MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fewcha_hendrix | 2025-09-06 05:16:03+00:00
I have studied how old games used to work as far as the multiplayer networking aspect of it and after doing so much research and testing I have come up with the easiest solution to make them work again. All the classic games that no longer work because of Internet Gaming Zone shut down are back working! No need to forward or open any ports I have setup a dedicated DirectPlay lobby server that handles everything all you have to do is Create or Join game from inside game multiplayer menu and you will be connected.
by DoesntMatter22 | 2025-09-06 05:16:55+00:00
Not at all. It's traffic that is completely below ground which means that no streets above are burdened with it, it's all electric so no emissions. Name me any other form of transportation that was built so affordably in the US and moves this many people while not impacting street traffic?

By comparison the Vegas Monorail cost 5x as much, took 1/3rd longer to build, and takes roughly a third of the passengers that the Boring tunnel does. This is a huge win for Las Vegas, and they continue to build out because it's worked out well for them.
by mattlondon | 2025-09-06 05:17:57+00:00
I recently had a similar situation but the chademo charger was the deal breaker for me here in the UK. Yes they exist, but perhaps each station would have 1 chademo Vs 3 or 4 CCS2, while other more recent stations are only CCS2. And even if there is one there, the chademo would only be 45 or 50kw while the newer CCS2 ones are frequently 150+kw now. I think I only ever saw a 100kw chademo once (...or maybe I imagined that?!)

Some lexus things used chademo too.

Ended up getting a used VW id.3 which ticks a lot of the leaf's boxes, but has CCS2 and 100+kw dc charging
by jjani | 2025-09-06 05:19:25+00:00
Being made to follow laws is being pushed around?

If Trump makes Google not pay the fine you think that will have no negative side-effects? His actions have been incredibly positive for European tech companies, 5 years ago the only ones that even considered not going for the US options were a few companies in Germany. Demand has skyrocketed and making Google not pay this would give it a huge boost.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-09-06 05:19:58+00:00
The contention that AI is just a tool, and that all tools are neutral, is disingenuous. AI is is not neutral the way a hammer is, able to be owned and wielded by anyone for any purpose they choose.

AI is owned by an elite few, and only used for their purposes. It is the farthest thing from neutral. It's purpose is solely for the benefit of of the owning class; it is paid for by them, used by them, and sold to others like them for the same purposes, like reducing payroll.
by GiorgioG | 2025-09-06 05:21:09+00:00
> Are you willing to pay for the true cost of maintaining these devices for ~50 years?

Sounds like Nest/Google didn’t think about that when they priced their products. That’s not the consumer’s fault. I’ve been de-Google-ing myself over the past couple of years and this is the final nail in the coffin. They could have given a partial refund, instead they insult customers with a “discount”.
by sky2224 | 2025-09-06 05:22:04+00:00
> It doesn't interest me but to find you think its so disgusting sounds fake.

Hello! I think it's incredibly disgusting. Uploading intimate videos of your partner (past or present) is an absolute breach of that individual's privacy and trust. Additionally, it absolutely is NOT legal. I think it's quite alarming if someone doesn't find it disgusting.
by decimalenough | 2025-09-06 05:22:09+00:00
> any money paid by a U.S. company or taxpayer to a foreign person whose work benefits U.S. consumers.

How on earth is this going to defined and enforced? Isn't anything and everything shipped from overseas to the US, physically or electronically, "benefiting US consumers"?

Update: Here's the full text of the bill.

https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/legislative-docume...

And the definition is:

The term 'outsourcing payment' means any premium, fee, royalty, service charge, or other payment made —

“(A) in the course of a trade or business,

“(B) to a foreign person, and

“(C) with respect to labor or services the benefit of which is directed, directly or indirectly, to consumers located in the United States.

...

(c) FOREIGN PERSON. — For purposes of this section, the term 'foreign person' means any person who is not a United States person, except that such term shall not include any corporation or partnership which is organized under the laws of a possession of the United States.

Note that goods are excluded, which is the only sliver of sanity in this whole thing, although it's also a loophole big enough to drive a truck through: if I get my favorite Indian outsourcing company to build me a Web app and ship it by USB drive, did I just avoid the tax?

In any case, enforcement will be by requiring everybody who files tax returns to self-report under threat of perjury:

c) REPORTING. — The Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary's delegate, may —

(1) require United States persons making payments to foreign persons (as defined in section 5000E of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as added by subsection (a)) to file a return of tax under section 5000E of such Code or to file an information return concerning such payments, which may include —

(A) information on whether such payments are outsourcing payments (as defined in section 5000E of such Code), and

(B) such other information concerning such payment as the Secretary may reasonably require to enforce the amendments made by this section, and

(2) require the officers of any corporation to certify on such return, under penalty of perjury, the character of such payments.
by seabass-labrax | 2025-09-06 05:23:03+00:00
Unfortunately, I suspect that any starship that could bring with it all of those services would also bring with it the economic and political strife of Earth. The are lots of examples of democratic states turning into oligarchies or worse in recent history so that can't work in it's current form at least.

The closest analogue in the real world to the ideal that you describe is, I think, Cuba. It does guarantee food and housing, and it does have a remarkably advanced healthcare system plus what is reportedly a united community. Perhaps most interesting of all, it's politically isolated like a starship would have to be by its nature. Even then, one would have to be either pretty brave or desperate to go along on the journey, as modern Cuba has only been around for half a century and that's at the absolute minimum of an intergalactic starship's practical mission duration.
by GistNoesis | 2025-09-06 05:24:09+00:00
Note here that "faster" here really means more speed and not an increase in the volume of data transferred : The light go through the air hollow-core so can go at near "c" (the speed of light in vacuum) speed, instead of being constrained to "speed of light in glass which is only "2/3 c". This allows reduce latency for long distance communication.

https://spie.org/news/photonics-focus/julyaug-2022/speeding-...
by masklinn | 2025-09-06 05:24:23+00:00
> Standard circuits are either 8A or 10A.

Both type E and F plugs are rated for 16, and afaik that’s generally the rating in countries which use them.

I’m sure there are others but Switzerland is the only country I know of in Europe were plugs are limited to 10 and you have to hard-wire 16.
by yayahong | 2025-09-06 05:24:51+00:00
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by freakynit | 2025-09-06 05:27:00+00:00
The fabric of spacetime itself sets the ultimate speed limit. Nothing can locally move through it faster than light. For example, gravitational waves ripple across the universe at light speed.

Anything that exists within spacetime is bound by this rule. The only odd exception people point to is quantum entanglement, but while the correlations appear instantaneous, they can’t be used to send information faster than light. Sending matter is distant second.

So, if we ever hope to travel faster than light, we wouldn’t do it by "outrunning" gravity. Instead, we’d need to find a way to manipulate spacetime itself, like bending, warping, or reshaping it ... since that, in the first place itself, is what is defining the limits of motion.
by RHSeeger | 2025-09-06 05:30:08+00:00
> If I’m a Google engineer, what motivation do I have to make decisions that keep a device running for a decade?

Empathy and being a good human being in relation to society. Making devices that look good at first and cause pain later, when it's too late to do anything about it... is bad.

> I need to prove “impact” and make sure what I’m doing is aligned with the department wide OKRs

Fair, and that's a reason to _not_ put in the effort to make longer lasting devices.

> But incentives based on the promo culture is endemic to all of BigTech

And we should be calling them out for it. It's bad in the same way that forced ranking systems are bad; they promote the wrong things.
by koopuluri | 2025-09-06 05:31:52+00:00
> What if there is no exit event?

Teachers can still realize returns through secondary sales (with the student’s approval). In that case, the student gives up nothing (their life isn’t affected) while the teacher profits. That’s why I framed “giving up” only around equity sales by the student because only that results in the student "giving up" something. But from a teacher’s perspective they can clearly profit without requiring the student to give something up.

> They nearly always cave to pressure to produce more profit, so the investor can make their money back, even at the expense of the vision for the company or the long term health of the business

That happens in companies because investors hold voting rights and can push out founder(s) or make decisions about the company. With personal tokens, shareholders have no control: they can’t fire you, push you toward an exit, or override your vision. If someone becomes toxic, you could buy back their shares at market price and even cut off contact. Personal tokens are designed to keep individuals in full control. Unlike company shareholders, personal token shareholders don’t “own” you.

> If they are cut off as deadweight, it undermines the whole concept, as they were still a building block to get you to where you are.

Agreed. Unfair ejections would kill trust. That’s why all actions would be transparent. If a student ejects a teacher without clear justification, they’d damage their reputation and likely struggle to raise in the future. Transparency is what keeps the system honest. But even in an unfair rejection, the student would have to pay market price for that equity (or get a new investor that buys from the investor they are ejecting). Assuming the student’s value has gone up, then the ejected investor would still profit.

> For teachers, it just feels like a perverse lottery. Go for volume and hope one pays off.

In the same way the best investors don’t see startup investing as a lottery but as a skill: where you won’t bat 100%, but you can be orders of magnitude better than average. Great teachers would have a knack for identifying and developing talent and won’t view this as a lottery. And for teachers who don’t want to play this game, nothing changes: they can keep teaching in the current system. This is about adding another option.
by odyssey7 | 2025-09-06 05:32:36+00:00
I appreciate you looking into the numbers to verify. The 1/1000 odds seem better, though still important.

Also, framed another way, 5% of cancer cases caused by CT scans would mean that 1 in 20 people in the cancer ward were placed there by a CT scan. Or alternatively, phasing out CT scans would prevent 1 in 20 cancer cases, with prevention being worth more than a cure for every 1 cancer patient in 20.
by ggm | 2025-09-06 05:32:59+00:00
I dislike the cult of Jobs, but I do have moments of respect for him in "brand" sense he had very strong drive not to "dilute the brand" and I would think most apple shareholders (I am not one consciously but who knows what tech stocks my pension fund holds) would agree. There hasn't been a time since his return to apple where a shareholder had reason to question the long term value.

I wanted hackintosh to work forever. I even ran one, somebody else front loaded the work to get it flying. It was a dog. It was a huge mistake. I'm glad I wound up accepting the apple tax into my life and just buying the mainline product.
by Sytten | 2025-09-06 05:33:07+00:00
I don't see how that will do anything:

- 25% is not enough to matter if you drop from 130k US engineer to a 40-50k outsourced

- International corporation will easily side step that since the US Corp is not paying for salaries to the foreign Corp, just dues to exploit the IP at best

So at best this would be hurtful to smaller businesses like the stupid section 174.
by simianwords | 2025-09-06 05:34:19+00:00
I found this article lacking nuance and just flat out misleading in many places.

> I mean, that’s exactly what’s happening in the United States right now—techno-fascism. You know, the intent appears to be to replace most people—most federal workers—with AI, which is gonna have all the problems that we talked about. The intent is to surveil them, to surveil people. To get, you know, massive amounts of data, put it all together in one place, accessible to a small oligarchy. I mean, that’s just what they’re doing.

Who is doing the surveilling? If anything we see a conflict between the companies and the government - the government wants to be able to read the chats. But I still don't get how surveillance is somehow specific to AI?

>accessible to a small oligarchy

But this is literally what's not happening. We already have opensource models that perform as good as the best ones a year back. And they run in our laptops.

> This is a place where I may be an AI optimist, although not short term. So I genuinely believe that, in principle, we can build AI that could do fact-checking automatically faster than people, and I think we need that.

To anyone who used AI to do quick fact checking - it is quite obvious that it is way better than an average human. This is pretty much what I use it for and it is very very reliable (if able to use tools). At least more reliable than the average smart person but not so much as an expert.

It is so reliable that it is hard to be propagandised on anything - AI tends to converge on the general consensus and shows nuance in politically charged debates. AI is the kryptonite for extremists (on any side) because it is trivial to counter check the claims made by them.

My optimistic take is that extremism would die out because it is just too hard to convince people who have access to AI. I feel this was the same case before the internet - extremists could claim whatever they wanted but we have the internet now and it is simple to fact check them.
by kg | 2025-09-06 05:36:39+00:00
This is one scenario where IMGUI approaches have a small win, even if it's by accident - since GUI elements are constructed on demand in immediate mode, invisible/unused elements won't have tooltip setup run, and the tooltip setup code will probably only run for the control that's showing a tooltip.

(Depending on your IMGUI API you might be setting tooltip text in advance as a constant on every visible control, but that's probably a lot fewer than 38000 controls, I'd hope.)

It's interesting that every control previously had its own dedicated tooltip component, instead of having all controls share a single system wide tooltip. I'm curious why they designed it that way.
by downrightmike | 2025-09-06 05:36:40+00:00
Realistically if they are doing 20% of their US business in say Vermont, they should have to employ 20% of their workforce there. 15% in California? 15% of US head count in California. All they do is extract and hide the money. That needs to stop. Don't want to? Well your competition and new entrants will.
by qnleigh | 2025-09-06 05:39:37+00:00
Nit of a nit; the energy might take that long, but the photons that reach us on Earth are not directly created by the nuclear fusion reactions in the sun's core. Fusion creates high-velocity nucliei and other particles, but not visible light. The resulting heat creates photons which are rapidly destroyed by absorption. Only photon emission from the outer most layers of the sun reach Earth.
by Figs | 2025-09-06 05:41:04+00:00
> The White House is yet to say how much a rebrand would cost, but US media expect a billion-dollar price tag for the overhaul of hundreds of agencies, emblems, email addresses and uniforms.

--BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr9r4qr0ppo

Just another way to rob the country.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-06 05:41:25+00:00
I was there when Perl and Tcl were the main actors, that is why VTK used Tcl originally.

Python dominates, because 25 years ago places like CERN started to adopt Python as their main scripting language, and eventually got used for more tasks than empowered shell scripts.

It is like arguing why C dominates and nothing else can ever replace it.
by marginalien | 2025-09-06 05:41:32+00:00
This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I am currently preparing for a workshop with children in which I want to let them “draw” their own website/web-apps. So far I did not plan to let them create their own fonts, as I did not know how to, but now I know. Thanks to you!

Ps: if you have any other ideas how to make such a workshop for children more exciting, please let me know! For instance, I wanted to let them create paper prototypes and then turn them into working click dummies so to cross the bridge between analogue and digital in way that feels natural to kids. Btw, by “kids” I refer to children at the age of 8-10 years old.
by yuliyp | 2025-09-06 05:46:09+00:00
> The New Deal delayed the recovery from the Depression to 10 years or so.

This is categorically wrong: the WW2 GDP boom started in 1939, by which point we'd already been out of the great depression (1936 was the first year that Real GDP was above the previous peak of 1929). Regardless, that point is only 6 years after the New Deal took effect, meaning a delay of 10 years would require reversing the flow of time.

Source: https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=GDPCA (I can't figure out how to hotlink to a specific time range so you'll have to plug it in yourself).
by ggreer | 2025-09-06 05:46:36+00:00
What Tesla did you rent? The base Model 3's curb weight is 3,552lbs. The first generation Bolt's curb weight is slightly heavier, at 3,563lbs. The long range Model 3 is 3,817lbs and the Performance model is 4,048lbs, but those tend not to be rentals.

And the cheapest Model 3 will have significantly more acceleration than the Bolt. Maybe the rental's acceleration was set to comfort mode. That reduces pedal responsiveness.

I didn't own a Bolt, but I did drive one and found it underwhelming. It had bad software, charged slowly, and then all of them were recalled due to battery fires. I don't seem to be alone in this opinion, as their depreciation has been pretty rough compared to other EVs from the same time period.
by vl | 2025-09-06 05:48:02+00:00
I don’t get who uses Nest or other non-first party thermostats anymore:

All modern furnaces/ACs/heat pumps require their own smart thermostat to work optimally. So if you install Bryant furnace, you end up with Bryant smart thermostat, and so on. In fact, when choosing new furnace/AC choose brand with good software in thermostat first and foremost - units themselves are pretty identical otherwise.
by maxuser | 2025-09-06 05:48:21+00:00
Exactly. I do plenty of non-hygienic solo-dev hacker stuff for personal hobby projects, cutting through all sorts "red tape" like not being rigorous about unittest coverage, because I'm (a) programming for fun, (b) not required to communicate constraints/contracts with other devs, and (c) working on a codebase small enough (~30K loc) that I can keep all of it paged into my head. Sure, I could do away with static typing too and still make sense of my code, but only if it were well-documented. But why merely document requirements in comments when you can embed those requirements directly in the code and have the compiler/tools check those requirements for you?

The lax attitude that's passable for small hobby projects would be an utterly disastrous Tower of Babel if applied to real-world large-scale projects like at my job where hundreds of us are actively contributing at any given time (thousands over time) to a multi-million-line server. Developing software at that scale, in terms of developers and lines of code, would not be remotely feasible without type systems or equivalent systems that automatically check invariants statically.

To suggest that the elegance of Unix pipes extends to large-scale software development betrays a lack of experience with the complexity of real-world large-scale software systems.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-06 05:49:20+00:00
Yes, stuff like that. Another AI feature for example:

So -- and I assume this ties into arc type workspaces that you're also building --, I usually have multiple browser windows with multiple tabs each. Each window belongs to a "purpose". Sometimes due to procrastination etc etc it gets out of hand. When it does I get them all mixed up in one big window. I'd like an organize tabs thing that looks at existing organization if there is one, and classifies tabs into those.

Another one since you're here, and this is unrelated to command palettes, is research mode.

Often, we read up and learn about things in a top down fashion. This usually involves drilling down on a topic, filling out information on terms and sentences we don't quite understand through searches in another tab. We then have to tie that information back into the context of the main article. And do this recursively.

This is something AI can help with, search up on terms that we say, select, and then fill in information about that tailored to current context, right there inline.

Brave Leo AI tools for instance can currently summarise explain paraphrase etc but it's not too useful since I could just as well copy paste into chatgpt. At this level of integration though, it would be more useful.

Nothing to do with AI or command palettes, but recursive tabs is another thing that could be useful.

dm_cache google search --- lkml post 1 (random detail 0) --- lkml post 2 (random detail 1) ---- doc.txt ---- lwn.net

I'm not sure if any of these would actually work and be practical, but just some random thoughts.
by k_roy | 2025-09-06 05:49:54+00:00
So if we are talking about "traditional consulting", that usually means MBB/Big Three

The value they add is their corpus of previous work to lean on and sell. And anybody at the firm can reference that. But it's always almost the junior level consultants doing the work, and a bunch of c-suites trying to manage it and sell it.

So when you work with a firm like this, you are going to get a team who has managed a similar project as yours, but it usually ends up being generic and trying to repeat past successes.

I really think that's where some of the boutique firms are being different.

Instead of just saying "here is our Lean Six Sigma team", they can say "we've got these four people who are perfect for technical implementation, and here is a project manager who has done almost exactly this before, and here is a RevOps person who has worked in your actual industry".

Maybe someone is an expert on some super obscure domain. They might not qualify for a full time consultant position at a big 3 firm, can suddenly be pulled in on projects that are their specialty.

Mostly these boutique firms can put together a more highly specialized and focused team than the prebuilt teams at a place like Bain or McKinsey.