MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FooBarBizBazz | 2025-11-23 19:35:50+00:00
I think my sense of the word "seduce" predates male "pick up artists". My intention is to speak from the cultural mainstream.

Consider also uses like, "do not be seduced by fascism".

Or:

> Pope Francis: ‘The devil is a seducer’

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/12/27/pope-franci...

...

I am a little curious what you mean by

> that perspective has been eclipsed by all the <insert color> pill people anyway

though I think I get the general idea; the culture has moved on since the early 2010s.

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> To seduce someone is to entice, make them fill with anticipation, and so on. I feel certain female seducers, that have a social media presence about it, explain that part relatively well.

I see no contradiction with what I am saying, apart from (a) the (orthogonal) emphasis on the emotional state being cultivated in the target; and (b) that these speakers are unapologetic.

Certainly I have seen efforts to reclaim "seduction" as a kind of "girl power", but there are a few issues with it. The biggest -- and I know this norms on a particular kind of relationship, but I will do so -- is that it primarily makes sense to cultivate this as a "skill" if you plan to have a large number of short term relationships. For many reasons, including the theory of repeated games, I think this is not good for the individual or for society. Instead I would encourage the formation of lifelong pair bonds -- which, yes, has sexy/fun aspects of

> entic[ing], mak[ing] them fill with anticipation

but I think that would be a little further from the archetypes of the word "seduction".

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If we are looking for a word with positive connotations, I would be a little more comfortable with a gender-neutral use of our other word, "charisma".
by dahart | 2025-11-23 19:36:33+00:00
You’re partly asking questions about APIs rather than questions about GPUs. It might help to identify any specific goals you have and any specific tools or APIs you intend to use.

In general, you can use just about any data format you want. Since GPUs are SIMT, it’s good to try to keep data access coherent in thread groups, that’s the high level summary. There are various APIs that come with formats ready for you. Depends on whether you’re talking textures, geometry, audio, fields, NN weights, etc., etc.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean about sequential state contradicting the article. Shaders don’t necessarily need to deal with transforms (though they can). Transforms in shaders are applied sequentially within each thread, and are still parallel across threads.

Crossing the CPU GPU boundary is an application specific question. You can do that as many times as you have the budget for. Crossing that boundary might imply synchronization, which can affect performance.

For global variables, you might be thinking of shader uniforms, but I can’t tell. Uniforms are not globals, they are constants passed separately to each thread, even when the value is the same for each thread. You can use globals in CUDA with atomic instructions that causes threads to block when another thread is accessing the global. That costs performance, so people will avoid it when possible.

I hope that helps. Answering these is a bigger question than just shaders, it’s more like understanding the pipeline and how GPUs work and knowing what APIs are available. An intro course to WebGL might be a good starting point.
by squigz | 2025-11-23 19:36:54+00:00
> The parent comment called for banning all advertising, not for banning ads promoting social media platforms.

This wasn't my reading of it, but it does appear that's what GP meant. I don't agree with that. Even so, if you were interested in having a good faith discussion about solutions here, you might have responded to both interpretations.

You may consider this me putting forth the suggestion as an answer to your question, if you must.
by __aru | 2025-11-23 19:37:34+00:00
I actually think Microsoft is often ahead of it's time with it's consumer-facing products, but executes very poorly. So they have good foresight, but "very bad taste" when it comes to execution.

Microsoft was early to making tablets, smartphones, living room PCs, etc. They just royally screw up the execution of each product category every time.

Maybe it'd be a fun idea for to take some of Microsoft's failed consumer ideas, and revisit them 10-15 years later to see if some other company successfully executes on it.
by simonw | 2025-11-23 19:37:36+00:00
Do those still only work for the voice APIs though?

I've been hoping they would extend that to other APIs, and I'd love to see the same kind of mechanism for other providers.

UPDATE: I dug I to this a bit more and as far as I can tell OpenAI are still the only major vendor with a consumer key mechanism and it still only works for their realtime voice APIs.
by hysan | 2025-11-23 19:38:16+00:00
> I think comparing markdown in general to something like DocBook is comparing apples to oranges.

Hmm let me rephrase the issue I have with the comments in this thread. If your position is that markdown doesn’t belong in the same category as the others, then yeah, I agree. But I also think that’s basically rejecting the premise of the article and there isn’t a discussion to be had. If you disagree with the core premise, then it doesn’t matter what is said, there’s no discussion to be had.

However, the original parent comment is stating that the author’s assertion is false because you can extend markdown. I don’t see how that logic doesn’t run into the semantics and “portability” problems that the author is writing about.
by sedatk | 2025-11-23 19:38:34+00:00
> The only thing of note they have added to Windows in the last five years is Copilot

That's a quite unfair take, especially when it fails to compare it with what things of note Linux distros have added over the last five years. Valve made Windows emulation better, yes. That's it. What else?

Actually, I wouldn't even call Copilot a thing of note. It's just ChatGPT-in-a-popup at the moment. A real thing of note is WSL2. It's a total game changer.

Windows has got many quality of life improvements over the recent years such as an extremely polished web browser, clipboard history, Windows Sandbox, screen recording, OCR, automatic private info redaction, Markdown support in Notepad and many more. None of those exists on most distros.

Most distros lack the features below, out of the box, which Windows has supported for years:

- "reset this PC" functionality

- a built-in anti-malware

- Touch/Face login

- Ability to enable FDE post-installation

- Hybrid-sleep

- Fast fractional HiDPI scaling

- Running x86 apps on AArch64 performantly

I agree that Microsoft needs to stop letting product groups get their way with screwing up user comfort on Windows for the sake of their arbitrary goals (like shoving Microsoft accounts, Teams, and anything Electron-based down our throats) and keep it as a solid, bloat-free system that everyone can safely rely on. But, dismissing the existing pros of Windows is just unfair. Despite all the cons, it's still a very good OS.

Disclaimer: I had to switch to Fedora on my old machines because Windows 11 weren't supported on them. That's an exceptionally rare incident where Microsoft dropped the ball on backwards compatibility. But that doesn't mean Windows itself is bad.
by Nanopolygon | 2025-11-23 19:38:36+00:00
HALIC is by far the best lossless codec in terms of speed/compression ratio. If lossy mode were similarly available, we might not be discussing all these issues. I think he stopped developing HALIC for a long time due to lack of interest.

Its developer is also developing HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression). He recently released the source code for the first version of HALAC. And I don't think anyone cared.
by lazarus01 | 2025-11-23 19:39:12+00:00
Very weak writing.

There’s nothing in there that I couldn’t capture with a very basic imagination.

While I appreciate how women face misogyny, we have made great progress where women are showing better progression than men in income and career achievement. I am a father to a young woman and feel our social group is full of very successful and inspiring women that we all appreciate to be around.

The author does women a disservice, instead of being inspiring with her climb to success, she’s venting that the world is just not good enough.

To become a pop star comes from pure luck and what is marketable in the moment. For this case, the observations are more of a cliche than anything interesting.
by daveguy | 2025-11-23 19:39:37+00:00
Isn't it worth the balance between stability and effort to go with LTS (long term support / security updates only)?

You know the updates on LTS will be relatively much safer. The limit of potential breaking updates to every 2 years is mostly the point. But if you're just talking about a home lab where you want to use the latest advances without the latest exploits, try a dependency cooldown. Simon Willison recently pointed out this post by William Woodruff about dependency cooldowns [0]. Wait a day between update release and adoption to identify supply chain compromises.

In other words: Don't move fast. Don't break things.

Or: Move slow. Keep things.

[0] https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using...
by lurking_swe | 2025-11-23 19:39:42+00:00
Based on your comment it sounds like you rarely travel (booking hotel / flights online), don’t have mobility issues (ordering groceries / household essentials online), don’t participate in online banking (do you write checks? carry cash with you all the time? go to an ATM weekly?), you don’t stream movies or tv shows, and you enjoy looking for apartments to rent in your local newspaper listing, and you enjoy using paper maps when traveling around the city and world. I could go on…

literally everything useful works on the business internet. Also how do you think local businesses near you operate? They don’t call each like the 1900s lol. They order stock from distributors, some local and some overseas. Often they are doing this on the business internet. Today’s global supply chain makes this a non-starter.

It’s OK if YOU personally prefer doing everything slowly and in person and don’t value the convenience of the business internet. No judgment. But don’t pretend this would be an easy transition at all. Or that most people would prefer to live that way.

IMO it would make _way_ more sense to introduce reasonable privacy regulations that are better thought out than GDPR and have proper enforcement.

Maybe a formal “community” version of the internet would be appropriate as well.
by squigz | 2025-11-23 19:39:43+00:00
Who suggested "turning oil off overnight"? What does that even mean?

GP (and I) have given you several examples of stuff society learned was harmful and then phased out with regulations/legislation. No, it didn't and does not happen overnight.

Why are you acting in such bad faith, trying to disregard people you don't agree with as "not being able to imagine consequences"?
by squigz | 2025-11-23 19:40:32+00:00
Correlating smartphone ownership with mental health issues - without diving into how they actually use them - would be like correlating kids simply sitting in a car with them not being able to drive it safely. Or, to use another of my examples, it would be like correlating cigarette possession with cancer rates. Yes, you'll probably see some correlation, unsurprisingly, but it doesn't give any information on causation.
by theptip | 2025-11-23 19:40:32+00:00
Yeah, I believe that lots of startups don’t have evals either, but as soon as you get paying customers you’re gonna need something to prevent accidentally regressing as you tune your scaffolding, swap in newer models, etc.

This is a big chasm that I could well believe a lot of founders fail to cross.

It’s really easy to build an impressive-looking tech demo, much harder to get and retain paying customers and continuously improve.

But! Plenty of companies are actually doing this hard work.

See for example this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025683
by soiltype | 2025-11-23 19:40:49+00:00
Well actually you're right that blogs can have different purposes, however I think we're talking about basically the same purpose here, in "sharing something interesting to me", and what I meant is that I wasn't seeing how AI writing is actually doing that. But I'll leave you be, I'm not here to harass you and I think I've gotten the answers I was looking for.
by straydusk | 2025-11-23 19:40:55+00:00
Thanks a lot! I agree (obviously) - this workflow really helped me structure my projects.

> If you're looking for feedback, you could include a tiny section on the homepage about how to run the output docs. e.g. put them in a folder, point Claude Code/Codex to it and give it the prompt.

This is great feedback - I totally agree - going to add this asap
by linkage | 2025-11-23 19:40:59+00:00
For one, it can run Raycast. There are launchers on Linux that implement a small fraction of Raycast's functionality, but entire categories of abilities are only possible in Raycast, like CRUD operations on Jira tickets, using AI to interact with your Notion workspace without having to pay Notion 20 USD per month, and directly interacting with other remote APIs with just a few keystrokes.
by augment_me | 2025-11-23 19:41:06+00:00
There is some sociology/psychology research based on concepts like the Maslow's hierarchy of needs that motivate human behavior. There is also memoirs of Bonnie Ware, "Regrets of the Dying", where she as a nurse at an old folks home over several years interviewed people who are about to die and their regrets turn out to be:

not living a life true to oneself, working too hard, not having the courage to express feelings, losing touch with friends, and not allowing oneself to be happier.

With a heavy overweight on the first point. I think that the comment "he wasted his life" is supposed to be in reference to this, that most people realize at the end that nothing really mattered, and that they chose to follow the structures of society by default instead of daring to do what they inherently wanted intrinsically. Then you can feel as your life was wasted, you got a single chance to play around and do what you like with your brief time in the universe and you chose to let someone else dictate how that was going to go, a waste.
by arianvanp | 2025-11-23 19:41:30+00:00
Why is it more secure: a key file on disk is decrypted into memory every time you enter your passphrase. It means the key is around in plain text in the memory of ssh or ssh-agent. Which means it's extractable by an attacker. An exportable key does all the signing inside the secure enclave and never exposes the decrypted key to OS memory.

The exported key you can keep in a safe for disaster recovery. You shouldn't keep it on your computer of course.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-23 19:42:11+00:00
I have a 4K HDR OLED plugged into my Windows PC that works just fine for editing and viewing my photos.

I have no way, in general, to share those photos with you, not without knowing ahead of time what software you’re using. I’ll also have to whip up a web server with custom HTML and a bunch of hacks to encode my images that will work for you but not my friends with Android phones or Linux PCs.
by testing22321 | 2025-11-23 19:42:22+00:00
I’ve lived in a couple of countries where I continue to get healthcare and higher education and more when I’m not working. It’s very nice. Not surprisingly those countries are at the top of the most livable countries/cities in the world, while countries that don’t are not even in the top 50.

Why is it ok to force someone to pay for fighter planes, moon missions and freeways but not for food and healthcare?

Are you suggesting nobody should pay taxes?
by layer8 | 2025-11-23 19:42:50+00:00
The article is about the evils of capitalist profit maximization. I don’t see how Apple is any better there. If anything, they are the masters of profit maximization.

I’m not an Apple “hater” (whatever that’s supposed to mean), I use their products more than Google’s or Meta’s. But I don’t like the trajectory they’ve been going down for the past decade or so, and the arguments made by the article fully apply to them.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-23 19:43:43+00:00
AFAIR, there were two aspects to testing. The code change itself obviously only took tens of minutes, if that. First round of testing was just the build test, and that was fully automated but I think there were independent builds for multiple different hardware variations and so the total time for that was several days. Then there was actual use-case testing ... I wasn't involved in that at all, but was told it would also take several days of actual testing by a QA team.
by michaelt | 2025-11-23 19:43:50+00:00
> it'll help crack down on illegal workers

Will it, though?

Businesses already have to get a photocopy of your passport when they hire you, and check your right to work in the country.

If they're not performing the checks, what's the point of a second document they also won't check? Surely the solution is firmer enforcement of the existing law?
by wavemode | 2025-11-23 19:43:58+00:00
> Currently most parties there take minutes to process messages and I think there could be a lot to learn from financial systems engineering

Depends on what you mean by "financial systems". There are plenty of financial systems that takes days or weeks to fully process transactions.

You're probably referring to stock trading systems (which by their nature have to be extremely low latency). The term to search for is "HFT" (high-frequency trading).

Here is a recent paper on the topic (focused on C++, though most things you find will tend to be): https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04259
by sofixa | 2025-11-23 19:44:29+00:00
> MacOS is light years ahead of Windows in so many arenas

At least Windows dignifies you with an error message (even if a hex code and badly tanslated text) when something is wrong. macOS mocks you with a dumb and utterly useless message like "Something went wrong, try again" or "A USB device is using too much power, try unplugging it". Or just flat out not showing the button for the thing you're looking for if prerequisites aren't filled (iPad screen extending, unless the iPad is on the same Apple ID, and has been restarted since, the button just isn't there and there is nothing you can do to debug it other than tryingn to guess what is missing).

Also, Windows allows you to install whatever with a clear UX (this might be dangerous for random crap from the internet vs having to jump through a weird non-existing UX to get it to open, or flat out being blocked from using downloaded libaries).
by slg | 2025-11-23 19:44:48+00:00
Technically sorting by timestamp is an "algorithm" too, so I was just speaking informally rather than drafting the exact language of a piece of legislation. I would define the categories as something like algorithms determined by direct proactive user decisions (following, upvoting, etc) versus algorithms that are determined by other factors (views, watch time, behavior by similar users, etc). Basically it should always be clear why you're being served what you're being served, either because the user chose to see it or because everyone is seeing it. No more nebulous black box algorithms that give every user an experience individually designed to keep them on the platform.

This will still impact HN because of stuff like the flame war downranker they use here. However, that doesn't automatically mean HN loses Section 230 protection. HN could respond by simplifying its ranking algorithm to maintain 230 protections.
by RobRivera | 2025-11-23 19:45:05+00:00
Text to speech has been a technology for a very long time. This is, in my opinion, a whole article about nothing, leaning on the AI label to garner views.

Yes, we may ask the question whether or not speculative uses of AI in other manners have negative implications, and these should be asked, but that isn't the case here.

It is very much like asking the question if cars, upon inve tipn, started driving into random fields with no restraint, off-roading as if any car owner woulddo this, upon the sight of seeing a new motor carriage driving down a street. Important questions to ask of emergent technology, sure, but right now that motor carriage is on the road, let it be.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-23 19:45:08+00:00
What position is that?

1. That showing different colored hands raised with a heart in it is “too political” - again they were not holding hands, no Pride symbols (that you brought up)

2. That MAGA isn’t political?

I’m not trying to convince you of anything. I’m saying that a certain contingent of conservatives have always been triggered about the thought that the US is not just White people and even more triggered with the thought of people of various races getting along. It’s especially prevalent in a post MAGA takeover of the Republican Party.
by shagie | 2025-11-23 19:45:19+00:00
Andrew Glassner's Notebook: Recreational Computer Graphics is a really neat book (I especially like the tiles that can add numbers). The author's site is https://glassner.com/computer-graphics/

Chapter 6 in the book ( https://archive.org/details/andrewglassnersn0000glas/page/98... ) Signs of Significance starts with 7 segment displays to the 14 segment and 5x7...

He then goes on to the 66 segment Vienna underground font and an 83 segment font he saw in an elevator at a Siggraph conference in Orlando ... and then concludes with his own 55 element mosaic.

--

Also, Adam Savage's Tested - https://youtu.be/eKCcqlJnZcA (3 days ago) looking at https://www.kellianderson.com/books/alphabetinmotion.html

At 7:00 into the video is C & D pages looking at the modularity of a font.

(the section "U & V" about 3/4 down the page has the modular components for Kombinations-Schrift https://www.moma.org/collection/works/2724 which was also looked at at 22:00 into the video.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-23 19:45:44+00:00
Maybe I just have a different working definition of these words. To me "mature" means "fully developed" and "polished" means "achieved a high level of refinement". To me, rewriting it all to introduce a major feature that fills in a longstanding hole in the language doesn't say "mature and polished". Because often times many bugs are introduced into a codebase on a major rewrite despite extensive test suites, especially at the interfaces between features. Typically people might prefer a mature codebase to one that's just been rewritten precisely because it hasn't been vetted over years. "mature rewrite" sounds like an oxymoron to me, and I guess no one else agrees but I find it strange. That is all.
by dyauspitr | 2025-11-23 19:45:49+00:00
It’s not but there is an aspect of complete freedom to do things outside the bounds of prescribed interactions is what I’m getting at.

For instance second life might be a lot more interesting if you could kill someone, assume their identity and pull off other such shenanigans. At the same time there should be real user “law enforcement” continually tracking down criminals of this nature. Being arrested should mean real jail time/account suspension for a fixed amount of time etc. Criminals should get a real user driven trial where they can argue their case, real user lawyers you can hire etc.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-23 19:45:56+00:00
That doesn't actually work here in my part of NM. The company is the phone company, the wiring was installed on the same easements that they used to provide phone service. The problem is that the PUC, which controls phone service, has no jurisdictional authority under state law over internet service (and neither does any other state agency). At least this is what the PUC told us during a multiway zoom meeting between residents, the phone company/ISP, the PUC and two county commissioners.