MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by permo-w | 2025-05-19 14:10:43+00:00
my friend you're insulting my literacy after referring to a possession of mine with "you're", while making yet another attempt to emotionally trigger a sidetrack instead of just saying what you really think about the core issue. you read like you learned your style of discourse from tabloid newspapers

are you embarrassed of the real reason you don't like the BBC?

and you didn't answer, do you pay the license fee?
by dagw | 2025-05-19 14:10:55+00:00
You don't have to use it, as the machines still have the option to use normal dish washer tablets. But if you want to use their auto dosing feature (in theory it works out how dirty your dishes are and does only as much detergent as you need), then yes you're locked into their proprietary system, and paying 2-4 times as much per wash.
by gowings97 | 2025-05-19 14:11:23+00:00
You keep citing things as if you are trying to brute force something into existence - you have zero comprehension of the American consumer. You cannot pass a poorly named Inflation Reduction Act (which had the complete opposite effect btw) bill and reshape the consumption preferences of half the country for a consumer product that they have a strong 100+ year emotional connection to.

Half of the American consumers have _ZERO_ interest in EVs. Period. They don't want them. 77 Million of them voted for Trump. The other half are split between coastal tech bros that already have EVs, Boomers that buy PHEVs / EVs, and normal families that might be interested in EVs but after hearing the tradeoffs, decided to buy a Honda or Toyota because they're reasonably priced and reliable. From a OEM Product Planning standpoint trying to juggle the investment between ICE and EV (if you aren't Tesla) - this is the worst of all worlds. Tesla claims the vast majority of the EV marketplace and there isn't enough volume/interest to justify the billion+ investment in EV programs to pick up the scraps. No one has made money on EVs in the US except Tesla. That will continue to be true.

Oh, and whatever happened to the supposed massively deflationary pricing that was supposed to come to batteries? Turns out when you cordon off China from the supply chain and source materials from Australia and South America, you've completely lost any ability to continue to reduce battery prices.

This isn't China - you cannot mandate consumer preferences, although I'm sure you'd love to.
by Majromax | 2025-05-19 14:11:40+00:00
> The cumulative inflation for the past 10 years

Without taking a stand on which metric is better for social and lifestyle comparisons, the grandparent poster said 'valuation of assets' rather than inflation. Per Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ESP500TR/), the S&P500 is about 340% of its mid-2015 level on a total return basis (reinvesting dividends).

Today's $700-millionaire would have been a 'mere' $200-millionaire in mid-2015 if invested fully in equities. That allocation is probably ballpark reasonable, since with that kind of net worth investment horizons are very long (multiple generations of inheritors) and the investors themselves can be nearly risk-neutral rather than risk-averse.
by atwrk | 2025-05-19 14:12:09+00:00
Tax systems create wealthy people in two ways:

a) by disproportionally tax the poor vs. the rich. In the United States, "42 states tax the top 1 percent at a lower rate than the bottom 20 percent, while 46 states tax the top 1 percent less than the middle 60 percent of earners." https://media.itep.org/ITEP-Who-Pays-7th-edition.pdf

b) by using the taxes to disproportionately benefit the upper income brackets, e.g. by investing more in universities than schools, or infrastructure in wealthy neighborhoods than poor neighborhoods (both true for the US).
by Aardwolf | 2025-05-19 14:13:48+00:00
Why "finally"?

To me, KDE's job should be to organize and render windows, application launcher icons, and the like

If I want a virtual machine, I'll use a virtual machine for that

All this "KDE suite" stuff and what not is unnecesarry - some of these are good pieces of software that I like to use, but there's no reason they need any integration with a desktop environment (arguably a few basics like a file manager, VTE and plain text editor are expected and fine but in theory also can be wholly separate)

Also, any integration attempts like making the icons a common asset rather than each application have their own, _fail_ and make things worse, with these integrations applications less often have working icons at all, and more often have mistakes like black icons against a black background making them invisible
by daveguy | 2025-05-19 14:14:02+00:00
The human brain runs on about 20 watts of power -- the entire body on 80 watts (at rest). Those numbers are at least good within an order of magnitude. The largest supercomputer consumes 29 megawatts of power for 1.7 exaflops. And the largest supercomputers are nowhere near the flexible generality of a human brain -- they're calculating FFTs for the test.

The amount of parallelism in the human brain is enormous. Not just each neuron, but each synapse has computational capacity. That means ~10^14 computational units or 100 trillion processing units -- on about 20 watts.

That doesn't even touch the bandwidth issues. Getting the sensory input in and out of the brain plus the bandwidth to get all of the processing signals between each neuron is at least another petabit per second. So, on bandwidth capacity alone we are 25+ years away (assuming the last 25 years of growth continues). And in humans that comes with 18 years of training at that massive bandwidth and computational power.

Also, we have no idea what a general intelligence algorithm looks like. We are just now getting multimodal LLMs.

From the computational/bandwidth perspective we are still 30 years from a computer being able to process The information a single human brain does, except while consuming 29+ megawatts of energy. If you had to feed a human 29 megawatts worth of power no business would be profitable. Humans wouldn't even survive.

Sorry, but the notion that we are close to AGI because we have good word predictors is fantasy. But, there will be some amazing natural language human-computer interface improvements over the next 10 years!
by Rodmine | 2025-05-19 14:14:03+00:00
It's like your opinion, man.

Aesthetic taste varies from culture-to-culture, even individual to individual. Sometimes, minimal and simple is beautiful.

I really thought that the pictures you were posting later were examples of ugly design (when I was glossing over it) and I found out that you were saying that that one looks good to you.

The one on top, the example of your ugly design, has natural beauty: a weathered concrete finish. I prefer that WAYYY more than any of the later examples.
by Damogran6 | 2025-05-19 14:14:44+00:00
You'd be surprised. I don't like the lock in, but it sure makes running a partial load easy (which, yeah, blows the dollar cost ratio even more.)

Enclosing the dishwasher keeps the internals dust free...

It was awhile before I noticed, unlike every other dishwasher I'd ever owned, it didn't have a big heating coil sitting in the bottom of the dishwasher, the water heater is elsewhere.

Listen, the goal is not to convince you. I would never have purchased it had COVID not done what COVID did to the supply chain. But there are subtly significant differences between this and a $500 plastic Memorial Day special.
by Ensorceled | 2025-05-19 14:14:44+00:00
I worked on a project where I was responsible for implementing accessibility and multiple language support for a government adjacent site. I used Accept-Language to decide which of our supported languages to use as the default. The PM over-ruled that decision and forced a EN default.

The accessibility auditor put "use Accept-Language" into they audit report as a "red" item and then ripped the company a new one when they found out it had been initially implemented that way but then reverted.

I got another couple of weeks of contract work for this and other such stupidity.
by ksec | 2025-05-19 14:14:47+00:00
Adding more context for those that wont there at the time. Nearly 99.9% of execs and MBA thought it was a dumb move. The world is moving to internet ( 2000 was Dot Com bubble ) and Dell selling everything without a store. Why would anyone want to open retail store.

Even when Apple succeeded they still thought it was a fad.

The sad thing is Apple Store went down hill as soon as Steve Jobs passed away. With Ron Johnson left just before he passed away no one picked up what Steve envisioned the store was suppose to be. It is now nothing more than a cost centre on Apple's spreadsheets.
by jraph | 2025-05-19 14:14:58+00:00
I found the points in your last comment to be true.

I still think you'd need to back the fact OSI rejected SSPL for commercial concerns of its members a bit more. Even if nobody else has formally rejected SSPL on convincing grounds, major parts of the free software ecosystem distrusts it and OSI is not that special in this. I found nobody making the case that SSPL is a free software license. Nobody likes it except mongodb, and formerly redis and elasticsearch. That would be an interesting revelation to me but I need more convincing evidences.

I do think that open source is the watered down corporate version of free software that attempts to get rid of the end user rights concerns (which I care about most, but the corporations around the OSI don't care about much or at all), and that the OSI is governed by big corps and is not the most trusty organization when it comes to protect free software. One only needs to see the definition they came up for open source AI models which is not quite restrictive (and thus useful) to see the least. So I'm actually somewhat inclined to believe this.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-05-19 14:15:30+00:00
Both of these are games, so they tend to sit with contents for longer. My boot SSD is 31TB in 6183 hours so quite a bit faster usage than those old drive but about half your rate. Its very workload dependent how long SSDs last. 16GB a month is extremely slow, much slower than my usage at 120GB a day. SSDs you could write their entire contents every day and they would still be working 5 years later but probably not 10.
by thechao | 2025-05-19 14:15:56+00:00
When I was being taught assembly at Intel, one of the graybeards told me that the greatest waste of an integer was to use it for a "bare" add, when it was a perfectly acceptable 64-wide vector AND. To belabor the the point: he used ADD for the "unusual set of XORs, ANDs, and other funky operations it provided across lanes". Odd dude.
by bluGill | 2025-05-19 14:16:17+00:00
Appliances have several different class and price is not a good indication of what class things are in. Cheap apartments want the cheapest appliances that will last and those people have the accountants to figure out what those are. However right next to the cheap appliances that last are cheap appliances that won't and often there is nobody that will tell you which is which. The you get into the mid range, where again there is junk and good stuff right next to each other. At the highest prices quality goes down just because there are not enough sales to figure out what is going to break and update the design in the early part of the sales cycle to fix issues.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-19 14:16:20+00:00
I suspect that many people who deal with languages only speak English and never left the US. They have been told that other languages exist and that foreign countries exist, and they have to do something about it, and they did... something.

I remember a company I worked with used to have its internet connection go through German servers, even though it was in France. I remember the presentation page for one of Google's phone was in German with no way to have it in anything else. Using a ".fr" domain, "accept-language", logged into a French Google account, I also tried English too, no luck. I only managed to get some UI elements in something other than German, it felt like a troll. I wonder how the Swiss (a small country with 4 official languages) are doing.

In addition to the idea that the IP address is a pretty bad indicator of the language you speak, some websites have trouble with the idea that people can understand more than one language.

Hey, YouTube, I know I have set my account to French, but I understand English and you know it, so please don't auto-translate video titles for me and do a terrible job at it. And I don't want to set my account to English, because I guess it would translate French titles into English, which I want even less.
by anon-3988 | 2025-05-19 14:17:08+00:00
I would love to say that I would not do any of these superficial things but I have clearly raised my standards of living after earning good wages. Thankfully its not "linear", I think.

But I think I am self conscious enough that I am always asking if I should really be doing or buying stuff that I can perfectly afford. Do I really need that new phone? I have a perfectly serviceable phone, what do I really get from these stuff that is totally within my mean.

However, it is more nuanced than that. For example, I think VVIP SHOULD be taking private flights instead of commercial ones. Should CEOs of big companies really be sharing flights with literal whos across the Atlantic? Probably not. But should these private jets have indoor tennis court or whatever it is they have? Also probably not.
by zikduruqe | 2025-05-19 14:18:34+00:00
I have my Arch Gnome3 setup that resembles a tiling window manager... a la as demonstrated by Typecraft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1kZd1f724U

I used to run Hyperland but was tired of constantly tweaking it... so this is good and easy enough.
by tomhow | 2025-05-19 14:19:12+00:00
Please don't comment like this on Hacker News. This and other comments downthread break multiple guidelines:

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by Cthulhu_ | 2025-05-19 14:19:38+00:00
I feel like there's a huge disconnect between salaries, job titles, and years of experience. 6/7 years experience and you're eligible for a staff software developer position at $500K a year? I've got 15 and still on 5 figures / year. In Euros, sure, but there's a huge disconnect there.

I find it weird that these companies don't have more offices in Europe, given they can easily out-compete any local companies on salary.
by bluGill | 2025-05-19 14:20:09+00:00
Even wealthy in the US tend to have much less servants than they would have in the past. Labor is too expensive, and the large middle class has made automation just as good and sometimes better. Sure I could hire someone to turn on my lights - but the switch on the wall works well and isn't much effort (compare to the lamp lighter of the past which did work that would be annoying).
by sltkr | 2025-05-19 14:20:16+00:00
It's in the Google index, not on Reddit itself. For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+inurl:?tl=...

...will show you posts that have been translated into Italian, most of which were originally in English or a different language.

For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/1k2fotl/welcome_to_...

And of course in this case I explicitly searched for that, but the point is that if Google thinks Italian is your primary language, it will surface those results automatically, even when you might prefer the English original.

Probably this is caused by Reddit offering these pages to Google, rather than Google deciding to send you to a different URL on its own accord, but it's still annoying from an end user perspective.
by estebarb | 2025-05-19 14:20:32+00:00
It is particularly annoying with Google. They recently forced results translations, which are of extremely bad quality. So, even if I'm searching for computer science topics or machine learning (where I'm only interested in English results) they insist that I must speak spanish and read useless translations.

I ended up switching to Bing just because this issue. Google is absolutely useless for me now.
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-19 14:20:48+00:00
My main OS disk (256 GB SATA) reports 40k power on hours and 27.5 TBW. I've also got a 4 TB nvme drive that's at 16.5k power on hours and 5.7 TBW and an 8 TB SATA drive that's at 18.5k hours and 25 TBW.
by eviks | 2025-05-19 14:20:48+00:00
> If today, right now, Evernote stopped working, it would take some effort to find a working version, export the files, convert them to markdown or whatever, etc.

No, at your accepted level of the loss of functionality that would be trivial.

- Launch the app you already have, export - Launch another app, import. Could be Obsidian. Here is their guide. https://help.obsidian.md/import/evernote - Open results in VSCode and ignore the 10% lost in conversion

> I just don't know how you can claim that Obsidian is more effort to use outside of Obsidian than something proprietary.

Because at every step you trivialize one option and complicate the other. While they're generically equivalent. All the same things apply...

> If you're mostly using plain

If you're mostly using plain notes in Evernote, then your conversion to the same plain markdown will be trivial, so using another plain markdown isn't easier
by jopicornell | 2025-05-19 14:21:29+00:00
That's something I think as well. I've tried 4 times through the years, and KDE always felt less stable and solid than Gnome. I guess it's the configurability of KDE that makes it that way.

I like the concept, but I guess maintaining it is no easy task, and people is more motivated to add things than fix them.
by nico | 2025-05-19 14:22:25+00:00
Excellent, looks really nice, thank you for putting it together

Do you have some sort of feed/api that a program can consume?

Would love to import those jobs into this CLI tool I created that helps people find good job matches, and track applications, using AI: https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs

Right now it has scrapers for HN’s Who is hiring, for Workatastartup and Workday
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-19 14:22:53+00:00
Eh, that level of rich doesn't care about a service contract. If their hyper-fancy, whatever gadget filled dishwasher/oven dies randomly because it's made like cheap shit and all the features are just checking boxes, they don't care, they can have it replaced within an hour, so the cook will just have to deal with only a single oven until then.

Which is why the rich are terribly undiscerning purchasers: the downside for them is some wasted pocket change. The time it took to consider the purchase already earned them more money than they will spend.

The appliances themselves however absolutely are built and designed to be serviced regularly to meet their expected lifespans.
by FrankPetrilli | 2025-05-19 14:23:28+00:00
Oh hey I'm uniquely positioned to answer this; though I'm in tech (and at this point frankly speaking well-compensated) my family have been bootmakers for decades.

I'm sitting at a tech office right now wearing a pair of boots that my father made for me in 2015 - regardless, they're absolutely spotless and I'd wear them to a formal event without hesitation. Every 6 months or so when I'm by his store I shine them up and put in a fresh pair of leather laces. Every 3 or so years, he re-soles them when the soles eventually wear out and lose traction. Eventually they'll require a rebuild, but they've got probably another 5-10 years of daily wear in them before that. I've got a few more pairs I swap between every so often, like a pair with OD green canvas that looks nice with khakis, but these solid black ones are my daily wear.

While 10 years sounds like a good run for boots, my father has a pair at ~35 years old now that he still wears frequently. IIRC they've been through one or two rebuilds and few re-soles in that time.

Were these commodity sneakers, I'd be purchasing a new pair every few months. Even nice running or trail shoes only tend to last a few hundred miles in my experience, but I've put tens of thousands on these and will get ten thousand more easily. Re-soles and rebuilds aren't free, but they're less than a replacement and put years of lifetime back on the boot. They're also comfortable as hell and fit me like a glove.

So in short: yeah, rich men do wear the same pair of boots for 10 years, or even far longer.
by c22 | 2025-05-19 14:23:44+00:00
This same phenomenon is true for classic search engines as well. Whenever I am becoming informed on a new topic my first searches are always very naive and targeted just at discovering the relevant jargon that will let me make better searches. It turns out that many disciplines contain analogue concepts, just with different words being used to describe them. Understanding the domain specific language used is more than half the battle.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-05-19 14:24:48+00:00
Sure. I'm not interested in high-quality appliances per se, it's just an example of something middle class people buy that poor people aren't really aware of.

The original question still stands: What do insanely wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about?

By the definition of the question I can't know the answer myself: I am "ordinary people" so I must know nothing about it. So what's left to me is to suggest parallels at the level I do know something about.

Another example of a "middle class thing", not related to things or appliances: services, in particular moving. I changed flats many times in my life, more than 10. I used to pack, load, unload and unpack everything by myself and at some point it started to take 2-3 days of my time full time. Then one time I contracted an end2end moving service (you just give them the keys) and I would never ever go back.

Recently a friend of mine was moving and asked to help to load the truck. After an hour of sweating I asked why he didn't contract someone -- this idea just never crossed his mind. A year later he was moving again and was grateful for the advice.

Surely, rich people enjoy services that would never cross my middle class mind? A governour for the child maybe? Well I would never know.
by FrankPetrilli | 2025-05-19 14:24:54+00:00
$200 is enough to get you a pair of Keen boots, which will last a year or two. Truly "good" in the boot world is hand welted hand made leather boots, which are a rarity these days. There are functionally only a few bootmakers that still manufacture this way these days, and about half of them are all in the same Washington State region :)

Expect ~$400, and it's easy to spend $600 without much effort.

That said, look at my comment above in this thread; they do really last 10 years or more, so the investment is well worth it.
by troupo | 2025-05-19 14:25:13+00:00
It's not just infrastructure. Most modern buildings are utilitarian and race-to-the-bottom cheap to a fault.

And while a lot of this can be explained by the requirement to build a lot of things fast, and cheap, even one-off buildings that are supposed to be unique are... just slabs of concrete and/or glass.

I think nowhere is it more evident than in Europe: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1912957880195575980