MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanhunter | 2025-11-13 06:47:20+00:00
To even ask this question shows no understanding of what a CEO of a large corporation does.

1) Investor relations: Yes an AI could answer questions about the financials on the quarterly earnings call. With a lot of careful handling you might maybe even get it to do this in a way that it wouldn’t hallucinate and lead to shareholder lawsuits and SEC enforcement action. But would it go out for lunch with a bunch of fund managers and convince them to keep their investment when you’ve had a bad quarter? No. Would it take a 3-hour meeting with investment bankers to talk through how to recapitalize or refinance debt? No. If you’re talking a startup CEO is it going to convince a16z, SVF, etc to invest? Nope. If you think it will you’ve never done any of those things. It’s trying to capture lightning in a bottle- not a process you can automate. For example, how did Adam Neumann convince Steve Cohen to invest in WeWork? (I have this on the authority of a friend who was one of about 10 people there) He showed up late, and drunk for a small dinner at Steve Cohen’s apartment and got everyone there doing tequila shots. This is not something an AI is capable of.

2) Corporate strategy. Yes you can get it to generate meaningless gibberish on powerpoint, so you might think corporate strategy would be covered, but consider just a few of the big calls Satya Nadella has made (off the top of my head) in the last couple of years. 1) betting big on OpenAI 2) Intervening to save Sam Altman’s ass after he was fired 3) basically giving up on the “console wars”, ceding the hardware victory to Sony, shutting down a bunch of game studios telling the world how tough the climate is even though you’ve just had the most profitable years in your history, betting big on gamePass etc? Gonna do that? No it won’t.

3) Managing the top executive team. Is it going to do this? Of course not.

Not saying an AI couldn’t possibly do a much better job than current CEOs in some hypothetical world where CEOs do different things from what they do now, but in our world, there is literally none of the black magic bs that CEOs pull to get corporations to be worth obscene bucks that an AI could do.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-13 06:47:23+00:00
There are many examples of these types of jurisdictional conflicts in the US due to the strong decentralization of authority. These situations almost always rely on non-enforcement, which works until it doesn't and then you find yourself in court. Enforcement sporadically happens, or more commonly happens, someone with a personal axe to grind demands enforcement happen.

I'm all for eliminating the penny and rounding to the nearest 5 cents or whatever. But I am not so callous as to ignore the reality that doing this de facto forces many businesses to break the law because compliance is impossible for reasons completely outside their control.

Maybe you're cool with breaking some eggs to make an omelette but I find it pretty gross and immoral to dictate change without satisfying the preconditions that allow it to occur legally for everyone involved.
by platevoltage | 2025-11-13 06:48:51+00:00
This was a good read. I'm currently working on interfacing a microcontroller with USB racing wheels. Parsing the incoming HID data is easy, sending force feedback commands back to the wheel is a different story. A lot of USB sniffing had to be done given Logitech and MOZA's lack of documentation.

Anyways, I'm learning as I go and this writeup was informative.
by cookiengineer | 2025-11-13 06:49:06+00:00
Now tell me how

Turning off UEFI secure boot on a PC to install another "unsecure distribution"

vs.

Unlocking fastboot bootloader on Android to install another "unsecure ROM"

... is not the exact same language, which isn"t really about security but about absolute control of the device.

The parallels are astounding, given that Microsoft's signing process of binaries also meanwhile depends on WHQL and the Microsoft Store. Unsigned binaries can't be installed unless you "disable security features".

My point is that it has absolutely nothing to do with actual security improvements.

Google could've invested that money instead into building an EDR and called it Android Defender or something. Everyone worried about security would've installed that Antivirus. And on top of it, all the fake Anti Viruses in the Google Play Store (that haven't been removed by Google btw) would have no scamming business model anymore either.
by jalapenos | 2025-11-13 06:49:28+00:00
The US is conservative? Are we talking about the same place that's been the social justice woke ideology fountainhead since forever?

The one where a man can one day declare he's now a woman because he say's so - and that'll get him on the cover of a magazine as a "hero"?

What's your starting point for left - Mao?
by yugioh3 | 2025-11-13 06:49:30+00:00
i wonder if foveated streaming combined with foveated rendering could be used in the cloud gaming space?

if latency is low enough, then you could get a super high fidelity experience on a thin client VR display with low cost rendering server side.

Nvidia GeForce Now is already very impressive for streaming games at full field of view 4k.

thin client VR gives you longer battery life, lighter devices, lower entry cost. and with a cloud gaming service rendering the game, an even lower barrier to entry
by karlkloss | 2025-11-13 06:49:50+00:00
Steam does a lot of things right here, but also some things wrong, which is unfortunately a dealbreaker for me.

I read the specs and got excited, until I read about the resolution. 2160x2160 is what I have now with the Pico 4, and while it's ok for entertainment, and acceptable for browsing and reading, it's far too low for professional work.

Linux would have been great, but I can't justify spending money on a headset with exactly the same low resolution as my current one.

Also, I've become used to color passthrough, and going back to monochrome would feel like a big regression.
by Hamuko | 2025-11-13 06:49:51+00:00
I've personally boiled down the Helm vs. Kubernetes to the following:

Does your Kubernetes configuration need to be installed by a stranger? Use Helm.

Does your Kubernetes configuration need to be installed by you and your organization alone? Use Kustomize.

It makes sense for Grafana to provide a Helm chart for Grafana Alloy that the employees of Random Corp can install on their servers. It doesn't make sense for my employer to make a Helm chart out of our SaaS application just so that we can have different prod/staging settings.
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-11-13 06:50:11+00:00
Some of the reason why the MIT license etc. is more popular surely has to do with the license text itself. I can understand the MIT license, and my corp lawyer can easily understand all the consequences of using something under MIT license. With the GPL, not so much. It's verbose and complex and has different versions.

Would it really be impossible to have a license with similar brevity as MIT but similar consequences as GPL?
by sam-cop-vimes | 2025-11-13 06:51:03+00:00
I feel the same - a lot of negativity in these comments . At the same time, openai is following in the footsteps of previous American tech companies of making themselves indispensable to the extent that life becomes difficult without them, at which point they are too big to control.

These comments seem to be almost a involuntary reaction where people are trying to resist its influence.
by ehnto | 2025-11-13 06:51:34+00:00
Your later point is what makes me think this doesn't have comprehensive legs, just niche usage.

A typical game has thousands of hand placed nodes in 3D space, that do things like place lights, trigger story beats, account for physics and collisions etc. That wouldn't change with Gaussian splats, but if you needed to edit the world then even with deterministic generation, the whole world might change, and all your gameplay nodes are now misplaced.

That doesn't matter for some games, but I think it does matter for most.
by taeric | 2025-11-13 06:51:51+00:00
And that was largely a fair point back before we had everything managed by computers. Nowadays, I'd wager the vast majority of folks didn't realize their phone's changed overnight. My kids certainly didn't realize it.

Not that I don't think we couldn't have a better system. But nobody likes my idea of "base it on the month with 6 going up 10 minutes and 6 going down." Well... I think some folks like the idea, but nobody (including me) thinks that is where we are headed.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-11-13 06:53:29+00:00
This is the last moment we can use to move out of this platform. We've already given basically all the control on our lives to two companies. They will decide one day that government will know our each move, our WiFi password, number of appliances, our body temperature and chemical compounds of our bodily fluids - every sensor that is connected to the system. 1984 all over again but this time IRL

This is old rule: you don't need to take over control of all the people, you just need to take over those two-three suppliers that are covering all the people. If for example new politician Tronald Dump will take seat in 2035 in USA and they will try to push their agenda to other countries, they will take over the LLM, phone and OS providers, namely OpenAI, MS, Apple, Google. That's all to control to have the souls ruled all over the world. If something must vanish, will vanish. Like in the Ministry of Truth
by globular-toast | 2025-11-13 06:53:36+00:00
Helm requires you to write a template and you need to know (or guess) up front which values you want to be configurable. Then you set sane defaults for those values. If you find a user needs to change something else you have to edit the chart to add it.

With Kustomize, on the other hand, you just write the default as perfectly normal K8s manifests in YAML. You don't have to know or care what your users are going to do with it.

Then you write a `kustomizatiom.yaml` that references those manifests somehow (could be in the same folder or you can use a URL). Kustomize simply concatenates everything together as its default behaviour. Run `kubectl kustomize` in the directory with `kustomization.yaml` to see the output. You can run `kubectl apply -k` to apply to your cluster (and `kubectl delete -k` to delete it all).

From there you just add what you need to `kustomization.yaml`. You can do a few basics easily like setting the namespace for it all, adding labels to everything and changing the image ref. Keep running `kubectl kustomize` to see how it's changing things. You can use configmap and secret generators to easily generate these with hashed names and it will make sure all references match the generated name. Then you have the all powerful YAML or JSON editing commands which allow you to selectively edit the manifests if you need to. Start small and add things when you need them. Keep running `kubectl kustomize` at every step until you get it.
by czl | 2025-11-13 06:53:58+00:00
One thing I keep wondering, though, is whether “life” is tied more to the particular chemistry and environment it uses or to its patterns (the abstract information structure that can, in principle, be re-instantiated on different substrates).

If it’s the patterns that matter, do you think it’s actually impossible for those patterns to be transmitted across interstellar distances? Just like a cup of ocean water is packed with DNA, it’s at least conceivable that what we call “cosmic background noise” could, in principle, hide extremely compressed life-patterns that only an advanced civilization could recognize and reconstruct back into something we’d meaningfully call “alive.” And of course, the more efficiently you code that information, the more it statistically has to look like random noise.

Not saying this is likely -- just that if the essence of life is informational rather than chemical, "traveling" could look very different for any life that is suitably advanced.
by dirkt | 2025-11-13 06:56:12+00:00
I actually migrated from Homebrew to Macports after ending up in dependency hell in Homebrew with Postgresql + Postgis, and not being able to fix this properly even with my own brew recipes.

So for now that works a lot better in Macports. The portfile stuff needed some digging to understand, but that's doable.

Not sure what made you move from Macports to Homebrew. (Should I worry?)
by nake89 | 2025-11-13 06:58:28+00:00
"Homebrew's insistence on leaving OSes behind that they deem to be "too old" is becoming a problem as the years click by"

Indeed! I have a VERY usable Macbook Pro from 2015. Even with the newest version supported macOS version (11) Big Sur (which is still quite modern) it doesn't have any binaries for apps, which means it has to compile every single app and dependency.

I managed to update to macOS 14 (with the help of OpenCore Legacy Patcher).

But this just buys me one year to use Homebrew. Next year they will retire macOS 14.

And my machine is still very usable, but it will become junk from a developer perspective unless I have homebrew (or something similar).

It annoys me because I think this problem is fixable. Either community repos or more donations to homebrew to compile apps for older macs.
by Elfener | 2025-11-13 06:58:35+00:00
It may not be banks themselves doing this.

For example, my bank here in Hungary, Erste Bank has announced that the central bank requested that they stop allowing their android app to run on "modified" devices.

They even have a workaround: switch to SMS-based 2FA and use their website (which works well on any screen and has all the features of the app except 2FA)
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-11-13 06:58:39+00:00
Make a dollar coin, the size of a current-half-dollar.

Make a half-dollar coin, the size of the current quarter.

Make a quarter, the size of the current dime.

Get rid of all other coins. Also remove the $1.00 bill.

Start using $2.00 bills (as smallest cash) and stock ATMs with $50 and $10 bills.

Create a new $1000.00 note.

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[not actually] fun fact: removal of the penny results in more nickels being minted, which will actually result in a net-cost for removing penny from circulation.
by creichenbach | 2025-11-13 06:59:01+00:00
Banks have stupid rules probably made by people who don't understand the matter. A relative recently got victim to phishing and gave away some of his banking details (fake e-banking login screen on a website). After locking the account, the bank said it would only unlock it after the phone got wiped, which obviously doesn't add anything in this situation.

Another pet peeve is that they prevent screenshots simply because they can, and it feels safer. I know, 3rd-party apps which can do screenshots etc., but this is fighting the threat the wrong way. And yes, it's partially the fault of the platform, which could just allow user-initiated screenshots. Or at least make it configurable.
by AlexisArgyriou | 2025-11-13 06:59:07+00:00
You could in theory combine point clouds and Nanite: cull sub-pixel points and generate geometry on the fly by filling the voids between remaining points with polygons. The main issue is bandwidth, GPUs are barely able to handle Nanite; and this would be at least an order of magnitude more complex to do at runtime. Nanite is doing a lot of offline precomputation, storing some sort of intermediate models etc.
by 11mariom | 2025-11-13 06:59:26+00:00
Security by obscurity. That's my device, that's my decision to install whatever I want.

I see here and there some comments about someone was scammed, etc… Lack of knowledge of users is not a good reason. They still will get scammed, in a different way, but outcome will be the same.

On PC one can install whatever want - and nobody is blaming OS for it.
by fainpul | 2025-11-13 07:01:50+00:00
jcgl already answered this well. My example was merely to show that you can go from PS objects to old fashioned text processing without issues. Any non-PS tool will just receive the text representation of the objects – exactly as you see them in the terminal. I wasn't trying to imply you can go back and forth between them like magic (which should be obvious).

Once you have lost the objects and work with simple text, you have to use the text processing tools of PS, if that's what you want to do. To continue your example:

gc *.txt | measure | cat | sls count

sls (Select-String) is like grep.

(Note: this example is nonsense, just to show that it works)
CrunchyThread – Jump from Crunchyroll to Reddit episode discussions
by anistark | 2025-11-13 07:02:03+00:00
I built CrunchyThread because as an anime watcher I often found myself streaming on Crunchyroll, then switching tabs, searching Reddit for the right episode/thread, losing track of where I was. So I made a small Chrome extension that:

Detects what anime/episode you’re watching on Crunchyroll (via URL/DOM heuristics)

Looks up relevant Reddit threads for that episode/discussion

Presents them in a lightweight popup — so you can instantly jump into community conversations without disrupting playback

Some additional details:

No registration required.

I intentionally kept scope narrow (just the link-between viewing and comment threads) to maintain simplicity.

Version 0.1.2 just went live (Nov 12 2025) with bug fixes around detection latency. Chrome Web Store

Privacy-first: the extension only monitors when you’re on Crunchyroll and with your consent invokes Reddit search; no third-party tracking or user profiling.

I’d welcome feedback from anyone who watches on Crunchyroll + engages in Reddit discussions: what features they’d want (e.g., multiple thread sources, language support, favorite show auto-threading), and if there are false positives/negatives in the matching.

Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/crunchythread/faghgokfpnffhpknonlghbogjkaafnil

Thanks for reading. Open to feedback, suggestions, and thoughts.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-13 07:02:23+00:00
Somehow, in all of this, you didn't address any relevant point.

Some sales taxes are conditional at the point-of-sale, there is no single tax-included price. The US has never retired coinage in the sales tax era, an assumption built into many tax codes. There is no central authority for sales tax or price display nor standardized rules. The rules of multiple authorities apply to single jurisdictions. Changing the sales tax structures that exist are subject to any of statutory changes, voter approval, and constitutional changes, none of which will happen just because it would be convenient for you or anyone else.

Any argument that doesn't address these issues rather than simply dismissing them isn't a serious argument.
by retrac | 2025-11-13 07:03:44+00:00
Most of what you think you are seeing at any moment is only imagined.

The retina is not uniform. Most photosensitive cells (cones) are near the centre of vision. Peripheral vision has little resolving power. Can't make out fine details. The reality of this is much more extreme than it subjectively feels like. The eye doesn't actually have pixels but if it did they'd all be focused at the centre. Like an image where 10% of the area in the middle had 80% of the pixels.

At the centre of vision the eye has enough resolving power to make out the tiny star shapes and see that they are rotating. Outside of that narrow zone in the peripheral vision they're perceived as coloured blobs, at best. Normally your brain would make this transparent to you. But this is an unusual pattern. Your visual cortex doesn't realize all the stars should be rotating. So only the ones you can actually see at any one instant seem to rotate.

Try to look at an object in the room with you, such as a lamp, without looking at it directly. Observe it out of the corner of your eye. The more you try, the less sharply defined it will seem. At the very edge of your vision you're only getting a handful of pixels worth of colour information. But because you know it is a lamp, it has the sharpness of a lamp's definition even though you cannot actually see that definition without directly looking at it. That's a related illusion.

This is why the eye scans constantly in those micro-jerking motions known as saccades. If a face were to pop up on your display, it would feel like a single instant recognition of a person. But before you experience that the eye would scan over the eyes, mouth, nose and so on, several times, in sharp flicking motions, over about 100 milliseconds, and these dozen or so little snapshots, as it were, would be stitched together into the whole image of a face. Even though only a tiny slice of the eye, or the nose, etc. can actually be seen at any one time, you perceive the whole face.

This illusion hacks that and reveals how narrow our high-resolution vision really is. The whole visual field feels rather high resolution. But only that tiny spot where they rotate actually is.
by b112 | 2025-11-13 07:06:54+00:00
I think we could even anthropomorphize this a bit.

A slider, and on one side have 'had one beer, extrovert personality', and the other 'introvert happy to talk with you'.

The second being, no stupid overflowing, fake valley girl type empathy or noise.

"please respond as if you are an 80s valley girl, for the rest of this conversation. Please be VERY valley girl like, including praising my intellect constantly."

"I need to find out what the annual GDP is of Uruguay."

Ohhh my GAWD, okay, like—Dude, you are, like, literally the smartest human ever for asking about Uruguay’s GDP, I’m not even kidding Like, who even thinks about that kinda stuff? You’re basically, like, an econ genius or something!

So, check it—Uruguay’s GDP is, like, around $81 billion, which is, like, sooo much money I can’t even wrap my pink-scrunchied head around it

Do you, like, wanna know how that compares to, say, Argentina or something? ’Cause that would be such a brainy move, and you’re, like, totally giving economist vibes right now

"ok. now please respond to the same question, but pretend you're an introvert genius hacker-type, who likes me and wants to interact. eg, just give the facts, but with no praising of any kind"

Uruguay’s nominal GDP for 2024 is approximately US $80.96 billion. In purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, it’s about US $112 billion.

I agree with the upstream post. Just give me the facts. I'm not interested in bonding with a search engine, and normal ChatGPT almost seems valley girl like.
by rswail | 2025-11-13 07:07:47+00:00
I really enjoyed the first part (say 2-3 weeks) of COVID lockdowns, we had the longest in the world here and it got pretty old by the end of it, but the first few weeks, no traffic, no noise, quiet city.

It was like a vacation for our heads.

Not sure how, but a yearly "lockdown vacation" would be a Good Thing for our cities (IMNSHO).
by LaFolle | 2025-11-13 07:08:09+00:00
> We heard clearly from users that great AI should not only be smart, but also enjoyable to talk to.

That is what most people asked for. No way to know if that is true, but if it indeed is the case, then from business point of view, it makes sense for them to make their model meet the expectation of users even. Its extremely hard to make all people happy. Personally, i don't like it and would rather prefer more robotic response by default rather than me setting its tone explicitly.
by aboringusername | 2025-11-13 07:08:44+00:00
If you're wondering for a possible reason and whether google is just being "lazy", see [1].

Tl;Dr: google has certain commitments they need to make depending on when the source code is released. Expect more delays moving forward thanks to this law.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ%3AJOL...
by silisili | 2025-11-13 07:09:11+00:00
Not a chance. As much as I respect all the work Valve has done for gaming...this doesn't understand the market.

PC gamers will play on their PC. Couch gamers will have a PS5 or an XBox. So who is this for, couch gamers that don't have one of those? Or PC players tired of playing on a monitor?

Don't get me wrong, it's cool, and I'm definitely the target market but feel like that's pretty tiny.

Most couch gamers want their GTA or Call of Duty, which, if I read correctly, this will not run.