MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrflowers | 2025-12-29 00:49:19+00:00
Seeing as there are people that believe that they are dating a chat bot and others that believe that chat bots contain divinity, there are probably some people that would respond positively to slop emails about Business Insight Synergy Powered By Data-ScAIence and buy some SaaS product for their Meritocrat-Nepo sneaker collab drops company
by pear01 | 2025-12-29 00:49:36+00:00
To be candid, this is a common refrain that simply doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

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I'm not especially interested in passing moral judgment on others

Earlier:

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I chose to spend most of my career at a company that did stuff I found morally acceptable (inspiring, even). I made probably half what I could have made at places that were more dodgy.

Put more succinctly:

"I work somewhere that is morally acceptable. I could have made double or more if I had worked at a 'more dodgy', less morally acceptable place. Like where you work. No judgement though."

Honestly, I would have more respect for your sentiments if you would just stick to the logical conclusion of your position. Perhaps the scorn you meet is simply a reaction to this inability to simply follow the logical course of your own viewpoint. It has nothing to do with the mere existence of your morals it has to do with the fact that they are incompatible.

You want to have it both ways - you want to make a moral judgement and yet not make a moral judgement. Or you want to bound your moral judgement simply to yourself as if it is at all logical to not extrapolate it to others. If others can work for wherever they please, then what do you even mean by "morally acceptable" or "dodgy"? Simply places you prefer? That's not what morally acceptable means.

For someone who speaks of moral judgements, you don't seem to grasp their implications. I would suggest reflecting on this if you actually care about the reactions you elicit in others. This brief back and forth with you is certainly suggestive of a picture far different from the one you originally painted.
by nuccy | 2025-12-29 00:49:41+00:00
Rivers (e.g. Mississipi) work with much smaller gradient of just 0.01% [1], while with your assumption it would be 0.25%, so 25x.

Maybe instead it needs to pass under the rivers [2: cross-section] surrounding New-York, which may be much deeper, especially when it comes closer to the bay passing Queens and Brooklyn [2: map]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River

2. https://gordonsurbanmorphology.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/wate...
by justin66 | 2025-12-29 00:49:41+00:00
> China's subs will be much further out, trying to keep US strike groups far from the island

I agree and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Thinking it through, though: if Japan is party to the conflict its naval assets are likely to be much closer to China, and China will need to keep some assets nearby in the East China Sea to honor the threat regardless.

To be honest the thing that's puzzled me about the Izumo-class ships since I read about them and the conversion they are undergoing to carry F-35Bs is where exactly they'd be safe to operate in a conflict against China. It's not like those planes have great range, and it's not like refueling is usually going to be an option, so if they're going to be put to use those ships are going to be in range of an awful lot of stuff. And what a juicy target for China.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-29 00:51:29+00:00
> This is a curious suggestion. Higher end go-karts I can't contest, but I've never found bumper cars to be anything like operating a car.

A unique simulation bumper cars can provide is in collision avoidance and real-time steering/acceleration/braking skills. The value of this is relative and dependent upon a person using time in a bumper car with intent to hone driving skills.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-12-29 00:51:51+00:00
I have a hot take. Modern computer graphics is very complicated, and it's best to build up fundamentals rather than diving off the deep end into Vulkan, which is really geared at engine professionals who want to shave every last microsecond off their frame-times. Vulkan and D3D12 are great, they provide very fine-grained host-device synchronisation mechanisms that can be used to their maximum by seasoned engine programmers. At the same time a newbie can easily get bogged down by the sheer verbosity, and don't even get me started on how annoying the initial setup boilerplate is, which can be extremely daunting for someone just starting out.

GPUs expose a completely different programming memory model, and the issue I would say is conflating computer graphics with GPU programming. The two are obviously related, don't get me wrong, but they can and do diverge quite significantly at times. This is more true recently with the push towards GPGPU, where GPUs now combine several different coprocessors beyond just the shader cores, and can be programmed with something like a dozen different APIs.

I would instead suggest:

1) Implement a CPU rasteriser, with just two stages: a primitive assembler, and a rasteriser.
2) Implement a CPU ray tracer.

Web links for tutorials respectively:

https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/
https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html

These can be extended in many, many ways that will keep you sufficiently occupied trying to maximise performance and features. Try adding various anti-aliasing algorithms to the rasteriser. Try adding a tessellator where the level of detail is controlled by camera distance. Add in early discard instead of the usual z-testing.

To the basic Whitted CPU ray tracer, add BRDFs; add microfacet theory, add subsurface scattering, caustics, photon mapping/light transport, and work towards a general global illumination implementation. Add denoising algorithms.

One may say 'hey, who uses CPUs anymore for graphics', and let me answer: WARP[1] and LLVMpipe[2] are both production-quality software rasterisers; frequently loaded during remote desktop sessions. In fact 'rasteriser' is an understatement: they expose full-fledged software implementations of D3D10/11 and OpenGL/Vulkan devices respectively. And naturally, most film renderers still run on the CPU, due to their improved floating-point precision; films can't really get away with the ephemeral smudging of video games. Also, CPU cores are quite cheap nowadays, so it's not unusual to see a render farm of a million+ cores chewing away at a complex Pixar or Dreamworks frame.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/direct3darti...

[2]: https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/llvmpipe.html
by hagbard_c | 2025-12-29 00:51:55+00:00
Of course not, it would be strange to agree with everything anyone says. I listen to Shapiro and his Daily Wire brethern even though I hardly agree with everything they say and consider most of them to be far too eager with the God hammer - Shapiro is one of the better ones in that respect, probably because Judaism doesn't proselytise - mostly because I want to get their perspective as a counterweight to the mostly 'progressive' news media. If I agreed with everything they or the 'progressive' media said I would not need to listen to or read what they produce because I already agree.

As to the downvoted list I agree with some - Friedman, Rogan, Shapiro - but I just can't listen to Sam Harris any more due to his extreme TDS and his inability to recognise when he has been wrong on something - the SARS2 unpleasantness being an example of such. He was an interesting part of the 'intellectual dark web' which was a much-needed counter to the mentioned 'progressive' narrative pushed by the media but he went off the rails first when Trump became president for the first time and later when SARS2 hit. For news I'd add the Spiked podcast and the Brendan O'Neill show for some UK perspective, Aron Flam's 'Dekonstruktiv Kritik' (in Swedish) as a counter to the 'progressive' Swedish state broadcasters Sveriges TV and Sveriges Radio (they call themselves 'independent' but that is a flagrant lie) and the 'progressive' print/web media. Listen to and read both those 'progressive' outlets as well as some of the mentioned counterparts to gain a wider perspective on what actually happens in the world.
by ijustwork | 2025-12-29 00:52:33+00:00
The metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGlu5) is involved in the central mechanism of action of paracetamol (acetaminophen), where the bioactive metabolite AM404 activates the TRPV1 channel–mGlu5 receptor–PLC–DAGL–CB1 receptor signaling cascade in the periaqueductal grey, contributing to its analgesic effect.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-29 00:54:20+00:00
Unqualified broadscale hate making no assertions anyone can look at and check? This post is again such wicked nasty Dark Side energy, fueled by such empty vacuous nothing.

It was an incredible era that brought amazing aliveness to the internet. Most of it was pretty simple & direct, would be more intelligible to folks today than today would be intelligible & legible to folks from them.

This behavior is bad & deserves censure. The hacker spirit is free to be critical, but in ways that expand comprehension & understanding. To classify a whole era as a "horrible hack" is injurous to the hacker spirit.
by mynegation | 2025-12-29 00:54:21+00:00
It is easy to make the mistake of believing CEOs are automatable based on their public speaking: interviews, earning calls, conference talks. With a rare exception (cough Musk) CEOs communicate in a very sterilized PR-speak, coached and vetted by PR, media relations, and legal counsels, and usually stick to facts or not very controversial opinions. That part of the job is pretty replaceable with a well-trained LLM.

The real job is done behind the curtain. Picking up key people based on their reputation, knowledge, agency, and loyalty. Firing and laying off people. Organizational design. Cutting the losses. Making morally ambiguous decisions. Decisions based on conversations that are unlikely to ever be put into bytes.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-29 00:54:26+00:00
> I don't think it's important at all because nobody really uses Mastodon anyway;

Me and all the (real human) people I follow on Mastodon disagree. Many well known people are on Mastodon. A lot of folks I used to follow on RSS are on Mastodon. For me, Mastodon is what killed RSS.[1]

[1] RSS was well and alive long after Google Reader shut down.
by cyberax | 2025-12-29 00:54:34+00:00
C++ chrono is weird. It's both over-abstracted and yet has some thoughtless features that just negate this over-abstraction.

I remember not being able to represent the time in fractional units, like tertias (1/60-th of a second) but that was mostly an academic problem. More importantly, it was not possible to express duration as a compound object. I wanted to be able to represent the dates with nanosecond precision, but with more than 250 years of range. I think it is still not possible?
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-29 00:55:30+00:00
I have a slightly different view

There is no such thing as "good" or "bad" - actions are meaningless - it's the context that makes the difference.

Example: Sex

Good when the context is consenting adult (humans)

Bad when the context is not.

Further, "One man's 'freedom fighter' is another man's 'terrorist'" - meaning context is very much in the eye of the beholder.

Couple this with the Taoist? fable "What luck you lost a horse" where the outcome of an event can not really be determined immediately, it may take days, months, years to show.

And you are left with - do we really have any idea on what is right/wrong

So, my philosophical take is - if it leads toward healthy outcomes (ooo dripping with subjective context there...) then it's /likely/ the right thing to do.

When I spoke with an AI on this recently the AI was quick to respond that "Recreational drug use 'feels good' at first, but can lead to a very dark outcome" - which is partly true, but also demonstrates the first point. Recreational drug use is fine (as far as I am concerned, after my 4th cup of tea) as long as the context isn't "masking" or "crutch" (although in some cases, eg. PTSD, drug use to help people forget is a vital tool)
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-29 00:57:21+00:00
No, I'm pointing out that you have no evidence at all & and aren't trying to speak reasonably or informatively, that you are bullying a belief you have without evidence.

I'm presenting evidence. I'm clarifying as I go. I'm adding points of discussion. I'm building a case. I just refuse to be met and torn down by a bunch of useless hot air saying nothing.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-12-29 00:57:31+00:00
Under Delaware law (where most U.S. public companies incorporate), directors' fiduciary duties are non-delegable. The actual exercise of judgment must be performed by the director, who must be a "natural person". Other jurisdictions might offer grey areas, but good luck finding one that meaningfully changes this.

More practically, legal accountability would be placed in the individuals approving LLMs actions and/or the entity providing the LLM service. The latter aspect being why many AI vendor deals fall through. Because everything is awesome until the contract comes and the vendor wants to take no responsibility for anything that results from their product.
by 0xWTF | 2025-12-29 00:57:48+00:00
This reminds me of a couple things:

== Tim's Vermeer ==

Specifically Tim's quote "There's also this modern idea that art and technology must never meet - you know, you go to school for technology or you go to school for art, but never for both... And in the Golden Age, they were one and the same person."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%27s_Vermeer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/quotes/?item=qt2312040

== John Lind's The Science of Photography ==

Best explanation I ever read on the science of photography
https://johnlind.tripod.com/science/scienceframe.html

== Bill Atkinson ==

Bill (yes, of hypercard fame) used to have some incredible articles on the science of photography that were linked from photo.net back when Philip Greenspun owned and operated it. A detailed explanation of digital sensor fundamentals (e.g. why bigger wells are inherently better) particularly sticks in my mind. I haven't been able to find that content since philg sold photo.net. Much karma to anyone who can unearth those.
by Valodim | 2025-12-29 00:58:12+00:00
Here is the short version from someone who took part in this process: while serving as the editor of the draft, Werner did not let anything into the draft that wasn't his own idea. But for his own ideas, there were cases where a new feature was committed to spec master and released in gnupg within the week. He was impossible to work with over many years, to the point that everyone agreed that the only way forward was to leave gnupg behind. This is a bonkers decision for OpenPGP as an ecosystem, but it was not made in ignorance of the consequences. And as far as I'm aware, even with today's hindsight, noone involved in the process regrets making the decision.
by danpalmer | 2025-12-29 00:58:18+00:00
Yeah I switched to Android in large part because of Liquid Glass. Not the look, pictures of it are quite nice, but because of how it works or rather, doesn't. It's buggy, slow (on a 1 generation old pro phone), and way too UI-forward, prioritising UI over content in the same way that skeuomorphism did. Overall it just felt dated in the same way that skeuomorphism did when it died.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-29 00:58:26+00:00
It's not too bad after some (a lot of) adjustments, but I agree the problem is that the default is that notifications are on. I'm part of more than a dozen Discord servers, and only three of them have notifications enabled, and one of those are basically dead. If I joint a new one, the first thing I do is mute it, and then I'll maybe unmute it if I'm actually active in there (or if it's a large server, I'll unmute the specific channels I care about and mute everything else).

I have email notifications on, but I actually read the few newsletters I get, and I barely get any mail beyond that. Meanwhile, everybody else I see has 4000 unread emails and the vast majority are unread rubbish that they could have unsubscribed to 700 emails ago, or just never subscribed to to begin with, but I guess signing up for that shit is just the default now.
by krackers | 2025-12-29 00:58:46+00:00
>Human light intensity perception is not linear... You have to nonlinearize at some point of the pipeline

Why exactly? My understanding is that gamma correction is effectively a bit optimization scheme to allocate bits in a perceptually uniform way across the dynamic range. But if you just have enough bits to work with and are not concerned with file sizes, then this shouldn't matter? IIRC LCDs basically have linear response in terms of hardware anyway, and just emulate the 2.2 trc for compatibility.

https://www.scantips.com/lights/gamma2.html
by tialaramex | 2025-12-29 00:59:09+00:00
> At some point, you've got to overcome the fear of getting it wrong and ship something.

Also Editions mean we can go back and fix things "for the future" in some cases if that's worth the price. For example I believe it's worth the price for the built-in ranges to become IntoIterator, indeed I hoped that could happen in the 2024 edition. It was, I think we'd both agree, worth it to fix arrays in 2021.

This is one of the less celebrated but more important wins of Rust IMO because it not only unlocked relatively minor direct benefits it licensed Rust's programmers to demand improvements, knowing that small things were possible they wanted more.
by scarecrowbob | 2025-12-29 00:59:29+00:00
According to a response elsewhere on this thread, it's not an unknown problem and there are links to more specific answers than I care to write. But to answer your question, it throttled with either left-side thunderbolt ports, with nothing else plugged into the machine using the Apple-supplied charger. I cannot remember if this issue stopped when the device battery was at 100%.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-12-29 00:59:47+00:00
Hot take: Musk is a great CEO. He's a horrible person, but I feel it's undeniable that his weight behind a project greatly increases the chance of interesting and profitable things happening (despite the over-optimistic claims and missed deadlines). I think he achieves this in large part _because_ he is an asshole, tweeting all the time to drum up publicity, being notorious for doing K, being too optimistic about what can be achieved, etc. I think somebody can be a good CEO without being such a jerk, it's just that Musk doesn't take the good-person strategy. And the bad-person strategy works well for him.

A CEO's job is (roughly) to maximize a company's valuation. It is not to run the company themselves, not to be nice, not to improve the world. I'm not claiming this is what _should_ be, just how it _is_. By this metric, I think Musk has done really well in his role.
by akerl_ | 2025-12-29 00:59:51+00:00
It's clear we're not going to agree on the technical discussion, but I do want to reply to the claim that I've been strawmanning you.

I've been largely ignoring your sideline commentary about not trusting Meta and their other work outside of WhatsApp. Mostly because the whole thrust of my argument is that an app's security is confirmed by analyzing what the code does, not be listening to claims from the author.

Beyond that, I've been commenting in good faith about the core thrust of our disagreement, which is whether or not a lack of available source code disqualifies WhatsApp as a viable secure messaging option alongside Signal.

As part of that, I had to respond midway through because you put a statement in quotation marks that was not actually something I'd said.
by terribleperson | 2025-12-29 00:59:57+00:00
Micron is exiting direct to consumer sales. That doesn't mean their chips couldn't end up in sticks or devices sold to consumers, just that the no-middleman Crucial brand is dead.

Also, even if no Micron RAM ever ended up in consumer hands, it would still reduce prices for consumers by increasing the supply to other segments of the market.
by blargey | 2025-12-29 01:00:04+00:00
> I feel like the people who can't comprehend the difficulties of an AI <thing doer> are people who have never <tried to do that thing really well>.

That applies to every call to replace jobs with current-gen AI.

I can't name the difference between CEOs and other professions that works out in favor of keeping the CEOs over the rest, though.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-12-29 01:00:53+00:00
It feels as if the more I go in one direction, the more the rest of the world goes in the other.

My in-laws are a lost cause. I can make immediate ground in most discussions, but give it a day and they're back to their same FUD arguments that I'd just taken down the day before.

The pitiable thing about their position is, I think, that they want the lifestyle they lived for their kids and grandkids, and think that this "green scam" will impoverish and threaten the viability of their extending family.

Unfortunately it will do worse than that, and for different reasons.

It's somewhat surreal watching denial in realtime.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-29 01:00:59+00:00
Alas the pendulum just tore down 1/3rd the white house & Congress.

No respect in the slightest for this nation. The cycle starting over here is a bunch of disgusting plutocrats & Federalist Society nut jobs trying to strip America bare & argue up is down to ignore the bill of rights.

It's not legal. It keeps being shot down. The DoJ is fully in the pocket of the white house which is maybe technically legal but was a deeply deeply disturbing idea even a decade ago. What's happening now is an insult to law, and the terrormongers in power are at war with the justice system, because they have no respect for the law & want to abuse it.
by ACS_Solver | 2025-12-29 01:02:25+00:00
Not just probably scared off some good talent, they had xoofx leave over disagreements with higher management. xoofx was one of their most senior devs, the guy who started the CoreCLR migration and was leading it.

They'll get there eventually, but the current roadmap says experimental CoreCLR in late 2026, which then in the best case means production ready in 2027. Unity isn't going anywhere, but at least as a dev who doesn't care about mobile (which is Unity's real market), competing engines have gotten much more attractive in the last couple years and that seems set to continue.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-12-29 01:02:49+00:00
That's just one kind of distortion you'll see. There will also be bad pixels, lens shading, excessive noise in low light, various electrical differences across rows and temperatures that need to be compensated... Some (most?) sensors will even correct some of these for you already before handing you "raw" data.

Raw formats usually carry "Bayer-filtered linear (well, almost linear) light in device-specific color space", not necessarily "raw unprocessed readings from the sensor array", although some vendors move it slightly more towards the latter than others.
by zmgsabst | 2025-12-29 01:03:15+00:00
I’d suspect that an AI CEO would have to complement its weaknesses — just like any CEO. And in this case, rely on subordinates for glad-handing and vision pitches, while itself focusing on coordinating them, staging them to the right meetings, coordinating between departments, etc.

I think an AI could be strong at a few skills, if appropriately chosen:

- being gaslightingly polite while firmly telling others no;

- doing a good job of compressing company wide news into short, layperson summaries for investors and the public;

- making PR statements, shareholder calls, etc; and,

- dealing with the deluge of meetings and emails to keep its subordinates rowing in the same direction.

Would it require that we have staff support some of the traditional soft skills? Absolutely. But there’s nothing fundamentally stopping an AI CEO from running the company.