MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by plorkyeran | 2025-09-24 04:36:21+00:00
The path to BG3 existing involved people at WotC playing D:OS 2 and then convincing their bosses that they should partner with Larian. Everyone involved in that on the WotC/Hasbro side subsequently left the company while BG3 was in production, and their replacements are much less favored towards Larian.

BG4 will almost certainly happen, but by some other studio.
by thoughtpeddler | 2025-09-24 04:37:27+00:00
I think that's a passing artifact of the current phase of AI development we find ourselves in. Capabilities (note how I'm not saying 'model intelligence', as I think various agentic flows and robust scaffolding/harnesses can lead to capabilities growth that goes beyond model intelligence plateauing) will continue to improve such that 'beginners' will gain greater and greater leverage.

If by 'marginal AI user' you mean a user who leverages AI tools to enhance the marginal utility of their labor or tasks (by making them more productive or efficient, broadly defined), then I do think that user archetype definitely exists.
by Fezzik | 2025-09-24 04:37:45+00:00
Liberals I know are very aware that political affiliation doesn’t change your sexual preferences. We are just amused and saddened that the side that is continuously attempting to overturn gay marriage and openly believes that anything other than heterosexual relationships are immoral and an affront to god has so many practitioners of beautiful, homosexual love.

Charlie Kirk was certainly a proponent of heterosexual-only marriages: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/e9HCz5wkDiY
by mg | 2025-09-24 04:38:22+00:00
There also is a random button on the Music-Map that jumps to a random band:

https://www.music-map.com/info

From running the music discovery websites Gnoosic and the Music-Map for years now, and doing a lot of experiments, my experience is that the chance of someone liking a truly randomly selected band is very low. Less than 10%. But hey, trying 20 random bands and finding one interesting one can be worth it.
by mattmanser | 2025-09-24 04:38:42+00:00
I get that on windows when there's no enough space on my disk to install a whole other copy of the game being patched.

So for BG3, if you don't have 150Gb free on your disk, steam will download it on a different disk and then transfer it over, thrashing you disk.

It's bizarre, incredibly annoying, behaviour and I wish it would just ask so I'd know that was about to happen and just clean up some space. Or refuse the upgrade.

But steam want to force upgrades on users before you can play anything, which for single player games is incredibly frustrating. I get why they do it, but it's another one of those things where you feel like you aren't in control of the thing you paid a lot of money for.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-24 04:40:32+00:00
> IMO we need to teach kids how to identify misinformation in school.

This is extremely difficult. Many of the people who thrive on disinformation are drawn to it because they are contrarian. They distrust anything from the establishment and automatically trust anything that appears anti-establishment. If you tell them not to trust certain sources that’s actually a cue to them to explore those sources more and assume they’re holding some valuable information that “they” don’t want you to know.

The dynamics of this are very strange. A cluster of younger guys I know can list a dozen different times medical guidance was wrong in history from memory (Thalidomide, etc), but when you fact check Joe Rogan they laugh at you because he’s a comedian so you can’t expect him to be right about everything. “Do your own research” is the key phrase, which is a dog whistle to mean find some info to discount the professionals but then take sources like Joe Rogan and his guests at face value because they’re not the establishment.
by maltalex | 2025-09-24 04:41:35+00:00
Interesting read, and some interesting ideas, but there's a problem with statements like these:

> Sean proposes that in the AI future, the specs will become the real code. That in two years, you'll be opening python files in your IDE with about the same frequency that, today, you might open up a hex editor to read assembly.

> It was uncomfortable at first. I had to learn to let go of reading every line of PR code. I still read the tests pretty carefully, but the specs became our source of truth for what was being built and why.

This doesn't make sense as long as LLMs are non-deterministic. The prompt could be perfect, but there's no way to guarantee that the LLM will turn it into a reasonable implementation.

With compilers, I don't need to crack open a hex editor on every build to check the assembly. The compiler is deterministic and well-understood, not to mention well-tested. Even if there's a bug in it, the bug will be deterministic and debuggable. LLMs are neither.
by toomim | 2025-09-24 04:41:43+00:00
You are still ignoring the arguments.

Casualties are a sad fact of war. But it's not genocide because Israel's doing everything it can to save the civilians while combatting Hamas. If genocide was defined by the number of deaths, would you say that the US was genocidal against germany during WW2? We killed 3 million civilians to defeat the Nazis.

Good luck in your bubble.
by whs | 2025-09-24 04:42:14+00:00
I had that with MHW and I nailed it down to shader (fossilize-replay - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Fossilize).

From my guess, Steam support Vulkan shader pre-compilation so that you don't have to wait in game (like the infamous 10 min Monster Hunter Wilds startup delay). They also seems to also be able to download the compilation cache from Steam if someone already have done the process on the same GPU + driver version. Since fewer Windows games use Vulkan this feature is often not used, but on Linux most games will run on Vulkan (esp. Proton games with dxvk) you may experience the process more often.
by tjopies | 2025-09-24 04:44:04+00:00
There are hundreds of these operations at any one moment in time, some more legit than others (voip dial backs, short message farms for scammers) not sure why they are making this out to be the end all and be all of this type of things. Telcos have the ability to lock these down pretty quickly using proximity of devices alone, but the almighty dollar is more important ;)
by userbinator | 2025-09-24 04:44:19+00:00
For bleeding hydraulic brakes, which operate on a similar principle, the normal procedure is to open the bleeder valves on the slave cylinders and vigorously pump the pedal, refilling the master as necessary, until the fluid coming out of the bleeders is free of bubbles. Vibrating the lines won't do anything since the air bubbles fill their entire inside diameter.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-09-24 04:44:34+00:00
They tightened the purse strings regardless of bg3.

WOTC were completely dysfunctional over the last few years and it nearly destroyed d&d.

- They tried to build their own bg3, except it was a VTT that they could fill with microtransactions, but they didn't know what VTTs needed to actually be used. They just thought: "Build something that we can nickle and dime all the users of"

- The new "backwards-compatible" edition that de jure isn't a new edition, but with the power creep is a de facto new edition.

- The OGL fiasco that shattered the community content creators who decided to attempt to make their own games "with blackjack and hookers". (e.g. daggerheart, dc20, draw steel, tales of the valiant, dragonbane, shadowdark, ) and bring their communities along to try the new games (including older offshoots like pathfinder 1e/2e, lancer, 13th age, etc...)

Imagine how much money they've had to pay their major community members (critical role, dimension 20, etc...) just to keep them playing the d&d branded games.
by DengistKhan | 2025-09-24 04:44:36+00:00
I haven't watched the video, but if it's "funny video featuring Pokémon" and not "Direct parody of Pokémon", then fair use/parody might be a losing defense. I assume in this case it's not a direct parody of Pokémon, but instead a promotional video or propaganda video that features Pokémon with humorous intent.
by stretchwithme | 2025-09-24 04:45:10+00:00
AI is useful to people who read and understand the answers and who would have eventually come up with a similar result on their own.

They have judgement. They can improve what was generated. They can fix a result when it falls short of the objective.

And they know when to give up on trying to get AI to understand. When rephrasing won't improve next word prediction. Which happens when the situation is complex.
by zekrioca | 2025-09-24 04:45:29+00:00
> Load balancing

> Pingoo currently load balance requests and connections between upstreams using the state of the art random algorithm.

When will user-personalized policies and some useful default (e.g., round-robin) be added?

This seems like a project with great potential, but there are many features that need to be added. A nice simple load-balancer that follows similar philosophy: https://gobetween.io/index.html
by itake | 2025-09-24 04:45:50+00:00
for personal projects, I am leaning heavily towards golang for all things, because the langauge never changes.

I'd rather spend my limited time developing features, not updating the code to the latest node/python/pip/uv/yarn/framework version.

If I don't maintain the code, upgrading is way harder, b/c trying to figure out which dependency works for what version of what framework/language is a nightmare.
by int_19h | 2025-09-24 04:46:07+00:00
> And for example in the case of Russia there's clearly widespread support for Putin and his war so I'm not really expecting nor calling for them to do anything about it. I'm just saying I hold them responsible

Yes, there is widespread support for Putin and his war - but by this very reason, how can Russians who do not support Putin and his war can be held responsible for it? What do you expect this minority to do, exactly? You can't hold people responsible for not doing something if you can't even articulate what that something is is.

Your entire argument is premised on the notion that there's a coherent "them". But that is virtually never the case, even in popular dictatorships.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-24 04:47:07+00:00
Something I've noticed is LLMs seem to be able to answer questions on everything, in quite a lot of detail. But I can't seem to get them to actually do anything useful, you basically have to hand hold them the entire way to the point they don't really add value. I'm sure there is plenty of research in to this, but there does seem to be a big difference between being able to answer questions, and actual intelligence.

For example I have some product ideas in my head for things to 3D print, but I don't know enough about design to come up with the exact mechanisms and hinges for it. I've tried the chatbots but none of them can really tell me anything useful. But once I already know the answer, they can list all kinds of details and know all about the specific mechanisms. But are completely unable to suggest them to me when I don't mention them by name in the prompt.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-24 04:48:09+00:00
Your last point is a fair one. Maybe I should.

I don't really want to continue debating the other points, but I will say one last thing. There's a difference between caring about the language/ecosystem/community, and caring about the drama introduced by certain individuals. I care very much about the former, and I believe the latter to be an unhelpful distraction rather than something to be "solved". But that's just me.

And just to clarify: when I say "who cares", I was talking about some of this drama in the past, egos and whatnot. I am _not_ talking about what just happened now with RubyCentral. I consider that to be a serious problem with real-world consequences that go beyond disputes/differences of opinions. It's no way to handle OSS and treat maintainers. It does put a bad stain on RubyCentral, which is unfortunate.
by onecommentman | 2025-09-24 04:48:46+00:00
“Learning how to deploy A.I. in the medical field, Rodman told me later, will require a science of its own. Last year, he co-authored a study in which some doctors solved cases with help from ChatGPT. They performed no better than doctors who didn’t use the chatbot. The chatbot alone, however, solved the cases more accurately than the humans.”

A couple decades ago, the same study was done with chess grandmasters and chess programs. The chess programs + grandmasters scored worse than the chess programs alone.
by zeven7 | 2025-09-24 04:49:04+00:00
I believe having Trump as president exacerbated many, many things during that time, and this is one example. He was quick to start blaming the "Chinese", he tried to turn it into a reason to dislike China and Chinese people, because he doesn't like China, and he's always thinking in terms of who he likes and dislikes. This made it hard to talk about the lab leak hypothesis without sounding like you were following Trump in that. If we had had a more normal president, I don't think this and other issues would have been as polarized, and taking nuanced stances would have been more affordable.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-09-24 04:49:49+00:00
Swift! It actually has a pretty big server community, Vapor and Hummingbird are both great frameworks, Apple has been replacing some of their Java services with it, it's open source and cross platform and Apple seems serious about making it viable on Linux, which it is. No need for Xcode, it has an open source LSP and first class VSCode plugin.

Plus it's a fun language to write. Some people say it's a nicer, higher level Rust.

I also like the look of Kotlin but I've never used it. I think Kotlin and Swift are the two premier modern multi-paradigm languages.
by int_19h | 2025-09-24 04:49:57+00:00
Russia also has such alternatives.

Turns out that they aren't all that hard to develop once the original is unavailable, since lock-in is the main barrier to entry. In this sense, sanctions can sometimes have the opposite effect - by removing the established players from the market, they create opportunities for locals to fill the niches, making the country more self-sufficient in the long run, and thus harder to influence.
by tgma | 2025-09-24 04:50:49+00:00
If you want to really argue this, you need to bring out specific claims one by one, as many have been either fake or overblown, or misattributed to SAVAK (acknowledged by the terrorists who taken over and are in charge now.) But in general, I do not believe it was anything out of the ordinary of the statecraft employed by the US or Britain in the Cold War era or arguably even the Bush era. In fact, post hoc, it is obvious they were too soft, as they released all these terrorists in the wild and let the country taken over. It is a failure of SAVAK and the security apparatus.

So yes, I would unequivocally argue to any extent the intelligence apparatus was actually operating, not only golden era objectively justifies those measures, but even for lots of the troublemakers themselves, turns out letting criminals loose to take over the country actually makes things worse; many of such Marxist-terrorists who claimed they were mistreated under the old regime were treated much much worse, or lost their lives, during the first years of the Mullah regime.
by HocusLocus | 2025-09-24 04:50:53+00:00
I sit here in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again. So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment."

~Anonymous, Datalinks.
by sigttou | 2025-09-24 04:51:39+00:00
I've been using alacritty [0] for a while now. Really happy with it. I prefer it over the Windows Terminal, as it feels faster for me. I run a single instance with WSL on the desktop and use tmux for multiplexing. Executing powershell inside tmux isn't an issue. If I need an elevated shell, I use gsudo [1].

[0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

[1] https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-24 04:52:27+00:00
Beware the rise of religious extremism on the right. Kirk seemed to value free speech and libertarian values in life, which is easy to agree to. But many on that “side” are twisting his movement (or revealing it) to be a religious one - including his wife in her recent statements. Lawsuits like this one in Kansas are anti free speech, anti freedom, and based on puritanical moralizing. And as always, these attacks on freedom are framed as being good for kids.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-24 04:52:52+00:00
> If you force Google alone to amplify certain speech then what competitive advantage does a less censorious service provide?

If that's the only "advantage" another service has, I don't care if it has no competitive advantage. If it offers anything else then that's the advantage.

Seriously this idea is super weird to me. There are plenty of reasons to avoid too much regulation. But "don't force company X to make their users happier because happy users won't leave" is a terrible reason.

>Define “suck less”. Now ask yourself if you are comfortable with someone you completely disagree with defining what sucks less.

A big part of the "if" is that people are making their own evaluations.

> You’re talking about antitrust

I am not talking about antitrust. I'm saying that the bigger and more powerful a corporation gets the further it is from a human and human rights.

> Compelled speech is an erosion of the first amendment. You may think that erosion is acceptable but you can’t deny it exists.

In this case, barely at all, and it's the same one we already have for common carriers.
by pryce | 2025-09-24 04:53:33+00:00
Might be the allegations such as those made by David Farrier this August[1]

> Then, last month, Substack sent out a push notification to some users of the Substack app encouraging them to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter. Like, full-Nazi stuff. Not subtle:

followed by a screenshot of a Substack profile full of swastikas describing itself as news for the "National Socialist and White Nationalist Community"

[1] https://www.webworm.co/webwormisleavingsubstack/
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-24 04:54:36+00:00
In cricket, yeah, the umpires can ask for the review themselves.

Sometimes it isn't really clear, like, if the ball is caught very close to the boundary line, given the size of the field, it can be tricky for the umpire to tell if it was caught over the boundary, representing the difference between the current batsman being caught out (meaning either the next batsman has to come take his place - assuming there are any of the 11 left) or adding 6 runs to his team's tally.

Some of the most memorable cricket games have had such situations.

It also adds some suspense to games as everyone waits on umpires to review data to make their call.
by ksec | 2025-09-24 04:56:30+00:00
If we ignore coding or tech industry for a min. Other companies Keep demanding new Report on certain things, and AI is doing that. Is it productive? probably not. But do execs loves it? Yes.

In a non-start up, bureaucratic companies, these report are there to make cover ups, or basically to cover everyone's ass so no one is doing anything wrong because the report said so.
by thirdacc | 2025-09-24 04:57:18+00:00
It honestly sounds like OP got the answer to her question but refuses to accept it. I guess there's also Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome, but there's not a lot of research into how it differs from just inattentive ADHD and no real effort has been made towards finding treatment besides stimulants and atomoxetine, so she might as well go with ADHD as the answer. That's the answer she's been given twice by professionals but rejects it, and she rejects even trying the treatment for some reason.
by bcardarella | 2025-09-24 04:57:18+00:00
You may be correct, but the rate of change in baseball is glacially slow compared to the other sports. One of baseball's intrinsic values is it's legacy, tradition, and history. Some may scoff at that, and I think there are good arguments against legacy/tradition as a reason to withhold change, but there are a lot of people out there that believe this. The MLB Commissioner's have largely been tasked with protecting that tradition and history.
by esperent | 2025-09-24 04:58:59+00:00
My feelings go up and down, as they have for all human beings throughout history.

However, they trend down especially when I spend a lot of time on social media or news sites, including HN.

To put it another way:

Emotional state without "the internet" = varying around a general background of contentment.

Emotional state with "the internet" = varying around a general background of discontentment.

This is unrelated to current political events, which I view as an overcorrection to the state of unhealthy and extreme political correctness that we were falling into a few years ago (wokeness).

Now the pendulum is swinging the other way, towards an unhealthy and extreme focus on race and social differences, glorifying in political incorrectness (anti-woke).

It'll swing back again in a few years. Just how far it will go before then is impossible to say, but it's not something I can control and therefore shouldn't affect whether I enjoy life, since I'm lucky enough to not be directly affected, for the most part.

But if I go on the internet for hours every day and focus on it, it surely will make me feel terrible!

On the other hand, I want to stay informed and connected. Some amount of discomfort is acceptable to accomplish that. The trick is mindful use of the internet, and I'm afraid I don't always succeed there, when I have a distraction machine in my pocket all the time.
by int_19h | 2025-09-24 04:59:27+00:00
That's not sanctions, that's just warfare.

And yes, if US and EU were serious about helping Ukraine win, this would have already happened back in 2022. Or better yet, back in 2014.

As it is, US & EU sanctions seem to be more of a theater mostly for the benefit of the population of those countries, so that their politicians can sincerely say that they "support Ukraine".
by metalman | 2025-09-24 05:00:35+00:00
Allowing ransom payments is likely a sign of oblivios honesty from the government and insurance companys concerning the roots of there organastions bieng essentialy the same as ransom, or exactly the same, very precisely exactly the same,as international prisoner exchanges,plee deals,fines,permits,tolls,fee's,taxes,interest,customs duties,tarrifs.

pay, or else
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-24 05:00:36+00:00
> They have already committed the money now having to justify it.

As someone who has been in senior engineering management, it's helpful to understand the real reason, and this is definitely not it.

First, these AI subscriptions are usually month-to-month, and these days with the AI landscape changing so quickly, most companies would be reluctant to lock in a longer term even if there were a discount. So it's probably not hard to quickly cancel AI spend for SaaS products.

Second, the vast majority of companies understand sunk cost fallacy. If they truly believed AI wouldn't be a net benefit, they wouldn't force people to use it just because they already paid for it. Salaries for engineers are a hell of a lot more than their AI costs.

The main reason for the push from the top is probably because they believe companies that don't adopt AI strategies now and ensure their programmers are familiar with AI toolsets will be at a competitive disadvantage. Note they may even believe that today's AI systems may not be much of a net benefit, but they probably see the state of the art advancing quickly so that companies who take a wait-and-see approach will be late to the game when AI is a substantial productivity enhancer.

I'm not at all saying you have to buy into this "FOMO rationale", but just saying "they already paid the money so that's why they want us to use it" feels like a bad excuse and just broadcasts a lack of understanding of how the vast majority of businesses work.