MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-14 18:38:54+00:00
> You can't monopolize a market where there is no market. The opposite conclusion would be absurd, that you can invent a market where there isn't one and claim a company has a monopoly over it.

There is no such thing as "there is no market". There is always a market. The question is, what's in the market? The typical strategy is to do the opposite -- have Nintendo claim that they're competing with Sony and Microsoft in the same market to try to claim that it isn't a monopoly.

But then the question is, are they the same market? So to take some traditional examples, third party software that could run on MS-DOS could also run on non-Microsoft flavors of DOS. OS/2 could run software for Windows. The various POSIX-compliant versions of Unix and Linux could run the same software as one another. Samsung phones can run the same apps as Pixel phones. Which puts these things in the same market as each other, because they're actually substitutes, even though they're made by different companies.

Conversely, you can't run iOS apps on Android or get iOS apps from Google Play or vice versa. It's not because they're different companies -- both of them could support both if they wanted to -- it's that they choose not to and choices have consequences.

If you intentionally avoid competing in the same market as another company then you're not competing in the same market as that company and the absurdity is trying to have it both ways by doing that and then still wanting to claim them as a competitor.
by Atomic_Torrfisk | 2025-11-14 18:39:17+00:00
Anyone who actually bothers to reads this article will know that it's blatant agenda pushing, nothing more. Here are some of the highlights:

a) The article is published by a company who's caters to rich individuals who want to gain citizenship in other countries by paying their way in. Morally dubious to begin with.

b) The 54B capital flight figure is unsubstantiated. They cite no sources, only a single hyperlink that redirects to their own completely unrelated webpage??

c) The lost tax revenue estimates also seem to be completely made up. In fact, they make no mention of the figures past the title and introductory paragraph. A complete joke of an article.

If you're interested to know the real numbers, the official national statistical institute of Norway (link below) tracks wealth tax revenues per year. From 2022 to 2023, revenues moderately increased from around NOK 26 billion to NOK 29 billion. 2024 statistics are only due to come out this year.

https://www.ssb.no/en/statbank/table/10333
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-14 18:39:40+00:00
And when it is a problem, it's usually a problem with the system denying people access rather than literal inability to afford.

Municipality would rather some house be vacated (perhaps based on a "poor people drain services, kick-em out" policy posture) so when a storm takes out your utility pole guess who isn't getting a new meter drop until they bring their shit up to current code at a non-starter price... and oh look here it's illegal to live in a house without electricity. I guess that means someone's getting evicted, what a shame...
by iggldiggl | 2025-11-14 18:39:52+00:00
> AWS / TPWS are somewhat rudimentary and deployed - by far - not everywhere

I don't think that's quite true. AWS is rudimentary, true (only forces acknowledgement of warning signals, but otherwise no speed supervision, braking curves or trainstop functionality), but AFAIK deployed almost everywhere, the only major exception I'm aware of being some complex but slow-speed station layouts.

And TPWS… while it doesn't do everything that a truly modern train protection system could do, together with the British practice of long enough overlaps (i.e. an additional safety distance beyond a stop signal that needs to be kept clear, too, in case of an overrun) it's still quite reasonably effective at preventing dangerous overruns. And its deployment has been indeed more gappy, but AFAIK junctions and major speed restrictions, where the biggest risks are, are still quite comprehensively fitted. The biggest gap are automatic signals on the plain line, but then again there haven't been many accidents at those.

> If I remember correctly they do not even have something as basic as an electronic coursebook - which became mandatory in Germany in the 90s already.

Part of that goes a long way back. One of the most fundamental differences is that the UK still does route signalling, whereas Germany completely switched to speed signalling at the beginning of the 1930s.

Route signalling means that the signals indicate the route the train will take, but not the exact speed, so if you want trains to operate safely but without excessive dawdling, route knowledge is a must.

Whereas with speed signalling, the signals directly indicate the safe speed for proceeding, so route knowledge, while still useful and necessary for other purposes, is no longer quite as crucially relevant. Consequently, in the UK ad-hoc diversions without route knowledge are quite taboo, whereas in Germany, emergency diversions due to short-notice incidents are mostly (except for some specific lines with more complex requirements) allowed, albeit with a speed restriction of 100 km/h.
by fra | 2025-11-14 18:39:56+00:00
In practice, I don’t think tax policy is the primary driver for where people chose to live. Even very wealthy people.

If I were very wealthy the first thing I would want to buy is proximity to the people I love, the food I like, the culture I’m excited about. For many people that means being close to home.

I can’t imagine how shallow my life would have to be for me to optimize it around taxes.
by ryanisnan | 2025-11-14 18:39:59+00:00
What an awesome piece of technology. I've been wanting to create something similar, just on the technical merits. We have some pretty amazingly capable technology these days, but so much of it relies on IP infrastructure, which is fine when things work and you are either aligned with your government, or live in a society where there are strong checks and balances on government overreach.
by nijave | 2025-11-14 18:40:09+00:00
Depending on the content and software stack, caching might be a fairly easy option. For instance, Wordpress W3 Total Cache used to be pretty easy to configure and could easily bring a small VPS from 6-10req/sec to 100-200req/sec.

Also some solutions for generating static content sites instead of "dynamic" CMS where they store everything in a DB

If it's new, I'd say the easiest option is start with a content hosting system that has built-in caching (assuming that exists for what you're trying to deploy)
by sidewndr46 | 2025-11-14 18:40:43+00:00
I think the real takeaway here is that Jensen Huang was smart enough to found a technology company that developed innovative products with real consumer demand. He's also smart enough to have seen the writing on the wall regarding consumer market demand saturation for high-margin products. No matter what happens with AI, Huang will be recorded as having executed the greatest pivot of all time in terms of company direction.
by bambax | 2025-11-14 18:40:47+00:00
Yeah, I had a semi-popular extension on MV2 that I didn't migrate to MV3 and let die -- not worth the hassle IMHO, and I didn't want to be part of that move anyway, which was as user-hostile as they come (all in the name of "security", of course).

I have a couple of (personal) scripts on Tampermonkey that work ok in Firefox and Chrome, though.
by mothballed | 2025-11-14 18:41:05+00:00
I don't think DIYer even bother learning how to sweat copper pipe anymore. I plumbed an entire house myself using pex for the supply. All I had to know was how to press the trigger to expand the pipe.

The only copper I had was a copper stub for the toilet supply, but I used pex expansion to terminate there too because they make copper-pex stubs.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-14 18:41:25+00:00
I’ve ridden the spectrum, as it were. I grew up upper middle class, with a sprawling McMansion, a car for each sibling, a country club membership, the works. I’ve been broke, squandering money and racking up debt, but finding enough escape hatches to avoid irreparable harm. I’ve been homeless, getting by through the good graces of friends and family until I got back on my feet through the help of a good friend and wildly risky move to a place I’d never been, sight unseen. I’ve spent years being poor in a food desert, stretching pizza deliveries across a week of meals because the nearest store was a ten mile walk down an interstate highway. And now, through luck, work, and the help of friends (but mostly luck, statistically speaking), I’m eking out a good life in a good apartment with extortionate rent and a toxic job.

This author lays out the experience of being “poor” perfectly. It’s a case of doing all the right things, and still failing. It’s being constantly stuck in survival mode no matter how hard you work, because there’s always a new expense, a new hurdle, a new obstacle to reset your progress - because being poor means you can’t even afford the “save point” of insurance or redundancies or savings to fall back on.

It’s why even when I was scraping above the $200k mark at PriorCo in TC, I was championing more social services. More healthcare support, more housing assistance, more compensation. We could afford it, but shareholder returns came first. It was sickening knowing colleagues who lived in vans because despite pulling down six figure salaries, it simply wasn’t enough for rent when expenses continued to pile up for injuries or illnesses.

Those of means and privilege simply do not grasp how hard it is to exist in America without large sums of cash behind you. I was struggling on less when rent was still considered reasonable, in one of the cheapest states to live in. In the fifteen-odd years since, it’s just gotten exponentially worse, even as the stock market has exploded in value.

It’s why I never stop arguing for better, because I know how bad it can get.

I was just lucky enough to escape.
by easygenes | 2025-11-14 18:41:27+00:00
I think Lizard is the best UI for elements hiding in FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lizardextensi...

The name is in keeping with a lineage of animal tools for ad hoc page manipulation in Firefox. First was Aardvark, then Platypus. https://github.com/dvogel/AardvarkDuex

More background: https://chatgpt.com/share/69177dc6-6378-8011-bdae-c8dcbb124f...

I was an original early user of Aardvark. These tools have remained obscure, but with a cult following because they’re such a quick and easy way to rip up a page to your liking. They were the direct inspiration for modern browser dom selector tools.

For hairy edge cases, uBlock Origin’s element picker is the gold standard for manipulating pages.
by magicalist | 2025-11-14 18:41:28+00:00
> No one “deserves” free time

Careful. It sounds an awful lot like you feel you "deserve" to be wealthy from your hard work, but in reality it was the type of work you were doing that got you there, because there are a whole lot of people working 60 to 70 hour weeks decades out of their 20s and will never be secure monetarily.

(leaving aside the pricklier philosophical aspect that a particular type of work being valued so much more than another type of work is also fairly arbitrary in a very similar way to whether or not a human "deserves" free time)
by beefnugs | 2025-11-14 18:41:29+00:00
You know this might be the final push that the long needed IT-overhaul happens: every employee now needs 2 computers.

One super locked down white list only apps and network connections required to get their work data. email links completely blocked, email files can only be sent to a sandbox

One with immutable sandbox tasks: internet browsing, AI processing (super locked down human chosen only data in, and only outgoing connections are to foundational model, or back to the secure system for long-term-storage/backup)

(basically qubesOS, or more likely cant if microsoft needs its own secure boot and tpm hardware)
by naasking | 2025-11-14 18:41:30+00:00
Yes, there may be interesting math, but I didn't mean "scaling LLMs", necessarily. I was making a more general point that a single-I/O function can pretty trivially replicate a multi-I/O function, so the OP's point that "LLM neurons" are single-I/O and bio neurons are multi-I/O doesn't mean much. Estimates of brain complexity have already factored this in, which is why we know we're still a few orders of magnitude away from the number of parameters needed for a human brain in a raw compute sense.

However, the human brain has extra parameters that a pure/distilled general intelligence may not actually need, eg. emotions, some types of perception, balance, and modulation of various biological processes. It's not clear how many of the parameters of the human brain these take up, so maybe we're not as far as we think.

And there are alternative models such as spiking neural networks which more closely mimic biology, but it's not clear whether these are really that critical. I think general intelligence will likely have multiple models which achieve similar results, just like there are multiple ways to sort a set of numbers.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-11-14 18:41:39+00:00
I think it's basically just "this is complicated, complicated means corporate lawyers, corporate lawyers are expensive enough and the potential profit is small enough that it's not worth it." It's not just "will this be net positive," either. There's an opportunity cost. Those corporate lawyers are needed for other important projects that might make more money.

But also, I kind of think it becomes a thing where it's too small potatoes for anybody senior enough to actually approve all of the legal stuff to care enough to make happen. Sure, it's basically free money, but it's not a lot of free money.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-14 18:41:39+00:00
So people who are smart enough to start a successful company, are also smart enough to avoid Norway as a place to found it in.

There is a reason Norway, and by extension most of Europe, completely missed out on the tech boom, and all of Europe is just using American tech.

Such a shame, and Europeans still get offended when you point it out to them. Better to have stagnation than billionaires, amirite?
by Nevermark | 2025-11-14 18:41:48+00:00
Inference keeps getting cheaper, so "it isn't cheap enough yet" isn't an issue. Even with zero efficiency innovations from here, cost per instruction is the most deflationary commodity of all time.

So how was that ever going to be a problem?

The optimal choice for marginal costs, which will naturally drop on their own, at the beginning of a new tech cycle is to run in the red. It would be a sign of gross incompetence if they were fine tuning those costs already.

Training spend is the giant expense. And either training costs are unsustainable, and training spend will hit a pause, or it is not unsustainable and training spend will continue.

So, which is it?

Critical point: The majority of their costs are not required to serve the highest level of capability they have achieved at any given time.

That is unusual. In the sense that it is an exceptionally healthy cost control structure. Note that not even open source offers a cost advantage, for training or inference.
by tyfon | 2025-11-14 18:41:57+00:00
It's to avoid the dutch decease, but the "oil fund" revenue is now paying for 20% of the state budget so it's getting close.

The total tax level for Norwegians are only in the middle of the chart when compared to other OECD countries so it is not really that high comparatively.

The main issue with the "wealth tax" is that it is also taxing active capital (company values, stock etc) even if that capital is not making a profit.

On another note, as a Norwegian, I happily pay my taxes even if I am in the top bracket. It is for the most part spent wisely.
by politelemon | 2025-11-14 18:42:00+00:00
The article is suspicious to me and I am flagging it.

It does not show any sources, it appears to be an attempt to go viral to spread the misinformation circularly. Further, the wealth tax news was from 2023 but they call it 'recent' (the post is dated 2025).

This comment chain on reddit shows that there was a revenue decrease likely due to petrol prices. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProfessorFinance/comments/1or4l6u/n...

Looking at the NO gov website, I can see that there was an increase in revenue from the wealth tax but a decrease from petroleum. https://www.ssb.no/en/offentlig-sektor/offentlig-forvaltning...

So the citizenx site is falsely claiming the decrease in order to further its own agenda.
by zweifuss | 2025-11-14 18:42:00+00:00
ZTE is also under scrutiny. The reason it's only Huawei and ZTE is that other Chinese providers are so insignificant that the telecoms will likely be able to replace the infrastructure themselves with spares or consolidation. However, in an emergency, the government would have to foot the bill for replacing Huawei/ZTE systems quickly, as the telecoms couldn't finance this and lack of capacity would mean very high prices.
by buildsjets | 2025-11-14 18:42:43+00:00
I also got my 608 cert online for $25. I found no real need to study or cram, most of the answers were common-sense or easily googleable real-time. I got a $40,000 quote to install a 4 zone heat pump system. It was roughly $6500 worth of equipment, $500 worth of tools, a $25 EPA cert, and 2 weekends of my time. Basic carpentry and electrical tasks, some minor special skill development to get the copper flares just right, a nitrogen pressure test, vacuum evacuate and chill.

These systems were designed so that people with a basic education in third world countries can install them. It's not rocket science.
by antisthenes | 2025-11-14 18:42:49+00:00
You were lucky to have the genetics that allowed you to have cognitive capabilities to understand computers and programming.

Many people don't and never will.

There is always a bottom % of people who are under the cognitive capacity to meaningfully contribute to society. That doesn't mean they are bad people, but they will always be poor/broke.

Ranting about this is just ranting about human nature. Life isn't fair, some of us will be short, have bad looks, be unappealing to women, etc. And some of us will not have the cognitive capacity to have a job that keeps you above water, forever.

The only thing we can do is be compassionate and help out. Maybe eventually we will have enough mastery over genetics where we can make people truly equal in ability.
by binoct | 2025-11-14 18:42:54+00:00
Calling the industry largely a scam is pretty strong. Of course for the small minority of technically competent people with interest and time it will always be cheaper to do something yourself rather than pay a business to accomplish the same thing. But most people cannot/do not want to do it themselves, and regulations are there at least partially to help protect them against the house-fire-waiting-to-happen untrained handyman.

Sure a bunch of businesses opportunistically up-charge, some I'm sure are predatory, and there are obviously efficiencies to improve, but overall scam it is not.
by meatmanek | 2025-11-14 18:42:55+00:00
Captions seem to have been updated sometime between 7 and 15 months ago. Here's a reddit post from 7 months ago noticing the update: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1kd9210/autocaptio...

and here's Jeff Geerling 15 months ago showing how to use Whisper to make dramatically better captions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1M9NOtusM8

I assume Google has finally put some of their multimodal LLM work to good use. Before that, they were embarrassingly bad.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-14 18:43:03+00:00
Sounds interesting, but I still think I prefer using workspaces, simply because I can set window rules for predictability.

I never want to / have to wonder where any particular window is. Every app will always open on the same workspace, in the same position that I define + a scratchpad workspace for random one-offs that I keep floating. I'm only ever 1 key press away from exactly what I want. I know that ctrl+b gets me my browser, ctrl+t gets me to my terminal(s), etc. I don't even think about the workspace numbers or layout beyond initial configuration. Zero animations, instant switching.

In your example, if I'm on one workspace working and I need to open Gimp, I press my keybind for Gimp and it opens on the scratchpad and switches to it immediately.

It takes a lot of initial config and tweaking as you go along but once settled it's the most efficient way I've found to manage windows, in that, the windows manage themselves i no longer have to think about them at all.
by tim333 | 2025-11-14 18:43:06+00:00
>AGI fantasy...

>I think it’s remarkable that what was until recently sci-fi fantasy has become a mainstream view in Silicon Valley.

Human like thinking by machines, which I think is what most people think of as AGI was not until recently a sci-fi fantasy.

It was dealt with by Turning of Turing test fame and the main founder of computer science, around 1950 and the idea of singularity in the tech sense came from John von Neumann who was fundamental to the John von Neumann architecture used as the basis of much computing. If you assume the brain is a biological computer and electronic computers get better in a Moore's law like way then a crossover is kind of inevitable.

Dismissing it as sci-fi fantasy seems a bit like dismissing a round as opposed to flat earth ideas in a similar way.

Which doesn't mean that LLMs are the answer and we should stick all the money into them. That's a different thing.
by magicalhippo | 2025-11-14 18:43:30+00:00
The oil money is already about 25% of the national budget, and has recently been flagged by the auditer general as a high risk to our society[1] should stocks fall.

Spending more oil money seems like a bad idea at this point.

[1]: https://www.riksrevisjonen.no/rapporter-mappe/no-2025-2026/r...
by asdfman123 | 2025-11-14 18:43:39+00:00
I'm disheartened by presumably left leaning people who are responding to this news with some variant of "shame on them" and "billionaires are bad."

I'm not trying to defend billionaires but I feel like the last years of left-wing political action has been the left trying to mash the "shame" button without realizing the button has been disconnected behind the panel.

The left used to be able to deplatform people. They can't anymore because there's more platforms. They need to think more in terms of sober cause and effect and basic political realities. If they don't, they'll just convince people that they can't govern.
by posix86 | 2025-11-14 18:44:19+00:00
Travelling to a 3rd world country with genuinely poor people can help, a bit. When you see the houses genuinely poor people live in, it purs things into perspective. Being in appartment where the roof... is broken. And you have no way to fix it. No way. There's cold coming inside, mold on the walls, no real kitchen, no real bed, "living room"?? Lol. You grow up not getting a proper education, your parents have worked tirelessly for years, as you probably will. Having a dream - during the entire life!! - of just travelling to a first world country, just ONCE, just to see it. And never even approachikg savings to be able to do that. And you, the 1st world country, walk past, and complain about the hotel staff being rude.

You work work work, no break ever, hardly an improvement. You come home, no food, no money. No food, no money. And nobody to ask for food, or money. Nobody. You're hungry, and there's that. Tomorrow maybe.