MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-11-14 23:39:33+00:00
I wonder if it’s even a transfer of wealth or just all an illusion.

It’s easier to downplay inflation so people think they’re doing better.

In 12 years, my salary is up about 50%, most of the change since Covid. Sure, sounds amazing… However, home prices doubled. Consequently auto, home, and flood insurance has at least doubled. Prices on even raw food has gotten crazy, restaurants are also 50-100% increase in prices. Health insurance is about 4x what it used to be for me. Tax bracket is higher.

So aside from the huge luck of low interest loan at a smaller principal, it doesn’t feel like anything amazing has happened.

On the flip side, I feel the plight of those looking at a 30yr loan at 5-6% on $500k. I can’t stomach it today and certainly not 12 years ago either.

By normal inflation rates, feels like I’ve seen maybe a 15% “raise” for over a decade extra of specialized experience —- before considering increased costs. Of course that was from changing jobs twice…

And quite frankly, property ownership is somewhat a poor investment, just better than renting. The S&P 500 has nearly tripled over the same time period. Of course, taking a 15 or 30 year loan for stock market investment would be insane (aside from impossible).
by hashim | 2025-11-14 23:40:00+00:00
So standing soldiers of the occupying army taken from a military kibbutz mere miles from the world's largest open air concentration camp? Hind al-Rajab was 6 years old and was found with hundreds of bullets inside her body. This is not a game Israel can afford to play, so let's just rewind to the beginning and ask how many the Irgun and Haganah killed and bombed to strong-arm the British into giving them Palestine? Or we can skip ahead a few decades and start here: https://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_and.... It's almost like Europeans have no business occupying the Middle East.
by Muromec | 2025-11-14 23:40:15+00:00
It's not that I like chat control or think that mass surveillance can lead to any good.

What I'm saying, is -- just because the balance isn't where you want it to be, and the policy is bad, that alone doesn't mean the law is unconstitutional, against the EU treaties or ECHR or should be impossible to pass through the legislative.

It's just bad because it's bad.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-14 23:40:29+00:00
I'm not sure what you're responding to in my comment, but I think it's the $3/person bit. That's taking the approximately $1 billion and dividing it over all 340+ million people in the US. I'm saying that we have to have an average of $3/person in tax revenue to cover this apparent fraud (I don't trust this administration at all so I won't say anything other than "apparent").
by ajross | 2025-11-14 23:41:09+00:00
> the official statistics are rather mute on the topic of economic distribution

They actually aren't. Median income is measured as a median for a reason. Poverty line statistics are taken at the low end. Local CPI and price data is taken and reported. And all of those numbers are, indeed, getting better and not worse.

I repeat this everywhere this subject comes up, but the real reason things look like they're getting worse is unsavory. More than two generations back, people were on balance poorer but they were black, so they didn't matter. Or they were immigrant, or single mothers, or institutionalized, or otherwise invisible to the white-picket-fence set who were all buying their family homes on one income.

Well, all those other demographics have done super well in the last half century, reaching parity with white men at the low end of the spectrum.

And those white men are the pissed off groypers detailed in the article. Not "Americans" in the abstract.

I mean, it's true they can't afford homes easily! Neither could minorities in the sixties, but we don't talk about that part.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-11-14 23:41:43+00:00
The battle on the use of language around engineer has long been lost

That's really the core of the issue: We're just having the age-old battle of prescriptivism vs descriptivism again. An "engineer", etymologically, is basically just "a person who comes up with stuff", one who is "ingenious". I'm tempted to say it's you prescriptivists who are making a "battle" out of this.

subjective creative exercise of writing prompts

Implying that there are no testable results, no objective success or failure states? Come on man.
by treis | 2025-11-14 23:41:54+00:00
I don't know what you're talking about. All of the things you mentioned have significantly improved over my life. I can bike around my city without it being a suicide mission, pre-Obamacare health care was way worse, crime and accidental deaths are down, and we got stuff like Headstart and free Pre-K. I don't know what progress in the material world you think are missing.

This is what I mean by unrelentingly negative. The world today is way better than the world I was born into.
by landryraccoon | 2025-11-14 23:42:17+00:00
Are you counting rent as a subscription fee?

If yes, then conceptually we're on the same page, if no, then I think this is wildly off base.

If rent is not a subscription fee, then you're probably talking about virtual goods like entertainment and games. I think consumers get a ton of value from digital entertainment and media, the problem is that literally everything else in the physical world feels like it's getting more expensive and falling apart.

Young people have virtually limitless virtual entertainment and media options. But they have almost no options when it comes to affordable housing or transportation.

The cost of housing has outpaced inflation every year for 2 decades (basically the entire lifetime of Gen-Z) and owning a home feels more and more out of reach every year. The average age of first time homebuyers is now over 40 years old, and the average age of all homebuyers is over 50.

The average cost of a new car in the US is now over $50,000. Public transit projects if they're being built at all are years behind schedule and billions over budget, and existing infrastructure is falling apart. This is in a time where wage growth has stagnated.

It's completely understandable why young people feel they're getting a raw deal, and wealthier and older people seem more out of touch every year. Actual physical needs : housing, transportation, healthcare and food feel viscerally more expensive every year.

Capitalism seems to only want to address these needs by pushing more and more substitution of virtual entertainment: Have more games, more apps, more stuff on social media, more cat videos, AI generated content in endless quantity.

It's almost like the internet is the Heroin of our age, a drug that keeps both the stock market and individual consumers high so they're less conscious of how much everything in the physical world sucks more every day.

TLDR; if you're founding a company do a hardware startup. We're maxxed out in how much our digital services can improve our lives.
by whamp | 2025-11-14 23:42:28+00:00
My project has a built-in word_replacement so you can automatically replace certain terms if that's important to you in the config.toml

i loved whisper but it was insanely slow on cpu only and even then it was with a smaller whisper that isn't as accurate as parakeet.

my windows environment locks down the built-in windows option so i don't have a way to test it. i've heard it's pretty good if you're allowed to use it, but your inputs don't stay local which is why i needed to create this project.
by AMDAnon | 2025-11-14 23:42:32+00:00
AMD pays the bare minimum in software to get a product out the door. The company does not even have working performance testing and regressions routinely get shipped to customers. Benchmarks the executives see are ad hoc and not meaningful.

HipKittens is an improvement but AMD does not have the ability to understand or track kernel performance so it'll be ignored.

This isn't fixable overnight. Company-wide DevOps and infrastructure is outsourced to TCS in India who have no idea what they're doing. Teams with good leadership maintain their own shadow IT teams. ROCm didn't have such a team until hyperscalers lost their shit over our visibly poor development practices.

Even if AMD did extend an offer to hire all the people in the article, it would be below-market since the company benchmarks against Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Walmart, instead of Google, Nvidia, or Meta.

We haven't had a fully funded bonus in the past 4+ years.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-14 23:43:02+00:00
> It tells you something about how much a gambling place the market is when a site like this has a one day default for the price change. When it comes to a high level view of the market, why would I care for a comparison of todays prices to ... YESTERDAY??

Treeviews are pretty common views for traders trying to get into new markets. Just like a software engineer understands that the backbone of our networks is retries and waits, traders will create funds that smooth over this kind of daily volatility for people that just want to have their capital appreciate. Imagine explaining to a non software engineer that actually things on the internet are failing all the time and turning them off and on again (retries) is actually how we make sure it all works ;) (and obviously the math that underpins it all is pretty much the same. Networks and markets run on RVs and time-series.)

There is undoubtedly European versions of this btw. If I get around to it after work I'll try and post some.
by observationist | 2025-11-14 23:43:49+00:00
AI is going to be so ubiquitous, something principled and open is going to supersede cuda at some point, as HTML5 did for Flash. CUDA isn't like an x86 vs ARM situation where they can use hardware dominance for decades, it's a higher level language, and being compatible with a wide range of systems benefits NVIDIA and their competitors. They're riding out their relative superiority for now, but we're going to see a standards and interoperability correction sometime soon, imo. NVIDIA will drive it, and it will gain them a few more years of dominance, but afaik nothing in their hardware IP means CUDA compatibility sacrifices performance or efficiency. They're also going to want to compete in the Chinese market, so being flexible about interoperability with their systems gains them a bit of market access that might otherwise be lost.

There's a ton of pressure on the market to decouple nvidia's proprietary software from literally everything important to AI, and they will either gracefully transition and control it, or it will reach a breaking point and someone else will do it for (and to) them. I'm sure they've got finance nerds and quants informing and minmaxing their strategy, so they probably know to the quarter when they'll pivot and launch their FOSS, industry leading standards narrative (or whatever the strategy is.)
by computerdork | 2025-11-14 23:44:22+00:00
There should be an in depth academic study on their two approaches, it seems like it'd be valuable.

To me at least, given the (probably) positive affects iterative dev has (overall) had on software development, my personal feeling is it'd be useful for most other types of engineering. But (as someone else also pointed out) iterative is much more expensive in hardware fields, given the high cost of materials, and you need to have a lot more funds to build hardware this way.
by tail_exchange | 2025-11-14 23:44:58+00:00
I was very skeptical of Go when I started learning it, but it quickly became my favourite language. I like how simple but powerful it is.

If I had a magic wand, the only things I would add is better nulability checks, add stack traces by default for errors, and exhaustive checks for sum types. Other than that, it does everything I want.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-11-14 23:45:54+00:00
Indeed. To me, it has long been clear that LLMs do things that, at the very least, are indistinguishable from reasoning. The already classic examples where you make them do world modeling (I put an ice cube into a cup, put the cup in a black box, take it into the kitchen, etc... where is the ice cube now?) invalidate the stochastic parrot argument.

But many people in the humanities have read the stochastic parrot argument, it fits their idea of how they prefer things to be, so they take it as true without questioning much.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-14 23:46:27+00:00
> I'm sure there are plenty of reasons this is wrong, but it feels like Go gets me 80% of the way to Rust with 20% of the effort.

I don't see it. Can you say what 80% you feel like you're getting?

The type system doesn't feel anything alike, I guess the syntax is alike in the sense that Go is a semi-colon language and Rust though actually basically an ML deliberately dresses as a semi-colon language but otherwise not really. They're both relatively modern, so you get decent tooling out of the box.

But this feels a bit like if somebody told me that this new pizza restaurant does a cheese pizza that's 80% similar to the Duck Ho Fun from that little place near the extremely tacky student bar. Duck Ho Fun doesn't have nothing in common with cheese pizza, they're both best (in my opinion) if cooked very quickly with high heat - but there's not a lot of commonality.
by breppp | 2025-11-14 23:46:38+00:00
maybe, even though NGO monitor is not associated with a terrorist organization , however that's still a photo, unless you claim it is doctored or the people themselves are not the people purported.

That's why we can go to the original in Facebook and see the chairman of EuroMed tagged, https://www.facebook.com/DrArafatShoukri/photos/t.1000537951...
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-14 23:47:58+00:00
"Scientifically tested!" is the marketing term for "The tests showed it didn't work, but we won't mention that second part!"

E.g.:

"successfully flight-tested" -- didn't break or leak anything when launched into space. A brick also has these properties.

"validated across three space missions" -- a brick could be flown multiple times too, this proves nothing except that this thing is space-rated.

"protected by a portfolio of granted international patents" -- we've got more lawyers than engineers!

"accumulated more than 700 hours of on-orbit operation" -- I could say the same thing about a brick left in orbit for a month.

"multiple on-orbit activation cycles have continued alongside data analysis and characterization activities" -- we kept turning it on and off in a futile attempt to work out why nothing was happening.

"confirmed system functionality in real space conditions" -- It definitely was "on", drawing power and everything!

"several long-duration tests were conducted in which it was observed, objectively and repeatedly, that motor activation produced a measurable acceleration or deceleration of the host spacecraft." -- we got confused by atmospheric drag, IMU drift, vibrations, and other confounding factors and called the experiment a success despite a string of failures for short-duration tests.
by rick312 | 2025-11-14 23:48:35+00:00
False. Eden was bartending at a music festival when she was taken. She was not taken from a military base.

Kfir Bibas was 9 months old when he was taken and Ariel Bibas was 4 years old when he was taken. Neither had been in the military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_and_killing_of_the_...
by observationist | 2025-11-14 23:49:23+00:00
The MBAs are in charge, and now AMD is the new Intel?

It's not only not fixable overnight, but it's not fixable at all if the leadership thinks they can coast on simply being not as bad as Intel, and Intel has a helluva lot of inertia and ability to simply sell OEM units on autopilot.

Sounds like the AMD board needs to get their heads out of their asses and shake up leadership.
by orionsbelt | 2025-11-14 23:49:35+00:00
Ilya Sustkever was on a podcast, saying to imagine a mystery novel where at the end it says “and the killer is: (name)”. Saying it’s just a statistical model generating the next most likely word, how can it do that in this case if it doesn’t have some understanding of all the clues, etc. A specific name is not statistically likely to appear
by halifaxbeard | 2025-11-14 23:49:44+00:00
I think OP is wrong in their hypothesis based on the logs they share and the root cause AWS support provided them.

I think the promotion fails to happen and then an external watchdog notices that it didn’t, and kills everything ASAP as it’s a cluster state mismatch.

The message about the storage subsystem going away is after the other Postgres process was kill -9’d.
by chneu | 2025-11-14 23:50:38+00:00
My roommate was born disabled.

He relies on SNAP and SSI disability.

These extra steps can cause him weeks of stress, physical and mental. These extra steps cost him money he does not have. The stress can set him back physically for weeks.

Reapplying, waiting on hold for half a day, going down to offices, etc are not easy for some folks. People fall through the cracks and die.

This is called forced attrition. It's pretty common in the business world when companies don't want to fire people. Make it too difficult to bother, so folks stop bothering. Unfortunately this is a literal lifeline for millions of people, so it's more like make it too difficult to bother, so folks start dying.
by baby_souffle | 2025-11-14 23:50:52+00:00
> I do not understand or fathom why this program is run in such a cruel, uncaring way.

The cruelty is the point; inflict trauma so the opinion of the government and the traumatized individual only worsens.

It makes the "do we need this? Seems like nobody likes it and I bet my company could do it cheaper and better..." conversations a lot easier
by chaosprint | 2025-11-14 23:51:55+00:00
This is such a great idea! Surprisingly, the Kimi K2 is the only one without any obvious problems. And it is even not the complete K2 thinking version? This made me reread this article from a few days ago:

https://entropytown.com/articles/2025-11-07-kimi-k2-thinking...
by klodolph | 2025-11-14 23:52:27+00:00
> I don't see it. Can you say what 80% you feel like you're getting?

I read it as “80% of the way to Rust levels of reliability and performance.” That doesn’t mean that the type system or syntax is at all similar, but that you get some of the same benefits.

I might say that, “C gets you 80% of the way to assembly with 20% of the effort.” From context, you could make a reasonable guess that I’m talking about performance.
by hiq | 2025-11-14 23:52:46+00:00
> They begin the year at $0 and they end the next year at $0.

Or they're dead.

If you save an extra $2000/year, what are you supposed to do with the money if you're always hungry, if you're always cold? I'm guessing you could buy food and clothes; you'd end up at $0, just slightly better off. If there's no safety net to rely on, you'd save to be able to face the next problem, and maybe pay it less with your health (which is a kind of invisible debt).

And that's even assuming there's some certain income you can rely on. In my case, I know that for the next few months, I'd at least get unemployment benefits if I lost my job. Not everyone get that, and if you don't, the income floor is $0 and it's way harder to budget.

Another aspect to consider is that maybe the case of a single person who would be in poverty throughout a long life is not representative of poverty. Some people get out of poverty, some fall into it, some die early from it. If we're considering a single person always starting at $0 and always ending up at $0, several years in a row, we already dismiss these nuances. I'm sure you can find such examples, someone who lived to be 80 with a constant wealth of $0, but how common are they really?
by amosjyng | 2025-11-14 23:52:48+00:00
> LLMs are not humans. They're software.

Sure, but the specific context of this conversation are the human roles (taxi driver, friend, etc.) that this software is replacing. Ergo, when judging software as a human replacement, it should be compared to how well humans fill those traditionally human roles.

> And we don't have a choice not to interact with LLMs because apparently we decided that these things are going to be integrated into every aspect of our lives whether we like it or not.

Fair point.

> And yes, in that inevitable future the fact that every piece of technology is a sociopathic P-zombie designed to hack people's brain stems and manipulate their emotions and reasoning in the most primal way possible is a problem.

Fair point again. Thanks for helping me gain a wider perspective.

However, I don't see it as inevitable that this becomes a serious large-scale problem. In my experience, current GPT 5.1 has already become a lot less cloyingly sycophantic than Claude is. If enough people hate sycophancy, it's quite possible that LLM providers are incentivized to continue improving on this front.

> We tend not to accept that kind of behavior in other people

Do we really? Maybe not third party bystanders reacting negatively to cult leaders, but the cult followers themselves certainly don't feel that way. If a person freely chooses to seek out and associate with another person, is anyone else supposed to be responsible for their adult decisions?
by baby_souffle | 2025-11-14 23:56:11+00:00
> Hate this argument so much. You lose people in your sales funnel because they didn't actually care all that much about the product to justify the extra effort.

On more than one occasion I've been the primary decision maker for a technology choice that was going to be worth tens of thousands of dollars or more per year.

For reasons that aren't relevant here, didn't have a ton of time to do the evaluation... extreme prejudice was exercised against anything that didn't have a 'download now and get started button'.

Even if I wanted to jump on a sales call, I didn't have 2 and 1/2 days to wait for you to get back to me.

Maybe a sales funnel is the right tool for certain industries but when your primary user is technical, don't make them jump on a phone call. Get out of their way and make sure the documentation is good. If they like what they see and they have questions, they will chase you down. That is when you should do the pitch call...
by karakot | 2025-11-14 23:56:41+00:00
I hate this common trope about health food costing more. Beans, lentil, rice, potatos, carrots, onions, cabbage, garlic don't cost a lot, add some additional cheap proteins like chicken and eggs and you're good to go for like $50 or less per week per person. And if you can buy in bulk and freeze, then it can get even cheaper.
by kace91 | 2025-11-14 23:56:57+00:00
>I’m interested in the Conquistadors and their extensive accounts of their expeditions, but holy cow reading 16th century handwritten Spanish and translating it at the same time is a nightmare, requiring a ton of expertise and inside field knowledge

Completely off topic, but out of curiosity, where are you reading these documents? As a Spaniard I’m kinda interested.
by 0manrho | 2025-11-14 23:57:22+00:00
> All the comments I read always highlight how they keep wasting time and money instead of working on more important things.

Nail on the head. Longtime Firefox user. All the way back to when it was called Netscape in fact, though I did roll chrome for a few years before coming back.

It was sometime around Mozilla's acquisition/integration of Pocket that shit started going sideways. Though, aside from the ad/privacy bullshit recently, their decisions haven't necessarily been "bad" ones so much as strange ones, and are all too often opt-out by default instead of opt-in. I just constantly find myself asking "Why?" more than actively being against what they're doing.

These days I use waterfox as it's Firefox without all the weird decisions (and telemetry), but truth be told the only reason I recommend Water/Firefox to anyone these days is by-and-large when they're bitching about ads and why their adblock doesn't work as well as it used to because of chrome and their MV3 chicanery. There are other reasons to use firefox, but for the average/casual user that's the main differentiator between it and chrome.