MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aa-jv | 2025-12-03 11:37:28+00:00
One of my first audio dev jobs was to add Creative Labs AWE32 support to a game called "Spectre VR", which at the time was one of the most popular multi-player/networked games for PC's.

It was, literally, a blast. The AWE32 was basically a sampler on a card, for PC's, and it was CL/Velocity's intention to bundle SpectreVR with the AWE32 for release. SpectreVR had a PC-Speaker driver, which was .. viable .. if you had the processing power for it. But AWE32 support just kicked serious ass, so it was a major push to get it working.

We got it working, it was hilariously fun, and the upgrade in audio had everyone in the office clamoring for the limited AWE32's we'd been allocated for development.

Then, DOOM hit the 'net, and everyone moved on, really fast, from SpectreVR, and it wasn't long until the bundling deal came undone, and DOOM got the AWE32 treatment instead. That was a frustrating state of affairs, but at least I got a free AWE32 out of it ..
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-03 11:38:26+00:00
⊕ is a standard symbol for this kind of math. The symbol itself is ancient because it's so simple, so I don't see what Bayer's aspirin logo has to do with it.

It acts as a normal +, mostly. When you're dealing with modulo math, the "normal" plus becomes a bit weird as there are rules attached to a number expressed as "(a + b) mod c", so mathematicians often use symbols like ⊕ to mean something like "+, but different". The second link you posted does the same, it acts sort of like normal addition, conceptually, except it's not done on actual numbers but groups.

In definitions like these, you may as well use a peace symbol or a picture of a frog; "some operation ⊕" means "there is some operation we write down like this, and it does this and that".

Another place you may find ⊕ is when it's used to represent XOR in some cases; (a + b) mod 2 is a bitwise XOR when operating on single bits (again, it means "normal addition except with weird rules", namely the mod 2 that makes you throw out anything larger than the last bit).
by stokedmind | 2025-12-03 11:39:26+00:00
Attributing "monstrosities" only to the US as a "US standards" doesn't make sense since the consumer trend towards bigger cars is global. It's a consumer trend, not a standard.

In NL, for example, I see plenty of large EU cars driving around with only a very occasional US "monstrosity" like a pickup truck, and I don't even live in the city.
by argo_navis | 2025-12-03 11:39:39+00:00
Laundry Files Series by Charles Stross Written by a ex-programmer, features a world where magic is a branch of mathematics, so you can for example write an app to summon demons, or accidentally turn yourself into a vampire by implementing a particularly extravagant algorithm.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/50764-laundry-files
by tedggh | 2025-12-03 11:39:59+00:00
From a livestyle perspective renting sometimes makes sense. Financially almost never does. There are of course edge cases like very expensive urban areas where there’s no possibility to buy because there are no units on the market and commuting is not possible. But if you work remotely, or suburbs are nearby then owning a place is likely a much better choice than renting particularly if you take advantage of subsidies like state/federal assistance for first time buyers and tax abatements in opportunity zones.
by throw0101a | 2025-12-03 11:40:34+00:00
> […] and on top of that are almost always registered as "business vehicles" (you can tell from the V plate) which means they pay an absolute pittance in tax.

In Ontario, Canada, (AIUI) you have to get a commercial car plate for pickup trucks.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...

If you want personal / non-commercial plates you have to get inspections done:

* https://forms.mgcs.gov.on.ca/en/dataset/on00719
by Sammi | 2025-12-03 11:41:08+00:00
Unfortunately your assessment is based on the faulty premise that anyone in international politics does anything to be nice.

The US doesn't give one rats ass about Egypt. The US won and got their way in Suez and the international seas in general. Europe lost.

There is no right in geo politics - only might. It's completely machiavellian. This is because you don't get to elect your neighbors leaders, and so they aren't beholden to you. International politics fundamentally doesn't work like national politics because of this. You can't stop Putin, Trump, or Xi, from taking what is yours unless you have the steel and oil to stop them. You can't sue them or vote them out like in national politics.
by Marazan | 2025-12-03 11:41:15+00:00
> The tall grill means impact to pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcycles is basically instant death as their head - the only thing above the grill - gets whiplashed onto the rigid tip of the hood. On a normal vehicle you get your legs swiped and rotate your whole body onto an intentionally flexible area of the hood for a much gentler impact.

What's infuriating is the EuroNCAP safety tests refuse to acknowledge this. SUVs get the same bonnet impact test as small cars do and end up scoring highly due to have a large bonnet surface area despite the fact that actual impacts with pedestrians does not happen like that with SUVs.

And then (wrong) smug wanks on the internet talk about how much safer their SUVs are for pedestrians than small cars based on quoting NCAP scores.
by michaelt | 2025-12-03 11:42:08+00:00
2100 I took from Wikipedia:

> Japanese primary and secondary school students are required to learn 2,136 jōyō kanji as of 2010.[4] The total number of kanji is well over 50,000, though this includes tens of thousands of characters only present in historical writings and never used in modern Japanese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_writing_system
by aa-jv | 2025-12-03 11:42:09+00:00
I've always had a TV or screen of some sort, devoted to background music or light films, just to fill in the void between lines of code. For some, having such light stuff going on is a productivity booster. I once got a dev team that had been struggling to get things finished, well and truly over the finish line, by putting a fat TV in the room, and giving folks the ability to line up their playlists for the day, as long as it wasn't too violent/inappropriate for the workplace.

We side-watched a ton of stuff together as a team - it was great for morale - and we actually shipped stuff, too. Of course the TV eventually became a console for the build server, but it was always available to anyone to put something on in the background, if they wanted to. Definitely a nice way to get a team to be a bit more coherent - as long as whats being played isn't too crazy.
by consp | 2025-12-03 11:43:17+00:00
For reference: A RAM 1500 would pay 383 Euro in Utrecht as a person and 183 as a business (quarterly). And as a bonus you pay no BPM (aquisition tax) as a business, which is in the 12000-15000 (15k) range. The BPM hole has been fixed as of 2025 but there are enough already on the road.

I personally like the wanktank since it's more internationial.

You cannot use a "grijs" plate as a personal vehicle unless you pay "bijtelling" which starts at 500km yearly for private usage, but I guess the milage administration will be on the same order as the driving style.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-12-03 11:43:46+00:00
I provide infrastructure for such a cluster that is also available to anyone at the university free of charge. Every year we swap out the oldest 20% of the cluster as we run a five year depreciation schedule. In the last three years, we’ve mostly been swapping in GPU resources at a ration of about 3:1. That’s in response to both usage reports and community surveys.
by ncruces | 2025-12-03 11:44:11+00:00
Big tech would be far more interested in slurping data than DDoS'ing them.

An issue with comments, linked to a PR with review comments, the commit stack implementing the feature, and further commits addressing comments is probably valuable data to train a coding agent.

Serving all that data is not just a matter of cloning the repo. It means hitting their (public, documented) API end points, that are likely more costly to run.

And if they rate limit the scrappers, the unscrupulous bunch will start spreading requests across the whole internet.
by messe | 2025-12-03 11:44:23+00:00
> I think EU should go back to build good relationships with Russia

This is horribly naïve at best. You're suggesting building good relationships with a country waging a war of aggression with a neighbour it shares with the EU. A country that's committing genocide against that neighbour. A country that has been rather consistently stepping up its attacks against European infrastructure over the past several years.

I'm not saying that you are an idiot. But I am saying that you would have to be an idiot to sincerely believe what you just said.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-03 11:44:31+00:00
All the cities you listed end up using the common EU standards for deciding emissions requirements, they just draw a different line as to what is allowed and from when. So maybe in one European city you need at least Euro 4 Petrol since 2024 and in another it was Euro 3 by 2025, but all you need to know as an owner or driver is that you're driving say a Euro 6 Petrol car or that the second hand car you just bought your teenage daughter is only Euro 4.

France has a layer where they translate from the Euro standards to their own system, but that's no different from having to mentally translate temperature units or distances.
by dgellow | 2025-12-03 11:44:40+00:00
I love zig, in my experience claude code is extremely good with the language if you invest lots of time on design sessions, to the point where I spend >90% of my time only discussing design with claude. The fact it has easy access to sources of the whole stdlib by just downloading the zig tarball makes it really simple to have a feedback loop where it implement most of the boilerplate on its own. The quality of AI code is really something that can be well controlled with clear guidelines, strict reviews, comprehensive design sessions, and a great test infrastructure
by arghwhat | 2025-12-03 11:45:21+00:00
The Dodge RAM that was being discussed is according to the numbers i see 2020 mm wide without mirrors. The F150 SuperCab (representing the most common US pickup truck) is 2030 mm wide without mirrors. The F-450 Super Duty SRW is only 2032 wide without mirrors - it's just the DRW configuration that adds extra wheels and super wide wheel wells on the back.

A standard mercedes sprinter in van configuration is 2020 mm wide without mirrors, which is as wide as the RAM and just 10mm narrower than the f150. I suspect the sprinter has wider mirrors, but I don't have the F-150 numbers to compare to so I'll leave that unanswered. Pickup configurations of the sprinter go much wider (and have extended mirrors to fit) - a common compact pickup bed configuration has a 2030mm internal bed width for example.

Note that the F-450 Super Duty is not applicable to the discussion as it won't work in the EU: A standard vehicle (class B) has an upper weight limit of 3500 kg. The F-450 Super Duty would have to be registered as an actual truck (class C), which requires a different drivers license and the use of a tachograph to track all driving and adherence to resting period rules. We don't use those vehicle classes unless strictly necessary.
by bombcar | 2025-12-03 11:45:26+00:00
Large portions of it can be attributed to fuel economy and safety requirements (ironically the “dangerous” safety requirements are tied to people unwilling to wear seatbelts).

Fuel economy tends all vehicles to the same aerodynamic shape (similar to how all big planes look quite similar), and safety is requiring airbags (which protected unbuckled passengers) in the side pillars and elsewhere, making them larger and larger.
by kachapopopow | 2025-12-03 11:45:30+00:00
oh wow I had a larger cluster than that since I was 20 more than half a decade ago, considering that the costs appear to be so low maybe I should also pop out few free services since at the moment I pay $600+ just on power costs alone for idle hardware on my personal cluster. If anyone has any ideas feel free to email me at: news.ycombinator.com.reassure132@passmail.net
by throw0101a | 2025-12-03 11:45:31+00:00
> Would be the end different if it was another oversized car like X7, G-Klasse or Cayenne?

For one, typical pickup trucks seems to have much worse forward visibility than most SUVs. To the point that even an M1 tank sees forward better:

* https://carbuzz.com/news/the-abrams-m1-tank-has-better-visib...
by vthriller | 2025-12-03 11:45:32+00:00
> In addition, it is best to use code navigation simply in a web browser

How do you define "code navigation"? It might've got a bit easier with automatic highlighting of selected symbols, but in return source code viewer got way too laggy and, for a couple of years now, it has this weird bug with misplaced cursors if code is scrolled horizontally. I actually find myself using the "raw" button more and more often, or cloning repo even for some quick ad-hoc lookups.

Edit: not to mention the blame view that actively fights with browser's built in search functionality.
by technothrasher | 2025-12-03 11:45:47+00:00
My son's school had the kids all put their phone in a "phone hotel" in the admin's office in the morning, and pick them up in the afternoon. This was fine, except, 1) a lot of kids just put a burner phone in and kept their actual phone hidden in their bag, and 2) the kids were all required to use laptops for class, which could do everything their phones could do.
by bodge5000 | 2025-12-03 11:47:07+00:00
This is the exact kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place, and I'm not blaming you for it, it seems to be something all of us do to an extent. We don't look to Meta, who only a few years ago thought that the Metaverse would be the "next big thing" as an example of failure to identify the future, we look to IBM who made that mistake almost 30 years ago. Underestimating a technology seems to stick much harder than overestimating one.

If you want to be seen as relevant in this industry, or as a kind of "thought leader", the easy trick seems to be to hype up everything. If you do that and you're wrong, people will quickly forget. If you don't and you're wrong, that will stain your reputation for decades.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-03 11:47:15+00:00
Hmm, I agree and disagree. Seniors were expected to take more responsibility, but they worked on smaller code bases. I agree the demansa have changed to meet the codebase and scale, though.

As an example, I'm sure the first Unreal Engine was made by a crew in their garage, in times where they were trailblazing techniques we take for granted 30 years later. That isn't something most modern seniors could do, but the engine could also reasonably be contained in one or two minds in its entirety.

But by UE5 you have teams that maintain every module of the engine. Millions upon millions of lines of code, hundreds of modules, dozens of features per module. It's a completely different beast. No one maintain all of that by themselves.

Maybe thars a part of what makes me want to go indie as an end goal. I want some semblance of the kinds of "responsibility" that involves a full product to ship, not just a portion of a module to maintain. Something somewhat close to what "old seniors" would do (even if I'm not coding every line of the engine like they would do).
by 0xEF | 2025-12-03 11:47:18+00:00
> People spend insane amounts of money buying these monstrosities too

This is also another part of the whole truck-craze in the US that I do not understand. An F150, for example, starts around $40,000 USD for base models, not including taxes and hidden fees. I purchased my car (an HEV, mind you) back in 2019 for just over half that price, spend about $500 annually on regular maintenance that I'm not able to do myself to keep things tip top, and spend about half as much in fuel as my coworkers who travel about the same amount as me for our jobs. Accounting regularly double-checks that I turned in all my fuel receipts because they still don't quite grasp that my car gets far, far better gas mileage.

All that said, these guys make about the same money I do, some a little less since they're newbies, which is to say we are all very underpaid for what we do, wealthy by no standards. And yet, they made these massive purchases while struggling to pay bills or complaining that fuel is too expensive at the pump, etc. These are the same people who buy two paychecks worth of fireworks every July 4th just to watch it all burn in 15 minutes.

Makes me think part of our cultural identity includes regularly acting against our own interests.
by wouldbecouldbe | 2025-12-03 11:48:06+00:00
In theory many laws are based on good ideas, but in practice they dont or only partially accomplish what they set out to do. Few examples:

- Bureaucracy around clinical trials The old Clinical Trials Directive (2001/20/EC) was meant to harmonise standards, but in practice it led to lots of extra admin and different interpretations in each country, which made multi-country trials slow and expensive. EUR-Lex You can see the effect in the numbers: Europe’s share of commercial clinical trials fell from ~22% in 2013 to about 12% in 2023, even while global trial numbers increased by ~38%.

- Medical Device Regulation (MDR & IVDR) bottleneck Meant for safety, but has meant delays and uncertainty for new devices and even risks of shortages of older ones, which clearly affects innovation. * https://www.meddeviceonline.com/doc/we-re-heading-toward-a-b...

- Data protection (GDPR) and health/science data Complexity and fragmentation of implementation can definitely slow things down, especially for big pan-European projects or AI/“big data” medicine. In theory it's good, but researcher or not being helped on how they can compete worldwide while being GDPR compliant, meaning EU will get behind & certain research is done elsewhere

Many more examples in other fields then medicine. And there are clearly a lot of good laws, but our idea of running a country is just adding lots of new rules every year is just faulty.
by anilgulecha | 2025-12-03 11:48:25+00:00
What you like is for yourself. What you seem to dislike are things that improve others (team/stakeholders). Seniors are such because they take on more of the latter.

This will now become even more normalized given that on technical skills seniors are no longer needed for juniors to skill up. AI and the evolving ecosystem will help and assist them way more. In the new world, the more technical and non-technical work you do towards customers/teams/organization, the more senior you become. I see many not liking it, but I'm also seeing first hand that is how it is.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-03 11:49:22+00:00
Actually if you're standing next to people the air you breathe in also has some of their exhaust gases in it, in this case slightly elevated CO2. If there's a dozen people in a small meeting room with the windows closed and no AC the air quality is significantly worse in that room than it would be say, stood on the roof... unless you're in the middle of a major city where maybe the air on the roof is full of exhaust from motor vehicles, hence legislation to restrict vehicle exhaust.
by bombcar | 2025-12-03 11:49:45+00:00
The non-even distribution is a key part of it. Fentanyl deaths don’t affect me if I don’t drug, and if 80% (made up number as example) of car fatalities involve drunk driving, it also factors out for most people.

If cars had a random chance to simply explode equivalent to the mortality rate in crashes, people would treat them Very Differently.
by thinkharderdev | 2025-12-03 11:50:06+00:00
Right, because this would deadlock. But it seems like Zig would have the same issue. If I am running something in a evented IO system and then I try and do some blocking IO inside it then I will get a deadlock. The idea that you can write libraries that are agnostic to the asynchronous runtime seems fanciful to me beyond trivial examples.
by kakacik | 2025-12-03 11:50:11+00:00
> there are no realistic threats in a conventional war that European countries have

You underestimate russia and clearly only glance over war news over past few years, if at all. They are not sending their maximum potential, nor sending their best equipment like tanks, Ukraine is rather a minor operation for them. Its true their conventional warfare capabilities have been damaged to certain extent, in some cases severely but China has stepped up and covered many holes, no reason to think they won't continue testing their equipment further (US did & does the same, its basic realpolitik).

Do you think they ran out of rather modern tanks and thus are sending 60-70 year old models? Far from it, they keep them aside and send on Ukraine the oldest tanks that can still move around, ~100mm cannon on wheels with HEAT rounds works fine even if old. They still didn't introduce mandatory draft because they didn't need to, folks dying in Ukraine now are all volunteers who get a massive signing bonus high enough to buy a flat or some smaller/older house. Their current drone capabilities would decimate any western Europe army in few weeks to the cinder, even Poland is not be completely up to the game, only Ukraine realistically is right now. These days, war is fought with 2 ingredients - drones and enough boots on the ground with nontrivial attrition.

Can they conquer all Europe? Nope, but they could easily take baltics for example. Thus they also subvert via bribes and corrupt exploitable politicians - look at Orban, Fico and failed attempt in Romania. Those countries would not fight them nato or not, they would roll on their back and invite them themselves, in (maybe not vain) hope that their corrupt highly criminal regimes can continue and thrive under new&old rulers in same vein as in Belarus.

Don't underestimate them, they are by far the biggest threat Europe as a whole has, it has been like that for past 100+ years. Their inferiority complex runs deep and western democracies are a direct threat to their typical corrupt dictatorship way of life. 2025 is really not the year to have such misguided & naive ideas.

Also as a proper mafia state they only understand power. Demonstrate you have enough and you will be left alone. Otherwise not so much.
by baq | 2025-12-03 11:50:54+00:00
> Aren’t “bad fuel efficiency” and “can’t park in town” already their own priced-in disadvantages?

> Fuel consumption itself is already taxed at the pump.

yes to both, but that doesn't mean that extra incentives for high efficiency and extra discouragement nudges for low efficiency shouldn't be present. they're orthogonal features of the economy.

> And I think “too heavy” already means higher tax in NL.

looks like not high enough, judging by this whole thread :)

> The weird thing is that the EU is really not shy about banning things

yes, but it's also known for not moving fast, as all large committees are - and when they finally move, the policy response can be deployed for a market which doesn't exist anymore.
by basilikum | 2025-12-03 11:51:38+00:00
The idea of censoring AI models to be "safe" needs to die. They are tools and such the exact same usage can fundamentally be used for both good and bad. There is no way to differentiate between usage of an AI model for security research or malicious attacks, fictional story telling or advice for a real crime, creative usage in parodies or cat fishing scams.
by alexrp | 2025-12-03 11:51:43+00:00
> The reason they move to a lesser known Git provider sounds more like a marketing stunt.

We had technical problems that GitHub had no interest in solving, and lots of small frustrations with the platform built up over years.

Jumping from one enshittified profit-driven platform to another profit-driven platform would just mean we'd set ourselves up for another enshittification -> migration cycle later down the line.

No stunt here.