MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rekoil | 2025-09-09 07:29:11+00:00
> Now almost nobody will be able to use it.

Which hurts so much because it truly seems amazing from so many perspectives, and I admire Kents dedication to it. I was extremely excited to make a large bcachefs filesystem, with RAID6-like redundancy, foreground NVMe disks and spinning rust as background storage, and it seemed to be in the near future too, but now it probably won't happen at all which makes me incredibly sad for us all.
by rswail | 2025-09-09 07:29:13+00:00
We recently had an election in AU where "nuclear" was on the agenda as the (losing) party/coalition were promoting nuclear as a "solution" to our aging coal-generator fleet.

The trouble is that:

a) "baseload" is a misnomer, what is required is storage to cover periods when "the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow"

b) CSIRO (our government research organization) releases a regular report called "Gencost" [1]. It has shown regular decreases in solar and wind, with costs for other solutions (coal/gas/nuclear) growing during the same period

c) The problem for nuclear power in AU is doubled because there is no local infrastructure or engineering or industry for the nuclear fuel cycle

d) AU home solar is world leading, with now a government subsidy available for home battery storage to soak up the midday peak, one state (SA) regularly runs on 100% renewables

e) SMRs do NOT exist in a commercially deployable way. There are any number of research and demo-scale possible SMRs, but none that are immediately able to be deployed

f) SMRs are too SMALL to replace existing coal gen, especially compared to the capacity of solar and wind farms, with offshore wind only just being started in AU

[1] https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/ele...
by jlei523 | 2025-09-09 07:29:45+00:00
Intel and AMD have implemented these improvements with Lunar Lake and Strix Halo. You can buy an x86 laptop with Macbook-like efficiency right now if you know which SoCs to pick.

This just isn't true. Yes, Lunar Lake has great idle performance. But if you need to actually use the CPU, it's drastically slower than M4 while consuming more power.

Strix Halo battery life and efficiency is not even in the same ball park.
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-09 07:30:10+00:00
Here in Norway there's now talk about nuclear power, after a long time of little to no interest.

However they can't even put up wind turbines anymore, due to NIMBY issues, environmental concerns and whatnot. We had a ton of such projects but it's just about ground to a halt now.

And since our distribution network sucks, we've had a ~100x price difference between north and south for a long time now due to that, you can't just put it in the middle of nowhere.

As such I have very little faith they'll manage to put up a nuclear reactor in the near future, at least not close to initial cost and time. And none of that has to do with the details of building a nuclear reactor.

That said, there's change on the horizon. At least more and more people seem to be realizing that if they don't want wind turbines, they don't want huge swathes of solar panels and they don't want to alter more rivers then there's not a lot of options left on the table.
by pembrook | 2025-09-09 07:31:24+00:00
It’s not 45% of revenue expensive.

The fact that we’ve accepted such ridiculously high profit margins from tech companies is simply due to their network effects monopolies, and the impossibility of competing with them.

Just look at any other marketplace business with more competition, like say a grocery store or any brick and mortar retail. Their net margins are often sub-5%. Physically shipping goods across the world is far more expensive than delivering video.

Only other monopolies, like Governments, can get away with charging 45% taxes. Having known a few Youtube employees and also a few federal government employees, I would say the low stress, low effort, low fear of layoffs, low work output expectations are...ahem...similar.
by gethly | 2025-09-09 07:31:26+00:00
People still think that Youtube of today is the Youtube of yesterday. But that is not the case ever since the first adpocalypse.

Youtube began as a video hosting platform where creators got a huge cut from ads being shown on their video page. Today, the ads are injected into the videos and creators get only a tiny portion of the profits - if any. The views are gone as only (highly)monetised content is being promoted by the algorithm. Google simply prioritises making money for themselves instead of providing a service that merely breaks even.

Youtube has done what most businesses do - they pay the initial opex costs and provide some kind of freemium, they get huge number of users, then they monetise the sh.. out of them. And it always ends the same - the platform dies as users leave. Youtube is not any different. It's just so big that this process takes much longer than usual. But do not be fooled, it is happening.

Nowadays, people are slowly realising that there is no more free lunch and that you have to pay for the content(see how many streaming services there are compared to just a few years ago). This is why paywall services like Patreon are so popular(and why I have created my own as well as it is one of few viable online businesses left in the digital space).

Content creators who are relying on anonymous views, that Youtube always provided and which is now slowly dying, will end up out of business and many in debt due to costs of the video gear they bought and oversaturated marked/competition. There is plethora of this "i'm broke" videos on YT itself exposing the harsh reality of digital content creation of today.

On the other hand, smart content creators have realised that the way forward is to build smaller community of reliable fans and use paywalls/pay-per-view model, where they can charge tiny amount whilst getting 95% of it for themselves, which incentivises users to pay(ie. i am willing to pay 10 cents directly to my favourite content creator rather than 5$ to youtube). Some are stuck in the middle with injecting sponsored content into their own, but that will die out soon as well and likely YT will ban it straight up sooner or later. There will be some networks that host multiple creators, like we already have with unauthorized.tv, censored.tv and others. The YT alternatives like Odysee or Rumble will not survive as they are using the same outdated business model as Youtube does but they lack the backing of Google(not just money but infrastructure).

It will take time but people will eventually flock to specific content creators instead of relying on algorithms to recommended them content they might be interested in - as this has been completely broken for a decade now and caused huge amount of great content creators to just quit for good. A huge loss to humanity as a whole.

This will be the next generation of content creators whom will understand that the game has changed.
by CalRobert | 2025-09-09 07:31:29+00:00
Unfortunately the EU is caving apparently. I worry these monster trucks will kill thousands of Europeans. https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eu-cave-in-on-...

One small bit of good news is the Netherlands FINALLY closed the tax exception for these things. Until this year you’d pay no import tax if it was for “business” (NL has a huge number of self employed people who just lie about what the truck is for). It made a dodge ram ridiculously cheap. Notice they all have V plates signifying a business vehicle.
by torginus | 2025-09-09 07:32:11+00:00
I mean at 2GHz, and 2/3c, the signal travels about 10cm in 1 clock cycle. So it's not negligible, but I suspect it has much more to do with signal integrity and the transmission line characteristics of the data bus.

I think since on mobile CPUs, the RAM sits right on top of the SoC, very likely the CPUs are designed with a low RAM latency in mind.
by jabl | 2025-09-09 07:32:22+00:00
> I vaguely remember that they have trace caches (a cache of decoded micro-operations) to skip decoding in some cases. You probably don't make such caches when decoding is easy.

The P4 microarch had trace caches, but I believe that approach has since been avoided. What practically all contemporary x86 processors do have, though is u-op caches, which contain decoded micro-ops. Note this is not the same as a trace cache.

For that matter, many ARM cores also have u-op caches, so it's not something that is uniquely useful only on x86. The Apple M* cores AFAIU do not have u-op caches, FWIW.
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-09 07:32:32+00:00
> "baseload" is a misnomer, what is required is storage to cover periods when "the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow"

"Storage" can't do that for more than smoothing out daily peaks. The only longer-term storage that matters when you look at the numbers is pumped hydro, and that's built out. That's why "baseload" is in fact quite relevant; it's way better to supply those critical needs via a highly reliable source.
by Frieren | 2025-09-09 07:32:38+00:00
The open internet is not as much dying as being killed.

Big platforms were somewhat open to attract as much users as possible. Now that they have the users all doors are being closed and people is getting trapped inside.

For many people the internet is a messenger app, Youtube or Tiktok for entertainment and news, Netflix for movies, Spotify for music, Amazon or Temu to buy things, and chatGPT to ask questions. Change some platform for another depending on country or age.

Standardization is needed so people can buy things anywhere they want, so users can send messages seamlessly to other users with different providers, etc. We live in the middle-ages of technology, unregulated, proprietary and controlled by a few feudal lords that have more power than the countries they live in. And it sucks.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-09 07:33:26+00:00
Intel and AMD have implemented these improvements with Lunar Lake and Strix Halo. You can buy an x86 laptop with Macbook-like efficiency right now if you know which SoCs to pick.

M4 is about 3.6x more efficient than Strix Halo when under load.[0] On a daily basis, this difference can be more because Apple Silicon has true big.Little cores that send low priority tasks to the highly efficient small cores.

For Lunar Lake, base M4 is about 35% faster, 2x more efficient, and actually has a bigger die size than M4.[1] Intel is discontinuing the Lunar Lake line because it isn't profitable for them.

I'm not sure how you can claim "Mac-like efficiency".

[0]https://imgur.com/a/yvpEpKF

[1]https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Lunar-Lake-CPU-analysis-...
by pjmlp | 2025-09-09 07:34:17+00:00
I don't understand the addition, and the gimmicks people come up not to check their phones.

Maybe it is because I was already an adult, when the very first generation of mobile phones became affordable, those that only did calls, SMS wasn't even part of it.

I can easily go out and leave phone at home, or don't feel the urge to check it every 5 minutes.
by vintermann | 2025-09-09 07:34:27+00:00
Oh? I remember countless times it's been in the news (well, our news) for copyright abuse, appeals processes that are either an AI pretending to be human or a human pretending to be AI. The de-facto only way to clear up rampant abuse like mass claiming of videos over use of public domain music, is to have clout in social media.

Then there's the issue of AI slop channels, and pre-AI slop directed at children like the infamous Elsa and Spiderman spam.

Every so often they also are in the news for AB testing some anti-adblock measure. And people used to adblock who see it with ads for the first time in a while seem to always be shocked at the level of ads for pure fraud or malware.

YouTube seems to be a terrible place if you put anything up there that you actually care about. But I agree on one thing: it's not "ripe for disruption". Google sank so much losses into it for so many years just to have this monopoly, so it's not going to be easy to replace.
by 0points | 2025-09-09 07:34:41+00:00
sha* is a horrible choice for storing passwords. It's intended use is for verifying data integrity.

You should be using the solutions readily available instead of trying to reinventing the wheel, or avoid this subject altogether if you can't be bothered to educate yourself as to why.

This has been a decades-long issue, and it blows my mind how people in IT still didn't get the memo.

Use argon2, scrypt or even bcrypt who all are designed for keeping passwords secure with regards to brute force cracking.
by RyJones | 2025-09-09 07:34:42+00:00
Japan is mostly Instagram, line, WhatsApp, telegram, in that order, for me.

For business comms drop instagram and move WhatsApp to first.

For Singapore it seems LinkedIn messages are the go to IM for business.

Europe p2p: telegram number one by a huge margin, then WhatsApp. B2b: WhatsApp, period.
by shrikant | 2025-09-09 07:34:42+00:00
Funnily enough, the blog post itself has a counterexample in their singular noun example: the table^Wrelation name is `user` which is highlighted by the syntax highlighter as being a keyword. I'd wager the same thing would happen for a table named, say, `transaction`.

Some DB engines won't let you use a keyword as identifiers for anything unless it's quoted, and then you either have to quote everything, or end up in a weird situation where some things are quoted and some aren't.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-09 07:35:18+00:00
Yup! I saw the big guy guarding the entrance and noped out of there, only recently went back - with hover, dash, wall climb etc, different moveset (no directional downslash).

I think I went through the narrow to the balloon place, then maybe back through the marrow or something up to Bellheart, deep docks etc.
by vaylian | 2025-09-09 07:35:29+00:00
> I feel like it's extremely common for the autofill to not work for various reasons even when you aren't being phished.

This is how Troy Hunt got phished. He was already very tired after a long flight, but his internal alarm bells didn't ring loud enough, when the password manager didn't fill in the credentials. He was already used to autofill not always working.
by Nursie | 2025-09-09 07:35:56+00:00
I’m not sure “works fine” is a great descriptor of the UK energy sector… people do get the energy they need, at least, but they have to be on the watch for better deals all the time and make sure not to become a ‘profitable customer’ aka sucker.

The price-discovery aspect of supply seems a bit broken as well - suppliers bid daily on their price to supply power, and the cheapest X units are selected (where X is the daily demand), then they all get paid out at the level of the most expensive provider in the selected mix. Seems to me that it leaves the consumer significantly overpaying, though it must be a nice little earner for those that can provide cheap power.

But you’re right that water is in a worse state due to the monopoly side of things.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-09-09 07:36:02+00:00
I found both HK and Silksong roughly similar to Dark Souls in much the same way.

Above all, all three games demand and reward precision and timing, and to some extent figuring out enemy movement and attack patterns. None of the games demand much in terms of speed or reaction time.

In many ways it's much more forgiving than your traditional "hard" platformers.
by AngryData | 2025-09-09 07:37:05+00:00
I, and im willing to bet many other people, also had an issue with previous things being called AI too. Just none of it became a prevalent enough topic for many people to hear complaints about its usage because the people who were actually talking about algorithms and AI already knew the limitations of what they were talking about, unless it was marketing materials but most people ignore marketing material claims because they are almost always complete bullshit.
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-09 07:39:24+00:00
> Solar is very, very cheap and almost totally worthless without storage.

For say an AI training-oriented data center, you could scale down the power usage when supply is limited. You could change power limits on the CPU/GPUs, put the machines in sleep mode or powered off entirely. So the required storage would just be a slightly bigger UPS.

Not sure if the economics works out, but at least technically it's possible as it's more flexible than user-based loads.
by Nursie | 2025-09-09 07:39:42+00:00
It does, AFAICT, there is no competition in infrastructure or supply. There are only targets to meet on service standard and agreed price levels with the state.

The companies seem to operate on a model of doing as little maintenance as they can get away with while taking on debt and paying out to shareholders and the C-suite whenever possible. This has been done in complicity with the regulatory body who wanted to keep bills as low as possible for as long as possible, so played along with the zero-investment model.

It is a clusterfuck.
by phoyd | 2025-09-09 07:40:04+00:00
I want to drop here the not very well known fact, that the SQL Standard grammar distinguishes between "SQL language identifier" and "regular identifier". According to the rules, a SQL language identifier can not end with an underscore (copied from ISO/IEC 9075-2:1999 "5.4 Names and identifiers":

<SQL language identifier> ::=<SQL language identifier start> [ { <underscore> | <SQL language identifier part> }... ]

<SQL language identifier start> ::= <simple Latin letter> <SQL language identifier part> ::= <simple Latin letter> | <digit>

So, using names with trailing underscore should always be safe.
by fragmede | 2025-09-09 07:40:21+00:00
I got toys for my nephews, things for my insecurities, things I think are neat. socks with pockets on them! Compelled, I mean, now that I know $thing-that-will-fix-my-problem exists, how could I not? Worst part of it is, I didn't even know I had that problem before watching the ad!
by Ianjit | 2025-09-09 07:40:32+00:00
This paper is great:

"Our methodical investigation demonstrates the role of ISA in modern microprocessors’ performance and energy efficiency. We find that ARM, MIPS, and x86 processors are simply engineering design points optimized for different levels of performance, and there is nothing fundamentally more energy efficient in one ISA class or the other. The ISA being RISC or CISC seems irrelevant."

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2699682 https://abdullahyildiz.github.io/files/isa_wars.pdf
by -t0mm | 2025-09-09 07:41:47+00:00
This is very cool to see.

I've been playing around with the idea of getting an old iphone just for car play and dumbphone purposes. However, I always discarded the idea due to the lack of control iOS gives you in restricting and customizing certain things. But now, this Apple configurator gives me a bit more motivation to make that jump, even though I probably wont be able to use it for all my specific needs.

I also ended up experimenting for a few months with the Samsung G1650 which runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow. I was able to get apps like Termux and other utilities on it which made my experience what I wanted while also not compromising on having no modern messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal. It wasnt a complete dumbphone per se, but it was almost impossible to doomscroll or browse the internet on that phone.

In the end I stopped using my G1650 due to the fact that it was too tedious waiting 5+ minutes for poorly optimized apps like Spotify/Taxi apps to load. Also, the phone became expontentially slower with more storage being used, which is expected since wasnt really made to storage gigs of message and media logs.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-09-09 07:42:11+00:00
You arguably shouldn't be grinding a boss for several hours. The game is taxing and bashing your head against the wall for several hours will just mean you get sloppier and prolong the losing streak.

Take a 15 min break, either go somewhere else in game or better still, in real life. It really makes a world of difference. Dying over and over again from increasingly sloppy mistakes is not anyone's idea of fun.

This is generally true for any mechanically taxing skill. If you push yourself for too long you get tired, and when you get tired you get worse. Learning to identify this as a sign to step away is a very good life skill.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-09 07:42:16+00:00
I think it is possible to use LLMs that operates under a very constrained command list to a very high probability of success, but it might indeed be enough to use Google Assistant for this. For those not right questions to ask, typically LLMs do work though. You would have to have a prompt set for the chat prior.

> If I've learned anything from my years on the planet, if toast0 wants it, it's not in high demand. Sorry!

Hey, I would not be so sure. :P
by mort96 | 2025-09-09 07:42:31+00:00
> What I was trying to point out is that you're essentially talking about LTO. Getting into the weeds, the compiler _can't_ optimize strcpy(*) in practice because its not going to be defined in a header-only library, it's going to be in a different translation unit that gets either dynamically or statically linked.

Repeating the part of my post that you took issue with:

> If there was only one implementation of strcpy and it was the version that happens to be picked on my particular computer, and that implementation was in a header so that it could be inlined by my compiler, my programs would execute faster.

So no, I'm not talking about LTO. I'm talking about a hypothetical alternate reality where strcpy is in a glibc header so that the compiler can inline it.

There are reasons why strcpy can't be in a header, and the primary technical one is that glibc wants the linker to pick between many different implementations of strcpy based on processor capabilities. I'm discussing the loss of inlining as a cost of having many different implementations picked at dynamic link time.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-09-09 07:43:03+00:00
Sounds about right. I was a massive Spotify fan when I signed up in 2008, but that has cooled significantly as time has gone on.

It’s a textbook Feature Factory [1].

I don’t think anybody asked for all the features they have crammed in, right up to the point where it’s playing videos like a wannabe YouTube client.

When I know my machine is going to need CPU resources and I don’t want to work with the sound of the fan, I load up a lightweight FLAC player instead.

[1] …a term that is apparently annoying to Agile enthusiasts… Good!
by CalRobert | 2025-09-09 07:43:06+00:00
That’s great! Genuinely. We all struggle with our own vices.

I loved when I worked in a place with a beer fridge -chilling out on a Friday afternoon when it was sunny in Dublin was great - but for any alcoholics around it probably was hell. On the other hand, I hate it when places have free lunch and snacks because I am a compulsive eater.
by Muromec | 2025-09-09 07:43:31+00:00
>One meta lesson I like about Souls is it provides a safe environment to learn what performing under pressure is like

They used to give you unlimited time to deal with difficulty and always gave the alternative of rolling back and getting more levels. That's until Nightreign -- you are almost always under time pressure.

Forget Malenia -- everdark Libra is the current standard of the most diabolical Souls experience. The time is against you, the music is maddening. You either clear the summons in under 20 seconds or you get another stacked debuff and the goat is casting.

Can't wait for the Depth version to be released this Thursday.