MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by snickerbockers | 2025-10-07 14:11:44+00:00
I don't think that's accurate to the current market. Ten years ago it was true but in 2025 they have several competitors and not nearly as many exclusives. I can name several counterarguments.

* Shonen anime, which are consistently the most popular ones, are also on netflix and probably several other services. Eg, demon slayer, dandadan, etc.

* there are still shows that are japan-exclusive because nobody bothers to license them. Roboshinkalion is an entire franchise that nobody cares to import! We actually had to wait two extra years for gridman universe because nobody bothered to license it for English localization!

* just this year they failed to obtain the rights to Mobile Suit Gundam G-Quuuuuux and Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt because amazon outbid them. These are both new entries in well-established brands and they're both made by studios with large fan followings (khara for g-quuuuuux and trigger for panty and stocking).

* somehow Hulu ended up breaking harmony gold's 45-year blockade around the macross franchise and won exclusive streaming rights.

* netflix has a lot of exclusives these days, including Jojo stone ocean and the upcoming steelball run.
by refulgentis | 2025-10-07 14:12:04+00:00
I am quite surprised by:

- the claim that pathological filesystem behavior => git/npm/whoever should use a SQLite DB as a flat file rather than having multiple files.

- no pushback

- the reply w/"yes, definitely, by shoving all the files into a SQLite DB, concurrency & contention issues simply disappear"

There's a sort of comic "turtles all the way down" aspect to it.

Why not just have the filesystem be a SQLite DB then? (A: because it would suffer from all of the same problems, except worse, because it is not a filesystem)
by vegadw | 2025-10-07 14:12:16+00:00
Other countries should loosen copyright terms. The only reason other countries previously benefited by adopting the US's draconian copyright terms was because of trade deals that have now been steam rolled by tariffs. If CA, AU, or the EU were to say "Nah, we're done - we're opening our own appstores, our own music distribution channels, making it easier for musicians to make more money and make derivative works" it would cripple the the US, deservedly, because they've been captured by the MPA and RIAA's and Disney's and other publisher's greed and control via the DMCA and repeated copyright extensions.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-07 14:12:34+00:00
Indiscriminate squashing sucks. Atomic commits are great if you want the git history to actually represent a logical changelog for a project, as opposed to a pointless literal keylog of what changes each developer made and when. It will help you if you need to bisect a regression later. It sucks if you bisect and find the change happened in some enormous incohesive commit. Squashing should be done carefully to reform WIP and fix type commits into proper commits that are ready for sharing.
by bluGill | 2025-10-07 14:12:36+00:00
Also even if/when there isn't an actual regulation, it is to your benefit to act as if there is one and keep things "clean enough". If things never reach the point of regulators getting interested you can choose how to follow the intent and ensure regulations you hate don't get in. (once regulations you need to spend money on lobbyists to capture and write the regulation, cheaper to not get that far in the first place)

Of course the above is a game of prisoners dilemma. You are risking others defecting first. In the current situation there doesn't seem to be much cost if you are last to defect (since regulations will come in just a few rounds). In other situations there can be great gain in defecting first.
by jabl | 2025-10-07 14:12:40+00:00
> They just won a significant case in its licensing battle with Arm, securing rights to use Oryon cores in Snapdragon chips.

As an aside, wonder how this will impact Qualcomm's RISC-V plans? They were apparently working on some RISC-V cores, but I wonder whether that was just a play to put pressure on Arm, or are they still planning on bringing those out to market?

(The "Arduino UNO Q" that they're launching now is based on a Cortex A53. One would think if they're serious about RISC-V they would start with this kind of things, as in low-end stuff for tinkerers.)
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-07 14:12:40+00:00
This talk about high performers and low performers needing focused environments to perform gets me thinking about the scenario of putting them together. I know this is not what the article is suggesting, but the thought is still there.

This reminds me of conversations between the two ends of the Dunning-Kruger spectrum. In DK low performing people tend to vastly over-estimate their capabilities because their frame of reference is exceedingly narrow. High performers tend to under estimate their capabilities because in their vast experience they have forgotten a great many things that are either unnecessary or things that have become like muscle memory.

The conversations are interesting because the high performers tend to be more humble, more confident, and less arrogant while the low performers tend to be the opposite. That is extremely interesting because of what is not said in the conversation. For the low performers everything tends to be literal to the spoken word and everything else becomes an assumption localized to their personal perspective. For the high performers the negative space in a conversation is just words in a different form that the low performers actively broadcast in complete ignorance. This remains true for both children and adults.
by dspillett | 2025-10-07 14:12:51+00:00
I'm not talking about “the suits” and what they think.

I'm talking about the people, the home users nominally in control of their own machines, who are on the edge of considering Linux, or something else non-MS, who might be put off if they see something that reinforces a negative stereotype that they've been fed elsewhere (for instance, that the surrounding community is mostly a bunch of undeservedly cocksure 14-year-olds or practically indistinguishable from the same).
by friendzis | 2025-10-07 14:12:54+00:00
> Generation curtailment could be minimised though with demand-side flexibility

Demand-side flexibility is synonymous with surge-pricing, ensuring peak demand energy is a luxury good. Ensuring that energy availability is only mostly guaranteed to those able to outbid the bottom something-percentile: those using energy for economically productive work and otherwise rich.

This is quite opposite of an utility.
by kotaKat | 2025-10-07 14:13:20+00:00
Managed to get pulled over by a State Trooper on a highway because I failed to dim my brights going by a couple cars and I was just a hair over the speed limit (63/55). I was tired and it was ten more miles to the house after a long maintenance window at the hospital overnight. I was given a warning and some mercy after a quick records check.

Not a drop of booze or a single puff that night.
by ajross | 2025-10-07 14:14:18+00:00
Let's just say this point needs further exposition.

Your argument appears to be that the stock market won't drop because stocks are held by members of the public whose opinions are controlled by technology? Or... that robots are holding the stock?

It doesn't have the rhetorical punch, but my boring traditional economics opinion is that it's probably a bubble because realized profit from these overvalued stocks is too far out in the future to buffer the inevitable liquidity shocks inherent in modern economies. Eventually someone will come up short and have to dump, and we'll get a feedback loop.

But admittedly robots are more fun.
by talkingtab | 2025-10-07 14:14:28+00:00
Recently I went down the rabbit hole of recursive tree maps. Walk a file system directory and assign a weight (size) to each directory recursively. Then present a tree map of each level. Click on "Users" then "fred", then "clones" for example.

Looking at this and seeing "lens" and "prisms" is at once both familiar and extremely odd. These Mondrian shapes are just like my recursive tree maps. Familiar. But the concept of lens and prism is not at all how I thought of them as I was repeatedly generating them.

It was interesting to look at what I was doing from a more formal perspective. Thanks! Yet at the same time I wish I could understand a practical use for this. How would it make things any better in my visual representation to use these concepts?

Personally, I find the whole idea of presenting a visual representation of masses of data interesting. There was a challenge a while back about how to represent the entire catalog of ISBN for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168838
by webdevver | 2025-10-07 14:14:33+00:00
not really a convincing comparison... if i no longer had to poo, that would be pretty cool. yeah its a bodily function but it also kind of sucks and is disgusting and requires a ton of infrastructure to "take care of".

being able to seek-scroll throughout your day like a non-stop livestream is objectively a power-up. some people will get oneshotted by it - but a lot of people have been oneshotted by a lot of different things over the decades.

short-form video fried lots of brains, but it also built out the infra for all the other stuff. it is what it is.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-07 14:15:03+00:00
There is not judicial oversight. You never know there was an order.

If you get into that scenario, you suspect the government cut you off, but you go to a lawyer and have literally nothing. The court will not take the case.

>econd, the bank accounts seized did not belong to protestors,

They seized hundreds of accounts; later had the banks terminate the bank accounts.

In fact, not only protestors but people who donated to the protest got their bank accounts seized.

>as the leaders of that siege were convicted of mischief, two of which are being sentenced today.

Protesting the government, in front of parliament is mischief? Political prisoners.

>n general, protests do not engage in torturing the local populace with 95db of air horn for 16 to 20 hours a day. The account seizure also required emergency powers.

Which was found to be unconstitutional.

But Bill C8 wont be abused by this same government? How about abuse in the future by other governments?
by khaki54 | 2025-10-07 14:15:30+00:00
without Limited Liability Companies, a civil matter as simple as a copyright lawsuit could permenently bankrupt a small business and take the owners house and all their assets.

I don't agree with companies wantonly externalizing their costs onto the environment or the populace such as Dow or 3M poisoning the entire planet. Criminal liability never goes away for serious crimes, whether sole-proprietership, LLC, or Corp. We need to actually start jailing people though
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by yomismoaqui | 2025-10-07 14:15:46+00:00
Right now AI is lifting up the floor, so if you don't know programming, mandarin or any other topic it will sure do better than you. (Vibe coding goes here)

Same for tasks you know how to do but AI does them faster, there is also value there. (Claude Code used by a senior goes here)

The interesting thing is when AI is lifting up the ceiling everywhere, but maybe then is when we are almost on AGI territory.
by V__ | 2025-10-07 14:15:50+00:00
I can't find the source, but one reason why SpaceX can reduce costs more than NASA, is that SpaceX is allowed to fail. NASA has to underpromise and overdeliver on everything. Else it will result in budget cuts for not meeting targets or wasting money. Having such constraints, results in much higher costs. If NASA could "fail-fast" without fear of cuts, it would look very different.

Another point is that NASA also works as a job program for a lot of states.
by trod1234 | 2025-10-07 14:16:08+00:00
There aren't enough jobs because we are stuck in a money-printing loop thanks to the baby boomers. The dynamics and debasement floor prevent new entrants from entering the market while regulation cripples those trying to keep things going. Concentrating and sieving the money-supply into non-productive companies on a moonshot bet to eliminate capital formation and one party that forms the basis for the economic cycle.

Demographics are destiny. Its pretty clear that we'll be taking the accelerated japan route, and the worst of that with japan is the fact that we bailed it out, no ones around to bail us out.

We basically have a generation of children who are now the old, who spurned and wasted the resources given to them in poor stewardship, and who failed to pass them and the advantaged environment on to their children, instead choosing tyrannical to disadvantage their children through control and clutching power to the last of their days and all the destruction that comes thereafter. A fall of empire.

They clutched at the resources so heavily and disadvantaged their own children to the point where significantly less people were in a position to actually be having children themselves, both because of the intolerable and torturous acts which have become so commonplace today but also the resources required to keep the old alive significantly outweighed the resources to foster children. There is an opportunity cost for everything. A Deflationary depopulation is almost inevitable.
by numid_mobile | 2025-10-07 14:16:15+00:00
French higher education institutions work in very different ways from the standard US model; two relevant caracteristics are: a) good institutions for education and for research might not be the same at all and b) institutions work in a much more networked ways, so many labs will be joint ventures between like 5 universities/schools and 3 national research centres, students might get three degrees with each of them being a joint program between several schools.

So it's hard to have a good grasp.
by shubhamjain | 2025-10-07 14:16:21+00:00
> Foreigners poured a record $290bn into US stocks in the second quarter and now own about 30 per cent of the market — the highest share in post-second world war history. Europeans and Canadians have been boycotting American goods but continue buying US stocks in bulk — especially the tech giants.

I fail to find any plausible explanation for this other than the fact that yes, it is a bubble. Tesla, a car company facing declining sales, an executive exodus, and a CEO who’s more of a liability, is almost a $1.5T company now. An absurd P/E of 259. Sure, P/E isn't the most realiable metric. But, for a company with declining sales, and onslaught from Chinese competitors, a P/E of anything above 50 is absolutely ludicrous. Do people actually buy into the absurdity of humanoid robots and robotaxis?

"Be fearful when everyone is greedy." I’ve cashed out of U.S. stocks, and I think it's wise thing to do when craze is at its peak.
by triceratops | 2025-10-07 14:16:32+00:00
I'm aware and I thought it was implied in my comment that Medicare funding shouldn't be a limiting factor on residency slots, when I said "Every other profession manages to train new members without Congress". I guess that wasn't clear enough. I'd go so far as to pull all Medicare funding for residencies. Let each program figure it out themselves.

Accelerated programs aren't the norm. They should be.
by willvarfar | 2025-10-07 14:16:50+00:00
Its interesting that just today I randomly watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1QvVnjiegE that lists some points an American living in the UK found to compare Europe and the US. And one of those points was about how American food is so much less healthy.

Whilst it was an interesting video and worth watching, it's interesting that this article shows a chart showing that the UK is very close to the the US in calories coming from ultra-processed food (with mainland Europe being much less, with a general south-is-healthier trend).

The video is also related to the point in the article about McDs being about freedom, and how Europeans and American's see things when they look across the pond.
by yaro330 | 2025-10-07 14:16:55+00:00
Cooked how exactly? - Completely missed out on the LLM boom, just like everyone except nvidia. - Apple never used qcom SoCs, just their modems, Google doesn't even register on the radar of sales, their first foray into SoCs isn't great. - Idk where you get that, they still hold the entire market in their firm grasp and Nuvia stuff has been nothing but outstanding, it's just a shame that MS are cowards and dropped the Windows-on-Arm stuff again. - Google are partnering with them for the Android on PC projects.

I hope they provide better Linux support for the next gen PC grade chips.
by bluGill | 2025-10-07 14:16:58+00:00
We have no clue how to create artificial gravity. Current human space missions of found lots of negative effects on humans in space that are because of lack of gravity. there are a number of other problems they are researching with no reason to think they can be solved except via gravity.

Also your space station suffers the same lifetime issues of a generation ship: it will decay over time, so you still are dependent on earth (or at least a planet) to provide resources.
by meheleventyone | 2025-10-07 14:16:58+00:00
They're saying that someone should implement the CalculateQuarterRevenue(year, quarter) function somewhere in a manner that has been verified (e.g. run it against previous quarters to make sure it works correctly) then rather than using the LLM to generate SQL you use it to decide what domain function should be called. Which to me seems to mean that someone on the panel was gently taking the piss out of the idea. Since if you've done all the hardwork anyway presenting this in a deterministic way with a nice UX is straightforward bit of front end work.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-07 14:17:00+00:00
What's not to get? Groceries, healthcare, and education aren't expensive for them to afford, why would they want to invest their money and time in making those things more affordable for poor people? Better to invest all their resources making a robot slave army. Then it doesn't matter how unaffordable anything is to the poors, they can just die. Win win.
by whizzter | 2025-10-07 14:17:31+00:00
Invitations is one thing I think they can mostly pick on their own volition with one exception.

The prize rules stipulate that they need to hold one lecture related to their winning topic with the institution that picked the winner within 6 months.

Iirc the 2024 physics prize lecture (on the roots of neural networks) was held in the days just before the prize giving ceremony and can be watched on the Swedish broadcasters "education" channel as well as youtube.

https://urplay.se/program/239905-nobelforelasningar-2024-geo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDE9DjpcSdI
by techblueberry | 2025-10-07 14:17:31+00:00
Looking at the political climate of the past 10 -15 years, I have a hard time believing it was NPR that really changed, or maybe - that NPR led the change. The fact that this article is in the free press of all places I think exemplifies that, sure NPR probably did change, but I assert there was zero chance of NPR holding a diverse audience in the age of Trump. And watching the free press now takeover legacy media exacerbates that.

I don’t disagree there’s a problem here, and I don’t disagree it is something that rhymes with what the author is suggesting, but I also think the nature of right wing media is that it has become more reactionary. Is this person suggesting that Fox News, or breitbart, or daily wire is where all those moderate journalists have gone?

I suppose he would say they’ve gone to free press (which would be a very narrow exodus) and this actually might be an interesting observation. What was it that cause the rift between someone like Bari Weiss and traditional media, then again, it’s hard to look at Bari Weiss’ rise to power as coming from a value of objectivity.
by starwatch | 2025-10-07 14:17:43+00:00
If you want more context on PFAS, I recommend this Veritasium video [0]. It expanded on my usual thought of "PFAS = bad," explaining why non-stick cookware is probably fine while other forms of PFAS are problematic. The video also covers the environmental damage caused by PFAS manufacturing.

[0]: https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY
by thadt | 2025-10-07 14:17:47+00:00
Lua is one of the easiest configuration file formats I've had the pleasure of working with. Readable. Has comments. Variables. Conditionals.

Everyone (including me): "oh no, no, you don't want a full Turing complete language in your configuration file format"

Also Everyone: generating their configuration files with every bespoke templating language dreamed of by gods and men, with other Turing complete languages.
by kqr | 2025-10-07 14:18:11+00:00
But also things like myBody.BothArms.Hand.RingFinger which targets the ring fingers on both hands at the same time, or myBody.LeftArm.Hand.RingFinger.WeddingBand which targets a ring that might not exist, or myBody.LeftArm.Hand.RingFinger.Straight which targets the ring finger when it is stretched out straight.

People often think of optics as only "OOP accessors but for FP" but they are strictly more powerful than OOP accessors.
by bilekas | 2025-10-07 14:18:38+00:00
> Looks like they want to use the brand to push out their own stuffs, which seems to be reasonable. As long as they don't touch the education/OSS part I guess it will benefit both.

Given the current market for Qualcomm, it honestly wouldn't surprise me if in a few years they drop that education and OSS platform in favour of a paid approach. Recent Slack news doing the same has tainted my confidence.

33 Million audrino users, you can guarantee they want a piece of their wallets.
by yobbo | 2025-10-07 14:19:03+00:00
> Cars used to be simpler to work on because

No, it's because they are designed to be assembled from complete sub-assemblies. Maintenance is not assumed to be done on the sub-assemblies while they are in the final product. Under warranty, workshops are intended to replace entire sub-assemblies with new/rebuilt parts.

It's effectively a deliberate decision from the 80s that enabled faster assembly while warranties were shorter. For cars that are out of warranty, it doesn't matter either way.

The problem in the article occurs when Ford tries to pay someone to repair faults that were not planned to happen during the warranty time. Impossible, because it's completely uneconomical.
by fireflash38 | 2025-10-07 14:19:11+00:00
I think they forgot what people actually use the start menu for: accessing things not immediately available on desktop/taskbar. People don't use it to explore/play around. They're looking for something.

So of course they figure they can insert ads for their own shit, make it a Bing website search, whatever. People don't want fucking an internet search. They're looking for things on their computer.