skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In North America and Europe, we continue to dabble in this 10 percent to 15 percent level.

Europe was 20% in 2023 and 25% in 2024. I think they're past the dabble phase.
The Great Unstacking: Europe rethinks its tech stack
> Corporate media does a fantastic job of ignoring and minimizing protests they're not in favor of

Honest question: What incentives do Corporate media have to ignore these current set of protests?
hdtracks.com has a pretty big catalog, but is sometimes a bit expensive.
Wait, I just saw what you meant: so no, for the Python tool my message stands. I did not write any code for it myself.
In the past few years, getting songs stuck in my head (earworms) has become so easy I pretty much don’t listen to music with vocals anymore. Only ambient, techno and psytrance for me. (Pop I imagine would be the absolute worst, lab engineered to be memorable)

I’m certain the DSM-5 might list that as a symptom of going crazy or whatever, but I don’t care to know, I guess it’s a new quirk of mine. That said, I truly dislike having neighbours practicing an instrument, which means having to suffer the same tune for far too long, and it getting stuck in my head for 2 more days.
Imagine being Fed Chair Jerome Powell. You've just successfully nailed the post-COVID disruption softlanding by amazingly bringing down inflation AND unemployment at the same time. The American economy is roaring and the envy of the world. Then, a collective of the absolute least-qualified, most vindictive, idiots comes in and sets the US back 100 years for absolutely no good reason. Voting everyone involved out of office won't be nearly enough.
This situation has little-to-nothing to do with the current US administration.

The reality is a lot more simple:

* The cars are expensive

* Gas isn't expensive enough right now to be a strong incentive to switch

* A lot of consumers are poorly informed and hung up on non-issues

The whole auto industry flew off the deep end thinking that EV demand would be enormous, that they'd basically STOP selling ICE cars almost completely.

As it turns out, consumers were not that eager to swap.

EV R&D is expensive. EV manufacturing is expensive. Modern car manufacturing uses a lot of common parts and frameworks to save money, but EVs required a lot of not-sharable tooling and parts with their ICE counterparts - driving up costs.

Some day all of this will be resolved, but it's not going to happen overnight. It'll be a slow burn over many decades.
A significant number of Columbia students are Jewish and were largely protesting the genocide. Almost the entirety of this movement had zero issue with Jews, only with the actions of Israel and Zionism. A significant number of outside agitators were older Jewish Zionists or (often) Zionist evangelicals who lived within driving distance and wanted to start a fight. 50 year old drunk men wearing Israeli flags and pushing into the crowd in groups.

I watched this narrative get created and promoted without any evidence; Video after video showed peaceful and surprisingly media-savvy students (I mean, it is Columbia). Every politician and most media organizations taking direct input from Israeli government officials or AIPAC. On MSNBC and CNN we heard voice after voice after voice pronouncing expert opinions on the shame of this protest/terrorism in an Israeli accent. Administration officials trying to expel anybody caught on camera who was identifiable. While the bombs dropped on Gaza.

I can't say with any confidence that there was absolutely zero conflict, but the absolute confidence that every figure of authority immediately brought to bear on the subject of all Jews being purged by Hamas terrorists from Columbia and needing the National Guard to be called out to protect them? It was beyond the pale.

All of the video I watched of actual Zionist students (or student-aged people) had them victim-posing for social media after throwing themselves into the protest and being largely ignored.
I'm just throwing numbers around based on my experience. In the USA, I got a full kitchen remodel done for 25k in a modest, clean, homey kitchen in a $750k home. Then I visit some high-end residences, and their kitchens look like Gordon Ramsay shows up every night to cook a private dinner. It's a stark contrast.

I was once debating between granite countertops that ranged from 5k to 10k—like it was a make-or-break decision for my budget—only to walk into a home where the owners start rambling on about how much of a pain it was to get custom wood countertops imported from Brazil, sourcing the same industrial kitchen range that michelin star cook cooks use, industrial fridge/freezer setups, marble floor tiling, and every single top-of-the-line thing in a kitchen you can possibly think of.

Considering I spent 25k on a modest kitchen with brand new top of the line Samsung appliances in a fairly large house in a "high-income" area, I’d say these folks are spending 4-5 times what I did. And honestly, my guess might be an underestimate. The elites and upper-middle class have DEEP pockets.
>Half of Americans say they live paycheck to paycheck, so no - the majority of households will not be able to survive for long if they have to spend an extra few thousand to stay where they are today

What do you think the death toll will be? A majority of households not surviving would put it over 160 million.

$4k per capita (not household) loss would put the US in 2022 territory [1].

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
I wrote this post in December 2023, and rediscovered it today. Seems like it hasn't dated yet, even though the AI landscape evolved a lot in the dev tooling space.
The thing is, I'm not arguing against the fact (yes, the fact) that doing this would beneficial. I'm saying that stating how "simple" and "reasonable" are these actions is missing the point.

Again, not a personal attack, but do you follow all of these actions (I could add more similar ones)? Do you own or use a car? Have you ever taken a flight? Went on a cruise? Ate cashews or almond milk? If so, why are you doing this? Why are you (to use the terms stated by OP), so unreasonable, unwilling to do so simple things for your children?

I'm not saying that any action is futile, but that the cost (monetary or otherwise) to take them is _vastly_ underestimated and basically swept under the rug with arguments of reasonableness and simplicity.

And, just to restate, I am not defending my own lifestyle, it's not an emotional argument to make for me.
> Coffee drinkers who don't want to bother with refrigerating the cream, so they use the powdered stuff.

Infidels! Coffee is the black as night stuff! The rest is just kiddy drinks!

When I say milk, I'm talking about drinking it as-is.

> In the case of European butters/cheeses, they just taste despite the higher cost.

Ok but I'm European. My favourite butter - with taste - is manufactured 124 km away from me :)
It's nothing fancy, just butter. Not even expensive. Maybe 10% more than the average local butter.

This subthread started with the post that said the EU is taxing US dairy and chocolate products prohibitively.
Burden of proof lies on you, since you mentioned corporations first
Well. Any suggestions please?

Though technically I don't mind it , its still great he source availabled it

I am probably not going to reach 1 mln $ sales but still man if I do , then I probably want some grace period and I mean ....
It’s a fair point, but I feel like we could take more targeted action on alfalfa without the side effects of the current policies. It feels a bit like celebrating your house burning down because you didn’t like the color of paint in the kitchen.
Suppress developer wages and abuse the H1B program too.
What if gen ai tools were created without training on copyrighted images? I wonder what they would make then.
The USA had a great opportunity to recognize the competition with China and invest more to win the competition (as it did with USSR). Instead, they decided that, as the top dog, the "best" option was to play protectionism and try to block China. This is the path of economic destruction for the US.
I do believe it's amazing what we can build with AI tools today.

But whenever someone advertises how an expert will benefit from it yet they end up with crap, it's a different discussion.

As an expert, I want AI to help me produce code of similar quality faster. Anyone can find a cheaper engineer (maybe five of them?) that can produce 5-10x the code I need at much worse quality.

I will sometimes produce crappy code when I lack the time to produce higher quality code: can AI step in and make me always produce high quality code?

That's a marked improvement I would sign up for, and some seem to tout, yet I have never seen it play out.

In a sense, the world is already full of crappy code used to build crappy products: I never felt we were lacking in that department.

And I can't really rejoice if we end up with even more of it :)
> To be 'ignorant' requires willfully _ignoring_ the truth

No it doesn't. To borrow from the law, ignorance requires no scienter. It simply means you lack knowledge of factual or situational context, willfully or otherwise.
The categorization of middle class, whether it’s right or wrong, has nothing to do with why things are expensive and life is harder.
I think a healthy amount of skepticism is warranted when reading about the "reduction" of carbon emissions by companies. Why should we take them at their word when they have a vested interest in fudging the numbers?
All these "advanced" technologies that change faster than I can turn my neck, to make a simple request that looks like it was one of the "certified" big 3 web browsers, which will ironically tax the server less than a certified browser. Is this the nightmare dystopia I was warned about in the 90's? I wonder if anyone here can name the one company that is responsible for this despite positioning themselves as a good guy open source / hacker community contributor.
My issue with this is that it's focused on one single, very detailed narrative (the battle between China and the US, played on a timeframe of mere months), while lacking any interesting discussion of other consequences of AI: what its impact is going to be on the job markets, employment rates, GDPs, political choices... Granted, if by this narrative the world is essentially ending two/ three years from now, then there isn't much time for any of those impacts to actually take place- but I don't think this is explicitly indicated either. If I am not mistaken, the bottom line of this essay is that, in all cases, we're five years away from the Singularity itself (I don't care what you think about the idea of Singularity with its capital S but that's what this is about).
So ask for one without a bull whip. Archeologists don’t wield bull whips either.
We don't have to pay for it, it's just part of the general council tax [1], so if you're exempt from that, you get free rubbish collections.

We also have free bulky waste collection, so again, we actually already have that. You just have to arrange for it. You are very poorly informed.

There are also free council run recycling centres (previously known as tips), where you can take stuff yourself. Some have a charge for hardcore, that's about it. Businesses cannot use them though and must pay for waste disposal themselves.

Fly tipping is fairly rare in the UK, I saw an armchair fly tipped on a train journey yesterday and it was notable because you rarely see that sort of thing.

There are areas with fly tipping problems, but usually because those people are lazy, not because of cost. And the council will clear it up (at least eventually depending on the area).

We are having a problem with councils struggling to perform their usual role at the moment. Running out of money. Potholes are a hot topic.

This is actually because our councils are mandated to provide care for old people, and the cost has sky rocketed in the last 2 decades, while they've been capped on how much they can raise their tax. So now almost 90% of my council tax gets spent on old person care instead of what most people might think it was for, bins, schools, parks, etc..

[1] It's not worth going into different taxes here, think of it as a state tax instead of a federal tax. In fact the UK government have a large degree of control in that they force the councils to spend most of it on mandated services and can dictate how much the councils are allowed to raise it by
LMAO. Everybody keep quiet..... Don't let them change their license.

And even if they change their license , we need to fork this with this specific license right now!!

Going to fork it right now
China imposes a 34% tariff on imports of all U.S. products
sadly this does not demonstate national sovereignty when it is done in obedience to america
Here's Wilson's White Heat speech: https://web.archive.org/web/20131006142325/http://nottspolit...

I agree it's concerning that major speeches like this are so hard to find.
Now extend that logic to everyone else, make everyone else a hero.
No one involved in building HS2 has any incentive to actually do it on time, there's so much benefit (to the companies) to drag it out.

The longer it takes the more the companies involved in making it receive, because the government will cover the bill.
Hygienic Source-Code Generation Using Functors (2018) [pdf]
Which is super bullshit; cause now offering open source solutions many folk see it as a trick!
Yeah, that's what the original quote means, and I agree with it. The comment tho is trying to argue that unqualified 'best' should not implicitly mean 'best at problem solving' which is a kinda interesting social/linguistic take.
He must be talking about the good, benevolent Western corporations that have outsourced their carbon emissions to the evil and greedy Chinese and Indian corporations.
Don't most countries have similar policies to IR35?

Devil's advocate as I, too, dislike how it was basically lobbied by big corps but really it seems unsustainable for high tax Euro countries to allow their people too much working freedoms?
Personally I like it :) Tastes differ.
The Wizard and His Shell: What Happens When You Kill the Shell?
I'd go further and say 10 years from time of creation is probably sufficient.

If the work is popular it will make plenty of money in that time. If it isn't popular, it probably won't make much more money after that.
It's a bit like climate change in that local conditions are not necessarily indicative of overall trends.
Well, humans and other omnivores species do need the rapport of animal diet.

And raising cattle dates from the dawn of civilization. It was sustainable tens of thousands of years and suddenly became unsustainable in the last ten years?
Every time NVDA/goog/msft tanks, we see these kinds of articles.
Art inspired by images that are out of copyright.

All modern art currently created by humans is already trained on copyrighted images. What seems to be missing is the innate human ability to copy someone else's homework but change it up a bit (c.f. "the hero's journey" that is so much of modern storytelling).
People are oblivious in this country. Totally clueless. A big part of that is the 'information ecosystem' where even the supposedly left-leaning outlets sanewashed everything that's happened and both-sidesed it, even if their reporting was factual. Then you move towards the outright propaganda like Fox and worse. And then there's social media...
Don't just hope! Find and back new candidates in your local area who will represent the change you want to see. Politics at the end of the day is just conversations like these.
There's this weird idea many Americans have, as if they're 80% of the world and nobody can live without them.

They don't travel abroad, can't point to other countries on a map... The level of international awareness is staggeringly low.

These policies only make sense under that common delusion
I'm no GPU programmer, but seems easy to use even for someone like me. I pulled together a quick demo of using the GPU vs the CPU, based on what I could find (https://gist.github.com/victorb/452a55dbcf59b3cbf84efd8c3097...) which gave these results (after downloading 2.6GB of dependencies of course):

Creating 100 random matrices of size 5000x5000 on CPU...
Adding matrices using CPU...
CPU matrix addition completed in 0.6541 seconds
CPU result matrix shape: (5000, 5000)

Creating 100 random matrices of size 5000x5000 on GPU...
Adding matrices using GPU...
GPU matrix addition completed in 0.1480 seconds
GPU result matrix shape: (5000, 5000)

Definitely worth digging into more, as the API is really simple to use, at least for basic things like these. CUDA programming seems like a big chore without something higher level like this.
What is the greatest tool in human history in your opinion?

I think it's too early to call whether AI is the answer to that question, but I think it could be. Yes, LLMs are terrible in all kinds of ways, but there's clearly something there that's of great value. I use it all day every day as a staff-level engineer, and it's making me much better and faster. I can see glimmers of intelligence there, and if we're on a road that delivers human-level intelligence in the next decade, it's difficult to see what else would qualify as the greatest tool humanity has ever invented.
Speaking as a down-in-the-dirt circuit-slinger who works alongside a lot of ivory-tower engineers who couldn't diagnose a loose wire if their life depended on it, I think that's the whole point.

* Tens of hours and under $1000 is an extremely cheap route to this level of understanding if compared against university courses. I'd give my left nut to have my coworkers go through this process.

* Cutting and laying out wires is time-consuming and error-prone. Yup, hardware is like that. Sweeping out the dojo is menial but important. Developing an intuition around when a weird behavior might actually be a hardware problem, is priceless and absolutely essential for any embedded engineer. And you will never, ever get that from a simulator. (As much as I love the ideas behind nand2tetris, it's entirely done in simulation and that misses half the point, IMHO.)

* Sad to say, the outdated components thing is only getting worse as more basic stuff goes out of production in favor of more highly integrated components. (Even the epic VULCAN-74 caved and used modern RAM.) It might be possible to rework this project to use newer parts but keep the educational value. I suspect there's enough people who've pursued this project and done bits and pieces of that, someone just needs to unify it.
That part made me chuckle.

> At the current ~$0.70 / bitcoin, this means that every American will be able to have ~$0.05 in his or her electronic wallet, once all bitcoins are generated. Assuming that the rest of the world does not participate at all and that bitcoins are evenly distributed.

> Sure, you could imagine an instant dollar-to-bitcoin-to-dollar conversion at the point of payment. Or you could imagine a bitcoin2.org that generates more coins. Or you could hope for a massive surge in the value of the bitcoin.

> I'd put my money on Paypal sticking around, though.

Even back that people pointed out the obvious flaw of Bitcoin remaining at $0.70. But I wonder if any of them believed it would be at $100,000 in 14 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407998
Hey, thanks for not being offended about an honest comment, not a lot folks could take it as maturely, as you did :) May I suggest to add a short summary, half page max, of the important results that you consider to have achieved at the beginning of the article? Kind of like how scientific articles prepend the content with an abstract. I think it would help a lot in building the expectations for reading the rest of it.
> * Gas isn't expensive enough right now to be a strong incentive to switch

This is easily fixable.
Did Cook, in the spirit of unity, make a similar donation in 2020?
> And I eventually just landed on going even simpler than Google Analytics

I am biased because I built my own platform (with heatmaps/recordings), but I also have a version of it without those features. Whenever I use the lighter version I wished I had the full version installed. It's not like I watch session recordings daily, but if something out of the ordinary happens, having the recording can be a life-safer.

One example, is when I received a suspicious email from my landing page, it looked scam-ish, but I was not 100% sure. When I watched the recording, I saw that the user went directly to the contact form and copy-pasted their message, that made me certain it's just a spam/scam attempt.

Another example is when watching recordings of a specific browser resolution, where two elements overlapped in such a way that one of them became unclickable (the chat widget was overlapping the purchase button), which made it impossible for customers to actually purchase in that case.

Simple analytics can also be enough, but visitors number is not enough, it should at least support some way of storing events (e.g. purchases) or whether some error occurred or not. Of course, a business can run blind with no stats at all, just launch and pray, and it might work, but many times having those stats not only helps with increasing your conversion rates, but can actually improve the user experience on your site.
> but what matters is the provable artist signature.

This actually means nothing in a medium where you can create infinite perfect copies of something. If we had 100,000 identical replicas of Starry Night then there would be no value in a signed original. This is how digital art fundamentally works, your "ownership" persists insofar as people respect the authority of your notary.
Klarna Pauses Planned IPO After Trump Tariff Turmoil
To be fair, it was said to be the sum of all developer hours. If we assume 100 developers involved, that would only be 10 hours total. But even 10 hours "debating" something shows that you're no longer considering, just trying to justify something to yourself.
Hey I'm the author of the lib, I think this is my favorite comment about the landing page I read so far. I've started learning web development with Flash in the 2000s, so this hits home. Thank you!
This is part of the problem. The venues that mention this are labeled "far right". The other ones try to ignore the issue because they want to pretend it isn't happening. But it shouldn't be a "far right" discussion. Everyone should be in on it because the consequences are so significant.
It's not just you, it happened to me a few times today. This is the first time this has happened.
Will AI Cross the Reasoning Gap?
Why would the transactional nature favor students now though? What’s the mechanism for that, that’s internal to the system?

In other words it sounds like you’re arguing that the root cause is “the transactional nature” but that’s the one thing that hasn’t changed. So why is it worse now?

What is it that makes students “better equipped to ignore you”?
Not just capitalism, though. Both involved foreign election interference and very tight electoral results.
If the target, set by the government, is to be protectionist, then EVERYTHING in terms of investment needs to be canceled, because it does't make sense to invest when the internal market is going to be controlled by means of tariffs.
Open sourcing my local AI model that trains on this repo and codes an app based on it:

cp -r gumroad not-gumroad
I am not sure that I understand the problem here. Why does it matter how the image was generated?

This image generation is a tool like any other tool. If the image generator generates an image of Mickey Mouse or if I draw Mickey Mouse by hand in photoshop, I can't use it commercially either way.

So what exactly is new or different here?
Wonderful! I am increasingly drowning in debt, my career is a dead end thanks to AI, and my landlord is making my daily life a stressful misery, but I can listen to music on my headphones. Thanks science!