MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lizwoodfieldta | 2025-12-01 23:32:57+00:00
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by cxr | 2025-12-01 23:33:19+00:00
> Chrome borrowed their webdev tools from Webkit, who borrowed them from KHTML.

Neither KDE nor OS X ever shipped their built-in Web Inspector prior to the appearance of Firebug in 2006, and by that point WebKit and Safari were already in full swing. The very first iteration[1] of Web Inspector appeared around the same time as Firebug and was an original contribution by Apple; it wasn't borrowed from KHTML.

1. <https://web.archive.org/web/20070621162114/https://webkit.or...>
by PlunderBunny | 2025-12-01 23:33:20+00:00
'Hot spot' as in Settings->Personal Hotspot? I've had that enabled for more than 10 years, and could count the number of times I've found it off and had to turn it on again using one hand. Sounds like a regional/carrier-specific thing. I recall that in the early days, carriers could disable hotspot functionality on their network. I hear hotspot functionality is pretty broken on iOS 26 though.
by aetherspawn | 2025-12-01 23:33:31+00:00
Aside from all the 365 subscription prices turning into “+ Copilot” editions and silently going up in price like 20%, that you then have to access hidden flows to opt-out of, right?

Perhaps you are not getting it rammed down your throat because you’re not a business user? On personal editions one area where AI has been a failure is taking over the search bar, but you’re right, you can disable it.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-01 23:34:51+00:00
Sorry, this is simply not true. Every 1-3 years, I get a simple diagnostic procedure to make sure I don't get cancer. Without it, I'm at a very real risk of developing cancer that would quickly kill me.

There is no universe in which it doesn't cost around $10,000. None. It is simply impossible for me to get out of paying that. My options are:

1. Use insurance, and hopefully it's covered.

2. Pay out of pocket.

3. Skip it and hope I don't die.

That's it, those are my options. I can't "shop around" for this, and I shouldn't have to. This is basic medical care available to everyone in a developed nation. Ours is the only one for whom this is apparently an intractable problem, and I am, frankly, tired of being gaslit about it.
by jonny2112 | 2025-12-01 23:34:52+00:00
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by jopsen | 2025-12-01 23:35:19+00:00
I tried an American PPO with $10 co-pay and no deductibles. It was awesome :)

Nobody could tell me what anything would cost, or if the insurance would cover it. But I always ended up paying $10, whether it was a few pills or an expensive MRI I didn't need. Oh, yeah the downside is you can accidentally convince your doctor to get procedures you don't need.

Health care in Denmark is decent. But I've been told, no when I wanted to run some tests. That would never happen on an American PPO :)

I have had go wait, while unpleasant, it's fairly harmless (otherwise they don't let you wait).

So if you're on an great PPO plan in the US, healthcare is great.

Whether the outcome is better for the average Joe, is probably a different question.
by eagsalazar2 | 2025-12-01 23:35:28+00:00
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by highwaylights | 2025-12-01 23:35:41+00:00
I get this pain with Apple in a bunch of different areas. The things they do well, they do better than anyone, but part of the design language is to never admit defeat so very few of the interfaces will ever show you an error message of any kind. The silent failure modes everywhere gets really frustrating.

I’m looking at you, Photos sync.

EDIT: just noticed this exact problem is on the front page in its own right (https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/30/last-week-on-my-mac-losi...)
by dzhiurgis | 2025-12-01 23:35:47+00:00
> should only be a small fraction of the total volume

Which is? Lot's of people are happy to rent, want to rent, will never want to own a home, want mobility, etc. I rented for nearly 20 years and only past few years went into situation where I want to buy a house. Should I be denied renting?

There's obviously premium to be paid while renting too. There should never be a situation where rent is cheaper than mortgage.
by digi59404 | 2025-12-01 23:35:53+00:00
That second paragraph is what scares me the most about pure public healthcare options. The following isn’t to compare/contrast systems.. it’s just a viewpoint.

My cardiologist went “tests look fine, heart looks fine, there’s no reason for you to take colchicine. No clue why you have issues, everything is fine. Just take this brand new beta blocker to manage your heart rate.”

Meanwhile, there’s no answer why my heart rate rises 30-40BPM randomly when I stand. Why my heart rate drops to a very difficult detectable rate when I sleep. No answers as to why two sips of wine causes my body to go into shock. - All resulting post-Covid.

That same doctor told me to discontinue colchicine; yet without colchicine most medications, inc. ADHD, are maybe half as effective.

These are items which deserve answers. Not an answer of “just take another pill”. Some of those “unnecessary” tests can provide inclusion/exclusion information. Yet just refusing that knowledge denies answers.

In the US I can just find new doctors. But in other systems it’s either difficult or impossible.
by sokoloff | 2025-12-01 23:35:56+00:00
If they flub half of the time and go on seven such interviews, they have over a 99% chance to pass at least one of them.

And that’s for someone with only a 50/50 success rate at summing an array of integers. Do you want to hire someone for a software role who is an underdog to be able to sum an array of ints?
by darth_avocado | 2025-12-01 23:35:57+00:00
> Especially, "Attending meetings is a choice." Just like paying taxes is a choice;

I am pretty aggressive about declining meetings and protecting my time. And I still agree to what you say. No matter how you structure meetings, there’s always a chance that items unrelated to the agenda are discussed, decisions are made when they’re not supposed to be made, incorrect information is conveyed or misunderstandings are not addressed. Unfortunate reality of corporate world is that you’re more likely to ask yourself be included than you decline meetings.

This of course doesn’t even touch the performative parts of corporate bs where “yOu NEeD tO Be MOrE ViSIblE”
by npunt | 2025-12-01 23:35:59+00:00
With 1B+ users Apple isn't in the position to do the typical startup fast & loose order of operations. Apple has (rightly) given themselves the responsibility to protect people's privacy, and a lot of people rely on that. It'd be a really bad look if it turned out they made Siri really really useful but then hostile govt's all got access to the data and cracked down on a bunch of vulnerable people.
by nostrademons | 2025-12-01 23:36:00+00:00
Netscape was the market leading browser into the early 2000s, corresponding with JG leaving it.

Never heard of Tellme, but it sounds impressive on a resume.

Metaweb was a good open-source fact database which subsequently got walled off once Google bought it.

Google Search works significantly worse now than it did under Amit, and I say that as both a user and a websearch Xoogler. (JG took over about a year after I left Google).

Siri is the subject of this article.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-12-01 23:36:16+00:00
Replace "hallucination" with "oversight" or "ignorance" and you have the same issue when a human writes the code.

A lot of that will come to the prompter's own foresight much like the vigilance of a beginner developer where they know they are working on a part of the system that is particularly sensitive to get right.

That said, only a subset of software needs an authentication solution or has zero tolerance to some codepath having a bug. Those don't apply to almost all of the apps/TUIs/GUIs I've built over the last few months.

If you have to restrict the domain to those cases for LLMs to be "disastrous", then I'll grant that for this convo.

What about everything else?
by teleforce | 2025-12-01 23:36:17+00:00
>How will the Google/Anthropic/OpenAI's of the world make money on AI if open models are competitive with their models?

According to Google (or someone at Google) no organization has moat on AI/LLM [1]. But that does not mean that it is not hugely profitable providing it as SaaS even you don't own the model or Model as a Service (MaaS). The extreme example is Amazon providing MongoDB API and services. Sure they have their own proprietary DynamoDB but for the most people scale up MongoDB is more than suffice. Regardless brand or type of databases being used, you paid tons of money to Amazon anyway to be at scale.

Not everyone has the resource to host a SOTA AI model. On top of tangible data-intensive resources, they are other intangible considerations. Just think how many company or people host their own email server now although the resources needed are far less than hosting an AI/LLM model?

Google came up with the game changing transformer at its backyard and OpenAI temporarily stole the show with the well executed RLHF based system of ChatGPT. Now the paid users are swinging back to Google with its arguably more superior offering. Even Google now put AI summary as its top most search return results for free to all, higher than its paid advertisement clients.

[1]Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322
by brailsafe | 2025-12-01 23:36:30+00:00
Agreed on every point, except I'm actually in Canada, so it's partly because housing didn't crash here that we're arguably even more turbofucked, afaik anyway. Although our current administration would like every working age person to believe that it's solely because of your president that we're screwed economically, the writing has been on the wall for a while; too much of our GDP is made up of residential real estate sales and the rental income generated by the scarcity of them and going into the pockets of people who borrowed endlessly against them.
by hanapbuhay | 2025-12-01 23:36:41+00:00
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by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-01 23:36:51+00:00
In the rust belt this was the norm.

I have figured out my father working an unskilled factory job in 1970 made about $40k adjusted for inflation in order to buy a $40k starter home in early 20s.

Union job with a pension that he is still collecting right now after retiring at 55.

No college. Not even sure he has ever read a book in his life. I would say all you had to do was not be an alcoholic and you would be fine but even that is not true. Even the boomer alcoholic fuck ups I know did pretty well and retired early.
by kulahan | 2025-12-01 23:37:25+00:00
It's actually crazy how they've seemingly managed to do absolutely nothing with Siri in a decade and a half. I legitimately have no idea what features it has had added, but I still try basic things and am shocked at how useless it is.

I was excited when I recently got an iPhone 16 Pro - it comes with Apple Intelligence! Surely this is how Siri leaps into the future and starts doing things like translating for me, or responding with a photo and some basic facts when I ask who Ariana Greenblatt is, or letting me convert from Krore to USD (it gives results for rupees every time it seems?) or...

Anyways, I asked it something basic, and Siri said it would have to use Apple Intelligence. Not like, prompting me if I want to use it, just saying it's needed, then turning off. I'm pretty confused as to what Apple Intelligence is at this point, since I assumed it would be Siri. "Hey Apple Intelligence" doesn't do anything, so I ask ChatGPT. It informs me that AI is, in fact, part of Siri. I... do not know why it gave me that response.

Back to timers and alarms.

Edit - this is your daily reminder that you can NO LONGER SHUT OFF IPHONES BY HOLDING DOWN THE POWER BUTTON.
by healthyrapport | 2025-12-01 23:37:27+00:00
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by rvz | 2025-12-01 23:37:41+00:00
> $230K is already high compensation.

Yet he is still complaining and is unhappy. So as long as the OP is working for someone else no amount is ever enough, he still loses more time at work.

> You have to look for other jobs that pay higher first, actually pass interviews to get offers, and then decide if the stress-to-pay ratio at the new job is worth the change.

Hopefully he is prepared for lots of Leetcode puzzles to even be considered and competing against thousands of 20-30 somethings that have a lot more time, and that's the first hurdle. It's up to him to decide if that is worth the stress.

Or, he could start a business from one of his own projects that makes a lot more than his own yearly salary and the best part is that he works on his own terms.

Making more than $230k+ a year stress free is exactly what he is looking for and I guarantee you that no "9-5 job" exists that pays more without the additional stress and loss of time.
by Muromec | 2025-12-01 23:37:50+00:00
>That's just one factor though. Another is what hardware you can actually run things on. DeepSeek and Qwen will function on cheap GPUs that other models will simply choke on.

What's cheap nowdays? I'm out of the loop. Does anything ever run on integrated AMD that is Ryzen AI that comes in framework motherboards? Is under 1k americans cheap?
by CharlieDigital | 2025-12-01 23:38:01+00:00
> Before about 2016, you could have said the same about Intel.

I'm going to guess that part of the problem is American business culture and ceding high level strategic decisions not to engineers but to MBA types. It's hard to see anyone falling the same way Intel fell looking at companies like Nvidia and AMD whom are both still (outside looking in) very much engineering driven.
by sandeepkd | 2025-12-01 23:38:27+00:00
"Brahminical Hindus" is new concept I heard for the first time. From an academic perspective, I would more than likely challenge the word "hindu" being used as a religion name. Most religions are more defined/codified. At the end of the day its all a tool to manage power/people, boundaries or groups can be created with almost any data point. Your comment/observation just happens to define/declare one new type of boundary
by mvkel | 2025-12-01 23:38:28+00:00
The problem with time-bounding is it becomes an obsession with meeting optimization, and the content of the meeting comes secondary.

"Ok let's quickly do X Y and Z so the meeting can be over and we can be outta here!"

"Hey, it's been 8 minutes and we have only allocated 30 so we need to move to the next topic."

Letting meetings be dictated by the clock has the effect of making them feel a bit like reading an executive summary of a book instead of reading the book. You're letting the clock dictate the importance of something to a company, and not the something. It's like delaying a huge feature launch because the person in charge of it is out sick.

The reading -is the thing-. Discussing the difficult decision is -the thing-.

I recognize that there is a fishbowl effect, where if you allocate four hours for a meeting about office dishwasher etiquette, you'll be amazed that all four hours are filled with lively, constant discussion. So there does need to be some light facilitation. But I'd argue that over-facilitating is just as unproductive as under-facilitating.

As for the other stuff, agendas are great. A purpose for a meeting is great. Having the right people in the meeting, great.

Relatedly, the craziest thing I keep hearing in corporate land is this idea of "open calendars." So your hard-won 15-minute lunch break can vanish because someone drops a meeting on it, and you first hear about it via email notif. Calendars should be opt-in, period.
by autoexec | 2025-12-01 23:39:35+00:00
Not really. A huge number of players are on consoles that have little to no support for mods and games today have too many centralized online servers and companies who keep insisting on control over your local PC which means that game companies can decide what mods you can and cannot have on your system.

There was a time when the concept of "banned mods" only ever applied to a specific server out of countless other servers and locally you could do anything you wanted, even run your own server.