MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-12 21:52:46+00:00
> We still need to fix the problem with powering these Datacenters....

Not really. We need to insulate consumers from the market that is solving and will solve that problem. That's a financial engineering and policy problem. America is good at the first. We're bad at the second. That implies state and local initiatives should take the lead.

My proposal: one market for essential residential consumption, defined as the median household consumption per region [1]. (If you don't use your allocation, you should earn a rebate.) Above that, market price. Same for preferred commercial uses, e.g. retail and local government.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/electricit...
by zamadatix | 2025-11-12 21:53:20+00:00
Completely different discussion. Regardless, you skipped explaining why these options worked for Canadian Penny (just 12 years ago) at a time when their penny had more buying power than the current US penny, yet the exact same thing cannot ever possibly work for the US penny.

Things don't just happen to cost *.99 today either, the market just has wiggle room for bullshit about values. With inflation, the coinage that corresponds to also inflates over time. The penny is long past its time.

Furthermore:

> Rounding to the closest nickel will cost consumers about $6 million a year, according to a July study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. That is fairly modest, coming to about five cents each across 133 million American households.

The US lost ~$85 million minting pennies in 2024 because they cost more to make than they are worth. That's over a 10x savings, not a loss. 5 cents is also less than 0.00006% of median household income in 2024.

If people were actually that worried we'd have had laws about credit card transaction fees decades ago.
by theultdev | 2025-11-12 21:53:46+00:00
Yes they will, they will prefer natural gas of those two. The main reason of emission reductions as we transition off of coal.

I really hope we go all in on nuclear though, with some natural gas and get rid of the windmills. Solar, hydro, geothermal can stay where it makes sense.

Unfortunately our skies and land are littered with windmills made out of unrecyclable polymers that are terrible for raptors.

Queue someone quoting how many cats kill birds like competing with the top predator is a good thing, or ignoring the fact that we put these in raptors' wind streams and cats don't hunt those large birds (which are usually endangered)

Our kids deserve nuclear.
by bossyTeacher | 2025-11-12 21:54:20+00:00
Given all the potential money, if they are issues, I expect it to go down like tobacco companies back in the days actively suppressing undesirable research by harassing researchers, influencing peer review journals or/and funding research casting doubt on the benefits of this drug. Chances are that any negative effects won't be obvious until it's too late. Look at microplastics, they have been around for just over a century and it's only now that we are starting to realize that they have several negative effects.
by velcrovan | 2025-11-12 21:54:33+00:00
I use it on Firefox and Safari on Mac OS (mainly Safari), and it's been OK except it's started doing a thing where it blips a bit after roughly the first 1sec of video plays.

I wonder if being a YouTube Premium subscriber is also a factor here. I do pay for it so I don't see ads. But maybe the way ads are being served/injected has changed things for the worse for people that get them.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-11-12 21:55:09+00:00
I'm a huge fan of the "I Expect You To Die" series. They're basically a series of small escape rooms. The game's designed to be played seated.

You play James Bond, except that for various silly reasons you find yourself stationary, and you have psychic powers to reach far away stuff because, again, stationary. "They've trapped Bond in a bathysphere!" "You're in a car in a jet ful of poisonous gas that's going to explode!" Each level will kill you quickly and hilariously over and over until you figure out a sequence of steps to survive.
by jcgl | 2025-11-12 21:55:16+00:00
> I have a distaste for the verboseness of PowerShell, but I also have concerns with the attempt to bake in complex objects into the pipeline. When you do that, programs up and down the stream need to be aware of that - and that makes it brittle.

Yeah, you definitely can't write tools for the unix shell that assume some kind of self-describing message encoding. I mean, you could, but you'd have to do a lot of work to wrap it so that it can work with unix byte streams at the edges. I believe oil shell and nushell have prior art on this. To your point, it should be telling that those are shells of their own, rather than tools for existing unix shells.

> One key aspect of the Unix way is that the stream is of bytes (often interpreted as characters) with little to no hint as to what's inside it. This way, tools like `grep` and `awk` can be generic and work on anything while others such as `jq` can specialize and work only on a specific data format, and can do more sophisticated manipulation because of that.

This seems backwards to me. grep and awk are extremely fragile because they have to look at what's inside. They have to read every byte, and the user of grep and awk must understand entirely what the incoming data will be.

Whereas with PowerShell or any other system with self-describing messages, the user makes some lightweight assertions about the abstract shape of the data--not the concrete shape of that data's representation.
by KronisLV | 2025-11-12 21:55:27+00:00
> CPU Semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T up to 4.8 GHz, 30W TDP

> GPU Semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs 2.45GHz max sustained clock, 110W TDP

> RAM 16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM

All of those seem a little low (at least judging by power usage) when compared to your average tower gaming PC build, but modern parts are pretty power efficient and given the form factor (and hopefully reasonable price) it seems like it's gonna be a pretty good device - definitely enough for most indie titles, all e-sports titles, even AA/AAA games with some upscaling/framegen, although I predict that your average UE5 slop game will wipe the floor with it. That doesn't reflect badly on the hardware, just how the devs use the engine in some cases, but at the same time being able to use it as a regular SFF PC is nice as well, actually a good reason to buy it compared to most consoles.
by timonoko | 2025-11-12 21:55:45+00:00
I recently asked @grok about Prolog being useless incomprehensible shit for anything bigger than one page:

Professionals write Prolog by focusing on the predicates and relations and leaving the execution flow to the interpreter. They also use the Constraint Logic Programming extensions (like clpfd) which use smart, external algorithms to solve problems instead of relying on Prolog's relatively "dumb" brute-force search, which is what typically leads to the "exploding brain" effect in complex code.

--- Worth mentioning here is that I wrote Prolog all on my own in 1979. On top of Nokolisp of course. There was no other functioning Prolog at that time I knew about.

Thereafter I have often planned "Infinity-Prolog" which can solve impossible problem with lazy evaluation.

I just learned from @grok that this Constraint Logic is basically what was aiming at.
by vanadium1st | 2025-11-12 21:55:59+00:00
I get that there needed to be tradeoffs, I just disagree with this particular one. I could suggest many other ways to save ten bucks in hardware costs. Any other cost saving measure would still allow to play the same games, just with worse performance. But this choice cuts the stock device off from an entire class of apps - in my opinion the best of them all.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-12 21:56:27+00:00
Not the answer you're looking for, I know, but I used to have 100+ labels/folders, 4-5 deep, and decade+ old emails, obsessively organized etc.

5 years ago, I dropped down to 20 labels, and started routinely deleting anything over 5 years old except for a specific "keep forever" label.

No regrets. No instances of searching for old items and not finding them, etc.
by starkparker | 2025-11-12 21:56:35+00:00
The videos I've seen about the Frame all call out the front expansion port, which "Valve says ... offers a dual 2.5Gbps MIPI camera interface and also supports a one-lane Gen 4 PCIe data port for other peripherals."[1]

That's plenty to support color passthrough as a physical addon, which in turn makes me think that, like with the OLED Deck, we'll see a Frame with built-in color-passthrough later as a different premium SKU when/if they justify it.

1: https://www.uploadvr.com/valve-steam-frame-official-announce...
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-12 21:56:55+00:00
Agreed.

I'm a big fan of intermittent and water fasting. Have seen things in my blood work that doctors would require me on meds to reverse. Outside of that, I can't speak to the positive impacts on my mood, and general ability to focus.

The simplest solution to a lot of problems is consuming less with the assumption that, most of us (maybe not you), have a lot of spare energy sitting around.

A lie that we don't unlearn as we grow up is we "require" three meals a day. This is true for children who need obscene amounts of energy to grow, but, not for us desk-bound adults.

In the end, giving the body a break to heal by fasting or just consuming significantly less is going to leave more resources for the body energy to deal with other things.
by AshleyGrant | 2025-11-12 21:56:57+00:00
This is an absolutely insane take. By your comment, everyone who has a net worth of less than a billion dollars should just sit down, shut up, and let the rich people talk.

We should all have the equal right and ability to have our voice heard ESPECIALLY when it comes to political speech. Allowing billionaires and massive corporations the right to use their wealth to drown out the voices of the absolute vast majority of the population is already destroying the public discourse in this country, and it will likely be looked at by historians in 100+ years as one of the biggest issues that led to the downfall of the United States of America.

Money should not equal speech. Full stop.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-12 21:57:13+00:00
I don't know about MongoDB and its query language, but wrt Fortran, it's unreasonable to say that Prolog is more powerful than Fortran (or vice versa). A more reasonable statement is that Prolog is more expressive than Fortran (though this gets fuzzy, we have to define expressiveness in a way that lets us rank languages). But the power of a language normally means what we can compute using that language. Prolog and Fortran both have the same level of "power", but it's certainly fair to say that expressing many programs is easier in Prolog than Fortran, and there are some (thinking back to my scientific computing days) that are easier to express in Fortran than Prolog.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-12 21:57:14+00:00
"Humans make math errors, yet they do math anyway, therefore this calculator that makes errors is also OK."

What do you call the fallacy where the universe is imperfect, therefore nobody can have higher standards for anything?

Mankind has spent literal centuries observing deficiencies and faults in human bookkeeping and calculation, constantly trying to improve it with processes and machinery. There's no good reason to suddenly stop caring about those issues simply because the latest proposal is marketed as "AI".
by JeremyNT | 2025-11-12 21:57:25+00:00
I guess there's a market for this but I'm personally disappointed that they've gone with the "cram a computer into the headset" route. I'd much rather have a simpler, more compact dumb device like the Bigscreen Beyond 2, which in exchange should prove much lighter and more comfortable to wear for long time periods.

The bulk and added component cost of the "all in one" PC/headset models is just unnecessary if you already have a gaming PC.
by raffisk | 2025-11-12 21:57:27+00:00
Good call—reasoning token variance is likely a factor, esp with logprob clustering at T=0. Your <think></think> workaround would work, but we need reasoning intact for financial QA accuracy.

Also the mistral medium model we tested had ~70% deterministic outputs across the 16 runs for the text to sql gen and summarization in json tasks- and it had reasoning on. Llama 3.3 70b started to degrade and doesn’t have reasoning. But it’s a relevant variable to consider
by tart-lemonade | 2025-11-12 21:57:35+00:00
It does have IR tracking, so presumably it could be made compatible with lighthouses, but if they don't make it compatible (and currently the page makes no mention of it) I don't know how well it could track objects out of frame considering the cameras are still mounted on the headset.

The controllers also have gyros, but from what I've read dead reckoning from gyros small enough for mobile devices really isn't reliable for extended periods.
by mindcrash | 2025-11-12 21:57:43+00:00
The Finals has mtx, is protected by EAC, and is playable on Steam Deck.

Throne and Liberty, which is also protected by EAC and has mtx, is also playable on Steam Deck.

So this is bullshit and it clearly shows it's the publisher's choice. What Sweeney thinks has nothing to do with it.
by sebst | 2025-11-12 21:57:47+00:00
Same for me. I've seen many people being back to normal though.

I re-enrolled on mobile using a Yubikey NFC with the iOS app back in October when prompted.

Force logged-out today from a session on Desktop Chrome. Stuck in the loop. Force logged-out on iOS app.

Burnt recovery code in further attempts.

Tried again when support asked me to by email. Got a "suspicious login attempt prevented" message. That's 2 hours ago. Silence from support since.

Tried again, back to the loop (the "suspicious login attempt" message is gone), but I'm still not able to re-enroll the key.

Anyone can describe their setup that managed to login again?
by circuit10 | 2025-11-12 21:58:05+00:00
One of the most interesting parts of this to me that not many people are talking about is what their approach will be to making Steam games work on ARM…

I assume they will have put a lot of work into an emulation layer (maybe an existing one like FEX) to make it usable similar to what they did with Proton? This could be really good for the Linux ARM ecosystem in general
by ivanbakel | 2025-11-12 21:58:22+00:00
>You don't think businesses take advantage of situations for more profit?

That's not the point. Businesses are obviously happy to raise prices under the confusion of other changes, but I find it very hard to believe "accounting fees" are a plausible way to do so. People know that the register machine can do the calculations easily - it already does so. And there is a good reason for businesses not to introduce such fees, because they are directly visible to the consumer who is going to complain and shop elsewhere.

The UPS example is apples to oranges. Tariffs are poorly understood, and consumers rarely shop around for shipping - they tend to take the service given by the merchant. The agency people will show on 2 random cents on every shop is way higher.

>It's not super relevant to the discussion of whether rounding can/will be gamed.

It's very relevant. How are consumers going to react to a price like $1.03? Especially since that's almost certainly something that would previously have been priced at $1.
by to11mtm | 2025-11-12 21:58:25+00:00
> Generics work as you would expect with very few weird corner cases. No boxed types because... everything is an object!

Took me a moment to realize you meant that 'Java has corner cases because everything is an object' but yes.

Will also add the 'advantage' that for value types (i.e. struct) the generics are 'specialized' for the type, in certain cases you can use that for performance optimizations. (although it can have downsides.)

> The last two facts mean that you also get generic arrays, which are fantastic (and, incidentally, are also _implemented_ in C#, which is super cool)

And, fun side note, the generic arrays actually existed before real generics (and we get fun hacks in the VM as a result!)

.NET does still have funkiness around Array Covariance tho, which sometimes can be a pain.

> By default, reference types are not nullable.

This is a newer feature and great, however it requires people to (1) use libraries that properly do it and (2) requires you to have the right tag in the csproj to flag the NRT warnings as errors. I've yet to see a shop that has adopted (2) as a default.

> In general, the standard library is also better organized. Interfaces start with "I". Collections libraries have been carefully designed and learned many lessons from Java. A good example of an improvement over Java is the IEnumerable<T>/IEnumerator<T> class, which is simpler than Java's Iterator<T>

Yes and also the sugar around yield syntax to do generators.

> Properties are really nice, and the shorthand syntax for property getters/setters saves a lot of time.

I still remember getting called into a Dev Manager's office, he's a JVM guy and he's goes into this overview of Lombok and how the JVM folks want to use it and he asks what I think and I'm like "Gee wow give me a moment I thought Java had AutoProps by now". (I think it was the first time he was impressed with C# as a language lmao, He and later I were disappointed in .NET's lack of a good set of thread pool abstractions...)

> .NET's runtime reflection capabilities are amazing. All of my autograders make extensive use of reflection instead of forcing students to compile with interfaces; this gives them a degree of freedom in implementing things.

That is so freaking cool and I love it. Profs like you made college fun back in the day.

> NuGet is a million times easier to use than Maven.

Truth; every time I have to do a thing in JVM dealing with maven feels like I need a goat or chicken to make anything work right.

> The downside is that C# is definitely not as fast as Java, in particular when the runtime is starting up. I remember how painful Java startup used to be, so I am optimistic that this will improve eventually.

We have AOT and R2R nowadays, I'm not sure if it's 'JVM Fast' for something like a webservice but unless you're pulling in something like an ORM it's typically fast enough I can't observe a difference as a user for utility apps/etc... Curious what examples you have in mind?
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-12 21:58:28+00:00
Why does OpenAI collect and retain for 30 days^1 chats that the user wants to be deleted

It was doing this prior to being sued by the NYT and many others

OpenAI was collecting chats even when the user asked for deletion, i.e., the user did not want them saved

That's why a lawsuit could require OpenAi to issue a hold order, retain these chats for longer and produce them to another party in discovery

If OpenAI was not collecting these chats in the ordinary course of its business before being sued by the NYT and many others, then there would be no "deleted chats" for OpenAI to be compelled by court order to retain and produce to the plaintiffs

1. Or whatever period OpenAI decides on. It could change at any time for any reason. However OpenAI cannot change their retention policy to some shortened period after being sued. Google tried this a few years ago. It began destroying chats between employees after Google was on notice it was going to be sued by the US government and state AGs
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-12 21:59:31+00:00
That's not why Python is popular. Python is popular because universities don't provide technical support to researchers (which they should). So those researchers picked up the scripting language the sysops in the univ clusters were using. Those same researchers left academia but never learned any CS or other programming languages. Instead they used the 'if all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail' logic and used Python to glue together libraries, mostly written in C.

PS The big companies that actually make the LLMs, don't use Python (anymore). Its a lousy language for ML/AI. Its designed to script Linux GUIs and automate tasks. Its started off as a Perl replacement afterall. And this isn't a slight on the folks who write Python itself. It is a problem for all the folks who insist on slamming it into all sorts of places that it isn't well suited because they won't learn any CS.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-12 22:00:26+00:00
Sales taxes in the US are truly and insanely decentralized.

The US has thousands of independent sales tax authorities with their own laws and regulations about how sales tax must be computed and displayed. These jurisdictions overlap, the sales tax you pay may be the aggregate of multiple different sales tax authorities between which there is no coordination.

Rounding to the nearest 5c or whatever creates a situation where in many locales it would be impossible to comply with sales tax and pricing laws because different tax authorities requiring mutually exclusive ways of making this change.

This creates an obvious need to change the law. This is not trivial because they are often written into statute or constrained by constitutional processes. It requires thousands of jurisdictions to all change their laws at the same time in the same way, which is effectively impossible. Even if it weren't the process would require several years. In many locales it requires a democratic vote -- what if the voters vote against it? Courts aren't going to let the government ignore these requirements because it would be inconvenient.

It really is a "herding cats" problem. There are many other things in the US that effectively can't be changed because there is no central authority to overcome coordination problems by fiat. Even at the level of all 50 States, resolving these kinds of coordination problems typically takes several decades.
by exabrial | 2025-11-12 22:00:35+00:00
Eating less, exercising more, has worked for the entire existence of human race. In fact, it worked for me just fine too. GLP-1s are a safe and proven tool and should be used wherever appropriate to assist people. Both of these are simple facts that aren't in contradiction with either other.

But saying the patent owners shouldn't be allowed to reap the benefits of their investment is ridiculous, especially when it's completely possible to lose weight in other ways. 6 years isn't that long to wait anyway.
by tagyro | 2025-11-12 22:00:38+00:00
[off-topic rant]

Two companies, both (quasi) monopolies in their field.

Company A built its fortune by exploiting people.

Company B built its fortune by building (somewhat) decent products.

Company A developed a very advanced approach to hiring: specific questions to assess a candidate’s psychometric profile, screens to weed out bad choices, and a laser focus on the "top 0.1%".

Company B made it very public that hiring well is vital and encouraged every employee to think about it and participate. They even published an Employee Handbook years ago [0]

Today, many startups copy Company A’s playbook: crafting advanced questionnaires, trick questions, and trying to detect behavioural traits in their candidates.

No startup (that I know of [1]) has adopted Company B’s strategy.

Take your pick on who Company A is. Company B is Valve.

[0]: http://media.steampowered.com/apps/valve/Valve_Handbook_LowR...

[1]: I kjnow of one that <<pretends>> to
by bigyabai | 2025-11-12 22:00:57+00:00
Maybe they'll pull a Cyberpunk, and just add a "Steam Machine" setting to their Windows version when you run it in translation.

I'd prefer that. It's easier for developers, easier for me, and only harms the already-negligible market of curmudgeonly native pundits that probably don't use Steam in the first place.