MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by woodruffw | 2025-12-29 04:57:02+00:00
> The city would be shrinking if it wasn’t for international immigrants, who don’t come to the city for the public transit, but rather the welfare system and ethnic social networks.

I think your numbers are wrong: the city's foreign born population has been stable for at least 15 years[1]. We're not even at historic highs; those were before WWI.

[1]: https://cmsny.org/publications/data-briefing-on-new-york-cit...
by Emergency5606 | 2025-12-29 04:57:19+00:00
Talk to a specialist like a therapist. Have them give you an honest assessment of how you present yourself. Maybe there's something you're doing or saying, or even the way you look, that you're not aware of and has caused people to keep their distance from you.

Given how long you've claimed you've been like this, it's very likely behavioral; you're giving off some characteristic that is telling most people you meet that you're not worth spending time with. It might be something as simple as avoiding eye contact, or strange body language, or not knowing how to hold even a rudimentary, surface-level conversation. These are all skills that can be learned, especially when you're still young.
by MindSpunk | 2025-12-29 04:59:32+00:00
CoreCLR doesn't help on console platforms because you can't ship the JIT runtime. To my knowledge CoreCLR's AOT solution won't work because of SDK and build requirements for shipping builds on consoles. I believe some consoles require that all shipped native code must have been compiled with the SDK compiler. Even if you fork the CoreCLR AOT system so you can build for the consoles (the code can't be open because of NDAs) you wouldn't be allowed to ship the binary. IL2CPP is the only path forward there. CoreCLR is only viable on PC.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-29 05:00:26+00:00
It's been said for a long time that the first woman President of the United States would be conservative. The stated rationale was that voters would somehow see the conservativeness as cancelling out the "natural liberalness" of a woman.

Margaret Thatcher does not dispel that somewhat hackneyed notion. Nor do the last two women Democrats in the U.S. that ran.
by zdragnar | 2025-12-29 05:00:40+00:00
Google claims the original build was supposed to take 50 years, and it will take 62 due to delays from a funding crisis before de blasio.

However, this is only the second phase of the plan, with two more phases broken out into separate projects. I've no idea if those were supposed to be a part of the original 50 year timeline or not.
by SXX | 2025-12-29 05:02:10+00:00
No dedicated GPU is certainly unrelated to whatever been happening for last two years.

It's just in last 5 years integrated GPUs become good enough even for mid-tier gaming let alone running browser and hw accel in few work apps.

And even before 5 years ago majority of dedicated GPUs in relatively cheap laptops was garbage barely better than intrgrated one. Manufacturers mostly put them in there for marketing of having e.g Nvidia dGPU.
by bhuztez | 2025-12-29 05:03:31+00:00
The Great Cultural Revolution were the Golden Age of PRC. The economy grew rapidly. If you had the Little Red Book, you could take a free train to join the Great Rally held at Beijing.

Hundreds of thousands of micro-computers had been built during that period. For example, there were many used in the textile factories. Workers there were encouraged to learn programming. They wrote programs to control the weaving machines.

After Capitalist Roaders seize the power through a palace coup, they told everybody that, the Great Cultural Revolution wrecked the economy. So most were ditched.

As programmer shortage emeraged in the 1980s, Capitalist Roaders start promoting "grab toddlers to computers".
by throwaway7783 | 2025-12-29 05:05:19+00:00
I am unsure I follow this. I'm generally mocking the things that are dependencies for the thing I'm really testing.

If the dependencies are proper interfaces, I don't care if it's a fake or a mock, as long as the interface is called with the correct parameters. Precisely because I don't want to test the implementation details. The assumption (correctly so) is that the interface provides a contract I can rely on.

In you example, the brittleness simply moves from mocks to data setup for the fake.
by Groxx | 2025-12-29 05:05:30+00:00
I've been enjoying running Mint on my terrible spec chromebook - it only has 3GB of RAM, but it rarely breaks 2 with random additions and heavy firefox use. The battery life is obscenely good too, I easily break 20 hours on it as long as I'm not doing something obviously taxing.

Modern software is fine for the most part. People look at browsers using tens of gigabytes on systems with 64GB and complain about waste rather than being thrilled that it's doing a fantastic job caching stuff to run quickly.
by acomjean | 2025-12-29 05:05:37+00:00
Excepting slide photos. No real adjustment once taken (a more difficult medium than negative film which you can adjust a little when printing)

You’re right about Ansel Adams. He “dodged and burned” extensively (lightened and darkened areas when printing.)
Photoshop kept the dodge and burn names on some tools for a while.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IoCtni-WWVs

When we printed for our college paper we had a dial that could adjust the printed contrast a bit of our black and white “multigrade” paper (it added red light). People would mess with the processing to get different results too (cold/ sepia toned). It was hard to get exactly what you wanted and I kind of see why digital took over.
by Centigonal | 2025-12-29 05:06:01+00:00
I did the same mod on my 2019 MBP 16, and I got two more years of useful life out of it in exchange for nearly burning myself a few times when watching a movie or running some kind of CPU-intensive task with the laptop touching my body (even through a t-shirt or jeans!). Eventually, the airflow from the cooling fans started to weaken and the display flex cable started to get a bit squirrely on me. I'm on a 14" M-series MBP now, and it's freakishly quiet and efficient.
by arjie | 2025-12-29 05:07:26+00:00
I had a similar experience when I stopped using Twitter. I only go back because a friend of mine posts there and I really like his posts. Occasionally I flip to my Following or For You tabs and they look incredibly sophomoric. It's 40 and 50 year olds using teenager memes and tropes. Then I realized, that a similar sort of mechanic applies on Hacker News so I decided to aggressively killfile users who annoy me one way or another. Now, most HN comment sections have a bunch of comments missing but the remainder are surprisingly decent.

The downside is that I now interact with HN a lot more, which I was hoping would not happen.
by CyanLite2 | 2025-12-29 05:11:06+00:00
Simply not true, this info is outdated by a decade.

CoreCLR NativeAOT is already shipping real games on Nintendo, PS5, and Xbox.

JIT isn't allowed on iPhones either, and this is what NativeAOT solves. Also, .NET is moving WASM support to CoreCLR (rather than mono) in an upcoming version as well.
by ehnto | 2025-12-29 05:12:45+00:00
Even in PC gaming, the performance target tends to be the lowest performing current gen console, not the best PC.

Which is a totally reasonable approach and has given my PC years of usefulness even though better equipment is out there.

The cutting edge of PCs is such a tiny minority of users, even amongst PC gamers it's still a fraction of users.

That was not always the case for PC gaming, on modest means in my teens I could at least keep up with graphics card releases. I don't bother with that now, because I don't have to and gain very little from doing so.
by sixothree | 2025-12-29 05:12:55+00:00
The only problem I have with escaping the news cycle is relying on other people for important information. "Today is shorts and t-shirt, tomorrow is freezing rain" has caught me by surprise. So I find myself following the weather more than I would if I were watching local news. But it's not just weather.

Regardless. It's good to feel disconnected from these things. But at the same time I recognize I have a responsibility to take care of the things within my reach.

Is this what people were doing in 1939 though? I really hope not.
by octorian | 2025-12-29 05:13:11+00:00
The Seawolf was kinda the first attempt at a next generation attack sub while we were still figuring out the technology, making it far too expensive. But it led to the Virginia class, which has gone into mainstream production.

In some ways there's a similar situation with the F-22 vs F-35, though those two may have a bit more of a difference on roles and requirements.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-12-29 05:13:43+00:00
My gut feel has always been that removing the electoral college would hurt the blue team and help the red team. Logic:

The popular vote is basically split evenly today (the usual talking point, 2016, was 62,984,828 Trump, 65,853,514 Clinton). 2020 and 2024 had similarly small-ish margins.

So take 2016: if we’d had a normal election cycle, and then the day after voting said “hey guys let’s do this based on the popular vote!”, Clinton would have won. But that’s not how it would be; both sides would know of this change for at least the full election cycle.

So now you start with a roughly 50/50 split voting base, with many Democrat votes coming from big cities and many Republican votes from Middle Of Nowhere, Kansas.

You win the upcoming election by gaining votes.

Republicans go energize the voters in New York, LA, SF, Seattle, Austin, etc, who are not voting today because they (correctly) know their vote doesn’t matter. They maybe change some bit of their platform to appeal more the big city voters. They can pick up millions of votes in relatively few places.

Democrats have to go win votes from Middle Of Nowhere, Kansas. Or more accurately, 500 small towns in Kansas, to pick up a few hundred thousand votes. There isn’t nearly as much of a depressed Dem vote in red states, simply because red states have small populations (see “land doesn’t vote!”). It’s an exponentially harder problem. While Democrats are trying to convince Uncle Rupert that FOX is lying to him, Republicans are filling Madison Square Garden in NYC with closeted Republicans and telling them their vote will count for the first time ever.

I just don’t see how abolishing the electoral college doesn’t backfire on Democrats. How wrong am I?
by compounding_it | 2025-12-29 05:13:56+00:00
Software has gotten bad over the last decade. Electron apps were the start but these days everything seems to be so bloated, right from the operating systems to browsers.

There was a time when apple was hesitant to add more ram to its iPhones and app developers would have to work hard to make apps efficient. Last few years have shown Apple going from 6gb to 12gb so easily for their 'AI' while I consistently see the quality of apps deteriorating on the App Store. iOS 26 and macOS 26 are so aggressive towards memory swapping that loading settings can take time on devices with 6gb ram (absurd). I wonder what else they have added that apps need purging so frequently. 6gb iphone and 8gb M1 felt incredibly fast for the couple of years. Now apparently they are slow like they are really old.

Windows 11 and Chrome are a completely different story. Windows 10 ran just fine on my 8th gen pc for years. Windows 11 is very slow and chrome is a bad experience. Firefox doesn't make it better.

I also find that gnome and cosmic de are not exactly great at memory. A bare minimum desktop still takes up 1.5-1.6gb ram on a 1080p display and with some tabs open, terminal and vscode (again electron) I easily hit 8gb. Sway is better in this regard. I find alacrity sway and Firefox together make it a good experience.

I wonder where we are heading on personal computer software. The processors have gotten really fast and storage and memory even more so, but the software still feels slow and glitchy. If this is the industry's idea of justifying new hardware each year we are probably investing in the wrong people.
by SR2Z | 2025-12-29 05:14:35+00:00
I suppose "regulation" would be more accurate, and it only applies to HOV lanes that receive funding from a specific source:

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freewaymgmt/hovguidance/chapter4.ht...

This covers pretty much all of the lanes that people complain about so I'll stand by what I said.
by warmedcookie | 2025-12-29 05:15:45+00:00
What about reusable plastic bottles? (Ex. Nalgene) I imagine they wouldn't be as bad since the water would only sit in the bottle for a day tops, limiting plastic shedding.

Then again, maybe they shed more overtime? I have a 15 year old Nalgene bottle that I still use. Would be nice to know how hard plastics vs. soft plastics differ in their plastic leeching.
by iJohnDoe | 2025-12-29 05:16:39+00:00
My takeaway, right or wrong, is that I agree with the overall point about “betting” and how we’ve seen this trend over the last handful of years. What this is really revealing is the wealthy taking advantage of the less fortunate, which seems to be rapidly growing.

It’s no different than telling a desperate person to get on a boat where work and income are waiting for them, but in reality they will be enslaved once they reach their destination. We are rapidly heading this direction worldwide as more and more people become desperate and those in power will be waiting to take advantage of the situation.
by CyanLite2 | 2025-12-29 05:17:14+00:00
I think WebAssembly could become that sandboxed solution. .NET Blazor WASM is moving away from mono to CoreCLR (just like Unity, with an early preview in late 2026). WASM now has really good SIMD support, native GC, large memory support, and with WebGPU we could finally see some native WASM games running at native speeds.
by dehrmann | 2025-12-29 05:18:29+00:00
I remember the HDD shortage after flooding in Thailand. There was a price surge for a year or so, capacity came back online, and the price slowly eased. If AI crashes, prices might quickly collapse this time. If it doesn't, it'll take time, but new capacity will come online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
by jmward01 | 2025-12-29 05:18:45+00:00
There are, realistically, two basic conflicts that we could get into, one where we have naval and air supremacy and one where we don't. In the world where we have basically no real threat to our naval assets then go big and don't worry about the armor. In fact, just take a bunch of super tankers and throw on as many VLS modules on them as you can. Done. This ship isn't that, as the article points out. In the other war, one where we don't own the sea, then the idea of armor is basically silly and your best defenses are numbers and size. The littoral has grown far beyond line of sight and is arguably the entire world at this point given satellites and the reach of modern weapons. In that world you want a lot, so you can loose them, and you want them small, so that a loss isn't a big deal. This ship isn't that either. It reminds me of the Homer[1]. If your entire goal is to show up in port looking good then maybe, but I doubt this ship is good at that either. The first step to looking good in port is is just showing up so smaller ships doing more port visits probably gets that job done far better. But I am a fan of an inefficient military. It is hard to fight if you have terrible weapons so go ahead! Build a terrible ship and spend a lot of money doing it!

[1]: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer
by Gibbon1 | 2025-12-29 05:18:54+00:00
Was mentioning to my GF (non technical animator) about the submission Clock synchronization is a nightmare. And how it comes up like a bad penny. She said in animation you have the problem that you're animating to match different streams and you have to keep in sync. Bonus you have to dither because if you match too close the players can smell it's off.

Noise is part of the world itself.
by ffuxlpff | 2025-12-29 05:18:54+00:00
All of this is very easy to filter out while browsing the internet. Not when you are speaking with actual persons. Believe or not, there are still people who watch television and believe in old media.

Television teaches them that the proper response to someone disagreeing is to get angry and shout when the opposing party tries to explain their point of view. Something that is useless or even technically impossible in anonymous net forums.

If you look at the old media, important decisions are mentioned but completely ignored after someone has said something offensive or an accident happened somewhere.

Social media is people and people are the problem, not technology or anonymity. Everyone who has spent Christmas with relatives knows this.
by tombert | 2025-12-29 05:19:01+00:00
I just kind of feel like removing it makes the internet less fun. 90's internet was basically a playground for geeky people to make things purely for fun, with basically no ambitions of making any money; people would host their own terrible web pages. My first real introduction to "programming" (other than making a turtle walk around) was when I was nine years old and bought "Make Your Own Web Page : A Guide for Kids" from my school, and this was something a nine year old kid could do because the web was easy and fun to program for. There weren't a billion JavaScript frameworks, CSS was new (if it was even supported), everything was done with tags and I loved it.

Yeah, the sites would be ugly and kind of obnoxious, but there was, for want of a better word, a "purity" to it. It was decidedly uncynical; websites weren't being written to satisfy a corporation like they all are now. You had low-res tiling backgrounds, a shitty midi of the X-files theme playing on a bunch of sites, icons bragging about how the website was written in Notepad, and lots and lots of animated GIFs.

I feel like the removal of blink is just a symptom of the web becoming more boring. Instead of everyone making their own website and personalizing it, now there's like ten websites, and they all look like they were designed by a corporation to satisfy shareholders.
by fastball | 2025-12-29 05:19:04+00:00
Money isn't real. Yes, allocating funds to this means there is a large swath of the population (with accompanying hard resources) which would work on this when they could arguably be working more productively on something else. But would they be spending their time more productively? Keeping what little remains of our shipbuilding capacity on life support might actually be more productive than the alternatives, given how little of value the US seems to produce when it comes to heavy manufacturing.

Spending billions is meaningless until you ask the question: what would these people have been doing instead?
by Vincent_Yan404 | 2025-12-29 05:19:26+00:00
It is no coincidence. In a secluded and tightly-knit community like Plant 404, an extreme event like this would immediately spread throughout the entire area.

The author you mentioned is Li Yang. We know each other, and our parents know each other as well. He published his piece before I did. Since the person involved was his classmate, he was able to provide more first-hand details, such as the part about riding a bicycle to see that boy.

When we had safety education at school, the teachers would still use examples from twenty years ago—like someone getting hit by a car. This is how it was in the plant: once something happened, people would keep talking about it for twenty years.
by alwillis | 2025-12-29 05:20:09+00:00
> I understand that it is not the same semantically, but I am using div tags and p tags a LOT. I avoid the new HTML tags for more semantic meaning as this adds cognitive load to my brain.

Serious question: are you saying that an entire webpage using only div and p tags is easier for you to grok than if the same webpage used standard tags like article and blockquote?

You're leaving so much functionality on the table. It also sounds like you're not using ARIA either, so your site is inaccessible to users of assistive technology.

You could use roles on your div tags to give a screen reader a fighting chance:

<div class="header" role="banner">…</div>
<div id="main" role="main">…</div>
<div id="nav" role="navigation">…</div>
<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">…</div>
by caconym_ | 2025-12-29 05:20:28+00:00
> they'll quickly be wondering if ChatGPT is worth this cost

They should be, and the answer is obviously no—at least to them. No political or business leader has outlined a concrete, plausible path to the sort of vague UBI utopia that's been promised for "regular folks" in the bullish scenario (AGI, ASI, etc.), nor have they convincingly argued that this isn't an insane bubble that's going to cripple our economy when AGI doesn't happen—a scenario that's looking more and more likely every day.

There is no upside and only downside; whether we're heading for sci-fi apocalypse or economic catastrophe, the malignant lunatics pushing this technology expect to be insulated from consequences whether they end up owning the future light-cone of humanity or simply enjoying the cushion of their vast wealth while the majority suffers the consequences of an economic crash a few rich men caused by betting it all, even what wasn't theirs to bet.

Everybody should be fighting this tooth and nail. Even if these technologies are useful (I believe they are), and even if they can be made into profitable products and sustainable businesses, what's happening now isn't related to any of that.
by palata | 2025-12-29 05:20:45+00:00
Genuinely interested: if you ask someone where they work, and they answer that they work in [place some TooBigTech here], do you consider that they judge you because you are not working for a TooBigTech? "I work for a TooBigTech so I'm probably better and richer than you. No judgement though"?

To me it's like with vegetarians. If someone tells you out of the blue "I am a vegetarian because I find it completely irresponsible to not be vegetarian. No judgement though", it's not the same as someone saying "I would like to inform you that I am a vegetarian, given that we are going to eat something and it is relevant for you to know it right now". Yet that latter situation will regularly offend non-vegetarians just the same.
by mgraczyk | 2025-12-29 05:21:35+00:00
> somehow seem to be defending Samsung voraciously but emptily

The first words I said were that Samsung probably did this

And you're right that I didn't read the dozens of edits which were added after the original post. I was basing my arguments off everything before the "conclusion section", which it seems the author understands was not actually conclusive.

I agree that the later experiments, particularly the "two moons" experiment were decisive.

Also to be clear, I know that Samsung was doing this, because as I said I worked at a competitor. At the time I did my own tests on Samsung devices because I was also working on moon related image quality