MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lawlessone | 2025-09-19 20:26:21+00:00
What if the AI just outcompetes us all, by being better at capitalism, to the point all humans are just an underclass beneath a machine ascendancy class? Even the human CEO's and even the politicians eventually get pushed out by machines that have the capability to both campaign and govern 24/7

You turn on the TV and you see AI avatars talking about how violent all humans are. BrianKilmeade.AI talking about how we all need lethal injection. Less extreme AI's that don't want to cull us but still want to move us to reservations in regions they less prefer.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-19 20:27:51+00:00
Boy, that's going to be a popular rule. I'll bet K Street is getting their engines gassed and greased for this.

I'm deeply unhappy about H1B abuse. I've watched it happen, in front of me. It's definitely a real thing. But I also worry about the legit folks, that want to take advantage of it.
by foota | 2025-09-19 20:28:19+00:00
Hey, thanks for the comment! Also, I'm amused by the specificity of your account haha, do you have something set to monitor HN for mentions of Lustre?

> "But Lustre doesn't support NVMeoF directly. It uses a custom protocol."

Could you link me to this? I searched the lustre repo for nvme and didn't see anything that looked promising, but would be curious to read how this works.

> "And neither does EFA. Someone would have to modify the NVMeoF RDMA target/host drivers to support it."

To confirm, you're saying there'd need to be something like an EFA equivalent to https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tor... (and corresponding initiator code)?

> "EFA already supports in-kernel IB clients (that's how Lustre uses EFA today). So it's not an impossible task. It's just that no one has done it."

I think you're saying there's already in-kernel code for interfacing with EFA, because this is how lnet uses EFA? Is that https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyc...? I found this but I wasn't sure if this was actually the dataplane (for lack of a better word) part of things, from what I read it sounded like most of the dataplane was implemented in userspace as a part of libfabric, but it sounds like I might be wrong.

Does this mean you can generally just pretend that EFA is a normal IB interface and have things work out? If that's the case, why doesn't NVME-of just support it naturally? Just trying to figure out how these things fit together, I appreciate your time!

In case you're curious, I have a stateful service that has an NVME backed cache over object storage and I've been wondering what it would take to make it so that we could run some proxy services that can directly read from that cache to scale out the read throughput from an instance.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-19 20:28:35+00:00
The difference is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

as opposed to the "workers control the means of production" idea of Marx, Lenin and such. You tax individuals and businesses and use those provide certain services. There's also the idea that you have legislation to protect workers (minimum wage, 40 hour week), consumers (air bags in cars) and the environment (no lead in gas.) Other than that you let capitalists do what they do best.

What I can't get is that so many people get so angry at the idea that poor people, or at least poor people younger than 65, could have access to health care in the US.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-09-19 20:28:54+00:00
There is a generation of programmers that became interested in computers only because they felt that computers were cool. Mostly useless, except for playing games, but cool. Only later the knowledge also turned out to be a source of money.

And then there is a generation that grew up knowing that there was money in computers, so many of them learned to use them even if they didn't care about them per se. This generation also contains many hackers, but they are surrounded by at least 10x more people who only do it for money.

Twenty years ago, most programmers were nerds. These days, nerds are a minority among the programmers. Talking about programming during an IT department teambuilding event is now a serious faux pas.
by cyberax | 2025-09-19 20:29:24+00:00
Polling for the safepoint signal adds overhead to tight loop, so Golang uses asynchronous signals to interrupt threads. It needs it for async pre-emption, not just GC. It also results in not knowing the exact state of the frame, so it has to scan the last frame of the stack conservatively.

There are no good ways to deal with that currently. Some VMs even used CPU instruction simulators to interpret the code until it hit the known good safepoint.

I had one idea about improving that: have a "doppelganger" mirror for the inner tight loops, that is instruction-by-instruction identical to the regular version. Except that backjumps are replaced with the call into the GC safepoint handler.

It'd be interesting to try this approach with Fil-C.
by Vikram_jindal | 2025-09-19 20:29:31+00:00
Yeah, totally get what you mean. I’ve noticed the same thing — AI tools make it ridiculously easy to spin up something that looks like a working app, but the moment you try to deploy it in the real world, you hit walls.

Most demos stop short of deployment because setting up DNS, SSL, scaling, logs, monitoring, and all the little “ops” bits is still way too messy — especially if you’re not already DevOps-heavy. That’s kind of what pushed me into exploring this space more seriously.

Curious though — when you’ve had to take something beyond a demo yourself, did you lean more towards DIY VPS setups or managed platforms? I keep running into people who either overpay for simplicity or underpay and get buried in configs.
by ssl-3 | 2025-09-19 20:29:38+00:00
It depends on the application.

If one just wants a cheap desktop box to do desktop things with, then they're a terrible option, price-wise, compared to things like used corpo mini-PCs.

But they're reasonably cost-competitive with other new (not used!) small computers that are tinkerer-friendly, and unlike many similar constructs there's a plethora of community-driven support for doing useful things with the unusual interfaces they expose.
by aanet | 2025-09-19 20:29:44+00:00
Dr Eric Topol has a fascinating analysis + discussion of this paper over at his Substack.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/dawn-of-a-new-era-of-primar...

Quoting his summary here:

<QUOTE>

We’re at the dawn of primary prevention. Not only are there many new layers of data—organ clocks, biomarkers, genomics, biosensors—but we have multimodal A.I. and agentIc A.I. to analyze the data. For the first time, we are seeing a large health model (Delphi-2M) that has learned the grammar and language of health, tokenizing it to predict diseases with temporal anchoring. We’ve gotten used to large language models that predict the next word in a sentence, but just imagine how powerful a large health model (LHM) will be when all the other layers of data beyond those utilized in Delphi-2M are integrated. Yes, 0.76 AUC performance for prediction across all diseases isn’t great, but this is just the beginning. From Delphi-2M, we learned that person’s health story can be projected 20 years ahead. This represents a jump from my prior piece on precision medical forecasting. Future models will keep improving on precise medical forecasting.

At the same time, we’re seeing the most advanced personal health agent that has yet been developed and validated, which can incorporate layers of data not previously utilized, with interactivity and long-term memory that may help promote healthy lifestyles for users. No, it won’t work for everyone, but given poor adoption of healthy lifestyle factors (for example, 75% of Americans do not even fulfill the minimal recommendations for physical activity), it would be hard to think it won’t help to some extent.

There’s currently a lot of negativism about generative A.I. I get it. But the new era of primary prevention would not be possible without it. It will take time to get this to be standard of care, that is real prevention, but I believe it will ultimately wind up being seen as the most important contribution of A.I. for promoting human health.

</QUOTE>
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-09-19 20:29:46+00:00
Thanks for that - yes, I haven’t quite gotten on the “just use AI search for everything now” bandwagon, but of course it makes a lot of sense that it’d be in there somewhere.

Guess I’m gonna go to a local service place with this PDF and the TV and see what they can do. I’m filled with anticipation for the day that I can boot up a terminal on Sony’s first TV and include it in one of my exhibits.

I do retro computing exhibits, in case you were wondering why I have all this junk… ;)
by quacked | 2025-09-19 20:29:55+00:00
The way I see it is that US companies cannot simultaneously compete with foreign workers who are as good or better than US workers but are willing to work harder for less money, and also retain a high QoL for US workers. If US companies want to compete on actual merit and cost, they have to let US QoL take a hit. If they want to retain US QoL, they can't compete.

Something's gotta give, and the endless dancing with partial offshoring and H1Bs is band-aiding over two options: a bloodbath for American workers where competing for their jobs is actually opened up to the globe, or a massive, nationalist set of labor protections to stop other countries from bidding on work asked for by the US markets. Making H1Bs more costly is a little stronger than a Band-Aids, but not by much.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 20:30:18+00:00
The Ruby community has been coasting on the work of a few for so long that I believe Ellen will find something much more rewarding in the future.

This kind of thing is a sad example of why we need policies before we involve others.

I didn't lose as much as Ellen did, but I involved a good friend I'd known and trusted over 2 decades in a business deal once and it blew up in ways I could have never imagined. You really never know what is going to happen when you give someone else power.
by trentirvin | 2025-09-19 20:30:28+00:00
I started building this two years ago as my first serious project, after realizing how easy it is to search for whatever confirms your own bias. I was guilty of those endless comment-section battles that go nowhere.

The idea came after seeing a teacher use the Socratic method to break through students’ preconceived notions before discussing contentious topics. That inspired the name: Elenchus, the word Socrates used for his method of questioning.

The problem: when we see a claim on social media or in passing, we usually seek out evidence that supports what we already believe.

How Elenchus works:

Before searching, you’re guided through a few questions to clarify the claim, your perspective, and potential biases.

The search function only pulls from news sources, with each article rated for source bias and journalistic integrity.

While reading, you can take notes or highlight terms to instantly pull a Wikipedia extract (so you don’t context-switch).

At the end, you see your original perspective alongside an option to note if the information changed your view.

The goal is to make it harder to slip into confirmation bias and easier to reflect on how evidence actually affects your beliefs.
by nout | 2025-09-19 20:30:28+00:00
The difference is that on nostr you can have immediate interactions with others, you can get their comments, you can message with them, etc.

In your example you can think about nostr as a protocol on top of "your own websites" that allows all people with "your own website" to effectively communicate and live interact with each other. And creating "your own website" is just a matter of clicking a button in any nostr app that generates private key and public key pair.
by nomdep | 2025-09-19 20:30:35+00:00
Until a few years ago, RubyCentral was very similar to the Python Software Foundation in that it managed all the infrastructure and the main conferences - everything except language development.

A few years ago, RubyCentral lost power when the Rails Foundation was created (most of the Ruby world revolves around Rails). The Rails Foundation organizes its own yearly conference, and RubyCentral stopped hosting theirs.

However, RubyCentral still controls the package management tools and the package registry.
by alphazard | 2025-09-19 20:30:39+00:00
> I think this is what you're saying, that ideally product managers should be people who were engineers at some point and understands how the product they're managing works, as well as the customer needs.

It takes knowledge of the problem and solution domain to maintain a vision and lead a team. But in this case, the scarcity is with the problem domain. People who really understand what problem the product solves, and the best way to think about it, especially when their view leads the industry, are very hard to find. Too hard to build an organization around the implicit assumption of finding them.

My advice for organization building is not to have product managers, or even allow the term into your company. There are people with good product taste, they occur at some rate, and when you find them doing other things like writing software or supporting users you nudge them in the direction of curating a product vision and controlling resources to execute on it. Framed that way, the importance and hardness of the problem are very clear.
by darkoob12 | 2025-09-19 20:30:56+00:00
The mild response shouldn't surprise you. I think the majority of American consumers and developers use iOS and they have little to no problem with the highly controlled and monopolized system.

Apple controls ridiculous detail of your application and there are many developers who think that it is necessary for Apple to keep the high quality of iOS.

Actually I was shocked when one of my coworkers told me that it is a very good idea and Google should have done it sooner.
by applied_heat | 2025-09-19 20:31:04+00:00
>Beyond raw performance, the GC Flux PCS features advanced grid-forming capabilities, making it ideal for modern grid applications. It supports active inertia response up to 25 seconds, wide-band damping across 1–1500 Hz, and ultra-fast voltage and frequency regulation in under 100 milliseconds

I wonder what active inertia response is and why it is limited to 25 seconds.

The normal rotating machines have inertia, stored rotational kinetic energy, so when electrical load is added and mechanical power in does not immediately change they new load is fed by the generator very slightly Slowing down and measured by a decreasing frequency.

How would active inertia be different from the inverter simply putting out more power when frequency drops?
by calebm | 2025-09-19 20:31:12+00:00
Good point. It's all about balance though. People have been riding on boats on water for a long long time (most of it without the invention of sunglasses). And similar to the truck drivers who drive hours with one side exposed, or people who sunbathe a bunch - that is unbalanced. Staring at the sun at full brightness would be unbalanced. But I think never looking at it is also unbalanced. You can look at it, but keep your eyes moving - don't focus and stare at it for seconds (unless it's really low on the horizon, and then I think it is okay to stare at the sun).
by jnsie | 2025-09-19 20:31:17+00:00
Why the disingenuous response. What I linked was an article entitled "New Report Exposes Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s Monopoly Control of Top Arenas and Amphitheaters Worldwide". The fact that they monopolize venues strongly discounts your suggestion that they will "slowly die or be replaced quickly by something better like an AI ticketing system".
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-09-19 20:31:19+00:00
Not OP but Windows 11 "just works" compared with Linux on a laptop.

For context, I've been using Linux since 1994, including some tiny contribution to the then kernel. I also administered tons of Linux boxes professionally and personally.

With this said, I am trying every 15 months or so to start Ubuntu on my laptop and see how I could live with it in my world of Outlook, zScaler and Zoom. So far I cannot and I would love to be proven wrong.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-19 20:31:32+00:00
It does go to the government and not to Trump's personal wallet (like the memecoins and lavish gift), it's just a tax that's just not being called a tax, and frankly it's a good idea. The current abuse of H1B doesn't work out positively for anyone but the companies making a boatload of money on exploiting people.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-19 20:32:06+00:00
Because I don't really want to penalize a company for bringing in foreign labor. If a company can't find someone for a specific job or role then I don't care if they go abroad to find that person.

What I care about is the current system isn't being used to find hard to find labor, it's used to bring in cheap labor in an abusive situation.

We as a nation are really better off if we bring in the best in the world to work here with a cushy salary.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-09-19 20:32:10+00:00
> Google needs YouTube downloaders. They perform a valuable role: If it were impossible to download YouTube videos, many organizations would abandon hosting their videos on YouTube for a platform that offered more user flexibility. Or they’d need to host a separate download link and put it in their YouTube descriptions. But organizations don’t need to jump through hoops -- they just let people use YouTube downloaders.

I don't think I believe this, as much as I'd like to. How many organizations would really consider this a critical need? My guess is, not enough for Google to care.
by breadwinner | 2025-09-19 20:32:11+00:00
No, Chinese will stay home instead of immigrating to the US.

China draws mainly on the talents of the best of its billion+ population. But America has had its pick of the best of the world's 8 billion people. If people stop immigrating to the US, then we will surely fall behind technologically, economically and militarily, and soon we will be making t-shirts for Chinese for $5 an hour.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-19 20:32:11+00:00
What you wrote sounds like a good description of processes at my previous job, which I left after 7y. At the beginning I saw a problem, I solved it, got my hands in everything that needed a solution. I basically built the whole initial platform.

Later it was just all scrum wannabe agile and task after task, while experimentation was phased out and engineers were even forbidden to explore other topics than the team lead wanted, because according to him those topics were not close enough to the job. Guess what, all good engineers left. Now that team lead left as well, and if they didn't learn anything from that experience, I am sure they will wreak havoc somewhere else.
by erulabs | 2025-09-19 20:32:44+00:00
Extortion doesn't count for much if the FCC had no leg to stand on. I would have loved to have seen the fine and the resulting court-case, but unfortunately for everyone ABC pulled the program because of complaints from its broadcasters. We do not (as far as I know), have the ability to know to what extent the FCC Chair's comments mattered at all.

I absolutely agree the FCC is overstepping and that the FCC Chair is doing a bad thing by making such comments, but until the FCC as an organization actually issues a fine or pulls a license, nothing has actually happened. If what I'm saying puts me into some particular camp that you're opposed to, well, the scissor statement worked. And that makes me much more upset than any of this drama.
by coldtea | 2025-09-19 20:32:47+00:00
>I'm very skeptical of the article - it sounds to me like classic "good old days" thinking¹

That's a cheap dismisal. There's nothing wrong with "good old days" thinking if old days were actually better.

>Meanwhile the idea that there's a dearth of cool new stuff seems quite quaint to me. There's a whole bunch of cool things that pop up almost daily right here on Hacker News²

Hardly of the breadth and ambition of the 1998-2012 or so period.

>As to corporate power? They ebb and flow and eat each other (Data General, Compaq, DEC ... remember them? Remember when Microsoft was the major enemy? Or IBM?)

Yes, and also remember then players like Sun did cool stuff in the UNIX space. Or when FOSS wasn't basically billion dollar corporate owned wholesale, with mere corporate employees buying the majority of contributors and IBM, Oracle, Google and co running the show. Even RedHat was considered too corporate and now it's IBM...
by azemetre | 2025-09-19 20:33:00+00:00
Because there are some H1B workers that come over as translators or other non-tech professions. Like if you need a translator that speaks Swahili for some NGO it's way easier to hire a native Swahili speaker than possibly finding a qualified American that also speaks Swahili.

I do find it interesting that these trillion dollar companies can't find domestic workers, at their level of wealth they should simply be forced to pay for the education of Americans to create a funnel of workers rather than exporting this societal need to other nations.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-19 20:33:05+00:00
It's a severely under-reported aspect of this issue that a troubling amount of times, the issue isn't that Americans want too much money or just don't want to work, the issue is there are no Americans qualified to do the work you need to do who are looking for a job.

The Hyundai factory exposed this. The VISA'd employees (or non-VISA'd? I don't remember the details offhand) were only there in the first place overseeing the project because they literally could not find anyone qualified to do the fucking job in Georgia.
by dfxm12 | 2025-09-19 20:33:35+00:00
The answer is easy. Don't buy crazy expensive tickets.

I think this is a knock on effect of wealth inequality. People on here are talking about buying $700 tickets. My first thought is that the price sounds insane, but my second thought is to recognize that some folks have way more disposable income than I do. So $700 might be just another night out for someone else...
by pjmlp | 2025-09-19 20:33:42+00:00
Note that it is very simplistic to say Java has a compacting garbage collector, between Oracle JDK, OpenJDK, Temurin, Azul, PTC, Aicas, microEJ, OpenJ9, GraalVM, Jikes RVM, and the cousin Android, there is pleothora of GC configurations to chose from, that go beyond that.
by al_borland | 2025-09-19 20:33:44+00:00
Last week I paid extra for “direct to me”, and I could see the driver stop at the grocery store and spend 30 minutes there, before finally bringing me my cold food. They are clearly driving for multiple services at the same time. I have no real recourse, as the tip is given before placing the order.

I’m tied of paying a pretty extreme premium for sub-par service.

The drones have the potential of fixing one of the issues, the drivers making multiple stops.

I wonder if they could also solve the issue of the restaurants screwing up orders, allowing customers to send back wrong orders to be corrected. Or having the chat be between the customer and the restaurant, instead of the driver, so if they are out of something they can ask what the customer wants, instead of just skipping the item.

My order volume has gone down a lot due to how often things get screwed up, and how long it takes to actually get a delivery now.
by bobthepanda | 2025-09-19 20:33:47+00:00
Two things can be true.

The study says sun good. But the studies being described in the UV are specifically comparing people who stay indoors vs people who get exposed to UV by being outdoors. The studies listed are not looking at application of sunscreen, or wearing clothes to block UV, etc.

This generally makes sense; stop being cooped up indoors and do things outside, but also wear UV protection.