MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-25 22:55:07+00:00
For a comparison, the "similar" computer from 2006 [0] had a maximum configuration of 4xCPU @ 1 GHz and 8GB of RAM. It weighed 60 lb (27 kg) and looked like this:

https://imgur.com/fc7BWTc

But Raspberry Pi 500+ has already 2.4GHz quad-core ARM64 CPU and 16GB RAM.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Tezro
by reneberlin | 2025-09-25 22:55:20+00:00
Yes. These are the roots of all the things you take for granted now. And those times were different: you really dug deep into things back then. Very undistracted times compared to now.

Many of us are still on the edge of tech now, which means we have around 40 years of evolution, concepts, pitfalls - and the things that happened to society when we let it loose to the masses. It's a bit like putting genie back in the bottle again and enjoy the naive times.

Romantizing a bit, like all nostalgica. But still, it's a time-machine. I have a fully running C64 around. Just hit the lovely poweron-switch and everything runs as expected.
by mlindner | 2025-09-25 22:55:32+00:00
Griffin did not fund SpaceX. He does not have any money. And yes Griffin, among several other people, accompanied Musk to Russia as advisors for his private plan to buy rockets to send a mini-greenhouse to Mars. The failure to make a deal is what precipitated the creation of SpaceX. Elon offered Griffin the position of chief engineer at SpaceX, but Griffin refused.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-25 22:56:08+00:00
> there exists a much higher bar expected of computers/automation/etc. even if a waymo is objectively safer in terms of incidents per miles driven, one fatality makes headlines and adds scrutiny about “was it avoidable?”

This doesn’t seem to be happening. One, there are shockingly few fatalities. Two, we’ve sort of accepted the tradeoff.
by danenania | 2025-09-25 22:56:13+00:00
My own code quality is better with AI, because it makes it feasible to indulge my perfectionism to a much greater degree. Before AI, I usually needed to stop sooner than I would have liked to and call it good enough. Now I can justify making everything much more robust because it doesn’t take a lot longer.

It’s the same story with UI/UX. Previously, I’d often have to skip little UI niceties because they take time and aren’t that important. Now even relatively minor user flows can be very well polished because there isn’t much cost to doing so.
by rand846633 | 2025-09-25 22:56:44+00:00
Here is how I read OP:

It is anti American not in the sense of “I think America is a bad/immortal place” but much more in the sense of “we objectively can measure that in accordance to Americans, America is bad for Americans”.. Now this could be true or not. It is anti American. If it is fair/true or not it’s an other question.
by jacobolus | 2025-09-25 22:56:44+00:00
Taking political constraints into account, the Biden Administration was just about the most successful and effective, in policy terms, of the past 50 years. Unfortunately the political landscape is pretty unfavorable, with GOP-supportive media, a GOP-aligned Supreme Court and super wealthy people, increasingly extremist state governments in many parts of the country, decades of corporate consolidation, weakening civic institutions, and an electorate that largely ignores the details. Biden himself was never a great orator and his public charisma suffered further with age, but as far as governing goes, he did a great job. Harris would also have been an excellent president.

Unfortunately building and fixing things (or just keeping things working, negotiating compromises, and so on) takes a lot of time and effort, and doesn't make for great pithy slogans or rile people up.
by izzylan | 2025-09-25 22:57:03+00:00
So then lets say a healthy 22-year-old graduates from college at the top of their class. Life's looking up for them. They've already got a job lined up that starts in two weeks and they're excited and energetic about entering the workforce and living on their own as adult.

Then suddenly, some random guy in a mustang doing 150 in a 30 jumps the curb and runs over our optimistic 22-year-old, and continues speeding into the distance. A random onlooker witnesses the event and calls an ambulance, who rushes them to the hospital. Thanks to the hard work ICU doctors and surgeons spanning days, our 22-year-old miraculously lives, but is in bad shape. They're never gonna walk again, and they're gonna need weeks of physical therapy just to retrain the fine motor skills required to write and type.

All of this, for a variety of factors is gonna cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. On top of the massive hospital bill they're about to be saddled with.

I take it that our now not-so-healthy 22-year-old should just go fuck themselves then? They've never paid a dime into the system so why should they be entitled to health care?
by theuiufvbu46764 | 2025-09-25 22:57:12+00:00
Spoken like a true American.

Americans are so drunk on the liberalism kool-aid that they think they can just relocate and instantly be accepted into new communities.

This doesn't work, and when it is observed empirically by our subject, he complains about "racism" etc. - except ofc. white-knighting and doubling down on this against non-"expat" black/brown "subhumans".

Japan is filled with such "last-Samurai" larpers.
by mulmen | 2025-09-25 22:57:16+00:00
This is an interesting idea. What are the expected benefits? Off the top of my head:

* Saves on commute or travel time.

* Job sites no longer need to provide housing for workers.

* Allows the vehicles to stay in operation continuously, currently they shut down for breaks.

* With automation multiple vehicles could be operated at once.

The biggest benefits seem to be in resource extraction but I believe the vehicles there are already highly automated. At least the haul trucks.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-25 22:57:35+00:00
Blog platforms seem to come and go pursuing this goal. It's funny to think that when Ghost came on to the scene (12 years ago! There goes the time!), it too was all about just blogging https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5625546

I have an old Wordpress blog I used to run and that I backed up but never restored when Hetzner needed to migrate the VM. It's been almost a decade that that backup was taken. I wonder if I will be able to resurrect it. It's somewhere on all these hard drives...
by cheema33 | 2025-09-25 22:59:28+00:00
> I don't think it's helped me do anything I couldn't do

I am seeing a pattern here. It appears that AI isn't for everyone. Not everyone's personality may be a good fit for using AI. Just like not everybody is a good candidate for being a software dev, or police officer etc.

I used to think that it is a tool. Like a car is. Everybody would want one. But that appears not be the case.

For me, I used AI every day as a tool, for work and and home tasks. It is a massive help for me.
by wirybeige | 2025-09-25 22:59:30+00:00
Their GUI is closed-source. If someone wants an easy to use & easy to setup app, may as well use LMStudio, which doesn't try to pretend to be OSS. Or use ramalama which is basically just containerizing LLMs and the relevant bits, pretty damn similar to ollama. Or just go back to "basics" and use llama.cpp or vllm.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-25 22:59:41+00:00
So did I.

And since I don't do webdev for a living, most of my quite frequent use of Developer Tools is to work around this kind of nonsense - non-copyable text, obscured text, layout breakage, etc. Second biggest use case is to unbreak web forms that fail silently or for bogus reasons. This happens surprisingly often.
by system2 | 2025-09-25 23:00:56+00:00
There are millions of websites, and a local LLM cannot scrape all of them to make sense of them. Think about it. OpenAI can do it because they spend millions to train its systems.

Many sites have hidden sitemaps that cannot be found unless submitted to google directly. (Not even listed in robots txt most of the time). There is no way a local LLM can keep up with up to date internet.
by devonkim | 2025-09-25 23:01:14+00:00
Switzerland has a slightly high suicide rate (not the best inverse metric of happiness but a correlation on unhappiness at least) for a country with such high standards of living, so if we look into suicide rates over time we also see a conundrum that over the past 20+ years the suicide rate is overall decreasing but has mostly flattened out. But from what I've observed anecdotally it still has problems like other developed countries with legacy industries declining (see: watchmakers and other artisanal crafts trades rather than mining) where boomers in the country are pretty miserable and that will probably be noticed in macro level statistics.
by abraxas | 2025-09-25 23:01:16+00:00
> Gay and trans people are not going back in the closet

We do not know this and social progress can't be taken for granted. We've seen many countries regress rapidly when totalitarian regimes (especially theocracies) got their foothold in power. Directly (Iran) or by proximity (Poland).

It's a naive story of the 90's that social progress is always upwards. Liberalism both social and economic is definitely on the back foot.
by nixosbestos | 2025-09-25 23:01:25+00:00
Cute that another (days+ old) comment of mine was down-modded and flagged at the exact same time you wrote this. You know, the one that stated literal facts and nothing else.

I legitimately read the comment twice and couldn't parse it when I wrote this. I wasn't trying to be rude, I genuinely didn't understand. But pretty sure you don't care. But sure, point taken.
by jofer | 2025-09-25 23:02:40+00:00
A major limitation is that most different rock types look essentially identical in visual+NIR spectral ranges. Things separate once you get out to SWIR bands. Sentinel2 does have some SWIR bands and it may work reasonably well with embeddings. But a lot of the signal the embeddings are going to be focused on encoding may not be the right features to distinguish rock types. Methods more focused specifically on the SWIR range are more likely to work reliably. E.g. simple band ratios of SWIR bands may give a cleaner signal than general purpose embeddings in this case.

Hyperspectral in the SWIR range is what you really want for this, but that's a whole different ball game.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-25 23:03:38+00:00
Abusive father, desperately seeking validation from emotional abuse as a child, a need for power and control, rejection by his oldest child. If you’ve got emotional maturity and health issues, no amount of money will fix that. You have to want to fix it yourself, seek therapy, and want to change. He doesn’t want to change, he wants the world to change to accommodate him. It won’t be forever.

Cautionary tale how not to manage one’s human condition and experience.
by radpanda | 2025-09-25 23:04:05+00:00
I think it’s about momentum. The perception is that the US is in some ways getting worse and Mexico is getting better.

Who is better off, the software engineer who lost her $250k job and had to settle for a new job that pays $150k, or the teacher who found a new job and got a raise from $50k to $70k? The software engineer might be better off while simultaneously less happy about their situation.
by baobun | 2025-09-25 23:04:32+00:00
This all assumes that things are always consistent, free of bugs and clears throat database issues (yeah we got hit by that too - I don't see how we'd been able to troubleshoot and salvage it as well as we managed if we had been on EX only - MAS or not)....

The problematic situations that have otherwise crept up are generally devices that all think they're independently verified but somehow get out of sync for any nuber of arcane or archaic reasons. Reset flows are another pain point.

And yeah, I think our homeserver will not adopt MAS/OIDC - requiring a separate service and client (web browser) for account managament certainly feels like a regression. I see why it makes sense for matrix.org and the customers of Element but making EX depend on MAS for full functionality was not something I expected going in.
by wslh | 2025-09-25 23:04:44+00:00
Andy Grove explained this very clearly in his book. By the way, the parallel works if you replace Japan with China in the video. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Japan initially reverse engineered memory chips, and soon it became impossible to compete with them. The Japanese government also heavily subsidized its semiconductor industry during that period.

My point isn't to take a side, but simply to highlight how history often repeats itself, sometimes almost literally, not rhyme.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-25 23:05:03+00:00
> If the top 10% of earners account for half of spending, it means that 90% account for the other half, which is not insignificant or "invisible".

You wrote this in response to a quote that pointed out that businesses have little inventive to serve the 80 million workers who account for low spending. FYI, 80 million workers are below 60% of the US non-farm workforce and those 60% account for less than 20% of spending, which is insignificant compared to their number.

> Neither the claim nor the implied conclusion holds water.

Actually your math is wrong and the water it holds is rather muddy.

> On top of that, the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is repeatedly shown in economic studies to be higher for lower-income groups

This is another muddy statement on top of the previous one. FYI, the Propensity to Consume (PC) is 1 minus the propensity to save (PS) and PS equals the fraction of income that is saved. Although rich people consume more they save more too, thus their PS is high and their propensity to consume is LOW. In short, rich = low PC and low MPC.

On the other hand poor people save very little having to spend everything to survive, thus poor = high PC and high MPC.

> Due to the higher MPC, there is clear policy and business incentive to support and market to lower-income households.

Given my previous analysis, this is a nonsensical statement, MPC doesn't matter to business, total spending does, but high MPC means poor customers and low spending - nobody cares about this segment which is manifested as declining product quality for the mass market, something a lot of us observe every day.
by 0x1ceb00da | 2025-09-25 23:05:10+00:00
> If you panic in the middle, the money is lost.

Wouldn't a relational database help deal with this?

> Without noexcept, it's hard to reason about which calls can panic and which can't, so it's hard to make bulletproof cleanup paths.

Unsafe blocks usually contain very low level code, so you can understand what your code does very accurately. If the unsafe code calls a dependency which calls 150 other dependencies transitively, yeah, that's going to be pretty bad.
by thomastraum | 2025-09-25 23:05:24+00:00
I am just working on a tool using websearch and iterating over different providers.

openAI, xAI, gemini all suffer from not being allowed on respective competitor sites.

this searched works for me with some quick tests well on YT videos, which OpenAI web search can't access. It kind of failed on X but sometimes returned ok relevant results. Definitely hit and miss but on average good
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-25 23:05:25+00:00
Good question. I don't know about other microkernels, but NetBSD is a small kernel that supports ZFS. The support has been there since the 4.0.5 and 5.3[0], possibly earlier too. I'm not adept at navigating the mailing lists here, but I imagine a good place to learn about the challenges of porting ZFS to a smaller kernel would be the NetBSD and ZFS lists from that era (2008-2009). What NetBSD does today is use a 'zfs' modlue that depends on a 'solaris' kernel modile. The dependency of Solaris primitives is probably one of the major challenges with porting ZFS to any kernel. FWIW, somehow a ZFS port for the "hybrid" kernel in Windows also exists[1].

[0] https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/zfs-compatibility/

[1] https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs
by ramses0 | 2025-09-25 23:06:01+00:00
Kindof same... but for me it's frustrating that they don't include any sort of mouse device, which negates the "all in one" of it.

Too much on Linux (and websites!) expect mouse-style input, so.... you have to have a mouse, the stupid HDMI adapter, etc...

It's almost a better form factor to use a regular pi paired with the Logitech keyboard + trackpad setups. You can almost treat the pi as if it were an inline power brick.

The alternative (that I haven't quite gotten around to trying yet) is to use one of the "use your phone as a mouse" apps, basically it installs a mouse-listener-over-WiFi and then at least you can emergency-browse with the "just a computer in a keyboard" setup.
by DashAnimal | 2025-09-25 23:06:12+00:00
Yes. I'm not for calling out individual people, those who probably had hope and some may be young and didn't have the warning flags going off. I can only imagine they're disappointed and had no malice.

But people who have some level of fame who put their name behind it, and who had some influence in inspiring others down this wrong path most definitely need to address it. If you truly believe the intelligence of tech people over others in every field which led you down this path, follow the proper postmortem process.
by exBarrelSpoiler | 2025-09-25 23:06:54+00:00
"You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Matthew 5:21-22

https://www.gotquestions.org/raca.html
by com2kid | 2025-09-25 23:08:04+00:00
> Microsoft attempted to take over the web with Active X, Silverlight, JScript.

Silverlight was a responsive to flash.

It was also remarkably open for the time, ran on all desktop platforms, and in an alternative universe Silverlight is an open source cross platform UI toolkit that runs with a tiny fraction of the system requirements of electron, using a far superior tool chain.
by istjohn | 2025-09-25 23:08:25+00:00
> But most Americans want the government reduced...

Citation needed. Do elderly Americans selling their every worldly possession to pay for home healthcare after a medical crisis want reduced or increased government? Do single mothers unable to afford childcare want reduced or increased government? Do the people in Granbury, Texas suffering health effects from the noise of a Bitcoin mine want reduced or increased government? Do the Trump voters who want to round up and deport every last undocumented immigrant want reduced or increased government? Do the families stuck sending their chilren to failing urban schools want reduced or increased government? Do veterans struggling to access healthcare want reduced or increased government? Do consumers paying inflated prices to a proliferation of monopolies and private equity roll-ups want reduced or increased government?
by strange_quark | 2025-09-25 23:08:41+00:00
> That's the sum total of the product though, it's already complete and it does not need trillions of dollars of datacenter investment

What sucks there’s probably some innovation left in figuring out how to make these monstrosities more efficient and how to ship a “good enough” model that can do a few key tasks (jettisoning the fully autonomous coding agents stuff) on some arbitrary laptop without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. The problem is nobody in the industry is incentivized to do this because the second this happens, all their revenue goes to 0. It’s the final boss of the everything is a subscription business model.
by m000 | 2025-09-25 23:09:04+00:00
> PRs are emails to your team and to your future self.

This should be commits though. Typically, developers would look for clues in this order:

code -> code comment -> commit message -> PR text -> external document

So commit messages puts the information closer to the user. One hop doesn't seem much, but the time saved adds up as you go.

Also, as some other reader mentioned anecdotally, PRs may not be there forever. E.g. your team may migrate to a new platform PR text and reviews were left behind.
by rpdillon | 2025-09-25 23:10:06+00:00
He's referring to the reality that AI helps you pick up and finish tasks that you otherwise would have put off. I see this all day every day with my side projects as well as security and customer escalations that come into my team. It's not that Giant Project X was done six times as fast. It's more like we were able to do six small but consequential bug fixes and security updates while we continued to push on the large feature.
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 23:10:09+00:00
The civil war didn't kill those people, the bullets that went into the brain of the casualties did. Flippantly conflating the two things does not do your argument any good.

Now of course the bullets were inspired by a guy pulling a trigger, the guy pulling the trigger was inspired by the civil war (more specifically to name one example, the the ISIS-Kurdish one in the northern region of Iraq and Syria), the civil war was inspired by the power vacuum, and the power vacuum was inspired by the toppling of Saddam, and the toppling of Saddam was inspired by the USA blowing up the Iraqi regime.

Whether the US is culpable, again, I left as a question. But they did pull the lever for the trolley.
by hashim | 2025-09-25 23:10:26+00:00
The answer is simple - racism, same reason the Brits gave them the land in the first place when they knew it already had brown people on it that had been living there for almost a thousand years. How many deaths did it take for most Westerners and Western governments to start caring about Ukraine and start moving towards action? Barely a handful if any. How many deaths has Israel racked up since 1948 while the self-appointed human rights arbiters of the world wring their hands and say it's just not quite genocide yet?
by nextos | 2025-09-25 23:11:01+00:00
I don't think it's just mis-reading. It's also internal politics. How many at Nokia knew that the Maemo/MeeGo series was the future, rather than Symbian? I think quite a few. But Symbian execs fought to make sure Maemo didn't get a mobile radio. In most places, internal feuds and little kingdoms prevail over optimal decisions for the entire organization. I imagine lots of people at Intel were deeply invested in IA-64. Same thing repeats mostly everywhere. For example, from what I've heard from insiders, ChromeOS vs Android battles at Google were epic.
by jacobolus | 2025-09-25 23:11:12+00:00
Biden came into office in the middle of a Covid crisis substantially caused by the previous administration (which he then was unfairly blamed for the effects of by people arguing in bad faith). During the first two years of Biden's presidency the Democrats had a tied 50–50 Senate (including 2 prima donna Senators who repeatedly undermined Democrats' legislative priorities) and a narrow House majority. During the second two years they had a 51–49 Senate majority and lost control of the House. They never had the votes for anything like the ACA. But within the very difficult constraints of a 50–50 Senate with no possibility of abolishing the filibuster (i.e. requiring 60 votes, and thus significant GOP support, to pass any legislation), the Dems were remarkably effective in 2021–2022, exceeding my expectations.

If you want to see sweeping legislation, you have to elect a Congress that with enough votes to pass it. Blaming Biden for not having the votes is an expression of political cluelessness.