MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IcePic | 2025-10-22 18:04:45+00:00
I think I would not. When you move from 160x200 with few colors to 4k with 16M colors it places new demands on the graphics which I don't think this solution would give you. It could, but would probably require tons of people to make it happen.

Lets take the pilot walking at the start of Raid over Moscow, it was super well animated and designed for the sprite limitations a C64 has, but I am not so sure it would be upscaled to represent a walking pilot, since some of the oddly placed pixels might grow into something vastly different.
by gizmo686 | 2025-10-22 18:04:46+00:00
Linux capabilities have a hook in the Linux Security Module (LSM) system, so you can write an LSM module to do whatever centralized management system you want.

The only LSM I have much experience is SELinux, which capabilities directly as SELinux permissions. I imagine most other general purpose LSMs do simmilar.

I could imagine an LSM that implements a policy of allowing capabilties based on UID/GID; although I'm not aware of any current LSMs that do that.
by xpe | 2025-10-22 18:04:49+00:00
In the US, given the current trajectory, I see a frightening and bleak future.* Due to the Trump administration and the people who enable it, the United States is highly degraded and getting worse every day. I'll list what comes to mind...

[x] Authoritarianism. [x] Civil rights abuses. [x] Blatant defiance of the law. [x] Unrepentant selfishness and lack of character. [x] Weaponization of the courts. [x] Loyalty tests at government agencies and in the military. [x] Political prosecutions. [x] Politicization of the Department of Justice. [x] Rampant presidential overreach. [x] The Supreme Court's endorsement and flimsy justification of presidential overreach. [x] Self-destructive trade policy. [x] Ineffective economic policy. [x] Erosion of norms. [x] Concerning presidential cognitive decline. [x] Institutional hollowing-out. [x] Defunding of science. [x] Destruction of USAID. [x] Blatant corruption. [x] Nepotism. [x] Use of the military for domestic purposes. [x] Firing of qualified military leaders. [x] Blatantly self-serving presidential pardons. [x] Firing of qualified civil servants. [x] Deliberately trying to traumatize civil servants. [x] Unnecessary tax breaks for the wealthy. [x] Intimidation of universities. [x] Rollback of environmental protections. [x] Unconstitutional and economically damaging immigration policies. [x] Top-down gerrymandering. [x] Firing of ~19 Inspectors General. [x] Unqualified cabinet members. [x] Relentless lying. [x] Implicit endorsement of conspiracy theories. [x] Public health policies that will lead to unnecessary deaths. [x] A president who 'models' immorality. [x] Tolerance of illegal and immoral behavior of political allies. [x] Prioritization of appearance over substance. [x] Opulent and disgusting displays of wealth. [x] Trampling on independent journalist access. [x] A foreign policy that undermines key alliances. [x] Dismantling of the Department of Education. [x] Undoing key healthcare provisions from the ACA. [x] Negligent inaction regarding AI catastrophic risks. [x] Motive and capability to manipulate voting machines [x] And more.

Positives? It looks like some durable peace deals are in the works.

Overall, things are dark.

* All the more reason to organize and act. No single person (or even group) can solve any of these problems alone. No person or group can afford to wait for other people to act.

We simply cannot afford to let our shock, anger, or fear get the better of us. We have to build coalitions to turn things around -- including coalitions with people that may vote in ways we don't like or believe things that we think don't make sense. We have to find coalitions that work. We have to persuade and build a movement that can outcompete and outlast Trumpism and whatever comes after it.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-22 18:04:55+00:00
Did Apple try to get into this market? Their device is fairly ridiculous compared to where VR seems to have been going all these years: cheap nearly disposable headsets like the Oculus. Which I believe is half the price of the original HTC Vive.

More expensive than the Vive isn't the way forward. Apple had a tech demo and slumping quarterly reports and need some PR wins, so out came the headset. I don't think it was a good faith effort to get into this market. I think it was to get headlines, jazz up stocks, and get attention as an innovator outside of laptops and phones.

I have no idea what Google can do here, but Android is a long running project. The Pixel line has long-ish term support. Google can eat Oculus's lunch. I just think the question is if Oculus's walled garden is now too high to climb, both in software and patents. FB money and Carmack's talents are going to be hard to beat here.

If I had to guess, I'd say Google saw Oculus get good at games, but everything else about it is fairly uninteresting. XR/AR could be hot and those new Meta glasses are pretty much Google Glass on steroids. So who knows, but seeing Google dive back into AR/XR is promising and I think they can compete here in a way they can't with VR games.

I could see myself buying AR glasses branded Pixel or Google. I'd think they'd be a better product than Meta. I don't know where Google is going with this and this product seems underwhelming, but we may have an entirely different product in a year or two. I have a feeling both Apple and Samsung's product are PR placeholders until they can catch up to Meta on shoe-horning this into Ray-Ban-esque glasses format.
by anonymars | 2025-10-22 18:04:59+00:00
"Am I spending $1800 on a product that will be useful for one year, five years, or ten years" is a relevant question, and often past performance is indicative of future results

To their credit, they did seem to make things right for Stadia.

Meanwhile, if we look at Microsoft and Windows MR, they themselves did not, though one of their employees apparently built a SteamVR driver on his own (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110883). Microsoft should be embarrassed that they couldn't be bothered to do that themselves.
by fragmede | 2025-10-22 18:05:12+00:00
I'm guessing it's in Gallatin, Tennessee, based on what they've made public.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-brings-data-...

But maybe not:

https://open.substack.com/pub/datacenterrichness/p/meta-empt...

Other options are Ohio or Louisiana.
by apizon | 2025-10-22 18:05:50+00:00
Thanks for the feedback

Not sure how those app works but as others have said apps alone will probably not be enough to entirely translate to the instrument and actually practicing picking up songs or transcribing them will be needed.

I can also recommend the great Sonofield Ear Trainer app by Max Konyi for intervals and melody recognition (no relations to him at all but I took some inspiration for the interval recognition part so just want to credit him). He also has a youtube channel and actually released a video called "From Ear Training Apps to Real Music" 2 days ago which might be of interest to you.

As for my app I think it does pretty good at training chord recognition. I also plan on adding lessons on chord progressions at some point in the future so there will be challenges associated to it, I think recognizing progressions is probably the most useful when trying to pick up songs by ear.
by qingcharles | 2025-10-22 18:06:23+00:00
I thought the same. They're throwing in a ton of extras to try to sweeten the deal. Those ones you listed are probably $50/mo in total. Plus it says something about a bunch of sports subscriptions too, which are probably very pricey.

(also they want you hooked on those services so they can rebill you after 12 months)
by wg0 | 2025-10-22 18:06:33+00:00
Anyone and everyone who has bought any stocks into the circular Ponzi pyramid has this knee jerk response to rationalise LLM failure modes.

They want to believe that statistical distribution of meaningless tokens is real cognition of machines and if not that, works flawlessly for most of the cases and if not flawlessly, is usable enough to be valued at trillions of dollars collectively.
by ImJamal | 2025-10-22 18:06:41+00:00
> There are very few things with serious health impacts that are completely unregulated. The closest we get is probably guns.

Guns are more regulated than most everything else? Background checks, age verification, licensed dealers, rules on transporting and storing guns, etc.

> It wasn't niche when we regulated it. It's niche now because we did.

Just not true. It is niche in places where it is not regulated as well and some portion of those who buy raw milk pasteurize it themselves so we don't even know how many people drink raw milk.

> We take plenty of regulatory steps to reduce heart disease. McDonalds is required, for example, to provide nutrition facts.

Almost nobody reads that at a McDonalds...

> The burger meat gets USDA inspected. The restaurants get health inspections. (And we do try to do more.

And yet you can go to a McDonalds and die from a heart attack. Many places do not let you take that risk with raw milk.

Despite all these regulations you mentioned, McDonalds has more stores than ever before. With your reasoning that should be turning McDonalds into a niche place.
by pmontra | 2025-10-22 18:07:13+00:00
I also have a radio script to play internet streams with mpv (?). Other random stuff

A password or token generator, simple or complicated random text.

Scripts to list, view and delete mail messages inside POP3 servers

n, to start Nautilus from terminal in the current directory.

lastpdf, to open the last file I printed as PDF.

lastdownload, to view the names of the n most recent files in the Downloads directory.

And many more but those are the ones that I use often and I remember without looking at ~/bin
by LorenPechtel | 2025-10-22 18:07:52+00:00
But it wouldn't be millions who die.

We (I'm an American) have four ballistic missile subs that no longer carry ballistic missiles because of arms reduction treaties. The subs still exist, though, with each of the Trident launch tubes instead holding 7 Tomahawks. They are built to hide and they're very good at it--we can't even reliably track them ourselves. That means they could sneak in to launch points some distance from Russia. The Ukraine war has shown that heavy air defenses sometimes work against ground hugging missiles (but remember the Moskova--despite fearsome anti-air capability it for some reason couldn't engage two sea hugging missiles), but ares without heavy defenses fare poorly against even crude low altitude stuff. Expect most of those Tomahawks to get through, and there goes Russia's logistics capability. Most stuff of importance is within Tomahawk range of the coast.
by freedomben | 2025-10-22 18:08:55+00:00
I can actually relate to that, especially in a big co where you hire fast. I think it's shitty to over-hire and lay off, but I've definitely worked in many teams where there were just too many people (many very smart) with their own sense of priorities and goals, and it makes it hard to anything done. This is especially true when you over-divide areas of responsiblity.
by riedel | 2025-10-22 18:08:58+00:00
I went through the list that ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity gave me. I can rule out the recovery partition and the update cache at least. I think one part was the windows sandbox feature which is known to make problems. Got a new error after deinstalling. It is just plain frustrating however. Having a PhD in computer science and looking for the needle in the haystack to just be able to use your PC in a reasonable way. If I did not have to use awkward SAP Excel Pluginsto connect to our accounting and other MS stuff, this episode nearly triggered me to finally switch to a decent OS I somehow can understand again.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-22 18:09:07+00:00
> Magnus Carlsen is a performer.

Not everything that draws a crowd is a performance. I suspect Magnus Carlsen would play chess even if nobody watched. Just look at Mikhail Tal, Max Euwe, Garry Kasparov and all those others. None of them did it because of the crowds. They did it because the game itself fascinated them.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 18:09:15+00:00
It is so different form the Windows and Android world where you go 10 years and performance goes sideways but maybe you have some accelerators you don’t use and if you are lucky you get some SIMD instructions that nobody uses except for hyperscalers and the national labs because they are just so slow to roll them out. X86 is increasingly like the VAX and ARM ex. Apple is increasingly asking us to believe they aren’t going to disappoint us the way they’ve disappointed us in each generation for the last decade.

Apple is so lucky that they can quit supporting old chips and their fanbois celebrate but when Microsoft wants to use a 20 year old instruction the “who moved my cheese” brigade that keeps Microsoft relevant [1] accuses them of creating e-waste.

[1] you can still run Office 97 binaries on Windows 11, you wouldn’t even try doing the same with MacOS classic or Linux binaries of that era.
by cheeze | 2025-10-22 18:09:39+00:00
I'm confused about Meta AI in general. It's _horrible_ compared to every other LLM I use. Customer ingress is weird to me too - do they expect people to use Facebook chat (Messenger) to talk to Meta AI mainly? I've tried it on messenger, the website, and have run llama locally.

My (completely uninformed, spitballing) thinking is that Facebook doesn't care that much about AI for end users. THe benefit here is for their ads business, etc.

Unclear if they have been successful at all so far.
by brudgers | 2025-10-22 18:09:54+00:00
What makes sense depends on the agreement of the programming team.

And the smallest possible team is the programmer and their future self.

Even then the hard thing is to predict what will be better for our future selves. Maybe we will be rusty in our Go skills or maybe we will have embraced idiomatic Go, and the approach that makes sense now will require our future self to puzzle through the code.

Of course maybe we will have kept programming the same way because it still feels like the better way and our future self will be efficient. But again that's only for the smallest possible team. If the team expands, then all bets are off.
by bengoodger | 2025-10-22 18:10:25+00:00
Genuinely curious - what do people want to see from a new/different rendering engine?

The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform.

The incentive for anyone building a browser is to use the platform that gives you the best web compat especially at the outset when you don’t have enough users of your app to be able to make big changes to the platform. Even Chrome didn’t start from scratch - it used WebKit!

The Chromium community has built an excellent open platform that everyone can use. We are fortunate to be able to use it.
by rzerowan | 2025-10-22 18:11:05+00:00
Hmm , considering theres some other piece of news out there stating "Trump administration considering eliminating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)" [0] , makes this look like a turf war between the two . Gov entity vs billionaire cotractor looking to clean up on the contracts, with the previously proposed budget already gutting NASA capabilities making it more or less a foregone conclusion that US space will be dominated by private interests. With the expected outlook of funneling tax dollars to private corps , this looks like each entity staking out their claims and playing hardball for their future roles.

[0] https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1980679333002764602
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-22 18:11:33+00:00
It's weird how the circle of life progresses for a developer or whatever.

- When I was a fresh engineer I used a pretty vanilla shell environment

- When I got a year or two of experience, I wrote tons of scripts and bash aliases and had a 1k+ line .bashrc the same as OP

- Now, as a more tenured engineer (15 years of experience), I basically just want a vanilla shell with zero distractions, aliases or scripts and use native UNIX implementations. If it's more complicated than that, I'll code it in Python or Go.
by logtrees | 2025-10-22 18:11:33+00:00
What is it about then? I'm not spreading propaganda - I'm maximally truth seeking and approaching things from a technical/economic/governance point of view and not an ideological one per se. Though ideology shapes everything, what I mean is that I'm not ideologically predisposed towards a conclusion on things. For me what matters is the core, truthy aspects of a given subject.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-22 18:11:51+00:00
Snark isn't mutually exclusive from insightful commentary. All of Silicon Valley has to grapple with incredibly frustrating and oftentimes nonsensical demands from every direction. If you're not ironically entertaining ideas like DogTV or XServe, you will lose money hand-over-fist and be taken for a fool. It's part of the startup culture.

I'd argue that we see this because the American startup scene is obsessed with moonshots instead of sustainable or smart investments. Much of the motivation for starting a business today comes from the potential to artificially manufacture shock-and-awe, which many technically-inclined users will identify and critique. Personally I find this highly insightful, and suspect that it greatly raises the quality of startups even if the snark damages their valuation.
by bzalasky | 2025-10-22 18:11:58+00:00
One thing that might not be apparent to non-chess players is that an experienced human (particularly a GM or Super-GM) with an engine can often beat the same engine or another engine that lacks human assistance. There are some positions, particularly in closed games where this can become more of a factor. It'll be interesting to see if a similar logic plays out in other fields. I imagine that some companies may be quick to automate away roles to save money, however, if you follow what we've learned about chess, there's likely an opportunity to make a bet (start a company) on AI-assistance outperforming full AI automation in some domains.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-22 18:12:07+00:00
Some people have that talent, others do not. And then those who do have that talent and put in the hours studying theory can go very far without ever looking at a computer to help them with analysis.

Carlsen is that once-per-generation exception, someone who has a talent that somehow allows him to see a little further down the game tree than others. I grew up next to someone who was nearly that good, but there are so many people in that bracket that outside of NL he's not very well known. The distribution of skill at the high end of chess is highly non-linear.
by jjcm | 2025-10-22 18:12:25+00:00
> Or just ban this kind of data collection

Targeted ads generally bring in 3x the revenue of generic ads. Personally speaking, I'd rather have 1/3rd the ads on a page and allow my data to be tracked. I don't mind my data being tracked, and I'd rather see ads for keyboards / mens clothes (what I buy) than diapers / ladies shoes (who knows what tomorrow holds, but this is not what I'm buying at the moment).
by adonovan | 2025-10-22 18:12:37+00:00
Not quite sure why all the responses here are so cynical. I mean, it's a genuinely difficult set of problems, so of course the first steps will be small. Today's computers are the result of 80 astonishing years of sustained innovation by millions of brilliant people.

Even as a Googler I can find plenty of reasons to be cynical about Google (many involving AI), but the quantum computing research lab is not one of them. It's actual scientific research, funded (I assume) mostly out of advertising dollars, and it's not building something socially problematic. So why all the grief?
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-10-22 18:12:55+00:00
IIUC your talk "just" suggests using sandbox-exec on Mac, which (as you point out) is sadly labeled as deprecated.

Is that really the best solution the world has to offer in 2025? LLMs aside, there is a whole host of supply chain risk issues that would be resolved by deploying convenient and strong sandboxes everywhere.
by Retric | 2025-10-22 18:13:01+00:00
Productivity replaces people, if you get more done from a team of 5 than your old team of 10 you generally fire 5 people.

Programmers have significantly higher unemployment than the general workforce today, but it’s hitting a wide swath of white collar jobs and that’s not going away. The industrial revolution replaced manual labor, so people moved to more mentally challenging jobs but AI can eventually replace anybody from CEO’s on down.
by Bolwin | 2025-10-22 18:13:06+00:00
Since JJ has technically git compat, I think there's 2 things needed for it to take off

1. A good vscode extension (there's two so-so ones that I'm not sure are being updated) 2. LLM knowledge. I ask gpt-5 about doing something in jj the other day, it didn't even recognize it at first. When I reminded it it was a vcs it hallucinated half the commands. I ended up figuring it out myself from the docs
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-22 18:13:18+00:00
The issue so far is that this "closer to mimicking humans" doesn't actually seem to give performance gains. So, why bother?

Existing LLMs are already trained to mimic humans - by imitating text, most of which is written by humans, or for humans, and occasionally both. The gains from other types of human-mimicry don't quite seem to land.

The closest we got to "breakthrough by mimicking what humans do" since pre-training on unlabeled text would probably be reasoning. And it's unclear how much of reasoning was "try to imitate what humans do on a high level", and how much was just trying to generalize the lessons from the early "let's think about it step by step" prompting techniques.

It's likely that we just don't know enough about the human mind to spot, extract and apply the features that would be worth copying. And even if we did... what are the chances that the features we would want to copy would turn out to be the ones vital for consciousness?
by hinkley | 2025-10-22 18:13:25+00:00
That is a confusing coincidence, but no.

> Reserving full GPU instances for these models leads to allocating 17.7% of our GPUs to serve only 1.35% of requests

> Deployment results show that Aegaeon reduces the number of GPUs required for serving these models from 1,192 to 213, highlighting an 82% GPU resource saving.

82% of their CPUs were serving 98.6% of all traffic. If they reduced the cluster size, they got it to 96.2% of their CPUs serving 98.6% of their traffic. If they reallocated those, which is more likely, then 96.8% of their CPUs are serving 98.6% of all requests, or around 17% more capacity for popular requests on the same hardware.
by inhumantsar | 2025-10-22 18:13:27+00:00
Whoever thought "Transcendent Mobility" was a good name for what's nothing more than a consumerized version of the standard ride app ebike design needs to get out of their bubble more often.

There are some good ideas here, like the removable battery that doubles as a usb-c power bank, but making it all depend on a phone app is such a massive turn off for me. Considering this thing's price tag and on-board compute, the decision to not include a key fob for offline/phoneless use had to be 100% intentional.

At least when Fiskar went under and took their cloud environment offline, the vehicles could still be unlocked and operated independently. This thing will be nothing more than an expensive brick on locked wheels.
by aatd86 | 2025-10-22 18:14:33+00:00
But the LHS can determine how it compares to the RHS when the RHS is determined to be an untyped constant? Or instead of saying RHS (my mistake), let's say the typed side since comparisons are symmetric. A bit like having a special method attached to the type strictly for comparisons? That would be much less expensive than such a type switch if I am not mistaken. Would handle custom types as well. If promotable from the underlying type, that would not even bloat the executable. Unless I'm confused...