MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by userulluipeste | 2025-12-01 23:47:07+00:00
"It is just about hiding the reality creating vague feeling that people can control things. Even if they cant."

Still, people have agency. If one doesn't see it like that in relation to their material stance then there must be a lot of things that are simply disconsidered from the list of possible options, for whatever reason. Nobody said the world is fine as is and that the blame is somehow all on the ones that are in unsavory positions now. The world is not fine (and never was, for a lot of folks that almost nobody talkes about). It's winter time in this industry and the new hatchlings have their future in question. Yes, there are factors out of their control (like LLMs) that led to this winter, but there's also the colective decision for a lot of kids of pursuing these cushy well-paid office jobs that made things worse by oversaturating the market. Now, of course that, being saddled with student debt and heavily invested by an already acquired degree, to consider the long-term career prospects outside the industry seems like a non-starter, yet it may be exactly what the labor market (and younglings' individual well-being) needs. Such a decision is just of the same kind as the one that brought them here. That's agency on the individual level. And lastly, it's best for everyone to understand, internalize, and accept (the more the better) the fact that nobody else should be expected to step in and fix things for you. Yes, there are many people trying to make the world a better place (as there are many who don't care), there are also people in power that are even supposed to do the same, yet if they manage or not to make it better for you is not a given. That's, whenever it happens, just a bonus. The rest is up to you, the adult.
by o11c | 2025-12-01 23:47:12+00:00
For laptops specifically, opening them up and blowing all the dust out can be a huge difference. After that, if the fan is making noise, it's not worth attempting recovery. If attempting this, consider whether your source is cheap enough in the case your test exposes this.

Blowing the dust out does run into the problem of some laptops being designed to only open with use of a chainsaw. I've ruined a couple laptops that way.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-12-01 23:47:14+00:00
I've been considering Framework or System 76 when my Macbook Pro finally dies.

But that means spending ~$1600-2000 (though, about how much my MBP cost).

It seems to take some good research or a clutch recommendation to spend less than that while getting what I want. And I don't understand how 1080p is still such a common resolution.
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-01 23:47:27+00:00
I recently got a new Thinkpad for work, can't recall which model. I think L series?

The build quality is nicer than my T530. The bottom cover doesn't have access panels anymore, but it's got just a few captive(!!) screws and the whole bottom comes off. Everything is neatly exposed and you don't need to access the top of the board at all. The bottom cover has plastic clips along with the screws, but they're spring loaded! They aren't simply molded in and cannot snap off. It's some incredible attention to detail.

I've noticed that most recent laptops have the vent behind the screen hinge where it's completely blocked if the screen is closed. Thinkpad has the vent fully exposed. In fact, it exposes more vent when the screen is closed.

Too bad the CPU is a lemon. One of the new AMD chips with a built in NPU. The NPU is slower than the integrated graphics for inference. Not a discrete card, just the GPU baked into the chip.

In contrast, I got a hand-me-down Dell XPS-something from 2020 when I first started this job. It idles IDLES! at 100°C. I tried to re-paste the CPU, but the heat pipes were so small and thin that I crushed one between my fingers. Even with massive airflow through the case from external fans, it never drops below 100C. Absolutely inexcusable.

Looks to me like Lenovo still has it. At least if you're paying real money for a professional level machine. This new Thinkpad is now my #1 most repairable and maintainable machine. T530 is a close second. Absolutely every other laptop I've ever used is tied for last place in the garbage.
by dylan604 | 2025-12-01 23:47:54+00:00
who cares what they are buying. it's truly none of your business. there are people that buy things on a whim and do not even for a second think about slowing down to buy things at once to reduce the number of deliveries. if they did that, they'd forget about it and not actually purchase that whim. there could also be multiple independent people at the same address buying things in this manner.
by nowittyusername | 2025-12-01 23:48:00+00:00
how much it cost me? well i been thinking about it for a long time now, probably 9 months. bought myself claude code and started working on some prototypes and other projects like building my own speech to text and other goodies like automated benchmarking solutions to familiarize myself with fundamentals. but finally started the building process about 2 months ago and all it cost me was a boatload of time and about 50 bucks a month in agentic coding subscriptions. but it hasnt been a simple filter for a long time now. now its a very complex agentic harness system. lots of very advanced features that allow for tool calling, agent to agent interaction, and many other goodies
by woodrow | 2025-12-01 23:48:03+00:00
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by kriops | 2025-12-01 23:49:14+00:00
Exactly. I am Norwegian myself, and I don’t even know how many wars we have had with Sweden and Denmark.

If you are getting at the fact that it is sometimes beneficial for adversaries to collaborate (e.g., the prisoner dilemma) then I agree. And indeed, both Norway and Sweden would be completely lost if they declared war on the other tomorrow. But it doesn’t change the fundamental nature of the relationship.
by einpoklum | 2025-12-01 23:49:36+00:00
People should also know that Firefox (and Thunderbird) collect _quite a bit_ of information about your interaction via their telemetry mechanisms.

Here are instructions on how to disable all of it:

https://github.com/Aetherinox/firefox-telemetry-block

(and no, you can't do it with just a few checkboxes in the prefs, you have to go into the advanced pref editor and look up some stuff.)
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-01 23:49:51+00:00
>"I don't want a noisy neighborhood, but I want to drive my two-ton death trap that you can't see toddlers in front of and I also don't want to see any of my neighbors and also I want any object in the world deliverable within 24 hours."

I live in a noisy neighborhood with commercial truck thru traffic.

I don't have any particular love for the noise or the trucks, but the kind of people who complain about noise and machines will mostly don't select to live here which is good because I find those people to be bad generally.
by hekkle | 2025-12-01 23:50:15+00:00
If you don't want new features, don't upgrade it, what in the non-sequitur is this? I get the argument that it SHOULD be OPT-IN rather than OPT-OUT, but that would require annoying pop-ups every upgrade that explains the new features and ask if you want to OPT-IN. That is more burden on the developers and will annoy more users than benefit.

If you are concerned, they do have what is called a 'changelog' that will explain all of the new features and how to switch them off if you like.
by jmclnx | 2025-12-01 23:50:42+00:00
Cool. I know 1 person read my WEB site, they sent me a email :) But I do not keep track so I have no idea nor do I really care. So now you have 1 more who read it.

But since then I moved it to Gemini, the real Gemini, not google's thing. I find that far easier to maintain.
by onejgordon | 2025-12-01 23:51:13+00:00
Updated to reflect our strong preference for US/CA. We have made exceptions in the past.

Since there are comments about this above, I want to highlight that we've hired successfully on HN for several roles for our current small team. We hired 1 of 2 roles last month, and are still looking for a candidate for this role, which is why I'm posting here again.
by Aeolun | 2025-12-01 23:51:41+00:00
No, no.

> I've added a room to your home.

They’ve added a room to their home. That they let you live in, for free.

I’ll also mention that the room right next to it had all the contents you claim to take issue with.

The problem here is that you shouldn’t leave children home alone, not that it has two potentially dangerous rooms. There’s several more such rooms in your house, and you wouldn’t let them cook or use your power tools by themselves either (not until they prove they can be trusted with that anyway).
by seec | 2025-12-01 23:51:45+00:00
But don't forget, "the hype is real". Apple fanboys are something else.

At this point it's not even clear that the LLMs will have much use outside of chatbots spitting questionable reality faking but it's pretty clear that the small local models are largely useless. Outside of the poor user experience the lack of large dataset make them an exercice out technical feasibility more and anything else.

Apple feeling like they have to partner with Google to replace their own "Apple Intelligence" should tell you everything you need to know about local AI but I guess believers gotta believe.
by gh-llm-in-loop | 2025-12-01 23:51:46+00:00
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by order-matters | 2025-12-01 23:51:52+00:00
>Yes, but since you are out of business you no longer have an opportunity to fix that situation or adapt it to your morals. It's final.

Lots of room for nuance here, but generally Id say its more pragmatic to pivot your business to one that aligns with your morals and is still feasible, rather than convince yourself youre going to influence something you have no control over while compromising on your values. i am going to emphasize the relevance of something being an actual moral or ethical dilemma vs something being a very deep personal preference or matter of identity/personal branding.

>Fair point! It feels like a death sentence when you put so much into it though -- a part of you IS dying. It's a natural reflex to revolt at the thought.

I agree, it is a real loss and I don't mean for it to be treated lightly but if we are talking about morals and potentially feeling forced to compromise them in order to survive, we should acknowledge it's not really a survival situation.

>Depends if you are doing it 'for their own good' or not.

what do you mean by this?

I am not posing a hypothetical. modern medicine has plenty of contributions to it from unethical sources. Should that information be stripped from medical textbooks and threaten to take licenses away from doctors who use it to inform their decision until we find an ethical way to relearn it? Knowing this would likely allow for large amounts of suffering to go untreated that could have otherwise been treated? I am sincerely trying not to make this sound like a loaded question

also, this is not saying the means are justified. I want to reiterate my point of explicitly not justifying the means and saying the actors involved in the means should be held maximally accountable.

I would think from your stance on the first bullet point you would agree here - as by removing the product from the process you are able to adapt it to your morals.

>Finally - Who determines what is ethical?

I agree that philosophically speaking all ethics are relative, and I was intending to make my point from the perspective of navigating the issues as in individual not as a collective making rules to enforce on others. So you. you determine what is ethical to you

However, there are a lot of systems already in place for determining what is deemed ethical behavior in areas where most everyone agrees some level of ethics is required. This is usually done through consensus and committees with people who are experts in ethics and experts in the relevant field its being applied to.

AI is new and this oversight does not exist yet, and it is imperative that we all participate in the conversation because we are all setting the tone for how this stuff will be handled. Every org may do it differently, and then whatever happens to be common practice will be written down as the guidelines
by arthurfirst | 2025-12-01 23:52:24+00:00
Defending? I am simply pointing out the obvious flaws in your logic.

If you think Raytheon is the apex evil corporation you are very mistaken. There is hardly any separation between mega corps and state above a certain level. The same people are in majority control of IBM, Procter & Gamble, Nike, and Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc, etc.

Stop consuming marketing materials as gospel.

What you see as this or that atrocity on CNN or whatever that is produced *propaganda*, made for you, and you are swallowing it blindly without thinking.

Also the responsibility is of course down to individuals and their actions-- whether you know their names or not. Objects do not go to war on their own.

I've also worked in aerospace and aviation software but that doesn't preclude me from thinking clearly about whether I'm responsible for this or that thing on the news involving planes -- you might want to stop consuming that.
by GuB-42 | 2025-12-01 23:53:01+00:00
They could have made a version just for (E)AX. "general purpose" registers in x86 are not the same. AX is the accumulator, for arithmetic, BX is for indexing, CX is the loop counter and DX is for data and extending AX in divisions. You don't have to use them for that purpose, but you will have access more optimized instructions if you do. Out of these 4, AX is the most likely you would want to set to zero.

For loops, it is generally expected that you count down, with CX. The "LOOP" instruction is designed for this, so no special need to zero CX. SI and DI, the index registers may benefit from an optimized zeroing, for use with the "string" instructions.

Here I think Intel engineers didn't see the need and not having a special instruction to zero AX must simplify the decoder.
by imiric | 2025-12-01 23:53:16+00:00
The difference is that we know how LLMs work. We know exactly what they process, how they process it, and for what purpose. Our inability to explain and predict their behavior is due to the mind-boggling amount of data and processing complexity that no human can comprehend.

In contrast, we know very little about human brains. We know how they work at a fundamental level, and we have vague understanding of brain regions and their functions, but we have little knowledge of how the complex behavior we observe actually works. The complexity is also orders of magnitude greater than what we can model with current technology, but it's very much an open question whether our current deep learning architectures are even the right approach to model this complexity.

So, sure, emergent behavior is neat and interesting, but just because we can't intuitively understand a system, doesn't mean that we're on the right track to model human intelligence. After all, we find the patterns of the Game of Life interesting, yet the rules for such a system are very simple. LLMs are similar, only far more complex. We find the patterns they generate interesting, and potentially very useful, but anthropomorphizing this technology, or thinking that we have invented "intelligence", is wishful thinking and hubris. Especially since we struggle with defining that word to begin with.
by kshacker | 2025-12-01 23:53:18+00:00
> voice simply isn't a great way to interact with computers in the general case

You know I have talked to chatGPT for maybe a 100 hours over the past 6 months. It gets my accent, it switches languages, it humors. It understands what I am saying even if it hallucinates once in a while.

If you can have chatGPT level of comprehension, you can do a lot with computers. Maybe not vim level of editing, but every single function in a driving car should be controllable by voice, and so could a lot of phone and computer functions.
by pkb | 2025-12-01 23:53:28+00:00
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by sfink | 2025-12-01 23:53:54+00:00
Right, that's what I was thinking in my 2nd paragraph. No real reason not to, I suspect it just conflicted with the mindset of cleverness that you had to have for other reasons. Macros for >1 instruction would be fine, macros for 1 instruction would be looked down on because you haven't joined the club by twisting your brain into knots.

> I use to write lots of 6502 and 68k assembler, and 68k especially tended to look quite human-readable by the time devs ended up writing macros for everything.

Yes. I only did nontrivial amounts of 6502 and x86, but from what I saw of 68k, it seemed like it started out cleaner-looking and more readable even before adding in macros. (Or for all I know, I was reading code using built-in macros.)
by rimbo789 | 2025-12-01 23:54:25+00:00
I’m a Canadian and I’ve worked in health care.

This is only done for very specialized treatments where the province (they run the health care delivery) doesn’t have the treatment and/or the American resource is closer than a Canadian treatment location.

For example Nova Scotia will send some complex paediatric cases to Boston. They could send them to Toronto, but Boston is closer. Same with Manitoba but they use Minneapolis.

Canada is only 40m people and almost half that is in one province. The smaller provinces simply don’t have the population to justify having every possibly medical bell and whistle.

Point is when province sends Canadians for US treatment is isn’t actually about better quality as not all provinces have the same in house capacity and often the next largest city with such capacity is an American city.
by teleforce | 2025-12-01 23:54:31+00:00
Kudos to the poster and the author of this article. I think this is by far the most insightful technical post I've read this year on HN.

>If you develop or use an API, there’s a 99% chance it exchanges data encoded in JSON.

Just wondering if the inherent defiencies of JSON can somewhat be improved by CUE lang since the former is very much pervasive and the latter understand JSON [1],[2].

[1] Configure Unify Execute (CUE): Validate, define, and use dynamic and text‑based data:

https://cuelang.org/

[2] Cue – A language for defining, generating, and validating data:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20847943
by kirth_gersen | 2025-12-01 23:54:36+00:00
In America, you basically need insurance to act as a larger stronger party in the negotiation of prices with the hospital on your behalf. Without the bargaining power of the insurance company the prices you'd pay can be significantly inflated. So paying for the insurance is the slightly lesser of two evils. Supposedly. From your question it seems perhaps you live somewhere with a saner system in place. I'm envious.
by light_hue_1 | 2025-12-01 23:54:44+00:00
I was saying the same thing you were, this is the original post:

> If you allow a transformer to keep generating tokens indefinitely this is probably Turing-complete, though nobody actually does that because of the cost.

Either they're equivalent to Turning machines or not. Claiming that practically they aren't because no one runs them long enough defeats the very notion of a Turning machine in the first place.

I'm shocked a post like this that isn't even at the level of an intro to computation class is getting attention.
by sfRattan | 2025-12-01 23:55:21+00:00
Yes, this is why we routinely fill council homes (or public project housing) with amnesiac butlers to rearrange the residents' possessions, and also with demons for, um, reasons.

Completely reasonable things to do.

How else would we recoup our investment in the hugely expensive, unpredictable butler/demon spawning machines?

>The problem here is that you shouldn’t leave children home alone, not that it has two potentially dangerous rooms. There’s several more such rooms in your house, and you wouldn’t let them cook or use your power tools by themselves either (not until they prove they can be trusted with that anyway).

Depends on age, and the children in question. Also, if I have power tools it's because I chose them. And neither amnesiac butlers nor stochastic demons are necessary to not starve in the way that cooking food is, so the assessments of risk and basic good sense are not comparable.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-12-01 23:55:21+00:00
> strictly parsing (parse, don't validate)

That's called validating? Zod is a validation library.

But yeah, people really need to start strictly parsing/validating their data. One time I had an interview and I was told yOu DoN'T tRuSt YoUr BaCkeNd?!?!?!?
by projektfu | 2025-12-01 23:55:23+00:00
As long as you stay on a happy path, it's only like 5% thirst traps. But many people don't like it when those things are popping up in their SO's feed, so Instagram isn't good for those relationships.

I avoid it now mainly because I don't need infinite scrolling of anything. But a side benefit is that it can't provoke any jealousy.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 23:55:35+00:00
I spent three years working in consulting mostly in public sector and education and the last two working with startups to mid size commercial interest and a couple of financial institutions.

Before that I spent 6 years working between 3 companies in health care in a tech lead role. I’m 100% sure that any of those companies would I have immediately questioned my judgment for suggesting DeepSeek if had been a thing.

Absolutely none of them would ever have touched DeepSeek.
by ndr42 | 2025-12-01 23:55:54+00:00
I remember how they introduced the unibody Macbooks around 2009. They milled the entire enclosure from a slab of aluminium - they had to buy thousands of mills for mass-producing. Now 3d printing seems to open up even more design possibilities. But with the time to produce a watch enclosure (20+ hours) it would take days to create a Macbook enclosure.