MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by low_tech_love | 2025-08-14 08:09:42+00:00
You’re not wrong, but I was addressing a specific point the author made in a specific sentence. The idea that people will get some sort of universal salary and be left alone to just do some woodworking in their backyard (in a non-profitable way I mean) is to me absurd. It doesn’t matter if AI solves all the problems of humankind; if someone sees you getting a salary without “earning” it (whatever the hell that means), then you will be bothered, no question about it.
by 999900000999 | 2025-08-14 08:09:49+00:00
Yeah, but the number one stressor for the vast majority of people is money in one way or another. If you have a spare 9600$ a year to be heard you're doing very well.

Remember, we're talking about a country where people skip insulin.

Back during my second eviction I had a friend listen to me whine on the phone for hours. That's a debt I can never repay, I definitely didn't have health insurance or a spare 800$ a month back then.

Or to flip this around, 800$ a month would be a fantastic treatment for most stressed out lower income people.

I really hate how therapy is promoted as some kind of miracle, when;

A) It's completely inaccessible to those who need it most.

B) Can actually make things significantly worse.

C) You probably just need to do less of whatever your doing.

But if slow down you might get fired. If you get fired you won't be able to afford 800$ a month!
by ForHackernews | 2025-08-14 08:09:50+00:00
Counterpoint: Loads of merchants refuse to accept American Express because the fees are higher. Some merchants have gone to court for the right to offer lower "cash prices" – something Visa/Mastercard oppose because they want those fees hidden.

Clearly, at least some merchants are price-sensitive and would be interested in a lower-fee alternative to Visa/MC.
by sampullman | 2025-08-14 08:10:22+00:00
I'm interested to see if that works out, and curious what it means for international cards with lots of perks. I imagine, for example, it wouldn't change anything right away for a Chase Sapphire card issued in the US, but if more countries followed suit there would eventually be a tipping point and card benefits would be reduced.

I guess the issuers all have complex models that take these things into account. In any case, I think it's a good move.
by adastra22 | 2025-08-14 08:10:50+00:00
Glad it worked for you :)

Yeah it was a "HOLY SHIT" moment for me when I first started experimenting with subagents. A step-change improvement in productivity for sure. They combine well together with Claude Code's built-in todo tool, and together really start to deliver on the promised goal of automating development. Watching it delegate to subagents and then seeing the flow of information back and forth is amazing.

One thing I forgot to mention -- I run Claude within a simple sandboxed dev container like this: https://github.com/maaku/agents/tree/main/.devcontainer This allows to safely run with '--dangerously-skip-permissions' which basically gives Claude free reign within the docker container in which it is running. This is what lets you run without user interaction.

When you say "run something basic in a home lab" do you mean local inference? Qwen3-Coder is probably the model to use if you want to go that route. Avoid gpt-oss as they used synthetic data in their training and it is unlikely to perform well.

I'm investigating this as well as I need local inference for some sensitive data. But honestly, the anthropic models work so well that I justified getting myself the unlimited/max plan and I mostly use that. I suspect I overbought -- at $200/mo I have yet to ever be rate limited, even with these long-running instances. I stay within the ToC and only run 1-2 sessions at a time though.
by vkou | 2025-08-14 08:11:47+00:00
> give the world the first digital camera... mismanagement on a gargantuan scale

Which why we're all flying on Wright airplanes, using Kenbak Personal Computers, and are all calling eachother with Bell telephones.

Being first to a market and not winning, or not even surviving isn't 'mismanagement on a gargantuan scale'. Especially when it comes to consumer devices, which have no moat or potential for monopoly consolidation.

-Sent from my BlackBerry(tm)
by arcade79 | 2025-08-14 08:11:52+00:00
What I find truly insane is how we're "wasting" the hardware.

I ran a mailserver for thousands of people on a 486 DX 33Mhz. It had smtp, pop3 and imap. It was more than powerful enough to handle it with ease.

I had a Pentium 3 w/1GB of RAM, and it was a supremely capable laptop.

These days I have a a machine from 2018 or 2019, which I upgraded to 32G of RAM and I added an NVME drive in addition to the spinning rust earlier this year.. because firefox got (extremely, more than a minute to start the browser) sluggish due to an HDD instead of NVME.

Now, it's obvious that an NVME drive is superior, but it surprises me how incredibly lackadaisical we've gotten with resource usage. It surprises me how little "extra" we get, except ads that requires more and more resources. Sure, we've got higher resolution photos, higher resolution videos, and now AI will require vast resources (which of course is cool). At the same time, we don't get that much more utility out of our computers.
by vixen99 | 2025-08-14 08:12:04+00:00
Maybe that's true but there's also the down-stream effect of a persistent public voice telling us 'we should be ashamed of this country's (UK) past'. If accepted without examination, this view has rather obvious consequences as revealed in a poll from 2024 tt '17 per cent of British people would “willingly” fight for the UK in a war'. Other polls have found similar results. Why care about public order?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24076378.just-17-per-cent-....
by klez | 2025-08-14 08:12:40+00:00
One lesson I learned from this latest upgrade: DON'T SKIP READING THE DOCUMENTATION BEFORE UPGRADING.

I rebooted after upgrade and found myself dropped in a console-only environment. Turns out the (proprietary) drivers for my video card are not supported anymore. Now I'm on nouveau and it sucks.

My fault for having an Nvidia card, I guess, but an AMD equivalent is on its way.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-14 08:13:07+00:00
> oddity here would be that the employees purchased these shares

You’re purchasing shares when you exercise options.

The oddity is both that these shares were sold to these employees, versus sort of occurring as a matter of course of employment, and that the company seemed to go out of its way to cancel them versus just declaring them worthless while the entity is wrapped up.
by gary_0 | 2025-08-14 08:13:19+00:00
Chips that old would be on a ~100nm process node, which is ancient. Anything using Flintstone transistors like those isn't going to hold up.

> the pentium 4 engineers probably felt like the smartest people alive

The P4's NetBurst architecture had some very serious issues, so that might not be true. NetBurst assumed that 10GHz clock speeds would soon be a thing, and some of the engineers back then might have had enough insight to guess that this approach was based on an oversimplified view of semiconductor industry trends. The design took a lot of stupid risks, such as the ridiculously long instruction pipeline, and they were always unlikely to pay off.
by SEGyges | 2025-08-14 08:14:02+00:00
I agree, what we do is much closer to growing them than to engineering them. We basically engineer the conditions for growth, and then check the results and try again.

My best argument that insights from neuroscience will transfer to neural networks, and vice versa:

For sufficiently complex phenomena (e.g., language), there should only be one reasonably efficient solution to the problem, and small variations on that solution. So there should be some reversible mapping between any two tractable solutions to the problem that is pretty close to lossless, provided both solutions actually solve the problem.

And, yeah, the main advantage of neural networks is that they're white-box. You can also control your experiments in a way you can't in the real world.
by mzajc | 2025-08-14 08:14:11+00:00
> An installation of Debian 13, by default, uses DNS servers of your local ISP which are usually very slow.

I hear this a lot, but I wonder how often it's actually true. Ping-wise I get sub-millisecond time to my ISP's resolver, ~8ms to CF and Google, and ~4ms to Quad9. DNS wise (as reported by dig) I get ~20ms for a cache miss with my ISP and Quad9, and ~40ms with CF and Google.

Considering TFA recommends benchmarking repository mirrors to select the fastest one, I'm not sure why the same recommendation isn't made for DNS resolvers.
by themafia | 2025-08-14 08:14:19+00:00
The kernel APIs change never and 32bit support is still within the kernel without any issue at all. How does this implicate drivers?

The rest is user space code. Usually in C. Which has plentiful facilities for managing this. We've been doing it for decades. How is it a sudden burden to continue?

Where are the examples of distributions failing because of this "issue?"
by tossandthrow | 2025-08-14 08:14:21+00:00
Bitcoin can not yet be deemed currency by commonly understood principles for a currency: You can not pay your taxes, it is not a store of value (it is volatile), and it can not generally be used to transact (Good luck getting trader joe accepting bit coins).

So that would not really constitute a bank that stores currency.

(I have nothing on crypto currencies, btw., and if it gives a feeling of agency to use them I applaud it)
by fennecfoxy | 2025-08-14 08:14:46+00:00
That's politics/democracy for you. It's broken. It's just a popularity contest and it is this way because people vote for political parties like they're sports teams, rather than voting based on policy.

I feel like during an election, policies and election promises are what should be presented, make it illegal to vote for a specific candidate, or for specific candidates to say what their policies are; they can only register policies with the election process.

Then people vote on the policies/promises they'd like to see implemented and whoever made those then gets in.

If policies and promises are not upheld during an election cycle, then that is illegal and those involved get charged and sentenced, though allowing for mitigating circumstances (say if the Tories promised x houses built in the last cycle, the pandemic would be mitigating circumstance for fewer houses built - but not _not_ houses built).

But meh, nothing will change and I really cannot be bothered with many people out there. Nothing will change the way people act, how apathetic they are.
by anovikov | 2025-08-14 08:15:04+00:00
It's laughable how young leftists manage to put every single thing that happens, in a negative way. Truly a generation of naggers.

I can see only one negative explanation to it - "people drink less because drinking is a social thing and people socialise less" and there may be some truth to it... But all the rest is just positive.

Costs: alcohol at home on average, is only 70% up between 1990 and 2024. Nominal GDP per capita is up 3.6x, so alcohol is 2.1x more accessible in real terms since then. Because real GDP per capita is only 1.7x up, the fact is that alcohol is down 19.5% as compared to everything else. It's almost never 'offshored' or otherwise import impacted - only luxury wines tend to be imported and these are a small fraction. So it's just cheaper because there is less demand - people drink less, it suppressed demand, and producers struggle to keep prices with the inflation.
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by hackaigc | 2025-08-14 08:15:14+00:00
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by extraduder_ire | 2025-08-14 08:15:59+00:00
It's either this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670319 or the comments from this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651536

I also recall reading it. I think wasting their time is more effective than making them crash and give up in this instance though.
by tash_2s | 2025-08-14 08:16:14+00:00
When multiple people are in view and the system detects consent, the current implementation assumes the person closest to the camera is the one giving it. This is not ideal, so active speaker detection is planned.

Verbal consent is just one example. Depending on the situation, other interfaces may work better, such as having a predefined list of friends who are always consented.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-14 08:16:45+00:00
> If your goal in publishing the site is just to let people know a thing you found or learned... that goal is still getting accomplished.

I like how you posted so many times in this thread, with the assertion that that is the goal of people giving away stuff for free.

Your responses in this thread are almost textbook example of Strawman Argument; you could not do a better Strawman Argument even if you tried!
by tok1 | 2025-08-14 08:16:59+00:00
True for API but you can do DynDNS updates (RFC 2136), TSIG-authenticated on a per-zone basis. [1]

Can even be controlled quite granularly with a Lua-based updatepolicy, if you want e.g. restricting to only the ACME TXT records. [2]

[1] https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/dnsupdate.html

[2] https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/wiki/Lua-Examples-(Authorit...
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-14 08:17:18+00:00
I don't really see a difference between using Debian for workstations and servers.

The only real reason to use Debian is that you think what Debian is trying to do is a good thing. They have a very clear definition of what they consider acceptable software engineering practices, how they think things shoud work, what's acceptable from free software and they do a lot of work to ensure what they ship fit that. They value portability to an extreme, have strong opinions about how linking should be done, separations of concern and what can be considered free software. It's an extremely political distribution with a lot of patching happening to try to shoe horn things into their vision.

I personally think it's extremely misguided, breaks a lot of good sotfware, mostly unsafe, a significant drag on the people actually developping what they ship, and basically the embodyment of everything that is wrong with Linux distribution as a concept. Others will tell you they are fighting the good fight for their users freedom and the guardian of the kingdom.

How you stand on this will determine if Debian - and its derivatives which bring its flaws with the Debian inheritance - makes sense for you.
by tomaytotomato | 2025-08-14 08:17:43+00:00
> Plenty of big thinkers out there think nations and citizenship are outmoded concepts.

Big thinkers tend to live in wealthy, leafy areas where they don't have to worry about someone jumping over their fence, or appreciate the need for demarcation of land.

Same goes for people who are pro-immigration/pro-drugs/pro-construction - but just don't do it their affluent area.
by noodletheworld | 2025-08-14 08:17:46+00:00
? Are you complaining about MCP or boost?

It’s an optional component.

What do you want the OP to do?

MCP may not be strictly necessary but it’s straight in line with the intent of the library.

Are you going to take shots at llama.cpp for having an http server and a template library next?

Come on. This uses conan, it has a decent cmake file. The code is ok.

This is pretty good work. Dont be a dick. (Yeah, ill eat the down votes, it deserves to be said)
by exasperaited | 2025-08-14 08:17:59+00:00
Film sales didn't collapse "overnight" in any way -- it should have been easily predictable and their sales of crappy, creaky plastic digital compacts and printers should have told them. If that rubbish was selling, film was doomed.

More to the point, the sales of Kodak Photo CD many years earlier should have tipped them off to what would happen once a small, cheap-enough digital camera met the broad quality of the lowest resolution photo CD scan (or even approached it, given how bad most people's photos are and how digital cameras made better photography easier for everyone). And given how they were doing the R&D, they should have known what was coming. Not just people not buying film, but people not really paying for prints, which is a double-whammy.

Kodak management wasn't crazy but it was entitled, boorish, inept and lazy. A classic late-stage US company. They were overconfident about their reputation and their essential status (just like Intel). At best, perhaps they were just too self-absorbed to be able to dispassionately react to what was happening.

The problem is that digital required a different approach to profit because the revenue and profit was lumpier.

As a result Kodak's biggest problem is that they could not possibly have pivoted even late on, because their line of digital products was a total pile of exploitative shit over the long term, that offered intermediate, semi-pro and pro users nothing at all of value and was already reviewing rather badly.

People outside the USA simply didn't buy Kodak digital cameras because we didn't hold Kodak in the same regard, and there were so many other choices.

Kodak also overstretched itself repeatedly in international markets, including a hilariously stupid late-era buyout of a competitor's high street lab chain in the UK so there were times when really small towns had two tiny, lacklustre Kodak stores when they barely needed one.

Fujifilm did better (by planning both good digital cameras and a transition to the well-marketed Instax and digital Crystal Archive printing as well as building ancilliary businesses). Heck, even Ilford hung on for longer, to the extent that their business produced better consumer inkjet materials than anyone else. When they were finally restructured in administration they had made the film business lean enough to survive into a management buyout.
by cyprien_g | 2025-08-14 08:18:28+00:00
I remember participating in the crowdfunding for the last Pebble. I was so excited to receive it, and it was great.

But a few months later, the company shut down, along with support for their products, and it was hard to swallow. This, combined with the fact that the buttons on my Pebble started to fall apart less than a year later (which is when the lack of support became problematic), made the experience pretty bad in the end.

But I’m really excited to see Pebble come back to life, and maybe I’ll be a customer of their watches again in the future.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-14 08:18:43+00:00
> Remember, we're talking about a country where people skip insulin.

Ah, I'm in the Netherlands. I didn't realise we were only talking about the US. I know the story is about Illinois but I thought the critique of therapy was intended to be broader.

It goes without saying that basic necessities like food and housing come first for health, mental and otherwise, I'm sorry that they're so uncertain in America.
by tzs | 2025-08-14 08:18:49+00:00
Careful with road wear and tear. Stress on the road goes as the 4th power of axle weight.

My car, a 2025 Hyundai Kona Electric SEL, weighs 3 800 pounds. Call it 4 000 when carrying one typical person. It has two axles so the axle weight is 2 000 pounds.

Let's call the amount of stress this puts on the road when driving from point A to point B 1 car's worth of stress.

Suppose we need to get 60 people from point A to point B. If we put them in 60 Konas that would result in 60 car's worth of stress.

A bit of Googling suggests that a typical 40-foot transit bus with 60 passengers would weigh around 36 000 pounds and has two axles which gives an axel weight of 18 000 pounds, which is 9 times that of the Kona.

The bus taking 60 people from A to B then will result in 9^4 car's worth of stress, which is a little over 6 500 car's worth of stress. That's a little over 100 times the stress from sending those people in 60 Konas.

There might be some differences due to other factors like tire types and speed, but the weight difference would be the dominant factor.

There are some good arguments for buses, but saving on road maintenance might not be one of them.

BTW, this outsized stress from heavy vehicles is also relevant to the ICE vs electric debate, since EVs usually weigh more than similar sized ICE cars.

For example the ICE version of the Kona is about 500 pounds lighter. The EV version should cause about 70% more stress on the road.

But wait! The ICE version needs gas, and gas is usually delivered to gas stations via tanker trucks. When the stress from that delivery of gas was taken into account it turned out that replacing ICE Konas with EV Konas would be a net reduction in road stress if the tanker truck that brought the gas had to drive more than just a few miles from wherever it gets filled up to the gas station.
by fallpeak | 2025-08-14 08:18:52+00:00
While this is really neat work, it's not entirely accurate to describe this as a base model or unaligned. Instruct training does two things, broadly speaking: it teaches the model about this "assistant" character and how the assistant tends to respond, and it gives the model a strong prior that all prompts are part of just such a user/assistant conversation. GPT-OSS is notable both because the latter effect is incredibly strong (leading many to suspect that its training was very heavy on synthetic data) and because the assistant character it learned is especially sanctimonious.

This finetune seems to work by removing that default assumption that every prompt is a user/assistant chat, but the model still knows everything it was taught about the assistant persona, so inputs that remind it of a user/assistant chat will still tend to elicit the same responses as before.
by lovich | 2025-08-14 08:19:32+00:00
Everything you said about searching through job sites being a numbers game is true but there’s something else going on.

At least anecdotally myself and several others in my social circle have been getting referrals from others in said social circles, and then just not getting contacted. The people making the referrals also can’t get an answer out of their hr departments.

It really feels like there’s a silent hiring freeze or companies in general have gotten so excited by the buyers market for labor that they have gotten insanely picky
by AndrewOMartin | 2025-08-14 08:20:12+00:00
Indeed, it would be useful to know why each of these points are not enabled by default (including a huge amount of non-free and less verified software is an obvious one). In particular the `sbin` one I assumed because it's stuff you'd only use as root and they already have it on their path. E.g. `reboot` might say "not found" but `sudo reboot` will work.