MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 08:33:51+00:00
> Well I hate to disparage a large group of people, but how often have you spoken to an American who understands this type of social-legal history of the country, and values it?

Quite often, and the answer is not many. It's why I've returned to a frankly elitist worldview, because this seems to be a historical pattern when power is diffused too widely. The lesson of our age may be that the Chinese political system, which seeks to restrit political competition within a small, carefully-selected group, is fitter than the American experiment.
by spencerflem | 2025-06-10 08:34:51+00:00
You're probably right. (Though fwiw when I left the comment I was the only response and it was not downvoted)

But it just makes me so sad. I think I ought to delete my account. Every time anything US politics-y comes up, especially the supreme court, the comments are filled with such horrible takes. It makes me feel like, if this is the sort of world the people here want and its so different from what I hope for, what common ground do we have.

Why should I care about, idk retrocomputers or WASM OSes etc. if its just to be part of a group that's like this.

Idk, same sort of angst about doing anything on a computer these days. I get embarrassed telling people what I do. People in general seem to hate programmers and the more I go on the more I think they're right.

Idk blehjj, just in a bad mood sorry for ranting. Thanks for the comment, honestly
Google is raising the price of Workspace because of "significant added AI value"
by ethagnawl | 2025-06-10 08:35:02+00:00
This is the relevant portion of the announcement email:

Dear Google Workspace administrator,

We’re writing to inform you of the price change that will go into effect for your Google Workspace Business Standard subscription on or after July 9, 2025. The updated subscription pricing reflects the significant added AI value, as well as the many new features we have introduced and are launching to Google Workspace editions.
by ownagefool | 2025-06-10 08:35:19+00:00
Containers are essentially just a wrapper tool for a linux kernel feature called cgroups, with some added things such as layered fs and the distribution method.

You can also use just use cgroups with systemd.

Now, you could implement something fairly similar in each OS, but you wouldn't be able to use the vast majority of contained software, because it's ultimately linux software.
by AsimovVentures | 2025-06-10 08:35:25+00:00
Happy to brainstorm on your pricing if you want. But it's hard to go in-depth based on what you've provided so far.

I run an agency focused on pricing and packaging 1–10M ARR companies. Always happy to give free advice to starting Founders. If you're interested just use this link to schedule something: https://revfixr.com/contact
by yokoprime | 2025-06-10 08:37:23+00:00
And their training reflects this. I've served in the army, but not in the US. Some units did get crowd control training, but it was very unusual and specific for their deployments (they were going to Kosovo). Preparing these units for crowd control required weeks of training.

Crowd control is pretty much the opposite of modern warfare, with large number of troops marching shoulder to shoulder forming shield walls, even having supporting cavalry.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 08:37:30+00:00
> Didn't the supreme court determine that presidents have 'broad immunity' for 'official acts'?

Broad immunity for official acts, and absolute immunity for core Constitutional powers. Nothing about "all charges" or self or preëmptive pardons.

> the current court seems very sympathetic to the unitary executive theory

UET concerns itself with how much power the President has to exercise executive power [1]. Not the boundaries of executive power per se.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory#Termi...
by PaulShin | 2025-06-10 08:37:49+00:00
That's a great question, as the transcription stack landscape is evolving quickly. As the founder of an AI collaboration platform (Markhub), we've tested several options for our own internal "AI teammate," MAKi.

Our stack is a hybrid approach, as we've found no single service is best for everything:

For Real-Time & High-Volume Transcription: We use Google's Speech-to-Text API (via Vertex AI). We found its accuracy with various accents and noisy environments to be top-tier, which is critical for turning real-world meeting audio into usable data. It's not the cheapest, but the reliability is worth it for our core product.

For Bundled Transcription + Summarization (What you're asking about): You're right to look at models that can handle this in one go. We use Gemini for this exact purpose. The ability to send an audio file and get back a structured summary, not just a raw transcript, is a huge workflow accelerator. We point our audio data to the model and ask it to not only transcribe but also extract action items, which is a core feature of our platform.

For Local/CLI Batching (As you mentioned): We've had great success with OpenAI's Whisper running in a containerized environment for internal, less time-sensitive tasks. Using a fine-tuned version of Whisper on a dedicated machine for batch processing can be very cost-effective. Your M4 mini should be able to handle the base models of Whisper quite well, especially using a tool like whisper.cpp.

My takeaway: For a production API, a robust cloud service like Google's or a powerful model like Gemini is more reliable. For local or batch processing, a self-hosted Whisper setup is a fantastic and powerful option. Good luck!
by scott_w | 2025-06-10 08:39:21+00:00
Speaking as a Brit, there were regular jokes about how bad US troops were during the Iraq war as a result of numerous friendly fire incidents. You also only have to go on Youtube to see jokes around US Marines and sticking crayons up their nose to realise your faith in the ability of the average soldier's mental faculties is higher than that displayed by the armed forces themselves.

Even the British Army, generally regarded for professionalism, make a lot of jokes about how unintelligent and trigger happy the average squaddie is.
by steeleduncan | 2025-06-10 08:39:38+00:00
> Google could replace Linux kernel with something else and no one would notice, other than OEMs and people rooting their devices.

This would be better phrased If Google could replace Linux kernel with something else noone would notice,

Google have spent a decade trying to replace the Linux with something else (Fuschia), and don't seem to have gotten anywhere
by nanna | 2025-06-10 08:41:50+00:00
European digital sovereignty in email depends on having a decent FOSS email client, but the best we have is Thunderbird. I hope TB can make up for all those years of lost time and catch up with Outlook. From their emails it seems like the focus is to compete with Exchange and to build smartphone clients. Personally I just really hope they find time to deal with the absolutely shoddy search.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-10 08:42:01+00:00
> Then where's all the money going?

They are giving vast amounts of inference away as part of their free tier to gain market share. I said inference is cheap, not that it is free. Giving away a large amount of a cheap product costs money.

> you're saying the unit economics of inference are all good

Free tiers do not contradict positive unit economics.
by mandaputtra | 2025-06-10 08:43:01+00:00
I sat next to a young aspiring software engineer, I just met him. And it's annoy me, to look at how he works. Prompting again - again and again till something is fixed, it's not how you do things. I think, if the AI could not answer it in the first place, you should fix it your self ~ or give it more context.

I'm sorry, It's just ~ I don't think that's how I want to use AI to code.

So I tell him, he needs to level up or else ~ the civilization will collapse, lol.

Again this is just opinion
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 08:43:19+00:00
> it just makes me so sad

Take it as an opportunity to engage in calm debate. I've learned a lot from reading the comments around these stories.

If it starts incensing you, hide the story. (They tend to get flagged off the front page fairly regularly. Something I used to condone until Silicon Valley started showing its authoritarian tendencies.)
by _elephant | 2025-06-10 08:44:08+00:00
One part that really hit home for me was how constraints actually help you cut through the noise. Like for me, I stopped trying to get to the perfect gym routine and just decided I’d never work out for more than 30 minutes. That one rule made it way easier to actually show up and do it. No more feeling like I had to have some big goal or perfect system. Just a small boundary that worked better for me.
by kev009 | 2025-06-10 08:44:34+00:00
They really aren't slow, but the performance and battery life is greatly eclipsed by Apple ARM. I could live pretty comfortably on a Lenovo P51 (something like a 2017 MBP) if I had to under Linux and FreeBSD. Also a not negligible amount of performance was lost by the security gaffes and microcode and OS mitigations for them.
by PaulShin | 2025-06-10 08:44:36+00:00
"Am I a dinosaur?" - I think you're asking the most important question for our craft in 2025. Thank you.

I lead a team building Markhub, an AI-native workspace, and we have this debate internally all the time. Our conclusion is that there are two types of "thinking" in programming:

"Architectural Thinking": This is the joy you're talking about. The deep, satisfying process of designing systems, building mental models, and solving a core problem. This is the creative work, and an AI getting in the way of this feels terrible. We agree that this part should be protected.

"Translational Thinking": This is the boring, repetitive work. Turning a clear idea into boilerplate code, writing repetitive test cases, summarizing a long thread of feedback into a list of tasks, or refactoring code. This is the work we want to delegate.

Our philosophy is that AI should not replace Architectural Thinking; it should eliminate Translational Thinking so that we have more time for the joyful, deep work.

For your mental model problem, our solution has been to use our AI, MAKi, not to write the core logic, but to summarize the context around the logic. For example, after a long discussion about a new feature, I ask MAKi to "summarize this conversation and extract the action items." The AI handles the "what," freeing me up to focus on the "how."

You are not a dinosaur. You are protecting the part of the work that matters most.
by pjmlp | 2025-06-10 08:45:11+00:00
Don't mistake company politics between ChromeOS, Android and Fuchsia business units, and the technical possibility of actually bothering to do so.

Also don't forget Fuchsia has been mostly a way to keep valuable engineers at Google as retention project.

They haven't been trying to replace anything as such, and Linux kernel on Android even has userspace drivers with stable ABI for Java and C++, Rust on the kernel, all features upstream will never get.

Or on Rust's case, Google didn't bother with the drama, they decided to include it, and that was it.
by mg | 2025-06-10 08:45:37+00:00
The article is about email. Europe could probably bring email "in-house". Large players like IONOS and OVH might help do it at scale.

But what about AI? Soon all of our email will be pre-handled by our OpenAI assistant while we will be driven around by Waymo and a good part of our work is done by a Tesla humanoid robot. How can Europe catch up and do that in a sovereign way?

For world-class AI, a country needs:

1 Photolithography 2 Wafers 3 GPUs 4 Software (SOTA Neural Networks) 5 Energy

Components 2-5 seem not on the horizon on a world-class level in Europe. So Europe probably won't have the means to do AI "in-house" in the coming decades, right?
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-10 08:45:44+00:00
Not OP. Have you perused these references from the Wikipedia page for OODA loop? The reference to a “supposed slide set” sounds interesting; perhaps that is what you’re alluding to regarding source material being hard to find?

Boyd, John R. (3 September 1976). Destruction and Creation (PDF). U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Destruct...

Boyd, John, R. (28 June 1995). "The Essence of Winning and Losing". danford.net. A supposed five-slide set by Boyd.

https://danford.net/boyd/essence.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
by scott_w | 2025-06-10 08:45:57+00:00
Bad as these things are, the Governor of California currently believes their own law enforcement can handle the situation without the National Guard. If he felt he needed support, he'd have requested it using the provided legal mechanisms.

Note that Trump's DoD did not seem to be in a hurry to deploy the National Guard on 6th January, despite multiple requests to do so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_response_to_th...
by vladvasiliu | 2025-06-10 08:47:47+00:00
Maybe a given number of years isn't what the yardstick should be, but rather whether the hardware can still be reasonably used.

For example, I have a 3rd gen Intel Xeon that runs circles around regular newish processors in brute processing force (think compiling and such). Yet, MS doesn't officially support it anymore with win11. I know you can circumvent the TPM requirement, which I do, so I'm still using it, but this just shows how arbitrary this limit is.

In Apple's case, at least they can say it's a different architecture and whatnot.
by PaulShin | 2025-06-10 08:48:47+00:00
Thank you for writing this. You've perfectly articulated the underlying anxiety that many of us in the industry feel but often hesitate to say out loud.

It's easy to feel alienated when the public narrative is dominated by either blind techno-optimism or a cynical acceptance of value extraction.

But I believe there's a third path. The problem isn't AI itself, but the goal we assign to it. At my company (Markhub), we have one core principle for our AI development: The purpose of AI is not to replace the human, but to replace the boring, soul-crushing parts of the human's job, to free them up for the work that actually requires a conscience.

We often talk about "Architectural Thinking" (the creative, strategic work you enjoy) versus "Translational Thinking" (writing boilerplate, summarizing meeting notes, chasing follow-ups). We are building our AI teammate, MAKi, to automate the latter, so our team can spend more time on the former.

So, to answer your question, "What is one to do?": We build. But we build differently.

We build tools that are not designed to maximize engagement at the cost of well-being. We build AI that is designed to augment, not to replace. We build companies that see users as partners to be served, not resources to be extracted.

We can't change the entire industry overnight, but we can create pockets of the future we actually want to live in. For me, that starts with building a workspace where technology genuinely serves the human, not the other way around.

You're not struggling for having a conscience. You are the immune system this industry desperately needs. Thanks again for starting this important conversation.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-06-10 08:49:08+00:00
I checked to see if there was a Standard Ebooks version, as they're generally nicer to read than Gutenberg (though translated works are a weak spot in both projects as you need the translation to fall out of copyright too).

However Standard Ebooks didn't have it. They did have a page about how they want sponsors or volunteers to help create it which I found interesting in itself:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/alessandro-manzoni/the-bet...
by gsf_emergency | 2025-06-10 08:50:55+00:00
Maybe author would also be interested in the (unstable) fixed-point better known as "the brotherhood of schizos". (because Sz prefer isolation :)

More earnestly.. the essay (fortuitously) elaborates a recent take of mine.. the formal education Great Filter. What if the anti-intellectualism that concerned de Tocqueville, was not a bug, but a feature that confers strategic advantage* over Orientals/"Catholics"? (Which the Brits-- & recidivist western europeans--, if we have to compare with equivalent frutti, do not enjoy)

To meet China (far lower proportion of college vs HS & lower, not to forget Mao's promotion of a healthy aversion to intellectual pursuits) Cantabrigia delenda est!

*Chiefly thanks to the restriction of tools of persuasion to those not enamoured of their own (deserved) intellectual or moral (unearned) standing
by scott_w | 2025-06-10 08:51:19+00:00
> Being terrified of progress means you're likely to kill far more people.

I'm not really sure what you're arguing for, or against, here. Nobody denies that changes are needed. The hardware is failing and buying new isn't possible to do seamlessly because of the age of the software.

The discussion is whether emulation is a possibility and people are pointing out that this comes with its own risks, so the discussion should centre around whether the cost/risk of emulation is lower than the cost/risk of building completely new systems.
by metalman | 2025-06-10 08:51:29+00:00
beyond insuficient,perhaps a record in insuficiency friends were tree planters durring college years, "high ballers" who would clear more than $200/day 5¢ a tree, 4000+ trees a day, one woman I know did it for 10 seasons, and hurt her kicker foot after planting millions of trees. It is the literal truth that a small tree planting crew could handle all of the worlds urban tree planting scheams in a very short time. humanity has cut a lot of trillions of trees, there are (not enough) trillions left urban tree planting is tokenistic set dressing for the political theater to come. this is like a government anouncing funding for 60000 bits of new code to be written over 25 years. Story like this are perfect examples of how far from understanding the scale of human caused climate heating we are, and points to how bad things will get before anything substantive is done.
by ksec | 2025-06-10 08:51:43+00:00
This is interesting. They all felt very different to me.

This actually reminded me a study 40% of people can't tell the difference between Coca Cola and Pepsi. And then some 30% can taste the difference but can't tell which is which, 10% can tell but don't have preference.

I guess I am in the extreme minority. You could blindfold me and I could tell you by typing which keyboard is which. And this is not to brag but I much rather I don't have these high standard. Life would be a lot happier.
by dunyakirkali | 2025-06-10 08:51:57+00:00
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by sgammon | 2025-06-10 08:52:08+00:00
There is a generation of graphics cards under the name "Ada." For example: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1811918-REG/nvidia_90...

I believe TIOBE counts by search activity for a given token. I.e. large search volume of the token "Ada" would show up in TIOBE, whether it is for the line of graphics cards from NVIDIA or the programming language.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-10 08:52:16+00:00
The relationship between the US and the ICC has been deteriorating for 3-4 decades now. The OIC effectively controls the ICC (they have the majority vote in electing judges), and the US fights terrorism.

This used to be a huge complaint across African countries (because they had the same problem: African governments went pretty far in suppressing islamic insurgencies that threatened their existence. Of course the insurgencies committed 100x the human rights violations that those states did, but never got convicted)
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-10 08:53:06+00:00
That's false, 2020 was the last year one was introduced - not phased out

Some resellers still have them in inventory, at least I came upon one a few weeks ago.

That makes it a 3 yrs EOL situation. Pretty terrible considering the prices of these devices.

At least the notorious Chromebooks were sold super cheaply (notorious for their non-existent update policies) - not the case here

They were also still being sold by Apple the last time I bought a MacBook pro, which was around 2022 iirc
by dominicrose | 2025-06-10 08:53:23+00:00
Wether they are imposed on us or self-imposed, constraints reduce chaos. But while a chess coach will tell you not to leave pieces hanging a top chess AI will leave pieces hanging in order to gain a more important long-term advantage. It thrives in what looks like chaos to a less capable player.

I think we just have to know our limits and set a reasonable amount of constraints accordingly. You don't want to burn your wings.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-10 08:53:43+00:00
I'm not trying to convince you, I'm just sharing my experience.

IMO, just like with macOS, one should buy hardware based on whether their OS supports it. There are plenty of mini PCs with Linux pre-installed or with support if you just Google the model + Linux. There's entire sites like this where you can look up computers and components by model and check whether there is support: https://linux-hardware.org/?view=computers

You can even sort mini PCs on Amazon based on whether they come with Linux: https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Computers-Linux-Desktop/s?keywor...

The kernel already has workarounds for poorly implemented firmware, ACPI, etc. There's only so much that can be done to support bespoke platforms when manufacturers don't put in the work to be compatible, so buy from the ones that do.

> Until I can get into Media Market kind of store and get a PC, of whatever shape, with something like Ubuntu pre-installed, and everything single hardware feature works without "yes but", I am not caring.

You can go to Dell right now and buy laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu instead of Windows: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/scr/laptops/app...
by ksec | 2025-06-10 08:54:37+00:00
The new MBP is indeed significant departure from Butterfly. But the new scissors it is still not back to old scissors key travel. And only works well with touch typist.

If I remember correctly the current Thinkpad should have the same key travel distance as my MBP / old scissors.

But new scissors definitely have better key stability, something carried forward from butterfly ( although not as good as butterfly ). And for people who have preference with key stability it is a better choice.
by wickedsight | 2025-06-10 08:54:47+00:00
> that it justifies throwing away privacy and even copyright law

That's why I wrote that we don't want to do that. But not doing that comes with a risk that we need to be aware of. There's two sides to the coin and we need to look at both before we pick a side.

I don't have an opinion on which side to pick, since I think it's one of the hardest decisions of our time and I value our sovereignty and privacy. I just don't know if we can keep those in the long term if we start lagging behind on a global scale.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-06-10 08:55:23+00:00
I'll report bugs, give details — via multiple cumbersome steps, iff I can clearly track the status, follow up. Otherwise, even a one-click “send report”’popup isn't worth my effort. This is why I no longer bother reporting anything to Apple. Same crashes/errors keep on for years. I’m convinced those reports go to /fruit/null.