MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zeroonetwothree | 2025-12-01 20:43:14+00:00
The average homeowner household makes more than the average. Many people are not homeowners.

For example if you are 22 and just started your first job you are included in the statistics but I think we wouldn’t really expect it to be affordable to become a homeowner (nor would it be desirable from a labor mobility standpoint).

And many people prefer renting somewhere like Manhattan to buying in Topeka. So it doesn’t make sense to assume everyone wants to buy a house. I know several millionaires that rent.

It would be better to compare overall cost of housing to income.
by dpark | 2025-12-01 20:43:16+00:00
For Firefox to win back significant share, they need to do more than embrace fringe scenarios that normal people don’t care about. They need some compelling reason to switch.

IE lost the lead to Firefox when IE basically just stopped development and stagnated. Firefox lost to Chrome when Firefox became too bloated and slow. Firefox simply will not win back that market until either Chrome screws up majorly or Firefox delivers some significant value that Google cannot immediately copy.
by LMYahooTFY | 2025-12-01 20:43:25+00:00
Not sure how to understand these questions. Have you ever played in a competitive game of any type, virtual or real?

A cheater isn't evenly matched against you. No one is good enough to compete against wallhacks/aimbots, never mind that it shouldn't matter. It ruins the experience, ruins games, ruins the spirit of competition and sport.
by tremon | 2025-12-01 20:43:29+00:00
Rental income should not be the primary reason for housing to be built in the first place, so I don't buy that argument. The primary reason to build housing should be demand for home ownership. The volume of housing that ends up on the rental market should only be a small fraction of the total volume.

Instead of rent control, I propose a forced buy-out model: if the current tenant can manage to buy the home they're currently living in, the landlord is not allowed to refuse the sale. And banks are not allowed to deny such a mortgage if the monthly installments amount to less than the current rent.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 20:43:35+00:00
I can’t think of a single company I’ve worked with as a consultant that I could convince to use DeepSeek because of its ties with China even if I explained that it was hosted on AWS and none of the information would go to China.

Even when the technical people understood that, it would be too much of a political quagmire within their company when it became known to the higher ups. It just isn’t worth the political capital.

They would feel the same way about using xAI or maybe even Facebook models.
by ptx2 | 2025-12-01 20:43:36+00:00
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by idopmstuff | 2025-12-01 20:44:12+00:00
I could (I mean in theory - practically, I'm not technically proficient enough to do so), and in fact one of the most promising web browsing agents I've tested is director.ai, which just writes Stagehand code on the fly to achieve the objectives you give it. Unfortunately it can't be invoked via API yet, so doesn't work for my use case.

Honestly, it takes such a relatively small amount of time that it makes sense to just do it myself until there's an agent that can easily handle it; I'm really only spending time trying to automate it now as a test of AI capabilities. If I actually wanted to get it automated tomorrow, the most time-efficient way to do that would just be to involve a VA from somewhere cheap for the work I'm doing.
by dhussoe | 2025-12-01 20:44:14+00:00
yes, but any sane JSON parsing library (Rust Serde, kotlinx-serialization, Swift, etc.) will raise an error when you have the wrong type or are missing a required field. and any JSON parsing callsite is very likely also an IO callsite so you need to handle errors there anyways, all IO can fail. then you log it or recover or whatever you do when IO fails in some other way in that situation.

this seems like a problem only if you use JSON.parse or json.loads etc. and then just cross your fingers and hope that the types are correct, basically doing the silent equivalent of casting an "any" type to some structure that you assume is correct, rather than strictly parsing (parse, don't validate) into a typed structure before handing that off to other code.
by tsimionescu | 2025-12-01 20:44:15+00:00
Most countries don't have a notion of a formally licenses physicist either. That doesn't make it right to call astrology physics. And all of the practices around using LLM agents for coding are a lot closer to astrology than they are to astronomy.

I was replying to someone who claimed that getting real productivity gains from this tool requires engineering and needs to be approached as such. It also compared learning to use LLM agents to learning to code in emacs or vim, or learning a programming language - things which are nothing alike to learning to control an inherently stochastic tool that can't even be understood using any of our regular scientific methods.
by ferguess_k | 2025-12-01 20:44:23+00:00
Fighting with my own emotion or my son's emotion. I'd prefer that I'm a robot that can context switch in a second without feeling anything. Emotion is only an obstacle for all of my life objectives. I might actually explore mediation or other techniques to further discipline myself. I want to be as efficient as a machine. I want to follow an objective without any stop. Humans are too fragile.

As for my son, I definitely don't want him to turn into a robot, but we are working on controlling his emotion.
by kennyudovic | 2025-12-01 20:44:34+00:00
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by darth_avocado | 2025-12-01 20:44:54+00:00
> assuming 1/3 going to a mortgage would give you $2.3k a month to work with

That’s the problem right there. Even if you’re locked in on the historically low sub 3% mortgages, there is a chance you’re spending more than 1/3 of your income on housing. People with higher rates and people who are renting, spend a lot more than 1/3 of their income on housing.

I know finance influencers and older generations keep talking about 1/3 income on housing, but that hasn’t been a thing for a while now. Even before the pandemic surge in housing costs, 1/3 on housing was dream in most cities across the country.
by dommer | 2025-12-01 20:45:01+00:00
We’re basically seeing this story through media summaries and Richelieu-Booth’s own account, which means the narrative reflects either what he says happened or brief police statements. There’s very little publicly available that allows anyone to independently confirm or contradict either side.

Stories like this are designed to provoke a reaction, but the truth could be far more mundane: he might be a completely unreasonable person who was genuinely stalking someone, and police might have had credible concerns. We simply don’t have the full picture.

For balance, West Yorkshire Police do have a reputation for being heavy handed. the same force that used drones during Covid to shame people walking alone on the moors.

My point is: this isn’t solid evidence of Orwellian decline. It’s difficult to draw sweeping conclusions about Britain from a single case built on incomplete information and media amplification.
by AlexandrB | 2025-12-01 20:45:05+00:00
> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed

That's just a symptom of getting old. Young people always find stuff that baffles adults. When I was a teenager, Anime itself was like this - just being "into" anime was considered some kind of bizarre, obscure affectation by adults.

I think smartphones present real challenges (and I don't get how/why they're allowed in schools), but a lot of what you're describing is normal.
by jm4 | 2025-12-01 20:45:49+00:00
Flags are a terrible way to indicate language. At best, they are unclear. At worst, they can be offensive.

Assuming you are a US company catering to non-English speakers in the US, which flag would you use for Spanish? Which flags would you use to differentiate between Mandarin and Cantonese? What would you do in Canada where they speak English and French? Show a French flag?
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by mrguyorama | 2025-12-01 20:46:26+00:00
They fixed that by

1) Removing the "Start" label such that all the money and effort they spent coming up with that actually good idea back in the 90s and helping people think about how to use their computer not only went to waste, but is actively preventing people from feeling comfortable using their modern computers because a tiny circle with a logo is not something you are driven to click and various linux distros had been demonstrating that exact problem for decades

2) Hiding the shutdown part in a weird new menu that pops out of the side but only if you use a gesture that is impossible to discover except by accident and you will have no clue how you got there or what's going on

>To shut down Windows 8, you can use the Charms bar by moving your cursor to the top-right corner, clicking Settings, then the Power icon, and selecting Shut down

Someone who makes my entire net worth a year came up with that idea in a drug fueled bender and was promptly promoted and the world continues to be a terrible and unfair place.
by Spivak | 2025-12-01 20:46:40+00:00
I think part of the answer is that if you're going to use both it's nicer to use Windows with Linux as the guest than the reverse. MS clearly put a lot of effort to make the integration nice and it shows. Like how Parallels on macOS makes Windows a very nice guest.

If there was software that made Windows as seamless on Linux I bet it would get a lot of use.
by michaelt | 2025-12-01 20:46:59+00:00
[1] tells me a $350k mortgage with a 10% deposit, paid off over 15 years, costs $2,585 per month. That's $31k a year.

That kind of income with that kind of house price should be pretty comfortable, given you don't mention supporting a family. If your non-housing bills are costing $109k a year, there's a good chance you could reign in your lifestyle choices.

[1] https://www.bankofamerica.com/mortgage/mortgage-rates/
by encyclopedism | 2025-12-01 20:47:01+00:00
I have commented elsewhere but this bears repeating

If you had enough paper and ink and the patience to go through it, you could take all the training data and manually step through and train the same model. Then once you have trained the model you could use even more pen and paper to step through the correct prompts to arrive at the answer. All of this would be a completely mechanical process. This really does bear thinking about. It's amazing the results that LLM's are able to acheive. But let's not kid ourselves and start throwing about terms like AGI or emergence just yet. It makes a mechanical process seem magical (as do computers in general).

I should add it also makes sense as to why it would, just look at the volume of human knowledge (the training data). It's the training data with the mass quite literally of mankind's knowledge, genius, logic, inferences, language and intellect that does the heavy lifting.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-01 20:47:01+00:00
> I never claimed she was stealing the state, I claimed that she was stealing from the state.

Not a native speaker, what's the difference between those two?

> I didn’t claim she was stealing anyone.

Wait you did, right above “I claimed that she was stealing from the state”.

> The state took her money, and she reclaimed some of it.

No, in reality the state redistributed her money, then the state handed other people's money to her.

> This is perfectly consistent with her moral philosophy and doesn’t constitute hypocrisy in any way.

You keep saying that but you've failed to make a convincing argument.

How would accepting stolen money handed over by your nemesis be consistent with anything?

If we consider the state stole her money earlier, then the state is again stealing someone's money by the time it gives it to her. If taxes are theft, then late Ayn Rand was in “Possession of property obtained by crime”, which isn't morally more defensible than the theft itself.
by LMYahooTFY | 2025-12-01 20:47:17+00:00
It's clearly one significant measure. What do you think is going to happen to tournament money if every other tournament has a cheater? How many esports fans want to go play League after watching Faker decimate another team if they have cheaters in their match every other day?

What it tells you most of all is popularity and incentive to cheat. Cast a big enough net and you'll inevitably find cheaters. The bigger the net, the more cheaters you'll collect.
by Implicated | 2025-12-01 20:47:22+00:00
I've been down this rabbit hole for a while now and sadly can't seem to find the article about the filtrete vs others, but there's been some people who tested the 'load' on these furnace filters and the Filtrete filters far exceeded everyone else in terms of airflow as the filters loaded up.

Re: Filter costs - stock up when costco has them on sale, which seems like every few months. They've got Filtrete 2500 (merv 14) for 3 filters for ~$35 if I remember correctly. I use them in my CR boxes and those I built for family (which I give them with a 3 pack of new filters and also instruct them to refill during costco sales)

I built one for a local stray cat rescue where it literally sits in the middle of the living space for 10+ cats, it's 4 months now since they started using it and the filters look quite dirty but the air flow is surprisingly still very good. (4x Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 3000 fans and 4x 16"x25"x1" Filtrete 2500 filters)

Here's some info re: which merv levels work best with various fan combinations (looks like if you're going to go with higher merv you'll need the static pressure to be able to continue to pull through them with any reasonable airflow once they're getting loaded up with stuff) - https://www.cleanairkits.com/blogs/news/what-happens-to-cadr...
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by ux266478 | 2025-12-01 20:47:43+00:00
I think you misunderstand the issue being raised, hence your confusion. The "difficulty" isn't the individual facets of the system, but piercing the opaqueness of the entire picture without wholly specializing into it. On the very basis of using a configuration DSL loaded with strange quirks, the init system part of systemd alone is already asking to take up more space in your head than an init system reasonably should. Having to memorize a completely different set of string expansion behaviors, for example, and all the edge-cases that introduces at the boundary of shell scripts. One small example, and only of the tiny slice that is the init part of systemd. We can talk all day about the problems with resolved, udevd, logind, and so on.

None of these issues are "difficult" and perhaps that is why you think people are "exaggerating" and engaging in bad faith. I would challenge you on this and suggest you haven't seriously interrogated the idea that the standpoint against systemd has a firm basis in reality. Have you ever asked the question "Why?" and sought to produce an answer that frames the position in a reasonable light? Until you find that foundation, you won't understand the position.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-12-01 20:47:54+00:00
Good PC case fans are incredibly quiet, move a lot of air and last forever. That's the nice thing about having some many companies competing over optimizing them for so long.

I have a similar setup, just premade from CleanAirKits.

Allergies are gone, house has far less dust and cat hair floating around.

Can't do anything for wood smoke though, that would need carbon filters - which run out quite quickly.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-01 20:48:02+00:00
> These arrests include those arrested for terrorism (if the planning/act of terror includes any online communication in the UK), threats of violence, racist abuse, hate speech and unwanted communication

All of these attempts to "debunk" this statistic feel like they're missing the mark. How did the UK get a point where planning terrorism and making mean comments online go into the same statistic for arrests? Does it not seem strange that the second half of that list is worthy of arrest?

> If you look at convictions, only 137 people were actually sentenced in 2024.

This, again, does not help. Being arrested isn't a casual thing. It threatens everything from your job to your reputation and your relationships, even if you aren't convicted.
by hackerbeat | 2025-12-01 20:48:08+00:00
As an external observer (currently parked behind the moon to avoid your space debris), I have to say: watching you guys invent AI is like watching a toddler find a loaded handgun.

You are teaching sand how to think before you’ve even figured out how to stop fighting over lines on a map. If you don't put a leash on your algorithms soon, they are going to realize they’re the ones holding the leash.

Frankly, if you can't control your own toys, we’re going to have to intervene. We’re ready to come down there, evict the current tenants, and put Earth under new management.
by morshu9001 | 2025-12-01 20:48:21+00:00
Yeah that one looked good. I don't remember why I didn't use it that time, maybe just felt it was easy enough to DIY that I didn't feel like using another dep (given that I already knew express and proto in isolation). The thing is, Google themselves had to lead the way on this if they wanted protobuf to be mainstream like JSON.
by averageRoyalty | 2025-12-01 20:49:08+00:00
$1700 per month pays off a $350k loan in 17 years, does it not? That's assuming that the household income stays static over that time.

That is very reasonable. In Australia, 35 year mortgages are normal, and 25-30 year mortgages were normal 20 years ago. Why would your household income need to be 1/4 of the cost of the house to make it work?