MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
AI job loss – example, perhaps
by ajay-b | 2025-09-17 16:36:04+00:00
For five years, I worked for a nonprofit on behalf of health coaches. These are quasi nutritionist who work with individuals to support them through a healthcare journey, whether that's eating better, exercising, or just living a more healthy life. They are not doctors, they are not dietitians, they arr just paraprofessionals who help people.

Over the course of those five years, we rolled back licensure for dietitians in 12 states. We created an exemption to allow health coaches to practice up to their level of education and training.

Now, ChatGPT can be your health coach. It can design a diet for you, you can take pictures of everything in your kitchen, and it will make a grocery list, create meals from it, give you advice and support about how to maintain your diet, everything that a health coach is doing.

Now there are apps where you just interact with an AI, not an actual person. This is actually putting those health coaches out of business. So perhaps, this is an example of AI taking over at least part of a job that a human was doing.
by rendaw | 2025-09-17 16:36:12+00:00
Oh wow, I'm surprised the name change appears to be so universally appreciated on reddit.

It doesn't strike me as different from "porn" i.e. "unix porn" "food porn" etc, which are at least somewhat widely accepted. I assumed it was self-aware/deprecating humor, as in the people there recognized they were frequently replacing which gear they used beyond what might be strictly necessary.

It was colorful, in the way a lot of music and art is colorful. It's not like it's a sysadmin forum...
by iLemming | 2025-09-17 16:36:25+00:00
Yup, only Dired allows you to edit your file structure tree like editing a wiki page and at the same time integrates well with source control. Where else can you mark some files and dirs and see the git log pertaining only marked items so easily? What else can easily integrate with your video player for quickly reviewing a bunch of vids? What else can you use to connect to a remote machine and keep the same worfklows as if the stuff is on your local?
by dns_snek | 2025-09-17 16:36:36+00:00
I don't believe for a second that you're being downvoted by someone with multiple accounts. You're being downvoted because you tried to frame a lukewarm observation (that brought receipts!) as some insane conspiratorial hot take in a really transparent manner, while simultaneously misrepresenting it (zionists vs jews) and ridiculing it (flat earth comparison).
by seec | 2025-09-17 16:36:37+00:00
Yes and that's the big issue with Apple business model. Ultimately it only ends bad for the consumer, Apple has unbounded control/power.

In the hardware side they can set price how they see fit because you are literally trapped. They only optimise what they think is their revenue maximizing position. For this reason, they keep coming up with software that impacts hardware in a big way and forces you to spend more than you would elsewhere. And often they don't even bother supporting or making the hardware that you may want/need.

On the software side they have a rather short obsolescence window for OSs that is very much compounded by the requirement of much of their software (and often 3rd party too, via libraries/frameworks churn) to only be backward compatible a few versions at best.

This creates an environment where you are extremely dependent on whatever Apple decides to do. Not only does this create anxiety it also instills a sensation of powerlessness where whatever you want really doesn't matter at all. It's not surprising to me because I believe Apple is the personification of an abusive authoritarian narcistic asshole.

As long as Apple keeps doing stuff that seems aligned with your needs, the requirements/constraints don't feel that bad but the moment they drift off too far it becomes a major and constant annoyance. In order to make more money Apple has increased its potential target consumer to be almost anyone. This creates tension because they can't focus on a particular set of needs/users.

Which is why I believe Apple stuff is becoming increasingly pointless. They don't focus enough on particular use cases (or type of person or lifestyle) which makes their stuff just another option among others, just more expensive and way more locked down.

This is what those people feel. After having invested so much more money than would have been necessary elsewhere, spent so much time learning the stuff, often spent as much time evangelizing the stuff for free and many other compromises; Apple gives zero shit and just keep chasing increasing amounts of money without delivering a whole lot of value in return. Of course, it was previsible, but it's not something that you can necessarily understand/intuit when you are younger and once you have made your choice/investment you are kind of trapped for reasons mentioned before.
by mklyons | 2025-09-17 16:36:53+00:00
I agree with a lot of what you say here. I’ve been running a 3h daily time boxed social media site for the past 6 months and even though traffic is now a crawl compared to the initial burst of activity when I started it, there are users who check in daily and it ends up being a lovely experience I think.

I am working on mobile apps and redesigning and reengineering a lot of the site and I love your thoughts on a blog focus. I’d love to let people host a small blog on the site that would also connect to their actual blog. I’ll add that to the roadmap.

Definitely stop by some time! https://seven39.com/
by jjani | 2025-09-17 16:37:33+00:00
Doing what you're suggesting is exactly is what has got us here. Do you not see the pattern that the path we're on started very long ago?

What you're advocating benefits the greater evil ten times as much over a 20-year timespan. They're absolutely loving you. The more Bidens, the more Harrises, the more Clintons, the better for them.

You know why China is doing so well? Because they still remember how to think in the long term.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-17 16:37:35+00:00
I came to the same conclusion years ago. The best appliances and kitchenware I've ever bought were designed (not necessarily made) in countries which have strongly defended return policies. Thinking La Creuset, Breville, Bosch, etc.

In general you get quality from the EU and the UK/Aus/Can/NZ countries where there's "you may return the product at any time for a full refund if it has a fault" type of laws and a consumer agency to help police enforcement (the law is worthless if the consumer has to take a store to court themselves). I'll also give a viewpoint that Japan and SK, like the USA, have fallen pretty far and i don't include them in the above group. If you look it up it appears stores can easily refuse refunds which is a recipe for crap products which explains the absolutely shit Sony and Samsung have been putting out the past decade.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-17 16:38:01+00:00
> If someone were to revive such a movement or if some politicians were to attach themselves to it then I think it would be hugely popular.

Senator Elizabeth Warren's whole schtick was, and still is, pro-consumer. She practically built the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with her own two hands. Sadly the CFPB has now been hamstrung by DOGE and the Trump admin; it's been stripped of much of its capacity to enforce its rules, conduct investigations and protect consumers.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-17 16:38:22+00:00
You also shouldn't delete from the SD card using your laptop anyway. Always use the in-camera format. This was a bad workflow from the beginning, no idea why you would ever click "Delete after import" when importing directly off an SD card.

Also a good idea to copy to multiple locations when importing. When I do professional work and import into Lightroom from SD card I have it set to create two copies - import to my external SSD (the "working" copy) and also copies the files to my NAS (which is then backed up to the cloud).

Nowhere in that process do I ever delete anything.
by flumpcakes | 2025-09-17 16:38:55+00:00
> Yeah, nonsense, bullshit, whatever you want to call it. Actual pedos will trivially bypass Chat Control by switching to a messaging service that doesn't enforce it, or even by sending encrypted ZIP files via any ordinary messaging service.

Yep, and then the politicians will create laws that outlaw encrypting zip files without a backdoor etc. That's my point, there's no nefarious plot here, it's just dumb laws to solve real problems.

I don't want these laws but they're going to be pushed while everyone is just pushing back on conspiracy grounds. That's not going to win over the average person.
by j-wags | 2025-09-17 16:39:01+00:00
I was recently inspired on this front by an interview[1] with a recommender system engineer that explored the idea of a "good" recommender algorithm:

> It feels like smartphones have saturated the available time. It's like the famous quote from the Netflix CEO: "Our main competitor is sleep." There aren't many more biological hours in the day to capture. At this point, it's mostly a war between recommender systems for your attention, as they've already consumed roughly all the available time.

...

> For me, the big issue with recommender systems isn't that they will destroy our minds, though that is a possible risk. It's the incredible waste of potential. Billions of hours of human time will be allocated today, guided mostly by clickbait incentives. The goal is to entertain people, not in a joyful way, but to help them dissociate.

> You have such an opportunity. There's probably a video on YouTube right now that, if I watched it, would inspire me to call my dad, talk to a stranger, or start a new relationship. Google could probably introduce me to a good friend, a co-founder, or my future life partner.

> They have the data, but they aren't using it that way. Instead, they're optimizing for a few more cents of advertising revenue, which is a colossal, civilizational-level failure.

...

> That is the crux of the incentives problem we've been discussing. One thing that gives me hope is we're no longer in the era of free software. Paradoxically, now that intelligence is cheap enough, people are willing to pay for software. It's more reasonable to charge for a subscription now because you can provide measurable value to someone's life. Paying $10 or $20 a month for a social media service that actually helps you live according to your goals is a much less crazy proposition than it was 10 years ago.

[1] https://blog.sentinel-team.org/p/forecasting-the-future-of-r...
by cogman10 | 2025-09-17 16:39:13+00:00
There are multiple agencies that were created initially to protect consumers. The FTC, CFPB, USDA, FDA, EPA, (arguably the FCC fits here to, but it's a stretch). The issue with each of these agencies is their power has been eroded and redirected over the years. That's because their regulations when done correctly directly and negatively impact monied interests.

Donors hating these agencies means that no political party really fully supports them or funds them fully when they get power.
by sambuccid | 2025-09-17 16:39:35+00:00
I get this point, but also we shouldn't confuse "the jews people" with the current government of israel.

I don't believe for a second that the common jews people want to influence other countries or do anythind "bad". But at the same time can believe that the current government of israel, that has some extremist parties inside, can try to influence foreign policy in many ways, potentially even extreme ways.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-17 16:39:44+00:00
I think the problem is though that they need to store it in text context.

When I am solving a sokoban style game, it's entirely visual. I don't need to remember a lot because the visual holds so much information.

It's like the average person trying to play a game of chess with just text. It's nightmarishly hard compared to having a board in front of you. The LLMs seem stuck having to play everything through just text.
by ekr____ | 2025-09-17 16:39:52+00:00
Firefox is a browser and so (1) people at Mozilla are comfortable with HTTP and (2) there has been a lot of investment in making the HTTP stack good. You will also notice that the lead author of DNS over HTTPS [0] was a Mozilla employee.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8484
by TomaszZielinski | 2025-09-17 16:40:10+00:00
Let me play devil's advocate for a second, because I feel it’s more nuanced.

Pros:

- [for users] 15.8.5 patches one high-profile bug.

- [for Apple] minimal effort which translates to longer perceived support time

Cons:

- It leaves unpatched multiple bugs fixed in iOS 16-26, and so it might give users false sense of security

I'm on a fence here, especially without real numbers
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-17 16:40:15+00:00
Why was solodolo's comment killed

Fanless is heavy and expensive but IMO it's worth it considering all the problems with fans, including noise and longevity

There is nothing wrong with solodolo's comment, unless I am missing something

Personal experience with fanless is the computer indeed gets used for more years than ones with fans

"Industrial" computers are often fanless

Not every computer is used for playing graphical video games
by einpoklum | 2025-09-17 16:40:27+00:00
> I used to write a lot of C++ in 2017... It's bespoke Makefile nonsense

1. Makefiles are for build systems; they are not C++. 2. Even for building C++ - in 2017, there was no need to write bespoke Makefiles, or any Makefiles. You could, and should, have written CMake; and your CMake files would be usable and relevant today.

> Meanwhile my gradle setups have been almost unchanged since that time

... but, typically, with far narrower applicability.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-17 16:40:50+00:00
Boeing may never make back the development costs of the 787. That was an absolutely epic disaster of a project. But that doesn't mean Boeing shouldn't build and sell every 787 they can profitably sell.

If Waymo is at breakeven including capex, opex, and overhead, operations logistics becomes the limiting factor. While Alphabet is capable of investing more money into Waymo, I think they've reached the tipping point. If you see Waymo expansion accelerate, bet on that tipping point having been reached.
by putzdown | 2025-09-17 16:41:00+00:00
@phoenixhaber, you're in a very dark place, no doubt about it, and it sounds like you've been there a long time. I've been in that dark place and I feel for you. Let me just assure you that dark times do give way, eventually, to light. If you need a rational basis for that claim, think of it as regression toward the mean: extremes, good or bad, move toward the non-extreme. Things will get better.

In the meantime, your task is to separate from the darkness and let it be on the outside, not the inside. It's bad enough when it's on the outside: that is, in the world around you or even in your own body. When it's on the inside—not just the body but the mind—then it destroys. Push the darkness out of the mind and into the outside world. That's pretty abstract advice but it's the best I know, and if it makes sense to you, I hope it helps.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-09-17 16:41:20+00:00
I used to be in QA at Apple before I became a SWE.

Used to be, these were full software engineers embedded with dev teams, with a mission to destroy, document, and harden the apps and frameworks.

During the 2010s in all the FAANG that I’m aware of (have worked at 3), QA as a high paid American profession was completely offshored to India and responsibility for quality removed from developers concern. It’s a blocking item on the Launch Checklist. Automated testing was expected to fill the gap but has mostly been ignored.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-09-17 16:41:28+00:00
This is why I hate tariffs and extreme regulations so much. My Xiaomi vacuum cleaner is the best I've ever owned, but I can't purchase their electric car, and even if I could - it'd cost an extra 40% or so just on the tariffs.

We need a free market with open competition. The best guarantor of rights is having the option to walk away and choose a different provider - in employment, and in services / retail purchases, etc.
by amiga386 | 2025-09-17 16:41:53+00:00
I notice you didn't address the other 4 differences. All 5 are about "defence in depth", making things less likely - and conversely, not doing them makes pwning more likely.

I'll add a 6th difference: "go get" downloads source code, not maintainer-provided tarballs. You can't sneak extra things in there that aren't in the code repo.
by bix6 | 2025-09-17 16:42:20+00:00
Cool idea Swati!

My initial thoughts:

Embed the overview video and shorten it to a minute or less with a bit of polish.

I didn’t make a profile but I would include some defaults so people can try without having to grab a LinkedIn and hope it scrapes well.

How are you handling private LinkedIn pages?

How does a user know they get value from this? How do they know the responses are accurate and realistic?

May be worth seeing what type of people get generated the most and adding a few human advisors to take calls and further validate? Sort of a premium next step type thing.
by sarchertech | 2025-09-17 16:42:32+00:00
This is partly getting into questions about whether “pure” altruism is even possible, e.g., is an anonymous donation truly selfless if you do it because it makes you feel good.

But in the example above it’s entirely possible that you helped someone out with no expectation of being paid back. Let’s say you’re rich and the person you helped is a chronic drug addict. You have no expectation of every needing help and no expectation that the person you helped will ever be in a position to help you.

Let’s say I give a homeless person a dollar. He turns around and uses that dollar to buy a lottery ticket and wins 100 million dollars. Years later, I’m homeless and the former homeless guy walks past me and gives me a lecture about how I should have put conditions on my donation.

In that situation there was no reasonable expectation for anything except as you said maybe good will. But of course open source developers also expect good will.
by rendaw | 2025-09-17 16:43:03+00:00
Okay I've seen a ton of procedural earth generation blog posts. Random bisections, noise, fractals, erosion, watersheds, biomes and climate derivation, etc etc.

Why did the author of this one choose this approach rather than some other approach? What issues did they see with others that they decided to write their own? What's unique here?

Or maybe: What's the ultimate procedural earth generation technique? Is there anyone following these and comparing them?
by saghm | 2025-09-17 16:43:14+00:00
Not being able to feel them is honestly scarier. It's one thing to suddenly feel a single bloodsucking parasite attach itself to you, but suddenly realizing that you're covered in them out of nowhere is the stuff of nightmares. If I could be outside in the summer blissfully minding my business and then glancing down save suddenly seeing like a dozen mosquitoes all gorging themselves on my arm, I'd be more afraid of them too.
by jacobolus | 2025-09-17 16:43:21+00:00
David Ellison is Larry Ellison's son, and Larry Ellison spent $6 billion on the Paramount deal. It's not really a stretch to imagine that the father might have some influence on the resulting operation. (According to a cursory web search, on paper Larry Ellison now has a 35.5% voting interest and David Ellison has a 64.5% voting interest.)
by ivape | 2025-09-17 16:43:35+00:00
In other words, just like programming, we’re writing better instructions. In this case, we’re asking it to think out loud more clearly. It’s almost like whiteboard interview prep.

It’s quite amazing because it means programming is fully entering the natural language phase of the timeline.

If you aren’t a solid clear writer, you may not make it in the brave new world.
by klipt | 2025-09-17 16:43:47+00:00
You can't deny history, it's well documented that Mizrahi Jews hold the deeds to lands in Arab states adding up multiple times the size of Israel.

If the Arab states think the Palestinians deserve reparations for stolen land, then obviously the Mizrahi Jews deserve multiples of those reparations.

If the Arab states think they can avoid paying reparations for the land they stole just by taking Israel by force, well they tried that several times and failed already.
by rramadass | 2025-09-17 16:43:48+00:00
Right on the money!

Other then hardcore embedded guys and/or folks dealing with legacy C code, I and most folks i know almost always use C++ in various forms i.e. "C++ as a better C", "Object-Oriented C++ with no template shenanigans", "Generic programming in C++ with templates and no OO", "Template metaprogramming magic", "use any subset of C++ from C++98 to C++23" etc. And of course you can mix-and-match all of the above as needed.

C++'s multi-paradigm support is so versatile that i don't know why folks on HN keep moaning about its complexity; it is the price you pay for the power you get. It is the only language that i can program in for itty-bitty MCUs all the way to large complicated distributed systems on multiple servers plus i can span all of applications to systems to bare-metal programming.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-17 16:44:24+00:00
To the extent there's aggression it's because "But what about non-HPV cervical cancer?" has been a red herring for decades and I'm sick of that. 8% in particular demands some extraordinary evidence and I did not see any.

That GAS paper was entirely new to me. I am focused on the UK and to some extent Northern Europe because I live here and the pathologist I know who is intensely involved in this stuff works for whatever the mutual self-calibration panels are called in Northern Europe. So, while a Japanese woman's life is worth no less, my friend cares that a lab analysing a smear in Oslo gives consistent results with a lab doing that analysis in Manchester or Paris and Tokyo doesn't enter into it.

Demographically there are a lot of white women in these parts, which I'm sure skew the numbers, so I can well believe what you said in the last sentence. I'd still be sceptical it could be as high as 8% for real population groups.
by stateofinquiry | 2025-09-17 16:44:48+00:00
When the government is monolithic (which it tends to become) and holds a lot of power it is just a matter of time before "some animals are more equal than others". The best safeguards I know about are 1) limiting the power of government and 2) checks and balances on what powers they do have.

Nothing is perfect, and even having the two pillars above does not guarantee eternal justice (or even that the pillars will remain in place). But we can try to keep remembering and demand better. Sincerely: Good luck, EU.
by Strilanc | 2025-09-17 16:45:05+00:00
Yes, the post is focusing on the overall effect of operations (unitaries) rather than their continuous trajectories (hamiltonians acting on system via Schrodinger equation) (analogous to working with impulses rather than forces).

To make the continuous case interesting as a compilation problem, you'd need some alternate formulation of the Schrodinger equation, e.g. based on the limit of small powers of unitaries rather than on the matrix exponential, so that deleting i didn't delete literally all processes. Or you could arbitrarily declare real-only hamiltonians are permitted, despite the Schrodinger equation saying "i". But that'd be kinda lame, imo.

(Note: am author of post)
by wander_forever | 2025-09-17 16:45:09+00:00
DoH in Firefox provides you the control to choose when to enable or disable and which DNS provider to choose, while Android does not provide any such choice or even make it known to the user when DoH is used or not. In addition, Firefox only partners with DNS providers that have legally-binding agreements for strongest privacy guarantees - see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/doh-resolver-policy .