MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xrd | 2025-11-12 22:01:24+00:00
Fascinating stuff.

For some reason, this reminds me the way video encoders compress video:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression_picture_type...

It makes me wonder if you could use a similar technique (iframes, bframes or pframes) to get the diff of a "normal" WSI and then train on pattern recognition of those.

These different frames are used to reduce network transmission costs, but it feels similar to the context window if you squint at it as a throughput problem rather than a context window size problem.

It feels like there would be a lot of tools and codecs you could leverage here.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-11-12 22:01:47+00:00
Actually yeah 12k a year better be really really good, because that can get you a lot of quality human. At 12k per year and $100/hour, that gets you 120 hours of time which means you get ~20 minutes per day, on average. Or if you get down to $33 an hour it's an hour a day.
by mattmaroon | 2025-11-12 22:02:17+00:00
Yeah again, this is all a cartoon. Cops everywhere now have body cameras on nearly all the time. Freedom of speech gives us the right to video them and they can barely do anything in public anymore without five people doing so. Contempt of cop beatings still exist sometimes I’m sure, everywhere, but it’s hardly a thing most people are exposed to. If we were having this discussion in 1975 I’d grant you this point, it’s dramatically reduced now.

I was prosecuted for a misdemeanor when I was 18 and broke. I got a free lawyer (as the constitution says) who did a great job and the whole thing was over in a month. I was not rich. I don’t know what TV shows make you think our government is just locking people up willy nilly, it isn’t. (Our drug laws lock a lot of people up, but they aren’t that different or more draconian than most places, just the number of people who do drugs is, and there are countries that execute people for drug offenses that are misdemeanors here.)

The government cannot pass a law to criminalize you, criminalizing things is never retroactive. I assume by the slavery thing you mean prison labor. That actually is in the constitution, and is crazy. We’re working on it. Same with asset forfeiture.

The idea that because we have some areas in which we are less free than other countries we are less free in total is ridiculous. The fact that you say things like “Americans don’t have due process” is a strong indicator of internalized propaganda.

And I’m not some flag waving patriot American Exceptionalist by any means, I’ve traveled quite a bit more than most. But the one thing we do best is individual liberties. It’s why we’re where we are in the grand scheme of human history and Canada is basically just our suburb enjoying all of the benefits (national security with next to no defense budget, unlimited free trade a short truck ride away) while avoiding the cost.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-12 22:02:21+00:00
A Brain Reward Circuit Inhibited By Next-Generation Weight Loss Drugs - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628169v1.... | https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.12.628169 - December 17rd, 2024

Glucagon-like peptide 1 agonist and effects on reward behaviour: A systematic review - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003193842... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114622 - Physiology & Behavior Volume 283, 1 September 2024, 114622

GLP-1 for Addiction: the Medical Evidence for Opioid, Nicotine, and Alcohol Use Disorder - https://recursiveadaptation.com/p/the-growing-scientific-cas... - May 14th, 2024

The central GLP-1: implications for food and drug reward - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/1... | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2013.00181 - Front. Neurosci., October 13th, 2013
by klipklop | 2025-11-12 22:02:23+00:00
It's easy to be seated on a moral high horse when it's politically convenient for them. The UK had no problems just a few years ago blowing up ISIS arms dealers in Syria that had nothing to do with their country. At least in this case the drugs are en route to the US to directly harm it. The harm those drugs cause to the US is massive.

I know that saying "well they did crime X" is not a good argument, I am just pointing out how silly it all is.
by donut_rider | 2025-11-12 22:03:15+00:00
You could, you know, just Google it: https://waymo.com/safety/impact/. TLDR ~90% reduction of serious injury compared with human drivers.

Now, before you say this peer-reviewed paper is corporate propaganda, all self-driving companies are required by law to disclose accidents they are involved in, whether liable or not, in CA. You could access each raw accident report published by the CA DMV periodically and come up with your own statistics.
by antegamisou | 2025-11-12 22:03:17+00:00
[Someone from the moderation team care to explain the reasoning behind flagging this comment?]

Your judgement concerning the state of the website since the release of GPT3 is flawed. Just take a look at the amount of comments on non-AI topics like the current one. Not counting yours truly, it's a very low volume conversation for a website for the discussion of stories that are intellectually interesting.
by mike-cardwell | 2025-11-12 22:03:38+00:00
This works for me:

FROM python:3-slim RUN python3 -m pip --no-cache-dir install 'yt-dlp[default]' RUN apt-get update \ && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --no-install-recommends -q -y ffmpeg curl unzip \ && curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh -o /tmp/deno.sh \ && sh /tmp/deno.sh -y \ && mv /root/.deno/bin/deno /usr/local/bin/ \ && rm --force --recursive /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* ENTRYPOINT ["yt-dlp"]
by cyanydeez | 2025-11-12 22:04:18+00:00
I've got an ASUS Vivo watch and it measures a transit pulse index and that's supposed to correlate with blood pressure. It needs to be recalibrated frequently and seems good enough.

But when you look at everyone's experience with blood pressure, it actually seems like it's BP that's just not reliable and a better type of measurement would be helpful.
by ahachete | 2025-11-12 22:04:46+00:00
> and technically you can also use ZFS on Linux, even if it's painful

Maybe on some distros, but on Ubuntu is just an `apt-get install` away, or can be even be added from installation time. I've been using it for many years without any issues and the experience is great.

I actually combine some non-ZFS filesystems with ZFS with encryption and compression for all my setups, including my laptop. I plan to blog shortly about it and how I'm automating it all. Target is also a Framework laptop, too.
by jsheard | 2025-11-12 22:05:02+00:00
Apple could but they're not interested in non-native games, they want native ports or nothing. As I discussed a few posts over, Apple went to the trouble of developing a DirectX compatibility layer, but then told game developers they're not allowed to use it for anything besides evaluating whether their game would run well enough on Mac hardware. If they go ahead with a port then Apple still expects them to do it all the hard way.

It's textbook "perfect is the enemy of good" because yeah, compatibility layers have overhead, native is better, but if you insist on native everything but can't get devs on board then you just end up with no games.
by leobuskin | 2025-11-12 22:05:11+00:00
A lot of people use LLM subscriptions, they don't use API keys. Why devtool devs continue to ignore this? I mean, ok, you have your "pricing" reselling an access to LLM models, that's the only, probably, simple way to monetize it, but it's a bad way in 2025, seriously. Allow me to bring my oauth with claude max, and/or offload whatever you do to my local claude code (or if there's some magic behind orchestration use SDK). And, oops, there's nothing to monetize and the entire thing can be recreated with vibe coding within a few weeks (it's not so much there, let's be honest).

I apologize for the writing style, don't take it personally, just every devtool product I see on HN nowadays fails for this particular reason.
by sally_glance | 2025-11-12 22:06:12+00:00
Thanks for the response! Refreshing to hear that it can actually work - I think the main difference between your setup and mine might be that I actually needed the mesh because I had bulbs in behind a couple of steel concrete walls. I installed always-on Zigbee outlets thinking that bulbs would route over those but never actually got around to debugging why they didn't.

Currently I'm also mostly on Tasmota-powered Athom bulbs. They work well, but after not powering them on for longer timeframes (presumably after their internal battery or whatever runs out) they forget my wifi and switch to setup.

After these experiences I'll probably go with dumb bulbs and smart switches/relays for our new apartment. Still keeping an eye on the market and open for recommendations though, mainly because I like being able to control light color through HA.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-12 22:06:16+00:00
> What I'm saying is that using gigawatts of power for "AI" in this day and age is madness

Why? American datacentres--of all types--use about 250 TWh per year, with another 500 TWh additional capacity expected by 2030 [1]. American paper manufacturing used about that much energy in 2018 [2].

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-demand-from...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/industry.p... 2,491tn BTUs ~ 730 TWh
by easyThrowaway | 2025-11-12 22:06:27+00:00
I literally recorded an album using Ableton Live 8 (or 9?) and a bunch of synth VSTs on an Acer One netbook, with an AMD C-50 CPU and 4GB of RAM and a 128GB ssd internal drive.

It had amazing performance for its size at the time...that is, until the absolutely underpowered fan was unable to cool it down and it would inevitably shut down. Or the battery would die after just half an hour of usage.

Once it melted, I tested a few atom-based netbooks and general performance was abysmal, mostly due to the 5400rpm hard drive they almost universally sported at the time.

Moved to a polycarbonate 2010 macbook. Of course, it was four time the price of the aforementioned Acer netbook. But that thing is still trucking to this day, still retaining nearly 80% of the original battery charge.
by elxr | 2025-11-12 22:06:37+00:00
I wonder if there's examples of whole product architectures done in Prolog, seems like an elegant solution if done right. I've been looking for a concise way to model full architectures of my various projects, without relying on having a typical markdown file.

Which is separate from the actual types in the code.

Which is separate from the deployment section of the docs.
by manquer | 2025-11-12 22:07:07+00:00
I don’t think it is only that consideration

While Gross margins numbers are estimates vary widely, 40-60% numbers some analysts throw around seems realistic.

In an equity only company that is good enough metric , but all the major players have long since now transitioned to also raising debt.

The debt would need to be serviced even if fresh training investments stopped fully .

The cost of debt servicing would depend on the interest rates and the economy etc inaddition to the risk of the debt itself.

Quite possible that model companies would need to jack prices even with good gross margins to handle their debt load.
by to11mtm | 2025-11-12 22:07:23+00:00
I get you actually.

MVC churn was real, EF Churn was real, heck NETCORE itself was a (at least warned about) churn, 3.1->6.0 was minor but still definitely a thing [0].

[0] - Now that I'm thinking it out loud, maybe that's why they changed the branding from .NET CORE to just .NET; The churn was more or less 'done'...
by donatj | 2025-11-12 22:07:28+00:00
I've got a ridiculous question, but hear me out.

Pennies have more zinc in them than they are worth, right?

Did the penny have any sort of stabling force against inflation… a sort of "Zinc Standard" as it were?

Civil libertarians are always talking about how moving away from gold coins, and later moving away from the gold standard that backed the non-gold coins is the root of inflation.

If gold can have such an effect, why not zinc?
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-12 22:07:50+00:00
I think of pricing and packaging as a separate lever than product. Yes, if a big brand copies a solution and the one-time pricing and packaging -- they will take some of that group away.

The issue is that many times the company would LOSE existing revenue and that's often a non-starter during planning.

If your one-time price is $49.99, and their existing monthly fee is $19.99 per month, they're not going to offer a $49.99 option. It would harm their core business too much.
by drnick1 | 2025-11-12 22:08:36+00:00
It's time to stop buying such games and send game studios a signal that we won't tolerate rootkits and/or closed platforms. Anti-cheats should run server-side, or better yet, servers should be community-operated. I would probably bought BF6, but since I exclusively use Arch, EA lost a sale -- too bad for them there are thousands of other games that work flawlessly on Linux.
by otterley | 2025-11-12 22:08:42+00:00
Respectfully, it doesn’t matter the way it “seems,” it matters what is. They were collecting these logs, and as soon as they got the preservation order, they disabled deletion functionality and notified their customers of that.

There is a separate higher-tier private API customers can pay for that never had logging enabled, and the court did not force the company to add it.
by aeonfox | 2025-11-12 22:08:46+00:00
Competent people do pass the filter, but what Leetcode interviews do filter out are people with a shred of creativity who just won't submit themselves to the drudgery of studying useless crap for an interview – the kind of people who need purpose to always align with work or part of them dies. Avoiding these people is great for a company that's all about boosting it's ad revenue, and also great for the applicant who dodged a bullet.
by NobodyNada | 2025-11-12 22:09:04+00:00
> There's a "logical" bit order that these operations follow, which starts with the MSBit and ends with the LSBit

Well, normally when bits are numbered, "bit 0" is the least significant bit. The MSB is usually written on the left, (such as for left and right shifts), but that doesn't necessarily make it "first" in my mind.
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 22:09:31+00:00
I am not going back through months worth of YouTube history to satisfy people have insinuated that I have been lying on a claim that isn't even that controversial. I mainly watch car and canal boats videos these days and don't bother with tech stuff outside of security and home lab bits and pieces.

I was trying to find videos palatable to someone that is interested and just wants to run something reliable instead of Windows. I didn't find any.

> The point we're making in this thread is that we aren't seeing the same things you are, and it's highly likely that whatever comments you're thinking about are not representative of the kinds of opinions people in tech hold.

Linux cringe is a thing that been a complaint for a while. That why people do copy-pasta of the GNU\Linux stuff, the "programmer socks" meme, "I run arch BTW" and there is the infamous dropbox post made on here back in 2008.

Most people that don't exist in online world, find all of this very weird and off putting.
by kragen | 2025-11-12 22:10:30+00:00
I don't understand what this means, although I've read the whole thread. Does this mean people won't be able to use Homebrew to compile software from source (and run it)? Does it mean that they'll be able to use Homebrew to compile software from source, but not download prebuilt binaries (and run them)? Does it mean that they'll be able to download prebuilt binaries, but only run them if they're built by a developer that Apple has blessed?

I do understand that the effect is only to make Intel Macs adopt the same behavior ARM64 Macs already had, but I don't understand what that behavior is.

I see that someone named andrewmcwatters has posted a [dead] reply to my comment that doesn't answer my questions, just repeating the same jargon from the bug report that I don't know the meaning of.
by runako | 2025-11-12 22:10:45+00:00
There should be a tenure element to power access. The reductio is a well-funded adversary should not be able to buy all the power in a region just because they are able to pay more.

Our utilities are generally regulated, and have some mandate to provide power to residents. If a datacenter creates a sudden dislocation in the demand for power that causes massive unplanned CapEx by the utility, what is the argument in favor of longtime residents having to pay for that CapEx?
by rpdillon | 2025-11-12 22:10:53+00:00
My observation is that section does not articulate any harm. It _claims_ harm, but doesn't actually explain what the harm is. Reduced profits? Lower readership? All they say is "OpenAI violated our copyrights, and we deserve money."

> 167. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ infringing conduct alleged herein, The Times has sustained and will continue to sustain substantial, immediate, and irreparable injury for which there is no adequate remedy at law. Unless Defendants’ infringing conduct is enjoined by this Court, Defendants have demonstrated an intent to continue to infringe the copyrighted works. The Times therefore is entitled to permanent injunctive relief restraining and enjoining Defendants’ ongoing infringing conduct. > 168. The Times is further entitled to recover statutory damages, actual damages, restitution of profits, attorneys’ fees, and other remedies provided by law.

They're simply claiming harm, nothing more. I want to see injuries, scars, and blood if there's harm. As far as I can tell, the NYT was on the ropes long before AI came along. If they could actually articulate any harm, they wouldn't need to read through everyone's chats.
by superkuh | 2025-11-12 22:12:04+00:00
It may be Apple policy to prevent users from doing what they want because "security" is the most important thing for a their bank/shopping terminals. But I thought the whole point of using homebrew was to empower the user to use Apple devices like a normal computer without the hassle of having to do it manually? The developer has made it clear this is not the use case and that it helped with it was unintentional and undesired. The actual use case for homebrew remains unclear given this new information.
by jsunderland323 | 2025-11-12 22:12:18+00:00
No it's all good and it's a fair point.

So from my vantage point we need some way to create revenue. We have tried to make as much of the tool free as we can. We do a 10% markup on tokens issued by us. That's better than cursor who does 25%. We support BYOK so you can use your own claude key, and vertex key. If you do that you are basically just paying us a flat troll tole of $16/month to use our entire frontend but you are free to be unbounded by a markup on your tokens. We actually prefer this because it's better unit economics for us. So please bring your own key!
by keyringlight | 2025-11-12 22:12:34+00:00
If that's the case I think it's a hugely positive thing, and has gone away for newly bought hardware for a variety of reasons over the past decade. Having a basic PC and then upgrading it with a GPU used to be a realistic route to a respectable gaming PC, but I think that's largely gone away now (partially due to the death of the general "home PC" or many being on laptops. There are bargains to be had in the used market, but that comes with a lot of asterisks.

If they can get this to a large market I think it's great value, not just as a console-model PC but because a full featured desktop without lockdown is so near. It's a reverse of where I've thought MS missed a trick with the xbox, add a keyboard and mouse and let users have turn on a sandboxed lightweight desktop mode then funnel users to get software through their store, which would have been a great way to get xbox hardware installed in houses (especially the cheap S models) during covid when there was a sudden rush to buy PCs for home working that previously didn't need it.

This is targeted at the living room, but I'd love to see non-gaming uses highlighted and get the equivalent of 'deck certified' whether that's linux native or efforts into working well under wine.
by to11mtm | 2025-11-12 22:13:01+00:00
Depends on what layer of Telerik [0]. Honestly of late since I'm extra rusty on frontend I just get Copilot with Claude to help generate UI widgets since that's allowed.

Before that, years ago, I just YOLOed with WebSharper and built composition helpers to make 'spartan but correct' UIs that could be prettied up with bootstrap if needed.

That said, alas, Bolero (what replaced WebSharper) is F# specific rather than also supporting C#.

I mostly bring those up because they have various libraries out there to work with different JS bits.

[0] - Cries in webforms
by leobuskin | 2025-11-12 22:13:52+00:00
How is the WASM target looking nowadays? I tried it in 2023 and early 2024, and it was far from complete (JS interop, poor documentation scattered across GitHub issues, and so on). I still can't find a single trustworthy source of documentation on how to proceed. C# would look great at the edge (Cloudflare Workers).
by joelthelion | 2025-11-12 22:14:39+00:00
If I read the data right (1) the US currently produces roughly 4,000 TWh of electricity every year. 500 TWh is a significant portion of that! The US will need a lot of additional capacity for things like electric cars and heat pumps. Most of the effort should be going towards that, not huge data centers attending to unproven demand (how many people will pay the real price for ChatGPT once the VC subsidy ends remains to be proven).

1: https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/electric...
by planetafro | 2025-11-12 22:14:48+00:00
Bro. I played what I consider a basic game, Inscryption, on my MacBook Pro M4 Pro with 24Gb and that thing sounded like an aircraft taking off. ...meanwhile the weak sauce Steamdeck plays it flawlessly. Fan hardly even spins up. There is a lot of work to do IMO on the Mac front. I doubt Apple cares.
by boston_clone | 2025-11-12 22:15:24+00:00
It's strange to me that you chose to not cite the guidelines to elsewhere such as:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

Are anti-immigrant sentiments acceptable if they are simply well-articulated?

And if not, then why do you feel it necessary to be more critical of the language I or lalaithion use for explicit dismissals of racists and xenophobes than the actual racism or xenophobia itself?
by theshackleford | 2025-11-12 22:15:35+00:00
It's wild how experiences can vary so wildly. That's the nature of PC's though I suppose that you are trying to avoid.

I've had no driver or compatibility issues in longer than I can remember. Maybe Vista?

I also rarely upgrade because playing at console level settings means I can easily get effectively the same lifetime out of my hardware. Though I do tend to upgrade a little earlier than console users still leaning a bit more towards the enthusiast side.