MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cal_dent | 2025-11-06 03:29:54+00:00
hmm not sure i buy this but happy to be corrected. I'd argue that low interest rate for a substantial period post GFC has led to misallocation of capital to more finite assets such as housing which in turn has led to increase house prices and secondary effects of increased rent. Lowering interest rates further will only exarcebate that. And we can of course increase housing supply, build more houses etc. but that takes time and the short to medium term will continue to be awful
by thwarted | 2025-11-06 03:30:21+00:00
What is the logic behind adding machine translation for content that already had a seemingly robust, enthusiastic, and motivated (volunteer?) community maintaining the translations? The "saves money" rationale to deploy LLM/MT automation doesn't make sense when its volunteers are contributing because they want to. This is kind of community and participation destruction wrought by the introduction of LLMs/MT has a serious impact because it undermines the people who are actually willing to do the work. It was presumably costing nothing (or very little) to have the community maintain this content, but the change has cost a significant amount of goodwill. If the Japanese SUMO community wanted to use MT, it should be their sole decision, baring any issues with their stewardship in general. This is someone else saying "look, with this great new automation, you don't need to spend time anymore doing «thing you want to do»". Huh? How does that make any sense to force on anyone?
by laterium | 2025-11-06 03:31:12+00:00
How do you address adverse selection then? There's no private insurance where you don't address adverse selection. Either you force everyone to have coverage: ie car insurance in US or universal health insurance systems or you force them to get insured in groups (US employer based insurance), or you accept outrageously expensive rates for it.

Healthcare already being expensive doesn't make it amenable to that last option unlike insuring your laptop where you might be okay paying 2-5x the expected loss for peace of mind. Criticizing the method of addressing adverse selection is fine, but not the existence of it. You need something. There's no such thing as completely free market of health insurance. Any economist can easily explain this to you.
by tguvot | 2025-11-06 03:31:20+00:00
it doesn't.

i also went to american lg website and checked manual of cheapest dishwasher that they have. it doesn't instruct to run water either. it says that if water is not hot enough cycle will run longer.

anticipating comments that LG is not american enough, i went to GE and checked manual of cheapest (349) dishwasher. it doesn't instruct to run tap either. it does say just like LG that if water not hot enough, cycles that use hot water will take more time (because water needs to be heated)
by komali2 | 2025-11-06 03:32:33+00:00
I am sorry to say that according to the metaphor of the PDF, your resistance probably falls into either "helpless" or "stupid," since it doesn't really do anything to check Trump's power (ICE agents still freely roam and abduct people at gunpoint, SNAP will run out and judgement induced distribution is blocked by Trump) and at best do nothing to him or anyone else or help him by giving him ammunition to justify further domestic action. Or if you're just sitting on the sidelines, then under the model, you're not defined as intelligent, but helpless, whereas his supporters are stupid.

According to the model I would class legal efforts and some media efforts as intelligent or banditry (media is self serving; in the end it loves Trump for the headlines), and a protest as maybe intelligent but maybe also helpless.

Inarguably intelligent might be something like following ICE movements and warning neighborhoods when they're coming, or establishing mutual aid food systems for people whose SNAP is about to run out. Or wasting ICE time somehow through civil disobedience to reduce their effectiveness.
by vel0city | 2025-11-06 03:33:37+00:00
I had that on a GE Profile from I think 1999 if I remember right. It was pretty nice. I think it's still a feature on some of them.

That dishwasher was great and lasted over 20 years. The previous owners had definitely abused it and never cleaned it. I repaired it and had about the best dishwasher for a few more years. Eventually the main logic board went out (can't blame it too much, had electrical issues that killed a few things) and a replacement board was going to cost a few hundred dollars in parts even from questionable third party sellers. Seemed to be a good bit to sink on what was a highly abused >20 year old washing machine at the time.
by bitwize | 2025-11-06 03:33:38+00:00
Let me break it down for you:

Western: of or pertaining to the part of the world where the dominant culture is European (most of it colonized)

Patriarchal: of or pertaining to male-dominated society

Narrative: a story we tell ourselves to impart meaning to the world

Technology in itself is not political: the false (see "narrative" above) idea that technology is politically "neutral" and that the mere existence or use of a technology does not in and of itself reinforce domination or oppression
by greesil | 2025-11-06 03:34:35+00:00
There are four kinds of people, those that put things into categories, and those that like matrices.

There's at least two meanings for stupid. One is someone who is not intelligent, and it's just kind of an intrinsic thing. The other is someone who does something stupid, irrespective of their intelligence. This is a conditional attribute that depends on available information / motivation / laziness.

Point being a 2x2 matrix is just an oversimplification of real life and also wtf are the axes here???
by nikolay | 2025-11-06 03:34:39+00:00
This is not what the best study at hand has found based on the most extensive human study! Check out The Longevity Project [0][1]! Optimistic people don't pay much attention to symptoms!

[0]: https://www.longevity-project.com/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longevity_Project
by stephen_g | 2025-11-06 03:35:42+00:00
> As I heard someone say, happiness is your reality minus your expectations.

I don’t think that’s true, e.g. from my personal experience, I’m far more optimistic than my wife, but even though she has far lower expectations she still takes negative things with far more disappointment than I do when we face the same hardship. So generally I’m a much happier person despite having higher expectations.

This is independent of intellect too for us, she would readily admit I’m more intelligent.

I don’t know whether it’s a innate thing or something learned but the key seems to be that I am always primed to look on the bright side, like my brain automatically weights positives much stronger than negatives, whereas hers does the opposite.

For both of us this seems to be self-reinforcing too because we always have confirmation bias because I’ve focused on the positives and can say “see it wasn’t that bad” and she will be like “see, I thought it would be bad” for the same thing.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-06 03:36:17+00:00
Insofar as Schumer has the power to block the funding, Senate Republicans have the power to unblock Schumer's block. They just don't want to use it, because they feel it would not be politically advantageous in the future. The problem they have now is, at the end of the day, voters understand the buck stops at Resolute desk, and Schumer is not sitting there.
by runako | 2025-11-06 03:36:59+00:00
> needs 60 votes

This is a gentle fiction. The GOP has the 51 votes to change this rule by lunchtime tomorrow and proceed to govern according to the mandate they claim. They may choose not to do that, as is their prerogative.

But they do not "need" 60 votes according to the Constitution, which is free online to read. One can even search for a 60-vote cloture requirement in the document and its amendments, which are in fact the real governing documents that describe how Congress is required to operate.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-06 03:38:15+00:00
Those languages were not effective in practice. The kind of loop parallelism that most people focus on is the least interesting and effective kind outside of niche domains. The value was low.

Hardware architectures like Tera MTA were much more capable but almost no one could write effective code for them even though the language was vanilla C++ with a couple extra features. Then we learned how to write similar software architecture on standard CPUs. The same problem of people being bad at it remained.

The common thread in all of this is people. Humans as a group are terrible at reasoning about non-trivial parallelism. The tools almost don't matter. Reasoning effectively about parallelism involves manipulating a space that is quite evidently beyond most human cognitive abilities to reason about.

Parallelism was never about the language. Most people can't build the necessary mental model in any language.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-06 03:38:34+00:00
There's so many of these absurd "investing" trends where financially illiterate people are getting tricked in to buying in to schemes where the only way to win is to be one of the insiders. Or more recently, the Counter Strike skin "investing" where a single change from a company can wipe out all of your investment.

Had you bought actual regulated shares you could sue the company for deliberately crashing the value. But since video game skins are not a real investment. You have no protections at all.
by komali2 | 2025-11-06 03:39:17+00:00
In the USA at least. On my flight from Japan to Taiwan I arrived at Haneda about an hour before my flight, spent 10 minutes total at security including screening time, walked through an automated immigration gate with no wait, had a soba, then boarded.

I timed my time from plane door to train in Taiwan: 24 minutes. To be fair I was hustling and had no checked bag. Automated immigration gate, walk through customs without being stopped, straight to the train. The train comes every 10-15 minutes so I also got lucky boarding right before the doors closed. My time from plane to home was about an hour and a half.
by Trasmatta | 2025-11-06 03:39:46+00:00
Yeah, they could end the filibuster, but they're terrified of what that would mean if and when Democrats take control of the Senate again.

The Republican party plans to never leave power again, but they're not actually confident they can pull it off. If they were, the filibuster would be gone already.

Last night's election was a good example of why that scares them.
by taeric | 2025-11-06 03:41:35+00:00
I knew what you meant. My point was more that most people are writing software at the level of "if (overlaps(a, b)) doSomething()" Yes, there will be plenty of math and intrinsics in the "overlaps" after you get through all of the accessors necessary to have the raw numbers. But especially in heavily modeled spaces, the number one killer of getting to the SIMD is that the data just isn't in a friendly layout for it.

Is that not the case?
by runako | 2025-11-06 03:42:29+00:00
Has anybody modeled what this does to the overall system?

My impression is the system doesn't have all that much slack to begin with. And then to reduce all the major airports at the same time? And with the (current) expectation that next week will be worse?

Edit: this feels ripe for a simulator type of game. Assume X% of ATC walk off the job every week because they have to pay their bills and can't work ATC for free any longer. Assume Y% of TSA do likewise. Assume FAA increases acceptable fatality risk by Z% weekly. Give little sliders for X, Y, Z. See what conditions are required to let us make it to December 1.

More edit: It would be cool to compare this to natural shutdowns. For example, how does a 10% reduction overall affect traffic as compared to a given Nor'easter or hurricane or bomb cyclone?

More edit: give FAA the power to e.g. shut down airports and rapidly move & re-certify ATC on other airports, like regional triage. Maybe shut down Hobby and Austin and put everyone at IAH. Move to sectors, so there's a single airport operating in Texas and surrounding states, ATL in the southeast, etc. Game out how far in advance FAA needs to make all those calls in order to minimize fatalities. Game out what is the date after which air travel becomes less safe than driving. This could be like Railroad Tycoon, except from the regulator's perspective.
by nurettin | 2025-11-06 03:42:34+00:00
In "smart people" that I've met, those who perform well in quickly understanding subjects, have some sort of strong long and short term memory (something most IQ tests fail to measure) and generally read the room well, I noticed one thing: most of them are very impatient.

Whatever the task, they just want to move on, go ahead, skip over if possible and are generally awkward to be around. Those who have mastered patience are the bright ones. They also seem happier overall.
Show HN: Replicas – Run coding agents in customizable cloud workspaces
by connortbot | 2025-11-06 03:43:07+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Connor, creator of Replicas.

I'm a heavy Codex/Claude Code user, and I wanted to hand off tasks to agents like I would to an engineer - kick something off before work, let it scaffold while I'm at lunch, even come back to a ready PR.

The problem: existing alternatives use workspace VMs that are black boxes. I have no access to any of them - they can't run tests, read logs, or use tools like the Playwright MCP (which I use to verify agents actually fixed what they claim to fix).

Replicas gives agents real cloud workspaces where they can: - Run your test suite and read the output - Use MCPs like Playwright for browser debugging - Access logs and services running locally - Iterate iterate iterate iterate

How it works: - Make a workspace snapshot (e.g install all your dependencies, tooling, env vars) - Start a workspace - Chat with Codex from dashboard or SSH in / open in VSCode And let it run :)

The key difference is that you have full SSH access to your workspaces just by running "replicas connect workspace-name". Install anything, run anything, configure anything.

We're very early (v0), so I'd love any feedback that anyone has! Some things I am working on: - Faster boot up times for workspaces - Claude Code support! - Easier setup of snapshots!

Try it: https://replicas.dev Happy to answer any questions!
by themafia | 2025-11-06 03:43:38+00:00
The flashes signify actual changes. It's a secondary signal to resume paying attention to the page.

What I truly hate are animated skeleton boxes or element level spinners. Why are you trying to hold my attention on something that's not even loaded yet? We all understand the UI paradigm and implicitly understand network delay, you don't need "comfort animations" to keep me happy. I'd rather use the time to look at any of the other tabs or applications across my screens. Then the flash of content actually means something.
by tguvot | 2025-11-06 03:43:58+00:00
iirc its less about contaminating drinking water (there is a valve and pump to get through. rather tricky) and more about waste getting into dishwasher during cycle and you getting contaminated dishes.

my wife once decided to dump into garbage disposal a bunch of uncooked broccoli at once. it clogged garbage disposal and drain. when i tried to unclog it with plunger it backed into dishwasher (was hooked directly to garbage disposal bypassing airgap). took me hour to get everything out of dishwasher.
by taeric | 2025-11-06 03:44:25+00:00
I think this is talking past my question? I don't necessarily think "low level" has to be "writing assembly." I do think it means, "knows the full layout of the data in memory." Something a surprising number of developers do not know.

I've literally had debates with people that thought a CSV file would be smaller than holding the same data in memory. Senior level developers at both startups and established companies. My hunch is they had only ever done this using object oriented modeling of the data. Worse, usually in something like python, where everything is default boxed to hell and back.
by ForOldHack | 2025-11-06 03:46:15+00:00
Details: The IBM AT/370 used standard bios on the motherboard, and the two 68k custom cards had their own bioses. The 68ks were very heavily modified by one of the motorola engineers.

Its the second version of the AT Bios that was disgusting was verion 2, that ran on 6mhz 286s and prevented you from swapping the crystal for a 16Mhz/8Mhz speed up. The first version had bugs, and the third version was for the 8Mhz machines. ( still a few bugs ).

This is the AT/370:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-based_IBM_mainframe-compati...

https://www.cpushack.com/2013/03/22/cpu-of-the-day-ibm-micro...

https://anycpu.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=350

There was one additional model of the IBM AT: THE IBM XT/286: An AT class mother board in an XT sized case.

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/computers/IBM%20PC-XT-286%20(5162)...
by samtheDamned | 2025-11-06 03:46:47+00:00
I agree with that sentiment, and I think if framework had been working with several small lower quality distributions to support the overall ecosystem this may not have come across as poorly as it did. Looking at their supported distros they have, officially: Fedora, Ubuntu, Bazzite, and then community: Linux Mint, Arch, Bluefin, and NixOS. Each of these are high quality projects that each fill a niche well and while no longer listed Omarchy stood out as being much less polished than the others.
by stonogo | 2025-11-06 03:47:59+00:00
Asking someone to "hop on a call" is phrasing you use with someone you are close with, not someone whose work you've just destroyed and is no longer interested in a relationship with you.

The fact that the preceding apology was absolutely awful does not help. "I'm sorry for how you feel" is wrong, since nobody asked them to react to "feelings" but the clearly delineated problems with the automation that Mozilla rolled out.

Asking to discuss something like this over synchronous voice comms is basically asking to go off the record and handle things privately. Sometimes that's appropriate, but if that's what the correspondant wanted they would have asked for it.

These three things combine to tell anyone who is paying attention that this is damage control, not meaningful engagement, and it's offensive to act this way toward someone who has put this much time into your project.
by cookiengineer | 2025-11-06 03:48:03+00:00
Fun fact: the only complete copy of the Internet Archive's library is in Alexandria.

How's that for historic irony and "unteachability" of the human species.

Honestly, now's the time to make copies of it, while we still can. Torrents need seeders and people that care, and we are the last generation that cares about knowledge.

We need to prevent the following generations to grow up as mindless clickmonkeys of the digital Orwellian world.
by davidclark | 2025-11-06 03:48:41+00:00
My guess would be the anger comes from implication that is a possible solution at all. This type of “hop on a call” request is not usually actually designed to “truly understand what you're struggling with.” (words from the post)

Instead it is usually a PR tactic. The goal of the call requester is to get your acquiescence. Most people are less likely to be confrontational and stand up for themselves when presented with a human - voice, video, or in person. So, the context of a call makes it much more likely for marsf to backpedal from their strongly presented opinion without gaining anything.

This is a common sleazy sales tactic. The stereotypical overly aggressive car salesman would much rather speak to you in person than via email even though the same information can be conveyed. It is also used in PR and HR situations to grind out dissenters, so it comes off in this context as corporate and impersonal.
by amdsn | 2025-11-06 03:49:06+00:00
Yeah it's really jarring to be reading a text in not-english that seems somewhat normal and then to trip over some extremely American reference that makes it obvious it was auto translated. I just want things to have explicit language toggles or maybe allow me to hover over some text to see the translation. Google even allows you to set multiple languages and they still insist on auto translation between 2 languages I have told them I know.
by jwpapi | 2025-11-06 03:49:07+00:00
Yeah I’m not even sure it’s easy to decide which side is in the right here and it’s not as simple as people think it is.

Mozilla is painted bad here, but who knows if the automated translations do not help more people than it hurts the translators.

What if the reduced financial pressure allows Mozilla to focus more on privacy and less on ads.

Unfortunately these things are really gray, but you really can’t expect a company to keep you paying in good will.
by jogu | 2025-11-06 03:50:02+00:00
From my read, the software didn't go wrong. It did exactly what they intended it to -- machine translations replaced handwritten translations provided by community volunteers. Seems like a pretty big middle finger to those volunteers.

The lead realized that Mozilla doesn't care about their opinion (they did this without discussing with them) nor do they care about the work they were doing (by replacing their work with machine translations). A "quick call" doesn't solve this.
by usefulcat | 2025-11-06 03:50:08+00:00
I don't now about Japanese manufacturing per se, but I definitely wouldn't say that finished Japanese products were considered dodgy in the 80s. Sony, Panasonic, Honda, Toyota, various camera brands, Yamaha.. I recall all of those being at least "pretty good".

I definitely remember the sense that Japanese cars posed a real threat to the American auto industry, and in hindsight that seems to have been well founded.
by conductr | 2025-11-06 03:51:38+00:00
You’ve switched contexts completely with your strawman. Meaning, you’ve pivot Brenda in finance to some technical/software engineer task. You’ve pointed the conversation specifically at a use case that AI is good at, writing code and solving those problems. The world at large is much more complex than helping you be a 10x engineer. To live up to the hype, it has to do this reliably for every vertical in a majority of situations. It’s not even close to being there.

Also, context equivalent counter examples abound. Just read HN or any tech forum and it’s takes no time to hear people talking about the hallucinations and garbage that AI sometimes generates. The whole vibe coding trend is built on “make this app” then followed by hundreds of “fix this” “fix that” prompts because it doesn’t get much right at first attempt.
WGU Reputation in Canada
by bchrome | 2025-11-06 03:51:40+00:00
Do people see it as a diploma mill up here in Canada? I'm 22 and just about fully committed to the new networking - cisco degree but I'm worried that:

People will look up the school, see that it's primarily online, and immediately discard my resume in favor of a local college/university.

I'm also just generally scared about the IT sector. I watched a video of a programmer simply running a script to delete and redeploy 1000s of linux machines in a split second. There was an issue with one of the boxes and he didnt even need to troubleshoot it, but that entire scenario is outside the scope of this question.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-06 03:51:54+00:00
Don't pretend ignorance, it is unbecoming and dishonest. You know how the process works. For historical reasons it requires 60 votes in the Senate for all intents and purposes to re-open the government, which the Republicans don't have.

I've never been a Republican but the line of argument you are pursuing is gross no matter who does it. Have some self-respect.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 03:52:30+00:00
There's probably a bunch of untranslated or badly translated content worldwide, so this was rolled out to help with that, without realizing it would overwrite higher-quality translation.

It probably made a lot of sense in certain contexts, and certain side effects weren't predicted, or it just has bugs that need fixing.

Presumably nothing malicious or stupid. But just ironing out the kinks.