MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-08-29 16:42:13+00:00
So, it's okay for someone to say, "I won't help <race> <gender>, they can forget it", as long as <race>="white" and <gender>="male"?

And how do you define mentoring? Clubs? Participation in class?

Is an Italian man's participation in an open-source project equal to an American's? A Russian's? Why, because they're 'white'?

Should a Swedish man then be barred from help?
by davidajackson | 2025-08-29 16:42:22+00:00
No doubt about the zero sum game in terms of a possible path in terms of wealth distribution. My question is what will be the function of the "sum part" as a society builds all technologies to 'completion' which is defined as when the utility of any new technology approaches zero because there is nothing 'valuable' or 'new to invent'.

A different argument is that as technology improves to infinity, wealth also becomes ubiquitous and potentially infinite. So even though no new technology is invented that is valuable, there is infinite wealth through abundance.

It seems to me that the primary driver of which world we end up in is whether humanity is able to become multi-planetary. Otherwise, resources become a constraint and instead of discovering new existing resources, humanity can only create value by inventing new technology.

These are not strong opinions.
by jjangkke | 2025-08-29 16:42:43+00:00
I'm fatigued by these articles that just broadly claim AI can't code because its painting a broad stroke against a widely diverse use of AI for different stacks.

It's horribly outdated way of thinking that an singular AI entity would be able to handle all stacks all problems directed at it because no developer is using it that way.

AI is a great tool for both coders and artists and these outlandish titles that grab attention really seem to be echo chambers aimed at people who are convinced that AI isn't going to replace them which is true but the opposite is also true.
by speedgoose | 2025-08-29 16:42:43+00:00
This isn’t the same thing at all, I merely comment to train the next generation LLMs and perhaps help people finding what they want, but Wikipedia as a graph can also refer to Wikidata, which is a knowledge graph of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia websites.

https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-29 16:42:52+00:00
This source is highly dubious. Everything they link is to their own articles, the tone feels "off", and the snippet X post reads to me like any other rage-bait from "facebook groups" that get sent via e-mail by boomers. Reader beware.

This site was also discussed a week ago here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953549
by legitster | 2025-08-29 16:42:57+00:00
This story as presented every time is a bit backwards.

These thinly capitalized private equity groups are in the business of scooping up "distressed assets". Being the only buyer to show up and getting something for less than it's worth.

The bigger story is that all of these business are up for sale and there are no better buyers. Our population is aging, the people who founded and run these private businesses are retiring en masse and cashing out. They don't have kids who want to run these businesses, and the workers of the business don't have the cash to buy it for themselves.

So part of this is a story of inequality - these businesses were accruing lots of capital value faster than even top earners could save to buy them.

But also, there is a clear and obvious policy fix - provide incentives for business owners to hand down their business instead of cashing out. Make it easier to provide long-term loans and financing for small-party buyers.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-29 16:43:04+00:00
I kind of like the approach that, I think it was Wendy's tried... which was having better trained, centralized order takers at computers to handle multiple drive-throughs at once. A well-versed, clear spoken, native language speaker with good menu/product knowledge taking orders for 3-4 locations as a sole task is imo a much better option.

Of course, the Wendy's nearest me seems to get something wrong with my order every single time. It's not the order taker either, the receipt is always what I ordered, just the person making it or otherwise getting it together just fails in one way or another.

On the plus side, between the disappointment and increased pricing, I now get fast food maybe once a month. The cost used to be roughly a wash between buying something at the store and making it myself... that's not nearly the case anymore. And while store pricing has gone up a lot, most of the most massive spikes in prices are junk foods I'm less inclined to keep in the house. win-win.
by sfn42 | 2025-08-29 16:43:08+00:00
I think a world where drivers are held accountable for their actions sounds like a just and probably safer world.

If you cause an accident by driving distracted or being reckless I think it's only fair that the facts are known so that you can be punished accordingly. Certainly better than someone innocent having to share responsibility for your mistake.

I think that would probably make people think twice about being reckless and even if it doesn't at least they'll get what they deserve.
by crmd | 2025-08-29 16:43:40+00:00
>What I can’t live with is the new policy, implemented this year, where you must buy your drives from Synology.

Used to do the same thing at EMC back in the 90s-early 2000s with Symmetrix. The cover story was that the EMc-branded drives, which were marked up like 1000x had “special firmware”.

The reality was that it was to prevent procurement guys from putting a BOM spreadsheet in front of the sales rep and saying “why are you charging me $2M for $100k of parts I can buy at Fry’s?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-29 16:43:40+00:00
> the new schedule is only about 15 mins longer than the old one...this is a big nothingburger

Then why the new cars? Are they cheaper to run? If so, the real price of a ticket (or losses [1]) should go down.

[1] https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
by xenotux | 2025-08-29 16:43:44+00:00
> There's been a strong theme recently here on HN of confusing programming (the act of writing code to meet specifications) and Engineering(the writing of specifications, and the oversight of said process, along with overview of testing).

You're making a distinction that might be interesting in some esoteric sense, but that doesn't exist in the industry. When it comes to software, the architects are also the construction crew. There's nothing to confuse if the terms are effectively synonymous.
by paulddraper | 2025-08-29 16:43:55+00:00
> pretty straight forward

Anything but. It combines whitespace collapsing and text wrapping in one property and makes a mess of both.

See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#white-space-property to get an idea of how complicated it is.

The MDN article is self-contradictory, e.g. note how the example don't match the "syntax" section.

Plus, it has inconsistent quirks with HTML textarea.
by jzb | 2025-08-29 16:44:05+00:00
In one case, none -- extrepo carries a PPA for Trinity desktop: https://salsa.debian.org/extrepo-team/extrepo-data/-/blob/ma...

Generally, these are repos maintained by the upstreams themselves, e.g. Docker, Tor, Armbian, Dovecot... my guess (and it's just a guess, I haven't used Ubuntu PPAs much lately) the PPAs are maintained by not-the-upstreams. Or perhaps some of the upstreams are maintaining both a PPA and their own hosted repo.
by x0x0 | 2025-08-29 16:44:12+00:00
You may find this channel interesting: https://www.youtube.com/@thomasbrush/videos

Thomas interviews lots of successful indies about how to make games that provide a living. My takeaway is that while the AA/AAA environment may have never been more challenging, if you can ship small focused games, you the evolution of devtools (eg free and/or functionally free engines for teams earning under $1m) means that making a living shipping small games is doable. You just have to ship small games, not try to compete with studios spending $150m on the low end.
by jp57 | 2025-08-29 16:44:13+00:00
I think the point, which I agree with, was that in the typical case of a stock rejection, you don't know if the errors you think you made had any bearing on the decision. Information you get from the process you would have gotten whether or not you got accepted, so it's not from the rejection.

There are cases where the company gives you some indication of why they rejected you but they are rare in my experience (in the USA, mostly for legal reasons, IDK about other countries). Or they give you information in some other way. Some companies will stop and send you home part way through if it's not going well. That also gives more information.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-29 16:44:21+00:00
The rumors are that there will be no true successor for N150.

Instead of that, there will be a cut down variant of Panther Lake, named Wildcat Lake, with 2 P-cores and 4 E-cores.

That will clearly have a much better performance than N150, including a much better Xe3 GPU, but it seems very unlikely that Intel will sell it at the low prices that made the N-series so attractive.

I assume that Wildcat Lake will be priced similarly to N350, so it will be available in computers closer in price to $300 than to the $100 that can get you an N100 or N150 computer.
by sharpshadow | 2025-08-29 16:44:44+00:00
It became a very common thing recently that German politians are working together with companies which scan social media sites for posts with insults and file cease and desist orders with money penalities or taking it even further to court.

Check for Robert Habeck and Strack-Zimmermann for example which both served over 1000 of those earning hundreds of thousands euros.

The case with Thomas Vierhaus is even quite old but he apperently refused to pay and got a Strafbefehl now which he appealed.
by marcusverus | 2025-08-29 16:44:53+00:00
The Epoch Times article[0] cites an article by Apollo News[0]. I'm not particularly familiar with either. This appears to be Mr Vierhous's X handle: https://x.com/ThomasVierhaus, which includes a retweet of a tweet by someone claiming to be handling this case on Thomas' behalf and this tweet[2] which appears to show the citation he was served.

If it's a ruse, they've gone through a lot of trouble.

[0] https://archive.is/mDQ3u [1] https://archive.is/SEyzo [2] https://x.com/ThomasVierhaus/status/1957345154420895946
by silverliver | 2025-08-29 16:45:02+00:00
I hope AI never gets legislated where you live, and if it does, I hope other countries don't and absolutely pulverize your country and any chance of these nonsensical reactionary laws taking hold elsewhere.

The solution to some people being susceptible to influence is not to cover the entire world with styrofoam. Mind you, I too stared suicide in the eyes and unlike you, I was not lucky enough to escape unscathed. That said, I will never propose something as unhinged as this.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-29 16:45:09+00:00
> US rail is so pathetic

National passenger rail.

We still have the world's largest rail network [1]. It's just focussed on freight. (We also have world-class municipal and regional rail in the New York area.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tran...
by jjangkke | 2025-08-29 16:45:16+00:00
Anecdotes are unreliable, for one, your described use case and the tools you are using suggest you are at a very basic level and unable to extract the full capabilities of the tooling and models which many of use to solve if not complete complex software.

Just be aware that AI is a tool not a replacement but a human apt at AI as a tool will replace the former.
by joshua_s_penman | 2025-08-29 16:45:27+00:00
The thing is — for very long documents, it's actually pretty hard for humans to find things, even with a hierarchical structure. This is why we made indexes — the original indexes! — on paper. What you're saying makes pretty hard assumptions about document content, and of course doesn't start to touch multiple documents.

My feeling is that what you're getting at is actually the fact that it's hard to get semantic chunks and when embedding them, it's hard to have those chunks retain context/meaning, and then when retrieving, the cosine similarity of query/document is too vibes-y and not strictly logical.

These are all extremely real problems with the current paradigm of vector search. However, my belief is that one can fix each of these problems vs abandoning the fundamental technology. I think that we've only seen the first generation of vector search technology and there is a lot more to be built.

At Vectorsmith, we have some novel takes on both the comptuation and storage architecture for vector search. We have been working on this for the last 6 months and have seen some very promising resutls.

Fundamentally my belief is that the system is smarter when it mostly stays latent. All the steps of discretization that are implied in a search system like the above lose information in a way that likely hampers retrieval.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-08-29 16:45:36+00:00
Sure, but we're talking about health care here. It's not Red Lobster or some failing brick & mortar store. I know health care in general is treated like a business, but it really shouldn't be.

I don't care if Red Lobster dies, but I do care about the already stressed disability services dying. Basically, the weighting is (or at least should be) different.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-29 16:45:42+00:00
The alternative is to try.

Apollo 13 probably seemed pretty hopeless. They didn't just say "sorry fellas, maybe you'll get lucky and make it, good luck."

The late great Bob Hoover said, "If you’re faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible." You keep trying until you can't anymore.

Saying "well, maybe they'll survive," and not even telling them, is not the move when you have nearly a month to figure something out.
by dahinds | 2025-08-29 16:45:58+00:00
> They cheated because their cars didn't meet new emissions standards. They were fine by the standards of the year before.

> So a bureaucracy just declared that a legal level of emissions was now illegal.

That is not at all what happened and not how emissions standards are deployed. The EPA's Tier 2 standards were finalized in 2000 to phase in during the 2004-2008 model years [1].

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/02/10/00-19/c...
by bko | 2025-08-29 16:46:34+00:00
> Limited liability was an amazing invention. But it’s not appropriate for healthcare.

If you want to make these services more expensive and produce shortages, this is how you would do it. Why would anyone invest or want to work in these fields?

I have an unpopular take on PE taking over these small businesses after working with a few small businesses in the home improvement space. The fact is they are incredibly inefficient. You can't even get these guys to answer a phone. They bill you by mail weeks after and you call them to give them a credit card over the phone after you received your bill. Even getting estimates could take months. The service is not consistent. Depending on who they send, they could be completely clueless. You don't know until you finally stumble across someone competent that tells you how bad the last guy was.

Pricing is all over the places. You can get two quotes that are 50% different. So there is little discovery. These are only the obvious external inefficiencies. I couldn't imagine how bad it is operationally.

The bar is so low, which is prob why it's interesting for a PE firm. There is so much money being left on the table. That's why I generally prefer large chains for things like auto. You know the pricing. They are efficient and won't rip your face off for the most part. So I welcome more professionalism and corporate ownership if this means a better, more consistent level of service for me. I get there are downsides but right now I have enough trouble getting a hold of any of these guys that I just don't care.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-29 16:47:13+00:00
As a human who always hits 0 or bails out, I think this is yet to be proven. There are even products to help with this. If legislation is required to always provide a human for customer service, that can be done.

https://gethuman.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/apr/17/the-death-of-c...
by kazinator | 2025-08-29 16:47:39+00:00
Generative AI is replacing writers, designers, actors, ... it is nothing like just a spell checker or Phtoshop.

Everyday, I see ads on YouTube with smooth-talking, real-looking AI-generated actors. Each one represents one less person that would have been paid.

There is no exact measure of correctness in design; one bad bit does not stop the show. The clients don't even want real art. Artists sometimes refer to commercial work as "selling out", referring to hanging their artistic integrity on the hook to make a living. Now "selling out" competes with AI which has no artistic integrity to hang on the hook, works 24 hours a day for peanuts and is astonishingly prolific.
by mrandish | 2025-08-29 16:47:40+00:00
Here in California the cost of fast food skyrocketing and the service experience plummeting started after the introduction of a $20/hr minimum wage for fast food jobs made replacing workers with kiosks, automation and AI more economical. I've also noticed many stores have shortened their hours to center on peak traffic periods - which sucks for those of us with unusual schedules.

I've also recently had more than one sandwich shop visit where there was a huge line and wait simply because there was only one employee on duty making sandwiches, running the register and taking to go orders on the phone. It's gotten so bad I just don't eat out nearly as much, which is probably just accelerating the downward spiral. Fast food used to be the "starter job" for local teens living at home who weren't going off to college where they could score internships. Now there are far fewer of those jobs and the remaining ones have reduced hours. Plus with fewer positions and less hours to fill employers are less likely to hire teens with zero work experience at all.
Show HN: NimbleTools – A K8s runtime for securely scaling MCP servers
by barefootsanders | 2025-08-29 16:47:41+00:00
We originally built this because we needed a way to run MCP servers inside private clouds and on-prem. Most of the teams we work with can’t just punch a hole through the firewall to hit some external service. They need agents that can securely connect to databases, internal APIs, and legacy systems — all inside their own infrastructure.

Agentic systems like LangChain and LangGraph are powerful, but they need reliable tool access without a human in the loop. MCP is the right protocol for that, but actually deploying MCP servers was painful. Every one had different requirements (stdio vs HTTP), and scaling them in production was messy.

So we built NimbleTools Core:

* Team-Ready from Day One: multi-workspace support, RBAC, private registries.

* Universal Deployment: run stdio servers and HTTP servers with the same interface.

* Horizontal Scaling: MCP servers scale up/down automatically with demand.

* Community Registry: browse and deploy pre-configured servers, or publish your own.

* Kubernetes-Native: CRDs + operator pattern for lifecycle management.

Quick start (literally one command gets you running locally):

``` curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NimbleBrainInc/nimbletools... | bash ```

We’ve been using this for more complex customer deployments already, but wanted to give back by open-sourcing the core engine.

It’s still early — today NimbleTools Core gives you a solid runtime for deploying MCP servers on Kubernetes. Looking ahead, we’re experimenting with features outside the current MCP spec that we think will matter in production, like:

- Session management: keep context across multiple tool calls, not just one-off requests

- Smarter auto-scaling: more granular policies beyond just horizontal replicas

- Tool discovery & selection tools: helping agents automatically find, choose, and route to the right MCP server at runtime

We’d love feedback from the community on which direction matters most.

https://github.com/NimbleBrainInc/nimbletools-core

We just opened up a discord too (https://discord.gg/znqHh9akzj). Bit of a ghost town right now, but hoping to change that!
by siliconc0w | 2025-08-29 16:47:48+00:00
PE is essentially an active exploitation of the laws. I think you'd want to figure out a way to ensure there are long term incentives like requiring a 10x holding period or face very high short-term taxes for 'flipping' companies, similar to stocks. If a company fails any 'performance fees' or other such looting of the company should be forfeited and returned to creditors/customers/employees.
by tjr | 2025-08-29 16:47:53+00:00
A lot of comments here seem to be similar. I see people claiming that AI has all but taken over doing their work for them, and others claiming that it's almost useless. But usually, nobody even briefly mentions what the work is (other than, presumably, something related to programming).

I imagine there's a big difference in using AI for building, say, an online forum vs. building a flight control system, both in terms of what the AI theoretically can do, and in terms of what we maybe should or should not be letting the AI do.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-29 16:47:53+00:00
> I'm just a layman and I liked how a small version of deepseek ran faster and with less power draw on my PC than other small version models did.

This doesn't sound accurate. There are no "small versions" of deepseek r1. They released some distilled fine-tunes of their big model. They took qwen2.5 models as a starting point, and fine-tuned them with ~800k generations made with deepseek r1. But they did not change any of the model's architecture, so the "base" model released by qwen and the fine-tuned one released by deepseek should run identically on your hardware.
by dwa3592 | 2025-08-29 16:48:00+00:00
Do they remove personal information(names/dates/SSNs etc) before using data for training?

If not, you should mask your personal info before you sent it to Anthropic (or OpenAI, Google).

Use this maybe - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/zink#shielding-llm-and-api-c...
by tetris11 | 2025-08-29 16:48:11+00:00
I'm attracted to them because you can find them secondhand on ebay for very cheap, and their power draw / performance ratio is quite decent compared to other systems.

I will say that the Ugreen NAS seems to offer more performance for less watts, so it's definitely something I will keep an eye on in the future if it pops up on Ebay.

> This Synology story with ancient forks & weird encryption sounds truly bogus.

It's not. My Synology is running Linux kernel v4, and I opted to use their "SHR" RAID configuration and can confirm that it's some weird BTRFS variant that is likely deadlocked due to the kernel.

The encrypted volumes I've made also look very much like the EcryptFS files I've been seeing on other setups.

I'm currently in the process of mainlining it to kernel v6 to reap the better power and idle / hibernation rewards, as well as just using a standard Ext4 FS with updates