MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sureglymop | 2025-09-22 13:19:18+00:00
> when you realize that your predictions are going to be wrong, you should have the basic decency to update people

Not to get too political, but the last I've heard of Elon Musk is that he was speaking to/mobilizing right wing extremists at a big protest in London. I am also pretty sure he has been trying to do similar things in other European nations (for whatever reason).

It seems to me that it is a bit late to plead for "basic decency" at this moment.

But at the same time let me ask you, what has he got to lose? What financial or reputational risk is he taking by not taking any accountability?
by mooreds | 2025-09-22 13:19:43+00:00
I was just listening to a podcast[0] talking about how the number of folks needed to create a movie is going to decrease by 90%, in part because of AI.

I think these tools will absolutely hit the freelance market. More video will be produced, and the video involving humans will be at a higher standard.

0:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tiktok-warner-bros-and...
by Aurornis | 2025-09-22 13:19:44+00:00
> The Mac Desktop is vastly inferior to the Linux world

I have to use Mac, Linux, and Windows desktops in my work.

They all have their pros and cons, but I can’t say I’d ever argue that the Mac desktop experience is vastly inferior to the Linux desktop experience.

Edit: Getting a lot of downvotes but most of the comments are about someone’s highly customized Linux desktop compared to completely vanilla Mac desktop. I’m referring to apples to apples comparison where they’re either some standard out of the box version or when customized with available tools and mods. Comparing your highly customized Linux desktop to a completely uncustomized Mac setup with no attempt at other tools or utilities isn’t an interesting comparison because it’s not apples to apples, it’s just a statement about your current preference.
by FranzFerdiNaN | 2025-09-22 13:19:49+00:00
There really is a huge gap between a programmer and being capable at using a computer. I work in the data space and while im good enough for my own needs with Python and grew up in the 90s with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1/95, the second i have to use something that is build by and for programmers i too end up feeling like the blog post describes.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-22 13:20:02+00:00
What mission do you love from Framework? Is it environmental?

If so, I seriously doubt that the lifetime pollution of a Framework laptop is better than an Apple Silicon Mac.

Macbooks tend to last a very long time. I used my Intel Macbook Air for 10 years. After that, I sold it and maybe it continued to get used by the second owner. While you can keep upgrading Framework laptops (parts require shipping/pollution to manufacture), I doubt it'll last a decade or someone wants to upgrade it for a decade to keep up.

Apple also has recycling programs and it seems to do quite well when it comes to using recycled materials. I doubt Framework is big enough to do these things as well as Apple.

Framework laptops are often more than doubled the price of similar spec'ed Windows laptops. They're also quite a bit more expensive than Apple laptops in the same class.

Framework is one of those things that is great for virtue signaling but doesn't make sense in real life.

Edit:

You can buy an M4 Air for $799 on sale frequently.[0] Meanwhile, a similar spec'ed Framework with a slower AMD CPU/GPU is $1,517.00.[1] So the repairability angle just doesn't seem worth it. If the Air breaks, just buy a new one.

Keep in mind that the M4 Air has a better display, significantly faster CPU, faster GPU, significantly more battery life, is fanless, better speakers, much better trackpad, and a thinner profile.

[0]https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/27/200-off-every-m4-macboo...

[1]https://frame.work/products/laptop13-diy-amd-ai300/configura...
by b3lvedere | 2025-09-22 13:20:08+00:00
I guess it's a bit on how various technologies are optimized within the system. My Steam Deck can hold quite some battery juice for a while, but i will never be more amazed than my original Nintendo DS, that still has lots of battery capacity even after years and years of neglect.

For my current laptops i have been ignoring the battery completely. I rather have max performance, so every energy saving thing gets disabled. Most of the time it's connected to power anyway.
by palmotea | 2025-09-22 13:20:11+00:00
Sadly, it might not be ironic. I've encountered many people (particularly software engineers and other tech bros) who assume most written language is mostly BS/padding, and assume the only real information there is what you get get from a concise summary or list of bullet points.

It's the kind of incuriosity that comes from the arrogance from believing you're very smart but actually being quite ignorant.

So it wounds like one of those guys took their misunderstanding and built and sell tools founded on it.
by intended | 2025-09-22 13:20:44+00:00
The situation fundamentally starts in the 1960s.

The root cause, or primary driver of the situation today is the exit of the Republican Party and the conservative media/political sphere from bipartisan politics and facts.

These two forces are the ones which rotate the flywheel that powers everything else.

Act in a bipartisan manner? Vote against the party lines ? - get primaried.

Cover something that doesn’t match the prevailing narrative ? Is not of utility to the party ? Be ignored.

Have a narrative that sells and can be used, but is absolutely bonkers or inaccurate? Doesnt matter, it’s going to be used.

This force constantly drove the base further and further right, removed any links to facts or reason at scale.

This in turn supports partisanship at all cost politics, and support for policies that have little to do with complex reality but everything to do with preferred narratives.

Trump has a 92% approval rating amongst republicans from a recent Fox Poll.
by dfawcus | 2025-09-22 13:20:48+00:00
For 10p, 5p and 2.5p quantities, that wouldn't be an issue as following decimalisation, those simply reused the Florin, Shilling and Sixpence coins.

Also yielding:

0.5p = 1.2d 1p = 2.4d 2p = 4.8d 3p = 7.2d 4p = 9.6d

I wonder how they handled those values with their mapping layer? Did the add a layer for handling fifths of an old penny?

(The 2.5p coins, then eventually also the 0.5p "new pennies" went out of circulation.)
by k__ | 2025-09-22 13:21:01+00:00
Yeah...

I usually go over my guides and tutorials and try to remove jargon when possible.

However, I also try to clearify the target audience.

When I write a tutorial about storing files on S3 with the AWS SDK for Node.js, I won't start by explaining what JavaScript is.

Still, if I write something that has a reasonable chance that it is read by many programming beginners, I tend to add a link to FreeCodeCamp courses that help the readers to get the minimal education to follow my piece.
by omcnoe | 2025-09-22 13:21:02+00:00
I don't really understand their reasoning behind the "technology of convenience" point.

Say I implement facial recognition anti-fraud via an army of super-recognizers sitting in an office, watching the camera feeds all day (collecting the sensitive information into their brains rather than into a computer system). It'd be more expensive and involve employing staff (both the "technology of convenience" criteria. From a consumer perspective the privacy impact is very similar, but somehow the privacy commissioner would interpret this differently?

Maybe that is the point the privacy commissioner is trying to make, that collecting this information through an automated computer system is fundamentally different than collecting this information through an analog/human system. But I'm not sure the line is really so clear...
by phs318u | 2025-09-22 13:21:05+00:00
> many of the early covid vaccine shots caused blood clots and killed people

No. “Many” is the absolute wrong qualifier here. By mid 2024, over 13 billion doses of vaccine had been administered. I don’t know what number of people died of blood clots as a result, but I am very sure that it’s not “many”. I’d hazard a guess that the number may not even be “statistically significant” (though that sounds really cold and harsh).
by JimmaDaRustla | 2025-09-22 13:21:22+00:00
Literally the passenger saw it and leaned it, the driver grabbed the steering wheel to brace himself it seems. That object on the road was massive, absolutely huge as far as on road obstacles go. The camera does not do any justice - it looks like it's 3 feet long, over a foot wide, and about 6 or 7 inches high laying on the road. Unless a human driver really isn't paying attention, they're not hitting that thing.
by tzot | 2025-09-22 13:21:31+00:00
> Something about having Cyrillic where the lower-case character set should be, just tickles my hacker heart.

We did the same on the ZX Spectrum in Greece for our programs: replace the lowercase latin letters with the keyboard-matching greek letters.

I still remember the vulgar ΣΨΡΟΛΛ? when the screen filled up and the machine asked your permission to scroll!
by maverwa | 2025-09-22 13:21:37+00:00
The complaint about power usage in suspend is especially sad because it’s pretty much a common problem for Linux on laptops. Not sure if that’s what applies here, but the numbers about match what I see with my Framework. Basically: if you want to use secure boot you usually also want kernel lockdown mode, and you cannot hibernate a lockdowned kernel. At least not without out-of-tree patches.

IMHO that’s a giant issue. If you can’t hibernate (aka suspend to disk) you will never be able to get that power consumption low. And telling people to not run secure boot or lockdown is not really a good answer either. Especially since the default installer already sets those things up. I get that „Linux on laptops“ is not a priority big enough to get a proper fix for that. And that it’s not an easy issue to fix. But the current state is really really sad.
by anonymars | 2025-09-22 13:21:48+00:00
Yeah, it's a tricky problem to solve, but other design decisions exacerbate it too, like the lack of visual or tactile feedback in the controls.

I was thinking of something similar to XL Airways Germany 888T. I was trying to find it and came across this thread making a similar comparison so I'll link that: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/comments/18ks9nl/p...

But I think there was some other example with an engine asymmetry (an autothrottle issue?) that the autopilot was fighting with bank, and eventually it exceeded the bank limit and dumped a basically uncontrollable aircraft in the pilots' lap. It would have been more obvious if you were seeing the yoke bank more and more. (Though it looks like this was China Airlines 006, a 747SP, which contradicts that thought.)

I agree that we can make the situation less abrupt for cars in some cases (though people will probably get annoyed by the car bugging them for everything going on)
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-22 13:22:06+00:00
I'm a developer and I read most tutorials like this.

Pretty much every "thing" I come across today uses some kind of dependency that I have little, or no, experience with. Unfortunately, even though the "thing" might be interesting, the fact that I'll have to spend 4-16 hours futzing with things that are completely new to me to get somewhere is often what turns me away.
by defrost | 2025-09-22 13:22:06+00:00
Let's circle back to your progenitor questions and statements then:

> In what recent decade could anyone even dream of $46,700 USD being enough for a quickly-built, furnished apartment to be built in a backyard with working laundry?

This decade, it's entirely doable, in Australia, by many but not all Australians that range in age from early twenties through to mid eighties.

> This sounds like it fell apart because it was never going to work and was an attempt by a family member to help an aged person who was in a bind of their own making via lack of planning.

It fell apart most likely because the family member that made a promise and took money lacked staging experience and was over confident.

> Seems the article could make a better impact if it had some better examples of the issue.

The article certainly needs a much better example of younger Australians ripping off older Australians as this doesn't appear to be a case of intentional deceptive fraud at all, more well intentioned incompetence.

> As presented, it sounds like "Nurse Joan" should have planned for retirement.

That's a bit harsh, she had super annunciation sufficient to get a simple small building together, access to land within the family, and due a pension at 67 onwards after a lifetime of service to others in heath care. Life being what it is it's likely various road bumps occurred along the way.

> you may have written more about the abilities of geriatric builders in Australia than anyone else to this point.

Given no one else responded a single word would have crossed that threshold - you're welcome.

Again, there's no requirement that the builders here be geriatric, just a note that many Australians in their 50s, 60s and older actively build stuff.

eg: Colin here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/australian-first-mini...
by foobarian | 2025-09-22 13:22:08+00:00
I've been driving on local and highway roads for 30 years now and I have never come across a piece of debris so large that driving over it would damage my car. Seeing that video, I don't have high confidence that I would have dodged that hazard - maybe 70% sure? The thing is, usually there is plenty of traffic ahead that acts very obviously different in situations like this that helps as well.

All that to say that I don't feel this is a fair criticism of the FSD system.
by dmatech | 2025-09-22 13:22:11+00:00
In theory, the actual individuals are still bound by state law, but the supremacy clause allows federal laws made in pursuance of the US Constitution to preempt those state laws. Of course, these laws still need to be "necessary and proper" for carrying out an express power like regulating immigration. A law that is unnecessary or improper would theoretically not hold up in court. The same goes for executive action.

Perhaps the most infamous case of this was the Idaho manslaughter case against FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi for killing Vicki Weaver in the Ruby Ridge incident. His case was simply "removed" to federal court and dismissed under the supremacy clause (although this dismissal was later overturned narrowly when appealed).
by Aurornis | 2025-09-22 13:22:20+00:00
The standby issues with Framework laptops (at least the early ones, I don’t know about recent developments) was a well known issue.

I recommended Framework to someone looking for a laptop a while ago and they were bit by the standby battery drain issue. I felt bad having recommended it to them because I assumed such a basic issue would have been addressed in a laptop that was so highly regarded.
by bluGill | 2025-09-22 13:22:28+00:00
> The point of cross continent rail travel is not being cheaper than air at all, it is about seeing and enjoying the country and the route, there is no easier or cheaper way to do that.

Amtrak isn't useful for that. For see the continent you need to get off the train for a few hours here and there to see something. That means flexible tickets; more trains so you don't have to spend a day in a small town with 3 hours entertainment, and enough space that you can make a last minute decision to see some little tourist trap for the fun of it knowing you can get the next train.

> A road trip would be both more expensive (fuel, hotels and maintenance/rental),

Very much it depends. If you are single Amtrak is cheaper (coach seats). a family is a lot cheaper to drive, since most of the costs are fixed for everyone. You likely own the car and so are making payments anyway. Gas is the same for 1 person or a full car. Hotels are rented per room. My last trip I needed a rental car to get to the family reunion 1 hour from the station, just the cost of a rental car would have paid for gas and hotel to drive my own car (the strenuous miles is why we took the train anyway, but it was more expensive than driving)

> There is quite little to see in a cruise if not near a shore

I've never been on that type of cruise (they exist, just not what I've been on). What I've been on the sea days were near shore taking in the beautiful scenery (you don't take an Alaska cruise for the ports, you take the cruise to watch the shore on sea days), or the ship hopes between islands at night and so you are at a port all day (though next time I think I'd get a resort and stay on one island). Beware.

Amtrak is often a great choice to get around. However there are problems and they are not to be overlooked.
by pavlov | 2025-09-22 13:22:30+00:00
He lies relentlessly even to customers who paid for the product.

I know because I’m one of them. FSD paid in full almost seven years ago, still does absolutely nothing in Europe. A five-year-old would do a better job at driving because the Tesla can’t even see speed limit signs correctly.

Tesla takes no responsibility for their misleading marketing and years of lies. Most recently Musk promised in early 2025 that these old cars would get a hardware update that will finally enable the paid-for FSD (as if…) The company itself pretends to know nothing about this latest promise made by its CEO.

It’s insane that a business with a trillion-dollar market cap operates like this. It seems to be more of a cult than a real company.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-22 13:22:32+00:00
Then you haven't met many Americans.

Unfortunately, I encounter many, many, many more public transit zealots online (and in person, though much less frequently) than I need to hear parrot the same talking points from fuckcars and NotJustBikes about the joys of living in an efficiency apartment and using a cargo bike to get my kids to and from their 3 different schools in the snow or blistering heat while ranting about vague "externalities" without ever providing actual numbers.
by didacusc | 2025-09-22 13:22:36+00:00
Saying that the macOS desktop is vastly inferior to Linux desktops is absolutely nuts. I've tried to get my relatives on Linux desktops so many times, just for it to go completely wrong a couple of weeks after and having to reinstall Windows. It's just not made for average (or below-average) users, so I don't see how it can be VASTLY inferior to something as easy and polished as macOS.
by moomin | 2025-09-22 13:22:44+00:00
Yes, but specifically the Labour Right are the grouping that are in power right now so their opinion matters. No-one thinks Corbyn is pro-nuclear but the stance of the Blair->Brown->Starmer axis has been extremely consistent. Without the qualification one could argue that the support was inconsistent, but nothing is further from the case. They’ve wanted this for a very long time.
by mooreds | 2025-09-22 13:22:58+00:00
> I do have quite a big network, but haven't really tapped into that at the moment!

Tap into this. Go for coffees. Ask people if they know people needing help.

There's so much spam in the job application process that having a warm intro will be extremely helpful.

There are also a lot of folks looking for work, which makes such an intro doubly helpful.
by codingdave | 2025-09-22 13:23:28+00:00
This is a lot of writing to say: "AI has weak points."

I completely disagree with the conclusion. Avoid the weak points, don't say we must fix AI to make this work. I feel like I'm writing this every day in one thread or another, but it is time to start applying AI only where it is strong, and not applying it where it is weak. It is time to treat it like any other tool, using it appropriately, which is not universally.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-22 13:24:06+00:00
How often have you needed to repair a MacBook?

The enhanced repairability is basically insurance in case of a fault. Compared to a MacBook, or insurance for a MacBook, this insurance is overpriced.

As for the environment, the power consumption + larger design with extra parts to make it repairable + how few people ever buy parts makes this a virtue signaling wash.
by xnx | 2025-09-22 13:24:28+00:00
Guy in the video calls it a "girder", but it is almost certainly a trailer ramp: https://www.proxibid.com/lotinformation/54574457/2006-murray...

That was my hunch, but Google Lens was able to ID it. Possible that Waymo vehicles can do this too, but that must take some serious compute and optimization to do at highway speeds.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-22 13:24:31+00:00
I know Windows laptops are very finicky and unreliable. For example, loads of people complain that $3000 Razer laptops break after a few months.

I guess I'm mostly talking about Apple overall.

You're paying a lot more money for self-repairability. Frameworks are generally more expensive than Macs, sometimes 50% - 100% more expensive for a similar laptop. That's crazy.

Macs are tanks. Not a single issue with my 4 year old M1 Air. Even if there is an issue, I can still take it to an Apple Store to get it looked at.
by water-data-dude | 2025-09-22 13:24:39+00:00
If 10% of people aren't vaccinating their dogs for rabies that's WAY too many, and it's a big problem.

Going to good ol' Wikipedia[0], "in countries where dogs commonly have the disease, more than 99% of rabies cases in humans are the direct result of dog bite. In the Americas, bat bites are the most common source of rabies infections in humans, and less than 5% of cases are from dogs." But the article is citing sources from 2011 - if TEN PERCENT of people aren't getting their dogs their rabies shots, that number is going to increase.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies
by bell-cot | 2025-09-22 13:24:58+00:00
The story is about an art exhibit, which has those housing blocks as its theme. But more relevant to the 99.99%, who aren't actually interested in that little niche of the art world:

> “It’s about the ‘slab’ or prefab as a place and memory of living, as a symbol of social utopias and as a canvas for social change,” says Kito Nedo, the curator of the exhibition at the Minsk gallery in Potsdam, itself an important architectural monument of the so-called Ostmodern, which narrowly escaped demolition after local protests.

> “The biggest question in the room, more relevant than ever in Germany and cities across Europe, is how to create affordable, quality housing,” Nedo adds. “The housing plan of the GDR was an historic attempt to address this question. It’s one politicians are called on to find an answer to today.”
by zipy124 | 2025-09-22 13:25:05+00:00
I think as jeffbee said below it's not even the custom ARM cores, but rather Apple's ability to control not only the hardware but the software on-top of it. In a typical Windows machine you are dealing with your CPU and microcode made by AMD/Intel/Other, then the BIOS/Driver code written by your motherboard manufacturer, and your GPU from either the on-board, or dGPU from Intel/Nvidia/AMD and then Windows made by Microsoft. All of this leads to silly things like the ASUS ACPI driver bug [1] or Dell [2]. Apple does not suffer from this lack of control and communication, instead allowing tight integration.

[1]: https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

[2]: https://triangulatedexistence.mataroa.blog/blog/i-uncovered-...
by corndoge | 2025-09-22 13:25:08+00:00
Yes, it's this. I also own an M4 mbp and an AMD framework 13. With both on maximum screen brightness, side by side, doing similar workloads, battery life isn't that much better on the M4. I think the difference maker is that the mac constantly decreases screen brightness when possible, turns the backlight completely off when there isn't any activity, heavily leverages power efficient scheduling and efficiency cores, no doubt turns off power to all peripherals whenever possible, and so on. And of course lid-closed suspend on a mac lasts indefinitely. Arch does none of these things and even on cohesive distros like Fedora there's only so much you can do in user land. Linux is designed for compatibility across a huge breadth of devices; darwin only has to support Mac hardware and can extract every ounce of power efficiency from deep hardware integration.