MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mebizzle | 2025-09-09 02:34:26+00:00
I daily drive a Model 3 and when I rented a Honda Civic for a trip I thought it was broken with how long it took to get any speed. You're trolling regarding the Chrysler comment lol

Why are you staring at your instrument panel and not the road? The speed is just a glance at the top corner as you should be focused on driving ;)
by daotoad | 2025-09-09 02:34:43+00:00
I worked at a company that handled transcription of customer service calls for those chips. Even though I started there well after they were discontinued, stories about the things people said were passed on by the old hands. A few choice snippets of the transcripts survived.

The thing is, many people loved them. They ate small amounts of the chips and were fine.

Others had less than stellar experiences and their messages relayed a mixture of confusion, frustration, fear, and body horror.

But the people I feel the most compassion for were the people who called to say that these chips changed their lives. How? Sometimes a side effect is a cure.

A surprising number of callers said that these chips saved them from chronic, painful constipation. To them, a bag of these chips was a delicious and highly effective form of medicine unlike anything else they had tried. Losing access to something like that must have been a horrible loss.
by ticulatedspline | 2025-09-09 02:35:58+00:00
IMHO this is more like a designer asking another designer how to be a developer. In my experience most developers aren't great designers. I think that's why GUIs in open source software tend to be lackluster. those kinds of project attract developers, not designers and a GUI is often a second or even third class citizen to them.

While I've encountered devs that have a talent for both many had the "eye" before the code. While anything can be taught and learned if you have no proclivity towards it you're likely to never excel at it without pain. Imagine asking the same question if you were making music "hey devs who play instruments, how do I make good music". My advice would not be so much as "give up" but, "know your expertise", collaborate with someone who covers your weaknesses.

That said really good delivery is often hard won. different tasks have different concerns as well as different clientele. Get your designs in front of customers, there's software specifically for tracking UX metrics as well as general analytics. Don't trust that you can "know best", more than likely what you think is sensible someone else won't and given a large enough customer base people will flounder in your UI in ways that you could not possible fathom.

And most important: Copy whatever is already good. half of what they'll be doing is all the common tropes (gear means settings, hamburger means mo' menu), copy everything that works, users will find your product more naturally intuitive if they've already effectively learned it somewhere else.
by conductr | 2025-09-09 02:36:38+00:00
I kind of like it. It's one where the pictures and renderings look cool but IRL it looks like they messed it up. However, I've seen a few modded Cybertrucks with bigger wheels and tires and a wrap that actually make me think it doesn't look to bad. Concerns over build quality keep me away from Tesla as a whole, it looks too cheap to me and I've seen too many videos where things are just falling off.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-09 02:36:47+00:00
> I played it for a while, but was (and am) sincerely super confused what people find so amazing in it.

That's very easy to explain. It's a Kickstarter effect.

Boardgamegeek is a website that, among other things, aggregates ratings of board games into a big master list of which games are the best, kind of like imdb.

The list has been corrupted by Kickstarter - it turns out that, when a game with a Kickstarter campaign comes out, everyone who reviews it is someone who backed the Kickstarter, and those people are personally invested in the idea that their game is good. You have to wait for quite a while before a Kickstarter game's rating can be usefully compared with a normal game's.

The waiting period for Silksong seems to have had a similar effect on the people who bought it right away.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-09-09 02:37:01+00:00
This is very true.

Tesla sales growth was already slowing day significantly before Musk showed who he really is to the wider public. There was no way they were hitting their announced target - they were supposedly going to do +50% each year until 2030, and end up selling 20M cars / year. They dropped this prediction in 2024, before 'political issues'...
by Humphrey | 2025-09-09 02:37:18+00:00
The Apple Configurator seems like a great tool to setup a phone for your children or tech illiterate elderly parents. Many of us would have people in our lives who might actually understand how to use their phone if the only icons on the home screen where messages and phone. I could imagine ChatGPT would be a good option for them to be able to look up information in the real world.
by const_cast | 2025-09-09 02:37:42+00:00
The text editor is hilariously broken. Copy/paste eats formatting for breakfast... Unless it's Word, but only sometimes. But who the fuck is pasting a WORD document into teams?? Don't do that!

Seriously, it's outlook levels of broken. Markdown doesn't work, I don't know what markdown engine they use but it's certainly not compliant to any sort of standard. Copying whitespace is just unbelievably fucked, your code becomes unreadable.

Which would be fine... If we could bulk indent. But do you know what highlight + tab does? Not indent, no, it selects the send button.

Teams, fuck you.
by MindSpunk | 2025-09-09 02:37:54+00:00
Comparing the M1 Max to a Ryzen 7 8845HS is not a fair comparison because the M1 chip also includes a _massive_ GPU tile, unlike the 8845HS which has a comparatively tiny iGPU because most vendors taking that part are pairing them with a separate dGPU package.

A better comparison is to take the total package area of the AI Max+ 395 that includes a 16 core CPU + a massive GPU tile and you get ~448mm^2 across all 3 chiplets.
by skydhash | 2025-09-09 02:38:11+00:00
> Judging by what we see in the world, most developers don't agree with you. And neither do I.

From my POV, most developers just test on the most popular browser (and the latest version of that) without checking if the API is standard or its changelog. Or they do dev on the most powerful laptop while the rest of the world is still on 8gb, FHD screen with integrated gpu.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-09-09 02:38:26+00:00
You’re not the only one. Hollow Knight is a gorgeous game but it’s difficult to the point of becoming unenjoyable.

I persevered and beat it out of pride, not because I was having fun (some bosses took me more than 100 attempts to finally beat, that’s not fun, it’s a chore). About a year later I did it again just to prove to myself it hadn’t just been a fluke. But after that - no more. And I’m certainly not buying Silksong, I won’t give money to creators who hate their gamers so much.
by freetime2 | 2025-09-09 02:38:30+00:00
> The docs as they’re written only work for the ext4 images if I remember correctly

I was using an ext4 image and still ran into problems. And in addition to the scripts on the page that I linked above, I also tried this other variation from their docs [1]. They all ended up rendering the sytem unbootable.

Eventually I think I ended up using an Ubuntu Live ISO to boot the system and made the change there. Definitely a bit of a pain, and according to the docs it sounds like something I would need to do again after an upgrade.

I also tried following their steps for "building your own image with larger partition size" [2], but couldn't get that to work either.

I had fun playing around with OpenWrt. But in the end was forced to admit that I didn't really need any features in OpenWrt, and whatever benefits I was getting from it were not worth the effort. Also, even a minute of downtime for a reboot was pretty annoying to my family when they were trying to stream a movie, etc.

[1] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/advanced/expand_root

[2] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt_x86...
by djtango | 2025-09-09 02:39:14+00:00
My first play through of Elden Ring was a pseudo challenge run - capped at 125RL (pvp meta) and dual UGS style. No ash of war usage. No guides for bosses.

Malenia took me over a month, and probably over 500 deaths and I had to relax the ash of war usage (still limited by my very low FP)

The entire end game was brutal as this was before the buff for UGS animation speeds and most boss openings were shorter than anything than a crouch poke but I loved every minute of it. Just like learning to play something new on an instrument just cos you can't nail it in one try, one week or even one month doesn't mean you won't eventually get it.

One meta lesson I like about Souls is it provides a safe environment to learn what performing under pressure is like. The music and feints are absolutely diabolical for playing with your emotions and heightening your stress. I always play better on mute (but that's no fun)
by toast0 | 2025-09-09 02:40:33+00:00
> The Tesla story and its high valuation were based on the idea that Tesla had won the car market, others couldn’t catch up

This story never made sense. They sold about 1.8 million cars in 2024 (and also in 2023), VAG sold 9 million. Tesla is no where close to winning the car market. Until recently, Ford regularly sold more F-Series than Tesla sold cars.

Sure, for quite some time, Tesla was selling a lot more EVs than anyone else. But, building EVs is supposed to be easier than building ICE cars, and some of the old guard auto manufacturers have been building cars for hundreds of years... Once they decide to build EVs and figure out the logistics of batteries, they're going to have no trouble building EVs or selling them, and then Tesla is left with the moat of the Musk Reality Distortion Field which seems to be weaker now than ever.

When nobody else was making competent EVs, Telsa's market value was clear. Now, I don't know. There are so many to choose from, but what does a Tesla give you that some other EV doesn't?
by vunderba | 2025-09-09 02:40:46+00:00
> Silksong as a game should not exist. It is so brutally difficult that it stretches the very definition of the word "game". Games are supposed to be fun [...]

I haven't played Silksong yet and I know difficulty is rather subjective, but is it really that difficult compared to the realm of punishing platformers like NES Ninja Gaiden, Cuphead, Spelunky 2, the dark world portions of Super Meat Boy, etc?

I played the first Hollow Knight and didn't find it particularly hard. (not easy, but definitely not Dark Souls level punishing).
by v15w | 2025-09-09 02:41:38+00:00
Interesting. It took time for us to get the waveform stability working. We also have a smoothed wave overlay on top of raw signal. This is more a filtered version of input signal. Tried adding more filtering to get the sine wave output. But, it was too much CPU intensive. We also tried adding few overlays to this stable waveform. They did not work well and hence removed them. I agree, there is no good way to make the speed independent of input frequency. The plucked note pitch variation in flat bridge instruments like South Indian Veena is too wide when compared to pointed bridge instruments. We are planning to add additional cue that shows if a note is in tune based on pitch variation midpoint. This might help tuning the string or setting the frets relatively accurate.
by petertodd | 2025-09-09 02:42:00+00:00
> making it impossible to reliably delete material

That said, SSD's have improved the situation a lot with TRIM. While previously deleting a file wouldn't actually destroy any data until it was overwritten. With TRIM in most cases for files more than a few KB almost all the data will be physically destroyed soon after TRIM is called. It depends on settings. But that's commonly either immediately, or about once a day (the default on Android).

If you read the forensics literature TRIM has caused them enormous problems by radically reducing the amount of data available.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-09 02:42:02+00:00
The art world is just fine. Pretentious art speculation maybe not so much.

In a way, we are actually in a golden age. I lurk on social media accounts of amateur art enthusiasts around the globe with (IMHO) good taste who seek out interesting little known artists and post it on their feeds. I am introduced to so much great art that I probably would have never known about otherwise. If I see something I like, I search for the artist online and see if they have something available in their portfolio for sale that I love.

I’ve bought amazing art from talented artists around the globe that speak no common language with me. We get it done (Google Translate to the rescue). I don’t filter on price but virtually everything I’ve bought is always in a couple hundred dollars to a couple thousand dollars range. The fact that you can talk to the artist just adds to the story.

Forget the “tastemakers” in art. I can give my money to excellent artists directly, including many that never attracted the attention of tastemakers or who weren’t deemed worthy by said people. I received a huge piece from Denmark today. The whole experience is lovely and the artists really appreciate that someone loves their work. This is the future.
by tdquang | 2025-09-09 02:42:49+00:00
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by master_crab | 2025-09-09 02:43:00+00:00
Having just come back from visiting the in-laws in Gloucestershire (American raised on American roads), it took me a minute to comprehend the national speed limit rule. Nonetheless, I don’t think the rule matters much.

What matters more is the far stricter driver licensing and “Scarlet L” (my words) that the learners have to display.

That and the fact that it is bloody impossible to conduct 2 way traffic down country roads thanks to all the hedgerows and so everyone is extra careful and courteous (usually).
by TheAlchemist | 2025-09-09 02:43:23+00:00
Very very risky (I'm still doing it though). Some very skilled short sellers lost a ton of money on Tesla - for example Jim Chanos - a guy who predicted the fall of Enron and shorted quite a lot of stocks that turned out trash - Beyond Meat, Wirecard, Hertz.

But he closed his fund late 2023, in big part because of his short position on Tesla. He's still a very vocal advocate of Teslaq. Feel really bad for the guy - Tesla will end up crashing, but it will take way way longer that anybody could anticipated.
by viceconsole | 2025-09-09 02:44:21+00:00
99% or more of the visa applicants we interviewed in India were Indian. We interviewed them in India so that we had access to local staff who spoke all major Indian languages, a fraud unit well-versed in authenticating local documents, and connections to local authorities for more complex cases.

Nothing is "easy" when you have a line of hundreds of people who have been waiting months or over a year for their appointment and you have 120 seconds to deal with them in a fair and respectful way (which unfortunately does NOT always happen), while you also have personal job repercussions if you fail to properly vet their application and miss an important national security related detail.

As it turned out, we flagged enough of those cases as a patern for further review that did result in us consulting with our staff in the third country and discovering the issue. Also, visas that are issued can be revoked, or flagged for further scrutiny by CPB if necessary.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-09 02:44:37+00:00
Except that it creates a market for circumvention tech that would also cut Big Tech out from understanding what its users are saying to each other.

Age restriction laws don't stop underage folks from doing anything, they just increase the market demand for VPNs, and improve VPNs so they get less easily detected. The net result is that platforms can't use IP addresses to meaningfully infer anything about their users.

Same with this. This legislation will create a demand for private encryption tech that isn't part of the platform. Someone is going to provide that and make money, and in the process may remove the demand for the platform in the first place.

I get the logic you're talking about, and agree that they must be thinking this, but it's very short-sighted.
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by ajross | 2025-09-09 02:44:58+00:00
No, it's about instruction latency. Some instructions (cache misses that need to hit DRAM) will stall the pipeline and prevent execution of following instructions that depend on the result. So the idea is to keep two streams going at all times so that the other side can continue to fill the units. SMT can be (and was, on some Atom variants) a win even with an in-order architecture with only one pipeline.
by sdesol | 2025-09-09 02:45:31+00:00
> We're putting aside the political stuff because there isn't a lot to discuss

I don't agree, as we are not quantifying the emotional aspect of the purchasing process. If people "love" the brand, they are willing to overlook a lot of things. Tesla was a status symbol and is now seen as a regret purchase and a toxic brand for many (see Europe and Canada for examples). I can't see how "politics" should not be considered as it does play a critical role in how people spend money. There is a reason why a lot of companies are not open about politics and I don't think I've ever seen a CEO that was so forth coming with their beliefs as Elon Musk.
by sandspar | 2025-09-09 02:45:46+00:00
My city has a medium size art gallery. Every couple of years, the curators will hold their nose and run an exhibit by "dead white males": figurative painters like Rembrandt. The gallery becomes packed with people. Afterward the curators go back to their usual fare of "Iranian-American textile artists" or whatever; the gallery sees no visitors for months.

Bleeding money, the gallery recently laid off half their staff.

It's almost as if the curators would rather lose their jobs than exhibit art that the public enjoys.
by hinkley | 2025-09-09 02:45:53+00:00
I played Hollow Knight. I don’t recall if I defeated a single boss. I must have done a couple but several of the first you were meant to defeat remained unchallenged.

There are non boss fights that get more elaborate as you go, and let you pick up some new skills and abilities.

Another one like this that shouldn’t have been was Orie and the blind forest. If you play it on story mode, which I did because it was great eye candy and I just wanted to see it all, there a spot in the middle of act 2 where you have to land several double wall jumps in rapid succession with nearby spikes. Someone at that studio needs to be beaten about the shoulder with a clue bat about wtf “story mode” means. I never got to see the story and was too mad to watch someone else play it on youtube.

I’m fairly sure that my problem with both was the same. Only partly fat fingers and part was that certain movements don’t work identically on all controllers. Some things are counterintuitively easier on a D pad than a thumb joystick. It’s just not as crisp to go from one input to another 90 or 180° opposite. If your game mechanics are built on that, then some ports will be much harder to play.

You should either not port them, or adjust the timing grace period up on that hardware.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-09-09 02:46:04+00:00
The "art as speculation" fad is just a consequence of "inflation is good" economic theory, the same as "real estate as an investment".

If you don't let people hold onto cash, they will just find something else to replace it (and of course, it is always the lower classes that have to suffer the secret taxation that is money supply inflation targets).
by philistine | 2025-09-09 02:47:10+00:00
> It's one where the pictures and renderings look cool but IRL it looks like they messed it up.

That's because they did. The initial plan was for the plates to double as the frame of the car. That's how they could have achieved the seamless look of the renders. Turns out they couldn't make it work for whatever reason and the plates are just on top of the frame.
by daotoad | 2025-09-09 02:47:30+00:00
I wish I was optimistic that data and compliant robots will be used to make things better for customers.

I think it's far more likely that they will, at best, be used to do whatever horrible and unpleasant things that temporarily juice sales numbers. Across our economy we'll see this play out in every customer service interaction. And a wave of perniciously persistent upselling attempts will wash over us all.

After a while, we won't stop noticing that the simple process of buying a soda requires saying no to 15 different requests to subscribe to a service, put our credit card on file, sign up for notifications, and consider buying cookies, a burger, and some fries. But our lives will be worse for it.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-09 02:47:49+00:00
I’m not sure S3 vectors is a true vector database/search engine in the way something like Elasticsearch, Turbopuffer or Milvus is. It’s more a convenient building block for simple high scale retrieval.

I think of a search system doing quite a lot from sparse/lexical/hybrid search, metadata filtering, numerical ranking (recency/popularity/etc), geo, fuzzy, and whatever other indices at its core. These are building blocks for getting initial candidates.

Then you need to be able to combine all these into one result set for your users - usually with a query DSL where you can express a ranking function. Then there’s usually ancillary features that come up (highlighting, aggregations, etc).

So while S3 vectors is a fascinating primitive, I’m not sure I’d reach for it outside specific circumstances.