MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-09-09 00:52:42+00:00
I’ve been a Plex user since the very early days, before they even broke it apart as a client/server app and it was just an xbmc port for OS X. I recently tried Jellyfin, which seems to have the most buzz around it and it wasn’t a good experience.

I was running both on the same hardware (Synology NAS via docker), and using the same client device (AppleTV). Jellyfin was painfully slow, via the native web interface to the point of being nearly unusable. On the AppleTV I tried both Swiftfin and Infuse. Swiftfin was painfully slow to the point of being unusable. Infuse was better once the caches loaded, but that took several hours of just navigating around the app. Once I did, the interface wasn’t one I liked and I seem to remember having issues with adding new files. I also has play back issues in one or more of the apps, I think.

As much as I’ve been concerned about the direction of Plex, it seems like the alternative isn’t up to the task. I remember installing the first version of Plex server probably over 15 years ago and it was smooth and fun to watch, with movie posters turned over as it loaded them in. Jellyfin felt like a chore.

Needless to say, I’m back on Plex. I’ll still keep an eye on alternatives in the space, but I’m really disappointed with all the people who have been shouting the Jellyfin name from the rooftops, saying it’s better than Plex. That was not my experience at all. Maybe on a much more powerful system, with a much smaller library? I’d love to see it become great, but it feels like they have a long way to go to really nail the basics while remaining performant.
by bbor | 2025-09-09 00:52:46+00:00
"Global health crisis" is still an absurd thing to say. The WHO lists three emergencies: COVID-19 (at least 7M dead), Cholera (1-4M cases & 21-143K deaths per year), and Monkeypox (220 deaths since 2022, but could grow exponentially if not contained). By comparison, "psychosis symptoms exacerbated by new technology" doesn't deserve to be in the same conversation.

P.S. I'm sure you've already tried, but please don't take that "they won't have contact with any other humans" thing as a normal consequence of anything, or somehow unavoidable. That's an extremely dangerous situation. Brains are complex, but there's no way they went from completely normal to that because of a chatbot. Presumably they stopped taking their meds?
by dchftcs | 2025-09-09 00:53:05+00:00
Even if a system doesn't look authoritarian, corruption happens all the time. Those involved in corruption naturally want more power for themselves. Additionally some people actively thirst for more power for whatever reasons, and most people don't want to be constrained in their jobs, and they are all aligned in expanding governmental power. You need some discipline to commit to the idea that "I don't want the ability to see encrypted chats, even if that makes my job 90% easier to do", and I don't trust most people to have it.
by Calavar | 2025-09-09 00:53:25+00:00
> It's important to understand that only a small percentage of academics will ever get tenure. The rest will keep toiling away on increasingly poorly paid and desperate postdocs until they finally age out and decide to take a job in industry.

There's also a good chunk of people who fail to advance past the assistant professor level, which is pre-tenure at US institutions (not sure about other countries). And it's up or out, so if you're an assistant professor and you don't get tenure within a certain number of years, you lose your job.
by mohinder | 2025-09-09 00:53:37+00:00
The chopping up can happen the next cycle, in parallel across all the instructions in the cache line(s) that were fetched, and it can be pipelined so there's no loss in throughput. Since x86 instructions can be as small as one byte, in principle the throughput-per-cache-line can be higher on x86 than on RISC-V (e.g. a single 32-byte x86 cache line could have up to 32 instructions where the original RISC-V ISA might only have 8). And in any case, there are RISC-V extensions that allow variable-length instructions now, so they have to deal with the problem too.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-09 00:54:09+00:00
I don't believe it.

The problem with nuclear energy is not the availability or the cost of the fuel but the capital cost of the reactor and the high level of financial and operational risk involved with the construction. For instance there is an unlimited amount of handwringing over a closed fuel cycle costing a little more than an open fuel cycle but nobody points out that the capital cost of the reactor dwarfs fuel cycle costs for any fuel cycle -- no nukes hate reprocessing so they won't point this out and nukes don't want to remind you of the capital cost problem.

For every NPP that's had a nuclear meltdown there have been 20 that had a financial meltdown before they've even turned it on.

It drives me up the wall that big tech companies want to buy "a reactor" or an unspecified "SMR" but never an AP1000 (reactor that's actually been built) or even a BWRX300 (an SMR that might actually get built.) If there wasn't any bullshit a new build AP1000 would probably have a 10 year lag at least but...

... in the current international tariff situation it's almost impossible that any full-size or even moderate-sized reactor will be built in the US in the forseeable future because the US has no super-heavy press that can forge a nuclear reactor vessel. Japan, China, Korea, the UK, and many other countries have them and in the neoliberal world of a year ago we could have just had one made for us and shipped in by boat. The BWRX300 is the only western SMR that is far along and the pressure vessel will be made in Canada -- it's going to cost plenty no matter what but put 35% on top of that and you're doing the no nukes job for them. Way to go.

I want to see it work but I am not seeing realistic plans from the likes of Microsoft and Google, just the hot air from a 100W lightbulb when we really need 10,000,000 times as much heat!
by com2kid | 2025-09-09 00:54:53+00:00
> they seem to be producing text, which is then put through text-to-speech (using what appeared to be a voice trained on their own -- nice touch).

This is an LLM model thing. Plenty of open source (or at least MIT licensed) LLMs and TTS models exist that translate and can be zero shot trained on a user's speech. Direct audio to audio models tend to be less researched and less advanced than the corresponding (but higher latency) audio to text to audio pipelines.

That said you can get audio->text->audio down to 400ms or so latency if you are really damn good at it.
by c0wb0yc0d3r | 2025-09-09 00:56:03+00:00
> I tried running OpenWrt as a wired router on an x86 mini PC, and found that it had some really powerful features and was certainly rock solid as a router. But there were some major annoyances, too. For example, their documentation includes a script for expanding the root filesystem [1] that left my system unable to boot.

I have been doing this myself recently. The docs around this are pretty out of date. The docs as they’re written only work for the ext4 images if I remember correctly. I got it to work with the squashfs version, but it was really janky. The problem is the OS just writes the to the empty space at the end of the squash partition without changing the partition table. I could only successfully get it working if resized the partition on first boot before the writable overlay is created.

> And while I didn't use it long enough to make it through an upgrade, their documentation on upgrades makes the process sound very brittle (it sounded like configs for installed packages don't carry over by default) and confusing.

I feel similarly about the process. There is either a command or a place on disk where you can put files to protect them across upgrades, but I can’t remember just now. I think it works that way because it’s targeted at embedded devices where I would think you typically bake everything you need into the root file system at compile time. I’m not an embedded engineer so maybe there are better ways of doing it.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-09 00:57:28+00:00
Sounds like your M2 is hitting the TDP max and the Ryzen box isn't.

Keep in mind there are Nvidia-designed chips (eg. Switch 2) that use all of ten watts when playing Cyberpunk 2077. Manufactured on Samsung's 8nm node, no less. It's a bit of a pre-beaten horse, but people aren't joking when they say Apple's GPU and CPU designs leave a lot of efficiency on the table.
by mohinder | 2025-09-09 00:58:02+00:00
You don't need all the permutations. If there are 32 bytes in a cache line then each instruction can only start at one of 32 possible positions. Then if you want to decode N instructions per cycle you need N 32-to-1 muxes. You can reduce the number of inputs to the later muxes since instructions can't be zero size.
by madrox | 2025-09-09 00:58:10+00:00
I don't assume that at all. Investors absolutely know, but investment is predicated on returns. You can't do that if you can't give a timeline for when value will be generated unless your investment is so small it's practically a donation. Obviously you can invest in moonshots, but you don't want to bet your whole portfolio. Why do you think OpenAI had the governing structure it did before it made its breakthroughs but suddenly both them and Anthropic can do insane raises?
by harimau777 | 2025-09-09 01:01:34+00:00
I'm just not sure we can trust the numbers in today's America. I'm sure it's safe if they are run responsibly, but we've already got stuff like Cancer Alley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley). I'm less worried about a disaster than I am about long term radiation exposure due to cut corners.
by hammock | 2025-09-09 01:01:39+00:00
> Tesla has a variety problem. If we converge the split between midrange and premium, their lineup consists of a midsize sedan, a midsize SUV, and a niche truck

I don’t know if you have checked out other OEMs lineups lately…Ford doesn’t even make a sedan anymore. That’s right. Just SUVs and trucks. And mustang supercar. Other OEMs have similarly trimmed their lineups. You can thank CAFE er al for that.
by decimalenough | 2025-09-09 01:02:17+00:00
The six-seater Model Y L, which has already been launched in China, fills in that "SUV that's the next step up in size" gap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_Y_L

But yes, I fully agree that deprioritizing/stopping the low-cost "Model 2" was a major mistake. Particularly with tariffs keeping Chinese EVs out, Tesla could have pretty much owned the space in the US. (Although Elon's DOGE antics would still have alienated a large portion of the customer base.)
by smt88 | 2025-09-09 01:02:30+00:00
Eh not quite the same. This guy was getting paid to specifically make it possible to play pirated media, and he ignored a cease and desist.

If you scaled this up to a large percentage of Switch consoles, no one would want to make Switch games anymore.

Nintendo is an evil, shitty company that weaponizes the courts, but I love good games/movies/etc. and want creators to be able to profit from them.
by defrost | 2025-09-09 01:02:47+00:00
Tangentially - it's an absurdist character rich fantasy bound by a 70 generations old castle (or university? Well, no, but shade is thrown).

Not a clean fit to Dark Academia, but a lesser known and worthy forerunner.

Also, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Stephen Fry, and many others in the 2000 TV adaption is good entertainment for anyone with a DA bent. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsPC8m4zo9g
by zamadatix | 2025-09-09 01:02:54+00:00
Can you expand more on how many of the key seeming counterexamples to this in the map support this conclusion (e.g. DE should be the most red of them all, no?) or how the desire for CSAM surveillance is a proxy for the mixing rate of different religions in the regions? It feels unlikely we will agree about it, but I'm curious what you're seeing in this data that makes it seem so clearly the causal reason to you.
by com2kid | 2025-09-09 01:03:14+00:00
Pulling out my phone, unlocking it, opening my notes app, creating a new note, that is a bottleneck.

Puling out my phone, unlocking it, remembering what the hotkey is today for starting google/gemini, is a bottle neck. Damned if I can remember what random gesture lets me ask Gemini to take a note today (presumably gemini has notes support now, IIRC the original release didn't).

Finding where Google stashes todo items at, also a bottle neck. Of course that entails me getting my phone out and navigating to whatever notes app (for awhile todos/notes were inside a separate Google search app!) they are shoved into.

My Palm Pilot from 2000 had more usability than a modern smartphone.

This device can solve all of those issues.
by ggm | 2025-09-09 01:03:33+00:00
I am surprised by the direct quotes where Hinton says "by any measure AI is intelligent" because I think these words will come back to haunt him, much as prognostications from Chomsky dogged his heels.

By narrow measures of outcome, AI synthesises answers which meet needs in questioners. I think intelligence includes aspects of behaviour (such a word) of a system which go beyond simply providing answers. I don't think AI can do this, yet if ever.
by tbossanova | 2025-09-09 01:03:45+00:00
I see what you mean, but I actually think there is a place for copy/pasting AI responses. I think of it as a kind of cache, surely a HN comment being served to n users means less resources used and faster access than if all n did their own AI query. But then of course you don’t get exactly your preference e.g. you might prefer a terser response than what is pasted here. Interesting to see how the etiquette around this plays out over time.
by lmm | 2025-09-09 01:03:48+00:00
Removing null completely is a good end goal, but in order to get from there to here we need to migrate trillions of lines of code (and having an option type available is necessary to even get started), and if that option type can't accommodate all the values that are valid in the language and existing codebases (which currently includes null, like it or not) then we can't even get started.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-09 01:04:27+00:00
I beg your pardon. :) I already explained that I did my part and the result was hopeless. Perhaps you should do your part, too. Don't bother arguing on Hacker News, because it has no material effect on the EU population outside the narrow IT crowd. Besides, I'm not a defeatist at all, because I know GnuPG! However, the non-IT EU civilians who also coincidentally agreed with this, are unfortunately lost.
by adrr | 2025-09-09 01:05:12+00:00
Still the best EVs on the market in terms of range, performance and price(in the US). Chevy bolt competitor wouldn’t make sense because Chevy couldn’t even make the chevy bolt work and stopped production 2023. EV trucks don’t make sense at all, they can’t tow unless you want to recharge every 100 miles. Also range is severely reduced offroading. I don’t get why auto manufacturers keep pushing them on the public.

Tesla has image problem. Y refresh is getting praise. Edmunds says its the best car they’ve driven in 2025. It should be selling like hotcakes. I don’t think anything is fixing Tesla unless they fire musk.
by saagarjha | 2025-09-09 01:05:33+00:00
Yes, but you're not describing it from the right position. Is instruction decode hard? Yes, if you think about it in isolation (also, fwiw, it's not a permutation problem as you suggest). But the core has a bunch of other stuff it needs to do that is far harder. Even your lowliest Pentium from 2000 can do instruction decode.
by mmaunder | 2025-09-09 01:05:38+00:00
I agree - a lot of art is sold via artists having a relationship with a stable of a few hundred people via insta. Completely bypasses the galleries and is far more compelling for the buyer because they can develop an emotional connection with the creator. Galleries can’t do that without having the artist present and even then they’re overwhelmed and buyers can’t make a connection. So this isn’t necessarily an art thing, it’s a gallery thing. Disintermediation strikes again.
by just_human | 2025-09-09 01:06:08+00:00
This is somewhat of a clickbait headline. It always bothers me when market analysts are quoted with such definitive statements like "oil will next year fall to between $53 and $56 per barrel." There are so many dynamics to commodity markets - not just supply and demand, but also how market participants will react to an imbalance (for example, will shale producers cut production if oil prices fall).
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-09 01:07:09+00:00
As things stand, assuming that Nissan can manage to remain afloat, that “Model 2” market segment is going to be snapped up by the 2026 Leaf, which will start at ~$25k before incentives and is just a touch bigger than the Bolt EUV was and comes with NACS, fast charging, and a properly cooled battery. There’s little in the US EV market that comes close to competing at that price range.

Keep in mind that these things will be built in Japan and imported. I’m sure Tesla could’ve figured out some way to have an offering the same price or cheaper.
by nomadpenguin | 2025-09-09 01:07:27+00:00
I think Buddhism still (arguably rightly) doesn't sit entirely well with non-religious Westerners. I have studied with a Zen Sangha and transmitted teachers on and off for a bit and have found their explanations helpful. However, it's absolutely undeniably that the Buddhist cannon is full of batshit insane stuff, just like any other religion. You can write them off as skillful means, but in some ways I think it's more honest to say that you practice meditation with Buddhist characteristics than to say that you're a real Buddhist if you don't have the time of day for spirits and dieties.

Again, this isn't saying that Buddhist modernism is bad. I'd argue that having clear eyes about what parts of Buddhist practice you're willing to take and leave is good.
by nutjob2 | 2025-09-09 01:07:39+00:00
It's a bad idea to give in to the incompetence or malice of manufacturers, and let them win.

And it is very much that. I just discovered Nova and installed it on my new Lenovo tablet, where they have a setting for changing the launcher. No matter, their old launcher just keeps on starting, fighting Nova and making it glitch out.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-09 01:11:59+00:00
If you follow up on the story, Tesla was cleared of all wrong doing after an investigation. Tesla did sell that number of vehicles, they just were very behind on filing for the incentives, but still within the program guidelines. Once the government announced that the incentives were running low, they filed all of their backlog at once.

I love to hate on Elon as much as the next person, but everything was above board.

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/canada-clears-tesla-in-izev...
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-09 01:12:21+00:00
The Bolt is coming back. Chevy’s reason for discontinuing it wasn’t that it didn’t sell, but that the platform was outdated. The new one is on their current platform and roughly analogous to the old EUV model.

Pricing is another question though, and no CarPlay/AA while also coming from an old guard auto manufacturer means no sale from me.
by lobsterthief | 2025-09-09 01:12:33+00:00
I had a channel (hit ~40k subs from ~15 videos), largely centered around hobby electronics, 3D printing, Raspberry Pi, etc. I stopped publishing videos around 2020 because the economics just didn’t make sense. I didn’t want to release subpar videos and was always challenging myself to improve production quality. It was fun, until it wasn’t. It took several days to shoot and edit a video. I’d publish it, it would do well, but YouTube paid such paltry revenue. I didn’t want to chase sponsorships because those don’t pay much either. I decided to focus my creative efforts elsewhere. I know things are even worse for YouTube creators now, given the ad market collapse and higher competition in the attention economy. I firmly believe that Google could reverse the trend if they spun up some pilot programs around assisting creators that match a certain algorithm to produce and scale video content—and pay them more so they can afford to take the time. Tl;dr; money and competition. But mostly money.
by p_ing | 2025-09-09 01:12:49+00:00
I've purchased plenty of art over the past couple years, mostly original paintings with a few prints. Very few of those came from galleries and when I walked in the galleries, I already knew what I wanted to buy.

Etsy and reddit are easy ways to find rather good art for what I can tell is a consistent price based on the size of the piece.

The only time I 'browse' art offline is during special events, which have all been wander from house to house or small art studio to studio. I love the experience, it's much more personal as you know the artist will be there and you can discuss the piece with them.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-09 01:13:02+00:00
Yes and no. Very few contemporary governments are accusing the CIA of starting color revolutions, especially nowadays.

But historically there are definitely examples of the CIA achieving this. Iran's 1953 coup was overwhelmingly successful and a joint operation between MI6 and CIA. The consequences irrevocably tipped the balance of power away from Pan-Arabism and towards a globalist, American-driven order.
by wallopinski | 2025-09-09 01:13:03+00:00
I was an instruction fetch unit (IFU) architect on P6 from 1992-1995. And yes, it was a pain, and we had close to 100x the test vectors of all the other units, going back to the mid 1980's. Once we started going bonkers with the prefixes, we just left the pre-Pentium decoder alone and added new functional blocks to handle those. And it wasn't just branch prediction that sucked, like you called out! Filling the instruction cache was a nightmare, keeping track of head and tail markers, coalescing, rebuilding, ... lots of parallel decoding to deal with cache and branch-prediction improvements to meet timing as the P6 core evolved was the typical solution. We were the only block (well, minus IO) that had to deal with legacy compatibility. Fortunately I moved on after the launch of Pentium II and thankfully did not have to deal with Pentium4/Northwood.
by mbirth | 2025-09-09 01:13:16+00:00
From the article:

> Daly, who sold devices like the MIG Switch and MIG Dumper

So, he just sold the devices that allowed you to make copies of Switch cartridges. Similar to someone selling cassette tapes or CD-/DVD-Rs and CD/DVD burners. He didn't sell illegally copied games or anything that tampers with Nintendo's IP. But as we all know, in front of US courts it's not about who's right but who has more money. And Nintendo has plenty of that.
by lloydatkinson | 2025-09-09 01:13:36+00:00
This was really fun. It had some FTL: Faster Than Light vibes.

I wish it was much longer, like Zork. Would be cool to manage the colony on the planet too as a future feature.

This was my result: https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?bmhtrfj...
by tart-lemonade | 2025-09-09 01:14:51+00:00
I have a painting of a commuter train I used to ride to work every day. It's not a conversation starter (or rather, I'm always the one who starts talking about it) but I love it because it reminds me of when I discovered that I didn't need to be a slave to my car and how freeing that was.

It cost me $50 and I've taken it with me every time I've moved.

I really don't get dropping thousands on a single piece, I've never felt any work speak that loudly to me.
by Teknoman117 | 2025-09-09 01:15:10+00:00
The last 20% of the performance takes like >75% of the power with Zen 4 systems XD.

A Ryzen 9 7945HX mini pc I have achieves like ~80% of the all-core performance at 55W of my Ryzen 9 7950X desktop, which uses 225W for the CPU (admittedly, the defaults).

I think limiting the desktop CPU to 105W only dropped the performance by 10%. I haven't done that test in awhile because I was having some stability problems I couldn't be bothered to diagnose.