MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-27 15:25:54+00:00
AI investment is more like an infrastructure investment. The telecom boom was the same, and so was the cloud boom, and to some extent, the dotcom boom too.

> Intertwined

And that is the _point_, this same pattern existed in all those previous instances too. OpenAI/Stargate and so on are just "fronts" for a team effort investment into building wildly unprofitable infrastructure costing upwards of 1T. e.g Saudi does not give a hoot about LLM technology itself, its just that there is infra being built, and once it is done, it will lock in energy demand in a massive way, and so it makes sense to help build this infra. Similarly for nvidia/gpus, which is why they invest in openai and such.

All the money people are dumping into this now, will be made back on the millions of small million dollar companies that will build products on top of this infrastructure, once it is built (which causes the money to move out of this and onto those smaller product companies - this is the market crashing/bubble bursting). I don't need to point you at the various SaaS/whatever companies making a killing on top of the extremely unprofitable cloud investments of the past, or the absolutely insane economic reach telecom has enabled today.

During this push to build the infrastructure, there will be a lot of short-term investors trying to make easy cash by greater-fool investing -- they have no intention of staying and building product companies after the crash. A portion of these that don't anticipate the crash's timing will lose lots of money.

Unfortunately, if Wall St. and such package this debt along with other debt that is bought by institutional investors/bonds/pensions, or if these guys and other wide-reaching funds buy the volatile debt themselves, then everyone who is connected to that (including grandma, including aunt's house) is exposed to that risk. This is what will decide whether it's going to be a tech bubble problem or a financial crisis.

And almost surely, the job market will dive for a while [1], since jobs depend on cash flow, and cash flow will dry up in the time period between the "infra building" state, and the "now we have high-margin products on this infra" state.

[1] The key thing is, and this is the primary problem, what "a while" is, is dependent on broader factors. The ability to pick up pace again after a bubble bursts will be dependent on the general economic health of involved countries as a whole. This is because job market diving leads to consumer/real estate/etc etc falling i.e wide reaching negative feedback loop = "macro slowdown"
by dolni | 2025-09-27 15:26:26+00:00
Hi there. I'm a brand new Traefik user. It's bundled with k3s, so I set it up for my homelab on a single node cluster. I'm a technology professional who has worked in infrastructure and software roles for more than 15 years.

I appreciate that you revised the docs, but I still found it quite difficult just to get started. My experience was poor enough that I almost switched to Caddy. The thing that kept me from doing that is that Caddy requires a custom container build for DNS-01 ACME challenges which I didn't particularly want to deal with. I found Caddy's documentation much easier to grapple with, so that could serve as some inspiration.

I have some feedback I'd offer of my own, too:

1. I'd recommend you take a look at the Divio documentation system: https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/. Your documentation aligns to this vaguely, but I'd recommend reading about the different doc types and applying that feedback throughout the docs.

2. Traefik's tutorial and how-to docs are very dense and feel overwhelming. [1] Related to my first point, I think you're trying to provide too much information in the wrong places. Tutorials and how-to guides should be very focused and limit explanation to only that which is absolutely necessary.

3. Reference and understanding docs are mixed together. I'd recommend using an approach more like Caddy's, where the config reference (https://caddyserver.com/docs/json/) shows prominently what the expected config schema is, and all of the fields are explained briefly. If there is very nuanced behavior for a particular option, consider moving that to a separate reference or explanation page.

4. Having a few How-To guides for the most common patterns which include complete configurations would be helpful.

[1] Here are some concrete examples:

- On https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/setup/kubernetes/, there is a whole introductory session about setting up Kubernetes and I have to scroll before reading anything related to Traefik. It's not only unnecessary -- it's noise. Nobody is going to consult Traefik's docs for setting up Kubernetes, so just omit it.

- https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/setup/kubernetes/ and https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/getting-started/kubernetes/ are different pages which seem to explain mostly the same things. They both include too much irrelevant information, like overly explaining what Helm commands do. Similar to the previous point, it is not the job of Traefik's documentation to explain Helm to me.
by frickinLasers | 2025-09-27 15:26:49+00:00
> who knows how many have died in detention facilities

If you're talking about ICE, it's officially 15 so far this year. [0]

While this outbreak is bad for DR Congo, I wonder whether they will be able to contain it within their borders without adequate support.

[0] https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/border-report-live/b...
by windexh8er | 2025-09-27 15:26:55+00:00
I have the opposite opinion. Traefik documentation is good if you take the time to read and comprehend it - and it has gotten significantly better over the last few years, it being bad (e.g. "it sucks") is an old trope at this point. I don't use Caddy or nginx because of the first class routing and middleware capabilities of Traefik. I've got it deployed in dozens of services and it's so easy to use one you've solidified your boilerplate that everything else, to me, appears to be a pain now.

To each their own but it's interesting you find it useful (you use it) yet it won't be welcome back. Maybe, as others have noted, try it in Docker (or k3s/k8s/etc). Once the base configuration you want is configured and deployed all you need to do is place labels in for dynamic service configuration.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-09-27 15:27:29+00:00
Years ago, I was joking with my colleagues that I'm living two weeks ahead, writing the present day code is a chore, thinking about the next problems is more important, so that when the time comes to implement them, I know how. I don't have much time to code these days, but I still have the ability to think. Instead of doing the chore myself, I now delegate it to Claude Code. I still do coding occasionally, usually when it's something hard that I know AI will mess up, but in those instances, I enjoy it.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-27 15:27:44+00:00
X still appears above the fold in a special section on Google with custom previews.

Eg. searching 'Anthony Albanese Bluesky' for Australia's leader has a link to X, with custom integrated previews, above the Bluesky link of the PM despite the search explicitly stating Bluesky and despite the account posting to Bluesky.

It's hard for anyone to move over since the lack of engagement is rigged like this.
by sesm | 2025-09-27 15:27:48+00:00
I'm using Ergodox for 9 years and still can touch type fluently on laptop keyboard. However, I never do heavy programming tasks on the laptop, only messaging, notes and small fixes.

I think the more customized your Ergodox layout is the easier it is for the brain to treat 2 different keyboards as 2 different input devices.
by wolrah | 2025-09-27 15:27:52+00:00
It's not just "kids these days", look at the popularity of sound bars as well. Sure, they're better than what comes built in to a modern TV but as you note physics is still physics and small speakers will never sound as good as large ones.

Hell, we can even chase that one back further, remember how much money Bose spent in the '90s convincing people that tiny speakers plus magic can somehow sound comparable to a proper stereo or home theater system? They were absolutely full of shit, but a ton of people believed every word of it.
by maqp | 2025-09-27 15:27:55+00:00
Yeah it depends on where the producer expects the CD to be played.

99% of music is made to be played on radio / in car etc., a noisy environment, where you don't want to be adjusting the volume knob all the time. So the dynamics are stripped in mastering phase.

Music that gets pressed on vinyls isn't mastered for car-play, but home stereo equipment, so it makes more sense to have larger dynamic range.

CDs have objectively lower noise floor (less hissing), and more dynamic range (difference between loudest and quietest note), but it's the mastering that usually destroys the sound. And nothing can be done about it on consumer end. Except find a less remastered version of the album in a thrift store that isn't scratched to oblivion.

There's really no reliable way to tell if a CD is going to have high dynamic range, except perhaps niche audiophile studios like https://www.stockfisch-records.de/sf12_start_e.html, but https://dr.loudness-war.info/ has fantastic list of records with their dynamic ranges, so you can check before you buy, and you can also explore and find new stuff to use to listen to your speakers ;)
by stego-tech | 2025-09-27 15:27:56+00:00
You and me both. Love my 600 series-based surround setup, but I dunno if the 800 series would be worth the asking price relative to other, independently-owned brands in the space. I'm firmly in my "I want to support good humans doing good work" phase of life, and that's increasingly incompatible with large corporate conglomerates relying on huge data sets to justify price increases, corner cutting, and offshoring.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-09-27 15:28:11+00:00
> Or have you forgotten about a worldwide pandemic that happened just a few short years back which revealed that the top priority of many authority figures in public health organizations was to make themselves look good and their opposition bad?

I don't remember this because it did not happen.

However, I do recall our own (Trump-run) CDC putting out ineffective testing materials, while the (admittedly Trump-supported) WHO made the testing resources the whole world, including the US, relied on in the first months of the pandemic.
by runarberg | 2025-09-27 15:28:14+00:00
Specifically for Kanji I am building shodoku.app

It is very different from duolingo though. No gamification, only two types of cards (reading and writing) every card has basically all the information about that kanji available from the dictionary. Content is sourced directly and unaltered from a couple of open sourced dictionary, so no AI or content writing either.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-27 15:28:31+00:00
> Microsoft Servers != Malicious Actors Computer

Whether this statement does hold or not depends a lot on your personal worldview:

- How do you define "malicious"?

- Is Microsoft a malicious [in the sense of your previous answer] actor (or not)?

- What is the result of your risk assessment that Microsoft will become a malicious in the future?
by kwillets | 2025-09-27 15:28:35+00:00
I worked at Samsung and saw plenty of enshittification (including losing my own job in some kind of sketchy power struggle), but oddly their audio stuff didn't seem like a bad deal.

In TV's they support the higher quality home theater scenario while still making most of their audio money from soundbars that can't compete on audio quality. They're well aware of that fact, and their strategy seems to be to keep all options on the table.

One of the TV execs is an audiophile FWIW.
by lucasoshiro | 2025-09-27 15:28:41+00:00
I'm also used to Spotlight. One of the reasons is because I also use KDE and krunner has the same keybinding and almost the same functionality. But I still liked Launchpad (just like the app dashboard in KDE) as it shows me visually what I have installed.

Why? Well, there are some apps I have installed and forgotten, for example, I have several 3D printer slicers, but normally I only use one. I grouped them into a folder, so I could check what I have installed if I wanted to switch for whatever reason. I also had a folder called "useless", where I place everything that I don't used but I can't remove (Apple stuff, Safari extensions, bloat installed with LaTeX, and so on).

The new "apps" can't be organized. Everything is just thrown there, only sorted alphabetically. There's no reason for me to use that, if I remember what I want I can just type in Spotlight

PS: It's possible to bring back Launchpad in Tahoe through the command line. I only didn't that yet because I don't know how safe it is to do that.
by prmph | 2025-09-27 15:28:57+00:00
Indeed, most of the problems in the worlds are there because we don't actually want to fix them.

There's more than enough resources to provide every single person a reasonable existence; We just don't think the homeless, for instance, should be freely helped to get housing. Nah, can't have that, how else can we point to "those" people as examples of the kind of life not conforming gets you?

We'd rather millions go to bed hungry instead of not propping up national markets by destroying food and providing subsidies.
by chrisfosterelli | 2025-09-27 15:29:36+00:00
It feels a little like a kludge as long as we keep calling it http. The premise makes sense -- best practices for connection initialization have become very complex and a lot of protocols need the same building blocks, so its beneficial to piggyback on the approach taken by one of the most battle tested protocols -- but it's not really hypertext we're using it to transfer anymore so it feels funny.
by Q6T46nT668w6i3m | 2025-09-27 15:29:44+00:00
In my experience, the change has been positive. I rarely see feuds on Bluesky and when they happen I find them especially embarrassing because it’s so unusual.

I stopped posting on Twitter around the acquisition but kept my account. When I do randomly check my timeline I’m genuinely disturbed by the disinformation and pseudo-science, especially in machine learning.
by roversx | 2025-09-27 15:29:50+00:00
Thank you for the reply, So in the current version, you can set the number of rows and columns, and you can also hide the software (not displayed in the launcher) and hide the title of the software. I checked the comments section, and it seems there are still quite a few performance issues... I'm not sure if this is an isolated incident or a common occurrence. I'll look into it.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-27 15:29:55+00:00
> I think you jump from AGI to "human not needed" too abruptly.

No, I'm really just looking at what this paper proposes will be the future of labor and expanding on it. I'm not saying AGI will mean "humans not needed" I'm saying AGI will mean "less humans are needed" and in some cases that could be significantly less. If you've listened to any CEO gush over AI, you know that's exactly what they want to do.

> Hinton predicted 9 years ago that radiologists will lose their jobs, yet today they are better paid and more. Maybe AGI will make humans more valuable instead of less. There might be complementarities and mutual reinforcement between us and AGI.

Medicine is a tricky place for AI to integrate. Yet it is already integrating there. In particular, basically every health insurance agency is moving towards using AI to auto deny claims. That is a concrete case where companies are happy to live with the consequences even though they are pretty dire for the people they impact.

And, not for nothing 10 years is a pretty short time to completely eliminate an industry. The more we pay for radiologist, the more likely you'll start seeing a hospital decide that "maybe we should just start moving low risk scans to AI". Or you might start seeing remote radiologists for cheap willing to take on the risk of getting things wrong.
by zachmoore | 2025-09-27 15:30:53+00:00
I need to be able to refine sources by hardcoded sources. I am getting failure in a column yet I know multiple bonafide information sources. In the sources tab I would expect to see the sources broken down by schema name. For example, I have a schema element called "Recent News". I it was possible for me to do so, I would define pr newswire and business newswire as a source. But instead the agents are failing here.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-27 15:31:33+00:00
This is absurd. I literally spent 30 seconds with the image on GIMP, making just few warps and it's markedly better. I don't mean to make a pull request or anything and I still don't exactly like/love it, but my point is, the original clearly was built on solid artistic basis and yet they published the alien head. What was the author thinking?

1: http://numpad0.com/imgs/2025-09-28%20002632.png

e: I think by far the biggest problem is completely circular eyes. Just replacing it with ovals solve minimum half of the problem. Then the head can be enlarged for better feeling of attachment. The beak can be sharper too. But those are less problematic than the eyes. Even just removing them altogether helps.
by nxpnsv | 2025-09-27 15:31:44+00:00
I do care how my things look, I've written books, papers, reports, CVs, slides and posters (the last two was admittedly painful). I think I reacted to a very dismissive tone towards LaTeX from typst fanboys who cannot imagine why someone would still use LaTeX, but thinking about it - I don't like the tone of my message either so I'll delete it.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-09-27 15:31:52+00:00
> if you mean short term impacts that may be true, but I wonder if the medicaid, aca and likely medicare cuts will have material impacts on mortality. It will not be as easy to attribute, and therefore it’ll be hard to quantify (you might say that’s “convenient”), but the number of people impacted will be well into the tens of millions.

I think these can't possible be commensurate - just consider how many more HIV cases there will be without US funding for overseas HIV prevention.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-09-27 15:32:25+00:00
If the mailing list server tampered with the message, everyone will get the false message. But if it is an encrypted group chat on matrix for example, you can 100% verify that the person posted that message (provided you've verified them, but even if you haven't, your logic of other people having verified it can be used).

As for archiving, you can archive mastodon, lemmy, bluesky, matrix,etc... as you said, if it was important, it can be made so for any open platform. Public archiving services will use APIs instead of mail clients, that's the only difference which shouldn't make a difference to users.

Even on the closed source platform twitter, there are public archives of things. Governments post official communication and records on there. Some governments are experimenting with Git for law publications. Nepal just voted an interim leader over discord!

This nostalgic thinking about mailing lists is incompatible with a technologist's mindset.
by perks_12 | 2025-09-27 15:33:25+00:00
The WHO has a budget of over $4 billion dollars; we are talking about $25 million here. Surely they could pay for this instead of paying a brigade of useless analysts to estimate amounts needed.

It would be nice if the US provided the money, but I do not understand why it would be their responsibility in the first place. Germany, France, etc., paid only $2 million, they could afford more. anAnd I say that as a European myself. Europe has to finally up their game instead of throwing pocket change in the ring, when in fact the Americans did all the heavy lifting. Meanwhile, we act as the moral instance in all of this and now that the US isn't playing ball anymore the emperor stands naked.
by cyberjerkXX | 2025-09-27 15:33:42+00:00
There you go again -you want the US government to solve the world's problems. Also, you're passively calling the WHO an infective organization because it can't handle this outbreak on its own without US funding. That implies it's a useless organization and therefore the US was justified removing funding.

Maybe you should be advocating for the 194 member states of the WHO to contribute more so the world doesn't need to rely on the political winds of the US election cycle.
by trashface | 2025-09-27 15:34:38+00:00
That was true for me, I moved 15 years ago and my friend group went to zero practically overnight, never recovered. Now middle aged and don't even have many acquaintances. I do, however, have a few somewhat problematic family members and relatives, more in that category than I would like.

Its not great but also not a huge problem - I believe now I have some amount of Schizotypal personality spectrum, and have all my life, though I never admit that to most people IRL since the label freaks people out.
by MultifokalHirn | 2025-09-27 15:35:07+00:00
No I dont really, the differences are usually not really a matter of better or worse in the subjective experience either - listening to Hi-Res calms my (irrational) fomo however, and with my new speaker setup in my newly acoustically treated room I feel like I might actually benefit from it more. I should do the test again using the speakers I suppose.
by frozenseven | 2025-09-27 15:35:36+00:00
>skill

>too lazy

Again, I wholly reject the idea that there's a line between 'tech people' and 'art people'. You can have an interest in both art and tech. You can do both 'traditional art' and AI art. I also reject the idea that AI tools require no skill, that's clearly not the case.

>nature

This can so easily be thrown back at you.

>why should anyone want to hear what "you" (ie: the machine) have to say?

So why are we having this discussion in the first place? Right, hundreds of millions are interested in exploring and creating with AI. You are not fighting against a small contingent who are trying to covet the meaning of "artist" or whatever. No, it's a mass movement of people being creative in a way that you don't like.
by mykowebhn | 2025-09-27 15:35:40+00:00
I was initially a little miffed to not see Garage House and then I noticed that they have it as a separate branch from "traditional" house and you know what, I'm okay with that. It's more correct as Garage House really derives from the music played at places like Paradise Garage and The Loft, which pre-dates traditional Chicago house.

And then there's Ron Hardy at Chicago's Warehouse who played both.
by ClearDay | 2025-09-27 15:36:02+00:00
For me, the tone of this article is off-putting. "Doesn't that make more sense than ..." "Did something feel…off ..."? " A little ironic, given ..." This signals that what I'm reading is not journalism, and therefore nothing in the article is reliable or credible.

All that aside: What would really be helpful: some recommendations as to bloggers or other sources in this field whom people here find reliable and credible.
by toast0 | 2025-09-27 15:36:19+00:00
Containing Ebola where it happens is of value to the world; if the places where it happens can't contain it, the consequences of spread are pretty costly for everywhere it ends up.

The article says they're looking for $25M or so. If any cases make it to the US, that much money will only cover a small number of patients. In 2014, $1M covered two patients. [1] Much better to spend the money on containment overseas than not spend it overseas and have (more) cases arrive here. It's also much better for the country where the outbreak is occuring. If said country could manage the response on its own, that would be great, but outside help in outbreaks is a good thing anyway --- there's valuable exchange of information between doctors and nurses from different areas in addition to filling the need for additional capacity for care.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/cost-...