MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomhow | 2025-11-04 06:02:20+00:00
Some version of the second sentence could be fine if you omitted the all-caps words and belligerent tone. The phrases "Typical Hasbara lying", "Birds of a feather flock together" are flamebait, along with the overall hostile and escalatory tone of that comment, along with this entire comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45788190.

This style of commenting is a pattern extending back at least a year, maybe longer. We've already asked you before to do better.

The comment you replied to was also flagged and killed, and also wasn't what we like to see, but that doesn’t justify or excuse further escalation from you.

If you expect others to conduct themselves to a high standard, you need to show a sincere intent to conduct yourself to a high standard, and it makes it harder for us to take action against an earlier comment when a later comment escalates so egregiously.

None of this is personal or specific to this comment or any issue. The guidelines have been in place since HN began and have changed little. They apply equally to everyone. By participating on HN, you agree to adhere to the guidelines. If you don't like HN's guidelines, you can choose not to participate.
by ako | 2025-11-04 06:02:56+00:00
AI code generators are getting better fast, in the near future they will be able to produce good changes faster than you can review. How will you deal with it then? Most vibe coding tools can also produce smaller PR, but then you have to deal with 250+ PRs in 1 week. Is that more manageable? My guess is we need new tool, get the human out of the loop. More automated reviews, tests, etc.
by viccis | 2025-11-04 06:03:03+00:00
Open source? Close it and ask them resubmit a smaller one and justify the complexity of things like a DSL if they wanted it included.

For work? Close it and remind them that their AI velocity doesn't save the company time if it takes me many hours (or even days depending on the complexity of the 9k lines) to review something intended to be merged into an important service. Ask them to resubmit a smaller one and justify the complexity of things like a DSL if they wanted it included. If my boss forces me to review it, then I do so and start quietly applying for new jobs where my job isn't to spend 10x (or 100x) more time reviewing code than my coworkers did "writing" it.
by mmooss | 2025-11-04 06:03:20+00:00
That understates the situation significantly. Wales posted a long comment under the headline,

Statement from Jimbo Wales: This message is from me, Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia

That's not just another comment; it's an official statement from the most powerful person on Wikipedia.

Wales goes on to say, "As many of you will know, I have been leading an NPOV working group and studying the issue of neutrality in Wikipedia across many articles and topic areas including “Zionism”. While this article is a particularly egregious example, there is much more work to do."

In other words, an official body is watching and studying what you are doing, and policy actions may follow.

Finally, Wales does not accept any possibility that other points of view besides his own may be valid - not addressing many prior discussions. His belief is an assumed premise, and he demands ('asks') people to take actions on the basis of his beliefs. If you read the discussion, he continues that position.

That doesn't make Wales wrong or right, but he didn't 'just comment ... that it should have a more neutral tone.'.
by rablackburn | 2025-11-04 06:04:32+00:00
> We are at the point in the technology curve with AI where every day someone figures out something new to do with them, meaning users will take any chip they can get, and use it productively.

Sure, that's an assertion.

But (with just as many citations), mine would be:

This boom is absolutely, 100%, fueled by the combined factors of: 1) employees outsourcing the cognitive load of their jobs to models that are, impressively "close", but not quite _as_ good as a well-trained human.

ie, we're replacing google with a fun, but terribly energy-wasteful (and _very often_ factually wrong) "make up an answer" tech.

and 2), AI "app developers" who are having fun with the previously "impossible" (*cf. https://xkcd.com/1425/) APIs of multi-modal natural language, and "didn't sci-fi warn us about this?" simulations.

Neither of which are good for productivity, if we measure productivity as "improving circumstances for the mutual commonwealth of all life". Which is the goal.

* oh, I _did_ use a citation after all.

It is an interesting article, but _far_ too sure of itself in all the wrong areas.
by __float | 2025-11-04 06:05:04+00:00
There are a ton of people who _immediately_ open tmux/zellij/etc. when they're doing anything in the terminal. This means you use its backscroll and search feature, and you wouldn't notice.

@mitchellh seems to rely on the Ghostty feature to dump scrollback to a file, and edit/search over that.

I found it a bit too inconvenient when using remote systems frequently, though. (If I'm missing a trick, I'd love to use Ghostty! But I'm just not a fan of multiplexers.)
by RossBencina | 2025-11-04 06:05:32+00:00
I think we have different definitions of obsolescence. Mine is basically "the ability to continue to use the device for the original purpose that I purchased it for." In my case, developing Mac OS software (that's the only reason I own Macs, I do all of my day to day computing on Windows and Linux.) I completely agree with you that the hardware is in no sense obsolete, the software is a different matter. For example my original Retina iPad started feeling obsolete as soon as Safari stopped rendering modern websites, even though the device hardware does not feel obsolete. Another example is that every Mac Mini that I have bought was useless to me as soon as I could not upgrade the OS and run the latest XCode on it.

In my view the forcefull obsolescence mechanism comprises the following strongly interacting practices:

1. Not supplying operating system updates for "older" hardware (actually not that old). Depending on your security posture this point alone may be sufficient.

2. Aggressively deprecating APIs and nudging developers to use the new APIs (i.e. nudging applications to not support the operating systems that run on the older OS that you have to run on the old hardware -- see point 1)

3. Ratcheting operating system upgrades with new hardware. There is no way to control the OS version that you use independent of hardware: replacing a machine always forces an OS upgrade.

4. Requiring the latest OS to run the latest development tools.

In combination, these practices create a treadmill that keeps everything "new" and anything older than 3 years not compatible. There's probably more to it than this but that's what I could write down quickly.
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-04 06:06:22+00:00
There was definitely a period from I guess the 80s but definitely the mid 90s to before COVID where the average joe could afford a tradesperson for the bigger things when needed, which are now prohibitively expensive

I feel everyone is competing with a 5-10 dumb rich people who don't batter an eye lid at a job quoted at 20x the materials. I feel people used to have some more morals too on the supply side of that labour, but you can't blame them for chasing the money.
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by gnarlouse | 2025-11-04 06:07:08+00:00
> The one thing driving the internet and state of the art computing is money

You're kind of separating yin from yang and pretending that one begot the other. The reason so much money flooded into chip fab was because compute is one of the few technologies (the only technology?) with recursive self improvement properties. Smaller chip fab leads to more compute, which enabled smaller chip fabs though research modeling. Sure: and it's all because humans want to do business faster. But TSMC literally made chips the business and proved out the pure play foundry business model.

> Even if Moore's Law was never a thing

Then arguably in that universe, we would have eventually hit a ceiling, which is precisely the point I'm trying to make against the article: it's a little silly to assume there's an infinite frontier of exponential improvement available just because that was the prior trend.

> Moore's Law has very little to do with the physical size of a single transistor

I mean it has everything to do with the physical size of a single transistor, precisely because of that recursive self improvement phenomenon. In a universe where moore's law doesn't exist, in 2025 we wouldn't be on 3nm production dies, and compute scale would have capped off decades ago. Or perhaps even a lot of other weird physical things would probably be different, like maybe macroscopic quantum phenomena or just an entire universe that is one sentient blob made from the chemical composition of cheeto dust.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-04 06:08:03+00:00
> Second, you have consumer protection policies that make it genuinely expensive to, say, be a HVAC repairman.

clarification: Of the things that make it expensive to run an HVAC repair company, consumer protection related expenses are super far down the list.

source: 2 decades (on/off) supporting a close friend's regional hvac biz, national geothermal interests.
by turtlebits | 2025-11-04 06:11:13+00:00
Good mini splits aren't expensive. They're expensive because HVAC installers are fleecing US consumers.

A majority of mini splits are made in China and are inexpensive and reliable because they're so pervasive in Asia. Most are rebadged Midea or Gree.

You can get a decent mini split for <1.5K and install it yourself for $200 in tools.
by OrderlyTiamat | 2025-11-04 06:11:25+00:00
I'll concede to all your points here, but I was nevertheless extremely impressed by this result.

You're right of course that this was not without human guidance but to me even successfully using LLMs just for the mutation step was in and of itself surprising enough that it revised my own certainty that llms absolutely cannot think.

I see this more like a step in the direction of what you're looking for, not as a counter example.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-11-04 06:12:34+00:00
> HVAC wage

This is mostly down to people being afraid of anything even remotely trades-like. Learn to do some basic home repair, it will save you thousands.

> This graph can mean different things to different people: it can mean “what’s regulated versus what isn’t” to some, “where technology makes a difference”

Cars are pretty heavily regulated...

What I see is what is necessary to live and what isn't. Elastic vs inelastic demand.

> the average American middle-class household can comfortably manage a new car lease every two years

Huh, no, the average American middle-class household cannot do this.

> If one sector becomes hugely productive, and creates tons of well-paying jobs, then every other sector’s wages eventually have to rise, in order for their jobs to remain attractive for anyone.

I'm sorry, but anyone who has lived in the lower income brackets knows this just isn't true.

This is hard to read. Whoever wrote this is extremely out of touch and thinks they're eminently intelligent. It reminds me of the "smug San Francisco" South Park episode. The world is going down a road of hurt and you've got elites who are so busy "winning" over the past 50 years running around sniffing their own farts.
by richardfeynman | 2025-11-04 06:12:51+00:00
I made an argument that there should be a trial and argued explicitly against those who think thee shouldn't be a trial. Here's how you responded to my defense of common law and due process:

"Right, because over the course of the past 400 years, those institutions have always worked everywhere and no one's ever been at the margins of the justice system, been arrested arbitrarily or ignored by the police, had to languish in jail without a charge, been denied access to competent attorneys, a fair and speedy trial, or been subject to institutional biases and unwarranted imprisonment. Certainly that would never happens in a territory where it has happened routinely for 70+ years."

To me that sounds like you're saying that the standards of jurisprudence developed since the enlightenment are unnecessary because they sometimes fail, and that therefore a trial would be superfluous; it's fine to prejudge rape in this instance. This is at least my reading of your comment; I admit your comment is dripping with sarcasm so it's hard to tell what you actually meant.

I've also been consistent that the accused should be presumed innocent and has a right to due process. If you disavow your prior comment and agree with these common law principles then congratulations you've found a point of agreement with a zionist, and you disagree with the others in the thread who argue that a rape definitely occurred and the accused can be presumed guilty.
by inejge | 2025-11-04 06:13:09+00:00
> it's really convenient to be able send Ctrl-C (break) differently than Cmd-C (copy)

Right, and even on Linux you can do it by using the four-fifths forgotten CUA shortcut Ctrl-Insert for copy (and Shift-Insert for paste.) Although I'll admit to using Ctrl-Shift-C/V most of the time.
by quadrifoliate | 2025-11-04 06:14:06+00:00
I'm not rich (or at least, don't feel rich with the enormous cost increases on everything combined with no promotions for 3 years) -- but how do you negotiate with a tradesperson exactly?

All of the major trade companies around where I live (HVAC, plumbing, electrical etc.) in the US have rates that they quote before the person will even show up. As a new homeowner who didn't grow up in the US, that's all I've ever dealt with.

If the answer is “Give them a number you're comfortable with, and just DIY it as an alternative” -- that's fine, and I do it for anything simple; but for the remaining ones, I have already made a determination that learning this skill would be way more in terms of time invested than the $500 or whatever absurd number they are quoting for a simple repair (this logic likely breaks down over time, and I'm trying to invest more time into learning more house repairs).

I have tried pre-purchasing some parts in the past; and asking them to use them for the install -- that one had some success and a guy told me how much his company marks up parts (n00%).

I do try to get multiple quotes for something, but the difference between them isn't usually appreciable; they're all absurdly high. I've tried to ask them for a parts v/s labor breakdown in the past; some won't even provide that.
by akst | 2025-11-04 06:15:11+00:00
I haven’t entirely followed what you meant by a solution to IO, but I’m not to surprising to hear there’s a solution.

I guess the point I had in mind was, in making the case of dependent languages stuff like this may not be immediately apparent (I might be confusing the concept of total languages or programming which may not necessarily be coupled to dependent types).

> as an aside by IO I do mean anything not known at compile time (interrupts & user input, network responses, network requests [who API may change in a breaking way], database entries, etc)

Cheers for your insight btw
by stein1946 | 2025-11-04 06:15:37+00:00
> You can just as well argue that labor is getting more expensive in the West because of two non-market pressures. First, we have a multitude of government programs that seek to eliminate extreme poverty, so there are fewer people who are desperate to take any job for any money. Second, you have consumer protection policies that make it genuinely expensive to, say, be a HVAC repairman. Educational requirements, permits, licensing, business insurance, waste disposal, etc.

How's what you wrote substantiated at all?

To me it seems you are suggesting we let people starve so that labour you characterize as "minimally-skilled backyard" is cheap.

You also seem to be suggesting that consumer protection policies need to go as well. I assume we are going to trust the end consumer to do due diligence cause "they know whats better for them?"

If they get a quote of 10k and they cannot get a better one, they might as well start writing that check.
Ask HN: Does Anyone Use DGX Spark for High Performance Scientific Computing?
by dwasher | 2025-11-04 06:16:02+00:00
Unified memory accelerators like GH200, GB200 and even GB300 have demonstrated uses and benefits in high performance scientific computing. They even appear in the top 10 of Top500.

It is also pretty much accepted in the HPC community that accelerators are necessary, but the complexity of heterogeneous programming, necessity of careful design to avoid data transfer bottlenecks and the cost of accelerators are preventing commonplace adoption.

However, even though newer CUDA versions and devices like DGX Spark are addressing these concerns to significant degree, I haven't seen any benchmarks, any results or any declaration of interest from the community. If you are part of the HPC community, please share your opinions or experience.
by ggm | 2025-11-04 06:17:25+00:00
The inflation in health care cost is not down to Jevons in my opinion. The likelihood of AI job displacement is low because the demand backlog is high.

Robotics will reduce back injury rates and so reduce Nurse shortages, for example. Misdiagnosis rates cause increases in compensation claims so improvement in diagnostics reduce risk so insurance premiums(for hospitals) should go down or at least not rise as quickly compared to inflation.

Note that the cost of health is high even in the economies without the broken US health system, and we have the baby boom moving through which is a huge bubble of cost associated with age.

Not that there's no component of Jevons in this, but it doesn't explain everything.

A thing said to me in Argentina resonated: They pay doctors, nurses, pharmacists slightly more if they will do out-calls to elderly people in the community at large. The increase in staff cost to have home calls offsets the massive increase in care costs if these people cannot be cared for in their home and move into a managed care facility. It's partly an externality if you privatise healthcare: who cares if the state has to pick up the tab, right? But in a more integrated view of the costs here, its better to pay more for people to help keep the elderly in their own home as long as possible.

(elderly, intending to stay in my own home, not in the US health system)
by hamza_q_ | 2025-11-04 06:19:06+00:00
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Technologies: diarization, Voice AI, PyTorch, CoreML,

Svelte/SvelteKit, Flask, SQLite, Tauri

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by js-j | 2025-11-04 06:19:13+00:00
The promise of Affinity: a professional graphic design package without the hefty monthly subscription cost of Adobe. Now it is "free". How come?! I don't take it! It's a fundamental law of economics that there is no free lunch. I will not be paying for the product with my personal data.

Adobe's products are more professional than Affinity's, and they are de facto the norm for professional graphic design.

The main reason for me to consider non-free software for graphic design is not that Gimp, Inkscape, etc. are not good enough and lacking in features. It's about the social aspect of working and interacting with other peer designers.
by Gigachad | 2025-11-04 06:19:50+00:00
What I'm seeing is trades workers basically don't want small one off jobs because you waste so much time on the overheads unrelated to the actual work. If someone has a hole in the wall they need patched, you're spending time answering the phone, estimating the price, driving there, billing the customer, etc. And a lot of jobs are very one off and difficult to evaluate the price.

Why even bother when you could just work for a mass build and plaster up hundreds of walls in a single job on a new apartment building or housing development.

So as an individual it's almost impossible to get someone over to do a small job, and your only realistic option is to do it yourself.
by zeroonetwothree | 2025-11-04 06:19:56+00:00
I'm not sure why everyone picks on radiology as the 'obvious' field that will get automated. So far it has been the opposite:

> In 2025, American diagnostic radiology residency programs offered a record 1,208 positions across all radiology specialties, a four percent increase from 2024, and the field’s vacancy rates are at all-time highs. In 2025, radiology was the second-highest-paid medical specialty in the country, with an average income of $520,000, over 48 percent higher than the average salary in 2015.

Simply put, radiologists do a lot more than merely read scans:

> Radiologists are useful for more than reading scans; a study that followed staff radiologists in three different hospitals in 2012 found that only 36 percent of their time was dedicated to direct image interpretation.

Source: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-algorithm-will-see-you-...
by esperent | 2025-11-04 06:20:37+00:00
Here in Vietnam nearly all ACs are these minisplit type. It costs about 500,000VND ($19) to get one serviced, including replacement coolant. It's cheap enough that I get it done at least once or twice a year for all units (the coolant doesn't always need replacing but I get it cleaned and serviced).

I know the US and Vietnamese economies are very different, but something doesn't add up there.
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-11-04 06:20:57+00:00
It is true that browsers do much more computation than "dumb" terminals, but there are still non-trivial parallels. Terminals do contain a processor and memory in order to handle settings menus, handle keyboard input and convert incoming sequences into a character array that is then displayed on the screen. A terminal is mostly useless without something attached to the other side, but not _completely_ useless. You can browse the menus, enable local echo, and use device as something like a scratchpad. I once drew up a schematic as ascii art this way. The contents are ephemeral and you have to take a photo of the screen or something in order to retain the data.

Web browsers aren't quite that useless with no internet connection, some sites do offer offline capabilities (for example gmail). but even then, the vast majority of offline experiences exist to tide the user over until network can be re-established, instead of truly offering something useful to do locally. Probably the only mainstream counter-examples would be games.
by tmabraham | 2025-11-04 06:21:21+00:00
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