MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-11 22:25:48+00:00
There certainly is.

To posit a scenario: I would expect General Motors to buy some Ford vehicles to test and play around with and use. There's always stuff to learn about what the competition has done (whether right, wrong, or indifferent).

But I also expect the parking lots used by employees at any GM design facility in the world to be mostly full of General Motors products, not Fords.
by vmilner | 2025-12-11 22:25:49+00:00
Roald Dahl said it best:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness

'Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die. LET THAT SINK IN. Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles. So what about the risks that your children will run from being immunised? They are almost non-existent. Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunisation! That is about a million to one chance. I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunisation. (Dahl 1986)[4]'
by kbolino | 2025-12-11 22:25:57+00:00
But you don't have to do either of those things. There's a third way, with functions and bare objects. I'm not sure that's what GP meant, but a lot of the JS I've written (which tends to be for the browser, mostly vanilla, and quick-and-dirty, to be fair) never touches classes or prototypes. The JSON data being produced/consumed is just a bag of fields, the operations on the document are just top-level functions, events get handled in callback closures, responses to HTTP requests get handled with promises, etc. Sprinkle in some JSDoc comments and you even get fairly workable autocomplete suggestions. Of course, the web APIs are built on prototypes/classes, so it's not like they're totally absent. But with things like data attributes, querySelector, and HTML templates, the usual needs for my own code to be OOP (or even structs-with-methods a la Go/Rust) just don't emerge that much.
by compiler-guy | 2025-12-11 22:26:15+00:00
This is essentially the same story behind Dire Straight's "Sultans of Swing". A band playing for next to no one, but for the fun of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultans_of_Swing

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright He can play the honky-tonk like anything Savin' it up for Friday night With the Sultans We're the Sultans of Swing
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-11 22:26:26+00:00
Maybe go after Discord then for doing nothing meaningful against abusive, should we not?

And if that means that Discord has to shut down... well, okay, if that's the price? An organisation that doesn't care about the impact on its host society is nothing more than a parasite or cancer and should be treated as such.

(Besides: if you're aiming at stuff like groups of kids bullying other kids into suicide or self harm - guess what: that existed in times where there was no Internet. It just wasn't widely reported, other than maybe holding a vigil for a classmate who had "passed away")
by sangeeth96 | 2025-12-11 22:27:07+00:00
This is what I asked my small dev team after I recently joined and saw that we were using Next for the product — do we know how this works? Do we have even a partial mental model of what's happening? The answers were sadly, pretty obvious. It was hard enough to get people to understand how hooks worked when they were introduced, but the newer Next versions seem even more difficult to grok.

I do respect the things React + Next team is trying to accomplish and it does feel like magic when it works but I find myself caring more and more about predictability when working with a team and with every major version of Next + React, that aspect seems to be drifting further and further away.
by fidotron | 2025-12-11 22:27:30+00:00
The way this, and various other proposals/actions in other countries, are all popping up at the same time, seemingly independently though obviously not, has to be one of the biggest warning signs of trouble in my lifetime. Not helped by various European states deciding they want national service again all of a sudden.

Our governments have turned into the very thing they claimed to be opposing for decades. It's disgraceful.
by protocolture | 2025-12-11 22:27:33+00:00
Yes. Ditto Youtube. And 4chan.

It takes the completely ridiculous idea that harm is caused by having an account. Youtube even pointed out that, the lack of account means it cant work its algo magic to try and push age appropriate videos to users. Government doesnt care. No Account. No Problem.

Ironically, youtube is now more likely to send kids andrew tate or russian propaganda to kids.
by protocolture | 2025-12-11 22:27:35+00:00
Kids dont vote, but when they do they tend to come in radicalised and swinging. Voter intention in Australia has shifted heavily towards minor parties over the last decade. While this is currently being captured by our preferential voting system, the tipping point is 1 - 2 elections away.

Isolating kids from current events and society can easily be seen as a potential extra bullwark against changing voter intentions, because Minor partiers tend to favour social media engagement against paying for expensive ads.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-11 22:28:06+00:00
OpenAI equity is worthless now. It's a company that absolutely cannot turn a profit, not with how much they're spending. And with a CEO that regularly lies about... everything (I'm sorry, you can't just spin up hundreds of gigawatts of power generation, especially not in the US, but also because the only company that makes gas turbines has a seven-year backlog).

The only people who don't think it's worthless are the people who would be worth a lot less if that were the case. Hug your loved ones and make peace with your gods, because the crash is going to be insane.
by kakwa_ | 2025-12-11 22:28:20+00:00
Fragile against upgrades, tons of unmaintained plugins, admin panel UX is a mess where you struggle to find the stuff your are looking for, half backed transition to nicer UI (Blue Ocean) that has been ongoing for years, too many ways to setup jobs and integrates with repos, poor resource management (disk space, CPU, RAM), sketchy security patterns inadvertently encouraged.

This stuff is a nightmare to manage, and with large code bases/products, you need a dedicated "devops" just to babysit the thing and avoid it becoming a liability for your devs.

I'm actually looking forward our migration to GHEC from on-prem just because Github Actions, as shitty as they are, are far less of an headache than Jenkins.
by AStrangeMorrow | 2025-12-11 22:28:21+00:00
Yeah, same as a French speaker first living in the US, I have to sometimes refrain myself from calling things “just fine”, “will do” or “not bad”. These are still used in American English, but I tend to use them for cases were people normally use more positive/stronger version.

Like at a grocery store: “is that enough? That will do yes -> yes that’s perfect”
by troupo | 2025-12-11 22:28:28+00:00
I highly recommend this 5-part essay series "NO CGI" is really just INVISIBLE CGI" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo (it starts with "Top Gun: Maverick").

Current-era CGI is insanely good. The problem is that it's used and abused everywhere, often with very little consideration for whether it's needed, or if there's time to do all the VFX shots etc.
by azalemeth | 2025-12-11 22:28:30+00:00
It's also worth stating that the worst part of that proposed amendment [1] isn't even necessarily the VPN ban, it's the next clause, on page 20:

"The “CSAM requirement” is that any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device."

"Regulations under subsection (1) must enable the Secretary of State, by further regulations, to expand the definition of ‘relevant devices’ to include other categories of device which may be used to record, transmit or view CSAM"

Apple, what did you start?

[1] https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/63901/documents/746...
by acemarke | 2025-12-11 22:28:32+00:00
No, but it's primarily because Meta has their own server infrastructure already. RSCs are essentially the React team trying to generalize the data fetching patterns from Meta's infrastructure into React itself so they can be used more broadly.

I wrote an extensive post and did a conference talk earlier this year recapping the overall development history and intent of RSCs, as best as I understand it from a mostly-external perspective:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2025/06/react-community-20...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2025/06/presentations-reac...
by heavyset_go | 2025-12-11 22:28:33+00:00
> In real life, we think age verification is a good thing. Kids shouldn't buy porn. Teenagers shouldn't get into bars. etc...

These are not equivalent, I don't have to scan my face, upload my ID and share my personal biometric data with various 3rd parties, who will sell and leak my data, every time I want to look at porn or sip a beer.

Also, there are countries where teenagers can drink and go to pubs, and society hasn't crumbled. We also have several generations of young adults with access to porn, and the sky didn't fall.

Maybe we shouldn't use the government to implement a "papers, please" process just to use and post on the internet, maybe we should instead legislate the root cause of the problem: algorithmic optimization and manipulation. That way everyone benefits, not just kids, and we won't have to scan our faces to look at memes on Reddit.
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-11 22:29:33+00:00
> all these political problems

The problems I mentioned aren't real, that's the point.

It hasn't just never been proven that Counter Strike et al cause amok runs, it's been disproven [1]. Consuming porn doesn't make people rapists (although I do concede: the ethical aspects particularly around studio-produced porn do require discussions), and consuming LGBT content doesn't make children LGBT. People are, to the extent that we reasonably know, born LGBT.

The fact that some organizations (particularly religious) have framed these issues as "political" doesn't make them political either.

[1] https://www.mimikama.org/mythos-killerspiele/
by aucisson_masque | 2025-12-11 22:29:54+00:00
> I have a feeling that the long-term economics of this don't really work. OpenAI is burning money and Altman has already gone out in public saying how Sora-generated content is being made in large volumes for little audience.

Let me introduce you to ponze scheme. He is feeding the hype, that's all that matters right now. More and more cash... The only real winner will be Nvidia when the bubble explode.
by aftbit | 2025-12-11 22:29:56+00:00
Ah sorry, I thought "at least" would carry this statement. I've played Helldivers for more than 250 hours personally.

For some reason, though, I tend to compare everything to movie theater tickets. In my head (though it's not true anymore), a movie ticket costs $8 and gives me 1 hour of entertainment. Thus anything that gives me more than 1 hour per $8 is a good deal.

$40 / 4 => $10/hr

$40 / 8 => $5/hr

Thus, I think Helldivers is a good deal for entertainment even if you only play it for under 10 hours.
by netsharc | 2025-12-11 22:30:17+00:00
... In Canada.

The website is of a "free market think tank", which other project is a video series called "Survivors of Socialism". Yeah.

I guess this is inducing a genetic fallacy, the number might be accurate anyway, but here's the salt.

Edit to add: OK, here's one sample report from their own FOI: https://secondstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/BC-%E2%8...

86 people died while waiting for a cataract operation, 17 people died while waiting for a knee operation... OMG, Canadian healthcare is deathly terrible!!!
by emporas | 2025-12-11 22:30:29+00:00
I have used Gemini for reading and solving electronic schematics exercises, and it's results were good enough for me. Roughly 50% of the exercises managed to solve correctly, 50% wrong. Simple R circuits.

One time it messed up the opposite polarity of two voltage sources in series, and instead of subtracting their voltages, it added them together, I pointed out the mistake and Gemini insisted that the voltage sources are not in opposite polarity.

Schematics in general are not AIs strongest point. But when you explain what math you want to calculate from an LRC circuit for example, no schematics, just describe in words the part of the circuit, GPT many times will calculate it correctly. It still makes mistakes here and there, always verify the calculation.
by hexaga | 2025-12-11 22:30:40+00:00
It just overlaid a typical ATX pattern across the motherboard-like parts of the image, even if that's not really what the image is showing. I don't think it's worthwhile to consider this a 'local recognition failure', as if it just happened to mistake CMOS for RAM slots.

Imagine it as a markdown response:

# Why this is an ATX layout motherboard (Honest assessment, straight to the point, *NO* hallucinations)

1. *RAM* as you can clearly see, the RAM slots are to the right of the CPU, so it's obviously ATX

2. *PCIE* the clearly visible PCIE slots are right there at the bottom of the image, so this definitely cannot be anything except an ATX motherboard

3. ... etc more stuff that is supported only by force of preconception

--

It's just meta signaling gone off the rails. Something in their post-training pipeline is obviously vulnerable given how absolutely saturated with it their model outputs are.

Troubling that the behavior generalizes to image labeling, but not particularly surprising. This has been a visible problem at least since o1, and the lack of change tells me they do not have a real solution.
by roncesvalles | 2025-12-11 22:31:01+00:00
Same but with Keep and GDocs. I still use a local neverending txt like TFA though, as a short-term todo list + clipboard. Short thoughts and little factoids like license plate numbers, appointments, and restaurant recommendations go on Keep (although some of those "short thoughts" have ended up busting the character limit). Refined structured notes end up in a GDoc by topic. Some of my GDocs are now the size of small textbooks. I also love Google Takeout so that I can backup it all up periodically.

I would say, just as you would about OneNote, Keep is one of the most important apps in my life.
by tekla | 2025-12-11 22:31:03+00:00
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr...

> Officers from 37 police forces made 12,183 arrests in 2023, the equivalent of about 33 per day. This marks an almost 58 per cent rise in arrests since before the pandemic. In 2019, forces logged 7,734 detentions.
by tehjoker | 2025-12-11 22:31:03+00:00
That description sounds like the U.S. senate before there was a constitutional amendment to implement directly elected senators. The indirect election of senators was used to ensure that senators were selected to be favorable to elite interests. Direct election was intended to make it more responsive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_U...

However, I have many criticisms of the continuing undemocratic nature U.S. Senate (I think it should be dissolved entirely), but that reform was a good step.

It's true that the upper house will be less party political, but that is because everyone inside is very comfy with each other and aligned on policy that favors the wealthy.
by tennysont | 2025-12-11 22:31:14+00:00
(Notwithstanding that this is a joke) Maybe it's just me, but I read this as a solution that would be implemented internally at a large company to distribute pain/accountability/tech-debt across time to a team which might have high turnover. i.e., a way to align incentives by punishing teams with bombs (via their metrics) in their code, before the bomb actually detonates.
by scott00 | 2025-12-11 22:31:20+00:00
The key difference seems to be German private health insurance contracts are long-term affairs. Multi-year, or perhaps even lifetime? US health insurance contracts are typically a year at a time. So German companies have to reserve for costs projected to occur far in the future because they are liable for them, while US companies have no idea if their customer will still be around in 20 years.

My guess would be there's a healthy dollop of regulation pushing the German insurance market into that shape, otherwise you would probably see short-term insurers outcompeting long-term insurers since they wouldn't have to do old-age reserves and could therefore charge lower premiums. Consumers tend not to be nearly as good at rationally planning for long term expenditures as are actuaries.
by aftbit | 2025-12-11 22:31:21+00:00
Yeah, I meant "at least" 4-8 hours. Even if you get bored and give up after that, you've gotten your money's worth, in my opinion.

I have almost 270 hours in Helldivers 2 myself. Like any multiplayer game, it can expand to fill whatever amount of time you want to dedicate to it, and there's always something new to learn or try.
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-12-11 22:31:26+00:00
I agree with the author when they write:

""" In my idealistic vision of how scientific publishing should work, each paper would be accompanied by a fully interactive environment where the reader could explore the data, rerun the experiments, tweak the parameters, and see how the results changed. """

I do like seeing larger labs/companies releasing research full of SVGs. In recent memory, I quite liked this from NVIDIA:

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/blog/illustrated-evo2/
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-11 22:31:58+00:00
> And I have seen your metaphorical green grass, because actual ratings were a thing up until about 4 years ago, remember?

I remember this conjecture of yours (that ratings unilaterally ceased to matter as soon as they stopped being displayed to users) very well.

And unlike you, I can see over to the other side of the fence -- in the present day -- at a whim: All I have to do is fire up YouTube in a private session on a disused device. It's fucking awful over there; it's complete bedlam.
by coryrc | 2025-12-11 22:32:02+00:00
Imagine I am new to Ruby. I go looking to figure out if a file exists. Or I get a list of available methods from the file object. Now I have to research both `exist?` and `exists?` to figure out if I should be choosing one or the other.

Now multiply that by.... every past history of every API and it makes adopting something really difficult as a newcomer.

aka Common Lisp.
by aj7 | 2025-12-11 22:32:31+00:00
Notice that this makes great sense macroeconomically. So you are warned: you will get the healthcare you demand, in addition to that which you pay for. And a certain amount of gaming of the healthcare system is always required. One further note. The more serious your condition the more likely for (1) doctor mistakes and oversights (2) omitted treatments. This requires vigilance and manual correction by you.
by nearbuy | 2025-12-11 22:32:37+00:00
Uncompressed audio is typically used for sound effects, while music is compressed. Latency is the primary benefit. Uncompressed audio will play immediately while an mp3 will have a few frames delay. Sounds like gunshots or footsteps are typically short files anyway, so the increased memory usage isn't that painful.

Games also can stack many sounds, so even if the decoding cost is negligible when playing a single sound, it'll be greater if you have 32 sounds playing at once.
by nonameiguess | 2025-12-11 22:33:34+00:00
It also seems wrong? libsodium explains the logic in its name right on its about page. It's a fork of NaCL (the chemical formula for sodium salt), which itself is a plain acronym for "networking and cryptography library." Google doesn't seem like a good example, either. Wasn't that meant to be an allusion to the very large number googolplex, as in Google exists to tame the unfathomably large amount of information on the web? The author may or may not like those names, but they have a logic just like grep and awk do.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-11 22:33:42+00:00
But the reason that when talking about the 1% they suddenly stop looking globally and only look within countries is that everyone in the UK and US is top-1% worldwide. Equalizing would make the average wage $500, or 375 pounds. And when you start discussing what countries are the problem ... immediately you see there are very few poor democracies. There are some, but not much.

To make matters worse, this year's Nobel prize in Economics went to research showing that the problem is governments, and specifically that a lot of populous countries don't create institutions to improve the welfare of people at all, but rather focused on stealing from the population. This makes it an unfixable problem in those countries. More than that, a lot of these countries' populations don't want to fix it, or even want to make it far worse (like Egypt, or Iran, or Pakistan, or Sudan) for a whole host of reasons.

Oh and most of those governments are "captured by wealth" only in the sense that the current rulers exploit the population for their personal wealth. This is what you see from Afghanistan to Venezuela, but those governments didn't come to power with wealth. Various ideologies brought these governments to power, and the governments steal the wealth of the people, even to an extent that people start dying in pretty large numbers like in Afghanistan. I also find it strange that when discussing capture by wealth no-one ever takes Venezuela as an example, despite how obvious it is that that's the problem there. Nobody discusses how Chavez came to power as a "communist" and died a billionaire.

So if you want to fix poverty, one of the things it looks like you'll have to do is to overthrow the governments ruling, actually more than half of humanity, and convince their populations to stop caring more about religion and other ideologies, like pride, or a mostly imagined enemy (like Pakistan), than about prosperity.
by homarp | 2025-12-11 22:33:44+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20190105145419/https://www.sfgat...

has the director saying it though.

Lisberger recounts. "We did all those effects in about seven months, which included inventing the techniques." "Tron," however, wasn't nominated for a special-effects Oscar. "The Academy thought we cheated by using computers," he scoffs.
by antisthenes | 2025-12-11 22:33:55+00:00
What's going to wipe out billionaires is lack of a highly-educated workforce, because no one is having babies.

And no, you can't completely solve this by immigration (because the demographic crisis is global).

They might still stay billionaires in absolute terms, but a lot of their wealth will be wiped out as companies struggle to sell their goods to a population with reduced purchasing power (since we're too busy taking care of elderly folks)
by m463 | 2025-12-11 22:34:34+00:00
it's not just you.

the iphone keyboard has gone to shot.

and auto-correct has lost me data. I've typed in something important to remember and later when I go look at it ("call spaghetti before 5pm!"), I can't figure what I typed in.

In the end, I learned to disable auto-capitalization, auto-correction and smart punctuation.

and editing is a nightmare. Getting the cursor in the middle of a word is just about impossible, like highlighting just the characters you want to cut or copy.