MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-22 22:02:11+00:00
That might be true about the time period from the SNES to the present but it's not clear to me that we're really getting better games post the PS3.

I have Persona 5 Royal on my mind because I am playing through it now maybe a decade after I played Persona 4 Golden on the PS Vita. I love the story, I love the art, but the music isn't up there with P4G (how can you beat Reach out or Make history?) and I think it's a disappointment as a game.

Hypothetically it matters if you develop relationships with the characters and raise your social stats but practically you're not required to make hard choices because you have enough time to do everything -- and since the game is so long you feel compelled to do it all in one playthrough which stretches out the game even longer.

It's not so much a P5R problem as a general problem in the industry. In my current playthrough status ailments, buffs, debuffs and such just don't matter. That's the case for most turn-based games, just as the weapons triangle ceased to matter in Fire Emblem games a long time ago.

My son and I have been thinking a lot about a "visual novel + something else" game which is maybe 30 minutes - 6 hours per playthrough but requires multiple playthroughs. I'd be happy to have NG+, but he thinks that's cheap.

Dialogue has been a weak point in "interactive fiction" since the beginning, maybe LLMs will change that. Fictional VR games like Sword Art Online and Shangri-La Frontier have NPCs you can just talk to, I'd love to see that in real games. For now we get Meta's absurd model that you can make a storefront in Horizon Worlds but you need to have a real person to staff it which makes sense to exactly one person.
by imiric | 2025-06-22 22:02:16+00:00
I miss Opera. It's a damn shame that it was so badly mismanaged, and ultimately sold off to investors, which further buried it into irrelevance. It now survives on gaming-oriented gimmicks and shady promotions. I hear that Vivaldi is supposed to be a continuation of it, but from what I've seen it's just another Chromium clone with a closed-source UI, without any distinguishing features.

Opera in the late 90s / early 2000s was excellent. It was lightweight and snappy. Among the first to support tabs. The Presto engine was the most performant on machines of the era. The trialware/adware was annoying, but the browser was solid. The built-in email client was decent as well.

In 2009 they launched a very interesting web server / sharing feature with Opera Unite, which unfortunately didn't gain traction.

Opera Mini was the best mobile browser for a few years as well, before smartphones took off.
by wolrah | 2025-06-22 22:03:03+00:00
> A better question is why it was never fixed / renamed to proper names.

Because the reason it is the way it is in the first place is compatibility with sites that are doing things objectively wrong already, which makes it really hard to get them to change.

The problem is that poorly designed systems limit access or disable features based on a user-agent allowlist, which is never the right answer. There is no right way to do it because it's always wrong, but people choose to do it anyways.

I'm personally a fan of treating broken sites as broken, but I understand that realistically any "alternative" browser has to deal with all the broken sites designed for whatever came before it because otherwise most normal users won't consider switching.

If I were made King of the Internet for a day and able to enforce any changes I wanted on everyone, all the major browsers would have to change their user-agent string to something totally unique on the same day, intentionally breaking any sites that are doing it wrong for everyone so the broken sites are forced to fix their own nonsense. That'd come maybe two or three decrees down the line from "All ISPs are required to provide a globally routable IPv6 block in accordance with RFC 6177, providing only CGN IPv4 is a capital offense".
by LightHugger | 2025-06-22 22:04:05+00:00
> The "no DEI" bit is a common "slogan" from people who by many are seen to want to ignore discrimination and pretend it isn't a problem, often because they are seen as quite happy for discrimination to continue. As such, to a lot of people when someone makes a claim like that adjacent to claiming not to want to discriminate, it rings hollow, and in fact often signals to them that the person using that language is likely to either be a racist or is fine with racists.

This very accurately describes the pro-dei faction, i'm not sure why you'd associate that with the anti-dei faction. You know, active lawsuits and real individual examples of people being harmed by ongoing discrimination are pretty solid evidence. In the end there's only people who are for prejudiced discrimination and people against prejudiced discrimination. I don't care which flavor you have but right now the truth is Xlibre is against it and red hat is for it. Anything else simply isn't aligned with reality.

I guess it just comes down to there being a lot of insane racist people in tech right now who view any opposition to their provable-in-the-courts racism as working against their broader ideological goals and therefore a valid target for attacks on every front. Very odd and unhealthy for open source. Hopefully these people get some of their own medicine.
by mindslight | 2025-06-22 22:04:43+00:00
Based on Trump's shotgun approach of contradictory positions and statements that promised everything to everyone, plus the completely uninspiring alternative option, it's not clear what Americans actually voted for. I have talked to many people that sheepishly admit they voted for Trump, yet lament that what he is doing is not at all what they thought he would do.

So my point is that the opposition here is not just the usual partisan squabbling. People should not think that waiting for 2/4 years is going to passively solve the problem like the regular changing of the buntings. Rather people need to realize the speed and brazenness these societal arsonists are moving, and demand their congresspeople stand up (versus the stochastic death threats from the social media addled nutsos, bots, etc) and put a stop to this. Congress shouldn't be voting on a big ugly omnibus spending bill written by special interests, rather they should be browbeaten into focusing on impeachment.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-22 22:04:57+00:00
Just an example. WhatsApp on Android force me to give it the contact permission. Without it, I can’t write to someone or call.

On iPhone, I can use the app without giving it the permission because if meta were to put up the same bullshit, they would get their app rejected from the store.

Now, you say you can install barebones Android ? Ever tried it ? It suck, lineageos and other have security issue, often poor battery, lack features and plenty of bugs.

You could uninstall the bloatware on your stock operating system ? Except that you don’t always know what is necessary and what isn’t. Meta (Facebook) have 3 app preinstalled on Samsung, 1 as user app, 2 as system app. Other are systemized and have extremely convulated name, or even embedded in an actual system app like the antivirus in Samsung device managements that used to send back lot of data to Chinese server.

Fairphone are expensive and not well built, murena ? They run e/os/, exact same issue as lineageos.

No really, it’s either pixel (and I’m not speaking of grapheneos, it got more and more issue with play service integrity being forced everywhere) or iPhone. Pick your poison.
by jemmyw | 2025-06-22 22:05:31+00:00
I would argue that you are not a general intelligence. Humans have quite a specific intelligence. It might be the broadest, most general, among animal species, but it is not general. That manifests in that we each need to spend a significant amount of time training ourselves for specific areas of capability. You can't then switch instantly to another area without further training, even though all the context materials are available to you.
by p3rls | 2025-06-22 22:06:44+00:00
I've had so many people over the years (nearly all of them the kinds of people who looked like they never had to work a job in their lives) try to surreptitiously record my truck's plates when I was doing fire protection inspections in the city.

Don't worry though, every ticket the company got was billed right back to buildings we were working at in another form. The balance sheet always wins.
by westurner | 2025-06-22 22:08:38+00:00
(H2O + Al + (H) + Electricity) => H, O2, HO, Al

Couldn't the system be bootstrapped by scratching up an aluminum can, pouring in water, and turning a wheel with a handle or wind or water or gravity or so on?

And then some (?) of the produced hydrogen would be used for hydrogen plasma to refinish the aluminum
by throwaway31131 | 2025-06-22 22:09:12+00:00
This also all assumes that there is excess foundry capacity in the world for Google to expand into, which is not obvious. One would need exceptionally good operations to compete here and that has never been Google's forte.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

"Nvidia to consume 77% of wafers used for AI processors in 2025: Report...AWS, AMD, and Google lose wafer share."
by mireklzicar | 2025-06-22 22:09:15+00:00
Keep Zotero/Mendeley for collection management; use this simple tool when you just need the formatted references list in five seconds.

Where it helps

- Deep-dive reading – fetch bulk RIS file and dump a seminal paper’s entire bibliography into Zotero/Mendeley and follow the threads.

- Bulk citing – grab BibTeX's for a cluster of related papers without hunting them down one-by-one.

- LLM grounding – feed language models a clean reference list so they stop hallucinating citations.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-22 22:09:16+00:00
https://youtu.be/qrvK_KuIeJk?t=284

The above is a video clip of Hinton basically contradicting what you’re saying.

So thats my elaboration. Picture that you just said what you said to me to hintons face. I think it’s better this way because I noticed peoples responding to me are rude and completely dismiss me and I don’t get good faith responses and intelligent discussion. I find if people realize that there statements are contradictory to the statements of the industry and established experts they tend to respond more charitably.

So please respond to me as if you just said to hintons face that what he said is utter nonsense because what I said is based off of what he said. Thank you.
by bigs | 2025-06-22 22:09:24+00:00
It happened for me once by pure chance.

I was looking to leave a secondment I was on, and received an offer, right as the leader of the client I was seconded to said we’d like to take you on permanently and we’ve cleared it with your company, here’s the offer. I used that as leverage and left.

Otherwise, I agree, it’s a snowball chance in hell to coincide them.
by mcv | 2025-06-22 22:09:44+00:00
They're not "murdering an entire population"; although many thousands of Palestinians have been killed, it's still a tiny percentage of the total population.

But it's not necessary to murder an entire population for it to count as genocide. Any attempt to destroy a people counts, including forced sterilization, re-education, mass deportations, etc.

But it's also clear that Israel has explicitly targeted civilians, help workers, journalists, refugee camps, food distribution, and I've even read about them shooting people hiding in churches. None of those are valid targets.
by yoyohello13 | 2025-06-22 22:09:56+00:00
Same. I’ve generally been a little left but I’ve always been able to at least understand the conservative viewpoint even if I didn’t agree. With this admin though, I can’t for the life of me comprehend how anybody can think this is ok. For fucks sake there are basically secret police arresting people on the streets with no due process. The rhetoric that comes out of Trump and his admins mouths genuinely disgust me. I’ve disagreed with other administrations, but have never felt straight up fear for the future like l do now. I hate this admin and I hate the voters that put him in power, people that still want him in power even now with the blatant corruption on display daily. I know it’s not right to feel this way, I hate feeling this way, but here we are.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-22 22:10:52+00:00
I’m not a captain of industry by any means but I’m very credentialed in my niche of AWS cloud consulting specializing in app development since 2023 - 7 years of experience, 3.5 years working at AWS (Professional Services) open source contributions and a major contributor to popular official open source “AWS Solutions” in a certain niche and much more experience in general app dev - and I was not able to negotiate more than 5-10% for certain opportunities and some I couldn’t push them for more money at all.

My comp is good for non FAANG especially seeing that I work remotely in a non HCOL no state tax city. But it’s hard for normies to do significant negotiations. I also have “unlimited PTO” and fully plan to take 20-25 days at least.
by tguvot | 2025-06-22 22:10:53+00:00
points are bad

hamas came to power in 2006 after usa forced election (against will of PA that was afraid that hamas will win). after this usa was horrified by outcome and trained/sponsored PA to take over gaza and depose hamas. PA failed and it forces were shot/thrown from roofs/dragged behind bikes and supporters tortured into obedience.

as outcome PA ceased paying salaries to it employees in gaza and foot the bill for infrastructure/etc.

there was massive outrage in media that "hundreds of thousands of people in gaza will starve now because they have no money to buy food" that forced Israel to allow money transfers from Qatar
by kylecazar | 2025-06-22 22:11:12+00:00
For me, it was being more selective about what I choose to read and actually reading that thing carefully once I start.

I think clicking many articles and abandoning them after some skimming had trained my brain to not focus as much on the meaning of the sentences. Like my habits had lowered the stakes of reading somehow, so I just ignored things.

I now only start reading things if I think I'll actually read the thing. I will abandon if necessary, but only after a real attempt.
by xp84 | 2025-06-22 22:11:29+00:00
> difference between Youtube Premium and regular Youtube with the exception of ads.

Yeah. That's the difference. That's literally it, the rest is window dressing. You are choosing the monetization strategy: ads or money. If you're not living paycheck-to-paycheck, and you watch a lot of YouTube, paying $13 or whatever is the sensible choice.

Yes, lots of things about the product suck, as you've described. But the content on it is good and the recommendation algorithm is pretty good, at least in its obvious goal of bringing me to new-to-me channels on a regular basis.
by j_bum | 2025-06-22 22:11:31+00:00
I think this is dangerous rhetoric.

I’m glad that you had an experience where you found the corner of your internet to be boring. I do not think this is the common experience.

And simply because you didn’t feel impacted by it, does not mean that it’s not bad. This is obviously hyperbolic, but your comment reads to me like someone saying, “I used narcotics all of the time when I was younger, and I’m fine now. So everybody chill out.” That doesn’t mean narcotics are ok.

Social media does change your brain. It doesn’t take much to find research on this, but here’s an example of a longitudinal study of US adolescents [0].

This type of online content is a form of a non-pharmacological “drug”, so to say, as it can dramatically impact reward system connectivity.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9857400/
by mindslight | 2025-06-22 22:12:10+00:00
Okay, done. All I saw in the article is the usual hypocritical invocation of austerity to justify destruction and looting. Is there a substantive argument you would like to put forward why this action would be a good thing? Or is this just the same tired projection-based trend of implying that the people opposing the open fire sale of our country are the misinformed ones?
by reactordev | 2025-06-22 22:12:42+00:00
Allocator choice is a spice, not a staple. There’s various reasons to use one design vs another for your use case and no “one-size fits all”. Sometimes you want continuous memory. Sometimes you want sorted memory. Sometimes you want fast memory damned the internal fragmentation. Others, you want terse memory because you’re trying to fit a struct in 32 bytes. There’s a use case for it all.
by subjectsigma | 2025-06-22 22:12:46+00:00
So I did some research into this and it’s complicated. Seems as though the founder is Russian, the business is registered in Cyprus and is under EU jurisdiction, and the team is all over the world with the majority based in Russia.

Relevant post on the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/Adguard/comments/1lgxza0/seeking_cl...

That’s enough for me to not use Adguard, but wanted to clarify so others can make their own decision
by dan-robertson | 2025-06-22 22:13:19+00:00
Ok, but also engineers in the US are much better paid now than 15 years ago. In 2010 the big story in engineer comp was that Google, Apple, and others were conspiring to avoid competing for talent (and thereby driving pay up) [1]. It was roughly Facebook not being part of this scheme that started driving salaries up. A few years ago the popular story was that people were switching jobs because their compensation had been inflated by massive share price increases (ie you are promised x shares vesting over 4 years at sign on with refresher grants, but the value of x shares goes up a bunch over those years) and they wanted to maintain their high realised comp even though shares were no longer rising as much. The only way for that to happen was engineers getting paid very well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-22 22:14:10+00:00
He's been experimenting with clamps, he has one for the fretless guitar section of the guitar-ukulele.

As for the electric quadro- or octo-bass the variables you can tweak are:

* length * mass/length * tension

There's some limit to how long you make the strings or you can't play it or otherwise you need something to extend your reach like the levers on the octobass. The other two are inside a square root which is not in your favor. Probably the easy thing to do is find some really heavy strings for a normal bass and see how low you can get the tension.

But really he's the one to build things. Back when I was in physics they kept trying to get me to do experiment rather than theory, if I have any regret it is that if I had studied experiment I'd be able to build all the things that my son wanted to build but, hey, he can build those things now.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-22 22:15:22+00:00
This isn’t for chewing gum on the Subway. It’s for a specific kind of scofflaw activity that no society would tolerate were it not for the presumptive shield of goodness that surrounds drivers in this country.

Having grown up in the city and gone to a public school where over half of my peers had asthma from the heavy truck route next to our playground, I welcome any kind of financial realignment between drivers (especially commercial drivers) and their behavior.
by cauch | 2025-06-22 22:15:48+00:00
I guess tax incentives feel strange because it feels a bit like a thing the government needs to do because of bad behaviors.

As you say, the situation would be 100% identical if the government was receiving directly the tax and then buying these things directly. So why don't they do that? Because people with money will find ways to dodge taxes anyway. Tax incentives is basically admitting that people with money are selfish and cheaters, and that we need to "play their game" to achieve what they should normally and ethically do if they were not detrimental to society.

Interestingly enough, if the person would have paid their taxes normally and that this money would have been used for a government project, then the probability of success would have been higher (I know some government projects are really mismanaged, but so was this one anyway), because the government would have been in better position to 1) get experts opinions/supports, 2) understand the rules and regulations, 3) synchronize different projects for a better complementarity.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-22 22:16:53+00:00
Indeed, I’m surprised to see it’s possible in Iran.

> The Legal Medicine Organization performs a number of tests, including at least six months of individual and group therapy sessions, interviews with family members, physical examinations, hormone tests, and chromosomal tests, in a process known as "filtering". Filtering is the separation of homosexuals, who are deemed "deviant", from transsexuals, who are deemed "curable" by undergoing surgery

Also, after further research, Iran is the only Muslim country in the Persian Gulf region that gives trans citizens the right to have their gender identity recognized by the law.

I don’t understand how such a country can be so open on trans right, but it’s really an exception in the world.
by LightHugger | 2025-06-22 22:17:13+00:00
DEI doesn't just "piss some people off", it's outright illegal discrimination and red hat's concequences are currently working their way through the court systems. This strange equivocation from things that are clearly on completely different levels is tiresome.

If you personally are one of these people who think hurting people with racial discrimination is on the same level as typing "Together we'll make X great again!" then you are likely very deep in ideological capture. Everyone regardless of political alignment who is a decent person should be able to see that one of these matters and the other does not.
by jmfldn | 2025-06-22 22:18:04+00:00
Depends what we mean by better. If you prefer rock music to Bach then great. Enjoy! I love popular music and classical for different reasons

But if we're talking skill, intellectual depth, craft, then there are objective criteria. Take Bach, his music is like a masterpiece of engineering with its unparalleled compositional complexity and craftsmanship. His mastery of counterpoint being but one example. His work represents a pinnacle of musical architecture, establishing foundational principles that profoundly influenced centuries of Western music.

That just doesn't compare to most pop music does it?
by andrewfromx | 2025-06-22 22:18:25+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VswFVpyg5ew

Another pilot agrees: this was software

"Boeing 787 to lose all AC electrical power due to generator control units simultaneously entering failsafe mode."

The aircraft computer uptime was 248 days. It needed to be rebooted. Yes, it that's stupid of a software bug.

A 2016 Airworthiness Directive requires "repetitive cycling of the airplane's electrical power system."

a Model 787 airplane that has been powered continuously for 248 days can lose all alternating current (AC) electrical power due to the generator control units (GCUs) simultaneously going into failsafe mode. This condition is caused by a software counter internal to the GCUs that will overflow after 248 days of continuous power. We are issuing this AD to prevent loss of all AC electrical power, which could result in loss of control of the airplane.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/05/01/2015-10...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/23/2020-06...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/02/2016-29...