MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by windexh8er | 2025-09-08 02:36:31+00:00
I've had multiple Instincts as well as Fenix. I am exceptionally hard on watches. I don't take them off when I'm working on anything out in the shop. The sapphire of the Fenix is not a silver bullet and the case on the Instinct does a lot more to prevent direct hits to the face than you'd think, at least in my experience.

The Instinct is also easier to polish than the sapphire. I've tried to buff out blemishes on Fenix watches I've gone to sell and have had a hard time getting them back to flawless. I've not had the same issue on any Instinct.

That being said I'm really tempted by the new Fenix Pro. I have an inReach device I take with me for backcountry snowmobiling in the mountains and I've forgotten it a time or two. I never forget my watch and always have some extra battery with me.

I just wish I could get basically the same specs as Fenix in a non-color and highly efficient display like Instinct. The 2 Solar is my daily watch and the battery life + built in flashlight make it my almost perfect watch. I don't even care about LTE but if I could get Instinct with inReach that would be a perfect setup IMO.

Garmin does a lot of things right, but pricing is not one of them. Especially given they're moving towards subscriptions which is counterintuitive to their buyer market. I really don't want anything AI in my watch.
by measurablefunc | 2025-09-08 02:36:55+00:00
It's never about lack of work but lack of people who have the prerequisite expertise to do it. If you don't have experience w/ kernel development then no amount of prompting will get you the type of results that the author was able to achieve. More specifically, in theory it should be possible to take all the old drivers & "modernize" them to carry them forward into each new version of the kernel but the problem is that none of the LLMs are capable of doing this work w/o human supervision & the number of people who can actually supervise the LLMs is very small compared to the amount of unmaintained drivers that could be ported into newer kernels.

There is a good discussion/interview¹ between Alan Kay & Joe Armstrong about how most code is developed backwards b/c none of the code has a formal specification that can be "compiled" into different targets. If there was a specification other than the old driver code then the process of porting over the driver would be a matter of recompiling the specification for a new kernel target. In absence of such specification you have to substitute human expertise to make sure the invariants in the old code are maintained in the new one b/c the LLMs has no understanding of any of it other than pattern matching to other drivers w/ similar code.

¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axBVG_VkrHI
by doubled112 | 2025-09-08 02:36:59+00:00
That car comparison doesn't work here. You can't be sure about the true history of a car, only what was reported.

When I replace a wheel bearing assembly in my driveway, you still can't see that by looking up my VIN. Nobody knows except myself and the person I bought the parts from.

Was it a dealer part? An OEM part? A poor quality replacement? Can't tell without looking.

This might actually support Apple's side of the argument, although I do not. I don't think we need some Carfax equivalent for MacBooks.
by const_cast | 2025-09-08 02:37:47+00:00
The reason this happens is that greedy companies like Google have made apps the de facto way to get anything done.

There's 0 reason you should need an app to fucking pay for parking. Why do you then?

Because running mostly unsandboxed native code on customers devices is a fantastic way to steal data and build profiles. Browsers just don't cut it - they're too safe, too secure, too abstracted.

Let's be honest here - what is a banking app? Web forms, some more web forms, and then to top it off, some web forms. I mean, hell, half these apps are just web views with spywa - I mean analytics - slapped on top.
by hedora | 2025-09-08 02:38:41+00:00
I went further and got an AMD system on chip machine with an integrated gpu. It’s fine for gaming and borderline for LLM inference (I should have put 64GB in instead of 32GB).

The only issues are with an intel Bluetooth chipset, and bios auto detection bugs. Under Linux, the hardware is bug for bug compatible with Windows, and I’m down to zero known issues after doing a bit of hardware debugging.
by fishtacos | 2025-09-08 02:39:02+00:00
In hindsight, I would have gone for an AMD deskop replacement laptop instead of the Dell Intel-based gaming laptop that I purchased last year. The CPU is the best the Raptor Lake line has to offer in mobile format (i7-13900hx) but there is no conceivable way for the laptop, ast thick as it is, to cool it beyond very bursty workloads.

This affects the laptop with other issues, like severe thermal throttling both in CPU and GPU.

A utility like throttlestop allows me to place maximums on power usage so I don't hit the tjMax during regular use. That is around 65-70W for the CPU - which can burst to 200+W in its allowed "Performance" mode. Absolutely nuts.
by larsiusprime | 2025-09-08 02:39:24+00:00
Okay, so let me break it down for you:

The Silagi paper makes a factual claim. The Silagi paper claims that there was only one significant tax in the German colony of Kiatschou, a single tax on land.

The direct primary sources reveal that this is not the case. There were multiple taxes, most significantly large tariffs. Additionally there were two taxes on land, not one -- a conventional land value tax, and a "land increment" or capital gains tax.

These are not minor distinctions. These are not matters of subjective opinions. These are clear, verifiable, questions of fact. The Silagi paper does not acknowledge them.

ChatGPT, in the early trials I graded, does not even acknowledge the German primary sources. You keep saying that I am upset it doesn't agree with me.

I am saying the chief issue is that ChatGPT does not even discover the relevant primary sources. That is far more important than whether it agrees with me.

> For example, just to continue with socialism, it's common for socialist believers to argue that this or that country is or isn't socialist in a way that disagrees with mainstream historians.

Notice you said "historians." Plural. I expect a proper researcher to cite more than ONE paper, especially if the other papers disagree, and even if it has a preferred narrative, to at least surface to me that there is in fact disagreement in the literature, rather than to just summarize one finding.

Also, if the claims are being made about a piece of German history, I expect it to cite at least one source in German, rather than to rely entirely on one single English-language source.

The chief issue is that ChatGPT over-cites one single paper and does not discover primary source documents. That is the issue. That is the only issue.

> I am saying you are seeing distinctions as more important than the rest of the literature and concluding that the literature is erroneous.

And I am saying that ChatGPT did not in fact read the "rest of the literature." It is literally citing ONE article, and other pieces that merely summarize that same article, rather than all of the primary source documents. It is not in fact giving me anything like an accurate summary of the literature.

I am not saying "The literature is wrong because it disagrees with me." I am saying "one paper, the only one ChatGPT meaningfully cites, is directly contradicted by the REST of the literature, which ChatGPT does not cite."

A truly "research grade" or "PhD grade" intelligence would at the very least be able to discover that.
by giveita | 2025-09-08 02:41:05+00:00
Correct, there is no need. It is more of a preference, maybe a challenge or code golf type of thing. One advantage is less thinking / decision / boilerplate is needed when adding elements.

Semantic:

p

Normal:

p class=paragraph

Utility:

p class=mx-1 py-1 my-2 text-medium

It is like buying a medium shirt rather than getting a tailor-made t-shirt.
by apparent | 2025-09-08 02:42:00+00:00
My dad got one of these. I was able to quickly identify it was a scam because it went to an email provider he doesn't use for iCloud/Apple, and he has no other cloud storage. But troubleshooting stuff like this remotely is difficult because users will often misread words to match what they expect it to say. For example, my dad kept saying that the email was about his "iCloud storage" when in fact it just said "cloud storage". His mind filled in the blank to make it make sense.
by mannykannot | 2025-09-08 02:42:40+00:00
I feel the same way, but again, this has no bearing on the issue of the medical soundness of the department's positions and policy.

Going back to the top of this thread, I agree that correlation does not mean causation, but in this case, we do not yet even have a justifiable claim of correlation, and RFK Jr. has repeatedly demonstrated his propensity for substituting unfounded opinion and incorrect data for empirical facts, if it suits his agenda.
by jrowen | 2025-09-08 02:42:47+00:00
I'm gonna be that guy - was this article written by AI? Where were the actual clever/funny/bizarre anecdotes that the (IRL) Darwin awards are known for?

This feels like a regurgitated summary of a run of the mill story...Taco Bell tried out AI ordering, and it didn't quite work (some people even trolled it!), and they had to rethink it. So crazy lol!
Does anyone think the current AI approach will hit a dead end?
by rh121 | 2025-09-08 02:44:08+00:00
Billions of dollars spent, incredible hype that we will have AGI in several years. Does anyone think the current deep learning / neural net based AI approach will eventually hit a dead end and not be able to deliver its promises? If yes, why?

I realize this question is somewhat loosely defined. No doubt the current approach will continue to improve and yield results so it might not be easy to define "dead end".

In the spirit of things, I want to see whether some people think the current direction is wrong and won't get us to the final destination.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-08 02:44:33+00:00
Vibe coding is like spreadsheets.

We take spreadsheet for granted. VisiCalc back in the day unlocked computing for an average person in the same way AI does today. Back then to tabulate some stats you’d need a team of programmers. When spreadsheets became available, anyone could figure out how to essentially program a computer without software background.

It would be interesting to see how spreadsheets failed/succeeded to learn the limits of vibe coding. For example it’s a common meme that you find teams using spreadsheets as databases. Perhaps they are so successful that they end up being misused. Would the same happen with AI coding?
by hakfoo | 2025-09-08 02:45:24+00:00
It would fit into the product matrix where Vista and Win7 Ultimate did: explicitly targeting enthusiasts, parts-builders and boutique shops where they want to convey that you're getting a cost-no-object build.

Or being able to sell it as an aftermarket license upgrade would be a way to get more revenue from people who were otherwise going to ride an OEM Home license for which MS had a negotiated rate of 34 cents per machine.

OTOH, one thing about the ongoing advertising/enshittification bubble is that it seems to distort people's understanding of revenue and NPV. They'd rather have the possibility of infinite future ad/spyware revenue even when people are clamoring to offer up-front real cash instead.
by ttz | 2025-09-08 02:45:51+00:00
> contrasting craftsmanship and utility, since both are somewhat prized on HN

I'd say they're prized everywhere, though "craftsmanship" is really subjective. and the HN I usually [edit/add: see] seems to have more a meta of "criticize anything someone tries to build, and rave about IQ" tbh ;)

SQLite works and I don't have to think about it why it works (too much). That is IMO a true hallmark of solid engineering.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-09-08 02:46:17+00:00
All the concern from our European friends strikes me as somewhat hypocritical. My understanding is that NL has administrative deportations as well, essentially the same legal process the US is using. They also have a history of being much tighter immigration enforcement than the USA.

It especially seems like pearl clutching in the context of this article. What would the NL do if Tesla or some such was found to be employing hundreds of illegal workers without proper visas? Would they be deported and would you grab a molotov join the resistance?

I think most reasonable people can agree officials should be bound by rules and law. There as substantial difference on what people think those rules are.

There is also a huge subset of people that care nothing of the law, and think deportations are illegal because they don't agree with their politics.
by rmoriz | 2025-09-08 02:50:43+00:00
In times of Rust and Typescript (just examples) coding standards are explicit. It‘s not optional anymore. All my vibe coding projects are using CI with tests including style and type checks. The agent makes mistakes but it sees the failing tests and fixes it. If you vibe code like we did Perl and PHP in 1999 you‘re gonna have a bad time.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-08 02:52:16+00:00
Well I will just need to start saying “critical thinking”? Or some other term?

I have a liberal arts background. So I use the term research to mean gathering evidence, evaluating its trustworthiness and biases, and avoiding related thinking errors related to evaluating evidence (https://thedecisionlab.com/biases).

LLMs can fall prey to these problems as well. Usually it’s not just “reasoning” that gives you trouble. It’s the reasoning about evidence. I see this with Claude Code a lot. It can sometimes create some weird code, hallucinating functionality that doesn’t exist, all because it found a random forum post.

I realize though that the term is pretty overloaded :)
by RickJWagner | 2025-09-08 02:52:27+00:00
I just bought a new car.

Really wanted an EV, especially a newer depreciated Tesla, but I just can’t get past the idea of what the car will be in 12 or 15 years. My prior car was a 2005 CRV.

Ended up going with a Corolla hybrid. Gets over 50 mpg and travels a lot under electric power. I think chances are pretty good it’ll still be viable transportation after a decade.
by meander_water | 2025-09-08 02:53:43+00:00
> Be as specific as possible, making sure to use the domain-specific keywords for the task.

If you don't have the technical understanding of a language or framework, there is going to be a lot of ambiguity in your prompts.

This specificity gap leads the LLM to fill in those gaps for you, which may not be what you intended. And that's usually where bugs hide.

I think this is the flip side to being a "force multiplier"
by dangus | 2025-09-08 02:54:43+00:00
I have the answer for you, Intel's GPU chips are on TSMC's process. They are not made in Intel-owned fabs.

There really is no such thing as "buying American" in the computer hardware industry unless you are talking about the designs rather than the assembly. There are also critical parts of the lithography process that depend on US technology, which is why the US is able to enforce certain sanctions (and due to some alliances with other countries that own the other parts of the process).

Personally I think people get way too worked up about being protectionist when it comes to global trade. We all want to buy our own country's products over others but we definitely wouldn't like it if other countries stopped buying our exported products.

When Apple sells an iPhone in China (and they sure buy a lot of them), Apple is making most of the money in that transaction by a large margin, and in turn so are you since your 401k is probably full of Apple stock, and so are the 60+% of Americans who invest in the stock market. A typical iPhone user will give Apple more money in profit from services than the profit from the sale of the actual device. The value is really not in the hardware assembly.

In the case of electronics products like this, almost the entire value add is in the design of the chip and the software that is running on it, which represents all the high-wage work, and a whole lot of that labor in the US.

US citizens really shouldn't envy a job where people are sitting at an electronics bench doing repetitive assembly work for 12 hours a day in a factory wishing we had more of those jobs in our country. They should instead be focused on making high level education more available/affordable so that they stay on top of the economic food chain, where most/all of its citizens are doing high-value work rather than causing education to be expensive and beg foreign manufacturers to open satellite factories to employ our uneducated masses.

I think the current wave of populist protectionist ideology is essentially blaming the wrong causes of declining affordability and increasing inequality for the working class. Essentially, people think that bringing the manufacturing jobs back and reversing globalism will right the ship on income inequality, but the reality is that the reason that equality was so good for Americans m in the mid-century was because the wealthy were taxed heavily, European manufacturing was decimated in WW2, and labor was in high demand.

The above of course is all my opinion on the situation, and a rather long tangent.
by defrost | 2025-09-08 02:55:09+00:00
It's been 20+ years since I worked in a state power control facility, it seems from your comment that you've never done such a thing; they're more complex than your comment suggests.

The preliminary report was exactly that, preliminary off the cuff listing of things that might cause issues with no definitive conclusion .. hence the need for longer consideration and a final report.

> the leftist Spanish government

Drop the politics and act like an Engineer (civil, electrical)

> the fault of the gas plants for not being available when they were needed. Because they were switched off.

It's routine across the globe to bring power generation facilities on and off, and spin them up in anticipation of need - this incident is a failure of a control algorithm regardless of politics.
by stock_toaster | 2025-09-08 02:55:30+00:00
I recall it being slow, with frequent downtime, poor mardown support, and having very poor (or nonexistent? can’t remember exactly) first party non-web clients. I vaguely recall some third party apps picking up the slack (pun!), but integration was pretty basic (they did their best).

It basically stagnated like it was abandon, and then hipchat (atlassian bought and killed it) and later slack just ate its lunch.
by dev1ycan | 2025-09-08 02:56:43+00:00
I really hope Intel continues with GPUs or the GPU market is doomed until China catches up, Nvidia produces good products with great software, best in industry really, with great length support, but that doesn't excuse them from monopolistic practices. The fact that AMD refuses to compete really makes it look like this entire thing is organized from the top (US government).

This reminds me a lot of the LLM craze and how they wanted to charge so much for simple usage at the start until China released deepseek. Ideally we shouldn't rely on China but do we have a choice? the entire US economy has become reliant on monopolies to keep their insanely high stock prices and profit margins
by Sean-Der | 2025-09-08 02:57:09+00:00
I did! I tried integrating with a couple different of the examples on here [0]

The good detection ones required users to download something first, so I was worried the friction would make people less likely to use them. The one I almost went with was hand-gestures, but it wasn't as reliable.

I haven't used opencv that much. I see people talk about in Pion discord (and examples like this) and gets me into. I think someone more proficient could build a more compelling demo pretty quickly :)

[0] https://gocv.io/writing-code/more-examples/
by hedora | 2025-09-08 02:57:30+00:00
I have a modern AMD system on chip mini desktop that runs Linux (devuan), and have had M1/2/3 laptops. They all seem pretty comparable on power usage, especially at idle. Games and LLM load warm up the desktop and kill the laptop battery. Other than that, power consumption seems fine.

There is one exception: If I run an idle Windows 11 ARM edition VM on the mac, then the fans run pretty much all the time. Idle Linux ARM VMs don’t cause this issue on the mac.

I’ve never used windows 11 for x86. It’s probably also an energy hog.
by tpmoney | 2025-09-08 02:57:41+00:00
> As the user and owner of the product, I should be the sole decider about my own security posture, not some company who doesn’t know my use case or needs.

It's not so cut and dry though. The "user" and the "owner" of a product are not always the same person, but hardware security impacts the "user" more than the "owner".
by s1artibartfast | 2025-09-08 02:58:06+00:00
What do those rational immigration rules and enforcement look like? From my perspective, the US is still more lax than most of Europe.

None have birthright citizenship. None have an ongoing global amnesty program like the USA. AFAIK, All have administrative deportations without jury trial. Some countries require dual registration of every resident by landlords and tenants to verify residence.

I think the republican right dreams of the type of immigration controls that are common in Europe.

>A blatant false dilemma.

The dilemma is forced if "close isn't good enough". It is a reasonable conclusion from the statement.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-09-08 03:00:29+00:00
I live in Australia. Electricity here costs around USD$0.20/kWh, unless you are prepared to charge when the wind is blowing, or the sun is shining, in which case it costs USD$0.05/kWh. $0.05/kWh equates to around USD$1.20 per 100 miles for a car that gets 50 miles to the gallon.

That's assuming you have to pay for it. I charge my car from my roof top solar, so it costs nothing.

The resale value for EV's isn't good, but the reason is battery prices are dropping, and batteries are the primary cost of an EV. They dropped 30% in the last year. If that continues, it's all over for US car makers once the tariffs go away.
by margalabargala | 2025-09-08 03:00:30+00:00
You're right, it would be easier in every single way.

It would also be different enough that it's not a useful or meaningful comparison. You might as well say "bake a cake while standing on stilts, then we'll talk".

By the way, humans have been mining, and on-and-off purifying, iron from the Saharan dune sea for a thousand years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zou%C3%A9rat
by arikrak | 2025-09-08 03:01:23+00:00
Before advanced AI, "essential complexity" was a bottleneck and Brooks was right that there couldn't be continuous exponential gains in software productivity. However advanced AI will handle essential complexity as well, which can end up making it 10x or 100x faster to develop software. We still need humans currently, but there's no area that one can point to and say we'll always need people for this aspect of software development. The latest coding agents are already reasoning with requirements before they write code, and they will only improve...
by zoeey | 2025-09-08 03:01:58+00:00
This project really resonates with me. I have a few friends in healthcare who had great ideas for patient tools, but without a technical partner and no budget for a development team, nothing ever came of them.

Seeing someone actually build something like this, even if it's not perfect, gives me a sense of hope. When you combine domain expertise with some AI tools, you don’t have to wait around for someone else. You can just start.