MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-12-31 20:41:02+00:00
For the marketing that has significant costs (e.g., paying for ads, paying for show appearances, paying other influencers to plug, making quality videos for social media, travel for events).

But it costs almost nothing to do ARC readers for reviews and ratings, and it's free to time things for the Kindle store algorithm. You just have to know to do it, when.

And there's some other "free" marketing that publishers should have automated by now, because they can amortize that across many book releases.
by p_ing | 2025-12-31 20:41:04+00:00
Regular volume management can be done entirely within the Settings app. So can sound settings. There's probably an outlier that diskmgmt does better, I'm sure. But diskpart still exists, too. It could be that MSFT targets only the common scenarios and the fallback ends up being old utils/PowerShell at some point.

This was new in 2025, so it is still moving over.
by throw0101c | 2025-12-31 20:41:09+00:00
> Ice cream rock solid? Nuke a pint for 15 seconds. It won't melt, just soften.

Use 50% power and check in 10 second increments:

* ATK: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FZCgQp8D2Xw

If you think ahead, put it in the refrigerator 30 minutes before you need it.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-31 20:41:23+00:00
An LLM chat assistant is playing a role no matter what unless you think there is a real human behind it. They are role playing all the way down (and you can set up sillytavern characters for want to customize their role).

Similar issues are being addressed between reality and unreality. Did the person think they were talking to a real person? Did they understand the difference between fantasy or not? The people worries about DnD in 1980 aren’t very different at all from those worries about AI in 2025. There have also been lots of other things to blame for teenage suicide in between run and today, like violent video games or social media.
by ciaranmca | 2025-12-31 20:41:57+00:00
^This 100%. Junior SWE here. Agentic coding has kinda felt like a promotion for me. I code less by hand and spend more time on the actual engineering side of things. There’s hype in both directions though. I don’t AI is replacing me anytime soon(fingers crossed), but it’s already way more useful than the skeptics give it credit for. Like most things the truth’s somewhere in the middle.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-31 20:42:24+00:00
> What happens if they boil at the same time?

Then they're boiled and you don't have to do anything. But the point is that they boiled in exactly half the time it would have taken using only one of the devices with the full amount of water.

> But if your focus is time, then boiling is not an issue. You can do whatever you want during heating.

If you're making a full meal, sure. If all you want to do is hard-boil a couple of eggs, then yeah you want to hurry it up.

If you really want speed, use your microwave as a third!
by butlike | 2025-12-31 20:42:33+00:00
I disagree it's less work. It just carte blanche rewrites tests. I've seen it rewrite and rewrite tests to the point of undermining the original test intention. So now instead of intentionally writing code and a new unit test, I need to intentionally go and review EVERY unit test it touched. Every. Time.

It also doesn't necessarily rewrite documentation as implementation changes. I've seen documentation code rot happen within the same coding session.
by atlasunshrugged | 2025-12-31 20:42:54+00:00
That's awesome, can I ask what the topic is? What I did for "selling" the book was to create a proposal -- about 45 pages that has a skeleton outline of each chapter (it changed significantly during the end writing process but gave the publisher a feel for the topic), a sample chapter, and some more sales/marketing details like what are comparable books (and how well they sold if you have that data), who your audience is and how you plan to reach them (OP was in a great place having a following), why you're the right person to write the book, etc.
by coppsilgold | 2025-12-31 20:42:57+00:00
Murder is all but impossible to prevent, the reason the murder rate is kept low is because it's difficult to evade attribution after the fact.

In this instance we are talking about a technology that is impossible to attribute by design, the only way attribution will happen is if the reseller makes a serious mistake. There will be resellers that don't make serious mistakes. And unlike murder, very few successful resellers are sufficient to serve everyone.
by WoodenChair | 2025-12-31 20:43:04+00:00
Absolutely. And further because when you prompt ChatGPT as you write your ray tracer you don't know what the important things to ask are. Sure, you can get their with enough prompts of "what should I be asking you" or "explain to me the basics" of so and so. But the point of the book is all of that work has already been done for you in a vetted way.
by bcantrill | 2025-12-31 20:43:41+00:00
I know from the outside this seems very simple, but it's more complicated than that. Certainly, if the objective is (merely) security for one's children, that can be secured with much (much) less money (and likely was secured in the secondary that the author makes reference to); having nine figures of wealth is not an unvarnished good, and in particular makes raising grounded, self-reliant kids pretty complicated. To appreciate this dynamic, read Graeme Wood's outstanding 2011 piece in The Atlantic, "The Secret Fears of the Super-Rich"[0].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190422235813/https://www.theat...
by afavour | 2025-12-31 20:43:42+00:00
As someone who has experienced family adversity in my life (health, disability) I couldn’t disagree with you more.

Things happen. Expensive things. The security to be able to afford expansive cancer care without worry, to pay for therapy and specialized schooling for your child… these are huge, huge things and they happen to you (or your children, or your children’s children) no matter what you do or don’t do. This isn’t just about being happy to be frugal.
by astrobe_ | 2025-12-31 20:43:47+00:00
> parents who oppose the ban can easily get around it

Irresponsible parents are irresponsible parents, and they can do much worse than letting their children wander on the Net alone. IFAIK no law at least here forbids parents from giving alcohol or tobacco to their children, even though it is forbidden to sell those products to them. Toxic social media are mostly the same.

Although the topic is a ban, I think the idea is less about forbidding and punishing, and more about helping - albeit in questionably manner according to some - helping parents with "regulating" the access of their children to the Net. Of course, the easy answer is to recommend giving them dumb phones instead of smartphones, but really a smartphone is too useful to be ignored around high-school age.
by chollida1 | 2025-12-31 20:43:48+00:00
> She has agreed to a 10-year ban from holding executive roles in public or crypto companies.

Judging by how Alemeda research was provided with as much money as they wanted with zero interest rate attached and she still ran the company into the ground, I don't think the ban will hurt her too much.

This really goes to show that most hedge funds are successful because of the infrastructure built around them rather than the people.

You need both to be successful, but good systems and infrastructure trump good people most of the time. RenTech is the best example of this.

No one is going to trust her to run a Baskin Robbins, much less put her in a role with any responsibility now.
by lenkite | 2025-12-31 20:43:49+00:00
Global poverty reduction has slowed to a near standstill, with 2020–2030 set to be
a lost decade - World Bank.

https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/ec3d46c25a822d6d248e86d...

Please note that if you exclude China, the trend of poverty reduction is laughable.
by mjg2 | 2025-12-31 20:44:22+00:00
Ostensibly what u/skibidithink replied. We should have a healthy distrust of international corporations giving for unapparent reasons beyond being in the same sector. We can gesture about how a gift has no obligations, but no one gets into business to not make money, and true charity is without obligation.

ConcernedApe donated to give back to the foundation he came from, while Epic is out for global domination in the virtual entertainment sector.
by jancsika | 2025-12-31 20:45:11+00:00
I'd really like to vectorize-- prep once for, say, 8 or 16 contiguous shots at pan searing the salmon the correct way.

There should be an app that matches home vectorization needs with busy restaurant schedules. So I would pay, say, $50 bucks to jump in the kitchen and get yelled at to properly produce either 16 acceptable salmon entrees or ruin 2, whichever comes first.
by atlasunshrugged | 2025-12-31 20:45:47+00:00
Yeah, I have to admit because this was my first work I maybe overdid it in providing references because I wanted to default to having real historical data and not just writing a lot of personal opinions with no backing (it was a nightmare writing up that reference section but I'm glad I did it in the end) and if I'm being honest, because I'm not in academia and didn't have credentials as an "Estonia expert" I wanted to play it safe.

Edit: Added some context and I'd also mention that one thing that was quite helpful is that at the start of the writing process I created a massive spreadsheet where I'd add in quotes, writing, and anything interesting I thought I might pull from (some of it manually written, like when watching documentaries). This was hugely helpful when I was going back but also during the writing process so I had a single source of truth I could keyword search. I've just checked it and its got 4787 rows, with most entries being about a paragraph long
by ignoramous | 2025-12-31 20:46:19+00:00
> Domain: I switched to Cloudflare Registrar recently because they offered a lower price ... I don't think Cloudflare really cares to make money on domain registration.

Well, they don't today.

Speaking of "control", it is bad form to keep both the nameservers and registrar with the same company (think takedown requests / account lockout / etc).
by llmslave2 | 2025-12-31 20:46:25+00:00
That sounds eerily similar to the "OOP is for large teams" defence which is simply not true.

On the contrary, this noun-based programming explodes with complexity on large teams. Yes, interfaces are obviously important, but when every single thing is its own type and you try to solve problems with the type system leading to a combinatoric explosion of types and their interactions, what do you think happens when you scale the team up?
by epolanski | 2025-12-31 20:47:14+00:00
I very much disagree with your statement.

A lot.

As an European I can assure you even public second tier universities have excellent education.

Where they lag the rankings is where money matters: politics to be highly ranked and money for high impact research.

But when it comes to testing proficiency in e.g. science and math, the second university of Rome ranks higher than most ivy leagues in US ;)
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-31 20:47:36+00:00
> which is how physical dot/pixel/phosphor/mask/whatever patterns have anything to do with frame sizes of a digital video format,

In that context, the answer is: They don't really have any relationship at all.

Plenty of TVs of the past (from any continent) also had no physical dots/pixels/patterns at all. These were monochrome, aka black and white. :)

They had an inflexible number of lines that could be displayed per field, but there was no inherent delineation within each line as to what a pixel meant. It was just a very analog electron beam that energized a consistently-coated phosphorescent screen with a continuously-variable intensity as it scanned across for each raster line.

Pixels didn't really happen until digital sources also happened. A video game system (like an Atari or NES, say) definitely seeks to deliver pixels at its video output, and so does a digital format like DVD.

But the TV doesn't know the difference. It doesn't know that it's displaying something that represents pixels instead of a closed-circuit feed from a completely-analog pixel-free tube-based camera.

The "non-square pixel" part is just a practical description: When we have a digital framebuffer (as we do with a DVD player), that framebuffer has defined horizontal and vertical boundaries -- and a grid of pixels within those boundaries -- because that's just how digital things be.

When we smoosh the pixels of a DVD player's 720x480 framebuffer into an analog display with an aspect ratio of 4x3, we wind up with a combined system, with pixels, and those pixels aren't square.

---

And that's perfectly OK, though it does lead to weirdness.

For example: To produce a display of a perfect square that is 100 lines high using a 4x3 NTSC DVD is actually impossible. It'd have to be 100 pixels high and 112.5 pixels wide, which we can't accomplish since the format doesn't have that kind of precision. It's impossible with an LCD, and it's impossible with an analog set from 1955 just the same.

It's a DVD limitation, not a display limit. There's no great trick to producing a perfect square with analog gear, where pixels aren't a thing -- but we can't get there with the DVD's non-square pixels.

That weirdness doesn't have anything at all to do with how the display is constructed, though: Again, the TV has no concept of what a pixel even is (and a shadow mask doesn't necessarily exist at all).
by trhway | 2025-12-31 20:47:53+00:00
so we had some onsite generation moves from the lower end - residential solar, etc - and now we have it from the higher end - fossil fuel generation at datacenters. If that creates high efficiency generators then that may drive "onsite" further into the mid-segment. That may also affect the grid role nudging it from hierarchical delivery to network sharing/rebalancing, and may even lead to separate local grids (like 100+ years ago). That also would give fossil fuels new demand (and also would be a market for small/compact nuclear). Kind of disintegration wave.
by verytrivial | 2025-12-31 20:48:02+00:00
Not quibbling at all, but I recall some discussion somewhere saying that the history of the Squeak impl itself (not the name) traces back via saved base images to the original Smalltalk implementations, including via customs at-rest transformation tools when backwards incompatible changed where made in the primordial days. Base images, at least back when I was toying with Squeak, where never rebuilt from scratch, just modified, transformed etc. In some sense, at least for the image, they were decades old.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-12-31 20:48:21+00:00
In theory I see what you're saying. There are physical things an octopus could conceivably do that I never could on account of our physiology rather than our intelligence. So you can contrive an analogous scenario involving only the mind where something that is clearly an AGI is incapable of some specific task and thus falls short of my definition. This makes it clear that my definition is a heuristic rather than rigorous.

Nonetheless, it's difficult to imagine a scenario where something that is genuinely human level can't adapt in the field to a novel task such as driving a car. That sort of broad adaptability is exactly what the "general" in AGI is attempting to capture (imo).
by weslleyskah | 2025-12-31 20:48:23+00:00
Why this industry has such a claustrophobic atmosphere? If he was a doctor and had a calling for the profession, I would understand. I was doing an unrelated degree (Econ), but now I am doing a tech degree and I never saw such a depressive mentality towards life among peers.

It is like these people are hell bound to the work culture, diehard workaholics. They don't know anything else outside of a computer screen.

Honestly disgracefully.
by kurthr | 2025-12-31 20:48:34+00:00
Once you're selling them, put a bounty where kids can turn in the cards for money. Then you'll both set a price floor and know which stores are selling them and you can find out who's doing it. Nothing says that a token has to last for a constant amount of time. If kids turn in more than a certain percentage, then that location would have theirs expire early.

What I like here is that you've turned a digital problem into a physical one where we already have solutions and intuition for how to enforce rules.
by orliesaurus | 2025-12-31 20:48:52+00:00
The wild part to me isn’t 9 figures is good/bad, it’s that in year 8 the company still has a single human as the default DRI for culture, zero‑to‑one work, and existential decisions. If you’re going to turn down generational wealth, the least responsible version is keeping everything psychologically and operationally coupled to you; the grown‑up move is making yourself cheap to replace and designing a succession plan you’d actually be willing to trigger on bad news, not just a term sheet
by oh_my_goodness | 2025-12-31 20:49:04+00:00
> many times I have seen something advertised, thought "I want that!" and bought it and sometimes that thing became my new favorite.

This happens. It matters to you and to the people paying for the ads.

But it’s too tiny to matter to the media outlets. You’re talking about real clicks, which are already a small fraction. Real clicks on ads that actually offer anything desirable … that’s just too small a part of total clicks. Nobody can make much money on that 0.5% (?) of the traffic, no matter how idealistic they are. Fake clicks on misleading ads are the bread and butter of the market.

As a vendor, expecting online advertisers to get you customers efficiently is like expecting a real estate agent to get you the best sale price. They care about their own revenue, not yours.
by jphfa | 2025-12-31 20:49:11+00:00
Author here. Demo GIF: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/M-Igashi/region-proxy/mast...

I built this because I needed to access region-restricted APIs from specific countries, but commercial VPNs are expensive and don't cover all AWS regions.

What it does:

- Launches a minimal EC2 instance (t4g.nano, ~$0.004/hr)
- Creates temporary security groups (your IP only) and SSH keys
- Sets up SSH dynamic port forwarding
- Cleans up everything on stop

Usage:

$ region-proxy start --region ap-northeast-1
Proxy ready at localhost:1080

$ region-proxy stop
All resources cleaned up

Built with Rust + AWS SDK for Rust. Currently macOS only, Linux support planned.

Install: brew tap M-Igashi/tap && brew install region-proxy

Happy to answer questions!
by EnPissant | 2025-12-31 20:49:11+00:00
> FTX whistleblower Caroline Ellison ...

> She was also known to have briefly dated FTX CEO and founder Sam Bankman-Fried ...

> During her plea hearing, the court noted that she expressed genuine remorse for her actions, which the judge acknowledged as substantial ...

> Ellison’s testimony was considered a key turning point in securing Bankman-Fried’s conviction on all seven counts of fraud and conspiracy.

Did her family pay someone to publish this article?
by pvtmert | 2025-12-31 20:49:32+00:00
No, but EU should somehow mandate products and services that are built within EU and used within EU or elsewhere, should receive the benefit(s) in terms of taxation.

To give an (absurd) example; You work in country X, but the parent company is in country Y. Imagine your income tax is not going to where you reside but where you work, (usually the opposite) in this case, country Y. (~20-40% of the gross salary).

One day, your basic needs (electricity, water, etc) stops working. You call the relevant government department asking what's the problem. They reply with saying they do not know and cannot afford to figure our or fix because they do not have the money to do so.

But you've been paying at least 20% (and up to 46%) of your salary as the income tax. Where the money go? Why do you work here but someone else in the other side of the world getting that slice for free?
by cb321 | 2025-12-31 20:49:43+00:00
Time comparisons are (or should be) relative. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447490

graalvm is literally 500x more overhead than a statically linked dash script.

Maybe not an issue for terminal UIs, but the article mentions both TUIs and CLI tools. A lot of people use CLI tools with a shell. As soon as you do `for file in *.c; do tool "$file"; done` (as a simple example), pure overhead on the order of even 10s of ms becomes noticeable. This is not theoretical. I recently had this trouble with python3, but I didn't want to rewrite all my f-strings into python2. So, it does arise in practice. (At least in the practice of some.)
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-31 20:50:16+00:00
> except for the fact that it is aesthetically more "modern" to its detriment.

And also much, much slower.

The old context menu is nearly instant even when stuffed with extensions. When the new one is full of extensions, it takes full seconds to load the entire menu. You get a partial load, then the extensions pop in (and of course pushes elements down/up so now you misclick).

I don't even know how anyone could experience it in testing and allow it to go live in the state that its in. Its like no one even looked at it.
by llmslave2 | 2025-12-31 20:50:44+00:00
Agreed. It's often accompanied by the dogma "make invalid states unrepresentable" which sounds good until you start trying to encode into the type system foo.bar being 1-42 unless foo.baz is above 10, where now foo.bar can be -42-1 instead, but if foo.omfg is prefixed with "wtf" then foo.baz needs to be above 20 for its modifiers to kick in.

Yeah good luck doing that in the type system in a way that is maintainable, open to modification, an scales with complexity.
by m4ck_ | 2025-12-31 20:51:06+00:00
I'm sure the between the money and the talent, they can find a solution? I mean these LLM's are already capable of shutting down anything politically sensitive, borderline grey area, and outright illegal, right? So it's no so farfetched that they can figure out how to talk fewer people into psychosis / homicide / suicide.

I'm not going to pretend I"m smart enough to walk into OpenAI's offices and implement a solution today.. but completely dismissing the idea of regulating them seems insane. I'm sure the industrialists ~100 years ago thought they wouldn't be able to survive without child labor, paying workers in scrip, 100 hour work weeks, locking workers in tinder boxes, etc. but, survive they did despite the safety and labor regulations that were forced on them. OpenAI and co are no different, they'll figure it out and they'll survive. and if they don't, it's not because they had to stop and consider the impact of their product.
by munchbunny | 2025-12-31 20:51:07+00:00
Or it could be both. Time will tell.

ConcernedApe's next game is also built on MonoGame, so he has self-interested reasons to want MonoGame to continue to be maintained. But just because ConcernedApe has self-interested reasons to donate doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't also come from a charitable place.

MonoGame is basically getting a sponsor. The ecosystem benefits. I'm personally happy to leave it there rather than asking for moral purity.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-31 20:51:13+00:00
I don’t see her as any less guilty than Sam. If I recall, she directly was involved in the movement of people’s funds into Alameda - that was not something she got tricked into by some separate criminal mastermind. That’s her. Even if she cooperated, she should be serving 10+ years. Otherwise what’s the deterrent when you can mostly get away with large white collar crimes.

While we’re at it, Musk should also face charges for related fraudulent claims about self driving, battery tech that went nowhere, robotaxis, and other things. But he likely won’t. In general, these crimes are treated far too leniently for the rich and connected.