MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bloppe | 2025-10-21 23:18:14+00:00
A poor quality product can only be profitable if no high quality alternative exists (at a similar price point). Every time that's the case, it's an epic opportunity for anybody with the wherewithal to raise some funding and build that high quality alternative themselves. A dysfunctional industry running on AI slop will not be able to keep you from eating their lunch unless they can achieve some sort of regulatory capture, which would be a separate (political) issue.

Regarding your Luddite reference, I think the cost-vs-quality debate was actually the centerpiece of that incident. Would you rather pay $100 for a T-shirt that's only marginally better than one that costs $10? I certainly would not. People are constantly evaluating cost-quality tradeoffs when making purchasing decisions. The exact ratio of the tradeoff matters. There's always a price point at which something starts (or stops) making sense.
by ternus | 2025-10-21 23:18:30+00:00
Great project! If you don't feel like building your own chicken squisher, there are commercially-available automatic coop doors that you can buy on Amazon. The one I got is Tuya-based, making it easy to integrate into Home Assistant.

Five days after installing it (and thus enabling the chickens to access the outer yard) they were carried away by predators. The 8ft+ wire yard fence didn't extend far enough into the ground to prevent something from tunneling under it.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-21 23:18:42+00:00
>It’s just as absurd today as it was in the 60s.

Nah. You can argue that the goal "land on the moon" is artificial, but it being artificial doesn't make it fake or abstract. If you're the first to achieve it then you're the first, and that's it. What does it prove if you're able to repeat it fifty years later? You didn't have to invent anything new (obviously), and you're certainly not learning anything new.

Now, if you're not able to repeat it at all, that does say something. But if it takes you a few years longer, well, so what? It's not a race anymore, because it's already been won, by the US of fifty years ago.

The winner of the race to Mars is still undecided, though.
by sombragris | 2025-10-21 23:18:56+00:00
The stable distribution might be a little dated, but the -current development branch is really solid. In my very subjective impression, it is more stable than many distros' stable releases. If you're not afraid of doing some hand-tuning and configuring things the old ways, you should reeally try it, especially with community packages such as Plasma 6, Chromium and LibreOffice (the latest release).
by noir_lord | 2025-10-21 23:19:11+00:00
Europe would curb stomp Russia in a conventional war even without the US.

Ten times the GDP, three times the population and our military stuff mostly works, Ukraine has done a phenomenal job with what they had but Russia turned out to be even more of a Basket case than expected.

The problem is how much damage they can do before we put them back in their box and whether getting the shit kicked out of them would triggger a nuclear exchange which would get really out of hand.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-21 23:19:21+00:00
The counter argument is that OpenAI has to make fairly bolder moves.

Social was _already_ becoming the domain of AI generated content. In the benign sense, there's been social content of people sharing their silly AI content since early DALL-e. Its a good idea to make a social app that's actually _about that_, because you can remix and play with the content in a novel way.

The first Sora was sort of already going in this direction.
by hug | 2025-10-21 23:19:39+00:00
That article does not seem to support your point. They're not measuring depth perception, they're measuring whether people with strabismus have managed to learn perspective cues in 2D images, and, in fact, the article explicitly states agreement with the point you're arguing against.

> Strabismus disrupts sensory fusion, the cortical process of combining the images from the two eyes into a single binocular image [3–6]. The main perceptual consequences of lack of fused binocular images is diplopia (double vision) and a lack of binocular depth perception.

Just because those with strabismus can use monocular cues to inform them of relative depth does not mean that they have the same level of depth perception as those with normal binocular convergence.

The best example of this is sports, but as another example I'm legally disallowed from driving an articulated vehicle -- for what I personally think is a pretty good reason. Anecdotally, compared to friends and family my depth perception is dogshit.
by DocTomoe | 2025-10-21 23:19:41+00:00
I was under the impression that the 20th amendment would still terminate his term on January 20th, noon. In the absence of an elected president, the line of succession as defined in the Presidential Succession Act would kick in, meaning you got a Speaker of the House becoming president (if one exists), and if not, the Senate's president pro tempore.

Not entirely sure where you see murky and undefined situations...
by tinfoilhatter | 2025-10-21 23:19:42+00:00
I would hardly call being a Nazi a side belief or oddity. It was a pretty defining part of his identity. Same with Jack Parsons and occultism - it helped shaped much of his personality and beliefs. Regardless of all of that, the point I was attempting to make, wasn't they were Nazis or occultists. Rather, it was that they were members of influential societies / networks of people and didn't necessarily obtain their positions based on merit alone, similar to the lumberjack.
by int_19h | 2025-10-21 23:19:46+00:00
SharePoint really is that bad though (and I say this as someone who used to develop for it as a platform).

The fact that it's so widespread in our corporate culture is more indicative of how enshittified it is. Now, realistically, we might not be able to avoid it because of that, but let's not pretend that it's not shit.
by Teever | 2025-10-21 23:19:55+00:00
> they understand that characters in TV series are not real

They do not which is why a reality TV star who is 'good at business' is the current US President.

Reality TV is the old media and people are still falling for it and the consequences of them falling for it will be felt for decades. It will be the same with newer technologies but worse.

The novel threat that something like Sora poses isn't just from realism, it's also from the fast turn around and customized messaging. It will enable the exact things you caution about but at an unprecedented scale.

This idea that it all new media is going to be just another case of 'meet the new boss same as the old boss' is ahistorical and shortsighted.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-21 23:20:03+00:00
It is funny, that even a Slack Huddle, something that's not even the core of Slack's function, is better than anything one gets with MS Teams. MS Teams is so laughably bad, I think I have never used a worse chat/voice chat/video chat program. Probably not even Skype in its single core days was worse, even though it ate one third of my single core CPU, just to have a call back then.
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-21 23:20:13+00:00
Perhaps. I am doing my best to stay emotionally detached from this topic and maintain a balanced view, and very open to reasoned arguments and being wrong.

Hacker News is one of the last places I feel comfortable engaging in this way, and not always (sometimes I step on a land mine and get surprised), but if it's not here, I don't know where else to go, and that feels like a shame.

I don't care much about the points, so long as I can keep engaging. So I do my best to follow the guidelines and have faith in the moderation to keep me and others in check, even if sometimes I slip up or encounter what seems like an unfair reaction.

To censor myself from being inquisitive or rationally explore a sensitive topic in a place like this just feels too dystopian for me to accept.
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by erans | 2025-10-21 23:23:26+00:00
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by Pannoniae | 2025-10-21 23:24:54+00:00
An order of magnitude more ;) You need to implement user-programmable shaders, both ARB assembly and GLSL. That needs a GLSL parser, a shader interpreter (talking about compiling it to machine code would add another magnitude of complexity).

You also need to implement multitexturing (probably the easy part) but also all the texture combiner stuff too. This one is not hard but also a good chunk of code...

All in all, at least 40K if you ask me, but that's a very lowball estimate.

Of course if you don't care about implementing the full spec, you can get away with a lot less.
by johnnyApplePRNG | 2025-10-21 23:25:09+00:00
AI helped me realize why I have always read and referred to Wikipedia so little.

Don't get me wrong. Wikipedia is a GREAT resource that the world absolutely needs.

But it's a horribly boring "read" when it comes to human consumption.

It's an encyclopedia. A list of facts.

When I want to learn something about a particular topic, I rarely ever want to read a list of facts.
by Aloisius | 2025-10-21 23:25:27+00:00
Crypto doesn't limit participation, unlike voting.

At some point, one needs determine whether voting transaction 123 by votecoin address 3456 was made by a valid voter and that the voter has only voted once.

So how do you do that? If a central authority does it by say, issuing votecoin addresses to voters or asks voters for their self-generated addresses, then your ballot is no longer secret since they can see exactly who voted for what.

If a voter shares their votecoin address with anyone, then anyone can see how they voted inviting vote buying and pressure schemes.
by panick21 | 2025-10-21 23:25:40+00:00
Well people always assert that, but I don't think evidnece totally backs this up.

Tesla stock went to around 200-250$ when they showed substained profit, growth and margin. And since then it has hovered around that number. I don't believe this initial surge was primarly FSD inspired.

FSD was part of it, because from a financial perspective its really pure margin. I believed if they developed a good level 2 system they could improve their per-car profitability by a significant number. I don't think 20-30% uptake was a crazy suggestion, and that would have been fincially significant. I didn't need FSD and all the fancy promises to think it was good financially.

So I think that 200$ mark was optimistic but not totally crazy. People had been saying the stock was overvalued at 50$ when I bought in. So I wanted to hold around that value and just wanted to see what would happen (I had already pulled out enough to cover my investment).

But then the strategy became worse in all aspect and they didn't make progress as fast as possible. The stock did reflect that, not going up anymore.

Where it became truely irrational is in 2024, where it was clear that company was perfomring worse, and many of its strategies hand not worked as well as expected but somehow the stock massively rallied since then and is now at peak.

I'm not sure FSD explains this pattern very well. I think the political angle might matter more. But I really can't explain it at all. So I have long since liquidiated.
by Pannoniae | 2025-10-21 23:26:51+00:00
No, the doc-header of the header! Apologies if I wasn't clear. I just thought the GP zoomed in on the word "-style" in the first line without reading more (it's probably since it's not a full 1.1 implementation, just something which can do enough to shim a good chunk of 1.1 functions so the RL GL1.1 backend can run)
by netsharc | 2025-10-21 23:27:30+00:00
Haha holy smokes, got to the end of the article and it reminds me of this: mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Hf_BKEfnY

(The Thick of It, by Armando Ianucci - also the creator of Veep with Julia Louis-Dreyfus - is a political satire TV series about bumbling government employees).
by Waterluvian | 2025-10-21 23:28:23+00:00
It feels arbitrary to decide we can’t have a Space Race 2 (Space Harder) but we have Olympics every two years and Super Bowls and World Series and all that every year.

I’ve got to assume I’m misunderstanding the objection because it feels ridiculous to overstir the oxygen over semantics. Do we just need to call it Space Race 2?
by _aavaa_ | 2025-10-21 23:29:14+00:00
Efficiency is not the correct word here.

A gas furnace converts 1 J of chemical potential energy (higher heating value for natural gas) into essentially 1 J of internal energy in the air (raising it’s temperature).

A heat pump can take 1 J of electricity and move (realistically) up to 5 J of internal energy from A to B.

A layman description (if not actually accurate) is that while a gas furnace (or electric resistive heating) can be 100% efficient, a heat pump can be 500% efficient.
by Larrikin | 2025-10-21 23:29:20+00:00
Personally, I like the plot idea that all of the intelligent aliens know of earth life but intentionally ignore us because they visited in the time of the dinosaurs or even before. There's some material the universe values like how we value oil, and they simply extracted all of it from our solar system. This material allows for whatever sci-fi thing we think is impossible, worm holes, constant acceleration, FTL travel, Dyson sphere material, etc.
by mjamesaustin | 2025-10-21 23:30:02+00:00
It succeeded in the 60s because we didn't just focus attention, we focused a LOT OF MONEY on it. In comparison, today's NASA has a meager budget which has only been further slashed by the current administration.

I would love to see the kind of investment in NASA we had during the 60s. The scientific advancements were staggering. Today, the only thing we have money for is weapons and warfare.
by jojobas | 2025-10-21 23:30:06+00:00
From the current WSJ front page:

Paul Ingrassia's 'Nazi Streak'

Musk Tosses Barbs at NASA Chie After SpaceX Criticism

Travis Kelce Teams Up With Investor for Activist Campaign at Six Flags

A Small North Carolina College Becomes a Magnet for Wealthy Students

Cracker Barrel CEO Explains Short-Lived Logo Change

If that's the benchmark for high quality training material we're in trouble.
by Upvoter33 | 2025-10-21 23:30:11+00:00
No offense, but I hate all the comparisons to a "junior dev" that I see out there. This process is just like any dev! I mean, who wouldn't have to tinker around a bit to get some piece of software to work? Is there a human out there who would just magically type all the right things - no errors - first try?
by FloorEgg | 2025-10-21 23:30:26+00:00
When I read your comment the first time I felt uneasy about your (a) vs (b) framing, but didn't know how to address it head on. A while later I remembered this story told by Alan Watts. It seems relevant...

The Chinese Farmer Story

Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer said, “Maybe.”

The next day the horse came back bringing seven wild horses with it, and in the evening everybody came back and said, “Oh, isn’t that lucky. What a great turn of events. You now have eight horses!” The farmer again said, “Maybe.”

The following day his son tried to break one of the horses, and while riding it, he was thrown and broke his leg. The neighbors then said, “Oh dear, that’s too bad,” and the farmer responded, “Maybe.”

The next day the conscription officers came around to conscript people into the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. Again all the neighbors came around and said, “Isn’t that great!” Again, he said, “Maybe.”

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad — because you never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

— Alan Watts

On a personal level, I have experienced some pretty catastrophic failures that taught me important lessons which I was able to leverage into even greater future success.

So honestly, I am fine with (a) or (b) and I think either are reasonable questions. Really all I am trying to do is encourage you to aim up and articulate that aim. I am not doing a great job, but I am trying.
by gchamonlive | 2025-10-21 23:30:38+00:00
Maybe. Or maybe it's an arbitrary decision.

Many won't enable swap. For some swap wouldn't help anyways, but others it could help soak up spikes. The latter in some cases will upgrade to a larger instance without even evaluating if swap could help, generating AWS more money.

Either way it's far-fetched to derive intention from the fact.
by xpasky | 2025-10-21 23:30:55+00:00
Ooh, I totally have to try that out! Very similar concept to mine, but taken further, I love it.

What I really like about your blogpost is the concept of "the promise". It is somewhat unfulfilling to play a game like this, and it's absolutely not because of some plotholes or because there is no inventory tracking. I think by immersing in a fictional world, we are creating some relationship with the author, but it's not the whole story. Erotic roleplay is a thing. Would a comedy game work? What is it that makes "synthetic fantasy" more boring than real fantasy? I need a better theory here.

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Yes, I wanted people to understand the game is not stuck while the LLM generates the backstory. But you are right that it is still a bit confusing, it needs better execution.

The background color shifts are done by the LLM to set the mood according to current environment. It's a bit random, but still a fun gimmick.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-10-21 23:32:21+00:00
Search "linux enable swap in a file"

To enable a swap file in Linux, first create the swap file using a command like sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=1 for a 1GB file. Then, set it up with sudo mkswap /swapfile and activate it using sudo swapon /swapfile. To make it permanent, add /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 to your /etc/fstab file.
by fsckboy | 2025-10-21 23:32:54+00:00
America of Theseus is a great phrase, quite apt for describing "the American Experiment" and the numerous ways America reinvents itself. but I don't see how this usage of it provides any discernable meaning. Ship of Theseus is more a question than an answer, so saying "America of Theseus, therefore 1969 or any connection to it is irrelevant" doesn't follow.
by dangus | 2025-10-21 23:33:13+00:00
I knew I’d draw a Musk cult member out of the weeds. The cult’s defense of their dear leader is an irresistible biological impulse.

It’s ironic that you’re accusing the government of not doing enough because the US government used to spend a lot of money helping people by fighting diseases and other poverty issues around the world (USAID) before Elon Musk himself illegally joined the federal government and cut that program.

So really Elon Musk has had a direct negative effect on world hunger and poverty including US government policy on the matter.

Maybe you think $40 billion to solve world hunger a year is unrealistic and maybe the US government isn’t doing enough, but Elon Musk is literally having a negative impact on the exact issue. At least the US government is/was doing a non-zero amount.

Finally, you claim Tesla has created new wealth. I would submit that Tesla has stolen wealth from the people in terms of its main business of transportation. Remember when Elon Musk fought against multiple public transit projects? Remember the lie that was hyperloop and the boring company which diverted public attention away from more viable and realistic public transit projects?

Every car company CEO is out to derail public transit projects that aim to reduce car dependency and make our world more equitable to traverse, and Elon Musk is an especially bad actor in that regard. He is an ideological proponent of a wealth-divided transportation system, where have-nots sit in traffic paying off car debt and haves skip traffic through his private tunnels.

Every vehicle we are forced to buy from mega corporations is a wealth siphon. It’s the biggest thing that the average person buys that depreciates into nothing rather than appreciating or holding value like a home.
by MeanWeen | 2025-10-21 23:33:19+00:00
> And this is for a prototype plant where you would expect the need for more and top-qualified technicians.

One would think, but that's not really the reality for the technicians. Amazon assuredly brought in some experienced techs from other facilities to help with launch, but most of the staff are just locals.

> At the Shreveport facility, more than 160 people work as robotics technicians, and they make at least $24.45 an hour. Most of Shreveport’s 2,000 employees are regular hourly workers, whose pay starts at $19.50

The associate pay sounds right, but the average starting pay for robotics technicians is in the low-mid 30s. The $24.45 figure is for apprentices, who are not a large part of any maintenance cohort.

Source: Amazon robotics technician.
by codingdave | 2025-10-21 23:33:46+00:00
I know I'm responding to the analogy, not the article, but even so... yes, if you find someone who somehow managed not to try to ride a bike as a kid, they often can just do it on the first try as an adult. Bikes also have been proven over many years... if your bike riding fails, you know it is not the concept of a bicycle that is flawed.

So the analogy fails. As does their logic. They are asking us to invent the bicycle, not to ride it.
by travisgriggs | 2025-10-21 23:33:50+00:00
I largely agree with sibling responses.

BUT...

How do have code review be an educational experience for onboarding/teaching if any bad submission is cut down with due prejudice?

I am happy to work with a junior engineer and is trying, and we have to loop on some silly mistakes, and pick and choose which battles to balance building confidence with developing good skills.

But I am not happy to have a junior engineer throw LLM stuff at me, inspired the confidence that the psycophantic AI engendered in it, and then have to churn on that. And if you're not in the same office, how do you even hope to sift through which bad parts are which kind?