MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NickC25 | 2025-11-11 15:14:05+00:00
It's also allowing for "good enough" solutions to enter the field of battle.

Which is fucking frightening. We don't want "good enough", we want weapons that are fully capable and best-in-class. After all, that's why the Department's budget is nearly a trillion dollars a year. We aren't paying for good enough, we're paying for the best of the best of the best.

We should first solve for why we've allowed massive scope creep in the development of our flagship fighters, and why that scope creep has come at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars to our nation. Yet we can't ask why the likes of Boeing or Lockheed Martin are allowed to function as entities that need to please Wall Street and lobbyists instead of scaring the living shit out of anyone who wishes to do us harm via pure technological prowess. We've allowed the management class to take over our defense manufacturing at great cost to our country.
by a-kgeorge | 2025-11-11 15:14:12+00:00
Code Example:

const pipeline = await createDspPipeline({ redisHost: "localhost", redisPort: 6379, stateKey: "dsp:user:ch1", });

pipeline .filter({type:"butterworth",mode:"bandpass",lowCutoffFrequency:20,highCutoffFrequency:450}) .stft({windowSize:512,hopSize:160}) .melSpectrogram({numMelBands:26}) .mfcc({numCoefficients:13});

await pipeline.process(audioData, {sampleRate:16000}); const state = await pipeline.saveState(); // worker dies → new worker await pipeline.loadState(state);

Platform • x64 + ARM • Tested on Pixel 9 Pro XL (stable; NEON tuning pending) • Node 18/20/22 • N-API v8 • Prebuilds for x64 (Linux/macOS/Win) • ARM compiles once → works like normal

Why not WASM? • Native threading • AVX2/SSE2/NEON • Zero-copy buffers to/from Redis • Clean integration w/ Node streams
by a-kgeorge | 2025-11-11 15:14:27+00:00
Who It’s For • Node backends running streaming DSP • Systems needing stateful pipelines + fault tolerance • Teams avoiding separate Python/C++ services • IoT gateways w/ intermittent workloads

Not ideal: • Browser-only DSP (use WebAudio) • Hard realtime (<1ms) embedded audio

Help Wanted • Portable NEON optimization (FFT + convolution) • Kafka integration (batching / backpressure / checkpoints) • Production war stories

Status STFT / Mel / MFCC Convolution + FFT (native C/C++) Redis persistence stable ARM functional (not optimized) 891 tests passing Kafka integration (seeking input)

Repos: https://github.com/a-kgeorge/dspx https://github.com/a-kgeorge/dspx-benchmark
by yesco | 2025-11-11 15:14:30+00:00
Considering how protective Europe is of it's markets I'm not surprised their dairy imports are small. They even treat town/village names as a kind of trademark to facilitate this, leading to much confusion (I will die on this hill right next to them).

I've tried many kinds of the imported European cheese, I enjoy the variety and gimicky stuff, one noteworthy one was this coffee cheese which was surprisingly tasty. Ultimately it sits right next to an equally diverse array of domestic cheese brands which are of the same quality. "New York Steakhouse" usually makes my favorites.

However Kraft and Velveeta are usually in their own section with the sealed imported cold cuts that taste like plastic. It would be ignorant for me to judge Euros on those but I guess many Euros do exactly that when they see Kraft? It's like space food. Real cheese is purchased at the deli counter or in chunks.
by postexitus | 2025-11-11 15:14:50+00:00
For my parents' first car - they were between a Lada Samara and a (then recently re-designed by Bertone) Skoda Favorit. I was more of a Lada person, but one of their friends convinced them that Skoda is much better and they went along with it. I was upset for quite a while - but now looking back at it - although Lada had its appeal, I see that they made the right choice with their limited amount of money.
by qgin | 2025-11-11 15:14:56+00:00
I think for these tools that still less than a full Drop-in Office Worker Replacement, it takes some time within organizations to figure out how they can be used to reduce human labor needs.

So what might start out as an additive tool for existing workers, over time, managers start to see ways to reorganize the work between AI and humans and find efficiencies that can lead to headcount changes.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-11 15:15:00+00:00
I don't know what to tell you other than this is well-established [1][2][3][4].

Also, what exactly is a "well run utility"? IMHO all utilities should be municipality or state owned. All privatization does is transfer wealth from the government and the not-wealthy to the already-wealthy. I suspect you might not agree however.

There are caps on how much utilities can charge but they're allowed to absorb capex (eg by building new transmission lines to a new DC) and if the utility has to buy electricity on the spot market because of increased demand (as was the case with crypto mining in upstate New York), then that raises the per-kWh cost of electricity for everyone, which is great in a cost-plus model.

We've seen this exact thing with healthcare insurance premiums. By law, a certain percentage of premiums has to be spent on giving care. Sounds good, right? So how do you, as an insurance company get around that? You push for higher premiums because that same percentage of profit now means more money. And how do you increase healthcare spend to keep that percentage intact? By spending with providers you also own.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec...

[2]: https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/what-will-data...

[3]: https://www.techpolicy.press/how-your-utility-bills-are-subs...

[4]: https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/how-data-centers-are-driv...
by vasco | 2025-11-11 15:15:08+00:00
Maybe don't take such a maximalist interpretation of other people's comments, my point that it doesn't pass that test doesn’t mean it isn't extremely useful for many things. It's just that the test is undefined so I find it funny people say they truly cannot tell it's not a real person. I could've been more crass and said it also doesn’t reply to insults like a real person. There's so many ways in which it doesn't behave like a human, but it's still pretty useful.

What I read from your reply is that you adjoin the above statement with "and therefore they are useless" but there's no need to read it like that.
by Gagarin1917 | 2025-11-11 15:15:09+00:00
>They're not conflating them, they are pointing out that the closedness of the system and the control it gives Apple will be a useful tool to authoritarians who can force Apple to exert their power in certain ways.

Oh well that’s not new. Apple has operated in China, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.

So the idea that they would be hesitant to dip their feet into complying with less savory governments is… laughable.

The current political landscape really isn’t new whatsoever. It might even be less authoritarianism overall than when Apple started in the 80’s.
by ivape | 2025-11-11 15:15:11+00:00
Death by a thousand paper cuts

Proverbs become eerie the longer you live. Almost like, woah, that one sentence was actually universally true? Well hot damn!

Keep neglecting these small things and you’ll see the level of unconstrained shit you will have unleashed onto the world. With enough of us doing so, we can take part in the great collective festival of mass garbage accumulation (aggregate all the paper cuts). The few neurotic types that lament over this are actually, believe it or not, the closest thing to a sewage system for the accumulation. As of 2025, shame as a utility, is a weak tool.

The modern website needs to be in MOMA with no explanation, just a small title that reads ‘Despair’ (Perhaps even ‘Futility’, or the more modern ‘There was an attempt’).
by lenerdenator | 2025-11-11 15:15:23+00:00
``` Apple Canton Road, Hong Kong

Apple Ginza, Tokyo

Apple Jing’an, Shanghai

Apple Marché Saint-Germain, Paris

Apple Myeongdong, Seoul

Apple Orchard Road, Singapore

Apple Piazza Liberty, Milan

Apple Regent Street, London

Apple SoHo, New York City

Apple Xinyi A13, Taipei ```

Couldn't hack it in Apple Plaza, Kansas City, huh?
by moron4hire | 2025-11-11 15:15:39+00:00
When I was a kid, I obsessed over getting a picture right the first time. But as I got older, I learned to do subject studies to refine tricky details before committing them to a larger piece.

If you ever get the chance to see the personal effects of a famous artist, most have piles and piles of sketches and studies they've done while prepping for a larger piece.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-11 15:16:47+00:00
> We really screwed the pooch on remote work, which would have made it less important to live in “the hot city” and would have let people live in Toledo or Buffalo if they wanted.

Indeed.

The Great Reshuffle: Remote Work and Residential Sorting - https://fedinprint.org/item/fedpwp/102079/original | https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/FRBP/Assets/working-... [pdf] | https://doi.org/10.21799/frbp.wp.2025.36

> This paper studies the significance of migration in evaluating the welfare impacts of remote work. By analyzing individual location history data, we first document an increase in net migration towards suburbs and smaller cities in the US since 2020. We demonstrate that the migration wave has been disproportionately fueled by high-income individuals, who were more likely to move due to remote work. Consequently, regions with substantial in-migration observed the greatest rise in housing expenses. This also led to changes in local demand for services and associated employment. Employing a stylized welfare accounting framework, we show that migration mitigated the increase in housing cost burdens for both high- and low-income groups, with the advantages being greater for low-income individuals. Conversely, dispersed job growth, as a result of migration away from major urban centers, curtailed the increase in job accessibility, especially for high-income groups. Factoring in the spatial impacts of migration on housing costs and job accessibility, the welfare inequality surge related to remote work is considerably tempered.
by thatguymike | 2025-11-11 15:16:55+00:00
Based on this article alone, I can believe this is a good thing. The US military suffers incredibly from its monopsony position and without a doubt will get a heavy wakeup call (read: dead young people) next time it has to fight a real war. In addition the army should be the most accountable and results oriented branch of government, since it’s the only one that’s actively oppositional. If we can’t fix procurement there then what hope do we have for the rest of government?
by deepriverfish | 2025-11-11 15:17:32+00:00
I hear this a lot, but there are many things for which you can use both, so they're competitors. Also most Rust developers want to use it everywhere, including areas where you normally reach out to C, so if people that like Rust want to use it for things that are usually made with C, and Zig is a replacement for C, it seems to me they're competitors, no?
by FredPret | 2025-11-11 15:17:48+00:00
I would add exercise and sunshine.

But yeah, our ancestors lived in constant danger of getting eaten by sabre tooth tigers, freezing in the snow, catching maalria, and, in general, watching terrible things happen to their tribe.

They had no therapy, no supplements, no self help section on the cave wall art.

They were forced into a continual outward focus with no time for navel-gazing.

They carried on through all exigencies, and succeeded mightily.
by ricochet11 | 2025-11-11 15:17:54+00:00
I once paid $1000 for some sneakers. I’m still regularly wearing them 7 years later. I’ve bought $50/$100 and they never last that long. It was an insane purchase at the time, done in a moment of jet lagged madness when my shoes fell apart in an airport. But over time it’s turned out to be a great investment. Smart, comfortable, well made.
by ux266478 | 2025-11-11 15:17:59+00:00
To be clear, Inferno is the operating system. The virtual machine is Dis. There exist a few examples[1] of 64-bit Dis, but usually the problem people run into is making the Limbo[2] compiler spit out 64-bit code.

It's rather unfortunate, Inferno is a really nice system with a lot of interesting reference stuff implemented like a typed shell[3]. It's also Plan 9 in a box with all the accoutrements, and knowers will have jumped out of their seat at the implication. I can't understate how cool the Inferno system is.

[1] - https://github.com/Plan9-Archive/9ferno

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_(programming_language)

[3] - https://inferno-os.org/inferno/man/2/alphabet-intro.html
by gvurrdon | 2025-11-11 15:18:13+00:00
Readers may be interested to know what my MP had to say when I got in touch about this:

Thank you for your email.

The UK has a strong tradition of safeguarding privacy while ensuring that appropriate action can be taken against criminals, such as child sexual abusers and terrorists. I firmly believe that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive—we can and must have both.

The Investigatory Powers Act governs how and when data can be requested by law enforcement and other relevant agencies. It includes robust safeguards and independent oversight to protect privacy, ensuring that data is accessed only in exceptional cases and only when necessary and proportionate.

The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false. It is possible for online platforms to have strong cybersecurity measures whilst also ensuring that criminal activities can be detected.

It should be noted that the Home Office cannot comment on operational security matters, including confirming or denying the existence of any notices it has issued. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

I support the responsible use of data and technology to drive economic growth, create new jobs, and empower individuals. It is essential that data is used safely and wisely, and that individuals remain in control of how their data is used.

Additionally, I welcome the Government’s transparency regarding how data is used, including on the algorithms that process this information. Several algorithms have already been published for public scrutiny, with more to follow—as resources allow—across multiple departments.

Thank you once again for contacting me about this important issue.
by chiph | 2025-11-11 15:18:20+00:00
And now we have the Loudness War where the songs are so highly compressed that there is no dynamic range. Because of this, I have to reduce the volume so it isn't painful to listen to. And this makes what should have been a live recording with interesting sound into background noise. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

If you want a recent-ish album to listen to that has good sound, try Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (which won the Best Engineered Album Grammy award in 2014). Or anything engineered by Alan Parsons (he's in this list many times)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Engineer...
by Communitivity | 2025-11-11 15:18:26+00:00
The article makes sense for me. I see it like the broken windows policy of software development. If you allow sloppiness in the small places, the places where you allow it will grow, until your code base is riddled with it. The fight for code quality is also a fight against damaging bugs and against exploitable vulnerabilities.

One big problem with the fight is that industry is incentivized to cut corners. '(Fast, Cheap, Good)..pick two' often results in managers picking fast and cheap. In some ways,they seem legally obligated to fast and cheap due to fiduciary responsibility to the stockholders. That's only if you look at the potential profit and risks from a very short term. Alas, that is what most of the world's businesses do at the moment. To paraphrase Dom from the Fast and the Furious, "We live our lives one business quarter at a time". Eventually Dom discovers the futility of that during the course of the series. Hopefully we will too, before we crash.
by freejazz | 2025-11-11 15:18:44+00:00
>That's not how laws and regulations work in European or even EU countries. Courts/the legal system in Germany can not set legal precedents for other countries, and countries don't use legal precedents from other countries, as they obviously have different laws. It could be cited as an authority, but no one is obligated to follow that.

Do you have some sort of different understanding of copyright law where it's legal to commercially use lyrics (verbatim, mind you) without a license?
by moribvndvs | 2025-11-11 15:19:09+00:00
I’m still in software, but I left the toxic combination of health information technology and a troubled mid-sized EHR company that was being further ruined by PE and bad leadership.

My new job is a start-up, very small team with a pretty run of the mill stack. I expected to come in hot and heavy to get them up to speed in a flurry of shock and awe. There was no pressure, no red tape, no standups or scrum ceremony, I didn’t have hours and hours of meetings every day anymore, just a set of priorities and some rough expectations on timelines. I had no fucking idea what to do. Not because the requirements were bad or the code was difficult or the expectations were unreasonable, but because I had been jumping from one dumpster fire after another for honestly two decades and thus had no idea how to prioritize or manage time outside of an emergency or urgent deadline. I absolutely collapsed and struggled for a few months to really get much done. Fortunately, my boss is an old friend who had been through the same thing and expected my transition to be difficult, not because the new job is hard but because I would need to unlearn so much bad behavior and process my trauma/stress. At the same time, I realized how that constant sense of urgency hamstrung the way I approached problems as an engineer. It was clear I didn’t work “best” under stress, I had merely learned how to survive in that environment. That was my great re-awakening.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-11-11 15:19:25+00:00
I own the blu-ray of The Terminator 2, and briefly owned the 4k as well. The 4k looks like dogshit, with or without HDR enabled. This is largely due to the film using DNR to remove film grain, which they did for the 4k transfer was created for the 2017 3D release (film grain is bad in 3D I guess). The transfer is also much, much more blue.
by nightpool | 2025-11-11 15:19:43+00:00
The post in question had early empirical data comparing bug reports from Node, Bun and Deno. It wasn't the main focus of the article, and I would love to see a deeper dive, but it showed that Bun had almost 8x the amount of "crash" or "segfault" bug reports on Github as Deno, despite having almost the same amount of total issues created. (4% of bug reports for Deno are crashes, 26% of bug reports for Bun are crashes).

This matches my experience with the runtimes in question—I tried Bun out for a very small project and ran into 3 distinct crashes, often in very simple parts of the code like command line processing. Obviously not every crash / null-pointer dereference is a memory safety issue, but I think most people would agree that Zig does not seem to make bug-free software easier to write.
by killerstorm | 2025-11-11 15:19:44+00:00
Tangentially related: AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini) are unable to get public code from GitHub. (I.e. specifically assistants you use via web site, not Codex, Claude Code, etc.)

Again, as it might be hard to believe, as situation is rather insane: flagship AI assistants cannot get publicly available code. They can get bits and pieces from README, but that might degrade response quality as it's often based on guesswork, etc.

Example via GPT-5 Thinking, my request:

``` Can you read code from https://github.com/killerstorm/auto-ml-runner/blob/master/ru... ?

If yes, show me some port of code and how you got it. ```

(That's normal URL user can access from the browser, you also get same result if you post top-level repo URL https://github.com/killerstorm/auto-ml-runner/).

Thinking: 2 minutes. (IT WAS THINKING FOR TWO MINUTES JUST TO ACCESS ONE FILE!)

``` Short answer: yes...

Why I’m not pasting a snippet right this second:

In this environment, GitHub’s code pages are loading their chrome but not returning the file body ```

So, actually, no, it cannot read it, but it believes it can. That's rather problematic.

Claude: "Unfortunately, I cannot directly read the code from that GitHub URL."

Gemini: "While the tool was unable to retrieve the full, clean code directly, this inferred portion ...". I.e. it just imagined the code. The snippet has nothing to do with code in repo.

This is a rather fucktacular situation as agents are not sure if they read the code, and they might hallucinate subtly wrong code trying to be helpful.

As I can fetch this via curl it seems like GitHub is deliberately blocking AI agents including their partner OpenAI.
by morshu9001 | 2025-11-11 15:20:17+00:00
I used Erlang for a couple of years. It's cool and elegant for sure, but it always felt like it took longer to write than JS or Py like I'd otherwise use. Recursion with matchers is sometimes natural, sometimes roundabout to what you want to do.

The multiprocess stuff is cool too, but a premature optimization for what I was doing. If I needed to scale, I don't know if that'd be the chosen approach.
by Y_Y | 2025-11-11 15:20:23+00:00
https://thelanguagenerds.com/2023/literal-chinese-translatio...

You might then enjoy a list of these "accidental semantics" acquired by foreign country names, which are* rough transliterations, usually from local or English name.

I can't find the nice source I originally had, so here's a stochastic patrot's approximation:

United States 美国 Měiguó Beautiful Country China 中国 Zhōngguó Middle Country Japan 日本 Rìběn Origin of the Sun Germany 德国 Déguó Virtuous Country India 印度 Yìndù India United Kingdom 英国 Yīngguó Heroic Country France 法国 Fǎguó Law Country Italy 意大利 Yìdàlì Italy Canada 加拿大 Jiānádà Canada South Korea 韩国 Hánguó Han Country

* Obviously CJK etc countries already had names
by moron4hire | 2025-11-11 15:20:39+00:00
I had to think way too hard about what the author was trying to say. It smacks of an attempt at precise language, yet the subject matter is not precise at all. The author commits a Paul Grahamism, assuming their personal experience is generalizable and uniform.

Certainly, some artists work in the way they describe. Maybe even "most", who knows. But there are plenty of artists that do not. I've known plenty of artists to go straight to the detail in one corner of their piece and work linearly all the way across and down the canvas. I don't know how they do it, it certainly doesn't work for me, but obviously different people work in different ways.
by ChaosOp | 2025-11-11 15:20:41+00:00
Thank you! Very interesting, maybe 2014 was too early for this kind of gaming, as now the concept really seems to resonate with people and we have been enjoying quite many months of doubling user amounts. But of course time will only tell...

I know AirConsole also struggled quite a lot in the beginning and now in the end they ended up in car entertainment as KPIT bought the whole company. So they don't focus on web/living-room gaming any more