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by dghlsakjg | 2025-12-03 16:20:18+00:00
Yes, but you speak English and read the Latin alphabet. You can play the game without shitty localization.

Put yourself in the shoes of some kid somewhere in the world who does neither of those things, and just wants to play a video game. If the two options are 1. imperfect translation or 2. no clue what is going on, and no ability to enjoy the game; which do you choose?

The fun part about shitty localization in games for ESL speakers is that you don't have to use it.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-12-03 16:20:21+00:00
> An f150 can do none of these things

So? I gave specs for a typical 1 ton truck. A 1/2 ton F150 is smaller, cheaper, and more efficient. It depends on what you need.

A panel van is more useful for some things, a truck for others- it depends on what you’re doing. You’re not going to fill your panel van with manure or gravel and then transport it across a muddy field without getting stuck. I grew up in a rural area of the USA where everyone owned trucks they needed and used for work, most were old and rusty and they all also owned a regular passenger car they used when they weren’t hauling something heavy… people were poor and did not waste fuel driving a truck except when it was essential- not a fashion statement, just a tool.

My family owned a 3/4 ton truck that we needed for hauling our boat and livestock, but we drove an old Volvo at other times. My dad built the home I grew up in, and he had to transport all of the materials to build it himself.

I think the hate on here is coming mostly from a place of ignorance about what life in rural America is like, which is what full sized American trucks are engineered and perfectly suited for. Where transporting thousands of pounds of materials across a muddy field in 4WD isn’t something you do once a year but often twice a day just to survive.
by spacechild1 | 2025-12-03 16:20:26+00:00
Not necessarily! If you have a language with stackful coroutines and some scheduler, you can await promises anywhere in the call stack, as long as the top level function is executed as a coroutine.

Take this hypothetical example in Lua:

function getData() -- downloadFileAsync() yields back to the scheduler. When its work -- has finished, the calling function is resumed. local file = downloadFileAsync("http://foo.com/data.json"):await() local data = parseFile(file) return data end -- main function function main() -- main is suspended until getData() returns local data = getData() -- do something with it end -- run takes a function and runs it as a coroutine run(main)

Note how none of the functions are colored in any way!

For whatever reason, most modern languages decided to do async/await with stackless coroutines. I totally understand the reasoning for "system languages" like C++ (stackless coroutines are more efficient and can be optimized by the compiler), but why C#, Python and JS?
by lanyard-textile | 2025-12-03 16:20:32+00:00
No, no. We want the wisdom of the older generations.

We want the stability of someone who has seen life’s ups and downs and understands there is more to life than the petty day to days of a presidency. There is a legacy beyond them and they imbue that in their policy.

Age can be a symptom of your inability to do this, but it is not the problem.

The problem is with specific mental ailments and behavior coming into the presidency. We should scrutinize those ailments heavily, and build a culture around stepping down when life inevitably gets to you too — and having it taken from you if you do not take the opportunity for mutual dignity.

The problems that afflicted Biden could happen to anyone at any age. It is a problem if any candidate experiences it.

And I do not really think age has effectively changed Trump’s view of the world.
by mikestew | 2025-12-03 16:20:45+00:00
And those of us that became the canary in the coal mine are telling everyone, especially those on older phones, to hold off. iOS 26 killed my 13 Mini’s battery life, and common tasks (particularly with Safari) take more taps. I’d go on, but I’m tired of complaining about it so I can’t be arsed. I will say, though, that is the first time in 16-17 years of using an iPhone that I’ve regretted upgrading.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-03 16:21:12+00:00
you can do a lot with just good power filtering and maybe a ferrule on the USB cable to cut the high frequency stuff before it even gets to device. I'd imagine powered USB hub might help too.

I wonder if there is a market for motherboard targetting musicians that just have extra power filtering on USB power.

There are also just USB devices that have just plugs + some LC filter that might help, for example https://oshwlab.com/wagiminator/usb-power-filter
by kube-system | 2025-12-03 16:21:24+00:00
I didn't say anyone deserved anything -- I'm just saying that as a society we do have other (potentially) income generating assets that do pass down to heirs who didn't "do anything to deserve them".

e.g. Some cultures think it is normal that someone can own thousands of acres of wilderness land that they've never even seen just because a distant relative hundreds of years ago had a piece of paper that says they own it. Other cultures believe the earth is a collective resource that is merely used by humans for their lifetime.
by hibikir | 2025-12-03 16:21:43+00:00
Basically every bit of the current system, from how much people are paid to how a hospital looks like, is a side effect of the way we pay for healthcare, and the way we decide which provider to select. So we cannot just wave a magic wand and get the German system, as a whole lot of capital decisions are now just straight out wrong.

We see similar things in education. People wonder how many European systems are cheaper than US universities: Well, it's very easy to see once you attend a university in Spain and then one in the US. The shape of the university, from facilities to salaries to class sizes, make them look like completely different organisms, even though 18 year olds come in from one side and come out with degrees in the other. And note that this is also connected to healthcare: How many doctors do we train, or bring in from other countries? How many years do they spend training, and how much debt do they incur getting training? How much are they going to ask in pay just to handle that debt?

Changing the US system is a very good idea, but the changes would be very traumatic to most people working for the system, or invested in the system. All of them would lobby against changes that make their lives worse, and therefore makes legislature that makes the change happen very difficult to pass.
by spider-mario | 2025-12-03 16:22:04+00:00
Most of the energy for AI does not go into chatbots. Using Gemini is not remotely close to driving a car for 2 hours. If a prompt is 0.3 Wh (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measur..., https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversa...), each prompt is closer to using an e-bike for 50 metres.

You could have your morning shower 1°C less hot and save enough energy for about 200 prompts (assuming 50 litres per shower). (Or skip the shower altogether and save thousands of prompts.)
Show HN: Local_faiss_MCP – A tiny MCP server for local RAG (FAISS and MiniLM)
by nonatofabio | 2025-12-03 16:22:11+00:00
I built this because I got frustrated with the current state of "local" RAG. It felt like I had to spin up a Docker container, configure a vector DB, and manage an ingestion pipeline just to let Claude ask questions about a few PDFs in a folder.

We seem to have turned "grep with semantics" into a microservices architecture problem.

What this is: local_faiss_mcp is a minimal implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that wraps FAISS and sentence-transformers. It runs entirely locally (no API keys, no external services) and connects to Claude Desktop via stdio.

How it works:

You run server.py (Claude runs this automatically via config).

It uses all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (on CPU) to embed text.

It stores the vectors in a flat FAISS index on disk alongside a JSON metadata file.

It exposes two tools to the LLM: ingest_document and query_rag_store.

The stack:

Python

mcp (Python SDK)

faiss-cpu

sentence-transformers

It’s intended for personal workflows (notes, logs, specs) where you want persistent memory for an agent without the infrastructure overhead.

Repo: https://github.com/nonatofabio/local_faiss_mcp

I’d love feedback on the implementation—specifically if anyone has ideas on better handling the chunking logic without bloating the dependencies, or if you run into performance issues with larger indices (10k+ vectors).
by taeric | 2025-12-03 16:22:20+00:00
I confess this largely surprises me for reasons that I think should not surprise me. I would expect current AI is largely best at guessing at what some writing was based on expectations of other things it has managed to "read." As such, I would think it is largely not going to be much better at hand writing than any other tool.

Yet, it occurs to me that that "guess and check" is exactly what I'm doing when trying to read my 6yo's writing. Often I will do a pass to detect the main sounds, but then I start thinking of what was current on his thoughts and see if I can make a match. Not surprisingly, often I do.
by blazingbanana | 2025-12-03 16:22:27+00:00
I understand the point, and to some degree agree. For myself, I really couldn't (not to say it wouldn't have been possible). I tried many many times over so many years and just didn't have the mental stamina for it, it would never "click" like infra/networking/hardware does etc and I would always end up frustrated.

I have learnt so much in this process, nowhere near as much as someone that wrote every line (which is why I think being a good developer will be a hot commodity) but I have had so much fun and enjoyment, alongside actually seeing tangible stuff get created, at the end of the day, that's what it's all about.

I have a finite amount of time to do things, I already want to do more than I can fit into that time, LLMs help me achieve some of them.
by dreis_sw | 2025-12-03 16:22:42+00:00
(2) At the office, it's harder to pretend that work took longer than it actually took. If you're done with the design doc in 2h, with colleagues sitting all around you, what can you do to pretend that it took you longer? Mess around with Confluence, pretending to work? You might as well move on to the next design doc, or find something useful to do meanwhile.

At home, you can just pick up the Xbox controller and say it took you 4 hours.

I like the comfort of WFH, and there are plenty of people (myself included) that are responsible enough to handle it, but the problem is that the average person isn't. And we all pay for it.
by eadler | 2025-12-03 16:22:42+00:00
> You're reading research that says they're geniuses?

I didn't say this

> ...

Re the rest. Thanks. I had implicitly assumed we were talking about financial or white collar crimes rather than all crimes. In other words the types of crimes people generally assume that richer people commit (insider training, tax evasion, wage theft, etc.)

I think you are correct in the most general sense of "all crime"
by IgorPartola | 2025-12-03 16:22:45+00:00
That’s exactly it: we already have this in the form of the lobby industrial complex. Except it is possibly quite a bit worse because if you stay in Congress for a long time and form a trusting relationship with your lobbyists who by the way also pay to your reelection campaign or support you in other ways, over time you get to accept their expert opinion with less skepticism. If a lobbyist has to start over every 2 years, they can’t sink their teeth as hard into you. And I doubt many congresspeople are experts on most subjects on which they write laws. Some have economics degrees. Some are doctors, some are lawyers. Very few engineers, it seems.

If you wanted an alternative system: you could always have a professional group of law writers and a professional group of law opposers try to present arguments to a large assembly of law jurors. If they can’t get 2/3rds majority on a law, it doesn’t pass. This is better than something like direct democracy where everyone votes on an issue because you can’t get the voters’ attention on any one thing for more than a few minutes or a few hours at the most (except a small fraction for whom it is their life for a while). In this law jury setup you can properly brief them.

You could have some other body of professional governors who do things like emergency resolutions and maybe basic budget stuff but anything beyond that goes to the assembly for approval. You could create a new assembly as often as every 6 weeks and process a batch of laws at once so that you really rotate out the jurors before they can be influenced. And selection of law writers and law opposers can be something that is reviewed by this kind of assembly too, or just some large pool of professionals who are chosen at random for any given period of time and given the power to present before the assembly. A lot of options here for how to amortize bad behavior such that over the long haul it averages out to close to zero.
by bilbo0s | 2025-12-03 16:22:47+00:00
>Maybe the media benefits from it?

Nah.

We just love our dog whistles.

Abortion!!

Immigrants!!

The billionaires are stealing from you!!

Libtards!!

Right wing shooters!!

Oh yeah, almost forgot..

Something, something blacks!!!

That's how you win elections these days.

You can try to win an election on something substantive, say, infrastructure repair and updates for instance. But the wedge issue fueled campaigns are gonna wipe the floor with you.

We the people have voted on this over and over. The data is irrefutable. We love our wedge issues.
by toast0 | 2025-12-03 16:23:08+00:00
Back when I ran email for a large sender, I turned DMARC reports off once I got things settled in, and might turn it on to debug issues.

There was nothing to do about the reports most of the time. Just get mad that people are accepting spoofed mail that fails DKIM and SPF.

But mostly, the phishing campaigns with our branding just stopped spoofing addresses. Turns out, lots of email clients don't show the sender address and people who get a phishing email about Service Y from info@johnsplumbingservices.example.com may get phished.
by jmathai | 2025-12-03 16:23:13+00:00
I've been creating more as well since there's much less friction. This includes things I simply would not have gotten around to. But what I create feels a lot less unique ... and I guess that's important in my motivation to create.

I don't know how it plays out in the long run. Will the ease of creating result in increased creativity or will the lack of uniqueness result in a decrease?
by projektfu | 2025-12-03 16:23:15+00:00
Currently, the Congressional staff is mostly recruited and retained by the congresspeople, and they become the experts in many situations. They can also be retained by the committees, in which case they are often more non-partisan. They do have some ability to influence the debate, but they usually do not frame it.

If we had national assemblies by sortition every 2 years, I would worry that the the tail (the current structure of Congressional support staff) would wag the dog. A better system would need to be designed to enable good decision-making.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-12-03 16:23:40+00:00
As a thought experiment, imagine a world where borders exist as they are but the whole political process inside them everywhere is to 1) choose a zone randomly 2) choose a citizen randomly 3) receive policy proposal from them 4) vote yes/no on policy using random dice 5) for resolving ambiguity on any and all policy details such as "how much" or "for how long", return to step 1.

It's uh, king for a day, with checks and balances on human cruelty via chaotic caprice. How likely is that world to be worse than ours? If so, how much worse? If not here and now, then which counterfactual geography or year would you have to transported to so that this randomized process is definitely preferable?
by pavel_lishin | 2025-12-03 16:23:41+00:00
> the marginal cost of wasted SSD storage in a gaming PC is US$2.50 per TB per month

Out of curiousity, how do you come up with a number for this? I would have zero idea of how to even start estimating such a thing, or even being able to tell you whether "marginal cost of wasted hard drive storage" is even a thing for consumers.
by unixnight | 2025-12-03 16:23:50+00:00
It was legit faster to delete and redownload this game than update it since steam considered my SSD too full (WITH 200 GIGS FREE) to download the files to said SSD, instead opting to use my SLOWEST HDD as the cache drive for the download.

It would then proceed to download the update in 5 minutes and spend 8 HOURS UPDATING.

A full download of the game? 10 minutes.

Glad to see this update. I hope more games follow suit
by xp84 | 2025-12-03 16:24:01+00:00
I am completely sympathetic to your motivations here. However, it seems like if you take that approach, where many qualifications are required before you are “eligible” to hold elected office, it’s much closer to an aristocracy than a republic or a democracy. Unelected elites who control the special university and those who set the eligibility rules in general hold and safeguard the real power, allowing trusted insiders to ascend to power and burying those with unorthodox ideas or worrying populist notions. It’s an anti-democratic idea.

It probably, on net, increases the power of elites and decreases the power of ordinary people, which increases the already extreme tilt in that direction. Like with a lot of things, it depends on the virtue of the elites in question whether this is a great idea or a catastrophic and oppressive one. As we can see, our current elites are so shameless they blatantly trade on privileged knowledge and can’t even manage to pass a budget for the country.
by sheepscreek | 2025-12-03 16:24:28+00:00
Not relating to this service but the language:

I’ve always liked the idea of using Wolfram / Mathematica for exploratory work (mainly statistics and data science) and found it to be too academic for my taste. Not as simple as using say, pandas, where I can rely on editor autocomplete to help me figure out what I need. It’s a result of their functional design choice but it forces the user to know what they need. I have poor working memory and “let’s figure it out as we do it” works best for me. Wolfram lang is not good fit for that IMO.

AI models are getting close to delivering on the advantage it holds - like solid visualizations and good mathematics to programming translatability. In fact, I think their “engine” with a multi-modal AI input + MCP, would be the best of both worlds and may help push their adoption. Or perhaps even a copilot type experience in their IDE. When I look at their site now, it looks practically unchanged from 5 years ago - so I’m a little taken aback given Dr. Wolfram’s initial enthusiasm around LLMs, seeing a lack of any significant AI feature adoption.
by deeptishukla22 | 2025-12-03 16:24:29+00:00
One of the trickiest parts of MCP in practice has been auth propagation. As soon as the agent backend invokes the MCP server instead of the client, the original user’s auth context disappears—tools that require the user's session_id (or equivalent) suddenly only see a generic token. We ended up needing a pattern for:

- M2M-issued short-lived tokens for backend → MCP calls

- Per-request user metadata injection so tool calls can still act on behalf of the user

- Consistent OAuth2 / Okta validation so both layers trust each other

Was looking for this standarization.
by klamann | 2025-12-03 16:24:40+00:00
I've been using optical connections for audio on my gaming PCs for decades now, exactly for this reason. Though wireless headphones will work just as well these days. Too many game developers mess this up (e.g. by having no frame limiter in the game menu) and many of them never fix these kinds of issues. Thanks for caring and fixing this in your game!
by superkuh | 2025-12-03 16:24:42+00:00
It is no surprise to me that people still have to use HDD for storage. SSD stopped getting bigger a decade plus ago.

SSD sizes are still only equal to the HDD sizes available and common in 2010 (a couple TB~). SSD size increases (availability+price decreases) for consumers form factors have entirely stopped. There is no more progress for SSD because quad level cells are as far as the charge trap tech can be pushed and most people no longer own computers. They have tablets or phones or if they have a laptop it has 256GB of storage and everything is done in the cloud or with an octopus of (small) externals.
by filoeleven | 2025-12-03 16:24:50+00:00
> People feel more capable to attempt contributions

That does not mean that they are more capable, and that's the problem.

> We do need to be careful not to overwhelm the specialists with such things, as some of them are of low quality, but on the whole it's a really good thing.

That's not what the specialists who have to deal with this slop say. There have been articles about this discussed here already.
by johnmaguire | 2025-12-03 16:25:08+00:00
The primary challenge I see is that at least in the US, government positions are often elected and termed, meaning there is no guarantee your cash flow from your government job will continue long-term. This is why you must continue to operate as a private citizen, with a government job.

The second potential issue is one of pay - the best of society can make far more in a commercial setting than in a government setting - barring corruption, of course.
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-12-03 16:25:09+00:00
In other news, cats vote down popular House of Mice measure to bell themselves unanimously.

And before anyone mentions she whose name is nauseatingly always mentioned on this subject, here's the list of Congress members by net worth so you get the whole picture instead of just how bad the situation has become.

Because in the end, the mice keep voting the same cats back in.

https://www.quiverquant.com/congress-live-net-worth/
by buttersmoothAI | 2025-12-03 16:25:12+00:00
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