skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Class-struggle comrade, having a materialist pov explains a little for me.
AI may not be the issue itself but more a tool used by productivism and capitalism to dominate workers. We have the capacity to restrain its use when not necessary, or use it to soothe proletarians, we just don't for economic and technocratic reasons.
> everywhere in Britain that's outside of London is now poorer than any given state in the US.

This is true of Europe in general vs the US because economic growth in Europe has been low compared to the US since at least the financial crisis. At the time GDP of the Eurozone was comparable to the US' now the US is almost twice as big. As a consequence every European country ranks low compared to US states on GDP per capita:

"Italy is just ahead of Mississippi, the poorest of the 50 states, while France is between Idaho and Arkansas, respectively 48th and 49th. Germany doesn't save face: It lies between Oklahoma and Maine (38th and 39th)." (2023) [1]

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/09/04/the-gdp...
>Too many have been killed

How many killed would have been "not too many"?
Tariff licensing costs.
Devils advocate: Imagine how much richer developers would have been today if software wasn't copied as much as it is today. Companies would have to pay developers to write it (we probably wouldn't have as much overall growth but devs would be richer). AI also wouldn't have been able to replace us if it was more secretive and proprietary.
I think humans actually tend to prefer blaming individuals rather than addressing societal harms, but they're not in any way mutually exclusive.
"But the stuff you learn in a PhD program is all published." - What? This is the kind of misunderstanding of knowledge that AI boosters present that drives me insane.

And last sentences conflate a PhD with a google search or even dictionary lookup. I mean, c'mon!
Taxing wealthy

> This is because average tax rates rise more quickly with income in the UK, and are already higher at the top relative to the median, than in most of the European countries that raise more revenue overall.

> Austerity

Tories spent more on government than 2000s labour as % gdp
And admitting it would mean bursting the bubble of "I'm an intelligent person." (and even "a good person"). It's easier to construct a virtual reality where you're still the one with the clue and everyone else are just utter morons.

Also, with everything being written down nowadays (on your social media), changing your opinion means inviting mockery of past comments being dug up to be flung at you. Then again, the idiots in power seem to have developed a thick skin for this.

A little over a month ago: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/g-s1-50605/conspiracy-theorie... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194910
Related:

Why Britain doesn’t build (worksinprogress.co)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36477481
It literally knows nothing.

It is incapable of knowledge.

I’m bored of it.
Yeah, since I prefer Bandcamp and, as you say, the bigger artists are not there, I end up buying shitty MP3s from Amazon for their songs.

So I end up with real high quality Japanese Breakfast and MP3-quality Pixies.
Is that true? Since it should not be imported / available let alone perscribed if it doesn't pass the checks. And especially in the US, a doctor wouldn't hand it out if it didn't have the right paperwork because they would be litigated out of their livelihood.
I live outside of London (I did previously live there for 30 years or so), in Lincoln about a 100 miles or so away to the north. It's OK. Got two universities and all sorts of other stuff. Certainly not "poor".
His examples of “feeling poor” are nothing to do with being poor and are in fact mostly signs of largesse or affluence.

Councils expanded the number of SEND pupils eligible for free school transport, increasing spending from £9m to £20m - how is that being poor? It’s an improvement in quality of life…? Ok, it might be a waste of money (or might not be) but it’s not a cut is it.

Being poor is like your country sends 10 athletes to the Olympics and they all get eliminated in the heats. No Western nation is actually poor. All Western nations are roughly the same, there’s nothing notable about the UK other than it is towards the richer end and is a cultural superpower.
> At least they're actually considering if it's making them more or less productive

At 1,000 hours of "debate", it is unlikely that anyone is considering if it is more or less productive, but rather are using that time to convince themselves that their position is the right one, even when it isn't.
This is a conversation about American politics, so I don't think how other countries acted is relevant.

The political landscape also changes regularly - I don't think the Republicans of a few decades ago were attacking schools so vigorously, so I'm not sure going further back than that for examples is relevant either.

> efforts of left-wing people in the 60's-90's to reduce their influence on society.

Can you elaborate on this?

> Universities today, though, have a status that religious organizations have never reached. Not only being tax free but also heavily taxpayer-funded, and with a university credential being virtually required for most jobs.

I suspect that if you go back not even that long ago, you'd find religious institutions having nearly as much importance, particularly in how faiths would prevent others from joining the workforce or society itself. In any case, I wonder what % of jobs actually do require a university education these days. I would not expect a majority of them to, but maybe I'm wrong.
I would like to add context for others that this was explicitly laid out in the "Project 2025" agenda. Accuweather was cited as an example, and Accuweather responded saying they do not agree with the agenda: https://www.accuweather.com/en/press/accuweather-does-not-su...
From what I've seen, it's because the last 20 years (at least -- I wasn't politically conscious before then) of policy have only focused on London. The rest of the country has mostly been left to fend for itself, but have the additional burden of dealing with nation-wide policies that really only apply to single metropolis. And because Parliament over-allocates funds to London, that leaves most other municipalities to fight over funding scraps left on the table.
That's like saying we just need more nukes to deter other people with nukes from nuking us.
What you're saying doesn't make any sense, do you just enjoy bragging? Hardness of a task only makes sense in the context of who is doing the task. The fact that you scored highly means it was not a hard test for you compared to the average test taker. I could not determine this without the average score.
I'm confused, are you saying the TikTok ban is detrimental to US-based big tech? Seems like a forced sale is beneficial to them.

I was also under the impression we're also entering a regulatory climate where amount of regulation isn't so much decreasing (TikTok ban for example is heavy handed), but that big tech has much more involvement in forming that regulation, which is useful for moat-building.

I'm not too knowledgeable on these, it's just the general gist I've been picking up so far this year, looking for correction if I got the wrong idea.
An alternative might be to write or find a gate level simulator, then write a library for each IC like hex inverter, quad nand, etc. Then you could pick up where Ben starts at the pin level, without messing with wires and breadboards, and get much of the same understanding.
Imagine how much public good can be done if the government had public software works project that did not need to rely on advertising to be useful while serving everyone (not just a boardroom of millionaires).
I literally had a 90 year old woman approach me at the dentist yesterday, complementing my Model 3 and telling me "I just love Elon. I had a dream about him last night!" For these types, it's a cult of personality, not logic or policy.

I was also at the gun range last week and overheard a conversation between two Trump supporters. They were outraged by his behavior since taking office, and said outright "if we had to vote again right now, half of us wouldn't vote for him".
What if AI could do more than just generate code?
AI coding tools are everywhere, but most still function as glorified autocompletes, great for snippets and boilerplate, but when it comes to building a fully functional app, they fall short.

You still have to manually stitch together frontend, backend, database, and deployment, often fixing AI-generated code along the way.

So we asked: What if AI could do more than just generate code? What if it could handle the entire dev workflow, end to end?

For the past 1.5 years, we’ve been testing this idea with 20,000+ developers, working through the real challenges of AI-powered development:

> Understanding an entire project instead of just the last few lines of code.

> Handling real-world app logic, not just generic "hello world" templates.

> Connecting everything seamlessly, from database models to APIs to the frontend.

> Deploying instantly, without the usual debugging loop that makes AI-generated code frustrating.

That’s what led us to create GoCodeo.

If you’re curious, feel free to try it out:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GoCodeo....

What do you think is still missing for AI to be a real game-changer in full-stack development?
Crashing Boeing stuff that doesn't even get delivered to Ryan Air? -- so, no: not even that.
I'm a big believer that the reason for the level of government bureaucracy and busywork described in this article is not a bug, it's a feature.

Government's job within a capitalist country in a lot of ways is to ensure stability, a stable populace and stable society leads to stable markets theoretically. But what do you do if there is not enough jobs to go around to ensure that stability?

Simple: you just make jobs up, you make busywork up, you increase the bureaucracy to subsidize people who would otherwise be destitute and rioting on the streets. Technical innovation has driven out so many people from jobs at this point that we're reaching a true crisis against the cultural expectation that everyone that's "useful" works a job.
> the greatest tool in human history

So would the greatest tool in human history in your mind be something that is used to plagiarise most content in the world and then output correct-30%-of-the-time slop? Or is there another definition you would use?

I'm struggling to think how this could even be in the top 10 tools in human history.
>How are you judging how affluent an area is by walking through it?

Probably seeing a lot of new/upper segment cars and well maintained houses.
It’s like the people who say these things live on a different planet.

Or an alternate timeline where a different version of LLMs were invented.
Dow Slides Another 1k Points. Nasdaq on Pace to Enter Bear Market
> I can't figure out what they even imagined this was going to accomplish.

The downfall of Democracy in America and the alienation of all our allies? That is clearly their goal here...
Yes. I'm worried about that being the underlying intent too.
New wealth "creation" is a lie. It only looks that way because of devaluing currency and population growth.

No conspiracy theory beliefs required to see this one. At the end of the day, what we are buying and selling is compute time on our brain CPU cluster. We can reshuffle what gets our attention, and the relative cost of things can change, but ultimately the only way to increase "wealth" is to get more underlying resource: human brainpower.

I see the counter argument coming from a mile away: yeah, but your poor is not your grandfathers poor. You have an iPhone, gramps did not. My counter is again simple: relative value. Electronics were a frontier at the time, and are a commodity now. They are now cheap, and this is compensated by a huge increase in the cost of basics like housing.
Apple has some serious talent working on this stuff but they aren’t willing to rip apart user privacy to do things quickly like other companies.
You know that when the public media and the elites start attacking him personally by attacking his credentials or his background or work history he's onto something. And this will happen because they cannot refute what he's saying with facts so they must try to silence by undermining his credibility.
Was it ever rich to begin with if the colonies are removed? It's simply going back to its natural state. Although worse off because of the socialist policies that can't be sustained
I would hope they at least reverse copy right duration back to something sane like 20 years.
The wealthy are likely paying more taxes than anyone else in absolute terms.

But more taxes alone won’t fix the problems outlined in the article—namely, the misaligned incentives across different branches of the State and the shockingly low return on each pound spent. That inefficiency is probably also a symptom of poor alignment among the individuals involved in procurement, as well as broader societal incentives.

Over the past few decades, States have grown so large that the original incentive structures they were built on are now being challenged by competing incentives emerging from individuals and various sub-organizations within the State itself.

These kinds of conflicts are far less common in the private sector. There, the company’s goal—profit—is usually well aligned with the customer’s goal—getting the best product at the lowest price. And that alignment tends to cascade through every level of management, all the way down to the last employee.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/tax-free-...
> I'd say he does bring pretty convincing arguments to the table and his logic does make sense.

That's a typically successful but dangerous social media recipe.
When life gets tougher and the excuses no longer line up; nobody likes to be told they're wrong, even if its objectively obvious
> Since then they've added massive, sophisticated systems for user monitoring and prediction, ad distribution, abuse and fraud detection, and so on.
Use that code generation platform to build a product off any combination of two of the larger subsystems at Spotify

I'm listening. I fully admit that I was looking at Spotify as a user and thus only as a music playing widget so I'd love to hear more about this side of things. What is user prediction?
I'm not talking about learning practical skills like research and teaching, or laboratory skills. I'm talking about the factual knowledge. Academia is built on open publishing. Do you disagree?

And the things I'm looking up just can't be found in Google or a dictionary. It's something defined in some random paper from 1987, further developed by someone else in 1998, that the author didn't cite.
Which is why I'm hoping this can be quickly struck down by the courts instead.
"I was wrong" is really hard to say at the best of times. I sometimes struggle with it when I make a little mistake at work.

Trying to say "I was wrong" after years of making your whole life, social circle, etc. about whatever thing you were wrong about is incredibly hard. It takes a very strong mental to do that. And, I wager for some/most people who fall deep into any cult-like movement (whatever it may be: conspiracies, etc.), they didn't start with a super strong mental fortitude in the first place, making it even more difficult.
Thanks for this comment I found it very informative. :)
Why do I need to enable JS to view this website?
after enabling JS in uBlockOrigin on Firefox, i had to press ctrl+f5 to flush the cache to get it to load after i got a CSP error in the JS console
Most forma of investing is putting the money back into circulation: After all, you are handing the money out to someone ao they use it. Just like giving out a business loan.

There is "investment" that doesn't cause more activity, like having a second home for speculation purposes that you keep empty. But in general, investment leads to more production, and ends up creating employment.
Somehow, this isn't called corruption.
MAGA - Make America Go Away
Calling something artistic does not make it so.
This isn't short-term pain for long-term gain; it's short-term pain for long-term catastrophe.

The tariffs aren't some carefully-devised scheme to work out how to reshore manufacturing to the US; they're a slapdash scheme based on such idiotic economics that people had to do a double-take because the President of the United States and his cabinet couldn't possibly be that stupid. And once that sinks in, it becomes extremely counterproductive to the ostensible aims.

Why should anyone bother reshoring anything to the US? You might escape 30% tariffs on your product, but only for 30% tariffs on the inputs to your product. And living in the US means your long-term plans are always at risk of the toddler-in-chief throwing another tantrum because, as we've already seen, a deal he makes yesterday can become the worst deal in the world that is proof of how much the US is getting cheated tomorrow.
> general upkeep on public spaces and services like libraries

This is also a cultural issue. In large cities, people often don't feel as being part of the community and they don't take pride in their surroundings.
They put rubbish everywhere, vandalise. There is little done to change that. They see neighbour has nice flowers in the garden? Instead of admiring, they will cut them off.
The AI is optimized for producing text that sounds like it makes sense and is helpful.

This is not a guarantee that the text it produces is a correct explanation of the thing you are asking about. It’s a mental trick like a psychic reading tea leaves.
How deeply your asshole puckers at dusk when you hear a loud noise is one sign. Artists, musicians, survivors of trauma are clued into such things. Also parents with children, merchants carrying sacks of cash to the bank. You know, humans.
Google Sheets does have this feature. But it was fairly recent. Numbers had it for a long time and in any case I still prefer the implementation in Numbers. In Numbers, data is referenced through these tables exclusively while getting rid of sheet-level references; tables in Google Sheets do not go that far. My mental model for tables in Numbers is just sheets but relocatable and multiple can be viewed at the same time. My mental model for tables in Sheets is just it helps me with formatting and with referencing the entirety of the data like an upgraded named range.

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/14239833?hl=en
Like with every colonial power, the empire wasn't there to enrich the entire country or the average people, it was enriching the crown and wealthy business magnates involved in the trade, basically the top 1%, the rest were left to wallow in poverty and hard labor.
Yeah, someone else mentioned that as well; if the researched, mass produced and readily available antibiotic is still mostly effective and sells well, spending millions on finding and getting approval for one that would only be used in 1% of cases is not profitable.

Gotta love capitalism.
> Not all conservative Christians and right wingers think "women and LGBT people ... don't deserve rights

Weird how those specific Christians who think women and LGBT are people don't feel discriminated against.
I mean, genuinely, the problem here is not that Trump is a convicted criminal. There are many people who are "convicted felons" who are far more ethical, intelligent, and possessed of better leadership qualities than he is. In particular, a) anyone convicted of nonviolent drug offenses should not be considered suspect in anything like the same way, and b) more generally, if you base your determinations of people on what's legal, you put yourself at the mercy of whatever the current government decides is acceptable. This government should make very clear why that is not the best idea in the world.

No; the problem with Trump is the specific types of laws he broke. He broke laws around honesty, fair dealing, obstruction of justice, and, of course, the integrity of elections and our democratic process. He is, very plainly, opposed to democracy and the rule of law, preferring to replace it with cronyism and nepotism.

That's why he's bad for the country, not simply "because he's a convicted criminal."
That's almost entirely correct, with one exception:

> It fits the personality profile of not wanting to learn new things.

'systemd haters' learn a lot. They learn how to write manual boot scripts, set up mdev instead of udev, compile their own kernel, install their own u-boot or coreboot, strip binary blobs, etc. etc. They know MORE than the average systemd guy. They just don't want to learn systemd.

Isn't the whole purpose of systemd to ease and automate administration and configuration, so the user need not care? Doesn't that imply that systemd admins/users know LESS?

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Now let me make my own characterization of 'systemd enthusiasts'.

These people are overworked sysadmins that hate manual configuration. They want it easy, everything automated, they want to not care about it, they want the distro to auto-do everything and not even ask, they want less admin work. Systemd does all these things for them and they are in heaven. They're so enthusiastic that they feel we should all be one big happy family under the systemd umbrella.

But they fail too see that no company or manager will tolerate people that are _not_ overworked.

When something becomes automated, people previously doing the manual job are fired. A 10 people non-systemd team that works day-and-night to set manually up boot, mounts, network, services, cron, backups, logs, etc., as soon as systemd automates the work, will be cut down to just one guy (or less) and he will still work day-and-night, same as before, doing the work of the entire team. And he won't be able to take break because there's nobody left to replace him.

They also fail to see that resilience comes from diversity. Uniformity, systems where software is identical, updates are identical, configuration is identical, permissions are identical, etc., will also fail identically and probably at the same time, and will be hacked identically and at the same time (by automated bots/tools).
Timbre:

> In simple terms, timbre is what makes a particular musical instrument or human voice have a different sound from another, even when they play or sing the same note.

> The physical characteristics of sound that determine the perception of timbre include frequency spectrum and envelope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre
Dominic Cummings got to be inside Number 10 and entirely blew it with Brexit and everything else. He belongs in the "discredited" pile with the Trussnomics lot.
> Manufacturing isn't returning to the US due to these tariffs.

Even if it did, is it even desirable?

Countries that actually tried to keep manufacturing beyond its usefulness typically punch beneath their weight, such as the case of Germany.

The US lost manufacturing because it was heavily automated and those jobs don't pay really well. They are great for poor countries, because working in a factory sweatshop is better than plowing fields in rural areas, but advanced economies eventually grow beyond that.

The US, being the most advanced economy in the world, transitioned a long time ago into a finance and service economy. It's kind of fascinating (viewing from the outside) that it want to revert to a more rudimentary economy, and there are people applauding that.
Steve Jobs used to say the problem with Microsoft is they don’t have taste.

The font-shimmering effect on scroll immediately reminded me of that, it is really distracting. And you can’t use reader mode to disable it.

(FWIW, I’m a fan of Bill Gates and all he’s done for the world)
What fucking Americans are you talking about? Sure we got the most billionaires in the world but how many millennials and younger cohorts can't and won't ever afford homes?
Thank you!

I've had trouble accessing that site *.is recently. Your link worked just fine.