MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MrDarcy | 2025-12-29 18:35:45+00:00
I agree with you and I’m struggling to see how my reply wasn’t helpful. I’m saying those people who get run over by a car in this analogy shouldn’t be run over by cars on the highway. I look at what’s wrong with the highway. I don’t believe the sole primary reason people get run over in this analogy is because their brain developed wrong.

More that their brain developed differently and our current highway system is incompatible with that difference.

The highway system can and should change just as we individuals can and should try to change our minds in areas where it makes sense to do so.
by anderber | 2025-12-29 18:36:31+00:00
I think you're underselling what Trump and Musk has done to the stability of Democracy in the US. Aside from all that, there are other American car manufacturers with great EVs: Mustang Mach-E, Chevy Equinox/Bolt/Blazer, etc. Not saying that BYD isn't better, but comparing to Tesla, there is plenty of US competition.
by piva00 | 2025-12-29 18:36:47+00:00
Maduro is a left-wing dictator though, not the right kind of despot for the Trump administration. It's a grudge against anything socialist/communist-adjacent.

Rubio is a warhawk, hoping it all backfires in this administration's face. Unfortunately now we all have to resign ourselves on living in a more unstable world, the multipolar world order Putin wants so much is in flux...
by caconym_ | 2025-12-29 18:37:29+00:00
> How much room for creativity is there with a camera? Angle, lighting, F-stop, film type, film processing?

How many subjects exist in the world to be photographed? How many journeys might one take to find them? How many stories might each subject tell with the right treatment?

> Serious AI artists will start tearing apart open models and changing how they work internally. They'll learn the math and how they work just like a serious photographer could tell you all about film emulsions and developing processes and how film reacts to light.

I agree that "AI art" as it exists today is not serious.
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-29 18:37:31+00:00
Try machine translation not general LLM based ones. Google translate does use an LLM, Gemini, now for translation, but it preserves the nuances of your own speech instead of injecting the clear markers of LLMs like you'd get if you tried to do it via Gemini or ChatGPT directly.

So, write your replies in your native language then post them into Google translate, I guarantee it'll sound better and people won't think it's an LLM.
by gamesieve | 2025-12-29 18:38:01+00:00
I suspect this has been in a vague planning stage for the last few years, as various integrations between GOG and CD PROJEKT RED were slowly dismantled over that time (I particularly recall a GWENT account migration away from GOG).

Also, I guess this is as good a place as any to plug my GOG game discovery service and price tracker: https://gamesieve.com/ - basically a more full-featured way to explore GOG's catalog.
by jpollock | 2025-12-29 18:38:12+00:00
If improving a portion of the codebase makes it better, but inconsistent...

migrate the rest of the codebase!

Then everyone benefits from the discovery.

If that's difficult, write or find tooling to make that possible.

It's in the "if it hurts, do it more often" school of software dev.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FrequencyReducesDifficulty.ht...
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-29 18:38:19+00:00
> I’d say it’s mostly a North-European thing,

I think it's a "busy tracks" problem in general, which yeah, is a problem in Europe in general. You can't just stop a train in the middle of some track, there are a bunch of other trains coming too, who can't just pass unless you get to a place where that is possible, which isn't everywhere.

None the less, the rest of what you say is true of Sweden, but I don't think it's the reason a train refuses to stop on some train tracks.
by Ekaros | 2025-12-29 18:38:32+00:00
https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/regulatory-announceme...

>Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, on 31 December 2025 Michał Kiciński will acquire from the Company 2715 shares in GOG, i.e. 100% of the shares in GOG representing 100% of the votes at the shareholders’ meeting of GOG, for a price of PLN 90,695,440.00

>In accordance with the arrangements of the parties to the Transaction, prior to the execution of the Purchase Agreement, an amount of PLN 44,200,000.00 (forty-four million two hundred thousand zlotys 00/100) was paid out to the Company as distribution of due – as the Company was thus the sole shareholder of GOG – profits of GOG from previous years.

90 million PLN being ~21,5 million euros. Seems like some money was also held there.
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by 1970-01-01 | 2025-12-29 18:39:07+00:00
Because you're getting a biased storyline both here and over there. The 4680 supply chain isn't a requirement for anything to succeed at Tesla. The product still sells, just with lower profit per unit. At best, it marks the removal of the current Cybertruck battery pack chemistry. Everything else about the future of Tesla is (as always) clickbait speculation.
by alexgieg | 2025-12-29 18:39:08+00:00
Good points. But notice that, if the overall unemployment rate is the same, and in one country there's higher unemployment rate for youth compared to another, this means in the other there's higher unemployment rate for older workers compare to the first. The question then becomes: which is worse, more unemployed youth people, or more unemployed mature/elder people?

I'd argue more unemployed mature/elder is worse. Mature people in an at-will system don't become younger over the years to start finding better and better opportunities, rather their prospects become worse as time goes by. Conversely, young people become mature and find more and more opportunities as they age, so long-term not-at-will systems favor everyone, at the cost of making the start more difficult.

In both the corresponding difficulties can be reduced via welfare. But at-will systems tend, or at least it seems so to me, I may be wrong in this, to provide worse welfare, which may add weight to the comparison.
by majormajor | 2025-12-29 18:39:17+00:00
Everything I remember about the Jobs RDF was entirely about things like MacWorld Expo presentations. Selling lesser-performing products for more by claiming they did more with things like Photoshop bakeoffs, or with (claimed) style over substance. (I was a big long-term Mac user so I felt like Mac OS was enough of an advantage over Windows for a long time that it wasn't just style over substance.)

Musk just took it way further. When Jobs missed with the RDF it was on stuff like the G4 Cube being "cool" enough to make up for its issues. He wasn't promising miracles.
by masspro | 2025-12-29 18:40:22+00:00
Also they are horrifically broken if you use OS-level magnifier (ctrl+scroll etc). I don't know if this is the application devs' fault or not; I haven't investigated OS mouse warping APIs. Warping the mouse back to the center of the knob goes in a feedback loop with the magnifier and spams crazy mouse events such that every knob will immediately go to min or max. Really shameful accessibility fail that no one cares about.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-29 18:40:32+00:00
> 1.5B net on $100B revenue is not great. 1.5%? If that's not struggling, it's uncomfortably close.

You're misreading. $100B annual revenue. 1.5B quarterly new income.

Q3 2025 was record revenue of $27B (up 12% YoY). Operating margin was 5.8% (down from 10.8 Q3 2024).

Why the lower profitability? Higher expenses for AI and R&D costs, lower EV prices (very strong competition), etc.
by scrlk | 2025-12-29 18:40:37+00:00
What I find somewhat humorous: AMD originally wanted to acquire Nvidia, but walked away when Jensen apparently insisted on becoming the CEO of the merged company.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/insider-says...

I wonder how AMD would have fared against Intel post-Conroe if Jensen was CEO. They were behind but still competitive until the Bulldozer flop, only recovering with Zen (and even then it took a few generations for Zen to mature).
by alright2565 | 2025-12-29 18:41:15+00:00
Note that you should never buy raw cells from Amazon. They are always fake or under-spec. At the very least, this seller claims "Multiple Protections" when this is a fully unprotected cell.

Distributors usually won't sell to regular consumers, but there are specialized retailers who base their reputation on selling quality goods, usually to the RC, flashlight, and vape market.
by ajdude | 2025-12-29 18:41:26+00:00
Also a plex pass holder. Been using it for years, and finally pulled the trigger to buy Plex pass lifetime because I wanted to move away from flickr and love that I could automatically upload photos taken on my phone to Plex.

... not a week later they've announced that they were getting rid of that feature

Then they forced everybody into having us username accounts, change things so I couldn't just visit my media servers address directly.

I also leverage Plex for live TV but they still don't support most OTA HD channels for licensing reasons.

Then they got rid of "watch together" , which has been heavily leveraged by family and friends over the years (re-implementing it is the second highest most requested feature right now in their suggestions).

Now they have the new pricing model where you must have Plex pass or some other subscription service if you want to be able to watch stuff stored on your own media server if you're doing it outside of your local network.

It's getting frustrating and despite people begging for certain things (e.g. Watch together) they seem to just be ignoring what people are asking for and focusing on weird stuff like sharing your watch history with random people or trying to turn Plex into a social media platform.
by chris- | 2025-12-29 18:41:40+00:00
No, it does not. The oom killer acts on (mostly) the oom score and no process is exepmt, regardless of whether or not it allocates new memory.
It may help you write correct programs in certain situations though, eg. if your program was running in a defined context, eg. a cgroup, and you would not allocate beyond your cgroup limits, and the system was configured sanely, you can handle allocation problems easier.
by bratwurst3000 | 2025-12-29 18:41:54+00:00
Kids are stupid and follow what adults do. If I judge that I have the time to cross the street at red light without getting hit by the incoming car doesnt mean that the kid standing next to me is even seeing the car and crossing right after me.....

Showing kids good example is good. What you mean is showing them bounderies.
Getting shit drunk in front of kids and telling them how much fun it is but they cant do it is behaving like a child
by estearum | 2025-12-29 18:42:02+00:00
No pretty much all real-world evidence points to them being positive [0]. Feel free to share evidence otherwise, if you have any.

You can argue about popularity if you want, the topic is actually about whether they're "in the public interest" though. Those are distinct things, and "I don't like them because they're unpopular" is pretty hilariously circular logic -- not the type of thinking I'd want my name attached to, that's for sure!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/conges...
by rectang | 2025-12-29 18:42:11+00:00
It's been many years since C compilers started making pathological-but-technically-justifiable optimizations that work against the programmer. The problem is the vast sea of "undefined behavior" — if you are not a fully qualified language lawyer versed in every nook and cranny of the C standard, prepare to be surprised.

Many of us who don't like working under such conditions have just moved on to other languages.
by quinnjh | 2025-12-29 18:42:11+00:00
ive been iterating on something very similar as well :D started in september and give it 30-60 mins here and there. i ended up with rows instead of a horizontal scroll. There definitely hve been a handful of times claude made terrible decisions and described them as brilliant, but with some very heavy guidance and worktrees its still (feels at least) quicker than if i wrote it out.

cool to check out your version as well thanks for sharing.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-12-29 18:42:23+00:00
It's best to think of it as an entire spectrum from "statically allocate everything with compile time parameters" to "directly call the system allocator for every new bit of memory". It's just a helpful way to separate the concerns of memory allocation from memory usage.

What this article is talking about isn't all the way at the other end (compile time allocation), but has the additional freedom that you can decide allocation size based on runtime parameters. That frees the rest of the application from needing to worry about managing memory allocations.

We can imagine taking another step and only allocating at the start of a connection/request, so the rest of the server code doesn't need to deal with managing memory everywhere. This is more popularly known as region allocation. If you've ever worked with Apache or Nginx, this is what they do ("pools").

So on and so forth down into the leaf functions of your application. Your allocator is already doing this internally to help you out, but it doesn't have any knowledge of what your code looks like to optimize its patterns. Your application's performance (and maintainability) will usually benefit from doing it yourself, as much as you reasonably can.
by majormajor | 2025-12-29 18:42:35+00:00
> In a Ponzi-scheme, there is no real product (or it is irrelevant)

This part is the smell.

"It's not a car company, it's a AI/Robot/whatever company." The valuation is supposedly justified by a future product that perpetually fails to materialize.

It's obviously not a classical Ponzi scheme in the mechanical sense where payouts are controlled by a central party. It has major Ponzi vibes though, with new money continuing to reward old money even though the fundamentals and products haven't done anything to justify that continued influx - only the hype has.
by fencepost | 2025-12-29 18:42:35+00:00
Doing a quick bit of searching based on the 4680 makes me think that there has been or will be a change from NMC811 to LFP chemistry in the 4680, including one article talking about changing to US and European-based in-house manufacturing and reducing dependence on China.

I'm no fan of Tesla, but this looks like the collapse of the contract with the supplier for the battery chemistry they've moved away from, aka "no [more] big deal."

2023 article confirming NMC chemistry: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/ad14d0

5/2025 article discussing change to LFP: https://roboticsbiz.com/teslas-4680-lfp-battery-explained-ch...

3/2025 article comparing BYD's LFP and Tesla's NMC/NCM: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642...
by GNyZhf6g | 2025-12-29 18:42:36+00:00
I appreciate the effort you put into developing this. However, I'm honestly shocked you received only positive reactions. I booted up my system today and found that it made terminal nearly unusable. The old tab-complete behavior gets you to the branch point you want fast, minimizing typing time. The new behavior quickly shoots past the relevant branch point, meaning I spend considerable effort going back to edit commands.

Also, speaking as an educator, I think there might be a misunderstanding about what makes things intimidating for new users. Systems that make specific decisions without being able to easily control them makes things more intimidating, not less. And if I'm reading your post correctly, it sounds like you are trying to introduce a feature on newcomers, but your internal testing was done on insiders and stable users -- a different population.

Frankly, at this point I may strongly discourage all of my students from using VSCode.
by xthe | 2025-12-29 18:42:44+00:00
A recent disclosure about Intel’s forthcoming Granite Rapids-WS Zeno processors suggests that the highest-end models will feature up to 86 cores and support up to 2 DDR5 DIMMs per socket on the W893 platform. These specifications enable Intel to directly rival AMD’s Threadripper series in the high-end workstation (HEDT) sector.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-12-29 18:42:59+00:00
Most telephony I've experienced has latency measured in seconds (if you ever call your friend or spouse sitting next to you it becomes very obvious :) vs audio recording and processing which is measured in milliseconds.

Additionally, from what little I'm aware of, telephony is heavily optimized for particular frequencies of human voice and then heavily compressed within that. As well, any single telephony stream is basically a single channel. A song may have dozen of channels, at high resolution, full spectrum, all sorts of computationally demanding effects and processing, and still need latency and sync measured on milliseconds.

So... Kind of the opposite of each other,while both being about processing sound :-).
by 4d4m | 2025-12-29 18:43:04+00:00
I think it’s worth separating what feels like songwriting from what’s actually considered songwriting - legally. Curating randomness or generative tools can be a really cool way to explore ideas or turn poetry into something musical, and I totally get the appeal there!

That said, the “vibes on = songwriting” idea doesn’t quite line up with how authorship is defined. The earlier Suno support article spells it out pretty clearly:

You’re generally not considered the owner of the songs, since the output is generated by Suno.

In the U.S., copyright law requires meaningful human authorship. Music made entirely with AI doesn’t qualify, and writing a prompt alone isn’t considered composing the music or lyrics.

If you wrote the lyrics yourself, you do own those outright and can copyright them independently.

I know this is mostly for fun, but once tracks are distributed to Spotify or other DSPs, they start earning money, it does get into riskier territory.

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All that said, I appreciate the encouragement to experiment with new tools. Check out my handle on Spotify/Youtube and you'll see why this is a big part of my life ;)
by yesfitz | 2025-12-29 18:43:05+00:00
I guess my takeaway from this is: Try not to build your life around AI, but there's so much money being pumped into it that your life will be heavily affected by AI succeeding or failing.

What else can individuals do though?

I remember "doomsday prepping" became a cultural phenomenon after the 2008 financial crisis. But if you avoided the stock market and/or taking on debt at historically low interest rates, you missed out on some significant opportunities. Maybe part of that prepping is to reorder your life so that you don't care about stocks or real estate. Maybe the timeframe I'm looking at is too narrow, and history will lump 2008 and any AI crash together.

But maybe AI would be bailed out. I think we're already seeing private industries treat AI the same as their office real estate after COVID, i.e. "We don't need this, but we have it, so we need to use it."

The only call-to-action that Zitron writes in this piece is, "When the collapse happens, do not let a single person that waved off the economics have a moment’s peace." But I think if the collapse occurs as he is proposing, we won't have time to police the boosters' peace.

Does anyone have a more actionable plan for insulating yourself, your family, your community, or society at-large from a potential AI crash?
by astrobe_ | 2025-12-29 18:43:14+00:00
Because garbage-collected languages are easier to teach and to use. So the low-level, low-resource or high-performance stuff is left to a handful of specialists - or "insects" according to Heinlein. Speaking of old things, this reminds me of one of Asimov's short stories, where someone who rediscovers mental calculus is believed to be a genius.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-29 18:43:59+00:00
At the end of the day you have to actually shoot someone from time to time to keep everyone in line.

It's way cheaper to not wrong people or to not walk up so close to that line than it is to secure the full stack and pay everyone what you'd need to pay them to compensate them for the risk of being the unlucky guy who gets scalped on livestream or whatever form sloppy retribution takes.
by Slow_Hand | 2025-12-29 18:44:05+00:00
I use knobs everyday in my audio tools (with my track pad) and they're perfectly fine as long as they have three features:

1. Drag up/down to change value.
2. A modifier key to slow the drag for finer resolution changes when dragging.
3. The ability to double-click the knob and type in precise values when I know exactly what I want.

The problem with knobs on a GUI is when designers stay with them when there is a faster option. Like an opportunity to combine three knobs.

For example, the EQ on any SSL channel strip is a nightmare because they slavishly stick with a skeumorphic design of the original hardware. The hardware required mixers to use two hands to adjust gain and frequency at the same time, and then dial in Q on a third knob. Very tedious when you have a mouse.

When this is done right, you get something like FabFilter's Pro-Q graphic EQ. The gain and frequency controls are instead an X/Y slider that you can easily drag across a representation of the frequency spectrum. In addition you can use a modifier key to narrow/widen your Q. All with a single click and drag of your band.
by shwaj | 2025-12-29 18:44:08+00:00
That was my original thought, however if you want to quantify an effect it would be ideal to measure the same trait in both parent and offspring. I assume that the reason that this was done (I didn’t read the papers) is because this is a retrospective study, where the participants self-report on the exercise level of their fathers, rather than a longitudinal study which could measure the fathers’ metabolic state fitness at time of conception.

Thus, although there is a plausible link, I now agree with the parent post that this is sufficient reason to take the study with a grain of salt (given well known academic incentives to produce positive results, etc).
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-29 18:44:12+00:00
I don't understand why this keeps working. The dude doing the hyping is widely hated.

67% of Americans have said they'll never consider buying a Tesla. 56% cite Musk as either the entire reason or part of the reason. [0]

Tesla IS Elon Musk. Without him they're nothing, with him they can't access 2/3rds of the market. Why would anyone invest in that?

[0] https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-thirds-of-americans-now-say-t...
by rayiner | 2025-12-29 18:44:15+00:00
> I grew up in 3rd world country and if this were to happen, train would literally stop somewhere, anywhere.

I'm from Bangladesh, and the attitude you're describing is one reason why the country is poor and a mess! Deviating from the schedule for the sake of a single person is completely insane and maddeningly inefficient. It's classic third-world mentality. In a good country, the system would never tolerate such deviations. In a really good country, someone wouldn't even ask for such accommodation for themselves, because it would be shameful to inconvenience others even slightly for one's own sake.