MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fluoridation | 2025-09-09 03:43:19+00:00
I didn't want to criticize, but since you've already opened the door: these are interesting to me as sheer sensory stimulation, but the problem that might dissuade a lot of people is that there's no structure to most of the pieces (save for the ones that are based on distorting an existing image). Without structure there's no narrative, and no reason for someone to become interested in any given piece beyond, as I said, sensory stimulation. On that note, most the color palettes are very tasteful; if coldcode is picking them algorithmically, that's pretty impressive.

Let's be honest here: the craft here is not on the images themselves. It's on the algorithms that are producing them. A solution to the problem of quantity would be to make the algorithms available to play with. I could see someone going "okay, I want something sort of like [1], but made my own. I'll toy with the parameters until I get something I like and then order a print." Two or three sample images for each algorithm, instead of six years' worth of images, would work way better.

[1] https://andrewwulf.com/detail/the-pinecone.html
by jhhh | 2025-09-09 03:43:59+00:00
"That gap isn’t just theoretical—it shows up in real bills."

"That’s not linear growth—it’s a quantum leap"

"The performance and recall were fantastic—but the costs were brutal"

"it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution—it’s the right tool for the right job."

"S3 Vectors is excellent for cold, cheap, low-QPS scenarios—but it’s not the engine you want to power a recommendation system"

"S3 Vectors doesn’t spell the end of vector databases—it confirms something many of us have been seeing for a while"

"that’s proof positive that vector storage is a real necessity—not just “indexes wrapped in a database."

"the vector database market isn’t being disrupted—it’s maturing into a tiered ecosystem where different solutions serve different performance and cost needs"

"The golden age of vector databases isn’t over—it’s just beginning."

"The bigger point is that Milvus is evolving into a system that’s not only efficient and scalable, but AI-native at its core—purpose-built for how modern applications actually work."
by pansa2 | 2025-09-09 03:44:29+00:00
> you are supposed to willingly explore the game world, you know, the core of a Metroidvania

This is why I bounced off Hollow Knight despite enjoying similar games like Metroid, Ori etc. The “shade” system actively discourages exploration: when you die, the game wants you to go back to the same place over and over, instead of going a different way or trying something new.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-09 03:44:33+00:00
Unlike Tesla, legacy OEMs are prohibited from owning dealerships in the US. They make the same (or more) money selling the parts to an independent shop. They only lose out on things like certification / training / diagnostic equipment with third party shops that don't buy everything the way a dealership is required to.

The relationship between dealerships and OEMs is complicated, incestuous and fundamentally adversarial.
by monero-xmr | 2025-09-09 03:46:47+00:00
Collectibles have a lot of friction, and being physical they have a lot of middlemen and questions. If I want to speculate on an investment, even property would be far more liquid, let alone something disambiguated like company stock. I think investing in physical collectibles for a quick flip is pretty dumb. Why not buy domains related to the same subject? Far easier
by giveita | 2025-09-09 03:47:37+00:00
Part of the owl can be how consumers upgrade. Don't get the latest patches but keep things up to date. Secondary sources of information about good versions to upgrade to and when. Allows time for vulns to be discovered like this before upgrading. Assumption is people can detect vulns before mass of people installing, which I think is true. Then you just need exceptions for critical security fixes.
by eigencoder | 2025-09-09 03:48:54+00:00
I have been doing this exact same thing for about a year, this guy is basically me! I love it so far. One difference with his setup, I also set up my Configurator profile so that I can only navigate to whitelisted websites, and I haven't whitelisted anything. This means I have no browser whatsoever (even the in-app ones, like in Maps or FB Messenger, don't work).
by fluoridation | 2025-09-09 03:49:06+00:00
>There's no reason to believe that the average painting would continually go up in value.

If I had to guess, on average works of art go down in value, simply because of how much is produced.

>Some random pieces blowing up in value if the artist becomes famous later, but most would go nowhere.

That's exactly where speculation comes from. It's the same as any form of gambling. On average you're losing money, but every once in a while one lucky guy makes off like a bandit.
by toast0 | 2025-09-09 03:49:28+00:00
Fossify Launcher looks to fit my needs, maybe. I can't see how to make the app list a button instead of having to drag up (I am anti-gesture. The only gesture I want to make in connection with a computer is obscene)

Also having some issues getting widgets on there... But Android is Android, so I'm sure it's not Fossify Launcher's fault, I had the widget I wanted and then I removed it cause I wanted a different size, and it won't add again. A restart will probably help. (Spoiler: it didn't)

Would also be nice if I could make widgets 2.5 columns wide. I like a 5 wide screen, but I want two widgets to share the screen width.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-09-09 03:49:44+00:00
> Gigabyte-branded 5090 PCIe GPU

The hottest one on the consumer market

> The eGPU box has some custom cooling

Custom liquid cooling to tame the enormous TDP

> and a nice little PSU

Yeah, an 850W one.

>were to design one of their GPU cards specifically and only to be shipped inside an eGPU enclosure that was designed together with it

And why they would do so?

Do you understand what it would drive the price a lot?

> at a better price(!)

With less production/sales numbers than a regular 5090 GPU? No way. Economics 101.

> the card being this weird nonstandard-form-factor non-card-edged thing

Even if we skip the small series nuances (which makes this a non-starter by the price alone), there is a little what some other 'nonstandard-form-factor' can do for the cooling - you still need the RAM near the chip... and that's all. You just designed the same PCIe card for the sake of it being incompatible..

> won't ... plug into a PCIe slot

Again - why? What this would provide what the current PCIe GPU lacks? BTW you still need the 16 lines of PCIe and you know which connector provides the most useful and cost effective way to do so? A regular 16x PCIe connector. That one you ditched.

> the card being shaped less like a peripheral card and more like a motherboard

You don't need to 're-design it from scratch', it's enough not to be constrained with a 25cm limit to have a proper air-flow along a properly oriented radiator.

> why those factory-sealed Samsung T-series external NVMe pucks

Lol: https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-am-i-taking-this-samsung-t...
by bitmasher9 | 2025-09-09 03:51:50+00:00
AI is just capital, you said it yourself. AI just adds more capital to the capital + labor = more capital equation. The more value capital brings in comparison to labor, the more value capital takes from the result compared to labor.

The issue is the increasing imbalance of capital being overvalued compared to labor, and how that has a negative impact on most individuals.
by treyfitty | 2025-09-09 03:52:06+00:00
Eh, idk who Hinton is, but I’d cut him some slack for making both statements- I could imagine a case where “creatives” can semantically be understood as “new blue collar.” Musicians, dancers, photographers… are not blue color manufacturing employees, but they are fiscally more similar than their white collar counterparts. It’s possible he used inconsistent terms because he really means “low-wage employees who are far away from the monetary benefit creation decisions,” but that’s a mouthful
by TriangleEdge | 2025-09-09 03:52:27+00:00
Spoilers:

Silksong has arenas with 3 mobs that throw discs plus you. Idk about you, but I can't track 7 things moving at once. This isn't fun. Nor is it challenging, you just have to get lucky. I like Silksong, but the only way some the bosses were made challenging was because of constant adds. Hollow Knight rarely had this.
by haskellshill | 2025-09-09 03:52:50+00:00
> If LibreOffice started from scratch

What do you mean though? Libreoffice wrote their application from scratch, did they not? And they managed to implement a superior serialization format, did they not? And they managed to get that format standardized without bribing and cheating, did they not?

What you're saying is akin to "those residents of banana republics are just frustrated capitalism (and a little help from the CIA) is beating democracy"

> We do need for-profit alternatives to Word

Why does it have to be for profit?
by asukachikaru | 2025-09-09 03:54:05+00:00
I also played Elden Ring recently. I wish I could share your dopamine rush because I never had one during the playthrough. Certain bosses caused so much frustration that the net sense of achievement for the game was negative for a decent margin. I've also played Dark Souls and Sekiro and I found them better on this aspect. After beating them after an extended period of struggling, my thought was not "I finally got it" but rather "I hope there aren't more bs like this".

Shameless plug and possibly spoilers: I wrote about this in my blog https://asukawang.com/blog/bitter-masterpiece.
by kadoban | 2025-09-09 03:54:35+00:00
> Intel is doing poorly, but I believe Apple was in much, much worse shape than this in the early 2000's. AMD was also in much, much worse shape that this.

Were they really? I don't think Intel is going anywhere any time soon either, but damn do they seem in bad shape. AMD, didn't they just have lackluster products for a few years and they were kind of the scrappy budget underdogs? I don't recall their fate seeming so...hopeless.
by s20n | 2025-09-09 03:55:45+00:00
> Why Microsoft’s Motive Wasn’t Deliberate Sabotage

I absolutely do not agree.

Not only is the standard overly complex, Microsoft also indulged in all sorts of unscrupulous activities to corrupt various National Standards Organisations to get it approved through the ISO <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...>, which is clear evidence of malicious intent.

This is a quote from Richard Stallman:

> The specifications document was so long that it would be difficult for anyone else to implement it properly. When the proposed standard was submitted through the usual track, experienced evaluators rejected it for many good reasons. Microsoft responded using a special override procedure in which its money buy the support of many of the voting countries, thus bypassing proper evaluation and demonstrating that ISO can be bought.
by asadotzler | 2025-09-09 03:56:42+00:00
It's a 6-seater, but I don't think it fills all of that category gap because it's barely a 6-seater.

All the other 3-rows have decent headroom in that last row. The Kia and Hyundai almost 42 inches. I haven't looked into the Cadillac or Volvo, but from the outside they look about the same.

All but the shortest adults and children will be uncomfortable in the Tesla third row. I'll bet it's used more for groceries than passengers.

To compete in the 3-row market, I think Tesla's gotta build something that can accommodate adults too.
by Panzer04 | 2025-09-09 03:57:03+00:00
Is this meant to be contradicting what I said?

It's all in the OS. There's absolutely no reason RAM can't be managed similarly effectively on a non-integrated product.

Android is just Linux with full attention paid to power saving measures. These OS can get very long battery life, but in my experience the typical experience is something or other keeps the processor active and halves your expected battery life.
by holmesworcester | 2025-09-09 03:57:06+00:00
Electric does make it pretty important that the software is unusually good for a car, though, because the software has to compensate for non-ubiquitous charging infra. Tesla does this very well. There are some quirks around charge scheduling and charge limiting that Tesla does really well too. It's not rocket science but software in most "current cars" is terrible.
by eigenform | 2025-09-09 03:57:28+00:00
> [...] imagine that while you are loading 16 or 32 bytes from instruction cache, you need to predict the address of next loaded chunk in the same cycle, before you even see what you got from cache.

Yeah, you [ideally] want to predict the existence of taken branches or jumps in a cache line! Otherwise you have cycles where you're inserting bubbles into the pipeline (if you aren't correctly predicting that the next-fetched line is just the next sequential one ..)
by fluoridation | 2025-09-09 03:57:34+00:00
Theoretically, if there could be a 1:1 relationship between events in the real world and events on the blockchain, the idea makes sense. If you had two pieces of a machine represented by objects on the blockchain, and when you combined them into a new component that automatically, cryptographically, created a new object on the blockchain, you could track provenance precisely just by having the final assembled product.

The problem is that that relationship doesn't exist and is impossible. If someone wants to tamper with a supply chain, all they need to do is tamper with the real world without letting that reflect on the ledger. And that destroys the entire point of the concept.
by gxs | 2025-09-09 03:58:08+00:00
I never said they don’t allow it, they even have something called google takeout actually that makes it a bit easier

Yes, one way of doing this is to turn on an email client and let it run on your computer for hours and hours to download everything

The problem is that unless you’ve done that incrementally since the beginning, going back and doing it now is unreliable. The take process above is your best bet and probably the best you can actually do, but outside of that there’s nothing that works well

I’ve even written gscripts with different approaches to do it and it always ends up petering out no matter how careful I am

Also, I think some attachments are permanently corrupted because my apps, whatever the app, always hangs when I try to download them

Anyway, this could be made a lot easier if they actually wanted to let people do that

If anything, it’d be great if they had a tool to do it to begin with - I’ve had my account for over 20 years now so just downloading everything is no small feat
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-09 03:58:16+00:00
It is extremely over hyped. The first game was already regularly over hyped. The community is famous for treating as some sort of masterpiece and reacting very strongly to any form of criticism.

Then you have a lot of opinion in the mix. I strongly disagree with the article for exemple on both the extreme difficulty, the game is difficult but manageable, the enjoyment, plenty of questionable design decisions are there purely to spite the player and it’s a game which often confuses wasting your time and being frustrating with being difficult, and the supposed elegance of the movement.

Silksong is really weirdly tuned in that it has mechanics which will actually only bother you and make your experience more painful if you are already struggling while being completely invisible if you are flying through. And the punishment will be grinding, so wasting your time, not actually forcing players to encounter things which would make them better. Amusingly for a game so long in the making, I think it suffers from a significant lack of play testing.
by protocolture | 2025-09-09 04:00:09+00:00
Yep. Scifi and Fantasy reads that break out mainstream these days seem to be universally below average. More and more consumers are demanding less which weirds me out. They want sexless, romanceless, conflict free drivel that just regurgitates feel good memes without any introspection or complex thought.

I straight up dont give people recommendations if they mention liking a subset of authors who are known slop peddlers.
by ggm | 2025-09-09 04:00:28+00:00
> I think we'll agree it's intelligent.

If there's one thing I've found never came true for me, it's almost any sentence of substantive opinion about "philosophy" which starts with "I think we'll agree"

And I do think this AI/AGI question is a philosophy question.

I don't know if you'll agree with that.

Whilst your analogy has strong elements of "consensus not required" I am less sure that applies right now, to what we think about AI/AGI. I think consensus is pretty .. important, and also, absent.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-09 04:01:35+00:00
Can you explain what's wrong with the concept of a container format that allows embedding subdocuments of different types?

> zero consideration given to third-party apps and segment formats

The reality is the opposite. COM serialization was specifically built to allow for composing components (and serializations thereof) that didn't know about each other into a single document. That's why it leans so heavily on GUIDs for names: they avoid collisions without needing coordination. That's a laudable goal, not pointless bloat. And the COM people implemented it pretty efficiently too!

> C++ data structures

What gives you that idea? Yes, the OLE stream thing was a binary format, but so is DER for ASN.1. Every webpage you load goes over a binary tagged object format not too different from OLE/COM's.

But due to a persistence of myths from the 90s, people still think of the Office binary format as "horrible" when it's actually quite elegant, especially considering the problems the authors had to solve and their constraints in doing so.

In many ways, we've regressed.

> Markup

The author of the article nails it when he says ODF is meant to be a markup language and OOXML is the serialization of an object graph. So what? Do people write ODF by hand? There are countless JSON formats just as inscrutable as MSO's legacy streams.

Anyway, the idea that the MSO binary format was crap because it was binary, lazy, and represented a "memory dump" is an old myth that just won't die. It wasn't a memory dump, it wasn't lazy, and it wasn't crap. Yes, there are real problems with some of the things people put inside the OLE container, but it's facile and wrong to blame the container or the OLE stream composition model for the problem.
by freejazz | 2025-09-09 04:02:44+00:00
Do you think the sexual solicitation of minors should not be illegal? Whether or not it's the parent's responsibility to protect their own children is besides the point. It can also be true that others facilitate and turn a blind eye. I can only assume you think a party in the scenario (one who connects a child with a sexual solicitor) should bear no responsibility? Either civilly or criminally?

> I don't agree that anything can be objectively harmful.

How principled of you. Why don't you go shoot yourself in the head and report back.
by cortesoft | 2025-09-09 04:03:02+00:00
Ok, then I guess I don't understand your point in your first comment. You seemed to be explaining what approach you would take to invest in collectible in your first comment, by saying you would only buy something that has established value.

I agree that trying to make money from collectibles is not the best way to make money. But then if you aren't buying collectibles for money, your first comment doesn't follow; you should collect things you want to collect yourself, which means it shouldn't matter their ability to hold value.
by 3np | 2025-09-09 04:03:42+00:00
> For all the controversy DOGE has generated, its time at the Social Security Administration has not amounted to looming armageddon, as some Democrats warn. What it’s been, as much as anything, is a missed opportunity, according to interviews with more than 35 current or recently departed Social Security officials and staff, who spoke on the condition of anonymity mostly out of fear of retaliation by the Trump administration

There's a contradiction there. Fear (and real risk) of retaliation from the White House for speaking up is a new and bad thing.
by gobdovan | 2025-09-09 04:03:59+00:00
Hinton is the guy from the article. He is a big figure in AI research.

For context: he once argued AI could handle complex tasks but not drawing or music. Then when Stable Diffusion appeared, he flipped to "AI is creative." Now he's saying carpentry will be the last job to be automated, so people should learn that.

The pattern is sweeping, premature claims about what AI can or can't do that don't age well. His economic framing is similarly simplified to the point of being either trivial or misleading.
by triceratops | 2025-09-09 04:04:24+00:00
> The US per capita emissions appear to be on a steady downward trend since 1850. You have to admit, that's something that demands unpacking.

Indeed, because it's extremely wrong. In 1850 the US emitted 0.84 tons per capita. In 2023 it emitted around 14 tons. That is down from around 21 tons in 2000.
by neilv | 2025-09-09 04:04:56+00:00
> First, add tests, then do your changes

This can be a superpower.

I once had to replace a PostgreSQL-interfacing layer of a large+complex+important system, and most of the original tests had been lost.

It's the kind of change that could be an existential risk for a company that needs the system to be available and correct.

So I built a comprehensive test suite for the existing PostgreSQL-interfacing layer, tested it, made drop-in compatible API using the new way to talk with PostgreSQL, tested that, and... the entire huge system simply worked with the replacement, without a lot of headache/defects/dataloss/ulcers.

> Before you change code, you should have tests in place. But to put tests in place, you have to change code.

Keep reading. You don't always have to do it in the heroic way the article described in this section. Modularity and backward-compatible interfaces, FTW, when you can. The "Sprout" and "Wrap" techniques that the article describes later.

Also, one complementary general technique that the article didn't get into is that sometimes you can run two implementations in parallel, and check them against each other. There are various ways you can do this, involving which really implementation really takes effect, and what you do if they don't agree. (Related: voting configurations in critical systems.)

> Characterization tests

The test suite not only let me validate the implementation, but the exercise of developing the test suite also helped me understand exactly what I should be implementing in the first place.

Sometimes I had to look at the implementation, to tentatively figure out the semantics, then testing validated that also.

> Use scratch refactoring to get familiar with the code

In reasonable cultures and with reasonable management, or if you don't tell anyone. Otherwise, it's the same kind of risk as the old "throwaway prototype" problem: someone with authority says "looks good; I told the customer/CEO we just need to make these few more changes, and ship it". Or, in popular Agile/Scrum processes, "I thought you already completed the refactor last sprint; why are you doing it again".
by Javantea_ | 2025-09-09 04:05:39+00:00
Yeah art has objective value and subjective value. Every once in a while you'll find something with a lot of subjective value. Finding something with both is also a thing but it's not easy to find them for a low price.

The reason that expensive art exists is because there's a market. The fact that the market is weird and in decline doesn't change the fact that wealthy people find art to be a worthwhile thing to buy.