MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zamadatix | 2025-12-16 20:25:25+00:00
Most people don't mind the being told "no", they just want to understand why and how that might affect them as part of that. For anything but very simple questions (like "do I need to change anything about the way we do CI for this" -> "Nope!") you'll want more than one word to accomplish that communication.

I think when most people reference saying "no" they are really referencing saying "no, %{backgroundOfWhy}" or similar often in a few short sentences, and that's great for everyone all around. It's just the literal "no" with no effort to engage or care about why they are asking that will leave a black mark of "Joe Schmoe is really great at delivering... when he feels like talking to you about things".
by subroutine | 2025-12-16 20:25:27+00:00
I worked in an fMRI lab briefly as a grad student. I suspect you'd be correct but perhaps not exactly why you'd expect. Studies using fMRI measure a blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) signal in the brain. This is thought to be an indirect measure of neural activity because a local increase in neural firing rate produces a local increase in the need for, and delivery of, oxygenated blood.

The question then is, do you expect a person who is really good at mental arithmetic to have less neural firing on arithmetic tasks (e.g., what is 147 x 38) than the average joe. I would hypothesize yes overall to solve each question; however, I'd also hypothesize the momentary max intensity of the expert to peak higher. Think of a bodybuilder vs. a SWE bench-pressing 100 lbs for 50 reps. The bodybuilder has way more muscle to devote to a single rep, and will likely finish the set in 20 seconds, while the SWE is going to take like 30 minutes ;)
by larkost | 2025-12-16 20:25:28+00:00
But it is not for hardware you own. It is for the use of GutHubs coordinators, which they have been donating the use of to you for free. They have now decided that that service is something they are going to charge for. Your objection to GitHub "extracting usage-based rent from me" seems to ignore that you have been getting usage of their hardware for free up to now.

So, like I said, the question for you is whether that $140/month of service is worth that money to you, or can you find a better priced alternative, or build something that costs less yourself.

My guess is that once you think about this some more you will decide it is worth it, and probably spend some time trying to drive down your minutes/month a bit. But at $140 a month, how much time is that worth investing?
by gosub100 | 2025-12-16 20:25:28+00:00
It's not required for you to appreciate aesthetics. But I wager the reason you don't appreciate it is because you haven't experienced it. If you have only slept on a prison mat, you wouldn't understand people talking about a $4000 premium bed. If you only used Buzz Light-year target bedsheets, you wouldn't understand people comparing high thread count featherbeds. That's okay, you are still clinically healthy if you don't appreciate other dimensions some products offer.
by asmor | 2025-12-16 20:26:12+00:00
Yeah. This is a reaction to providers like blacksmith or self-hosted solutions like the k8s operator being better at operating their very bad runner then them, at cheaper prices, with better performance, more storage and warm caches. The price cut is good, the anticompetitive bit where they charge you to use computers they don't provide isn't. My guess is that either we're all gonna move to act or that one of the SaaS startups sue.
by aarroyoc | 2025-12-16 20:26:17+00:00
Impressive post, so many details. I could only understand some parts of it, but I think this article will probably be a reference for future graphics API.

I think it's fair to say that for most gamers, Vulkan/DX12 hasn't really been a net positive, the PSO problem affected many popular games and while Vulkan has been trying to improve, WebGPU is tricky as it has is roots on the first versions of Vulkan.

Perhaps it was a bad idea to go all in to a low level API that exposes many details when the hardware underneath is evolving so fast. Maybe CUDA, as the post says in some places, with its more generic computing support is the right way after all.
by sfink | 2025-12-16 20:26:57+00:00
I've been using Firefox for a long time, longer than it's had that name, and it used to be excellent for my tab hoarding habits. Specifically, it could handle a large number of tabs, and every couple of months it would crash and lose all of them. I would have to start over from scratch, with an amazing sense of catharsis and freedom, and I never had to make the decision on my own that I would never be able to make.

Now, it's no better than the others. I'm at 1919 tabs right now, and it hasn't lost any for many years. It's rock solid, it's good at unloading the tabs so I don't even need to rely on non-tab-losing crash/restarts to speed things up, and it doesn't even burn enough memory on them to force me to reconsider my ways.

This is a perfect example of how Mozilla's mismanagement has driven Firefox into the ground. Bring back involuntary tab bankruptcy and spacebar heating!
by kahirsch | 2025-12-16 20:26:58+00:00
The ICU mappings files have entries for U212A in the following files:

gb18030.ucm ibm-1364_P110-2007.ucm ibm-1390_P110-2003.ucm ibm-1399_P110-2003.ucm ibm-16684_P110-2003.ucm ibm-933_P110-1995.ucm ibm-949_P110-1999.ucm ibm-949_P11A-1999.ucm
by moralestapia | 2025-12-16 20:27:15+00:00
Even if both "sides" really wanted to get along, working with someone making 100x (if not 1,000x) more than you is poised to be a weird interaction.

It must also be massively demoralizing, particularly if you're an engineer who has been there for 10+ years and has pushed features which directly bring in revenue, etc...

Btw,

>But Mr. Wang, who is developing the model, pushed back. He argued that the goal should be to catch up to rival A.I. models from OpenAI and Google before focusing on products, the people said.

That would be a massive mistake. Wang is either a one-trick pony or someone who cares more about his other venture than Meta's, sad.
by zzo38computer | 2025-12-16 20:28:23+00:00
I use GitHub Actions for only one thing, which is to automatically assign any issues to myself (by using the "gh" program), and I am not paying anything for it. Furthermore, the repositories that use this are all public (I do not have any private repositories on GitHub, and due to various things I will not do that).

As far as I can tell from that article, these changes will not affect me; it says "Standard GitHub-hosted or self-hosted runner usage on public repositories will remain free" and another section says "This will not impact Actions usage in public repositories". Hopefully, this information would behelpful for other people who use GitHub Actions. However, I don't know if I missed something else that is important, from the article.
by kyboren | 2025-12-16 20:28:39+00:00
I think the broad thrust of your argument is right on the money. Officers' perception of heightened (or unfair) accountability has turned every police interaction into a risk for the officers and department, too. However, I think the problem actually goes even deeper. The incentives are all aligned to launder responsibility through automated systems, and we'll end up sleepwalking into AI tyranny if we're not careful.

Where I am, police officers get paid healthy 6-figure salaries plus crazy OT to boot. $300k total comp is absolutely not unheard of. I think the police have basically figured out that the best way to stay on the gravy train is to do as little as possible. Certainly stop enforcing traffic laws entirely, as those are the highest risk interactions. Just rest n' vest, baby. So you get to hear about "underfunded" and "overworked" police departments while observing overpaid police officers who are structurally disincentivized from doing their jobs.

The bottom line is: People want policing, but adding more police officers won't deliver results and anyway is too expensive. What to do?

Enter mass surveillance and automated policing. If we can't rely on police to do the policing, we'll have to do it some other way. Oh, look at how cheap it is to put cameras up everywhere. And hey, we can get a statistical inferential model (excuse me, Artificial Intelligence!) to flag "suspicious" cars and people. Yeah yeah, privacy risks blah blah blah turnkey totalitarianism whomp whomp whomp. But think of all the criminals we can catch! All without needing police to actually do anything!

While police are expensive and practically useless at doing things people want, this technology can actually deliver results. That makes it irresistible. The problem is that it's turning our society into a panopticon and putting us all in great danger of an inescapable totalitarian state dominated by a despot and his AI army.

But those are abstract risks, further out and probabilistic in nature. Humans are terrible at making these kinds of decisions; as a population we almost always choose short-term benefit over abstract long-term risks and harms. Just look at climate change and fossil fuel consumption.
by rapier1 | 2025-12-16 20:28:58+00:00
Keep in mind that SCP/SSH might be faster in some cases than SFTP but in both cases it is still limited to a 2MB application layer receive window which is drastically undersized in a lot of situations. It doesn't matter what the TCP window is set to because the OpenSSH window overrides that value. Basically, if your bandwidth delay product is more than 2MB (e.g. 1gbps @ 17ms RTT) you're going to be application limited by OpenSSH. HPN-SSH gets most of the performance benefit by normalizing the application layer receive window to the TCP receive window (up to 128MB). In some cases you'll see 100X throughput improvement on well tuned hosts on a high delay path.

If your BDP is less than 2MB you still might get some benefit if you are CPU limited and use the parallel ciphers. However, the fastest cipher is AES-GCM and we haven't parallelized that as of yet (that's next on the list).
by whynotmaybe | 2025-12-16 20:29:38+00:00
> is $0.002/minute a good price for this

It was free, so anything other than free isn't really a good price. It's hard to estimate the cost on github's side when the hardware is mine and therefore accept this easily.

(Github is already polling my agent to know it's status so whether is "idle" or "running action" shouldn't really change a lot on their side.)

...And we already pay montly subscription for team members and copilot.

I have a self-hosted runner because I must have many tools installed for my builds and find it kinda counter productive to always reinstall those tools for each build as this takes a long time. (Yeah, I know "reproducible builds" aso, but I only have 24h in most of my days)

Even for a few hundreds minutes a month, we're still under a few $ so not worth spending two days to improve anything... yet.
by ndesaulniers | 2025-12-16 20:29:41+00:00
> The kernel is compiled with Yolo-C. So that you can compile the kernel, a copy of GCC is installed in /yolo/bin/gcc.

Fil, you can compile the Linux kernel will clang+lld. `make LLVM=1` https://docs.kernel.org/kbuild/llvm.html
by habinero | 2025-12-16 20:29:48+00:00
No, absolutely the opposite. LLMs are terrible at things that require judgment and justifications, because they don't reason. They come up with something that sounds plausible.

That's not good enough when you're dealing with matters that can lead to civil or even criminal liability. Errors can be incredibly expensive to fix, if they can be fixed at all.

With a CPA or attorney, you at least have recourse if they screw up. You don't with LLMs.
by alan-crowe | 2025-12-16 20:29:55+00:00
I'm still using fvwm2

$ pkg info fvwm fvwm-2.6.9_4 Name : fvwm Version : 2.6.9_4 Installed on : Mon Dec 8 02:01:51 2025 GMT Origin : x11-wm/fvwm2 Architecture : FreeBSD:15:amd64

Very happy with it :-)
by sixothree | 2025-12-16 20:30:19+00:00
I am currently only vibe-coding my hobby projects. So if that changes, my view could very well change.

But I 100% agree. It's liberating to focus on the design of my project, and my mental model can be of how I want things to work.

It feels like that switch to test driven development where you start from the expected result and worry about the details later.
by ranger_danger | 2025-12-16 20:30:29+00:00
> It sounds way closer to the spoken sounds, at least to my western ears.

That's the thing... to some other non-English language speakers, the existing/old romanization method actually is more accurate regarding how the letters would be pronounced to them, especially coming from languages that don't have the same e.g. [ch] or [ts] sounds as written with Hepburn.

The one technical downside I would say to this change is, 1:1 machine transliteration is no longer possible with Hepburn.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-16 20:30:59+00:00
I wonder to what extent it's a sustainable strategy. I mean, Disney went at that full throttle and what did it get them? That recent Superman movie seemed based on a diagnosis of what was wrong with Marvel movies and was a lot of fun and promises to be first of a new series but it well fall back into the traps.

I was changed forever when I saw a pin-up of Lum printed on a line printer in college, and my interest in anime has only deepened. More and more I see young people and not so young people engaging with anime instead of western culture, my son and I were joking about Solo Leveling but met people who dig it, as well as stuff like Reborn as a vending machine I now wander the dungeon. I did meet people who got excited about Barbie and Superman and I do hear second or third hand that somebody is into Stranger Things but I think people get excited about things that come from the mind of a light novelist or mangaka instead of a star chamber somewhere between Hollywood and Vine and Burbank.
by Bender | 2025-12-16 20:31:23+00:00
Ages ago people used to sign their emails and Usenet messages with geek code blocks from a geek code generator [1]. This is probably an awful idea but if there was a deviant code generator people could render extortion powerless by having a deviant code block showing what they are into at the risk or benefit of employers and family seeing it. Perhaps some taboo categories could be made vague to keep some people guessing or have HR departments in a conundrum. I do not know if or where people would share it or if such a thing could remove stigmas.

[1] - https://moomoohk.github.io/geek_code/generator.html
by panick21_ | 2025-12-16 20:31:28+00:00
That's a great story.

From the Oral History of Synertek, they wanted to buy some buy some PDP-11 but they had been bought by Honeywell. Honeywell had told them they would not be controlled and have a free hand. Honeywell of course wouldn't not allow it and told them they would get a free Honeywell mainframe. And they got send a mainframe that was completely useless and didn't have any relevant software. So eventually Synertek collapsed and many of those people founded VSLI Technology.

At AT&T they bought a lot of PDP-11s, they were the biggest DEC costumer and they also moved 3B series computers because they wanted to be a computer company too. Cost them a lot of money.

I think the story of everybody wanted PDPs but cooperate didn't want.
by BoorishBears | 2025-12-16 20:31:32+00:00
I haven't seen that, meanwhile gpt-image-1.5 still has zero-tolerance policing copyright (even via the API) so it's pretty much useless in production once exposed to consumers.

I'm honestly surprised they're still on this post-Sora 2: let the consumer of the API determine their risk appetite. If a copyright holder comes knocking, "the API did it" isn't going to be a defense either way.
by brewtide | 2025-12-16 20:31:40+00:00
That's my take as well. Years 1 & 2 are always flawless, 3 may have a few situations and 4/5 start bringing the swearing causing problems.

Naturally, I don't maintain it very well throughout the years, but always mean to. I'm sure mine needs a new carb / cleaned, but happen to have lots of cabinet work going on in the shop where it's warm and oil/gas isnt happening there at the moment. Maybe on a "nice" day I'll rip it apart outside.

Or already eyeballing a new 'husky'!
by paulddraper | 2025-12-16 20:31:46+00:00
GitHub Actions runners are hard to self-host.

The runner configuration and registration process is unnecessarily byzantine. [1]

They can't cancel jobs cleanly. [2]

There are consistency problems everywhere. [3]

Their own documentations describes horrible things unless you use runners in JIT mode. Though JIT runners are not always removed after exit.

If there is a worse self-hosted CI runner, I haven't yet met it.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/manage-runners/se...

[2] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26311

[3] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/62365
by featherless | 2025-12-16 20:32:10+00:00
No. It is not worth a time-scaled cost each month for them to start a job on my machines and store a few megabytes of log files.

I'd happily pay a fixed monthly fee for this service, as I already do for GitHub.

The problem here is that this is like a grocery store charging me money for every bag I bring to bag my own groceries.

> But at $140 a month, how much time is that worth investing?

It's not $140/month. It's $140/month today, when my company is still relatively small and it's just me. This cost will scale as my company scales, in a way that is completely bonkers.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-12-16 20:32:12+00:00
Mozilla took in the money from the distant past all the way into the present. They have leaned into privacy the whole time, while not being perfect.

At some point they ease off the google money or it goes away itself. And they move forward on privacy.

Google was less demanding in the past as well; they continue to give Apple billions each year.

There are a number of privacy-oriented business models, as listed here: https://aol.codeberg.page/eci/status.html - while not as lucrative as some, combined with an endowment its a good living that many companies would envy.
by ribosometronome | 2025-12-16 20:32:51+00:00
>clearly resents being one.

Do they? It seems to me that they're just aware that social media and the internet is trendy and they need to be out there ready to control the next big thing if they want to put ads on it. Facebook has been dying for years. Instagram makes them more ad revenue per user than FB but it's not the most popular app of its class.
by andrewsthoughts | 2025-12-16 20:32:57+00:00
Quick fix:

Apple Silicon (ARM64): https://download.zencoder.ai/zenflowapp/stable/0.0.52/app/da...

Intel (x64): https://download.zencoder.ai/zenflowapp/stable/0.0.52/app/da...

We'll figure out the FF script blocking.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-16 20:33:04+00:00
> No, it's literally nothing, since you can just create whatever TLS cert you want and just MITM anyway.

> What do you think you're protecting from? Passive snooping via port-mirroring?

Yes, exactly. For datacenter to datacenter traffic, passing snooping is much easier for small-time criminals to achieve than a MITM. You can do it just by having a device on the same L2 switch domain and spoofing the MAC table (MAC spoofing/port security being un- or mis-configured is typical in those environments). No need to compromise routing at all.

> How do I establish trust with Google? How do they establish trust with me: I mean, we're not using the system designed for it, so clearly it's not possible- otherwise they would have enabled this option at the minimum.

Establishing trust with Google specifically is super-simple: their SMTP servers all have valid public PKI certificates and have for a long time. Even if they didn’t, they could give you an internal CA root to verify them. This doesn’t scale to lots of orgs, but almost all legitimate email traffic is between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and the top 10 marketing/transactional email services.

That’s why nobody was in a rush to solve the SMTP MITM problem. Plus, since SMTP for delivery is not authenticated at the application level, you only have to really worry about snooping/preventing delivery. If you want to send fake emails, the certificates provided by the server are irrelevant - there’s no password that you need to steal.
by strawhatguy | 2025-12-16 20:33:30+00:00
Every 5 years, there's a better battery in development 5 years hence. So I'm a bit skeptical that just a better battery would exclude hybrids. Any battery improvement would improve PHEV and EREV vehicles also, and they'd retain their advantage over straight EVs in range.

The advantages of these hybrids is a) using multiple fuels - has all of the main 80%-of-trips-local on electric range advantage of EVs, combined with an extended range of gas (and those gas engines run at optimum rpm, so they're more efficient too) and b) easier on the battery supply chain; they don't need as large batteries; batteries have more uses than just EVs, making all such products cheaper, including EREVs

The real disadvantage is the higher complexity, although EREVs do still get rid of the transmission gearing and other driveline components.

And of course, EREVs are probably the only solution for trucks and off-road vehicles. Edison Motors's diesel EREV for full trucks seems way more promising than Tesla's Semi (if Canada could stop over-regulating their startups, that is).
by BoorishBears | 2025-12-16 20:33:32+00:00
Seedream 4.5 is almost as good as Seedream 4!

(Realistically, Seedream 4 is the best at aesthetically pleasing generation, Nano Banana Pro is the best at realism and editing, and Seedream 4.5 is a very strong middleground between the two with great pricing)

gpt-image-1.5 feels like OpenAI doing the bare minimum to keep people from switching to Gemini every time they want an image.
by HillRat | 2025-12-16 20:33:33+00:00
You have the same problem that you have with legal LLMs; an LLM is incapable of providing legal or regulatory-involved advice, and anyone using an LLM for such purposes (even leaving aside hallucinations) forfeits any justifiable reliance defense. There's a role for LLMs, but no one with legal responsibility over reporting could or would possibly rely on an LLM for complex regulatory and rules analysis, not when there's the risk of your wardrobe being replaced with orange jumpsuits.
by viega | 2025-12-16 20:33:53+00:00
For me, I’ve got use cases where it’s valuable to keep event data interleaved because it will also get used in flight. It works well enough I also use it for things where it’s not necessary like in memory debug rings (which requires a bit of additional work).

The epoch isn’t CAS’d; it is FAA. The epoch is then used to determine if there is contention due to the tail meeting the head, or due to a wrap-around due to slow writes.

There’s also a back-off scheme to ease contention for a full queue.

Though, I did originally have a variant that adds a fairly straightforward ‘help’ mechanism that makes the algorithm wait-free and reduces the computational complexity.

However, the extra overhead didn’t seem worth it, so I took it out pretty quickly. Iirc, the only place where the ring in the queue wouldn’t out-perform it are on tiny queues with a huge write imbalance.

If you go run the tests in the repo associated w the article, you probably will see that a ring with only 16 entries will tend to start being non-performant at about a 4:1 writer to reader ratio. But iirc that effect goes away before 128 slots in the ring.

There, the ring still fits in a page, and even with a big imbalance I can’t remember seeing less than 1m ops per second on my Mac laptop.

Real world observational data beats worst case analysis, and I’ve never seen an issue for scenarios I consider reasonable.

But, if my unrealistic is realistic to you, let me know and I can break out the wait free version for you.