MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jimmydorry | 2025-11-11 09:16:59+00:00
I don't particularly subscribe to any ideology that puts companies above people, but it isn't hard to see things from GP's point of view. Before shooting the messenger, it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

>Consider this: the current administration has received gifts from private corporations in return for more lenient tariffs

Who better understands where capital restrictions should be applied: this current administration (aka. Trump) or the businesses that grew large enough to buy a seat at the table or can afford to steer policy via "gifts"?

>Or consider the amount of law projects passed through congress directly from large corporations with their logo still on the paper.

Is a person sitting in congress fully cognizant of what is happening in all facets of the economy and have an understanding of what needs to be implemented today to pave the way for the next 10 years and beyond? Why would we not seek input from the industries requiring regulation?

>The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer

Yet this is a golden age by every measure. Zoom out on your timescale and there has never been a more prosperous and peaceful time to be alive. Quality of life has tremendously improved and the possibility of striking out on your own and making it big has never been more attainable. Yes, there will always be people sitting at the top with massive power and wealth, but the average person isn't doing too bad.
by paulwilsonn | 2025-11-11 09:18:00+00:00
I wouldn’t recommend it at that age. ChatGPT can sound confident even when it’s wrong, and kids might take answers at face value without questioning them.

It’s also easy to get distracted or rely on it too much instead of developing real problem-solving skills. Better to wait until they’re a bit older and can use it critically with proper context.
by scoofy | 2025-11-11 09:18:07+00:00
> You were (and are) arguing for collaboration.

I wouldn’t put it in those terms, but I think I understand you point and yes, the general point is that I think we should enforce laws we don’t like unless they directly run up against what we see as a serious violation of human rights. I think that is generally a good idea, because it preserves a governmental structure we all generally agree with: something approximating one person one vote for representation, with a few caveats thrown in.

Democracy falls apart rapidly if your strategy is to only enforce laws you endorse. Democracies that fall apart are typically replaced with undemocratic systems. On top of that, civil conflict is horrible for human flourishing, so shit needs to get really, really bad before that discussion happens. I see this as a very strange sword for the American left to fall on.
by lerno | 2025-11-11 09:19:20+00:00
”Zig builds C faster than most C compilers” is a nonsense statement, which I don’t know how to answer.

The fact is simply that despite Zig uses LLVM as a backend in the same way Odin and C3 does, it compiles much slower. Exactly why that is, is something I can only guess at, but the fact is that Zig cached is still much slower to compile than Odin or C3.

(There are a few possible candidates as to why this is so that I identified and can share if it is interesting)

In any case, Zig is only ”fast to compile” if you compare to the triad of infamously slow languages: Swift, C++ and Rust.

Anything else is just hype.
by zwnow | 2025-11-11 09:20:37+00:00
This is really worth mentioning. I hate programming with a passion if I HAVE to work on something. I love it when I am free on chosing what to work on.

Having to work on other peoples ideas, or in regards to constraints other people have set for me completely kills the joy of doing the work.

Let me explore stuff and Ill be a happy little worker bee, give me deadlines on features I consider bs ill procrastinate forever.
by lycopodiopsida | 2025-11-11 09:21:10+00:00
> Corporations can't really resist governments unless they're not operating in a given government's jurisdiction and therefore have nothing to lose. They can take things to court, but in lieu of a verdict or an injunction they have to comply with the law or they can be fined, have assets frozen, be de-banked or banned from processing payments, etc.

It is also maybe a good thing? Corporations should not be stewards of our rights, we do not want to be governed by tech-barons.

The problem here lies clearly in UK's laws and government and they cannot be fixed by Apple. The West in general is in this crumbling state, where we take corrupt bastards chewing off our rights for a law of nature, instead of getting furious. France is the only western country where people dare to really protest.
by Tabular-Iceberg | 2025-11-11 09:21:34+00:00
Why does the next guy hate Citizens United? I’m not American, so this is the first time I’m hearing about them.

I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC and it seems to me like a plain reading of the first amendment supports CU’s position.

Wouldn’t the opposing view imply that you are allowed to have political opinions, but only as long as you go at it alone and don’t organize too much with others?

For all I know that might indeed be a better way of running society, but that’s definitely going to take a big constitutional amendment.
by lone-cloud | 2025-11-11 09:24:37+00:00
This sounds like an incredibly toxic hiring process and not a company I'd ever want to work for. So you apply for a job and in response they (maybe) email you back asking for your expected salary (great way to filter out anyone worth hiring btw) and if you're cheap enough they then ask you to do work on a take home assignment. Everyone here thinks that this is okay and they want to be interviewed this way?

"Since we are focused on efficiency, we need to respect people’s time as much as our own". How exactly does this process respect the candidates time?
by Duralias | 2025-11-11 09:25:01+00:00
There are two things holding back mini games and special worlds, inexperience and Udon.

The more technically impressive worlds don't just use the VRChat provided object syncing or interactions, they create their own systems tailored to the world, but Udon, the world scripting language, is sluggishly slow, 200X-1000X slower (according to VRC themselves and I know is true from experience), compared to ordinary scripting inside Unity, which means the only ones able to make their own systems are not only good at coding, they are really good at optimizing, on a generally amateur creation platform like VRC those people are very few.

They are trying to recreate Udon to be more performant, but small company and their first attempt was discarded after the sole employee working on it was let go.

Network delay could be considered another thing holding back mini game creation, but even if the network stack was better, you have people all over the world, latency will always be an issue.
by lmm | 2025-11-11 09:25:11+00:00
> There is no European alternative that is any safer

How do you figure that? If you're worried about your privacy in the UK, keeping your data in a Five Eyes country cloud provider is a very bad idea, arguably even worse than keeping it in a UK cloud provider where it becomes a domestic legal matter where you at least get a day in court, not a foreign intelligence matter where you don't. And the US is a pretty bad place for anyone's data given a) its lack of robust privacy laws (and large commercial data-trafficking ecosystem) and b) the National Security Letter system.

While there is no perfect country, somewhere like Germany or the Netherlands seems a much better bet.
by zimpenfish | 2025-11-11 09:26:13+00:00
Possibly someone just watched Napoleon Blownapart's latest (excellent as usual) video[0] (Shinigami is covered from 21:10 to about 29:45.)

(In his mind, NappyBo followed the same arc as the article, it seems; the video is much more considered.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0PLqnzlm5I
by csomar | 2025-11-11 09:27:51+00:00
Warren Buffet is the definition of oligarchy. Dude runs a rail and insurance monopoly while buying large top stocks for yield. He maintains a persona of this traditional and nice family dude who is old and wise. But this is the US, and people are ranked/valued by how rich they are regardless of how it is acquired.

Still, he avoided political scrutiny (say comparing to Musk or Bezos) by maintaining this image. That was wise.
by mrdevlar | 2025-11-11 09:28:45+00:00
Large entities aside, I would use this to mark my own generated content. Would be even more helpful if you could get the LLM to recognise it which would allow you to prevent ouroboros situations.

Also, no one is reading your resume anymore and big corps cannot be trusted with any rule as half of them think the next-word-machine is going to create God.
by blub | 2025-11-11 09:28:52+00:00
Sounds like a straw-man. I know developers who are good enough to achieve it on their own, but they use the tooling anyway, because one can’t write perfect code always: feature requests might be coming in too fast, team members have different skill levels, dev turnover happens, etc.

Furthermore, memory bugs still can be considered by teams as just another bug, so they might not get prioritised.

The only significant difference is that there’s lots of criminal energy targeting them, otherwise nobody would care much.
by Yoric | 2025-11-11 09:30:14+00:00
I'm not entirely certain what you mean.

These C++ developers I'm mentioning are all at least senior (some of them staff+), which makes their remarks on segfaults scary, because clearly, they haven't realized that a segfault is the best case scenario, not the worst one. This means that they very much need a refresher course on memory safety and why it matters.

The fact that they assume that they're good enough to avoid memory errors without tooling despite the fact that most of these errors are invisible and may remain invisible for years before being discovered is a second red flag, because it strongly suggest that they misunderstand the difficulty.

Of course, the conversation between you and I is complicated by the fact that the same words "memory safety" could apply to the programming language/tooling or to the compiled binary.
by Keegs12 | 2025-11-11 09:30:58+00:00
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by kiliankoe | 2025-11-11 09:31:29+00:00
It's David Kriesel's infamous talk about the even more infamous Xerox bug.

Talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6558_-_de_-_saal_g_-_201412282...

Bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox#Character_substitution_b...
by anthk | 2025-11-11 09:31:44+00:00
xanalogTV and the like run CRT effects even under an Athlon 2000 back in the day. WIthout something bound to GL => 3.3 you can run a terminal emulator anywhere, even under legacy systems with no OpenGL support at all.

On the emulator from Lars in the below comment, that's a good approach; but for the physical CRT effects, as I said, XanalogTV did a great job.

But kudos for allowing a GL-less option for legacy systems.
by JSR_FDED | 2025-11-11 09:32:19+00:00
Singapore is an unusual market when it comes to cars...

To put it in perspective, a Toyota Camry today costs $207,000 (US dollars).

That includes the Certificate of Entitlement - that allows you to actually drive the car for 10 years. After 10 years you can renew the CoE, but that's about $100K so most people don't want to pay that to take a 10 year old car to age 20. As a result there are almost no older cars on Singapore's roads.

The upside is very little traffic congestion.

To be fair, the public transport is outstanding and the services like Grab (think Uber) are ubiquitous and reasonably priced.
by rwl | 2025-11-11 09:32:41+00:00
I have been working on implementing iCalendar/RFC5545 in Emacs Lisp. I recently submitted a large patch and hope it will be merged in the next couple of months:

https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2025-11/msg0...

This will add an iCalendar library to GNU Emacs, allowing packages in core and third-party packages to work with the format. More on the decisions I made and what I learned here:

https://recursewithless.net/emacs/index.html
by onion2k | 2025-11-11 09:32:55+00:00
I went to the lodash docs and asked about how I'd use the 'pipeline' operator (which doesn't exist) and it correctly pointed out that pipeline isn't a thing, and suggested chain() for normal code and flow() for lodash fp instead. That's pretty much spot on. If I was guessing I'd suggest that the base model has a lot more lodash code examples in the training data, which probably makes a big difference to the quality of the output.
by franciseni722 | 2025-11-11 09:33:34+00:00
Recently, I have been working on a Digital landfill viz. Flink job: DePIN Resource matcher. A real time matching engine that connects resources offers with requests. Source: Kafka topic(beacon.resource.offers: Beacons advertising their available Npu compute for ambient LLM inference). Source 2: Kafka topic inference.requests(Requests for LLM inference that needs resources).
by xsser01 | 2025-11-11 09:33:38+00:00
It started as a personal need, then evolved into what it is today, and it will continue to evolve. As you know, the beginning is always spontaneous, but I believe the tool has a strong foundation, and its usage depends on the user's purpose. The goal is to have an open-source tool for quickly and stealthily collecting web data, usable in many scenarios.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-11 09:33:59+00:00
> BYD is a fantastic investment, they are not undermining us

My point is that Buffet spent his fortune earned in America, on undermining America and its allies. He has effectively given a strategic boost to the CCP and its past and future abuses.

> including adopting children from Ukraine and get them out of a war zone. Maybe you should talk to more people.

Is this AI?
by mrdevlar | 2025-11-11 09:34:36+00:00
They recognise that the larger bubble is in the datacenters.

Most of the hardware we are using was designed for computer graphics not AI. Now that China isn't buying Nvidia any longer and actively trying to get their own companies to produce hardware, what happens to all these datacenters when a company produces a device that has 80% of the performance of the current Nvidia hardware but 20% of its power consumption?
by kragen | 2025-11-11 09:34:59+00:00
Sure, I'd love for quality journalism to be sustainable, but that's no reason to keep ourselves ignorant while it isn't sustainable, a situation which may or may not end in our lifetimes.

Also, this is the NYT we're talking about here, the outfit that promoted the fiction about "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq and doxxed Scott Alexander while insinuating he was a Nazi. It's not a good choice for a poster child for "quality journalism".
by dvh | 2025-11-11 09:35:07+00:00
I've noticed a very lagy performance when reading specifically Texas instrument datasheets, I scroll 2 pages and bam 5s lag, then it usually works or lags occasionally. I passed the PDF through some gpt-concocted ghostscript woodoo and then they work just fine:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \ -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH \ -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
by asdefghyk | 2025-11-11 09:35:07+00:00
Less than 10% of electricity customers will be able to take advantage of offer and they must have a "smart meter"

From a theaustralian.com.au media article ".... The trouble with this thought bubble is that there are some major complications that haven’t been thought through. Just because the wholesale price is often low or negative during the middle of the day doesn’t remove the need for the fixed infrastructure costs – over 40 per cent of the retail bill – to be covered.

If retailers and gentailers (the companies that own generators as well as have retail arms) can’t cover these fixed costs during the “free” three-hour period, then prices at other times of the day will have to be jacked up......

That's one problem
by yodon | 2025-11-11 09:35:28+00:00
I very much appreciate the politeness and care the people who responded to my comment are bringing to their responses, but the issue isn't the keyboard layouts, it's the mindset that somehow the apparently terrible UX of the QMK and ZMK software is not just acceptable but beneficial.

I've been using programmable columnar split keyboards with modifier keys for decades, and chording keyboards before that. None of those things are at all new, nor are they particularly difficult. What seems to have been added in recent years is this weird keyboard-hipster-macho mentality that seems to have overtaken the community.

If it takes more than a PhD (which I have) and decades of experience with programmable remapable keyboards (which I also have) to use your keyboard, you're doing it wrong. If, as a professional software product engineer (which realistically most users of this type of keyboard probably are) you can't see that, you're probably way too far down a weird keyboard-hipster well and would probably do well to pull out and spend some time refreshing yourself with a reminder of how empowering good UX actually is. Bad software UX isn't actually "power user" stuff, and pretending bad software UX is an actually good thing is simply denial of how bad one's software UX apparently is.

It seems highly ironic that a community focused on keyboard productivity would fall into this particular hipster macho mindset, but for whatever reason it seems to have taken hold like wildfire. More power to you all, I guess. Definitely keep up the polite and welcoming aspects of the community, and perhaps one day some branch of the community will wake up to the fact that keyboards are a UX affordance, that the keyboard community is deeply passionate about their user experience, and that a good software UX actually matters and would in fact be a good thing and not a bad thing.
by Duralias | 2025-11-11 09:35:33+00:00
Because that would likely be confused with compute shaders, which are not accessible in VRChat, we still regularly use geometry shaders, which as far as I know are just terrible compared to the alternatives.

The closest to compute shaders we have are camera loops using render textures and AsyncGPUReadback which has been limited to only handle inputs and outputs in the form of textures.

Also the reason why it is even done in shader is because the scripting language in VRChat is 200X-1000X slower than normal Unity scripting, with no async or way to do threads.
by bluescrn | 2025-11-11 09:36:10+00:00
> There is something that feels very cursed to me about a team of size 2~10 for game dev.

Very small teams can be great - so long as you are able to focus on building a game, not building a company. You need to treat it more like a game jam, at least in the early stages of a project. Just make things, see what works, rapidly prototype and iterate.

But you probably all need to be equal partners in the project from the start for it to work well. It's not so good for creative work when there's a management/employees 'them and us' divide from the start.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-11 09:36:35+00:00
A lot of users have an extreme level of resistance to learning tech. Which applies even to the most simple of instruction-following operations.

They aren't clinically retarded. They could learn those things if someone forced them to. But you, as a product developer, can't force them. It's utterly impractical to overcome that resistance for a mass market product.

It's easier to make a car that doesn't require oil changes than it is to make every car owner learn to perform oil changes.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-11 09:37:09+00:00
> Investing in a company from a foreign country does not make you a bad (or good) person. There is no moral duty to make your own country the most economically powerful one.

Maybe you don’t agree, but I think there is a moral duty to not make the literal enemies of the free world into a superpower. Do you think the Chinese government believes in basic human rights like free speech? No. Buffet could have invested in many other countries. He chose China because he doesn’t have the moral compass he pretends to have.
by coldtea | 2025-11-11 09:38:20+00:00
>You say that as if Singapore has no agency here

It doesn't.

>And you are under-estimating Singapore's resilience: after all just after independence we were close to the nightmare scenario you are trying to conjure.

And it didn't happen because some conditions regarding foreign forces balance prevented it. Not because of the "agency" of a barely nascent tiny nation.

>What does it matter that the UK was part of an Empire in the past? Singapore used to be part of the same empire.

The UK wasn't "part of an Empire", it was the creator, owner, and benefactor of the Empire. That's why it matters.

>And yes, keeping good relations with your allies is extremely important in global politics. This shouldn't be news

That's irrelevant, since its orthogonal.
by delaminator | 2025-11-11 09:39:44+00:00
Amazon’s Idaho 2Gw data center it’s building for Anthropic has 0 Nvidia Cuda cores.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-says-anthropic-will-us...

> Anthropic is using 500,000 of Amazon’s Trainium2 chips for its Claude AI models as part of the tech giant's Project Rainier
by hobofan | 2025-11-11 09:40:52+00:00
In many ways OpenAI is transitioning towards an end-user facing product business. They have by far the strongest brand among consumers and are positioning themselves to take on Google/Meta in the ad business.

By proxy, having the strongest frontier model becomes less and less necessary for them and instead building a strong product by properly layering medium-strong models in a cost-efficient way is the priority.