MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jonkoops | 2025-11-13 09:07:23+00:00
This article is extremely derogatory. Firstly, the author dismisses anyone who argues for nuclear energy as “a mentally ill person who hates renewables”, and declares that nuclear energy doesn’t work because it “cannot compete with renewables today”.

I really hate this narrative, it presumes that somehow we can’t improve technological solutions. If we apply that logic we should all go back to driving cars with leaded gasoline because it was too hard to think of something new.

This is reaffirmed by the author again stating SMRs are only buzzing because of state subsidies. Ah, yes, compared to renewables, the unsubsidized energy source that never needed any government money in the past!

There are many kinds of nuclear reactors that could be built, and there are countries, and organizations that are investing in them with new material science we didn’t have in the past. Breeder reactors that don’t rely on a water based coolant, or gas based designs are being tested, there is plenty of room to do new things.

Can we please drop the narrative that somehow investing in nuclear is dumb because we have renewables, we need to explore all options that might help us solve the climate crisis. Some of them might work out, some of them not, but if we don’t try crazy shit like fusion, we’ll never realize any of the potential.
by Arisaka1 | 2025-11-13 09:07:42+00:00
>People exaggerate the problems of using a stable distro.

Stability isn't a problem, it's a feature. Companies trust Debian, Ubuntu LTS, etc. for their servers EXACTLY because the packages are old.

This isn't the case with desktop computers, where the latest optimizations are delivered weekly if not monthly, and may improve performance across the board.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-13 09:07:48+00:00
> The urgency is quite irrelevant.

I have no idea how you get that idea.

> In many locales you will still have to ask voters for permission and/or have a constitutional referendum in addition to having the local legislature acquiesce.

Yeah, and with a sense of urgency, those things can be and routinely are done quickly. Assuming that this argument is in good faith, yYou seem to have a concept of American government derived entirely from a loose knowledge of bits of abstract theory with no connection at all to the reality of practice.

> All of those parties can do whatever they want and a large percentage of them don't understand and DGAF.

Yeah, a broad non-ideological consensus that retail will be legally impossible due to easily communicated, widely=publicized changes in the external conditions without a tweak to sales tax law will easily overcome both the don't know and don't give a fuck of the vast majority of people engaged enough to be involved in the decision-making process at any level, including voting. Things are hard to solve when lots of people have existing strong preferences for particular solutions and those preferences are in fundamental conflict, but this isn't that kind of thing.

> I'd be perfectly happy for pennies to disappear but I am not ignorant of the realpolitik that makes implementation nearly impossible.

Not only do you seem to be ignorant of the political realities, you are also apparently ignorant of the meaning of “realpolitik”, which really doesn’t apply here.

The penny is going away, there'll be some isolated local cases where the timing of effective dates of legislative/administrative fixes to rules written in the assumption that pennies would be widely available vs. the availability of actual pennies will cause some minor inconveniences, and in a decade will look back on apocalyptic claims of near-impossibility the same way we look back at people protecting civilizations-ending consequences from the Y2KK bug. Well, unless we're all dead or living in a nightmarish dystopia for reasons unrelated to the elimination of the penny.
by mihaaly | 2025-11-13 09:07:52+00:00
> This is always what efficiency leads to, higher resource consumption. The phenomenon was described already in the 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Completely wrong an irrelevant analogy!

I see where you went sideways, you confused trigger with consequence completely. Here the efficiency for the very same application got very, very very, increadibly hugely, galactically worse. Not better. The premise of the linked article is that the same application gets more efficient. Then comes the increased use of the affected resource. Here the same application went shit, complete shit, concerning efficiency, and had no effect on memory manufacture and prices, WhatsApp is not that significant in computing.

Probably a better analogy was that if technological and tigtly related economical advances raise the availability of resources (here memory, CPU) then things go dumb. If something then the generalized (from time to any resources) Parkinson's law is relevant here: increasing available resources beyond reasonable leading to waste and bad quality outcomes, overcomplication.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-13 09:08:10+00:00
Most improvements like this don't come from the architecture itself, scale aside. It comes down to training, which is a hair away from being black magic.

The exceptions are improvements in context length and inference efficiency, as well as modality support. Those are architectural. But behavioral changes are almost always down to: scale, pretraining data, SFT, RLHF, RLVR.
by goku12 | 2025-11-13 09:09:17+00:00
> I think you're missing the point.

> There are developers who prefer MIT not because they're a "big player" or "because truth make people uncomfortable", people simply have different preference for what the ideal license is for their project.

Did you miss this part in my comment?:

> There are legitimate uses for permissive licenses and I still use them for those.

Or this part from GP's comment?:

> being able to do this is the reason why companies have brainwashed the Internet into ...

Or this part?:

> ... choosing the MIT license for everything

(emphasis mine) All of these imply that the companies did a mass campaign and not individual brainwashing. They also imply that the MIT license is not suitable for everything and by corollary that there are instances where they do apply. All of it are aimed at the companies that resorted to these underhanded tactics. Where does any of these imply that every single use of the MIT license is due to brainwashing? I can't understand how anyone concludes instead that it's all a personal attack on MIT license users (that includes me too).

> If you cannot deal with that, that sounds like a you problem, but judging by your comments, you're not exactly gonna re-evaluate with a different perspective, since you seem unable to understand others have different ideas and opinions than you.

Not only does one have to deal with people reinterpreting others' comments according to their convenience, they also have to withstand guilt tripping based on it. And the irony is that you cite my complaint about the same issue for it!
by v3xro | 2025-11-13 09:09:43+00:00
When buying alcohol in a physical store, in the UK we have the "Challenge 21/25" schemes https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/facts/information-about-alcohol... such that yes if you look very young the cashier/automated checkout assistant will ask for your ID but in most cases, they will approve without checking anything. I do not see any positives to requiring identification for all transactions.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-13 09:09:47+00:00
> Copyright 1977 J. Lions

About 50 years ago. This is actually kind of cool.

It's part of history. I also like the UNIX philosophy still, even though I would say Linux is not 1:1 using the same philosophy these days.

My all-time favourite showcasing of UNIX is Brian Kernighan showing how pipes work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0

Nowadays I feel pipes are, while still very useful, not quite as powerful, in part because computer systems themselves became more powerful and a lot of the software stack out there has "batteries included". For instance, many of the things that are done via pipes, I may do via ruby or python, even if it may not be as efficient (I also use pipes of course, but my point is more that today pipes aren't quite as useful as they once used to be, even if they still have a use case).
by ncruces | 2025-11-13 09:10:39+00:00
This is absurd.

Most of, if not all, code that was released today was written by Google. Then can release it, or not release it, regardless of license.

Android was never a community project with outside contributions. The license does not limit the original authors.

I'm not saying Google shouldn't have released them immediately. But GPL vs Apache vs MIT has absolutely nothing to do with it.
by aqui_c | 2025-11-13 09:11:28+00:00
We have been working hard on lowering the costs of production of green hydrogen to below the 1$/kg mark. A necessary step to enabling the commercial viability of green hydrogen.

We have developed technology that produces catalytic membranes with very low iridium loadings, limiting the costs derived from using an extremely rare metal.

We have also shown an extremely good stability, leading to electrolyser stacks that require fewer replacement cycles.

VSParticle's CEO will host a webinar on December 4th to answer all questions around the path we are following towards enabling the future of green hydrogen
by crote | 2025-11-13 09:11:38+00:00
I don't think they could possibly make it cheap enough for that - especially once you consider all the money being wasted on RGB/Bluetooth/a GPU you won't use.

Messing around with weird consumer hardware in a datacenter context isn't exactly attractive. If all you need is some x86 cores, an off-the-shelf blade server approach gets you far more compute in the same space with far less hassle. Even if the purchase cost is attractive, TCO won't be.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-11-13 09:11:50+00:00
I played that game in Berlin in the late 90s. There were four such pods, iirc, and you could see the other players. The frame rate was about 5 frames per second, so it was borderline unplayable, but it was fun nevertheless.

Later, I found out that it was a game called ”Dactyl Nightmare” that ran on Amiga hardware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuality_(product)
by elxr | 2025-11-13 09:12:04+00:00
> at least keep it reasonably competitive with the Meta Quest

Having the headset also be a PC (and not essentially a phone OS) is worth a premium of >$250 at least. You can build desktop apps/games on this thing, it can (hopefully) do just about anything a normal PC can.

The Quest is impressive in many ways, but it's a much narrower-use device. I don't think Valve's pricing needs to be in that same bracket to still sell.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-13 09:12:30+00:00
It seems to come from QT: https://qt.developpez.com/doc/6.1/qt/#LII-45 .

This is still confusing, since e.g. GTK+ and TUIs like Emacs use a Meta to mean Alt/Option. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Us...

GTK+ claims to derive this names from X11/XFree86. https://docs.gtk.org/gdk4/keys.html
by CalRobert | 2025-11-13 09:12:32+00:00
Inasmuch as it’s a country of five million people you are right in absolute terms, but considering the government’s shocked Pikachu face reaction to being held to the terms of an agreement Ireland signed up to it’s still a bit galling.

https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/1027/15406...

Ireland “has the largest emissions per person in the EU for the sectors covered by the regulation.”
by webcoon | 2025-11-13 09:12:38+00:00
And it STILL uses text-based Go templates instead of a proper language based on structured input and output? This was always my main pain point with Helm and also of many others I talked to. This major upgrade was years in the making and they couldn't add support for a single of many available options like CUE, JSONNET, or KCL? What an utter waste.
by Frieren | 2025-11-13 09:12:42+00:00
> At about 9 p.m., a bus driver parked at the downtown MacNab Bus Terminal and left for a short break, Hamilton police said in a news release Wednesday.

This is kind of common. It is too easy to leave the keys for a short moment. There are many incidents like this, some with very tragic consequences.

The solution is to change how this vehicles verify who is at the wheel away from keys to something safer. People will keep forgetting the keys inside, better solutions already exist than a physical key.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-13 09:13:22+00:00
Yeah, why not something else? There are a lot of better alternatives. Matrix (Element) although does the search functionality work yet? It sucked ass. I wonder if it works now.

Even Telegram is better, then there is Signal, Briar, and XMPP, too. They are fully featured ones. If you are fine with text only, then Ricochet Refresh is the best candidate as far as privacy goes.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-11-13 09:14:13+00:00
If a civilisation spreads to stars then logically it will continue to spread (no technology or resource problems) and no event - not even super novas - could stop it (as events could only travel at the speed of expansion)

At that point you don’t have a single civilisation , you have thousands of functionally independent civilisations, with numbers increasing all the time. Sure something could wipe out a civ in one star system, but it couldn’t spread to others quickly enough to affect those others.

The most successful civilisations would continue to expand independently over time to take up all the resources in a galaxy.

Unless they found a way to travel faster than light, which means events could spread fast enough to collapse the civilisations.
by leoedin | 2025-11-13 09:14:27+00:00
I don't really see how you can both allow developers to update their apps automatically (which is widely promoted as being good security practice) and also defend against good developers turning bad.

How does Google know if someone has sold off their app? In most cases, F-Droid couldn't know either. A developer transferring their accounts and private keys to someone else is not easily detected.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-13 09:16:28+00:00
I've been doing some SQL again and one technique I learned years ago was having each thing on its own line, both to reduce churn in version control and allow for easier reordering and commenting out.

Instead of

SELECT foo, bar, quux FROM baz WHERE storge = 'grault';

do

SELECT foo ,bar ,quux FROM baz WHERE storge = 'grault' ;

It's pretty hideous in this example but for bigger queries maintained over a long period of time it can be beneficial. I assume, it's been nearly 20 years since I did anything more serious with SQL.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-11-13 09:16:52+00:00
You're absolutely right that the issue is the coordination cost. It's not about the number of resources but just the fact that you need those resources to coordinate, slowing everything down.

Not a problem in waterfall, since you can set the targets beforehand and just have the teams work in parallel. In an "Agile" setting though (not the manifesto version, the current practice version)? It's a huge mess.

So then the question becomes, is this coordination cost worth it and how much are we willing to "spend". It seems the cost is worth it for Android and iOS since the native app experience on those platforms is so much better.

The macOS app is just a tweaked iOS app so it's also easy to justify.

But what about Windows? The Microsoft provided APIs are a disaster that keeps getting rewritten every half decade, and even Microsoft barely uses them. Windows users don't have a "feel" for a native app the way macOS and mobile users do, since there hasn't been a "native app experience" on Windows for a very long time.

Just look at the 2 context menus on Windows Explorer, they can't even get the sizes and colors between them right.

Meta would have been better off doing like Telegram and just using Qt.
by jchw | 2025-11-13 09:17:16+00:00
But, a cashless society is not a panacea. It may be higher tech and more convenient, but it can have significant privacy costs, not to mention the issues with payment card networks engaging in censorship, charging fairly high transaction fees, and pushing the problem of fraud on their networks to every merchant. Considering the payment card network market is seemingly impossible to enter, and governments don't seem to be able or perhaps willing to regulate things, there are ways in which cashless is a downgrade. It would be nice if we could back up and try to resolve some of these issues in a durable by-design way, but sadly it's probably never happening.
Conflict serializability testing without precedence graph?
by shivajikobardan | 2025-11-13 09:17:22+00:00
# Conflicting operations

Two operations I and J in a schedule are said to be conflict if they are operations which:

- are done by different transactions

AND

- are on the same data item

AND

- at least one of these instructions is write operation.

# Conflict equivalent

Two schedules are conflict equivalent if they can be transformed into each other by a sequence of swaps of non-conflicting, adjacent actions.

# Conflict serializable

A schedule S is conflict serializable if it is conflict equivalent to a serial schedule.

# Question

Check whether the schedule is conflict serializable.

read(t1,balx),read(t2,balx),write(t1,balx),write(t2,balx),commit(t1),commit(t2)

Here First t1 reads balx, then t2. Then t1 writes then t2.

This cannot be conflict equivalent to a serial schedule is what I believe. Because of w-w conflict probably.
by merlinthegreen | 2025-11-13 09:18:55+00:00
I don't really understand the reasoning in the article. Nobody argues that orange is a meaningless word just because it's not wrong to call an orange a fruit.

Sure, a transpiler is a specialized form of compiler. However that doesn't mean it's not much clearer to describe a transpiler using the more specific name. As such recommending someone replace "compiler" with "transpiler" (when appropriate) does not mean using compiler is wrong. It simply means that, outside of some very niche-interest poetry, using transpiler is better!
by elxr | 2025-11-13 09:19:39+00:00
If the lenses are good, it's enough. Just have to up the font size a bit and give up some information density compared to, say, a 16-17 inch laptop.

The Quest 3 is already close to good enough to spend decent chunks of time in reading text. Just have breaks every 30m to avoid mild strain.

To me, the sweaty face issue is the main annoyance with working in these types of headsets.
by globular-toast | 2025-11-13 09:19:40+00:00
That's crazy. I feel dumb for initial thinking it was somehow doing eye tracking to achieve this, despite having no such hardware installed.

I would be curious to see a similar thing that includes flashing. Anecdotally, my peripheral vision seems to be highly sensitive to flashing/strobing even if it is evidently poor at seeing fine details. Make me think compression in the time domain (e.g. reducing frame rate) will be less effective. But I wonder if the flashing would "wake up" the peripheral vision to changes it can't normally detect.

Not sure what the random jab at Linus is about.
by ansgri | 2025-11-13 09:19:48+00:00
One of the problems seems to be that most moderately complex companies where any one system would be fine with Compose would want to unify their operations, thus going to a complex distributed system with k8s. And then either your unified IT/DevOps team is responsible for supporting all systems on k8s, or all individual dev teams have to be competent with k8s. Worst case, both.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-13 09:20:35+00:00
I just don't get it. Well ok, I kinda get it. I get the feeling nobody wants to build native apps anymore, or they don't or can't advocate for it strongly enough, or those advocates aren't in a position where they can make decisions.

And from a manager's point of view it seems wasteful to develop the same feature across multiple platforms. And if you look at the numbers it does, but numbers-driven development has been a huge issue for a long time now. They don't consider performance or memory usage a factor, and perceived performance is "good enough" for a web app.
by bayindirh | 2025-11-13 09:20:46+00:00
When you use a desktop computer with 32GB RAM and everything you do work-related runs on a giant world-wide datacenter, numbers start to look small.

When a developer/company decides to not implement things local and proper way and push it out and be done with it regardless of the resources the product use on the users' system, I mark the company as lazy and cheap, actually.

Shoving the complexity and cost to users' is being inconsiderate.

Ref: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuJMkjIXcAcRru9?format=jpg
by hdgvhicv | 2025-11-13 09:21:24+00:00
If mankind exists in 1000 years time and hasn’t regressed then we’ll be able to build fusion powered self sustaining asteroids. Those can be used as airships to colonise every system in the Milky Way in a few million years.

600M years is enough time for Earth to try two or three attempts at intelegence, with full blown fossil fuel replenishment cycles. It won’t be humans - whether we leave for the stars tomorrow or blow ourselves to bits we’ll have evolved to something unrecognisable by then, but there’s very few things which could end life on earth in the next 200 million years (mainly very large out of system asteroids/rogue planets)
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-13 09:21:37+00:00
Ideally, a chatbot would be able to pick up on that. It would, based on what it knows about general human behavior and what it knows about a given user, make a very good guess as to whether the user wants concise technical know-how, a brainstorming session, or an emotional support conversation.

Unfortunately, advanced features like this are hard to train for, and work best on GPT-4.5 scale models.
by Someone | 2025-11-13 09:22:18+00:00
> As a developer you should NOT have to pay Apple or Google or anyone any money to create / distribute software.

So, how do you get a computer? Get electricity to power it? Learn how to write programs? I don’t think that “or anyone” clause is a tenable position.

> My advise - just sell and distribute the app yourself ( https://stripe.com/resources/more/how-to-start-a-digital-pro...

That page has a “Pricing” link (https://stripe.com/en-nl/pricing) that says

1.5% + €0.25 for standard European Economic area cards 2.5% + €0.25 for Uk cards

So, how is that “you should NOT have to pay […] anyone any money”?

I also think that’s just for the selling part. Distribution, you’ll still have to do yourself. Apple and Google handle both, plus automatic updates for your customers, for you.

(Also, for a low-selling product and a €0.99 price point, the cost of Stripe is about par with Apple’s flat 15% plus €99 per year)
by supertoub | 2025-11-13 09:22:47+00:00
Fell in love with QlockTwo word clocks that spell out the time ("IT IS TWENTY FIVE TO SIX"), then saw the $7,000 price tag. Figured I could code my way out of this one. Spent a month building WordClock Widget for iOS. Built with Swift, live on the App Store. Sometimes the best products come from spite and an empty wallet Would love your feedback, fellow widget enthusiasts!
by johnisgood | 2025-11-13 09:22:54+00:00
I mean yeah, I'm sure it depends and varies a lot. I would feel more comfortable if they used something more privacy-oriented, and I do the same. The rest, of course, is up to me.

I do not think I would be able to get my kid off the grid completely so might as well use a better alternative, and in many cases you simply just can't because you have to submit your homework through Facebook, and so forth. Thankfully it has settled down a bit post-COVID but there may still be cases of this crap. I loathe it.

In any case, a privacy-oriented alternative is better than the cancerous Meta. If you want no IMs at all, well, that may be tough. Kids find a way, trust me. I know I did. :D