MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by darhodester | 2026-01-18 18:52:42+00:00
Hi, I'm one of the creators of GSOPs for SideFX Houdini.

The gist is that Gaussian splats can replicate reality quite effectively with many 3D ellipsoids (stored as a type of point cloud). Houdini is software that excels at manipulating vast numbers of points, and renderers (such as Octane) can now leverage this type of data to integrate with traditional computer graphics primitives, lights, and techniques.
by gruez | 2026-01-18 18:52:49+00:00
>This is how we had a major boom in middle-class wealth int he US post WW2.

The fact that Europe got bombed no doubt helped too, same with the elites being concerned that communism was on the rise and giving workers a better deal in an effort to stave that off.

>Your zero-sum economics example is only applicable in short-term scenarios: over the longer term, new industries develop to solve persistent problems that people are willing to pay to solve.

>Money solves the problems of the people that have the problems. If the problem is 'we need to eat', producers will diversify into new food sources to meet the demand, solving the problem, and capturing the money of the people who have that problem.

I'm not how you got the impression that I thought the economy had to be zero sum. I even specifically mentioned the possibility of more stuff to go around if productivity goes up. That's the problem with your "new industries develop" argument. Unless productivity goes up too, there will only be different stuff, not more stuff overall.

>There is an enormous space of problems people have which cannot be solved due to lack of access to money. Increasing costs in childcare, elder care, and education are good examples.

All of those are service industries that are resistant to scaling, and as a result productivity growth have been abysmal. Giving people more money to spend on those things just means productive capacity is removed from the economy elsewhere. Going back to the coconut economy example, it would certainly be nice if workers could have a maid to do the cleaning or a chef to do the cooking, but you still need people do the cleaning or cooking. At the end of the day you're just shuffling people around, not growing more coconuts.
by 6SixTy | 2026-01-18 18:54:44+00:00
Something is odd here, the Core 2 Duo only has up to SSE 4.1, while the RVA23 instruction set is analogous to x64-v3. I find it hard to believe that the SpacemiT K3 matched a Core 2 duo single core score while leveraging those new instructions.

To wit the Geekbench 6.5.0 RISC-V preview has 3 files, 'geekbench6', 'geekbench_riscv64', and 'geekbench_rv64gcv', which are presumably the executables for the benchmark in addition to their supported instruction sets. This makes the score an unreliable narrator of performance, as someone could have run the other benchmarks and the posted score would not be genuine. And that's on top of a perennial remark that even the benchmark(s) could just not be optimized for RISC-V.
by kelipso | 2026-01-18 18:54:46+00:00
China kind of avoided the Thicydides trap already it looks like. Trump’s national security strategy document has indicated that the US is going to shore up around the Americas instead of doing the global hegemony strategy. And there have been statements made by US military people (Hegseth maybe) indicating that the US can’t militarily take on China near their coast anymore.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-01-18 18:55:21+00:00
It doesn't seem to discuss Trump's "offer". Voting independence from Denmark is different from being given the option to join the United States.

As Chomsky would say "whenever there are multiple pictures, the darkest one tends to be closer to the truth". What if natural resources would be more expensive (for both US and EU) to buy if Greenland were independent, than if it were still half-colony of Denmark. Then EU and US would have a common interest in manipulating in the same direction the referendum you referenced (for independence). Both US and EU might have cheaper access to natural resources if the population votes no for independence. Good Cop Bad Cop stuff, to scare the population to stay subjugated (and enjoy imaginary protection from EU against imaginary threat from US).
by neilv | 2026-01-18 18:55:35+00:00
> The first went down after 1 year with a headcrash. 1. HDD headcrash in my life.

What HDD make? ThinkPads of 2.5" HDD era usually have cushioned drive caddies, and (IIRC) some head-parking when the laptop detected shock. https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1hp1cq6/active_pr...

> The second one was delivered with bad RAM. Support denied help because of wrong FRU Number. The whole thing went back to the dealer.

Did you get it sealed from the Lenovo factory, or could your dealer have replaced the factory RAM? (That could also explain "wrong FRU number".)

> The third one died in a loud bang of the power supply and died with it.

Bummer. Do you recall the model or design?

I once had a Lenovo AC adapter eventually go bad (out of buying and using dozens of them), and fortunately didn't take the laptop with it.

And I once ripped the laptop-side connector off an old one that I was abusing pretty hard, and then tripped over the cable (but laptop was fine).

Other than that, the rest of them have worked great, even some 20 year-old ones I still have and use.

> The trackcap was horribly to use - an example of bad design par excellence.

The TrackPoint? Could you say specific criticisms of the design?

I consider it mostly a personal preference thing. A lot of people love TrackPoint, and consider it a hard requirement for any laptop they'll personally use. A lot of other people prefer trackpads, and have more options for laptop brands.

(Disclosure: I know the inventor of TrackPoint, but that's not why I use it.)
by mbb70 | 2026-01-18 18:55:39+00:00
The bigness of your data has always depended on the what you are doing with it.

Consider the following table of medical surgeries: date,physician_name, surgery_name,success.

"What are the top 10 most common surgeries?" - easy in bash

"Who are the top physicians (% success) in the last year for those surgeries?" - still easy in bash

"Which surgeries are most affected by physician experience?" - very hard in bash, requires calculating for every surgery how many times that physician had performed that surgery on that day, then compare low and high experience outcomes.

A researcher might see a smooth continuum of increasingly complex questions, but there are huge jumps in computational complexity. At 50gb dataset might be 'bigger' than a 2tb one if you are asking tough questions.

It's easier for a business to say "we use Spark for data processing", than "we build bespoke processing engines on a case by case basis".
by gruez | 2026-01-18 18:56:21+00:00
>we’re already massively overproducing just about everything

No we're not. If we weren't, we shouldn't have seen the massive inflation near the end of covid. The supply disruptions hit almost immediately, but it wasn't until the stimmy checks hit that inflation went up.

>our problem is both our wealth and production allocations are borderline suicidal.

If you read my previous comments more carefully, you'd note that I'm not arguing against better wages for workers as a whole, only that contrary to what some people claim, they don't pay for themselves.
by tstrimple | 2026-01-18 18:56:25+00:00
> Whatever this is, it is NOT conservative

I find it strange that so many people have a desire to rewrite the history of conservatism to turn it into something it is not and has never been. Conservatism has literally never been about a slow and measured rate of change and balancing budgets. Those are only things that liberals care about. Conservatism has always been about finding some "other" to scapegoat for all of your problems and leveraging the government to keep people in their rightful places. Just look at the major initiatives conservatives have taken up over the course of our nation's history. They fought a war against their friends and relatives in order to maintain slavery. They fought against women's suffrage. They fought against civil rights. They fought and are still fighting against gay rights. They are anti-immigration in a nation literally built on immigration. Conservatives have been on the wrong side of history since the very beginning fighting to maintain awful things and spread their cruelty to new targets. Why spend the effort to pretend otherwise?
by frabonacci | 2026-01-18 18:56:38+00:00
Founder here. For context, here are our previous Show HN posts:

- Lume v0.1 (Feb 2025): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42908061
- Lumier (Docker integration): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985624

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture, Apple's Virtualization Framework limitations, or how we're using this for AI agents.
by bluecalm | 2026-01-18 18:56:51+00:00
Isn't Polymarket very low stakes?
For example "Will Trump acquire Greenland before 2027" market (the main one for this issue) has only 14m USD volume.
This is like 2 orders of magnitude less money than is bet on El Classico 2 times a year.

There are risks connected when prediction markets run wild but Polymarket ain't it.
There is also utility. It has high predictive value (it beats polls for elections from a little sample I've looked at) and allows you to make better decisions.
by d_watt | 2026-01-18 18:57:28+00:00
Regarding the meta experiment of using LLMs to transpile to a different language, how did you feel about the outcome / process, and would you do the same process again in the future?

I've had some moments recently for my own projects as I worked through some bottle necks where I took a whole section of a project and said "rewrite in rust" to Claude and had massive speedups with a 0 shot rewrite, most recently some video recovery programs, but I then had an output product I would feel comfortable vouching for outside of my homelab setup.
by beAbU | 2026-01-18 18:57:30+00:00
My 2019 Hyundai Kona has a 150kw FWD motor. I love my car, but it's power is totally and utterly stupid. I can spin my wheels while going 60km/h and flooring it. It can be downright dangerous in the wet. Thank dog for traction control I need to drive it in 'eco' mode most of the time in order to make the ride feel sane.

I think a motor with half the output would still result in a great ride, but the car would've been cheaper/lighter.

Newer EV's come out with much smaller motors it seems, which makes sense to me.
by fspoettel | 2026-01-18 18:57:35+00:00
I fail to see what is damning here. What would you even hold a referendum on? Independence? Replacing the arrangement with Denmark with whatever unclear arrangement the US is proposing?

If you trust independent polls, you can get a pretty clear picture of where Greenlanders stood as of Feb. 2025:

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/34174/greenlanders-who-would-...
[1] https://www.veriangroup.com/news-and-insights/opinion-poll-g...

Danish citizenship or independence are overwhelmingly favored over US citizenship in these polls. And for independence, only really if it does not affect living standard too bad. And there, it's hard to imagine the US being able to match Denmark's social security system...
by Capricorn2481 | 2026-01-18 18:58:11+00:00
I'm all for people avoiding React if they want, but I do want to respond to some of this, as someone who has made a few React apps for work.

> When they started adding new hooks just to work around their own broken component/rendering lifecycle, I knew React was doomed to become a bloated mess.

Hooks didn't fundamentally change anything. They are ways to escape the render loop, which class components already had.

> Nobody in their right mind is remembering to use `useDeferredValue` or `useEffectEvent` for their very niche uses.

Maybe because you don't necessarily need to. But for what it's worth, I'm on old versions of React when these weren't things, and I've built entire SPAs out without them at work. But reading their docs, they seem fine?

> And don't get me started on React's sad excuse for global state management with Contexts. A performance nightmare full of entire tree rerenders on every state change

I think it's good to give context on what a rerender is. It's not the same as repainting the DOM, or even in the same order of magnitude of CPU cycles. Your entire site could rerender from a text input, but you're unlikely to notice it even with 6x CPU slowdown in Devtools, unless you put something expensive in the render cycle for no reason. Indeed, I've seen people do a fetch request every time a text input changes.

But pretty much any other state management library will do exactly what you're describing.
by darhodester | 2026-01-18 18:58:29+00:00
The aesthetic here is at least partially an intentional choice to lean into the artifacts produced by Gaussian splatting, particularly dynamic (4DGS) splatting. There is temporal inconsistency when capturing performances like this, which are exacerbated by relighting.

That said, the technology is rapidly advancing and this type of volumetric capture is definitely sticking around.

The quality can also be really good, especially for static environments: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christoph-schindelar-79515351....
by camel-cdr | 2026-01-18 18:58:35+00:00
No.

The problem is that you can't migrate threads between cores with different vector length.

The current ubuntu 26.04 image, that is installed, lists 16 cores in htop, but you can only run applications on the first 8 (e.g. taskset -c 10 fails).
If you query whats running on the A100 cores you see things like a "kworker" processes.

I suspect that it should be possible to write a custom kernel module that runs on the A100s with the current kernel, but I'm not sure.

I expect it will definitely be possible to boot a OS only one the 8 A100 cores.

Well have to see if they manage to figure out how to add support for explicitly pinning user mode processes to the cores.

The ideal configuration would be to have everything run only on the X100s, but with an opt-in mechanism to run a program only on an A100 core.
by jesse__ | 2026-01-18 18:59:57+00:00
I agree with your observation. My issue is (from experience) it's really hard to tell from the outside if a teams' values align with mine. Many teams talk the talk, but don't walk the walk, as the saying goes. It's just easier to not participate than it is to guess, and be wrong.

I also believe that running a broken interview process actively selects for qualities you actually don't want, so it's much more likely that teams conducting those interviews aren't teams I want to work on.
by adamdrake | 2026-01-18 19:00:21+00:00
Author here!

It's great to see this post I wrote years ago still being useful for people.

I agree with many here that the situation is arguably worse in many ways. However, along similar lines, I've been pleased to see a move away from cargo culting microservices (another topic I addressed in a separate post on that site).

To all those helping companies and teams improve performance, keep it up! There is hope!
by bicx | 2026-01-18 19:01:23+00:00
Yeah, I’m in agreement here. I get how this mindset might be off-putting, but we’re still in a phase of human development where if you don’t fight, you’re going to lose to people who will.

Trump is an example of someone who wants to fight, and now all of us who just want to get along are now playing catch-up, trying to figure out how to respond.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-18 19:01:44+00:00
The latest thing though is that the megachurches send out these evangelist priests and these donation inquisitors. These people then go around arguing trying to co-opt the machinery of the state to redirect money to the megachurches.

“We should tax everyone to fund open source” they say

“Google should pay a percentage of their gross revenue to the Rust Software Foundation” they say

All this is because it’s enough for the bazaar to create but the author has correctly identified that the purpose of the megachurches is to receive tithes.
by layer8 | 2026-01-18 19:01:54+00:00
It’s not wrong. There is no absolute 000000 and FFFFFF. It’s relative to a white point and tone curve.

Of course, when you do color grading you want to have those fixed to whatever standard you are working with. But then you also have to control your ambient lighting accordingly, to get the correct impression of what you’re seeing. Even then, IPS displays aren’t capable of displaying true 000000, due to their backlight, or only very coarse-grained with local dimming zones.

Most people aren’t doing that kind of work, however.
by hamburglar | 2026-01-18 19:02:08+00:00
> Pretty sure most of this could be filmed with a camera drone and preprogrammed flight path

This is a “Dropbox is just ftp and rsync” level comment. There’s a shot in there where Rocky is sitting on top of the spinning blades of a helicopter and the camera smoothly transitions from flying around the room to solidly rotating along with the blades, so it’s fixed relative to rocky. Not only would programming a camera drone to follow this path be extremely difficult (and wouldn’t look as good), but just setting up the stunt would be cost prohibitive.

This is just one example of the hundreds you could come up with.
by keiferski | 2026-01-18 19:02:31+00:00
I’m increasingly convinced that the single most important concept to understand in the 21st century is Chesterton’s Fence:

"Chesterton's fence" is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...

Gambling isn’t a new problem, but apparently we thought it would turn out differently this time, for some vague unclear reason.

I think the simplified version of that reason is: no one really believes in anything anymore, except in the value that acquiring money by any means necessary is a good thing.
by Chris2048 | 2026-01-18 19:02:42+00:00
Your own original had the same problem, so let me play it straight; I don't think there is a legal issue, let alone a clear one.

You don't think phrasing like "There's a thing called 'copyright'", as if I'm not aware of what copyright is, isn't condescending?

Now, either of you relate that concept to a suggestion that HN link to archive.org
by galaxyLogic | 2026-01-18 19:02:56+00:00
I agree (?) that using AI vibe-coding can be a good way to prooduce a prototype for stakeholders to see if the AI-output is actually something they want.

The problem I see is how to evolve such a prototype to more correct specs, or changed specs in the future, because AI output is non-deterministic -- and "vibes" are ambiguous.

Giving AI more specs or modified specs means it will have to re-interpret the specs and since its output is non-deterministic it can re-interpret viby specs differently and thus diverge in a new direction.

Using unit-tests as (at least part of) the spec would be a way to keep the specs stable and unambiguous. If AI is re-interpreting the viby ambiguous specs, then the specs are unstable which measn the final output has hard-time converging to a stable state.

I've asked this before, not knowing much about AI-sw-development, whether there is an LLM that given a set of unit-tests, will generate an implementation that passes those unit-tests? And is such practice used commonly in the community, and if not why not?
by Flundstrom2 | 2026-01-18 19:02:59+00:00
Fact: European VAT (20-25% depending on country) is same for all companies; domestic, EU, US and Asians alike, added to end customers.

It's not EU's fault US manufacturers can't keep manufacturing costs down.

Neither is it EU's fault Trump believes slapping tariffs hurting US consumers will improve US standing in the world.
by networkadmin | 2026-01-18 19:03:50+00:00
"In this mania for yielding to present enjoyment rather than providing for future comfort were the seeds of new growths of wretchedness: luxury, senseless and extravagant, set in: this, too, spread as a fashion. To feed it, there came cheatery in the nation at large and corruption among officials and persons holding trusts. While men set such fashions in private and official business, women set fashions of extravagance in dress and living that added to the incentives to corruption. Faith in moral considerations, or even in good impulses, yielded to general distrust. National honor was thought a fiction cherished only by hypocrites. Patriotism was eaten out by cynicism.

Thus was the history of France logically developed in obedience to natural laws; such has, to a greater or less degree, always been the result of irredeemable paper, created according to the whim or interest of legislative assemblies rather than based upon standards of value permanent in their nature and agreed upon throughout the entire world. Such, we may fairly expect, will always be the result of them until the ñat of the Almighty shall evolve laws in the universe radically different from those which at present obtain.

And, finally, as to the general development of the theory and practice which all this history records: my subject has been Fiat Money in France; How it came; What it brought; and How it ended.

It came by seeking a remedy for a comparatively small evil in an evil infinitely more dangerous. To cure a disease temporary in its character, a corrosive poison was administered, which ate out the vitals of French prosperity.

It progressed according to a law in social physics which we may call the "law of accelerating issue and depreciation." It was comparatively easy to refrain from the first issue; it was exceedingly difficult to refrain from the second; to refrain from the third and those following was practically impossible.

It brought, as we have seen, commerce and manufactures, the mercantile interest, the agricultural interest, to ruin. It brought on these the same destruction which would come to a Hollander opening the dykes of the sea to irrigate his garden in a dry summer. It ended in the complete financial, moral and political prostration of France--a prostration from which only a Napoleon could raise it."
by glemion43 | 2026-01-18 19:03:58+00:00
I'm disappointed that you had to add the 'metamagical' to your question tbh

It doesn't matter if ai is in a hype cycle or not it doesn't change how a technology works.

Check out the yt videos from 1blue3brown he explains LLMs quite well.
.your first step is the word embedding this vector space represents the relationship between words. Father - grandfather. The vector which makes a father a grandfather is the same vector as mother to grandmother.

You the use these word vectors in the attention layer to create a n dimensional space aka latent space which basically reflects a 'world' the LLM walks through. This makes the 'magic' of LLMs.

Basically a form of compression by having higher dimensions reflecting kind a meaning.

Your brain does the same thing. It can't store pixels so when you go back to some childhood environment like your old room, you remember it in some efficient (brain efficient) way. Like the 'feeling' of it.

That's also the reason why an LLM is not just some statistical parrot.
by orwin | 2026-01-18 19:04:00+00:00
What are the US ground capabilities in extreme weather? Because from where I stand, I'm under the impression a Greenland invasion is off limit 8 months out of 12, and realistically the window is quite short, no?

Also if any french military asset is present when the US attack, we will see how determined the french military is following it's own doctrine (which dictates a 'warning shot' 24 hours before sending the tactical nukes).
by augusto-moura | 2026-01-18 19:05:13+00:00
It replaces the US in the most beneficial ways for Europe, I would say. Mercosur is mostly commodities and no manufactured products, think iron, food (and rare earth). That helps tremendously with the idea of building or improving European own industry. There's a lot of incentives to mercosur to import european machinery and start it's own industrial sector.

All in all, mercosur already has strong ties with western europe (Portugal, Spain, Germany, Italy), both historic-cultural and economic, I see this as a huge win