MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keoneflick | 2025-05-07 19:05:26+00:00
The thing is, traditional receivers wanted to be the "brains" of home theater, switching video inputs, managing audio, turning everything on.

That role is no longer sensible when used with smart TVs/Apple TV boxes/Android TV boxes.

As a result, traditional receivers are relegated to be being audio decoders and amplifiers. Honestly, I think there's already more manufactured and lying around than the world really needs. It was inevitable that a few product lines would be consolidated.
by mtalantikite | 2025-05-07 19:05:29+00:00
You can thank T-Pain for it [1], but the hilarious thing is he can actually sing [2] unlike most of the others using it.

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/06/t-pain-usher-ruined...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIjXUg1s5gc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ck0vJBygo
by brudgers | 2025-05-07 19:05:39+00:00
You start building contacts and reputation. This can also be called “Sales”.

Since that’s hard work, you could consider this answer “hard work.”

But only the right kind of hard work makes a difference. If you can’t be directly rejected, it doesn’t count as sales.

You can always hire technical talent, later. Sales is all that matters and is a people business.
by 0_____0 | 2025-05-07 19:06:03+00:00
I thought electrical wire was generally ~100% Cu.

Some of this also comes down to harness design and how it's put back together after the splice. Ideally, the exposure of the splice itself to flexing is very low. I reckon if it's strain relieved/mechanically fastened well and encapsulated, it doesn't really matter what style of splice you use.
by HideousKojima | 2025-05-07 19:06:27+00:00
>The way these type checkers get fast is usually by not supporting the crazy rich reality of realworld python code.

Nah, that's just part of the parade of excuses that comes out any time existing software solutions get smoked by a newcomer in performance, or when existing software gets more slow and bloated.

Here's one of many examples:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5t...
by UncleOxidant | 2025-05-07 19:06:36+00:00
Just a few years younger than you are. I can relate. I guess people could accuse us of being nostalgic for a time that never really existed, and maybe to some extent that's true, but on the other hand I do genuinely think that we've gone off into a very bad timeline. Just compare Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump, for example. Like what the hell happened?
by pkaye | 2025-05-07 19:06:55+00:00
In the past the WHO recommended countries don't compensate for blood or plasma donations. The following countries countries decided to still allow compensation for plasma donations for drug products: Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the US.

Its just that the US has the largest population of these five countries. And generally the rest of the countries outside the five don't get sufficient plasma donations to make the drug products needed for their patients and have to import it.

The plasma can be separated out to different products to treat various diseases many of them genetic.

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/approved-blood-...

The only ones to hold accountable are the WHO and those countries that followed their advice. If more countries paid for plasma donations there would be more supply of these drug products available.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-05-07 19:07:28+00:00
What? No. Maybe in solar systems without a Jupiter.

Apsidal precession makes the aphelion of eccentric orbits rotate around the Sun over time. The rate at which this happens depends highly on their orbital characteristics, meaning that if something perturbed their orbits to point in a specific direction, over a relatively short timescale (single digit millions of years), you would expect their aphelions to point in essentially random directions.

The fact that TNO orbits seem to cluster into specific directions is strong evidence that something is actively maintaining their orbits, by repeatedly perturbing them.

A large planet that's quite far out is a reasonable hypothesis for what's doing this. (It's not the only one.)
by autoexec | 2025-05-07 19:07:43+00:00
I don't know what Minecraft is like these days now that microsoft has their hands in it, but when I played it Minecraft didn't have online gambling, microtransactions, sexual predators, child labor/exploitation, advertisements, brand ambassadors and celebrities manipulating kids, extremist propaganda, or any of the other harmful things roblox targets children with and exposes them to.

If minecraft is just like roblox now then sure, I'd be glad to back a bill to regulate that out of existence too.
by quintes | 2025-05-07 19:07:43+00:00
PCMag Australia has this headline

Bill Gates Says Humans Won't Be Needed for 'Most Things' in the AI Age.

Also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnAz_fYzW8

“Will we need humans” “Not for most things. We’ll decide..” rambling on

I’m not going to be negative just leave that there.
by mrweasel | 2025-05-07 19:08:27+00:00
Probably one issue could also be that a lot of this stuff is actually pretty well made, and repairable. My old NAD amplifier is more than 25 year old and doing great. I don't need a new one. I've switched speakers a few times, to better fit the rooms as we've moved, but the amplifier just sits in a corner with the CD player and turntable.

I'd agree with others, speakers aren't that concerning. There are niche speaker manufacturers and used or refurbished is still a good option. To be honest, I'd also look to the used market if I where to replace my amp.

Personally I don't have anything against Samsung, but I doubt they'll be a good steward of those brands. Corporate interest and niche high quality audio seems to at opposite ends of the spectrum. I could be wrong, Sony makes nice stuff, maybe Samsung will as well.
by eftychis | 2025-05-07 19:08:28+00:00
This. The industry is a hot-pot of gut feelings/seat of my pants mixed with true engineering and mathematical rigor.

It is all hit or miss. Everyone claims they do high-quality, critical software in public, while in private, they claim the opposite, that they are fast and break things, and programming is an art, not math.

And then you have venture capital firms now pushing "vibe coding."

Software development is likely the highest variance engineering space, sometimes and in some companies, not even being engineering, but "vibes."

It is interesting how this is going to progress forward. Are we going to have a situation like the Quebec Bridge [https://colterreed.com/the-failed-bridge-that-inspired-a-sim...]. The Crowdstrike incident taking down the whole airspace proved that is not enough. Market hacks in "decentralized exchanges," the same. Not sure where we are heading.

I guess we are waiting for some catastrophe that will have some venture capital liable for the vibe coding, and then we will have world wide regulation pushed on us.
by jjaksic | 2025-05-07 19:08:48+00:00
GPTs are language models, not "fact and truth" models. They don't even know what facts are, they just know that "if I use this word in this place, it won't sound unusual". They get rewarded for saying things that users find compelling, not necessarily what's true (and again, they have no reference to ground truth).

LLMs are like car salesmen. They learn to say things they think you want to hear in order to buy a car (upvote a response). Sometimes that's useful and truthful information, other times it isn't. (In LLMs' defense, car salesmen lie more intentionally.)
by eesmith | 2025-05-07 19:09:29+00:00
> and can be used as money

Yes, and so can Canadian Tire money, but try paying your taxes in scrip or Bitcoin.

> and if you don't trust them you can wait

Nope. Models numbers are cheap. Each chain can get their own model number, updated every six months. You wait and the numbers all change.

> Reviewers who aren't trusted by people

You're smoking the good stuff!

"Up to 30% of online reviews are fake and consumers can't tell the difference", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472922

"Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39433451

See also the comments of HNers who find it hard to find trusted reviewers.

How do you find a trusted reviewer for air purifiers, which that last link concerns?
by bombcar | 2025-05-07 19:09:29+00:00
eARC or whatever it is really changed this. I don't need a receiver with buttons anymore, I just need one that handles eARC gracefully.

We're about five years away from "no remotes" anymore, imo. As it is I only need to find the TV remote when something goes really wonky - and even then I can reset it by using the smart app to power cycle the outlet ;)
by sokoloff | 2025-05-07 19:09:34+00:00
It was not a 90% error rate (or at least that’s not a claim I read). It was that 90% of appeals of those decisions were decided (at least partially) in favor of the appeal. That could be 1000 decisions, 10 appeals, and 9 reversals.

I am personally 7 for 8 in lifetime wins in my city's parking ticket appeals process. That doesn't mean that I think that 7 out of 8 tickets my city issues are incorrect.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-05-07 19:09:39+00:00
I definitely have fewer wants, though they tend to be more expensive (guitars). I notice that a lot of things I used to really enjoy kind of fall flat for me now, notably metal concerts and video games. Still like both of them a lot, but they don't do as much for me.

The things I want tend to be hard to buy in the first place: autonomy/independence of time, more time with my parents, better skills as a musician, a more kind and patient heart. I think at some point I developed a taste for the long game, the type where there is no limit on improvement.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-07 19:09:59+00:00
> Grooming and style: you can, nonetheless, choose to date yourself with your clothing and overall presentation, or not.

One thing I admittedly do is stay clean shaven and bald so the gray hair and receding hairline don’t show. But I’ve had the latter since I was in my mid 20s.

I had a (White) former manager tell me years ago that no one can tell how old Black guys are that are clean shaven. I never realized that.

The old joke is that it’s the lotion…

https://youtu.be/RiH-_ZUILk0?si=3I68rm8P35sIy3ke
by zhivota | 2025-05-07 19:10:26+00:00
Hah, I think being a parent is one way people get slowly trained into thinking of themselves as the adult finally. You kind of have to fake knowing a lot of stuff just to give confidence to your kids that they are safe and in good hands.

It certainly can be an odd feeling though when other adults look at you that way, but it comes with the gray hair and wrinkles.
by mattlondon | 2025-05-07 19:10:55+00:00
FWIW I searched this story not long after it broke and Google - yes the traditional "old school search engine" - had an AI-generated summary of the story with a breakdown of the whys and how's right there at the top of the page. This was basically real time given or take 10 minutes.

I am not sure why people think OpenAI et al are going to eat Google's lunch here. Seems like they're already doing AI-for-search and if there is anyone who can do it cheaply and at scale I bet on Google being the ones to do it (with all their data centers, data integrations/crawlers, and custom hardware and experience etc). I doubt some startup using the Bing-index and renting off-the-shelf Nvidia hardware using investor-funds is going to leapfrog Google-scale infrastructure and expertise.
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-07 19:10:58+00:00
Spending more on administration is not the same as spending more on education. It's the same problem as colleges right now: The superintendent making $250k a year in a school system where the teachers cannot afford to pay their rent.

The average teacher salary in Oregon is $45k. It has NOT increased by 80% in that time frame.

Nobody can afford to be a teacher, certainly not people with a valuable level of time, effort, productivity, and success.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-07 19:11:05+00:00
Temporarily, on the margin. A human would need multiple Snickers bars per day to survive, and can't survive on Snickers bars alone for more than couple days or weeks.

Also no human is anywhere close to being as knowledgeable and skilled as LLMs at all the things at the same time, so it hardly even compares.
by fhd2 | 2025-05-07 19:11:06+00:00
You might be able to get your clients to sign something to allow usage, but if you don't, as you say, it doesn't seem wise to vibe code for them. For two reasons:

1. A typical contract transfers the rights to the work. The ownership of AI generated code is legally a wee bit disputed. If you modify and refactor generated code heavily it's probably fine, but if you just accept AI generated code en masse, making your client think that you wrote it and it is therefore their copyright, that seems dangerous.

2. A typical contract or NDA also contains non disclosure, i.e. you can't share confidential information, e.g. code (including code you _just_ wrote, due to #1) with external parties or the general public willy nilly. Whether any terms of service assurances from OpenAI or Anthropic that your model inputs and outputs will probably not be used for training are legally sufficient, I have doubts.

IANAL, and _perhaps_ I'm wrong about one or both of these, in one or more countries, but by and large I'd say the risk is not worth the benefit.

I mostly use third party LLMs like I would StackOverflow: Don't post company code there verbatim, make an isolated example. And also don't paste from SO verbatim. I tried other ways of using LLMs for programming a few times in personal projects and can't say I worry about lower productivity with these limitations. YMMV.

(All this also generally goes for employees with typical employment contracts: It's probably a contract violation.)
by psunavy03 | 2025-05-07 19:11:32+00:00
Making use of one's years is a good mentality, but the idea that "GAME OVER is near" in your 40s is a bit overdramatic, barring being hit by the proverbial bus, getting terminal cancer, having a heart attack, or something along those lines. 30 years is a long time . . . at worst, you have half your adult life still left to live, if not more than half.
by simion314 | 2025-05-07 19:12:12+00:00
Intellij is an IDE where VS Code is a bit mroe then a text editor. When you open a project for the first time it takes time because it is indexed , maybe it will index your dependencies if you did not bother to disable that.

IWhen i open a file /project from a collegue that uses VS Code is filled with errors and warnings because their VS code text editor is not actually understanding the code they are editing.
by dkersten | 2025-05-07 19:12:35+00:00
Huh? I'm a bit confused by your comment:

1. Zed has been working great for me for ~1.5 years while I ignored its AI features (I only started using Zed's AI features in the past 2 weeks). Vim keybindings are better IMHO than every other non-vim editor and the LSP's I've used (typescript, clangd, gleam) have worked perfectly.

2. The edit prediction feature is almost there. I do still prefer Cursor for this, but its not so far ahead that I feel like I want to use Cursor and personally I find Zed to be a much more pleasant editor to use than vscode.

3. When you switch the agent panel from "write" to "ask" mode, its basically that, no?

I'm not into vide coding at all, I think AI code is still 90% trash, but I do find it useful for certain tasks, repetitive edits, and boilerplate, or just for generating a first pass at a React UI while I do the logic. For this, Zed's agent feature has worked very well and I quite like the "follow mode" as a way to see what the AI is changing so I can build a better mental model of the changes I'm about to review.

I do wish there was a bit more focus on some core editor features: ligatures still don't fully work on Linux; why can't I pop the agent panel (or any other panel for that matter) into the center editor region, or have more than one panel docked side by side on one of the screen sides? But overall, I largely have the opposite opinion and experience from you. Most of my complaints from last year have been solved (various vim compatibility things), or are in progress (debugger support is on the way).
by neuroelectron | 2025-05-07 19:12:40+00:00
I feel like this is tied to the overall decline in movie and music quality. Maybe I'm just getting old. There is no more "Titanic" or "Nirvana". Lots of people have noticed the decline in audio mixing in movies as well, which has led to a generation of younger adults who need captions for regular movies. A discrete audio system would probably help with this but for what? How many times are you going to watch latest Avengers?
by AyyEye | 2025-05-07 19:12:52+00:00
Maybe it's always been this way and I just never noticed but at some point in the last ten years or so Samsung became synonymous with bottom of the barrel quality, while still charging premium prices. I won't buy anything with a samsung sticker on it, even used, because it's inevitably going to have failing electronics, stupid design decisions, too many half-baked features, and horrible buggy software/firmware. Your typical no-name alibaba whatever is likely to be at least on-par with anything Samsung puts out while costing less.

Even ignoring price, I can't think of a mainstream brand I consider worse from a quality perspective than Samsung. The only other brand I consider as bad is Sony, and that's more ideological than quality because of their shenanigans and contempt for their customers -- at least their hardware isn't almost across the board destined for the scrap heap. I've seen too many nearly new samsung appliances just die due to bad electronics and they want to charge nearly the cost of the appliance for a replacement circuit board.

On topic for audio -- I got a samsung receiver for $20 from the thrift store and while it sort of does the job of being an amplifier, everything else about it is horrible. Worst interface of any receiver I've used since the 80s, its easy to change a setting accidentally while being difficult to change it back, and it doesn't power back on after a power outage requiring me to manually press the (capacitive/touch) power button on it. Also that (TOUCH!) Power 'button' is right next to the volume knob so you accidentally touch it while changing the volume, shutting the receiver off. But booting it back up requires holding the (capacitive) button. A quick press makes it flash so you think it is booting but the joke is on you, you need to hold it. Also you have to hold it properly, because sometimes it simply fails to register so after holding it for a few seconds and it doesn't boot, you have to take your finger off and try again. It's a receiver and you can't even select an input -- you need to cycle through all of them one at a time. So the one connected to your TV starts blasting erectile dysfunction audio at boosted commercial volume through your speakers when you're just trying to switch to bluetooth so you can listen to some lo-fi. You can't even make this stuff up. It's a joke and I don't believe anyone involved cared one bit about making a decent product.
by Suppafly | 2025-05-07 19:13:14+00:00
> There's also the problem in less direct sales where businesses in the chain expect a certain margin. Simply passing on the tariffs quickly leads to large price increases to the customers.

This is what a lot of people aren't understanding. If the tariff is added by the first middleman, each additional middleman between that first one and the customer is adding their increase to that existing increase and the base price, not just the original base price.
by 7thaccount | 2025-05-07 19:13:50+00:00
I think you can be aware of the history going from newspapers to radio to portable explicit music, and TV, and still see that a kid having a smartphone truly might be something worse than what came before. As in this time it really is different.

When I was a kid I had Saturday morning cartoons, but was bored a lot. Video games existed, but you got bored of those fast and rarely got new ones. We went outside a lot. Kids these days (as well as adults) have access to 24/7 dopamine hits. That doesn't mean we're in the end times, but I don't think humans were meant to live in our own curated digital bubbles. People are now less used to socializing in person and it seems to be causing exacerbated feelings of loneliness and depression.

Of course my father complained whenever I wasn't hard at work, but the difference seems to be the magnitude of the modern problem. At times I think humanity is rapidly evolving into something else and the physical bodies we have can't keep up. I can't imagine the next thousand years of progress.
by bombcar | 2025-05-07 19:13:54+00:00
You could estimate it from sales or something, but Walmart has a huge wall full of various TVs, and barely one half of one aisle-side of soundbars, and no receivers/speaker setups.

I suspect something like 80% of people use the TV, and of those who upgrade, use a soundbar, maybe.

And even those with a dedicated theatre room, probably have other TVs that are just TV audio.
by tfandango | 2025-05-07 19:13:59+00:00
Yea, it's really the opposite of the stated desired effect, small businesses will go under or not even start, while Target and Walmart afforded to pre-stock their warehouses to ride the wave as best they can. Amazon already informed suppliers they "won't be accepting price increases". So we will all just be working for the big box stores and nobody will be living the American Dream of starting their own company.

And, since this is all really just chaos without a plan, what happens when replacement suppliers don't spring up all over the USA?
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-07 19:14:25+00:00
It's normal not to call that an effective intervention when only a small minority of the population can pull it off.

Things that do work ultimately do so by that mechanism (of course!) but not via people trying to eat better and exercise more per se. They do it by changing the circumstances under which a person is making decisions about eating and living, so better eating and more exercise in-fact happen, consistently and enduringly.

From most- to least-effective, over the long haul, it looks something like this:

1) GLP-1 agonists & friends,

2) Move to a skinnier country,

[a large gap]

3) Months and months, probably with periodic long refresher-sessions every year or two if you want it to actually last, of high-touch expensive help from multiple specialists, amounting to hours per week. This is the gold standard for what "actually works" as far as what can be done as an intervention, before Ozempic and such, and its outcomes are... so-so.

[another large gap]

4) Basically any diet & exercise plans or attempts to simply "eat less and move more"

(throw gastric bypass and stuff like that in there somewhere, not quite sure where they fall)