MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drakonka | 2025-10-08 16:06:39+00:00
I've also been more likely to cry at movies. Not so much at people's sad experiences in real life, but I've found myself tearing up sometimes with someone I really care about sharing a dream or nostalgic childhood memory. Fortunately I've experienced goosebumps with music (frisson!) since I was a kid, and even tried to learn how to induce it on command (has not reliably worked).

Overall my ability to empathize still feels a little dulled sometimes. But it's hard to tell since you can't really compare it directly to another's experience, only observe how others seem to react... Maybe in its own way this is a bit of a "What is it like to be a bat?" situation.
by samiv | 2025-10-08 16:06:47+00:00
This has been the dream of the capital classes since time immemorial.

And unfortunately (for humanity) this has been the status quo for the whole civilization. Small ruling elite class (you might designate them as masters, lords or employers) with all the wealth, minimal or no "middle class" and lots of poor people (you might designate them as peasants or slaves or workers).

The only exception to this has been the period of time since World War 2 when in most of the "western" countries the middle class demanded and took their share of the wealth. That's the time when modern well-fare states were born, universal health care became a thing, working safety improved, education became accessible. etc.

All these were NOT given by the elite but TAKEN by the working class via social reforms, workers unions and social democracy.

The capital owning class wants to take all these away and they're succeeding.

So yes, in fact the Luddites were not against technology, they were against the unilateral and uneven distribution of wealth produced by the technology.
by labcomputer | 2025-10-08 16:08:15+00:00
I would argue that mutual reliance actually makes the system as a whole more resilient.

If you think you don’t need that petroleum distributor, you won’t put any effort into preventing its destruction. Not my problem, right?

Oops, but I forgot that even though I’m self sufficient in energy (maybe I have solar panels and batteries) it turns out I still need plastic! I guess I did need that distributor after all. Shame I didn’t realize that before it burned down.

> If global shipping failed today, how long would it take for other nations to run out of food and pharmacological needs and silicon?

I don’t think it’s worth worrying about “what happens if the hand of god comes down tomorrow and deletes all ocean vessels and doesn’t touch anything else.” There isn’t a plausible scenario where global shipping—and nothing else—fails. You might as well start making contingency plans for if the sun gets turned into green cheese.

To your point about the pandemic: the experiment we did was “what happens when you turn off labor in all sectors at once?” We would have had exactly the same result even if every country were self sufficient.

It turns out that effectively no human has been self sufficient for millennia. American settlers on the Great Plains needed iron nails and barbed wire from back east. Native Americans traded furs for guns with Europeans because it was mutually beneficial. All over the world people lived in groups because specialization and trading (even if they didn’t call it that) enabled a higher quality of living than gathering berries all alone.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-08 16:08:28+00:00
Memory features are useful for the same reason that a human would use a database instead of a large .md file: it's more efficient to query for something and get exactly what you want than it is to read through a large, ultimately less structured document.

That said, Claude now has a native memory feature as of the 2.0 release recently: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/memory so the parent's tool may be too late, unless it offers some kind of advantage over that. I don't know how to make that comparison, personally.
by alphazard | 2025-10-08 16:08:32+00:00
Just a reminder that professional macro-economists are paid to justify political decisions. That's the job. Find data that can arguably make this policy (made for other reasons) make sense to the voters, who have a much worse understanding of economics.

As always, the question with economists is "why aren't you rich?". You would get much better answers about macro-economic counterfactuals by going to a macro-trading firm like Bridgewater and asking the employees "what do you think would happen if..."
by emptybits | 2025-10-08 16:08:35+00:00
> "the console features a built-in 5-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600, delivering sharp and bright vector graphics"

So ... NOT vector graphics. Rasterized bitmap versions of vector graphics.

EDIT: Sorry, I'm not saying this isn't cool. I know rasterizing a vector to a sharp bitmapped display can still allow effects to simulate continuously drawn vector artifacts e.g. thin lines, thicker at vertices, refresh, flicker, etc.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-08 16:08:44+00:00
Surely you can spot a bubble if you see that it is rapidly expanding and ultimately unsustainable. Being able to predict when it finally pops would be equivalent to winning a lottery and people would be able to make a lot of money from that, but ultimately no-one can reliably predict when a bubble will pop - doesn't mean that they weren't bubbles.
by sethhochberg | 2025-10-08 16:08:55+00:00
One of my previous employers only lost our east-coast colo facility twice in their couple decades of existence:

- once when the DC ran out of diesel and couldn't get any more after Hurricane Sandy

- once when the backup generators caught fire and the fire department needed to kill grid power to the facility

Everything else is pretty reliable or easier to decouple from the local real world
by Arainach | 2025-10-08 16:08:57+00:00
The alternative to a Synology NAS isn't RPi. There are plenty of alternatives - QNAP, UGreen, a tower running TrueNAS - but a messy pile of overpriced unreliable SoCs attached to SATA hats isn't an alternative for a single device with multiple hard drive bays, consistent power and cooling, and easy management.
by bluGill | 2025-10-08 16:08:58+00:00
Stocks trade when there is a buyer and a seller. An exchange you are not officially listed on is unlikely to have many sellers and so they may not have any stock when you want to buy. Of course they can keep a lot of stock on hand (that is become a market maker), but that means they arbitrage games (either they or someone else), and if their volume of trades is too low (which it will be because few traders think to to use them) they are going to lose money on that deal.

Back in 1800 an exchange was a place where a lot of buyers and sellers agreed to meet up so that you had good odds of finding a buyer when you wanted to sell. The exchange happened by exchanging papers which then got sent to the company to know how the new owners were.

This gets at why there were a lot more exchanges in the past than now. Ownership is recorded electronically (you can get paper but almost nobody does) do you don't need to send papers into head quarters. We also have fast communication so can have your agent take care of things in New York in seconds no matter where in the world you are - in 1800 you had to physically go to an exchange (or send an agent).

An unlisted exchange is similar to a dark pool. The company whoes stock is traded on one will treat the trade like any other dark pool. However if they are trying to operate like a listed exchange they will doing other exchange like things (posting prices), so you get the worst of both worlds.
by ravenstine | 2025-10-08 16:09:10+00:00
Yeah, seriously. Fuck that lame shit.

Obviously I wouldn't resort to mere ad hominem, but we should call a spade a spade. If someone's trashing their employer, more likely than not, they are probably speaking the truth; unlike most who go along to get along. Corporations, at the end of the day, are sociopaths, and I'm not going to pass down their lack of empathy by proxy with toxic positivity.
by immibis | 2025-10-08 16:09:13+00:00
Someone recently did a YouTube demonstration of an Ethernet bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvqv9QcTcfA (skip to 15:22). It's a large, $8000 (in 1986), 10kg device with a 68000 processor that connects to exactly two ethernet busses via AUI ports. It even speaks an earlier variant of STP. It remembers a certain number of MAC addresses on each bus, and when it sees a packet on one bus addressed to a device on the other bus, or a broadcast, it stores it and sends it when the other bus is free.

The idea of a two-port switch sounds silly until you realize there can be 30 devices on each port.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-10-08 16:09:14+00:00
> "Do you think more employee ownership and control, a "seat at the table," would've prevented technically competent leadership from testing customer hostile business decisions?"

Employee control doesn't reduce investor pressure for increased profitability. Employee ownership just means that the employees are now the ones exerting the investor pressure and if anyone thinks employees will be willing to take less total compensation (why? "Loyalty to the company"? "Solidarity"?) instead of hopping to a new job, well, good luck with that.
by 112233 | 2025-10-08 16:09:19+00:00
Here is a page for Eket collection: https://www.ikea.lv/lv/collections/eket

Please look at it quickly and try understanding what elements are available.

Or, say, Platsa having half of the pieces called Småstad, because they kinda would also fit in kid's room. Or trying to find codenames for doors/facades/drawers of Metod or Pax.
by StillBored | 2025-10-08 16:09:22+00:00
I don't know the details of the warnings either, but from the original articles it sounds like they had moved to a QVL list that didn't include 3rd party devices, only their rebranded ones. Which is possibly because they got seagate/wd/etc to tweak something in the firmware. Which isn't unheard of for large vendors. And it is somewhat fair, qualifying drive persistence is probably some ugly unit test that takes hours to run, and requires being able to pull power on the drive at certain points. So the warning ends up being the equivalent of "we don't know if this drive works, lots of them don't we are going to disable this aggressive cache algorithm to assure your data is persisted" and that kills the performance vs the qualified drive. But because some non technical PM gets involved the warning shown to the user is "This drive isn't qualified".

The other take though, was that it was just a $ grab by rebranding and charging more for drives that were functionally the same. Which for logical people made sense because otherwise, why not say why their drives were better. But sometimes the lawyers get involved and saying "our rebranded drives are the only ones on the market that work right when we do X, Y, Z" is frowned on.

Hard to really know without some engineer actually clarifying.
by mooreds | 2025-10-08 16:09:41+00:00
Author here. I was trying to walk the line between two concepts in tension:

* you want to treat your former co-worker as a human being. That's the whole point of the post.

* it can be scary or shameful to reach out to someone who was just let go. You wonder things like "why them and not me, what did they do wrong, what if they react negatively, I'm busy with other stuff, oh man, is my job at risk". (The caveat here is of course that those who remain still have income and so the burden is worse for the laid off.)

This is why I think some folks don't do this simple, humane, outreach. But they should. So I was trying to address the latter worry.

I doubt most conversations go negative (as I mentioned, I've never had them do so). I wanted to give permission to people to reach out because that is important but also permission to stop the conversation if it reached a point they didn't feel comfortable.

I am sure I could have phrased it better.

W/r/t your example, I think most folks who sent the first message you suggest would respond. I think I would.
by herval | 2025-10-08 16:10:04+00:00
I have a relative who's in her 70s and used to be a coder. She told me she gave up coding when people introduced computers with terminals. She was used to filling out punch cards and felt like the way she worked, although constantly evolving, was something she could keep up with. When the new stuff came, with virtual programs and you just typing on a computer and no way to properly debug by shuffling the cards around, she ended up moving to something completely different...
by snovv_crash | 2025-10-08 16:11:05+00:00
A) Huge straw man, since it isn't the same people making those points. None of those need the other to be true to cause issues, they are independent concerns.

B) You're missing a few things like:

1. The hardware overhang of edge compute (especially phones) may make the centralized compute investments irrelevant as more efficient LLMs (or whatever replaces them) are released.

2. Hardware depreciates quickly. Are these massive data centers really going to earn their money back before a more efficient architecture makes them obsolete? Look at all the NPUs on phones which are useless with most current LLMs due to insufficient RAM. Maybe analogue compute takes off, or giant FPGAs, which can do on a single board what is done with a rack at the moment. We are nowhere near a stable model architecture, or stable optimal compute architecture. Follow the trajectory of bitcoin and etherium mining here to see what we can expect.

3. How does one company earn back their R&D when the moment it is released, competition puts out comparable models within 6 months, possibly by using the very service that was provided to generate training data.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-08 16:11:38+00:00
Habbo Origins wouldn't be around if it wasn't for tinkerers who figured out how to make an already compiled Habbo DCR run as a stand-alone desktop app, over a decade later. Which prompted a Sulake Employee to try it out. Said employee was originally part of the Habbo Retro / Emulator scene. ;)

The Reverse Engineering scene is quite a scene.
by whitehexagon | 2025-10-08 16:11:45+00:00
For me the question is who is going to subscribe who hasnt already. And that is before we consider the next gen hardware that can run this stuff locally.

But from what I see of the economy around me here, people just dont have the spare funds for LLM luxuries. It feels like 15+ years of wage deflation, and company streamlining, has removed what little spare spending power people had here. Not forgetting the inflation we have seen in the euro zone.

Even if the bet is now an 'all in' on AGI, I see that more as an existential threat than an economic golden egg bailout.
by nadis | 2025-10-08 16:11:49+00:00
I like the idea of finding an alternative name to "vibe coding" to describe this more substantive alternative. However, I personally think the name "vibe engineering" is too close to vibe coding and not sufficiently distinct.

I don't have a great alternative unfortunately. I've used "agentic coding" in the past as a means of differentiating from vibe coding, but I don't think that's necessarily clear enough either.

That said, maybe with defining this new approach it's just going to take time for any term to become familiar enough to be self-explanatory.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-08 16:12:03+00:00
I feel like a lot of people aren't fully examining what AGI would mean for labor. As of right now labor exists separate from capital, which is to say the economy is made of workers, stuff and money. Workers get stuff, put labor into it and turn it into more valuable stuff, capital owns that stuff so they sell it to other workers (usually) and give their workers some portion of the increase in value. AGI would mean that capital is labor. The stuff can go get more stuff and refine it. Capital won't make stuff to sell, they'll just make stuff they want and stuff to go get and make stuff they want. It will, of course, be wildly bad for political stability but I feel like a lot of people think they've found some sort of catch 182 in AGI when labor has no money to buy stuff. They think "That'll shut the whole economy down" but what would really happen is instead of building a machine that makes boots, hiring someone to run it, selling boots and using the money to buy a yacht they'll just build a machine that makes yachts and another machine that kills anyone who interferes with the yacht machine. An economy made of workers, stuff and money will become an economy just made of stuff, as workers will be replaced by stuff and money was only ever useful as a way to induce people to work.
by vkou | 2025-10-08 16:12:14+00:00
It's worse when they sic ICE (and the military for the cherry on top) against them, the TSA at least has the decency to keep its hands in the airport.

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Using the military against your political enemies, by the way, is a genie that you can never put back in the bottle.

I am very tired of people who are more concerned with scoring points about 'look, both sides!' while turning a blind eye to the actual we-went-through-a-phase-change insanity of what's going on.

The last two hundred years was built on a bargain of the military staying out of politics in exchange for the military not being used politically.

This year, MAGA sent a giant fucking wrecking ball through that.
by tastyface | 2025-10-08 16:12:26+00:00
Meanwhile, his ideological companion and shining light Curtis Yarvin has seemingly gone insane:

"We have only one problem. The problem is: our billionaires are n—ers. They may be rich. But they're n—er rich. The nature and function of their wealth is profoundly negrous. You can probably name exceptions. I can too. But in every way, the exceptions prove the rule"

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/po...
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-08 16:12:43+00:00
I've never seen layoffs where the ones who survived the layoff weren't equally willing to slag-off the corporation.

Rather than sending "hallmark™ layoff greetings", maybe make friends with whomever of your coworkers is interested, and if/when they get laid off, try buying them a beer and actually listening to their grievances...
by pjmlp | 2025-10-08 16:13:04+00:00
It is due to the Plan 9 Assembly dialect most likely, because it wasn't enough that we already have differences between AT&T and Intel.

https://go.dev/doc/asm

Still, I find great that Go got back the 1990's tradition that compiled languages have an assembler as part of their tooling, regardless of the syntax.
by port11 | 2025-10-08 16:13:10+00:00
Surely you mean Michael Scarn, secret agent?

I kid, but we have to change the incentive structure then. Or rather, the disincentive: if you publish blatant misinformation, you're banned from creating content for a while. YouTube accounts are linked to Google accounts which aren't that easy to mass create.

Note I'm not saying you go to jail or pay fines. I don't trust the public system to not abuse this as fake news gets redefined by the dictator du jour.
by netghost | 2025-10-08 16:13:25+00:00
I'll just shill my own feed reader here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re...

It currently only runs in Firefox but if anyone is interested, I'll Port it to Chrome since it now supports a sidebar interface.

I made this because I wanted to have feeds show up where I read them, in the browser, and I wanted it on my own device so nobody else controls it. No hosting, no payment, just a simple tool that lets me control what I read.

Bonus: if you try it you'll likely increase the global usage by double digits ;)
by bluGill | 2025-10-08 16:13:59+00:00
Most (this is close, about half) stock trades are not on the listed exchange. If I sell stock and my broker has someone else wanting to buy that stock they are just going to internally match us up at the current price instead of going to the listed exchange. There are a lot of "dark pool" exchanges that brokers will check with first when someone wants to buy/sell stocks and so only rarely (again about half the time - not very rare) will they go all the way to an exchange.

Nothing stops an exchange from accepting trades for a stock that isn't listed there. (there may be local laws that say otherwise, but there are lots of different countries). However if you are not a listing exchange brokers might not think to check your exchange when someone wants to trade and so you won't get enough volume. If you are the exchange a broker checks first though you can be the exchange.
by overfeed | 2025-10-08 16:14:18+00:00
> A typical satellite will orbit once every 100 minutes or so (military spy satellites more often because they fly lower,

Constellations (like Star Shield or the Chinese equivalent) solve this problem; there is always a dozens of satellites overhead, and they don't need a lot of resolving power to detect contrails, I vet even cubesats with repurposed phone-camera sensors would suffice.
by passivegains | 2025-10-08 16:14:21+00:00
Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a creative writing exercise which didn't actually happen and isn't verifiably true to any degree. There were never any Finches, Ewells, Robinsons or Radleys, yet readers often find it quite powerful because they're perfectly aware the story's events have played out between real people many, many times. They don't need to be told the real names of people who have been in lynch mobs to know real people have been lynched. Email servers aren't quite as heavy a subject, but we know these things happen.
by ddtaylor | 2025-10-08 16:15:37+00:00
Almost every thing happening right now involves organizations that have been making plans to do things for a very long time that is being hyper accelerated or the competitive landscape drastically distorted to give advantage.

I should be happy right now as X and Y and Z are available, some of which support some of my ideas, but I'm smart enough to know that giving me a few trinkets while screwing the system as a whole doesn't work.
by chneu | 2025-10-08 16:15:47+00:00
Reminder that thousands of legal residents are also being swept up in this. Thats a feature, though, not a bug, for a dictator.

Also ICE, I hear nervhq is here illegally. Someone wanna go do a check on this illegal? Assume they're breaking the law first, deport them and ask questions later. Thanks ICE!

It's only a matter of time before ICE comes for you. You realize there are literal quotes from Germans saying they wish they would have spoken up earlier? But they didn't because they weren't a Jew. We're repeating such stupid mistakes because Trump and the GOP have made politics a sport/brand loyalty competition. It's pathetic
by labcomputer | 2025-10-08 16:16:19+00:00
Big agri corps can afford large tractors that till, plant and harvest more efficiently. They can afford to buy remote sensing imagery to optimize planting. In other words, there exist scale effects in agriculture.

You lose those effects if every hundred acres needs to produce all of needs of a human family. Self sufficient is less efficient.

You can bring back some of those effects with co-ops, but now it starts looking like a single large business with many owners again.
by fragmede | 2025-10-08 16:16:26+00:00
I'd argue that without competition, it isn't capitalism, and before someone "no true Scotsman"'s me, Adam Smith wrote about the dangers of monopolies in The Weath of Nations. Where Scotsman isn't a well defined term, and neither is capitalism, coloquially anyway, maybe, but a free market would have rival trade unions with different certification processes and employers would decide which certification was preferable.