MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-25 18:18:54+00:00
> And consumers.

But in tech, the price is the price the consumer is willing to pay, as the per-piece cost is essentially close to 0. If 100% of the US tech workers went to India tomorrow, no company would decrease their price. This point is moot for what we are discussing here.

> Should it be decided for the interest of investors + consumers against current workers?

As we have excluded consumers, it is indeed investors vs workers. This is a political decision, that is up to the citizens to decide, and should benefit the citizens first, not german pensioneers investing in Nasdaq ETFs.

My point of view is that citizens, who are in majority workers, would be better served in the long run if companies were forced to hire them, and to train them, instead of relying on immigrants. There is also a temporal aspect: it's not just current workers, but future ones that are in training, studying, or not even born, as long as we'll need human workers.

Favoring them is I believe in line with the general mandate of the State, which is to care first for the citizens (not the Nasdaq performance). On the long run, it may even have a positive aspect on the economy, which, as a result of the lack of protection of the US worker and wage compression becomes more and more unequal. 50% of the consumption is done by 10% of the individuals today.

Your way of thinking, where it's a worldwide free-for-all for jobs in the US "for the USA", reduces citizens to just subjects of the State, which is quite degrading, but however common nowadays in the rootless corporate newspeak.

> AI

You are trying to slide the subject. AI is a tool, not a worker.
by bl4ckneon | 2025-09-25 18:19:05+00:00
I would assume that it will supersede the model that they currently have. So eventually 2.5 flash will be the new and improved 2.5 Flash rather than 2.6.

Same way that openai updated their 4-o models and the like, which didn't turn out so well when it started glazing everyone and they had to revert it (maybe that was just chat and not api)
by skinkestek | 2025-09-25 18:19:24+00:00
"Palestine" have declared themselves to be at war with Israel.

Syria is at war with Israel since decades.

Lebanon has been shooting rockets at Israel and preparing ground attacks. Yemen (or rather the Houtis) keep firing at Israel.

Are these the examples you want to show about Israel being bad?

Edit: Tunisia hasn't been attacked. The influencer convoy was attacked by their own flare and media claimed ot was a drone until every OSINT researchers pointed out it was a flare not a drone.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-25 18:19:24+00:00
> a black market for such devices will surface

Probably, but I think you are giving most bad actors too much credence. Tyler Robinson took several precautions to cover his trail in his assassination of Charlie Kirk—but he also told many individuals about his plan on discord, as well as other non-encrypted channels, etc. Not all bad actors are sophisticated in the same way.

I wouldn't trust the government with the power. If the scenario I'm posing were to actually occur, it's only a matter of time until the gestapo starts showing up at the houses of innocent individuals. This sort of thing happens in China.

Still, again, if the threat is big enough, I am curious to ponder what role individuals would want government to take in using surveillance to reduce actual human deaths in terror attacks (or any type of attack, for that matter).
by instig007 | 2025-09-25 18:19:49+00:00
Here's the sample you can play with (interactive: https://play.haskell.org/saved/TWBEYFzH):

{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards #-} main = transport ("2025-09-05T09:00:00Z", "2025-09-05T11:00:00Z") foo123 kwargs where foo123 = Foo kwargs = Kwargs {..} bar = Bar person = Person {..} name = "Alex Smith" phone = "+1 (555) 555-5555" options = Opts {..} fragile = True window = PM data Foo = Foo data Bar = Bar data Kwargs = Kwargs { bar :: Bar , person :: Person , options :: Opts } data Person = Person { name :: String , phone :: String } data Opts = Opts { fragile :: Bool , window :: HalfDay } data HalfDay = AM | PM transport (start, end) foo Kwargs { person = Person{ name = who, ..}, options = Opts{..}, ..} = do doStuff who foo moreStuff phone end window otherThings start fragile bar doStuff who foo = print "called doStuff" moreStuff phone end window = print "called moreStuff" otherThings start fragile bar = print "calle otherThings"
by t_mahmood | 2025-09-25 18:20:17+00:00
Well, MS reviewed previously, and said they've seen nothing wrong, now they are saying some employees (coincidentally, Israeli) might have not been all transparent ...

> The disclosures caused alarm among senior Microsoft executives, sparking concerns that some of its Israel-based employees may not have been fully transparent about their knowledge of how Unit 8200 used Azure when questioned as part of the review.

You think, that is plausible?

To me, Nope, it's just that, the money was too good.

Only after Guardian's report, they realized:

"Oops, we got caught, now do the damage control dance"

And here we are ...

Also, are those employees going to get fired? I doubt. But the protestor, standing up for something, did. Who is more damaging?

Oh right, the protestor, because, they ruined the big cake.

Did the unit that breach the contract lose anything? Nope, they got enough time to move their data safely, and will continue doing the same thing.

It's all evil entities feeding each other, for their own benefit.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-09-25 18:20:35+00:00
I don't like when people reference a part of a podcast without a timestamp. I've now listened to the whole thing, and I don't think they said anything of the sort. This was a bit of a clickbait comment.

They said C# was fast and has tools for optimizing. They don't mention Java at all, which makes sense, cause Java is lacking in the kind of optimization tools that C# has. Even so, they come up with a list of reasons why you would still want to use Rust.

It's odd that you would only mention them asking the same question as the commenter, and not their direct answers to that question.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-25 18:20:39+00:00
I had a similar experience with Google. Got locked out of gmail and Youtube premium kept billing. Couldn't log in to cancel, couldn't even find a phone number to call to cancel, there's no gmail customer support whatsoever. Youtube premium apparently has some customer support but you have to be logged in to use it. Ended up having to cancel my credit card.
by TIPSIO | 2025-09-25 18:20:40+00:00
This is also my beef...

Anthropic kind of did the same thing [1] except it back-fired recently with the cries of "nerfing".

We buy these tokens, which are very hard to do in limited tiers, they expire after only a year, and we don't even know how often the responses are changing in the background. Even a 1% improvement or reduction I would want disclosed.

Really scary foundation AI companies are building on IMO. Transparency and access is important.

[1] https://status.claude.com/incidents/h26lykctfnsz
by matthewdgreen | 2025-09-25 18:20:47+00:00
>Imagine a future where it becomes easier to commit terrorism because of some technological advancements

Imagine a future where aliens invade, and all of our civil rights have to be suspended in order for society to be re-focused on fighting an existential war against the invaders. I suppose this sci-fi hypothetical could happen and if it did happen then the sacrifice might even be necessary. But it's not happening now, and it's entirely reasonable to classify it as both (1) unlikely, and (2) an incredibly bad outcome we should hope that we never have to face.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-25 18:21:09+00:00
> Pulse introduces this future in its simplest form: personalized research and timely updates that appear regularly to keep you informed. Soon, Pulse will be able to connect with more of the apps you use so updates capture a more complete picture of your context. We’re also exploring ways for Pulse to deliver relevant work at the right moments throughout the day, whether it’s a quick check before a meeting, a reminder to revisit a draft, or a resource that appears right when you need it.

This reads to me like OAI is seeking to build an advertising channel into their product stack.
by Aloisius | 2025-09-25 18:21:13+00:00
This simply isn't true. If anything, constitutional protections have dramatically expanded since the amendment was passed.

This is because until the 14th Amendment and the incorporation doctrine, the Bill of Rights only restricted the Federal government, not the States. Prior to the that, state and local governments could (and did) restrict not just firearms, but other rights as well.

Hell, the Bill of Rights still hasn't been fully incorporated, so for instance, despite the 7th Amendment stating otherwise, you don't have the right to a jury trial in civil cases in every state nor the right to indictment by grand jury (5th Amendment).

Of course, some states copied parts of the constitution into their own and had some form of protection, but it was by no means universal. Massachusetts even had a state church until 1833.
by xp84 | 2025-09-25 18:21:16+00:00
The people who are trying to install this kind of law basically do!

They want to change the public perception from "Private encrypted communication is good and desirable" to "Encrypted is unsafe. Encrypted could be scary. Encrypted enables Bad People."

In a vain attempt to inhibit access to non-broken cryptography, we will probably see operating systems that allow actual root access to the user -- or even just allowing non-manufacturer-signed executables to run! -- being painted as "unsafe platforms." Apple has already transitioned most of the way to being fully in the "trusted computing" camp, since it takes a great deal of gymnastics to even modify the OS because of the Mac's sealed system volume, and out of the box all executables must be blessed by Apple, meaning governments can put their thumb on Apple to force them to disallow any non-broken crypto tools from being used. I know this can be changed in Settings for now, but that'll probably go away eventually.

Microsoft will be next of course, and Linux will be portrayed as a "hacking tool" by contrast to the commercial OSs.
by simonw | 2025-09-25 18:21:59+00:00
My one big problem with OpenRouter is that, as far as I can tell, they don't provide any indication of how many companies are using each model.

For all I know there are a couple of enormous whales on there who, should they decide to switch from one model to another, will instantly impact those overall ratings.

I'd love to have a bit more transparency about volume so I can tell if that's what is happening or not.
by tonyarkles | 2025-09-25 18:22:03+00:00
Heh, we had one that was very popular for university students to work at and they did successfully unionize. The thing with university students, though, is that they’re not going to be around forever… so the store experienced pretty much complete staff turnover every few years. This store would perpetually end up in weird situations like not being allowed to make coffee because the supervisor had a family emergency and had to leave. The staff could serve cold drinks and snacks but the union regulations required a supervisor to be on-site if there was any risk of burns.

None of the people who had done the original push to unionize were still around. They had been students, graduated, and moved on. Eventually the staff got frustrated enough with their own union rules that they successfully voted to un-unionize and the store improved a fair bit. Bizarre situation.
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-25 18:22:21+00:00
Ah, an excellent example of the trade-offs we face. The plastics in your Beats-branded device are made from petrochemicals freshly brought to the surface of the earth and will be sent to a landfill for ever and ever after you are done with them, while the metal in the Apple-branded device was recycled before and will be recycled again.

Take your pick
by osigurdson | 2025-09-25 18:22:30+00:00
Note that you don't need Podman Desktop if you don't want the UI. That is the sweet spot that we landed on. Of course if you want the UI that is fine as well - they just aren't bundled together in the same way. Of course, as you pointed out, even Docker / Docker Desktop isn't quite as coupled as it appears on the surface which is great to know.
by svachalek | 2025-09-25 18:22:36+00:00
I don't think it's helped me do anything I couldn't do, in fact I've learned it's far easier to do hard things myself than trying to prompt an AI out of the ditches it will dig trying to do it. But I also find it's great for getting painful and annoying tasks out of the way that I really can't motivate to do myself.
by jsight | 2025-09-25 18:22:37+00:00
Yeah, why is it that working with AI makes people completely forget what version numbers mean?

gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025 - what are they thinking?

I thought about joking that they had AI name it for them, but when I asked Gemini, it said that this name was confusing, redundant, and leads to unnecessarily high cognitive load.

Maybe Googlers should learn from their own models.
by wrsh07 | 2025-09-25 18:22:39+00:00
I think there's a chance you're correct, but my gpt translation^ has him saying "please email me directly"

^ Hello, Mr. Matsumoto. This is Nate. Google Translate is incompetent and vulgar. (LOL) Please email me directly. You can write in Japanese. I intend to help you. See you,
by tolciho | 2025-09-25 18:22:40+00:00
Flash was the first broken site I ever encountered, some restaurant had an all-flash webpage. Never did end up going to that restaurant. Why bother? If they render content inaccessible behind some needless jank like Flash or JavaScript, why bother? Another fun thing to do was to keep a tally of how many "OMG stop the presses!!" security vulnerabilities Flash had racked up over time, which was lots. Many hundreds. Made even a lolfest like Windows look bad. Flash, it was not killed with fire soon enough. Chrome and other such bloatware arguably also need some sort of fire, or at least a diet or trepaning or something, but that's a different rant, though one very much related to the Old Web or the smolweb.
by Aunche | 2025-09-25 18:22:55+00:00
> Then a PE company came in and offered a ton of money which was an offer he couldn’t resist.

He is going to retire sooner or later and what then?

There is a cultural paradox where it's socially unacceptable to profit too much from a necessary good or service, but you can profit as much as you want from non-necessary goods and services. In the past, this pressured small practices to keep their service standards high and prices relatively low. However, due to the accessibility of information and finance, rather than start your own medical practice, you can become similarly wealthy with half the work just by being employed as a doctor/dentist and investing your money in an ETF. Of course, people with money swoop in to "correct" the mismatch in supply and demand, which leads to worse service and higher prices.

The knee jerk reaction people have towards these situations is to "punish greed", but that doesn't change the underlying market forces. Much like rent control, it may work in the short term but makes the problem worse in the long term.
by wgjordan | 2025-09-25 18:23:03+00:00
My (not-a-lawyer) understanding is that a trademark is 'genericized' only when it's become so ubiquitous that its public use no longer refers to a single, unique source or origin of product, but to an entire generic class of products: escalator, granola, trampoline are some older examples of 'genericized' trademarks.

In this case, 'Bundler' still refers pretty clearly to a single brand-name utility within the Ruby ecosystem. However, the goods/services in the trademark registration application [1] covers "Downloadable computer software for managing, processing, optimizing, and organizing source code and dependencies", which is a broader class of services. The descriptive word "bundler" is quite widely used in the JavaScript ecosystem, for example, to describe this general type of dependency-management software (esbuild calls itself "An extremely fast bundler for the web", for example). I could certainly see the "Bundler" trademark being contested as a descriptive mark that hasn't acquired significant secondary meaning in that broader context, so it will be interesting to see whether this trademark application is upheld upon review (or potential opposition).

[1] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=99407082&caseSearchType=U...
by shawn_w | 2025-09-25 18:23:10+00:00
Addicts (usually but not always homeless) with all sorts of drug/alcohol caused health problems that they don't manage. Not to mention overdoses/too drunk to move.

Medically fragile elderly people trying to live on their own when they shouldn't be. Frequent falls with injuries, etc.

A friend of my mothers was in and out of the ER and med/surg floors for months with mysterious cardiac symptoms that ended up being a new reaction to a medication she'd been taking for years.

People who are just psychologically, hmm, needy and looking for attention. When I worked on an ambulance there was a lady who'd call weekly because she said her blood pressure was high (it never was) and we couldn't refuse to transport her.

And more...
by everdrive | 2025-09-25 18:23:42+00:00
Somewhat related, but I still buy MP3s from Amazon, and twice doing this has signed my up for an Amazon Music subscription. I have no idea how this happened. I don't think there's the same thing with Prime where there's a deceptive-but-perceptible screen. From what I can tell I purchased and then was just automatically signed up for a subscription. I yelled at customer service about it twice and it hasn't happened since.
by Uvix | 2025-09-25 18:23:53+00:00
> I propose making all forms of price discrimination illegal in healthcare, i.e. uninsured and HSA patients cannot be charged more than health insurance companies.

As long as it's left generic so it goes both ways. Currently it's usually the uninsured patients who are charged less (since they're paying the whole thing out of pocket instead of having insurance cover most or all of it), not the insured patients.
by wpasc | 2025-09-25 18:23:54+00:00
Any chance you mean the ACA? (affordable care act). GP I think is talking about the AMA as a body that artificially constrains the supply of dr's (at least that is my guess as GP also mentions reducing limits on building hospitals).

IMO the GP is touching on removing regulatory burdens (more traditionally republican/conservative ideas) and adding in funding/care via medicare for all etc (democrat position). the combination of reducing/improving/simplifying regulatory burdens while increasing government spending seems to be a combination of ideas that hasn't been winning enough support. afaik, Ezra Klein in his book Abundance is one of the only voices trying to push this balance.
by 9rx | 2025-09-25 18:24:04+00:00
Yes, that is one of the reasons it hasn't been able to be used generally. But AI can't be used generally either. Both offer niche solutions for those with niche problems, but that's about it. They very much do feel the same, and they are going to start feeling even more the same if AGI doesn't arrive soon. Don't let the niche we know best around here being one of the things AI is helping to solve cloud your vision of it. The small few who were able to find utility in the blockchain thought it was useful too
by underlipton | 2025-09-25 18:24:12+00:00
>I am talking about people who are insult others, mean, condescending, refuse to consider very real and practical needs of others as valid. These absolutely exist and they get euphemized away, just like you do it now, as "just being awkward and misunderstood".

I didn't say that it doesn't happen. I said that people are very bad at distinguishing when it does from when it isn't happening. The crux of this discussion is regarding when one should make assumptions about someone's possibly antisocial behavior, and I'm saying that most people aren't able to do this in a way that isn't itself antisocial.

>You are refusing to listen and read what I said, projecting some kind of completely different situations onto the one I described. That wont elucidate empathy, because you are simply not considering what I said in the first place.

Please consider the implications of the fact that I said "elucidate and inspire empathy," not "elucidate empathy".

>If on ended up doing harm to others unintentionally

Discomfort is not necessarily harm. You are likely to feel discomfort when you're wrong. That should be okay, as correcting that since of discomfort should shepherd you to a more correct stance.

If not, then there's an element of hypocrisy involved, as "nerds" (often neurodivergent) are frequently made to feel uncomfortable. They are told that this discomfort is natural and simply a part of socialization, even while they're the only ones made to feel this way (and often because of misinterpretations of their behavior or intent). This reservation of a right to comfort to a default group is an ACTUAL harm, as it's a tenet of many social ills, including classism, white supremacy, and caste.
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2025-09-25 18:24:39+00:00
That's a very dishonest framing. The article contains some not particularly subtle relativizations in various places, e.g., “ability to use SOME of its technology,” which make it clear that Microsoft is not reacting decisively here in any way, but is trying to muddle through somehow and make a few publicly visible concessions.

Furthermore, why do you think the reactions are knee-jerk? That implies a rather biased attitude on your part.
by logicchains | 2025-09-25 18:24:39+00:00
Nazi Germany, Communist China and Soviet Russia have by far the largest number of deaths by _men with guns_, over a hundred million people killed by their own governments. The guns of US citizens have so far prevented this kind of government-led mass citizen genocide from happening. The number of people killed by gun violence in the US is a rounding error compared to the number of people killed by Mao, Hitler and Stalin.
by rcarmo | 2025-09-25 18:24:47+00:00
This is amazing and yet I think it would need an existential angst mode to capture those days when I am doing video calls with various teams all day.

Maybe patching https://github.com/JerryZLiu/Dayflow/blob/main/Dayflow/Dayfl... to say "Describe what you seen in this computer screen in the style of Werner Herzog" would do it...
by ctparker | 2025-09-25 18:24:55+00:00
I'm super curious about what special features / extensions you're using. The only painful upgrade for me from PostgreSQL 7 to 9 (2010 IIRC, building from scratch with SSL library issues). My next upgrade (exact same database, evolved a lot in complexity with stored queries, views, ~500x size) was from 9 to 11 (2022), and it was totally painless. A few weeks ago I migrated it from 11 to 17, zero issues.

Edit: Oh, for reference, I'm not using docker, just an AWS EC2 Amazon Linux instance, with a mirror on an Alpine Linux server. PostgreSQL installed via package repo, very little custom configuration.
by fragmede | 2025-09-25 18:25:12+00:00
> Waymo: EVs were repeatedly killed by corporations

Not to detract from your point, but Waymo's happen to use electric iPace Jaguar cars in several cities that they serve, but their original self driving taxi service used gasoline minivans at beginning in Phoenix, AZ. EV vs ICE is orthogonal to Waymo's self-driving car technology. Waymo was a pure R&D self driving project for 15 or so years that Google/Alphabet dumped insane amounts of money into before a car ride was ever sold to the public. The are a few competitors to Waymo, at various stages, so market forces likely still would have resulted in self driving car technology eventually arriving, but as its competitors are also well funded, so it seems like it still takes a large org to turn university prototypes into a real live product.