MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tirant | 2025-12-01 11:32:02+00:00
I am not mistaken. I know how to read my own payslip.

Both me and my wife are employed. We have GKV both and we’re basically paying the maximum rate. That’s around €1100/month each, pre-tax. Half of it comes from my official bruto salary and the other half comes from my unofficial bruto salary. Which is how governments hide the costs of public healthcare. Ultimately is part of my salary deductions for the finances of my employer.

Kids are not free: kids doctors don’t work for free. They need to be payed, and they’re paid from the contributions me and other employed fellow citizens pay every month.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 11:32:23+00:00
Yeah, this ageism factor mixed with how unstable in general my industry is had me adjusting my long term plan to focus on being able to survive off my own products. I'm still far off from that point but it's probably best to plan my mid-late career before industry locks me out...

Doesn't help that I've tried to specialize for quite a while but simply can't stay around long enough without layoffs happening. Hard to be a domain expert when companies let you go ever 3 years. T shaped generalist it is, then.
by myaccountonhn | 2025-12-01 11:32:41+00:00
sourcehut is a product that feels like it was just built for me and what I care about, I absolutely love the design. But it's tough to use for a team that isn't building open source software. Your teammates will probably be perplexed by the UI because it's so different. The tooling for sending and receiving patches is quite poor, there is no decent GUI email client with patch support. There's also no organization support or ability to apply principle of least access like with a codeowners file.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-01 11:32:54+00:00
> rebuild it from scratch

That's beyond the definition of Open Source. Doing a bit of license research now, only the GPL has such a requirement - GPLv3:

> The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities.

But all other Open Source compliant licenses I checked don't, and just refer to making whatever is in the repo available to others.
by Eisenstein | 2025-12-01 11:32:59+00:00
The Chinese Room is just a roundabout way of pleading human exceptionalism. To any particular human, all other humans are a Chinese Room, but that doesn't get addressed. Nor does it address what difference it makes if something is using rules as opposed to, what, exactly? It neither posits a reason why rules preclude understanding nor why understanding is not made of rules. All it does is say 'I am not experiencing it, and it is not human, therefore I dismiss it'. It is lazy and answers nothing.
by groestl | 2025-12-01 11:33:26+00:00
I think the answer is somewhere in the middle, not as restrictive as parent, but also not as wide as AI companies want us to believe. My personal opinion is that hallucinations (random noise) are a fundamental building block of what makes human thinking and creativity possible, but we have additional modes of neuroprocessing layered on top of it, which filter and modify the underlying hallucinations in a way so they become directed at a purpose. We see the opposite if the filters fail, in some non-neurotypical individuals, due to a variety of causes. We also make use of tools to optimize that filter function further by externalizing it.

The flip side of this is that fundamentally, I don't see a reason why machines could not get the same filtering capabilities over time by adjusting their architecture.
by KeplerBoy | 2025-12-01 11:33:36+00:00
Listening to hours of recording doesn't even seem like a lot considering this is the only microphone we have on another planet. You would need like 4 people doing this full time, which is a drop in the bucket for a project on this scale.

Of course this is not how it's done and almost all of the recording will just be wind or noise from the rover itself, which can easily be filtered out.
by freehorse | 2025-12-01 11:34:23+00:00
Yeah tbh the comment sounded weird to me at first, prob because the actual problem is not that I (ie the reader) am not part of the people that made the discovery, but because the author of the article who uses "we" is not. Maybe if I was part of such a discovery it would actually feel even weirder reading somebody I have not worked with on it as "we did it", but I have not been part of such a newsworthy discovery to test it.
by defrost | 2025-12-01 11:35:11+00:00
Sure, we live in an isolated area and have evolved through years of not even having a shop (well, I got to see one finally ~ 1980 or so). My father as young pre-teen helped support three younger siblings and a mother while his father was away at war by trapping rabbits and all that.

I had eighteen months as an isolated single parent with near zero support (long story) and had to stretch a marginal budget during that period. I've also travelled through the more remote parts of more than half of the 190+ countries across the planet, sorting logistics for food, fuel, et al along the way.

What I can pass on as hard earned lessons are that fast foods are rarely the cheapest or heathiest in the long term - if you can track down a large volume slow cooker in any garage sale or op shop on special you can keep a never ending stew on the roll by throwing in damn near anything, potatoes, celery, beans, carrots, bits of meat, swedes, etc.

It's hard to disrupt a system, difficult to break patterns and build communities and establish areas to grow food - but home cooking and stretching out food is something that can be found across the planet in the most unlikely places. Worth the effort to look for examples and make a few moves.

We're lucky to buy and prep all our food in bulk - it's more expensive on the infrequent shopping days, it's substantially cheaper over the course of year.

It's not something we need to do in current circumstances, it's a habit kept up in case it's ever needed and being frugal where possible means more to spend elsewhere.
by user34283 | 2025-12-01 11:35:26+00:00
I doubt there will be a reckoning.

Yes, the tools still have major issues. Yet, they have become more and more usable and a very valuable tool for me.

Do you remember when we all used Google and StackOverflow? Nowadays most of the answers can be found immediately using AI.

As for agentic AI, it's quite useful. Want to find something in the code base, understand how something works? A decent explanation might only be one short query away. Just let the AI do the initial searching and analysis, it's essentially free.

I'm also impressed with the code generation - I've had Gemini 3 Pro in Antigravity generate great looking React UI, sometimes even better than what I would have come up with. It also generated a Python backend and the API between the two.

Sometimes it tries to do weird stuff, and we definitely saw in this post that the command execution needs to be on manual instead of automatic. I also in particular have an issue with Antigravity corrupting files when trying to use the "replace in file" tool. Usually it manages to recover from that on its own.
by user____name | 2025-12-01 11:37:14+00:00
Here is a 2023 presentation on the implementation of screenspace contact shadows for Days Gone by Bend Studios, it uses a clever variation on this basic technique. I'm not sure it scales as well to many lightsources though.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=btWy-BAERoY&t=1929s&pp=2AGJD5ACA...
by simianwords | 2025-12-01 11:37:35+00:00
This article is misleading. The data centers role here was to evaporate a tiny bit of already polluted water and increase the concentration of the pollutant.

The increase is estimated to be around .1% with reasonable assumptions.

The primary driver of pollution was agriculture but the data centers can be attributed to .1% at most. Is it a big deal? Not in my opinion.
by tirant | 2025-12-01 11:37:37+00:00
Actually the solution is to go full private.

Costs when you get older skyrocket, but not your monthly contribution.

You subsidize your own elderly costs by paying slightly more during your younger years. That slightly more is part of the insurance companies Float, which gets invested and is used 30-40 years later to cover your extra costs in old age.

In a public system there’s no float. Everyone pays to cover the costs of the healthcare for that budget year. Which has the consequence that whenever there are population age shifts, the system becomes not sustainable, which is our current situation in Germany.

If everyone (except unemployed) had private health insurance, population age would be non-problem.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 11:38:36+00:00
What's your area, what qualities are you looking for, and what's your filtering process?

If you're not in a major hub and ATS is filtering out all the good candidates not gaming the system, the results are inevitable. If you're looking for a senior for junior or less pay... Well, it's easier to keep searching than take a job that literally can't pay rent in some high COL areas.
by em-bee | 2025-12-01 11:39:26+00:00
the quality is generally equal, but there is more variety i suppose. what you describe sounds like extremely bad quality. if you can share the brand then maybe someone can give more insights.

producing bricks with a LEGO logo is a low bar. selling them is more difficult. you need to sell a lot of them to make it worth it. in order to sell them at scale on bricklink you would need to target a lot of stores. how would you do that without the storeowners knowing? a single store would not sell enough without being noticed.
by torginus | 2025-12-01 11:39:30+00:00
I hope you see where the problem with this is - the US had an enemy in a supranational organization, the Al Qaeda, which resided in many countries including Afghanistan.

The government of said country was unfriendly but not actively hostile to the US and on good terms with AQ, but not outright allies. This could've been said to apply between many Middle Eastern governments and radical groups at the time.

The US decided to invade, and antagonized the formerly unfriendly Taliban to become actively hostile.

The US managed to temporarily win over the Taliban but failed to permanently displace them.

AQ leadership, including Bin Laden moved out of the country almost immediately.

The 'war on terror' went on almost without end, then Bin Laden was killed a decade later, in a different country the US didn't declare war on, thanks to US special force action.

While AQ got weaker, ISIS got stronger (honestly I don't follow ME insurgent groups that closely, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a rebrand/reorganization in part).

So the US-initiated invasion totally failed to reach its stated result while leaving a huge collateral in its wake.
by shubb | 2025-12-01 11:40:29+00:00
Net worth is a funny metric.

Joe has a 300k house with 100k equity and 200k mortgage. He has 100k in stocks in a 401k. Net worth negative 100k.

Pete has $300 in his cheques account, and isn't eligible for loans or mortgage. Net worth positive $300

Obviously Joe is richer than Pete though.
by maxerickson | 2025-12-01 11:40:44+00:00
People have wells at their homes, their water isn't being purified by someone else. Centralized supplies in the area are going to treat and monitor their water to ensure that it is below the applicable limits.

It's reasonable to treat the aquifer home wells draw from as a public good and prevent contamination of it. Whether Amazon has particular responsibility in this case is a different question than that.
by DJBunnies | 2025-12-01 11:41:17+00:00
> How would you design FPSs to remove this "bad game design?"

I think we just need to accept that bots will always be better at reaction based KPIs & abusing "knowing" too much game state, we should just remove those conditions.

1) Move most of the application logic to the server, the client should be a fairly dumb terminal that knows how to render and accept inputs, and only receives the state that it needs. No more spying issues.

2) Just give everybody auto aim & immediate/auto controlled firing, etc. No more aim bot issues.

3) Improve the quality of gameplay around the types of interactions which bots are bad at. Decision making, strategy, communication, execution, adaptation.
by bayindirh | 2025-12-01 11:41:26+00:00
While air cooling doesn't scale, air also is not a great heat carrier when you cram that much power to a small space.

Today's supercomputers (AI or not) can't cool themselves off with air. Too much heat in a too confined space. Direct Liquid Cooling is a must.

However, you can use closed-loop liquid cooling (like Europe), but open-loop is cheaper since it skips the "pump the heat out from water to atmosphere" part and "who cares about the water anyway, there's monies to be made".

Putting money above the environment always makes me angry though. It's like burning the walls of your house to stay warm.
by skylurk | 2025-12-01 11:41:39+00:00
Those are residential systems. At the municipal level it is more often done with bacteria in large tanks.

It's not unlike brewing beer in that you need to adapt your recipe constantly to account for variations in inputs in order to get a consistent product out the other end.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-08/documents/de...
by nkrisc | 2025-12-01 11:41:50+00:00
Responsibility is shared.

Google (and others) are (in my opinion) flirting with false advertising with how they advertise the capabilities of these "AI"s to mainstream audiences.

At the same time, the user is responsible for their device and what code and programs they choose to run on it, and any outcomes as a result of their actions are their responsibility.

Hopefully they've learned that you can't trust everything a big corporation tells you about their products.
by boatwombat | 2025-12-01 11:42:04+00:00
I still remember AJG vividly to this day. He also once told me he was a FreeBSD contributor.

My journey with FreeBSD began with version 4.5 or 4.6, running in VMware on Windows and using XDMCP for the desktop. It was super fast and ran at almost native speed. I tried Red Hat 9, and it was slow as a snail by comparison. For me, the choice was obvious. Later on I was running FreeBSD on my ThinkPad, and I still remember the days of coding on it using my professor's linear/non-linear optimisation library, sorting out wlan driver and firmware to use the library wifi, and compiling Mozilla on my way home while the laptop was in my backpack. My personal record: I never messed up a single FreeBSD install, even when I was completely drunk.

Even later, I needed to monitor the CPU and memory usage of our performance/latency critical code. The POSIX API worked out of the box on FreeBSD and Solaris exactly as documented. Linux? Nope. I had to resort to parsing /proc myself, and what a mess it was. The structure was inconsistent, and even within the same kernel minor version the behaviour could change. Sometimes a process's CPU time included all its threads, and sometimes it didn't.

To this day, I still tell people that FreeBSD (and the other BSDs) feels like a proper operating system, and GNU/Linux feels like a toy.
by leo_e | 2025-12-01 11:43:51+00:00
The value here isn't just indexing; it's narrative.

Reading the Linux kernel linearly is impossible because it’s not just code anymore—it’s 30 years of hardware quirks, scheduling theory, and architectural compromises solidified into C.

Tools like Elixir tell you where a symbol is defined. Tools like this attempt to answer why it's structured that way. As systems complexity outpaces human working memory, we need more "archaeological" tools that visualize the state machine, not just the text.
by lan321 | 2025-12-01 11:44:01+00:00
For lobbied ones votekick is great as long as you remove majority vote from premades. So in a 5v5, a 3 man premade isn't able to kick any of the 2 randoms alone.

I remember the misuse of it but it was better than having your only option be teamkilling, which is now punished in all games via reputation systems.

The only thing I don't see this as a solution for are games like Planetside, with massive lobbies. I know they used to have automated detection and manual review by admins teleporting and flying around, usually invisible to sus players. Once we found a bug and got inside the map able to shoot through the ground and in like 15 minutes an admin came, asked us how we got in there and to get out nicely, before he gets us out forcefully :D
by nkrisc | 2025-12-01 11:44:21+00:00
> but in fairness to the people doing stupid things, they're being encouraged by the likes of Google, ChatGPT, Anthropic etc, to think of letting a indeterminate program run free on your hard drive as "not a stupid thing".

> The amount of stupid things I've done, especially early on in programming, because tech-companies, thought-leaders etc suggested they where not stupid, is much large than I'd admit.

That absolutely happens, and it still amazes me that anyone today would take at face value anything stated by a company about its own products. I can give young people a pass, and then something like this will happen to them and hopefully they'll learn their lesson about trusting what companies say and being skeptical.
by leo_e | 2025-12-01 11:45:07+00:00
This will inevitably be used as ammunition against sideloading, but it’s really a lesson in supply chain trust.

When we move away from walled gardens (which I support), the burden of verifying the "chain of custody" shifts to the user. Installing an APK that auto-updates with root/system privileges is essentially giving a single developer the keys to your living room.

We need better intermediate trust models—like reproducible builds signed by a quorum of maintainers—rather than just "trust this GitHub release."
by shit_game | 2025-12-01 11:45:25+00:00
I'd posit a potential reason that these fields are currently hiring is a combination of that it destroys your body without recourse and many of these positions require certifications that take a long time to achieve (either through apprenticeships or training programs). You will also generally not get any kind of meaningful benefits from these jobs, and your body will disintigreate before your very eyes as you work yourself to bone for a pittance. The compensation for these roles is poor in comparison to white collar work despite the perceived demand for them, there is no safety net in many cases (401k, pension, reasonable health insurance, etc. outside of union shops, which are rare outside of say welders and pipefitters (and getting rarer every day!)).

And frankly the work is miserable. I've crawled through suspended ductwork to run conduit and wiring in antifreeze recycling plants that were filled with god-knows-what reagents covering everything in dust thick enough to paint a clown. PPE be damned, my skin burned for days. It was hot, loud, cramped, wet with chemicals, uncomfortable, dangerous, and unpleasant. These jobsites are the bread and butter of blue collar anything; awful and dangerous conditions outside of your control, but required by your contract because not doing it means not getting paid.

Sure, an agent isn't going to be replacing the poor bastard who has to do that, but is our only response the the deliberate and systematic murder of the white collar job market "you can suffer for less money so you'll be fine"? That's a pathetic whimpering way to just accept the very loud and public murder of class mobility.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 11:46:39+00:00
>I’m not sure why that is and I don’t want to start a political debate

I'm late to the party and am willing. It's becsuse we cut taxes a lot during GOP terms but no one has the balls to raise taxes back up. Thars pretty much the one bit of respect I have for HW Bush despite it being the nail in the coffin for re-election. But for the most part, GOP appeals to business, and the easiest talking point is to make them pay less taxes (though this line has blurred since Citizen's United).

That's really the gist of it. Politicians (on both sides of the aisle) need to know when to raise taxes in good times and not coast on the benefits. That way tax cuts can happen as relief in harder times. Instead we're headed to hard times and nearing default levels in the US debt. In other words: we're cooked.
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by dgb23 | 2025-12-01 11:47:01+00:00
> I mean do plumbers have an advent of plumbing where they try and unblock shit filled toilets for fun?

Yes, plumbers and other types of craftspeople and technicians do also have these little fun competitions. Why shouldn't they?

I think the reason some of us programmers do these things, is likely because many (myself included) entered the field as enthusiasts and hobbyists in the first place.
by mort96 | 2025-12-01 11:48:11+00:00
No, it's not. It's a statement opposing explicit exclusion, but that's not the same as inclusion.

EDIT to make this comment a bit more useful and productive: When people talk about "inclusion" in a DEI context, they typically mean making an active effort to include a diverse set of people. Outreach programs, looking at the community to identify things which drive away groups of people, that sort of thing. It can mean cracking down on "jokes" which make fun of some groups of people, or discussions of topics which make groups of people uncomfortable, etc.

It's a very different beast from just having a policy against explicitly disallowing contributions from people based on their group identity.
by jalapenos | 2025-12-01 11:48:43+00:00
Corrected title: "we have inflicted a very hard year on ourselves with malice aforethought".

The equivalent of that comic where the cyclist intentionally spoke-jams themselves and then acts surprised when they hit the dirt.

But since the author puts moral high horse jockeying above money, they've gotten what they paid for - an opportunity to pretend they're a victim and morally righteous.

Par for the course
by ignoramous | 2025-12-01 11:50:12+00:00
> upgrade suggestions for someone who loved that laptop?

The repair-friendly [0] StarBook and StarFighter line might interest you. They generally seem good value for money and ship worldwide. Here's a 96g DDR5 + Intel Core Ultra 7 configuration at ~$2200: https://starlabs.systems/products/starbook-ultra?variant=552...

Their funder/backer is a mystery (to me) though.

[0] https://support.starlabs.systems/what-is-the-star-labs-limit...
by graemep | 2025-12-01 11:51:20+00:00
> Very surprised and sad to see so many dismissive comments of the book

I cannot see that many dismissive comments. Those I can see are things like dismissing it purely because its not recent, or because the commentor has not read it which really say more about the person being dismissive than anything else.

It is very popular (in translation) in the UK (and other Engli8sh speaking countries) too.