MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lorenzleutgeb | 2025-11-18 22:55:47+00:00
What this is trying to say: - "peers": participants in the network are peers, i.e. both ends of a connection run the same code, in contrast to a client-and-server architecture, where both sides often run pretty different code. To exemplify: The code GitHub's servers run is very different from the code that your IDE with Git integration runs. - "replicated across peers": the Git objects in the repository, and "social artifacts" like discussions in issues and revisions in patches, is copied to other peers. This copy is kept up to date by doing Git fetches for you in the background. - "in a decentralized manner": Every peer/node in the network gets to locally decide which repositories they intend to replicate, i.e. you can talk to your friends and replicate their cool projects. And when you first initialize a repository, you can decide to make it public (which allows everyone to replicate it), or private (which allows a select list of nodes identified by their public key to replicate). There's no centralized authority which may tell you which repositories to replicate or not.

I do realize that we're trying to pack quite a bit of information in this sentence/tagline. I think it's reasonably well phrased, but for the uninitiated might require some "unpacking" on their end.

If we "lost you" on that tagline, and my explanation or that of hungariantoast (which is correct as well) helped you understand, I would appreciate if you could criticize more constructively and suggest a better way to introduce these features in a similarly dense tagline, or say what else you would think is a meaningful but short explanation of the project. If you don't care to do that, that's okay, but Radicle won't be able to improve just based on "you lost me there".

In case you actually understood the sentence just fine and we "lost you" for some other reason, I would appreciate if you could elaborate on the reason.
by margalabargala | 2025-11-18 22:55:55+00:00
That's not true. Charitable organizations are just one of many groups that qualify as a 501c3.

Groups dedicated to scientific, literary or educational purposes also quality.

The reason this is a problem is that Rebble is using their being a "non-profit" as a point of advertisement but there is essentially no difference between someone owning a for-profit company, and someone controlling and heading a non-profit company where they set their own salary and are not a 501c3.
by realsarm | 2025-11-18 22:55:58+00:00
> particularly following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, has led to a significant decline in labor demand for certain occupations in the United States. Specifically, job postings for roles with high vulnerability to AI substitution dropped by an average of 12% between late 2022 and mid-2025, with the impact intensifying to 18% by the third year post-launch

I'm pretty it can grow up 30% with robotics comming up..
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-11-18 22:56:13+00:00
Not sure what you mean here, but the only real jobs at risk from AI right now are middle/upper management.

Not a single engineer has ever been laid off because of AI. Any company claiming this is the case is trying to cover up bad decisions.

"Were automating with AI" sounds better to investors than "We over hired and now need to downsize" or "We made some bad market bets, now need to free up cash flow"
by palmotea | 2025-11-18 22:56:30+00:00
> An automotive engineer in Detroit in 1960 was a globally competitive worker because most of his counterparts in other countries were either dead, disabled or their companies bankrupt.

> The equivalent in today's world would be aerospace engineers, AI researchers, quantum engineers, robotics engineers, etc who arguably have the same standard of living as the automotive engineer in 1960s Detroit.

You know were not really talking about top-end positions like automotive engineers in Detroit in 1960. I think we're talking more about automotive factory workers in Detroit in 1960.

> Economic and technological standards evolve - societies should invest in human capital to evolve with them or risk stagnation.

You need to be more explicit about how you think things should be for the common man.
by smeej | 2025-11-18 22:56:34+00:00
The "will learn to avoid you" part is what I was getting at in my warning at the end. This only gets you through a few interactions.

The point of small talk is to get to medium talk. It's not directionless. Medium talk just means you've found a topic that both of you are interested in enough to talk about it for five to ten minutes without getting bored. That you both know the host is one of the few things it's culturally safe to assume anymore. Both of you met the host doing something you like well enough to associate with a person you met doing that thing when you're not doing that thing, so if either of those things happen to be an appropriate subject for medium talk, great. Now you're out of small talk and just "talking to this person I just met at this party about a thing we both like." If you're lucky, it's something you both actually like a lot, and then you have a basis for large talk, and large talk opens the door to casual friendship.

If you don't happen to draw a medium or large talk topic out of the gate, that's when you poke around the edges of the small talk, looking for things that could be fodder for medium talk. If you try looking for three or four and aren't getting anywhere, you've still filled the appropriate 5-10 minutes not to seem like a jerk, and now you need a snack, or a drink, and a new conversation partner.

It helps a lot if you're genuinely interested in a wide variety of things, enough that you can ask intelligent questions about them, because it increases the likelihood that you can find a shared interest with this person you've just met. That's not just "attentive listening." It's "finding out why someone cares about something interesting to them because you sincerely want to know."

If the other person isn't engaging with you at all, isn't trying to find one of these topics with you, they actually just don't want to talk to you. That's how people communicate this. It's not usually personal. They haven't known you long enough for it to be really personal. They may not even consciously realize they don't want to talk to you, but it's still true, and you're doing them a favor when you recognize that and excuse yourself.
by jitix | 2025-11-18 22:57:05+00:00
> How were they supposed to predict things would change and agitate for something different without the hindsight you enjoy?

By comparing themselves to their counterparts in other countries. By 1955 there should have been alarm bells ringing as Europe re-industrialized. Same with 70s oil crisis but the best that US could do was to cripple Japan with Plaza Accords.

Americans even now have a mindset that nothing exists beyond their borders, one could assume it was worse back then.

> Exactly why do you think it is it unnatural?

Because only two industrialized countries were left standing after WW2 and those two countries enjoyed unnatural growth until others caught up - first the historical powers in Europe then Asia.
by CrulesAll | 2025-11-18 22:58:30+00:00
As opposed to figuratively.

"If you were to remove all the illegal immigrants right now from the US" The wage levels and benefits would have to rise to meet the demand for labor. The US would also have to sort out its education and trades system too. But if you think this is a skills shortage, I've got a bridge to sell you. And by the way, you are economically libertarian and on the same side as Trump. Bringing in an Indian to do the same job as an American citizen for half the wage is not a skill shortage, it's crony capitalism.

"housing would be among the first markets to collapse functionally" Poe's Law. You'd have a massive supply in housing, and therefore a collapse in the prices to owning a house. It has nothing to do with '08.

"f you are uncertain how important that market is, study the Great Recession of 2008." The great recession(It was a depression. I'd suggest studying definitions) was caused by three things: President Clinton scrapping Glass-Steagall Act, the dam set up after the Great Depression of '29 to stop it happening again. President Clinton signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. Credit default swaps were the nukes of '08. Clinton exempted CDSs from regulation!! President Clinton rewrote the Community Reinvestment Act forcing banks and lending institutions to give NINJA loans under the charge of racism(see commentator above) if they did not. He also signed NAFTA allowing cheap labor and material into the US, and allowing companies to move South. (see Ross Perot great sucking sound) He also brought China into the WTO devastating not just America, but the entire West.
by pndy | 2025-11-18 22:58:31+00:00
I tried two different instances and two different accounts, following people and really extensive post filtering and it still happen.

Also no matter if content was filtered or not, three different applications on iOS and Android were crashing after trying to scroll through streams - local and federated. I guess it was because of that trash overload.

It's not like I don't like mastodon, fediverse - on contrary, it's an amazing idea. I had really nice conversations there for a while - till people drop their masks.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-18 22:58:43+00:00
The anti-Electron meme is a vocal minority who don’t realize they’re a vocal minority. It’s over represented on Hacker News but outside of HN and other niches, people do not care what’s under the hood. They only care that it works and it’s free.

I used Visual Studio Code across a number of machines including my extremely underpowered low-spec test laptop. Honestly it’s fine everywhere.

Day to day, I use an Apple Silicon laptop. These are all more than fast enough for a smooth experience in Visual Studio Code.

At this point the only people who think Electron is a problem for Visual Studio Code either don’t actually use it (and therefore don’t know what they’re talking about) or they’re obsessing over things like checking the memory usage of apps and being upset that it could be lower in their imaginary perfect world.
by skydhash | 2025-11-18 22:58:45+00:00
> many non-Electron full IDEs

VSCode has even less features than Emacs, OOTB. Complaining about full IDEs slowness is fully irrelevant here. Full IDEs provide an end to end experience in implementing a project. Whatever you need, it's there. I think the only plugins I've installed on Jetbrains's ones is IdeaVim and I've never needed something else for XCode.

It's like complaining about a factory's assembly line, saying it's not as portable as the set of tools in your pelican case.
by Uehreka | 2025-11-18 22:59:35+00:00
> Now I want to look into it more, but I'd imagine that "Blackbody" and sky generation nodes might still assume a linear sRGB working space.

Since people are always asking for “real world examples”, I have to point out this is a great place to use an agent like Claude Code or Codex. Clone the source, have your coding assistant run its /init routine to survey the codebase and get a lay of the land, then turn “thinking” to max and ask it “Do the Blackbody attribute for volumes and the sky generation nodes still expect to be working in linear sRGB? Or do they take advantage of the new ACES 2.0 support? Analyze the codebase, give examples and cite lines of code to support your conclusions.”

The best part: I’m probably wrong to assert that linear sRGB and ACES 2.0 are some sort of binary, but that’s exactly the kind of knowledge a good coding agent will have, and it will likely fold an explanation of the proper mental model into its response.
by kragen | 2025-11-18 22:59:52+00:00
It's not minor at all. For a ground-source heat pump to work at all, you need to sink the pipes deep enough that the soil temperature is pretty stable year-round, which means the heat it can exchange with the aboveground air is minor or insignificant. So the vast majority of heat flux into or out of that soil is due to the heat exchange fluid circulating in the pipes.

After a few years of pumping heat out of the ground below the frost line during the winter, they'll freeze the ground solid and stop working (and possibly destroy the foundation of the house in the process, since often the pipes are installed in trenches around the house).

The only exception is if they're one of these few borderline systems that drill so deep they really are bringing up fresh energy from the depths, like some of the systems mentioned in the article.
by judahmeek | 2025-11-18 23:00:10+00:00
> Within a minute Gemini 3 via Gemini CLI had picked up major architectural performance issue. I had it write it to a doc, had Codex review it, codex pushed back saying it's a non issue. Gave the pushback to Gemini 3, and it was insistent. Fed that back to codex and it completely caved, agreed, and pointed out that yes, it's a major issue, yes we need to deal with it right now in this stage of implementation, and yes the entire plan that Gemini 3 produced is rock solid.

Anecdotally, this means nothing, especially if you're basically saying that Gemini 3 in Codex CLI was arguing with Gemini 3 in Gemini CLI. Unless the CLI choice modifies the maximum effective context window or temperature, you're basically saying that you got lucky because RNG led you to choosing the option that worked out for you in the end.

Do you even have evidence that the "major architectural performance issue" actually was a "major architectural performance issue"?
by thway15269037 | 2025-11-18 23:00:14+00:00
Isn't it the whole point of current AI environment? "We can't, we shouldn't, yet we did and look at our stock".

I won't bet anything at it but the whole thing, the whole AI economy looks like a big YOLO, so taking another step further into this insanity is, well, just another step. Who knows, maybe next day Beff Jezos will IPO newly established company and somehow pull 1T IPO in 10 days of company existence. Wouldn't it be a sight?
by bionsystem | 2025-11-18 23:00:43+00:00
It does happen that the engine doesn't immediately see that a line is best, but that's getting very rare those days. It was funny in certain positions a few years back to see the engine "change its mind" including in older games where some grandmaster found a line that was particularly brilliant, completely counter-intuitive even for an engine, AND correct.

But mostly what happens is that a move isn't so good, but it isn't so bad either, and as the computer will tell you it is sub-optimal, a human won't be able to refute it in finite time and his practical (as opposed to theoretical) chances are reduced. One great recent example of that is Pentala Harikrishna's recent queen sacrifice in the world cup, amazing conception of a move that the computer say is borderline incorrect, but leads to such complications and a very uncomfortable position for his opponent that it was practically a great choice.
by CrulesAll | 2025-11-18 23:00:56+00:00
There was no reply button. No it's definitely a True Scotsman. When you cherry pick what authority to quote, and therefore imply it's the only true position to have, it's a true Scotsman. Your next line affirms this.

"My implication is that the person I am responding to is ignorant of the state of the law, " And now you've moved onto the Courtier's reply.
by reify | 2025-11-18 23:01:39+00:00
clever bastards at Harvard have got fuck all better to do with their time.

The chapters:

The calorie equation Genetic influences How much of your weight depends on your genes? What are thrifty genes? Environmental causes of obesity The food factor as one of the causes of obesity The exercise equation The trouble with TV: Sedentary snacking Stress and related issues

I am a bit disappointed that there is no mention of food being squirted out of machines in factories having a negative impact on obesity.
by 1220512064 | 2025-11-18 23:01:45+00:00
Display P3 (distinct from cinema display P3, because names are hard ig) is used as a render target color space. ACES (and its internal color spaces) are designed as working spaces.

If you make a color space for a display, the intent is that you can (eventually) get a display which can display all those colors. However, given the shape of the human color gamut, you can't choose three color primaries which form a triangle which precisely contain the human color gamut. With a display color space, you want to pick primaries which live inside the gamut; else you'd be wasting your display on colors that people can't see. For a working space, you want to pick primaries which contain the entire human color gamut, including some colors people can't see (since it can be helpful when rendering to avoid clipping).

Beyond that, ACES isn't just one color space; it's several. ACEScg, for example, uses a linear transfer function, and is useful for rendering applications. A colorist would likely transform ACEScg colors into ACEScc (or something of that ilk) so that the response curves of their coloring tools are closer to what they're used it (i.e. they have a logarithmic response similar to old-fashioned analogue telecine machines).
by bluGill | 2025-11-18 23:02:13+00:00
sure he defined it. However what he defined is not what anything is based on or is so it isn't nearly as useful a term as supporters like to think.

clasical liberalism is a lot more complex than what he defined, and that is the system most of us live in. Calling it capitalism is wrong, as is thinking ecconomics based on that term matters much in the real world
by glenstein | 2025-11-18 23:02:27+00:00
It is not an unfair filter to (correctly!) note that I specifically accounted for this and agreed with it.

I said:

"I do agree that things like EA and Libertarianism have to answer for the in-the-wild proponents they tend to attract"

"I think social dynamics are real and must be answered for"

"I will never take a proponent of The Bell Curve seriously who tries to say they're "just following the data", because I do hold them and the book responsible for their social and cultural entanglements"

In the face of that, you're trying to claim that I'm ignoring "social indicators as a valid heuristic."

That's not true and no amount of projection or character attacks can make it true. These are verbatim quotes from both of us. You're attempting to present a point I agree with as if it's a new unacknowledged critique.

Meanwhile, when I say the subject matter of a belief system matters for its content, you don't engage with it but reply to me by re-asserting the point I agree with as if it does the work of responding to me. No amount of social signalling takes the place of evaluating intellectual content on its merits and saying "intellectual content matters" is not a denial of the importance of social signalling.
by decimalenough | 2025-11-18 23:02:44+00:00
This slide from their investor preso is bonkers. $10B revenue today, but we promise we'll get to $166B in revenue in 5 years, by the simple expedient of growing 75% every year for five years!

https://d9j0pm70mrv84f.archive.is/Qdf2n/baa236e2a4d94d45fe93...
by lopatin | 2025-11-18 23:03:17+00:00
I agree that it's all money.

That's why it's always DNS right?

> No one wants to pay for resilience/redundancy

These companies do take it seriously, on the software side, but when it comes to configurations, what are you going to do:

Either play it by ear, or literally double your cloud costs for a true, real prod-parallel to mitigate that risk. It looks like even the most critical and prestigious companies in the world are doing the former.
by vbsd | 2025-11-18 23:03:54+00:00
> A simple example where 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 is ℤ₂, the group of integers modulo 2 under addition.

That’s a good example of an algebra where 1 + 1 + 1 = 1, but the article is specifically about systems where in addition to that condition, this second condition is also true: 1 + 1 != 0 (not equal!). ℤ₂ is not an example of that.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-18 23:03:58+00:00
It's funny that you point out Japanese companies as the actually worthwhile minivans. You're not pointing out the shitwagons dumped out there by Ford, Dodge and Chevy that were the bulk of the market. I remember the Astrovans being especially bad. There was a lot of stumbling around by US makers switching over to things like fuel injections and electronic controls. A lot of this left some amount of consumer dislike to particular brand names. Then when you add that SUV/Crossovers started showing up when manufacturing of cars had improved greatly these new models were more apt to be considered quality it made a big difference.
by dgroshev | 2025-11-18 23:04:06+00:00
Same, but I don't think it's possible without a large and sustained investment into a free geometric modelling kernel, which can probably be only done by a government.

Parasolid is powering practically every major CAD system. Its development started in 1986 and it's still actively developed. The amount of effort that goes into those things is immense (39 years of commercial development!) and I don't believe it can be done pro-bono in someone's spare time. What's worse, with this kind of software there is no "graceful degradation": while something like a MIP solver can be useful even if it's quite a bit slower than Gurobi, a kernel that can't model complex lofts and fillets is not particularly useful.

3D CAD is much harder than Blender and less amenable to open source development.
by jongjong | 2025-11-18 23:04:22+00:00
I was poor and recognizable in a tiny niche related to open source tools and 100% this was true. The recognition creates envy and ambitious people invest extra effort to sabotage you... Often, people who are rich see you as a threat and go all out war on you... And you don't have any buffer or support so you have to be 10x better just to stay afloat. Convincing people to work with you is much harder since you can't offer them any money and must offer pure equity... And your reputation, which fades over time, is the only thing that makes such equity potentially valuable.

OP has the problem that his product is much more well known than he is. That's probably why he is not richer. Though at least his product is a mainstream brand by now. He can get recognition by association once he does the reveal "I'm the guy who created Mastodon" this creates opportunities... Though perhaps not as big opportunities as one may think. It depends on the degree of control he has over the product. In general, with open source or other community-oriented products, the control is limited.
by bitwize | 2025-11-18 23:04:23+00:00
Did Microsoft seriously deprecate BitBlt and 2D draw calls?

If so, it seems as if Windows is undergoing a Waylandization. "Yeah, we went ahead and removed those because they're legacy. Modern rendering pipelines don't work that way anymore." I don't WANT a rendering pipeline! I want a surface, and to make calls to scribble on it! That's it!