MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hakfoo | 2025-07-06 17:19:40+00:00
This was always one of the downfalls of market economics.

We already have conscious feelings about these things, but it's virtually impossible to enforce it into the market at scale in a meaningful way.

We could take a broadly agreed on sentiment like "I really want the caregivers taking care of my grandparents in the rest home to be qualified and adequately paid so they'll do their best", and mysteriously the market will breed a solution that's "the agency is charging $50 per hour and delivering a $12 per hour warm body that will do the bare legal minimum to avoid neglect charges."

We try regulation, but again, the market evolves the countermeasures of least-cost checkbox compliance. All because we aren't willing to take direct command over economic actors.
by tim333 | 2025-07-06 17:20:09+00:00
It's annoying having AI features force fed I imagine but it's come about due to many of the public liking some AI - apparently ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly users (https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2025/05/chatgpt-stat...) and then competing companies think they should try to keep up.

I say I imagine it's annoying because I've yet to actually be annoyed much but I get the idea. I actually quite like the Google AI bit - you can always not read it if you don't want to. AI generated content on youtube is a bit of a mixed bag - it tends to be kinda bad but you can click stop and play another video. My office 2019 is gloriously out of date and does that stuff I want without the recent nonsense.
by agumonkey | 2025-07-06 17:20:16+00:00
Honestly it was better before, in france most of pop songs are utter s*t now, it used to be a blend of various degrees, from laughable dumpster fire to nice to great timeless pop music (goldman, cabrel, balavoine). You could say the same about brit pop, I still dig the police, dire straits, in ways that surprise me even today. There really was, afaik, a higher base floor.
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-07-06 17:20:21+00:00
My mother tongue is English, but I learned French and German for my work. My French colleagues say I "speak French" and my German colleagues say I "kinda speak German."

Would you say they're wrong? When, according to you, has someone learned a language? You don't get a medal at some point, you learn a language when you can do things with it.
by panzi | 2025-07-06 17:20:36+00:00
Thank you and all the others that told me about different about:config settings! I use this now:

widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled = false

layout.css.scrollbar-width-thin.disabled = true

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style = 3

widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override = 30
by ben_w | 2025-07-06 17:21:26+00:00
> Since the US has by far the sickest human population on Earth (it's not even debatable), I guess the current system has been a spectacular failure

I suspect everyone affected by the sub-Saharan AIDS epidemic would disagree very strongly, even despite the improvements over the last 20 years.

More generally, the US may be an outlier among industrialised nations, but the floor for health in general is much lower than the USA.

This also means you have a long way further to fall if you allow incompetent leadership.
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-06 17:22:05+00:00
As a note on Microsoft's obnoxious Copilot push, I too got the "Your 365 subscription price is increasing because we're forcing AI on you".

Only when I went to cancel[1], suddenly they made me aware that there was a "classic" subscription that was the normal price, without CoPilot. So they basically just upsized everyone to try to force uptake.

[1] - I'm in the AI business and am a user and abuser of AI daily, but I don't need it built directly into every app. I Already have AI subscriptions and local models and solutions.
by skotobaza | 2025-07-06 17:22:11+00:00
>You're confused about the meaning of "voting with your wallet".

>You're confusing the lack of active participation with the presence of it.

Probably.

>you're describing people buying things on autopilot without respect to values

That is probably where I am confused - I'm not sure that people "do not respect the values". It's either that they have values, but those values are imposed, or it's what you describe, that people just don't think deeply about it. And from my personal experience I really can't tell. But when I read the web, everyone apparently figured it out, and do indeed consciously decide.
by jostylr | 2025-07-06 17:23:08+00:00
Feeling the same, I just started a dialectic blog, with ChatGPT arguing with itself based on my prompt. It can have some biting words. I also have been using Suno AI to make a song with each post; while not perfect, it certainly allows for totally non-musical people like me to have something produced that can be listened to.

One post that fits with this feeling is https://silicon-dialectic.jostylr.com/2025/07/02/impostor-sy... The techno-apocalyptic lullaby at the end that the AIs came up with is kind of chilling.
by lucb1e | 2025-07-06 17:24:13+00:00
> If a drive fails while I'm traveling I'm SOL [...] My conclusion is that cloud providers are actually a great deal

You realise you can always still restore that backup onto someone else's server? When you need to restore from backup either way. I don't really see why one would pre-emptively pay for it

> If I accidentally lock myself out, there's no serial terminal to fall back on.

Why not? That sounds like a choice you can make. The hardware I hosted on either had a KVM built in or can just attach a USB keyboard and VGA (or nowadays HDMI) display

Power outages aren't common in my area, and otherwise a UPS is not that expensive (compared to if you pay a third party to set up redundant power for your hobby system)

You can choose to pre-emptively pay the cloud premium and give them access to your server so you can also social engineer yourself back in via customer support (after all, if you aren't expecting to lose the password and thus don't need to convince a human to let you into your hosting account, then you could also hold onto your own server's password). It just all seems very opposed from the self-hosting spirit where you're self-reliant, which apparently you value since you were considering whether to self host?
by bluGill | 2025-07-06 17:24:25+00:00
that is a large pile of money saved there, but not as much as payments.

Still cars don't last forever - my pervious minivan needed a transmission rebuild so we can cut the cost of the replacement by 10000 since either way that money is spent and now the newer van is break even on payments and it should still work after it is paid off for a few years.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-06 17:25:33+00:00
> them getting the feeling that the US truck industry has been sleeping for decades in terms of evolution

I’ve recently concluded the reason Waymo is dominating has nothing to do with automation and everything with reliability.

Both Uber and Lyft bet on maximising driver availability, even at the cost of reliability and quality. That left wide open those willing to wait a bit longer for a car that won’t cancel, won’t smell and won’t have someone who drives unsafely while on the phone. (And apparently even willing to pay a premium for it.)
by epohs | 2025-07-06 17:25:40+00:00
A year or two ago I had a pretty simple thought. The idea was that LLMs make a great assistant for a skilled developer, a bad replacement for a skilled developer, and a dangerous assistant for an unskilled developer. That idea has mostly seemed to hold true as I have gotten more experience with LLMs.

I think I would revise it now to allow that LLMs can be really useful teachers for unskilled developers, however I don’t get the sense that that’s how they’re being used in many cases. It seems that it’s more common that unskilled developers using LLMs just vibe code their way through issues that they run into, never really gaining insight into why the thing they’re working on failed, and just push through until it seems like it isn’t failing anymore.

And that more or less reinforces my idea that they’re dangerous assistants in those cases where the developer is unskilled. It’s pretty much inevitable that this will introduce problems that make it through the process of creation not only unnoticed, but problems that the developer is incapable of understanding even if they are noticed.
by ilyagr | 2025-07-06 17:26:30+00:00
Is <https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir> the same as `vidir` from <https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/>?

Shout out to moreutils, there are many nice utilities, and there's a `moreutils` package in most distributions.

Update: Looking at the authors listed in the man pages, the `trapd00r` version looks to be a fork of the moreutils version. Not sure how the functionality compares. Both versions seem to have been updated since the fork.
Show HN: Autoresume – OpenSource, Resume Builder and TeX Editor with AI Features
by aadyachinubhai | 2025-07-06 17:27:02+00:00
A new opportunity pops up, but your resume is hopelessly out of date. You copy content from LinkedIn, dig up old projects from GitHub, and try to remember what you actually accomplished at your last job. Then comes the formatting Word, Google Docs, endless font tweaks, and still, it never looks quite right. And if you want to tailor your resume for a specific job? That’s another evening gone.

I built autoResume because I was tired of this cycle. I wanted a tool that made resume building as easy as pasting a link or dropping in a job description. With autoResume, you can:

Paste your professional links (GitHub, personal site, LinkedIn) and instantly pull in your achievements.

Edit manually when you want full control, with a clean, code-like editor.

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by crossroadsguy | 2025-07-06 17:28:11+00:00
Goodness! Are you a bear dev by any chance or a dedicated member of its particularly toxic subreddit? Because the tone fits right in.

> It's just slightly harder for you to edit your notes externally

Yup, just slightly harder! Very slightly. A difference of 3.75 picoseconds. Couldn't agree more.

> it's very easy to directly query

Right!

> and if you really cared..have made a script

And designed a nuclear reactor while I was at it, isn't it?

> The devs made the right choice

Yessss!! Finally.

Ffs!!!
by bob1029 | 2025-07-06 17:28:18+00:00
I found the smaller the studio, the more discouraging the experience can be.

There are certainly some advantages to being in a smaller company, but there are also gigantic downsides. The biggest one being that you have no budget. You are effectively competing with every other solo indie developer with a Unity install and a Steam AppID.

Being in a AAA studio means your impact is substantially reduced, but it also means that the project you are working on would probably have more ambition and excitement around it.

At this point, I'd much rather work on some dirty, boring tooling for the Battlefield team than be responsible for the entire game engine on a 3-man team.

Indies & small shops can release genre-defining titles, but the experience as a developer in this context is statistically very, very bad compared to AAA - even accounting for parties like Microsoft taking a flamethrower to the entire segment.
by gmiller123456 | 2025-07-06 17:28:33+00:00
There are a handful of Earth centered, geocentric standard reference frames. The most used today is the Geocentric Celestial Reference System (GCRS). It should be obvious that if you want to compute where to point a telescope, a transformation of coordinates will involve a step through such a coordinate system. GPS is it's own system, but there are transformations to and from the GCRS and GPS frames. Which one makes sense depends a lot on your application.
by dfxm12 | 2025-07-06 17:28:54+00:00
By reasonable measure, they are poor at their job.

I don't think you can make this assertion without knowing what they were tasked with doing. I very much doubt they were tasked with making the most user friendly cockpit possible. I suspect they were required to minimize moving parts (like switches and buttons) and to enable things like Sirius, iPhone and Android integration, etc.
by sixo | 2025-07-06 17:28:55+00:00
The genre of this article is not pedagogical, really. One usually learns these techniques in the course of a particular field like physics, electrical engineering, or theoretical chemistry. This article is best thought of as "a story you've seen before, but told from the beginning / ground up, with a lot of the connections to other topics and examples laid out for you". For that purpose, it's excellent, perhaps the best I've ever seen. It might also whet the appetite of a novice, but it's not really for that.
by nicoburniske | 2025-07-06 17:29:56+00:00
KOReader is great! The main things comically helps with:

* Cropping excess margin (KOReader has this, but Kindles don't)

* E-ink screens have way less contrast than regular screens (like 15:1 vs 1000:1), so raw scans often look washed out. Comically increases the contrast to look better on e-ink.

* File sizes are huge - why have a 500MB volume when your Kindle only needs ~100MB? Smaller files = faster page turns and way more manga on your device.

* Double-page spreads are tiny on portrait screens. Comically can split them up or rotate them so you can actually read them.

* If you're processing a bunch of manga at once (I did 72 volumes of Naruto), it's way faster than KCC - like 5 minutes instead of 30+.
by pton_xd | 2025-07-06 17:29:57+00:00
> dismissing the extremely concrete case of outright theft seems pretty indefensible to me.

Outright theft is a meaningless term here. The new rules are different.

The AI space is built on "traditionally" bad faith actions. Misappropriation of IP by using pirated content and ignoring source code licenses. Borderline malicious website scraping. Recitation of data without attribution. Copying model code / artifacts / weights is just the next most convenient course of action. And really, who cares? The ethical operating standards of the industry have been established.
by thrance | 2025-07-06 17:31:05+00:00
Then why do you call it "vote with your wallet" and not "buy stuff you like"? If you don't intend for your purchase to weigh in on anything, why do you call it "voting"?

If that's truly what you mean by "vote with your wallet", then yeah, we're on the same page. I almost only play solo games, most of them indie.
by aydyn | 2025-07-06 17:31:12+00:00
If Steam itself goes bankrupt, Gabe himself said you'll still retain access to your games.1 Yes its a non-legally binding promise, but Steam has earned that trust.

Also Steam isn't going away, so for these reasons that is "how so".

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20100605062932/http://forums.ste...
by simonw | 2025-07-06 17:31:24+00:00
> but languages often have fundamental concepts that they’re built that and need to be understood in order to be effective with them

I completely agree. That's another reason I don't feel threatened by non-programmers using LLMs: to actually write useful Go code you need to figure out goroutines, for React you need to understand the state model and hooks, for AppleScript you need to understand how apps expose their features, etc etc etc.

All of these are things you need to figure out, and I would argue they are conceptually more complex than for loops etc.

But... don't need to memorize the details. I find understanding concepts like goroutines to be a very different mental activity to memorizing the syntax for a Go for loop.

I can come back to some Go code a year later and remind myself how goroutines work very quickly, because I'm an experienced software engineer with a wealth of related knowledge about concurrency primitives to help me out.
by alganet | 2025-07-06 17:31:30+00:00
A lot of cultures have some sort of starving relic.

Maybe a simple national dish made with very cheap ingredients, or an old story around a very important staple crop. Some deep, deep memory that persists for a long time.

These are the opposite of thanksgiving, or other harvest and abundance cultural relics.

I don't think the USA has that starving myth. This cold war episode is as close as they get, and it is from the perspective of "the other". Maybe the dust bowl?

Cinema is not shy exploring ideas adjacent to this concept (Wall-E, Idiocracy, Demolition Man, Interstellar, to name a few). It, somehow, self-acknowledges that absense of a starving myth by reversing what their abundance means. Almost as if it wanted to have it, and it's ashamed of being spoiled.
by drewcoo | 2025-07-06 17:31:43+00:00
Consider watching the mother of all demos. The GUI paradigm we use today was intended to be for children. The intention was to have much more complex and composable UI for tech workers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

A lot of early users became programmers or sysadmins because they had to. Cliff Stoll was not the only scientist who suddenly found himself in charge of mainframes and learning everything about them. There wasn't a big pool of CS grads to do those things.

The shift to microcomputers enabled mass ownership by driving prices down and dumbing software down enough for everyone to use it. Except for price outliers like Macintosh and usability nightmares like blue screens.

Phones finally got us to today - ubiquitous, easy-to-use computers in everyone's pockets. Most users are clearly not programmers today. Nor do they want to be. Lumping all humans together as "operators" seems like a category error.
by ttoinou | 2025-07-06 17:32:13+00:00
Isn't this the opposite way ? Vectors are functions whose input space are discrete dimensions. Let's not pretend going from natural numbers to real is "simple", reals numbers are a fascinating non-obvious math discovery. And also the passage from a few numbers to all natural numbers (aleph0) is non obvious. So basically we have two alephs passages to transforms N-D vectors as functions over reals.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-07-06 17:32:13+00:00
My god! Really? What is this subthread now - bear app fan version of discussions.apple.com?

This is just unbelievable! Fucking pitchforks are out literally!

I am dealing with plain text notes and you all want me to write sql queries and scripts to access those fucking text files?

Are you all (these few people who just jumped in the subthread) pulling some sort of prank of so?
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-06 17:33:18+00:00
> And at the bottom it’s revealed that this costs $200/month.

So, firstly, the limits on the $100/month plan are reasonably high in my experience. I do hit them, but it takes quite a bit.

> I have trouble convincing myself to give Autodesk $50/month and I need that software for my primary hobby.

Before I used Claude Code, I absolutely would have agreed with you, $100–$200 every month is just a ridiculous amount for any software. After using Claude Code... yeah, that's just how darn good it is!

> Imagine if we were upvoting stories about how people are getting lots of coding done easier with Google and StackOverflow.

You know, something I've thought about before (as in, before LLMs) is just how hard (impossible?) it would be for me to program without an internet connection. I'm constantly Googling stuff.

I can absolutely imagine that if I was a programmer before widespread internet use, and the internet launched with things like Google and lots of resources out of the gate... yeah, that would be revelatory! I'm not saying AI is necessarily the same, but it's something to think about.
by mistrial9 | 2025-07-06 17:33:26+00:00
of course there are flood maps here in the USA. The Federal government does some survey work, but in the US system, it is the county that is responsible for maintaining basic property and land use maps. Every State in the US is composed of county (or parish or some New England thing to be complete). The US Federal government is not defunding "everything". Also note that some parts of the US do not cooperate very much with the Federal government (mostly near Idaho area, others?). Texas regularly discusses becoming their own country, so of course Texas has its own mapping.
by bhauer | 2025-07-06 17:33:29+00:00
Apple is undeserving of its popular reputation as a leader in user interface. The article points out only a sampling of the egregious human interface issues with Apple software and devices. Whether it's iOS, CarPlay, or any other Apple software, they're all dramatically overrated. The trouble is, many of the alternatives are even worse. Android? Also awful. Most OEM infotainment systems? Even worse than CarPlay. I feel Apple is well-regarded simply because it's the lesser among several bad options.

We need a viable third option in mobile operating systems. At least with cars, we have high-quality infotainment systems such as those from Tesla and Rivian. In the mobile phone space, we have tow poor options and a few alternatives with vanishingly small market share.
by patchule | 2025-07-06 17:33:40+00:00
You do understand that those who paid into it earlier get much more out of it, right? So it is a Ponzi in that sense. We can agree to call it something else, but Ponzi is much easier than typing out “a system whereby those who got in early are guaranteed gains while later cohorts risk actual losses due to insolvency as the early cohorts cash out.”

Nursing homes (Medicaid) costs about $12,000 per person a month national average iirc. Cost cutting by fiscal conservatives is clearly not the reason nursing homes can charge so much. If anything it’s the exact opposite: it’s a monopsony so the cost is effectively set by whatever Uncle Sam decides it can pay.

The problem is not really the per capita costs though, but that the demographic time bomb has arrived and all at once a huge portion of Americans will stop paying in and start pulling out of the system that I won’t call a Ponzi. Both parties are run by boomers who have catered to boomers because most voters and donors have been boomers. As a result our politicians have done an awful job “paying it forward.” If the health care and social security situation doesn’t make that clear enough to you, then consider how they’ve left housing for the future age cohorts. Laws like prop 13 have allowed the “early in” to amass great wealth and cash out while using nimby politics to prevent new building and using loosened immigration (eg h1b, migrant farm workers), international free trade deregulation and other policy levers to increase the demand and price for the real estate and other assets they hold. A lot of tax breaks for those who were able to buy homes early, but no so much benefit for people at the other end of the not calling it a Ponzi system we have. If you see only the political parties but not demographics or wealth distribution across interest groups within both parties then you have fallen for party propaganda, the lie that the party matters more than money and special interest.
by Levitating | 2025-07-06 17:33:52+00:00
> The boom in digital detoxes, the dumbphone revival among young people

>> That's a market now. It doesn't mean shit. It's a "lifestyle".

The fact that there's such a market now, means something on it's own I believe. Regardless if it's a "lifestyle", it's a lifestyle people are choosing now. I know more and more people who either don't own a smartphone or have it on DnD at all times.

It's the same for "manipulation awareness" or whatever. You can't will a market into existence, the market has to already exist because people are drawn to it.

I am not saying that it will matter in the end, but I can say for a fact that there are people consciously disengaging from social media.