MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RustSupremacist | 2025-10-30 02:13:58+00:00
> There is a usable port of Linux to Apple hardware now

This has never been true since inception, depending on your definition of usable. Worse yet, the entire project was staffed by people with poor mental health seeking attention for using Rust and validation as "hacker" engineers. Once failure was more than apparent and the fame never materialized, these people will move on to the next attention-seeking and high profile project that they can latch onto with Rust.

Only the M1 and M2 were bootable and even then, not the entirety of hardware. No support for anything after M3 and we're already at M5. And then there's Apple actively antagonizing any and all attempts with hardware changes designed specifically to mitigate these hacks. Apple's latest business model is to weaponize vendor lock-in as a means of extracting the remaining cash left on their platform, assuming they aren't able to sell more devices.

> If there were even tacit support, Apple could sell millions of MacBooks to us.

No power users of Linux want anything to do with Apple. Any that want anything to do with Apple's hardware only want the performance gains and efficiency. Tacit support from a quality manufacturer that would embrace Linux without hostility will capture sales. Most of the Linux enthusiasts want a classic ThinkPad with the performance and battery life of the M5 Max. A nice display and keyboard would be the enterprise offering that could carry that company for the next generation. Apple had their chance.
by mpyne | 2025-10-30 02:17:59+00:00
Dithering is the right term. It was called this even as far back as the Win 3.1 era where program installers typically showed you a full screen window with a background gradient that went from dark blue to black and used ordered dithering to make it look semi-respectable.

The threshold map of ordered dithering is still a source of noise, it just happens to be carefully pre-baked so that (original image + noise)==output makes the output more legible than what you'd get from just mapping the original image pixels to the nearest available color.

The error diffusion is static and baked into the thresholds chosen, but it's still there and choosing the error diffusion properly still matters to getting a reasonable output.
by xxpor | 2025-10-30 02:18:00+00:00
It's all at the big cloud service providers. Not as much focused on the physical network (as originally imagined), but in the overlay networks. Seethe various DPUs like Intel IPU, Nvidia/Mellanox Bluefield, etc. Nvidia DOCA even uses OvS as the sort of example out of the box software to implement networking on Bluefield. When your controller is Arm cores 5 cm away on the same PCB doing per connection setup is no longer as absurd ;)
by baggiiiie | 2025-10-30 02:19:03+00:00
- With ThePrimeagen/harpoon, you open a popup menu, select the file you want, and boom you're there. But what if you want to persistent the menu on screen because you can't remember which file is at which harpoon index?

- At the same time, you want no more neck pain from looking at your screen at a 45 degree angle to write codes for hours. So you have yet another plugin to solve this issue.
by oreally | 2025-10-30 02:19:25+00:00
Failing in that in doesn't live up to the ideals of the linux community? I suppose so.

> It makes no sense to leave 19% of the market on the table

What's your source? Steam Hardware Survey says it's 2.68% linux and probably steam deck users.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
by mpyne | 2025-10-30 02:19:51+00:00
Use Google's Squoosh.app: https://squoosh.app

When editing an image you can choose the 'Reduce palette' option to bring up a way to reduce the number of images used, and the palette reduction panel will let you optionally apply dithering or not.

The dithering algorithm is not selectable but it's worth trying to see if you like it.
by chris_wot | 2025-10-30 02:19:51+00:00
Sadly, that's exactly what society does. I can only speak for Australia, but if you have suicidal thoughts then it is a very bad idea to talk to any service even partially funded by the government. ChatGPT, in the absence of strong safeguards of absolute privacy, is as good as anything.

As an example: Mark Cross, who was on the board of SANE Australia, stated that whenever people were put into seclusion would be reviewed. We know now that this was never the case, and still is not being carried out fully. This lauded psychiatrist didn't seem to even known what was happening in his own unit or EDs.

Listen to it here:

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/convers...
by ridgeguy | 2025-10-30 02:20:19+00:00
This topic is a great example of how results from down-in-the-weeds biochemistry immediately raise questions at the top levels of consciousness and existence.

“Leaning into discomfort” for personal change may well work for much more than a miniscule fraction of people. It may be that such success is made more likely by some structural predisposition – an attenuated neuronal response to negative reinforcement, or some other precondition that allows its “carrier” to keep plugging to a successful outcome.

But clearly, there’s also a more than miniscule fraction of people for whom that doesn’t work. Their preconditions may deflect them from even trying that particular path, or cause them to give up along the way. I really don’t know, but that fraction seems at least as significant as the fraction for whom uncomfortable personal development paths lead to success.

Early in my career, I strongly believed in free will. I mean, I had it, right? And I didn’t regard my consciousness as all that different from my fellow hominids, so they’re probably all similarly endowed, right? Except...

Over time, research with small molecules like epinephrine and the psychedelics showed that perception/decisions/will could be profoundly influenced by neurochemistry. Ditto for various neuronal illnesses that are associated with profound personality changes.

I regard the GLP-1 results as a further demonstration that “free will”, whatever that is, is fundamentally mechanistic. There are few, maybe no, organismic drives stronger than hunger. A weekly injection of a GLP-1 agonist turns that drive way, way down in most of those who try it. This commonly exhibits itself in profound behavioral modification: if you were an inveterate snacker, suddenly you’re not interested in snacks. You pass them by in your pantry and at the grocery store. Your cognition around snacking changes, to the extent that not only aren’t you snacking, but you might find yourself setting a reminder that it’s time to have lunch. Given the strength of the hunger drive, that’s a very big deal, and revelatory about how we work.

I used to think I understood “free will”. Lately, I find it increasingly hard to define. I’m moving more in the direction of Robert Sapolsky as more research results come in. It feels to me a bit like the “God of the gaps” phenomenon, in which the space available for faith in the supernatural grows smaller with every scientific discovery.

It’s a remarkable time to be alive and have the luxury of considering these questions.
by montakaoh | 2025-10-30 02:20:23+00:00
Yeah, ASS rendering was a big problem for me when I was making some online subtitling software. I ended up on using https://github.com/ThaUnknown/jassub + using Mediabunny to render a "subtitles" media track on top rendered on a canvas.

The result works pretty well, e.g. https://www.translate.mom/app/task/2UicdIqRBg0f
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-30 02:21:32+00:00
To be honest, when I was younger, I found hardcore cyclists a bit ridiculous and never wanted to be like them. I find spending a lot of money on gear so you can essentially move around unappealing, I guess. It starts becoming about the gear, getting better gear, always wanting something new, etc. At some point it's so far abstracted from simply walking or pedaling and I just can't give a shit.
by redwall_hp | 2025-10-30 02:22:11+00:00
CrunchyRoll did something like that to the Re:Zero dub's captions, and it's a disgrace. Every single proper noun is wrong. It messes up every fantasy item/place/monster/etc name, and can't distinguish between the Rem/Ram/Rom characters. It also has no concept of of which character is talking, and interprets dialogues as singular sentences.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-30 02:22:40+00:00
I would say about 75/25%, maybe even 80-20. Sometimes I'll ask questions on topics where I'm expert (because I want to pursue some line of inquiry, but am not sure what the baseline level of knowledge is available) and I'll see mistakes, but 'good' mistakes that indicate solid reasoning but are wrong because of some counterintuitive fact, ie a pitfall that almost everyone including myself got wrong on the first encounter.
by not_a_bot_4sho | 2025-10-30 02:23:26+00:00
Interesting. I'm at zepbound 5mg and noticed that alcohol brings me no joy.

It used to be the case that 1-2 drinks would make me feel good, and introduce a craving for more (a "just one more will get me right" feeling).

But that's gone now. It's an amazing side effect.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-10-30 02:24:51+00:00
I don’t know how it is in other countries, but nearly thirty years ago when I was in elementary school, a Chinese propaganda slogan stuck with me: “If you want to get rich, build roads first; have fewer children, plant more trees.” Every part of that slogan has been put into action, continuously, for decades. Although low birth rates have now become a problem, back then it seemed like a solution.

Xi Jinping may be a rather dull person, but his most famous saying is “Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.” As for building roads — the Belt and Road Initiative speaks for itself. We’ve built bridges in Croatia, in Bangladesh, in Mozambique, and roads and railways all over the world. That slogan is probably engraved in every Chinese person’s memory.
by tarou | 2025-10-30 02:25:19+00:00
During the operation of engines that emit loud noises such as lawnmowers and pressure washers, I've had similar experiences. With the lawnmower, the deafening roar reached both ears the moment the blade struck a stone. Using the pressure washer, it was highly unpleasant to hear the loud abnormal noise, possibly caused by splashes or wet components touching the microphone. I believe the abnormal noise from the lawnmower could be resolved with a software update.
by exmadscientist | 2025-10-30 02:25:44+00:00
> If you're dealing with truly high volume runs, get the ICs programmed before they're on the boards.

That is absolutely 100% the way to go.

However, this week I got tremendous pushback on this for a current project with a build volume in the mid six figures... exactly where you'd want to be using pre-programmed parts. It took me a while to figure out what was really happening was the firmware lead (who thinks himself an EE) was spewing out nonsense to cover for the fact that he'll never be ready to deliver in time to preprogram anything. I wish he'd have just said that and saved us all the nasty argument....
by ehnto | 2025-10-30 02:27:21+00:00
I would call multiplayer out of the box the defining feature for sure.

It's challenging to get networking right, and the effort required doesn't get all that much smaller just because your game is smaller.

Most engines do come with a networking framework or layer these days but Roblox gets to assume a bunch of things an engine can't, and as such provide a complete solution out of the box.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-10-30 02:27:41+00:00
> This is exactly what CR was doing for the past couple years, though you can't just automatically convert a fancy ASS file with typesetting into the limited kind of TTML subtitles that general streaming services expect, which is why Crunchyroll has been paying its subtitling staff extra to make those conversions semi-manually.

Surely automatically converting into a lesser subtitle format is a much better use of AI than machine transcription. I disagree with the idea that "you can't just automatically convert" at today's technology level.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-30 02:27:44+00:00
Climate patterns are changing. My kids will retire with the cheap old farmland we bought that I’m planting black walnuts on.

Upstate NY was ideal maple syrup production territory for years. Now, we’ve changed from USDA Zone 5 to 6, so the region will be more like western Virginia in 20 years.
by zastai0day | 2025-10-30 02:28:06+00:00
Man, AWS is at it again. That big outage on Oct 20 was rough, and now (Oct 29) it looks like things are shaky again. SMH.

us-east-1 feels like a single point of failure for half the internet. People really need to look into multi-region, maybe even use AI like Zast.ai for intelligent failover so we're not all dead in the water when N. Virginia sneezes.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-30 02:28:10+00:00
>You complain of vague complaints, then propose vague solutions.

???

>Your terminology escalation to "abuse" seems absurd to me

It was an analogy.

>white people in general seem to have done fine

Black people in the US are also doing far better than Black people in Africa or frankly pretty much any other country with a large Black population.
by sgarland | 2025-10-30 02:28:46+00:00
Not saying those things don’t happen, but having worked with on-prem for 2 years, and having ran ancient (13 years old currently) servers in my homelab for 5 years, I’ve never seen them. Bad CPU, bad RAM, yes - and modern servers are extremely good at detecting these and alerting you.

In my homelab, in 5 years of running the aforementioned servers (3x Dell R620, and some various Supermicros) 24/7/365, the only thing I had fail was a power supply. Turns out they’re redundant, so I ordered another one, and the spare kept the server up in the meantime. If I was running these for a business, I’d keep hot spares around.
by consumer451 | 2025-10-30 02:29:27+00:00
Personal insults aside, I hear you. In an attempt to get on the same page: do you know why the Code of Hammurabi called out deficient architecture/engineering?

This is not a gotcha. My understanding is that bad physical engineering kills people. Is that your understanding as well?

As software takes over more and more control of everything... do you see what I am getting at? Or, not at all?

To be clear, my understanding is that physical professional engineer (PE) legal responsibility is not like the medical ethical code of "do no harm." It's just follow best practices and adopted standards, don't allow test:test login on things like fighter jets, etc. If you fail that, then there may be legal repercussions.

We have allowed software "engineering" to skip all levels of basic responsibility, haven't we?
by Neywiny | 2025-10-30 02:31:55+00:00
Ehhhhh the picture shows a very short cable. You can most certainly find micros that can run 100Mb/s communication interfaces, though sure maybe not bitbanged. However, you really need a PHY and magnetics. MII is 25MHz which seems fine. GMII is 125 MHz SDR which is something. Honestly that would've been a cooler demo IMO than running 2 inches
by trhway | 2025-10-30 02:32:15+00:00
>Regarding you Guardian and Topwar links, you are citing the sources that speculate about rumors about some science fiction projects. Russia does not export water from Baikal or Ob River and won’t export it.

Official state news https://ria.ru/20160503/1425318933.html

"Moscow invited Bejing to discuss fresh water transfer project from Russia to China - stated the Russian Minister of Agriculture"

and the further description of the proposed project is exactly the second project described in the topwar link.
by sgarland | 2025-10-30 02:32:49+00:00
The issue is that precious few devs are actually good at ops. There are a ton of abstractions that have sprung up that attempt to paper over this, and they all suck for various reasons.

If you think you need to actually know your programming language of choice to be a good dev, I have news for you about actually knowing how computers work to be good at ops.
by blibble | 2025-10-30 02:33:06+00:00
> Pypa does not make good stuff or make good decisions.

yep, I've been saying this for years, and astral have proved it in the best way: with brilliant, working software

python was a dying project 10 years ago, after the python 3000 debacle

the talent left/lost interest

then the machine learning thing kicked off (for some reason using python), and now python is everywhere and suddenly massively important

and the supporting bureaucracies, still in their death throes, are unable to handle a project of its importance
by eddieroger | 2025-10-30 02:33:55+00:00
I'm not sure I agree with "dead end" outside of the benefit of hindsight, or maybe don't get the point you're making. Neither the PowerPC nor OS/2 were dead-end in 1995, and competition in the OS space was still happening. Why wouldn't IBM want to have PowerPC survive, let alone thrive, with OS options? And surely they'd have loved something to take on Microsoft at this point in history.
by ehnto | 2025-10-30 02:34:10+00:00
I think they also would not accept that variability, in both avatars and spaces. Even VRChat developers have struggled with what users do and frankly as a company that makes total sense. It's a wild west which is great for a community, nightmarish for a company with moderation liabilities, copyright concerns etc.

The VRChat community should consider forming and funding an open source group to re-implement the platform as it will eventually get regulated.

For what it's worth I don't use VRChat, I've just been around the internet for long enough to know the pattern.
by moefh | 2025-10-30 02:34:56+00:00
That's not great context: China and India have huge populations, it's expected that they should be at the top.

Better context can be found here[1] (countries by emission per capita). It's still not great because it shows a lot of small countries at the top. For example: Palau is the first, but it has a population of a few thousand people, so their emissions are a rounding error when compared to other countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
by matt_daemon | 2025-10-30 02:35:49+00:00
What's your view on how these people actually impacted the adoption of SDN in general?

> The investments NSF made in SDN over the past two decades have paid huge dividends.

In my view this seems a little overblown. The general idea of separation of control and data plane is just that - an idea. In practice, none of the early firms (like Nicira) have had any significant impact on what's happening in industry. Happy to be corrected if that's not accurate!
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-30 02:36:30+00:00
It's not about assigning blame.

Per capita emissions give us a better idea of which groups of people require the largest change in their lifestyle in order to hit net zero. The current numbers suggest that the typical person in the US will have to do a lot more to hit net-zero than the typical person in China. Obviously, you can do better and estimate per capita emissions for each province/state/city or by wealth level. For instance, in many poor countries, most of their emissions come from the top 5-10% of the population. Everyone else emits basically nothing.

On the other hand, the total emissions of a country, absent other information, has little actionable value. It can only be uses to assign blame, so quite useless.
by pohuing | 2025-10-30 02:36:37+00:00
Except ASS streams really aren't that big and don't have to be stored with each encode. They can just be in a separate file. And this is how cr used to serve them. Before they used hardware drm you could just download all of the separate sub tracks.

You don't need to multiply anything here, except the number of sub streams. One is ass, the other the primitive standards Netflix and other surges use.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-30 02:36:48+00:00
Been doing this for years. Old phone for testing apps and running servers

All the Google stuff is disabled, open source Contacts app,^1 no Google Play Services, no access to remote DNS, Netguard for application firewall and port forwarding, with computer I control as gateway. 1. Have yet to find any other app that can access contacts when storing them this way, even the Meta's biggest Trojans

Meanwhile, new phone, "important phone", stays offline. Wifi off. Location off. path?.xtracloud.net blocked. Phone is used for texting and phone calls, no internet access

The "banking app" argument, i.e., either install a custom ROM or give up or submit to surveillance, is a false dichotomy. There are other options

I don't use a phone for internet banking, I use a computer I can control; there is no "banking app" (talk about high risk, geez)

The "banking app" problem is a common refrain on HN but in the real world I know many people who do not use a phone for internet banking

Mobile OS just suck. It's like being forced to use MS Windows
by jamesgeck0 | 2025-10-30 02:37:40+00:00
Dubs can be good in shows where there's a lot of fast dialog; it's hard for subtitles to keep up. The loquacious protagonist of Steins;Gate benefits _significantly_ from a dub, for example. I watched the show twice when I realized the subs had skipped half his dialog.

Period accents are another place dubs can have an advantage, particularly in shows like Baccano! where the characters are ostensibly speaking English to start with.

It can also vary by localization studio. I didn't care for the English Spy x Family dub, but to my ear the Chinese dub is just as good as the original Japanese. For some reason the actors in many English dubs seem to have a hard time "really going for it" when a scene requires an over-the-top outburst of emotions.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-30 02:38:23+00:00
North America did not have an extensive earthworm ecology like Eurasia even though they had some worms. They are an invasive animal[0] brought from Europe that creates problems for the many North American plants and ecosystems not adapted to the pervasive effects of such worms. The worms you find in soil are largely non-native.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_A...
by bschwindHN | 2025-10-30 02:38:43+00:00
lol no it hasn't

Why else is this discussion getting hundreds of comments?

For any random python tool out there, I had about a 60% chance it would work out of the box. uv is the first tool in the python ecosystem that has brought that number basically to 100%. Ironically, it's written in Rust because python does not lend itself well to distributing reliable, fast tools to end users.
by deckar01 | 2025-10-30 02:38:52+00:00
PIO is a set of coprocessors designed to offload signal processing. They have to be programmed. PSoC has FPGA like configuration capabilities, but rather than just logic gates it includes larger analog and digital ICs. You can route analog signal processing in and out without hitting a CPU and perform some FPGA like DSP driven by an arbitrary clock signal (also without any CPU usage).
by jancsika | 2025-10-30 02:39:29+00:00
> Players are incentivized to win, and the league is incentivized to entertain.

Players are incentivized to win due to specific decisions made by the league.

In Bananaball the league says, "practice your choreographed dance number before batting practice." And those same athletes are like, "Wait, which choreographed dance number? The seventh inning stretch, the grand finale, or the one we do in the infield when the guy on stilts is pitching?"

Edit: the grand finale dance number I saw is both teams dancing together. That should be noted.