MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by varenc | 2025-12-28 03:54:57+00:00
Appreciate you not following Tailscale's authentication many SSO provider approach. It makes sense for teams/business, (Tailscale's customers) but creates some confusion and extra friction for casual homelab users like me. I have a note in 1Password for tailscale.com just titled "USE GITHUB AUTH".

Passkeys work great for me and I greatly prefer them. Exe.dev I think is the first service I've seen that's so passkey centric and it makes a lot of sense.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-12-28 03:55:40+00:00
> Someone who's afraid of a specific thing, however, cannot transmit fear of that specific thing unless there's some incredible and unexplored cognition-to-biomolecular signalling mechanism that's entirely unexplored and undescribed.

While there is absolutely no conclusive evidence, there are a few studies that indicate this is a possibility.

One such study from 2013: https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.3594

Again, there’s not strong proof- but at least plausible evidence.
by im_down_w_otp | 2025-12-28 03:56:26+00:00
I meant the other way. I would switch over to playing something like Destiny on Steam on my PC and just use the Windows Xbox app for joining chat parties with my friends, but if I am playing on PC using a Controller, I’m going to end up matched with a ton of cheaters and be in mixed MnK and controller lobbies. By continuing to play on Xbox I mostly avoid those issues, save for PlayStation players using a Cronus or Xim.

However, in writing this I’ve realized that this is really only a problem for me when playing Destiny and only when I’m playing PvP. As the player population continues to die and I move on to other games or mostly PvE content in Destiny, then I’m not going to care anymore and I can switch entirely over to PC.

On the one hand, that’s going to be pretty convenient. On the other, it’s kind of a sad realization as it marks the end of a very long era of console gaming for me stretching all the way back to the NES.

My son has a Switch, but other than that my kids have only ever known using a PC as a “console”. Their play room has a relatively compact PC (13th Gen. Intel CPU & ARC A770 dGPU) connected to a TV that just runs Steam and Batocera with 4x USB 8BitDo controllers attached.

By all appearances, until about the last year or so, I would look like an ideal customer demographic for Microsoft. I’ve purchased every single gaming platform they’ve ever produced, but I’m thiiiiiiiiis close to having migrated entirely away, and it wasn’t really a conscious decision. It just sort of happened a little bit at a time. :-/
by troad | 2025-12-28 03:57:54+00:00
The established wisdom is that it is because the Xbox was one generation "behind" the PS. They didn't want to call the second Xbox an "Xbox 2" because people would assume it was intended to be a competitor to the PS2, when in fact it was a competitor to the PS3 - hence, "Xbox 360".

They went off the deep end after that, Xbox One was a stupid name, and the current letters are just straight up confusing. They should have gone from Xbox 360 to Xbox 4 to Xbox 5. Yes, it would be a little embarrassing to copy your competitor's versioning, but that's a very small price to pay for consumer clarity.
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-28 03:59:22+00:00
> It's more along the lines of "if the EUR goes to 1.5, what does this do to eurozone economies?" and the answer to that isn't pretty for europe.

If all the prices rise in the US to compensate, Europe stays exactly as competitive as before.

> And finally, remember: the US actually exports inflation

You are blowing the horn yelling that this just stopped. Or what do you think a dollar devaluation is?
by renewiltord | 2025-12-28 04:00:02+00:00
Quite hard to find couch coop these days. People play mostly online. Overcooked, It Takes Two, Larian studios games are the ones we’ve found that we enjoy as a couple. But realistically only Overcooked is drop in arcade like playable.

Though one vertical shooter “sky force reloaded” is super fun in the old style.
by Horlahcoded | 2025-12-28 04:00:26+00:00
This package provides the Laravel integration of Brick/Money.

```
use Devhammed\LaravelBrickMoney\Money;
use Devhammed\LaravelBrickMoney\Currency;

echo Money::of(100); // '$100.00'

echo Money::of(100, Currency::of('EUR')); // '€100,00'

echo Money::of(100, 'USD'); // '$100.00'

echo Money::ofMinor(100); // '$1.00'

echo Money::ofMinor(100, 'EUR'); // '€1,00'
```
by adamddev1 | 2025-12-28 04:00:53+00:00
I worked through https://htdp.org (which uses untyped Racket), and funny enough, that's what really for me thinking about type driven development. The book gets you to think about and manually annotate the types coming in and out of functions. FP just makes it so natural to think about putting functions together and thinking about the "type" of data that comes in and out, even if you're using a dynamically typed language.
by scoofy | 2025-12-28 04:01:17+00:00
The problem with a progressive tax for a service is that there is no pricing mechanism to direct it.

If fewer people drive, and more take the train, how is the state compelled to shift funding?

This is one of the hard problems of politics, and it’s one of the reasons markets have been successful, but most people entirely ignore it.

Again, the point of the article is that we already do not have enough budget for road infrastructure, and the roads are already significantly subsidized by federal highway spending. Any solution of “more taxes on wealth and earnings” is theoretically doable, but practically very difficult. Taxing use seems entirely reasonable.
by wincy | 2025-12-28 04:01:24+00:00
That said, my kids got a Switch 2 for Christmas and we just got done with a super fun session of Mario Party Jamboree and boy are Mario, Bowser, and the gang looking GREAT! Super fun, everyone was laughing and having a great time. They’ve always operated in a different universe than the other console makers.

If we want to play the sorts of games XBOX and PlayStation offer, we’ll just load up the Steam Deck, or if it’s a super graphically intensive game we’ll use my RTX 5090 I use for local LLMs anyway. With a few console commands and config hacking, I was able to get Portal 2 to run split screen across 2 full screens for each player, which was super fun!
by jaggederest | 2025-12-28 04:01:36+00:00
> I don't know the pharmacokinetics of GLP-1 drugs but my guess is that they don't have the same sort of effects on SC tissue?

They do, but nothing like insulin does. GLP-1 drugs are more centrally and viscerally active than subcutaneously active, so the effects locally are more related to the physics of injecting solutions subcutaneously than the drugs themselves. They're also much smaller doses than are needed for insulin in general, so the volume averaged over a week is pretty tiny.

Also, as a result of the relative lack of local activity, injection sites are basically unlimited (anywhere from above the knee to above the elbow, except the neck) without fear of lipohypertrophy in the local area.
by jfil | 2025-12-28 04:01:59+00:00
It's a creative outlet where I can try out silly/unusual writing. Its a way to record useful how-tos so that I can refer to the steps in the future & help others. And it lowers the "activation enery" on getting curious/exploring: I am more likely to indulge in a deep-dive on a topic if I know at the end I'll "surface" from the dive with useful insights for others to read.
by rastrian | 2025-12-28 04:02:01+00:00
I get your point about ICFP drifting into “types, types, types.” I don’t think FP benefits are only static typing or immutability, pure-ish core/imperative shell, and explicit effects matter a lot even in dynamic languages.

My angle was narrower: static types + ADTs improve the engineering loop (refactors, code review, test construction) by turning whole classes of mistakes into compiler errors. That’s not “what FP is”, it’s one very effective reliability layer that many FP ecosystems emphasize.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-12-28 04:03:02+00:00
The way it works is:

A company adopts some software with a free but not copyleft license. Adopts means they declare "this is good, we will use it".

Developers help develop the software (free of charge) and the company says thank you very much for the free labour.

Company puts that software into everything it does, and pushes it into the infrastructure of everything it does.

Some machines run that software because an individual developer put it there, other machines run that software because a company put it there, some times by exerting some sort of power for it to end up there (for example, economic incentives to vendors, like android).

A some point the company says "you know what, we like this software so much that we're going to fork it, but the fork isn't going to be free or open source. It's going to be just ours, and we're not going to share the improvements we made"

But now that software is already running in a lot of machines.

Then the company says "we're going to tweak the software a bit, so that it's no longer inter-operable with the free version. You have to install our proprietary version, or you're locked out" (out of whatever we're discussing hypothetically. Could be a network, a standard, a protocol, etc).

Developers go "shit, I guess we need to run the proprietary version now. we lost control of it."

This is what happened e.g. with chrome. There's chromium, anyone can build it. But that's not chrome. And chrome is what everybody uses because google has lock-in power. Then google says "oh I'm going to disallow you running the extensions you like, so we can show you more ads". Then they make tweaks to chrome so that websites only get rendered well if they use certain APIs, so now competitors to Chrome are forced to implement those APIs, but those aren't public.

And all of this was initially build by free labour, which google took, by people who thought they were contributing to some commons in a sense.

Copyleft licenses protect against this. Part of the license says: if you use these licenses, and you make changes to the software, you have to share the changes as well, you can't keep them for yourself".
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2025-12-28 04:03:53+00:00
Hi OP! In case you're still reading these comments, I wanted to give some feedback. I played it over the last couple days with a total of about 12 different people. Our busiest games had 7 players in them.

The product: The accessibility is key. Telling people to "scan the QR code" is great for getting it going.

The games: They're great. I love the variety and creativity. One problem is I had friends saying "They hate 75% of the games", and I don't know how you fix that - The games some players hate, other players _love_. But as someone who used to be in the game industry, I can promise you trying to make a game nobody hates is how you end up with bland flavor. Please don't end up there.

The lag: I don't know what it is - are the channels backlogged or what - But I would say 20-30% of devices are _unplayable_. It's not like the inputs are delayed, it's that they're fully unpredictable about whether they will register (and for how long). Same browsers, same Android OEM, same Wifi network and just... lag. The game says 1000ms+, but even when it says 200 it's laggy. This is probably your biggest issue, since in a 5 player party game, 1 or 2 people not having fun kills the mood.
by DetectDefect | 2025-12-28 04:04:11+00:00
> The researcher-turned-educator-turned-investor

This is enough qualification to discard the opinion of this individual on any topic, but especially artificial intelligence. To wit:

> "I think for a lot of AI models, the benefit is so much greater than the harm," he said. "The death of any single person is absolutely tragic," Ng added, referencing recent suicides that allegedly involved the use of AI. "At the same time, I am nervous about one or two anecdotes leading to stifling regulations."

This guy is just here to water down the kool-aid so everyone can take a drink.
by encrypted_bird | 2025-12-28 04:04:49+00:00
While I agree with your overall point (that Sony's customer support in this case is terrible), I feel it also illustrates the biggest flaw in SAAS gaming and the inability to back up game installers (á la GOG) if one wishes to: that if someone else dictates your access to games you supposedly own, then you don't actually own it. Access = ownership.
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by whycome | 2025-12-28 04:06:07+00:00
2 Star Trek tv shows airing and one in development and a movie came out. West coast grunge scene in full effect. Kurt cobain died. MLB baseball strike after a killer Montreal expos team and then no World Series. OJ trial. Friends debuted. Channel tunnel opened. Mandela elected. PlayStation debut. Amazon founded. Yahoo founded. Netscape founded. USA World Cup. NAFTA. QR code invented. The Downward Spiral. Justin Bieber born. Shohei ohtani. Born. Nixon died. Jackie Kennedy died. Senna died. Ukraine gave up its nukes. Guantanamo reopened. Kim Il-sung Died. Forrest Gump.

1994 was wild
by 1123581321 | 2025-12-28 04:06:27+00:00
I think that's part of the convergence, too. A perceived war between scrappy honest influencers and legacy journalism, some long fallout from game journalism controversies a decade ago. Why would someone read a mainstream games journalist about this story, either? Same for tying a hardware console's fortunes to whatever Microsoft is doing with Activision.

All three (four counting Steam) consoles update every several years. A quick Wikipedia skim tells you almost everything you need to know about that. They're all packaging the AMD and Nvidia hardware available along some price-performance point (they all have access to the same tradeoffs) and releasing developer SDKs. Each one has a store, some deals and a slightly different take on how they integrate streaming and retro games.

I have trouble seeing how attitude affects executing any of this. The attitude only comes into play because Xbox has to respond to this meme in a way that placates gamers.
by archagon | 2025-12-28 04:07:39+00:00
I'm also defined by my friends and family, but if I decide to move states because I don't want to pay taxes, they're certainly not going to follow me. As with most people, my social circle is largely built on connections in my local community, and is not portable.

How much money would it take for me to leave them behind and start anew? Certainly not 5% of my wealth (or even 20%). And even that calculation changes completely once a long-term partner and/or children are in the picture.
by kaonwarb | 2025-12-28 04:08:18+00:00
The author’s ideological bent against Big Tech shows through most clearly in the passage on Uber:

> Uber replaced taxis by having people drive others in their own car. But what was created as "ride-sharing" was in fact a way to 1) destroy competition and 2) make a shittier service while people producing the work were paid less and lost labour rights

There are valid complaints about Uber, but most people consider it a materially better service than taxis most of the time. They vote that way with their wallets, long after VC subsidies ended, and often even when it costs _more_ than a taxi.
by jaggederest | 2025-12-28 04:08:29+00:00
You used to have Xbox Live Gold and Silver, they ought to just make a Bronze level that allows free multiplayer but spams you with ads, Silver allows multiplayer ad-free and a limited selection of rotated games ala the epic store freebies, and gold includes the Game Pass functionality + everything else and a special cosmetic tag so people know you're a Serious Gamer. Could even go with Xbox Live Diamond which is $100 a month and only includes a diamond tag and some microsoft store credit each month, to capture the financially irresponsible market.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-28 04:09:26+00:00
I imagine the going Xbox 360 -> Xbox 720 would just have been asking to people to joke about it being 720p (even if not actually, the picture quality joke basically writes itself).

The solution though was obviously not the brainworm reasoning that got us the Xbox One (nobody was going to call their console 'The One', cf. 'X-bone'). Your alternative of going straight to the Xbox 4 would probably have been considered a loss by the executives, but I imagine it at least wouldn't have been made fun of beyond the release period, since it would have been clear why they did the change.
by mergesort | 2025-12-28 04:10:27+00:00
To be honest that's most of my pitch for Codex in the blog post. Codex works great without any configuration, and amazingly with. If you want to spend less time configuring then maybe Codex is the right agentic system for you.

I don't want to restate my thesis too much — but I really do believe it's worth experimenting with these tools every couple of months to see if the latest updates better match your preferences.
by mindslight | 2025-12-28 04:11:09+00:00
I'm glad for you that you've had good experiences so far! "Diagnosed me in 5 minutes" doesn't sound like anywhere near a complex medical issue though.

I certainly keep trying to obtain good results from the system, ie extend trust, but situations routinely run aground. Can you really say it's a "trust issue" when the problem is that I dig into details of situations and repeatedly witness how so-called professionals abjectly drop key issues on the floor?

Latest example: I need a new dishwasher. I should be able to read some reports, spend $1k, and get the problem solved, right? Guess again - first delivery, a dent in the tub from the thing being slammed so hard that its plastic frame deformed and pushed up into the metal tub. Second delivery - loud noise from wash motor. I try to engage with warranty service figuring I'd be fine with them swapping the whole pump assembly. Nope, the guy that comes can't even be assed to do his job either! "Oh that's normal so there is nothing to fix, this is a good model, you should keep it". Third try, wash motor sounds a little better but still has a problem. The third set of delivery guys didn't even take away unit #2 for the exchange (even though I even pushed back when they said someone else was going to come later). I had wanted to simply pay money to solve the problem, but instead I'm left with two noisy dishwashers and a big ole project in my court. (do I keep pushing this exchange button? do I just order a new pump assembly and fix it myself, considering the bonus dishwasher compensation for that? do I say fuck it to the whole brand and rethink the purchase decision?)

I mean sure, I could drop my standards here, check out, and stop caring about the details. The dented tub probably wouldn't leak a decade down the line, the loud motor isn't really that big of a deal if I only run it overnight, and if the motor needs replacing in a few years it's only a $200 repair. But should not giving in to this "best effort" service (after paying $1k) really be considered a "me" problem? It seems more like an economy problem, with me only being exceptional for noticing, having some expertise on how these things should function, and having the willingness to push back.

(although I am thankful that the thing in the front of my mind that I'm frustrated with is an appliance rather than dealing with the medical system again)
by DetectDefect | 2025-12-28 04:12:42+00:00
These baiting questions and resulting wasteful discussions are just uninteresting. Submissions should be qualified on their own merit instead of needlessly litigating the source of their publication. I say "should" instead of "must" because this is not a public forum, but a private one, and as such, the rules of moderation are not at our discretion. My advice is to accept them and participate productively within the norms, or start your own community which is devoid of any perceived bias, in your own vision of what is reasonable.
by The_President | 2025-12-28 04:12:44+00:00
Seems like a mistake to rely on it for anything other than entertainment or simple education. Perhaps what makes it a mistake is now it's yet another vehicle for distraction content gaming for attention space. Parents will attest, that it's wonderful to put a tablet in front of a child to instantly hush them, but then it becomes a dependency where it is increasingly harder to control outbursts of emotion without resorting to the tablet. It's become a like a drug to children, and the mistake is in seeing the process as benevolent until this far along.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-12-28 04:12:53+00:00
Not just epigenetics, cells (and probably organisms) have mechanisms to induce mutations at elevated rates (e.g. E. Coli lacZ mutation under pressure). I wouldn't be surprised if nervous systems are elegantly wired to both epigentic and mutagenic levers to accelerate evolution through stimulus guided modifications rather than just raw survival/selection.
by Projectiboga | 2025-12-28 04:13:04+00:00
Type 1 insulin user. One the alcohol should dry before the needle goes in. Two faster is better, within reason. Three about one in a few hundred shots hits a nerve bundle. That really hurts, but resolves after a short while. Both insulin and these GLP-1 injections are subcutaneous not intravenous which once a patient gets the skill it becomes like riding a bike, in that it becomes easier than imagined.
by encrypted_bird | 2025-12-28 04:15:02+00:00
I always get confused by people saying public transportation makes no sense for rural people. I think it makes more sense, provided you use the right kind of public transportation for the right kind of rural community.

A large, spread-out community? Perhaps not so much.

But a small town where 80% of the people commute to surrounding cities? That'd be a great case for 1 or more commuter train, depending on direction and demand.
by rastrian | 2025-12-28 04:16:15+00:00
Agree, I didn’t give testing enough space. A proper treatment would’ve doubled the post, so I’m writing a separate follow-up on testing.

Pure functions/immutability help a lot because tests become representative and cheap. I’d only push back on “tests of all equivalent scenarios” being sufficient, the space explodes and many real failures live at I/O/concurrency/distributed boundaries. My intended claim is that FP/ADTs/types reduce the state space and improve the ROI of tests, not replace them.
by hmm37 | 2025-12-28 04:16:55+00:00
This is great. A few years ago, I decided to buy a WII U, since I have basically every Nintendo console system since the NES. But the gamepad screen was broken and I couldn't sync the gamepad to the screen until I fixed it. And I tried to see if there was any alternative, but there wasn't until now. Hopefully that means more WII Us can be saved... You can sometimes find used Wii Us for $30 without the gamepad, while the gamepad itself costs around $100..