MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tovej | 2025-11-18 11:37:13+00:00
If you're vibe coding a front end, you're going to run into issues with technical debt eventually, so that's a very short sighted way to handle things.

Or if you do have the technical skill for front-end work, you could have done it without the AI.

I do doubt this, however, because AI assisted programming does not increase productivity for skilled workers as much according to studies.
by eesmith | 2025-11-18 11:38:35+00:00
Here's an account at https://notalwaysright.com/the-dunkin-duchess/396274/ :

> Our college study group meets a few times a week. They’re long sessions, three or four hours each. Whenever someone runs out for food, we all chip in a little extra so the runner doesn’t have to pay. Simple deal: “If you fly, I’ll buy.”

> About an hour into one session, one of the girls stretches and says she’s heading to Dunkin’ Donuts.

> Me: “Ooh, I’ll buy if you fly.”

> She stops mid-step and gives me this horrified look.

> Girl: “I don’t bring food to other people. Servants do that.”

The articulate reason for not bringing a cart is because their station in life is above menial work.

Regarding social capital, the story goes on and finishes with:

> The room goes dead silent.

> We’ve been doing this for weeks, with everyone taking turns, no big deal. But apparently, today, we’ve got royalty in our study group. She wondered why she was left out of any group meals after that…

Now imagine someone with money, who never had to clean up after others (and hires people to clean after themselves), and has little interaction with the working class. Why do you think they'll care about what the plebes think?
by bayindirh | 2025-11-18 11:39:36+00:00
Ubuntu's stable builds do not upgrade kernel and its close vicinity every week, AFAIK. I have a couple of servers with unattended updates enabled, and they do not greet me with "System Reboot Required" banner every week, and if that's required, the server is back with all services running <30 seconds.

OTOH, I upgraded my parents' PC yesterday, after three months of downtime. It really took at least two hours and four reboots. The machine was screaming and the task manager showed a blue rectangle for CPU load (uninterrupted 100%) and a green one for the disk load (again, uninterrupted 100%) while nothing was usable all the time.

Same process takes <10m in Linux (specifically Debian), and an optional reboot, without any hardware load drama.
by rkagerer | 2025-11-18 11:40:33+00:00
I noticed my local weather forecasts from Google search have gotten significantly less accurate these days.

Like, they consistenly called for freezing seasonal overnight lows many weeks before it was remotely probable. You'd get better predictions asking anyone who's lived here a couple years. In fairness, I'm in a region that's notoriously difficult to forecast, but the popular non-Google sources seem to be generating better predictions.

I wonder if the rollout of this new model is related (either occurred and made it worse, or will come and make it better).

I'd love to get some hard data. Are there any sites out there where you can compare past performance of different prediction models at a very localized scale?
by wolvesechoes | 2025-11-18 11:41:05+00:00
If it comes down to FOSS/freeware stuff I am actually quite fond of Windows ecosystem.

Foobar2k, Paint.NET, Notepad++, IrfanView, WizTree, Ditto, TotalCommander, NAPS2 etc.

Linux has many options for any of those, but I always had a feeling that those options have less polish, or are less stable, or their UI is an afterthought etc. On Windows you have basically a single option for each application that most people go for, so documentation and online help is plentiful.
by bigiain | 2025-11-18 11:41:06+00:00
I don't think it matters all that much. Any specific opinions are going to be more a natter of personal taste.

Get one aimed at rhythm/percussion, one that has some bass/lowend sounds, and something to make melodies.

I have a PO12, PO14, and PO16. If I was going to buy another one it'd be a toss up between the PO33 and the PO35. If I were starting from scratch I think I'd still get the PO14, I might get a PO24 or PO32 instead of the PO12, and I might get a PO28 instead of the 16. Or if said young middle schooler has access to sounds they can sample easily enough (like, say, Garageband on an iPad_ maybe jump straight to one of the sampling ones (PO33 or 35) for the lead/melody sounds.
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-11-18 11:41:31+00:00
The real formal procedure:

dy/dx = g(x)f(y)

Let h(y) = 1/f(y)

=> dy/dx = g(x)/h(y)

=> h(y) dy/dx = g(x)

Now, we integrate both sides,

int h(y) dy/dx dx = int g(x) dx

But the left hand side is the same as

int h(y) dy by substitution rule of integration.

Therefore,

int h(y) dy = int g(x) dx

Proceed with solving now, no abuse since the substitution rule is provable. QED
by jmaker | 2025-11-18 11:42:47+00:00
Yes this is definitely an extra layer of safety. Essentially, you get two attention systems to get you where you’re going. If the backup system fails and the driving system recognizes that attention deficit to stop and alert, you’re safer than if you only had a sleepy driving system.

Tesla auto steering disengages for the ride, and you get several strikes until it turns off for good without recourse, if you’re inattentive while the mode is engaged, and you need to touch the wheel quite frequently especially at night to confirm for the legal requirements, since the interior cam can’t see you clearly. I hate to have to pull the wheel slightly so frequently when it gets dark (when wearing glasses).
by pjc50 | 2025-11-18 11:42:59+00:00
He is, and so are a very large number of people associated with him.

That is not an exhaustive list. But people who want things to improve should also shut down their ability to confect scandals or distractions, like the "Obama tan suit" controversy. Once Americans have a reasonable selection of non-insane non-compromised candidates, things may get better. The election of Mamdani is a good start in that direction, because all the other (D) candidates were horribly compromised.
by zimpenfish | 2025-11-18 11:43:39+00:00
> nobody on the plane is going to carpool with other passengers they've never met

I would put a good $25 on there being almost zero flights in the world where every passenger has no relation to every other passenger (to the point where you'd need N individual cars to transport them.)

I'd add another $10 on top to bet that there isn't a situation where all of those passengers would refuse to get on a train / bus / coach with the others if the plane wasn't available.
by Joeboy | 2025-11-18 11:43:51+00:00
Well, there are some fairly obvious answers:

EA had a fairly easy time in the media for a while which probably made its "leadership" a bit careless. The EA foundation didn't start to seriously disassociate itself from SBF until the collapse of FTX made his fraudulent activity publicly apparent.

But mostly, people (especially rich people) fucking hate it when you tell them they could be saving lives instead of buying a slightly nicer house. That (it seems to me) is why eg. MOMA / Harvard / The British Museum etc get to accept millions of dollars of drug dealer money and come out unscathed, whereas "EA took money from somebody who was subsequently convicted of fraud" gets presented as a decisive indicator of EA's moral character. It's also, I think, the reason you seem to have ended up thinking EA is anti-tax and anti-USAID.

I feel like I need to say, there's also a whole thing about EA leadership being obsessed with AI risk, which (at least at the time) most people thought was nuts. I wasn't really happy with the amount of money (especially SBF money) that went into that, but a large majority of EA money was still going into very defensible life-saving causes.

Edit: I made a few edits, sorry
by rincebrain | 2025-11-18 11:44:01+00:00
If you have rearranged your budget so that 60% of it is provided by one source consistently, then you're not putting the 60% toward new programs, you're using it to finance the existing things everyone already expects of you.

And if you're using that to, say, avoid raising taxes to cover things like inflation or new projects, over time, the level of pain you're going to experience when you either have to make all those adjustments at once or, worse, if the income source is removed, gets worse and worse.

edit: in this case, specifically, it seems like the concern is that even the limited amounts of income from tech companies and knock-on effects from their employees is an enormous lifeline to Ireland's economy, and they're afraid of the rebound effects if it goes away.
by mistersquid | 2025-11-18 11:44:23+00:00
> "predicts" must be a variant of standard english which projects the past tense into the present tense because .. reasons?

Literary criticism and philosophy cast actions in and from recorded media in the "eternal present" (a term of art that should yield search results).

So, if Huxley (contemporary tense) wrote about a drug that resembles Adderall then a sentence cast in the eternal present would express "Huxley _writes_ about Soma in Brave New World which…".
by cassepipe | 2025-11-18 11:45:17+00:00
I am not sure what your point exactly is

The C.G suits were right as long as the digging operation is not too costly (the more shallow and concentrated the better)

Fossil fuels are nothing short of a miracle because they are so energy dense, but it's a slow poison and has high addictive power.

As long as we didn't (want to) know about negative externalities (chief among them CO2 and CH4) whose cost was borne by humanity, it was ok. Dirty but everyone seemed to think it was worth it.

The advantages of nuclear is not that it would be too cheap to meter (even though that becomes true with time because most of the price is upfront investment).

- It is that you can get energy independence even if you don't have uranium because it is so energy dense that you can just stockpile it. For example France could run its plants for 2 years with its current stockpile of uranium, and it only recycles around 10% of its fuel. Compare that with its oil needs, the oil stockpile would only last 3 months, probably less.

- It is CO2 free

Bonus: Nuclear industry is required to take of its waste products (which are only waste products insofar are we are too lazy/cheap to recycle them, else they are just more fuel)
by skrebbel | 2025-11-18 11:46:14+00:00
Random drive-by nitpick:

> From the beginning of the development, id had requested from djgpp engineers that their DPMI client would be able to run on djgpp's DPMI server but also Windows 95 DPMI server.

I'm pretty sure that "DJGPP engineers" is just one guy, DJ Delorie. DJGPP was always open source so I bet he got some contributors, but if the rest of this sentence is true that "id has requested from djgpp engineers", it just means they asked the maker of an open source tool they used to please add a feature. I wonder whether they paid him for it or whether DJ just hacked it all in at id's request for kicks. His "about me" page suggests he does contracting so might be the latter.

DJGPP was spectacularly good back in the day. I didn't appreciate at the time what a monumental effort it must have been to port the entire GCC toolchain and runtime to DOS/Windows. Hats off to DJ Delorie!
by goku12 | 2025-11-18 11:46:15+00:00
There are two ways in which that could happen. Someone entered that combination into the list without thinking it though. Or more likely, they use a self-learning or heuristic filter that finds the combination 'Linux' and 'Apple M1' unusual because of how rare it is. Either way, it's easier to assume a mistake here because such a dark pattern doesn't make any business sense - notwithstanding their ethical reputation.
by einpoklum | 2025-11-18 11:46:18+00:00
It seems Bard's Tale 3 can be played on the DosBox emulator:

https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=188&letter=B

... which is available for many platforms, including Windows and Linux:

https://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

although the latest version of DosBox seems to be from 2019, so maybe others can suggest a more actively-maintained emulator.
by germandiago | 2025-11-18 11:46:37+00:00
I think combining being realistic (for the sake of sanity) with being ambitious (for the sake of going beyond the average) is a good hotspot.

For one, it avoids the psychological traps of frustration if you keep it realistic.

The other good thing is you will not sit down complaining andnyou will put your time on something that is worth.

You can fail or succeed, but with that mindset I think things go, at least, psychologically better.

I am not convinced at all that becoming just comfy and a conformist in itself is more healthy.
by directevolve | 2025-11-18 11:47:23+00:00
The practice of effective altruism, as distinct from the EA movement, is good for our culture. If you have a lot of money or talent, please think critically about how to leverage it efficiently to make the world a better place.

Doing that doesn’t buy you personal virtue. It doesn’t excuse heinous acts. But within the bounds of ordinary standards of good behavior, try to do the most good you can with the talents and resources at your disposal.
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-11-18 11:48:14+00:00
I've been programming for well over a decade, but as a founder I wear many different hats so I had a front end developer to help take some of the load off.

But AI coding got to the point where, for me personally, it took less of my own time and effort to work directly with the AI (Claude Code) to do the front-end tasks required compared to working with the developer, reviewing their code, etc.

I'm not "vibe coding" or adding technical debt.

> you could have done it without the AI.

Technically anyone could do anything, but there are finite things in this world like the number of hours in a day lol

> according to studies.

Great, I don't care about the "studies". I'm talking about how things work for me personally in the real world and giving a concrete example of how AI spend has replaced an employee but you are welcome to ignore that

Also, it should be noted that in studies, the conclusions are typically based on an average or median, so some people will see a benefit, and some people won't... and that will be based on a number of factors
by ItsBob | 2025-11-18 11:48:54+00:00
I'm replying to you from Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC courtesy of massgravel (or massgrave... not sure wth it's actually called now!) and it's activated until 2038.

The only thing it didn't have out of the box that I wanted was Microsoft Store (so that I could install Winget and Terminal) but you install it from an elevated powershell command with "wsreset -i" and that's it done.

It also has the original version of Notepad, not that abomination with the tabs and Copilot!

Oh, no Copilot whatsoever in fact.

All the instructions for IoT (including where to get it... legitimately) are on the massgrave github page and website.

And before I am accused of sailing the high seas... I'm not! The activation script just activates complicated processes built-in to Windows: it doesn't "hack" it or anything!
by Dowwie | 2025-11-18 11:50:31+00:00
We have similar interests! I've been working on a DIY animatronic project that is mostly vibe-coded using Sonnet 4.5. It's my first electronics project. So far, I got the Ultrasonic Sensor to trigger led when object is less than 2 feet away. I set up a sound player and the components fried when I started the device. I have to redo all of the wiring for the sound setup again. I only have one of three sound modules that isn't bricked.

The comments in this thread reveal a community of parents who are aspiring builders of high tech devices for their children. I think this community need a discord.
by maybewhenthesun | 2025-11-18 11:50:43+00:00
Amen to that!

I think I remember there was some communication between ID and Charles Sandmann about CWSDPMI, so even though it's worded a bit strange for an open source project there's probably some thruth in it?

Also a bit strange how the author is surprised about Quake running in a 'VM', apparently they don't really know about VM86 mode in x86 processors...
by panny | 2025-11-18 11:50:50+00:00
With regard to plates...

https://www.businessinsider.com/waitress-on-tiktok-shows-dif...

With regard to carts, because they roll around, into cars, and cause damage. Leaving your cart loose in the lot is a great way to damage other people's vehicles. The first ding in my first new car was caused by a loose cart some asshole left in the lot while I was shopping.
by spapas82 | 2025-11-18 11:51:12+00:00
Cloudflare seems to have degrated performance. Half the requests for my site throw cloudflare 500x errors, the other half work fine.

However the https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ does not really mention anything relevant. What's the point of having a status page if it lies ?

Update Ah I just checked the status and now I get a big red warning (however the problem existed for like 15 minutes before 11:48 UTC):

> Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC
by lilyliao168 | 2025-11-18 11:51:28+00:00
SleepGen is an AI-powered content generation platform that creates personalized sleep stories and music. The platform generates illustrated bedtime stories for children and adults, complete with dynamic video animations, synchronized audio narration, and background music. Users can create stories in 6, 12, or 24-page formats, with AI-generated illustrations that match the narrative style. The platform also generates custom sleep music tracks with accompanying video visuals, ranging from 30 to 300 seconds in duration. All content is generated using advanced AI models for text, images, audio narration, and video production. The platform supports nine languages including English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic. Content can be downloaded in multiple formats including PDF e-books, video segments, and audio files. The service operates on a credit-based payment system where users purchase credits that never expire and can be used to generate stories or music at any time.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-18 11:52:05+00:00
> You cannot make 1000x the average persons wealth by acting morally. Except possibly winning the lottery.

The risk profile of early startup founders looks a lot like "winning the lottery", except that the initial investment (in terms of time, effort and lost opportunities elsewhere as well as pure monetary ones) is orders of magnitude higher than the cost of a lottery ticket. There's only a handful of successful unicorns vs. a whole lot of failed startups. Other contributors generally have a choice of sharing into the risk vs. playing it safe, and they usually pick the safe option because they know what the odds are. Nothing has been taken away from them.
by stavros | 2025-11-18 11:52:10+00:00
> As for whether this represents a "kafkaesque tragic absurdity" we would need intimate knowledge of a lifetime of financial decisions. Maybe she was really bad with money, and frittered it away in casinos. Maybe she was amazing with money, and donated to others more than will ever be donated to her.

As someone in a nation with socialised healthcare, no you don't. It's a Kafkaesque tragic absurdity, and this sentiment of "maybe she was bad with money" sounds a bit like "maybe she was holding the live hand grenade wrong".

The US is maybe the only developed nation where this happens, insurance exists because massively unlikely, massively expensive events are very hard to budget for. It's not the person's fault if they didn't manage that.
by lproven | 2025-11-18 11:52:11+00:00
> SCO Unix on a 25 MHz 386sx with 8 MB and another 6 MB on an add-in card

OK, SCO Xenix not SCO Unix, but I deployed production Xenix boxes with 4MB of RAM on 80386DX processors.

It ran well and supported 4-6 users no problem. As I recall, one customer had 8 users and they needed a RAM upgrade. I think, dimly now as this wasn't my department, it was eye-wateringly expensive. Something in the region of £5,000 to £6,000 (at the time, $10K+).

We did deploy one box with just 2 MB of RAM, but that didn't work well once a few users on terminals logged in. They had to upgrade the RAM.

FWIW these were 32-bit 386 machines, but with no CPU cache – the lower-end IBM PS/2 Model 80 variants of the time, with 16 MHz and 20 MHz CPUs. (The top-end 25MHz Model 70 had a small SRAM cache for the CPU. It cost over £10,000 with no screen, keyboard or mouse, and my Acorn Archimedes A310, which cost me £800, absolutely smoked it: it was about 4x as fast.)

That's when I knew Arm would eventually eat x86: in 1989. It's finally happening now.

But I was running PC DOS and DOS software in a window on my ARM desktop in 1989, in pure software emulation, and it was sluggish but usable. CPU was equivalent to a 2-2.5 MHz 8086, but disk performance was better than a screaming fast SCSI disk, so it balanced out.
by robotfelix | 2025-11-18 11:52:41+00:00
> Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

> Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available.

Things are back up (a second time) for me.

Cloudflare have updated their status page now to reflect the problems now. It doesn’t sound like they are confident the problem is fully fixed yet.

Edit: and down again a third time!
by loadbalancer | 2025-11-18 11:53:31+00:00
We've been using Polaris for the Loadbalancer.org GSLB for a few years now, and we've found it fast and stable. Its so simple its never needed any updates:

https://www.loadbalancer.org/blog/gslb-why-global-server-loa...

Although we did patch a dynamic health check a while back, which will be open source of course. But I'll get someone to check if we actually gave it back to the community or not...
by amiga386 | 2025-11-18 11:53:46+00:00
I can't speak for medical equipment, but lab equipment in testing labs (including the ones in hospitals) needs to be calibrated correctly and run exactly to the vendor's specifications. They will continue to sign off on old hardware they continue to support, even if it's actually a Pentium 3 running Windows 95 with the expensive lab device attached via the parallel port.

If you try and switch out the host computer to something newer, the software may or may not work, but you will definitely fail your audits for changing software without the vendor's approval.

For their part, the vendor supports you buying the new version of their device for a few million quid and it now runs via USB attached to a Windows 10 computer running their proprietary software.
by imtringued | 2025-11-18 11:54:37+00:00
>I don't program in Rust, but I imagine I'd rarely get into that situation.

Are you sure? Isn't having data be local to a thread the most common situation, with data sharing being the exception?

>Or, the data is linked globally in a data structure and the only way to access it safely is by knowing exactly what you're doing and what the other threads are doing.

That's exactly what the borrow checker does. It tracks how many mutable references you have to your data structure at compile time. This means you can be sure what is local and what is shared.

Meanwhile without the borrow checker you always have to assume there is a remote probability that your mental model is wrong and that everything goes wrong anyways. That's mentally exhausting. If something goes wrong, it is better to only have to check the places where you know things can go wrong, rather than the entire code base.
by nl | 2025-11-18 11:54:56+00:00
I think Yvon Chouinard has acted morally throughout his career. His net reported wealth was $3B before he gave his company to the trust he created.

He's far from the only example.

I understand the distribution of wealth. I agree that in the US in particular it is setup to exploit poor people.

I don't think being rich is immoral.