MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-10 23:52:50+00:00
The game is called HROT it’s an indie “boomer shooter”. The game was first locked to 30fps which is horrible for an FPS. Then I got that figured out, but FPS was all over the place and it felt basically unplayable to me even though I was often getting 100+ FPS. Frame pacing was absolutey FUBAR’d no matter which version of Proton or Wine, so even though frames were high it still felt terrible to play. So I just decided to create a Windows dual-boot just for the odd game. Now I can get a locked framerate to my monitor refresh and the game feels great to play.

It’s basically “Soviet Quake”. Very moody atmosphere with just weird random details in the game. Amazing level design.

On the flip side. The original Max Payne does not play on Windows but it works perfectly on Linux for me.
by abelanger | 2026-01-10 23:53:04+00:00
This is seriously cool - it's exactly the DX and API I've been waiting for from sandboxed execution providers.

I'd love to be able to configure the base image/VM in a way that doesn't bundle coding tools or anything else I don't need, and comes with some other binaries installed (I'm more interested in using this as an API for a sandbox use-case I have). Is there a way to do this at the moment / is this on the roadmap?

Another option would be configuring the sprite via checkpoint and then cloning the checkpoint from a base sprite, but I don't see this option anywhere either.
by SuboptimalEng | 2026-01-10 23:53:09+00:00
But AI companies would want more engineers generating more tokens.

In this case, Anthropic would want 100 SWEs generating 100,000/mo of revenue. Replacing the very headcount that is responsible for token usage would hurt company growth.

Not to mention what happens when companies start doing this recursively. 100 SWE -> 10 SWE, 100 slack/gmail/notion/etc. subscriptions become 10.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-10 23:53:40+00:00
Cocaine death decreases is the hard thing to explain with either theory, supply or naloxone. Fentanyl supply doesn't affect cocaine in any way and naloxone doesn't work on a cocaine OD.

Maybe some percentage of cocaine deaths are misattributed fentanyl deaths?

I also wonder if there's any link to the Oxycontin reforms. Perhaps now that prescription is reigned in, we are seeing a lot fewer oxy->fent cases which has cut back on the deaths.

Or maybe it's actually that the drug dealers have gotten more careful. Drug dealers don't want to kill their clients, so maybe they've been purposefully diluting to make sure they get repeat customers.
by roskelld | 2026-01-10 23:53:51+00:00
This type of issue comes up in the video game development world. Perhaps in part due to modern engines being off-the-shelf ready to render high quality assets and assets being so available, either internally or from an asset store. It helped push developers into putting high quality assets into games from the start, skipping the "grey box" steps.

I've had it on a number of projects now where high quality assets were pushed into early builds causing execs eyes to light up as they feel like they're seeing a near final product, blind to the issues and under developed systems below. This can start projects off on bad footing because expectations can quickly become skewed and focus can go to the wrong places.

At one studio there was a running joke about trees swaying because someone had decorated an outdoor level with simulated trees. During an early test the execs got so distracted by how much they swayed and if it was too much or too little that they completely ignored the gameplay and content that was supposed to be under review. This issue repeated itself a number of times to the point where meetings would begin with someone declaring "We are not here to review the trees, ignore the trees!"

I've brought this issue up more recently with the advent of AI, which with things like Sora, the act of creating video clips can be stitched together can look like subjectively exciting movie trailers. This now has people declaring that AI movies are around the corner. To me this looks like the similar level of excitement as seeing the trees sway. An AI trailer looks much closer to a shipping product than it should be because the underlying challenges are far from solved; nothing is said about the script, pacing, character development, story etc...
by fn-mote | 2026-01-10 23:55:08+00:00
> And all this will do is cause the best students to hide in shit schools to game the system

No it won’t, because they would get a horrible base for their education and be 1-2 years behind their “super strong school” peers. (I did not make up these numbers; it’s easy to have more than 1 year of college credit from Advanced Placement classes in the US system.)

Acting like college is the beginning of education is foolish. Imagine struggling with learning how to learn challenging material while taking classes with students who already did that three years ago.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-10 23:55:34+00:00
The horrible things the Danes did to Greenlanders in living memory are unbelievable. They forced contraceptive devices on them as recent as the 1980s and kept it quiet till some of the women recently spoke up.

Europe has a long and sordid history of such colonialist horrors but few perpetrated these crimes so recently.

When you think about the history of Europe you are faced with a society that violently performs genocide repeatedly. Having pacified the population through these eugenic methods they now claim that present day Greenlanders would rather be part of them.

Indeed one is reminded of Crimea, now assuredly Russian, and Donbas which will answer similarly.
by antihipocrat | 2026-01-10 23:55:36+00:00
Humans are punished for plagiarism all the time. Myriad examples exist of students being disenrolled from college, professionals being fired, and personal reputations tarnished forever.

When a LLM is trained on copyright works and regurgitates these works verbatim without consent or compensation, and then sells the result for profit, there is currently no negative impact.
by twosdai | 2026-01-10 23:56:00+00:00
As an outsider of Big co's. I always felt that if youre not on one of the 10-20 awesome product teams. Eg, Google maps, aws lambda, windows core os. Something along those lines. It seems like a territory for justification Olympics.

Just my view as a dev who's largest co was like 500 people. ~100 engineers.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-10 23:56:58+00:00
I guess that’s the difference.

I have used a tiling WM before.

So I wonder whether the benefits you’re seeing in Omarchy are simply the result of using a tiling WM for the first time, which overrode what I believe Omarchy detracted from a general tiling WM.

Or whether my poorer experience was a result of the fact that having used a tiling WM I was more comfortable customizing and so found the Omarchy opinionated behavior restrictive or if the benefits Omarchy brings to someone who’s new to a tiling WM are lost on me.
by SuboptimalEng | 2026-01-10 23:57:24+00:00
That's a fair point. Model prices can increase. Let's say Anthropics/OpenAI/Gemini figure this out.

Doesn't this mean that any company that depends on headcount growth (every SaaS), loses?

100 SWE -> 10 SWE, 100 slack/gmail/notion/zoom/etc. subscriptions become 10.
by ericmay | 2026-01-10 23:57:54+00:00
Well, it’s usually in the context of saying thanks, for things like nights and weekends away from family and friends on training deployments (or real ones), getting up early every morning, being the first one who has to take action if there is a crises and put their life at risk.

So usually it’s said even if the nation isn’t at war because it’s not an easy job. You’ll hear Americans say it to first responders, nurses, fire fighters, police officers, &c.

Idk why it’s being characterized as weird though instead of what it is which is just an aspect of our culture to say thanks to others who are doing jobs you perceive to be dangerous or difficult.

As a veteran of the US armed forces I hate it because I never know what to say…”thanks for your service’ …uh you’re welcome? But it comes from a good place. Though I try to remind folks that saying thanks isn’t enough, spend time and money helping others, vote, keep your community clean, have high standards for yourself and others, because otherwise your fellow citizens are doing all this for nothing.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-10 23:58:27+00:00
> the SAT an IQ test

You’re thinking of a 2004 study that found “the SAT (and later, with Koenig, the ACT) was substantially correlated with measures of general cognitive ability and could be used as a proxy measure for intelligence” [1]. To my knowledge, this remains the case.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6963451/
by dang | 2026-01-10 23:58:39+00:00
Would you please stop posting flamebait and perpetuating flamewars? You've been doing this a ton lately and your account is crossing over the line (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). We've repeatedly asked you to fix this and your latest run has been one of the worst. That's not good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by af78 | 2026-01-10 23:58:48+00:00
I think he writes 'compensate' (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compensate, meaning no. 3) as a translation of 'compenser' (https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/compenser). There's a not-so-funny cliché: men with a small you-know-what supposedly tend to choose larger cars to make up for the difference in size.
by tombert | 2026-01-10 23:59:05+00:00
> To note, with official Linux support on Windows, it's trivial for me to get everything I want as a developer on Windows, so that's never been a hard blocker for me.

Maybe not as a developer, but as a user I still think WSL is only kind of superficially a solution. You still are stuck with an update process that happens automatically and can brick your computer and recovery tools that, as far as I can tell, have never actually worked for anyone in history. You're still stuck with NTFS, which was a perfectly fine filesystem thirty years ago but now is missing basic features, like competent snapshotting/backups, and instead you have to rely on System Restore, which again doesn't actually work.

I mean, yeah, you can do `sudo apt install neovim`, and that's kind of cool I guess, but the problems with Windows, to me are far deeper and cannot be solved with a virtualization layer on top.
by conductr | 2026-01-10 23:59:10+00:00
Not new at all in the US. Trucks are and have been some of the most frequent recipients of after market customization. It’s so common I can think of a dozen or so sub/niches. I’d say it’s only second to Jeep Wrangler.

But yes you’re absolutely right, in our car dominated cities people certainly see the car you drive as a fashion choice, a signal of your personality, and social status/net worth so it does get complicated. I like driving nice cars on occasion but am rather modest and practical with my daily driver.

I’m in a social circle with several dads who probably have similar net worths and generally have a lot in common. There’s a lot of chest pounding, bragging, and one upping going on. Not negatively, but in a sense of “you need to try this ridiculously priced thing” (whiskey and wine and travel are all common topics). I tend to be the contrarian of the group (I don’t drink alcohol at all, don’t watch sports, drive a clunker car). Anyway They’ve been all getting Rivian SUVs and geek out on them. Trying to talk me into getting one next. I just can’t see why I want to spend 6 figures on it when other very similar and decent looking alternatives exist for half the price. I don’t find anything it offers interesting enough. However, its overall utility of being a SUV of that size is very appealing to me so I’m not really questioning that part.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-10 23:59:46+00:00
Oh completely agreed on the start menu being slower.

I don’t use it anymore. Fortunately since my windows usage is restricted only to work and I have an ultra wide monitor, I’m able to pin all the apps I need on the taskbar. With the Win + # shortcuts I can avoid the start menu completely.

In the past I didn’t use the taskbar at all and depended on Win + search entirely.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-11 00:00:07+00:00
From your link:

> This result therefore paves the way towards a direct measurement of the solar metallicity using CNO neutrinos. Our findings quantify the relative contribution of CNO fusion in the Sun to be of the order of 1 per cent;

I find it amazing that we can analize the composition of the core of the Sun measuring the energy of the neutrinos.

(Photons are not useful, because they bounce a lot of times before escaping from the Sun, so they provide only information about the outher layers.)
by acomjean | 2026-01-11 00:00:31+00:00
When I’m riding my bike, I use the weather.gov weather graphs. It took me a little bit to read it at a glance, but it’s all the information for the next couple days in graph form. (2 more days a click away) They have the whole week summary on the main forecast page, but I find the graph really useful.

Eg;

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3773&lon=-7...
by T-A | 2026-01-11 00:00:37+00:00
If you had read the article, you would know that

In 1979, Greenland achieved Home Rule, which included the formation of the Greenlandic Parliament, and it gained self-rule in 2009 through the passage of a law that included a ‘blueprint’ for seeking independence. The 2009 law firmly established that the decision to go for independence from Denmark would now rest with the Greenlandic people.

There is no doubt that the majority of Greenlanders want to use this option eventually. Polls show this. Independence has been accepted in Denmark as well. However, polls also consistently show that Greenlanders do not want independence if the price is the collapse of the Greenlandic welfare state.
by sgarland | 2026-01-11 00:00:54+00:00
Have you done any updated benchmarks on maximum supported writes/sec since the talk you gave comparing single-zone, single-region, etc.?

I recently had a potential use case for this, but it required somewhere around 600 writes/sec at a minimum, and it wasn’t clear what the ceiling was for rqlite without sacrificing durability guarantees.

Terrific bit of software, BTW!
by odyssey7 | 2026-01-11 00:01:52+00:00
So, let’s start from the idea that a certain vaccination compliance threshold is needed for each illness that we need to and have the ability to prevent.

And then let’s consider the reality that many parents—enough of them to matter—think there are too many vaccines, so compliance has been eroding.

This is the actual challenge: the medical recommendation might be solid, but a public policy doesn’t work unless people follow it.

Because eroded compliance threatens to undermine those critical thresholds, the public policy’s effectiveness is collapsing.

We can stay the course and watch things collapse, determined that the experts are correct and that the general public cannot be helped, or we can update the policy to be more focused so that we achieve those critical thresholds for the most essential immunizations.
by roxolotl | 2026-01-11 00:01:57+00:00
My point is that to create a specification you need to use a formal language of some kind. In this example they created a new yaml based specification language. Why do that vs use a well documented existing formal language the LLM knows well like Python. The translation is either yaml -> new language or Python -> new language. The translation is happening in both cases.

The advantage I can think of is it would might be more human readable but Python is damn close to pseudocode. It’ll likely always be a bit annoying to write because it has to be a formal language.
by eek2121 | 2026-01-11 00:02:10+00:00
I could not read past the first few sentences. The headline was terrible, and the author mentions getting a niche smartphone that nobody uses outside of the very folks he presumably is attacking.

Beyond that, many of us make amazing software that folks actually enjoy. The big letdown is mostly vendors that cheap out on QA or focus only on enterprise/commercial.

The software I've most noticed? Carrot weather would be a great example. If I had the money, I'd find a way to throw even more at the developer. It is an amazing app that I inadvertently use more than any other on my iPhone. When it breaks, I notice, and I definitely email the developer. They respond "in form" (no spoilers because I suspect many haven't used it)

There are others as well. Might I suggest OP remove his head from his rear end for a moment and recognize that most here either build software, lots of it great, or have also built software, lots of it great, and consider the audience. If you find this to be an overly emotional state, you may want to ensure that you are, in fact, human and not AI.
by necovek | 2026-01-11 00:02:14+00:00
As I said, you can either have better, cleaner architecture where the fact it's deployed to containers does not matter; or, you could decide not to deploy to containers if you are going to be breaking container boundaries in production systems anyway!

It's a pretty big cognitive dissonance to me: we move away from direct access to increase our security posture, and then put more effort to break the barriers we just put in. Next, we'll put more effort in to harden these backdoors, break them again to be more productive...

In most orgs that follow relevant secure development lifecycle standards and legislation, engineers usually won't be able to do that for legal reasons anyway (due to GDPR or CRA in EU; comparable laws in California or New York), so really, big orgs will require you to not debug live production system but log relevant information, and act upon it later.

Anyway, we are all bound to re-learn these lessons, so good luck to anyone entering the scene today :)
by Aurornis | 2026-01-11 00:02:47+00:00
No they do not.

Anyone who has worked in hiring for any big company knows how much goes into ensuring hiring processes don't accidentally touch anything that could be construed as illegal discrimination. Employees are trained, policies and procedures are documented, and anyone who even accidentally says or does anything that comes too close to possibly running afoul of hiring laws will find themselves involved with HR.

The idea that these same companies also have a group of people buying private search information or ChatGPT conversations for individual applicants from somewhere (which nobody can link to) and then secretly making hiring decisions based on what they find is silly.

The arguments come with the usual array of conspiracy theory defenses, like the "How can you prove it's not happening" or the claims that it's well documented that it's happening but nobody can link to that documentation.
by tombert | 2026-01-11 00:05:10+00:00
You're not the people I have an issue with, sorry for the ambiguous use of the word "everyone" there.

If you gave it the good college try and made an effort to actually learn how to use it and came around not liking it, then that's totally fine. It just didn't gel with you and that's ok.

> outlook was that resizing the left panel will not be added, as there's no way to signal the ability to resize it on touch screens.

Interesting. I hadn't heard that; maybe tablets are holding back Gnome a bit, though I still think it's fine as a desktop overall.
by lazarus01 | 2026-01-11 00:05:19+00:00
>> Researchers have pondered what could have caused this sudden turnaround, pointing to the end of the covid-19 pandemic or a rise in drug treatment. A new article, published in Science on January 8th, suggests, instead, that a supply shock drove the decrease.

The supply shock sounds right.

I was volunteering at a state run institution, who had an addiction data science team, at the peak of the opioid crisis. I was developing ml models to predict patient dropout early in a 32 week program. The data and funding for such research was very scarce and it didn't go anywhere.

Treatment for opioid use disorder with medication is highly effective for 50% - 90% who respond well to treatment. The problem with the bottom 50% was early dropout, due to the lack of dissemination of proper treatment protocols and stigma attached to medication for treatment (methadone). I stopped following the work, I became too sensitive, it was pretty depressing.

The pandemic coupled with the increase in illicit fentanyl was just tragic in what it did to people. I remember reading the DEA research, where the precursor for fentanyl came from china and was manufactured and distributed from mexico. Mexico was also manufacturing high quality meth and displaced most of the meth labs in america, coming with increases in meth overdose during the same period. The fentanyl was so cheap compared to traditional heroin manufacturing.

I'm glad the supply seems to have dried up. It was nuts, what was going on a few years ago.
by palata | 2026-01-11 00:05:52+00:00
> What I honestly find more baffling is that they thought the Vision Pro would sell well.

Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do. Everybody was running after VR/AR headsets, now everybody is running after AI.

They see the others run somewhere, they run in that direction. Just in case.
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-11 00:06:59+00:00
I wonder if this might be some odd library issue that could be fixed in the WINE prefix.

I knew a guy that wanted to play a Japanese version of a JRPG on Linux and he figured out he needed some weird libraries there to properly render the font, which was causing the game to not start.

Anyway, for older games and emulators, playing on Linux has been a magnificent experience for the most part.
by ben_w | 2026-01-11 00:07:35+00:00
I'm genuinely fine sharing my medical history, but I don't know if my lack of shame about e.g. testicular torsion, or the way that I lost my notes for a bit and unnecessarily got repeats of vaccines I'd already had, are a sign of being in possession of a boring medical history, or an indication of an uncommonly diminished shame response.

Whatever it is, I am aware that my lack of concern here is something which makes me different from normal people. I don't really get why people in general are ashamed of their medical histories, but I nevertheless absolutely do support everyone's right to keep such secrets, because there's a few specific cases where the medical history reveals something socially damaging either in the present or with a risk of it becoming so in the future, the obvious example of which is an abortion given the US seems to be facing a loss of freedom in this regard.

(Perhaps most people have something socially damaging in their medical histories, and I've just not noticed because nobody says the thing?)
by galleywest200 | 2026-01-11 00:07:55+00:00
Pretty much all, if not all, cooking oils/fats when heated past the smoke point create this problem.

Avocado oil has a smoke point of 500F, which is what I use for high heat cooking. By contrast lard is only 370F, which means it supplies less flexibility than avocado oil.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Smoke_point_of_cookin...
by Aurornis | 2026-01-11 00:08:14+00:00
I like design that highlights words in one summary and links them to highlights in the next. It's a cool idea

But so many of the links just don't make sense, as several comments have pointed out. Are these actually supposed to represent connections between books, or is it just a random visual effect that's suppose to imply they're connected?

I clicked on one category and it has "Us/Them" linked to "fictions" in the next summary. I get that it's supposed to imply some relationship but I can't parse the relationships