MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by testing22321 | 2025-11-13 18:31:55+00:00
As I was driving my daughter to daycare this morning I saw the garbage men. A road worker filling in pot holes, a person holding the stop sign and someone digging a hole in the road. They all have the same healthcare I do. Canadians all pay taxes, and work together for the betterment of everyone, and it shows. It’s a community, a society people are happy strangers have a good standard of living.

The US is a competitive sport where everyone is competing with everyone else. Driving past a lowly person holding a stop sign it’s just literally “sucks to be them” and no ability to help or do anything about it.

There are 30 million people in the US without health insurance. There are none in Canada. Medical issues are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US. In Canada there are none.

Obviously health care is just one example, and there are plenty of kind and friendly people in the US. But living under conditions like that is not a happy, healthy society of people that care about strangers and care for each other. It’s a “look out for me” place.

The more I go there (I was down there last week), the more I see the vast majority of Americans live in a scarcity mindset. Of course the high GDP means not scarce in terms of consumption, but in terms of things that actually impact quality of life day to day.
by qwerpy | 2025-11-13 18:32:23+00:00
That's a lot of your own judgment you've layered on top of it.

For a more joyful interpretation of cybertruck aesthetics, do a image search for "cybertruck trick or treat". I volunteered to provide my truck for my kid's school Halloween party and decorated it to look like the chomp chomp monster from Mario. Kids loved it.

(sure it's not cyberpunk but it's an example of how the look can be used for family friendly innocent fun)
by underlipton | 2025-11-13 18:33:11+00:00
People have been using, "It's what the [insert Blazing Saddles clip here] want!" for years to describe platform changes that dumb down features and make it harder to use tools productively. As always, it's a lie; the real reason is, "The new way makes us more money," usually by way of a dark pattern.

Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt. Be overly suspicious and let them walk you back to trust (that's their job).
by saltcured | 2025-11-13 18:33:20+00:00
Not to diminish your loss, but this whole debate is mired in the difficulty in moving from individual outcomes to aggregates that matter for public health policy. Things got ugly (and will do so again in the future) facing something novel, where many basic assumptions we have about individual results are based on other baseline assumptions that are no longer true. The very expectation of a good surgical outcome for a common stent surgery is based on statistics from "normal" times.

But, would the procedure have helped if the surgery was expected to cause COVID exposure, and the patient could have that severe respiratory illness during their surgical recovery? Would it be a good outcome if the surgical staff were dropping like flies with COVID they would get from the regular flow of patients? Alternatively, could the procedure be expected to work as reliably if the staff were wearing all that extra personal protection gear? That is not the conditions under which the procedure was developed and its benefits determined to be worth the risk...

I hope that our global experience produced enough data for someone to come up with better answers before the next novel pandemic. But, I don't know how you plow through all the inconsistencies in the data to come to any statistically valid conclusions. I.e. we have different regions/subpopulations who, in effect, ran different arms of an experiment. But, how can we compare their outcomes with sufficient rigor to find clear answers?
by fasbiner | 2025-11-13 18:33:35+00:00
I did not say anything about your professional experience nor make any implicit assumption.

You would benefit from using translation tools in order to participate more effectively with less frustration.

This is not a personal attack, it is a factual statement about your level of English writing and reading proficiency. That you would interpret as such may not be a purely linguistic issue, but I am trying to be charitable and helpful.
by badsectoracula | 2025-11-13 18:33:39+00:00
I have a Steam Deck. All you have to do to use it like a desktop PC is to connect a cheap hub with power delivery, HDMI and USB ports for keyboard and mouse, then boot into KDE Plasma which is a regular desktop environment.

Honestly, my SD has seen more use as a stationary PC than a handheld :-P
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 18:34:26+00:00
Thanks! I've tried my share of Agentic Browsers, sidebars, etc. Most of them don't work that well, and even as they get better, I am just generally not sold on the vision. Sure, there are some amount of "chores" that I need to do on the web that I wouldn't mind automating/offloading, but I also genuinely enjoying browsing the web. I don't want a future where AI agents do all the browsing for us.

So we built this to hopefully make browsing the web more enjoyable for us humans that remain :)

And I'm with you on Firefox. I'd love to be able to go back to Firefox as my daily driver. Will try to prioritize it!
by mikaylamaki | 2025-11-13 18:34:27+00:00
We’ve been growing and have had to scale authentication beyond what our original collab server could handle. Not many people are using collab yet, we’re prioritizing non-collaborative features (like our recent Windows release), and we’re planning on rebuilding all of this on top of DeltaDB. Fundamentally, it just fell through the cracks.

Self hosting will be a vital feature for users and enterprises though, we’re planning on revisiting it once we have a few more features settled :D
by oersted | 2025-11-13 18:34:32+00:00
A lot of the things the administration is doing seem a bit socialist because socialism has some overlap with populism. The main difference is that it is framed as Trump doing favours to certain groups of people, with expectation of reciprocity or at least personal gratitude and loyalty, instead of more institutional wealth redistribution or subsidy policies.

Depending on who he is doing favours to, it looks right-wing or left-wing under the traditional political lens, but it's more about Trump doing whatever he wants with the governments resources.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-13 18:34:45+00:00
Great. The Cryptocurrency hype finally died down and prices for things (except GPUs) were MOSTLY going back to normal.

Now the sector has invented a new hype machine and hardware prices are all fucked again.

Is this going to happen every few years? The industry hypes up some nonsense that skyrockets all the hardware prices and causes everything to be on backorder, just to dump it and go to the next one?
by BinaryPie | 2025-11-13 18:34:46+00:00
I generally like what Zed is trying to become. However, all of these features and blog posts are frustraing when they struggle to keep basic editor features stable. Edit a file outside of the editor? It's not going to show up in the project pane or the git diff. Need to work inside a container because it's 2025 and we don't need to clutter our local machine with 100s of dependencies and env managers... well now all the AI stuff is broken. ACP sounds cool until you realize every single CLI in existence works better.

My wish is that Zed gets the core working correctly 100% of the time before moving on to expanding feature sets. For now I'm back in NeoVIM because it always works the first time....

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/38109

Hopefully soon I can give it another shot at full time usage.
by IAmBroom | 2025-11-13 18:35:07+00:00
OK, the headline got borked into ungrammatical garbage, but that's probably an HN filter thing.

MS is going all-in on something the users don't want... surprise! Your OS is going to be involuntarily made all-AI all-the-time. And somehow, this fundamental change isn't even worthy of a rev; it's still "Windows 11" - FWIW.

My favorite part of the article is when they refer to it (apparently accidentally) as MS Widows.
by runjake | 2025-11-13 18:35:50+00:00
1. Genuine question: Why is that one interviewer wearing headphones around his neck throughout the interview? Is it a fashion thing in silicon valley tech culture or something?

2. It confirms that Satya is on board with, and perhaps the driver behind, that infamous tweet about Windows 11 from this week: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-is...
by ModernMech | 2025-11-13 18:35:54+00:00
Because "maximum editor" was achieved with Visual Studio Code (which is why all these new editors look and feel like VSC), the same way "maximum toothbrush" was achieved with the electric toothbrush. But the toothbrush industry had to keep going, so now we have a $400 bluetooth connected toothbrush-as-a-service that monitors your brushing habits to optimize teeth cleanliness, with brush heads that cost more than 5 regular toothbrushes.

Zed and the current crop of AI editors (including VSC itself) are that toothbrush.
by tehjoker | 2025-11-13 18:36:09+00:00
The problem is that I don't really trust a big company to have an agent monitoring me let alone all the phoning home it does, but in an alternative universe, I can see the vision here as creating something that is closer to a starship-type OS from scifi where interactions are increasingly natural. That's interesting, but at the same time, what does it mean when the computer has its own kind of volition and is more loyal to the company than to you?
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-11-13 18:36:16+00:00
In light of Google's recent push to eliminate this, I went and installed F-Droid to see what we'd be losing. I had thought about it for years, but always held off on doing it on my daily driver phone because I simply didn't want to open the floodgates on allowing apps to start randomly installing on my phone.

But having done it, I'm actually pretty impressed with the existing security. At least on my S24, you have to both enable sideloading at the system level, and enable each specific app to be allowed to "Install other apps" (e.g. when I first tried to launch the APK that I had downloaded from Firefox, I received a notification that I would need to whitelist Firefox to be allowed to install apps. I decided no, and instead whitelisted my File Manager app and then opened the APK through that).

I then installed F-Droid, allowed it to install other apps, installed NewPipe, and then toggled back off the system-level sideloading setting. NewPipe still works, and I don't think anything else can install. This satisfies my security paranoia that once the door to sideloading is opened that apps can install other apps willy-nilly. Not so.

So I really don't see what this new initiative by Google solves, other than, as others have said, control. The idea that somehow all user security woes come from sideloading apps and they would somehow be safe if they simply stuck strictly to the Play Store is patently untrue, given the number of malware-laden apps currently lurking in the Play Store.
by MarkLowenstein | 2025-11-13 18:36:21+00:00
Reliving the days when the possibilities were endless and we weren't already captured by an entrenched computing path is important. 50 years ago, every marketer intuited that a home computer would be used for storing recipes. It never happened. Why not? (Reasons aren't hard to come up with, but the process of doing so draws our imagination toward what computer interfaces could have been and should still be.)
by incomingpain | 2025-11-13 18:36:21+00:00
>We had an internal-workshop led by our internal AI-team (mostly just LLMs), and had the horrible realisation that no one in that team actually knows what the term "AI" even means, or how a language model works.

I'm the AI expert for my org. Everyone else is more or less opposed to AI.

>One senior-dev (team-lead also) tried to explain to me that AI is a subfield of machine-learning, and always stochastic in nature (since ChatGPT responds differently to the same prompt).

machine learning is the sub field of AI.

Not really stochastic as far as I know. The whole random seed and temperature thing is a bit of a grey area for my full understanding. Let alone the topk, top p, etc. I often just accept what's recommended from the model folks.

>We/they are selling tailor-made "AI-products" to other businesses, but apparently we don't know how sampling works...?

Sales people dont tend to know jack. That doesnt mean they dont have an introvert in the back who does know what's going on.

>Am I just too junior/naive to get this or am I cooked?

AI for the most part has been out a couple years. With rapid improvement and changes that make 2023 knowledge obsolete. 100% of us are juniors in AI.

You're disillusioned because the "ai experts" basically dont exist.
by mullingitover | 2025-11-13 18:36:21+00:00
This idea that there's just left and right is very quaint. The bigger divide today is pro- and anti-establishment, plenty of the 'right-wing' Trump voters were also celebrating what happened to Brian Thompson.

Meanwhile, the ACA was quite frankly a love letter to conservatives.

It kept the US profit-driven system on life support, and it's a form of the same system proposed by Nixon, and again by republicans during the Clinton administration's push for healthcare reform, and the system enacted by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts.

The only reason republicans opposed it on party lines during the Obama administration was politics: they were forced to denounce the system they loved due to their status as the opposition party. In another universe they would've celebrated their president signing it into law.

Actual leftists are probably fine with ending the current system because it will bring so much pain to the voting public that it might actually get them off their asses to bring in single payer. As the saying goes: "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they have tried everything else."
by nova22033 | 2025-11-13 18:36:42+00:00
https://insideevs.com/news/667723/musk-estimates-tesla-could...

Musk Estimates Tesla Could Sell 250,000-500,000 Cybertrucks Yearly

https://insideevs.com/news/766162/tesla-cybertruck-sales-q2-...

Tesla Cybertruck Sales Fall Dramatically To Their Lowest Level In A Year
by lavezzi | 2025-11-13 18:36:42+00:00
I don’t think these points are accurate at all for people in the UK. There isn’t really a class divide, you ride trains in particular because it’s theoretically the most time efficient way to travel within metro areas and potentially across the country. Increased prices have not resulted in better service, and it’s purely a method to price gouge those who have no feasible travel alternatives.
by alexellisuk | 2025-11-13 18:36:56+00:00
This whole discussion needs way more input - this has been posted three times (I was the last and it got flagged as "dupe") - the moderators are not allowing fair discussion here.

As an industry this has a huge impact.

Good to know re: Traefik - I wonder if K3s will continue to ship Traefik v2?
by ronsor | 2025-11-13 18:37:04+00:00
> Why do we need to attach riders / sneak in legislation?

Because they can't agree on anything normally, so the only way to make changes is to shove them in with things they must agree on.

> What changes could we make to the constitution to avoid this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule

Multiple states already have this.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-11-13 18:37:23+00:00
Obama used loan guarantees and grants, not equity stakes.

Solyndra $500M loan guarantee (defaulted 2011) Tesla $500M loan (repaid early 2013 with interest) First Solar $3B loan guarantees (currently being serviced) SunPower $1.2B loan guarantee (bankrupt 2024 but loan repaid) ARRA (2009) $25.6B grants disbursed

No equity positions taken. Trump's policy is direct equity stakes as condition for industrial subsidies/tariff relief. It's statist, but I wouldn't call it communist.
by aboringusername | 2025-11-13 18:37:29+00:00
It's a rather intriguing concept, because it can be the case that the binaries Google released in QPR1 and their source code are different in some way. OEMs must ship QPR1 as Google released publicly within 6 months.

If this open-source release was to contain new patches, they must now ship these changes within 6 months. The Pixel OS release counts as the first 6 month timer. The source code release, by definition, now counts as the 2nd timer.

I expect the closed source binaries and public source code to be the same, but that may not always be the case. So OEMs are expected to at least in 6 months ship an update with the open-source code.
by currency | 2025-11-13 18:38:40+00:00
Speaking of electronic devices, an appliance is generally locked down, and the manufacturer limits the number of use cases. You end up with something that is not a general-purpose computer, even though many use the same hardware as a computer would.

A game console is a classic appliance. You turn it on and see your current game running or a selection of games to play and you can start playing a game with zero intermediate steps.

The Steam Deck and Steam Box are designed as appliance emulators—they boot and by default operate in appliance mode. They can provide the same exact experience as a console if you use them as designed. They are also general-purpose computers, if you wish to step out of console mode.
by kriops | 2025-11-13 18:38:45+00:00
What are you saying here? It is true that VS Code is less bad in terms of responsiveness in comparison to Atom. Zed, however, is written in Rust (i.e., not Electron), and I would guess it is at least an order of magnitude more responsive than VS Code across every possible scenario.

Web technologies are an unrivaled technological marvel for what they are, but it is disingenuous to imply they represent anything near the peak of what we are capable of in the context of performance.
by rvz | 2025-11-13 18:39:30+00:00
> One senior-dev (team-lead also) tried to explain to me that AI is a subfield of machine-learning, and always stochastic in nature (since ChatGPT responds differently to the same prompt).

This "senior dev" has it all mixed up and is incorrect.

"AI" is all encompassing umbrella term that includes other fields of "AI" such as the very old GOFAI (good old fashioned AI) which is rule-based, machine learning (statistical, bayesian) methods, and neural networks which deep learning and more recently generative AI (which ChatGPT) uses.

More accurately, it is neural networks which are more "stochastic" with their predictions and decisions, not just transformer models which ChatGPT is based on.

> Am I just too junior/naive to get this or am I cooked?

Quite frankly, the entire team (except you) is cooked, as you have realized what you don't know.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-11-13 18:39:37+00:00
From the report:

> Today there are nearly 800,000 or 40% more people of working-age who are economically inactive for health reasons than there were in 2019.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keep-britain-work...

I would like to see what they have to say about the population health impact of COVID and the aftermath of COVID infection.

If the data shows that the population gets sicker at the same time as a once-a-century level pandemic arrives, then this is obvious and suggestive.

Correlation is not causation, but if it's not the cause then that should be conclusion reached only after investigating and ruling out the glaringly obvious.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-13 18:40:01+00:00
There's a lot going on here: restored videos marked as "Archived" but like, are they associated with the original usernames? And they're dreaming up some complicated process to relink users to those accounts? Good luck with that. Is everyone's old 'profile' magically available now on there if there's restored videos in them? Wacky, and challenging.

What I really care about right now is if the URLs for those archived videos are restored, bringing back a large chunk of 404ed links to the internet. But maybe that's a pipedream too.
by Apocryphon | 2025-11-13 18:40:12+00:00
I have to wonder that these sociocultural theories are still refusing to acknowledge material realities and economics. Cost of living in many nations have raised in ways not commensurate with salaries. Every major urban area with economic opportunities is suffering from real estate issues. That is going to close off doors and force people to crawl into windows. Online living becomes a salve. Culture war becomes a proxy for being able to engage with "real life."

The post-Cold War Clinton years was the rise of political correctness. "It's the '90s!" was a popular cultural catchphrase. Rush Limbaugh and the talk radio shock jocks who are the forefathers of today's anti-woke talking heads cut their teeth on anti-PC culture warmongering. Yet, society didn't seem all that fragmented. Maybe it was because people were well-fed and not in fear of existential issues. In fact, the late '90s became suffused with entertainment searching for new threats and fears- disaster movies, hero's journeys about white-collar cubicle drones finding enlightenment and adventure.

Then 9/11 happened, American society- and much of the West- became afraid, constantly looking over its shoulder. And that fear never went away. It simply shifted to different bogeymen. And what I would argue is the most corrosive thing about the War on Terror is that it polarized the divisions in American society, became an "us or them" thing, where being them meant becoming an existential threat to your fellow countryman. So now we see the same tired '00s cliches repackaged along different political fault-lines and social demographics. Woke/anti-woke debates, gender wars, etc. are simply updates of the same cultural struggles from the '90s- or from the '50s? ratcheted up with War on Terror paranoia and polarization. We are still living in the shadow of that era. We never depolarized from that era. Toss in the ubiquity of the internet and here you have the present.
by John23832 | 2025-11-13 18:40:14+00:00
While I wouldn't piss on him to put him out, the Trump administration is not the nucleus of anti-chinese sentiment. It happened way before him. He's just loud and hamfisted about it.

Canada specifically, as a major supplier to US auto manufacturers and a resource economy in it's own right, should be wary of cozying up to Chinese business.
by antonchekhov | 2025-11-13 18:40:19+00:00
> [..] I can't imagine how useless an unthinking AI would be at this when my own family and friends who, and this is important, _know me_, can't find anything to get me that doesn't land in the above categories

This is precisely the problem - an AI does not really "know" the recipient (set aside of what it means to "know" someone). The result is you get something just a bit more varied than the usual "He's a Guy - he'll love some Whiskey Stones, a Bacon-of-the-Month subscription, or a Beard Care Kit" advice. (Adjust for whatever target demographic.)
by blibble | 2025-11-13 18:41:03+00:00
Microsoft is the world's first AI controlled company

the CEO has been conned into the bullshit, and now has "AI" Chiefs of Staff telling him what to do

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-15/microsoft...

"Excellent question!" "Great idea!" "You're so smart!"

you can see how someone can fall into this trap, but normally they're not the one at the top so it's somewhat harmless

if you get someone at the top though... they can enforce their will downwards via KPIs and OKRs