MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by margalabargala | 2025-08-24 17:14:33+00:00
> I'm not comparing to fossil fuels, so it's not really relevant.

If you're comparing solar + wind to not(solar + wind), then either you're mainly comparing to fossil fuels, or discussing a world that doesn't exist.

Sure, you like nuclear. You can say "oh, well, if we snap our fingers and magically have the world be different than it is, then nuclear would outperform solar".

Magic doesn't exist, and if you take two people in any country and task them with adding 5GW of reliable generation, one person with nuclear and the other with solar + battery, solar + battery will achieve that goal faster and cheaper every single time, in every country on earth.
by softwaredoug | 2025-08-24 17:14:43+00:00
Exactly. Solar / wind on land, on private property rarely needs Federal approval

Even stats I find are from a friendlier permitting regime. And now I bet all the money will be poured into projects not needing federal approval.

And we might hope something good comes out of the nuclear this admin wants to build. The US has a lot of room for approval there.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-08-24 17:15:14+00:00
For gameplay, your explanation isn't totally wrong, but it's not totally right either. Deadlock is a MOBA, so yes, there's more to it than fighting other players. Sometimes team fighting or ganking is the right answer, sometimes farming or pushing objectives is the right answer. It depends on the current state of the game, and your own hero/play style.

Personally, I love that kind of depth and complexity, and I would hate for Icefrog to listen to the people pushing for the game to become more simplified and Overwatch-like. We already have Overwatch and Rivals for people who just want to fight all the time, but there's nothing really like Deadlock that combines MOBAs and hero shooters with the mechanical depth that Deadlock has -- especially when you factor in the movement tech.

> There's just no way imo that will ever be successful in an FPS/shooter. It might work for MOBAs, but I think the idea of a MOBA-first shooter is just never going to get much traction beyond a niche.

It's definitely a risky play in some sense, but arguably less risky than engaging a pure MOBA or pure hero shooter directly, since those have already well established, polished entries. That there's nothing really like Deadlock out there is one of its big advantages, if you like Deadlock's gameplay, there's really no alternative.
by Profan | 2025-08-24 17:15:42+00:00
The part of this that always confuses me is like nobody's aware gamejams exist, this has been a thing long before the LLM craze and people have been producing decent games on very limited timespans already, but people are forgetting how insanely high the bar is now, LLMs do not even remotely begin to fix the problem of your competition being incredibly stiff.

Just look at something like ludum dare and all the top entries (out of thousands of games submitted) are all usually quite polished given the timespan.
by sheepolog | 2025-08-24 17:16:01+00:00
As a Steam-based game developer, I am starting to use AI more and more in new projects for asset generation (images and text) as well as some help with code. Here are some of my ideas for why we haven't yet seen a huge increase in steam game releases due to AI:

1: Even with AI, it's a lot of work to make a full game. When most people think "I have a cool game idea", they're usually imagining something polished and non-trivial, possibly 3d. You could make a short text adventure in a few days with AI, or a very simplistic 2d game, but anything more ambitious (like 3d) is going to take a lot more effort.

2: Releasing on steam requires you to pay $100. I imagine this is a substantial deterrent for "3-day projects", unless you think it'll sell $100 worth.

3: There's more to game development than creating assets and writing code. The author of the article recreated an existing game, which sidesteps one of the most difficult parts of gamedev: design. Creating a compelling game is surprisingly difficult. Granted, you don't need a compelling game in order to release on steam, but I myself have made many prototypes over the years which I've abandoned because the idea just wasn't as interesting as I thought it would be.

4: I've made a few prototypes with AI assets, and one issue I frequently run into with image generation is: it still takes a fair amount of work to generate the same character in different poses, facial expressions, outfits, etc.

5: There is still considerable prejudice against using AI to make game assets. I think some people (myself included) are hesitant to release a game with lots of AI generated assets at the current moment, for fear of public backlash. Eventually that will calm down and it will become more socially acceptable to use AI to generate game assets.

I am bullish about AI improvement over the next decade, and I think we'll gradually see all of these issues resolve themselves as AI improves. But at the present moment, it's not quite as easy as the article makes it seem.
by arcticbull | 2025-08-24 17:16:02+00:00
> Nuclear power is irrelevant in our energy systems today.

I dunno, it's been producing 20% of US power for decades. Same as renewables. Seems relevant.

> For the nuclear supply chain we still have not been able to sanction the Russian industry.

12% come from Russia. [1]

> So now suddenly we are hand wringing about rare earth extraction consequences. You seem to change topics faster than I can follow.

I feel like environmental implications are relevant to discuss, and I think the topic is relevant.

> You do know that the uranium supply is also extremely nasty?

Sure, but you need very little of it due to energy density, and reprocessing is a viable alternative as demonstrated by France. They have a 96% recovery rate. [2]

> And now suddenly seawater extraction did not matter?

It didn't matter in my original post either which is why it's under "if we're being pedantic."

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/where-our-uraniu...

[2] https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-t...
by mattbuilds | 2025-08-24 17:16:13+00:00
I’m sorry but the difficult part of making games isn’t the coding, it is making something that is appealing and enjoyable to play. An LLM isn’t going to help with that at all. How is it going to know if something is fun? That’s the real work.

Also the idea that a dev who could making a game in 24 hour would create something professional and polished in 3 days is a joke. The answer to “where are all the games” is simple: LLMs don’t actually make a huge impact on making a real game.
by charleslmunger | 2025-08-24 17:16:34+00:00
>EXTRA synchronous is like FULL with the addition that the directory containing a rollback journal is synced after that journal is unlinked to commit a transaction in DELETE mode. EXTRA provides additional durability if the commit is followed closely by a power loss.

It depends on your filesystem whether this is necessary. In any case I'm pretty sure it's not relevant for WAL mode.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-24 17:17:40+00:00
> Battery storage is a toy, it won't cover a prolonged (can last multiple weeks over vast geography) winter-time dip in wind plus solar.

I love how the talking point has switched from "storage can't even cover an hour" a couple of years ago to now apparently having trouble with "multiple weeks". How quickly reality shifts.

When we're talking about emergency reserves, because that is what you are trying to paint as the end of the world, then who the fuck cares where it comes from?

Having that problem means that close to 99% of our entire energy system is renewable. The final piece is trivial to solve with synfuels, biofuels, hydrogen or whatever when it is deemed necessary.

In the US the ethanol produced used as a gasoline mix in etc. is enough to run the entire grid without any other energy source for 16 days.

That is trivially repurposed as our car fleet is switched to BEVs.

Or just use whatever aviation and the shipping industry settles on as they decarbonize.

> or, more sensibly, nuclear baseload.

This tells me you don't have the slightest clue how the grid works and are reasoning backwards from attempting to justify a trillion dollar handout to the nuclear industry.

Take a look at France. They generally export quite large amounts of electricity. But whenever a cold spell hits that export flow is reversed to imports and they have to start up local fossil gas and coal based production.

What they have done is that they have outsourced the management of their grid to their neighbors and rely on 35 GW of fossil based electricity production both inside France and their neighbors grids. Because their nuclear power produces too much when no one wants the electricity and too little when it is actually needed.

Their neighbors are able to both absorb the cold spell which very likely hits them as well, their own grid as the French exports stops and they start exporting to France.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-08-24 17:17:54+00:00
Like so many things it depends on the use-case...

If you are gaming... than high core count chips like Epyc CPUs can actually perform worse in Desktops, and is a waste of money compared to Ryzen 7/Ryzen 9 X3D CPUs. Better to budget for the best motherboard, ram, and GPU combo supported by a specific application test-ranked CPU. In general, a value AMD GPU can perform well if you just play games, but Nvidia rtx cards are the only option for many CUDA applications.

Check your model numbers, as marketers ruined naming conventions:

https://opendata.blender.org/

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/multithread/

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Best of luck, we have been in the "good-enough" computing age for some time =3
by Timwi | 2025-08-24 17:18:42+00:00
I have not seen any evidence of either. We have no way of knowing if we are “definitely” a true general intelligence, whether as individuals or as a civilization. If there is a concept that we are fundamentally incapable of conceptualizing, we'll never know.

On top of that, true general intelligence requires a capacity for unbounded growth. The human brain can't do that. Humanity as a civilization can technically do it, but we don't know if that's the only requirement for general intelligence.

Meanwhile, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. Both as individuals and as a global civilization we keep running into limitations that we can't overcome. As an individual, I will never understand quantum mechanics no matter how hard I try. As a global civilization, we seem unable to organize in a way that isn't self-destructive. As a result we keep making known problems worse (e.g. climate change) or maintaining a potential for destruction (e.g. nuclear weapons). And that's only the problems that we can see and conceptualize!

I don't think true general intelligence is really a thing.
by agwa | 2025-08-24 17:19:44+00:00
This is what the documentation (https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous) says about EXTRA:

> EXTRA synchronous is like FULL with the addition that the directory containing a rollback journal is synced after that journal is unlinked to commit a transaction in DELETE mode

So it only has an effect in DELETE mode; WAL mode doesn't use a rollback journal.

That said, the documentation about this is pretty confusing.
by digianarchist | 2025-08-24 17:20:18+00:00
There are a lot of extra steps the UK government can take beyond the fines:

> In the most extreme cases, with the agreement of the courts, Ofcom will be able to require payment providers, advertisers and internet service providers to stop working with a site, preventing it from generating money or being accessed from the UK.

They’ve done this before (various piracy websites are blocked by ISPs).

The criminal liability of senior managers could cause travel headaches too.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-24 17:20:33+00:00
Russia is also not engaged in a direct war with Europe yet we still sanction them because they are by proxy, similar to Israel: Israel's actions in Gaza are creating waves of refugees that Europe has to take in, and then we have the potential terrorist attacks by those people as revenge for Europe's military aid to Israel who see Europe as partly to blame for destruction of their home country.

Israel definitely should be sanctioned till it stops its war crimes because doing nothing will directly affect us.
by erulabs | 2025-08-24 17:20:34+00:00
Well at the time (and this is still largely true), people were very insistent on ACID compliance in databases. Obviously this made sense of many applications, but became a bottleneck at huge scale. Being able to be eventually consistent became a golden feature. It was worked around by using eg read replicas in production, as SQL replication breaks the Correctness in favor of the Availability. Kafka’s “acks=1” is part of the story yes, but simply writing events to be eventually processed also accomplishes “dropping correctness”.

Native support for dropping correctness in SQL is tricky, see Transaction Isolation Levels, but I mostly mean in overall web architecture, rather than specifically in one database or the other.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-24 17:20:47+00:00
The flip side is that "accountability" often results in people redirecting a disproportionate amount of effort towards covering their own asses. To the point that it results in worse outcomes.

An accountable person isn't encouraged to make the best decisions. He's encouraged to make the most defensible decisions. And Goodhart's law is in full force there: "defensible" and "right" end up at odds quite easily.

Which is why certain systems introduce a lack of accountability on purpose. Ranging from Google's "blameless postmortems" and to the way the accountability of the police or the jury is reduced when they are carrying out their duty.

Systems that don't have this engineered in? When things go wrong, and when the most "defensible" course of action leads to something terrible, they can only hope to have someone with the balls to "take responsibility" - put himself at a great risk and do the right thing, damned be the consequences.
by djsdjs | 2025-08-24 17:20:58+00:00
Thanks!

For internal part numbers, are you wanting to assign internal part numbers for components (like connectors, etc.) used in an assembly or an internal part number to the assembly itself?

An internal part number for the assembly is coming soon, but the internal part numbers for individual components is not something that's planned right now.

Currently, all wires in a bundle (all wires between the same two connectors are part of a bundle) are forced to have the same length. Do you want to override that?

The connector graphics are not currently exported to WireViz YAML, so you'd have to re-link them manually with your own image file. The ability to download a zip with the graphics included is in the works.
by reify | 2025-08-24 17:21:12+00:00
I for one am very pleased to know this.

I have been having trouble sleeping, worrying about this matter.

It finally gives me an answer as to why there are so many ugly people in the world.

I mean, look at Trumpy boy and his side kicks. Definitely Neanderthal blood coursing through those veins.

The Neanderthal weren't exactly the stone age beauty influencers of their time. they were ugly mothers.

My concern is why a Homo sapien would want to sleep with an ugly brute like a Neanderthal.

It doesnt make sense to me!

Was it male Neanderthals sleeping with female Homo sapiens. Or male Homo sapiens sleeping with female Neanderthals? Its mind boggling just thinking about it.

Maybe they could waste some more money, and time, on more research, and will find more evidence over the next 100 years to add to what we have known for years and years.
by arpinum | 2025-08-24 17:21:36+00:00
This is popping up because SurrealDB was found to turn fsync off by default. But there are important differences:

- SurrealDB provides poor documentation about this default

- SQLite is typically run client side, while SurrealDB is typically run as a remote server

- SQLite is actually full sync by default, but distros may package it with other defaults - SurrealDB explicitly did this for benchmarking reasons (for comparison fairness) while SQLite distros turn off fsync for typically practical reasons as it's run pure client side.
by lucb1e | 2025-08-24 17:21:49+00:00
In case anyone else is wondering, it's this guy: "Since 2017, Loeb has argued that alien space craft may be in the Solar System [like] ʻOumuamua"

What I don't understand on his Wikipedia page is this bit in the second sentence: "Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University". Does he work there under the alias "Frank B. Baird Jr." or what does this sentence mean? Or is the position called one person but another person fulfills the role?
by conradev | 2025-08-24 17:21:59+00:00
This is perhaps my favorite one. By default, SQLite doesn’t actually delete data:

The default setting for secure_delete is determined by the SQLITE_SECURE_DELETE compile-time option and is normally off. The off setting for secure_delete improves performance by reducing the number of CPU cycles and the amount of disk I/O.

https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_secure_delete
by perihelions | 2025-08-24 17:22:29+00:00
You can read their paper here[0]. I agree it's very dodgy (and without even looking at that author's past). While the comet 3I/ATLAS approaches within 53 million km of Jupiter (0.3 au), all they can propose is, optimistically, to bring Juno to within half that distance–27 million km. Hardly seems worth the risks? And that'd end all of Juno's remaining Jupiter science (assuming the MAGA! FY26 budget doesn't get to it first. It's fully defunded, if anyone hadn't heard).

Referring to their figs. 3–7, that distance figure is a hard limit—there's no possibility they have of getting closer to the comet than that.

(Keep in mind this is just one random interstellar comet; there are many, many others like it—there will be infinite opportunities to study one—and Avi Loeb is a proven clown who consistently misrepresents these things for drama).

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21402 ("Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft")

Tangential remark: there was a similar proposal for the end-of-life of the Cassini orbiter—it didn't happen, but, there was enough delta-v for the theoretical option, of escaping Saturn and redirecting it to a second mission at Uranus[1]. It was also a dodgy idea, since the transfer time would have been ridiculous (~20 years)—it'd have been a long-shot for Cassini to have survived that long.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini_retirement#End_of_miss... ("Cassini retirement#End of mission options")
by Terr_ | 2025-08-24 17:22:34+00:00
The LLM is basically an iterative function going guess_next_text(entire_document). There is no algorithm-level distinction at all between "system prompt" or "user prompt" or user input... or even between its own prior output. Everything is concatenated into one big equally-untrustworthy stream.

I suspect a lot of techies operate with a subconscious good-faith assumption: "That can't be how X works, nobody would ever built it that way, that would be insecure and naive and error-prone, surely those bajillions of dollars went into a much better architecture."

Alas, when it comes to day's the AI craze, the answer is typically: "Nope, the situation really is that dumb."

__________

P.S.: I would also like to emphasize that even if we somehow color-coded or delineated all text based on origin, that's nowhere close to securing the system. An attacker doesn't need to type $EVIL themselves, they just need to trick the generator into mentioning $EVIL.
by arcticbull | 2025-08-24 17:22:36+00:00
> In the US the ethanol produced used as a gasoline mix in etc.

Just so we're clear ethanol produced from corn is almost the same carbon intensity as the gasoline, and it's worse for the climate when you factor in the land use changes. [1] The whole program was just a giveaway to corn farmers from the Dubyah administration. Even the rosiest image painted by the renewables industry association says it's 26% less carbon intensive (but they neglect land use). Ethanol is basically fossil fuel with extra steps.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-24 17:22:52+00:00
> Because their nuclear power produces too much when no one wants the electricity

With nuclear power, there's no such thing as 'too much'. It's economically optimal to produce flat out ("baseload") because continued production really is "too cheap to meter", as the saying goes. The cost is pretty much all in the plant itself, which is why a lot of research into next-gen nuclear is about building smaller and cheaper plants.

> But whenever a cold spell hits that export flow is reversed

Yes? That's how a "baseload" source works. And we should not pretend that intermittent renewable sources aren't going to have the exact same issue, only to a far greater extent (especially as they scale out to "99%" of the system). You can address this by not putting all your eggs in the intermittent basket.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-24 17:23:04+00:00
> I dunno, it's been producing 20% of US power for decades. Same as renewables. Seems relevant.

Which falls to 7.6% when counting the useful energy and not staring yourself blind on the electricity grid.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-stacked...

Like I said, irrelevant compared to the fossil fuel supply chain supplying 80%.

> 12% come from Russia. [1]

Of course ignoring the intermediary steps in the supply chain which Russia controls ~50% of. But Kazakh uranium being processed in Russia is Kazakh!

And this of course ignores that my main point was that Russia is the largest player in the global nuclear technological sector.

Like I said. The evidence is that Europe despite over 3 years of war in Ukraine still has not been able to sanction any part of the Russian nuclear industry.

> Sure, but you need very little of it due to energy density, and reprocessing is a viable alternative as demonstrated by France. [2]

And now we again "solve" nuclear power by saying that reprocessing works. Despite reprocessing producing massive quantities of nasty byproducts and more expensive Uranium.

Just make nuclear power even more horrifically expensive! No problem!
by londons_explore | 2025-08-24 17:23:06+00:00
Notable that nearly all cameras can be turned into a line scan camera if you can get your software low level enough to send commands to write the registers on the sensor.

You simply set the maximum and minimum readout rows to be 1 apart, and suddenly your 'frame' rate goes up to 60,000 FPS where each frame is only a pixel high.

You might have to fiddle with upper and lower 'porch' regions to make things fast too.

You must have the line along the long dimension of the image - the hardware has no capability to do the short edge.
by fsloth | 2025-08-24 17:23:13+00:00
I don’t get these arguments.

Just because LLM learned the entire internet does not mean it can’t 10x a developer.

Were all standing on shoulders of giants - LLM or no LLM. LLM gives you extra pair of ladders. That are wobbly for sure. But ladders still.

Using LLM invalidates nothing and the 10x stories are totally plausible.

The plagiarization argument is to me moot - most of us are plagiarizing previous work, weather we know it or not.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-24 17:24:07+00:00
arxiviq is a project ran by someone on substack. It's not the authors writing this. It's someone's project that takes papers from arxiv and posts them on their own substack. Probably with paid features later. don't forget to like and sub for my LLM type of thing...

Careful where you place your anger. You should not be angry at the people writing the paper.