MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hellojesus | 2025-12-05 05:46:43+00:00
I'm late on this reply; have been solo parenting while the spouse was out of town, but I wanted to say thank you for the detailed response.

Also, I understand why you presume I voted for the republican candidate during the most recent presidential election, but I assure you I did not. Trump's interview with Bloomberg Business solidified beyond any doubt that he was a fool that had no idea how tarrifs worked.

I am equally dissatisfied with the lack of enforcement against employers of illegal migrants and agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment. My initial response was to point out that somehow Trump has quelled the rush of migrants without new legislation as a reference against what Biden's administration seemed not to be able to do. But you make a very good point about the unreasonable unwillingness of republicans to pass legislation that would likely have dramatically helped the situation.

Thanks again.
by rmunn | 2025-12-05 05:49:29+00:00
Personally, I prefer the version with tau (2 times pi) in it rather than the one with pi:

e^(i*tau) = 1

I won't reproduce https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto here, but I'll just mention one part of it. I very much prefer doing radian math using tau rather than pi: tau/4 radians is just one-fourth of a "turn", one-fourth of the way around the circle, i.e. 90°. Which is a lot easier to remember than pi/2, and would have made high-school trig so much easier for me. (I never had trouble with radians, and even so I would have had a much easier time grasping them had I been taught them using tau rather than pi as the key value).
by inkyoto | 2025-12-05 05:49:42+00:00
I wonder whether the regulatory / civil vs criminal distinction plays a role here.

It is plausible to assume that, at any given time, a random person from the juridisction A is in breach of compliance of jurisdiction B – knowingly or unknowingly to them. Jurisdiction B granting itself extra-territorial regulatory / civil (not criminal) enforcement powers puts the nationals of the entire jurisdiction A into non-compliance and subject to fines or arrests at the cross-border point. It is, of course, perfectly legally possible, yet surreal.

Curiously, what the UK is attempting in this instance closely mirrors the approach adopted by the CCP with the National Security Law in Hong Kong, wherein they asserted their own authority to indict any individual, of any nationality, residing in any jurisdiction, for alleged breaches of the Hong Kong NSL.

Whilst it is abundantly clear that the primary focus is Hong Kong pro-democracy activists holding multiple citizenships, they have also stated – with calculated lack of emphasis – that non-Hong Kong persons may likewise be targeted.
by hxhbbx7 | 2025-12-05 05:50:35+00:00
All this deal making drama, thats been going in media for a while now hides the fact that Content Supply has vastly overshot Demand to levels that make no sense in any other industry. Cost of tools/production/distribution have all massively dropped over the last 2 decades.

Needs a more sustainable story or oscillations and chaos are going to keep increasing.
by colesantiago | 2025-12-05 05:50:47+00:00
Please continue to make your minigames in your free time and don't step into the games industry unless you know what you're getting into.

I have friends in the games industry who also went into it because when they wanted a job to make and play games, and now they are extremely unhappy and depressed.

Low pay, crunch times, constant strikes, layoffs, micromanagement is all there in this industry.

Unless you own or found a games studio, being an engineer in games industry isn't what you think it is.
by wltr | 2025-12-05 05:51:29+00:00
For me that’s a FU moment that reminds me ‘TF am I doing here?’ I genuinely see this resource as a censoring plus advertising (both for YC, obviously) platform, where there are generic things, but also things someone doesn’t want you to read or know. The titles are constantly being changed to gibberish like right here, the adequate comments or posts are being dead, yet the absolutely irrelevant or offensive things, can stay not touched. Etc.
by eszed | 2025-12-05 05:53:02+00:00
Entirely agree, although I think it varies by make / model. Roughly look for whenever a particular car got OBDII, which makes diagnostics way easier (and was kinda the perfect level of digitization, again in my opinion), through (as you say) whenever they started digitizing the cockpit and/or (which oddly - maybe? - coincide, in my experience) manufacturers stopped considering ease of maintenance in engineering decisions. In general late-1990s through 2005-2010. Cars since that decade (or so) are more sophisticated, at the expense of far, far shorter useful lifespans.
by echelon | 2025-12-05 05:54:00+00:00
> Content Supply has vastly overshot Demand

Content has never overshot demand.

I would drown myself in content if it were good and abundant. It's not. It's lackluster and middling.

Content is scarce because it is expensive to produce. The wrong people get put in charge of projects (or tastes/reception is hard to gauge, and experiences hard to engineer). We wind up with a lot of expensive garbage.

There is a dearth of sci fi and fantasy. A few dozen titles get created, and half of it is garbage. I have money to pay to watch something every night. It just doesn't exist and isn't good.

I'd pay to watch original content. Original ideas don't get funded because it's "too risky". Which is a consequence of the big budgets, massive personnel and time investments, etc.

I see a film every other year or so where I'm not questioning the character arcs, the pacing. Where I'm fully enveloped and transfixed. That doesn't happen frequently enough. Where every note is perfect. It's rare and fleeting, and that's sad.

We're in the Precambrian times. Great content is nigh non-existent. There's a whole lot of "acceptable" and "good enough". But rarely anything sublime that steals away your brain for the rest of the day, forcing you to ruminate.

I want to live in a world where content fits my preferences like a glove and is constantly surprising and delighting me. Unlimited intellectual stimulation and adventure. I know that pinnacle can be reached eventually, just not with our current limitations. This scarcity trough.
by nhaehnle | 2025-12-05 05:54:46+00:00
It is quite interesting to ponder these usage statistics, isn't it?

According to their charts they're at a throughput of something like 7T tok/week total now. At 1$/Mtok, that's 7M$ per week. Less than half a billion per year. How much is that compared to the total inference market? And yet again, their throughput went like 20x in one year, who knows what's to come...
by d1sxeyes | 2025-12-05 05:54:51+00:00
Thanks for replying! This above fits in much better with my previous mental model of autism: it’s intrinsic, it describes a “difference” in someone’s way of experiencing the world.

I’m still struggling to understand how this meshes with what you said above about only being autistic if you have support needs.

I don’t understand what implications that would have for someone who (for example) develops enough coping strategies that they no longer have any support needs. As far as I understand it, there’s no way to “cure” autism, so those folks would still be autistic but without support needs, which doesn’t seem to fit?
by shubhamjain | 2025-12-05 05:58:24+00:00
Could there be a worse news regarding where content production is headed? Netflix production is trash and all they care is about metrics like viewers who have watched at least x% of certain content. Cuz if they have, and they accumulate y minutes of viewing, they are unlikely to cancel. This is to the point that they are exclusively making dumbed-down content that can be good background noise while viewers scroll through Instagram feeds. They have little taste, or any motivation to bring good stories out.

HBO might not be perfect, but at least its development process still begins with the story and the enthusiasm of the showrunner.
by mullingitover | 2025-12-05 05:58:44+00:00
The problem is that this administration and their ilk have incompetently misinterpreted 'censorship' to mean 'not letting random strangers use your private property to publish things you don't want them to.'

The only way "an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship in the United States" would be if they were an employee of the US government and they somehow violated US law to enact censorship.

To review: censorship is when the government doesn't allow you to say things with your printing press. Censorship is not when private parties don't let you use their printing press.
by b112 | 2025-12-05 05:59:00+00:00
And there will be more of it. Really of what value is HBO, if generative AI and video generation get better, and better, and better.

In 5 years, compute to AI generate video will be super cheap, both through algo being added to silicon for (C|G|T)PUs, and just general increase in compute. Every day, you'll likely see 1000s of TV series, movies, and shorts added to youtube, all with more complex, intriguing stories than the bottom 1/2 of HBO's mix. And the effects will pass or be on par.

I think this will do for movies and TV series, what the internet did to newspapers and magazines. There's really nothing left there, all the deep talent and investigation is pretty much gone.

There will probably be some real gems come out of this. Yet how will you actually find it, through all the "look at mine!" astroturfing and its kin on every site you visit?
by stouset | 2025-12-05 05:59:11+00:00
Is three random people saying unsafe Rust is hard supposed to make us forget about C’s legendary problems with UB, nil pointers, memory management bugs, and staggering number of CVEs?

You have zero sense of perspective. Even if we accept the premise that unsafe Rust is harder than C (which frankly is ludicrous on the face of it) we’re talking about a tiny fraction of the overall code of Rust programs in the wild. You have to pay careful attention to C’s issues virtually every single line of code.

With all due respect this may be the singular dumbest argument I’ve ever had the displeasure of participating in on Hacker News.
by stephenhuey | 2025-12-05 06:01:07+00:00
Except they're under pressure to not exercise such wide latitude. A few months ago, many who had already passed the exam and were just awaiting placement found out they would have to retake the exam, a different one more to the liking of the current administration:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46156979

98% of current foreign service officers who responded to a survey said morale is lower, plus the administration is laying off 1300 of them:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/state-departm...
by gpm | 2025-12-05 06:01:17+00:00
Not really possible in a systems level programming language like rust/zig/C. There really is only one address space for the process... and if you have the ability to manipulate it you have global variables.

There's lots of interest things you could do with a rust like (in terms of correctness properties) high level language, and getting rid of global variables might be one of them (though I can see arguments in both directions). Hopefully someone makes a good one some day.
by shivekkhurana | 2025-12-05 06:01:34+00:00
I second the sentiment expressed. I used to blog often and cross post on Medium and Twitter.

At peak, every third post I wrote went viral. But then I stopped because I had no return from it.

I recently started writing on my blog again: https://shivekkhurana.com

The main reason was to get back into the habit of writing, and by extension thinking. ChatGPT has weakened my thinking capacity.
by b112 | 2025-12-05 06:01:41+00:00
I agree with the glove fit bit, while at the same time thinking that we're at the next level of siloed bubbles. All aspects of your world, tailored to how you already think, including TV series/movies/etc.

No new ideas.

(Not saying this is your intent, and yes I do indeed watch what I like. I am not immune to the very thing I worry about)
by eszed | 2025-12-05 06:02:02+00:00
Frame damage apart, brake lines (in general, though I haven't worked specifically on a Dodge) are a reasonably straightforward DIY job. Not at all saying you made the wrong decision abandoning that particular car, just encouraging others reading this to evaluate the cost of a brake system replacement more, um... creatively, and least do some research. Basic car repair is an immanently nerdy pastime, and can save one an immense amount of money - especially on that particular era of automobiles, which are typically pretty satisfying to wrench on.
by mrexroad | 2025-12-05 06:02:25+00:00
+1 for the Tesla service manuals. My wife’s was making a clunk from front suspension. Before my assistant (my kid) had finished taking off the wheel, I found the up-to-date official torque specs on service site. Usually it takes me a while to find torque values and cross check with another source. It was beyond refreshing to see Tesla buck the trend of selling service-manuals-as-a-service.

Service documentation / manufacturer software required for cars I currently wrench:

- Early 20’s: Bookmarked URL to the official online documentation (Tesla). With that said, I haven’t had need beyond checking mechanical connections, flushing brakes, and replacing filters.

- Early 10’s: VM containing a mid-00’s version of windows that runs a cracked copy of the long defunct manufacturer software service manual. Also runs software to interface with car, but simply painful to use. Beginning of era where tasks like replacing the 12v battery require manufacturer software to interface (though simple things still had undocumented secret Contra-like button sequences to do so).

- Early 10’s car: folders of screenshots and pdf exports collected over a decade for various procedures I needed to do. OBD-2 dongle + generic app handled basic things. Not much different than decade prior vehicle.

- Early 00’s: PDF of a seemingly printed-and-scanned copy of a digital version of the service manual. Off by a model year, surprising number of inconsistencies given its German. Computer and K+DCAN connection required for re-coding new parts, flashing, etc. Some fancier OBD-2 scanners could do majority of service related functions (cycle abs, reset airbag light, etc).

- Late 80’s: PDF scans of the dozen+ service books (still trying to luck into a physical copy of the set without paying an absurd sum). Most mechanically complex vehicle I own. No computer necessary, but soldering required.
by blackjack_ | 2025-12-05 06:02:26+00:00
Netflix could have built many franchises by now but instead burns them all in season 1 or season 2 and makes slop on purpose (i.e. explain what you are doing while you are doing it for the people not watching directly, etc). They also just had the most successful franchise launch of all time -- Kpop demon hunters. The brand is apparently worth about 10 billion right now, and they bought the film and the rights from Sony for <20 million.

If they purchase HBO, I assume HBO will regress to the baseline that is Netflix content, not the other way around.
by echelon | 2025-12-05 06:04:08+00:00
Don't get me wrong - I might have poorly communicated my intent.

I want to be catered to and subverted. I want to see things I'm comfortable with and things that make me question everything I know. Things that make me deeply uncomfortable. The full range of experiences.

I just want it to be great and hit the notes in ways that leave me in awe.

This does happen with current media, but it's exceedingly rare. It's a combination of great writing, fantastic direction, unusual stories, phenomenal acting. The mood, set dec and DP, the pacing and editing. Everything lining up in a stroke of brilliance.

And what's funny is that when it happens, people tend to disagree or have differing opinions about it. It's deeply personal.

You know when something speaks to you.
by chetansorted | 2025-12-05 06:06:13+00:00
Hey everyone, I’ve always been the kind of person who starts too many ideas and rarely finishes one. But this time I actually saw it through.

Four months ago, I had this weird little thought during an awkward social moment — “What if I could just trigger a real phone call to get out of this?”

That thought became Comforto — an app that gives you a real phone call when you need one: • A friendly voice to calm you before a big interview or class • A believable excuse to leave an uncomfortable situation • Or just someone to “call” when you’re feeling anxious or alone

I had zero experience with voice agents when I started. I broke things constantly. Apple rejected my first two submissions.

But after endless debugging and a few sleepless nights… it’s live.

I’m not expecting it to blow up or anything, but I’m proud it exists. If it helps even one person feel a little safer, calmer, or more in control — that’s enough.

Please give it a try and let me know how was your call experience https://apps.apple.com/in/app/comforto-anxiety-relief-calls/...

If you’ve ever launched something after months of uncertainty, you probably know that quiet, surreal feeling when it finally goes live. That’s where I’m at right now.

Anyway, just wanted to share that small win.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-12-05 06:07:00+00:00
They should have made the point about knowing where errors will happen.

The cherry on top is that you always have a place to add context, but it's not the main point.

In the Python example, anything can fail anywhere. Exceptions can be thrown from deep inside libraries inside libraries and there's no good way to write code that exhaustively handles errors ahead of time. Instead you get whack-a-mole at runtime.

In Go, at least you know where things will fail. It's the poor man's impl of error enumeration, but you at least have it. The error that lib.foo() returned might be the dumbest error in the world (it's the string "oops") but you know lib.foo() would error, and that's more information you have ahead of time than in Python.

In Rust or, idk, Elm, you can do something even better and unify all downstream errors into an exhaustive AGDT like RequestError = NetworkError(A | B | C) | StreamError(D | E) | ParseError(F | G) | FooError, where ABCDEFG are themselves downstream error types from underlying libraries/fns that the request function calls.

Now the callsite of `let result = request("example.com")` can have perfect foresight into all failures.
by gpm | 2025-12-05 06:07:49+00:00
There was an interesting proposal in the rust world to try and handle that with a form of implicit context arguments... I don't have time to track down all the various blogposts about it right now but I think this was the first one/this comment thread will probably have links to most of it: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/blog-post-contexts-and-cap...

Anyways, I think there are probably better solutions to the problem than globals, we just haven't seen a language quite solve it yet.
by gradascent | 2025-12-05 06:08:20+00:00
From the figure in the first paper listed:

> Responses to the query “Write a metaphor about time” clustered by applying PCA to reduce sentence embeddings to two dimensions. […] The responses form just two primary clusters: a dominant cluster on the left centered on the metaphor “time is a river,” and a smaller cluster on the right revolving around variations of “time is a weaver.”

I just gave Gemini 3 the same prompt and got something quite different:

>Time is a patient wind against the cliff face of memory. It does not strike with a hammer to break us; it simply breathes, grain by grain, until the sharp edges of grief are smoothed into rolling hills, and the names we thought were carved in stone are weathered into soft whispers.
by apsurd | 2025-12-05 06:09:25+00:00
I agree so much with this. And I immediately think about how I have an ongoing Netflix subscription and I have it because after having cancelled due to the complete shit trash they produce, my dad asked me about how to see the Tyson vs Jake Paul fight and it was then that I knew I was cooked.

I am a subscriber and my dad didn't like the fight but is happy to have been part of the experience of seeing it.

I want to in-principle not pay money into this trash. But "humanity" seems to like to want to witness this trash. And I and my extended family are included!

oh dear
by ThatPlayer | 2025-12-05 06:09:32+00:00
> DisplayPort 1.4 output, which supports even more bandwidth than HDMI 2.1

That's pretty wrong isn't it? HDMI 2.1 does 48 Gigabit/s. DP 1.4 is ~26 Gigabit/s. I think they meant to compared it to HDMI 2.0 @ 15 Gigabit/s?
by big-and-small | 2025-12-05 06:11:11+00:00
I really like moderation on HN in general, but honestly this inconsistent policy of editorializing titles is bad. There were plenty of times where submitter editorialized titles (e.g GitHub code dumps of some project) were changed back to useless and vague (without context) original titles.

And now HN administration tend to editorialize in their own way.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-12-05 06:13:40+00:00
My website[1] will be hitting 25-years next year (2026 JUN 11). I stopped caring about comments, reactions, SEO, etc. for a while; I just post whatever I want these days.[2]

Of course, I like the fact that sites such as Adobe, Wikipedia, WordPress, IBM, the US Patent (mostly via Google), Russian and Chinese Websites, and quite a few other prominent websites maintains their links that points to some of my articles.

1. https://brajeshwar.com/

2. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-12-05 06:13:56+00:00
Am I the only one that thought this is an old article by the title? AV1 is now 10 years old and AV2 has been announced for year-end release few months ago. If anything the news is that AV1 powers only 30% by now. At least HEVC, released about the same time, has gotten quite popular in warez scene (movies/TV/anime) for small encodes, whereas AV1 releases are still considered a rarity. (Though to be fair 30% Netflix & YT means AV1 usage in total is much higher.) Will've expected a royalty-free codec to've been embraced more but seems its difficulty for long time to be played on low power devices hindered its adoption.
by spockz | 2025-12-05 06:14:10+00:00
And then the kicker. VW doesn’t allow the dsg with electric motor to be repaired by dealers. If something is wrong it needs to be replaced completely. At the cost of €15k (NL, 2021). The only serviceable thing is the clutch and the mechatronic.

IMHO this is something that should be regulated away as consumer unfriendly and environment unfriendly. (Not to say hostile.)

In the end I got a DSG specialist fix the problem in two hours by replacing two simple components physically. The car then spend an hour retraining the dsg.
by lewo | 2025-12-05 06:14:16+00:00
In the same kind of spirit, when i was the tech team manager in a company without any transparent salary policy, i've been practicing what i've been called the "symmetrical salary management": when I knew the salary of a managed team colleague, i told him/her my salary. I also asked to keep my salary private, as I kept their salaries private.

I think this is a pretty important requirement to build trust in a team.
by dylan604 | 2025-12-05 06:15:08+00:00
ESPN comes with your Disney+ which also gives you Hulu

Peacock says they have sports, but then doesn't actually show all of the matches and instead tries to prop up USA and Telemundo numbers. Many times I have to watch a match in a language I'm not fluent even though I'm paying for Peacock specifically as they have the rights. Can't watch USA as I cut the cord years ago, so I'm left with hoping I can find the right spot for my OTA antenna to be able to tune in.