MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by josh-sematic | 2025-09-15 19:28:31+00:00
The idea is that if something would have been a compile-time error (ex: using a method that doesn’t exist), but you don’t see that compile error because you don’t have a compiler, the error is still there. It’s just that you won’t see it until the associated code happens to run. Essentially the compiler can catch whole classes of bugs early on. Just because it’s annoying to be told your code has bugs doesn’t make that better than having bugs and just not being told.
by EnPissant | 2025-09-15 19:28:31+00:00
My experience with Codex / Gpt-5:

- The smartest model I have used. Solves problems better than Opus-4.1.

- It can be lazy. With Claude Code / Opus, once given a problem, it will generally work until completion. Codex will often perform only the first few steps and then ask if I want to continue to do the rest. It does this even if I tell it to not stop until completion.

- I have seen severe degradation near max context. For example, I have seen it just repeat the next steps every time I tell it to continue and I have to manually compact.

I'm not sure if the problems are Gpt-5 or Codex. I suspect a better Codex could resolve them.
by jmkni | 2025-09-15 19:28:37+00:00
My "gut" is regularly way off.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've been driving to work thinking "oh shit I suck at my job I'm defo getting fired" to then be told " You're doing a good job keep it up"

Other time I think I'm doing a good job when everyone is actually very pissed off at me
by pixl97 | 2025-09-15 19:28:55+00:00
>That they need to be allowed to scam someone else to avoid worsening their situation?

There are two levels of scammers here. One is the low level scammer that is directly interfacing with you. In these situations they are also victims that are being held by violence. Simply put if bad things happen to these people or not the scam will remain as this level is rather cheap.

The bosses will observe from a higher level based on the successful feedback and direct their efforts there, much like a spammer that calculates the return on millions and millions of sent emails.

To catch the bosses we need nation state/global level enforcement against said people. The problem is they quite often pay their local governments handsomely to protect against them.
by const_cast | 2025-09-15 19:28:55+00:00
Not this simple: for early career software engineers, 10% pay raise per year is pretty low. I would expect 20% per year if you move companies.

Can't really move companies easily if you're owning a home, ergo, about 10% potential loss per year over renting, not including the difference in investments you could achieve by having more liquid income w renting vs buying.

Buying DOES make sense. I think it almost never makes sense if you're early in your career. The ceiling is just too high to give up potential earnings that early. The closer you get to the ceiling though, the more sense buying a home makes.
by dsissitka | 2025-09-15 19:29:01+00:00
Some Typometer measurements on i3 here:

# Title Min Max Avg SD 1 xterm 397 3.1 4.0 3.5 0.2 2 Alacritty 0.15.1 3.6 4.8 4.2 0.2 3 xfce4-terminal 1.1.4 2.9 6.8 4.4 0.3 4 Ghostty 1.2.0 11.3 15.5 13.0 0.7 5 kitty 0.42.2 11.7 21.3 15.8 3.3

https://imgur.com/a/RobYTWY
by 827a | 2025-09-15 19:30:07+00:00
I do feel that one of the interesting things to happen to software in recent years is how most super-popular native applications (most of those developed by Apple) have nosedived in quality, while web applications have done a tremendous job maintaining their quality. Many web experiences are now superior to native experiences, certainly due to nosediving native quality, but also I suspect because the web has always standardized on one stack, HTML/CSS/JS, and we get to reap the benefits of 30+ years of startlingly stable infrastructural consistency.

This is what happens when the same hyper-smart people get to chip away at n% annual performance gains in V8 for 20 years. Apple, on the other hand, pushes major UI system refactors every ~10 years, disrupting all the hard-fought stability and optimizations that have been made to that point. Microsoft pushes new ways to build UIs, it seems, even more often.
by joecool1029 | 2025-09-15 19:30:31+00:00
> I see. So if I'm understanding correctly, then this policy serves as a kind of "legal ground" from which the maintainers can take action against perpetrators, right?

They aren't government and it's not that bureaucratic. As with any group, if you break the guidelines/rules they just won't want to work with you.

> To add a bit more context, when I was writing the original comment, I was mainly thinking of first-time contributors that don't have any track records, and how the policy would work against them.

No matter what, somebody has to review the contribution. First time contributors get feedback, most of them correct their mistakes and some go on to be regular contributors (like me). Others never respond, and still more others make the same mistakes over and over again.

On the topic, Gentoo has projects like GURU where users can contribute new packages that maybe aren't ready for main tree or where a full developer wouldn't be interested, it's a good place to learn if interested in working towards becoming a developer: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GURU
by xp84 | 2025-09-15 19:30:40+00:00
> things Apple seem to care about in these review

Yes! It's so glaring the difference between how they position App Review in court or in marketing materials, which is always about quality and safety, and how it is used in practice 99% of the time, which is "Does it pose any threat to an Apple business model?" (e.g. Spotify isn't a threat as long as it's hobbled by paying 30% App Store tax that Apple Music doesn't have to). XBOX Game Pass was a threat because they don't want games being sold where nobody has paid Apple a cut for each game.

"You wouldn't want finding apps to be as much of a minefield as downloading programs off the Web used to be, would you?" they say. "Our curation is the only reason you are safe from malware on an iPhone!"

It only takes a search or two on either "App Store" to see that they have no problem with apps whose business models could not possibly succeed without deception, such as simple calculators or wallpaper image catalogs with $19.99 weekly subscriptions after free trial.

It's interesting to me that Apple have been pioneers in two separate areas:

1. sandboxing and permissions, which arguably they have done a B+ job at. Not as fine-grained as Android in most ways, but better at what it does do than anything else for consumers.

2. App Store gatekeeping.

They want us to believe their platforms are only secure because of #2 but I think they're pretty darn secure just because of #1 and #2 has basically no relevance due to how lax they are about the things that I care about, which is basically scams and knock-offs.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-15 19:31:11+00:00
The public was sold early on the idea that if you bought a personal computer you could write your own programs and games for the thing and up until now that's more-or-less been a kind of convenient half-truth. What's, "the market" when people really can command their computer interface to do, "what they'd like it to do?"

I see it as a correction rather than deflation. We proved the shitty salesman of the 70s and 80s right. The computer really can be a bicycle for the mind; whether or not that bicycle actually fucking goes anywhere is still left to human wills.
by whstl | 2025-09-15 19:31:34+00:00
Do you really need to bribe?

The review process from my POV is totally capricious, one can have the shittiest B2B Ionic website-wrapper app that management pushed an intern to do and they will not even login and just slap a LGTM. Have seen dozens of those go through when working with consultants.

The only thing they seem to care about is funnelling money to ApplePay and not having references to the competitor we shall not name.
by epistasis | 2025-09-15 19:31:45+00:00
What do you mean by long stretches? Are you talking about sundown to sunset?

In many (most?) areas, wind picks up at night, wind can't really be "local", and demand is lower at night time so that's a great use for the grid.

Also, batteries are getting so cheap that people are putting multiple days' worth of storage on wheels, driving them around, and parking them at home during the evening peak and overnight.

When they are that cheap, adding 10-20 kWh of local storage is going to pay for itself in no time.

When my neighbor is overproducing solar during the day, that means that he's sending his power over to my house, which doesn't have solar. Which means that my neighborhood is pulling down less peak power. And the grid is sized for peak power, not for minimal power, so whenever that peak is lowered, it saves me money but costs the utility profits.

Because the utility gets to recoup a fixed profit rate off of any amount of grid they are allowed by the PUC to install, whether it was needed or not. My neighbor, with the solar, also pays lots of fees for the privilege of sending me power and requiring less grid.

This effect of shaving the peak is so extreme that solar causes the California duck curve. Though the storage that's been added in just the past two years has pretty much solved any problems needed for the evening ramp as the sun goes down, now.
by apparent | 2025-09-15 19:31:46+00:00
Well, that's moving the goalposts a bit. This strikes at the core of FIRE's work, and even though the ACLU has backed away from free speech a bit in recent years (based on the possible impact the speech would have on other priorities for the ACLU), I think in this case that would not be a limiting factor for them.

These organizations have tons of money and can bring on outside counsel to supplement their own. Also, merely having them on record as defending you would go a very long way in settlement negotiations. The bigger practical hurdle is knowing they exist in the first place, if you're affected. Presumably a quick chat with an LLM would point someone in their direction though.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-15 19:32:02+00:00
Sorry, I screwed up and misread what you wrote- primarily, a simple "we can do way better than 30mpg." And theres not a lot in the way of wiggle room to debate with any integrity the amount of CO2 burning a set quantity of gas produces. A couple percentage points for NOx and friends and thats it.

I am confused why everybody mentions emissions though. In a discussion on paper/plastic/reusable bags, in a response to a call for napkin math for a claim of "10,000 bags from the fuel needed to get to the store" (essentially the argument made)- CO2 isn't relevant: just the mass of the gas used to get to the store.

I'm not pleased with how this turned out. to be told I'm wrong? That's fine, its the internet. I'm disappointed and alarmed with how badly wrong the suggested corrections are... it's deeply frustrating for me as well.
by jjcm | 2025-09-15 19:32:21+00:00
I implemented an encoding pipeline for AV1 for vids uploaded to my social news site (think reddit competitor except I'm extremely small fry). I eventually removed the code for it.

While the space savings and quality improvements are good, the encoding speed is an order of magnitude slower than using h264/vp9. In the end the user experience of causing people to wait significantly longer for an AV1 encode wasn't worth the tradeoff. To fix the user experience problem, I still had to encode a h264 version anyway, which kinda defeats the point when it comes to space savings. You still get data transfer improvements, but the break even point for when the encoding costs offset the data transfer costs were around 1000 views per min of video encoded, and as an average I'm far below that.

IMO there's a reason why YouTube only encodes AV1 for certain videos - I suspect it's based off of a view count. Past that point they trigger a AV1 encode, but it isn't worth it to do all videos, at least right now.

Worth keeping in mind I was looking at this ~2 years ago, so things may have evolved since then.
by Zak | 2025-09-15 19:32:38+00:00
> The “you can’t outlaw math!” crowd are kind of right but that argument assumes free and unencumbered end user devices, which, as crazy as it sounds, might not be a given in the particularly awful dystopian futures available to us right now.

That future is already here for the substantial number of people who have only iOS devices. Even in the EU where Apple is forced to allow alternate app stores and direct installation of apps, the apps must be signed with a key that Apple can revoke. Google seems to be planning something similar for "certified" Android, and some important apps refuse to run on any other kind of Android.

I'm disappointed so many smart people in the tech world participated in this corporate power grab.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-15 19:32:55+00:00
If you're going to do that, then the new thing must be so much better than the old thing that makes the pain of switching to the new thing worth while.

By the time h.265 encoding was trying to gain traction, h.264 encoding speeds were very fast. The image improvement was negligible with the main benefit being smaller file sizes. For the average user, the increased encoding times did not justify that. The switch from MPEG-2 to h.264 had very noticeable quality improvements so it did make it worth while for the slower encodes until h.264 was locked and key code included in CPUs. It was similar to the adoption rates of DVD from VHS compared to Blu-ray from DVD.
by jncfhnb | 2025-09-15 19:33:10+00:00
No, that’s entirely incorrect reasoning.

Does genetics influence intelligence? Yes. Does genetics influence race? Yes.

Does that mean that race is a _material_ driver of differences in intelligence? No. That just doesn’t follow at all. Every difference between groups is statistically significant at some obscene sample size but the claim in question here is about whether it is _material_ and important. That is not at all clear. Nor is intelligence the only thing that this applies to. There’s a basically infinite list of human traits, competencies, and capabilities for which race-affiliated genetic advantages alone is pointlessly small in terms of effect.
by billbrown | 2025-09-15 19:34:00+00:00
What an odd response! I never mentioned ICE so I suspect you're arguing against someone else.

The 40% "wasted sunlight" doesn't have a cost—sure, yes, kind of besides the point—but it also generates no electricity. That efficiency is further compounded by reductions in incidence by latitude, cloud cover, and time of day. The diminishment thus could be quite serious on any given panel or farm.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-15 19:34:24+00:00
I miss those innocent days in the early 2000's when Microsoft was still evil but the internet's non-ubiquity meant they couldn't realistically expect to force this kind of thing on their users.

Reality is really in a bad place when kids who grew up listening to Franz Ferdinand are nostalgic for Windows Vista. It's like a Slovenian nostalgic for Tito.
by x0x0 | 2025-09-15 19:34:34+00:00
They're also currently nakedly taking bribes from hardware manufacturers to force upgrades to Windows 11, creating a wave of completely unnecessary hardware purchases. I'm trying to figure out how to help a nontechnical parent run a bypass install to avoid throwing a perfectly fine laptop in the garbage.

It's so necessary to the functioning of Windows 11 that it can be bypassed and Windows 11 works fine. Sure...
by jm__87 | 2025-09-15 19:34:57+00:00
Personally, I find how I spend my time outside of work has a big impact on how motivated and productive I am at work, regardless of how meaningful my work tasks are. Obviously basic things like sleep, diet, exercise are important, but I have also found that spending too much time on things like video games, streaming shows/movies or social media really leaves me feeling depleted and unfocused during work hours. The more I avoid screens outside of work hours, the more productive I am during work hours when I have to look at a screen.
by thechao | 2025-09-15 19:35:06+00:00
I don't know about 43kWH/5400$. But, here's the system I've been looking at:

https://www.expertpower.us/products/10800w-50kwh?_pos=2&_sid...

That's 50KWH of battery, plus the 10.8KW of solar, inverters, etc., all for $17K. That system is microgrid (not grid following) capable; so, you can run it during a blackout. The switchover is pretty good, too, so you don't need a second backup system.
by AstroBen | 2025-09-15 19:35:09+00:00
The main gist of this seems to be that other frameworks beat React on performance.. but who cares? The speed difference in 99.99% of apps is one that no-one can perceive

React trades this very minor performance hit to give us better developer clarity through a functional paradigm. This makes complex state management much easier to manage

A better article could've been written for this title. I just don't care about improving renders by 3ms when it's already fast enough

I think the reason React won, and is still top dog, is that improvements to performance at this point aren't worth it if you have to give up something beneficial
by other8026 | 2025-09-15 19:35:46+00:00
As someone else pointed out, it's not just the comment. There's context you're either ignoring because it's inconvenient for you, or you don't know because you couldn't be bothered to learn more about it.

The video is harassment content, plain and simple. It's filled with disinformation and he lied about not using GrapheneOS moving forward. The developer was swatted multiple times, then when upset with Rossmann he tried to talk to him about his support for harassment content (the swatter was a fan), and instead of being a decent human being, Rossmann made a video of it while it was happening.
by 6SixTy | 2025-09-15 19:36:13+00:00
AV1 is really one of those things born out of internet providers (e.g. Google, Amazon) put together so they can deliver content more efficiently with their bandwidth without needing to deal with a complicated web of royalties in addition to paying said royalties. There's plenty of people using AV1 or it's image format but don't realize it.

Also, video encoding pretty much always comes with the tradeoff of more efficient = uses more processing power
by theologic | 2025-09-15 19:36:25+00:00
While I don't want to dismiss your living through something, nor your wife's work history, by 2002, a lot of this had transitioned.

I have a weird career where I was inside the door of Apple supplying tech in the early 90s, then worked in the PC industry, then returned to spend time inside of Apple as a supplier. I never had personal interactions with Steve, but the people I would interact with would say things like "Steve made the decision."

In this time, I had responsibility for both marketing communications and engineering. (I know weird.) In my Marcom role, we looked at market data on advertising, and worked with figures like Larry Light--who is well known specifically for branding, and we asked him to help us in branding for the PC industry.

I am not going to say that all my observations are right, but I will tell you that this is a field that I specifically worked in, and I have time inside the walls of One Infinite Loop.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-15 19:37:52+00:00
As someone who spends most of my time remoted in to other machines, it's very hard to give up the deep tmux integration on iTerm 2, but I do cast a wandering gaze at Ghostty now and then. I know some people think tmux is a dead-end so if an alternative ever really gains traction I could be convinced to switch.
by xp84 | 2025-09-15 19:37:54+00:00
What problem? It's not my problem if my employer is screwed after my generation retires. That's the shareholders or owners' problem. The people making 2-10x my salary upstream of me in the org chart are being paid that presumably because they have such greater wisdom and foresight than I do. If I'm the CTO or have very significant equity, maybe I'll talk about restarting hiring of juniors. Otherwise I'll just sit and wait for the desperate consulting offers. It'll be like the COBOL boom in the late 90s.

Note: That isn't my retirement plan, but it'll just be a fun source of extra money if I'm right.
by synergy7 | 2025-09-15 19:38:44+00:00
It may be immaterial whether we call Culture a utopia or a dystopia. I haven't studied Banks' works in exhaustive detail, but the impression I got is that people in the Culture can do almost anything, because none of it matters. And if it did matter, they may have no agency to do that. So the Special Circumstances could have been created to accommodate people who want at least an impression of some agency (while - from a vague memory of one of the Culture books - chasing successfully a list with what turned out to be coordinates of all stars in a region of space).

I got thinking about this aspect of Culture starting with a broader premise - are there works where humans arrive at higher levels of human-embedded intelligence as a species or in a more limited scope as individuals? While describing higher levels of intelligence may be impossible, I find it curious science fiction doesn't appear to have too many attempts at that. Some of Vernor Vinge's works come to mind, but even there humans appear to be about the same as at present.
by mhashemi | 2025-09-15 19:38:55+00:00
Thanks! Yeah, far-flung plans for integrations. Currently I'm getting way more mileage out of letting other products do the integrations for me. I.e., I use Monarch Money and just upload the screenshots to FinFam which parses out the balances.

I helped build the first version of Stripe's Financial Connections product and while the alumni credit is tempting, I'd like to delay using it as long as possible... Too many error conditions and it's not like planning calls for that level of precision anyways.
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 19:39:01+00:00
> You've watered down the concept of predictable consequences to the point of uselessness.

No, I have not. There are plenty of situations in which something can be called a predictable consequence, and where doing so is useful.

> Why are you choosing this semantic hill to fortify? What value does it bring?

It brings the value of clear communication, and respect for the English language. I believe strongly that words should have a coherent meaning.
by timr | 2025-09-15 19:39:10+00:00
> Fascist is a very concrete definition, as it is a comparison to a concrete existing historical movement.

If, by "very concrete definition" you mean "party name invented by Mussolini" [1], then yes. Otherwise, absolutely not. I can't tell from your comment which you're trying to imply.

Using the word in reference to a modern political movement is essentially just a lazy, dumb way of flinging a slur that invokes someone bad in history.

[1] Per Britannica: "[Mussolini] took the name of his party from the Latin word "fasces", which referred to a bundle of elm or birch rods (usually containing an ax) used as a symbol of penal authority in ancient Rome."
by dylan604 | 2025-09-15 19:39:47+00:00
> Perhaps even worse, it prevents the US form acquiring the construction skills to work on this on our own in the future. We are getting extremely far behind on a crucial technology for renewables at the population centers for northern latitudes.

nah, we'll just give out Halliburton style no bid contracts to companies owned by vice presidents. they've got plenty of practice pouring mediocre concrete pads underwater. at least when these let go, they won't spew oil
by hackingonempty | 2025-09-15 19:40:00+00:00
React (and Elm and the many other inspired frameworks) is a beautiful model for writing apps but because it is not the browser's model it is an instance of the "Inner Platform Effect" anti-pattern. The performance is never going to be as good as embracing the built in features of the browser and using minimal JS to accomplish the interaction you need.

Maybe it can be justified for real apps like desktop apps but the vast majority of web pages that use React could probably provide a better experience to users without it.