MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2025-12-27 15:57:57+00:00
The vandalism was not anti-EV, was performed by a tiny number of extremists outside of any sort of Democrwric politics, so attributing it to both sides" doesn't make a lick of sense.

It's not like elected Democratic officials were saying "we hate EVs, everybody go out and vandalize Musk's businesses." There is no political movement among democrats to avoid the technological transition that the rest of the world is enthusiastically taking.

There is no comparison, the idea is absolutely ludicrous.
by drnick1 | 2025-12-27 15:58:37+00:00
But realistically, most workloads of the kind you would run on these machines don't scale benefit from multithreading as much as single core performance. At least at home these machines will do things like video streaming, router, or serving files. Even if you want to use it in the living room as a console/emulator, you are better off with higher single core performance and fewer cores than the opposite.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-27 15:59:18+00:00
I get what you’re saying but at the end of the day you just need to think about how most people use a tool like this. They’re looking for a simple solution to some specific problem and then they’re likely never using it again. They don’t want to deal with a full-on NLE and iMovie or whatever they have stocked is not cutting it. It’s not worth getting bent out of shape about it ultimately. There are tons of people who use ffmpeg as intended in its original form and more or less understand everything that is going on.

I personally use lossless cut more than ffmpeg in the terminal just because I don’t have to really think about it and it can do most of what I need, which is simply removing or attaching things together without re-encoding. I use it maybe once every month or two, because it’s just not something I need to use a ton, so it doesn’t make sense for me to get down and dirty with the original. Ultimately I get what I need and I’m happy!
by dale_glass | 2025-12-27 16:00:25+00:00
> I find it very useful for wildlife photos. Autofocus never seems to work well for me on e.g. birds in flight.

The more recent cameras can detect birds specifically and are great at tracking them.

> It's also possible to generate a depth map from a single shot, to use as a starting point for a 3D model.

That is true, but is a very niche need. Wonderful if you do need it, but it's a small market.
by DoingSomeThings | 2025-12-27 16:00:36+00:00
A few personal examples from my 400 book history:

Reader Summary:
You are a walking existential crisis who oscillates between trying to save your soul with 13th-century Catholic theology and escaping reality via magic-system spreadsheets. Your reading list is essentially a debate between a Trappist monk and a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, and somehow, they're both currently losing to a talking cat in a death dungeon.

Information Diet:
Your media consumption suggests a high-low split. You balance dense, slow-burn philosophy (Josef Pieper) with high-octane, 'popcorn' entertainment (Dungeon Crawler Carl), intentionally using fiction as an escape from heavy systemic analysis.

Life Arc:
Your life trajectory appears to be a journey from 'Enchanted Orthodoxy' to 'Humanistic Meaning. You moved from preparing for the priesthood/ministry to a deconstruction of faith, eventually landing in a space of 'Conscious Leadership' and secular contemplative practice.
by mintflow | 2025-12-27 16:00:41+00:00
I have a software that need to build aarch64 (for some aarch64 box with 4 core cpu), currently using Oracle cloud's 4core24G Arm neoverse n1 as github self host runner to build it.

Seems this machine is more powerful than it, definitely attractive to me for a physical aarch64 self host runner.
by imoverclocked | 2025-12-27 16:01:50+00:00
So, I agree but less than I did a few months ago. I purchased an Orange Pi 5 Ultra and was put off by the pre-built image and custom kernel. The “patch“ for the provided kernel was inscrutable as well. Now I’m running a vanilla 6.18 kernel on a vanilla uboot firmware (still a binary blob required to build that though) with a vanilla install of Debian. That support includes the NPU, GPU, 2.5G Ethernet and NVMe root/boot. I don’t have performance numbers but it’s definitely fast enough for what I use it for.
by ninalanyon | 2025-12-27 16:02:12+00:00
> It's really not that hard,

if you are doing it often that's true. But for people like me who do it once every month or two it really is hard to memorize, especially if it's not exactly the same task.

What I would love would be an interactive script that asked me what I was trying to do and constructed a command line for me while explaining what it would do and the meaning of each argument. And of course it should favour commands that do not re-encode where possible.
by mindslight | 2025-12-27 16:02:18+00:00
I'd say someone did flip a switch in 2025 - the rejection of the standard norms of good faith execution of all three branches of government. The government has always been authoritarian. But it had been bureaucratic authoritarianism, while now it's autocratic authoritarianism.

I say this as a libertarian who's right there with you on the "piling up wood".

There are many angles from which to analyze how we got here. Yes, the "centrists" supporting lazy authoritarian laws and agencies because they couldn't bother thinking one step ahead to how they'd be abused. The sprawling surveillance industry pointed out by a sibling comment. Narrower issues of destruction of the fairness doctrine and campaign finance limits. Even many of the refrains of the Trumpists point to problems that were slowly allowed to fester until they reached a breaking point (although as usual for Republicans, the answer they've been stage-managed into is completely self-defeating).

For all of these things it's understandable to want to say "I told you so" - for catharsis, and trying to establish some authority of having a larger context of what direction we need to head in.

But none of that justifies downplaying the situation we're currently staring down, which is what I take issue with.

(also re being pepper sprayed: what's left of your country thanks you for your service)
by devnavigator | 2025-12-27 16:02:29+00:00
AI Transformation has moved past experimentation. For most organizations, the question is no longer whether to use AI, but whether it will meaningfully change how the business operates. A recent McKinsey study makes one point unmistakably clear: high AI performers approach transformation very differently from everyone else. Their advantage does not come from better models, bigger budgets, or more pilots. It comes from how deeply they are willing to redesign the organization around AI.
by eleventyseven | 2025-12-27 16:02:59+00:00
I was confused too. I first thought I should open up my terminal and just enter `ssh dev.exe` and this would be some kind of ssh-based interface? Honestly my first thought is that it would be one of those cool dev hack / art projects like the old starwars traceroute to 216.81.59.173

It didn't read as a company with products at all to me from the front page. Just a cryptic " The disk persists. You have sudo." with links to "Login" and "About * Blog * Discord" --- no pricing link, which made me think it was a weird hobby / art.
by nutjob2 | 2025-12-27 16:03:28+00:00
You're doing the old Soviet thing of accusing people of the thing you're doing. Did you use to live in that environment?

Everything you say is unfounded and makes little sense. You seem to be read things that are not there.

I'm just saying that what you think is an acceptable amount of gay "representation" does matter and that it merely reflects your own biases. Your views don't matter in this respect because if you live in a free country the media can "represent" anything it likes and if you don't like it you can turn it off. And complain about it I guess.

That's what it's all about freedom. Preserving freedom. Trying to take away other people's freedom to express themselves is not what its about.
by tonfa | 2025-12-27 16:03:47+00:00
> “Neither cooperatives nor the city typically sell flats. Mostly because …they really love recurring revenue and absolutely would hate to deal with short-term income as they are generally non-profit institutions.” (My emphasis)

FWIW that was a bit misleading, the goal of the city or the non profits (Genossenschaften) is to provide housing, not selling flat. (There's a goal that 1/3 of all housing in the city has to be non-profit by 2050, this was voted back in 2011)
by arjie | 2025-12-27 16:03:57+00:00
I actually just use Claude code. “Stabilize the video x.mp4 and keep my daughter Astra as the subject. Convert it to a GIF that is under a megabyte”. It does a great job.

It will sample images from the video then go crop the video to that, stabilize if required, and then make me an optimized GIF that I can put in my weekly journal.
by wintermutestwin | 2025-12-27 16:04:01+00:00
I am befuddled. How do are you hearing Portishead (and DCD is even more bizarre)? I hear a touch of Beach House on older releases when there are vocals. But yeah, agree that it is a good addition to my library. Stereolab still hasn’t clicked for me, but I’ll give it another try. Along these lines, Yndling was my cool find this year
by garethsprice | 2025-12-27 16:04:49+00:00
Good paper from 2015: "Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation": https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/W...

tl;dr: Technology eliminates tasks not jobs, ie. automating routine work while making the remaining human parts more valuable: judgement, problem-solving, knowing what to build and why, communicating with a bunch of stakeholders.

This judgement and communication layer has been stubbornly hard to automate across every previous wave of tech and so it will be with this one.

Even if AI is capable of good judgement in a problem space, are the users of the AI able to ask the right questions to get it to express that judgement? (speaking from experience: no).

Banging out syntactically correct code loses value but communication and end-to-end ownership gains value; translating vague C-suite wishlists into working systems, knowing when _not_ to automate or use AI, navigating organizational constraints, understanding the domain you are working in, the organization you are working in, and directing technology in their service.

As long as there are capital owners they will have a need to exchange that capital for skilled, professional judgement in high value tasks, just the nature of what tasks are considered high value will adapt over time, as it always has.
by qwertfisch | 2025-12-27 16:04:52+00:00
My brother bought a hand-held console. You can have thousands of games (NES, SNES, Gameboy, even Amiga and ScummVM), and there is just no need for a replay value. It can be new every day.
It's not for young kids, but starting with age 6 or 7, I would day it lasts several years. Using the same metric it scores at least 12 or 13.
by stinkytaco | 2025-12-27 16:05:45+00:00
This could also be an investment in future happiness. Part of the point of journaling and documenting is to later revisit and unlocking memories one might have not accessed in some time. This is part of the reason Spotify Wrapped and similar "recaps" are enjoyable. People enjoy seeing what they were like. In many ways we are the product of things we do (whether that be consuming or creating) and exploring those things at a future date is to be in conversation with ourselves.

Things like this are also a way of expressing and sharing gratitude, which is a cathartic exercise to engage in periodically. Putting into words "these are things I enjoyed" is worthwhile, in my experience, and sharing it is a small extra step. Additionally, sharing it can be a gift to the future. I can't tell you how much I appreciate effort my parents took to document parts of my childhood (vacations, accomplishments, daily life, etc.) and I know other children feel the same. It's the kind of window to the past that is only open through efforts like this.
by kubezen | 2025-12-27 16:05:59+00:00
We’re open-sourcing zen-gc, a policy-driven Kubernetes garbage collector. You define cleanup policies via a CRD (TTL + selectors), and the controller enforces them continuously. The goal is to make lifecycle management and retention rules a first-class part of cluster operations—reducing drift, controlling resource sprawl, and keeping environments compliant with housekeeping policies.

https://kube-zen.io
Repo: https://github.com/kube-zen/zen-gc
Helm chart (Artifact Hub): https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/zengc/gc-controller
6-min explainer (no demo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8afhcgjWVQ&list=PL1AGc_sKXJ...
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-27 16:06:51+00:00
The ones that Microsoft Apple and Google pay for, the codec licenses. FFmpeg believes that only end users need licenses for codecs, which is not only their belief, but it’s not a belief of Microsoft, Apple and Google, and it is true the sense of the status quo, but also, LGPL violations are a status quo. So you can see how it’s a bad idea for FFmpeg to make a stink about licenses.
by martin_rj | 2025-12-27 16:06:56+00:00
I have to be honest: anyone not at least a little afraid is likely missing the architectural shift happening in the backend.

The standard counter-argument is always "hallucination rates." I have had this debate with medical pros who use AI for diagnostics. They laughed when I warned them about 3% error rates, noting that human error rates are often worse. But that misses the real point: relying on raw model output is already outdated.

I am a Team Lead for security testing at a major crowdtesting provider. I see a massive disconnect between public perception and enterprise reality. People judge the risk based on generalized chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini which are optimized for cheap, broad usability. They do not see the specialized agentic workflows being deployed behind closed doors.

With frameworks like MAKER, we are seeing error rates drop to near-zero even with cheap APIs like GPT-5-Nano. It is just engineering: break jobs into micro-tasks, multi-agent voting, strict format validation. If a JSON output does not match the schema, it is rejected and re-rolled automatically. The "hallucination" problem is being solved by process, not just better models.

In my day job, I watch clients validate plans to replace 90% of their developers. And this is happening right now. Mass layoffs have already started. Personally, I have no fear of not finding a job, but MY job being replaced? Well, to be honest: I think I am the only one who could actually implement that correctly. I am certainly not going to automate myself away on purpose, but I take the risk that it could happen absolutely seriously.

The bubble might pop for investors, but the efficiency gains are too real for companies to ignore.
by jhanschoo | 2025-12-27 16:07:08+00:00
Note that the word "coordinate" used here feels a bit disingenuous to me, because that's how one might refer to the nth property defining a mathematical object or another.

For example: The third coordinate of the rational number 1/2 is a bijection.

Coordinate here actually means: third property in the definition of a rational number in Lean. Here, this property is the statement that the denominator 2 is not zero. This is not so absurd, if we define a rational number as a tuple consisting of a natural number for the numerator (property 1) and an integer for the denominator (property 2), with the added restrictions that the denominator is not the integer zero (property 3), and that the numerator and denominator are in least terms (property 4).

But the part where the proof that the denominator is nonzero can be viewed as a bijective function, is to me indeed type-theoretic weirdness. If I'm not wrong, it's just the proof viewed as a zero-argument function. (proofs for theorems that begin with e.g. forall are functions that take arguments).
by dale_glass | 2025-12-27 16:07:10+00:00
I'd argue the opposite, consumers need more resolution than pros.

A pro will show up with a 300mm f/2.8, a tripod, a camera with good AF and high ISO, and the skills, plan and patience to catch birds in flight.

But all that stuff is expensive. The consumer way to approximate the lack of a good lens is a small, high res sensor. That only works in bright light, but you can get good results with affordable equipment in the right conditions. Greatly reducing the resolution is far from optimal when you can't have a big fancy lens to compensate.

And where is focus the hardest? Mostly where you want to have high detail. Wildlife, macro, sports.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-27 16:08:15+00:00
Take railroads, for instance. Back in the 1800s, too many were built. Many of them (almost all, I think) went bankrupt at one time or another. At that point, the creditors made a rational evaluation: Is this worth keeping, or not? If yes, then let's try to reorganize a business that can actually survive. If not, tear it up and sell the scrap. Some were kept, some were torn up.

But the post-bankruptcy railroads that were kept were able to operate without the burden of the construction costs, because that had been destroyed in the bankruptcy (along with the original owners).

So, AI: I suspect that the training costs (plus hardware costs) dominate the operating costs. If that is so, then a post-bankruptcy AI company could still be a profitable business. It wouldn't be able to grow its hardware very fast, or be able to re-train new models very often, but it could still be an ongoing business. The current owners would still get nothing, though.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-27 16:09:26+00:00
Just coincidentally, I read Player Piano during my introductions to GPT-2 (summer 2022).

One of my brothers asked (out of legitimate concern) if I needed to visit a mental institution... because there just is no way you are talking with machines about books — about such fantasies.

Granted, my life has been a series of abuses; but Vonnegut helped me realize the impossible isn't so.

And now it's so.

>...so it goes.
by cpuXguy | 2025-12-27 16:11:00+00:00
Thanks — good point. Ideally, the construction of the large array should run asynchronously, with a small animation to bridge the wait. On weaker devices, 5+ seconds can be realistic. The app has a bit of a game-like character and intentionally does a single upfront loading step. For now, I’m keeping it synchronous because I want to be sure it works reliably across all combinations of browsers and devices.
by cycomanic | 2025-12-27 16:11:39+00:00
I doubt resolution is a limiting factor LCoS (transmissive ones are lower resolution typically though, but you could build reflective) phase modulators are available in 4k resolution (and maybe even higher). And I don't know if you need that much resolution because the regions you're trying to focus are quite broad, in fact I suspect the resolution of your phase modulator would not limit resolution but the max distance between focused regions, because it would set the max phase ramp you can achieve.

Loss, i.e. equivalent aperture is a different matter and I think this would imply quite a light loss.
by otterley | 2025-12-27 16:11:40+00:00
Remote resources only get your public key. It’s meant to be shared! Hence the word “public.”

The threat is having a private key stolen, in which case, having multiple keys can mitigate the amount of damage a threat actor can do. However, to steal your private key would involve a successful attack against your client, not against any server you might have given the public key to.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-12-27 16:12:20+00:00
Paths are hard because they usually look like printable text, but don't have to be text. POSIX filenames are octet strings not containing 0x2F or 0x00. They aren't required to contain any "printable" characters, or even be valid text in any particular encoding. Most of the Rust stdlib you're thinking of is for handling text strings, but paths aren't text strings. Python also has the same split between Pathlib paths & all other strings.
by cubefox | 2025-12-27 16:12:21+00:00
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §88:

> (...) Now, if I tell someone: "You should come to dinner more punctually; you know it begins at one o'clock exactly"—is there really no question of exactness here? because it is possible to say: "Think of the determination of time in the laboratory or the observatory; there you see what 'exactness' means"? "Inexact" is really a reproach, and "exact" is praise. (...)
by cj | 2025-12-27 16:12:23+00:00
There are lots of online resources for outbound sales which will likely be better than advice you’ll find on a forum full of engineers (unless engineers are your target market)

I’d focus on zeroing in on a niche (even if it’s an artificial niche). Develop case studies for how you’ve helped people in your specific niche. Then find people in that niche and offer them those same niche services.

Do not try to be everything to everyone. No one wants to work with a software agency that “does anything”. (Well it’s possible but then you’re competing with thousands of other consultancies).

If you develop into a niche well, you’ll have less competition, you’ll be able to target the right people more easily, and youll be able to write messaging that speaks to people in that niche.

Everything gets easier when you narrow in on a small slice of a market. The problem set becomes smaller and easier to solve.

Once you see some traction, start to expand your niche.
by xthe | 2025-12-27 16:12:28+00:00
iRobot has entered bankruptcy after struggling for years to keep up in a fast changing market. The company filed for Chapter 11 in the US on December 14, saying it has reached a deal that will hand over control to its main supplier and lender, Shenzhen PICEA Robotics, along with Santrum Hong Kong.

Statement from iRobot on Bankruptcy
by d_burfoot | 2025-12-27 16:12:55+00:00
When I was a physics student, there were four forces: strong, weak, EM, and gravity. That picture seemed neat and clean. Strong kept the nucleus together, EM kept molecules and atoms together (or broke them apart), gravity kept astronomical bodies together, weak was some kind of momentum-accounting device.

Recently, GPT informed me that the strong force is really a tiny after-effect of the "QCD force" (in the same way that the Van der Waals forces are after-effect of EM). Also, more and more questions about "dark matter" seem to be building up, suggesting that the standard Newton-Einstein story of gravity is far from the complete picture.

25 years ago it seemed like physics was mostly complete, and the only remaining work was exploring the corner cases and polishing out all the imperfections. It doesn't feel that way anymore! The confusing part is that modern physics is so unbelievably successful and useful for technology - if the underlying theory was way off, how could the tech work?