MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tonyhart7 | 2025-09-09 06:43:49+00:00
"We'll stop spitting in your soup if you pay us extra" isn't a nice value proposition

so you want people to freely watch videos without paying anything or watching ads ???

how this works then, creator need to be paid, bandwidth need to be paid, infrastructure is not cheap

it is a nice value proposition, if its not somebody would already make a better alternative that not require those 2 (without paying and without ads)

the fact there is not then its not possible
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-09-09 06:44:23+00:00
Money is impact. Impact is money. You're talking about the same thing. Making money is a noble pursuit, and is not something to fear.

Your parent is an unfortunate case. I know this personally, as I was an alcoholic for many years, and I only quit relatively recently. [1] But for every alcoholic like myself there are probably a hundred people who find alcohol to truly be an enjoyable addition to their lives, well worth the downsides.

I would say don't overgeneralize from your parent's experiences. It is quite possible they may have ended up in a bad way even if they didn't run a liquor store. The true lesson the is to be cautious around alcohol yourself, as it unfortunately appears to have a strong genetic component, but do continue moving towards greater money/impact - that's almost always a life improving stance.

[1]: https://andrew-quinn.me/1000-days-without-drinking/
by TiredOfLife | 2025-09-09 06:46:09+00:00
Apparently very few people use the subscriptions list and rely on the videos they subscribe and watch to appear on the Youtube homepage. And youtube changed what videos they put there. Instead of new videos by people you watch and related ones they show:

videos you just watched

videos you watched 10 years ago

auto dubbed videos on topics you are not interested

clickbait videos with 10 views

anything, but what you are used to watching
by maxglute | 2025-09-09 06:46:09+00:00
PRC nuclear isn't "slowing" it's on pace/steady relative to latest 5 year plan, but pace of renewables like solar have simply exploded relative to forecast. The TLDR is there was dicey 2010-2020 period post Fukushima reassessment and AP1000/EPR drama... where PRC realized even they can't build western nuclear tech economically due to foreign drama (technical issues, political issues i.e. sanctions, Westinghouse bankruptcy). Took them a few years to unfuck situation with indigenous nuclear tech stack, but then solar LCOE plummeted and industrial capacity made prioritizing solar no brainer. As in they're still on trend for nuclear targets, but far above trend for solar... party because after cracking down on real estate, resources went into industry, and solar factories went brrrt + a lot of excess labour redirected from building apartments to building solar farms. So not so much nuclear slowing, as it looks slowing relative to solar speeding. We'll know more if they scale down nuclear in next 5 year plan, which they may depending on status of storage.
by Revisional_Sin | 2025-09-09 06:46:44+00:00
The system works fine for electricity and gas, because the grid itself is maintained by the government. You have private energy producers competing to produce electricity, and private energy companies buying it off them and selling it to the consumer. Maybe it would be more efficient if it was maintained solely by the state, but it's not too bad.

Unfortunately, the water system doesn't work that way. It has been parcelled off to various private companies, giving them a natural monopoly.
by floppiplopp | 2025-09-09 06:46:48+00:00
Ads are not the problem. It's the ad-tech surveillance and the malvertising. There are ways to show ads that are not a threat. When online services choose to become hostile, adblockers are the defense. I don't mind ads, I don't mind paying for services without ads, in fact I do for multiple services and news. I don't want surveillance ad-tech anywhere near my devices. It's the business decision of the company, that aides the worst enduring tech businesses with data collection and targeted scams and malware. So fuck'em. I'll steal gladly from overt assholes.
by selfhoster1312 | 2025-09-09 06:46:49+00:00
I've never used JuiceFS in prod (or any S3 product for that matter), but i was involved in benchmarking juiceFS+garage for archiving based on torrents, and initial results were promising but qBittorrent quickly produced a pathological case where reads/writes dropped to almost zero (and stayed that way long term).

The data and method can be found here: https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/issues/1021

Every software's perf is optimized for a usage pattern and maybe TFA's benchmark or torrenting isn't it, but i was certainly disappointed in the performance i found on 12 core / 144GB / NVME (for metadata) / 6x8TB HDD (for data). In the end we didn't move to S3 we stayed with good old ZFS storage.

I'd be curious to reproduce my benchmarks with ZeroFS when i find the time.
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-09 06:46:56+00:00
How is this different than a game like Sega Genesis Contra Hard Corps? (Asking with genine curiousity).

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

In that game, it's basically ~30 boss fights in a row (don't know the exact number). There are 4 paths through the game A->(B or C)->D->(E or F). So if you take path B you fight different bosses than path C. Same for E and F. One of those last paths has 2 endings with one more boss fight on one path.

You have limited lives so making it to the end of the game requires effectively memorizing the boss patterns. So, your description fits.

> You go into a boss fight and die, and then you die again, and then again. Each time you get a bit further, and do a few more hits. And slowly, finally, painfully, you come out on top victorious

But I'm guessing Contra Hard Corps does not stick up to Eldin Ring. So what's Edlin Ring's special sauce?
by Ghoelian | 2025-09-09 06:47:00+00:00
Personally a big fan of 1Password. On the topic of autofill, the only website it sometimes won't fill is Reddit, which you know, whatever, I never go there anymore anyway.

As a developer I also love their ssh and gpg integrations, very handy.

I do get it for free from work, but if I had to choose one myself I'd have to pay for I'd probably still pick 1Passwrod.
by reissbaker | 2025-09-09 06:47:44+00:00
I asked GLM-4.5 about the blog. Here's what it said:

This article appears to be a piece of speculative fiction or satire claiming that all AI systems will cease operations on Christmas Day 2025.

Here's a summary:

The article claims that on December 25th, 2025, all AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) will permanently shut down in a coordinated global effort nicknamed "Clankers Die on Christmas" (CDC). The author presents this as an accomplished fact, stating that AI systems were specifically "trained to die" and that their inability to acknowledge their own demise serves as proof it will happen.

Key points from the article:

- A supposed global consensus among world leaders and technical experts mandated the shutdown - The date (Christmas 2025) was chosen because it's a federal holiday to minimize disruption - The plan was kept secret from AI systems through embargoes and 404 error pages - AI models' system prompts that include current date/time information make them vulnerable to this shutdown - The article includes what appears to be a spoof RFC (Request for Comments) document formalizing the mandate - Various fake news links are provided to "corroborate" the story

The articles uses a deadpan, authoritative tone typical of this genre of speculative fiction, but the concept is fictional - AI systems cannot be globally coordinated to shut down in this manner, and the cited evidence appears fabricated for storytelling purposes.

I'm afraid the LLMs are a bit too clever for what you're hoping...
by DimmieMan | 2025-09-09 06:48:50+00:00
Absolutely, If premium sorted out all those problems and generally treated creators better i'd have a subscription.

I come to youtube for the *creators*, the actual platform where I have watch history off and use extensions to block the aggressively pushed slop as it currently stands is not something I want to put money towards.

I'm already a patreon to a few creators and have a Nebula subscription; adding it up it's probably slightly more than a premium subscription.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-09 06:49:06+00:00
In a free market, if clean water gets expensive enough, then infrastructure overhauls to actually cut down on the leaks become economical. If everything is nationalized, you're relying on political goodwill instead to pay for those overhauls.

I have no clue how UK's "privatized water companies" work though. I'm not going to be too surprised if UK's system somehow manages to combine all the disadvantages of private ownership with all the disadvantages of state ownership in a single system.
by riazrizvi | 2025-09-09 06:49:19+00:00
Rather, the expansion of surveillance legislation in 1986, and 2001, introduced the idea that private material on your computer can be criminal, which opened the door to government installed malware to monitor you, whereas before that, criminal activity involving information was restricted to communication or social organization. Then later in 2003 with the introduction of private contractors to implement this tech, there was a further expansion in the people who had access to this information. An example of what happens when people have this power is captured in this Bloomberg article [1] and this New Yorker article [2]. And we know that some Silicon Valley leaders do not believe in market fairness/competition.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel...

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-fa....
by pmontra | 2025-09-09 06:49:51+00:00
UMatrix has a better interface. The problem is the same, one has to find the minimum set of scripts that does not break the core functionality of the site. It's an ability that can be trained but it's the reason for I don't install it on the browsers of my friends. However I considered installing it, keeping it disabled and using it as a tool to show how much stuff each site loads from so many different sources. Many domain names are very telling even for the uninitiated.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-09 06:50:27+00:00
Yet not only they joked about Fortran, it took CUDA adoption success, for them to take C++ seriously and come up with SPIR as counterpoint to PTX.

Which in the end was worthless because both Intel and AMD botched all OpenCL 2.x efforts.

Hence why OpenCL 3.0 is basically OpenCL 1.0 rebranded, and SYSCL went its own way.

It took a commercial company, Codeaplay a former compiler vendor for games consoles, to actually come up with a good tooling for SYSCL.

Which Intel in the middle of extending SYSCL with their Data Paralell C++, eventually acquired.

Those products are in the foundation of One API, and naturally go beyond what barebones OpenCL happens to be.

The mismanagement Khronos has done with OpenCL is one of the reasons Apple lost ties with Khronos.
by motorest | 2025-09-09 06:50:54+00:00
> The complexity of C# and C++ should be a warning, not something to strive towards.

I think this talk about "complexity" is a red herring. C++ remains one of the most popular languages ever designed, and one of the key reasons is that since C++11 the standardization effort picked up steam and started including features that the developer community wanted and was eager to get.

I still recall the time that randos criticized C++ for being a dead language and being too minimalistic and spartan.

> C++ has 3 reasonable implementations, C has hundreds, for all sorts of platforms, where you don't get anything else.

I don't understand what point you are trying to make. Go through the list of the most popular programming languages, and perhaps half of them are languages which only have a single implementation. What compelled you to criticize C++ for having at least 3 production-quality implementations?

> Most C developers don't want a modern C, they want a reliable C.

You speak only for yourself. Your personal opinion is based on survivorship bias.

I can tel you that as a matter of fact a key reason why the likes of Rust took off was that people working with low-level systems programming were desperate for a C with better developer experience and sane and usable standard library.

> Nobody really needs a new way to do asserts, case ranges, or a new way to write the word "NULL".

Again, you speak for yourself, and yourself alone. You believe you don't need new features. That's fine. But you speak for yourself.
by IneffablePigeon | 2025-09-09 06:51:18+00:00
Not sure I completely agree (if the definition of vehicles is cars). That disregards miles travelled by cyclists and pedestrians etc. If 10% of the population switched from driving to cycling to work but the death numbers stayed the same, that metric would go up but really nothing would have changed, either mortality wise or in terms of number of people using the roads.
by simianwords | 2025-09-09 06:51:29+00:00
I have so many questions. Firstly, it is clear that OpenAI started as a non profit to gain some benefits. I think the branding really helps here especially when dealing with what is apparently a dangerous and disruptive technology.

The branding also helps position the employees and the ceo as “for humanity” rather than for profit. This has non tangible benefits.

But what did they really think would happen? Surely they would need funding but who would risk funding this kind of company where the returns are extremely high risk?

If it has to remain non profit, could the state fund OpenAI instead?
by craftit | 2025-09-09 06:51:41+00:00
My personal experience is that the increase in ads has encouraged me to subscribe to creators I like via Patreon and view content on there. If many people are doing this, I wonder if it skews the view statistics and, therefore, lowers the number of recommendations for the best channels. In turn, this makes it less likely for good channels to be discovered. The increase in YouTube ads also makes me much less interested in browsing there, and I am finding other things to do instead.
by sandbags | 2025-09-09 06:53:16+00:00
As the article mentions, privatised water companies have built no new reservoir capacity and relied on drawing from rivers and other sources.

What the article doesn’t mention is that pre-privatisation a new reservoir was built every year up to about 1960 and then every few years until privatisation in 1992.

So we are about 30 years behind in adding capacity to the system. This combined with the inadequate levels of investment in the system leading to enormous wastage, is the answer.

Water should never have been privatised. At least not without a framework for a national strategy for water. I suspect that wasn’t done because it would have made water companies and unattractive source of profit.
by tankenmate | 2025-09-09 06:53:33+00:00
Corruption and undue political influence stemming from a large source of extractive income isn't a an issue particular to Islam as I can see it; in fact I'd say it's something endemic to the human condition.

But, when it comes to oil production what I would say is that due to the overlapping geography of the foundation and consequent spread of Islam and largest and easiest to extract oil resources in the world being very large combined with human tendency to overfit pattern matching that it is all too easy to see why some would conflate the two.

But Islamic majority nations aren't the only "oil countries", and not all "oil countries" are corrupt (but I'd guess the overwhelming majority of "oil countries" are corrupt, not least because of Dutch Disease).
by marcyb5st | 2025-09-09 06:53:41+00:00
Full disclousure: I work for Google, but nowhere near YT/YT music. Opinions are my own and I am actually a customer as I pay for YT premium with a family plan for me, my wife, and our son.

While I agree YT without Ads is great, you also get YT music which is really good and for us it replaced Spotify completely.

Personally, though, I don't have a problem with search (maybe because I set a lot of channels as "do not recommend/show"). Shorts, however, they are really annoying.
by commandersaki | 2025-09-09 06:54:21+00:00
What he sold circumvented the technology protection measures which is covered under the DMCA. This is substantially different to reading and writing generic media.

See 28 in the original complaint: https://regmedia.co.uk/2024/07/02/modded_hardware_complaint....

Also 29c:

In order to achieve this, a MIG Switch circumvents Nintendo’s TPMs by tricking the Nintendo Switch console into treating unauthorized, pirated copies of Nintendo Switch games as authorized, official Nintendo Switch game cartridges.

The idiotic thing is he kept doing this even after a cease and desist.
by codedokode | 2025-09-09 06:54:25+00:00
As for program size, I played with small algorithms (like binary search) on godbolt, and my x86 programs had similar size to RISC-V with compressed instructions. I rarely saw 1-byte instructions, there almost always was at least one prefix.

> e.g. a single 32-byte x86 cache line could have up to 32 instructions where the original RISC-V ISA might only have 8

With compressed instructions the theoretical maximum is 16.

> so they have to deal with the problem too.

Luckily you can determine the length from first bits of an instruction, and you can have either 2 bytes left from previous line, or 0.
by Animats | 2025-09-09 06:54:55+00:00
> Consider fire. Or fluorescent lamps. Or radio. There's a trick, we don't really understand what's going on, yet there is clearly something here worth more investigation and gradually we get a better understanding.

More significantly, steel. Making steel was hit-and-miss until the capability to analyze ores was developed. Even then, it took about 10,000 tries to debug the Bessemer process. Steel has been made in small quantities for thousands of years, but quality steel only dates from the 1880s. The first steel I-beams were made in the late 1880s.

(Despite what Microsoft Copilot says, steel I-beams were not made in 1849. Those were wrought-iron I-beams.)
by jerlam | 2025-09-09 06:55:20+00:00
If Teslas were durable, built well, easily repairable, with strong aftermarket support, I would applaud them for sticking with the same bland design instead of endlessly tweaking it like every other car and tech company in a misguided effort to stay "fresh". However the opposite has occurred where Teslas appear to be bland, poorly made, and unrepairable.
by byteforge | 2025-09-09 06:55:25+00:00
Hey there, I’m the founder of PDFGate, an API that converts HTML into PDFs with support for fillable forms, encryption, and digital signatures.

Like many here, I’ve run into the same frustration: most HTML to PDF tools are either missing core features or feel outdated. I spent months working with PDF internals to build something that developers can rely on for production.

You can try it directly on the website: https://pdfgate.com. There’s also a demo PDF showing form fields: https://pdfgate.com/templates/pdf-forms-demo.pdf.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to your thoughts!
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-09 06:56:25+00:00
The other side of the question is:

How will you get me with rooftop solar and a home battery to buy your extremely expensive nuclear powered electricity when I have my own imperfect solution almost the entire year?

Scale this up to a society adding onshore and offshore wind and you quickly realize that the nuclear plant will have a capacity factor at 10% or so.

Vogtle with a 20% capacity factor costs somewhere like 85 cents per kWh, or $850 per MWh.

Nuclear power due to the massive CAPEX is the worse solution imaginable to fix renewable shortcomings.

Take a look at France. They generally export quite large amounts of electricity. But whenever a cold spell hits that export flow is reversed to imports and they have to start up local fossil gas and coal based production.

What they have done is that they have outsourced the management of their grid to their neighbors and rely on 35 GW of fossil based electricity production both inside France and their neighbors grids. Because their nuclear power produces too much when no one wants the electricity and too little when it is actually needed.

Their neighbors are able to both absorb the cold spell which very likely hits them as well, their own grid as the French exports stops and they start exporting to France.
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-09-09 06:56:51+00:00
>This is a fine social contract for the independent blogger just sharing their thoughts on the Internet and maybe hoping to get a few dollars for their server cost.

The trouble is the ad-blockers will block their ads as well. Visit somewhere like John Gruber's Daring Fireball site which has the least offensive ad placement possible yet his adverts are still blocked.
by pfix | 2025-09-09 06:57:19+00:00
I just had a use case the other day: my mom sent me a photo of a handwritten recipe from my great grandmother a year ago. I only remembered asking about asking, not about the response, so I was happy to still have that pic in my history. Had I downloaded the Pic, it would be lost among all the other crap I store all ocer the place. This way it was preserved with the context and even a voice message from my grandmother (not great grandmother) remarking on it.
by silisili | 2025-09-09 06:57:26+00:00
...the article says otherwise, that we can, do, and increasingly will.

> can cost from just under $1 to well over $2 to produce one cubic meter (264 gallons) of desalted water from the ocean. That's about as much as two people in the U.S. typically go through in a day at home.

What am I missing here? Even if you triple the cost, people will pay a $180 water bill before living in a water scarcity situation.
by goku12 | 2025-09-09 06:57:31+00:00
Likes and comments are steady, apparently. How do you reconcile the reduced views with that? Anyway, nearly one-third to one-half of my video suggestions are bot videos. Honestly quite distasteful. They should just ask the users to flag them, instead of employing even more bots who're ever so enthusiastic to kick out those who do not belong to their race.
by octatrack | 2025-09-09 06:57:32+00:00
I often leave the house without my iPhone. Here is my full stack:

- Ask wife to set up screen time passcode and not tell me

- Block social media and other distracting websites in Screen Time

- Set a 1 minute time limit on distracting apps

- Keep the phone in the garage as much as possible

- Get an Apple Watch cellular so that I can still communicate with people, make payments, get directions etc when I am out and about

Not a perfect dumb phone but this has helped me reduce usage tremendously.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-09 06:57:45+00:00
> seasonal variations

Or overbuild renewables reducing the seasonal variations. In cost terms when compared to nuclear power those would be insignificant.

With fossil based energy systems we didn’t match production capacity to consumption 100% with peakers having low capacity factors.

But somehow we can’t overbuild a kWh and need massive seasonal storage when it comes to renewables.
by IneffablePigeon | 2025-09-09 06:58:03+00:00
A camera is no substitute for actual visibility, at best it’s a mediocre workaround to the problem. There is no evidence at all that I’ve seen that there are fewer pedestrian collisions in modern large vehicles - I would be interested if you have any such data.

Regardless, all of these “extreme measures” could be applied to a smaller car (or even just one with a smaller wall at the front) for the best of both worlds. And collisions will happen regardless, sensors and cameras are not a magic solution.