MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cgriswald | 2025-11-16 16:04:58+00:00
Things I do to deal with the mental state procrastination lie:

- Start things. If after actually trying the thing I am truly not in a conducive mental state for the activity I can quit. Mostly evidence for this bad mental state is repeated mistakes at things I can already do. I think starting also weakens procrastination habits because you know you’re going to experience the thing you’re avoiding anyway even if you end up quitting part way through.

- Focus on whether it is a bad mental state for the activity rather than “the right” mental state for the activity. Most mental states will be good enough for most tasks. You don’t need code flow to code, even if you want it and it helps. You just need to not be in a state where you can’t figure things out or you keep introducing bugs.

- Completely reject my feelings about doing the task. If you’re in those feelings the task is a lot harder and the procrastination lies a lot easier to believe. It doesn’t matter in the short term how you feel about tasks you have to do.

- Constantly question the veracity of procrastinations lies. “Is this true?” “If it is true what can I do about it right now?”

- Reward myself after completing the task if I don’t get any kind of internal satisfaction naturally.
by pxc | 2025-11-16 16:05:54+00:00
For me, sometimes encouragement that what I'm doing is in support of Doing the Thing has helped me not feel so discouraged that I actually just give up on Doing the Thing altogether. Other times it has felt like a cheap excuse that allows me to delay. I'm not sure the function of all the ancillary activities, relative to Doing the Thing, is actually fixed.
by rjzzleep | 2025-11-16 16:06:23+00:00
They're building nukes? Awesome, looks like you have more information than the IAEA. Unless of course you're talking about the same Ayatollah bomb that Iran almost has since 1984[1].

The drones are produced by Russia btw. You know, kinda how you guys keep saying that you'll punish China for supplying components for them. Meanwhile every single drone that Ukraine uses is built with either Chinese components or is a modded Chinese drone to begin with.

[1] https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/04/24/Ayatollah-bomb-in-pr...
by silasb | 2025-11-16 16:06:26+00:00
I'm not trying to take a shot at the OP, but I keep seeing posts labeled "Production-Grade" that still look more like pet systems than cattle. I'm struggling to understand how something like this can be reproduced consistently across environments. How would you package this inside a Git repo? Can it be managed through GitOps? And if we're calling something production-grade, high availability should be a baseline requirement since it's table stakes for modern production applications.

What I'd really love is a middle ground between k8s and Docker Swarm that gives operators and developers what they need while still providing an escape hatch to k8s when required. k8s is immensely powerful but often feels like overkill for teams that just need simple orchestration, predictable deployments, and basic resiliency. On the other hand, Swarm is easy to use but doesn't offer the extensibility, ecosystem, or long-term viability that many organizations now expect. It feels like there's a missing layer in between: something lightweight enough to operate without a dedicated platform team, but structured enough to support best practices such as declarative config, GitOps workflows, and repeatable environments.

As I write this, I'm realizing that part of the issue is the increasing complexity of our services. Every team wants a clean, Unix-like architecture made up of small components that each do one job really well. Philosophically that sounds great, but in practice it leads to a huge amount of integration work. Each "small tool" comes with its own configuration, lifecycle, upgrade path, and operational concerns. When you stack enough of those together, the end result is a system that is actually more complex than the monoliths we moved away from. A simple deployment quickly becomes a tower of YAML, sidecars, controllers, and operators. So even when we're just trying to run a few services reliably, the cumulative complexity of the ecosystem pushes us toward heavyweight solutions like k8s, even if the problem doesn't truly require it.
by alecco | 2025-11-16 16:06:41+00:00
Wind and solar are extremely unstable. Spain had a country-wide blackout earlier this year because of reactors being off. Days with peak solar and wind (heavily subsidized) made nuclear not viable. But you need a stable source to keep the grid from collapsing (and not fry appliances), like nuclear or hydro. It's like both a pace-maker and a goakeeper.

So you need a mix. Small reactors fix the problem of NIMBY caused by decades of fearmongering (now slowly reversing).
by epistasis | 2025-11-16 16:06:52+00:00
That looks to be a population map:

https://xkcd.com/1138/

Which is what you would expect of a stat of "number of outages per state". If it's not normalized for land area, population, and all the other primary contributors to the total number of outages it's a useless stat. San Francisco has more people in it that the entire state of Wyoming.

Texas' power is also cheap, so to justify batteries they would have to not raise the cost of electricity that much.

The current cost of grid batteries is hidden, but it's not too hard to find out, and it is indeed quite cheap. But if there's no mechanism to get paid, ie ability to do time arbitrage in the energy market, then they do not get deployed.

Electricity market design and the ability of ISOs/PUCs/utilities to adapt to changing technology are bigger barriers to batteries than their price.
by nicbou | 2025-11-16 16:07:32+00:00
Writing that comment got me to try Zalando, instead of slowly mapping out and visiting every store in my city. Maybe I wasn’t trying correctly.

My friend also taught me to slowly gather an inspiration folder with things I like. I have one for clothing, home decor and art. It made my job much easier.

I have filled a shopping cart with clothes I have seen on others in the last few months. It wasn’t that hard. I was just set in my ways.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-16 16:08:36+00:00
I do not work at Google. The cantina workers at my company are lazy, provide poor food and try to gouge me on price, by debating how many scoops of some particular food I have put on my plate and whether the scoop was a "normal" scoop or too much.

If school cafeteria workers are as bad the cafeteria at my work place, then I have actually more scorn for them.
by nicbou | 2025-11-16 16:08:48+00:00
It is for me too, but in the end, practice made it so much easier. It took years and some guidance from a therapist, but it worked. “I want to meet more people” was one of those problems that took me year to properly work on.

I think that the core problem was similar: I was willing to make an effort, but did not have a clear idea of how to do it.
by philistine | 2025-11-16 16:08:59+00:00
Nvidia has always had a hard time maintaining good relationships with partners (see the whole Apple fiasco in the early 2010s), their Linux support is anemic and now they're gorged up to the gills with stupid AI money.

They probably don't even bother picking up the phone when Valve calls. Only AMD will sell you an integrated CPU/GPU system with the power envelope needed for modern games.
by rjzzleep | 2025-11-16 16:09:06+00:00
One of Iran's biggest problems is that Iran, for no good reason other than the benefit of some big corporations (kinda similar to the California situation) is one of the biggest produce and dry fruit exporter in the world, and that one thing the government would need to do is shut down that excess capacity. A thing very few countries would do because it would punish some oligarch for the benefit of the whole of society.
by cassepipe | 2025-11-16 16:09:09+00:00
I read your first sentence and I thought "Yes, just like painting" and then you hit me with:

Painting is a good example

While I agree with your point, I believe this post is just psychological pep talk aimed at people like me (and probably the author) who dance around in endless preparation/postponing because they can't bring themselves to do the ting. It's generally an emotional issue: You are afraid of messing it up or of the consequences of the thing etc.

I wish I didn't but I need that kind of pep talk in my life
by pixl97 | 2025-11-16 16:09:15+00:00
>wouldn't he make more money if he took mine then?

Marketing is far more complex then you're giving it credit for. Take the Factorio game, they don't have sales ever so the best time to buy the game is now. This both keeps people that buy things on sale even if they don't like it from getting it, and keeps other people that may wait for a sale and forget about it from not buying it now.

The same is true for limited numbers. Some people may want it and put it in the cart, but never actually buy it because there is no strong binary motivator. This motivator can actually increase sales quickly and ensure you dont hold inventory for long periods of time.

Also things are commonly bought in batches to reduce price. Your one painting later could either be much more expensive or require the artist to buy 50/100 units at once that risk becoming stuck inventory.
by benjiro | 2025-11-16 16:09:23+00:00
This is also what i do not understand about the price structure. Valve states that they want to sell it at PC prices, and not console prices. But then sells it like a Console, with the console bits.

Its like there is a identify crisis even at Valve. Why can this not be a streaming machine for people who want to remote game. Why do you need a controller, if maybe you have a steam deck and stream PC games from the Steam PC > Deck...

What if you just want to use this as a cheap dedicated gaming PC with a monitor and keyboard/mouse.

I feel like there is a identify crisis with the product. Like the started out making a console, but then realized that nothing prevents people from using this as a cheap PC, if Valve puts the price too low. So you have this retraction on the pricing.
by Herring | 2025-11-16 16:09:32+00:00
I don't know why you're surprised. This place is primarily about making money.

Businesses are set up like tiny little fascist dictatorships. They are always trying to pay less taxes, evade regulations, layoff workers, monopolize, destroy competitors etc. They don't know anything about the public sphere, or common good, or government, or democracy, or rule of law etc. They suck at that, it goes against all their training and instincts.
by dahart | 2025-11-16 16:11:37+00:00
Is the full-sun photo edited to remove the paramotor? I just realized it was in the video shot - the head-down dive “tracking” position of the skydiver in the video happens only a few frames after jumping, only for a few frames, and after that he’s tumbling a bit against the sun, with the paramotor still visible. I’m guessing even if the video and still were two different cameras, they wouldn’t have been far enough apart to catch the skydiver without the paramotor?
by vorpalhex | 2025-11-16 16:11:56+00:00
Texas is either desert or desert adjacent. We have always gotten our water by having torrential rains inconsistently.

This doesn't mean don't conserve, be intelligent, etc.

But this does mean that your water won't "balance out" year to year, you need to look at big 25-30 year intervals.

Right now the single biggest waste of water in Austin is leaky pipes. Like infrastructure pipes owned by the city. Meanwhile our water conservation budget is going to billboards telling people to rush in the shower. The entire population could stop bathing and not reduce enough to make up for the leaks happening in the crumbling water infra.
by throwpoaster | 2025-11-16 16:11:59+00:00
Unfortunately I must decline to answer for legal reasons, but I am aware that some people report a short term “cure” that falls off after a longer period.

I am currently on the lowest commercially available dose of a time release methylphenidate, with a dosage pattern that mitigates this long term falloff in most people.

What has been most meaningful to me is the sense of hope both the diagnosis itself and the medication bring.

Sometimes one is trying, and is working hard enough, but is climbing higher mountains than other people while wondering why none of the online mountaineering advice makes sense.

Sometimes one needs an oxygen tank.
by semolino | 2025-11-16 16:12:33+00:00
Marketing works and propaganda works. It's as much of a science as it is an art. When done effectively, both leverage characteristics that:

1) exploit known aspects of indivdual human behavior (more reliable when based upon aspects that stem directly from physiological processes)

and

2) play to the the social climate of whatever emergent phenomena are presently occuring in society.

Strategies for 2) tend to be less evergreen. Many people are always hard at work doing reaearch to bolster techniques for 1) and 2).

I agree with you that education helps build immunity against "cheap tricks" used to influence human behavior.

I also want to add that if one has the privilege of decreased susceptibility to these strategies, it's only that: decreased susceptibility and not immunity. At which point, if the goal is not to be influenced, then a useful strategy for the "marketed-to" is to maintain a healthy respect for the power these techniques can have.
by giggyhack | 2025-11-16 16:13:07+00:00
Weather modification has been a well understood, but not particularly effective program that has been run in various places across the US for decades. The main difference with chemtrails is that those are a bunch of nonsense conspiracy theories that assume that the government is trying to do widespread mind control. Weather modification is just trying to get it rain to rain a tiny bit more, with limited success.

https://library.noaa.gov/weather-climate/weather-modificatio...
by thinkingemote | 2025-11-16 16:13:29+00:00
#3 much intelligence is to the benefit of industry and commercial companies. To a country their economy is their country. After the end of the cold war most state espionage was focused on industry. Sharing is possibly common but secret. The lack of details in the report to me smells of "we are not allowed to share the details". (It also smells of that law to attribute incompetence and not lies)

Now anthropic is new and I don't know how embedded they are with their hosts government compared to a FANG etc but I wouldn't discount some of #3

(If you see an American AI company requiring security clearance that gives a good indication of some level of state involvement. But it might also be just selling their software to a peaceful internal department...)
by analog31 | 2025-11-16 16:13:33+00:00
>>>>> Don’t those new violent dictators also tend to be more aligned with the people revolting?

Empirically, no.

"Popular dictator" is an oxymoron. The dictator is always focused on their own survival. They are never able to completely wipe out their opposition, and end up collaborating with the powerful, and repressing the weak, in order to retain power.
by corpoposter | 2025-11-16 16:14:13+00:00
I find this a profoundly odd response to the story. Is your intent to excuse her abusive treatment by the religious, medical, and government authorities of a totalitarian regime?

Your comment is treating her with full agency (i.e. "she shouldn't have done anything bad or disruptive") and completely ignoring the agency of the institutions that harmed her (i.e. "what did she expect in response?").
by drdrek | 2025-11-16 16:14:30+00:00
Its the first player past the goal post problem, the first alchemist will crash the gold market but he will be insanely rich. You can see this with advertisers, when a new approach is found they all rush to it. They know its going to kill it soon, but the first few will get that sweet sweet revenue before the public catches on.

AI art will poison the well, but someone will make the few bucks that can be extracted before it happens.
by eochaid | 2025-11-16 16:14:44+00:00
New things are hard to value.

> When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold,

> Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;

> And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,

> Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’

— Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops [1]

[1] https://poets.org/poem/conundrum-workshops
by mrweasel | 2025-11-16 16:14:46+00:00
The big cloud provides needs to step up and take responsibility. I understand that it can't be to easy to do, but we really do need a way to contact e.g. AWS and tell them to shut of a costumer. I have no problem with someone scraping our websites, but I care that they don't do so responsibly, slow down when we start responding slower, don't assume that you can just go full throttle, crash our site, wait, and then do it again once we start responding again.

You're absolutely right: AWS, GCP, Azure and others, they do not care and especially AWS and GCP are massive enablers.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-16 16:14:51+00:00
Optuna is a generally useful project, that I'm surprised isn't used in more places in the ecosystem. The ability to do what they're doing here, incrementally find the best hyperparameter to use can really make a large difference in how quickly you can move past having to fine-tune those values. Basically any time you aren't sure about the perfect value, throw Optuna on it with a quick script, and make it go for a broad search first, then narrow it down, and you can let the computer figure out the best values.

Nicely done to pair that with something as fun as censorship removal, currently in the process on running it on gpt-oss-120b, eager to see the results :) I'm glad that someone seems to be starting to take the whole "lobotimization" that happens with the other processes seriously.
by cesaref | 2025-11-16 16:15:14+00:00
I think that's an over-simplification. There was pressure on the language to ensure that data structures were compatible with C structs, so avoiding the vtable with simple classes was a win for moving data between these languages.

Of course these days with LTO the whole performance space is somewhat blurred since de-virtualisation can happen across whole applications at link time, and so the presumed performance cost can disappear (even if it wasn't actually a performance issue in reality). It's tough to create hard and fast rules in this case.
by gpm | 2025-11-16 16:16:28+00:00
If you count Rc/Arc as garbage collection you should count RAII + The Borrow Checker (i.e. all safe rust) as garbage collection too IMHO. It collects garbage just as automatically - it just does so extremely efficiently.

That said I tend to count neither. Garbage collection to me suggests you have something going around collecting it, not just you detect you're done with something when you're done with it and deal with it yourself.
by bloppe | 2025-11-16 16:16:36+00:00
AOSP is the foundation of GrapheneOS, LineageOS and dozens of other patently non-Google systems. Chromium is the foundation for Edge, Brave, Opera, and every single AI browser being churned out by the dozen. Many of the Chromium forks are specifically designed to block Google ads.

There's a reason most of these projects picked AOSP over iOS, or even Chromium over WebKit. Google just engages with the community better than Apple. It's silly to pretend like they're on the same level.
by hakfoo | 2025-11-16 16:16:39+00:00
Okay, this is a problem we literally solved in the early 1980s.

Back in the days of the original IBM 5150, there was an agreed-upon "full length" card size. The case had a little plastic rail attached to the front panel, so a card that length would fit into it and be braced at both sides.

For a $10k card, they could easily say "Only these specific cases"-- which have an appropriately positioned rail. These days, it might need to be a full steel buttress, but still, a lack of standardization created this problem more than anything else.

I prefer a flat-motherboard case (an old CoolerMaster HAF XB) so my beefy Radeon 6900XT doesn't sag or require something to prop it up.
by torginus | 2025-11-16 16:16:47+00:00
AMD is in dire straits - their GPU market share is basically nothing right now, I wouldn't be surp

Plus the 7600M (which is suspected to be the Steam Machine GPU) is an existing design on a legacy node, and they don't have to worry about it threatening their current lineup. They can go pretty low with the price.

They might get something out of it - considering the modest hardware, devs will have to optimize for it, which might get them a couple extra percent on more modern hardware as well.
by ksec | 2025-11-16 16:16:59+00:00
>estimated date of completion (2035)

Ignoring cost, I sometimes wonder why we cant build this in 1 - 2 year. And if the first one takes 5 years, why the second one isn't 5 times faster.

It frustrates me that nothing in UK is done with any urgency. And I bet that the Estimate date will be off as well.
by aftbit | 2025-11-16 16:17:12+00:00
My stuff used to get popped daily. A janky PHP guestbook I wrote just to learn back in the early 2000s? No HTML injection protection & someone turned my site into spammy XSS hack within days. A WordPress installation I fell behind on patching? Turned into SEO spam in hours. A redis instance I was using just to learn some of their data structures that got accidentally exposed to the web? Used to root my computer and install a botnet RAT. This was all before 2020.

I never felt this made the internet "unsafe". Instead, it just reminded me how I messed up. Every time, I learned how to do better, and I added more guardrails. I haven't gotten popped that obviously in a long time, but that's probably because I've acted to minimize my public surface area, used star-certs to avoid being in the cert logs, added basic auth whenever I can, and generally refused to _trust_ software that's exposed to the web. It's not unsafe if you take precautions, have backups, and are careful about what you install.

If you want to see unsafe, look at how someone who doesn't understand tech tries to interact with it. Downloading any random driver or exe to fix a problem, installing apps when a website would do, giving Facebook or Tiktok all of their information and access without recognizing that just maybe these multi-billion-dollar companies who give away all of their services don't have your best interests in mind.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-11-16 16:17:29+00:00
Userbench is openly mega biased and fudges their own test scores against AMD, it’s so bad it shouldn’t even be listed in search results,

There are also many criticisms against CPUbennchmark that are much more minor like its over simplified testing leading to weird anomalous score gaps between extremely similar CPU’s.

For the average consumer, I think cpu benchmark is fine and probably as good as you can ask for without getting into the weeds which defeats the purpose really.
by wpm | 2025-11-16 16:18:14+00:00
macOS has two keyboard shortcut management mechanisms. I find it far easier to control keyboard shortcuts on macOS vs Linux. You either can do it in the GUI in Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts, either per app or global, or you can use the older KeyBindings method: drop a .dict or a .plist in ~/Library/KeyBindings with your shortcuts in there. See https://web.archive.org/web/20070513170225/http://www.hcs.ha...
by philistine | 2025-11-16 16:18:23+00:00
The Mac Mini does not have the sustained thermal capability of the big 6-inch fan in the Steam Machine. So it'll throttle. The Mac Studio probably has better thermals than what Steam will ship, but it's far more expensive.

The Mac Mini can play many games, but it cannot play most games like this Steam Machine. Developers barely supported the Mac before the ARM switch, and now it's somehow even worse.

Gaming with a Mac is an exercice in zen enlightenment.