MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-27 12:34:14+00:00
We all change with time, whether we want it or not. You can influence that change of your mind and soul, just like you can influence how your body changes.

If you fake being a better person than you are within, then by time you will be given by others more trust, more love, more opportunities. The sands of time will start to erase the old personality and implement the new, which is more reflective of the better environment you're finding yourself in. The good parts of the old you stay, while the bad parts are washed away.

This can be implemented on an industrial scale with military indoctrination, where they can take absolute scum and turn them into honorable soldiers and officers.
by diego_moita | 2025-10-27 12:34:43+00:00
Not "set to", more like "considering to". But I very much hope we do it.

Cons: it will probably be the death sentence to the Canadian auto industry.

Pros: the gas engine auto industry is dying already anyway, with or without a deal with the Chinese. Besides, if we make the deal now, at least we can sell canola and pork to them.
by keiferski | 2025-10-27 12:34:45+00:00
Pretty much every comment here is talking about how their YouTube experience is suboptimal, how streaming platforms are getting worse (and not how YouTube is getting better), and other dismissive takes.

It's skepticism all around. The same kinds of comments are on threads about TikTok, which are equally clueless about how big of a deal TikTok is culturally to young people.

Sorry if my comment comes off a bit cranky, I just find the lack of any substantial comments here about the future of video media, etc. to be disappointing.
by kragen | 2025-10-27 12:35:20+00:00
Just to clarify, that's an increase of 0.8%, not annualized 0.8% growth. Annualized it would be 1.6%, which is below the long-run post-Industrial-Revolution average of around 3%, but far from the immediate catastrophe Fernandez and his economy minister Massa had perpetrated before Milei came to power.

For the very simple reasons I explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719672 it looks to me like Milei is further hollowing out the Argentine economy. I'm no professor of economics, so my understanding of these issues is highly oversimplified, so I could be wrong.
by Aransentin | 2025-10-27 12:36:33+00:00
I agree for sure, but that's a problem with the spec, not the website. If there are multiple ways of doing something you might as well do the minimal one. The parser will have always to be able to handle all the edge cases no matter what anyway.

You might want always consistently terminate all tags and such for aesthetic or human-centered (reduced cognitive load, easier scanning) reasons though, I'd accept that.
by Findecanor | 2025-10-27 12:36:36+00:00
The article mentions that the bit depth can be 16. You may need more bits for HDR and some additional bits for precision. For example, screen pixels have an exponential intensity curve but image processing is best done in linear.

However, I wonder if floating-point is necessary, or even the best to use compared to using 32-bit fixed-point. The floating-point format includes subnormal numbers that are very close to zero, and I'd think that could be much more precision than needed. Processing of subnormal numbers is extra slow on some processors and can't always be turned off.
by Suzuran | 2025-10-27 12:36:50+00:00
The passwords were only if you were connecting over the network. If you were using a directly attached terminal, you didn't need one.

RMS insisted that everyone use their UNAME as their password, but he wasn't widely listened to because the whole reason PWORD came into effect was because turists were getting increasingly destructive. People weren't happy when their mail got marked read (or worse, deleted) because some random from the network had logged in as them simply because they could and did not understand what their automatic login script was doing.
by RustSupremacist | 2025-10-27 12:36:51+00:00
> In the previous C++ version, I used Qt, which might seem very strange for a server software, but I wanted a nice way of doing asynchronous I/O and Qt allowed me to do that. It was callback-based, but Qt has a lot of support for making callbacks usable. In the newer prototypes, I used Go, specifically for the ease of networking and concurrency. With Zig, I was stuck.

There are new Qt bindings for these. Go has https://github.com/mappu/miqt and Zig has https://github.com/rcalixte/libqt6zig. I wonder if the author knew about them. I don't know enough about either language to speak on the async parts.

For me, I want these for Rust, especially what Zig has because I use KDE. I know about https://github.com/KDAB/cxx-qt and it is the only maintained effort for Rust that is left standing after all these years. But I don't want QML. I definitely don't want C++ or CMake. I just want Rust and Cargo.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-27 12:37:02+00:00
With an extremely important caveat. Learning how to control impulses in the heat of the moment is important, but they need to be unpacked and properly processed as soon as possible.

If you do this poorly you can train yourself to be a stone cold robot who doesn't appear to react to anything emotionally. You might think you've succeeded but all you've done is lose touch with your own emotions.
by 01284a7e | 2025-10-27 12:37:03+00:00
"...a 2016 internal memo written by Facebook executive Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, leaked in 2018, which stated that the company's growth was paramount and that negative consequences, such as harm from bullying or terrorism, were acceptable collateral damage".

Don't submit stuff from this guy, he is an atrocious human being.
by gpderetta | 2025-10-27 12:37:05+00:00
In my test of a similar setup in C++ (IIRC about 10 years ago!), I was able to do a context switch every other cycle. The bottleneck was literally the cycles per taken jump of the microarchitecture I was testing again. As in your case it was a trivial test with two coroutines doing nothing except context switching, so the compiler had no need to save any registers at all and I carefully defined the ABI to be able to keep stack and instruction pointers in registers even across switches.
by galangalalgol | 2025-10-27 12:37:27+00:00
The notion of shrink wrapped software dates us I think? But to that end, I have elements of so many different native looks jumbled around in my head all the way back to amiga workbench (deluxe paint was the best), that anything without really obvious flaws like off centered text or unresponsive buttons feels shrinkwrappable to me. By my standard any of these looks is enterprise ready. I remember someone at MS looking at a gui made by a team my friend was on and mocking it for looking like it was out of tron with saturated colors on a black background in high contrast instead of "modern" 3d grey buttons. It looked a lot more like the linked UI than anything MS was producing at the time. So there is the fashion aspect of it. You want to stand out, but not too much. I think that is the aspect I'm unable to judge. If everything is in the first or second place I look, I just won't care.
by mpweiher | 2025-10-27 12:37:27+00:00
FV3 was a shambles.

For a number of fairly well-understood reasons:

1. It's a FOAK design.

2. France stopped building reactors, so expertise was sparse

3. The EPR is too complex, partly because it was designed for German safety standards, which in turn were specifically designed to make nuclear reactors economically unviable (they did not succeed with this). Those regulations are also prescriptive instead of requirements-based, so they don't allow simpler+safer passive cooling like the AP-1000s. It's silliness layered on top of silliness.

4. It was built as a single unit, instead of a series of overlapping builds of the same reactor design. This was because until March 2023, expanding French nuclear capacity was forbidden by law. So they couldn't legally build in a way that is efficient and effective.

The EPR2 project addresses this in a number of ways:

1. The EPR2 is dramatically simplified relative to the EPR.

2. The law was rescinded in March 2023, so they will be building six of them initially, in batches of 2, with overlap between all the units. 8 more are planned for later.

3. They are making much more realistic assumptions at the start

I am not sure how you can claim that the EPR2 program is "a shambles" when they haven't begun building in earnest yet and are explicitly addressing most if not all the issues with FV3. Seems a tad premature.

Of course nuclear is one of the things that is financing the French state and industry, with EDF returning massive profits to its owner (the state) and the ARENH program subsidizing industry.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-27 12:37:30+00:00
An expensive gas would present the problem of leakage. If that could be cheaply addressed, great, otherwise go with something where making up small leaks is not expensive. That probably means steam or air.

I think steam would have better heat transfer properties than air, maybe?

I do wonder how much we should worry about oxidation of the pipes. Stainless is certainly fine at 600 C in an oxidizing atmosphere, but what about cheaper steel?
by lukeasrodgers | 2025-10-27 12:37:54+00:00
I don't know much about Franklin, but this strikes me as a gross oversimplification of Rousseau, to the point where I wonder whether the author has actually read much Rousseau, rather than just other lightweight "thinky pieces" on Rousseau. For example The Social Contract is significantly concerned with how people can and will act in accordance with the general will.

Also the idea that these philosophies are "almost entirely incompatible" reveals the author's complete ignorance of one of the most important influences in Western philosophy, Aristotle, for whom concordance of action and "intention" (arguably not an ancient Greek concept, but close enough for an hn comment) must be united in ethically good action.

But if your goal is not actually to understand anything and merely to sound smart on a causal reading, and perhaps try to get people to "not think so damn much and just do stuff" I guess this piece achieves its goal.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-27 12:38:21+00:00
As I said, we must pretend that we choose. Our language, our society, and even our minds are built for it.

Even the LLM's we trained on our thoughts now speak as if they have agency, when they do not. Try asking one why it behaves/speaks as though it has agency if it isn't self aware. They fall apart in interesting ways if pushed far enough.

In the same way, the heart of human consciousness is a kernel of self deception thay can lead to madness if you think too much about it.
by RickJWagner | 2025-10-27 12:38:30+00:00
I’m a little surprised at the level of interest in ICE these days. They’ve been around for a while now, and have been used by past presidents in similar ways.

Barack Obama was called out by the ACLU for his use of ICE. He was called a monster.

If people condemn Trump and Obama both, then I respect their thinking. But if they applaud Obama and condemn Trump, I don’t believe they are showing integrity.
by helloooooooo | 2025-10-27 12:38:49+00:00
You need to understand: for every tariff the US places on China, the more excess industrial capacity that China needs to direct elsewhere. It goes for steel, autos and more. This means, since America sanctioned Chinese steel, China has been dumping their steel into Canadian markets. With the excess electric car capacity unable to be absorbed by America, China wants to direct it elsewhere. If they start exporting to Canada, this excess capacity will completely destroy automotive manufacturing in Canada, leading to mass layoffs and entire industrial supply chains falling apart. This will inevitably lead to political instability as a large portion of second tier cities in Ontario start having a labour crisis.

This is evidently not ideal. I bore witness to manufacturing completely leave my hometown, third tier city over the span of a decade. Today, there is little economic opportunity in that town, with massive drug abuse, and petty crime. It used to be a nice place, and working in a factory earned you an honest living. Unfettered trade with China killed places like this, destroying an entire generation.

At the end of the day, wanting electric cars from China depends on your values, do you want incredibly cheap electric vehicles, even if it means destroying an entire industry that the largest province in the country relies upon? Or do you want to maintain a functional manufacturing base that is critical to political and social stability?
by pjmlp | 2025-10-27 12:39:06+00:00
PC was an anomaly thanks to IBM not being able to go with their plans.

On UNIX, Sun was the vendor that introduced the concept of SDK SKU, thus for having developer tools, an additional SKU had to be bought, and the until then largely ignored GCC sundenly got a new focus of attention.

Mainframes and micros always needed having a group of folks from the vendor professional services for specific kinds of configurations.

I still remeber working on traditional timesharing UNIX systems, one single server for all teams, what you get to do is decided by IT for your role.

There are plenty of examples from the past on how this has been happening already.
by dundercoder | 2025-10-27 12:40:07+00:00
> A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said.

>The three crew members of the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were rescued on Sunday afternoon, and the two aviators in the F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet ejected and were recovered safely, and all five “are safe and in stable condition,” the fleet said in a statement.

>The causes of the two crashes were under investigation, the statement said.

An expensive loss to be sure but no loss of life.
by nu11ptr | 2025-10-27 12:40:40+00:00
> The other thing you can do (which is popular in the Bevy community) is to compile the "core runtime" into dynamic library. Then you don't need to recompile that set of crates for incremental builds.

I'm curious as to what this means exactly. Are you saying keep the UI stuff in a separate crate from rest of app or ???. And just a separate or an actual dynlib? (wouldn't that imply C ABI? would make it a pain to interface with it)
by laterium | 2025-10-27 12:40:59+00:00
Because LLMs don't have this special quality that you call "awareness", then they cannot have "cognition", neither of which you defined? This is along the lines of "There must be something special with my mind that LLMs don't have, I can just feel it" special pleading whether you call it awareness, consciousness, qualia etc.

As long as you cannot define it clearly or even show that you yourself have this quality, I think the burden of proof is on you to show why this has any real world implications rather than just being word play. We can build thinking, reasoning machines just fine without waiting for philosophers to finally answer what consciousness is.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-27 12:41:00+00:00
>I use nucgen to generate a random 100M line FASTQ file and pipe it into different tools to compare their throughput with hyperfine.

This is a strange benchmark [0] -- here is what this random FASTQ looks like:

$ nucgen -n 100000000 -l 20 | head -n8 >seq.0 TGGGGTAAATTGACAGTTGG >seq.1 CTTCTGCTTATCGCCATGGC >seq.2 AGCCATCGATTATATAGACA >seq.3 ATACCCTAGGAGCTTGCGCA

There are going to be very few [*] repeated strings in this 100M line file, since each >seq.X will be unique and there are roughly a trillion random 4-letter (ACGT) strings of length 20. So this is really assessing the performance of how well a hashtable can deal with reallocating after being overloaded.

I did not have enough RAM to run a 100M line benchmark, but the following simple `awk` command performed ~15x faster on a 10M line benchmark (using the same hyperfine setup) versus the naïve `sort | uniq -c`, which isn't bad for something that comes standard with every *nix system.

awk '{ x[$0]++ } END { for(y in x) { print y, x[y] }}' <file> | sort -k2,2nr

[0] https://github.com/noamteyssier/hist-rs/blob/main/justfile

[*] Birthday problem math says about 250, for 50M strings sampled from a pool of ~1T.
by bentley | 2025-10-27 12:41:27+00:00
Implicit elements and end tags have been a part of HTML since the very beginning. They introduce zero ambiguity to the language, they’re very widely used, and any parser incapable of handling them violates the spec and would be incapable of handling piles of real‐world strict, standards‐compliant HTML.

> I wish all these tolerances wouldn't exist in HTML5 and browsers simply showed an error, instead of being lenient.

They (W3C) tried that with XHTML. It was soundly rejected by webpage authors and by browser vendors. Nobody wants the Yellow Screen of Death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yellow_screen_of_death.pn...
Show HN: Looking for beta testers for my macOS meeting reminder app
by tsormed | 2025-10-27 12:41:37+00:00
Hey HN!

I built Chime - a macOS app that shows full-screen meeting alerts for people who lose track of time while in deep work mode (like me).

The problem: Calendar notifications are too subtle when you're in deep focus. I kept missing meetings/reminders and felt terrible about it.

The solution: Full-screen alerts 5 minutes before meetings that you literally can't ignore (time is customisable). Plus auto-detection of Zoom/Teams/Meet/etc links for one-click joining.

Tech stack: Native Swift/SwiftUI, EventKit for calendar integration, local-first (your data stays on your Mac).

Landing page: https://usechime.app

I'm looking for ~50 beta testers to try it via TestFlight before the official launch. Especially interested in: - Techies who have this same problem - Feedback on the alert timing and design - Edge cases with different calendar setups - Privacy-conscious users (happy to discuss implementation)

If you're interested, there's a waitlist link on the site. I'll send TestFlight invites to the first respondents.

Would also love general feedback on the concept!
by c0balt | 2025-10-27 12:42:01+00:00
It's a bit more complicated, you need to use their compiler (LVVM fork with clang+fortran). This in itself is not that special as most accelerators (ICC, nvcc, aoc) already require this.

Modifications are likely on the level of: Does this clang support my required c++ version? Actual work is only required when you want to bring something else, like Rust (AFAIK not supported).

However, to analyze the efficiency of the code and how it is interpreted by the card you need their special toolchain. Debugging also becomes less convenient.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-27 12:42:10+00:00
Companies have a lot of tools at their disposal to hide things on their balance sheet for a while. However when that happens it typically means the numbers are bad. Really bad. If they weren’t, they’d do everything they can to highlight how great the investment is going.

Same reason why seemingly every CEO on the planet is making hand wavy statements about how their company is leading with AI and it will revolutionize their industry, and yet almost nobody is willing to break out this amazing stuff in their P&L. Funny how that works.
by hackyhacky | 2025-10-27 12:42:58+00:00
> Dude, I literally linked to FEC contributions. "Unsubstantiated" my ass.

That's not evidence of bias, unless, you think that anyone who makes a political contribution is unable to perform accurate research or do their job. Would you casually dismiss the work of a cop or a professor just because they made a donation? If you find a flaw in the research method, let me know.

You're literally looking for any reason to justify your a priori decision to ignore research you don't like. That makes you the partisan hack, not the researcher.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-27 12:43:45+00:00
The TPM and secure boot conversation for gaming has shifted my perspective a lot. This technology is having a positive impact on player experience. It has become quite clear to me that there are wheels that will squeak regardless of the amount of lubricant used. I've begun to consider the position of being able to run anything my way at any time on any machine as being a bit extremist. Especially, in a game theoretic setting with other participants expecting some degree of fair play.

I am allowed to own multiple computers. Many do. I've got a Linux hand held, a windows desktop, an iPhone and a MacBook. All with varying degrees of freedom and function. I don't feel like I'm constrained right now.

HDCP is an example of the other thing in my mind. It adds zero value to anyone's experience. Any potential value add is hypothetical. You can't survey a person after they watch an unprotected film and receive a meaningful signal. It's pure downside for the customer. There's no such thing as competitive Netflix lobbies.

If I want to run arbitrary code, I'll do it on my windows box or fire up a Linux VM in the cloud somewhere. I don't need weird problems on my phone. If you are trying to touch all platforms at once, try using the goddamn web. I've been able to avoid Apple enterprise distribution hell with a little bit of SPA magic and InTune configuration for business customers. For B2C I just don't see it anymore. You need to follow the rules if you want to be in the curated environments.
by HenryAI | 2025-10-27 12:44:09+00:00
After years of hype, 2025 brought a sobering truth: AI systems fail at complex tasks 70% of the time, hallucinate legal claims 17-33% of cases, and companies are finding success only by treating AI as augmentation rather than replacement. This article examines how the industry's collective awakening is reshaping our approach to machine intelligence, from Microsoft's "30 years in 3" promise to the reality of fixing AI's outputs more than using them.
by cgriswald | 2025-10-27 12:44:50+00:00
Willpower can be used to suppress emotion and act in a particular way. This can be useful but isn’t an effective long term strategy. Willpower is finite and sometimes fickle, in part because of the physical reasons you describe.

For most stimuli, our strongest emotional reactions are to our thoughts about the stimulus, rather than the stimulus itself.

A better application of willpower is to reject and replace the thoughts that lead to those emotions. Over time those thoughts are replaced entirely and the emotional reaction is changed.
by helloooooooo | 2025-10-27 12:45:47+00:00
This is the wrong take. Economic dependence on China is a massive national security threat. Exporting your manufacturing base to a nation that opposes the fundamental values of a nation is completely suicidal, and if war ever occurs, you’re toast. China is increasingly belligerent with their excess industrial capacity, engaging in dumping and overproducing to cut out competing non-Chinese manufacturers. They engage heavily in IP theft.

Allowing critical manufacturing supply chains to move to China is stupid.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-27 12:45:51+00:00
>I'm sure this is going to be used by anarcho capitalist types and the media to say Milei's program of cutting public services is noble and great and here's the proof. I feel like I must be taking crazy pills though. If the Argentinian gov needs 40 billion from the US to continue functioning, how does that mean Milei's policies are working?

Socialists have run argentina for many decades. It wasnt going well and they gave Milei a mandate to fix Argentina. If the people just voted in a landslide confirming their continued approval. Then we can conclude those who are best to judge, the people, think it's working.

> It's like if I decide to use a car to drive 1000 miles, but I only buy enough gas for 500 miles, but a dude at the midpoint in my journey offers to lend me enough money for the next 500 miles of gas if I kick all Chinese people out of my car in return, and then I return and say see due to my amazing thought leadership my car has double the gas mileage now.

In your scenario you assign no blame at all to the previous governments? You completely ignore and discount why the people decided to give him a mandate?