MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjani | 2025-08-26 15:58:35+00:00
> Everybody DEMANDS Google "do something" about malware, scam and fake apps. So it does.

Which Google department are you at? Some good stuff you've convinced yourself of here. My social circle is 99% normies, not once of them has ever brought this up. Normie news doesn't bring it up. You do though, to justify yourself.
by tpoacher | 2025-08-26 15:58:35+00:00
It's a fanciful idea, but just like the real life analogue it models, it completely turns a blind eye to the fact that, ultimately, the pirates are looters and pillagers and will burn the shop down, both yours and possibly theirs.

And no I don't agree a pirate captain is needed; the notion of a "static" equilibrium is contrived and a non-sequitur in the analogy. The ship could simply sail smoothly instead (still an equilibrium) without arbitrary changes in speed or going too close to the reefs for no bloody reason.

And if the "chaos" is "strategic", then it's not bloody chaos to begin with, is it?
by echelon | 2025-08-26 15:59:17+00:00
> This is the gpt 4 moment for image editing models.

No it's not.

We've had rich editing capabilities since gpt-image-1, this is just faster and looks better than the (endearingly? called) "piss filter".

Flux Kontext, SeedEdit, and Qwen Edit are all also image editing models that are robustly capable. Qwen Edit especially.

Flux Kontext and Qwen are also possible to fine tune and run locally.

Qwen (and its video gen sister Wan) are also Apache licensed. It's hard not to cheer Alibaba on given how open they are compared to their competitors.

We've left the days of Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney of "prompt-only" text to image generation.

It's also looking like tools like ComfyUI are less and less necessary as those capabilities are moving into the model layer itself.
by ruszki | 2025-08-26 15:59:27+00:00
Generally agree, that we shouldn’t jump on conclusions, but experts in my own field are doing bad things mainly because of lack of knowledge. With the lack of will as a very close contender for the top position. “The lack of possibility” is the exception.

When I argued here that Linux is still pain to maintain on my laptops, it wasn’t because it’s not possible. I just didn’t have enough willpower.

People who jumped on me because of this were still idiots, because they thought that their even less knowledge (what were the error messages, my exact setup, etc) can be helpful for me, but still it would be wrong to state that I was unsuccessful because it’s not possible, or I had full knowledge back then.

Especially now, that I’m running Linux full time.

For example, I’m quite sure that you can solve this problem with a proxy, no matter what’s behind it. Maybe it’s infeasible, because you would need a custom proxy implementation, but it’s definitely possible.
by supertrope | 2025-08-26 15:59:47+00:00
A $100 fee makes it costly to burn and churn new accounts. So it's a spam filter.

Forcing developers to stay engages pushes out feature complete software but also pushes out unmaintained software.

An app store is an inherently higher cost distribution method. The operating systems are gratis so development is cross subsidized from app store royalties. They have an incentive to host more paid apps, especially micro-transaction apps that trick kids into spending thousands of dollars off mom's credit card. Of course they've banned or are going to ban alternative channels so you can't choose to self-distribute.
by 0x3f | 2025-08-26 15:59:52+00:00
Historically, I think state-led approaches have led to a kind of frozen-in-time futurism. It's a bit like how Japan is said to have been living in the year 2000 since 1980. The stuff that was futuristic during its rapid expansion became crystalized and entrenched in society. Now they're still using fax machines in 2025.

I suspect China will face a similar problem. The microcosm of QR codes not being replaced by NFC, for example.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-26 16:00:03+00:00
Can only speak for myself, but for me the issue with traditional clickpads comes down to their mechanical diving board nature. Even the best ones are not nice to use due to the unavoidable variance in pressure and click feel across the pad that is exacerbated as the size of the pad increases and the mechanism wears over time.

The type that doesn’t move at all and simulates a click with haptics on the other hand I find just fine. MacBooks do this of course but there’s also a few x86 laptops equipped with pads like that.

So in my opinion, mechanical clickpads should disappear entirely and laptops should offer two options: a static haptic clickpad and traditional trackpad with buttons.
by simpaticoder | 2025-08-26 16:00:43+00:00
I have a 1st gen Framework 13, Intel 11th gen CPU, running Ubuntu 24. It had a faulty design around the BIOS battery on the motherboard that I had to fix, and do some soldering on[1]. It's remarkable because they didn't say "Send the laptop in and we'll fix the design defect" they said, "First take a photo of the inside of the laptop to verify the serial number, then place an order, then do the repair yourself." This left a very bad taste in my mouth.

Additionally, and non-trivially, the laptop's battery life is not good, and it drains very quickly on suspend. I have taken to leaving it plugged in when not in use. This may be a Linux issue, but still.

I agree with you: the idea is a good one, but my experience with the company has been not good.

1 - https://guides.frame.work/Guide/RTC+Battery+Substitution+on+...
by kemyd | 2025-08-26 16:00:47+00:00
I tested it with two prompts:

// In this one, Gemini doesn't understand what "cinematic" is

"A cinematic underwater shot of a turtle gracefully swimming in crystal-clear water [...]"

// In this one, the reflection in the water in the background has different buildings

"A modern city where raindrops fall upward into the clouds instead of down, pedestrians calmly walking [...]"

Midjourney created both perfectly.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-08-26 16:01:11+00:00
From TFA: "We only generate a small amount of these ten proteins, for a very short time, and that leads to much less inflammation than what we see in ISG15-deficient individuals,” Bogunovic says. “But that inflammation is enough to prevent antiviral diseases."

It seems that the goal is to learn to trigger the benefits, without triggering the bad parts. Which, should probably have been obvious to you without even bothering to read the article.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-26 16:01:44+00:00
> Agreed, I always think that all these taxes should indeed just go through fuel. Want a bigger, heavier, more polluting car? Want to drive like a F1 driver? Fine, you pay more.

That already happens in some states. I have a performance car, and in Washington that came with a "gas guzzler tax" built in to the purchase breakdown, so I paid a lump sum (in addition to the ongoing higher fuel costs).
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-08-26 16:02:14+00:00
> The cities are not taken over. The mayor/police chief of those cities have no desire to reign in crime, the federal government has to step in. Depending on your political views, this is a good thing or a bad thing. Bottom line is that people much more safer now in DC than they were 2-3 weeks ago.

I find that the people who make statements like this don't actually live in cities. Its like you got your talking points from Stephen Miller.
by jefurii | 2025-08-26 16:02:18+00:00
I encountered this station by accident one summer while on a cross-Japan trip. I was doing the cheap but slow Seishun 18 Kippu thing. All the passengers that had boarded at Kanazawa had gotten off and I was the only one in the car. I looked up from my book as the train neared a mountain and then it was dark outside. I'd been through lots of tunnels before, no big deal.

But then the train slows down and stops at this station in the middle of the mountain. There's an announcement but it's so echoey that I miss it. I think they're saying the train is going to stop for 10 minutes but I'm not sure. I poke my head out. I eventually look around but I take all my gear with me - I don't want the train to suddenly take off with my stuff on it. I stand for awhile looking up at the staircase going up into the rock, feeling it suck the air upwards, wondering what the heck is at the top.

I found this experience to be frickin' cool and random rather than creepy. Years later Google Maps let me visit the station at the top and it was pretty much just a boring local station with a couple unique features.
by shermantanktop | 2025-08-26 16:02:28+00:00
Intel chose and stuck with backcompat as a strategy. They could, tomorrow, split their designs into legacy hardware and modern hardware. They didn’t, but Apple has done breaking generational change many times.

Apple also has a particular advantage in owning the os and having the ability to force independent developers to upgrade their software, which make incompatible updates (including perf optimizations) possible.
by cduzz | 2025-08-26 16:02:30+00:00
No escape key? No problem! Ctl-[ to the rescue. If you really want to puzzle the kids let them loose on an old hpux or irix box where # is remapped to backspace and @ is remapped to kill...

That's a lovely terminal; makes me wish I'd held onto my vt220 just to show the kids all the weird things people used to have to put up with. I remember there was something deranged about it's keyboard that I eventually came to not really mind all that much. Eventually I spent years of my life in front of a decstation 3100 and I think I eventually got used to the strange layout.
by notsylver | 2025-08-26 16:02:44+00:00
I scanned everything into 48-bit RAW and treat those as the originals, including the IR scan for ICE and a lower quality scan of the metadata. The problem is sharing them - important images I manually repair and export as JPEG which is time consuming (15-30 minutes per image, there are about 14000 total) so if its "generic family gathering picture #8228" I would rather let AI repair it, assuming it doesn't butcher faces and other important details. Until then I made a script that exports the raws with basic cropping and colour correction but it can't fix the colours which is the biggest issue.
by sillywalk | 2025-08-26 16:03:32+00:00
> a presentation from years ago which showed that some IP is shared between the Z and Power CPUs.

The eCLIPz project, for the POWER6 & Z10[0].

"The z10 processor was co-developed with and shares many design traits with the POWER6 processor, such as fabrication technology, logic design, execution unit, floating-point units, bus technology (GX bus) and pipeline design style, i.e., a high frequency, low latency, deep (14 stages in the z10), in-order pipeline.

However, the processors are quite dissimilar in other respects, such as cache hierarchy and coherency, SMP topology and protocol, and chip organization."[1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494225

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_z10
by foxyv | 2025-08-26 16:03:43+00:00
I have been shocked by the monstrous neglect that is heaped on many children. A significant number of parents keep kids like worthless livestock. They do the bare minimum to not lose them to CPS and then kick them out at the first opportunity.

Spending as much time as it takes to read to your children every night is WAY more than these parents are willing to do. Children are lucky if they can eat more than one meal a day, sleep in a clean bed and have clean clothes to wear. Usually there are abused and neglected animals that will foul the household and bite the children. Money is spent on nicotine products, alcohol, fast food, and gambling. Any money spent on children is done so hesitantly.

This is why social services like daycare and public schools are so important. It is often the only chance many children will have to get the care and attention they need to survive until adulthood without huge mental and physical health issues.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-26 16:03:46+00:00
A Taiwan conflict wouldn't have an impact on the Display fab industry.

Display Fabs have primarily been located in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore for decades.

The economics of display fabs are even worse than those of IC Fabs, because of how displays have been viewed as commodified for decades, and because they are not viewed as a "critical" or "dual use" technology, so the same level of industrial policy for this never existed.

Both India and Vietnam recently tried to subsidize Display Fab investments, but the PLI never got significant takers because aside from OLED, the rest of the display fab market is heavily commodified, and Samsung+LG largely finished capacity investments 2-5 years ago, and commodified vendors like Sharp can't justify the capex given that Displays are not treated as a critical technology.
by jjani | 2025-08-26 16:03:50+00:00
Honest answer? You need to lobby your national left-wing, pro-privacy parties to start being openly anti-immigration so that they can actually stop shrinking every year.

I'm sure this will be a massively unpopular one, but it doesn't change that this is the reality you're facing. Go look across the makeup of the EU parliament over the last 20 years and how it has shifted. Check the main reason people have voted this way. Then go look at how the EU parties vote.

"But it shouldn't be this way!" Then enjoy your further slide into authoritarianism.
by GeekyBear | 2025-08-26 16:04:18+00:00
> When can we expect a x86 laptop chip to match the M1 in efficiency/thermals?!

One of the things Apple has done is to create a wider core that completes more instructions per clock cycle for performance while running those cores at conservative clock speeds for power efficiency.

Intel and AMD have been getting more performance by jacking up the clock speeds as high as possible. Doing so always comes at the cost of power draw and heat.

Intel's Lunar Lake has a reputation for much improved battery life, but also reduces the base clock speed to around 2 gigahertz.

The performance isn't great vs the massively overclocked versions, but at least you get decent battery life.
by jmwilson | 2025-08-26 16:04:19+00:00
Another obnoxious behavior is clients enforcing lifetime requirements for domains they have no business imposing their opinion about: .internal and .home.arpa. These are specifically carved out for private use. If I want to roll my own CA with a 2.5.29.30 name constraint extension for one of these domains and hand out a 10 year wildcard certificate, I should be able to without interference from my web browser.

Additionally, Google and the PSL have inadvertently broken .home.arpa on Chrome by misclassifying it as a public suffix, while leaving .internal alone. A wildcard cert for *.home.arpa will not work on Chrome, but *.internal will, despite these two domains being essentially equivalent in purpose.
by branko_d | 2025-08-26 16:04:22+00:00
> In many cases it's guaranteed to be small or small-ish.

And in many cases it's assumed to be small, but not guaranteed. That's where the trouble lies.

A classic example is Windows using a quadratic algorithm for arranging desktop icons that caused severe performance issues when users had many icons on their desktop.

https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/...
by goku12 | 2025-08-26 16:04:31+00:00
> But I stuck it out, still hate Windows, but I've gotten a bit used to it.

So you tolerate it. Matches what I felt. But it was more the stuff I couldn't control - like the timing of the updates and the incessant ads.

> It's like two commands. Super easy.

For you, yes. But problem for the average user is the patience required to figure it out. Also, I think the edition I used didn't have that option at all. Because I vaguely remember searching for a solution and not finding one that worked for me. Whatever it was, it will soon be like that for more or less everyone.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-26 16:04:46+00:00
Expedited removal does not require sending people to a hellhole third-world prison.

Many of the people sent there were in the US legally.

But thank you for illustrating the deflection I was talking about. This is how these conversations always go for me. First the ignorance, "I don't even know what you're referring to." Then the minimization, "it's not so bad," "you're being hyperbolic." Finally the justification, "this is nothing new," "they were all illegals anyway."
by jqpabc123 | 2025-08-26 16:04:58+00:00
...engineers are just going to give AI more credit

Nice idea but I don't think it will work for very long.

This CEO's real objective is a significant cost reduction from the magic "coder in a box". Just giving it credit won't achieve this.

Those who were afforded the opportunity to work for a different CEO may not realize it yet but things may ultimately turn out in their favor.
by wowczarek | 2025-08-26 16:05:12+00:00
In addition, for the purposes of characterising the system using NTP, ideally one should also either eavoid any ensembling / combining of sources because that's just pulling in multiple sources of noise, or it should be proven that doing so does not affect the final results, or if it does, then by how much.

There's so much more that can be picked apart here because it's an absolute rabbit hole of a topic - for example, saturate the links a little or a little more, especially with bursty traffic in both directions (or do an 80-20 cycle), and watch those measurements go out the window and only with PTP-capable switches at every hop will you survive this. The Telecom industry has done it ad nauseam and for years with appropriate standardised measurements, test masks and requirements.

And this whole business is also not fundamentally PTP vs. NTP because the principles are exactly the same, it's the fact that PTP was designed with hardware timestamping in mind and it would serve no purpose more useful than NTP had NTP gained support for one-step operation, hardware timestamping - and network assistance. But the default PTP profile uses known multicast groups and thus known destination MACs and it was the easiest entry into hardware packet matching - early "PTP-enabled" NICs only timestamped PTP packets (and most only multicast), only more modern ones allowed to timestamp all packets and that includes NTP.

And as far as RasPi goes - for time sync, at least in terms of COTS equipment, Intel is king, but that's because they had smart people working hard for years to purposefully integrate time-aware functionalities into the architectures (Hey Kevin and team!) - invariant TSC, ART, culminating with PCIE PTM. But this is where aiming for the tens to single digit ns region.

You can easily deliver sub-10 ns sync to a NIC, but a huge source of uncertainty is time transfer from your hardware-timestamping NIC to the OS clock. PTM is the only way to do this in hardware, otherwise, with Solarflare being the only NON-PTM exception I've worked with, comparing NIC to OS time is literally reading the time register on the NIC and the kernel time in quick succession in batches (granted, with local interrupts disabled), and then picking the pair of reads that seems to have taken the least amount of time. Unknowns on top of unknowns.
by bhouston | 2025-08-26 16:05:24+00:00
The degree to which US politics can be bought amazes me as a Canadian. It does seem that $$$ makes right in the US.

It isn’t so much the will of the people but the will of the rich and powerful.

For example, in the last US election there was billions spent in 2024 by the political parties, and outside groups:

Parties themselves: https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race

Outside groups: https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/by_group
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-26 16:05:51+00:00
> TSMC doesen't design or sell the chips. If they have limited capacity they will of course charge more for manufacturing mobile chips if they can sell the capacity to Nvidia/AMD/Apple instead

That’s the entire point. Intel is behind because their vertical market strategy of using their own fabs only for their own chips doesn’t give them enough volume compared to TSMC who has volume because they are a foundry.

> ARM chips (and that's pretty much by design based on ARM's business model) are close to being a commodity.

ARM doesn’t manufacture chips. The entire argument is that it’s a strategic interest for Intel to manufacture chips in the US. ARM is irrelevant to this conversation.

> Apple is of course an exception but they are not directly part of the CPU market. And ARM and Qualcomm are barely bothering trying to compete with them because there doesen't seem to be a lot of point. They themselves are pivoting to datacenter because there is just more money to be made there.

Apple, Nvidia and to a lesser extent all of the companies that are designing chips and using TSMC as a foundry are more relevant than x86 chips.

Between phones, tablets, watches, and Macs, Apple, etc alone sells more devices with Arm chips than PCs and servers sold by Intel.

They have enough scale to fund leading edge processing.

Qualcomm is a bigger seller of processors than anyone since every mobile cellular chip that I’m aware of except for the very few designed by Apple for the low end 16e is sold by Qualcomm.

> I guess that's complicated. It seems like an optimal strategy if you are a chip designer (e.g. Nvidia or AMD vs Qualcomm). Not so much if you are a fabricator. Of course Intel being both makes things a lot harder for them.

That’s exactly the issue. Intel the chip designer would be better off if they used TSMC and Intel the fabricator would have a lot more funding if other chip designers trusted them enough to use them as a foundry.

Every company that both tries to be vertically integrated and a “platform” fails at one or the other.

Google - The Google Pixel is an also ran hobby project. But they are relatively successful with their products across iOS and Android

Apple - a great vertically integrated product. But no one uses Apple Music on Android unless they are an iPhone family with the one off Android user. iTunes has sucked from day one on Windows and Safari for Windows was rapidly abandoned.

Microsoft - the Surface laptops have gained some traction. But sales are miniscule in the grand scheme of things.

But you notice in the case of Google and Microsoft, they aren’t crazy enough to manufacture their hardware.
by 201984 | 2025-08-26 16:06:04+00:00
The point of the article was that there's never going to be a new domestic competitor. It would take hundreds of billions in investment to get off the ground and build a fab from scratch, and they'd be in an even worse position than Intel is currently. No external customer would want to risk using them, and they don't have the internal demand of x86 to keep going on their own.
by the_snooze | 2025-08-26 16:06:28+00:00
>The argument being that a vast majority of jobs do not ever use the above.

Yikes. At that point, it's really not much of a "CS" degree. It's a trade program that teaches you how to use particular programming languages and frameworks.

Someone with that background is in a brittle position. They won't be able to pivot as easily to different technologies when things inevitably change. And they'll be ill-equipped to handle interesting open-ended projects where it's up to them to decide what approaches to use, how to bound problems, how to reason through trade-offs, and what lessons to take from prior work.