MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-12 23:20:38+00:00
Or "pay $10 extra and it'll drive extremely aggressively" (in the acceleration/braking/taking turns at speed sense, i.e. only ways that don't affect safety, not "cutting people off").

The sane default is obviously "boring", as it projects an image of safety and control, is comfortable, and reduces wear on the car... but if the user pays for the wear and wants an uncomfortable ride, why not?
by _bernd | 2025-11-12 23:20:40+00:00
> I dunno if I'd characterize this as "public"

Then define public and state what's wrong with this repo which conflicts from your definition of public.

For me this looks like a fine public resource and after a short glimpse it looks like that you should be able to even build this effing source code from this repo.

Edit ps. If you edit your own content then please leave a note about what you have changed please
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-12 23:21:37+00:00
No, Transmeta was never a big or significant player. ARM was started in 1985 and Apple was an early meaningful investor. By the turn of the millennium ARM was already well established in the microcontroller, PDA and cell phone space (smartphone and feature phone). Ten years later you already had the iPhone well established. It was just never going to happen for them. TSMC made bones on being a fabricator for all sorts of custom chip designs. It almost didn’t matter who it was as long as there was increasing volume.
by bigiain | 2025-11-12 23:21:42+00:00
> Other developers tend to point out objections in terms of maintainability, scalability, overly complicated solutions, and so on. All of which are valid.

I've spent the bulk of my 30+ career in various in-house dev/management roles, and small to medium sizes digital agencies or IT consulting places.

I that time I have worked on many hundreds of project, probably thousands.

There are maybe a few dozen that were still in production use without major rewrites on the way for more than 5 years.

I think for a huge amount of commercial projects, "maintainability" is something that developers are passional about, but that is of very little actual value to the client.

Back in the day when I spent a lot of time on comp.lang.perl.misc, there was a well know piece of advice "alway throw away the first version". My career-long takeaway from that has been to always race to a production ready proof of concept quickly enough to get it in front of people - ideally the people who are then spending the money that generates the business profits. Then if it turns successful, re write it from scratch incorporating everything you've learned from the first version - do not be tempted to continually tweak the hastily written code. These days people call something very like that "finding product market fit", and a common startup plan is to prove a business model, and them sell or be acquired before you need to spend the time/money on that rewrite.
by toast0 | 2025-11-12 23:22:23+00:00
If you need more inspiration, I used to use Pegasus Mail, and I'd have a small number of filters on Inbox open: there were some lists I was on that didn't need to ever be in the inbox, and most of my filters on Inbox close: move read or timed out mail into folders it belonged; read mail with no other rule would end up in Archive/YYYY-qQ; I found quarterly was the best granularity, monthly archive folders were too fiddly. But modal flow like that isn't very current.

Pegasus Mail was very good when it owned the mail (pop3), and works ok with a competent IMAP server, but work switched to Exchange and it was very slow, and Pegasus didn't work well with a slow IMAP server. That was the start of my slide into inbox 40k :(
by georgemcbay | 2025-11-12 23:22:55+00:00
> OK then I guess we should disconnect every large industrial electricity customer from the grid.

No, what we should do is put every "large load" electricity customer (including but not limited to these data centers) into their own rate-payer class like they did in Maryland and Oregon instead of lumping them in with everyone else.

Once they are in their own rate-payer class then their rates can be adjusted to pay for the costs of the increased infrastructure that is only needed because they exist (take away data center build-outs and electricity usage is largely flat or falling pretty much everywhere in the US).

I hope the data center developers are paying you to lobby for their ongoing corporate welfare? Because that's what you're basically doing here.
by danudey | 2025-11-12 23:23:31+00:00
The XBox Series X and PS5 both have 16 GB of RAM; in the case of the XSX that's 10 GB for the GPU and 6 GB for the OS and apps.

So 16 GB in this case, for running the same games and outputting to the same displays, seems entirely reasonable.

> The specs appear to be from late 2019. Pass

Probably more accurate to say the specs are from 2020, which is when the PS5 and XSX launched.

> it is no better if not much significantly slower than a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max

Does the M4 Max run SteamOS and your Windows steam games very well? I guess this Steam Machine is going to be embarassingly underpowered if it also costs $3500.

On the other hand, if it is a mass-market 'console' PC priced at ~$500-750 then I think it's okay if it's 'no better...than a Macbook Pro with M4 Max'.
by risho | 2025-11-12 23:23:47+00:00
there is almost no one who has multigigabit internet and even for people that do, you spend significantly less than 1 percent of your time on that device downloading. its a complete non issue. this device is a midrange at best pc, so having a gigabit connection is exactly where it should be. if you want to have the best of the best build a pc.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-12 23:23:51+00:00
The Steam Deck has been my dream computer for this reason. It just works, literally all of the hardware is 100% supported on linux. And it's also not locked down in any way. You are completely free to install anything you want. I'm just so glad at least one tech company has the resources and will to create something that is a fully polished consumer ready product which also isn't completely restricted.
by hinkley | 2025-11-12 23:24:27+00:00
One of the reasons I put off getting corrective lenses for a long time and kept trying to use contacts despite how horrible they make my eyeballs feel, is that I have an extremely wide peripheral vision. I can see my fingers wiggle behind the plane defined by my shoulders, I will react to motion out there.

Having my FoV dumbed down to 90º sounds like hell, especially in a game where we are looking for opponents.

Playing Doom on a widescreen monitor with the FoV modifications made it a lot less annoying. I want that even more today.
by keybored | 2025-11-12 23:24:53+00:00
I don’t understand why the software luminaries are coalescing around rapid-coding. Code generation was already a thing for forever. And deterministic code generation is as good as it possibly gets for “what I would have written but faster”—you know what it’s going to create. (Yes that was an EMDASH.) But code generation isn’t that much used, I think. I don’t count compilers or other black-box code generation. I mean any kind of ad hoc or more structured “what I would have written but faster” approach. Looking at the AI conversation you’d expect to see many more ad hoc code generation tools to deal with any and all boilerplate.

The downsides of code generation are only amplified with LLM code generation. Oh it’s just what I would have written. Now on the fifteenth iteration/rewrite. Generated idiomatic code for twelve years ago. squints oh yeah I would have written that back then... gosh it feels good to be in this exclusive club.
by hyperadvanced | 2025-11-12 23:24:58+00:00
I’m skeptical of any profit motive that would actually justify building self-mastery into AI, but then again, this is possibly just a reiteration of California ideology problems. As it turns out, technology can be massively transformative, connective, and truly enable creative expression and mind-expansion, but the amount of that going on versus the internet just being an insane global bazaar of greed and entertainment far outweighs this.
by tsoukase | 2025-11-12 23:25:06+00:00
I think the closest cousin to FreeBSD is Arch Linux. Superb, in-house maintained documentation, light, elegant out-of-the-box options and solutions and the ports/AUR power. Only, FreeBSD includes the whole 1.2GB ports' tree of 24k or so packages in the initial install. Of course, an rm -rf /use/ports is possible.
Tokenize Airbnb rental equity. RWA options?
by harishmaiyags | 2025-11-12 23:25:07+00:00
Folks, has anyone done or tried to put short-term rentals (STR) on-chain? I'm looking to tokenize part of property ownership via SPV, to have on-chain lenders put money for yield. Since traditional lenders have rigid terms, converting to RWA opens more opportunities.

Love to get any pointers.
by foobazgt | 2025-11-12 23:25:55+00:00
Teslas illuminate brake lights based on deceleration (until reaching a stop), which is the desired behavior. I use regen braking aggressively to slow down, and different light behavior would give people seizures or make them brake-light-deaf.

If you're annoyed by the braking lights on a Tesla, it's because you're following too (dangerously) closely.
by jwagenet | 2025-11-12 23:26:24+00:00
> the fact that it costs money is absurd

Bart from SFO to downtown SF is about $11 due to a surcharge and the combined fare AirTrain + subway is also about $11.50. LIRR is a bit more expensive. The Paris RER is €13. I don’t see how the fare is objectionable.

I personally appreciate the subway connections exist. Taking LIRR would require a subway transfer to most destinations anyway.
by 0x1ch | 2025-11-12 23:28:08+00:00
I think the most complex part of a desktop linux install is the partitioning, but sane defaults are handed to you on most installers, so I'm curious about the failures and what induced them.

As for the whole wifi thing... Yeah man, FreeBSD isn't ready for vast majority of people, even linux veterans. I know getting the manpower to write those drivers isn't always possible, but we're talking years of this being ignored. Which has led to solutions like yours.

Something trivial to us, is not for others. It's pretty insane to even think that is a supported solution to that problem.
by mattmanser | 2025-11-12 23:28:32+00:00
I use .Net a lot as in Europe it's everywhere. I think it occupies the same niche in Europe as Java does in America. Startups, enterprise, you name it. Lots of jobs in London with it for Finance.

And in 20 years I've personally never needed a paid library. Maybe one company had bought Telerik back in the day? I've now built up multiple startups, some with millions of users.

The only thing I ever plugin that's not a MS library really are serilog, validation with FluentValidation, and a job server, usually Hangfire just because it's easy. Other than that, most people have good C# API clients. Oh and OAuth, though the popular one got baited and switched like you said.

The key difference is that the core libraries cover much more for .Net than most other languages. I'm constantly adding npm modules, but rarely nuget packages.

But the opensource/closed source bait and switch has happened a lot recently it does seem. Someone was blaming it on some failure of an open source initiative MS were running.

But one of the big frustrations sometimes is dealing with some American Koolaid company who thinks Erlang support is a priority but .Net isn't. No code examples, no officially supported library. Most recent example, IBM of all people (C-level insisting we use their cloud, ugh).
by throwaway89201 | 2025-11-12 23:28:40+00:00
I bought an Oculus Go last year for € 30. Its support has been dropped for quite some time, and you can only activate developer mode and sideloading through an old version of the Meta Horizons app [1]. But if you do that, there are 71 GiBs of games to explore on the Internet Archive [2]. Some need patching to remove an online check to a server that no longer exists, but that is easy enough to do with a (regrettably Windows) tool someone published.

The Go is not the best headset of course, but the games are a different style because of the 3DoF tracking without camera's. Somewhat slower paced and sitting down. A style I personally like more.

You can also unlock the device to get root on it [3], which is quite neat, although there doesn't seem to be any homebrew scene at all. Not even the most bare-bones launcher that doesn't require a Meta login.

[1] That doesn't even seem intentional, but it does mean that once the old version of the app can't communicate with Meta servers anymore, any uninitialized Go turns into a brick.

[2] https://archive.org/details/gear-vr-oculus-go

[3] https://developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/unlocking-oculus-go...
by smoovb | 2025-11-12 23:28:42+00:00
If it comes to pass that traffic jams are in large part due to poor human choices, that will bode poorly for the general populace to continue to be allowed to drive.

Flying used to be like this - my grandpa had 3 airplanes, used one to fly a calf back to his farm. But flying got regulated till it's quite rare to meet a casual pilot with his own plane.
by fowlie | 2025-11-12 23:28:49+00:00
When was the last time you used Jenkins? I don't get the hate. Not only from you, but lots of people on the internet. What makes Jenkins stand out IMO is the community and the core maintainers, they are perhaps moving slow, but they are moving in the right directions. The interface looks really nice now, they've done a lot of ux improvements lately.
by sensanaty | 2025-11-12 23:28:57+00:00
Probably a dumb question, I might've missed it in the description somewhere, but I assume the onboard PC is mostly to facilitate the streaming functionality, and it will stream from your main machine to the headset right?

I'm very curious about the latency if that's the case. This might be the trigger for me to get into VR finally, but I'm worried that if there's noticeable lag in the stream that I'll basically cover myself in vomit from motion sickness lol
by infamouscow | 2025-11-12 23:29:12+00:00
Bitcoin miners have also been sitting on the sidelines waiting for this too.

Compute is a hard resource, inextricably linked to money, time, and energy.

The math doesn't work in Sam's favor, no matter how much smoke he blows up your ass.

It's going to be interesting when all these GPUs are repurposed to mine Bitcoin, and people try to forget falling for the hysteria that somehow you can arrive at AGI from a glorified markov bot.
by sombragris | 2025-11-12 23:29:31+00:00
In my country, last Sunday there were extraordinary city elections in a major city, and the ruling party lost. Almost all major newspapers carried headlines, all of them speaking that the ruling party suffered a "beating" (paliza). In our colloquial context, using that word is not that common, and it was something akin to the proverbial em dash: a telltale sign of AI slop used by all newspapers. Sad, but true.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-12 23:30:29+00:00
The original comment by Linus was that Valve would not accept the current state of things where to distribute a program on Linux you need to create a different package for every single distro. Which is true, Steam with Proton has pushed a single stable platform where you can publish a single build and it works everywhere. In desktop mode of SteamOS everything is installed through Flatpak.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-12 23:30:45+00:00
I'm thinking maybe it's unified memory? They posted "16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM" as the specs as RAM. Typically you'd put the GPU-only VRAM together with the GPU, but the GPU has it's own separate row in the specs. Kind of suspicious how they placed those together like that, isn't it?
by kazinator | 2025-11-12 23:30:48+00:00
You can empirically drive the equations that apparently govern the macroscopic behaviors, right down to details like temperature sensitivity, and the Early effect, without having a detailed model of what is going on at the atomic and subatomic level. Then what makes an amplifier work is explained by those equations. And for that not even the full detail of them is necessarily required, depending on what aspect of the amplifier we need to explain. Like basic operation versus concern for thermal runaway.

What makes the amplifier work and what makes the transistor work are separate concepts.

That's why understanding translates from tube circuits to transistors. A transistor circuit maybe an emitter follower, which has a counterpart in tube circuits known as the cathode follower. The cathode resistor creates local negative feedback similarly to an emitter resistor. Early op amps where tube circuits. They have the same differential input stage and the same basic theory of operation. You program their game the same way with resistors. The familiar Sallen-Key filter topology was first described with the help of tube circuits for reference, back in 1955. To undestand it, we don't even need the details like how amplifiers work at the component level except when we get into design parameters in which certain issues matter, like frequency-bandwidth product, or input offset current or whatever.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-12 23:30:56+00:00
When I was a kid, there already weren't 8oz cans.

But even if there had been, an 8oz can is 23% bigger than a 6.5oz bottle. 6.5oz is ludicrously small. How did that become a commercial size in the first place?

As far as I can tell, a juice box today is 6.75oz, but you buy them in bulk and they're not actually large enough to be good for a small child's lunch.
by tshaddox | 2025-11-12 23:31:06+00:00
That's pretty quick. I've heard that in ideal circumstances Wi-Fi 6 can get close to 5ms and Wi-Fi 7 can get down to 2ms.

I's impressive if they're really able to get below 2ms motion-to-photon latency, given that modern consumer headsets with on-device compute are also right at that same 2ms mark.
by hasanhaja | 2025-11-12 23:31:45+00:00
Thank you so much for the write up! I've been avoiding processes for some reason while I've been learning Elixir and this post pushed me to play with it today. And I started in Erlang and then managed to translate it to Elixir successfully!

I ran into this issue and I'm not sure if it's just a me thing.

When sending the message from the Pong REPL, the following didn't work for me:

```erl {ping, 'ping@localhost'} ! {pong, self()}. ```

When I checked, the PID of `self()` is different to the PID of the registered `pong` process. I needed to change it to the following:

```erl {ping, 'ping@localhost'} ! {pong, whereis(pong)}. ```

This sends the correct PID to the Ping process and we have an infinite loop counting up.
by blackjack_ | 2025-11-12 23:31:54+00:00
What particular issues do you have with it? My company uses it at scale (dozens of different instances, hundreds of workers, thousands of pipelines) to support thousands of applications and we are reasonably happy with it. DSL is incredibly helpful at scale. IAC is incredibly helpful at scale. It requires a good amount of upkeep, but all things underpinning large amounts of infrastructure require a good amount of upkeep.
by missinglugnut | 2025-11-12 23:31:57+00:00
The percentage change is the same for everyone. If a consumer pays 10.05 instead of 10.03, they pay 0.2% more.

If a store games prices to charge 0.2% more on a million transactions it's still 0.2% for them. Except the rounding on multi-item purchases isnt predictable so it would probably take a miracle of data engineering and behavioral science to hit 0.1% benefit on average.

Meanwhile stores are using 30% off coupons and buy on get one free to get people in the door, whilst hiding double digit price increases.

Worrying about the two pennies is stupid on either side of the transaction. Don't listen to the professional complainers.
by constantius | 2025-11-12 23:32:18+00:00
Charitable prediction: It'd only take 1 big name debate to happen for this idea to become viable. Once people know about it, and the most interesting debates get funded, the debate becomes like any other desirable speaking gig: a performance with a big paycheck and audience attached.

Less charitably, however, as soon as Logosive takes off a bit, the existing debating venues (news channels, big podcasts, etc.) can just look at what debate ideas are popular and make them happen, with the promise of a bigger paycheck and a bigger audience.

Can't really find a moat for Logosive here.
by viraptor | 2025-11-12 23:32:20+00:00
So you can theoretically download an AAA title like the new kingdom come at 84GB in just under 5 minutes instead of 11 min. That's cool and all, but does it actually matter? I mean, with games of those sizes you're going to spend hundreds of hours in the game most likely. It's an extremely first world problem that takes minutes, maybe once a month.
by vel0city | 2025-11-12 23:32:27+00:00
If its a wide region ad (can even be just across a metro area) showcasing a price then yes, they wouldn't know the price at a given store because the tax rates can change in less than a kilometer.

If there's a TV ad for a medium pizza for $10 at a chain they can't possibly know the tax rates for whatever actual store I'm going to go order from.

And the listing on a website won't know until I actually put in my shipping information.
by hinkley | 2025-11-12 23:32:39+00:00
The old one used Bluetooth if you upgraded it during the transition period or you have a Windows box.

I had to borrow a friend's computer to get mine to run in BT mode because I gave up using the Steam Link fairly early and didn't use the controller again until I bought a Deck, by which point the grace period where a system update fixed it had long since expired.
by keybored | 2025-11-12 23:32:40+00:00
Given that the problems are known and given that things are changing rapidly, we should expect them to be solved eventually (by some force)? No, I think the burden of proof is on whoever wants to address those problems. Not just refer to the never-changing answer “but why not?”[1]

All I see from “excited” developers is denial that there is a problem. But why would it be a problem that you have to review code generated by a program with the same fine-tooth comb that you use for human review?

[1] Some things change fast, some things never change at all.
by cortesoft | 2025-11-12 23:32:40+00:00
I have both a quest 2 and quest 3 and you are right, the quest 2 is laughable. The quest 3 is WAY better, and is way closer to making it feel like you are just looking through glass (not quite, but on the way).

Eh, I don't use it for augmented reality a TON, but there are some fun apps that my kids and I like to use that use the passthrough for augmented reality... one is a virtual aquarium thing where you can draw 'windows' on your wall that become a window to the ocean, with things swimming around. It is pretty cool.

I mostly use it, though, for short term moving around things, like to pick up something in the real world or to figure out where I am. I guess that can work in monotone, but it really feels cool in full color.
by plqbfbv | 2025-11-12 23:32:45+00:00
I delete almost everything:

- 1:1 or 1:n conversations get archived

- appointments, receipts, ... snoozed until day before use/event, then deleted afterwards

- newsletters, automated messages deleted after read

- promotions, discounts, ... deleted immediately

The trash serves as a 30-day buffer for things I may need to recover, e.g. shop discounts I threw out that I end up needing before they expire.

I also use Fastmail's expiration period on my inbox, so anything older than 1 month is deleted too. If it received no action in 1 month, the chances it was actually important are close to zero.