MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by windexh8er | 2025-11-19 13:49:46+00:00
There's a lot to unpack here. I agree - outsourcing did affect the job market. You're just seeing the negative (US) side. If anything outsourcing was hugely beneficial to the Indian market where most of those contracts landed. My point was that it was sold as a solution that didn't net the value proposition it claimed. And that is why I've said AI is not immune to being cyclical, just like outsourcing. AI is being sold as worker replacement. It's not even close and if it were then OpenAI, Anthropic and Google would have all replaced a lot of people and wouldn't be allowing you and I to use their tool for $20/month. When it does get that good we will no longer be able to afford using these "enterprise" tools.

With respect to profitability - there's none in sight. When JP Morgan [0] is saying that $650B in annual revenue is needed to make a paltry 10% on investment there is no way any sane financial institution would pump more money into that sunk cost. Yet, here we are building billions of dollars in datacenters for what... Mediocre chat bots? Again these thing don't think. They don't reason. They're massive word graphs being used in clever ways with cute, humanizing descriptions. Are they useful for helping a human parse way more information than we can reason about at once? For sure! But that's not worth trillions in investment and won't yield multiples of the input. In fact I'd argue the AI landscape would be much better off if the dollars stopped flowing because that would mean real research would need to be done in a much more efficient and effective manner. Instead we're paying individual people hundreds of millions of dollars who, and good for them, have no clue or care on what actually happens with AI because: money in the bank. No, AI in it's current form is not profitable, and it's not going to be if we continue down this path. We've literally spent world changing sums of money on models that are used to create art that will displace the original creators well before they will solve any level of useful world problems.

Finally, and to your last point: "...good quality coders...". How long do you think that will be a thing with respect to how this is all unfolding? Am I writing better code (I'm not a programmer by day) with LLMs? Yes and no. Yes when I need to build a visually appealing UI for something. And yes when it comes to a framework. But what I've found is if I don't put all of the right pieces in the right places before I start I end up with an untenable mess into the first couple thousand lines of that code. So if people stop becoming "good quality programmers" then what? These models only get better with better training data and the web will continue to go insular against these IP stealing efforts. The data isn't free, it never has been. And this is why we're now hearing the trope of "world models". A way to ask for trillions more to provide millionths of a penny on the invested dollar.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
by lazide | 2025-11-19 13:50:14+00:00
Also - the more education men have, and the higher income they have, the less they want to join the military.

It’s a similar type of issue - of course individuals don’t want to submit to a painful process with high risk and sometimes dubious value to them individually if they have other choices.

Most places in the developed world aren’t currently drafting large portions of their population for military service - and a large portion of the population says they’d fight it if they did. Maybe at some point, they wouldn’t have a choice - or the choice would be made very expensive for them to make the other way.

I suspect it will be similar for birth rates too.
by thyristan | 2025-11-19 13:50:51+00:00
SMS and MMS followed that flow, yes.

But since all the networks since 4G, there is no more low-level network support for things like SMS. Everything, including voice and messages, is IP- and packet-based. So the only thing the carrier does anymore is to authenticate that IP connection through your SIM card and bind your identity to the phone number. It actually doesn't really matter if messages are "network native" or through a third-party app, there is no more guaranteed timeslot and reliable delivery that SMS used to have.

And nowadays, RCS is also outsourced to Google by basically every carrier.

So RCS is the same as WhatsApp et al., only that the app you are using doesn't tell you that Google will monitor all your communications in addition to the monitoring your carrier does...
by ta12653421 | 2025-11-19 13:50:51+00:00
>>But to automate it you can simply write python code.

haha, if it would be that easy, most of them would do this? :-D

The thing is - its fucking complicated and most people will give up far before they enter any level of operational capability.

I've developed such a system for myself and Im running it in production (though, not with crypto): And whilte most people will see the complexity in "whatever trading magic you apply", its QUITE the opposite:

- the trading logic itself is simple, its ~ 300 lines

- whats not simple is the part of everything else in the context of "asset management", you need position tracking, state management (orders and positions and account etc.), you need to be able to pour in whatever new quotedata for whatever new assete you identify, the system needs to be stable to work in "mass mode" and be super robust as data provider quality is volatile; you need some type of accounting logic on your side; you need a very capable reporting engine (imagine managing 200 positions simultaneously), I could enlength this list more or less unlimited.

There is MUCH MORE in such an application than the question of "when and how do I trade" - my systems raw source is around 2 MB by today, 3rd party libs and OSS libs not included.
Show HN: Folderhost – selfhosted file sharing app in Go
by mertjsx | 2025-11-19 13:51:55+00:00
Folderhost is selfhosted filesharing cloud application. It is written in Go language as a server and Vite + React for the frontend. But the build of the project doesn't need docker to work on Windows or Linux. The Linux build is just 23 MB. No dependencies. You can simply install and try the program.

The main features of the project are managing files, for example creating, copying, deleting, unzipping and etc. The other feature are the Recovery section, here you can recover your deleted files or folders. Also you have a Users system, and there you can give or take their permissions, you can see what other users are doing from the Audit Logs.

It's still not fully completed, if you encounter any bugs or problems feel free to comment or create an issue on GitHub! I'll be so happy if you give it a try! I hope you guys like it!
by jazzypants | 2025-11-19 13:52:06+00:00
I don't think it's wise for us to trust a country that has a whole Wikipedia article dedicated to the ways they spy on us.

I hate that I have to say this, but I'm a Jew and I'm not anti-Semitic in any way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_espionage_in_the_Unite...
by general1465 | 2025-11-19 13:52:29+00:00
It is available as ground meat. You can make meatloaf from it. Or you can buy preformed meatballs which is just ground meat with some shape so you can just drop it into pan and bake in the oven. 40 minutes and done.

Peel some potatoes, cook them and you have a dinner in said 40 minutes.

And I have no idea why this would be classified as ultraprocessed food.
by SomeHacker44 | 2025-11-19 13:52:31+00:00
I was recently quoted over $1.2M for a geothermal heat pump for around 800,000 BTUs in upstate NE NY. The property is not even worth that. This used three wells drilled about 600 feet.

On the other hand the estimate for a propane heater upgrade from the oil boiler was only $20,000 (I imagine it was an underestimate though). And window units for the 20-odd rooms would be less than $500 each. Or a lot of split systems for $2-4k a room.
by thyristan | 2025-11-19 13:52:36+00:00
There is a blender addon called Bonsai for this:

https://bonsaibim.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXRpDka6gLI

Strong plus is that you can render views of the finished room in Blender. Big problem is that you first have to learn to use Blender.
by rramadass | 2025-11-19 13:52:51+00:00
I would say almost all of the Soviet era Mir Publishers books are like this. Small, succinct and information-dense.

As an example, Vygodsky's 2-vol "Mathematical Handbook" (Elementary Mathematics & Higher Mathematics) and Yavorsky & Detlaf's "Handbook of Physics" have ungodly amounts of knowledge in a relatively small size books.

You can get them (and more) from https://mirtitles.org/

Handbook Of Physics – Yavorsky, Detlaf - https://mirtitles.org/2022/06/27/handbook-of-physics-yavorsk...

Mathematical Handbook – Higher Mathematics – Vygodsky - https://mirtitles.org/2022/06/02/mathematical-handbook-highe...

Mathematical Handbook – Elementary Mathematics – Vygodsky - https://mirtitles.org/2011/09/12/handbooks-of-mathematics/
by Concrete3286 | 2025-11-19 13:53:01+00:00
Seems like a reasonable definition? It's not referring to tissue you put through a grinder yourself.

From wikipedia:

Mechanically separated meat (MSM), mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), or mechanically deboned meat (MDM) is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing pureed or ground beef, pork, mutton, turkey or chicken under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. When poultry is used, it is sometimes called white slime as an analog to meat-additive pink slime and to meat extracted by advanced meat recovery systems, both of which are different processes. The process entails pureeing or grinding the carcass left after the manual removal of meat from the bones and then forcing the slurry through a sieve under pressure.

The resulting product is a blend primarily consisting of tissues not generally considered meat, along with a much smaller amount of actual meat (muscle tissue).
by epolanski | 2025-11-19 13:53:31+00:00
This is some criticism that lacks any depth or insight.

I've deployed projects in Elm, Scala, Clojure, Purescript and TypeScript has many great qualities that the others don't have.

It's an incredibly powerful language with a great type system which requires some effort in understanding, (e.g. 99% of candidates don't even know what a mapped type is, it's written in the docs...) and minimal discipline to not fall in the js pitfalls.

On top of that you have access to tons of tools and libraries, which alternative ecosystems either don't have (e.g. no compile-to-js language) or have to interoperate with at js level (anything from Reason to Gleam) anyway.

Beyond that, there's other important considerations in choosing a language beyond its syntax/semantics and ecosystem, such as hiring or even AI-friendliness.

Stricter TS is absolutely a valuable effort to chase.
by stetrain | 2025-11-19 13:53:42+00:00
There isn't much of a business model in paying developers for a year for updates that won't generate more revenue.

If I told my boss that I wanted to spend 12 months refactoring our entire system in ways that would benefit our existing customers (who have paid once and won't ever pay again) but likely result in no additional revenue being generated, I doubt that project would be green-lit.
by lysace | 2025-11-19 13:53:50+00:00
Yeah. (Sorry, somehow didn't read your comment about the same AmigaVision before commenting.)

I find myself wishing for something like AmigaVision for e.g. the IBM PC.

The launcher should be in either classic text mode or VGA 640x480x16 colors with custom palettes like those cool disk mags. And of course tracker background music.

There is some similar effort called 0MHz based on the eXoDOS project, but I'm not sure I like it as much. Needs more work. And a lot more curation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJXLOMxIkI&t=220s
by happytoexplain | 2025-11-19 13:54:11+00:00
I don't see how this is a counterpoint to my opinion. You can cultivate the generosity of natives to be open to immigration to whatever degree you think is just (e.g. by declining to use mockery/hate as your default position toward anybody who thinks there is any problem with the state of immigration), and you can do that regardless of your generosity level toward a political party that on average is more conservative or more hateful on immigration than the other. But that seems obvious, so I'm not sure what you're saying.
by lazide | 2025-11-19 13:54:21+00:00
The key thing about thinking about a rich person is - ‘what’s in it for them?’ or ‘why would I do that?’.

They get asked for money, or have many opportunities to spend money every day. If they took all of them, they’d have no money left.

The last time this happened in the US, the deal (so called ‘new deal’) was let us tax you, and give it to the poor, or we destroy you.

If they can avoid being destroyed and ALSO not lose their wealth, what do you think they are doing to do?
by jjk166 | 2025-11-19 13:54:22+00:00
People will pay for DLC what the DLC is worth, which should in theory be directly proportional to how much effort it makes to produce the DLC. 4 small $20 expansions could be much more lucrative than an $80 new game which needs to not only include those changes but also make the rest of a functional (and presumably higher quality than the original) game.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-19 13:54:54+00:00
> As far as I remember, KSP did keep pretty on top of engine updates. And I never thought the graphics were that bad, TBH. Sure, its not raytraced to hell and back, but I thought it looked just fine. However, there was a lot of physics jankery that never really got fixed

This is what I mean by engine updates that aren't just about graphics but the scaling/capabilities around the core gameplay. Updating Unity again or adding raytracing graphics wouldn't have fixed the actual problems with the rest of the engine.
by bl-ue | 2025-11-19 13:55:08+00:00
Author here. tweakcc is a CLI to customize Claude Code (system prompts, themes, “thinking” verbs/spinner, toolsets, etc.). It also enables native LSP and adds /title or /rename to manually name sessions.

Try it now: npx tweakcc # reapply your changes after CC updates: npx tweakcc --apply

What’s new in 3.x: • Native (binary) CC installs supported (Windows/macOS/Linux) • /toolset support • Manual session naming: /title “My Session” (or /rename) • Makes Claude Code’s native LSP work out of the box • Expands thinking blocks by default

Related discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1odd0pw/removed_m...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1otdfo9/lsp_is_co...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ozge01/claude_co...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ov5g4s/tweakcc_3...
by zf00002 | 2025-11-19 13:55:12+00:00
As an IT person, I wonder what it's like to work for a company like this. Where presumably IT stuff has a priority. Unlike the companies I've worked for where IT takes a backseat to everything until something goes wrong. Company I work had a huge new office built, with the plan it would be big enough for future growth, yet despite repeated attempts to reserve a larger space, our server room and infrastructure is actually smaller than our old building and has no room to grow.
by bluetidepro | 2025-11-19 13:55:23+00:00
> The Paradox Mods platform will remain the only officially supported mod hub, so deep code mods akin to CS1’s may never return.

As someone else pointed out, this is false. I have also created mods for both CS2/CS1 and I would even say it's the opposite. In my opinion, CS2 allows for even deeper code mods because they have mod tooling built right into the game unlike CS1. The host of the mods (Steam Workshop vs Paradox Mods) doesn't change anything related to mod capabilities.

> ...its long-time partner Colossal Order announced a quiet but monumental shift.

Ah yes, "quiet", like how it's been posted on every CS2 social media account, and blasted in every possible space of CS2. Haha Absolutely nothing "quiet" about it.
by philipallstar | 2025-11-19 13:55:26+00:00
> It must be difficult when so much management is short sighted and focused on delivering short term profits for shareholders. Even academia is run like a business now.

Management just reacts to environments created by governments. When ZIRP was around money was very easy to get hold of - too easy. Now it's really hard because businesses have to beat government bond interest rates, which are guaranteed, to get debt/investment.

> Unless a privately held rogue company like Valve

Valve is not a rogue company.

> Industry, particularly the tech industry, is notorious for leaching of free and open source software and in some cases building entire businesses on it and not giving back

Your premise is wrong. It's impossible to leach off something that is freely given. This is like being angry because people don't all tip a street performer. The deal is it's free.

And your facts are wrong. Businesses fund a giant amount of OSS work.
by jakebasile | 2025-11-19 13:56:47+00:00
There's a YouTuber that's been going through and making in-depth retrospectives of each Ultima game that some here may find interesting. I've found them a pleasant watch and I don't usually go for this type of content. I never played the Ultima series until Ultima Online so I don't have the nostalgia goggles that I'd need to go back and play games this old (sorry, it's the truth) so these videos are as close as I'll probably get.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16yfJJxAM6g-4YxKGI-1...
by happytoexplain | 2025-11-19 13:56:56+00:00
As time goes on, the rejection of the idea of US-born people being "natives" in the sense that the rest of the world uses the term, simply because we have another term, "Native Americans" (which, as you will notice, is a proper noun), with a different meaning, is getting more and more dishonest. Yes, language is funny. Yes, the origins of nations are tragic if you go back far enough, and future citizens inherit the distributed weight of that guilt (but not the responsibility). But now, we have 300 million living people whose practical reality we would like discuss, and on that topic you are free and encouraged to disagree with anybody.
by Tolga34 | 2025-11-19 13:56:59+00:00
After realizing modern dating apps feel like UX testing disguised as romance, we built synch, a hyper-personalized AI-pwered dating app that focuses on emotional intelligence, self-discovery, and meaningful matches using LLM agents. We’re live now and early users love the AI coach + guided profile experience. Happy to trade notes with anyone building in AI, recsys, or consumer social.
by mhb | 2025-11-19 13:57:47+00:00
So that's the argument you want to have and you're not going to be happy until you have it? How about this? Assume that it's more important for your interlocutors to improve education than it is for them to win a debate. Assume that they would like everyone to get a great education.

Presumably, we agree that public schools, in general, are not, currently doing a great job. I'm also assuming that, for some reason, they used to do a significantly better job.

I don't know what the point would be of recapitulating Friedman's arguments for school choice and vouchers in these comments. He's much smarter and a better writer than anyone you're likely to find here. If you've read them and made up your mind, a handful of HN comments are not going to sway you. If you haven't read them you should.
by James_K | 2025-11-19 13:58:29+00:00
A static site is one that you can serve through static hosting, where you have no control over the web server or its configuration. There is not some extra thing which is a static site with dynamic content. “Static” means “doesn't change.” The document served doesn't change subject to the person receiving it. You are talking about a solution that is dynamic. That does change based on who is making the request.

>you could definitely use a static site generator to create multiple versions of the site data and then configure your web server to select which data is emitted

And this web-server configuration would not exist within the static site. The static site generator could not output it, therefore it is not a part of the static site. It is not contained within the files output by the static site generator. It is additional dynamic content added by the web server.

It breaks the fundamental aspect of a static site, that it can be deployed simply to any service without change to the content. Just upload a zip file, and you are done.
by ndriscoll | 2025-11-19 13:58:30+00:00
This is one reason why we should either cut back copyright to more like 10-15 years and require source escrow (so public domain materials can come with source) to obtain copyright, or just require all computer programs come with source code as part of consumer protection laws. Then people can fix the engine themselves, or find a way to fund someone to do it.

Or just eliminate copyright entirely and focus on economic models that are based on funding creation. You raise money to build the thing, and once it's built, it's there for all.
by chuckadams | 2025-11-19 13:58:37+00:00
Later releases of U8 fixed jumping so it was less pixel-precise. It was still a clumsy mechanic, and the game still felt unfinished. But TBH I had a much worse reaction to Ultima IX, which capped off the series with a giant steaming turd. When I managed to get U9 to run at all after several years, I bounced out after a couple hours of playing. Still the only Ultima game I never finished.
by noosphr | 2025-11-19 13:59:18+00:00
>The issue doesn't seem to be performance; it seems to still come down to being too eccentric for a lot of use-cases, and difficult to many humans to grasp.

Lisp is not too difficult to grasp, it's that everyone suffers from infix operator brain damage inflicted in childhood. We are in the same place Europe was in 1300. Arabic numerals are here and clearly superior.

But how do we know we can trust them? After all DCCCLXXIX is so much clearer than 879 [0].

Once everyone who is wedded to infix notation is dead our great grand children will wonder what made so many people wase so much time implementing towers of abstraction to accept and render a notation that only made sense for quill and parchment.

[0] https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/numbers.html#work...
by Dilettante_ | 2025-11-19 13:59:23+00:00
I've done as much fiddling and prompting to LLMs about that article as I cared to do under these circumstances and I have to concede the point about you getting 'the answer you wanted' out: The chatbots were quite insistent that Yudkowski is central to the story, even when I pulled out the following: "Somebody is arguing Yudkowsky is a central figure in this article, is that accurate?"

They are *wrong*, and provided exactly the same immaterial evidence as you did in this thread(I still insist that the article suffers zero damage if you remove Yudkowsky from it and instead only mention the institutions and concepts that stem from him), but with all the behavior I've seen now, the summary which was the initial issue of this thread should have included him.

[What I would've really liked to do was to prompt for another person of equal non-prominence who was in the article but not in the summary, and see what comes up. But I sure am not reading the 80-102 minute article just for this and we're unlikely to find an agreement about the 'equal non-prominence' part if I challenged you to pick one.]
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-19 13:59:50+00:00
> A lot of people want the brand recognition too.

Not to mention the familiarity of the company, its services and expectations. You can hire people with experience with AWS, Azure or GCP, but the more niche you go, the higher the possibility that some people you hire might not know how to work with those systems and their nuances, which is fine they can learn as they work, but that adds to ramp up time and could lead to inadvertent mistakes happening.