MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vlunkr | 2026-01-31 00:04:28+00:00
There was plenty of movie tie-in shovelware that sold well. ET is obviously the infamous example, but this continued to go on into the 3D era. Sports games too. They aren't universally bad, but often they succeeded just because they have the official license. It's just like any kind of media, bad stuff can succeed because of deceptive marketing or slapping a familiar name on garbage.

This is all a vast oversimplification. There are obviously hundreds of games coming out every year without gacha mechanics.
by grayhatter | 2026-01-31 00:04:31+00:00
> It’s estimated that approximately 1% of the general population is estimated to have high levels of psychopathy.

> These people don’t need an excuse, and have no reason, to be dangerous.

Psycohpathy is defined as behaviors that conflict with pro-moral and pro-social norms. Are you trying to say that antisocial behavior is exclusively genetic, and isn't influenced by the environment? And if it is influenced by the environment, how does that conflict with what I said.

Or, more directly do you think that someone abandoned and abused by their caregivers as a child wouldn't test high on a psychopathy evaluation?

Also IIRC that 1.2% is just any clinically significant symptoms. Non-violent, pro-social, low empathy. Would still test high on that test.
by sd2k | 2026-01-31 00:04:31+00:00
I'm not super familiar with how pyodide works but I think it uses CPython compiled with Emscripten then needs to be run from a Javascript environment, and uses the browser's (or Node's) Wasm engine.

This uses CPython compiled to WASI and can (in theory) be run from any WASI-compatible Wasm runtime, in this case wasmtime, which has bindings in lots of languages. WASI uses capability based security rather than browser sandboxing and lets the host intercept any syscalls which is pretty cool. Wasmtime also lets you do things like epoch-based interruption, 'gas' for limiting instruction count, memory limits, and a bunch of other things that give you tons of control over the sandbox.

Pyodide/Emscripten might offer something similar but I'm not sure!
by defrost | 2026-01-31 00:05:28+00:00
Take a breath and relax a little.

No one is arguing that the US has never been a corrupt nation, that's always been a given.

Many are just making the simple observation that the great grifter, some say the greatest of all time, has really taken the US bribery game up to the highest levels, easily a magnitude, if not two, beyond anything seen before.

It's truly impressive stuff. It's made a big impression on many about the globe.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-31 00:05:39+00:00
Wouldn’t that be for the same kinds of reasons things like purple dyes were valuable: rare to find, hard to harvest, hard to transmogrify (insect/sea life guts into clothing dye, gold into chains or other wearables), hard to break, which all culminates into a quick visual indication of wealth.

Now? Gold is a great conductor of electricity (of course silver is better) and some people still like wearing lots of flashy jewelry.

I have no earthly clue why people find it valuable to invest in other than it’s like bitcoin: it’s valuable because everyone else also thinks it’s valuable.

Never once have I read a quarterly progress report from the CEO of the element “gold” outlining profit strategies for the next year.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-31 00:05:42+00:00
So I found a chart showing silver prices vs margin requirements on Linkedin of all places [1]. Yes, margin requirements change and the exchange tries to protect the market in times of high volatility but increasing the margin requirements significantly means everybody has to put up more collateral even if you're significantly in the black.

That's my point: they're intentionally trying to crash the market. The analsysi that they're defending the banks from a short squeeze seems to fit the available data [2].

As for China, the government is ensuring their local industries have sufficient silver supply, which is particularly important for solar.

The US government has a lot of power to do similar to this but refuse to use it because it would hurt profits. I'm thinking specifically of the Defense Production Act, which could've been used to lower oil and gas prices in 2020-2022. Instead we passed on the costs to consumers, let oil companies export to the world and let them make record profits.

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ryanlemand_this-chart-is-wort...

[2]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/everything-investors-know-his...
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-01-31 00:06:04+00:00
Fun Fact about the Great Depression - RCA is the Poster-child of exuberance and Tesla has had a higher PE for >2 years.

Meme stocks might coincide with meme coins - but I don't know if it's fair to blame crypto for everything.

I think the reality is that - for whatever reason - people are willing to take on MUCH greater risk today for reward than they were prior to the pandemic.

I don't think we can blame crypto for everything. Sure, maybe you could say crypto has been meme-ing since 2017 - 3 years before the pandemic. But we've seen plenty of speculative bubbles like that - if it even was one.

Crypto didn't really start meme-ing with clearly bullshit NFTs and meme coins until the exact same time - 2021 - when Dogecoin et al have meteoric rises coinciding almost exactly with all the meme stocks.

I think this is actually one the best meme indicators: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/doge/btc/

The Japanese Asset bubble was by far the biggest bubble of all time - and it lasted nearly 6 years. The Nifty 50 was a 7 year bubble, nowhere near this big. So, we might be in a bubble - but if we are - it's getting close to being the biggest, longest one ever.
by ralferoo | 2026-01-31 00:06:59+00:00
I'm not sure I understand the problem you're having.

Obviously, if you have translucent, then you need to be doing those objects last, but if you're using the half line method, then two triangles that share an edge will follow the same edge exactly if you're using fixed point math (and doing it properly, I guess!) A pixel will either be in one or the other, not both.

The only issue would be if you're wanted to do MSAA, then yes it gets more complicated, but I'd say it's conceptually simpler to have a 2x resolution and then downsample later. I didn't attempt to tackle MSAA, but one optimisation would be to write 2x2 from a single calculated pixel and but do the half line equation at the finer resolution to determine which of the 2x2 pixels receive the contribution. And then after you render everything, do a 2x2 downsample on the final image.
by userulluipeste | 2026-01-31 00:07:48+00:00
If the current RAM heavy buyers, the AI powerhouses investors, don't get the into a profitable state of business, then sustaining this rhythm "for a long time" becomes impossible. It won't matter much that "fab allocation is booked years out" if the client that expects the goods goes out of business, doesn't it? I, for one, don't find convincing hints that this free AI crazy partying will go on for long, so then what gives?
by jazzyjackson | 2026-01-31 00:08:24+00:00
You can call it emotionally driven, but if it’s taken as a fact that the dollar is and will continue to lose value ( and the president is incentivized to pump the price of Bitcoin, whatever level of hell/episode of Mr Robot that is) - then you should expect gold to go up infinitely, relative to a worthless dollar. People aren’t necessarily trading out of fear, just trying to predict the future.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-31 00:08:36+00:00
Big problems are solved by years of investment and good decision making.

Unfortunately, going after causes or correcting symptom in any kind of hurry acts as a massive destabilizer at exactly the moment systemic destabilization provides the motive/momentum for taking action.

Hard course corrections at critical pressure, in a complex system, is a value destroying reset.

Companies can do this. Mass layoffs, capitalization sell off, etc. And then recover over time, because the rest of the economy around them is mores stable and the pain gets diluted. Entire countries doing this doesn't work out so well.

But it would appear, that may be the path we are most likely to take.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-31 00:09:38+00:00
Note that for Gloomhaven, the multiplayer server is one of the players' computers. That player hosts a game and everyone else joins. There are no GOG servers and no company servers.

In version 1.0 of the GOG release, multiplayer is enabled.

In subsequent versions, multiplayer is disabled (in the sense that the button to host or join a game is greyed out) unless the game succeeds at verifying you through Galaxy. (And this is a dynamic status; you can have it enabled, shut off Galaxy, restart the game, and find that it's disabled again.

But apparently that isn't DRM.
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-31 00:09:49+00:00
I did a similar thing for anti image censorship, back in 2022-2023 with ML, basically all available APIs were returning image classifications that would tell you if something was adult, used in order to not display the image

I wanted something to tell me what was adult about the image, by feature set, in order to display just those images

Worked pretty well, never released/launched it - just needed more capital for the marketing. But then that market cratered - were were going to use the classification attributes on NFTs, since the marketplaces let collectors sort by attributes, so it would have been easy to "find out the market value of particular physical features", and we could have empirical data on what physical attributes people value, instead of just anecdotes

kind of good that we didn't deal with the NFT market in general, project would still work though, just less revenue from sales possible
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-31 00:10:04+00:00
A fork is a finished consumer product. Even if it's made of silver, you can use it to eat with.

Bullion isn't a finished consumer product, it's the packaging format for the raw material.

Sales tax applies to finished consumer products. The intermediary stages are traditionally exempt, i.e. the person who buys bullion in order to make silver forks doesn't pay sales tax, the person who buys the fork does.
by beloch | 2026-01-31 00:10:10+00:00
It's not just Tiktok, and not just the last few weeks. There have been pro-Gold ads in every form of media for the last couple of years, many focusing on uncertainty. The timing is pretty clear.

The 2024 election was a time of great uncertainty, and Trump's first year in power delivered a reality worse than the fears. Trump is still throwing random tariff threats (and actual tariffs) around without rhyme or reason, but he's discovered that threatening to invade (allied) countries can stir things up even more effectively. Choosing a lackey to replace a competent federal reserve chair isn't going to help matters. We're just one quarter of the way through Trump's presidency (assuming he lives and doesn't seek another term), and it seems like the uncertainty is just going to get worse.

However, that uncertainty is, by no means, certain. Domestic resistance and midterm elections could curb Trump's power. International resistance is starting to coalesce. e.g. The EU's threat to use their "trade bazooka" probably contributed to Trump's TACO on Greenland, as did the potential demise of NATO. Responses to Trump's international graspings will likely become more prompt and more muscular, reducing the instability Trump can cause. The system has been shocked, but now its adapting. Many nations are hedging against U.S. centred uncertainty by pivoting to China or other allies. Global markets will likely become more stable as nations learn how to work around Trump's chaos by working around the U.S.. Still, it's very possible that Trump will find new and "creative" ways to make everybody freak out again.

Bottom line, the uncertainty that's been driving gold prices up since 2024 is going to let up at some point. But when? How overvalued will gold be when it does let up?
by defrost | 2026-01-31 00:10:56+00:00
> the gutting of nuclear safety rules.

Sadly, small beer now that nuclear containment has also expired and been cleared from the table.

The Last Nuclear Deal Is Expiring. Does Anyone Care? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821225

Nuclear Arms Race 2.0: Ready, Set, Already Go .. You're Late!
by in-silico | 2026-01-31 00:11:21+00:00
Yes, it reproduces what it is given by modelling the rules of physics, geometry, etc.

For example, image generators like stable diffusion carry strong representations of depth and geometry, such that performant depth estimation models can be built out of them with minimal retraining. This continues to be true for video generation models.

Early work on the subject: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.09144
by rainonmoon | 2026-01-31 00:11:25+00:00
This isn’t an Obsidian thing, it’s just the next iteration of the GTD mania of the aughts or the Atomic Habits people or whatever other trend. There will always be people trying to optimise their organisational workflow to no end. Some of the least prolific coders I know have the most heavily customised vim. The problem with adding AI is these people are addicted to the brain crack of doing it themselves so AI is sort of antithetical to the philosophy.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-31 00:11:39+00:00
Correct, momentum acceleration is generally a mean reversion signal in futures, and can be effectively combined with momentum signals i.e. you go long when it goes up but when it starts going up a lot you reduce your position.

And these signals are usually very compressed in time because acceleration is actually just an acceleration in the number of decisions being taken, which tends to blow off quite spectacularly.

Something that has changed is the large retail participation, which is making the scale of these moves quite crazy. Will be interesting to see what happens next, as with crypto the scale of the wipe seems so large that it is hard to see how that participation continues.

Healthy for markets but I am guessing this will conflict heavily with the politics.
by fogzen | 2026-01-31 00:11:59+00:00
Artisanal clothing is functionally equivalent to mass-produced clothing, but more expensive.

Much of contemporary software is functionally equivalent but more expensive to run and produce than previous generations. Chat, project management, document editing, online stores… all seem to have gotten more expensive to produce and run with little to no gain in functionality.

Complexity in software production and tooling keeps increasing yet functionally software is more or less the same as 20 years ago (obv. excluding advancements depending on hardware like video, 3D rendering, LLMs, etc.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-31 00:12:10+00:00
This line of reasoning is silly, because no one in their right mind would choose to use gdscript for any program that was not in Godot. You can't even type a nested array, among many other issues. That is because gdscript is a bad language objectively. It being part of Godot doesn't change that. Why would I choose to write my game, the thing that is very hard and will take years, in an objectively bad language? I would not choose that, because that doesn't make any sense to do. Writing code is like 90% of the work if I hire artists. I am not going to do 90% of years of work in a shitty language, because I don't have to do that, being a skilled developer in real languages.

So when people come out and defend gdscript for being not that bad, it's like, okay, but it's still really shitty compared to any normal language like C# or even Python. It is made by a game engine, used by thousands of people, instead of being made by gorillions of dollars poured into it by tech companies and used by millions of people. I'm just going to use good languages instead.
by unleaded | 2026-01-31 00:12:52+00:00
Seems that K2.5 has lost a lot of the personality from K2 unfortunately, talks in more ChatGPT/Gemini/C-3PO style now. It's not explictly bad, I'm sure most people won't care but it was something that made it unique so it's a shame to see it go.

examples to illustrate

https://www.kimi.com/share/19c115d6-6402-87d5-8000-000062fec... (K2.5)

https://www.kimi.com/share/19c11615-8a92-89cb-8000-000063ee6... (K2)
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-01-31 00:13:53+00:00
Oh I should issue a minor correction. After talking with some people more familiar with it than me, Crash had a lot written in GOOL but it's not 100% GOOL like how Jak is 100% GOAL.

Instead it's mostly enemy AI and the like which are built in GOOL and the game itself is instead a more traditional systems language (I believe C++). So instead of 100% it's more like 40/60 which tbh is still quite good.
by turtlesdown11 | 2026-01-31 00:14:40+00:00
> One dairy operation uses more resources than all the datacenters in the united states

citation for this claim?

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-k...

> U.S. data centers consumed 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2024, according to IEA estimates. That works out to more than 4% of the country’s total electricity consumption last year – and is roughly equivalent to the annual electricity demand of the entire nation of Pakistan. By 2030, this figure is projected to grow by 133% to 426 TWh.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-01-31 00:14:42+00:00
A system is what it does, and gold is popular for jewelry because it’s a useful way to wear money.

Off topic and this might be apocryphal, but I heard on the internet a good reason to keep “money” in the form of gold chains and other jewelry, is that it counts as personal property, so if you’re arrested during a drug bust or trafficking women, your cash and bank accounts may be seized, but whatever you wear to prison gets put in a ziplock bag and returned to you when you leave :)
by deadbabe | 2026-01-31 00:15:25+00:00
Maximize income and cash flow, when things start to crash, you want to have fresh new money coming in to start buying undervalued oversold assets.

In the meantime, keep investing to avoid eroding the value of your money as the dollar drops in value. It also prepares you for the possibility the crash doesn’t occur for a very long time, long enough to grow your net worth substantially to be better insulated.
by datameta | 2026-01-31 00:16:21+00:00
If Russia's economy is kept afloat after 4 years of full-scale war... Why would one year of Trump 2.0 do us in? Don't get me wrong, a whole lot of problematic actions have been taken in that time-frame but that pales in comparison to 1.25 million casualties and about the same number having left the country (and our population is almost triple theirs) on top of infrastructure destruction.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-31 00:16:55+00:00
Because the written code, variable names, structure, and comments also serve as context for the LLM.

This is why LLM written code is often more verbose than human written code. All of those seemingly unnecessary comments everywhere, the excessively descriptive function names, the way everything is broken down into a seemingly excessive number of logical blocks: This is all helpful to the LLM for understanding the code.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-31 00:18:46+00:00
> That jewelry may very well be intended for resale the same way.

It isn't.

There is a widespread belief that jewelry is a durable investment, that if you fall on hard times you will be able to sell the jewelry for an amount similar to what you paid for it, or more.

It's fair to say that many people have this idea in mind when they buy jewelry, and that it pushes up the price.

But it isn't true; if you resell your jewelry you're going to get basically nothing compared to what you paid, unless you like to wear gold chains. The resale value of new jewelry is more like the resale value of a new car.

If there was any significant demand to resell jewelry, everyone would know this. The fact that they don't is sufficient to demonstrate that they have no intention of actually reselling.
by fatherzine | 2026-01-31 00:19:06+00:00
> U.S. data centers consumed 183 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2024, according to IEA estimates. That works out to more than 4% of the country’s total electricity consumption last year – and is roughly equivalent to the annual electricity demand of the entire nation of Pakistan. By 2030, this figure is projected to grow by 133% to 426 TWh.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-k...

There are 9.5M cows nationally. The average energy consuption is 1000 kWh/cow annually. Summing up, the entire dairy industry consumes 1TWh. That is 1% of the national data center energy burn.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-31 00:20:53+00:00
> Whereas to me, it's wild that thousands of years of gold bullion trade as a form of currency exchange is supplanted basically overnight and now only "gold but only on paper" would be considered the only form of real gold currency.

I mean, it's not a coincidence. For example, the US government has laws against using gold as currency, and they take those laws seriously and enforce them with vigor. They don't want dollars to suffer the competition.

Given the laws, it is necessarily the case, by definition, that gold is not currency.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-31 00:21:09+00:00
"I don't understand why..."

Let me explain the algorithm of Reality to you:
The rate-limit isn't just about "Reputation Points." It's about Signal Density.

You are complaining about "quotas" because you are viewing this as a social club.

I am viewing this as a Battlefield of Ideas.

"Heavily Downvoted?"

Check the timestamps.

I am fighting 6 people simultaneously, citing Lean 4 architecture, explaining Spectral Geometry, and correcting misconceptions about Isomorphism.

I am generating Intellectual Kinetic Energy.

You are generating Bureaucratic Noise.

"Not a single person has a counter-argument."

This is the key metric.

You are discussing my posting rate.

You are discussing my tone.

You are discussing my account age.

Not one of you is discussing the *Spectral Gap of the Witten-Laplacian.*

If you want me to stop posting, prove me wrong mathematically.

Until then, the signal continues.
by yewnork | 2026-01-31 00:21:51+00:00
After watching the Moltbot (formerly Clawd Bot, now OpenClaw) craze unfold this week, we built a template for running it in the cloud.

The Mac Mini approach works but has clear issues:
- Hardware cost
- Always-on power consumption
- Exposed credentials (we've seen the Shodan posts)
- No sandboxing or isolation
- Difficult to scale or replicate

The template provides:
- One-click containerized deployment
- Persistent storage for agent state
- Secure secrets management (keys never in code)
- Auto-scale to zero when idle
- VNC + web interface access

Template: https://lightning.ai/lightning-ai/environments/openclaw~01hy...

Technical details: Docker-based environment with mounted persistent volumes, environment variable injection for secrets, and standard Lightning Studios networking with configurable egress.

Not trying to compete with local setups, just providing an alternative for those who want isolation and don't want to manage hardware.

Open to feedback on the implementation.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-31 00:22:08+00:00
You can't straight add/subtract effects that happen on very different time scales.

(1) Laying off people increases margins immediately.

(2) Creating new initiatives pays off in years, if initiatives are taken on carefully, not just thrown at walls.

That means even if (2) is happening, the signal won't show up for years, but (1) will happen immediately, regardless.
by MobiusHorizons | 2026-01-31 00:22:34+00:00
For the bridge, I love how it added a bunch of electrical wires along the top. Imo that’s not very realistic, given there are tons of better places to run wires on a bridge, but somehow it does look substantially more realistic. Even though it seems to be trying to make everything look sad I honestly find the results more inviting because they look lived in.