MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by klabb3 | 2025-12-06 22:32:59+00:00
Background support for non-Apple apps is best-effort at best, and explicitly discouraged in the docs. The rate of silent push notifications and other background mechanisms are intentionally not documented and you’re explicitly instructed you not to rely on any current behavior. They make some exceptions to support money makers like Uber and fitness tracking but generally they don’t like you using anything in the background.

Android is more relaxed but the vendors (like Samsung etc) will go around that and implement their own aggressive background killing bots. Sometimes, this causes alarm apps to stop and not wake you up etc.

The main reason is battery life. Tragically, this makes sense due to the cesspool of spam apps that plague their ”curated” app stores. If you’re an app developer who want to use it responsibly you’re in for a world of trouble. I know because I am one of them (well, I consider myself responsible at least).
by kg | 2025-12-06 22:33:09+00:00
> SFTP is an encrypted protocol, so maybe those CPU cycles add up to a lot of extra work over time or slowdown. That… shouldn’t feel convincing to anyone who gives it more than 15 seconds of thought, but we all live with our eyes wide shut at times.

FWIW, I previously spent some time trying to get the maximum possible throughput when copying files between a Windows host and a Linux VM, and the encryption used by most protocols did actually become a bottleneck eventually. I expect this isn't a big factor on 1gbps ethernet, but I've never measured it.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-12-06 22:33:59+00:00
ugh, I don't know why copying files and basic I/O is so fucked on Windows. Recently I was trying to copy some large movie files between 2 folders on an NVME SSD formatted to ExFAT in a good USB-C enclosure connected over 20Gbps USB-C port and explorer would literally just freeze & crash doing that. I had to copy one file at a time to make it not crash, and then it would have this weird I/O pattern where the transfer would do almost nothing for 1-2 minutes, then the speed eventually picked up.

This isn't even going into WSL. I specifically stopped using WSL and moved to a separate linux devbox because of all the weirdness and slowness with filesystem access across the WSL boundary. Something like listing a lot of files would be very slow IIRC. Slightly tangentially, the whole situation around sharing files across OSes is pretty frustrating. The only one that works without 3rd party paid drivers on all 3 major OSes is ExFAT and that is limited in many other ways compared to ext4 or NTFS.
by AngryData | 2025-12-06 22:35:12+00:00
Yeah, somehow despite everyone doing cocaine at even the highest positions for many decades without any real problems, and the plethora of medical research about the effects of cocaine and how minimal all its long term side effects are and how low addiction rates really are, all below common alcohol, people still act like cocaine is this super serious life-ruining drug. The only significant life-ruining part of cocaine is law enforcement's reaction to it, unless of course you have a lot of money in which case you can just pay to lawyer your way out of it.

The biggest danger to cocaine? Using cocaine to stave off the over-dose effects of other longer-lasting drugs, and then running out of cocaine before you run out of the other drugs and then dieing from alcohol poisoning or opiate over-dose. Cops and politicians will pretend cocaine killed those people, but anyone who knows jack shit about drugs or gets to see the actual toxicology report knows better.
by tsoukase | 2025-12-06 22:36:31+00:00
Since many years the only advancements in autism research are descriptive trends: "diffuse development disorder", "spectrum" and now "multiple conditions". As long as these words refer to syndromes and not to mechanisms or causes, they will only be word fanciness.

I suggest a change of the autism term to something like "idiopathic apsychia" (loss of soul, empathy disorder etc) which demonstrates a common causal base and can focus the attention to more meaningful academic research and public acknowledgement.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-12-06 22:37:07+00:00
Pods are used primarily for manoverability. This allows Cruise ships to get in and out of ports with a minimum of assistance (none at all, if conditions permit). This is important because they are entering and leaving ports every day or two. It also makes sense as the hotel loads on these floating skyscrapers is similar to the propulsion loads so having combined main engines and generators gives other advantages.

Ocean going container vessels on the other hand use massive direct drive two stroke diesel engines (usually they only have a single engine). They have no gearbox. The only way to go-astern is to literally start the engine in reverse. This can only be done up to a limited speed, otherwise the windmilling effect of the water passing through the prop would overpower the starting air.

Suffice to say, I'd put a long bet on the overwhelming majority of containerships being powered by internal combustion engines in 30 years time. If we get our act together we might have come up with an alternative / synthetic fuel by then but I wouldn't hold my breath.
by itissid | 2025-12-06 22:37:20+00:00
I have been trying to come off of google and cloud by building — quite slowly — my own nas server which has 2 nodes in two geographic regions where I am building certain services like cloud storage and backup, webhosting etc. But I think there are a few key things that need to be community driven to really get rid of this duoply.

0. A privacy first approach would be something like this:

`You+App --Read/Write-> f_private(your_data) <--Write only- 3p` and App cannot communicate your data to 3p or google/apple.

Think of Yelp/Google Maps but with no _read_ permissions on location, functions can be run in a private middleware e.g. what's near an anonymous location or ads based on anonymous data. You can wipe your data from one button click and start again for EVERYTHING, no data is ever stored on a 3p server. Bonus: No more stupid horrible permission fiascos for app development that are just plain creepy.

1. An opensource data effort that can support (0) with critical infra e.g. precise positioning, anonymous or privacy preserving functions that don't reveal their data or processes to 3p.

Here is my favourite open source effort: Precise Location Positioning. A high recall, opensource, 3D building and sattelite-shadow Data-Infra effort[3]. This world class dataset on shadows and sattelites are a must. Most geo-location positioning tied to Radio signals is just a bandaid and fraught with privacy issues — thought there are heroic privacy first efforts in this direction[1][2] which though amazing will be playing catch-up with google already deploying [3].

[1]https://beacondb.net/

[2] https://github.com/wiglenet/m8b

[3] https://insidegnss.com/end-game-for-urban-gnss-googles-use-o...
by IshKebab | 2025-12-06 22:37:24+00:00
Yeah I also can't see the difference on the high quality video. I am on my phone though tbf.

Also, minus 100 points to Jill for being happy about being able to use AI to automatically edit out all the silence from her videos. That's far more annoying than any barely perceptible visual artifacts.

Why do people think wall-of-text videos are good?
by devilsdata | 2025-12-06 22:38:32+00:00
Is it possible that this phenomenon is specific to people with those mental illnesses? A wider general population study resulted in the inverse effect:

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/6/1354

I only did a postgraduate degree, so I don't have the practice reading scientific studies to determine which is true. Maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in?
by lukan | 2025-12-06 22:39:05+00:00
So .. if you want to keep it simple and reduce the chance of scaring away interested people for good because of failure, don't offer dual boot, unless you know all the tricks. Too many ways this can go wrong in my experience and if it goes right, it likely means they just continue using what they know - windows.

For a risk free just trying out, have linux live usb sticks prepared.
by harywilke | 2025-12-06 22:39:22+00:00
"About Cole Rise

Cole Rise is a photographer, entrepreneur, pilot, and space camera maker. He’s the designer of the original Instagram icon and filters and has shot for brands and tourism boards around the world. Obsessed with space and the cameras we sent to the moon, Cole has spent the last six years building a custom workshop for rebuilding the cameras that traveled with us on our greatest journeys, from Mercury to the Shuttle, using many of the same tools and materials available in those time periods."
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-06 22:39:33+00:00
Yea WB went downhill... Because the merger had the new CEO slash with reckless abandon. His only goal was to get the company nice and pretty to sell, not to turn it around with quality content.

And he succeeded.

>The writing is on the wall

That everyone will blow themselves up to get a big acquisition paycheck as these companies crash a century of collective culture? I guess so.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-12-06 22:39:37+00:00
Feels like a project covering some of the same ground as task warrior [0], which I've used on and off over the years. The main thing I've appreciated is integration with various tools - I had access in both vimwiki and the macOS task bar for a while which was nice - but all these tools miss the key thing that stops me using them all the time: integration with tools on my phone. It's great having cli access to tasks and in other places, but without ubiquity, given the way I work, it might well just be another place that ideas of tasks I need to do go to die.

[0] https://taskwarrior.org
by hnlmorg | 2025-12-06 22:39:54+00:00
I get that. But my point is if you’ve got 100+ bits of software installed via homebrew and flatpak, then it’s a bit of a stretch to say updates are a single image.

I’m sure there is a reason for their design but the messaging is all over the place. They boast about things that you should expect to happen (like testing packages before releasing - even bleeding edge distros do this) and throw superlatives around with little substance to back them up while quoting pretty run-of-the-mill choices like KDE and VSCode. It leaves an overall impression that the people behind it can’t be taken to seriously.

If that’s unfair then I’m sorry. But it’s their job to convince me that I should trust them with something as important as an OS. It’s not my job to give them the benefit of the doubt.

If that distro is even just half as good as it claims, then they need to seriously redesign the entire landing page to be more focused on what those gains are. And I say this as someone who's ran several open source projects myself and has immense difficulties designing landing pages for them. I know it's a hard thing to get right. In fact I think it's actually harder than creating a new distro.
by lelanthran | 2025-12-06 22:40:17+00:00
> Servo had Mozilla's backing in that endeavor though, and even then they didn't manage to ship a full browser in a decade, the problem is just that hard.

Not that hard; Ladybird, with a fraction of the resources available to the servo team, is C++ (Moving to swift soon) and they got pretty damn far.

The lack of velocity in Rust is real; it's a trade-off between velocity and safety, and Ladybird has amply demonstrated just how rapid C++ velocity can be.

And this is coming from someone who doesn't even like C++.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-06 22:40:19+00:00
I don't doubt the increase in efficiency. I doubt the "drastically".

We already see models become more and more capable per weight and per unit of compute. I don't expect a state-change breakthrough. I expect: more of the same. A SOTA 30B model from 2026 is going to be ~30% better than one from 2025.

Now, expecting that to hurt Nvidia? Delusional.

No one is going to stop and say "oh wow, we got more inference efficiency - now we're going to use less compute". A lot of people are going to say "now we can use larger and more powerful models for the same price" or "with cheaper inference for the same quality, we can afford to use more inference".
by flyinglizard | 2025-12-06 22:40:49+00:00
I'll ignore the baiting and just answer this: >> What exactly makes you believe the fraction is small?

Because it's not as prevalent in other societies. The fixation of Americans, and especially younger Americans with mental health is not something I've (or clearly, GP) witnessed elsewhere.

I don't think the discussion here is due to a lack of empathy, rather it's curiosity of people looking into this society from the outside (which we're doing all the time because we live in an Americanized world, after all). It seems like the participants in this game of self diagnosis and mental health crusade are very self centered and not very fit to deal with life (which is a complicated matter, I admit to that).

This is not to dismiss the hardships of those people professionally diagnosed with mental conditions, obviously.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-06 22:41:57+00:00
I'm super interested in how Carv 2 radically simplified the product (Oct 2024), to just a motion sensor that clips to the boots. https://getcarv.com/blog/introducing-carv-2

The first Carv 1 had a whole footbed that detected where you were applying pressure, had some 2D pressure sensing to some degree. But it couldn't really determine your leg orientation, just pressure.

Now there's no pressure, but it can see orientation. Installation is also radically easier. Supposedly Carv 2 is a very loved product, but I'm a bit aghast at seeing such a complex powerful sensor networking system replaced by something much much simpler.

FluxPose just launched their Kickstarter. It's not really designed for sports per se, but has so many properties that seem like they could be excellent for this kind of application. The trackers are tiny and light. They use radio so they can go anywhere, won't be obstructed by clothing. You wear the base station, which acts as a stable 0-point of reference for the system, which seems incredibly crucial for skiing, seeing compression and relative lean. It has up to 10 trackers, so you could definitely attach some to your skiis to. It works at up to 300Hz (although maybe that's with less trackers, unclear?). I don't know if raw data is available but I hope so!

I don't ski as much as I want, and I don't have the cash to throw after this product, but damn, FluxPose looks like such a huge change. I hope we see more Carv like people out there, and I hope it collides with the tracker revolution that's getting much more data. https://www.fluxpose.com/
by bakugo | 2025-12-06 22:42:40+00:00
Just tried copying a 20GB file to my Windows desktop from a mounted Samba share through gigabit ethernet (nvme on both sides). Explorer, Copy-Item and robocopy all saturated the connection with no issues.

There's definitely something off about OP's setup, though I have no idea what it could be. I'd start by checking the latency between the machines. Might also be the network adapter or its drivers.
by AngryData | 2025-12-06 22:43:03+00:00
To me this is just the logical end result of capitalism where the only thing that really matters is profit at any cost. Many people would be fine with being an average person living moderate life, but capitalism is always incentivizing people to exploit and abuse others in the name of profit and the average person is constantly getting screwed and everyone knows it. And there are only 2 real solutions to escaping that problem, eschew modern society and live a subsidence life, or find a way into the top percentage of society so you have more money than you need so you can ignore most of those problems.

Shitty boss/job? Having extra money lets you tell them to fuck themselves and move to another job at any time. If you don't have extra money, well you are not going to be able to tell your shitty boss to shove it unless you want to risk becoming homeless and destitute. Legal trouble? Well money is the solution, which is why poor people are so often screwed over by legal trouble because they can't lawyer their way out. Etc etc
by egeres | 2025-12-06 22:43:04+00:00
Incredibly fast, on my 5090 with CUDA 13 (& the latest diffusers, xformers, transformers, etc...), 9 samplig steps and the "Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo" model I get:

- 1.5s to generate an image at 512x512

- 3.5s to generate an image at 1024x1024

- 26.s to generate an image at 2048x2048

It uses almost all the 32Gb Gb of VRAM and GPU usage. I'm using the script from the HF post: https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo
by igouy | 2025-12-06 22:44:06+00:00
> … these students were busy taking photos, experimenting with composition and lighting, testing out various methods in the darkroom, and learning from their mistakes.

Why?

Supposedly they would be graded A for exposing 100 frames of the lens-cap.

Presumably the "quantity" group were highly self-motivated individuals invested in developing their skills.

Presumably the "quality" group were also highly self-motivated individuals invested in developing their skills.

~

Presumably the "quality" group were free to produce as many photos as they wished.

The difference is that the "quality" group only had once chance to impress the professor.

In contrast, the "quantity" group had at-least 100 chances to impress the professor.

Sampling bias.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-12-06 22:44:28+00:00
> Normative is just the adjective form of "related to norm"

You might want to recheck the definition of normative. Yours is a non-standard usage and you will be misunderstood if you continue to use it that way.

Norm is is, Normative is ought.

> Normative: pertaining to giving directives or rules

> Synonyms: prescriptive
by rgmerk | 2025-12-06 22:44:49+00:00
OK, I did some calculations based on:

* a 5,000 km electric range. * 40MW continuous power requirement for a 21.5 knot cruise speed[1] for a 14000 teu container vessel: * the size and weight capacity for the batteries being the same as the fuel capacity for a 14000 teu container vessel (taking the upper figure from [2]) * the battery pack having similar gravimetric (weight) and volumetric(size) energy density as this a modern Chinese NMC EV pack[3]

The short version is that the battery vessel would require about 25,000 tonnes of batteries for a 5,000km range under those assumptions, which compares to the current fuel capacity of approximately 13,000 tonnes. Volumetrically, it's even closer - about 17,000 cubic metres, compared to about 13,000 for the bunker fuel.

Furthermore, it's worth considering just how much cargo the ship carries. One teu corresponds to about 33 cubic metres of cargo space (not counting the space taken up by the walls of the container), so the ship can carry about 462,000 cubic metres of cargo. So the additional space required to carry an additional 3,500-odd cubic metres of batteries corresponds to only about 0.8% of the ship's total cargo-carrying capacity.

I was surprised at just how doable this is, to be honest. What threw me is just how much bunker fuel ships can carry; if I'm doing the sums right, a ship like this can carry enough fuel to circumnavigate the globe a couple of times over. It may well make economic sense but it's not really necessary to have that kind of range to operate the ship safely.

[1]https://www.man-es.com/docs/default-source/marine/tools/prop... [2]https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-many-gallons-of-fuel-d... [3]https://www.batterydesign.net/zeekr-140kwh-catl-qilin/
by overfeed | 2025-12-06 22:45:14+00:00
> I always found the Perl "community" to be really off-putting with all the monk and wizard nonsense

The Perl community introduced the world to the first language module repositories via CPAN. No more manually hunting down tarballs off FTP servers

As a language, Perl is extremely expressive, which is amazing for one-off scripts, and awful for code that's meant to be shared and/or reread. For pure text-munging, Perl is still unbeaten, when using Perl-Compatible regexes in other languages, I feel the language getting in my way.

You can write easy-to-read Perl (TIMTOWTDI, and all that), but it doesn't force you like Go (small language size) or Python (by convention and culture, on what counts as 'Pythonic')
by randycupertino | 2025-12-06 22:45:18+00:00
Interesting that their new top attorney is a direct hire from Meta- https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-appoints-metas-newste...

AI leadership and design operations at Apple both also had high-level turnover recently. John Giannandrea the Senior VP of Machine Learning & AI left Apple after troubles with Siri and their design lead Alan Dye left for Meta. Johny Srouji their hardware guru is also "considering leaving" https://wccftech.com/apple-chip-guru-johny-srouji-wants-to-l...

Also their CFO left in early 2025.
by BoorishBears | 2025-12-06 22:45:42+00:00
Flux 2[dev] is awful.

Z-Image is getting traction because it fits on their tiny GPUs and does porn sure, but even with more compute Flux 2[dev] has no place.

Weak world knowledge, worse licensing, and it ruins the #1 benefit of a larger LLM backbone with post-training for JSON prompts.

LLMs already understand JSON, so additional training for JSON feels like a cheaper way to juice prompt adherence than more robust post-training.

And honestly even "full fat" Flux 2 has no great spot: Nano Banana Pro is better if you need strong editing, Seedream 4.5 is better if you need strong generation.
by cheema33 | 2025-12-06 22:45:48+00:00
I am not surprised. My Windows 11 systems with modern and beefy hardware frequently runs very slow for reasons unknown. I did use https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat recently and that seemed to have helped. Windows by default comes with a lot of crap that most of us do not use but it consumes resources anyway.

I have been considering a move back to Linux. It is only Microsoft Teams on Windows that I have to use daily that is holding me back.
by echelon | 2025-12-06 22:46:38+00:00
Most of the people I know doing local AI prefer SDXL to Flux. Lots of people are still using SDXL, even today.

Flux has largely been met with a collective yawn.

The only thing Flux had going for it was photorealism and prompt adherence. But the skin and jaws of the humans it generated looked weird, it was difficult to fine tune, and the licensing was weird. Furthermore, Flux never had good aesthetics. It always felt plain.

Nobody doing anime or cartoons used Flux. SDXL continues to shine here. People doing photoreal kept using Midjourney.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-06 22:47:14+00:00
No, and the proof is that some Netflix employee(s) “accidentally” enabled the integration in Feb 2025:

https://www.theverge.com/news/612911/netflix-apple-tv-app-su...

And then Netflix immediately disabled it:

https://www.theverge.com/news/613307/netflix-apple-tv-app-su...

Everyone else allows their content to be indexed, and does not pay Apple anything for it. Disney, Paramount, HBO, Peacock, they all could have refused like Netflix.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-12-06 22:48:24+00:00
Switched to zen recently, and although I only expected a slightly different experience to firefox, it's hugely better. Profiles/containers/workspaces especially are great.. this level or organization fits my mental model much better and and I never need to manage bookmarks or use multiple windows. (Performance with large numbers of tabs seems much better too, presumably inactive workspaces are reclaiming the memory in smart ways).
by stragies | 2025-12-06 22:49:35+00:00
Was the network port bridged to both PCs all the time (as the description makes it sound, or did only the "active" PC get a functioning network connection? Could you tell from the FDB of the upstream device, if there were more than two MAC addresses active on the port? Did you (hopefully) open it up and make PCB pictures before chucking it?