MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by speed_spread | 2025-12-05 14:58:58+00:00
Because writing proper kernel C code requires decades of experience to navigate the implicit conventions and pitfalls of the existing codebase. The human pipeline producing these engineers is drying up because nobody's interested in learning that stuff by going through years of patch rejection from maintainers that have been at it since the beginning.

Rust's rigid type system, compiler checks and insistence on explicitness forces a _culture change_ in the organization. In time, this means that normal developers will regain a chance to contribute to the kernel with much less chance of breaking stuff. Rust not only makes compiled binary more robust but also makes the codebase more accessible.
by hansvm | 2025-12-05 14:59:18+00:00
> introduces some mental friction in walking away???

I don't think it's just mental friction. Suppose you've learned git well enough that everything you do in it is automatic and fast, and the things which aren't fast by default you've built aliases and tooling for over the years. Yes, starting from ground zero you might want something like jj, but at the current point in your life you're not starting from ground zero. Switching to jj means learning another tool to achieve similar outcomes on your workflows.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-12-05 14:59:30+00:00
> But software development is different. There has been many decades where software developers suffered very little alienation. It only changed with the universal adoption of "corporate agile"

Lol are you really gonna go with "I'm a software developer, fuck all the restaurant workers, teachers, plumbers, janitors!"

This is why Marx's ideas failed in the West - toxic individualism - and flourished in the East.
by oersted | 2025-12-05 14:59:34+00:00
If stocks are more of a closed system that are weakly affected by external factors in the short term, now I finally understand why they hire so many physicists for financial modeling!

There is of course the fact that physicists tend to be the best applied mathematicians, even if they don’t end up using any of their physics knowledge. And they generally had the reputation of “the smartest” people for the last century.

Anyway, such systems are complex and chaotic yes, but there are many ways of predicting aspects of them, like with fluid simulation to give a basic example. And I don’t get your point about weather, it is also recursive in the same way and reacting to its own reactions. Sure it is not reacting to predictions of itself, but that’s just a special kind of reaction, and patterns in others predictions can definitely be predicted accurately, perhaps not individually but in the aggregate.
by DrewADesign | 2025-12-05 14:59:38+00:00
Right— that’s bitten me ‘whipping up’ prototypes. My assumption about the way the LLM would handle done minutiae ends up being wrong and finding out why something isn’t working ends up taking more time than doing it right the first time by hand. The worst part about that is you can’t even factor it in to your already inaccurate work time estimates because it could strike anywhere — including things you’d never mess up yourself.
by dspillett | 2025-12-05 14:59:46+00:00
> You'll care when there will be no physical media

Physical media is on the way out for the most part, where it isn't already gone, and Netflix & co are the reason, not piracy.

> and you're left with compressed shit shown down your throat.

WRT “compressed shit”: the quality of ahem copies is often no worse than you'd get from an official streamed source. For those that have 4K-capable eyes it is often better as it JustWorks™ without quality dipping out due to bandwidth issues at the streamer, your ISP, or somewhere between, or for local playback needing a long fight to convince your Sony TV to accept that Sony media player connected via a Sony brand cable is legit.

I actually pay for a couple of streaming services (though Prime largely begrudgingly as it got rolled into the delivery service I use), but still get media from ahem other sources because the playback UX is often preferable.

Or if by “compressed shit” you are referring to the intellectual quality of the content not the technical merits of the medium, if it all turns to mush I'll just watch even less than I already do the same way I practically never game these days (though that is due to both content quality and technical matters). I've got other hobbies competing for my attention, I can just live without TV if TV quality falls further.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-12-05 14:59:49+00:00
@dang - can we just change the title to "Germany Has..."

It's also not that surprising. They have been substantially dependent on oil and import 63% of their energy requirements. A significant fraction is Russian, which is now tarrifed/embargoed etc.

As for the UK (second), we decided to baseline our electricity pricing on the most expensive option. Good for energy producers, bad for consumers.
by Mindwipe | 2025-12-05 14:59:57+00:00
Which is why it won't happen, what would the revenue benefit of that be?

In the medium term you'll get a D+/Hulu-esque split with maybe a discounted bundle of Netflix and HBO Max together - the evidence is pretty strong that bundles reduce churn.

If they ever do go to one library, it'll be because Netflix feel they are able to push prices to the same level as both services combined.
by Thiez | 2025-12-05 15:00:03+00:00
A skilled surgeon can generate millions of negative micromorts per year. Should they get a pass if once a year they push a child off the roof of the hospital? What of the classic example of killing a healthy patient and saving several lives with their organs?

It sounds so enlightened to shuffle micromorts around. What good is it to the parents of a child killed by an unsafe vehicle that increased taxes going to healthcare will ensure that 320 elderly people can live 3 months longer?
by SCdF | 2025-12-05 15:00:09+00:00
More power to you obviously. But I have mixed feelings about this.

There is so much information that curation is inevitable. Sure. But I don't want that curation to be "fun". I don't _want_ tiktok in my life, or really anything whose goal is "engagement". I don't want time killers.

One of the reasons for getting back into RSS for me was to have a direct feed to authors I'm interested in.

But I understand that quickly can become unmanageable.

When that time comes, I think I'd be interested in the curation being about compressing content down, not expanding it out. That is to say: use the algorithm to select from a large pool of what you're interested in, down to a manageable static size (like a weekly newsletter), as opposed to using it to infinitely expand outward to keep engaging you.
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 15:00:22+00:00
Netflix doesn't wait for people to get bored. It canceled Kaos the same month they released it! It had good reviews and a lot of binges but that didn't save it from the axe.

Dead Boy Detectives was canceled less than 5 months after it was released.

With so much competing for our time there's no way everyone is going to jump on every show immediately after it gets released and watch it several times over so whatever bullshit metrics netflix is using look impressive enough for them to give the show's fans a satisfying conclusion.

If you watched TV before netflix you might remember that sometimes it took two or more entire seasons before a show became popular. Some extremely popular and successful shows were like that and would never have happened if netflix had put them out.
by triceratops | 2025-12-05 15:00:37+00:00
> It genuinely doesn't seem like any more of a threat than age-gating Playboy at the bookstore

If it was really like that, I would have no problem. Simple ID check, in-person only, that's never stored anywhere.

I've proposed this several times. Age-gated websites (social media, random forums, adult websites) should require a one-time use code or token that expires once a year. The token should only be available for purchase at liquor stores or tobacco stores - someplace they check your ID on pain of losing their license. It should be reasonably priced.

Sometimes someone might resell a token they purchased to a minor. Those people should be actively hunted with sting operations and prosecuted.

There's no good reason to make age verification on the Internet more stringent than age verification to buy alcohol or tobacco. Alcohol and tobacco kill far more people.
by jinzo | 2025-12-05 15:00:43+00:00
> I think you are intentionally misrepresenting this and moving the goalposts to make your point. GP blamed safety and liability for the way the process looks like, not the complexity of the task. When it comes to safety you bet that an improperly installed or inspected wheel or tire can be dangerous.

Sorry that you feel that way, it was not my intention. But improperly installed or inspected wheel or tire is A LOT less dangerous than crashed EV Battery. And in EU you have a lot of effort going even into this, Police can inspect (and does) the tire from the outside (+ regular mostly yearly MOTs). All new cars have to have pressure sensors in the tire. So I would say EU (where EV Clinic is present) is making a lot of the same strides to make everything around tires safer. And believe it or not, if you go buy any new car in EU, drive it 5 minutes and swap the wheels yourself, it'll flag an error! As the wheels need to have appropriate pressure sensors - that also need to be programmed into the vehicle for a lot of makes.

You think it's profit driven, I don't. Agree to disagree.

> More moving of goalposts mixed with not understanding what liability is, and where it belongs. So you tell me what's Tesla's liability when EV Clinic "repairs" a battery.

I was aiming at EV Clinics liability, not Teslas. And I can guarantee you that both Tesla and BMW take into consideration the bad press if someone, even non official mechanic, repairs their cars and then they kill someone/catch fire. Of course Tesla a lot less than BMW, I even have a feeling that this contributed more to how BMW does things, than profit.
by hammock | 2025-12-05 15:01:30+00:00
Mechanistic evidence shows low doses cause genotoxicity and oxidative stress in human lymphocytes and other cells.

A novel mechanism proposal is that glyphosate may chelate and accumulate in the bone, slowly releasing into the bloodstream, exposing bone marrow and potentially triggering hematologic malignancies.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S21522...
by mapt | 2025-12-05 15:01:32+00:00
> a codec doesn't have enough information to know.

The material belief is that modern trained neural network methods that improve on ten generations of variations of the discrete cosine transform and wavelets, can bring a codec from "1% of knowing" to "5% of knowing". This is broadly useful. The level of abstraction does not need to be "The AI told the decoder to put a finger here", it may be "The AI told the decoder how to terminate the wrinkle on a finger here". An AI detail overlay. As we go from 1080p to 4K to 8K and beyond we care less and less about individual small-scale details being 100% correct, and there are representative elements that existing techniques are just really bad at squeezing into higher compression ratios.

I don't claim that it's ideal, and the initial results left a lot to be desired in gaming (where latency and prediction is a Hard Problem), but AI upscaling is already routinely used for scene rips of older videos (from the VHS Age or the DVD Age), and it's clearly going to happen inside of a codec sooner or later.
by pella | 2025-12-05 15:01:57+00:00
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/glyphosate-safety-art...

""""Their request “was actually the first time a complaint came to my desk directly,” Martin van den Berg, a co-editor-in-chief of the journal, told Retraction Watch. The article was published long before he took over, said van den Berg, a toxicologist at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and “it was simply not brought to my attention” until Kaurov and Oreskes’ article. The retraction “could have been done as early as 2017, but it is clearly a case of two parallel information streams not connecting earlier,” he said.""""
by philistine | 2025-12-05 15:01:57+00:00
Yeah, these things take a long time to shake out. We still have cable subscriptions because older people watch TV that way, but no one would tell you that linear television is thriving. We're only now seeing sports start to somewhat move to streaming services, when the writing's on the wall for a while.

And would you entertain the idea that few movies are worth seeing because going to the movie theatre is a hard sell for audiences, and studios produce movies that try and adapt to that reality?
by godber | 2025-12-05 15:01:59+00:00
Nice post, one more thing to keep in mind with your StatefulSets is how long the service running in the pod takes to come back up. Many will scan the on disk state for integrity and perform recovery tasks. These can take a while and mean the overall service is in a degraded state.

Manage these things and any stateful distributed service can run easily in Kubernetes.
Show HN: Soffio – a Rust blog/CMS with static pages and an admin UI
by xfyyzy | 2025-12-05 15:02:25+00:00
Soffio is a Rust-powered blog/CMS. Public pages are statically rendered; the admin is an interactive Datastar UI for writing and publishing.

The codebase was heavily AI-assisted (ChatGPT/Claude), but I’m fully responsible for the architecture, review and maintenance. I care about being explicit when AI is involved.

Repo: https://github.com/xfyyzy/soffio
by aidenn0 | 2025-12-05 15:02:30+00:00
I'm also opposed to this law (mainly I think it is a huge invasion of privacy with near zero chance of actually protecting kids), but there are some realities people should know.

My kids were all exposed to some relatively extreme stuff long before they had a network connected device (starting around 1st grade). This is because other kids at school had network connected devices, and some of those kids show other kids stuff for shock value.

In a more extreme instance, the child did pay for internet access; they got an old phone from a friend and paid cash for a sim card.
by another_twist | 2025-12-05 15:02:35+00:00
Say this in an interview and its a perfect way to fail, even though its true. Its sad how interviewers often take pleasure in pointing out that anything said outside their packets is a signal for lack of technical knowledge. I've been in and passed several tech interviews. I've also interviewed plenty of people, if someone points out the human aspect of a problem, I actually award points. Sad how often I have to fight with my colleagues.

"But what about using a message queue.."

"Candidate did not use microservices.."

"Lacks knowledge of graph databases.." (you know, because I took a training last week ergo it must be the solution).
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-05 15:02:48+00:00
>1. People lost ownership of the things they work on. In the early 1900s, more than half of the workforce was self-employed. Today, it is 10% in the US, 13% in the EU.

At a high level nobody works smarter and harder than people working for themselves because they see the direct results in near linear proportion. So basically half the workforce was in that situation vs a tenth. Say nothing about taxation and other things that cost more the higher up you go and serve to fractionally break or dilute the "work harder, make more, live better" feedback loop.
by lqet | 2025-12-05 15:02:53+00:00
Weeds on the lawn: just use a lawnmower each week, the grass will usually handle being cut on a weekly basis much better than any weed.

Weeds between tiles / slabs or on gravel: just pour boiling water over them. The weeds will become mushy and die within 1-2 days. Repeat every 6 weeks during summer.

Source: we bought a house with a garden full of goutweed [0], which I consider the final boss of any garden owner, and which we have in control now through regular mowing / hot water. Goutweed will just laugh at any herbicide you throw at it, and regrow from its underground rhizomes. I also doesn't seem to require sun, because I have seen plants grow to a height of 10cm completely underground. The joke in my family is that it could grow on foreign planets. As Wikipedia dryly puts it: "Once established, goutweed is difficult to eradicate."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegopodium_podagraria
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-05 15:03:03+00:00
I always somewhat admire people, who can go through with one thing for that long. My own blogs mostly served as vehicles for learning another programming language or saw short-lived activity and then long inactivity, before I took them down. That said ... maybe I should make another blog, in which I document computer programming stuff and keep the topic vague, so that I can put basically anything there, so that I have enough stuff to write about.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-05 15:03:03+00:00
> IMO I think we are going to see Paramount, STARZ and AMC bought up soon.

You do know that David Ellison (Larry Ellison's son), through his Skydance Media, acquired Paramount Global (including its parent, National Amusements) in a merger completed in August 2025.

He also wanted Warner Brothers. I'm super glad that nepo baby isn't getting what he wants. He is using his daddy to talk to Trump to try stop it though: https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/media/paramount-skydances-davi...
by latexr | 2025-12-05 15:03:07+00:00
> But if someone will is actually going to implement a feed, should it be (actual) RSS, or Atom (or JSON Feed)?

I’ve been doing JSON feeds exclusively since it came out. Support in readers is pretty good (Universal? Near universal?) and they’re super simple to generate and consume programatically with standard tools in current mainstream programming languages.

When adding to my feed reader, I’ll take whatever and don’t care¹. When generating it myself or consuming via a script, 100% JSON feed.

¹ In practice that means RSS or JSON. I’ve been using RSS for some two decades and never cared for Atom. I don’t have anything against it, I just never saw the need.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-12-05 15:04:49+00:00
This seems like it's another attempt to 'simplify' working with Git by layering another model on top with a reduced command set.

Somewhat like how you could do everything with git objects and refs but branches and tags make it easier.

But I do worry that just how occasionally a regular Git users needs git reflog to fix a problem, that a StGit user will still have to fallback to Git and that as such, it's just another layer of onion.
by degamad | 2025-12-05 15:04:57+00:00
If you want some considered thoughts on consolidation and antitrust implications, Cory Doctorow's writings are interesting. Some relevant examples:

"Hate the player AND the game (10 Sep 2025)" https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-p...

"The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street (14 Aug 2024)" https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/14/the-price-is-wright/#enfo...

"End of the line for Reaganomics (13 Aug 2021)" https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#manne-down

"10 Oct 2022 Antitrust is – and always has been – about fairness" https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/10/play-fair/#bedoya

And his archives for more:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/monopoly/

https://pluralistic.net/tag/antitrust/
by dumah | 2025-12-05 15:05:02+00:00
These companies innovate in all of those areas and direct those resources towards building hyper-scale custom infrastructure, including CPU, TPU, GPU, and custom networking hardware for the largest cloud systems, and conduct research and development on new compilers and operating system components to exploit them.

They're building it for themselves and employ world-class experts across the entire stack.

How can NVIDIA develop "more integrated" solutions when they are primarily building for these companies, as well as many others?

Examples of these companies doing things you mention as being somehow unique to or characteristic of NVIDIA:

Complex kernel drivers or modules:

- AWS: Nitro, ENA/EFA, Firecracker, NKI, bottlerocket

- Google: gasket/apex, gve, binder

- Meta: Katran, bpfilter, cgroup2, oomd, btrfs

Hardware simulators:

- AWS: Neuron, Annapurna builds simulations for nitro, graviton, inferentia and validates aws instances built for EDA services

- Google: Goldfish, Ranchu, Cuttlefish

- Meta: Arcadia, MTIA, CFD for thermal management

Optimizing Compilers:

- Amazon: NNVM, Neo-AI

- Google: MLIR, XLA, IREE

- Meta: Glow, Triton, LLM Compiler

Acceleration Libraries:

- Amazon: NeuronX, aws-ofi-nccl

- Google: Jax, TF

- Meta: FBGEMM, QNNPACK
by pandaman | 2025-12-05 15:05:25+00:00
How can I link it if they are excluded from the time back machine and they pulled that "fact" since then? I have no clue if someone wrote blog post about it. I also don't read all checks currently on their site so cannot answer your question about them. I have only read the one about masks because someone at work sent a mail about masks available and another person responded with an angry critique, complete with a link to snopes ( I am sure that couple of weeks later the same guy had been driving around with a double mask and reported unmasked to the police)
by taeric | 2025-12-05 15:05:33+00:00
This is almost certainly a nice story we tell ourselves about a mythical past that just didn't exist.

It can be annoying to say, but modern factory produced things are in an absurdly higher quality spectrum than most of what proceeded them. This is absolutely no different from when machined parts for things first got started. We still have some odd reverence for "hand crafted" things when we know that computer aided design and manufactured are flat out better. In every way.

As for ownership, I hate to break it to you, but it is very likely that a good many of the master works we ascribe to people were heavily executed by assistants. Not that this is too bad, but would be akin to thinking that Miyazaki did all of the art for the movies. We likely have no idea who did a lot of the work we ascribe to single artists throughout history.

On to the rest of the points, even the ones I somewhat resonate with are just flat out misguided. People were ALWAYS resources. Well before the modern world.
by tecleandor | 2025-12-05 15:05:46+00:00
Of course it's faster!

The Mikrotik LTE6 device is a Cat.6 LTE device, so up to 300/50Mbits, and since some time ago, all iPhones are Cat.20 and 5G and all that stuff.

But that's not the only important thing. The frequency band support for the modem is very important. Not all networks nor even cell phone antennas work on the same frequencies, so even when connecting to antennas of the same company, depending on the antenna you connect, it'll have different bands enabled depending on the hardware or the connectivity they have there.

You have to check the specs for you modem [0][1] and see what bands are supported, what bands are supported in the antenna your connecting to [2]... Depending on the category of your device [3], and the channels that are allowed to be used at the same time, the congestion, the interference, and... it can happen than a consumer phone downloads faster than a dedicated industrial modem, if the available frequencies aren't the most favorable.

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0: https://mikrotik.com/product/lhg_lte6_kit#product_specification 1: https://www.apple.com/iphone/cellular/ 2: https://www.cellmapper.net 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-UTRA#User_Equipment_(UE)_categories