MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-19 15:36:27+00:00
> Insurance saved the livelihoods of millions of people, sometimes many times over. Rebuilding houses, repairing equipment, covering medical expenses, or critical services. Sometimes they fail you.

This one always gets me. I've had 7 orthopedic surgeries in the past decade. I couldn't walk without a cane or tie my own shoes in 2016 and today I can skateboard, run marathons, and squat double my bodyweight. I've had my house flood from a burst pipe on the top floor, had my HVAC condenser struck by lightning, had a city dump truck crush my parked car. Insurance has saved my ass so many times that I could pay a hundred grand a month in premiums for the rest of my life and still come out ahead.

People are so headline fixated that they only ever see the claim denials and think that's all that ever happens.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-19 15:37:04+00:00
Looks like the major monthly "update" Tuesday this week reverted the setting in Edge under Profiles where if you haven't been actively signing in, you are signed into Edge automatically using credentials it may be able to find elsewhere, without any action from you, or apparently without any notification. Among other things.

Update turned it back ON by default.

Even if you found it and turned it off manually, another Edge update came in a couple days later and turned it back on again.

Just in case you intentionally turned it off, "somebody" probably doesn't want you to know if or when it comes back on. But in the author's case you can't help but notice anyway due to complete malfunction with no clues given as to why.

But that's not the first thing I noticed.

This time, beyond a doubt, nobody is getting updated faster than it was under Windows 98 dial-up, where we had download speeds and processor speeds orders of magnitude slower.

That's been looking pretty iffy a lot of times for a year or two, but now I think no matter how fast your fiber and how blazingly overclocked your processor, there are so many shipped defects needing correction that you're in for major delays like never before. It's just not as advanced in UX compared to when people were more advanced by comparison relative to the technology at their disposal.

There's also the factor of how busy your SSD and network have become, more & more occupied at all times with tasks useless to your own particular efforts, whoever thought piling a 3GB+ "update" on top of that was a good idea?
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-19 15:37:31+00:00
The problem extends far deeper than just FOSS for mobile and IoT. There isn't competitive OSHW. The entire pipeline for silicon hardware development (PCB dev is relatively easy) is virtually locked away behind gates that require identity and/or address verification, node-locked trial licenses or sometimes big license fees paid to one or more big 3 EDA vendors. And that's even before getting anywhere need talking to a fab.
by labcomputer | 2025-09-19 15:37:58+00:00
One of the oddities of California is that you frequently see shabby, cheaply constructed houses of no significance selling for millions of dollars.

That is because some mid-century developer built it as middle-class housing. A middle-class family moved in and had kids. They continued to live there while property values soared. So the kids grew up in neighborhood where all the houses cost millions of dollars.

I used to know an elderly coupled who lived in one of the nicer parts of Malibu. Both were school teachers. They bought the house when Malibu was cheap because of the "horrible" commute along scenic Highway 1 and the lack of sewers in Malibu. Before the fires, their house was probably worth over $10 million (thanks, prop 13!).

When they passed, the kids couldn't afford to keep the house (even with the feudal property tax system in California, which allows inheritance of low property tax assessments like some kind of medieval title of nobility) because the kids were also just normal middle class people.

So, to answer your question: In some sense, yes, almost by definition, the family of person you're responding to does have generational wealth (in the form of the house). But in a different sense, no, because it's quite likely that they have nowhere near the amount liquid assets implied by the phrase "generational wealth".
by vel0city | 2025-09-19 15:38:17+00:00
Median household income is like $83k. If you were in a median US household and you saved half of all your income every month into something that had a stable 4% return, in 40 years you'd have ~$4M. Not even halfway there.

You'd need a little over 9% of stable returns over that 40 year timeframe to hit that $15M target.
by jerojero | 2025-09-19 15:38:19+00:00
I use Android over iphone precisely because I'm free to install whatever apps I want.

With this planned change my reasons to ditch Android and go to Apple increase dramatically. Why would i want half assed google walled garden when I could get the Apple one?

Sucks for the people who can't afford an Apple device and honestly sucks for all of us who enjoyed installing all kinds of apps on our devices.
by feoren | 2025-09-19 15:38:28+00:00
> Eh, call me when your detector gives you back a complex number. Measurements return real numbers.

There are an uncountably infinite number of real numbers. 100% of them (but not all) are not computable, and cannot be written down or described. Measurements do not return "true" real numbers. Measurements return whatever the detector is designed to return. Digital measurements return binary floating-point, fixed-point, or integer numbers. Some measurements return "red" vs. "blue". Pregnancy detectors return "1 line" or "2 lines". All it would take for a detector to give a complex number is to design one that measures something that can be described as a complex number, and return it as a complex number. For example, a phasor measurement unit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor_measurement_unit

Should I call you?
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-19 15:38:29+00:00
That's the biggest regret; but I've backed 6 Kickstarter projects over the years. Median time to deliver is 1 year.

Somehow I've actually gotten every item I backed shipped at some point (which is unexpected).

Hardware startups are _hard_, and after interacting with a number of them (usually one or two people with a neat idea in an underserved market), it seems like more than half fail before delivering their first retail product. Some at least make it through delivering prototypes/crowdfunded boards, but they're already in complete disarray by the end of the shipping/logistics nightmares.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-19 15:38:38+00:00
But I think that's the problem: people don't look at subscriptions for news the same way as they look at a gym, for example.

People understand you gotta pay to go to the gym. News, on the other hand, you can get for free (give or take ads and tracking).

The gym question is "am I gonna use this?" The news question is "do I need this?" or "is this sufficiently better than the alternatives to justify the cost?"

Edit: and to touch on the "per-article" aspect, odds are that people might spend let's say ~$2/month with a publisher through article reads, but not $5/month for a subscription.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-19 15:38:45+00:00
> ...maglev trains that hit 430 km/h

That's only one short track, connecting a major airport not even straigth to downtown, but rather the outskirts of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train

And it isn't doing well, economically.

> Our movies should be set in Neo-Beijing.

Try 'Prodigy' corporate owned (one of the big five) New Siam, out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Earth

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_(TV_series) probably, too. But haven't watched that, so far.

No further complaints ATM. Just shrug?
by ricardobeat | 2025-09-19 15:38:46+00:00
All of the issues with reflow, layout invalidation, forced layout on property access, recalculating styles, which require careful solutions like batching change operations and optimized rendering strategies, will also affect anything operating on the DOM via WASM.

The point stands; maybe a faster VDOM can be built in a compile-to-wasm language, though the bottleneck will remain the browser's DOM API and rendering, not the language interpreter.
by theamk | 2025-09-19 15:38:47+00:00
Looks incomplete. I got intrigued by:

> Optional garbage collection. The standard library will work with or without the GC.

but the corresponding section in docs (Memory Management -> Optional Garbage Collection) returns 404 for me. And the other docs make it not clear.. for example "heap" section [0] makes no mention of how to deallocate things. And json stdlib [1] has many allocating methods which return "json_t pointer" and yet make no methods for de-allocation.

I wonder if when they say "The standard library will work without the GC" they imply "... but no objects will get de-allocated ever and memory usage will grow infinitely"

[0] https://scarlang-docs.pages.dev/heap/

[1] https://scarlang-docs.pages.dev/stdlib/json/
by glenstein | 2025-09-19 15:38:49+00:00
Musing on how a message will be subjectively experienced by users to the point of ruling out explanations based on an assumed subjective reaction, and assuming complex software development outcomes are tied to that specific strategy, is in fact about psychology on multiple levels, despite your protestation to the contrary. Specifically it's armchair psychology that underestimates complexity.

Most of my examples cut against your interpretation rather than in favor of. The 5 second delay was discovered rather than announced, and same with Newpipe breaking, and I don't even agree that the video message had anything to do with a broad principle of always tying communications to user experience. If anything the history is the opposite, rotating through various forms of obstruction all of which nudge user behavior in various ways, perfectly agnostic to any principle of how it gets communicated.
by yesfitz | 2025-09-19 15:38:58+00:00
Counter example: 12 Mini runs fine. Health-wise, it's got 22 GB free, and the battery was replaced in February, 2025.

I really dig the redesign. I've been suffering through flat UIs since at least 2013, so having some volume back is very welcome. I know we probably won't go back to skeuomorphism, but that'd be great. Metaphor in design is important. It's a shortcut to understanding. As it stands, I'll gladly take Liquid Glass's volume and distortion as a indicator of interactability.

But, I am a "harbinger of failure"[1], (12 Mini, right?), so maybe this won't be long-lived either.

1: https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopu...
by zamadatix | 2025-09-19 15:39:03+00:00
> I believe Youtube's player is driving codec selection, not the browser (i.e. the player requests a list of supported codecs and then picks the one most beneficial for Google, not the other way around).

The way the browser can still participate in choosing is by e.g. not listing AV1 as supported when there is no hardware decoder on the local system. Both Safari and Edge took (approximately) that style of approach, but it comes with the downside that if the server only has AV1 video then the client gets nothing.

Practically, that downside isn't a big deal until codec support is high enough sites start assuming the codec is just supported and they don't need to host alternative options.
by paulsutter | 2025-09-19 15:39:17+00:00
This is wonderful, occasionally the EU bureaucracy gets something right

Yes it’s good for customers, but it’s also good for vendors. They are no longer subject to this arbitrary and destructive pressure from investors, and may see a revenue increase as customers lower the bar for signing up

The right measure of ARR is statistical anyway. Just because a contract lasts for a year in no way establishes the contract as recurring. It has been a very arbitrary standard
by sigmar | 2025-09-19 15:39:26+00:00
I assume the other commentor is saying "it's a joke" that the courts are holding google to stricter rules as to how they operate because the OS is more open (in that third parties can run other browsers and software). Google is responding by locking their platform down to be more like apple's walled-garden, so they avoid future scrutiny. Ironically, anti-competition laws (as written) are encouraging google to perform anti-competitive practices because the courts would rather google control the entire OS rather than makes default-software-deals with third party device manufacturers.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-19 15:39:34+00:00
The government isn't worried about control, but economics.

Google verifying developer identities but not controlling distribution, satisfies all relevant economic considerations. If it was about not letting Google control Android, they certainly wouldn't be letting Google decide the development roadmap. (The $25 fee doesn't count - the government has no problem charging multiples of that for anyone who drives a car or wants an ID card.)

As for Apple, they still have their antitrust lawsuit ongoing. Apple v Epic was only the first fire.
by phkahler | 2025-09-19 15:39:34+00:00
Cutting products that don't have 50 percent margins seems like a bad choice when their goal should be filling their advanced fabs. Keeping that investment at or near capacity should be their goal. They said they'd have to cancel one node if the foundry business couldn't get enough customers, and yet they're willing to cut their own product line? Sure they need to make a profit, but IMHO they should be after volume at this point.
by rob74 | 2025-09-19 15:39:35+00:00
Yeah, this is really a building that you have to experience yourself, words and pictures don't do it justice. Gaudí is a worthy successor to the unknown masters who built the great gothic cathedrals: like them, he used the technology of his time to maximum effect. If you see all those towers from the outside and then go in, you're bound to wonder how the church can be so spacious on the inside. But somehow, it works...
by anonym29 | 2025-09-19 15:39:44+00:00
the value proposition of Intel's graphics division wasn't in the current generation gaming GPUs, it was the growth of talent internally that could target higher and higher end chips at a much lower price than Nvidia until they were knocking on the door of the A100/H200-class chips - the chips that Nvidia produces for $2k and then sells for $40k.

Not to mention, Intel having vertical integration gave Intel flexibility, customization, and some cost saving advantages that Nvidia didn't have as much of, Nvidia being a fabless designer who are themselves a customer of another for-profit fab (TSMC).

If TFA is true, this was an anticompetitive move by Nvidia to preemptively decapitate their biggest competitor in 2030's datacenter GPU market.
by binaryturtle | 2025-09-19 15:39:50+00:00
Worth checking the browser console. If you use a content blocker (e.g. uBlock Origin) it may block things the site really, really "wants". It then goes into an extreme busy loop and throws exceptions to the console like a berserker on a nightly rampage.

Once you carefully whitelist the resource it wants the CPU usage goes down again. At least that fixed it for me (I was mistakenly checking various codec related settings in Firefox first too to find a solution.)
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-19 15:40:03+00:00
Pi memory bandwidth is less than 10 GB/sec, so AI use cases will be extremely limited. Network I/O is maximum of 1 Gbps (or more if you do some unholy thing with M.2 NICs), so that also limits maximum networked performance.

But still can be decent for HPC learning, CI testing, or isolated multi-node smaller-app performance.
by nodja | 2025-09-19 15:40:15+00:00
They're a market entry point. CUDA became popular not because it was good, but because it was accessible. If you need to spend $10k minimum on hardware just to test the waters of what you're trying to do, that's a lot to think about, and possibly tons of paperwork if it's not your money. But if you can test it on $300 hardware that you probably already own anyway...
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-19 15:40:19+00:00
Many youtube videos consist of silent video streams combined with separate audio streams. Youtube-dl can list them. Often, the lower-quality and some medium-quality video stream will also contain audio, but the higher-quality videos are often silent with a second audio stream mixed in.

I can imagine that your older computer might have native support for decoding the high-res h264 video, but not for the high-quality OPUS audio stream, causing them to decode at different speeds.

I don't think there's a solution to that problem that doesn't involve running a dedicated video player such as VLC.

That said, I've also heard a lot of complaints from people still using Adblock Plus. I don't know what rules ABP has implemented, but they seem to affect Youtube performance much worse than uBlock whenever Youtube changes something.
by horsawlarway | 2025-09-19 15:40:58+00:00
I agree entirely with your first two sentences (I like both).

But I disagree pretty hard with the rest of it. An X1C spits out prints that are higher quality than my ender 3 would do, in a variety of materials the ender couldn't handle, even with a HUGE amount of time understanding the ender and how it works (incl upgrading or replacing just about every component).

Further - I think some of the divide is between the folks printing models, and the folks printing functional parts.

When I print nice models (ex: toys for my kids or gifts) then sure - I tweak still because appearances matter.

But if I just want a functional print because I need an enclosure for an electronics project, or I want a hanger for my wall, or I need a new footpad for a desk... Mediocre is a-ok.

And again... The X1C is not spitting out mostly mediocre parts. If anything - the "learning" you need to do mostly lives in the slicers/models at this point.
by wffurr | 2025-09-19 15:41:04+00:00
Well, for Java it's actually a separate compiler that targets Wasm and integrates with WasmGC: https://github.com/google/j2cl The Google Sheets team used it for their calc engine: https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting

For Kotlin it's similar but the compiler backend is from Jetbrains themselves, targets Wasm and adapts the Kotlin runtime to use WasmGC: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/wasm-overview.html. https://seb.deleuze.fr/introducing-kotlin-wasm/ has some low level detail on how Kotlin works with WasmGC.

A bit more on Kotlin/Wasm here, seems like also Dart/Flutter uses WasmGC: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/wasmgc#kotlin_wasm

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/94420 has some notes on why C# can't use WasmGC (yet?).
by hearsathought | 2025-09-19 15:41:08+00:00
> Japan and South Korea are commonly treated as being part of the West for the same reason Australia is

Australia isn't "treated" as being part of the West. It is a western nation. It's people, institutions, culture, language, etc are all of western origin. Japan and South Korea are not western nations. All you would have to do is go ask the japanese or south koreans themselves. I don't know of anyone who "treats" Japan and South Korea as western nations except those with a bizarre agenda.

> they are geographically in Asia but aligned with the United States and EU.

Australia would still be a western nation even if australia was aligned with china. Also, western nations existed before the EU and even before the US were created. If the US and Australia went to war against each other, they would still be western nations.

> And China initiated the trade war with Japan all the way back to the Senkaku Diaoyu standoff.

Then you might as well argue Japan initiated the trade war by imperial expansion to those islands.
by parineum | 2025-09-19 15:41:25+00:00
Increase in GDP is created by inflation and increases in productivity.

Government budgets should increase with inflation but there is zero reason for them to partake in the increase in productivity. Increases in productivity should, generally, also be applicable to government programs and, as such, they should get relatively cheaper over time, not more expensive.

If we want to _add_ programs, government budgets should increase in kind but the efficiency of government should rise over time as the things required to run government become cheaper. This rarely happens though because government programs don't have the same incentives that lead to increases in efficiency.

It's funny you're so against billionaires scooping up that money but want the government to scoop it up instead. Government is just big business with guns.
by kmod | 2025-09-19 15:41:28+00:00
They are definitely capable of writing such statements, which you can see in their enterprise products. In my Google Workspace gemini app it says pretty prominently and clearly:

Your [ORGNAME] chats aren’t used to improve our models

The Google Workspace privacy hub is similarly easy to read and clear that they don't train on your data: https://support.google.com/a/answer/15706919

So they definitely understand that people want to hear that their data isn't being used for training, and they know how to say it clearly and reassuringly. Which makes the omission of that in their consumer products more telling in my view.
by mothballed | 2025-09-19 15:42:43+00:00
My grandfather was a farmer. "Out in the fields" or in the workshed practically all day everyday. But he also loved to hunt, had a rental gig on the farm for poor people that wanted to live in shacks "down by the river" (they built the sheds themselves), and would constantly be pointing out to me all the stuff in the house he had built himself (he could have easily gotten them just as cheap and without any additional labor by mail order -- this was post WWII).

Another words, farmers back in that time would pretend they were busy all day. But actually spent a lot of the time "out in fields" bullshitting hunting, hanging with their friends at the river, or having fun building random shit in the workshop out of leisure rather than necessity. I didn't have the heart to tell the women in my family he probably didn't come home sooner because he didn't want to hear nagging or whining children, because it was blatantly obvious to me what the situation was.
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by pancakeguy | 2025-09-19 15:43:04+00:00
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by temp090255436 | 2025-09-19 15:43:14+00:00
> The best part about getting into a high barrier of entry job is the people.

Nope. It's exactly the same people as before plus some paper certs. Also a lot of them are generally incompetent which makes the imposter syndrome there as real as everywhere else. E.g. the hotshot guy with the AWS Architect cert that could not solve a simple permissions problem to save his life.