MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by account42 | 2025-09-09 07:43:41+00:00
> In general database-backed sites struggle to implement if-modified-since since a fully correct implementation has to traverse the graph of all database objects that are looked up in the request which costs about as much as… the request.

That's only true if your implementation favors editing performance over GET request performance ... in which case you get what you ordered. If your feed requires any database connections then that's a choice you made.

I disagree that HTTP caching is complex. The basic primitive are:

- An indication until when the returned document can be used without checking for updates.

- A way to check if a cached document is still valid (based on either modification time or id).

This provides everything you need to implement an efficient feed reader.
by foresterre | 2025-09-09 07:44:26+00:00
Elden Ring, and Dark Souls before it are hard but fair. That separates it from lesser games.

Each boss has a moveset puzzle, where you have to figure out how to beat it, and to win it's not just enough to find the solution; the execution matters as well.

Other games usually just add boss HP or damage, instead of interesting movesets.
by silisili | 2025-09-09 07:44:54+00:00
I live in the US in a town with particularly bad drivers. I know I know, everyone's area has the worst drivers. But I've lived in dozen cities across the US so have some frame of reference. The sad thing is, it's a small town with what -should- be little traffic.

It's one of those places there will only be 2 other cars in sight, but they're driving side by side and 10 under the speed limit. And for some reason, everyone seems to just hold down their brake pedal at all times so you can never tell when they're actually slowing. I presume they're driving an automatic with two feet and keep just enough pressure to trigger the brakelights. And everyone, even the Kia Rios, drives in the opposite lane before turning so they can swing wide like a semi. I could go on and on but I digress.

Anyways, it had been an enigma to me for the last few years since I moved here, until one day I was asked to take a lady to her driving test. Sure, why not.

The entirety of the 5 minute road test was turning out right onto a sparsely populated 2 lane highway, driving anxiously at 35 in a 55 for a mile or so, then turning around and coming back. Passed. Suddenly, everything made more sense to me.

And I'm sure this isn't probably even the easiest test nationally, just one I became familiar with recently.

So yeah, we have absolutely no driving standards.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-09-09 07:44:57+00:00
But they did define two variants to get their standard approved in the fast track process.

The Transitional variant which is entirely backwards compatible is not fully defined in a way that others can implement without reverse engineering how Microsoft Office does things.

The Strict variant isn't totally compatible with all older binary formats but is fully defined.

Guess which one is the standard file format?
by mojuba | 2025-09-09 07:45:26+00:00
> Apple has a max-efficiency design that's excellent for personal computing. Intel/AMD have aging max-performance designs that do beat Apple at absolute peak...

Can you explain then, how come switching from Intel MBP to Apple Silicon MBP feels like literally everything is 3x faster, the laptop barely heats up at peak load, and you never hear the fans? Going back to my Intel MBP is like going back to stone age computing.

In other words if Intel is so good, why is it... so bad? I genuinely don't understand. Keep in mind though, I'm not comparing an Intel gaming computer to a laptop, let's compare oranges to oranges.
by meiuqer | 2025-09-09 07:45:58+00:00
As i said, in general, going 15km/h is not fast enough to have a serious fall on your own. Only from external factors can riding a bike be dangerous, like from a car for example. in The Netherlands almost all cycle paths are isolated from cars as much as possible. So in general (again, in general) it is safe enough to drive around without a helmet.

The data backs it up. Look at the deaths per capita in the Netherlands. You can see a steep rise with the introduction of e-bikes, but before that it was one of the lowest in the world. And that is saying something when it is the most cycling dense country of the world.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-09 07:46:55+00:00
The point of separating electricity artificially into "baseload" and "peaking" was the quirk of engineering that made coal and nuclear cheaper if you ran them flat out.

In a world where both solar and wind are massively cheaper, that entire paradigm collapsed. Even more so when you can reuse the same hydro and gas that was working as peaking as "firming" to complement the new model.
by pharrington | 2025-09-09 07:47:04+00:00
Nope! Alot of people just really love the game. I'm one of them! I only heard about the game after its release, and the first time I played it was in during the end of 2017. The only expectations I had for it were that it was a difficult exploration game. What captivated me was the music, the level design, getting lost before realizing what exploration options were available to me - I could go on forever about the game.
by 0points | 2025-09-09 07:48:53+00:00
You brute forced a random argon2 hashed password using cheap compute in 17 hours?

Granted the suggested defaults for argon2 is like ~0.1 second per verification on a rather beefy CPU, in 17h that's about 620 000 guesses.

Your cheap compute would likely perform worse.

That is beyond improbable. You are making it up.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-09 07:48:57+00:00
As a customer I'm angry that businesses get to use "hope and pray" as their primary data protection measure without being forced to disclose it. "Motivators" only work on people who value their job more than the data they can access and I don't believe there's any organization on this planet where this is true for 100% of the employees, 100% of the time.

That strategy doesn't help a victim who's being stalked by an employee, who can use your system to find their new home address. They often don't care if they get fired (or worse), so the motivator doesn't work because they aren't behaving rationally to begin with.
by PeterStuer | 2025-09-09 07:49:31+00:00
For wathever reason, some people are just better at analysing complex situations, systems and outcomes.

So when a proposal is tabled, they will point out non obvious shortcomings and unintended concequences.

This is not 'complaining'.

Neither does this mean you immediatly have to keel over and ditch the plan. Plenty of times something can succeed against all odds.

But smart management will take into account the information provided, rather tjan labeling it as something to ignore without furter thought.
by account42 | 2025-09-09 07:49:35+00:00
Yes, but that's quite different from how language package managers are used. A typical C/C++ project doesn't tell you to build it via apt/rpm instead you are expected to provide the dependencies using whatever means you choose or they are included in the repo. This means you don't need to fight a package manager to get fully offline or reproducible builds for example.

RPM and APT packages are also usually not maintained by the upstream developer but by distro developers who care about making different packages work together so you don't get the dependency hell problem as a user.
by fragmede | 2025-09-09 07:50:20+00:00
My opinion makes no difference in the scheme of things, but yes, I'd still think it's a waste. There's a monorail. Spend the money on making that suck less instead.

https://youtu.be/VPjODKUxV5g is where I'm coming from. The section of the system, where there's one tunnel, so the previous car has to clear the tunnel before the next vehicle can go, seems particularly stupid.
by energy123 | 2025-09-09 07:52:00+00:00
This for me is the real crux. Safety, nuclear waste, land-use, etc, are all issues of relatively trivial concern. They're fixations on the wrong question. The dominant issue is delivering competitive unit economics.

For SMRs, all their work is still ahead of them. To get the learning rate going, you need to start mass production. Then you need to double that production again, and again, and again. Then, after 2-3 decades of doublings, you may be able to deliver $/Wh in the ballpark of where solar & storage is today.

Never mind that solar & storage will undergo multiple more doublings between now and then, and never mind that private industry will struggle to fund the required doublings for SMRs because it's not the maximally profitable choice on the margin.

It's just a very difficult pragmatic picture for nuclear.
by torginus | 2025-09-09 07:52:12+00:00
Renewables can't meet the base energy needs. You can't only run your datacenters and factories when the wind blows or the sun shines. They also have low power density, making them problematic at grid scale.

SMRs fix all the issues of modern nuclear reactors. SMR's are not 'small' in the absolute sense, they're on the scale of traditional power plants, not existing nuclear reactors.

They have a ton of advantages:

- They are inherently safe, no need to worry about meltdowns.

- They produce power comparable to existing power plants. Nuclear plants have huge issues with producing tons of power in a centralized manner, meaning the energy infrastructure needs to be designed around them, and probably you need a centralized infrastrucure for power distribution, which might not jive well with local politics. They also need huge concentrated cooling capacity, which might have negative ecological effects, and present a huge risk should they need to be shut down. The recent issues in France with global warming, where the rivers water level got lower and the water warmer, cutting down on cooling margins dramatically leading to shutdowns comes to mind.

- In contrast SMRs can be slotted into current energy infrastructure. Modern reactor designs can be throttled to match grid needs.

- SMRs are standardized, smaller and don't need to be built on site and can be built relatively quicker and cheaper. This is huge. If a traditional plant costs $20B and takes 20 years to build, the interest on the loans could mean it's never going to be financially viable. If you cound do something that makes quarter the power, but costs $5B and 5 years to build, it's an entirely different value proposition.

China is already building these, and they are the main country of origin for solar panels and equipment. Renewables make a ton of sense, but can't solve every issue.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-09 07:52:21+00:00
I'm not anti-nuclear but I don't like the idea of proliferation of nuclear reactors on every corner because I don't believe that there are enough smart and trustworthy people to handle that many reactors. I'm all on for huge ones but they have obvious issues.

Have you been to a failed state? Bulgaria was in a state of disrepair when it comes to its industry, as kids we wandered to abandoned factories and I'm %100 sure that I don't wish a nuclear reactor to end up in a place like that. As 12-14 y/o kids we were going in, tear apart stuff the get interesting objects out like bearings, flat plastics etc. that we can use for games or making machines and if small reactors were a thing back then I'm certain that many disasters would have happened. AFAIK in Russia there are many lost RTGs, somehow nothing really bad happened but there are many instances of people getting exposed to radiation when working with recycling.

Nuclear reactors are very cool, they all have its place but please don't make it available to an average bozo that lucked on crypto or some greedy maniac in a failed state.

I'm sure in America it must feel inconceivable that states fail and things end up in wrong hands but where I grew up you can find remains of a few ancient empires + 1 quite recent ones with machinery and electronics unaccounted for.
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-09 07:52:24+00:00
> Is it just me, but doesn’t it seem like a terrible idea to bake the COPILOT trademark into the name of an Excel function?

You're talking about a product which still to this day thinks it's an excellent idea to have formulas be translated, with no support for the English version in other languages. I switch my Excel to Norwegian and I have to use SUMMER not SUM, and opening any sheet with SUM will just fail to compute.

So yes, it's a terrible idea, but it's also an entirely normal Excel thing to do.
by __alexs | 2025-09-09 07:52:58+00:00
Go on then. Name a dozen anti Zionist Jewish run organisations that are explicitly fascist. I'd love to be corrected.

Currently your argument seems to be that satirising fascism is actually fascist. Which tbh also seems like a pretty fascist position to hold so I must be wrong.

Jreg is not "supposedly taking pride in an anti AI position". He is satirising exactly the thing you call our actual fascists for doing. He is lampooning the kind of nonsense real fascists hide behind.
by 0points | 2025-09-09 07:53:31+00:00
> First is subtitle support is quite limited in comparison.

I always watch with subtitles, but haven't noticed worse support in jellyfin vs plex, really. Granted, I mostly use srt/ssa (text based subtitles).

> Second is the lack of skipping.

You just need to install the intro skipper plugin :)

https://github.com/intro-skipper/intro-skipper
by jamiejquinn | 2025-09-09 07:54:49+00:00
If you've tried it and it doesn't fit, that seems fine, it's all just personal workflow.

For me it's pure speed at getting to where I need to go. My notes live on workspace 1, my main workspace on 2 and browser on 3, so I'm just a single key combination away from most of what I need. Can still alt+tab if I like.
by fjfaase | 2025-09-09 07:55:20+00:00
Let me add something to this. If you buy a painting (or some other work of art) because it is captivating you, and you put it into your house, to enjoy, than that is great. I myself have bought some works of art, that are not be considered as 'Art', but that captivated me. For me that is the only reason to buy some work of art, if it captivates me, not if is a good investment.
by masklinn | 2025-09-09 07:56:36+00:00
> But I think you can tweak musl to perform well

You can not, its allocator does thread safety via a big lock and that’s that.

> musl is closer to the spec than glibc

Is it?

> even if its slower in the default case for multithreaded programmes.

That’s far from the only situation where it’s slower though.
by 0points | 2025-09-09 07:56:38+00:00
You need to sometimes suffix the folder/file name with {imdb-tt1234} to make it match the correct movie/show.

This is the same deal with Plex tho, although I found plex internal metadata engine to auto-match better than jellyfin currently does.

You can help here though. Just come to https://www.themoviedb.org/ and help us add metadata.
by energy123 | 2025-09-09 07:57:29+00:00
> You can't only run your datacenters and factories when the wind blows or the sun shines.

You're going to need more work than a bare assertion to demonstrate this, given that storage exists, and given that gas peaking exists, and given that interconnects exist.

Consider these:

- https://www.offgridai.us/

- https://sci-hub.se/10.1039/c7ee03029k
by pierre-louis | 2025-09-09 07:57:41+00:00
MCP distribution is still a huge pain, so any initiative to improve it is positive... but I am not really sure what pain this is solving and if it's going to get any traction.

I think the main MCP clients (think Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS code, Mistral Le chat...) will end up owning the distribution. The same way you have now 10-20 connectors pre-built there today, MCP connector stores are emerging. I don't see why Anthropic, OpenAI and others rely on a third party registry, they will have their own process for MCP registration which need to include validation, security checks... the same way Apple and Android own the registration of applications in their store.

Most independent registries will likely disappear if they don't add strong value on top like auth, pre vetted MCP, orchestration, RBAC...
by torginus | 2025-09-09 07:58:31+00:00
This is concern trolling. The key to nuclear economics is speed of construction, and controlling costs, and not caving to safety pearl-clutchers (that is, adding cost and delays for 'safety measures; meant to appease the public, not things deemed necessary by experts and regulators).

But the key is speed. If you tie up $20B for 20 years uselessly, there's no way you can make a profit on anything.
by mns | 2025-09-09 07:59:52+00:00
That's actually great! This comment thread is such a breath of fresh air. We moved this year to a new place and was looking at art, and I had the feeling that art also became some sort of mass produced low cost product, and I wanted to look into smaller artists and original pieces. Loved the works of the artist you mentioned as well as some of the other ones mentioned above.
by 4bpp | 2025-09-09 07:59:53+00:00
Just to comment on the downvotes, I think this (a comment to the effect of "I don't like it" being downvoted) is an understandable if unfortunate consequence of modern internet culture not taking "it's just not for everyone" as a conclusion (especially if this is due to something being too hard).

To make something exclusionary, especially if this has a whiff of elitism, is taken by some to be a moral failing. Every complaint that could be read as saying that a work is like that, therefore, raises the spectre of activists or dedicated rabble-rousers using it as ammo to get the developers to ruin it for those who do enjoy it, be it by actually simplifying the game for everyone, devaluing the sense of achievement by introducing an "easy mode", or just changing direction with future expansions.

This has in fact happened with many games I play(ed), live-service games seeming particularly susceptible. The incentive to shout down any complaints about difficulty therefore exists.
by rekoil | 2025-09-09 08:00:14+00:00
> Working with the kernel has been extremely disruptive to bcachefs development and the community

From an excited and hopeful potential future user looking in, this sounds like "working with <insert only grocery store in town> has been extremely disruptive to me selling my produce", there's nowhere else your customers can realistically get your product, unless you want to only sell to extremely picky customers who will make the hour long trip out to your farm and back.

> I do not strictly need bcachefs to be in the kernel.

But I (and your other users) do...

I shouldn't be weighing in, I'm a lightweight with no skin in the game here, just a regular (very technical) user. I guess I just want you to know that your product has many people that want to use it, but even I won't drive to your farm for it, as I can't risk a Linux-update breaking the DKMS-modules that make my system able to use the bcachefs filesystem all my data is on.

I don't know what possible avenue we have of getting bcachefs back into the kernel and maintained, but I hope you find it, whatever it is.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-09 08:00:16+00:00
I'm arguing that youtube should be paid for actual features. For instance membership and super chats are clearly labeled as extra content. Member only content is the same.

You pay for a specific thing that is produced by a creator and provided by Youtube. "Pay to remove the ads we're pushing" is none of that.

On Youtube being free, this is their business choice, and also the way they crush the competition and cement a near monopoly on the market. If it was a public service NGO I'd see it from a different angle, but it's not.
by Frieren | 2025-09-09 08:00:46+00:00
>so none of the users of those oil, who paid for it willingly, had any responsibility at all then?

- Ecologists and native-right defenders being killed in many countries.

- Politicians being paid off by corporations to fight against wind and solar energy.

- Newspapers paid to mislead the public.

But you blame the guys that cannot make ends meet and buys the only thing that they can afford.

Stop blaming the victims. This is something that needs to be solved at the state level, blaming citizens for the crimes of oil producers is false, morally wrong and unproductive.

To blame others than the oil producing companies that bribe politicians and lie to the public is just a stalling tactic to continue destroying the world while most people is actually trying to stop that destruction.
by maxglute | 2025-09-09 08:01:01+00:00
They only revised down 12th since it was mid Fukushima. 13th they missed targets due to AP1000/EPR and having to pivot to domestic but didn't revise down. Special circumstances. 14th latest, midterm review a couple years ago (amidst solar boom) said most indicators were meeting expectations. Last I checked they're on trend to hit 65/70GW by 2025 with ~30GW under construction, and 70GW by 2026/27, i.e. reasonably late, which given nature of nuclear I'd give a pass and categorize as on trend give nuclear leadtimes. +1-2 year of execution delays isn't unexpected, but they're not dramatically cutting targets/plans. Have to wait until next long term strategies, i.e.see if they revise down their ~100 GW by 2030, or ~200GW by 2035 plans, reality is they're basically on first wave of domestic plants with associated growing pains. If things go well, they can quickly scale.
by progx | 2025-09-09 08:01:11+00:00
One reason why i run everything on my development machine in a docker container, you can't trust any package.

I use bun, but similar could be done with npm

Add to .bashrc:

alias bun='docker run --rm -it -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -p 8080:8080 -v "$PWD":/app -w /app my-bun bun "$@"'

then you can use `bun` command as usual.

Dockerfile:

FROM oven/bun:1 AS base VOLUME [ "/app" ] EXPOSE 8080/tcp WORKDIR /app # Add your custom libs # RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update && apt-get -y install \ # ... \

Create once the container:

$ docker build -t "my-bun" -f "Dockerfile" .
by greyb | 2025-09-09 08:01:25+00:00
I truly do not see the USP for Mistral other than being based in EU. It's former USP of setting up their models on-premises for clients is now moot with the proliferation of open frontier models. I'd love to be proven wrong but I don't see a path forward for Mistral at this point, given how far they're behind and their overall lack of competitive advantages for an AI Lab like access to hardware, cheap energy or a mass of AI talent.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-09 08:01:30+00:00
Nobody knew how well models were going to scale up in usefulness, by (mostly) just scaling up training data, training times and architecture sizes.

Despite already using high data, high computation, low complexity solvers (I.e. deep learning), the Bitter Lesson continued to surprise!

At the point it became clear scale of data, parameters & compute were the top three (!) high bits for success, they would have realized (correctly) that staying a pure non-profit would rapidly make them irrelevant.

Setting aside any personal greed by anyone, the problem is still there.

Staying or reverting to a pure non-profit doesn’t provide the resources the non-profit’s mission requires.

Which was to have real safety impact at the cutting edge, not just publish safety related papers from the gallery.

TLDR; They absolutely need profits as part of their structure, or their non-profit mission is unattainable. But all the outside pressure they are getting as they adapt, is necessary to ensure the new structure remains committed to the mission.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-09 08:01:39+00:00
- a die budget to spend transistors for performance: the M chips are generally quite large compared to the competition

This is a myth. Apple chips are no bigger than the competition. For example, base M4 is smaller than Lunar Lake but is more efficient and 35% faster. M4 Pro is smaller than Strix Halo by a large margin but generally matches/exceeds the performance. Only the M4 Max is very large but it has no equivalent in the x86 world.