MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-12-19 07:55:42+00:00
I think it’s a little of both. Sure, they have failures, not no one is perfect.

I think the iPad is a good example. Bill Gates had a dream of the paperless office and tried to make the tablet PC happens by putting Windows XP on tablets with some pen support. I saw a few of them in my help desk days in college, but they never really caught on. They put a desktop OS on a tablet and it was annoying to use. They also tried handheld devices with the UMPCs, these were also a pain to use, and again, just ran XP.

Then the iPad came along. It didn’t just run OS X, it ran an OS designed around the way you’d interact with it. It was executed better. Steve Jobs also sold the hell out of it with all his “magic” talk. 15 years later and the iPad is still the only tablet anyone really talks about. Microsoft had a 10+ year head start, but failed to execute and market. They didn’t understand what they were actually making. Android tried to copy the iPad model with a mobile OS, but they didn’t seem to go all-in, so it felt half baked. Much of the iPad “marketing” is word of mouth. My dad had 2 iPads and loves them. He was sold on it by seeing be use one back in 2010 to take note and a conference we went to. He spent more time looking at the iPad than the speakers. Ironically, I don’t have an iPad anymore, it never fit into my workflow, but for many it does.

The marketing only works to remind people of the products of the core product executes well. Marketing alone won’t save a bad product. This is especially true when trying to create a category. Apple has seemed more successful with category creation than just about anyone else. They may not be first, but they define the market and get people to care about it. They did this with the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. MP3 players, smart phones, tablets, and smart watches existed before, but were fairly niche. Apple made them mainstream and opened up the market for others to be more successful as well. We can likely credit Apple with that modern laptop as well, starting with the MacBook Air, and then raising the bar on battery life with their new chips. They pushed the whole industry forward. This wasn’t marketing, it was execution. Having 24 hours of battery life in a thin and light package was simply better than the other options on the market.
by orthoxerox | 2025-12-19 07:56:22+00:00
I wouldn't mind them coming up with better codenames anyway. "Some lower-end SKUs branded as Raptor Lake are based on Alder Lake, with Golden Cove P-cores and Alder Lake-equivalent cache and memory configurations." How can anyone memorize this endless churn of lakes, coves and monts? They could've at least named them in the alphabetical order.
by wcallahan | 2025-12-19 07:56:45+00:00
Yes, I run it locally on 3 different AMD Strix Halo machines (Framework Desktop and 2 GMKTec machines, 128gb x 2, 96gb x 1) and a Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128gb of unified memory.

I’ve used several runtimes, including vLLM. Works great! Speedy. Best results with Ubuntu after trying a few different distributions and Vulkan and ROCm drivers.
by therouwboat | 2025-12-19 07:57:09+00:00
Co-worker was talking about how he tried to make invitation card with chatgpt, just a picture of his house and text and AI failed to do it. It said he didn't have copyright to the picture and used another random pic, layout was wrong etc. Then younger co-worker gave tips how to do it, what tools to use and offered to make it with his better AI program.

What could be done in few minutes with a free program is now multiple hours with billion dollar AI tools and you have less control what the end result is.
by nativeit | 2025-12-19 07:57:56+00:00
I think they probably would, with maybe the exception of Apple TV. It’s probably not a coincidence that Apple TVs are the only hardware in this space that isn’t sold at a loss (or near loss), the rest are simply Trojan horses to park in the living room and maximize profit elsewhere by leveraging its privileged access to your eyeballs and/or ears (really no orifice is safe from these companies anymore, watch out for Smart Bidets).
by malfist | 2025-12-19 07:58:02+00:00
There's a fair number of misleading our outright wrong specs if your buying from amazon or the like. And even if you're buying brand name, the specs can be misleading. They often refer to the maximum output of all the ports, not the maximum output of a port.

So a 100 watt GAN charger might be able to deliver only 65 watts from it's main "laptop" port, but it has two other ports that can do 25 and 10 watts each. Still 100 watts in total, but your laptop will never get it's 100 watts.

Not every brand is as transparent about this, sometimes it's only visible in product marketing images instead of real specs. Real shady.
by LiKao | 2025-12-19 07:58:11+00:00
There actually was quite a lot of suggestion that thoughts work like autocomplete. A lot of it was just considered niche, e.g. because the mathematical formalisms were beyond what most psychologist or even cognitive scientists would deem usefull.

Predictive coding theory was formalized back around 2010 and traces it roots up to theories by Helmholtz from 1860.

Predictive coding theory postulates that our brains are just very strong prediction machines, with multiple layers of predictive machinery, each predicting the next.
by KronisLV | 2025-12-19 08:00:07+00:00
> Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence

I feel like this needs updating, sometimes it is greed, other times it also very much is malice, sometimes making those appear as incompetence or just "complex circumstances" is beneficial.

Like how you have a culture war in the US while the rich rob you blind. How you have the "us vs them" politics while checks and balances are dismantled (including accurate reporting on science), alongside social support programs. How around 2020 companies rose prices across the board while claiming supply chain issues, just for those prices to never really come down. Same with the global DRAM manufacturing and the effects across the board on RAM, GPUs and storage - the companies just don't give a shit about consumers, they are choosing this. Also how the housing market is completely unreasonable. Same with US trying to break up EU and increasingly siding with Russia.

Sometimes there's just malice or greed, even when it's not just a small group of shady people in a dark room, but rather entire social groups whose interests and ideologies just happen to align. A lot of people aren't even trying to serve the greater society in the slightest, the prevailing attitude increasingly seems to be "fuck you, I got mine". It doesn't seem entirely new, though, since the whole millennial generation largely got saddled with that economy by those who came before, what's going on is just a bit more open now. Also using US as a good example here, but obviously similar issues are on the rise in Europe as well and elsewhere.
by deepsummer | 2025-12-19 08:00:18+00:00
I understand it. For example, with AI you don't need to remember stuff. Like there is a command in MacOS (two actually) to flush the DNS cache. I used to memorize it because I needed it like twice a week. These days, I can't remember it. I just tell Copilot to flush the cache for me. It knows what to do.

And it's like that for many things. Complicated Git commands that I rarely need. I used to remember them at least 50% of the time, and if not, I looked them up. Now I just describe what I need to Copilot. But also APIs that I don't need daily. All that stuff that I used to know is gone, because I don't need to look it up anymore, I just tell Copilot or Claude what to do.
by OCTAGRAM | 2025-12-19 08:00:58+00:00
There is a real world alternative to Markdown. Ada programming language standard is defined in a text format that is converted to TXT, HTML and PDF. Tools can compare different Ada standard versions, sometimes several versions, producing multi colored documents.

Sources of standard: http://www.ada-auth.org/arm-files/2022-SRC.zip

Format tool can be found here: http://www.ada-auth.org/arm.html#Format_Tool

Sample output with edits: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22aarm/html/AA-5-2.html

Red color is for Ada 2012 -> Ada 2012 TC1 diff, green color is for Ada 2012 TC1 -> Ada 2022 diff.
by wcallahan | 2025-12-19 08:01:24+00:00
Yes to both comments. I said that to:

1. disclose my method was not quantifiably measurable as the not model, because that is not important to me, speed of action/development outcomes is more important to me, and because

2. I’ve observed a large gap between benchmark toppers and my own results

But make no mistake, I like have the terminals scrolling live across multiple monitors so I can glance at them periodically and watch their response quality, so I care and notice which give better/worse results.

My biggest goal right now after accuracy is achieving more natural human-like English for technical writing.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-12-19 08:01:56+00:00
> We haven't chosen quantity over quality, we have decided that journals should not be the arbiters of quality.

In CS, this is definitely not the case at all.

If you remove the "quality badge" factor, journals are totally useless. Everyone in my field knows how to use LaTeX, produce a decent-looking PDF and upload it to arXiv. This saves you from paying APC's, has actually better discoverability (everyone checks arXiv as a one-stop shop for papers, almost no one goes to check the dozens of different journals) and much less hassle (no need to fiddle with arcane templates, idiosyncratic paper structures forced by each journal, idiosyncratic submission systems that look straight from the 90s, typesetters that introduce more errors than they fix, etc.).

I am pretty sure that journals, at least in my field, subsist precisely as arbiters of quality, they don't provide any other value at all.
by azangru | 2025-12-19 08:02:30+00:00
> It's literally the only way to download apps.

Is it? I don't think I've ever downloaded anything from Apple's app store. Hmm. What have I got? Chrome. Installed from website. GIMP. Installed from website. LibreOffice. Installed from website. VSCode. Installed from website. VLC. Installed from website. Zoom. Installed from website. Homebrew. Installed by using a command from a website. And then, a bunch of stuff installed from brew.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-19 08:03:10+00:00
> Why do you come to this conclusion, instead of, say, that they're looking for something to hand to the US that they can use for diplomatic and ideological cover?

Does your hypothesis (to be clear, I'm not sure what it is) change given the new suspect [1]? (If not, is there any information which would change it?)

If I had to draw an inappropriately-broad delineation on types of thought, one might be between faith and science. Something held on faith cannot be disproven. This includes good things, like values. It includes bad things, like a single cause for all evil in the world. I find the category error between these particularly interesting, i.e. when someone believes they rationally, empirically and objectively hold an article of faith. (The inverse is the proving of a strongly, perhaps compulsively, held hypothesis.)

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/18/man-suspected-in-sh...
by D-Machine | 2025-12-19 08:03:18+00:00
You shouldn't be 100% convinced: obviously there are some non-trivial typesetting costs.

But general typesetting is very obviously a largely solved problem in 2025, regardless of the submission format, so since academic journals have weirdly specific input format requirements that are not demanded in other similar domains, it is clear they are doing dated / junk / minimal typesetting / formatting.

Also see what the costs are anywhere else, typesetting is a triviality:

https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/52009

https://www.lode.de/blog/the-cost-effective-revolution-autom...

https://svpow.com/2015/06/11/how-much-does-typesetting-cost/

https://old.reddit.com/r/publishing/comments/1cdx1jq/author_...
by VTimofeenko | 2025-12-19 08:03:49+00:00
> If you're tracking packets can't you tell by the data size? A 4k image is a lot more data than a hash.

I admit, I've not gotten around to properly dumping that traffic. For anyone wanting to do this, there's also a spike of DNS requests every hour on the hour, even if tv is off(well, asleep). Would be interesting to see those too. Might be a fun NY holiday project right there. Even without decrypting (hopefully) encrypted traffic, it should be verifiable.

> Also just curious, what happens if you block those requests?

Due to `*.roku.com` DNS black hole, roku showed no ads but things like Netflix and YouTube using standard roku apps("channels") worked fine. I now moved on to playing content using nvidia shield and blocking outside traffic completely. Only odd thing is that the TV occasionally keeps blinking and complains about lack of network if I misclick and start something except HDMI input.
by Nio1024 | 2025-12-19 08:04:49+00:00
Despite the fact that China's one-party system has its own issues, it is undeniable that this political structure allows China to relatively "concentrate forces to accomplish major tasks." Since the launch of ChatGPT, China has essentially sparked a nationwide "war of a thousand models." In addition to providing enterprises with favorable policies and subsidies, the government has encouraged civil servants at nearly every level of administration to learn about and understand AIGC. Leaders at all levels of government are required to dedicate a certain amount of time to specialized training courses on the subject.
by kqr | 2025-12-19 08:04:50+00:00
> They used the same routines they wrote for their day jobs at Softdisk in the Keen code. [...] Most of the IDLIB.C code must have come directly from the PC version of Dangerous Dave. [...] there is some extremely strong evidence showing that the id founders used Softdisk's code in their own game. Sure, it's not the code responsible for the smooth scrolling, but it is code they probably didn't have the rights to use.

Huh, this is interesting. Is someone able to provide more detail?

The pace at which Id produced games has always been an inspiration for me. Large amounts of code reuse seems like an important clue as to how they were able to do that.[1] But how were they able to reuse code effectively to such a degree?

[1]: The other clues I have so far are Romero's legendary tool-making abilities, and Carmack's tendency to produce code that gets computers to do things they couldn't before.
by mk89 | 2025-12-19 08:07:00+00:00
Well, they first saw the opportunity of cheap manufacturing. Then they saw the democratic ally. But let's say...at the very bottom of the top 1000 reasons to do what they did.

For me many Western politicians don't see past 5-10 years. Short-term China was Heaven (for big corp), so they used all the resources they had to justify what they did. Many called BS on that, but were treated like right wing, populists, old conservatives, naive, fear-mongering, etc. Almost a dejavu.
by gmueckl | 2025-12-19 08:08:18+00:00
Nanite is just working around an inefficiency that occurs on small triangles that require screen space derivatives, which the hardware approxinates using finite differences between neighbors, e.g. for the texture footprint estimation in mipmapping. The rasterizer invokes additional shader instances around triangle borders to get the source values for these operations. That gets excessive when triangles are tiny. This is an edge case, but it becomes important when there is lots of tiny geometric details on screen.
by vkou | 2025-12-19 08:09:16+00:00
> You’d have to be blind to ignore the massive overbuilding of property in China, which they are now demolishing.

Is it all being demolished, or is 95% of it being moved into?

Because all those ghost cities that China was building that the news kept bitching about... Are now all full.

Meanwhile, in the West, we have a housing shortage. Who looks the fool now...
by m-schuetz | 2025-12-19 08:09:52+00:00
Different features/architecture is precisely the issue with mobile, be it due to hardware constraints or due to lack in deiver support. Render passes were only bolted into Vulkan because of mobile tiler GPUs, they never made any sense for desktop GPUs and only made Vulkan worse for desktop graphics development.

And this is the reason why mobile and desktop should be separate graphics APIs. Mobile is holding desktop back not just feature wise, it also fucks up the API.
by xg15 | 2025-12-19 08:10:37+00:00
I'm honestly surprised this is such a groundbreaking insight.

The OP may be exaggerating a bit (it's marketing for their startup after all), but I'd expect that if you want to develop a product for a certain market, researching how the customers in that market operate and what their technical constraints are would be one of the first things to do.

Obviously, random people on Twitter won't do this, but here there seem to be entire companies that expect the whole legal system to move into their proprietary cloud. How did they imagine this would work?
by lynn123456 | 2025-12-19 08:10:49+00:00
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by kleiba | 2025-12-19 08:11:34+00:00
This is difficult in practice. For LaTeX, in theory the publisher would simply provide their style sheet (.cls) and maybe some style guidelines, and all the authors have to do is to adhere to that file and typesetting is done.

The reason this doesn't work in practice is that authors don't always play nicely, not because of bad intentions, but because they don't want to cooperate but because of the realities of life: they don't have the time to study style guidelines in detail, they use their own auxiliary LaTeX macro collection because that's what they're used to, or simply because of oversights. Also, typesetting often includes a whole lot of meticulous things, if you listed them all in a guide sheet, that would be a long list of stuff at a level that's too detailed for authors.

I'm not saying it's impossible for authors to fully follow a publisher's style guide but there's a reason publishers employ full time workers who do nothing else but correct submitted manuscripts. Like many other professions, it's a trained skill.
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-12-19 08:11:37+00:00
> Search is the way most people find and download apps on the App Store, with nearly 65 percent of downloads happening directly after a search

This is misleading - does it mean people are searching for an app that they already know about and want to download - chatgpt, samsung, gmail etc. Or searching for a topic or problem and see what apps are available - LLM, camera, running etc.

I rarely do the latter - using web search to find reviews or asking an LLM to give me a list comparing the features and then search for the apps in the appstore (trying to ignore the ads)
by Betelgeux | 2025-12-19 08:11:57+00:00
Or rather thinking one step forward the question arises, whether we use the right words for the right things? Does the capitalist West has any defining economics characteristics of a liberal free-market capitalism at all?

Private ownership of means of production: On an atomic, legal level of course. But if point at an NVIDIA based compute rack at a US based random datacenter, can someone tell me actually who owns it? I am interested in the actual natural person who has an ownership share of this capital asset, not the myriads of layers of corporate and financial networks of equity delegations through investment banks, but the actual owner?

Profit oriented: Of course, it is said so. But do really companies, entrepreneurs do things to maximize the profits of the actual owners, shareholders? Are the executives and boards really that keen on putting forward the interest - of the previously referenced unknown - actual owner of the capital assets?

Free market based: This has also multiple sub-characteristics, but most importantly something about competition, or rather the lack of collusion and that economic actors (including consumers, (natural person) investors) are all fully informed. How much is this true in the West?

I think we are very much lost in labels.
by dashtiarian | 2025-12-19 08:13:01+00:00
I was raised in such a house. This happened because my mother was an underachiever, and also because my father and grandparents were dead so she was unchallenged doing this.

But you are alive my friend. Don't let your child still have nightmares, regrets, and feelings of constantly not being enough in their 30s. If your child does'nt have a childhood she can never become an adult.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-12-19 08:13:18+00:00
You’re not wrong to think that way. But now there’s less and less left for China to “copy,” and it’s hard to argue that many things aren’t being invented by China itself.

Perhaps the real question is this: why is it that places that used to be technologically advanced no longer produce new, original inventions? Is it fear of China copying them? Did the U.S. decide not to develop a sixth-generation fighter jet because it was afraid China would copy it? Did it stop working on battery technology because it feared China would copy that too?
by gambiting | 2025-12-19 08:13:33+00:00
As a consumer - I've had literally thousands of orders from Amazon over the years,with my total spend being north of £30k at this point. I've never had a single fake or even broken item - I think I had a prime delivery be late by one day, and when I contacted Amazon they just extended my prime by a month each time. With returns they usually just tell me to keep the item and refund me anyway.

Honestly, the whole "just buy from someone else" argument maybe would hold water if everyone else wasn't so incredibly shit at least here in the UK. Currys? It's a "buy an item, we will dispatch it at some point sometime, if you need to return it go through our chat where the agent will lie to you about your return options and then it will take a month to actually refund you".

Amazon is painless both in ordering and in customer service(in my experience, YMMV)
by zidana | 2025-12-19 08:14:31+00:00
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by solarkraft | 2025-12-19 08:14:44+00:00
The continuing enshittification of Apple software is so unfortunate. It has already gone too far.

Apple was the one vendor you could buy stuff from to be able to look down on the peasants bombarded by ads all the time. Now, when I specifically search for an app in the App Store, the result is barely on the screen because it is filled with an ad for another. You get deeply embedded ads and nudges for iCloud pretty often. It already sucks. It‘s like they hate USPs.
by dannersy | 2025-12-19 08:14:53+00:00
There are lots of vulnerabilities in the C code, too. Should we remove C or do we accept that fact that no language is perfect since they are used by humans and continue to make improvements and use tools that help us along as time goes forward?

The cherry picking for this one Rust vulnerability to the ~150 C vulnerabilities is such a weird take that I can't help but think people have some weird hatred of Rust.