MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by taneq | 2025-09-18 02:11:13+00:00
There's a similar issue with the old ASUS ROG laptops, my old 17" 2017 one had a higher CPU throttling curve than the GPU, and they shared a heat pipe, so with the CPU at 100%, the GPU would throttle hard and slow games down. The solution was to drop the max CPU down to 90% or something, barely noticeable loss in CPU performance in exchange for a full speed GPU.

(Why did I get another ASUS? Well, after the throttling issue was fixed, the 17" was a beast, it survived dozens of mine site commissioning trips, tons of abrasive iron ore dust, and having a 2" ring spanner dropped on the keyboard (which left a nasty dent but the keyboard still works!). It's still going as my kid's gaming laptop, battery life is now only a few minutes but while plugged in it's fast enough for most modern games. And my partner had just bought a 13" Zephyrus and it was really nice and we hadn't noticed any issues with it.)
by mer_mer | 2025-09-18 02:11:30+00:00
Yes. In some ways I'm responding not just to the text but the subtext: I've repeatedly heard a line of argument that seems to say that AVs won't help city-dwellers and therefore they are not worth investing in. I'm saying both that city-dwellers are not the only people and that AVs will soon come in new forms that will help city-dwellers as well.
by Spivak | 2025-09-18 02:11:39+00:00
I genuinely don't understand this from a business perspective. They were getting money, then they jacked up the price to a degree that all but guarantees they will lose them as a customer. Sure it's small potatoes but they could have done like 30 seconds of research to see if the customer even has the means to pay before strong-arming them and getting nothing.

Honestly just a heuristic that says any company simply on principle would rather leave than eat a 4000% price increase.
by koyote | 2025-09-18 02:11:45+00:00
There's a couple reasons I disagree with you on this (at the moment; as given enough time I am sure C# will also jump the shark):

* The above is just applying an existing (useful) feature to a different context. So there isn't really much learning needed, it now just 'works as expected' for assignments and I'd expect most C# engineers to start using this from the get go.

* As a C# and C++ developer, I am always excited to hear about new things coming in C++ that purportedly fix some old pain points. But in the last decade I'd say the vast majority of those have been implemented in awful ways that actually make the problem worse (e.g. modules, filesystem, ...). C#'s new features always seem pretty sound to me on the other hand.
by plantwallshoe | 2025-09-18 02:12:14+00:00
My trick lately has been to allow myself to do nothing.

If I don’t want to do the task, that’s fine. I’m allowed to sit at my desk and do exactly nothing for as long as I want. No hackernews, no snack breaks, no bill paying, no online shopping, etc. I just sit there and do nothing.

Eventually the thing I need to do becomes the most interesting thing in my orbit and I do it. Sometimes I sit there for 15 minutes doing nothing before the task I don’t want to do becomes interesting enough.
by suzdude | 2025-09-18 02:12:31+00:00
>We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it

Mr. Kimmel does not assert Mr. Robinson was "MAGA". Simply that the, "MAGA gang" is trying to distance themselves from Mr. Robinson.
by acdha | 2025-09-18 02:13:14+00:00
They’re really cool and some people depend on them but working on apps which rely on them has had me thinking about e-waste and cost. Some people have devices which are old but still perfectly functional except that they’re falling out of driver & security support, and many blind people don’t have tons of cash sitting around to replace them. I really hope that the tech industry finds a better model for things like that which are so important to everyday life.
by boxed | 2025-09-18 02:13:24+00:00
We ran Mattermost at a previous job and it was the best tool I've used for corporate use. It had an extremely useful feature where you could put a flag on a message and that flag was shared for everyone. We used it to keep track of which questions were answered in the suppor channel. With their API I plugged this into an internal tool so all developers could see how many open questions there was.

Their "threads" feature was also great: it was just like replies in Discord (all go into the channel) but you could open up the thread to get it isolated. Worked way better than slack replies which just devolve instantly into you losing all track and messages can't be found again.
by junar | 2025-09-18 02:13:29+00:00
I really wish this post had more details.

How was the price computed? If Slack charging per user, how did this organization have so many users? Why is their new provider more favorable in pricing?

If Slack was previously offering a nonprofit discount, what happened to it? Did they decide that this organization was ineligible, or are they shutting it down in general?
by Philpax | 2025-09-18 02:14:56+00:00
I'd be the first one to buy these if they weren't made by Meta. I've wanted a pair of smartglasses for a very long time, and these seem like the first viable pair in terms of capabilities - aside from the thickness, which I can live with.

Unfortunately, Meta, and Zuckerberg, have been involved in far too much malfeasance. I just can't ethically justify buying a product from them again. I'm hoping that viable competitors become available, but it's going to be hard to compete with Meta's investment, especially on the HCI front.
by flunhat | 2025-09-18 02:15:01+00:00
For whatever reason, Salesforce has failed to capitalize on the AI excitement/craze [1]. Its earnings growth is just not what it used to be (i.e. during the peak cloud era of 2010s-202x).

A move this aggressive (e.g. pushing companies on Slack to pay 10x more, immediately, or get lost) is not isolated and probably the result of institutional forces. It's not like the random sales person in charge of this decided to be destructive. Salesforce the company is getting squeezed and this is one of the outgrowths of that pressure. And it speaks to the insane dysfunction that must be taking place in the bowels of Salesforce right now, I'm sure it's crazy.

[1] https://qz.com/salesforce-beats-q2-earnings-ai
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-18 02:15:46+00:00
Yes they still show up in masks and black outfits at events in particular cities (Portland and Seattle in particular), disrupting others’ legal activities, and intimidating people (for example by holding cans of pepper spray in their hand and shaking them), or committing outright violence.

I’m not sure how you haven’t heard of them since “before COVID”. They were far more active post COVID and George Floyd. You can find lots written about their activities online, and lots of videos as well.

Andy Ngo has done a great job documenting this. I’m sure someone is going to respond to my comment with character attacks on Andy Ngo but his journalism is solid. He wrote a book about Antifa (https://www.centerstreet.com/titles/andy-ngo/unmasked/978154...) and also has a lot of content on his website (https://www.ngocomment.com/)
by ajross | 2025-09-18 02:15:57+00:00
> It’s a view counter. People want to know how much it was watched

That's emphatically not what people "people want". People want to get paid. And creators get paid based on views.

So... per the upthread point, paying people based on views that actually generate revenue seems fairer and more optimal, no? If YouTube can't make money from your content, why do you expect them to pay you for it?
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-18 02:16:04+00:00
I’m saying the sequence of events was that Nexstar’s voluntary actions, which they shared their justification for, immediately led to broader ABC action, which they pretty much had to before other groups of stations did the same and turned it into an embarrassing moment for Disney.

As for Carr - he is staunchly in support of first amendment rights. Politico wrote about this yesterday since he split from the rest of the GOP on broader censorship (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/16/fcc-brendan-carr-so...). He also can’t take unilateral action - the commissioners would have to vote. But the FCC has a lot of content rules for the mediums they regulate, which have thus far held up in courts (although I find it questionable). In that sense, what he was suggesting may be legal (unfortunately).
by gus_massa | 2025-09-18 02:16:11+00:00
Thanks. I missed it.

I really dislike that, because it hides the control flow too much. Perhaps I'm biased by Racket, where it's easy to define something weird using macros, but you should not do unexpected weird things.

For example you can define vector-set/drop that writes a value to a position of a vector, but ignores the operation when the position is outside the vector. For example

(vector-set/drop v -2 (print "banana"))

With a macro is possible to skip (print "banana") because -2 is clearly out of range, but if you do that everyone will hate you.
by magicalist | 2025-09-18 02:16:34+00:00
In fact, the affiliates are exactly who Brendan Carr threatened:

> “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

> Carr suggested that the FCC could pursue news distortion allegations against local licensees.

> “Frankly I think it’s past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney, and say ’We are going to preempt — we are not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out,’” he said. “It’s time for them to step up and say this garbage — to the extent that that’s what comes down the pipe in the future — isn’t something that serves the needs of our local communities.”

(for those that don't know, ABC doesn't have an FCC license, broadcasting stations (affiliates) do, so that's exactly who he's using his unconstitutional leverage over)

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-...
by andrewstuart2 | 2025-09-18 02:16:53+00:00
It's not distorted so much as it is relative to value. But that's not for tech, it's just for business in general. If you can make an extra $500k because you spend $250k, and there's not a better way to spend that money, then it makes sense to spend the money as long as you can afford it (or borrow it).
by thrwaway55 | 2025-09-18 02:17:04+00:00
I feel the main difference is cars can't compress time in the way an array of computers can. I could win this competition with an infinitely parallel array of random characters typed by infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters instantly since one of them would be perfectly right given infinite submissions. When I make my tweet I would pick a single monkey cus I need infinite money to feed my infinite workforce and that's more impressive clearly.

Now obviously it's more impressive as they don't have infinite compute and had finite time but the car only has one entry in each race unless we start getting into some anime ass shit with divergent timelines and one of the cars (and some lesser amount of horses) finishing instantly.

To your last point we don't know that this was cheaper since they don't disclose the cost. I would blindly guess a mechanical turk for the same cost would outperform at least today.
by randyrand | 2025-09-18 02:17:06+00:00
Wow, Slack does not allow business customers to export their chats. WTF. Found this:

"Workspace Owners can apply for Corporate Export. This lets you export all messages (including DMs and private channels), but only if your company has legal or compliance requirements and Slack approves the request. Once approved, exports are scheduled and delivered automatically."

So they have the tech built, you just aren't allowed to use it. Who would use this piece of garbage?
by theamk | 2025-09-18 02:17:32+00:00
the pictures are real nice, but writeup is severly lacking. There is no discussions of parts / design decision whatsoever, and the most interesting thing is outright incorrect:

> The unique dynamic power delivery can be understood as "peak 60W, stable 40W," intelligently adjusting output power based on the device’s needs.

"intelligently adjusting output power based on the device’s needs" is what _every_ power supply does, that's how electricity works. If there is no device connected, there is no power output from the supply. If devices appears and draws some power, power supply supplies it. It's true about every battery and every household power supply.

The real innovation is that when charger gets hot, it somehow signals the device to draw less power... but there is zero indication of how this is actually being done.
by leoh | 2025-09-18 02:18:22+00:00
Man, screw slack. WebKit also runs (ran?) on slack and because no one has been willing to foot the bill, search is significantly truncated. I tried reaching out to their sales team and several individuals there to see if they could do something to help -- after all, for crying out loud, WebKit is sine qua non for Slack and all I got was nonsense.
by drdaeman | 2025-09-18 02:18:38+00:00
> Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eyeballs and you.

They wouldn't do this if the conversation is important to them. Not as much as one would glance on a smartwatch when they get a chirp, which, I believe is perfectly socially acceptable in most business/casual situations.

And if they do it's nothing new - it's a literal equivalent of talking to a person deep into their phone. Exact same audiovisual media consumption - just a different form factor and display technology. Or, in a pre-phone era, a newspaper.

I don't think this technology introduces anything new to this issue.
by hopelite | 2025-09-18 02:18:57+00:00
Frankly, not having an alternative identified for all hosted corporate services and maybe even at the ready with regularly maintained deployment and transition plans is and long has been reckless at this point.

Think of it, this example alone is a $250k risk and it seems from this point forward that $250k risk is significantly high and the impact is major, considering there’s a short decision fuse on the extortion.

Would you be ready to retain data; set up, deploy, transition, restore, and scale alternatives to Slack within a week or your institution be forced to pay such blackmail/extortion?
by HappyTeam | 2025-09-18 02:19:38+00:00
Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) can be a powerful way to boost model performance, but setting it up is usually complex. I integrated several popular RFT algorithms into my system so it’s possible to run interactive RFT with very little code. Curious if others here have tried RFT in production, and what approaches you’ve found useful.
by suzdude | 2025-09-18 02:20:18+00:00
> Most leftists despise their parents[sic] politics.

And do you have a source on that? Anecdotally, most "leftists" I know have left leaning parents. But it's up to the person to define if they are or are not "leftist", because it's a rather narrow, small minded world view that has to define things in those terms.

> None of this suggests a rightward leaning of the culprit himself.

Nor does it suggest his leftward leaning. Maybe it suggests why he used violence as a means to enact social change on the world.

edit:spelling
by allenu | 2025-09-18 02:20:23+00:00
That's an interesting idea. If, for instance, there was a window of time for people interested in a show to come together to discuss the latest episode (assuming the episodes aren't just dropped all at once), then I think it would be an interesting place to visit since everyone is there for the very same reason and there's something of interest that happened recently that would focus the discussion.

I will say I did visit the site months ago and found that just hanging out with random people wasn't that compelling to me. In the early days, it was fun because it was new and there was a lot of energy, but after that, you really do need something to bring you back day to day.
by jnaina | 2025-09-18 02:20:43+00:00
This is beginning to mirror the evolution of the Smart Phone.

The Apple Vision Pro is AR glasses at the Apple Newton evolutionary stage, an early smart PDA (Yes I'm the sucker that bought both at their respective launch, 3 decades apart).

The Meta Ray-Ban Display is AR glasses at the Windows Mobile/Blackberry stage.

Apple will likely swoop in and launch the final refined version of the AR glasses (thin, 8 hour battery, eye gaze control, retina based authentication, tethered to the iPhone, Apple AI, etc), when the tech is available at a decent price point for mainstream launch.

And yes, being the unrepentant Apple FanBoi, will be buying the Apple iGlass at the launch.
by sandy_coyote | 2025-09-18 02:21:02+00:00
I talk about this topic with my (childless) wife quite a bit. Reasons we postulate:

The rent is too damn high

It takes longer into adulthood to achieve stability

Porn brain

Phone brain (24/7 infinite entertainment)

Dating apps are not delightful

The pandemic led some people to stay in for good

Loss of third places (rent too damn high again)

Tight job markets lead to reluctance to bring kids into the picture

Healthcare is more expensive every year

American individualism diminishes multi generational family support structures after a generation

A long tail of other causes: drugs, gun violence, obesity, losing one's religion, growing up with divorced parents
by gwbrooks | 2025-09-18 02:21:21+00:00
It was more than interesting 100+ years ago -- it was the subject of wildly inconsistent, often fear-based (or incumbent-industry-based) regulation.

A vetoed 1896 Pennsylvania law would have required drivers who encountered livestock to "disassemble the automobile" and "conceal the various components out of sight, behind nearby bushes until [the] equestrian or livestock is sufficiently pacified". The Locomotive on Highways Act of 1865 required early motorized vehicles to be preceded by a person on foot waving a red flag or carrying a red lantern and blowing a horn.

It might not quite look like that today, but wild-eyed, fear-based regulation as AI use grows is a real possibility. And at least some of it will likely seem just as silly in hindsight.
by armada651 | 2025-09-18 02:21:22+00:00
I'm not saying that you shouldn't spend such a large sum when it makes sense and I'm definitely not saying that a distorted perception of money is limited to tech.

However the value of money is quite absolute, it's dictated by the exchange rate after all. If $250,000 is nothing more than "pretty big", then your perception is either quite distorted or the rate of inflation is much more severe than I understood it to be.
by hypeatei | 2025-09-18 02:21:40+00:00
> As for Carr - he is staunchly in support of first amendment rights

Right, because he said this on a conservative podcast:

Hours earlier, FCC Chair Brendan Carr told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that Kimmel’s comments were “truly sick,” and that there was a “strong case” for action against ABC and Disney. “This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

"easy way or the hard way" sounds pretty staunchly against the first amendment to me and more like a fascist thug.
by userbinator | 2025-09-18 02:21:46+00:00
IMHO "allow" is a rather moot term, when you already have access. Their API is surprisingly well-documented; when I worked at a place that used Slack, I had a logger hooked up to a local database, which was very useful when their not-quite-search failed to give any results for a comment that you and others very clearly remember making.
by AvAn12 | 2025-09-18 02:21:50+00:00
Use cases: 1: FPV "how-to" videos are marginally easier to make, though GoPro remains a thing...

2: Users get to look like the nerd emoji

3: The rest seems like creepy-spying-on-friends-or-strangers kinds of things. Any constructive suggestions? I'm willing to be enlightened...
by amarant | 2025-09-18 02:22:07+00:00
Unless I'm missing something tho, zulip seems to be exactly the same? That is, it's a SaaS with no oss software, no self hostable alternative. Only difference is they haven't hiked their prices......yet.

At this point anyone looking to avoid a price hike like the one described above should probably consider something they'll have more control over.

I'd probably go with my own Mastodon server if I was a company that needed any such communication tool. I'm sure there are other alternatives out there too
by cman1444 | 2025-09-18 02:22:07+00:00
I agree that rail still wins on the capacity front by far. I was just pointing out that self driving cars should offer some improvements over the current state of traffic.

I don't think that walking for 30 minutes is "no issue". Of course at airports you have to walk 30 minutes because those are a special case, and you have no other option. Also, trips to/from the airport do not make up a large portion of the average person's trips.

A better and more common example would be going to a friend's house or grocery store. Compare:

Home>self driving car>destination

Home>bus>train>bus>destination (with likely higher amounts of walking between each)

Admittedly the car performs much worse our traffic score, but cars are essentially point-to-point which I think is a huge advantage. Additional advantages include privacy and cargo space.

Like it or not, our built environment has been made for cars. Metros still offer value for high density areas, but for the huge number of Americans that live in suburbs/exurbs, self-driving cars are the answer.
by realityfactchex | 2025-09-18 02:22:13+00:00
Since you're a nonprofit that teaches coding, it could be a great time to consider self-hosting a FOSS chat tool.

Suggestions: Campfire [0] or Zulip [1].

Also, if the data in chat is being held hostage, the org might be using chat wrong. Right tool for right purpose. If starting over, perhaps consider if it would make sense to put that documentation or whatever it is that will get "lost" from Slack into a wiki or repo or other appropriate tool?

Big empathy, though. It must be pretty crushing. But that is why serious geeks have long been for FOSS.

[0] https://once.com/campfire (recently became FOSS) [1] https://zulip.com
by Gigachad | 2025-09-18 02:22:30+00:00
I recently bought an electronics magazine for the first time in many years. Initially I flicked through and considered the articles in it kind of boring. But I think it’s just the absolute oversaturation of attention grabbing content online frying my brain.

The fact that you just have to read these medium form articles since that’s all there is for the month kind of resets your brain from just flicking through a million YouTube shorts.

Despite being Gen Z, our house wasn’t hooked up to the internet for most of my childhood and I remember spending ages analysing every single detail in the magazines I got. While now I have to actively avoid getting distracted and pulling out my phone.