MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HiPhish | 2025-09-25 18:49:16+00:00
It's not about the money, it's about the fact that I would depend on vendor-locked functionality. I cannot maintain my own fork of it if for whatever reason I had to. I don't want to fork datastar if I don't have to, but I want to be able to do so if I have to.

Alpine does have a "pro" version as well, but it's just copy&paste code examples. I am not complaining about Alpine, and I even got my employer to pay the maintainer more than what the datastart guys are charging for their pro version. So again, this is not about money.
by FormalShorts | 2025-09-25 18:49:17+00:00
Inbound marketing is pretty explicitly about creating high quality content that builds a business's credibility, making prospects more likely to want to engage and buy from said business. Creating slop 'top 10' lists is kind of the opposite, pushing customers away. It's a bit of a stretch, therefore to blame HubSpot for garbage content on the internet - since doing this is the opposite of what they advocated. Grifters are always going to be around looking to make a quick buck with the least amount of effort possible.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-25 18:49:42+00:00
Careful what you wish for. The two major hospitals in my area are run by (1) the Catholic Church, and (2) the local major research university. While I'm sure they could get worse, if PE took over - I've got friends and family who received disastrously poor care at both of 'em. And neither hospital ever cared about that.
by IanCal | 2025-09-25 18:50:30+00:00
No one agrees on what agi means.

IMO we’re clearly there, gpt5 would easily be considered agi years ago. I don’t think most people really get how non-general things were that are now handled by the new systems.

Now agi seems to be closer to what others call asi. I think k the goalposts will keep moving.
by Kranar | 2025-09-25 18:50:53+00:00
> If only it were so easy as writing more makes you a better writer!

One commonly repeated piece of advice that almost all successful authors state is to write a lot, a lot, a lot. Like just practice writing, it doesn't have to be good.

I hear this often said about many other creative endeavors as well, including painting, cooking, game development/design, etc... It often seems like really good artisans just pull greatness out of thin air, but that's because we often only see the successes, not the failures, but I am reminded that even the best writers, poets, and artists in general spend a great amount of time just creating content that no one will ever see.
by gnabgib | 2025-09-25 18:51:23+00:00
Discussion (80 points, 11 hours ago, 73 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370304

Reviews:

Tom's Hardware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372347

Phoronix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372608

(Unfortunately a lot of posts are missing the + because of the auto title rewriting)
by dang | 2025-09-25 18:51:41+00:00
You only have that luxury because of the tireless effort we put in to preserving the bulk of HN for its intended purpose. The /active page doesn't exist in isolation from the rest of HN; it's a product of it. It depends entirely on a balance that by no means just-happens, but is meticulously and carefully tended to. If we didn't do that, there would be no "organic tech forum" for you to be enjoying, because the site would have been consumed by flames a long time ago.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-25 18:51:52+00:00
My point was the arguments are much the same for any human edited, computer parsed format. As for whitespace, you can set many IDEs to display placeholder markers if you want to go that route, it does help with visualizing horizontal alignment.

I find that paste/format on copy/paste with YAML can be kind of troublesome too though... I have an exception in my vscode settings file for that format, my default is format on paste and save.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-25 18:52:07+00:00
Pretty much everything has false positives and false negatives. Everything can be reduced to this.

Human radiologists have them. They can miss things: false negative. They can misdiagnose things: false positive.

Interviews have them. A person can do well, be hired and turn out to be bad employee: false positive. A person who would have been a good employee can do badly due to situational factors and not get hired: false negative.

The justice system has them. An innocent person can be judged guilty: false positive. A guilty person can be judged innocent: false negative.

All policy decisions are about balancing out the false negatives against the false positives.

Medical practice is generally obsessed with stamping out false negatives: sucks to be you if you're the doctor who straight up missed something. False positives are avoided as much as possible by defensive wording that avoids outright affirming things. You never say the patient has the disease, you merely suggest that this finding could mean that the patient has the disease.

Hiring is expensive and firing even more so depending on jurisdiction, so corporations want to minimize false positives as much as humanly possible. If they ever hire anyone, they want to be sure it's absolutely the right person for them. They don't really care that they might miss out on good people.

There are all sorts of political groups trying to tip the balance of justice in favor of false negatives or false positivies. Some would rather see guilty go free than watch a single innocent be punished by mistake. Others don't care about innocents at all. I could cite some but it'd no doubt lead to controversy.
by bombcar | 2025-09-25 18:52:17+00:00
Prime ain't what it used to be. Used to be reliably 2nd day delivery, by a real shipping company, and good movies added, etc.

Now it's as slow as "free" delivery, by a random contractor who does God knows what to the package, and prices aren't even better than Walmart or Target on many things.

The "avoid subscribing to prime" shuffle you have to do to even order anything anymore drives me away too, I only use Amazon if it's more than 5% cheaper.
by squigz | 2025-09-25 18:52:19+00:00
> are there really enough people who are going to boycott microsoft products

Maybe not, but some is better than none, and I'll continue to push more people to do it, rather than tell them nothing they do matters.

> over this?

Maybe it's not just this. Maybe this is the straw that breaks the user's back. Or maybe the next thing is.

My point was to address your belief that they're too big for anyone to make any difference. That isn't true, and the belief that you or any other citizen can't make a difference is their biggest advantage.

(I put this last because I know what HN will say to this, but: are CEOs and other executives not people too? Can they not make principled moves either?)
by neutronicus | 2025-09-25 18:52:22+00:00
Well, I'm not the one who owns the data center(s) full of all the GPUs it would presumably take to produce a gmail's worth of tokens.

However, I take your point - OpenAI has an interest in some other party paying them a fuckton of money for those tokens and then publicly crediting OpenAI and asserting the tokens would have been worth it at ten fucktons of money. And also, of course, in having that other party take on the risk that infinity fucktons of money worth of OpenAI tokens is not enough to make a gmail.

So they would really need to believe in the strategic necessity (and feasibility) of making their own gmail to go ahead with it.
by hashim | 2025-09-25 18:52:33+00:00
Modern by definition means the modern day, I'm not sure what 2019 was but we don't get to redefine terms for our own use. The list is only "additive" if the criticisms still apply. Your presumably best example was a corporate strategy from the 90s. Companies, just like (most) people, change. 2025 Microsoft is pro-Linux and a much better force for good than most other tech companies, yet almost invariably I find the people triggered by the mention of Microsoft tend to be relatively quiet about and/or active consumers of Apple, Amazon, Google et al.
by simonw | 2025-09-25 18:52:38+00:00
I added support to these models to my llm-gemini plugin, so you can run them like this (using uvx so no need to install anything first):

export LLM_GEMINI_KEY='...' uvx --isolated --with llm-gemini llm -m gemini-flash-lite-latest 'An epic poem about frogs at war with ducks'

Release notes: https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/releases/tag/0.26

Pelicans: https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/issues/104#issuecomment...
by SR2Z | 2025-09-25 18:52:55+00:00
> I speak Italian, English and French. I speak English to you because it's the only language you know. We are not the same.

I have worked with overseas coworkers who spoke English. You're right, it's not always the same as having native fluency.

> We work to live, not the opposite. Again, we are not the same.

You're making my point for me - offshoring work fails for cultural reasons, not because overseas workers are dumb. Making work remote is not gonna change the cultural factors.

Also a very funny take because if you have ever visited the Bay Area, you can't throw a rock without hitting someone who struck it rich and retired at 30.
by superxpro12 | 2025-09-25 18:53:00+00:00
It's not about the usefulness... it's that omnipotent surveillance creates a jarring imbalance of power between the surveillance state and the people.

If the employees of the state were subject to the same exact surveillance, then maybe it might be palatable.

Curiously, the Star Trek Universe exists in such a scenario. A common trope is asking the computer for evidence of a crime, where someone is at any time, etc. I've never heard complaints about this supposed contradiction between the utopia vision of Star Trek and the omnipotent, all-seeing computer.

But we all know the reality... a tale as old as time. The state will exclude themselves from the surveillance, and it will eventually be used as a tool for authoritarianism. It's only a matter of time with something as powerful as this.
by Aunche | 2025-09-25 18:53:40+00:00
In common parlance, "private equity acquisitions" refer to B2C companies rather than B2B companies where there was never of stigma of financialization to begin with.

It's possible you're right as I'm also speaking based off vibes, but my argument remains the same. Those who sell out for a quick payout would eventually fall into the category of "the current owner is unable to continue to run the business and cannot find a successor" when they hit retirement age and their kids would prefer easier/safer/higher general market returns.
by Fwirt | 2025-09-25 18:54:00+00:00
We are still in the very early days of VR. Does anybody remember the late 1970s when personal computers were toys for enthusiasts and rich kids? They were not ergonomic and served no purpose to the general public that couldn’t be filled by the technology they already had. Eventually they reached a point where they had value to enough people that they “took off”.

I believe we’re still in that period for VR. VR has not found its “killer app” yet, the closest thing we have is Beat Saber. People aren’t willing to put up with the inconveniences and cost of VR just to play a handful of mediocre games that would work just as well in 2D.

Valve has been the company really pushing this space forward, The Lab and Half Life: Alyx are hailed as some of the best VR software there is. If anyone has the chops to make a headset and software with mass appeal, especially after the success of the Steam Deck, I think it’s them.

I also have a personal theory that deep in Apple’s R&D department, a “consumer” level headset is brewing, which is the real reason for the “Liquid Glass” push. Forcing it onto their OSes right now is a move to familiarize end-users and developers with the design language so the market will be more receptive to the VR device that’s in the works. I haven’t had the opportunity to try the Vision Pro, but it has a reputation for having the best fidelity and “pass through” capability on the market. If the “Vision Air” comes close and comes in under $1200 it might be the final push that VR needs to go mainstream.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-25 18:54:00+00:00
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311#issuecomme...

If this comment is to be believed, it's not Apple's fault. It's the apps mucking around with the internals of AppKit.

This example just happens to illustrate two of my least favorite software engineering practices: (1) despite one piece of code making a method private, another piece of code still overrides it/modifies it/calls it, an affront to the idea of encapsulation; (2) a piece of code has different behavior depending on the identity of a function, contrary to the principle of extensionality.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-25 18:54:33+00:00
> issue that people have with Israel's actions is the death of civilians, not the death of Hamas

Would note that this issue has sufficiently polarised that there are thoughtful people in e.g. New York who think it’s an atrocity for even Hamas fighters to be killed. (Same as there are folks who think every Palestinian is safely presumed a terrorist until proved innocent.)
by schmidtleonard | 2025-09-25 18:54:36+00:00
Discord and VSCode work smoothly for me on an M4 MBP -- not sure if it's a compatibility difference or just performance hiding the problem, though.

But Spotlight file search is completely broken, rebuilding the index doesn't help, and web results are the only thing it returns. After 20 years of intense research, Apple finally caught up to Microsoft in race to make search broken and useless.
by vkou | 2025-09-25 18:55:53+00:00
> But in tech, the price is the price the consumer is willing to pay, as the per-piece cost is essentially close to 0.

1. Just because the marginal unit cost of sofware is ~0, you can't ignore the trillions of dollars that have to be spent in up-front R&D costs. Consumers collectively pay for that.

2. Skilled immigrants do things besides building apps. (But it's not even relevant because #1).

> no company would decrease their price

That says more about the current economic system, monopoly capture, and the incentives around American capitalism than it does about who is doing the work for those companies.

> You are trying to slide the subject.

I'm not trying to dodge anything - this is incredibly relevant to your thesis. You think that productivity gains and lower labour costs, and more people doing more work = bad for workers. AI creates the exact same economic pressures.

> AI is a tool, not a worker.

It is, which is what makes it even worse. It's a tool that doesn't even expect a paycheck, can never demand for better working conditions, and is what is actually putting young, skilled graduates out of a job, because nobody wants to hire a junior in an economy where an LLM can do 90% of their work for $200/mo.

If you actually cared about juniors landing jobs, you need to start cracking down on LLMs, (and other productivity-boosting tools), not immigrants. The former are going to be the real downward pressure on labour this decade.
by mk89 | 2025-09-25 18:56:02+00:00
You're talking about a country where freedom of speech is openly not existing. Imagine your chances of finding out that they accidentally spread a virus they were researching about.

The same country with 1 billion people and 6-8 covid cases per day. Sure.

To be honest I don't even understand why this is a topic anymore. Conspiracy or not, it's plausible that they screwed up. Why are people nitpicking, I don't get it.
by fair_enough | 2025-09-25 18:56:32+00:00
I'm not comparing the bill uninsured patients pay to the bill insured patients pay. I'm comparing the bill hospitals charge uninsured patients to the bill hospitals charge insurance companies for insured patients.

Hospitals and clinics offer a preferential rate to insurance companies as a sort of volume discount because insurance companies with thousands of patients have a lot more negotiating power than any individual patient who is uninsured or using an HSA.

It got even worse once health insurance companies started negotiating contracts with favored nations clauses requiring hospitals to bill then ~10-30% less than patients paying out of pocket. It's an oligopoly, but on the demand side: an oligopsony.
by tptacek | 2025-09-25 18:56:35+00:00
Right, and if you go from the actual definition of social murder, basically everybody in the G8 is a murderer, unless you artificially confine the analysis to your own county.

I'm sure the concept has a lot of utility philosophically, but when you try to distill it down to "PE firm owners are murderers" you wind up in pretty crazy places unless you supply a lot of motivated reasoning and special pleading.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-25 18:57:00+00:00
Exactly. Econ 101: why do consumption taxes work at all? By increasing the amount of pain associated with purchasing a particular indulgent product, you decrease the consumption of that product on the margin. When you increase the price of cigarettes by 20%, cigarette smoking in a society decreases. But for the most addicted, no consumption tax will probably act as a deterrent.

Some individuals will find a way to distribute and consume child pornography no matter the cost. But other addicted individuals will stop consuming if doing so becomes so laborious because they are consuming or distributing on the margin. I.e, imagine the individual who doesn't want to be consuming it, who knows they shouldn't—this type of deterrent may be the breaking point that gets them to stop altogether. And if you reduce the amount of consumption or production by any measure, you decrease a hell of a lot of suffering.

But anyway, the goal of this legislation is not to drive the level of distribution to 0. The goal of policymakers could be seen charitably as an attempt to curtail consumption, because any reduction in consumption is a good thing.
by rchaud | 2025-09-25 18:57:09+00:00
VR is in what I think of as a "native DRM" market. Why did the iPod take off? Because everybody already had gigabytes of stolen music on their computers with no content gated by record label distribution deals. The MP3 format was universally used and all that was needed was hardware with an easy interface to take it on the go.

With VR, it's different. There's SteamVR, PSVR, HTC Vive, Oculus, all with their own DRM'd marketplaces , pricing structures and differences in content availability. It can't be taken on the go. Most people who game already have big screen TVs. So where exactly is the value?
by meowface | 2025-09-25 18:57:42+00:00
I understand that, and I am sympathetic to those needs to some degree. They do have increased legitimate surveillance needs. But they've lost all of their good will. Partnering with them is too morally and PR-ily hazardous.

I am not saying Israel is nearly as bad as Nazi Germany, but I think this argument is overall kind of pointless because one could easily have said that Nazi Germany had greatly increased legitimate surveillance needs after they invaded Poland.
by brewdad | 2025-09-25 18:57:45+00:00
Depends on if you packed wisely (not needing to remove medication or batteries before gate checking). Also depends on how quickly you need to be able to get out of the airport when you arrive.

Lastly, there is always the risk of a lost bag once you no longer have it with you. One fight years ago they forgot to load all of the car seats and gate checked bags that were left at the end of the ramp. We were stuck waiting 90 minutes for the next flight from that destination to arrive since we needed the car seat to drive our child home.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-09-25 18:57:59+00:00
> don't consider "consumer protections" to be burdensome or costly.

I mean if they're unaware that a politician will dress up their policy with pejoratives then I'd be happy to have a conversation with them.

To be more explicit regarding your other groups, they affirmatively voted for a president and one or more legislators. They can claim ignorance about a particular policy but it is willful ignorance. As in the kind where they get to own the implications of deciding to not to do any research beyond their one issue.
by yesco | 2025-09-25 18:58:06+00:00
It's also excellent for subjective NLP-type analysis. For example, I use it for "scouting" chapters in my translation pipeline to compile coherent glossaries that I can feed into prompts for per-chapter translation.

This involves having it identify all potential keywords and distinct entities, determine their approximate gender (important for languages with ambiguous gender pronouns), and then perform a line-by-line analysis of each chapter. For each line, it identifies the speaking entity, determines whose POV the line represents, and identifies the subject entity. While I didn't need or expect perfection, Gemini Flash 2.5 was the only model I tested that could not only follow all these instructions, but follow them well. The cheap price was a bonus.

I was thoroughly impressed, it's now my go-to for any JSON-formatted analysis reports.
by philipkglass | 2025-09-25 18:58:07+00:00
I used it for numerical simulations and it was very fast there. But on my workstation many common programs like "grep" were slower than on my cheap Athlon machine. (Both were running Red Hat Linux at the time.) I don't know how much of that was a compiler problem and how much was an architecture problem; the Itanium numerical simulation code was built with Intel's own compiler but all the system utilities were built with GNU compilers.
by mips_avatar | 2025-09-25 18:58:40+00:00
This is really cool, I could imagine a number of ways I'd want to incorporate this into my data pipeline. Your agent is actually doing a great job of finding useful sources, though I wish there was a way it could really dig into some of these sources and pull hard from them. For my query it actually found some cool sources I didn't know existed, but it only pulled a single query from them. I'm now thinking I should go and write a custom scraper for those sources to actually get the full data I want.
by SR2Z | 2025-09-25 18:58:44+00:00
> This is sortof absurd on the face of it. For context, I'm a European who's been working for US based companies for well over a decade now, and rarely do I have communications issues (and they're generally with non-native English speakers, mostly Europeans living in the US).

You might have excellent fluency, but my experience is that it varies a lot depending on the person.

> Granted, you can't fire them for not laughing at your jokes but the same sort of process gets followed in California where most US tech companies are headquatered.

I think this is underselling the degree of employment protection in Europe, but I will freely admit I'm not an expert.

> In fact, it's normally easier to get a better person outside the US, as they have less options at big-tech level wages. The US dominates the tech sector because of availablity of capital, not availability of talent.

But "better person" here doesn't mean smarter - it means a more effective employee. Working in a very different timezone, language barriers, and culture differences make that an uphill battle, which is why offshoring hasn't exploded.
by KittenInABox | 2025-09-25 18:58:44+00:00
Bro now you're assuming a guy is baiting you when, as far as I can see, he was just protesting his wife being in the category of what you called "hood rats". You're the one that extrapolated your bad experience to all patients in the ER, btw, not the "hood rats" you were forced to deal with. This is such an emotional overreaction I think you probably went through some shit and can't see how damaged you've become as a result. You can't even see a man who loves his genuinely suffering wife as anything more than a cheap shot to win an argument. I'm sorry for what it's worth.
by jameshilliard | 2025-09-25 18:58:48+00:00
It's quite clear which group has genocidal intent, there's a Wikipedia page [0] for that as well. Groups like Hamas are quite open about their genocidal intentions, they even detail those desires in their charter [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_in_the...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Hamas_charter