MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-21 13:38:18+00:00
The trades are changing, there’s such a lack of workers that the old school nepotism in skilled trades can’t supply enough bodies to fill the demand so unions are recruiting more widely, there are first year electrical apprentices who have never used a drill, for instance. There are also a ton of public contracts that have labor force participation goals for women and minorities, who are being actively recruited. In the old days, getting an apprenticeship was more of a ‘who you know’ kind of thing (which still exists, of course, I know multiple people who have sat on the local apprenticeship interview committee), and two years of trade school was what you did prior to starting.

Today, there’s a shortage of labor in all of the skilled trades, so the unions have taken it on themselves to provide the trade school education concurrently with the apprenticeship. In the electrical union (IBEW), apprentices go to school one day a week for twenty weeks a year, for five years. Pipefitters, sheet metal workers, and plumbers have similar programs. This benefits both the apprentice, who doesn’t get paid to go to school by the union but they also don’t have to pay for their education, and the union, which is able to filter and train candidates directly instead of relying on a third party to do it.

I’m an electrical project manager who has never been an electrician and I never went to trade school so it’s definitely possible to work in the industry without any formal training, but I’m definitely the exception at my employer.
by ethical_source | 2025-09-21 13:38:40+00:00
Are they wrong though? On our side, people like Spengler also model societies as pseudo-organisms with lives that go through birth, adolescence, adulthood, senescence, and death. There's a lot of merit to viewing history as cyclic and decay inevitable even if the details change from iteration to iteration.

Similar conditions produce similar outputs. Perhaps the linkage isn't quite as direct and repeatable as the Chinese think, but they have a point.
by etothet | 2025-09-21 13:39:19+00:00
Not relevant to the topic, but how do sites expect you to read articles like this on your phone when they have 50% of the screen taken up by ads, many of which slide onscreen as you scroll, covering part of the content you were reading? This is so intrusive I couldn’t finish reasing it.

I know they have to have some way to pay the bills, but does this technique really work where people get so frustrated they decide to subscribe rather than close the site like I did?
by codedokode | 2025-09-21 13:39:28+00:00
Sorry for being off-topic, but why with all the advanced technology today I have to manually copy ounces and pounds into Google to learn how much it is? Instead of adding dark themes and material design, it would be better to add a unit converter.

Also do you really need a power bank for a 2-day trip? In airplane mode a phone can live like 2 weeks.
by vinc | 2025-09-21 13:39:55+00:00
The other day I found that they were struggling with "find me two synonyms of 'downloading' and 'extracting' that are the same length" because I was writing a script and wanted to see if could align the next path parameter.

First there's the tokenization issue, the same old "how many R in STRAWBERRY" where they are often confidently wrong, but I also asked not to mix tense (-ing and -ed for example) and that was very hard for them.
by snops | 2025-09-21 13:39:56+00:00
The best part I find about ChargerLab teardowns is identifying all the passive and discrete components.

Western distributors tend to only stock western/japanese brands of these, but they can make up a sizable fraction of the BOM (especially electrolytic capacitors) so knowing who the big players are comfortable with using is very handy. LCSC stock a lot, but its nice to know which suppliers have been proven in use.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-09-21 13:40:32+00:00
I needed to resize my APFS partition to install Asahi Linux.

The Asahi installer couldn't resize the partition due to some orphan inodes or something.

Rebooting into Recovery mode and using Disk Utility (GUI) and diskutil (CLI) didn't fix the issues.

But `fsck_apfs -y` did the trick. I had to first do `diskutil unlock volume -nomount` as it was an encrypted volume.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-09-21 13:41:06+00:00
You are correct, but the fact that employers are being rational doesn't make them blameless. To answer your question is that I don't see any employers decoupling from credentialism because why would they? So I think any solution to that would require there has to be a cost associated with university requirements for job positions. A fee maybe? Unless the job legally requires the credential (e.g. engineer, lawyer, nurse, etc.), then any other position you have to pay a fee to include that requirement? I know, not great, but what else could be done?
by lsecondario | 2025-09-21 13:42:26+00:00
I like this analogy a lot for non-technical...erm...audiences. I do hope that anyone using this analogy will pair it with loud disclaimers about not anthropomorphizing LLMs; they do not "lie" in any real sense, and I think framing things in those terms can give the impression that you should interpret their output in terms of "trust". The emergent usefulness of LLMs is (currently at least) fundamentally opaque to human understanding and we shouldn't lead people to believe otherwise.
by speff | 2025-09-21 13:43:15+00:00
That's a fair point. I try to stick to name brands on Amazon to try to minimize the chance of fakes (Generals, Casio, Zebra for my examples previously) - and the packaging does look like the one I get directly from the manufacturer. I bought two of the same Casios at different times - once from Casio and once from Amazon - and I'm sure the packaging was the same.

But it's one of the things I guess you can't be too sure about. Maybe if we see name-brand prices increase after commingling ends, that can be proof that prices were low due to counterfeits
by wyldfire | 2025-09-21 13:43:34+00:00
> We have the first amendment and are still free to a degree you are not and will never be.

I'm not so sure about that. "It's no longer free speech [when someone criticizes the president]." [1]

This seems like it's remarkably in line with "they thought they were free" because here you are, thinking you're free. But in fact, your speech is not free because all three branches failed to protect you from this and have now signaled that this will go on.

What does it mean to have the first amendment if it's chilled like this and the only checks available are toothless? If SCOTUS were to review this and find that POTUS were wrong (itself a stretch), what remedy would they have? They would defer to the legislature who has already shown us that even in the face of an attempt to violently overthrow the legislature itself are not willing to use its power to check this demagogue.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-no-longer-fre...
by ozgung | 2025-09-21 13:43:50+00:00
Correct. This actually falsifies OP's argument. Compared to OP's list from 2 years ago [1] ChatGPT omits ".search" but it says it's not a TLD anymore. GPT also finds 2 near misses, picture(s) and code(s). It does this in 10 minutes with 33 reasoning steps. It verifies them and provides citations in this time. Also checks OpenAI policy documents for some reason.

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/false-friends-html-elements...
by benregenspan | 2025-09-21 13:44:06+00:00
I've seen worse, there's at least not much layout shift there.

People will complain about paywalls and they will complain about ads. The money needs to come from somewhere. For ad-supported sites, increased ad blocker use means higher saturation of ads for everyone else.

It's always very nice to see a nonprofit journalism outlet with no ads, but donor funding does not scale up to a large newsroom.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-09-21 13:44:22+00:00
Can I offer a different phrasing?

It's not coincidence that the answer contains the facts you want. That is a direct consequence of the question you asked and the training corpus.

But the answer containing facts/Truth is incidental from the LLMs point of view, in that the machine really does not care, nor even have any concept of whether it gave you the facts you asked for or just nice-sounding gibberish. The machine only wants to generate tokens, everything else is incidental. (To the core mechanism, that is. OpenAI and co obviously care a lot about quality and content of the output)
by ArnoVW | 2025-09-21 13:44:59+00:00
As much as I lament the quality of leadership at the moment (and not just in the US) I am not sure that we can equate Afghanistan with Germany.

It is one thing to denazify a "modern western country" that shares most of your values, culture and religion, and that has had institutions for some time. It is another thing altogether to pull off the deal in a country that has never had a working civil society, civil institions, education, etc. Especially if you do not share it's culture or religion, and there is a part of the country that is still actively engaged in a military campaign to obstruct you.

Not saying that it couldn't be done, or that mistakes weren't made. Just that you can't compare the two like that.
by JPLeRouzic | 2025-09-21 13:45:03+00:00
I'm not a native English speaker, and I don't want to be disrespectful, but to me, Mr. Trump speaks like a child. His vocabulary is limited, his sentences are poorly constructed, and there's a lot of repetition.

Could it be that he's not really in full possession of his intellectual faculties?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeche...

https://theconversation.com/we-analyzed-9-years-of-trump-pol...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trum...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/05/trump-agi...

https://www.statnews.com/2024/10/27/trump-harris-biden-medic...
by drdruide | 2025-09-21 13:46:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I built DailyPings almost a year ago as a simple way for makers to share daily progress or some discovery.

Just shipped some major updates: - Premium options (dofollow links, post highlighting) - Complete UI redesign with cleaner UX

The community has grown to 700-900 monthly visitors. It's not huge, but lots of makers sharing genuine updates.

Technical stack: Next.js 15, Drizzle ORM, Better Auth, Stripe, hosted on Coolify.

The goal was always to create something genuinely useful.
by lonjil | 2025-09-21 13:47:46+00:00
> We barely even have movement to webp &avif

If you look at CDNs, WebP and AVIF are very popular.

> From what i understand avif gives better compression (except for lossless) and has better decoding speed than jxl anyways.

AVIF is better at low to medium quality, and JXL is better at medium to high quality. JXL decoding speed is pretty much constant regardless of how you vary the quality parameter, but AVIF gets faster and faster to decode as you reduce the quality; it's only faster to decode than JXL for low quality images. And about half of all JPEG images on the web are high quality.

The Chrome team really dislikes the concept of high quality images on the web for some reason though, that's why they only push formats that are optimized for low quality. WebP beats JPEG at low quality, but is literally incapable of very high quality[1] and is worse than JPEG at high quality. AVIF is really good at low quality but fails to be much of an improvement at high quality. For high resolution in combination with high quality, AVIF even manages to be worse than JPEG.

[1] Except for the lossless mode which was developed by Jyrki at Google Zurich in response to Mozilla's demand that any new web image format should have good lossless support.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-21 13:47:55+00:00
> maybe we whould require children to work before getting to uni if they don't know what they wat to do yet

You can easily get lots of information about various jobs using some magic technology called the "world wide web", so there is basically no need to work before university to get an informed opinion. If you are incapable of doing this, you likely simply don't "belong" into a university.

Looking back at my life, the problem is rather that the only kind of internships from which you really "profit" because they extend your perspective, are basically "unreachable" if you don't have parents or friends who are insanely well-connected in upper circles.

Also, if you worked in some "practical" area before going to a university, you will in my opinion become a much more misanthropic and arrogant person because you have seen how "stupid" the people were at that job. The university bubble helps you to avoid a lot of contact to "ordinary" people, and instead puts you into an environment where most people around you are much smarter, and you have to "fight hard for survival" (passing a class; passing a class with a decent mark; ...). Because this experience is very humbling (intendedly so), this makes you a much a much more humble person in your defining years.
by motoboi | 2025-09-21 13:48:44+00:00
> "How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might.

The experts, people that have dedicated their lives to understand authoritarianism have already given the alarm. Well, a specialist has even moved to Canada for god's sake.

And well, criticizing democracy is fashionable again. High profile figures started saying out loud that "maybe democracies are overrated. maybe democracies cannot deal with the world as it is now". Just listen to what people are actually saying instead of what you think they meant when they say it and you'll hear they saying that an authoritarian leader is what america needs now.
by markasoftware | 2025-09-21 13:48:52+00:00
I mostly agree that, as someone who cooks something intricate <10 times per year, a sharp knife is in fact more dangerous than a dull one.

Scott in the video makes the argument that sharp knives are safer, because you don't have to use as much force. But the only time I've ever cut myself with a knife in the kitchen have been with very sharp knives, eg one time handling it while washing the blade.
by andrewstuart | 2025-09-21 13:49:35+00:00
“The project” - your creative drive to “do a project with this device” is completely fulfilled by purchasing.

It’s a strange thing but there’s a direct line from creative desire to buying then not doing.

This is why I have so much electronics junk it’s all projects that I “completed” when I hit the buy button on Aliexpress.
by iwanttocomment | 2025-09-21 13:49:43+00:00
Didn't say that snow/lawn work was $10k/year, I indicated that was in addition to (more expensive, typically) housekeeping services.

My point was that Americans very much hire household assistants, but they're specialized and on-premises for a short time to maximize value and minimize costs. In the past week, I've had housekeepers, lawn service, a plumber and a handyman at my house. They were all great, and did better work than I would do, but I wouldn't have any of those people do the jobs of any of the others. Why pay $20k to a generalist 10 hours a week when I can get specialists who can do more in less time?

There just isn't a great need for non-specialized assistance at $20k/year. My housekeepers and lawn service are on auto-schedule and auto-pay, so they require a bare minimum of my time. I would have a hard time trusting a low-paid part-time personal assistant to facilitate and review plumbing and construction work beyond the most basic fixes.

Think about a single renter with a small to medium size apartment. They don't need groundswork or maintenance, that's included in the rent. How much housekeeping do they need in a small to mid-size apartment? They often get grocery/food delivery and/or just microwave stuff. There are plenty of delivery laundry services or apartments with washer/dryers en suite. How many errands do they need to run that they don't need to be personally present for? You can't send an assistant to the DMV, after all.

Think about dual high earners with kids. They're going to need child care, and that's going to take a huge bite of their income. They don't need a 10-hour-a-week assistant, they either need more than that at home (a nanny), or they're white-knuckling it to save for their kids' current or future school tuition.

Think about a single-earner couple. One of the couple can stay home and take care of the kids and all of the things that an assistant could do.

tl;dr: Americans absolutely hire human assistants, just not in the kind of generalist model you're thinking, because it's just not worth the kind of money it would take.
by nickpinkston | 2025-09-21 13:49:49+00:00
Though it's possible that generating the STEP first is easier to do, and that the plan could be backporting the feature tree using another method / model would then enable editing.

Yes, it would seem post hoc feature tree requires the constraints that come from context in your head, but I could imagine that for most cases a "drafter's intuition" in AI may be sufficient, and you could build an interface to allow that to be mostly given up front and then through iterate post generation.

I could imagine the stepwise approach may allow AI training to be more constrained / efficient that trying to do the whole thing in one go.
by Dumblydorr | 2025-09-21 13:50:00+00:00
The true path in Piano isn’t learning tricks. You start with the most basic pieces and work step by step up to harder ones. That’s how everyone I know has done in it my 26 years of playing. Tricks cheapens the actual music.

Chopin has beginners pieces too, many in our piano studio were first year pianists doing rain drop prelude, e minor prelude, or other beginner works like Bach.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-09-21 13:51:16+00:00
I am taking photos with regular Millipixels from PureOS Byzantium like everyone else, without setting anything manually aside of triggering the autofocus sequence when necessary (in the latest version it can be triggered by simply tapping the preview; previously you had to cycle the "auto" button). The only thing that I do differently is how I turn the raw DNG file into a JPEG: see https://gitlab.com/dos1/glowup and https://source.puri.sm/-/snippets/1223
by stickfigure | 2025-09-21 13:51:20+00:00
I used to be a fan, and used them heavily for years. They stay sharp... for a while, and then there's no practical way to re-sharpen them. You get a couple good years out of them and then a lot of mediocre to bad years.

Running a steel knife through an electric sharpener once a month (a 2-minute operation) keeps it feeling consistently like new.
by ezekiel68 | 2025-09-21 13:52:05+00:00
Everyone voted them down, but there's a kernel of truth here.

We were all in favor of it when Judicial Activism gave us approved Liberal outcomes starting in the latter half of the 20th Century. We didn't realize that the only thing preventing "the other side" from weaponizing the same tactic was a generation of politicians loathe to violate the separation of powers. Once they all passed away, all hell broke loose and here we are...

As the Left used to point out, "You can't legislate morality." Except... they did. And now they are shocked -- SHOCKED, I TELL YOU -- to discover that the Right has lost its scruples in resisting the same temptation.

"Strung up on the gallows prepared for their enemies" (ancient morality tales) and all that.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-21 13:52:09+00:00
Well two things - if the driver has a CarPlay connected and then used SharePlay to allow the other person to control the playlist, then the other person can play anything they want to.

In our 2025 Kona - one of the cheapest cars sold by Hyundai - you can have CarPlay connected with one device and have another phone paired with BT for audio.

CarPlay doesn’t use Bluetooth. It is either wired or using WiFi direct
by Dilettante_ | 2025-09-21 13:52:21+00:00
Try doing all of that by hand instead. The difference is about half an hour to an hour of work plus giving your attention to such a minor menial task.

Also, you are literally describing how you are holding it wrong. If you expect the LLM to magically know what you want from it without you yourself having to make the task understandable to the machine, you are standing in front of your dishwasher waiting for it to grow arms and do your dishes in the sink.
by billy99k | 2025-09-21 13:52:32+00:00
"Each pivot creates a new half completed system that a leader can declare victory and receive a promotion. The mess is left for the boots on the ground to deal with."

Boy do I know this well. Our last VP had this grand vision. While pushing the rest of the team to our launch date through crazy deadlines, he actually wasn't doing anything he said he was also doing, which was required to make the deadline.

We launched and handed a complete mess (to fix, which took months), and he quit a week later after receiving his six-figure bonus.
by anthonylevine | 2025-09-21 13:52:35+00:00
Totally agree with that. But the problem is the phrase "coincidence" makes it into something it absolutely isn't. And it's used to try and detract from what these tools can actually do.

They are useful. It's not a coin flip as to whether Bolt will produce a new design of a medical intake form for me if I ask it to. It does. It doesn't randomly give me a design for a social media app, for instance.
by glouwbug | 2025-09-21 13:52:43+00:00
The massive productivity gains I’ve seen come from multidisciplinary approaches, where you’d be applying science and engineering from fields like chemistry, physics, thermodynamics, fluids, etc, to speedy compiled languages. The output is immediately verifiable with a bit of trial and error and visualization and you’re saved literally months of up front text book and white paper research to start prototyping anything
by dxs | 2025-09-21 13:53:09+00:00
There is a good essay with a similar theme under the title of "The Nearly-Free University" at https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-nearly-fre...

As someone with two degrees (B.A. English, followed after I caught on a bit, by a B.S. in physics and computer science with minors in math and chemistry), I can say that I would not take that route again. Mostly a waste.

"What you can accomplish in the real world will rapidly become more valuable than a credential such as a conventional college degree. The credentialing gatekeepers are protecting an 'asset'--the college diploma--that is largely a phantom asset for the vast majority of students."

I wish.
by dgfitz | 2025-09-21 13:53:29+00:00
> University has no value beyond credentialism

Could have stopped there.

Nothing, absolutely nothing I learned at university was because of the university. What I did learn was that the whole thing was a crock of shit when I had to buy the same book 3 times for calc 1/2/3 because each semester the author, who also taught the class and used the same book for all 3 topics, put out a new version with different problem sets each semester. Gulick or gulic was her name. Her husband also taught there. I think they were in cahoots.

I guess I did learn something: it was a crock of shit.
by jebarker | 2025-09-21 13:54:15+00:00
> an awful lot of stuff about “national character” that is… questionable.

Yes! I recently read this book and was pretty shocked by how much was chalked up to the German character.

I came away feeling neither comfort nor increased panic relating to the current US situation. I read the book because I was hand-wringing about how complicit I am just by getting on with my privileged and comfortable life right now. I didn’t really come away with any resolution to that question or clear ideas about how I should change my behavior.