MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bmn__ | 2025-09-17 16:00:27+00:00
> I do my own physics, quaternion/matrix/vector math, TGA and OBJ loading.

> FPS ranges from […] [70-80] on a 2005 Pentium laptop

> I am using [Rust] more as a "C

Great minds think alike! Please, I invite you to submit your work for approval here:

https://xcancel.com/tsoding/status/1960511663788188095

https://xcancel.com/tsoding/status/1964636951358894337
by Brian_K_White | 2025-09-17 16:00:32+00:00
I have one too (pro 1x actually) and it's complete dogshit.

The screen has some kind of streaking/ghosting effect that's so bad it would be instant wareanty in any other phone, exept it's not the physical screen but something with how it's being driven. It's worse an dimmer brighness leves, and it's worse with some kinds of images / screen contents.

The camera is simply garbage all around, pick any metric. Simple fucus, low light, motion, macro or fake macro by zoom, even simple outdoor daylight are barely ok compared to any other junk phone.

Reception sucks. All the receptions, lte, wifi, bt.

The open/close mechanism is the least convenient of any moving part I've ever used, the way there is no secure way to hold it to start the motion, then the loss of control during over-center snap. The laptop orientation with a camera bump so it wobbles on a table.

The cpu is slower than my pixel 4.

There is some stupidness with either the charging circuit or boot manager that if you ever simply allow the battery to die all the way, it can't start charging again and it's bricked unless you crack it open to access the cell itself.

All utter dogshit.

It has some checkboxes ticked like heaphone jack, removable sdcard, and of course the keyboard, but the thing sucks so bad to actually use that they don't matter.

I'm probably forgetting yet more things because even though I paid $700 or whatever it was, then waited 2 or 3 years for it to ship, and even though my pixel 4a5g died right before it arrived so I actually needed it, I still only used it for a few weeks and spent another 1300 importing an xperia they don't sell or support in the US. (to get a current flagship phone that actually has a headphone jack and removable sd and dual sim, and is at least rootable and you can modify the system apps if not run Lineage)

Oh yeah it's supposed to be an "xda phone" even with xda logo on the back, natively hackable... turns out no matter what os you want to run on it they all actually still have to use the same closed kernel. So you get to larp os control while still running under a kernel you can't replace.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-17 16:00:33+00:00
> Stephen King made the mistake

He was a victim here. Far-left news outlets like Vanity Fair and The Nation twisted the facts and made-up others. I don't really expect a 77-year-old celebrity to have the media literacy to separate fact from fiction, especially when these outlets have tailored their reporting to appeal to exactly his demographic.
by awaythrow999 | 2025-09-17 16:00:42+00:00
Aren't many channels funded by the companies they pretend to get sponsorship from? If you look at the OSINT and Natsec adjacent topics there are many who have had the same sponsor for years: ground.news ... many pretend that they are indie content creators when they are just the marketing / growth hacking arm of the sponsor.

Examples: Caspian report, Warfronts, Geopolitics decoded, ...

Many of them (the content creator) are even located in the same city.
by jason_s | 2025-09-17 16:01:11+00:00
You talking about the Imperial Valley or the Central Valley? The former is naturally desert, the latter was naturally abundant in wetlands and flood-prone grasslands, before agriculture took over.

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

It sounds like you're talking about the Imperial Valley, which is a different ball of wax from the whole wetland-draining argument here.

I object to "desert shithole" --- the Sonoran Desert is an ecosystem worthy of value in its own right, we just don't benefit from it as humans unless we turn to resource extraction or agriculture.
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-17 16:01:36+00:00
It doesn't really help consumers whose whole point is to get from point A to B in the quickest and most comfortable manner.

It doesn't help traffic, and it only will if self driving cars are already the majority, which is a convenient perspective for developers of this tech, but is not viable and not a true statement.

I don't want to be that guy, but we all know trains and trams are the better tech. Luxury trains/trams would be a banger. Private rooms with better amenities than a car, why not?

The autonomous car industry is a few things: car protectionism, oil protectionism, autonomous warfare development and gimmicks.
by anon191928 | 2025-09-17 16:01:46+00:00
This is one those things that are great on theory but not practical. I can list things to bypass or fake this type of tech. Because I've thought it for long before.

very basic one, what if they record screen in a very good in dark room and in a technical way, can you prove that?

what makes it impossibloe to extract or copy the json, modify it or modify the video then put it back? or make a way to some similar way? it's a video file in the end.

This is like those AI calorie apps, works most of the time but possible to fake or get wrong results.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-17 16:01:59+00:00
I bought a new Mac for a secondary computer, particularly for my wife to use, and she was driven crazy by ads in just one hour of browsing on Safari without a proper ad blocker. Adding an ad blocker to Safari required using an Apple account which she doesn't have and I didn't want to use it for mine (never plan on buying NERFed apps from the NERFed mac app store which is 99% spam anyway) so I switched her to Firefox which lets me add an ad blocker without signing in.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-17 16:02:06+00:00
I find this whole thread a bit confusing—the comment two up describes “orthodox” meaning one-true-way as a Russian thing, but this is also part of the connotation in English.

You describe it as not having this “one true way” connotation, but as having this pointlessly rigid connotation. In English, I think it has both connotations. Although, almost any phrase which has an implication of “one true way” can end up with a double meaning of “pointlessly rigid,” right? (It is context dependent, of course).
by aakkaakk | 2025-09-17 16:02:08+00:00
This bug has been there for years, probably a decade.

I got similar symptoms as mentioned, I suspected AFS+, but what do I know. It has happened on at least 3 iphones (pros), now when I think about it, I don’t remember any iphone I haven’t have troubles with. Having 5000+ images (non-raw) where 5-10% are corrupt is infuriating, but I just stupidly buy another iphone every year (the most expensive one).

Re-importing images 10-100 times could sometimes extract a few additional images, but the phone just disconnects after a while when running such scripts.
by palmotea | 2025-09-17 16:02:16+00:00
> We are doing state capitalism without China’s “serve the people” bit. Hm, maybe there’s a name for that type of government, idk.

Except China doesn't actually serve its people. Things are way more cut-throat there, with much less safety net. The Chinese government sees workers as grist for the mill, not something to be cared for.
by delichon | 2025-09-17 16:02:18+00:00
Chuck on sale is now $8 a pound, more than double since Covid started. I am eating less of it and more ground beef, pork and eggs.

I crisp it up in an air fryer before serving. Here's the full ingredient list: meat, butter, salt. After five years I still look forward to every repeat.

I just replaced an air fryer that lasted two years of daily use, a personal record. I was ready to replace it anyway, because they accumulate grease where you can't clean, and the smell gets interesting.
by oldjim798 | 2025-09-17 16:02:25+00:00
The value of a business is entirely the part the second of the line - its entirely people speculating on the future value. Thats why Telsa is worth so much compared to other auto makers - its a small, niche player who makes poor quality cars - but investors believe it will take over the world hence its 'valuation'.

This is assuming you mean just the economic definition of value. If you mean value more broadly, then your statement is even less true; in that case hedge funds would be worth nothing.
by pull_my_finger | 2025-09-17 16:02:38+00:00
I recalled the naming from Tarantool[1], which seems to be in a competing space. Upon checking the docs, it appears their "Vinyl" offering refers to the on-disk part of Tarantool, and not the in-memory component.

[1]: https://www.tarantool.io/en/doc/latest/platform/engines/viny...
by feoren | 2025-09-17 16:02:46+00:00
> Sahm Recession Indicator signals the start of a recession when the three-month moving average of the national unemployment rate (U3) rises by 0.50 percentage points or more relative to the minimum of the three-month averages from the previous 12 months.

Why 0.5 and not 0.4? Why three-month averages and not four? There are some free parameters that have clearly been fit to make the graph look good historically, and having been proposed in 2019, it has successfully identified one recession, which literally any other indicator also would have identified. Frankly there's a very high likelihood that it's over-fit. I'm guessing after it fails to adequately identify the start of the next recession, economists will want to replace it with one that was made 1 year before that recession, being over-fit even more. Note that these gray regions have clearly been post-hoc altered: the chart pretends that the Sahm Rule would have identified the 2008 recession as starting in Dec 2007, but that's not +0.5 over the min of the last 12 months; that doesn't happen until April 2008. Why did they move the gray box back 4 months? They're basically lying about what their metric would have shown at that time.

I was going to say it successfully "predicted" one recession, but: did it? In 2020, the U3 was at 0.0 in Feb, 0.3 in March, and 4.0(!) in April. You just said that based on this indicator, we are "nowhere close" to a recession. You could easily have said that in Feb or even March of 2020, so "nowhere close" could be as little as one month, or the smallest unit of time this metric considers.

There is no way to say whether we are close to a recession or not using this metric. The absolute value of the y-axis has nothing to do with it: the 1981 recession is identified as starting from a trough of -0.13. The current trend has nothing to do with it: the 1981 recession started immediately after a huge downward trend. A long period of stability ~0% doesn't mean anything (2001, 2020). A period of volatility doesn't mean anything (~1963, ~1986 -- volatility with no recession). All that matters is what the rate of increase is just about to be. So it doesn't make sense to say we are "nowhere close" -- the current value and recent history of this number seem to have almost no bearing whatsoever on when unemployment suddenly spikes. The spikes come out of nowhere. This is not a leading indicator at all: the best it can do is look at a terrible jobs report and say "looks like the recession has already started boys", which is what everyone else would say too if unemployment spikes by 2% in one month. It gives absolutely no information about whether one is about to start next month or not.
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-17 16:02:48+00:00
Actually, its the opposite. When you are no longer compatible to the workforce because you don't want waste all your time on the same basic literacy things over and over you start to feel extremely inferior when you cannot get a job.

But the fact the concerns of superiority come up so repeatedly just serves to illustrate how much insecurity is baked into the workforce. Confident people don’t worry about high confidence in other people.
by jjice | 2025-09-17 16:03:12+00:00
For long distance trains:

While I also love trains and public transit, China is about the same physical size of the US, but has about four times the population, so it's four times denser. Definitely makes trains more appealing for them.

> We’re America. We went to the frickin moon. Defeated the Nazis. Etc. We can build trains.

Absolutely we can build trains. It's not that we're incapable. It's that it's not financially viable based on the usage it'll get.

Again, I'd love better trains in the US, but it doesn't make sense in a lot of cases in the US still due to density and current value props for individuals. If it was valuable, someone would do it.

Now, for intra-city transit, the lack of trains also drives me insane.
by ks2048 | 2025-09-17 16:03:16+00:00
An interesting thing about this is that they figured out a high-level description of what this Busy Beaver program is doing - it's computing a Collatz-like sequence until it terminates.

I'm not sure if that is described in this paper, but I learned about it in this Scott Aaronson talk,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VplMHWSZf5c

e.g see the slide at 31:40.
by spike021 | 2025-09-17 16:03:26+00:00
I realize it's easy to think or assume this is a bug affecting everyone but for what it's worth, I've had zero issues importing photos from my Sony a6000 and a7iii for the past eight or so years. Tens of thousands of photos at this point.

For the longest time my process while traveling was importing onto my iPad or occasionally my iPhone since I didn't have a personal laptop, just a Mac Mini at home.
by seec | 2025-09-17 16:03:29+00:00
Yeah pretty much. The dock is truly useless in a way the taskbar cannot dare to be.

I think the windows model with menus integrated into the software windows and the taskbar for general multitasking management is just better. It was also much more future proof for multi-display use.

The global menu bar just feels dumb nowadays, especially with the notch on laptops, where they take even more space from a place where everything was already crowded.

Overall, I feel that Windows model of computing is just more solid and allows for more complexity/expansions. And I say that as a Mac user since before I'm 10 years old.

OS X had some solid technical base that made it very worth it. But nowadays it feels all locked down and there are fewer leftovers.

The UI is increasingly focused on looking good at the expense of everything, they have abandoned many of the good ideas in favor of oversimplification and unification with iOS.
by dang | 2025-09-17 16:03:42+00:00
HN has never been exclusively a site about tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. There are inevitably some stories with political overlap, though we try to prevent them from dominating the frontpage. I've gone into this in detail in other comments in this thread, with links to past explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267159

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269414
by charcircuit | 2025-09-17 16:03:59+00:00
The work to do this isn't free. YouTube already has their code working, but they don't expect browsers to be blocking arbitrary requests or injecting their own javascript into the page. These kind of breakage are not free for YouTube to fix and often YouTube is the one taking the reputational hit for their site being broken. It ultimately is antisocial behavior to be breaking other's sites even if technically they can workaround the bugs being added.
by thunderfork | 2025-09-17 16:04:27+00:00
This seems like the kind of tool you would only use where you have the following needs:

1. Not leaking timestamp data (security/regulations)

2. Having easily time-sortable primary keys (DB performance/etc.)

If you don't have both of these needs, the tool is an unnecessary indirection, as you've identified in (2).

However, where you do have both needs, some indirection is necessary. Whether this is the correct one is a different question.

Similarly, if you _must not_ leak timestamps for some real-world reason, (1) is an intrinsic requirement, consumers be damned.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-09-17 16:04:41+00:00
C++ usage has nothing to do with static/dynamic linking. One is a language and the other is a way of using libraries. Dynamic linking gives you small binaries with a lot of cross-compatibility, and static linking gives you big binaries with known function. Most production C++ out there follows the same pattern as Rust and Go and uses static linking (where do you think Rust and Go got that pattern from?). Python is a weird language that has tons of dynamic linking while also having a big package manager, which is why pip is hell to use and PyTorch is infamously hard to install.

Dynamic linking shifts responsibility for the linked libraries over to the user and their OS, and if it's an Arch user using AUR they are likely very interested in assuming that risk for themselves. 99.9% of Linux users are using Debian or Ubuntu with apt for all these libs, and those maintainers do pay a lot of attention to libraries.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-17 16:04:44+00:00
What videos you see on YouTube really varies from one person to another: I have one browser where it shows me predominantly videos with titles like "Why Brand X has lost it's way" or "Why the Y industry is broken" where X could be a fast food chain or a game studio and Y could be housing, video games, private equity, etc.

That kind of creator expresses a lot of negativity towards YouTube, as X is frequently "YouTube" or "Google" and Y is "Big Tech", "Social Media", etc.
by NortySpock | 2025-09-17 16:04:45+00:00
Suppose it's something where the user may be accused of doing something nefarious if a sequence or pattern of behavior is exposed.

- "Ex-spouse: I looked you up on a dating website, and your userID indicates it was created while you were at Tom's party where you swear nothing happened."

- "You say you are in XYZ timezone, but all your imageIDs (that are unique to the image upon creation) are timestamped at what would be 3am in your timezone)"

Granted, for individual messages that are near-real-time, or for transactions that need to be timestamped anyway, it's probably fine, but for user-account-creation or "evergreen" asset-creation, it could leak the time to a sufficiently curious individual (or an organized group that is doing data-trawling and cross-correlation)
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-17 16:05:20+00:00
> If you are so attached to the idea that DLSS is bad for your game experience because of something you saw or read on the internet, I am sorry" he wrote. The CEO also said he believed humans cannot detect any input lag in a blind test, though he seems to be talking about DLSS rather than frame generation.

I'm torn on how I feel about frame gen.

On one hand, it's mostly "free" frames. In MS Flight Simulator 2024, with the details cranked to the near maximum, it turns my somewhat choppy 45 fps (When flying over dense cities like NYC or London) into a buttery smooth ~150 fps.

On the other hand, it's allowing game developers to get lazy with optimization. They're being allowed to target lower frame rates under the assumption that frame gen will pick up the slack, which leaves players with a 3000-series GPU, which isn't that old, in the dust.
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-17 16:05:31+00:00
Could well be a trigger. This is a reason to do it quickly by having already existing, tested nukes handed over for use by the threatened state.

There is a problem with this kind of reasoning though. It's like, somebody shows up 'try to grab my gun and I'll shoot' but the thing is, he might shoot anyway, and if you grab the gun, maybe you'll get hold of it.

When someone threatens something, that's not reason for stepping down, passivity or anything like that, it's reason to immediately risk everything on an attack to take away the thing he has that allows him to threaten you. By threatening something he only demonstrates that he must be attacked immediately.

I like an example I gave earlier with hostages. It's Monday, someone has taken a hostage and threatens to kill unless left alone. The next day he's taken another, he has the same threat. On friday, he has five. Now, you realise you should have attacked on Monday when your attack only risked one death.

So today, the question might be 'why didn't we start building nukes last year?'
by elbajo | 2025-09-17 16:05:32+00:00
Hosting a Next.js app and ever wondered why you see POST requests returning 200 on an endpoint that only support GET? Probably not but it got me curious today. Turns out it might be increasing your hosting cost.

You can reproduce this against Vercel's own homepage:

curl -iX POST https://vercel.com -F 'payload={"message":"Testing multipart form data POST"}' | less

=>

HTTP/2 200 [...] x-powered-by: Next.js, Payload x-vercel-cache: BYPASS

<!DOCTYPE html><html class=...

=> Returns 200, cache is bypassed. Should be 405.

The behavior is also weird where the hosting type (dev, prod local, prod) matters as well as the type of POST request.

Link to my findings: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/78070#issuecomment-...
by dotancohen | 2025-09-17 16:05:34+00:00
But they are. They are at the forefront of a multi pronged effort to delegitimize the Jewish state.

Do you need for me to spell out how that would be genocide for the Jews, or are you at least familiar enough with the Middle East for that to be clear?

Be there no mistake, even if Hamas wins that does not mean peace. Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies are waiting to pour into the holy land, those Shiites will do the Sunni Hamas exactly what Hamas had done to the Jews. And Hamas knows this.
by kenjackson | 2025-09-17 16:06:09+00:00
What's obtuse about it? It's honestly a very straightforward statement. Every thing we think or say is a function of past events. We don't incorporate future events into what we think or say. Even speculation or imagination of future events occurred in the past (that is the act of imagining it occurred in the past).

It's really a super simple concept -- maybe it's so simple that it seems obtuse.
by Wololooo | 2025-09-17 16:06:12+00:00
While I agree with you, not every channel is big and some of the smaller ones might rely partially on this in order to get materials/sponsorship in order to be able to have the parts to do some projects they make videos on because it is more a passion project and they might barely break even or even make losses on doing it.

The context that I am thinking about is, for example, a small hobbyist that might rely on the added value for making some odd things, requiring exotic hardware, quantities of materials that could be prohibitively expensive or the lend of access to said hardware might be blocked behind viewership metrics, and there this might make some difference, and I personally enjoy those little odd channels and this is why I, as a viewer, might care about it. But again, I totally see where you are coming from.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-17 16:06:13+00:00
Spot on, I rather have a Python, Java,.NET,.. standard library, that may have a few warts, but works everywhere there is full compliant implementation, than playing lego, with libraries that might not even support all platforms, and be more easily open to such attacks.

Is java.util.logging.Logger not that great?

Sure, yet everyone that used it had a good night rest when Log4J exploit came to be.
by Cyph0n | 2025-09-17 16:06:18+00:00
I don’t see it as “letting Trump win”. I see it as “not supporting the Democrats because they don’t want my vote”. If you want to blame someone for Trump winning, blame the Democrats.

Of course, on paper, yes, if these were automatons with no feelings, they would use their vote against Trump.

It is easy to claim objectivity in the face of a moral quandary that doesn’t impact you or your loved ones personally. But it is not easy to make a decision to not give your vote away when the alternative is also terrible.