MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-29 06:07:11+00:00
> and many Democrats felt she was chosen before the primary, leading to much apathy

Well, they would have a good reason to feel that, because Debbie Wasserman Schulz basically engineered it that way as head of the DNC, and what do you know, less than 24 hours after leaving that position was the head of Clinton's campaign.

There was no way the DNC leadership was going with Bernie, and leaked emails later confirmed that - they just said fuck you to their membership's preferences.

> Had Harris had more time

Not coincidentally, number one Google search on Election Day?

"Did Biden drop out?"

Very informed electorate...
by chii | 2025-12-29 06:08:08+00:00
> Industry mandate should have become 16GB RAM for PCs

it was only less than 10 yrs ago that a high end PC would have this level of ram. I think the last decade of cheap ram and increasing core count (and hz) have spoiled a lot of people.

We are just returning back on trend. May be software would be written better now that you cannot expect the average low budget PC to have 32G of ram and 8 cores.
by mvkel | 2025-12-29 06:10:23+00:00
What feels "different" today is not necessarily risk, but visibility.

We now see every war, cyber incident, threat, and speech in real time. I have to imagine the Cuban Missile Crisis (for example) was a much more serious existential risk, we were just largely in the dark while it was happening.

Not to minimize the current crises, I just wonder if this isn't what has always happened, we're just more informed now.
by appellations | 2025-12-29 06:10:28+00:00
Longer contracts are riskier. The benefit of having cheaper RAM when prices spike is not strong enough to outweigh the downside of paying too much for RAM when prices drop or stay the same. If you’re paying a perpetual premium on the spot price to hedge, then your competitors will have pricing power over you and will slowly drive you out of the market. The payoff when the market turns in your favor just won’t be big enough and you might not survive as a business long enough to see it. There’s also counterparty risk, if you hit a big enough jackpot your upside is capped by what would make the supplier insolvent.

All your competitors are in the same boat, so consumers won’t have options. It’s much better to minimize the risk of blowing up by sticking as closely to spot at possible. That’s the whole idea of lean. Consumers and governments were mad about supply chains during the pandemic, but companies survived because they were lean.

In a sense this is the opposite risk profile of futures contracts in trading/portfolio management, even though they share some superficial similarities. Manufacturing businesses are fundamentally different from trading.

They certainly have contracts in place that cover goods already sold. They do a ton of preorders which is great since they get paid before they have to pay their suppliers. Just like airlines trade energy futures because they’ve sold the tickets long before they have to buy the jet fuel.
by zkmon | 2025-12-29 06:11:17+00:00
News reporters sometimes consume their own sensationalist content, which was strictly meant for customers only. This actually causes wars at larger scale, which would have been small local conflicts, if starved of visibility they never deserved.

A lot of people won't bother arguing or fighting if there are no observers.

For rural populations in those countries l, it hardly matters who is the ruler at the capital. The response of the West is largely influenced by media, disguised as public opinion, of the Wesst, but not opinion of the populations of the subject countries.
by silisili | 2025-12-29 06:16:10+00:00
This all just feels like typical sabre rattling to me. Except this time, the US is also rattling it at basically everyone, and Russia may take that as a good sign.

Make no mistake, Russia does not have the ability to fight a world war with Europe, so would requires allies. Basically, China. And that would be enough to set the US off.

Trump talks a lot, too much, trying to use bullying and threats to effect changes he wants to see. But at any hint of war with Europe, we'd be right there with them.

I don't worry about any of this now personally, because Putin is more calculating than that. And even if he's gone completely bonkers, Jinping is way too careful to be openly associated with them at this point.
by chii | 2025-12-29 06:16:13+00:00
> a significant part of the world is already running lower powered devices

but you cannot consider this in isolation.

The developed markets have vastly higher spending consumers, which means companies cater to those higher spending customers proportionately more (as profits demand it). Therefore, the implication is that lower spending markets gets less investment and less catered to; after all, R&D spending is still a limiting factor.

If the entirety of the market is running on lower powered devices, then it would get catered for - because there'd be no (or not enough) customers with high powered devices to profit off.
by maximinus_thrax | 2025-12-29 06:16:44+00:00
To quote Trump, "I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"

I'd be willing to bet most of the Russian nuclear stockpile is non functional. Extrapolating from all the corruption discovered at the beginning of the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine (materiel which existed only on paper), I bet a lot of equipment has either been cannibalized for the war effort or straight-up non-existent.
by dangus | 2025-12-29 06:18:31+00:00
No capacity to affect change?

Are we forgetting that this specific policy we are discussing was voted in by the public and won the popular vote barely more than a year ago?

I think if more people were legitimately better educated and informed that outcome might not have happened.

The problem is…who is doing the informing and educating? Oftentimes the sources taking up that role are doing so with motives that are not in the people’s best interests.
by iliketrains | 2025-12-29 06:18:41+00:00
> Going to completely disagree that Burst and HPC# are unnecessary and messy.

Making a managed code burst-compatible comes with real constraints that go beyond "write performant C#". In Burstable code, you generally can't interact with managed objects/GC-dependent APIs, so the design is pushed towards unmanaged structs in native collections. And this design spreads. The more logic is to be covered by Burst, the more things has to be broken down to native containers of unmanaged structs.

I agree that designing things in data-oriented way is good, but why to force this additional boundary and special types on devs instead of just letting them write it in C#? Writing burstable code can increase complexity, one has to manage memory/lifetimes, data layout, and job-friendly boundaries, copying data between native and managed collections, etc., not just "writing fast C#".

In a complex simulation game, my experience is that there are definitely things that fit the "raw data, batch processing" model, but not all gameplay/simulation logic does. Things like inheritance, events, graphs, AI (the dumb "game" version, no NN), UI, exceptions, etc. And on top of it all, debugging complications.

Wouldn't you be relieved with announcement: "C# is now as fast as Burst, have fun!"? You'd be able to do the same data-oriented design where necessary, but keep all the other tings handy standing by when needed. It's so close, yet, so far!

> The fragmentation you mention

What you say makes sense. I've actually spent a lot of time debugging this and I did find some "leaks" where references to "dead objects" were keeping them from being GC'd. But after sorting all these out, Unity's memory profiler was showing that "Empty Heap Space" was the culprit, that one kept increasing after every iteration. My running theory is that the heap is just more and more fragmented, and some static objects randomly scattered around it are keeping it from being shrunk. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by brewdad | 2025-12-29 06:18:59+00:00
My wife worked in a facility that didn't allow phone cameras. You had to check it in anytime you went into one of the secure areas or prove you had one of their phones that had the camera disabled if you were important enough to require being contactable. While I'm sure one or more of the thousands of employees managed to leak some valuable info through conversations, pictures would have been worth 1000x as much if not more.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-29 06:19:46+00:00
Did you hear about the woman in Chicago who was set on fire on a train? Not very sociable.

People use the trains in places like Chicago and NYC not simply because they are available but because owning and driving a car in the city center is very expensive and impractical for most people.

Anywhere less dense, people prefer to drive their own cars.
by maxglute | 2025-12-29 06:20:48+00:00
Yes, hence RU missile shit tier, they can hit point targets at least, which is step above IR missile that is dog shit tier, area spam. Maybe IR high end stuff RU tier if we can disambiguate the recent UAE hit that is statistically suggest low CEP point target capability.

For PRC missiles, see tandem missile demonstration a few years ago, two missiles launched from different launch sites coordinated to hit moving ship at sea. AKA PRC already have the ISR / kill chain to hit moving ships synced to time and space. Something basically no one else has demonstrated. Now extrapolate that out 10 years, while they (and US) are proliferating spaced based C4ISR = basically any surface fleet anywhere is dead, and even if we downgrade to only static targets, that means all US logistics, i.e. unrep are dead which leaves surface fleet single deployment assets. DDG barely has enough endurance for a few days of high tempo operations (fuel and weapons), carriers has endurance but without replenishment, no ammo, and without DDG escorts no protection.
by intended | 2025-12-29 06:21:23+00:00
Eh?

> Money not infertility, UN report says: Why birth rates are plummeting

> Roughly 40 percent of respondents cited economic barriers – such as the costs of raising children, job insecurity and expensive housing – as the main reason for having fewer children than they would like

> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/10/money-not-infertili...
by dangus | 2025-12-29 06:22:21+00:00
Isn’t The Economist a super “rich guy” perspective though?

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve heard very good things about the publication’s quality and it’s admirable that it’s a weekly print.

I’d almost rather just read nothing over filtering down to a single perspective that is that specialized. Feels a little like getting all your news through Planet Money. Sure you’ll know what’s going on but through a single lens.
by kibwen | 2025-12-29 06:23:49+00:00
> What I find interesting with these transition delimiters is their frequent pairing with an adjective that characterizes the speaker [...] That would explain why he continuously and repeatedly uses them across both poems.

You don't need to speculate, this is known as an "epithet", and is well-studied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithet#Literature
by tpmoney | 2025-12-29 06:24:42+00:00
But that was the point the OP was making. Not that you couldn’t differentiate between white balance correction and generative fill, but rather that the intent of the change matters for determining if an image is “fake”.

For example, I took a picture of my dog at the dog park the other day. I didn’t notice when framing the picture but on review at home, right smack in the middle of the lower 3rd of the photo and conveniently positioned to have your eyes led there by my dog’s pose and snout direction, was a giant, old, crusty turd. Once you noticed it, it was very hard to not see it anymore. So I broke out the photo editing tools and used some auto retouching tool to remove the turd. And lucky for me since the ground was mulch, the tool did a fantastic job of blending it out, and if I didn’t tell you it had been retouched, you wouldn’t know.

Is that a fake image? The subject of the photo was my dog. The purpose of the photo was to capture my dog doing something entertaining. When I was watching the scene with my own human eyes I didn’t see the turd. Nor was capturing the turd in the photo intended or essential to capturing what I wanted to capture. But I did use some generative tool (algorithmic or AI I couldn’t say) to convincingly replace the turd with more mulch. So does doing that make the image fake? I would argue no. If you ask me what the photo is, I say it’s a photo of my dog. The edit does not change my dog, nor change the surrounding to make the dog appear somewhere else or to make the dog appear to be doing something they weren’t doing were you there to witness it yourself. I do not intend the photo to be used as a demonstration of how clean that particular dog park is or was on that day, or even to be a photo representing that dog park at all. My dog happened to be in that locale when they did something I wanted a picture of. So to me that picture is no more fake than any other picture in my library. But a pure “differentiate on the tools” analysis says it is a fake image, content that wasn’t captured by the sensor is now in the image and content that was captured no longer is. Fake image then right?

I think the OP has it right, the intent of your use of the tool (and its effect) matters more than what specific tool you used.
by Fabricio20 | 2025-12-29 06:24:58+00:00
I'm gonna be honest thats not my experience at all. I got a laptop with a modern ryzen 5 CPU four years ago that had an iGPU because "its good enough for even mid-tier gaming!" and it was so bad that I couldn't play 1440p on youtube without it skipping frames. Tried parsec to my desktop PC and it was failing that as well. I returned it and bought a laptop with a nvidia dGPU (low end still, I think it was like a 1050-refresh-refresh equivalent) and haven't had any of those problems. That AMD Vega gpu just couldn't do it.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-29 06:25:34+00:00
> This is simply run-of-the-mill supply and demand.

That's definitely NOT run-of-the-mill demand because it comes from companies buying hardware at operating loss, which can only be recouped by scalping higher prices at the expense of a starved market.

Demand funded by circular financial agreements and off-the-book debt isn't "run-of-the-mill" by any stretch.
by donatj | 2025-12-29 06:25:51+00:00
I was there like fifteen - twenty years ago before the hyphen standard and shadow dom and all that when JS libraries briefly leaned into just making up their own elements. I think everyone collectively agreed that it was a bad idea and it fell out of popularity.

If I were going to use them, I'd be inclined to vendor them just to prevent any sort of collision proactively

<donatj-fancy-element>
<donatj-input />
</donatj-fancy-element>
by EdwardDiego | 2025-12-29 06:25:54+00:00
If you think Munich isn't corrupt, you should ask a Münchner - hell, their airport is named after a corrupt politician. [0]

But as a few Germans have put it to me - sure, there's corruption here, but at least it still gets things built unlike _Italian_ corruption.

Which is an... ...interesting point of view.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauss

As for London, they built an entire industry around hiding money for oligarchs who stole it from their own countries. Maybe it's technically legal, but it's morally corrupt AF.
by RangeLead | 2025-12-29 06:25:55+00:00
Over the past months, I’ve been collecting and structuring public US business data at scale as part of a side project.

What surprised me wasn’t the volume, but the patterns.

A significant number of active businesses still don’t have a website. Entire industries lag far behind in basic online presence. Some niches are saturated with outreach, while others appear almost untouched.

The hardest part wasn’t collecting the data. It was cleaning it, normalizing categories, deduplicating entries, and deciding what actually matters to someone who wants to use the data.

This post summarizes what stood out once the dataset grew large enough for patterns to become obvious.

Happy to answer questions or clarify methodology in the comments.
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-29 06:26:22+00:00
I can tolerate Java. I've worked a Java dev role recently.

I think it's overly verbose and probably has a lot of unneeded legacy stuff, but in terms of making money so I can afford donuts, it's not bad.

My personal favorite language is probably Dart, but it's basically useless outside of Flutter and I don't have faith in Google to keep Flutter going.

I don't like low level programming. My dream language is literally an LLM that processes a markdown document where I sorta just describe what I want to happen. With options to call defined functions in a normal programing language

If I had money ( VC money) I'd be working on this.
by ribosometronome | 2025-12-29 06:26:30+00:00
Sales numbers are also why Steam isn't in a particular rush to release another. It's popular to adult nerds. Outside of that, it's pretty poor selling when compared to essentially all consoles. The Dreamcast outsold it and Sega gave up on hardware cause of that thing. The PS Vita outsold it and it caused Sony to give up on handhelds. Meanwhile, the Switch 2 has pretty much no compelling reason to purchase it yet (an alright Donkey Kong game?) and outsold the Steam Deck's multi-year sales in a month.
by lilsquid | 2025-12-29 06:27:35+00:00
I feel it. Honestly, AI has changed my life for the better. I know many people feel that fatigue, but I’m hungry and excited to wake up to see what's new each day. After many years in tech, everything started to feel stale... and then AI came along and reignited my curiosity. It's been a massive blessing for me.

Sorry that you feel that way.
by shadowpho | 2025-12-29 06:27:50+00:00
You can get an n100 system for $110 on sale. Price went up but I still see $135 on eBay now. However YMMV because Europe prices are different

For power I don’t know about orange pi 5 but for many SBC power was a mixed bag. I had pretty bad luck with random SBC taking way more power for random reasons and not putting devices in idle mode. Even raspberry pi was pretty bad when it launched.

It’s frustrating because it’s hard to fix. With x64 you can often go into bios and enable power modes, but that’s not the case with arm. For example pcie4 can easily draw 2w+ when active. (The interface!)

See for example here:

https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/issues/606

My n100 takes 6W and 8w (8 and 16gb). If pi5 takes 3w that’s not large enough to matter especially when it’s so inconsistent.

Now one place where I used to like rpi zero was gpio access. However I’m transitioning to rp2350 as it’s just better suited for that kind of work, easier to find and cheaper.
by mcdeltat | 2025-12-29 06:28:43+00:00
Yeah this what I immediately think too any time I see an article like this. Adjustments like contrast and saturation are plausible to show before/after, but before any sort of tone curve makes no sense unless you have some magic extreme HDR linear display technology (we don't). Putting linear data into 0-255 pixels which are interpreted as SRGB makes no sense whatsoever. You are basically viewing junk. It's not like that's what the camera actually "sees". The camera sees a similar scene to what we see with our eyes, although it natively stores and interprets it differently to how our brain does (i.e. linear vs perceptual).
by ycombinete | 2025-12-29 06:28:50+00:00
Firstly why wouldn't one be scared of an opponent that can just steadily press against me, winning a war by attrition?

Secondly, this is a naive mischaracterization of Ukraine, Russia, and the war itself.

Ukraine is a serious modern military power. One that very few countries could successfully invade. One with major support from other countries. Stormshadows, HIMARS, Javelins, NLAWs, Patriot systems are not home made drones.

That said, if Russia had managed to establish air superiority over Ukraine it would have probably won the war as fast as they intended to. But they didn't, and couldn't, because Ukraine isn't a guerilla outfit with home-made drones. They spent more than a decade preparing for this conflict.

It is also Ukraine, with defenders advantage, defending against a % of the Russian offense with their entire defensive capacity. Nearly 30% of Ukraine's GDP goes to defense currently. Russia's is somewhere closer to 7%.

Russia would probably like to do what they did to Chechnya when they got rolled out of there. Just sit back and shell the place. But because Ukraine's drones and long range artillery are a match or better than the Russians, they have to find other means.
by throw4r3swwe | 2025-12-29 06:29:04+00:00
Exactly, as a multimillion lottery winner, it upsets me so much when people say I won because of luck.

I played every single day, and I played at different locations. I also made sure I performed my pre-ticket rituals which I learned from other lottery winners. Other people could have done the same. It’s absolutely a skill issue.
by epistasis | 2025-12-29 06:29:27+00:00
> There is Ukraine of course, where the UN says 14,000 civilians have died.

Point of order, the UN says they have documented that number, and certainly dont count it as anything representing the actual death toll for civilians. The count doesn't cover most of the areas where civilians are dying at high rates. Sure, the UN stayed in Gaza to see what happened and delivered, but occupied Russian territory is too dangerous for the UN and they don't even try to monitor the death and atrocities happening in the occupied areas.
by mvdtnz | 2025-12-29 06:30:02+00:00
The correct time to stop Putin's war of aggression was the day he sent troops over the border. He should have been met with ferocious force from the entire western world. But he observed the weakness in the West for decades and knew he could get away with it. Obama's failed "red line" was the end of any nation on earth taking the western world seriously. The end of western liberalism is nigh.
by somat | 2025-12-29 06:30:10+00:00
So what would a guided missile battleship look like?

my guess would be trident sized(2m) silos as the main battery and you fill them with vls cells as a working battery. for armor It needs to be able to defend agenst it's own gun right, so that would probably be a bunch of missile defense systems.

It is often said that aircraft carriers replaced battleships but I don't think that is the case, I think aircraft carriers are kind of their own thing and the battleship role was actually replaced by ballistic missile submarines. Think about it, where are the big guns in the navy located? And the more tenuous but fun argument, look how the ships are named, battleships got state names, SSBN's got state names coincidence, I think not.
by epistasis | 2025-12-29 06:31:32+00:00
If they conquer Ukraine, they then have Ukraine's resources, technical capabilities, and a fresh group of young people to conscript into service.

We shouldn't be scared of Russia, per se, they would be easy to defeat if we bothered to try rather than if we tried to drag out this war as long as possible to try to weaken Russia. But if we let Russia win, they will rebuild far stronger and take over the next country, and grow stronger. And again, and again.