MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vunderba | 2026-01-01 21:39:35+00:00
From the article:

> I was midway through explaining a concept he hadn’t covered when he stopped me. He pointed out that my way of speaking had completely changed and how it was unusually structured and didn’t give him the opportunity to ask follow up questions.

IMHO this sounds like a bit of an exaggeration in service of a specific narrative for the blog post, but language convergence has been a topic of conversation ever since the earliest autocomplete features appeared on smartphones.

The feedback loop in this situation is (LLM trains on people <-> People then train on LLMs).
by keepamovin | 2026-01-01 21:39:49+00:00
Technically, and architecturally this is excellent. It’s also an excellent product idea. And I’m particularly a fan of the big-ass-vendor-inversion-model where instead of the big ass vendor ripping off an open source project and monetizing it, you look at one of their projects and you rip it off inversely and open source it — this is the way.
by doug_durham | 2026-01-01 21:40:10+00:00
The open web needs to be preserved. And bespoke web pages are great. However it isn’t 1998 anymore. The second you expose anything to the public internet it is going to be flooded by malicious bots looking for things to exploit. Unless you are putting up static HTML the learning curve to have a website that runs will continue to run immediately slopes to the point where it is not worth it. Despite OP saying they aren’t invoking nostalgia, they are.
by lucid-dev | 2026-01-01 21:40:39+00:00
Pretty successful in terms of the content representing the intent. Which is in part, don't skim, don't scroll, read something if you want to actually read something, or go elsewhere for doom-scrolling and skimming.

I also found half-skimming it worked pretty well, using the images as markers to find what I really wanted.

Also it looks like it works pretty good on mobile, I thought it was small on my laptop too, but hey, thanks the heavens for built-in-browser zoom...
by bitanarch | 2026-01-01 21:41:11+00:00
HDR still doesn't really work on Linux w/ nVidia GPUs.

1. 10bpp color depth is not supported on RGB monitors, which are the majority of LCD displays on the market. Concretely, ARGB2101010 and XRGB2101010 modes are not supported by current nVidia Linux drivers - the drivers only offer ABGR2101010 and XBGR2101010 (See: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/...).

2. Common browsers like Chrome and Firefox has no real support for HDR video playback on nVidia Linux drivers. The "HDR" option appears on YouTube, but no HDR color can be displayed with an nVidia GPU.

Also, video backgrounds in Google Meet on Chrome are broken with nVidia GPUs and Wayland. Ironically it works on Firefox. This has been broken for a few years and no fix is in sight.

The "HDR" toggle you get on Plasma or Mutter is hiding a ton of problems behind the scenes. If you only have 8bpp, even if you can find an app that somehow displays HDR colors on nVidia/Wayland - you'll see artifacts on color gradients.
by leptons | 2026-01-01 21:41:54+00:00
Specifically for me, my company has a product that could use Bluetooth, but Safari will never implement the Web Bluetooth API, where Chrome has for some time on Android. So the workaround is to use Wifi instead (my product supports both bluetooth and Wifi), which drains the phone battery faster.

No, we do not want to write our own iOS app where Apple can then extort us for a percentage of any sales through the app, and we have to pay for the priviledge to develop that app, as well as buy Apple hardware to do so.

So instead we use Wifi, where we can maintain one single codebase - the web application, which works on both Android and iOS, but has to use Wifi. If Apple allowed Chrome to use its own browser engine, we would simply tell users to install Chrome to interact with our device. Then we don't have to pay Apple for anything, nor should we have to.

Apple purposely won't implement some APIs so they can force developers to create an app for their app store where they can collect money from any additional sales through the app. It's all spelled out in the DOJ suit, why won't you just read it??

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline
by netsharc | 2026-01-01 21:42:07+00:00
Top economists have criticized the EU because of this (a currency union without a federal budget), but since this is HN, of course we have many many more experts, who can accurately (in their heads) dismiss the whole branch as stupid.

In the US there's agreements so poor states get federal money, but in the EU if a country needs to be bailed out, 28 or so national parliaments have to discuss it and come to 1 agreement.

Meanwhile the benefit of your own currency is that it helps the economy from getting too hot (too high Deutschmarks = BMWs get more expensive in non-DM countries (Dieter and Hans have to earn the same DMs to build them), German economy slows down... And when the economic conditions get tough, investments into your country (say Greece) slow down, meaning foreign investors need less Drachmas, price of Drachma falls, and the price of the Greek [what do they export] falls - Ioannis earns the same amount of Drachmas, but he needs to work longer to buy e.g. an imported iPhone, meaning his wage has actually been decreased... with the labour force barely noticing or making a big fuss.

The Euro was more like pegging the whole of Europe to the Deutschmark, which gave the German economy the boom (no more overheating!), but to the pain of many other nations...

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/25/133112932/paul-krugman-the-ec... (Trigger warning, this name triggers that part of many genius brains that will dismiss his arguments because they're certain he's an idiot based on one or two quotes)
by fennecbutt | 2026-01-01 21:42:42+00:00
O-oh boy...well I guess he'd achieved his ultimate goal, perhaps there was nothing else after that.

That's what I love about these sorts of emergent systems. Although I was discussing it with a friend, there's a great ars war story on ultima: https://youtu.be/KFNxJVTJleE?si=GXkjTKZNN6H_xoUe

Won't spoil it for you but we did have a great discussion from that around how emergent gameplay can be amazing, but player agency means that you'd still need the "hand of God" to be involved in fixing things and making adjustments so that major plot points and still enabled and the player doesn't kill the entire world (unless that's the point of the game I suppose).
by tptacek | 2026-01-01 21:43:53+00:00
We have a pretty nice BlueStar range/gas oven and it's striking how much better the temperature control is in the electic convection oven than in the gas oven; like, if you can get away with cooking something in a convection oven, it's going to yield a better product. I'd rather have a stack of two convection toaster ovens than a gas oven.
by plagiarist | 2026-01-01 21:43:56+00:00
I love the layered thing except for the rough edges. Unfortunately the rough edges for me are that Linux containerization and permissions are completely idiotic.

In Fedora Atomic it should be foolishly easy to set up a system account, with access to specific USB devices via group, and attach a volume that can easily be written to by a non-root user inside of the container.
by Tiktaalik | 2026-01-01 21:44:09+00:00
Decades from now we're going to look at the oil patch lobbyists as the villains that killed countless jobs in NA and enabled China to take over whole industries.

You had some politicians like Justin Trudeau that tried to create a frame work that would guide and advantage capital toward investing in innovative green technology and future jobs, but then politicians saw the advantage in politicizing and opposing everything and they tore this all down.

Now China has continued to move ahead meanwhile NA remains at square one with increasingly backward technology, with no incentive to change.

It's going to get really bad!
by Lerc | 2026-01-01 21:44:21+00:00
Consider the original post I responded to. It asked two questions.

>are you skeptical xai would wiggle around regulations and pollute a city?

But they were responding to I'm incredibly skeptical of any claim that xAI's power use is putting a dent in the local environment which makes no claim as to whether they might obey or disobey regulations, the words "putting a dent" in the local envionnent*

The data from the article does not sufficiently address this, it uses satellite data and a short time frame. Without specifying the resolution of their data (which could be kilometer sized pixels) their claims about locality is in doubt. In short term measures, trends are harder to spot, a rise over months could just mean it is less windy in the nollowing season. Without a ground level meadurement of the air quality and a evaluation of the total local emission from all sources, you cannot hope to measure the health impact of a single cause.

None of that says that they are not polluting. What it says is that this is not evidence of it. Someone expressed skepticism based on the proportional emission of one of many of their ability to move the dial, and was challenged based upon the likelihood of what they might do. Claiming skeptasism that a thief could rob Fort Knox, is not a claim that the thief is honest

>by “agenda pushing” do you mean those who have an agenda to have breathable air?

I simply cannot believe that this is a reasonable interpretation of what they said.

That's the thing that motivated me to post on this thread. That the first post I responded to here was attacking the player, not the ball.

I continue to post replies here out of my own sense of duty to fully explain my position to promote understanding, I'm not trying to win anything here, I only want people to see a honestly held perspective.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-01-01 21:44:54+00:00
Not just gaming. This year, both Windows and Mac OS had absolutely terrible years. The Mac effed up its UI with liquid glass, to the point where Alan Dye fled to Meta. Microsoft pushed LLMs and ads into everything, screwing up what was otherwise a decent release.

On the other hand, on the Linux side, we had the release of COSMIC, which is an extremely user-friendly desktop. KDE, Gnome, and others are all at a point where they feel polished and stable.
by basscomm | 2026-01-01 21:45:12+00:00
> I disagree with a notion that a page needs to work without javascript. It is only design choice of author.

Sure, I guess, but if a site that's primarily text doesn't work without Javascript then that's a design failure. I sometimes use a browser like links2 because eliminating everything but text can sometimes help me focus. If the site displays nothing, I'm probably not going to bother reloading it in a different browser just so I can render the text.

(It's a nonissue for this site, which appears to render fine in links2.)
by mossTechnician | 2026-01-01 21:45:36+00:00
I wish I could see the good Linux people talk about. Maybe it's because I have an NVIDIA graphics card (like the majority of people who purchase GPUs), but I personally can't install Discord in a way that lets me stream a single window's audio and video, with the same quality Windows provides. I have experimented with X and Wayland, Snap and Flatpak and deb and RPM, Ubuntu and Bazzite and several other distros, and there is no Windows-tier equivalent. Maybe not every person uses it, but I hear Discord overlaps pretty significantly with the gaming community.

On paper, Linux is absolutely the more free alternative. But in practice, it feels more liberating to boot back into Windows where things just work. There aren't multiple choices to make about every low level component of your system, and there aren't multiple ways to install most applications; this prevents you from making the "wrong" choice or doing something the "wrong" way, which fuel many discussions within Linux communities. (But if you do happen to have the right combination of GPU architecture and "right" distro and package to install for Discord, I'd be happy to hear it.)
by lugu | 2026-01-01 21:45:50+00:00
> making Putin be the good guy

Come on. Who cares what he pretend?

> Best to make invading EU to be too expensive to be worth it.

How do you propose to estimate how much it is worth doing it?

IMO, it is best is to make the kremlin government collapse by all mean necessary. Including sabotage, assassination, propaganda, confiscation, corruption/trahison. And preemptive strike if needs to be.
by kelthuzad | 2026-01-01 21:46:14+00:00
>So then why aren't PWA's super-popular on Windows and on Android? Since Safari doesn't affect those?

Says who?

"Yes, PWAs have become popular on these platforms. I work for Microsoft on the Microsoft Store (app store on Windows) and I work with the Edge team, and I work on PWABuilder.com, which publishes PWAs to app stores. Some of the most popular apps in the Microsoft Store are PWAs: Netflix, TikTok, Adobe Creative Cloud, Disney+, and many others.

To view the list of PWAs in the Store, on a Windows box you can run ms-windows-store://assoc/?Tags=AppExtension-microsoft.store.edgePWA" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457849
by derbOac | 2026-01-01 21:46:18+00:00
> what is making the situation truly dangerous, is the dictator-jealousy fueled encouragement and indulgence of the current U.S. administration, and all its sycophants, which got to the point of publicly applauding a dictator on U.S. soil.

I personally think there's a more direct link between the US administration and Russia, in line with the rest of your points. I think it's more than "dictator-jealousy fueled encouragement", although what that "more" is I'm not entirely sure, and I'm not sure the differences between the possibilities matters in the end.

I really think it's hard not to read [about] Foundations of Geopolitics and the history of Viktor Yanukovych, the ties between the latter and Trump, and not conclude Russia's tendrils in the US, England, and elsewhere are far deeper than is generally acknowledged in the press.

I lost a lot of trust in most media to cover this issue appropriately when people in the UK started mysteriously dying and zipping themselves in body bags, and the coverage was a collective shrug. Why they would report something like that and then with a straight face conclude an article with "police say there's no evidence of foul play" is beyond me. But then again how the Mueller investigation got spun as an exoneration is also beyond me as well.

I know it's often seen as dismissive or shallow to blame the media for things, but I really do place a huge proportion of the blame for our current mess, at least in the US, on news outlets and media soft-pedaling what's been happening for the last 10 years. A lot of what people trust became propaganda, and a lot of the rest of it chased that audience around for clicks.
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by bitanarch | 2026-01-01 21:47:28+00:00
You can enable, yes. But (assuming you're on an LCD display and not an OLED), you're likely still on XRGB8888 - i.e. 8-bit per channel. Check `drm_info`.

Also, go to YouTube and play this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onVhbeY7nLM

Do it once on "HDR" on Linux, and then on Windows. The "HDR" in nVidia/Linux is fake.

The brightness you see on Plasma or Mutter is indeed related to the HDR support in the driver. But - it's not really useful for the most common HDR tasks at the moment.
by dfxm12 | 2026-01-01 21:47:53+00:00
Is there any reason in particular you think this? Sony only removed the feature, citing "security concerns" mere months after George Hotz released the exploit. They would later go on to sue him. https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2010/03/29/ps3-firmware...

On the other hand, the Ps3 clusters were around since basically the console's launch. Additionally, the console had been selling at a profit, at least in the US, by 2009, before they removed the other os feature.

All this happened 16 years ago. If you're curious about stuff that has happened so recently, you can research it online.
by concinds | 2026-01-01 21:49:32+00:00
It's weird that people never distill those arguments to their most basic logic.

Apple directly dictate the shape, speed, and existence of any innovation on iOS, and by extension, any innovation involving mobile phones or meant to run on mobile phones. They don't simply have "power" over it, in the sense that they get to say "Yes" or "No". iOS is locked down in such a fundamental way that any innovation will not come about unless Apple specifically envisions it and designs the OS to support it.

Browsers didn't exist when Windows 1.0 came out. But they happened. If it had been iOS, there would have been no networking, no JIT (I know that came later, bear with me), Firefox/Gecko could never have existed and been able to fix the web. Apple alone would have controlled the evolution of the most important tech of the past few decades. It couldn't have existed in the first place unless Apple, and no one else, thought of it, deemed it a good idea, and put it in iOS themselves. Basic OS features: files and the filesystem, sharing, casting your screen, communicating with other devices, Apple dictates how it must work.

Even something as simple as file syncing. They forced Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive to adopt their shitty, buggy backend. Those services all had to drop basic features to adapt. Those features can't ever come back unless Apple allows them. Any hypothetical new features won't exist unless Apple, and no one else, thinks of them and adds them.

How is this sane?
by lifeisstillgood | 2026-01-01 21:50:14+00:00
I am interested in what is working in Vienna when “housing problem” is what almost every city in “the West” has or thinks it has.

To me it seems to be a combination of

- wealth inequality (eg 20/30 trillion dollars was printed and furloughed out in Covid, which funnels its way up to the holders of the most assets, seeing asset price inflation but no attempt to tax back the money printed). Repeat on different scales for unfair tax systems and poor infrastructure and and and

- urban planning (we think the ideal city is dense using seven storey or so apartment buildings and fairly aggressive anti-car (ie far less parking than seems possible) with better public transport and lots of pedestrian access. This describes almost no cities

- mortgages and other pro house incentives. You want house price inflation for decade after decade, just allow people to borrow a greater ratio against their salary — and allow married women into the workplace. Suddenly turning a mortgage limit of 2.5 x a man’s salary into 5x a dual couples salary. People bid up prices, forcing more couples to have two salaries to compete. And companies don’t have to increase salary to compensate … people combine salaries and go deeper into debt. Hell if you only had one policy weapon, forcing 2.5 borrowing against one highest paid persons salary is not a bad one. You won’t get re-elected however.
by BigTTYGothGF | 2026-01-01 21:50:19+00:00
> The polynomial/rational approximation mentioned by you is valid only for a small range of the possible input arguments

I was assuming that as part of the table stakes of the conversation.

Let's look at something basic and traditional like Cephes: https://github.com/jeremybarnes/cephes/blob/master/cmath/sin...

We start of with a range reduction to [0, pi/4] (presumably this would be [0, 1/8] in cycles), and then the polynomial happens.

If cycles really were that better, why isn't this implemented as starting with a conversion to cycles, then removal of the interval part, and then a division by 8, followed by whatever the appropriate polynomial/rational function is?

> adding or subtracting Pi or its submultiples cannot be done exactly.

I was also assuming that we've been talking about floating point this whole time.
by jordanarseno | 2026-01-01 21:51:20+00:00
Bin packing can be seen as an optimization problem. In 2D, consider a scenario where you need to cut shapes from a sheet of plywood or sheet metal while minimizing waste; finding the optimal orientation of these shapes reduces material loss. In 3D, you might imagine packing objects into a container or cargo space, or sculpting a collection of 3D shapes out of a known volume of material, where you'd optimize the arrangement and orientation to minimize waste.
by beAbU | 2026-01-01 21:51:22+00:00
There is no way that a land cruiser owner in Africa will ever consider anything made by Ford. That's like blasphemy. The LC has decades of proven reliability, that the bronco needs to compete with.

It's true, the Ranger is immensely popular. But Ranger owners and LC owners do not see eye to eye and you'll have a tough time convincing the LC owner to change allegiance.

For South Africa specifically, the Ranger is about as large as you can go in terms of personal vehicle, before it becomes a serious hassle. Our infrastructure does not really support bigger cars. How does the bronco compare with the Ranger size wise?

Lastly, the Ranger is built in South Africa, I think Ford knows and understands the Southern African market very well.
by hinkley | 2026-01-01 21:51:22+00:00
When that steam deck clone came out and games played better on SteamOS than on Windows on the exact same hardware, it woke a bunch of people up. Microsoft scrambled to bring the startup time and footprint down but shots had already been fired.

You don’t want a vendor you have to publically shame to get them to do the right thing. And that’s MS if any single sentence has ever described them without using curse words.
by barrkel | 2026-01-01 21:51:28+00:00
My childhood had less change than my adulthood. I've lived in different countries as an adult; I spent my childhood in one village near a town. The events I value most and recall most strongly all happened as an adult. I struggle to remember really significant childhood events. There were a few, like finally grokking a for loop in BASIC, or my first machine code execution, but the more common remembering is of undifferentiated days in school, reading, warm summer days.

But as an adult, learning how to ride motorcycles, touring; fine dining and discovering a love for fine wine; travel generally; the perspective that living in multiple countries gives you; the birth of my son, and how it changed my perception of my parents; these things were more significant and still more salient to me now. I am a very different man to the one I was at 20, and I feel I changed more between 25 and 35 than I did between 10 and 20.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-01 21:53:08+00:00
A TPM is a form of HSM (Hardware Security Module).

HSMs come in all sizes, from a chip in your phone (secure element) or even a dedicated part of a SoC chip, to a big box in a datacenter that can handle tons of requests per second.

The idea is having dedicated hardware to protect the private key material. This hardware can execute signing operations, so it can use the key but it can't share the key material itself. It is usually also physically hardened with techniques to extract said keys, like sidechannel attacks based on power draw, X-ray inspection, decapping etc.
by bcantrill | 2026-01-01 21:53:16+00:00
The name is beside the point -- and their character outs them anyway. To be clear, this was a conversation I didn't initiate (they came into my DMs, going off half-cocked about several technical aspects of Oxide that they did not understand), and they made no effort to hide their disposition. We probably disagree on this, but I don't believe that there's a basis for an assumption of privacy here (I'm not your priest, rabbi, lawyer, spouse, etc.) -- and anyone who knows me would know that I'm not the person to be confessing these kinds of sins to anyway.