MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pvtmert | 2025-08-03 23:03:48+00:00
I think people have exceedingly high-expectations due to make-believe social-media content.

What I see amongst all the people is that both skill and the quality of work decreasing. Which is why, arguably, AI _is_ taking over entry-level jobs.

High percentage of new generation spend their time on TikTok & Instagram, watching reels & stories of some popular/famous people, who tend to have some money (high chance of inheritance or rich family), posing as a "regular" person on the street.

Take this quote for example; “I told myself, by 26, I’d have my own house, I’d have my own family, I’d have my nice little luxury car. That hasn’t happened.”

This is an unrealistic by definition. I don't know what sort of thing a person needs to smoke to come to a conclusion that having _all_ of these, including a luxury car, is a norm for a 26 year old. By definition, if everyone has that _luxury car_, that car would not be a luxury item in the first place. Unless a person inherits a house, it would take at least 10 years (probably 30) to fully own one. One can probably buy/lease a car, probably second hand, but that's unlikely to be a `luxury` vehicle.

Another point is, while some people had adequate pictures/images posted, some did not even bother to put an effort to give a proper picture to the newspaper article. I am not a "wear a suit" person at all, but this attitude clearly shows how much care certain people put into actual work. Would you hire a such person who does sloppy job even at the job application? I would certainly not.
by kev009 | 2025-08-03 23:03:51+00:00
IBM did ship a few generations of Itanium hardware, they just smartly never bet the farm on it.

MIPS and SPARC were always a little weak versus contemporaries, if SGI had forestalled a bit with the R18k that would have been enough time to read the tea leaves and jump to Opteron instead.

PA-RISC and Alpha had big enough captive markets and some legs left that got pulled out too soon. That paradoxically might had led to a healthier Sun that went all in on Opteron.
by ghushn3 | 2025-08-03 23:05:15+00:00
> Let's shut down these employee networks based on immutable characteristics.

Each of these networks is open to everyone. You can be straight and a member of the LGBTQ+ network just fine. You can be white and join the Black network too.

The networks exist because people have (and are) the targets of persecution. It's nice to find other people who will understand what that feels like and make connections and advocate for less systematic persecution.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-03 23:05:17+00:00
FTA> Google’s Chief People Officer Fiona Cicconi told employees that the company would end DEI-related hiring “aspirational goals” due to new federal requirements and Google’s categorization as a federal contractor.

It doesn't appear to be voluntarily "changing politics" but instead a mandate from the feds to change ideology or not work with them.
Show HN: Andre – A privacy-first, location-aware assistant that helps you
by billellsd | 2025-08-03 23:06:07+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on a different kind of life assistant — one that helps in the real world, not just with voice commands or smart speakers.

Andre is a privacy-focused, location-aware assistant that does things like:

Remind you to take care of errands only when you're near a place to do them

Alert you about major events like flight cancellations, gridlocked traffic, or wildfires — and suggest nearby hotels or rentals

Adapt to your real routine, without tracking you or selling your data

It's early-stage, but I'm sharing it now to get feedback, connect with others building human-first tech, and possibly find collaborators.

The site at https://andreapp.org is still under construction, but it's live.

This project is dedicated to the person who gave me the courage to build again — even from a hospital bed. A small tribute, but a real one.

Thanks for reading, Bill
by grafmax | 2025-08-03 23:06:33+00:00
I’m not sure how this is the center. We have devolved into something else. This is an expression of the tight control this authoritarian government holds on business. What we’re stumbling toward is possibly white nationalism. It’s not just the crackdowns on free speech, which are now commonplace, but mass deportation and concentration camps. I get that DEI is a conservative talking point but what’s taking shape before our eyes is far more sinister than just a rollback of Democrat identity politics.
by move-on-by | 2025-08-03 23:07:19+00:00
A few months ago I watched HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries. Afterwards, I had a strong impulse to buy a Geiger Counter from Amazon. I went as far as reading reviews of the various brands and picking out which one to get - if I were to get one. I was able to outlast the impulse. I don’t live close to this area, but now I’m thinking a Geiger Counter might be a good thing to own, maybe not so impulsive after all…
by Lich | 2025-08-03 23:07:19+00:00
> I’m a bit of a leftie, but it has been really painful for the last 10 years watching my side be the one that is actively racist and proposing systematic racism & sexism with a bare face.

Examples?

> We should be mindful that inside each of us is a significant amount of value, and under the right circumstances that can be unlocked to be great- despite any political or physiological differences.

Wouldn’t that be wonderful? But in the meantime, while we wait for the racists and sexists to become enlightened, should we not have initiatives, laws, education, to protect those who have historically been underrepresented and/or discriminated against?
by kevingadd | 2025-08-03 23:07:58+00:00
The fundamental question is whether you think the population distribution of a company with thousands (or tens of thousands) of employees should look similar to the population distribution of the countries it's based in.

If the distribution doesn't look similar, why not? Is there a good excuse for being predominantly male, or predominantly white, or predominantly asian, or predominantly indian? What does that good excuse look like? I see people complain about these things all the time.

There's an assumption here that discrimination in the workplace only exists because of DEI which is a weird leap to make IMO. You could argue that DEI made the situation worse and that gets us somewhere but it's not clear to me whether that's your position.
by cronelius | 2025-08-03 23:08:33+00:00
racism is bad business. the market deals with it in the following ways: - the competent people who are being discriminated against leave and go to places where they aren’t discriminated - people in protected classes sue for discrimination - companies that don’t discriminate get a reputation as such and attract the best - companies that keep discriminating keep losing talent and getting hit with lawsuits

what else could you possibly need to show that racism is bad business? that racists get what’s coming to them in the long term?
by nwatson | 2025-08-03 23:08:50+00:00
It creates rich-people dollars and poor-people dollars. The poor people can still afford a buy a few necessities because rich-people money is tied up in useless vain endeavors, at least to some extent. If rich were to direct all their purchasing power toward real goods they could drive up the prices and make it unaffordable for regular people. As happens with the housing market to some extent.

Edit: unautocorrect
by rtpg | 2025-08-03 23:09:25+00:00
I think you could describe a part of it as COVID-related, though not that much. The trends predate COVID and continued beyond 2020-2021 (really the peak of activity being pulled back in Japan).

2013 saw 4.4k fatalities. 2019 saw 3.2k fatalities. 2020 saw 2.8k fatalities.

In 1970 there were 16.7k fatalities.

I think it would be very hard to argue that COVID explains both the Japan drops while seeing increases in other countries to that extent. In the comparative analysis one can argue that COVID affected some places more than others, of course. But the improvement gap between, say, Japan and New Zealand is pretty huge!
by csours | 2025-08-03 23:09:31+00:00
Writing as a person who wants the future to be a better place, the number one pass time of progressives is complaining about other progressives. The number two pass time is complaining about conservatives.

Anyway, my complaint is that a lot of DEI flavored stuff is very very lazy.

A fundamental issue is that once a person has been raised, you don't get to raise them again. You can't parent a grown person - even if they need more parenting. Social punishment only works inside a socially cohesive group. The shame and anxiety you create with social punishment may be exploited by someone else.

Anyway, I'm sure some DEI groups are coming to terms with why anti-woke trolling is so effective, and I hope they find a good way to tell that story.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-03 23:10:29+00:00
Compare any airport with airport run concessions vs corporate run concessions. As long as the corp ones aren't a single corp running the entire airport, the corp ones almost always provide a better experience. They have to to attract customers. The airport run ones do not because they have a monopoly on concessions. They are almost universally atrocious. Bad incentives lead to bad outcomes. I think it's possible to setup corporate run concessions with positive feedback loops. I think it's impossible to do the same for government run concessions.
by tim333 | 2025-08-03 23:10:36+00:00
I don't buy the dollar being dead.

His main arguments are the politics are messy and there's a lot of debt. Such things have been true in the past over its 200 year plus history and yet it goes on. The US remains the world superpower and the center for its most valuable companies and the leader in new tech like AI. Things will go on.

The British Pound has existed since about the year 600, we had 250% debt to GDP after WW2 and all sorts of chaos over the years but the currency continues. Such things don't die easily.
by zahlman | 2025-08-03 23:11:10+00:00
First off, since it probably wasn't clear, several turns of phrase in my parody are meant to be understood more or less verbatim.

The structure I'm trying to highlight is specifically about things like the abuse of bullet-point lists (and specifically, ones where a few sentences of puffery are labelled at the start), and about trying to get people invested in using a product (with the implication that this leads to signing up for an account somewhere and eventually paying money or watching ads).

My Tell HN isn't intended to encourage people to use my fork of the project. I don't necessarily expect that anyone on HN was using the original in the first place. If anyone does care, I also explicitly point at alternatives.

I don't say anything at all about the actual functionality of the library, because it isn't relevant; my contribution is to the packaging of the project. I'm also not trying to use buzzwords to describe what I've accomplished: I put a repository on GitHub so people can see some source code, and published a wheel on PyPI so people can install the code with the standard tools. None of this is "sexy", bleeding-edge stuff in the Python world and I don't pretend that is is, either.

In fact, my submission wasn't really about `stringcase-new` at all. It was about a) what had actually happened with Setuptools; b) promoting myself as someone who can understand and solve problems like this on the fly, and then create comprehensive write-ups with abundant sourcing; c) promoting some of my sources ([2] and [13] are important information for all Python developers, in particular, and [11] did excellent work here and deserved a shout-out for it).

Edit: forgot to mention — I also don't benefit from anyone downloading or installing the fork, unlesss you count the tiny ego boost (or not) from looking at https://pypistats.org/packages/stringcase-new (as I post this, the site seems to be down...).
by krapp | 2025-08-03 23:11:25+00:00
>It's time to return to meritocracy, colour-blind hiring and treating all employees as equally valuable.

We can't return to a state we've never been in.

Meritocracy has never existed - wealth, status, privilege and connections have always mattered. Colorblind hiring has never existed - race has always been a factor, and all employees have never been equally valuable to all others.

So let's be honest about where we're going - back to the status quo under which there was nothing in place, even in theory, to counteract the systemic effects of racial bias in hiring.
by happytoexplain | 2025-08-03 23:11:34+00:00
>should we not...

We should, though you've phrased it very generically. Obviously there is a line, and actively disadvantaging those who are systemically/historically advantaged is chaos - I'm even comfortable calling it immoral. "Treating the symptom", or "brute-forcing" it, is a catastrophe in culture-sized problems.

Ideally, via cultural development, one day we can look at statistics and see that no race or gender gets more/better jobs than another. Legally demanding that it simply be the case is insane.
by jongjong | 2025-08-03 23:11:45+00:00
There are a few forces at play and there is a much bigger overarching problem.

Even before AI, it felt like the value of intelligence and knowledge had been dropping over time. This makes sense as the internet has democratized access to information and promoted intellectual self-improvement. The supply of intelligence increased dramatically but demand for it struggled to keep up (in spite of the tech boom). Now demand for intelligence has plateaued; This is one way to look at current tech layoffs.

It got to a point that intelligence is almost worthless now. 'Earning' money is mostly about social connections, not intelligence. So all these use cases which people are using AI for are pointless in terms of earning money in the current system. The current system rewards money-acquisition, it does not reward value-creation. You don't need intelligence to acquire money in this system; you need social connections. AI does not give you social connections; if anything, it takes away social connections. The people using AI to build themselves an amazing second internet will have nobody to share it with; no users, no investment.

The oversupply of intelligence means that it cannot find any serious avenues to earn a financial return, so instead it turns to political manipulations because system reform (or manipulation) is the shortest path to earning monetary returns... Though often this manipulation only further decouples value creation from money-acquisition.
by avoutos | 2025-08-03 23:13:37+00:00
If the Chixulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit us today, humans would probably survive.

Even if over 99.99% are wiped out, that still leaves a decent number to figure it out.

It is estimated that human and human ancestor population has dropped as low as a few thousand in the past.

Life would be glum, but causing complete human extinction is not as easy as it sometimes appears.
by cnst | 2025-08-03 23:14:25+00:00
> The UPS battery will not run for very many minutes, even if there is very little load.

I thought the conversion from 12V to 120V isn't all that inefficient?

The ratings provided by UPS vendors only specify the full load and half-load runtimes, yet the runtimes for quarter-load and lower, are actually quite decent, although sometimes hard to find officially.

I think the only problem with a very low load might be that the UPS might simply turn itself off if it thinks that it's actually unloaded (if the suspend-to-memory were to consume way too little power).
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-03 23:14:53+00:00
Yeah, PDF didn't anticipate streaming. That pesky trailer dictionary at the end means you have to wait for the file to fully load to parse it.

Having said that, I believe there are "streamable" PDF's where there is enough info up front to render the first page (but only the first page).

(But I have been out of the PDF loop for over a decade now so keep that in mind.)
by perching_aix | 2025-08-03 23:14:57+00:00
> Especially the “E” in DEI (equity), which means equality of outcomes, and is a rebrand of discrimination

Could you explain how you got to that definition? Being a non-native speaker, words do not have inherent meaning to me, and no matter how I look it up, this is not the definition I get. Instead, I get an explanation along the lines of "equality of opportunity additionally weighted against circumstances".

I understand that at a lot(?) of workplaces, sex and ethnic quotas did/do exist, and that there are folks who were hired over people who were better fit for the various positions (although my source for both of these is just accumulated and often blatantly biased internet gossip). But I don't see how these relate to the E in DEI necessarily, not any more than I see over-zealousness and malicious compliance towards an idea simply manifesting in this.
by kllrnohj | 2025-08-03 23:15:01+00:00
Yes, it's an excellent laptop. But being good and being innovative are not the same thing. There's nothing innovative about the M1 lineup. It's better on the same axis that laptops have been improving at consistently.

As for loud fan and burning laps, though, do also keep in mind that Apple was particularly bad in the 2016 generation, which is why the M1 laptops got thicker.
by dlahoda | 2025-08-03 23:15:59+00:00
for local ai seems unified mem may win.

no non mac laptop today has that with good thermals.

so some boxes has amd ai 390 or 395 with 128gb.

for laptops need to wait for good thermal releases.

so it feels that macs dominate these days in all your points, and has good resell price later, except being mac)
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-08-03 23:16:44+00:00
There are specific rules for Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) and tips (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638) from the HN moderation team, a couple of which are "Drop any language that sounds like marketing or sales. On HN, that is an instant turnoff. Use factual, direct language. Personal stories and technical details are great." and "Don't have your username be that of your company or project. It creates a feeling of using HN for promotion and of not really participating as a person. You don't have to use your real name, just something to indicate that you're here as a human, not a brand." It's pretty clear that using Show HNs to deliver sales pitches is not part of its intended purpose.
by _hfqa | 2025-08-03 23:16:50+00:00
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by toast0 | 2025-08-03 23:17:00+00:00
I guess you could run sata ssds with this, but I suspect more people would be running spinners... Spinners certainly have buffers to manage the difference between bus speeds and media speeds; I think most sata ssds do too.

The HBA may not have or need much buffering, as transfer to/from system memory with DMA should be pretty fast... I'd guess enough memory to fully buffer one outgoing command for each port, and one or two to buffer a response for each port as well; they may have more, but not much is necessary.

Some multi-port sata cards do terrible things though. Rather than using a proper controller for the number of ports, they have a one port controller and then a sata port multiplier. These do result in a meaningful restriction in bandwidth, and some multipliers require waiting for a response before communicating with another drive which would result in poor throughput for most NAS workflows.

A particularly terrible idea would be a port multiplier hooked up as a m.2 sata device, rather than a pci-e sata controller. I don't know that I've seen that one (edit, found one on amazon), but I'm pretty sure I've seen the controller + port multiplier combo. It's definitely worth finding out what controller is on the board before buying to avoid surprises.
by crackrook | 2025-08-03 23:18:00+00:00
I understand that this meant to be a cautionary tale more than a formal argument, but I wish the author wouldn't use "will" in place of "could" or "might" when presenting this extrapolation.

Frankly I think software quality does - and even should - matter more to employers than translation quality and I think it remains to be seen if AI will (in our lifetimes) reach the point that it can write code as reliably and effectively as it can translate works of natural language. I don't mean to say that translation is trivial work, but I think it's clear that works of software are subject to much higher entropy and higher stakes, I think this is true even if you pick a pretty rigorous application of natural language, like legal texts, for comparison. Which is just to say I don't see where the author's apparent certainty is coming from.
by terminalshort | 2025-08-03 23:18:17+00:00
Bathrooms and water fountains aren't commercial facilities, so that's not what I was talking about removing. As for gas stations, I see no reason why visitors can't fill up before they enter the park.

While the point I am addressing here is only about the issue of commercial development I wouldn't have any problem converting them to pure wilderness areas. The entire concept of having a national park be a wilderness area that has little islands of crowded commercial areas with heavy traffic in the middle just seems strange to me and defeats the purpose.
by aeijdenberg | 2025-08-03 23:19:33+00:00
Thanks for taking a look.

The intent was to support basic build systems accessing package eco-systems that tend to always serve the same response for the same URL.

Docker registries do this reasonably well, as do Maven repos.

It wasn't intended to be a full on proper archiving proxy (and I'll admit I hadn't heard that term - I'll look into it and see what else exists in that space).

The main use-case I had in mind for this is private projects, that are developed on workstations which have internet access, but are deployed to other environments using CI/CD systems with less network access. If both systems have access to a common blob store, then that can be populated with htvend build on a workstation and replayed at build time with htvend offline.

For that, there's no need to capture additional request information, as the focus wasn't to support getting a manifest file and being able to reliably re-download all the blobs from internet (and often those responses may have changed in the interim). And for the same reason, would expect to only need to one response per URL, per assets.json file.

Does that make sense?
by perching_aix | 2025-08-03 23:20:15+00:00
> Why is it Google's job to solve that problem?

This gave me a funny thought, can you imagine the absolute shitstorm if the government mandated ethnic and gender quotas for every workplace? Now that'd have been some real popcorn time, if I get my eyes roll over from all the overreach and oppression talk here now, that'd be a thread I would not dare to open for sure.