MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nicoburns | 2025-11-05 21:12:28+00:00
Yes, we've deliberately tried to make use of existing libraries (either from other browser engines or general purpose libraries) where possible.

The main thing we pull in from Servo (which is also shared with Firefox) is the Stylo CSS engine, which is a really fantastic piece of software (although underdocumented - a situtation I am trying to improve). I was recently able to add support for CSS transitions and animations to Blitz in ~2 days because Stylo supports most of the functionality out of the box.

(the other smaller thing we use from servo is html5ever: the html5/xhtml parser)

We also rely on large parts of the general Rust crate ecosystem: wgpu/vello for rendering (although we now have an abstraction and have added additional Skia and CPU backends), winit for windowing/input, reqwest/hyper/tokio for HTTP, icu4x for unicode, fontations/harfrust for low-level font operations, etc.

And while we're building the layout engine ourselves, we're building it as two independently usable libraries: Taffy for box-level layout (development mostly driven by Blitz but used by Zed and Bevy amongst others), and Parley for text/inline-level layout (a joint effort with the Linebender open source collective).

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I wish that the Servo project of 2025 was interested in making more of their components available as independent libraries though. Almost all of the independently usable libraries were split out when it was still a Mozilla project. And efforts I have made to try and get Servo developers to collaborate on shared layout/text/font modules have been in vain.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-05 21:12:38+00:00
The VW group sells 13 different vehicles built on the MEB platform. The id.4 alone sells comparably to the Tesla Y, but if you consider all 13 the same car they are far and away the best selling car in Europe.

Considering all 13 the same might be a stretch, but if you just take the 6 that are the same size as the id.4 you still end up with the same result.
by breve | 2025-11-05 21:12:41+00:00
Volkswagen sells more EVs than Tesla in Europe:

https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL/Groups/Line/All-time-by-Q...

Volkswagen's sales are split across many brands (VW, Audi, Skoda, Porsche, Cupra, MAN, Scania, etc.) and models.
by ruszki | 2025-11-05 21:12:43+00:00
It’s not just that. I’m about 1/3 in one country, 1/3 in another one, and 1/3 in others, with income from multiple countries… I pay all my taxes (even more than I should), but hell, I won’t make the paper trail completely clean, because there is pain there. A lot. Tax authorities are utterly incompatible with each other.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-11-05 21:12:52+00:00
Banks running on mainframes don't shard. They just throw more hardware at the problem. The modern mainframes capacity for raw IO is insane, and much higher than what you can achieve with any PC setup. More hardware, more bandwidth, client facing applications in the cloud, database on the mainframe.

The major difference lies in infrastructure, particularly networking infrastructure. With cloud providers like Azure, AWS, etc, you can provision your vnet layout, and scale "indefinitely" on the same infrastructure. You don't need to provision new hosts, setup new secrets, or anything like that.

If a data center goes down, you can relatively easy switch to another one, though most financial institutions I know of uses hot/cold setups as hot/hot is essentially twice the money, and they rarely go down for long.

Of course it's all just regular servers underneath, so anything possible with AWS and Azure is also possible with other cloud providers, but the tooling simply isn't there (yet?).

Another issue is ISO auditor compliance. Being a regulated industry, finance (in EU at least) needs certain compliance to be fulfilled, not only regarding the services you consume, but also stuff like the physical locations, or being able to physically inspect the data center if auditors require it.

Microsoft and Amazon has this nailed. I've yet to experience a EU data center not run by FAANG meet the requirements, not that they can't. My best hope so far is probably "Lidl cloud" (forgot the name).
by rhelz | 2025-11-05 21:13:15+00:00
Chuckle it has been against the law for students to have cell phones in Indiana for some years now. As an aspiring teacher, I thought that would be wonderful. How naive!

If I would have thought about it for 30 seconds, I would have realized that it was ALREADY against school rules for students to have cell phones. What extra enforcement is this law going to add? Did they allocate another 2 or 3 hundred thousand dollars a year PER SCHOOL to hire extra security staff to pat down/strip search/cavity search a few thousand students every day?

They have already cut class time to 40 minutes--am I supposed to spend an extra 15 minutes per class patting down students, inspecting bags, etc?

This is a classic example of legislation which is passed just to make people feel like their government is actually doing something. But you can pass whatever law you want--that doesn't mean anybody is going to follow it.
by didibus | 2025-11-05 21:13:38+00:00
I suspect optimism is learned to some extent. Past experiences and outcomes shape your optimism, because it skews your bias.

People who had good things happen and got lucky get more optimistic as that's their experience.

If true, it might be that good genetics and environment gives you exceptional longevity, and also increases your chances of good outcomes at every step of your life which in turn make you an optimist.

Off course, I'd love to believe it's your mindset that affects outcomes, as it would give you control over your destiny, but it's precisely because that truth is so tempting that I'm extra skeptical of it.
by hatthew | 2025-11-05 21:14:48+00:00
Hmm yeah I didn't consider that they might use part of their yields in ways that don't generate revenue. However that would mean they use $2,400/acre/month of their crops for subsistence which doesn't seem very plausible, so I agree that's a very charitable interpretation. Would only make sense if their field is only a few square meters, in which case the framing of "revenue per acre" is extremely misleading.

Edit: looks like those numbers might be per year (it doesn't seem to specify explicitly), so it actually might be vaguely plausible (though misleading) if we make several charitable assumptions.
by burningChrome | 2025-11-05 21:15:14+00:00
>> which is greatly exacerbated when one has the mental acuity to zoom out and see the bigger picture.

Do you think this comes with age, or are some people born with the ability regardless of age to see the bigger picture?

For myself, I just plodded along through high school and then things started to click more when I was in college, contemplating life in the real world. Many of my classmates in HS seemed to have the majority of their lives planned out already while I was just content to play sports, chase girls and learn about computers.
by maxglute | 2025-11-05 21:15:36+00:00
It's explaining / contextualizing the data, aka most of that list is "defensive" and limited in scope, which different vs products from actors who are expeditionary happy. The data shows PRC... having inherited 14 land borders conflicts from ROC, have largely limited use of force to just territorial sovereingty issues, which btw 12/14 have been resolved in last 40 years, essentially all with PRC concessions. Combine with PRC growth and subsequent rise, PRC peace is historic abboration, i.e. the PRC threat to wesern sovereignty is FUD outside customary state activities like espionage. Now if west wants to weaponize PRC threat/FUD to disguise the threat to genuinely competitive PRC products that will stomp their domestic industries, then sure, that's geopolitics 101.
by phoneafriend | 2025-11-05 21:16:12+00:00
1. Happiness is an emotion governed by feedback loops in the body and brain. This is useful to keep us alive, and motivated by staying that way by planning, procreating, eating dense calories, etc... and has evolved to be tightly regulated. Why would this have evolved to be different for any defining features (bigger muscles, more stamina, faster mental logic)?

2. We take joy from what we do well; we enjoy doing what we do well with others; and we self-select for life partners who we enjoy spending time with, which often includes some similarities, for example:

- being able to enjoy downhill skiing for a whole day together and going out for drinks and dancing afterwards - enjoying calm country lifestyles vs city bustle - being a BP beautiful person who likes to live it up at parties ... being a smart person who can work meaningfully on hard problems (and who occasionally should check their ego while they do)

The better you are at something and the further you want to take it personally (often to the enjoyment and encouragement of others, and to the sacrifice of those who spend their lives with you unless they are in similar straits), the harder it is to find people that match (including for dating/partnership prospects). The more average (or less selective) you are (whether deliberately or not), the more people there are that will fit criteria which make you feel more fulfilment.

In the case of smarts, where it is reinforced through decades of schooling to be a large advantage, it can also carry a lot of unpleasant real-world baggage.

- others may envy you - others may give up early assuming you can easily best them - others may consciously decide to cheat to keep up with you - others may not always enjoy your company (when it cramps on their personal sense of mastery/autonomy/purpose) - since your ideas are often logical/beneficial, others may more frequently hear your ideas, internalize them, and (consciously or unconsciously) later act on them without ever thinking to re-involve you or say thank you (or that maybe if that one idea that someone turned into a company had some kickback to you, your logical/beneficial ideas could reach more people).

I'd imagine this gets worse the farther out you are on the bell-curve and could distort personal beliefs (whether reasoned/real from that big brain or reactive/comforting to avoid future pain) through negative reinforcement. It can also lead people to hide their intelligence to fit in, or decide to reach for different kinds of satisfaction other than what we might think they would be capable of. A lot of this is true for other aptitudes too, though more pronounced for those which are of greater perceived importance.

But hey, that's why it's the pursuit of happiness, right?
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-05 21:16:14+00:00
Its not even the question at hand. The question at hand is what is the right solution mix to reduce costs. When that training cost can easily be 20x Brenda's lifetime earnings, its really hard to say the cost will be less for the LLM solution. The real barriers to entry for LLMs are economic and often involves the cost of errors instead of what process makes more errors.
by cloudhead | 2025-11-05 21:16:23+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. My goal at this stage is to put the full vision out there, and refine it to create a sense of direction, a north star under which to work. A lot of the specifics are undecided/unknown and that's ok at this stage. I'm building this bottom up using the skills I have (software), and as I bring on hardware folks, those aspects of the system will start to clarify as well.

Whether the project is bigger than I think or not is not so relevant for me personally, I will attempt it because I don't see a future in personal computing that I want to be a part of otherwise.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-05 21:16:27+00:00
Meta is one of the worst for silencing ("downranking" or outright removing) pro-Palestinian content [1]. That's what Cutler is bragging about.

But it would be a mistake to single out Meta here. All these big tech companies move in lockstep with US foreign policy to appease the administration to get approvals for mergers, to end investigations and antitrust suits, to get government contracts and so on.

[1]: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
by tmtvl | 2025-11-05 21:16:51+00:00
I just vote with my wallet. Ubisoft kills games? I won't be playing any more Ubisoft games then. Same for EA or any other company that does stuff I dislike.

If I cared more I would engage a bit more and try to raise awareness so as to try to get people to do the same, but I think the market in general will start shifting on its own (if only because games will start getting too expensive for this kind of thing again so we'll end up like back in the day when one bought a game and played it until the cartridge wore out).
by claytongulick | 2025-11-05 21:16:52+00:00
I hope that we see more measured, objective articles like this. It's been pretty frustrating as someone on the sidelines looking in, the degree of panic and emotion attached to the climate stuff, that has always seemed to be out of scale with the actual effects to me.

I'm ~50, and my whole life, back to the 80's, there have been these sort of breathless extreme articles about the existential threat that climate poses. I remember, as a kid, it was global cooling, and we were all going to have to deal with an ice age, which terrified me.

Then it was global warming, and the "tipping point" and hawaii and all of our coastal cities were going to be under water within 5 years.

Then it was "climate change" which was poorly defined to me, but humans were definitely to blame, and causing hurricanes and destroying the planet - even though when I bothered to look at the actual data, the rate of hurricanes and other events had actually decreased.

I've read some super compelling articles from what I'll call "measured environmentalists" that argue persuasively that to do the most good for people, we should shift our focus to immediate harms that we can actually control well - things like malaria, and reliable clean water and heating, that would have a far greater impact for tens of millions of people than something nebulous like carbon credits.

I'm far from an expert on this stuff, I just wish that the conversation (as with so many things) could have less yelling, and more considered thoughtful discussion. This article, and Gates' seem to be a great start.
by delichon | 2025-11-05 21:16:54+00:00
They're agreeing that climate change is serious but not necessarily civilization ending:

Nordhous: "The amount of warming that is conceivable … is not remotely consistent with the sorts of catastrophic outcomes … where tens or hundreds of million, perhaps even billions of lives were at stake." Gates: "Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise."
by MandieD | 2025-11-05 21:17:16+00:00
Possibly because unfortunately, about 20% of German voters voted for the AfD in the last federal election, which likes to put some Nazi-sounding stuff on its campaign posters ("Kinder statt Inder," for example).

However, your analysis still kind of stands, as the AfD and even more extreme parties (like "Wahre Alternativ") tend to do better in the worse-off parts of the country like the hollowed-out districts on the eastern border (such as the one my brother-in-law left pretty much the moment his accounting degree hit his hand) where people were not big Tesla buyers, and poorly in affluent, well-educated places like Munich and Freiburg, where the kind of people who had been buying Teslas live (and are now buying just about any other EV).
by gandreani | 2025-11-05 21:17:51+00:00
To me, happiness is related more to gratitude than to intelligence. You could have very little and be happy and you can have a lot (money, friends, autonomy) and be miserable. The modern world has a lot of stressors but also a lot of things to be thankful for. It's the best time to be alive for humans so far.

Good example of gratitude: https://gwern.net/improvement
by borroka | 2025-11-05 21:17:57+00:00
"Asking why smart people aren't happier is a bit like asking why people who can jump high aren't more empathetic. There's no direct link between the two"

- I disagree. If we consider happiness, as we should, as something that can be achieved and not simply granted (for example, the ability to walk is granted, it is not something that humans, apart from pathologies and special cases, have to develop through conscious effort), there should be a positive correlation between intelligence and happiness. To jump higher than you currently can, assuming there is no coach to develop a program, you need to understand what the limiting factors are and train to improve the functioning of the “mechanism,” for example, by losing weight, increasing maximum and explosive strength, using the correct jumping technique, etc.

I believe that often the most intelligent people tend to enjoy thinking more than doing, and thinking too much does not lead to being happier or jumping higher. The limiting factor, more often than not, is not thinking, assuming sufficient intelligence, but the execution part.

I remember reading on Twitter a few years ago about an academic researcher explaining how they had come to the conclusion that exercise would improve their quality of life. They cited a series of articles, reasoned in terms of life expectancy and biomarkers, and concluded that exercise would be a net positive factor in their lives. A lot of neurotic reasoning that needs to quibble over the obvious before taking action.

Many such cases.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-11-05 21:18:05+00:00
It sucks but the alternative is to let the government spend nonexistent money in violation of statute.

And nobody is forced to work, like being at a startup that has some liquidity hiccups, sometimes you take a delayed paycheck. Other times you find other work.

And for the nonessential employees, they legally can't work but get paid for their time when the government reopens. If you aren't living paycheck to paycheck, it's a great opportunity to work on that Steam backlog.
by electric_mayhem | 2025-11-05 21:18:13+00:00
I was all in on Tesla in 2019. Solar, powerwalls, model 3.

Traded the car in a couple months ago. It was ok, as a car, but I hated what it had become synonymous with so it was worth the financial hit to give up a paid off car. Turns out the new Mach-e which replaced it is better in every way.

Might be some fanboys left, but a bunch of folks who might have fallen into that category in the past have been driven away by Musk’s unconscionable activities.
by m463 | 2025-11-05 21:18:15+00:00
Have you ever actually compared the amount of fiber foods actually have?

I've tried it and it is hard.

Let's say you need 38g of fiber per day and you need to make up half of it.

You could eat 6 cups of brussel sprouts, or sprinkle 6 packets of benefiber on your food as you eat throughout the day.

Also, a lot of natural fiber in quantity has some unpleasant gastrointestinal side effects.

I'm not saying it is impossible, but it can be quite challenging to get all your fiber from natural sources in our society.
by lynndotpy | 2025-11-05 21:18:32+00:00
It's pretty amazing how much we've lowered our collective standards for article quality since the advent of AI generation. (Not just here, but everywhere). It's not like it's a rote spelling mistake deep in the article, the spelling mistake is the very first thing you see.

Why would a serious author go with this image? Just a few years ago, misspelling "climate" and having nonsensical political cartoon to headline your article would have just been disqualifying.
by dingnuts | 2025-11-05 21:18:48+00:00
that's what "climate skeptics" have been saying for twenty years but you would get bullied for saying so.

my favorite was getting told we "deserved it" for being in Texas during the ice apocalypse, because Texas is a red state.

I hope that people exhibiting that kind of behavior are finally starting to question whether or not it's helpful. The article suggests that is perhaps beginning to happen.

If you want people to make sacrifices to improve the future, just maybe messaging that it's hopeless and anyone who doesn't see that is stupid isn't the best strategy for effecting real change
by sirsar | 2025-11-05 21:18:56+00:00
It's not good. If it were good, it wouldn't juxtapose random uncited numbers together that don't compute:

> Crop yields increase 3-5×

> Farmers go from $600/acre to $14,000/acre revenue

5×$600 is $3000. Where did the extra 4.7x come from? The new-to-the-world info looks more like "making stuff up on the fly".
by dzaima | 2025-11-05 21:19:38+00:00
You can indeed use intrinsics to make a SIMD library in plain safe stable rust today to some extent; that just isn't what core::simd does; rather, on the Rust-side it's all target-agnostic and LLVM (or whatever other backend) handles deciding how to lower any given op to the target architecture.

e.g. all core::simd addition ends up invoking the single function [1] which is then directly handled by rustc. But these architecture-agnostic intrinsics are unstable[2] (as they're only there as a building block for core::simd), and you can't manually use "#[rustc_intrinsic]" & co in stable rust either.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/b01cc1cf01ed12adb2595...

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/b01cc1cf01ed12adb2595...
by bell-cot | 2025-11-05 21:20:18+00:00
> I think beyond a certain level surplus IQ begins to cause problems.

YES, with an emphasis on the idea of "surplus IQ". If you are similarly blessed with high EQ, great social skills, athletic talent, etc. - not much of a problem. Vs. if you're nothing special (or worse) in some of those other areas, while having a metaphorical Mjölnir in your IQ toolbox - Big Problems. "Solve it with IQ" becomes your go-to strategy in far too many situations, you tend let other skills type atrophy...and treating everything as a metaphorical nail really doesn't work well.
Feedback on specialized local LLMs/VLMs
by BlackForest_ai | 2025-11-05 21:20:21+00:00
Hi all,

We’ve launched causa™, an application that orchestrates and runs LLMs fully offline across Apple devices (VLM support coming soon). We’re collecting feedback on which specialized or fine-tuned models the community would find most valuable for on-device inference. We already support the main general-purpose families (GPT-OSS, Llama, Mistral) and are now focusing on domain-specific models fine-tuned for targeted tasks.

Examples: • Mellum series by JetBrains — optimized for software engineering • gpt-oss-safeguard — tailored for policy reasoning and AI safety

If you know of other high-quality specialized models (preferably with open weights) that could benefit from mobile deployment, we’d love your input.
by Scoundreller | 2025-11-05 21:20:31+00:00
> The TUIs are a little funny, because often people can navigate and input faster than the program can render. So you vaguely see a screen change, a menu move or an overlay pop up, only to instantly disappear. The user doesn't need to know what's happening on screen, because they trust their fingers and the system to do the right thing.

I learned this while creating some autohotkey scripts: I could have the macro click before the button was shown on the screen.

This also created some problems where users would unintentionally hit their scroll wheel after clicking and change a 1 to a 7 on the next screen before it even appeared. That wasn’t good…
by pqtyw | 2025-11-05 21:20:53+00:00
Well no, but Bezos, Zuckerberg and Tim Apple will come grovelling when they are called... that's all it takes.

If you do something that the EU doesn't like it's response will be relatively rational and proportional. While the US government is currently run by unpredictable and volatile people. So risk/reward wise it's rather obvious whose orders they will be following.