skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I have never been able to do reliably is get ffmpeg to split a file based on a fixed size - e.g. break this video into 100MB chunks.

The closest I seem to be able to get is to divide the file size by the file length, add some wiggle room and then split it based on time. Any pointers appreciated.
I would say that after being a happy Switch owner for 6 years I still think the portability aspect is useless. It's too big to take with me when I leave the house, and if I'm at home I get a way better experience while docked. I thought it was a stupid gimmick on launch and I still think that. I recognize I'm apparently in the minority, though.
What do they take seriously?
isn't that 99% foreign policy of the world anyway lol any policy actually :)
It's constantly surprising to me that this one aspect of software appearance is a hill that the industry has collectively decided to die on.

We can't agree to use colours that are unambiguous for colourblind folks, we can't agree to use sufficient contrast in our UIs, we can't agree to use big enough touch targets, most companies are truly awful at accessibility... and yet everyone wants dark mode, and most companies implement it. How much time have we lost as an industry making interfaces harder to read?
Repeating this here for emphasis:

>>the web platform itself has evolved to eliminate the need for most framework abstractions.
This generally isn’t true in the case of government systems. For the most part they are performing tasks that are required by law, and it is not acceptable to stop some of them, even temporarily. If you’re lucky you can run the old and new systems side-by-side while the 100% feature migration occurs, but that isn’t always feasible.
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election
Yeah, this is elegant as fuck.
> This is probably a big win for PlayStation’s marketing team.

I don't have any current Gen console (nor have I played one) but as a long-time tech market "interested observer" my understanding is that XBox had a bit less raw power last Gen and tried correcting this Gen and succeeded in having a bit more raw power than PS5. However, it apparently didn't matter to the market. So it seems to be another example like Betamax vs VHS, where the product with somewhat better technology didn't win because consumers found other factors more important. In modern game consoles, I assume those factors would be some mix of exclusive titles, compatibility with existing previous gen game libraries, marketing+brand perception and, more recently, the console's subscription game service.

It's interesting that Microsoft apparently didn't internalize this lesson, since Nintendo has been remained competitive for ~20 years by combining significantly weaker hardware with high-quality franchise games plus a clever differentiating factor (novel interaction (Wii) or portability (Switch). Of course, it would be wrong to conclude "CPU/GPU power doesn't matter" because it's more complex than comparing mips, flops, rops, etc. It also depends on how much, and how well, developers and game engines optimize for a platform's hardware.

Microsoft definitely learned their lesson about high-quality franchise games with their recent (and very costly) acquisition spree including Call of Duty. Although, to get anti-trust approval it can't be platform exclusive for at least a decade. I'm wondering if MSFT's claims that they're happy to be a games software company selling on all platforms may actually be true. If so, it may not bode well for the future of the XBox hardware business - which would be sad because more competition is generally better for consumers.
I have no desire to do that though. It's uncomfortable to sit up in bed, and uncomfortable to play games lying down.
Considering the TikTok UI is a clone of 抖音's UI, it's more likely that 小红书 copied 抖音 rather than TikTok. 小红书's primary market has always been China and overseas Chinese, foreigners were an afterthought up until this past week.
Sure I agree with that, but microservices are just one of many ways to modularize software/achieve separation of concerns.

I assumed you were talking about team size specifically because that is the thing that a microservice architecture uniquely enables in my experience.
True though from what he has said early on in it being more of a hobby and liking building tools then I am sure he would welcome any help or input.
Back when they were first coming out, a lot of us also considered GameBoy Pocket to be a new "generation". I think it might have supported a few more shades of grey from the original? And better battery life. And lots of case colors.
This made me chuckle thank you :)
MetaROR research platform seeks to reform academic peer review process
Significant Others just got downgraded to Important Others
I've recently launched Mashups.io - my own Yahoo Pipes tool.

https://www.mashups.io

And using the tool, I've been filtering, changing and tweaking various RSS feeds along the way.

I absolutely love RSS and absolutely loved Yahoo Pipes. For me, that got me into mashing up stuff on the web.

For devs, RSS feeds also provide a very easy way to source data. No need to get API keys and tokens, it gives you real life dataset immediately and easily. And from there, you can create tools.
Funny HN design detail: Once a comment has been added to a comment, the original commenter can't delete it's comment.

Sometimes this is counterproductive to the goal of HN.
Wayfarer-12B: An open source AI model that lets you fail and die
I never buy anything that doesn't put its price upfront, at least for a basic configuration. I understand that any customization will change the price, and usually the cost will increase in this case. I'm OK with it. I also understand that when something is designed from scratch, then the price may only be known after the design. But I've only been in such situation once. In most cases it's just hiding the vital information from the customer.
This doesn't explain why the website can't just validate the input, queue up the transaction, and execute it later when the dB is available. It's not like your record changes that often. If the transaction fails they can then just send you an email to try again during working hours. All these processes used to work by paper forms, so most of them don't need interactive processing - that's why they have a batch job in the first place.

My GP surgery has the same issue with non-urgent requests. It's entirely input, it's definitely not looking in a dB because it doesn't even ask who you are until the last step. And yet it won't accept an input except during working hours. Madness.
>>React is legacy technology

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/#fn-...
Lots of big claims, including bashing React and this seems to be a framework to build static sites, like blog posts with little to no reactivity?

Also, kinda silly to "appeal to authority" by invoking Dieter Rams. I understand that the author was inspired by Rams work, but this is akin to saying "My new framework is Iron Maiden" because I happen to really like maiden.
> How do you price that “objectively” unless you’re given a breakdown of the company R&D expenses, operation costs and margins.

You ballpark how long it would take you to build something similar? You don’t need any breakdown for that, just a marginally competent engineer on staff.
As long as the debris has no effect wherever it lands, I agree with you
Arlines are extremely cautious around these kinds of one off events.

It’s not about the calculated risks, but the uncertainty around if they have the right information in the first place. Sure it may have broken up at 145km miles, but what if someone messed up and it actually was 14.5km etc.
Certainly causing delays.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-17/spacex-launch-to-go-a...
It is expensive. But if I'm correct about o1, it means user mistrust of LLMs is going to be a short-lived thing as costs come down and more people use o1 (or better) models as their daily driver.
Lots already said about his films here, I'll just add that I recently watched "Lynch/Oz" which is a documentary that explores Lynch's lifelong obsession with The Wizard of Oz and how he often worked the themes of Oz into his films: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15399286/
Ah, so considering the miniscule loss in the overall scheme of things, Walgreens locking up products in the stores is just to be annoying?
You're this type of Stasi person, ain't you?
Main priority to prevent accidents is to migrate away from this imperial system.
This article is extremely well written and energizes me... Having a framework that allows separating the graphical work from the logic would be great. But I have trouble imagining this idea passing the brutal test of production -- except for showcase websites and blogs. I'm specifically thinking about apps (linear?)
But
I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next and hope to get more information when the templates arrive :)
It does. Sorry about the experience, we will try to improve it.

Having user confirm it is not a good option, because every click is a hassle.

What we could do is first run a very short version of a smaller benchmark, and if that takes too long, don't run the main one. Then the worst case you will have a 100ms lag at this point, which is way better than 5 seconds of reading.
> and it still won't tell you everything you need to know

Talking to them will? we cannot have it both ways (the entire company's email history is not enough to tell me what I need, but meeting for an hour, say three times with the salesperson will).

I think you _are_ right, but I do not need everything. I just need good enough to make a decision to move forward.
> It both saved them from having to work out what to do with the handhelds

Well, more accurate to say they just gave up. The Switch is very much not a viable replacement for a 3DS because of how damn big it is. You can't just slip it into your pocket and go.
Very useful example. Thank you.
Farmers already do keep an eye when it will rain before applying fertilisers. So, this is already part of their calculation. Although, yes , this means they will not apply it everyday. Depending on their location this means that a lot of weeks are out of the picture.
You're assuming the viewer count is accurate? That seems rather naive.
You have to understand that Broadcom isn't actually Broadcom the chipmaker. It's a private equity firm that used be named Avago Technologies before it bought Broadcom. So squeezing until there's nothing left is the plan.

https://digitstodollars.com/2022/06/15/what-has-broadcom-bec...
I swear there used to be a choose your own adventure version of this where you could answer questions about what you did wrong and get a step-by-step "here's what to do" after.
Search tool helped me brainstorm anything
I discovered on hacker news this tool couple days ago and now I start to be addicted to it. Its not the newest product on the market, but I love the simplicity in their search.
But where did Ready Programmer #1 come from? and we're back to square one :)
I don't think you are wrong. There's absolutely no way people are that stupid.
The context is even worse than the bike ramp. The bike lane dumps directly onto a sidewalk, which is not really bikeable anyway with the impending complicated street crossings that require stopping to push a button to get a crosswalk against a very confusing intersection across right-turning traffic onto a motorway on-ramp.
Or stay on the street and shoot directly into a lane of traffic, and hope to find a gap big enough to cut left across the lane before it turns into a highway on-ramp.
Looks cool, I'll check that out.
I think this sounds exciting. As a backend eng (who prefers Htmx) and someone who totally struggles with css, reading your intro made me walk away feeling dumber than before. Again not expecting an ego boost or anything. Something that felt counter intuitive:

1. Lack of drawings hurt - I had no idea what zaha or rams meant. You had bold text which I thought were links but alas they were just bold text.

2. I actually appreciate math and still wasnt sure how I could use math in the new proposed framework (id kill for a constraint system that was similar to what iOS had).

3. +1 on the crazy level of complexity in today's frameworks (which is why I hate using nextjs etc) but perhaps some code samples (even if proof of concept would have helped) would have been helpful.
Issue is cost, through running could happen for much less cost. It would actually just be through running a little further at first and maybe integrated later. The current plan is to demolish an entire city block, the true motivation is for private gain.
> For best results, our project structure needs to be set up with LLM workflows in mind. Specifically, we should carefully manage and keep the cognitive load required to understand and contribute code to a project at a minimum.

What's the main barrier to doing this all the time? Sounds like a good practice in general.
Don't want to be a hater but the parent of my previous post was literally about charging more for rich people. That is the entire point of enterprise plans too.
AT&T kills home Internet service in NY over law requiring $15 or $20 plans
Let's say an experienced engineer is starting Euler for the first time. What's the best way to approach it given that many of the problems require some prerequisite algorithmic knowledge to solve? Is there a good method for approaching Euler and LeetCode problems with new eyes aside from reading the solutions first, studying them and then solving it many times until committed to memory?
That was just an example, LLM can convert any format, directly within the document/file. It's a lot faster and easier to use, especially when developing and you just need to try out quickly different things.

For example, you can just copy-paste a json snippet from the web, pasted it into the chat window and say "pass this as inline YML".
Cows and chickens cannot fix nitrogen from the air. They eat the nitrogen-fixing plants. So in a sense they don't "generate" fertiliser, they only concentrate it.
Perfect world:

JS and CSS compile to native, somehow.

My ability to do this

function App() () {
const items = get(url);
render(items)
}

Does not exist on native. It's 2025. Why is this?

----

It's because we don't have literate programmers. They don't know how to speak CLEARLY.
It is unfortunate sometimes. Probably a net gain to the signal-to-noise ratio, though?
People are absolutely, unequivocally that stupid, in droves.
> When your basic assumption is that an entire industry is doing something dumb, it’s probably wrong. If nuclear was actually that cheap electric companies would constantly be proposing new projects, but it’s not.

The industry is doing the right thing but the reason it’s not choosing nuclear is because regulatory burdens make project success and prices highly variable and uncertain, not to mention a shift in political winds kills your project. The reason isn’t purely a price thing.

> The industry abandoned nuclear because electricity demand stopped increasing decades ago

There’s no way this is true considering that crypto and AI have started to push significant power demands.

> Now having not built nuclear for decades once off projects are constantly wildly over budget and behind schedule. Solar + batteries is currently beating even optimistic estimates for nuclear just about anywhere, let alone current boondoggle pricing.

That’s a choice we get to make. China is building their nuclear muscle because they realize it’s required for baseload for solar, way cheaper than batteries, and the only way you’re going to be able to charge all these EVs.
You can forget to carry a 1 in metric, too.
> The gap between design and engineering has never been wider.

This seems like such a weird claim to make. This used to be "here's a JPEG, you may beg for the PSD". Not saying that there's no gap today but... never been wider..? Am I missing something about the typical Figma setup that makes it worse than a random JPEG export of one state of the UI?
Interesting you liked the ending of Season 2. About 1/3 of the way through, Lynch distanced himself from the series and stopped directing it. He stated that he caved to network pressure to resolve the murder early and combined with actor off and on-set drama, it derailed his plans for the second season. Mark Frost took over as the de facto show runner, but without that partnership, he just basically babysat it until the show was killed off.

I still enjoyed the season, but arguably, it's the most un-Lynchian.
It's the journey, not the destination. You need to find something that can bring you fulfillment and pay the bills.
More views:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-S8CK6LgnD4

https://x.com/DavidCaroe/status/1880036195985682710
The vessel was made of glass and airtight. It was also in a lead case in a sealed tomb underground.
(replying to self)

I just checked out the demo site, and now I'm question their design choices as well.

https://simple-blog.nuejs.org/

Nue claims to be minimalist and an outright rejection of everything that is bloated. And yet, this simple page has an obnoxious blur. I get that it kinda looks nice on first load, but click around - the blur happens on each navigation.

This screams form over function if anything.
If you're using LetsEncrypt without automation you're doing it wrong, and the reason that the WebPKI is so hacky is that it was insulated from basic computer science for 2 decades and run by enterprise software companies.

You have to automate certificates. You can't do these by hand anymore. Certificate lifetimes are going to get inexorably shorter.
The switch isn't a handheld though. It's way too big to be a viable replacement for a 3DS in that regard, Nintendo just gave up on that market segment for whatever reason.
I probably won't ever use this but the docs look really nice. Specifically: the header combines a blurry backdrop filter with something like `background: radial-gradient(transparent 1px, white 1px) center / 4px 4px` to make a background of transparent dots.
I'm only casually into LOTR, but I immediately recognized her name from my beloved copy of the Dragonlance Atlas. Quite fun to read how she basically invented the field of professional fantasy cartography.
You don’t need to even do that. Just make 150k a minimum salary, (or 200 if you want to be extra safe) and you will get rid of most of these body-shops. And yet, Meta will continue to be > 50% Asian, so will other Big Tech, which is what I think is the real source of all this anxiety. If you want to reverse that, you have to either have a racist immigration policy, or radically reduce the number of H1bs
You mean 1979-1991 when china invaded vietnam so the khmer rouge could continue genociding cambodians?
> And yet people think that the urgent problem to care for our kids is them finding out about people making love on the Internet?

Most porn is a far cry from “making love”.
This is an old, recurring post. To me it appears to have been inspired by IBM's various Java tooling from the 1990s.
Booster works, we've seen that before. No satellites deployment, no new heat shield test. Separation works. But that's it.

Now the 'funniest' thing, this piece falls back where the ships are waiting. I hope it will miss this time too.
>It's because we don't have literate programmers. They don't know how to speak CLEARLY.

Mate, I think this is a bit of a reach.
It's not "safe from any frame drops" vs. "has frame drops." How often they drop to what framerate for how long is what makes up the experience. (Similarly, I don't need games on my Switch to look as high-fidelity as my 4090 renders them on my PC, but more textures/reflections would still be welcome over less.)

That's why I agree with what some others in the thread have said-- we'll need to wait for either numbers or, absolutely, some real-world experience to know how big of an improvement we can actually expect to get from an upgrade.
Triplebyte developed an online assessment technology for programmers. The company was acquired by Karat. Their website has claims of enormous improvements to the hiring process. Previously, you could take their tests and use the score to add to your job application.
https://connect.karat.com/tb-welcome
I really think aside from games, media editing, and other such heavy activities, 90% of apps are, or should be, web views. What they are doing makes a lot of sense.
But McDonalds absolutely can tell you an objective measure of what they charge you based on what you're getting. They charge you x per burger and y per fries and ...

The examples contained CPU and ram but that's not what they say everything should be - just some objective measure.

Snowflake charge by time, storage and size of machine - though they never tell you what the machine actually is underneath. I don't know what their "large" is.

Maybe it's by concurrent users, maybe amount of hours of support, maybe API calls.

I think the key thing was "we'd charge you X because you'd use Y" rather than "we'd charge you X because you look like you might pay it"
Yes, it was a good read. As someone with no direct connection to Linux or open-source development, I was surprised to find myself reading to the end. And near the end I found this comment particularly wise:

> The world as a whole does not appear to be headed in a peaceful direction; even if new conflicts do not spring up, the existing ones will be enough to affect the development community. Developers from out-of-favor parts of the world may, again, find themselves excluded, regardless of any personal culpability they may have for the evil actions of their governments or employers.
Is this the $200k ticket to cheating death?
How is the Switch a competitor when it doesn't even play most games that you can find on Playstation or Steam?

I think Nintendo is- respectfully- in their own lane.
They definitely don't visualize 24 dimensional spheres. When I did my PhD in pure math I found that gradually I just became comfortable working without any visual or spatial intuition and instead relying on the (algebraic and topological) machinery that had been put in place before me. Terence Tao had a nice essay [1] talking about how the final stage in becoming a professional mathematician is developing the intuition to know what is likely true or not in these very abstract spaces.

I also never used a computer for anything other than latex.

[1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...
I’m doubtful that barcodes would qualify as free speech.
beautiful although one wonders what they're trying to escape
> Indeed, solar is not available 24/7. But it's not individual installations which need 24/7 availability, it's the grid as a whole; plus, energy use during the day and night differs, so even the grid as a whole doesn't need the same generation capacity 24/7

The peak to trough is ~30% reduction if I recall correctly. It’s different but not massively so. And long distance energy transport is insanely expensive. It’s being done but mainly to stabilize the grid rather than arbitrage. And your entire solar capacity in the US goes offline for ~12+ hours. That’s a lot of energy you’re going to have to supplant in other ways regardless of long distance.

> And indeed, those installations are taking place, and they are rather cheap.

Because the cost of storage and the destabilization of the grid it causes the provider are treated as externalities.
I think it's a bad design. There should be a window of a few minutes to override it.

I made a rash comment (not a very bad one, but I introduced politics for no reason), very quickly regretted it, but you were faster.

Now many people will read this idiotic exchange instead of doing something more productive.
> A major project will discover that it has merged a lot of AI-generated code, a fact that may become evident when it becomes clear that the alleged author does not actually understand what the code does.

"Oh Machine Spirit, I call to thee, let the God-Machine breathe half-life unto thy data flow and help me comprehend thy secrets."