MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FieryMechanic | 2025-12-11 21:29:53+00:00
> In that case I believe it's fair to disregard all other epistemological processes and blame BSODs on the game out of principle

I am sorry but that is asinine and unscientific. You should blame BSODs on what is causing them. I don't like kernel anti-cheat but I will blame the actual cause of the issues, not assign blame on things which I don't approve of.

I am a long time Linux user and many of the people complaining about BSODs on Windows had a broken the OS in one way or another. Some were running weird stuff like 3rd party shell extensions that modify core DLLs, or they had installed every POS shovelware/shareware crap. That isn't Microsoft's fault if you start running an unsupported configuration of the OS.

Similarly. The YouTubers that were most vocal about HellDivers problems did basically no proper investigation other than saying "look it crashed", when it was quite clearly their broken hardware that was the issue. As previously stated their CPU had a burn mark on one of the pins, some AM5 had faults that caused this IIRC. So everything indicated hardware failure being the cause of the BSOD. They still blamed the game, probably because it got them more watch time.

During the same time period when people were complaining about BSODs, I didn't experience one. I was running the same build of the game as them and playing on the same difficulty and sometimes recording it via OBS (just like they were). What I didn't have was a AM5 motherboard, I have and older AM4 motherboard which doesn't have these problems.
by Bender | 2025-12-11 21:30:04+00:00
Incredible surprise discovery under sands of Utah desert that could give US military huge edge over China

Some 16 different types of high quality minerals were uncovered in a 74,000 square foot mining site in Provo. Those discovered include lithium, alumina, germanium, rubidium, cesium, vanadium and niobium, the Journal reported.
by swisniewski | 2025-12-11 21:30:06+00:00
I use Cosmic on a DGX Spark, as my daily driver, and it works pretty well.

They don’t have a pop os iso for arm64, but they do have arm64 Debian repo. So I just took DGX os (what Nvidia ships on the device), added the pos os “releases” repo, and installed cosmic-session.

It works like a charm and provides a super useful tiling experience out of the box.

This is replacing my M3 Pro as my daily driver and I’ve been pretty happy with it.

I recently upgraded to an ultrawide monitor and find the Cosmic UX to be hands down better than what I get in the Mac with it.

If you want a Linux desktop with the productivity boost of a tiling window manager with a low learning curve, it’s pretty good.
by ShakataGaNai | 2025-12-11 21:30:09+00:00
I would wager that's because there isn't a lot of existing silicon that fits the bill. What COTS equipment is there that has all the CPU/Tensor horsepower these systems need... AND is reasonably power efficient AND is rated for a vehicle (wild temp extremes like -20F to 150F+, constant vibration, slams and impacts... and will keep working for 15 years).

Yea, Tesla has some. But they aren't sharing their secret sauce. You can't just throw a desktop computer in a car and expect it to survive for the duration. Ford et all aren't anywhere close to having "premium silicon".

So you're only option right now is to build your own. And hope maybe that you can sell/license your designs to others later and make bucks.
by plorkyeran | 2025-12-11 21:30:11+00:00
> grep (global regular expression print), awk (Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan; the creators’ initials), sed (stream editor), cat (concatenate), diff (difference). Even when abbreviated, these names were either functional descriptions or systematic derivations.

If you asked someone unfamiliar with unix tools what they thought each of these commands did, diff is the only one which they would have even the slightest chance of guessing. It's ridiculous to complain about "libsodium" and then hold up "awk" as a good name.
by crote | 2025-12-11 21:30:14+00:00
I reckon a decept part of that is due to American English vs. British English.

A great example of this is the Korean War, where a British brigadier in an extremely difficult situation told an American general "Things are a bit sticky, sir" - who interpreted it as "Could be better, but we're holding the line". The misunderstanding resulted in 500 dead and captured.
by reorder9695 | 2025-12-11 21:30:24+00:00
In real life the situation is different. When I buy alcohol, someone looks at my drivers licence, does not make a copy of it, forgets it quickly, and cannot tie it to other information about me. As soon as it's online and it's copies, I can't tell what happens on anyone else's servers. I don't want any company knowing my actual name and location, then that can be tied to more data, which is what Google etc have been trying to do for years but this would just completely fast track that. I would in theory be fine with something where it never leaves my computer, but that is obviously impossible.
by Chrisywz | 2025-12-11 21:30:33+00:00
Yeah, but the catch is that generic models don’t get you there. They’re great at the pattern stuff. But in practice they hallucinate edge cases, miss domain-specific rules, etc. For AI-led integrations to actually, you need a much tighter setup: models constrained inside an SDLC, access to real schemas and codebases, a feedback loop from actual systems, and guardrails that force deterministic behavior. Basically: AI that behaves more like a compiler than a chat interface. Without that structure, you just end up generating the same brittle glue code faster. Check out the tool that Isoform.ai has made - SDLC-driven AI coding platform. https://yansu.isoform.ai/
by lll-o-lll | 2025-12-11 21:30:34+00:00
> When I look at myself, I don't believe I have character. I want to be liked too much, and in my emotional core, I'm frightened.

First of all, thank you for the honesty. It shows good character!

I think you are right that good character is the core of being a good manager. It’s the core of being a good person. Virtue and duty. Unfashionable words, but the secret to “happiness” (the good life). The ancient greeks understood this, and it’s been the heart of western philosophy.

We are all works in progress.
by mcny | 2025-12-11 21:30:40+00:00
> In NYC with clean 15+ year driving record my premium is $270 a month after discounts with USAA. Geico, Allstate, Progressive all quote me $400/mo minimum. Have driven everything from old beaters to brand new economy cars with little difference. Friends who also drive are paying around $350/mo on average.

You're taking about full coverage, right?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-11 21:30:47+00:00
>People are generating much more than we expected per user, and a lot of videos are being generated for very small audiences.

That was the issue even the biggest Ai fans pointed out from day one. People aren't gonna post their videos on Sora. They are gonna make it on Sora and post on TikTok. A watermark won't change that reality (and I don't think ClosedAI is worried about brand recognition and taking a hit for that).

Likenthr rest of the scene, it's so utterly tone deaf.
by queenkjuul | 2025-12-11 21:31:14+00:00
End of the day you know what it means or you don't. I agree it's helpful when a name is descriptive, but there's no helping the fact that you're going to have to learn the names of things that aren't obvious. Purely utilitarian names would constantly collide.

I also think they overestimate how distinct terminology is in other fields. Even their example of the I-beam is also known as an H beam or an RSJ depending on who you're talking to. I don't find it hard to imagine a mechanic referring to one of their specialty tools by the name of its manufacturer, either.

Regardless, the battle was lost before it started. There has never been good consistent descriptive naming as standard in computing; there was no plot to lose.
by tzs | 2025-12-11 21:31:17+00:00
> The issue I'm trying to sound the horn on is that the current push for AF in the US and EU has nothing to do with kids. I think you could put together a working group on ZKPs and Age Verification, write up a paper and run experiments, and when you bring it to the lawmakers they're gonna say something to the tune of:

The EU is currently doing large-scale field tries of the EU Digital Identity Wallet, which they have been working on for several years. It uses ZKPs for age verification. They expect to roll it out to the public near the end of 2026.
by nevenp | 2025-12-11 21:31:35+00:00
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by failuremode | 2025-12-11 21:31:40+00:00
> We went from around 700 to a whooping 5369 tests

> Tons of tests got added, but some tests that mattered the most (maestro e2e tests that validated the app still works) were forgotten.

I've seen many LLM proponents often cite the number of tests as a positive signal.

This smells, to me, like people who tout lines of code.

When you are counting tests in the thousands I think its a negative signal.

You should be writing property based tests rather than 'assert x=1', 'assert x=2', 'assert x=-1' and on and on.

If LLMs are incapable of acknowledging that then add it to the long list of 'failure modes'.
by orliesaurus | 2025-12-11 21:31:49+00:00
My day job involves building dashboards, and SVGs have been invaluable for crisp icons and graphs... the portability across sizes is a blessing, but some of the more exotic filter effects still fail in certain browsers.

ALSO I've run into security reviews that flag inline SVGs because they can embed scripts... would love to see more tooling to lint and sanitize them before deployment.

BUT seeing a two-decade-old vector still render correctly gives me confidence that the core spec is solid.
by nullbound | 2025-12-11 21:31:57+00:00
<< I feel there is a point when all these benchmarks are meaningless.

I am relatively certain you are not alone in this sentiment. The issue is that the moment we move past seemingly objective measurements, it is harder to convince people that what we measure is appropriate, but the measurable stuff can be somewhat gamed, which adds a fascinating layer of cat and mouse game to this.
by whimsicalism | 2025-12-11 21:32:06+00:00
> Another alternative would be that you get what you get at purchase time, and you have to buy a new car to get the newest update.

Doubt that is a politically tenable model.

"You're telling me my son Bobby died in a crash that could have been prevented with finished software but they only roll it out to people who have the money for a new car despite no technical limitation?" -- yeah, good luck
by parliament32 | 2025-12-11 21:32:11+00:00
I certainly hope we gatekeep them. "I just need my hallucinatory text generator to translate for me" -> "I just need my hallucinatory text generator to refine my thoughts for me" -> "I just need my hallucinatory text generator to generate my comment for me". This is a damn near antithesis of this place.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by tacone | 2025-12-11 21:32:27+00:00
I found working with AI as the code buddy to be motivating (ironically). You get to chat about the project, ask opinions and in general have somebody do the work you don't find inspiring.

AI often doesn't do things your way, but if your doing something for yourself you usually care more about the goal than the technicalities. Also AI working on a hobby code base is less prone to overcomplication since it basically copies what you've wrote yourself.
by zeruch | 2025-12-11 21:32:40+00:00
Some people can make a living doing something they enjoy. "Success" is not fame, and vice versa (they are wholly orthogonal to each other), and I remember reading an interview with a member of Canadian group Saga, who in the US had like 1 top 40 hit in the early 80s and a few more minor ones in their home country, but ultimately they sell a few thousand records a year, and tour regularly in two "big" markets for them : Puerto Rico and Germany, and they seem to make roughly a middle class lifestyle doing so.

Beats being an accountant or urologist I suppose.

I suspect there's a similar vibe for cover band folks.
by zackify | 2025-12-11 21:33:10+00:00
This is great... just got it working using bun:sqlite! Just need to have "LITESTREAM_REPLICA_URL" and the key id and secret env vars set when running the script.

import { Database } from "bun:sqlite"; Database.setCustomSQLite("/opt/homebrew/opt/sqlite/lib/libsqlite3.dylib"); // Load extension first with a temp db const temp = new Database(":memory:"); temp.loadExtension("/path/to/litestream.dylib", "sqlite3_litestreamvfs_init"); // Now open with litestream VFS const db = new Database("file:my.db?vfs=litestream"); const fruits = db.query("SELECT * FROM fruits;").all(); console.log(fruits);
by kace91 | 2025-12-11 21:33:25+00:00
Part of apple’s language design is to not show failure whenever possible.

It’s everywhere once you’re told. at most a loading icon remains loading or a setting resets itself when you don’t look, but those “there was an error -accept” popups that are a constant in windows are rarely seen this side of the fence.

It tends to become stupid when the network is involved, where lack of coverage, interrupted downloads and the like are common. They have to show it just works I guess.
by knorker | 2025-12-11 21:33:34+00:00
Yes. That's escape analysis. But this is not what OP did.

What you wrote is not the same in C and Go, because GC and escape analysis. But 9rx is also correct that what OP wrote is the same in C and Go.

So OP almost learned about escape analysis, but their example didn't actually do it. So double confusion on their side.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-11 21:33:46+00:00
>they're going to have a ton of people using the service to create all sorts of stuff that will—on the whole—increase brand awareness and engagement with Disney.

In the same way making a bunch of porn of a character increases brand awareness and engagement with an IP, sure.

OpenAI got away scot free here in avoiding a billion dollar lawsuit. Disney is gonna further melt away a century dynasty of art and culture. They're both gonna lose long term but I guess they both win for next quarter.
by taeric | 2025-12-11 21:33:49+00:00
Yeah, just writing out the idea, I would imagine I should be able to see a lot of this with my router?

Again, I get that that will be a lot I have to write off as "uncategorized." I'm not even trying to drive all telemetry down to zero. I'm comfortable knowing that my HVAC may send diagnostic stuff in, as an example. But it seems kind of crazy to me that this is not something that is often discussed? Do I just miss those discussions?
by like_any_other | 2025-12-11 21:34:39+00:00
> Age Verification isn't about Kids or Censorship, It's about Surveillance

We know this because, instead of putting easy-to-use parental controls on new devices sold (and making it easy to install on old ones) with good defaults [1], they didn't even try that, and went directly for the most privacy-hostile solution.

[1] So lazy parents with whatever censorship the government thinks is appropriate for kids, while involved parents can alter the filtering, or remove the software entirely.
by ShakataGaNai | 2025-12-11 21:34:57+00:00
Probably a lot of overlap in the venn diagram of people who would like the two things. Mostly the "Early Adopter" circle.

Also a lot of cars have a lot of limitations with comma.ai. Yes, you can install it on all sorts but there are limitations like: above 32mph, cannot resume from stop, cannot take tight corners, cannot do stop light detection, requires additional car upgrades/features, only known to support model year 2021. Etc.

Rivian supports everything, it has a customer base who LOVE technology, are willing to try new things, and ... have disposable income for a $1k extra gadget.
by atonse | 2025-12-11 21:35:28+00:00
Yep this is the first time I've disagreed with the EFF on anything civil liberties related.

My view is that there's no reason why we can't come together and come up with a rating system for websites (through HTTP headers, there are already a couple proposals, the RTA header and another W3C proposal).

Once a website just sends a header saying this is adult only content, what YOU as a user do with it is up to you. You could restrict it at the OS level (which is another thing we ALREADY have).

This would match the current system, which allows households to set their devices to block whatever they want, and the devices get metadata from the content producers.

No ID checks needed.
by ben_w | 2025-12-11 21:35:44+00:00
> No, 1MW/7.3 acres is about INSTALLED CAPACITY,

One thing I find useful is doing the maths to see if an answer is plausible. Yours wasn't, and lo and behold I found this pretty quickly, directly debunking your citation:

Those relying on the earlier benchmarks published nearly a decade ago are, thus, significantly overstating the land requirements of utility-scale PV.

- https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/lbnl_ieee...

And even with the changes since then, they waste a lot of land they don't strictly need to waste; see all the gaps in the image of Copper Mountain in Fig. 2. of that PDF.

The reason for this difference is historical: PV modules themselves used to be the expensive part of a solar farm, not the land itself, so the early ones wasted a lot of land to put a small number of PV modules in the best possible position. The correct orientation today is "nobody cares" because they're so cheap (the only industrial scale thing I've found cheaper per square meter than PV is a very thin layer of cement, and even then I have to discard labour costs, but that's not important). This is also why quite a few of the Chinese ones are now artistic with their patterns, e.g. this: https://news.cgtn.com/news/334d6a4e7a557a6333566d54/index.ht...

(One of the startups whose pitches I heard over the summer was a place that realised the cheapest in a lot of cases was just lay the panels flat).

> And no, 280 GWh was literally a week ago

TY
by FieryMechanic | 2025-12-11 21:35:52+00:00
This was pretty much my take as well. I have an older CPU, Motherboard and GPU combo before the newer GPU power cables that obviously weren't tested properly and I have no problems with stability.

These guys are running an intensive game on the highest difficulty, while streaming and they probably have a bunch of browser windows and other software running background. Any weakness in the system is going to be revealed.

I had performance issues during that time and I had to restart game every 5 matches. But it takes like a minute to restart the game.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-11 21:36:29+00:00
In the online world you can’t make sure of anything. Florida for instance requires age verification for porn sites. Guess how many mainstream sites not based in the US are completely ignoring the law and guess how many others are easily accessible via a VPN? If you guessed the sum total of both is less than 100%, you would be wrong - and even that is tilted toward sites that just ignored it.

The one thing you can control is your childs access through their device using parental controls.

I can absolutely guarantee you that any teenager can easily get access to weed, cigarettes and alcohol despite the laws and definitely can use a VPN. It only takes one smart kid to show them how.
by like_any_other | 2025-12-11 21:36:41+00:00
> In real life, we think age verification is a good thing.

Ok. In real life, do we think having agents from the government and corporations following you everywhere, writing down your every move and word, is a good thing? Or rather, what kind of crime would one have to have committed, so that they would only be allowed out in public with surveillance agents trailing them everywhere?
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-11 21:36:54+00:00
> You name the quality directly. You point at it. You own it.

Fun thing: it works even better with Americans and Germans when it comes to negativity, because Germans also express negativity directly. For me, as a German, Americans want to be coddled and they do not like it if you clearly express to an American that he is bullshitting you. Germans (and I'd say, Germanic/Nordic-origin cultures as a whole) don't like wasting time coddling around and sucking up for no reason at all. We're an efficient people, after all.

That's also a part of why Linus Torvalds is such a polarizing figure across the Internet. To me as a German, yes, he could dial down the ad-hominem a bit but that's it. The constant American whining about his tone however is... grating on my nerves. He's speaking the truth, accept it for what it is and move the fuck on.

Oh, and it's also why Wal-Mart failed so disastrously many decades ago when they tried to enter Germany. Ignoring labor rights was bad enough, but we could have let that slide (given that our own discounters were all heavily embroiled in scandals)... but what was just way too uncanny from what I hear from older people who actually lived during that time was the greeters. And it matches up with many a write-up [1].

[1] https://medium.com/the-global-millennial/why-walmart-failed-...
by reactordev | 2025-12-11 21:36:57+00:00
Correct, their main purpose is ecosystem lock-in. Because why return json when you can return html. Why even build a SPA when the old school model of server-side includes and PHP worked just fine? TS with koa and htmx if you must but server-side react components are kind of a waste of time. Give me one example where server side react components are the answer over a fetch and json or just fetching an html page?
by H1Supreme | 2025-12-11 21:37:43+00:00
Generally speaking, I share the HN consensus on age verification laws. But, there is a real problem with kid's unfettered internet access. Just think about all the adults who are hopelessly addicted to social media. The negative affects are amplified when it comes to developing minds.

My SO has been teaching for nearly 20 years now, and mental health in kids has fallen off a cliff in the last two decades. I could fill this page with online bullying stories. Some of which, are especially cruel. Half her students are on medication for anxiety. It's out of control, honestly.

That said, I don't know how to solve it. It's easy to put this on the parents, but that's not the answer. Otherwise, it would be solved already. Some don't care. Some don't have the time to care because they're trying to keep the lights on, and dinner on the table. And, some simply think it doesn't apply to them or their children. Parents on HN are hyper-aware of this sort of thing, but that's definitely the minority.

I know a family that would be most folks least likely candidate for something bad to happen online. Single income, relatively well off, the parent at home has an eye on the kids 24/7. And, if you met the kids, you would most likely qualify them as "good kids". Without going into detail, their life was turned upside down because one of the kids was "joking around" online.

Again, I don't know what the answer to the problem is. Clearly, age verification laws are a veiled attempt to both collect and control data. And, EFF's emphasis on advertising restrictions as a solution, seems off the mark. There's more to it than that. Idk, this shit makes me want to log off permanently, and pretend it's 1992.