2025-09-26 14:45:38+00:00
Hey, HN, this was inspired by Borges’ fictional encyclopaedias and the idea (Brian Eno’s I think) that the flaws of a system/tool (hallucinations and LLMs here) are what we come to value over time. Hope you find it interesting and/or fun
by notavalleyman | 2025-09-26 14:45:39+00:00
But the person you're replying to, just explained to you, how the government already have the relevant data. So it's clearly not about data, because the government already issue his NINO and passport

Edit - I mean, just play it back in your head. The PM is probably watching small boat arrivals and reform polling numbers like a hawk. And here's his idea to fix both problems, and you're saying, actually no, the PM is just doing this to get data on where I go to work, even though they already have my PAYE details
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-26 14:45:51+00:00
This seems right. The classic recipe of enshittification. You start with the a core of tech-adjacent power users, then expand to more regular but curious and creative people, but then to grow further you need to capture the attention and eyeballs of people who don't do any mentally engaged activity on their phone (or desktop, but it's almost always phone), and just want to turn off their brain and scroll. TikTok was the first to truly understand this, and now all platforms converge to short-form algorithmic feeds with the only interaction being a flick of a finger to "skip", or stare at the thing.

If people only pull out ChatGPT when they have some specific thing to ask or solve, that won't be able to compete with the eyeball-time of TikTok. So ChatGPT has to become an algorithmic feed too.
by dbatten | 2025-09-26 14:45:59+00:00
> Gurobi solved the new model to optimality (i.e., the bound became equal to the value of the best solution found).

Ah, I was not aware that that's what this language indicated. Thanks for helping me understand more!

I've used Gurobi (and other solvers) in the past, but always in situations where we just needed to find a solution that was way better than what we were going to find with, say, a heuristic... I've never needed to find a provably optimal solution...
by coldpie | 2025-09-26 14:46:01+00:00
China has not made my wife's healthcare illegal, my friends' healthcare illegal, spent my tax dollars on genocide, profited from anti-vaccine propaganda, or sponsored weekly mass shootings in my country. The people running this deal and running American social media platforms have done all of those things. I have way more trust in a platform run by China than one run by Zuckerberg or Musk or Ellison.
by miiiiiike | 2025-09-26 14:46:10+00:00
Traefik's F/OSS projects are useless to me. Every single feature that I need to use is locked away in a closed source product.

Close to the same issue with Varnish Enterprise. Why would I pay for Varnish Enterprise if I can't even review or extend the source? Know what I have to do with Varnish's source once a quarter? I have to look at it. Because the documentation is non-existent. The closed source version is going to make my life objectively worse.

Aside from NGINX, Postgres, and memcached, I've had to patch every major piece of software in my stack at one point or another. I refuse to use any product that I can't fix myself.

It's current year, why are JWTs only supported in the closed source/enterprise versions of Varnish, NGINX, and Traefik?

I happily give $1,000/year to Django and lesser amounts to other projects that I depend on. Do you know how much I spend on projects that put features behind a closed source product? Zero. I will never pay for that.
by pm215 | 2025-09-26 14:46:12+00:00
Yes, especially as CPUs have got faster and put in more clever tricks to improve performance (bear in mind that this blog post is 15 years old). Modern architectures have introduced modes to allow you to turn this off so that for your crypto code you can get back the not-data-dependent timing you wanted. For instance on Arm that's FEAT_DIT:

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0601/2025-06/AArc...

and the set of instructions you can safely use is listed.

I believe Intel has a similar thing.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-26 14:46:51+00:00
This is just wishful thinking. They're not going to make all of the farm workers, many of whom have difficulty reading ANY language (let alone English), download an "app" and install it on their phone.

"In 2024, a significant portion of the UK adult population, approximately 8.5 million people (1 in 6), struggles with reading and writing at a basic level, according to The Reading Agency's 2024 report"

Maybe they'll have an exception for people who are more migratory in nature. In that event, I think we'll get to see a nice real-world example of a cyberpunk-style dystopia. "High tech, low life". The upstanding citizens will be surveilled, preyed upon by corruption, and will be running on a social credit score treadmill designed to work them to death. Meanwhile, a plucky band of rebel farm workers, who are free to work outside the system, will bring down the establishment and bring freedom to all. Roll credits.
by joenot443 | 2025-09-26 14:47:08+00:00
> I'll give MS it's props when they deal with the hate crime in their colleges and set up a good free meal program that their state can fund on its own

I don't think the success of a literacy program is negated by the existence of crime on college campuses. I also don't think it's the fault of MS that its citizens generally produce less tax revenue than Californians or New Yorkers.

The expression is "credit where credit's due" and I'd say in this case, credit's due. Well done Mississippi.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-26 14:47:09+00:00
The thing is the public sector does have competition. We have a surplus of houses with XXL master bedroom suites in Arizona and a deficit of high speed rail. If they used union labor to build houses in Arizona and non-union labor to build high speed rail it would be the other way around.

If it costs the public sector 3x as much to do things as the private sector people are going to turn against the public sector. Have crazy people screaming on the street corner in the city and people will retreat to the suburbs and order from Amazon instead of going shopping, order a private taxi for their burrito instead of going to a restaurant. If the public sector were efficient, responsive and pleasant people would be voting for more of it.
by motbus3 | 2025-09-26 14:47:18+00:00
I'm sure you can easily find a out its creator saying he cannot make a living from brew despite putting lots of effort in it. Initial plan was to bake some sort of payment in it so companies would need to pay, then it became something people would be for everyone and then, I guess, he finally decided that it would be too much stress to get people to accept the fact so he went to make Tea

For me, this means that brew will eventually phase out.
by bikelang | 2025-09-26 14:47:36+00:00
> the article doesn't dig down deeper into why BYD and other Chinese manufacturers are cheaper - 996 style slave labor production, a lack of environmental protection laws and, most notably, a lot of state/regional subsidies artificially dumping prices below sustainability

I’m not sure that this is accurate. My understanding is that BYD invested heavily into automation. Their factories have few human employees left. They do almost all their automation robotics design and manufacturing in house to boot. That’s a huge advantage
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-26 14:47:40+00:00
> I feel icky saying this but we should make a strong effort as a society to stamp out anti-social behaviors. Addictions are very high on that list.

GLP-1s can help stamp out addiction, but people are going to be people. You can provide them support, but you cannot prevent chronic, determined self harm and destruction. I speak from personal experience.

https://recursiveadaptation.com/p/the-growing-scientific-cas...
by somelamer567 | 2025-09-26 14:47:45+00:00
HARD eye-roll at the libertarian scaremongering about this basic, sensible idea to tame the identity mess.

* I have half a dozen different ID numbers for various things like NI, NHS, drivers license, tax etc

* I also have a dozen different GOV.UK logins for various services.

* When need to provide strong proof of identity to AWS to reset a root password, I have to go to a notary and pay £200 for a signature and stamp and then scan the paperwork into an email.

The antis, as always, are clutching at straws. At what point does this stop being acceptable because of libertarian vibes and scaremongering about 'Big Brother' -- especially when most of the rest of the world has had ID cards for decades?
by dgacmu | 2025-09-26 14:48:28+00:00
It's a backwards-facing business. It would seen better to be investing in the success of the segment of the industry that's by this point obviously going to dominate in the not so far future (electric buses).

(At least, globally. China and Europe are all in on electric buses; I doubt any of us have a good crystal ball for what's going to happen in the US.)
by friendly_deer | 2025-09-26 14:48:35+00:00
First Things[0] is one of my favorite magazines. It has perspectives I rarely see anywhere else, and generally well articulated and argued for (provided you accept Christian first-principles).

New Polity Podcast[1] also regularly features smart conversations.

[0] https://firstthings.com/

[1] https://newpolity.com/podcasts
by philipkglass | 2025-09-26 14:48:46+00:00
In 1970 Americans already had an abundance of calories available, but they didn't yet have an obesity epidemic. One big difference is that in 1970 a typical person could afford 4000 calories of food a day, but most people still ate food cooked or assembled from basic ingredients at home. It's possible but less likely for someone to prepare and eat 4000 calories a day worth of homemade fried chicken, cookies, mashed potatoes, etc.

Americans today can afford to eat 4000 calories worth of food and it's already optimized for palatability and convenience. It's relatively easy to eat 4000 calories of Doritos, microwave burritos, and boxed cookies. There's advertising to remind you of its existence and researchers dedicated to optimizing the delight of eating these products (increasing the odds of overeating just because it's pleasurable and frictionless).

The transition from "abundance" to "abundance multiplied by advertising and product optimization" drove obesity more than simple availability of calories, IMO. I see a parallel with digital information. There was more than enough information on the Web to spend all day looking at it even before social networks were common. But that "home cooked" experience wasn't engineered for engagement time, so companies that optimized products for engagement were, in practice, a lot better at getting people to look at digital information for many hours per day.
by antocuni | 2025-09-26 14:48:54+00:00
pypy IS compatible with C extensions, via what we call "cpyext": https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#do-c-extension-modul...

The problem of cpyext is that it's super slow, for good reasons: https://pypy.org/posts/2018/09/inside-cpyext-why-emulating-c...

There are efforts to create a new C API which is more friendly to alternative implementations (including CPython itself, when they want to change how they do things internally): https://hpyproject.org/ https://github.com/py-ni
by techblueberry | 2025-09-26 14:49:09+00:00
Yeah, we’ll see what happens, but one of the interesting things about the book sapiens, is it highlights that there are plenty of paradigm shifting events in human history that change our basic assumptions.

“Life is suffering” meant something very different when the Buddha first said it to now. The idea that “the only constant is change” is a relatively modern creation(or at least the significance of it), so this idea that economics is going to keep working the way it always has - at least feels like it’s going to change if we get more advanced AI.
by myrmidon | 2025-09-26 14:49:15+00:00
I'm just saying that the "China cheaper because dirty, bad quality copycat products" is in my view mostly an incorrect excuse; cheap labor and (sometimes) larger scale are (for now!) Chinese advantages that people love to ignore.

Being price-competitive with Chinese production then means either driving down local wages or inflating product costs, and there is absolutely no way around this (until you have heavy industry that literally builds itself).
by crazygringo | 2025-09-26 14:49:17+00:00
> still paying for custom paint schemes or colors

Because you need to be able to recognize from a distance, hey that's a city bus. Not a charter bus. Not a school bus. Not a long distance bus.

And buses aren't usually wrapped with advertising. It's usually just a banner on the sides below the windows.

Some ad campaigns pay much more money to extend it over the windows with that mesh material. But that's generally a small minority. But even then the colors on front and top and often borders still clearly identify it. E.g. these are still very clearly public transit if you live there, which is what's important:

https://contravisionoutlook.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads...

https://contravisionoutlook.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads...
AI-powered OP-tools, anyone has done it?
by birudeghi | 2025-09-26 14:49:20+00:00
Part of my work at Standard Form (https://heystandard.com) is to build physician schedules that resemble the classic "Nurse Scheduling Problem" in operations research (OP). We could implement this without AI at all with many open-source algorithms like OP-Tools and Gurobi, but our customers are physicians who cannot code and neither do we have time coding each solution for each customer. So, we're venturing into having LLMs program such optimizers from human natural language.

The state-of-the-art has been to do fine-tuning on OP-tool datasets. The problem is that very, very few datasets cover scheduling problems and a slither of those that exist don't realistically represent actual scheduling constraints.

Another method is to do multiple prompting strategies, like OptiMUS, which is the one I've been prototyping with. It's inconsistent with GPT-5, and any lesser models will fail to model the problem correctly at all and produce solvers that are infeasible (but in fact are) or just error.

I'd like to think that this is actually a solved problem, since it comes down to teaching LLM how to code, and we're not asking LLM to output schedules generatively. However, the literature is sparse on this topic and all the attention right now goes to LLMs doing the actual maths, which I think is only experimental at this time.

Operations research is one of the unclaimed corners of AI and would love any input from those who have expertise in OP and/or AI. This is something we believe will be an important aspect of how the world's industrial output will rely on, and we ought not to let this be in the backburner as many (and I mean many) people are still doing scheduling manually on Excel or even paper and post-its.

Any input appreciated.

birudeghi
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-26 14:49:47+00:00
It's constitutional because the Supreme Court ruled it was in the case Train v NYC. They are the ones who determine what laws are constitutional or not. You can disagree but their opinion is what is acted upon.

>the constitution that requires two branches to approve of spending

The president must sign spending bills and while he may be overridden with a veto that's the check and balance.