MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stego-tech | 2025-12-01 18:57:57+00:00
Can confirm via my own experiences. Had a job in a SV firm, and paid just barely enough to try and get on the housing ladder. Four years and a 40-60% price increase later, and I got laid off without managing to successfully buy a home.

Since the layoffs, I’ve taken a sizable paycut (~$75k TC) to make ends meet with whatever I could find, but kept a pulse on the market in case things turned around. Locally, rents have gone down by ~$100-$500 a month (depending on when you renew) with one to two months free rent, while home prices have finally stopped rising. Homes are staying on markets longer, and bidding wars have dried up. I get about one to three price cut messages a day from Redfin, though nothing in my area or price range post salary cut.

Unfortunately, I don’t expect this trend to continue. My landlord just introduced a new RealPage-alike to keep rents high, local developers have put a hold on new housing construction as resources get consumed for AI datacenters, and the same old red tape blocks meaningful progress in addressing availability gaps. The only real bright spot is that renters are pushing for statewide rent caps and controls with better progress than ever before, so there might be some relief in sight next election.

It’s bad out there, ya’ll.
by order-matters | 2025-12-01 18:58:02+00:00
Yes, actually - being right and out of business is much better than being wrong and in business when it comes to ethics and morals. I am sure you could find a lot of moral values you would simply refuse to compromise on for the sake of business. the line between moral value and heavy preference, however, is blurry - and is probably where most people have AI placed on the moral spectrum right now. Being out of business shouldn't be a death sentence, and if it is then maybe we are overlooking something more significant.

I am in a different camp altogether on AI, though, and would happily continue to do business with it. I genuinely do not see the difference between it and the computer in general. I could even argue it's the same as the printing press.

What exactly is the moral dilemma with AI? We are all reading this message on devices built off of far more ethically questionable operations. that's not to say two things cant both be bad, but it just looks to me like people are using the moral argument as a means to avoid learning something new while being able to virtue signal how ethical they are about it, while at the same time they refuse to sacrifice things they are already accustomed to for ethical reasons when they learn more about it. It just all seems rather convenient.

the main issue I see talked about with it is in unethical model training, but let me know of others. Personally, I think you can separate the process from the product. A product isnt unethical just because unethical processes were used to create it. The creator/perpetrator of the unethical process should be held accountable and all benefits taken back as to kill any perceived incentive to perform the actions, but once the damage is done why let it happen in vain? For example, should we let people die rather than use medical knowledge gained unethically?

Maybe we should be targeting these AI companies if they are unethical and stop them from training any new models using the same unethical practices, hold them accountable for their actions, and distribute the intellectual property and profits gained from existing models to the public, but models that are already trained can actually be used for good and I personally see it as unethical not to.

Sorry for the ramble, but it is a very interesting topic that should probably have as much discussion around it as we can get
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-01 18:58:11+00:00
"Hey, I heard you like eating sushi. Have you ever tried having a bowl of par-cooked microwaved noodles, instead? It's basically the same thing!"

Edit: The last time I worked in an office building, I had a limited time for lunch. I could have brought in ramen, or purchased something from the decently-stocked break room coolers. I could have sat at my desk or gone outside or eaten in the break room.

And sometimes, I did do those things.

But what I quickly discovered was that what I wanted on my lunch break was primarily a break.

I wanted to get the hell away from that place, surround myself with something completely different, and spend time relaxing my brain before getting through the second half of the day.

So I often went out to get lunch.

But because time was limited, it had to be nearby, and my options were thus very limited.

So I ate a lot of bargain-menu Wendys and tacos from Qdoba because I could get there, and eat, and relax a bit, and be back on time.

If there were instead a sushi place right downstairs, I'd have probably hit that once or twice a week, too. It would have had a higher monetary expense, but my brain would have thanked me for the extra time to unwind and I'd have had a better and more-productive rest of my day and come home in a better mood than I might have otherwise.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-01 18:58:21+00:00
It also have bindings for a ton of languages, so for people who jump languages a lot, it's always nice to be able to reach for something more familiar that you can learn across different codebases but same concepts. Same thing for the backend/engine, UI code remains the same, but easy to switch to others or even wrapping it yourself for platforms that are under NDA.
by cwiz | 2025-12-01 18:59:04+00:00
I'm looking for an active (open-source) robotics projects with rust / python. I maintain robotics presence in rust-land with some of simulation-based crates (bevy_mujoco, bevy_urdf), and now looking for a projects that either solves real-world problems or a have steady interest.

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by alephnerd | 2025-12-01 18:59:08+00:00
https://sancharsaathi.gov.in/

Basically IMEI stamping because sim card purchase with ID has come to be viewed as flawed/compromised by NatSec types in India. Here's some additional context from a previous thread on HN [0]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40476498

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Edit: Can't reply

Lots of old phones still exist, so a virtual/eSIM does nothing to give visibility into those devices.

Also, India wants to own the complete end-to-end supply chain for electronics like what China did in the early 2010s, so India has been subsidizing legacy, highly commodified electronic component manufacturing [0] - of which physical SIMs are a major component because they both help subsidize semiconductor packaging as well as IoT/Smart Card manufacturing. A mix of international [1][2] and domestic players [3] have been leveraging physical SIM manufacturing in India as a way to climb up the value chain.

On a separate note, this is why I keep harping about India constantly - I'm starting to see the same trends and strategies arising in Delhi like those we'd see the PRC use in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but no one listened to me about China back then because they all had their priors set to the 1990s.

No one took the PRC seriously until it was too late, and a similar thing could arise with India - we as the US cannot win in a world where 3 continental countries (Russia, China, India) are ambivalent to antagonistic against us. Even Indian policy papers and makers increasingly reference and even copying the Chinese model when thinking about policy or industrial development, and I've started seeing Indian LEO types starting to operate abroad in major ASEAN and African countries helping their vendors build NatSec capacity (cough cough Proforce - not the American one - and their Offensive Sec teams).

Ironically, I've found Chinese analysts to be much more realistic about India's capacity [4][5] unlike Western commentators - and China has taken action as a result [6][7][8]

[0] - https://ecms.meity.gov.in/

[1] - https://www.idemia.com/press-release/idemias-production-faci...

[2] - https://www.trasna.io/blog/trasna-eyes-asian-iot-growth-as-i...

[3] - https://seshaasai.com/products/esim-and-sim

[4] - https://finance.sina.cn/china/gjcj/2022-06-08/detail-imizmsc...

[5] - https://www.gingerriver.com/p/vietnam-or-india-which-one-wil...

[6] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/foxconn-p...

[7] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-taking-steps-mitig...

[8] - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-files-wto-complain...
by NewsaHackO | 2025-12-01 18:59:28+00:00
Yea, I never get these types of "AI killed the joy of insert hobby" arguments. By virtue of it being a hobby, I can make the conscious choice not to use AI for it. Really, there should be very few technological advances that can ever kill something that is truly a hobby (for example, people still knit, do metalworking, glassblowing, etc.). Now, if you want to get paid for working inefficiently compared to others, then yes, that will never happen.
by epgui | 2025-12-01 18:59:41+00:00
This article feels like someone is defending their language. And that doesn’t bother me, but I don’t value that.

I don’t care about what’s popular or what feels most familiar. What I want is a dispassionate discussion of how different language features impact code quality, and I think you can only find that in more abstract discussions. The kind that turns people off with its talk of monads and applicatives.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-12-01 18:59:54+00:00
https://sancharsaathi.gov.in

- Report fraud/scam calls and SMS directly from your phone.

- Block or track lost/stolen phones by disabling their IMEI so they can’t be misused.

- View all mobile numbers registered under your ID and report any unauthorized SIM cards.

- Verify if a phone is genuine with an IMEI/device authenticity check.

- Report telecom misuse, such as spoofed calls or suspicious international numbers.

The stated goal is protect users from digital fraud and safer telecom usage, who knows how good it’ll be. Probably a PITA.
by _praf | 2025-12-01 19:00:04+00:00
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by czhu12 | 2025-12-01 19:00:21+00:00
I think its worth discounting against the failure rates of humans also.

> Depending on the context, and how picky you need to be about recognizing good or bad output, this might be anywhere from a 60% to a 95% success rate, with the remaining 5%-40% being bad results. This just isn't good enough for most practical purposes

This seems to suggest that humans are 100%. I'd be surprised if i was anywhere close to that after 10 years of programming professionally
by stego-tech | 2025-12-01 19:00:24+00:00
Can confirm, this is where I’ve spent four years trying to buy a starter (2BR/2BA) home in on a single income. The biggest problem in older markets is that most housing stock is of appalling quality, requiring another five to six figures of work to get into a modern, habitable shape - unless you do the work yourself, which most can’t while they also hold down a FTE gig and deal with the return of urban commuting.

It’s bad.
by civilian | 2025-12-01 19:00:24+00:00
Software people are such a "DIY" crowd, that I think selling courses to us (or selling courses to our employers) is a crappy prospect. The hacker ethos is to build it yourself, so paying for courses seems like a poor mismatch.

I have a family member that produces training courses for salespeople; she's doing fantastic.

This reminds me of some similar startup advice of: don't sell to musicians. They don't have any money, and they're well-versed in scrappy research to fill their needs.

Finally, if you're against AI, you might have missed how good of a learning tool LLMs can be. The ability to ask _any_ question, rather than being stuck-on-video-rails, is huge time-saver.
by vunderba | 2025-12-01 19:00:33+00:00
Noodle bowls are usually pretty high in saturated fat (between 8-15 grams on average). I can't imagine eating them daily.

At the very least you should consider steaming some vegetables (also very cheap), slice them up, and mix'em in to get some moderate nutritional value from it.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/whats-your-daily...
by BizarroLand | 2025-12-01 19:00:35+00:00
Unless you're making them yourself or at least customizing them a good bit, noodle bowls are pretty unhealthy food.

Nothing fresh in them, high sodium, freeze-dried ramen or noodle bowls were originally survival food and should be treated as such.

Not saying don't eat them, and I don't know your socioeconomic background or anything, but if you want to eat them or have to eat them, try to add a little something extra into them.

A cup of shredded cabbage and/or a few cherry tomatoes and/or a half cup of onion slices and/or an egg, things like that should be cheap and easy to add and will help dilute the sodium and add a healthy component to the meal, and your kidneys and heart will thank you for it.
by akash100x | 2025-12-01 19:00:43+00:00
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by iliaov | 2025-12-01 19:00:43+00:00
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by mosselman | 2025-12-01 19:01:01+00:00
Back when deepseek came out and people were tripping over themselves shouting it was so much better than what was out there, it just wasn’t good.

It might be this model is super good, I haven’t tried it, but to say the Chinese models are better is just not true.

What I really love though is that I can run them (open models) on my own machine. The other day I categorised images locally using Qwen, what a time to be alive.

Further even than local hardware, open models make it possible to run on providers of choice, such as European ones. Which is great!

So I love everything about the competitive nature of this.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-01 19:01:08+00:00
This is a good viewpoint, too. But it would be good to canvas a range of views from more than 1 country (for example, more than just China).

There's some kind of a "evidence problem" where we rely on a single-source for "evidence" (the government), while discounting "evidence" from testimony/imagery from rando people (even before AI).

Same time, your point touches a key issue: if you don't have experience yourself, no matter what external "proof", you may not believe it. Which is fine, and valid I think.
by cess11 | 2025-12-01 19:01:13+00:00
I don't agree with these theoretical boundaries you provide. Any database can appear to lack in determinism, because data might get deleted, corrupted or mutated. Hardware and software involved might fail intermittently.

The illusion of determinism in RDBMS systems is just that, an illusion. The reason why I used the examples of failures in interacting with such systems that I did is that most experienced developers are familiar with those situations and can relate to them, while the probability for the reader to having experienced a truer apparent indeterminism is lower.

LLM:s can provide an illusion of determinism as well, some are quite capable of repeating themselves, e.g. overfitting, intentional or otherwise.
by badlibrarian | 2025-12-01 19:01:21+00:00
There are major gaps in platforms slapped together in the VC Party / Ruby era that seem to have unresolvable tech debt. Or perhaps Ruby just attracts the types of people who would rather talk about F1 racecars on Twitter than instruct a few of their thousands of employees to fix the shipping calculator.

Ruby was not designed to be a serious language. It was designed to be fun like PHP but not ugly like PHP. Meanwhile PHP grew up and Ruby grew out.

It's okay to love a thing and realize that it has some unsolvable issues and some people around it destined to keep it that way. Most things are like that these days.
by john-redd | 2025-12-01 19:01:25+00:00
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by kakacik | 2025-12-01 19:01:31+00:00
This is where screenshots come from, official topo data are free. I use them all the time for hiking, ski touring etc. Good thing they cover also neighboring mountains a bit (to varying detail) so ie France or Italy can be enjoyed just with a single app.

Then you go further and realize how much worse free easy to find things are. There are variations of opentopomap but they lack the finesse of this.

Also available in various other layouts ie biking (veloland), canoeing or various winter sports (sadly no outright ski touring so I aproximate summer hiking paths, the best to use are still physical maps but then you need a hefty stash of various zooms at home, pricey too).

But none is perfect - opentopo map has some obscure artifacts, see ie here what I found by a chance - some hole too deep to be real, near Aletsch glacier or famous Eiger, a mountain slope in Bernese alps [1], while official Swiss topo looks like this without any such illogical artifact [2]

[1] https://opentopomap.org/#map=15/46.55901/8.07171 [2] https://schweizmobil.ch/en/map?season=summer&bgLayer=pk&laye...
by asveikau | 2025-12-01 19:01:35+00:00
No, I was talking mostly about perception of hardware support, package management, and a pre-systemd init system.

But which DE you run is entirely up to you. I'm writing this with FreeBSD running fvwm. On my laptops I run dwm.

Also:

> enlightenment

I haven't kept up with recent developments, but this is the most 1990s WM that ever 1990s'd.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-01 19:01:42+00:00
I assume that in the US, the major manufacturers of phones and their operating systems already have backdoors for national security reasons. I think back to the past leaks from Snowden regarding the PRISM program. That program specifically included Google and Apple cooperating with the government under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

So while this state-owned cyber safety app is authoritarian, I wonder if it reflects just the most practical way India’s government can achieve the same things that the US has.
by tyre | 2025-12-01 19:02:14+00:00
> OpenAI’s refusal to launch and iterate an ads product for ChatGPT — now three years old — is a dereliction of business duty, particularly as the company signs deals for over a trillion dollars of compute.

I think this is intentional by Altman. He’s a salesman, after all. When there is infinite possibility, he can sell any type of vision of future revenue and margins. When there are no concrete numbers, It’s your word against his.

Once they try to monetize, however, he’s boxed in. And the problem with OpenAI vs. Google in the earlier days is that he needs money and chips now. He needs hundreds of billions of dollars. Trillions of dollars.

Ad revenue numbers get in the way. It will take time to optimize; you’ll get public pushback and bad press (despite what Ben writes, ads will definitely not be a better product experience.)

It might be the case that real revenue is worse than hypothetical revenue.
by leptons | 2025-12-01 19:02:20+00:00
Same here, we also both have YT Premium and use SmartTube. Our dislike of "Shorts" pushed everywhere in the YT app is what got us to switch to SmartTube. We watch Youtube on our 65" TV via Chromecast, so shorts are just really a crap experience and we do not want to see them at all. SmartTube lets us eliminate them, as well as all the other awesome UI customization makes it a far superior experience.
by dgacmu | 2025-12-01 19:03:05+00:00
A deep merv-13 with a lot of pleats can have a very reasonable pressure drop - you just have to shop a little more carefully.

I would stick with merv-13 because you'll get solid performance across a lot of things you might want to remove, from viruses to general pm2.5 and things like volatilized cooking oil. Clean air is awesome and tire dust isn't the only thing that's annoying.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-01 19:03:10+00:00
Crashing the economy is of course going to have knock on effects. I don't think anybody should be surprised by this?

Housing is essentially a bottomless pit when the economy is good, it can sink any amount of money because it is an absolute necessity. So when people have money they'll use it to bid against each other for a scarce resource. But when the economy pauses or even starts to shrink then that surplus evaporates and one of the first indicators that this is happening is the demand for housing. Usually the result will be some price adjustments and after that it is business as usual. But if the cuts go deeper then there may be more substantial effects.

The only thing that is holding the US economy afloat right now is the fact that there are still a couple of levers of power that Trump hasn't gotten his fingers on. When and if that happens I fully expect things to go into freefall.