MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pbiggar | 2025-10-11 06:59:05+00:00
It's interesting to see the media focus on this part of the pope's speech. Part of the degradation of journalism in the media is choosing which narratives to tell.

In the Vatican's press release on this story [1], they started with journalists in Gaza and Ukraine [2]. In fact the image they used for the story was a journalist in Gaza with blood on their camera. They continued [3] with the political attacks on journalists, such as those by Trump and Netanyahu [4], among others.

That the Guardian, alongside a lot of major media, turned this into a joke tells us a lot about how media chooses to shape the stories they tell us. Another example of the Guardian manipulating stories comes from how they report on Ukraine vs Gaza, for example in https://www.instagram.com/p/DPOhhduDALe/.

[1] https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-10/pope-journal...

[2] 'Pope Leo on Thursday paid homage to journalists who are working on the front lines of conflict. “If today we know what is happening in Gaza, Ukraine, and every other land bloodied by bombs, we largely owe it to them.”'

[3] In light of this, the Pope reiterated his long-standing appeal for the release of journalists who have been unjustly detained or persecuted. "Doing the work of a journalist can never be considered a crime," he insisted. "It is a right that must be protected."

[4] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-kills-5-palestinian-jo...
by hakken306 | 2025-10-11 06:59:25+00:00
Your intuition is right in this case. A 2kW oven is more than enough to heat small chicken up to temperature. The author lazily took the 165F temperature and put it into a blackbody calculator without converting the units. Anything but the metric system...

Assuming the chicken has a surface area A=1m^2 (corresponding to a perfectly spherical chicken of radius=25cm/diameter=50cm, a little bigger than usual) and is a perfect blackbody (just going to handwave this one).

with the incorrect temperature: A blackbody with T=165°C (438 K) and A=1m^2 radiates P=2090 W.

with the correct temperature: A blackbody with T=74°C (347 K) and A=1m^2 radiates P=824 W.

Also neglected is the incoming radiation from the ambient environment. Without this, the "power loss" is closer to measuring the chicken in deep interstellar space. from a room temperature environment: T=20°C (293 K) and A=1m^2 radiates P=419 W onto the chicken.

The net power loss of the cooling chicken on the kitchen counter is therefore something like 824-419 = 405W, rapidly decreasing as the temperature drops towards room temperature. e.g. at 50°C it's around 200W.
by bigglywiggler | 2025-10-11 07:01:10+00:00
I mean, it's Apple's whole strategy to create an ecosystem of devices that all work really well with each other. Having had some insight about how chinese manufacturing operates on the low end it's much simpler than that, they just don't really care about things like not draining battery life. Their products are built to a price point and they are aware of that. If it could be built to the same price point without heavily draining battery life then it would be.
by js8 | 2025-10-11 07:01:45+00:00
I think you missed my point - how can you claim you have democracy if you're not allowing your citizens to decide what to do with national resources (by privatizing them)? Privatization is a trap as well.

Private/state distinction matters only a little in practice for democracy. What matters is whether people have democratic control (equal participation on decision-making) over these structures.
by auxiliarymoose | 2025-10-11 07:04:13+00:00
Yeah it bothers me to no end with the "engineering"-inflation of various jobs.

Like, I'm definitively not an engineer, nor does my day job really involve engineering, yet my title contains Engineer! I'm a proud CRUD monkey and designer.

I have done engineering work previously when developing hardware, and it's really a different mindset (even in an agile & fast-moving engineering org). Safety, cost, reliability, multidisciplinary integration, etc. just don't really come up in a lot in web and app development (which is a wonderful thing, really—I love it!)
by Negitivefrags | 2025-10-11 07:04:20+00:00
There are a lot of theoretical arguments I could give you about how almost all cases where hardware BVH can be used, there are better and smarter algorithms to be using instead. Being proud of your hardware BVH implementation is kind of like being proud of your ultra-optimised hardware bubblesort implementation.

But how about a practical argument instead. Enabling raytracing in games tends to suck. The graphical improvements on offer are simply not worth the performance cost.

A common argument is that we don't have fast enough hardware yet, or developers haven't been able to use raytracing to it's fullest yet, but it's been a pretty long damn time since this hardware was mainstream.

I think the most damning evidence of this is the just released Battlefield 6. This is a franchise that previously had raytracing as a top-level feature. This new release doesn't support it, doesn't intend to support it.

And in a world where basically every AAA release is panned for performance problems, BF6 has articles like this: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/battlefield-6-this-is-what-...
by killerstorm | 2025-10-11 07:04:34+00:00
This is poorly written nonsense article.

"In the beginning, CPUs gave you the basics: registers, memory access, CALL and RETURN instructions."

Well, CALL and RETURN need a stack: RETURN would need an address to return to. So there you go.

A concept of subroutine was definitely not introduced by C. It was an essential part of older languages like Algol and Fortran, and is inherently a good way to organize computation. E.g the idea is that you can implement matrix multiplication subroutine just once and then call it every time you need to multiply matrices. That was absolutely a staple of programming back in the day.

Synchronous calls offer a simple memory management convention: caller takes care of data structures passed to callee. If caller's state is not maintained then you need to take care of allocated data in some other way, e.g. introduce GC. So synchronous calls are the simpler, less opinionated option.
by Our_Benefactors | 2025-10-11 07:04:37+00:00
Not OP, but a lot of the current kvetching about hardware based ray tracing is that it’s basically an nvidia-exclusive party trick, similar to DLSS and physx. AMD has this inferiority complex where nvidia must not be allowed to innovate with a hardware+software solution, it must be pure hardware so AMD can compete on their terms.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-11 07:05:12+00:00
> Unfortunately it's kind of hard to truly restrict its usage.

Is it? You require any wireless device to have open source firmware and then people can a) inspect what the existing firmware is doing and b) replace it if it's doing anything they don't want it to.

It's a matter of replacing the existing obscurity-focused laws discouraging them from doing this with the security-focused ones that require them to.

The benefits in terms of right-to-repair and ability to patch vulnerabilities in devices the OEM has abandoned redound on top of this.
by xtajv | 2025-10-11 07:05:22+00:00
There's plenty of hasty generalizations going on in this comment.

If you see this sort of thing happening in the U.S., the place to complain is your state's insurance board.

Medicine is hard enough without people TRYING to do harm.

And actuarial science is brutal enough WITHOUT glossy justifications for assuming that healthcare providers are bad actors.
by ozim | 2025-10-11 07:05:36+00:00
I see you hand waved people who pay money so that forges can operate.

If you have a company you don’t want to pay 20 invoices to different vendors.

If you have a company you don’t want to deal with debugging integration between your CI/CD and web view and git providers, you want to make a ticket and have it fixed.

When you are developing a project you don’t want to spend time figuring out which task management will integrate with other parts.

As a developer you also don’t want to jump through 5 different tools and waste time you want integrated and streamlined experience.

Git being decentralized doesn’t have value besides the fact that I can have my local copy and work on it separately from whatever is there on the central server my company uses.
by three_burgers | 2025-10-11 07:05:46+00:00
I think apart from cross-platform woes (if you can call it that), it's also that the technology landscape would shift, two or few years after the console's release:

For PS2, game consoles didn't become the centre of home computing; for PS3, programming against the GPU became the standard of doing real time graphics, not some exotic processor, plus that home entertaining moved on to take other forms (like watching YouTube on an iPad instead of having a media centre set up around the TV); for PS4, people didn't care if the console does social networking; PS5 has been practical, it's just the technology/approach ended up adopted by everyone, so it lost its novelty later on.
by 28304283409234 | 2025-10-11 07:06:42+00:00
Apple has been a usability nightmare for years. But these are the emperor's new clothes and Swift's latest albums and people refuse to see it.

Apple TV is a nightmare. What show is selected? Impossible to tell because it is far too subtly highlighted.

Trying to find caldav settings on an iphone. Even finding the search option in the iphone settings is counter intuitive.

Everytime I have to interact with an idevice I wish I didn't.
by whycome | 2025-10-11 07:06:59+00:00
You’re talking to the wrong horse though.

Isn’t a 737-8 the max 8 variant? It uses newer dual CFM LEAP-1B engines. How does it compare? I can’t really find the data. The spec you’re referring to is for the older 737-800.

Another fortune cookie:

https://www.aircraft-commerce.com/wp-content/uploads/aircraf...

It suggests an overall savings of ~14% over the 737-800 but doesn’t look at specific takeoff/climb comparison.

I wasn’t posting the LLM output as a source of truth. I was just using it to question the uncited value. And I still really don’t know the answer. If you’ve got another data source I’d love to get it.
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-11 07:07:21+00:00
> we'll be left with no choice but to turn back to the old news channels: real journalism

This sounds naively optimistic IMO. It's not as if people were immune to false information before social media and LLMs took off. Technological advancements and free access to information promised us a better future of a well-informed society. Instead, it's increasingly turbo-charging the worst instincts of humanity, putting our very freedoms at risk. Grim as it sounds, I'm not seeing a way out of this.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-11 07:07:31+00:00
> But how about a practical argument instead. Enabling raytracing in games tends to suck. The graphical improvements on offer are simply not worth the performance cost.

Pretty much this - even in games that have good ray tracing, I can't tell when it's off or on (except for the FPS hit) - I cared so little I bought a card not known to be good at it (7900XTX) because the two games I play the most don't support it anyway.

They oversold the technology/benefits and I wasn't buying it.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-11 07:07:42+00:00
Good catch. I didn't notice the factorization difference.

I myself definitely meant gigabits per second. 120Gbps is about what 2x 8k 60Hz monitors use at a constant rate in the simplest sense (pixels), so that's what I assumed they were talking about.

But it's more complex than that.

Looking a bit deeper: It seems that TB5 (which uses USB C) is natively a symmetric 80Gbps: 80Gbps one way, and 80Gbps the other way. 160Gbps, total, counting both directions -- plus or minus overhead.

It can also use a "turbo" mode where things are shifted to be 120Gbps one way (host-to-device) and 40Gbps the other way (device-to-host), which is still 160Gbps in aggregate.

It isn't clear how that dual-8k-display mode provides any extra bandwidth for other things that may be downstream like storage devices, but that's as deep as I feel like going.

And that is deep enough to answer your question: It is definitely in the neighborhood of [up to] 120Gbps [in one direction], and it is definitely never in the neighborhood of 120GBps [neither in any direction, nor in aggregate].
by hvb2 | 2025-10-11 07:11:27+00:00
This is where regulation comes in. For the TV makers. Things should be secure by default and come with fines if they aren't.

As for the extracting of data, yes that happens on a massive scale. In free products that no one is forced to use. And I would argue that, by now, almost everyone should know that comes at a price, it's just not monetary to the user. At that point it's a choice people make and should be allowed to make.
by physicsguy | 2025-10-11 07:11:32+00:00
When I worked at a startup (ans therefore where these skills are useful) and was interviewing, this was actually one of my questions - I’d ask people what they would do on setting up a new Python project. It is quite telling to learn who has never done anything from scratch (some people couldn’t even get as far as creating a Git repository) vs those who have done the full process and understand what “good” looks like. It wasn’t a “no hire” signal but it certainly set seniority.
by contrast | 2025-10-11 07:13:50+00:00
I pay for a lot of software eg I used Screen Studio a couple of times, liked it, dropped a couple hundred bucks for it. Good work from a solo dev.

Datastar have basic functionality in the pro license. Basic UX capabilities like animation and copy to clipboard.

The devs aren’t “very clear” that most people should never need the license. That’s just PR. They’ve picked a bunch of features that even a teenage hobbyist might want to use as part of a trivial application. There’s no relationship between the locked features and their value or complexity.

I would avoid any web framework that might get in my face like this, at some random moment working on a pet project to try out a new thing, with an invoice demanding payment if I want to use random features.

“Perhaps this is a problem that you might like to address yourself?”

No I’m good, thanks. The Datastar community needs some work, going by the attitude of their defenders in this thread. Someone else is saying the way they charge money isn’t a monetization strategy. It’s nonsense.

Nothing wrong with charging money. Just be honest about it, take it in the chin when people don’t want to buy, and ideally have a pricing strategy that makes sense.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-11 07:14:43+00:00
I have to agree. Windows Aero is a visual mess, especially on Vista, and many of the comparable UXes of the time were not much better. Apple's Aqua UI was the best of the bunch, and it still looked like a child's toy.

It was especially confusing at the time because Windows XP was so straightforward and correct. Flat, contrast-heavy UI elements that overlap without interacting when they aren't supposed to. Drop shadows used for good instead of evil. Skeumorphic design elements that are intuitive, not desperate and corny. The cutting edge in PC usability is arguably still technology designed in 2003.
by fnicfnac | 2025-10-11 07:14:59+00:00
> We are going to see assets across the whole sector correct even gold.

What would gold correct relative to? I can't really comprehend why something like a national currency would maintain its purchasing value as well as any physical asset in the dissolving contracts kind of scenario you describe.

I will agree that other nations will begin taking what they want instead of just keeping these things as alternatives. It is of course surprising that China's response to America first wasn't to put America's interests first.
by xtajv | 2025-10-11 07:16:05+00:00
This is legitimately reassuring.

There are nearly-century-old journalistic guidelines and ethical codes about what you do and do not put into widespread news media.

Posting explicit details about methods used in a celebrity suicide encourages copycats.

Posting explicit details about a shooter's extremist philosophical beliefs brings those beliefs closer to the mainstream AND encourages copycats.

There was a certain recent college debate that I was very surprised to see proliferate across social media, because of the fact that We Do Not Publish Snuff Films.

I actually assumed it was a deepfake, doubted AP News Wire and Reuters, and finally bought it when I saw a tiktok from the TMZ cutting room floor. The fellow in charge didn't believe it either... until he did, and then it was an all-hands-on-deck moment steadied by someone clearly experiencing a huge surge of adrenaline but keeping their cool while operating in their element.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-11 07:16:22+00:00
I was going to say "again?", but then I recalled DirectX 12 was released 10 years ago and now I feel old...

The main goal of Direct3D 12, and subsequently Vulcan, was to allow for better use of the underlying graphics hardware as it had changed more and more from its fixed pipeline roots.

So maybe the time is ripe for a rethink, again.

Particularly the frame generation features, upscaling and frame interpolation, have promise but needs to be integrated in a different way I think to really be of benefit.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-11 07:16:31+00:00
What do you think I mixed up? I pointed out that é is one grapheme in French and two in Mandarin, and I pointed out that é and è are the same (adorned) letter in Mandarin and two different (unadorned) letters in French. And that ö in English is similar to the Mandarin é, but not to the French é.

You seem to object to the idea that they're distinct letters in French. How would you account for å?

> and graphemes ("e", but also "ee").

Not a universal view, but fully compatible with -- and indeed, suggested by -- everything I said. What are you trying to point out?
by 4ndrewl | 2025-10-11 07:18:44+00:00
And this seems like a hard limitation of this approach as art (v craft) is concerned with interpretation and reception whereas this is more like unsplash-for-galleries in that the searches have to be very literal I guess? (eg search for something abstract, like 'dreams', something that you will find depicted in the collection, produces quite the mixed bag of results).
by mariusor | 2025-10-11 07:19:11+00:00
Civilization collapse for the temperate zones of the Globe, probably not, but civilization collapse for parts of Africa and Central Asia, most likely. Temperatures are getting out of hand right now, with 50+ Celsius happening more and more. The world is not ready to handle hundreds of millions of climate refugees, if these people need to leave their countries in order to be able to survive.

I think at some point everyone must face the fact that they're not on this planet by themselves.
by vdqtp3 | 2025-10-11 07:19:14+00:00
A cross controlled stall can result in a spin (which is probably what you mean by flip upside down). The rudder changes aren't inadvertent, they're intentionally opposite the aileron input - the goal is essentially to fly somewhat sideways, so the fuselage induces drag.

In general forward slips are safe, but yes you have to make sure you keep the nose down/speed up. There's little in aviation that isn't dangerous if you aren't careful.
by Contax | 2025-10-11 07:20:59+00:00
Not that it'll happen, or at least I haven't heard of it, but I'd love for MiniDiscs to also make a comeback (not that they ever were that popular), and see new releases in that format. It's my favorite one, a nice blend of CDs and compact cassettes (no worries about scratches thanks to the protective shell, even when you carelessly throw the discs in your pockets).
by rekabis | 2025-10-11 07:21:41+00:00
…Aaaaaand this is why I have absolutely no “connected devices”, despite having used computers since 1982 and being in the IT industry since 1997.

If it cannot be 100% functional while working completely independently from the cloud, I don’t want it. Which is why most of my sound system involves Pioneer units - some of which were built using vacuum tubes - from the 70s and 80s. With judicious maintenance and careful use, they’ll likely last me for the rest of my life and do an exemplary job of playing music.
by Stratoscope | 2025-10-11 07:21:43+00:00
I'm a barbarian too. I roast with a 15+ year old Gene Cafe with the analog dials.

I put in 265 grams of dry process coffee - usually some Ethiopian from Sweet Marias - set the temp to 449°F, set the time to 19 minutes, start it up and the set a timer for 16 minutes. At that point I start watching it and hit the stop button when it is a little lighter than I want.

The Gene Cafe is notorious for its slow cool-down cycle, so if you stop the roast when it looks perfect, it will end up too dark. But I've gotten pretty good at guesstimating it. And I do two roasts back to back: a lighter one for myself, and a darker one for my friend who prefers that. So if the first roast is lighter or darker than I planned, I adjust the time for the second one.

One time I thought I would get more precise, so I bought a cooling device on eBay. With this, you run the roast until it looks perfect, hit the emergency stop, and dump the beans into the cooler. (Use a hot pad because the handle will burn you!) But this left way too much chaff mixed in with the beans. So I went back to my imprecise guesstimating method.

I used to have to replace the heater element every couple of years when it burned out, but the last one has been good for ten years. The only current problem is that the rotary knobs - especially the temperature knob - have gotten twitchy. If you turn it a bit, it doesn't reliably go up or down smoothly but jumps around randomly.

Having had some prior experience with rotary encoders, I knew right away what the silly mistake was that the designers made, and how they could have prevented it at little or no additional parts cost. Just for fun, I also described the problem to ChatGPT, and bless her silicon heart, she figured it out too.

Would anyone like to take a stab at this question? What was the mistake, and how could they have kept these rotary encoders from getting jumpy after years of use?

When this machine finally does break down completely, I won't be getting another Gene Cafe. Not because of the problems above, but because of a new "safety" feature they added a few years ago where twice during the warmup, it beeps at you and you get 30 seconds to push a button to keep it going. I roast outside, and I like being able to ignore the machine for 16 minutes.
by jama211 | 2025-10-11 07:22:29+00:00
I agree, however the model was clearly designed that the university considers first employment to be the apprenticeship and the university education to be rhetorical background education that makes it possible to follow and keep up in an apprenticeship. So really, the issue is companies don’t properly invest in training juniors… because they will leave after 2 years anyway… which is because they won’t provide them pay bumps equivalent to a change in position, which is also their fault, leading them to hire pricier individuals who just left another company looking for a pay bump instead. They pay the same in the end but trade individuals around pointlessly to do it, and have to retrain them on their software stack.

Kinda funny when you think about it.
by adrienditta | 2025-10-11 07:25:30+00:00
This article explores why bookmaker odds often diverge from the actual statistical probabilities of sports outcomes.

It touches on topics like overrounds, market efficiency, and how bettor psychology and liquidity shape the implied probabilities.

I found it interesting because it connects data modeling, behavioral economics, and prediction theory — fields that are usually discussed separately.

Curious what the HN community thinks: – Are betting markets efficient in the long run? – How would you model the “bias” in odds vs true probability?