skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically he compares two kinds of growth rates : the growth rate of the 'real' economy and the growth rate of wealth itself. You need the wealth rate to be low enough that rich people want to invest some of it in the real world, not leave it in the bank.

I think your second sentence, and thus your explanation of Piketty's thesis, is wrong. Piketty's point was that if wealth grows faster than the economy, the total share of all assets held by the wealthy will grow and grow. I don't think he was concerned about the choice to invest 'in the real world'. In any case it's not clear what 'not investing in the real world' means or if it's meaningful. Any return on capital either comes from direct investment or from lending to someone else who will invest directly. There is a fundamental accounting equation which proves that all net saving is net investment.
> When property owners improve their land, neighbors also gain value - creating a positive-sum scenario even within your 'finite resource' example

There is a finite pool of property and of buyers though. Its reasonable to assume they if one piece of property gains in value others lose value because they are now less desirable. I'm not arguing the math is absolutely 1:1 in price increase/decrease.

Its very easy to zoom in on one portion of a zero sum game and view it as non-zero. If costs are externalized outside the scale you're considering then it can in fact seem magical, but at the end of the day everything is connected.
I'm really liking Orion browser, unfortunately it doesn't support Windows or Linux yet
Los Angeles has been doing this and the BRT lines are a great way to get started since they’re so much cheaper to build. The last time I was visiting family they looked busy and outpaced the car traffic handily.

One game-changing technology is the way cameras are cheap now. You can put them on every bus and change drivers’ calculation of the risks of suffering consequences from blocking bus lanes or stops from “less likely than being struck by lightning” to “every time”. That requires political will but the technology makes the cost not only low but self-funding.
> Retail business stagnation

This is maybe a bit tangential, but I live in a very walkable neighborhood (by US standards, anyway). But as commercial rents are rising (even faster than rent for housing) it's driven several small businesses out of our walkable core - a bookstore faced a 30% rent increase and couldn't make it work, a donut shop shut down for similar reasons, several other small businesses facing this. It kind of seems like commercial landlords saw that it was becoming more walkable because many high-density housing projects have come in over the last 7 years and they decided to gouge their tenants. Their tenants (small businesses) can no longer make the numbers pencil out with the high rent and shut down leaving empty storefronts - or large chains move in destroying the local character. And then there's less to walk to.
Jeju Air Crash: Everything We Know So Far [Mentor Pilot] [video]
(You appear to be replying directly to the author, BTW.)
This is an awesome take.
You swap character by character, and of course if you want to swap a group of characters related to a particular domain you can do so. The tray is just a grid so you have as much flexibility as you want as long as you have the appropriate characters at your disposal.

I have just finished reading Mullaney’s book.
Sorry, I think my sentence was not very clear there.

Finland always seemed to be very sensible when it came to its country’s security. I realize “Finlandization” may have had a negative context but during that time Finland made sure it was prepared as militarily as possible if its political “non-alignment” approach failed. It didn’t assume anything.

My point was their approach to their security vs outsourcing defense was a more pragmatic approach considering where we have ended up in 2025 and one that other countries in Europe should have probably followed. If and when your “strong” partner moves away from your interests, you still need internal strength. To a degree Europe (save for a few countries) never expected their strong partner to get wishy-washy on their interests.
I'm on a 2015-era Intel Core CPU and iGPU and yeah the page stutters badly when I scroll near the WebGL canvas
There is presumably still a limit though. Resources can only be optimized so much, innovation and cooperation helps but that would cap out at some point.
except that capital flight usually takes place in the form of exchanging one asset for another (stocks for crypto or money, for example), an event that is subject to taxation (in the US at least) if a profit is realized.
Is the open-source version not usable/allowed for CI/CD environment?
If a “non coder” makes a project by vibe coding and learns to code as a side effect, great! One more coder. And it IS a great way to learn to code. If you want to know how to do something just ask for it and watch what was generated then ask why for anything you’re curious about. Can’t get much better as an education tool than that. Perfect for solo founders.

Alternatively if a “non coder” creates a project by vibe coding and it fails, maybe that failure happened faster with lower costs (especially their time, if it’s their own project) than if they’d had to go get financing, hire an offshore dev or two, and go back and forth for a few weeks or months.

Vibes are high on vibe coding.
Show HN: Built a "Story Chatbot Arena" to Crowdsource AI Story Preferences
Hi HN,

I’m a university student interested in Gen AI, and over the holidays, I built a project in public: Who Rates the Rater? – a crowdsourced dataset for benchmarking AI-generated storytelling.

The Idea
Inspired by Chatbot Arena, this lets users compare AI-generated stories and provide feedback. The goal is to refine LLMs for creative writing using real human preferences.

How It Works

- Live Demo: https://storycrowdsourcepreference.streamlit.app

- Tech Stack: Built with Streamlit + Supabase

- Open Source: https://github.com/clchinkc/story_crowdsource_preference

Get Involved

- Try it & star the repo if you find it interesting

- Bug reports & feature requests welcome on Twitter

- Follow me for future AI & storytelling projects

Would love to hear your thoughts!
> how journalists and journalism schools have destroyed their own profession by rejecting objectivity and engaging in open advocacy journalism

I think there is a modern problem where subjective truths, that is truths believed but open to challenge, are seen as weakness and are presented as objective. I started that last sentence with "I think". Today those two words would be omitted by many writers.
He could always try committing fewer crimes, and see how that goes for him.
He made his GitHub account activity all private once people started paying attention. What does he have to hide?
Hisense QLED TVs are just LED TVs, lawsuit claims
Is the MAGA movement really about the economy? I’m trying to understand it.
In a democracy the majority is right if you’re seeking their vote

On other matters… not so useful
> Didn’t they cancel some cancer treatment research projects?

“Cancel” suggest more decision-making than appears to have happened, at least in the research projects I am aware of—a number had to be canceled by those running them because the unprecedented blanket payment pause notionally to evaluate programs existing programs made it impossible for them to continue operating.
No, it is not encoding.
It is a secret-sharing scheme, where the idea is to divide the secret into multiple parts, with each part revealing nothing about the secret on its own.
> Democrats Fum…

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There's no recipe for happiness that primarily involves looking in the other guy's bowl. Even if you have everything to eat, you will still need unhappy if he has more.

No wonder you guys constantly post about unhappiness. You are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.

Much more joy if you instead care only about absolute living standards. My life has improved a lot and if Jeff Bezos appears before me and will make me 10x as wealthy if he is 100x I will gladly choose that.

We live as long as kings, with greater variety of food and drink, greater variety of entertainment, and big comfortable houses. I'd take this trade 10/10 times.
Great piece about a singular man and artist. It is Gorey's centenary this year (born 1925) and by a strange coincidence I just wrote a small blog post about a tribute exhibition I went to last week [1]. He seems to be a soul mate to Charles Addams. I'm not sure what Gorey would make of 2025 but then, was the "real" mundane world, as it really is, the one he inhabited anyway?

[1] https://www.sherringham.net/blog/2025/03/01#gorey
If the AI makes a mistake and kills someone, whom is their family going to sue?

There are many safe over-the-counter drugs. Drugs that need prescription need to be carefully prescribed.
I mean murder's not a new idea either but it's broadly condemned in most moral vibes

"Right by conquest" is sort of a cope, like "You might have a green light and the right of way, but Isaac Newton always favors the semi truck"
just tax the bussiness's income, don't tax a human's income?
> If America and the EU had started dumping 10% of GDP into the military 5 or 15 years ago things would likely look very different

is this a typo? US already has the highest military budget in the world, the last thing it needs is to put more money into it.
> The depression basically severely reduced my ability to mitigate my ADHD symptoms, causing them to become very apparent, essentially being co-morbid with each other.

I had this experience as well; in particular it really impacted my ability to work/keep a job. The added stress in turn worsened my depression, etc.

Fortunately, I was able to take almost half a year off and focus on stabilizing/recovering without further damaging my career or economic status. Many people are not so fortunate.
2045 - the America dividend!
Your hobby is polluting the local area with highly toxic material? Dang man, that's evil
> If all three billion Google Workspace users paid that standard increase, that would equal an additional $7.2 billion in monthly revenue for the company.

And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. There's no way Google has 3 billion paid users for this product. That said, Google is currently expanding its Hyderabad office by a lot, and moving projects there, attempting to use the old globalist playbook by charging first world prices for third world labor costs. Seems unwise in the long run, given the recent geopolitical upheavals.
What you're describing is a zero sum game. The world is limited to the board game, and whoever is best at trading and strategy collects the most finite resources and the others lose.

(Sorry if I lost the thread here. Most here were trying to argue that trade and globalization are a way to escape a zero-sum game).
Antidepressant drugs are actually anti-anxiety ones. If the anxiety causes depression, then the latter may be improved too. But there is absolutely no effect for a flat non-anxious mood. Only Venlafaxine may help in some cases
Yes, but making the world a less cruel place requires strength—strength of purpose, strength of character, and intellectual strength to have hard conversations about hard realities. We don’t reduce cruelty by ignoring the harm done by those who break the law. The people you defend are not victims—they are the ones making life harder for others, whether it’s overwhelming social services, committing crimes, or undercutting legal immigrants who followed the rules.

We don’t fight cruelty by sanitizing language or pretending reality isn’t what it is. We fight it by acknowledging hard truths and having the courage to address them honestly, not emotionally.
The problem is that we are way deep into this sh**, all major layers of the stack from CPUs to programming languages, are mostly sponsored, or owned by US companies.

To go back to the diversity we had during cold war days, it will take decades, and we need a solution now.
Show HN: Rival – Open-source tool for visually comparing AI model responses
I built RIVAL to see how different AI models respond to the exact same one-shot prompt, side-by-side in a visual way.
It lets you compare one-shot responses from models like GPT-4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, Grok 3, and others across different challenge types (coding, web design, SVG generation, text analysis).
Features:
- Interactive visual comparisons with expandable cards
- Focus on the actual content, not just metrics
- Subtle retro-inspired UI with clean animations
- Categories for different types of AI challenges
Live demo: rival.tips
GitHub: https://github.com/nuance-dev/rival
Feedback and contributions welcome
If the individual is living in a fantasy land, then any responses here will be discarded by them as fantasy themselves. Someone who legitimately believes that Musk is fighting corruption when Musk is also directing contracts to his own businesses is in a fantasy land.

If the individual is trolling, which could be the case here, then responding is just feeding the troll. It encourages them.

The better thing in both cases is to ignore them. At most, respond to the comment, but not the individual, with facts (like that Musk is directing contracts to his own companies) so that others don't fall into the same fantasy land.
> Vinyl does not sound better

Have you listened to vinyl on a good system? I have trouble believing anybody who says this has ever listened to a decent record on a decent stereo.

Not all vinyl sounds better in my system. Some really is crap. But when I directly compare, and all other things are equal (or seem to be), vinyl normally sounds better than digital.

This is more often true of more recent records, too, though some of Deutsche Grammophone's Archive Production records from even the 50s sound astonishingly good.

I understand that objectively vinyl doesn't measure as well as CD, but I'll be damned if it doesn't sound better. My partner thinks it does, too, and she has no patience for audiophile nonsense.
I too was intrigued to find him but it took 10mins of watching a few videos to be left feeling duped.

Felt like he's working out his problems on YouTube rather than therapy (after first trying to in a trading career). I really dislike his (and most progressive's) narrative that others are distinctly out to get you. It shrouds the real complex machinery, and papers it over with intent. Which impedes meaningful progress i think.
> There are only two ways to generate revenue: direct and indirect. Nobody will pay for a browser.

There's a third way: screw revenue, dump all staff not related to browser development and documentation (MDN) and look for government grants to fund that.

Especially the EU may be a target for a well-written proposal, given the political atmosphere it would make sense to have at least one browser engine that is not fundamentally tied to the US and its plethora of bullshit like NSLs.
I used to work in this industry. One thing that might be interesting for people is the metals do not actually withstand the temperatures directly. Instead cooling vanes are needed throughout various parts of the engine. This is why shutting a gas turbine (aka jet engine) down from full power will destroy it. It is necessary to take the engine down to a lower power setting first and then continue to spin the engine (calling motoring the engine) for quite a while even after it is turned off.

Another interesting thing is some engines cannot withstand certain RPM ranges as the compressor and power turbine can get into a catastrophic resonance. A good example is the T700 (used in the Blackhawk).
Why so many children in America have ADHD
Microsoft is turning off Skype in May
What do people think of ground.news? And what about:

- The Economist

- Reuters

- The Associated Press

It seems many people trust sources on Facebook and TikTok that report objective lies and spoon-feed black/white takes. But classic once-credible news sources (albeit better) also have inaccuracies and bad opinions.

What's "unbiased"? Even reporting objective facts introduces bias. If I say "X has a good relationship to his family, volunteers, and tips well" it presents X as kind, but some murderers who fit that description. If I have the income of every American, I can't present that data, but whether I report mean or median (and mention assets, inflation, etc.), it changes how well the "average" American's finances appear to be. For niche subjects, layman can't understand the significance of plain facts, so you must introduce opinions to present them. The BBC article on LIGO's 2016 discovery has the subheading "Scientists are claiming a stunning discovery in their quest to fully understand gravity."[0]; this introduces bias, but the alternative is that a layman has to read the entire article, perhaps research black holes and special relativity, only to almost certainly conclude the discovery is "stunning" themselves.

Should news try to be "unbiased"? I believe in nuance but not centrism: not every issue is black and white, but some are. I also believe in some cases, news should explicitly state what to think, because many people don't form conclusions; if the well-intentioned don't indoctrinate those people, the bad-intentioned ones will. Specifically, when the opinion is "obviously moral" (e.g. don't murder, don't steal), and it should be clearly marked and distinguished from facts; those with critical thinking will look at the facts and form their own conclusion, and they'll understand the exceptions (e.g. murder is OK in self-defense) that you can't explain to stupid people without confusing them.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35524440
An alliance is a deal. The fact that the balance of NATO members are all rapidly and publicly stating “wow we need to increase our defense spending” is an admission that they cannot currently shoulder the security burden without the United States. I didn’t use the word “freeloading” but I suppose you could call it that. “The United States manages security for all of continental Europe” is not a mutual defense pact. It’s a contract.
Just for the record, no one in AI (the space where increasingly all of code is moving to) cares about building "sustainable codebases".

Worst code quality: AI devs

Best code quality: Game devs
I'm gonna go conquer Georgia, then. Genocide some country folks, burn every Confederate flag I see, end some bloodlines forever. There's not many people living there, right by conquest, etc., plus Reconstruction wasn't finished properly anyway.
So in a way it's similar to Adguard pro?
The Dead, at least, were a band that absolutely pushed the limits of sound engineering in concerts as well as encouraging incredibly elaborate concert recording setups. The wall of sound, and the entire culture of high quality live recordings by 3rd parties is a huge part of their popularity.

Why wouldn’t you want to listen to them on a nice system?
Well, housing is obvious. It's because most Americans are eager to have community (by which they mean suburban homes) and a short commute and a separation between commercial and residential spaces. This is a process that clearly yields outcomes that are not time-invariant. In the same sense that asking "why did people back then get to put a house down near Golden Gate Park and I don't?" is meaningless. Because eventually all the places near GGP have houses.

As Adam Driver points out in Ferrari, "two objects cannot occupy the same place at the same time". A view some might find counterintuitive.
I asked the ranger at the gate of one NP if there is a closing time for the park and he laughed and said the park is open 24 hours. One campground in the park was full on reserve'murica and nearly empty when I drove by it.

Why drive out of the park to find BLM when I could just stay there in the park? So, I used google maps and found a little side road at the end of a trail parking lot, where you had to drive up a curb and through a gate (which was open)... drove down about a mile out of sight and parked.

Most people are in big RV's and need hookups or sleep in tents, so they shouldn't do this. I'm totally off grid, LNT, and self-sufficient for weeks at a time. Not bothering anyone or over staying my time there. I actually wouldn't mind seeing more people do it this way.

Yes, the stars are beyond amazing at night.
The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
How does it compare to writing Appium tests?
So they decided to give the guns they do have to the 45 year olds?
Yep free and open-source to use. Plenty of folks run Maestro on directly on GitHub Actions, Bitrise, etc. Teams often run on our hosted cloud infra for parallelism and reliability when scaling up their testing, but that's totally up to you!
nice I tried it with:

The Hero's Journey Steps

The Departure (or Separation)

The Ordinary World - The hero exists in their normal world before the adventure begins
The Call to Adventure - The hero is presented with a challenge or quest
Refusal of the Call - Initially, the hero is reluctant to follow the call
Meeting the Mentor - The hero encounters a guide who provides advice and tools
Crossing the First Threshold - The hero commits to the adventure and enters the special world

The Initiation

Tests, Allies, and Enemies - The hero faces trials, makes friends, and confronts foes
Approach to the Innermost Cave - The hero prepares for the major challenge ahead
The Ordeal - The hero faces their greatest fear or challenge, experiencing "death" and "rebirth"
Reward (Seizing the Sword) - The hero achieves the goal and gains new power or knowledge

The Return

The Road Back - The hero begins the journey back to the ordinary world
Resurrection - The hero faces a final test where everything is at stake
Return with the Elixir - The hero returns with something to improve the ordinary world
It is odd to me that Sergey himself no longer understands his own company.

(Googler, opinions are my own).

Google is massively international at this point. Especially on the research side.

If you want to collaborate to do things you have to spend a lot of the day in online meetings. Doing this in office honestly just slows things down.

I don't mind a few days in office because Google has really nice offices but it certainly doesn't increase productivity.
So why did you ask the question, if it was answered in the original article?
In the works - stay tuned!
This kind of stuff is exactly why the original "thread-safe" collections in Java were deprecated in favor of the current one: locking on every operation means that a lot of trivial code "just works", but then things break without warning once you need consistency between consequent operations. And, at the same time, everybody is paying the locking penalty, even if they don't actually do concurrent access, or if they do their own locking.

Ironically, .NET repeated the same mistake with the same outcome - it's just less obvious because for .NET the switch from synchronized-by-default to unsync-by-default happened when generics were introduced, so type safety of the new collections was the part that devs generally paid the most attention to.
Raising rents so high that tenants leave seems counterproductive. Now you have no income from the property. So why do landlords do it?
They don't have to care because there is so much wealth to acquire in the short term. Trump alone will enrich himself with billions in bribes from foreign companies. The DOGE/Project2025 annihilation of government programs will result in drastic privatization with all of the billionaire class benefitting immediately.

All of the dark outcomes you describe are possible while a certain class has profitted already so much they don't care and will happily retreat into their bunker.
Most of us were born into land that was colonized in written memory.

I would definitely cry for the death of the innocent grandchildren of thieves.