MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dr-jia-yu | 2025-09-25 04:18:46+00:00
You’re absolutely asking the right question. As we noted in Future Work section of the SpatialBench result (https://sedona.apache.org/spatialbench/single-node-benchmark...), this benchmark is focused on geospatial analytical queries. For these workloads, features like columnar layout, vectorized execution, zero-copy, and zero SerDe provide huge performance benefits.

While PostGIS is often used for spatial analytics because of its rich spatial function coverage, it is fundamentally a transactional database. This design makes it less suited for analytical query performance, and including it directly in SpatialBench would risk claims of being an “apples-to-oranges” comparison. That’s why we exclude PostGIS from the published benchmark results.

That said, we do continuously validate against PostGIS. For every single function in SedonaDB, we maintain an automated PyTest benchmark framework (https://github.com/apache/sedona-db/tree/main/benchmarks) that compares both speed and correctness against DuckDB and PostGIS. This ensures we catch regressions early and guarantees correctness. You can even run these benchmarks yourself to see how SedonaDB performs. It is often extremely fast in practice.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-25 04:19:11+00:00
Something along those lines, but you need it to be architectured in such a way that no organization can capture the network effect in order to set up a choke point. You need all moderation to be applied on the client, or you'll have large servers doing things like banning everyone from new/small independent servers by default so that people have to sign up with them instead. The protocol needs to make that impossible or the long-term consequences are predictable.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-25 04:20:00+00:00
> mostly by the shift from SLC (1 bit/cell) to TLC (3 bits) and QLC (4 bits) and from planar to 300+ layer 3D flash

That "and" is doing a lot of work.

In 2012 most flash was MLC.

In 2025 most flash is TLC.

> During that time HDD technology was pretty stagnant, with a mere 2x increase due to higher platter count with the use of helium.

They've advanced slower than SSDs but it wasn't that slow. Between 2012 and 2025, excluding HAMR, sizes have improved from 4TB to 24TB and prices at the low end have improved from $50/TB to $12/TB.
by rtfeldman | 2025-09-25 04:20:43+00:00
It's actively being worked on - there have been 8 font rendering PRs in the past 3 weeks, most recently yesterday: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Ac...

A downside that comes with the territory of building the rendering pipeline from scratch is needing to work through the long tail of complex and tradeoff-heavy font rendering issues on different displays, operating systems, drivers, etc.

I know it's taking awhile to get through, but I agree it's important!
by brokenmachine | 2025-09-25 04:20:58+00:00
Yeah, people can just be dickheads too.

There seems to be zero consequence for ruining the environment currently.

If you're happy with that, you do you.

I'd rather if something was done about the "elective" noises that we have around, like ridiculously loud leaf blowers, pointlessly loud motorbikes and cars, etc.

I don't think it's fair to say, "just uproot your entire life and move somewhere else" because people are being dickheads.
by int_19h | 2025-09-25 04:21:21+00:00
Your words amount to saying that freedom is only allowed when it's meaningless because nobody is actually exercising it in any way that matters.

Separately from that, I don't think that the original US constitution - you know, the document that explicitly protected the interests of slave owners, i.e. the vilest kind of filth - could be meaningfully said to be made for "a moral and religious People". Or, if we take that at face value, then that tells us volumes about the value of said morals and said religion, and it's deeply negative.
by ScionOfDesign | 2025-09-25 04:21:24+00:00
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by cogman10 | 2025-09-25 04:22:13+00:00
> and compute cost

It'd definitely be tricky to get the computational performance that you'd want out of it. I'd imagine it'd be pretty easy to accidentally bust caches.

To solve for that, you could double your frame size and store the prev/next in an alternating fashion. IE [n, p, n, p, n, p] That way when you xor you are always working with highly local memory sets. You'd want to keep the frame basically global to avoid allocating.

If you wanted to be super clever then you could probably SIMD this up doing something like [n, n, n, n, p, p, p, p]. I'm not sure how you'd turn that into RLE in SIMD. I'm not clever enough for that :D (but I'm sure someone has done it).

But as you said, complexity would definitely increase rather than decrease even though you could get much better compute time.
by jerryliu12 | 2025-09-25 04:22:47+00:00
If I had to put a grade on my own experience and evals, Gemini 2.5 pro produces A- results and qwen2.5vl is maybe like B-/C+. Obviously everything's nondetermistic, so it's hard to guarantee a level of quality.

I'm reading through papers that suggest it should be possible to get SOTA performance on local models via distillation, and that's what I'll experiment with next.
by NaOH | 2025-09-25 04:23:59+00:00
>The other issue, I would say the main issue, is that the controls remain on top of the video for several seconds after you're done manipulating them. So you keep having a darkened video for several seconds every time you adjust something, which is a degraded viewing experience. This happens even with play/pause.

This is a more detailed, informative critique of the Tahoe change than is in the post, where all that's specifically written as evaluation is,

>Seriously, why??? I thought Liquid Glass was supposed to “bring greater focus to content”? Darkening videos brings less focus to content!
by 827a | 2025-09-25 04:24:21+00:00
To clarify one small point: You have to be a US Citizen to be an Air Traffic Controller. But, I understand your broader point.

Before raising the fee to $100,000 this week, the "official" fees one would pay to apply for an H1-B were, effectively, $0. Employers would pay a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, depending on their size. There might be some "unofficial" fees like lawyer and advisor fees to help with the process, but in essence: your "wild idea" was the status quo for 35 years.

At the end of the day, relying on temporary immigration programs to backstop critical job shortages isn't sustainable on the long-term. Its not fair to citizens, and its oftentimes not fair to the temporary immigrant either. The more efficient and feasible solution to these shortages is to incentivize citizens to enter these roles.
by whartung | 2025-09-25 04:24:40+00:00
But you know what? The bulk of the players are not degenerate gamblers. Most even know the odds are against them.

Yet they play anyway. Why? They LIKE to play. They enjoy the games. They enjoy the environment. They’re not all there trying to get money for rent on their trailer or for more cigarettes.

Hanging out at a Vegas sportbook on Super Bowl Sunday is fun. Going to a track, nice day in the sun, couple bucks on some ponies — it’s fun. Spend some time at a crowded, loud, hot crap table. It’s fun, it’s exciting.

Most folks have their head on their shoulders. Most folks have a budget.

Yes, it’s predatory. History and the media is filled with stories about the dark side of it. I, as a rule, don’t support it. If it shows up on a ballot, I vote it down. I wish the local tribes were renowned for their light industry and engineering firms instead of gaming.

But to characterize anyone who enjoys the play as a fool is painting with a very broad brush.
by wraptile | 2025-09-25 04:24:52+00:00
> fortunately it is now easier than ever to do small-scale scraping, the kind yt-dlp does.

this is absolutely not the case. I've been web scraping since 00s and you could just curl any html or selenium the browser for simple automation but now it's incredibly complex and expensive even with modern tools like playwright and all of the monthly "undetectable" flavors of it. Headless browsers are laughably easy to detect because they leak the fact they are being automated and that they are headless. Not to even mention all of the fingerprinting.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-25 04:25:33+00:00
OAI/Anthropic/Big AI players today never ever need to become profitable... The same way roads never need to become profitable by themselves. This per token charge is like tolls, it has nothing to do with the costs.

AI, just like cloud was before this, is being treated as "infrastructure". The reason people invest in roads is not to make money from the road itself, but rather recuper all the losses from the new extremely profitable businesses that will come on top of this infrastructure. To the stock ticker, this looks like a boom+bust cycle. But really, it's a bust+boom cycle as far as the investors are concerned. Saudi Arabia don't give a hoot about transformers, but they know if they invest their large amounts of capital in the new infrastructure - huge models in expensive datacenters using cities worth of power, they can invest in the many new hyper profitable businesses on top. Also helps that it locks in demand for oil, I guess :P

A similar example for cloud would be the gajillion cloud SaaS, DevOps, cloud security whatever businesses that only exist today because the whole cloud infra segment ran unprofitable for a long time and created the infrastructure for all this.

These new businesses will not be multi hundred-billion dollar businesses, no. They will all be million dollar businesses. But you'll have a million such businesses. Everyone that's stuffing money into AI today is hoping that there will be a huge product layer [1] on top of this new infrastructure once it's all consolidated at a few major players allowing "infra" costs to drop considerably, which they can milk.

The stock of all these companies going high is just wall st making it easy for people to buy debt from this infrastructure. If they're indisciplined, they will co-mingle this debt with normal people's daily lives debt and sell it as one, and everything gets affected badly. If they're not, then the stock market will complain, but normal folks will be kind of OK.

[1] well, everyone has this same idea, meaning there also a lot of short term investors trying to make gains while openai/nvidia/etc are on their way up, sort of like greater fool investing, but let's ignore them for the purposes of this argument.

[Note] of course, whether cloud/ai/whatever are actually useful infra that deserves to be force-created is up for debate.. many disagree, not me though.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-25 04:27:28+00:00
>I'm not for heavily regulating non-safety details of how most industries do business, but I do think it's fair to demand the true price up front and compensation when the airline doesn't provide the service it sold for reasons within its control.

Why the exception for this then? There are many situations where regulations could protect consumers and I don't understand why you have the general view against non-safety regulations.
by int_19h | 2025-09-25 04:27:30+00:00
I have set up a Plex server and started ripping shows from various streaming providers (using StreamFab mostly) specifically because my wife got frustrated with 1) ads starting to appear even on paid plans and 2) never-ending game of musical chairs where shows move from provider to provider, requiring you to maintain several subscriptions to continue watching. She's not a techie at all, she's just pissed off, and I know she's not the only one.

Let's make sure that when all those people come looking for solutions, they'll find ones that are easy to set up and mostly "just work", at least to the extent this can be done given that content providers are always going to be hostile.
by rs186 | 2025-09-25 04:27:48+00:00
No. When I see a6700 and DSLR used in the same sentence, I have to question whether that is a misunderstanding on the author's side, whether it's actually for Sony a6700 or some other camera, or if anything in the repo makes sense or if the author knows what they are doing. This erodes confidence if the author cannot even get the very basics right.
by lmm | 2025-09-25 04:29:12+00:00
> Analog fire computers are continuous mappings from a continuum, a line segment (curved about a cam), to another continuum, a dial perhaps.

> Symbolic operations, mapping from patterns of 0s and 1s (say) to other patterns are discrete, countable mappings.

What definition of "symbolic" are you using that draws a distinction between these two cases? If it means merely something that symbolises something else (as I would usually use it), then both a position on a line segment and a pattern of voltage levels qualify. If you mean it in the narrow sense of a textual mark, that pattern of voltage levels is just as much not a "symbol" as the position on the line segment.
by dagmx | 2025-09-25 04:30:22+00:00
IMHO, Apple should replace whatever team wrote this drivel if they’re the front of the argument.

It’s not even that I necessarily disagree with the points. I appreciate them laying out the challenges, and there’s perhaps some kernels of reasonable arguments buried in there, but the rest is just so poorly phrased it would lose a high school debate.

This is a masterclass in a poor argument and a masterclass in poor marketing to boot.

A more proficient writer could have phrased each argument more succinctly and laid out the benefits to the user. As an exercise I considered how one might do so and it’s not hard.

All feelings about the company aside, this is just a bad PR statement.
by devmor | 2025-09-25 04:31:15+00:00
I really have no interest in using a Chromium/Blink browser at this point, that's the real kicker for me.

I would prefer to use and support browsers using alternate rendering engines and without any ties back to Google, even if it means I personally get a lesser experience, because I don't trust Google and I want to ensure they don't entirely control the direction of the browsable internet.
by wraptile | 2025-09-25 04:31:59+00:00
> The future will just be every web session gets tied to a real ID

This seems like an awful future. We already had this in form of limited ipv4 addresses wher each IP is basically an identity. People started buying up ip addresses and selling them as proxies. So any other form of ID would suffer the same fate unless enforced at government level.

Worst case scenario we have 10,000 people sitting in front of the screens clicking page links because hiring someone to use their "government id" to mindlessly browse the web is the only way to get data of the public web. That's not the future we should want.
by lovich | 2025-09-25 04:35:34+00:00
That is mechanically different. All the leverage is in the hands of the companies seeking out cheap labor in that case.

I actually don’t think it should be like the poster you replied to suggested where the immigrant employee in question needs to maintain employment.

I would advocate that we structure employment visas like we do marriage visas which would mean we calculate whatever the total cost of the drain on our system would be if the new immigrant wasn’t working, charge the company that much to have them enter, and then the employee is free to quit immediately if they feel it’s in their interests
by lpln3452 | 2025-09-25 04:36:41+00:00
So another Chromium based browser featuring the usual 'Privacy' and a collection of miscellaneous features. Maybe 'AI' will be added. None of this appears to go beyond what some browser extension could do. Personally I'm not seeing the appeal.

As a side note, the very similar Arc browser was just sold off to Atlassian for a quick exit.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-09-25 04:37:07+00:00
Can someone explain to me why most browser forks are based on Chromium? If the goal is to make a privacy focused browser which is independent of Google, isn't it then a bit counterproductive to put all your eggs in a basket which only exists due to the goodwill of your main competitor? Why not webkit or Gecko? There might be a good argument for it, but as a person concerned with privacy and the future freedom of the internet, who is supposedly the target user for a browser like this, I would expect the justification to depend on Google code to be front and center on the page.
by cookiengineer | 2025-09-25 04:38:50+00:00
In my opinion that's Ladybird at the moment.

It's hard to predict what future generations of developers are doing, but right now Ladybird seems to have the right values embedded into their nonprofit structure.

All the other browser projects have to be enshittified eventually, and therefore have to fulfill other interests than their users' interests to get there.
by zug_zug | 2025-09-25 04:39:43+00:00
> Even when you don’t agree with decisions the company leadership is making, part of your job is representing and facilitating those decisions with full alignment.

No, not for a staff engineer. You keep your mouth shut in the #general channel when something crazy is said, or you ask a single question in a thread when you don't understand at all.

The sound of a dozen people not clapping is the perfect rebuke to management mistakes.
by roamerz | 2025-09-25 04:39:48+00:00
Well sure if you are just looking at where the bucket is digging but there is often a dump truck sitting on either your right or left flank waiting for what’s in your bucket (don’t forget the beep button lol). Having a monitor to either side duplicates what you are seeing out of your peripheral vision when operating the real thing. Would make transitioning from real to virtual much easier and imho safer.

Yes that is precisely why - makes for a much more versatile machine. TB180FR - it’s med-small, about 10 ton.
by magic_hamster | 2025-09-25 04:39:51+00:00
Apple had a great translation layer (Rosetta) that allows you to run x64 code, and it's very fast. However, Apple being Apple, they are going to discontinue this feature in 2026, that's when we'll see some Apple users really struggling to go fully arm, or just ditch their MacBook. I know if Apple does follow through with killing Rosetta, I'll do the latter.
by ipdashc | 2025-09-25 04:40:21+00:00
While rose-tinted glasses are a huge factor, I feel like a big part of what people dream of when looking back on the last century is not just leisure, but stability and dignity.

Stability in that you had jobs that lasted a lifetime and paid a pension once you retired, not layoffs every couple years. Dignity in that anyone could get a real, important, meaningful (and very rough, once you take off said rose-tinted glasses) job as a factory worker, farmer, coal miner, whatever, instead of what, working at Walmart or 7-11?

I do agree with you though, especially your last paragraph.
by zenmac | 2025-09-25 04:42:20+00:00
yeah there are alternatives for sure, but it takes time to discover them. But many search engine are offering searching of videos. So may just be a good idea to start building a public index of all the videos.

And it is 2025, the HN crowd here can usually just deploy their video to CDN. Many business are also just hosting their own videos.

BTW forgot to mention Odyssey underlying protocol is https://lbry.com

And seems like there are past article about it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24594663
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-09-25 04:43:50+00:00
Yeah, I don't know about S3, but years back I talked a fair bit with someone that did storage stuff for HPC, and one thing he talked about is building huge JBOD arrays where only a handful of disks per rack would be spun up, basically pushing what could be done with scsi extenders or such. It wouldn't surprise me if they're doing something like that with batch scheduling the drive activations over a minutes to hours window.
by antibios | 2025-09-25 04:44:40+00:00
This discussion is crazy. Google is a business that sells advertising. They build a free browser so that it is easier for the end user to use their product. Chrome does tricky things to help google like, automatically searching if you don't type a URL into the address bar. You as a user, you have typed midjourney instead of midjourney.com using google search as your dns lookup.

Google is a business that has correctly identified that users are most likely unable to type the full URL into a browser and uses this opportunity to display some advertising. As my retirement investment holds a small amount of ETFs that would own google shares, yay for me. Thank you for not typing .com
by defgeneric | 2025-09-25 04:46:26+00:00
This was my first thought too. The last generation of activity tracking, while still dystopian, was a little different at least in that it was mainly statistical. So action-wise, it might point managers at "potential problems," but doesn't make its way into a performance review (e.g. "your mouse only traveled 81.72 screen-miles this quarter, 2 standard deviations below the mean, while you also scored the lowest on number of keystrokes with vscode as the active window..."). If a manager really wanted to summarize exactly what was done they had to spend an almost equal amount of time to watch. To some degree, this alleviates that.
by sanswork | 2025-09-25 04:46:47+00:00
Old connections can still be helpful even if they don't know your current skills as long as they can assess what kind of worker you are. I've personally recommended people I worked with 17 years ago because I can remember how valuable they were with no consideration given to current specific skills. I currently regularly speak with 3 people I worked with over 20 years ago and check in annually with another half dozen or so.

If you don't keep any connections with your previous colleagues then you are self limiting your career options. But the second best time to plant a tree...
by sasjaws | 2025-09-25 04:47:07+00:00
I'm building a service that generates audio streams about subjects and vocab of your choosing, currently notebookLM based. If you have intermediate listening skills its pretty useful for deepening regular vocab and acquiring specialized jargon.

I dumped my 400 hardest recurring anki words in it and listen to the stream whenever doing chores or driving. Then sync with my deck again after a while.

Can you help me out and give it a try, you seem like the target audience and i'd value your feedback. If your target language is not available or want to upload an anki deck I can help you out.

https://listen.longyan.io
by jashmota | 2025-09-25 04:47:12+00:00
I think swinging (which is about 40% of dig and dump workflow by time spent) should not be manual. That's lowest levels of autonomy which requires roughly centering to the pit/truck which we have already achieved. Hence operator only has to look in front!

Those workflow numbers come from multiple observations at different sites, one of the examples is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orEsvu1CS64

I wish to talk to you because it's rare sight someone has a Takeuchi - is there a way to connect? My email is contact at useflywheel dot ai
by xkqd | 2025-09-25 04:47:35+00:00
Likewise. The guy bought two laptops to compare for a week and returned the one he didn’t like, then later that year did the same thing between two TVs. When he went to return the TV he didn’t want, he was told he was banned from returning any other good to Best Buy and it’s monitored against his credit card.

He now pays with cash.