MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iamleppert | 2025-09-04 14:51:00+00:00
People could see this coming a mile away. The automakers, whom currently produce the vast majority of vehicles, are tired of financing their competition (Tesla), who for years now has sucked all the air out of the room in the auto industry, despite accounting for a small fraction of vehicle sales overall. The carbon credits are solely responsible for creating Tesla. They created an unfair environment where we have an industry propping up a company that should have never been propped up to begin with. Had it not been for those credits, Tesla would never be able to compete on its own and would have gone bankrupt a long time ago.

Electric vehicles have a dubious environmental impact, require special and costly new infrastructure, are inferior economically and do not align with US policy goals around energy.

Look at every business who has tried to adopt Tesla vehicles and you will see only failure followed by trying to unload the vehicles for a huge loss. Tesla cannot or will not produce a decent work truck, and are grossly disconnected with the needs of the average American (self driving, robots and other such bric-a-brac need not apply).

For those that want to purchase these vehicles, they should remain an option, albeit a minor one. The technology (still quite inferior) needs to stand on its own, not be propped up by the public, the vast majority of us do not want an electric vehicle and will never want one.
by new_here | 2025-09-04 14:52:02+00:00
Agreed, OpenAI and Anthropic want to get as close to the user as possible. Browser is used more often than a specific website or standalone desktop app and much less work than an entire OS. Raycast also seems well positioned but perhaps more niche.

Perhaps Atlassian was sitting on cash and needed to make some bets. If you can build a big enough user base for a browser it can earn handsomely from AdWords type referral fees. Look at what Google pays Apple to be default on Safari and how much referral spend Chrome recouped for Google etc. Maybe Atlassian will try and promote Dia to its customer base and look to launch more AI type commercial product discovery experiences like Perplexity Shopping.
by kbolino | 2025-09-04 14:52:22+00:00
Go has taken exactly this stance, at least since Go 1.22 from 18 months ago.

They settled on 8 rounds of ChaCha with 300 bytes of internal state to amortize the latency. The end result is something only 1.5-2x slower than (their particular flavor of) PCG [1]. It was deemed good enough to become the default.

[1]: https://go.dev/blog/chacha8rand#performance
by altairprime | 2025-09-04 14:52:43+00:00
There’s no profit in converting to electric vehicles: a trillion dollars of electrical infrastructure upgrade costs would come due from corporate apartment holding companies, small-scale landlords, and parking garage owners having to deploy electric outlets of any wattage to every parking spot currently offered to renters (the majority of car owners) today. Just as with COVID and HVAC air exchange rates, the benefits of doing the work are outweighed by the inability to generate recurring corporate revenue from it. Rivian and Tesla have likely reached saturation with the wealthy homeowner market and none of their profits are being forcibly redirected to the unpaid infrastructure costs, so of course the U.S. is stalled on EVs: the U.S. is stalled on at-home EV charging.
by superkuh | 2025-09-04 14:53:05+00:00
It wouldn't be the worst event of that type or even unprecedented. HTTP/3 is not even TCP and barely HTTP anymore. HTTP/3, QUIC, was openwashed through the IETF by google/ms/apple and can't even connect to a website unless that website gets continuing approval from a third party corporation for existing (a CA TLS cert, no self signed, no plain text). It is "secure enterprise HTTP" with every one of it's architectural and implementation choices being driven by the needs and use cases of for-profit enterprises. It is a fairly crap protocol for human persons and the web and sites as we know it.
by Trixter | 2025-09-04 14:53:07+00:00
This is missing one of the finer points of redundancy: With 4 disks, losing two of them could take out a RAID-10 (both halves of a stripe component), but losing two cannot take out a RAID-6.

The fact that btrfs isn't stable after 15+ years for parity setups is, IMO, unreasonable.
by throwup238 | 2025-09-04 14:53:49+00:00
> Hollywood doesn't really do small movies, be it hand drawn or not. The article mentions that Nobody is done at a $10 million budget, I don't think that's really interesting for corporate Hollywood. Sure if it becomes massively successful, it's great, if not it was a lot of work for very little or no profit. That's fine for smaller studios, but if you expect all your movies to gross $1 billion, then trying to do it with a $10 million budget seems unrealistic.

There’s also the issue of Hollywood accounting. The people and studios funding the movies don’t see an all or nothing P&L because they own the companies actually producing the film (that’s how the zero net profit accounting is legally implemented in the industry). An EP like Spielberg putting down $10 million might see $8 million of that back before the film even releases because the project will use their studio for VFX or to shoot part of the movie.

That leaves the costs that are spent outside the industry like advertising and marketing. If you have to spend $100 million on marketing anyway, it just doesn’t make sense to worry about production losses on a $10 million vs $100 million movie.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-04 14:53:59+00:00
> It's not a lack of mechanisms. It's buggy wiring in the brain where at some point in time t some substance or lack thereof forced the brain to reroute blood flow through "paths" that were less impacted by the bug.

I don't think there is any solid basis to say this.

There has been at least one study that linked greater differences between right and left prefrontal cortex blood flow, favoring the right, to greater ADHD symptoms.

> "higher levels of right relative rCBF and lower levels of left relative rCBF were predictors of higher severity of clinical symptom expression" [0]

But developmental differences are pervasively correlated, without contributing to common phenomena, even more so for proximate phenomena, because developmental signals have widespread cascades of impact throughout the body.

This makes the bar for causal claims very high.

There could be no functional correlation, just developmental correlation.

The difference could be causally reverse. I.e. differences in lateral PFC development generated the differences in circulatory recruitment, not the other way around.

Or there is some functional-physical causation, but ADHD is correlated with many other brain differences too. So is it significant?

Then, even if it were significant, Would reducing/increasing blood flow between the post-development sides really have net benefit now? Seems unlikely that any decrease anywhere, even with increases elsewhere, post-development, would be uniformly helpful.

And finally, increasing blood flow is completely different from a re-balance.

Increasing blood flow, or simply increasing oxygen in available air, improves the function of almost everything in the body. Everyone will benefit from more oxygen to the prefrontal cortex, up to a point.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11725823/
by konfusinomicon | 2025-09-04 14:54:11+00:00
best 3 grand i ever spent. my vision was so bad prior I couldn't see the largest letter in the test and afterwards i felt like i could have gone a few levels past the smallest on the test with no issue. after 7 years and my last exam showed I still had 20/20 vision. I can relate with the night driving halos but I had trouble driving at night prior to it too so ymmv. waking up the night of the procedure and walking the dog it was like a whole new world of clarity with the amount of detail I could see of the leaves on the trees backlit by streetlights. the first month is a pain because you can't touch your eyes and you gotta wear goggles to sleep. and being able to see in the shower is pretty cool too.
by pkdpic | 2025-09-04 14:54:22+00:00
My impression was that the author was referring to *self-amplifying like a positive feedback loop.

I agree I would have loved more of a hard / concrete definition oriented approach to the whole piece but everything they were saying really resonated at least in terms of my personal experience. I haven't ever come across a writer focusing on this. It was really unexpected / refreshing. It's already is reshaping little moments in my day like hugging my son just now. Very unexpected transcendental value for an HN skim while ignoring a boring zoom standup. The truth is out there.
by thomasmg | 2025-09-04 14:54:30+00:00
I agree, why would you slow down things for everybody if it's only a problem for cryptographic purposes. Xorshift128+ etc are around 10 to 30 times faster than ChaCha20.

The challenge is things that don't _obviously_ need cryptographically secure generators. For example, do you need a secure generator for the seed of a hash table, or a sorting algorithm? (For those that do use a seed). Some will argue that yes, this is important. Until a few years ago, the hash tables used static hash algorithms without any randomization, but "hash flooding" changed that. I think that nowadays, still many hash table implementations don't use secure generators.

Then, there's secure and insecure hash functions. Secure hash functions like SHA-256 are (compared to non-secure functions) specially slow for short keys. There are "somewhat" secure hash function algorithms like SipHash that can be used for this purpose.
by komali2 | 2025-09-04 14:54:53+00:00
> Everyone was happily getting recording contacts with advances for instruments, studio time and touring logistics until one day MegaCorps said "let's instead move to a model where everyone pays the absolute minimum, if anything at all, and then try to split the much lower profits between the same number of actors?"

Basically yes. Except for the "happily" bit before. Even the biggest artists were always getting shafted by the labels, is it surprising that the labels would fuck their artists over even more given the chance? Taylor Swift's fight with the label may legendary but there's thousands of working musicians out there scraping by getting credits on movies and bigger band releases (jazz and whatnot) and they remain as poor as they ever have, from vinyl through to streaming. So I just don't think it's ever been something that random consumers really influence, it's always been the labels fucking over the artists, and that's where my scale argument comes from.

Me downloading a song has nothing to do with record labels spending the last six decades writing progressively more predatory contracts, fighting every new technology until they can find a way to capture value from it at the expense of their artists, and working with streaming companies to extract every slice of margin they can until the artist gets their $.20 paycheck on ten thousand listens.

This argument I don't like: a company found a way to exploit someone so as to sell people something cheaper and then people bought the cheaper thing. It's thus the consumer's fault that the other people got exploited. I see it all the time and that falls under the same umbrella of what I'm arguing against, the idea that corporations are immune to criticism because they're just profit generating algorithms and actually it's on us to make the world better by not buying what they're selling. Why not just cut out the middle man literally and stop the exploitative behavior?

So far as I know nobody here is arguing musicians shouldn't get paid. I'm arguing the opposite.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-04 14:55:00+00:00
They have tons of assets and not much money. That's part of why the problem is so intractable.

People put limits on what they should be able to own, but if we extend that idea globally (i.e. don't discriminate based on simply where you were born), then most of us in the first world would also be liable to give up our TVs, cars, latops, houses etc. And then suddenly seizing assets is bad...

The problem is not simple or straightforward. It's mostly people who want more complaining about those who also want more.
by ClaraForm | 2025-09-04 14:55:37+00:00
I think the play was something along the lines of being "the new iOS". Lots of new apps (see: LLMs) are browser-first, forgoing building platform-targeting apps entirely. When they couldn't see any app devs lining up to build Arc-specific extensions, apps, or such, they pivoted. Dia was more of an LLM-host browser, with the play being they're hoping for OpenAI or Perplexity or one of the big foundation-players to "pay" to be the "exclusive" AI provider, like old-Google pays to be the default on Safari. But ... both plays didn't find any audience or customer, rightly so, as they didn't try to "fix" anything anyone actually considered a problem, just tried to build a niche their own. :(
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-09-04 14:55:53+00:00
This:

"Oh I didn't actually save the little old ladies when their nursing home burned down. I just made their life a bit easier for a little while, they still all died because they were human"

Is not analogous to this:

"I decided to donate one of my kidneys to make someone's life a little bit easier for a little while".
by bluGill | 2025-09-04 14:56:19+00:00
I started buying safety glasses with side shields. Now I have less worry about something getting into my eye because "it was just one quick cut" accidents. Since my glasses never leave my face I get added protection for free. (it isn't perfect. I know someone who was wearing a face shield over safety glasses and still got something in his eyes - but the chances are greatly reduced)

Once I realized the above was an option I lost all interest in eye correction.
by pembrook | 2025-09-04 14:56:21+00:00
Yes on the single market being a huge issue, but the other "cultural" differences are total BS, and just modern media narratives.

Western Europe and the US had essentially the same level of government safety nets (and government spending and economic growth) from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Who do you think started all of the European industrial giants that are still globally competitive today? Europe had no problem competing in the industrial revolution, if these were actually European values there would be no competitive European industry like there is no competitive European tech. It's only the digital revolution that Europe has struggled with.
by koliber | 2025-09-04 14:56:22+00:00
I am taking a broader definition of ad to include things that also have other names.

- job ads and classified ads that can also be called listings

- ads for events that can also be called notices

- product description on services like Amazon and Ebay

- websites describing products and services

- 1st hand and 2nd hand mentions of products and services online that can be as close to the

Some of the comments here seem to hold only for a narrow definition of ads.

I prefer to think of all of this as marketing, as ads are part of the marketing mix. As we see, the distinction between ads and other similar things is blurry.

I am not defending the volume of ads. There's way too much of it. I am making the unconventional and unpopular statement that sometimes marketing and ads do deliver value.

It's better to narrow the critique of ads the way you did because that leads to a more constructive conversation.
by kadomony | 2025-09-04 14:56:45+00:00
I bet they were already in talks for being acquired and not open sourcing Arc was one of the conditions.

Who knows what Atlassian will do with it, but I did find it a bit frustrating that in the Atlassian blog announcing the acquisition, they showcase images of Arc when they're specifically talking about Dia. The two browsers do not have UI parity, and much of what I loved about Arc would need to be recreated in Dia.
by avazhi | 2025-09-04 14:57:04+00:00
lol

Hug Firefox close, it's an awful world out there, especially with Google being given the greelight to continue their monopolising with Chrome.

I remember being tempted by this thing when it first came out - their asinine sign up waiting list kept me from pursuing it further and then I forgot about it until they eventually fully dumped it and moved into full AI-enshittification territory. There are really 30 years of reasons why most people will never trust a new entrant to the browser market - this is just the latest and probably greatest.

What a shitshow.
by CarbonNanotubes | 2025-09-04 14:57:11+00:00
Honestly I think Dia and any other AI first browsers are a bad idea.You lose out on the exploratory nature of the web. How are you going to stumble upon a random nugget during a web search session that you never would have found otherwise. This kind of thing happens to be frequently when I don't go to AI to figure something out. I find a new product or new library for the language I am currently working with that may not solve my current issue but I come back to later to improve something I am working on.

The web as a whole is also built on this discovery and people visiting pages and interacting with other. This gets lost when you get into the flow of just AI'ing everything.
by olq_plo | 2025-09-04 14:57:43+00:00
Since you seem to know your stuff, why do LLMs need so much data anyway? Humans don't. Why can't we make models aware of their own uncertainty, e.g. feeding the variance of the next token distribution back into the model, as a foundation to guide their own learning. Maybe with that kind of signal, LLMs could develop 'curiosity' and 'rigorousness' and seek out the data that best refines them themselves. Let the AI make and test its own hypotheses, using formal mathematical systems, during training.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-09-04 14:57:45+00:00
Also I can never remember if the Chevy Bolt or the Chevy Volt is fully electric, because bolts and volts are both things associated with electricity, so neither one should obviously be the full electric vs the hybrid. Without looking it up, I would guess that the Volt is full EV, because volts are necessarily to do with electricity whereas I suppose a gas or hybrid car could also "bolt"....and, I'm wrong.
by lubujackson | 2025-09-04 14:57:48+00:00
Don't worry, Japan's got this.

There is a rich pipeline of mangas (comics) to anime (2D animation) that is alive and well there.

The U.S. is obsessed with massive studio efforts that all resolve to the exact same character design and animation style (people want the familiar!) But there is a ton of innovation (including AI and 3D usage) as well as a system to support skill handoff that exists outside of Hollywood.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-04 14:57:50+00:00
The brain is 2-D and 3-D is imposed on it from our technology. Hochberg called this 3-D embedded in 2-D pictorialization and it's inherently more fun than the sterility of enforced, computed 3-D.

CGI and 3-D were simply off-ramps to nowhere.

"Human vision is fundamentally a two-dimensional process where the retinas in our eyes capture flat, 2D images. The perception of three dimensions, or depth, is a complex mental construct, really an illusion, created by the brain using stereoscopic vision, which compares slight differences between the two 2D images from each eye, and other visual cues like shadows, motion parallax, and relative size."
by pbmonster | 2025-09-04 14:57:51+00:00
> I'm not 100% sure the CoMaps "Water" category uses amenity:drinking_water, but I have relied on it for this many times during bike tours or hikes without much surprise

Is there a way to search for the "amenity:drinking_water" tag directly in OSMand or CoMaps (or any other app)? Because this would probably fix everything.

In the end, the apps suffer from the complexity of the underlying data. It probably wasn't a good idea to have drinking water (tourism), drinking water (store) and drinking water (man made), fountain, water tab, well, ... and probably a dozen different categories for map makers to chose from.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-04 14:57:52+00:00
Related:

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931763

Big Tech's A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44905595

The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44910562

AI is booming so are household utility bills

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931763
by mdaniel | 2025-09-04 14:57:57+00:00
> Because of IRC's scandanavian origin, the characters {}| are considered to be the lower case equivalents of the characters []\, respectively

/me facepalms

Text rendering hates you (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478892 - June, 2023 (119 comments)

et al, as there was a follow-up posted in the top comment of that thread

I thought there was an "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Text" but between that link and <https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#international...> it's close enough for the point
by pjmlp | 2025-09-04 14:57:58+00:00
Clang is included on Visual Studio installer for ages.

It was the official answer back when they decided only to do C++ and leave C behind, until the change of heart with C11/C17 support.

Also note Apple and Google aren't any longer the nice sponsors of clang, hence it has also lost steam as other contributors aren't at the same level as they used to be.
by Ukv | 2025-09-04 14:58:06+00:00
> Believe it or not, some people do enjoy a sugary drink from time to time

But does that mean spending billions in resources on getting people to consume more sugary drinks is a net positive?

I don't think so. I think the goal of having more people consume sugary drinks is a net negative even if it were achieved for free, and that the direction our decision-making needs to be pushed (if at all) is towards consuming fewer sugary drinks (to counteract our evolutionary bias towards consuming more than is healthy for us), and probably spending less of our time hearing/thinking about them too.

> One problem is that people sometimes think of ads as only web display ads. They are not aware that there are many other kinds of ads. Independent review sites, travel blogs, [...]

Still seems to come back to the same issue - sure you can hold a broad definition of "ads" that includes independent travel blogs if you want, but that isn't what the "fellow techy, working on serving ads" in question is working on, or what people are talking about when they complain about someone being paid to shove a product in their face unsolicited when they're trying to look at something else.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-04 14:58:37+00:00
Most of the times Minesweeper is deterministic, and you can just think and get an empty spot. From time to time, you are unlucky and has to guess.

A few years ago, I modified the version of minesweeper in the "Games" collection of Racket to get more mines per board and get more hard cases. (I added the trick to autoopen the squares that have enough flags around, so it solved all the easy cases and it was more fun. I never upstreamed the changes...)

I like Dragonsweeper (discussed in a sibling comment) because it has a more clear probability and information tradeoff.