MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slt2021 | 2025-08-26 14:57:51+00:00
10% is not a controlling stake, and US already controls Intel via regulation.

Most importantly, Intel's market cap is minuscule $100 bln, it doesnt allow control over meaningful amount of capital

Socialism with Chinese characteristics - it reduces private wealth and curbs control of oligarchs like Jack Ma. I feel like US is the opposite, where oligarchs directly control the government already
by Temporary_31337 | 2025-08-26 14:57:56+00:00
computer job market is a huge misallocation of skills and resources, so no it's not that simple. Given how much tech debt/backlog there is, there should be enough work for everyone, just paid less. The fact that it isn't so just shows that there are bottlenecks elsewhere - HR, companies stuck in office only mode (so there's a high floor on salaries).

Currently all I see is a mix of very highly paid do it all types with rather lowly paid outsourced talent but no sensible middle and of course no way to realistically learn on the job - the bar to get in is very high.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-26 14:57:56+00:00
I really would like to have been payed to use Windows phones, especially as former Nokia employee.

I was in Espoo, the week following the burning platforms memo.

However it represented a third option, to a percentage no Linux phone distribution has ever achieved since Open Moko.

Maybe Maemo could have been it, had not been for Nokia's board decision to bring in Elop.
by cpursley | 2025-08-26 14:58:17+00:00
Not sure why you're getting downvoted (maybe by h1bs). Big companies abusing h1b has been all over the news. Heck a Walmart manager was just arrested for taking kickbacks related to h1bs (from the country of his origin)...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/walmart-h-...
by btown | 2025-08-26 14:58:47+00:00
"Just use Nginx" was not a viable option here, without additional Certbot etc. orchestration, until 14 days ago! And this is still in preview! https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol

And, if you haven't been using a reverse proxy before, or for business/risk reasons don't want to use your main site's infrastructure to proxy the inherited site, and had been handling certificates in your host's cPanel with something like https://www.wpzoom.com/blog/add-ssl-to-wordpress/ - it is indeed a dedicated project to install a reverse proxy!
by yanaimngvov | 2025-08-26 14:59:01+00:00
This is a technically impressive release, and its architecture reveals a lot about why it achieves such high quality in dialogue generation. It's not just another TTS model; it's a well-thought-out system.

Diving into its design, VibeVoice employs a sophisticated two-stage, cascaded generation process, which is key to its performance:

Semantic Generation (The "What"): It first uses a powerful LLM backbone (a Qwen2 variant) to convert the input text into semantic tokens. This is where the model's deep contextual understanding comes from. It's not just reading words; it's interpreting the structure of a conversation, which is why it handles complex, multi-speaker scripts (Speaker 0: ..., Speaker 1: ...) so effectively and maintains long-form coherence. Acoustic Generation (The "How"): The semantic tokens are then passed to a diffusion-based acoustic model. This is the core of its audio quality. Unlike older GAN-based vocoders, the diffusion process allows it to synthesize incredibly rich and natural-sounding audio with realistic prosody, intonation, and emotional cadence. This is a computationally intensive but sonically superior approach, and likely the reason for its quality.

The impact of this architecture is significant. It moves open-source TTS closer to the quality of proprietary leaders, especially for use cases that require more than single-sentence narration, like character-driven AI video or podcast prototyping.

For those interested in the technicals, here are the direct resources:

GitHub (Source Code): https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice

Hugging Face (Model & Config): https://huggingface.co/microsoft/VibeVoice-1.5B

Live Demo (for Dialogue Engine Testing): https://vibevoice.info/
by Delk | 2025-08-26 14:59:05+00:00
I get 8 to 10 hours of light use on my personal ThinkPad. Or ~6 h of Netflix at 50% screen brightness, despite the lack of hardware decoding for DRM encrypted video on Linux. All of these are with a max charge threshold of 80%. 5 hours of battery life sounds rather limited to me, too.

But then the numbers are hardly comparable without having comparable workloads. If I were regularly running builds or had some other moderate load throughout a working day, that'd probably cost a couple of hours.
by cubefox | 2025-08-26 14:59:07+00:00
Maybe it's worth noting that the new CEO's explosive statement, Intel would give up development of leading edge nodes (14A and beyond) unless they find a large external customer in advance, hardly got any attention on Hacker News or other websites. But that was almost certainly the reason the US administration got involved. This blog post thankfully makes this point clear.

In the past, most people (including myself) just assumed the worst case was merely Intel selling its chip manufacturing division to some other US company which would then continue to develop new advanced nodes like 14A.

But that was not at all what Lip Bu-Tan (the new Intel CEO) suggested at the earnings call. He said Intel would simply stop developing new nodes and just use the existing 18A fabs as long as there is demand. And then, presumably, closing all the fabs and fully switching to TSMC, becoming another AMD.
by olejorgenb | 2025-08-26 14:59:11+00:00
> Apple has had decades optimizing its software and hardware stacks to the demands of its majority users, whereas Intel and AMD have to optimize for a much broader scope of use cases.

But as you mention - they've at multiple times changed the underlying architecture, which surely would render å large part of prior optimizations obsolete?

> Software in x86 world is not optimized, broadly, because it doesn’t have to be.

Do ARM software need optimization more than x86?
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-08-26 14:59:29+00:00
Wait excuse me but what in the name of ever-loving fuck

<entry> <category term="filter"/> <title>Mail Filter</title> <id>tag:mail.google.com,2008:filter:2682352652378687976</id> <updated>2025-08-21T11:26:31Z</updated> <content/> <apps:property name="from" value="(yes-reply@randomdailyurls.com OR yes-reply@unfuck.email)"/> <apps:property name="hasTheWord" value="category:(CATEGORY_PERSONAL)"/> <apps:property name="shouldAlwaysMarkAsImportant" value="true"/> <apps:property name="shouldArchive" value="false"/> <apps:property name="shouldNeverSpam" value="true"/> </entry>

I think I'll skip this.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 14:59:35+00:00
The real harm of the sunscreen thing is that the FDA being weirdly far behind the rest of the OECD at approving new agents means we're stuck with stuff that's a pain to apply and feels gross to wear. This harms health, because people will be less consistent about applying and re-applying when it takes more time than it might, and when the product feels nasty on the skin.

Many grey-market imported sunscreens apply in like 1/4 the time of US ones, feel like nothing at all once rubbed in, don't leave your hands feeling oily and like you need to scrub hard with soap and water right after applying, and have almost no odor. We're like decades behind on that tech, for reasons that I don't understand.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-26 14:59:51+00:00
which is some damn irony given:

$ ls -ld ~/go ls: /Users/mdaniel/go: No such file or directory $ go install -v "github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath@latest" go: downloading github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath v0.4.0 package github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath is not a main package $ ls ~/go pkg/

And, while not _exactly_ related to this topic, this has also always rubbed me the wrong way:

$ rm -rf ~/go rm: /Users/mdaniel/go/pkg/mod/github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath@v0.4.0/.travis.yml: Permission denied $ rm -rf ~/go 2>&1|grep "Permission denied" | wc -l 686
by rnhmjoj | 2025-08-26 15:00:10+00:00
Do we know what was the European Commission response to Apple "complying" to the DMA by allowing sideloading with notarization and fees?

As far as I can see, the latest developments are from April 2025 when the commision fined Apple 500M€ for non-compliance due to preventing developers to advertise their app being available on a third-party store.
by XorNot | 2025-08-26 15:00:27+00:00
Bacteriophages don't infect things which aren't bacteria.

In fact they're so absurdly specific that while you could bathe in a solution of them and not get sick, they also frequently fail to infect slightly different members of the same species, which is why ultimately they never become antibiotic alternatives: having the right one on hand ranges from difficult to impossible.
by seabrookmx | 2025-08-26 15:00:39+00:00
Despite OP's complaints (which are valid) I run Fedora on my Framework 13 (AMD) and I get 5 hours of work (10 ish Firefox tabs, multiple VS Code instances, terminals and Slack) without issue.

It's not 8-12, and the fans do kick up. The track pad is fine but not as nice as the one on the MacBook. But I prefer to run Linux so the tradeoff is worth it to me.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-26 15:00:40+00:00
Not that I disagree. You're very likely correct in your assessment.

I only wanted to point out that you're almost forced to come up with some theory you have to explain genomic findings. Over time, yes, most of those theories have historically been shown to be bunk. (My gut tells me this one will share a similar fate.)

But that's the scientific method. Propose a hypothesis (theory). Design experiments to test said theory. Present the results. Which should lead you to another hypothesis.

In the "propose a hypothesis" phase, at least in fields like this one, the proposals will tend to be informed more by world view than by science. That's how humans think. I don't think there's any changing that. The control, or "check and balance", is supposed to be the objective review and validated replication of the results. Which is, I grant you, lacking at times.
by radarsat1 | 2025-08-26 15:00:54+00:00
I've had a task in mind for a while now that I've wanted to do with this latest crop of very capable instruction-following image editors.

Without going into detail, basically the task boils down to, "generate exactly image 1, but replace object A with the object depicted in image 2."

Where image 2 is some front-facing generic version, ideally I want the model to place this object perfectly in the scene, replacing the existing object, that I have identified ideally exactly by being able to specify its position, but otherwise by just being able to describe very well what to do.

For models that can't accept multiple images, I've tried a variation where I put a blue box around the object that I want to replace, and paste the object that I want it to put there at the bottom of the image on its own.

I've tried some older models, and ChatGPT, also qwen-image last week, and just now, this one. They all fail at it. To be fair, this model got pretty damn close, it replaced the wrong object in the scene, but it was close to the right position, and the object was perfectly oriented and lit. But it was wrong. (Using the bounding box method.. it should have been able to identify exactly what I wanted to do. Instead it removed the bounding box and replaced a different object in a different but close-by position.)

Are there any models that have been specifically trained to be able to infill or replace specific locations in an image with reference to an example image? Or is this just like a really esoteric task?

So far all the in-filling models I've found are only based on text inputs.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-26 15:00:54+00:00
> discretionary income is either stagnant in many sectors or are being chipped away from every angle: rent, healthcare, transport, childcare or leisure

This is false.

Real disposable personal income is higher today than any time before March 2020 [1]. Covid stimulus first dramatically raised (March '20 to '21) and then lowered (March '21 to June '22) that figure. But we hit a local maximum in April '25, after which real DPI started falling, though nevertheless only to the level we saw in spring '21 and early '25, and no point before.

(Real median household figures are more laggy. But they show the same trend [2]. On a national level, these figures are up.)

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
by rvnx | 2025-08-26 15:01:35+00:00
In EU they forbid us newspapers from non-approved countries, impose cookies banners everywhere, and now block porn. Soon they will forbid some AI models which have not passed EU censorship ("safety") validation. Because we all know that governments (or even Google with Android) are better at knowing what is the safest for you.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-rules-gener...
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-26 15:01:38+00:00
I think when Sundar and Satya start hearing about how their customers are losing billions of dollars because of some random people at their company called "certificate trust program leads" or whatever, there is going to be a lot of questions how those decisions got made and how to get them un-made.

Most of the other forum members either won't oppose longer lifetimes (every cert vendor would be happy) or will bow to the only two companies that matter.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-26 15:01:39+00:00
> Apple Silicon is 2-4x more efficient than AMD and Intel CPUs during load while also having higher top end speed.

This is not true. For high-throughput server software x86 is significantly more efficient than Apple Silicon. Apple Silicon optimizes for idle states and x86 optimizes for throughput, which assumes very different use cases. One of the challenges for using x86 in laptops is that the microarchitectures are server-optimized at their heart.

ARM in general does not have the top-end performance of x86 if you are doing any kind of performance engineering. I don't think that is controversial. I'd still much rather have Apple Silicon in my laptop.
by pron | 2025-08-26 15:01:45+00:00
But C++ is over 40 years old, and Java et al. displaced it in like five minutes. And that the footprint savings aren't worth much is pretty much the point. If you get 1GB/core and you use less, then you can't run more programs on the machine. The machine is exhausted when the first of RAM/CPU is, not when both are.
by mothballed | 2025-08-26 15:01:46+00:00
Nothing new. Circa the great recession, most of my fellow grads at a top-5 engineering school could not get jobs. Out of my friends, most of whom had internships, co-ops, and top ~10% of class, it mostly took us 6 months or so to secure a job as all our co-ops/internships cut off hiring before graduation. Many people did stuff like drive forklifts or work at walmart for awhile. Another friend of mine with a dual engineering major summa-cum-laude worked sorting screws in a screw factory, a position normally occupied by people in that town with serious mental handicaps.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-26 15:01:50+00:00
Because right now, the CA/B Forum believes that they cannot just completely blow off the concerns of orgs that are having problems adapting to the new requirements because they have legacy tech investments that use the Web PKI for purposes it's not a good fit for. This causes them to move more slowly than the less conservative stakeholders would like. If those concerns were lessened, then the CA/B Forum would feel freer to move faster.
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-26 15:02:13+00:00
1. Well, going into denial about it is your prerogative. But then you shouldn't express bafflement about why this stuff is being used.

Nobody is making mistakes as dumb as "we fixed something we can measure so the problem is solved". Fraud and abuse have ground-truth signals in the form of customers getting upset at you because their account got hacked and something bad happened to them.

2. This stuff is also used to block phishing and it works well for that too. I'd explain how, but you wouldn't believe me.

You mention check fraud so maybe you're banking with some US bank that has terrible security. Anywhere outside the USA, using a minimally competent bank means:

• A password isn't enough to get into someone's bank account. Banks don't even use passwords at all. Users must auth by answering a smartcard challenge, or using a keypair stored in a secure element in a smartphone that's been paired with the account via a mailed setup code (usually either PIN or biometric protected).

• There is no such thing as check fraud.

• There is no such thing as credit card phishing either. All CC transactions are authorized in real time using push messaging to the paired mobile apps. To steal money from a credit card you have to confuse the user into authorizing the transaction on their phone, which is possible if they don't pay attention to the name of the merchant displayed on screen, but it's not phishing or credential theft.
by gforce_de | 2025-08-26 15:02:19+00:00
Thanks for making that clear. But is it worth the hassle?

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/fastest-safest-png-deco...

PNG decoding seems to be fast enough:

tree1 - PEP = 0.412 ms PNG = 0.25 ms font - PEP = 0.602 ms PNG = 0.663 ms nz_scene - PEP = 32.121 ms PNG = 3.069 ms

Anyway, PEP is interesting!
by Shank | 2025-08-26 15:02:34+00:00
I feel like a lot of these requirements need to be really solved from first principles. What do you need these certificates for -- specifically, TLS certificates?

If the biggest issue is "we want to encrypt traffic" then the answer really should be something more automated. To put it another way, TLS certificates used to convey a lot of things. We had basic certs that said "you are communicating with the rightful owner of domain example.com" and we had EV certs that said "you are communicating with the rightful legal entity Example Org, who happens to own example.com" and so-on and so-forth.

But the thing is, we've killed off a lot of these certificate types. We don't have EV certs anymore. Let's Encrypt effectively democratized it to the point where you don't need to do any manual work for a normal "we want to encrypt data" certificate. I just don't understand what your specific requirements are, if they aren't directly "encrypt this traffic" focused, where you actually need valid certificates that work across the internet.

Put differently, if you're running an internal CA, you can push out your own certificates via MDM tools and then not worry about this. If you aren't running your own CA but you're implementing all of this pomp and circumstances, what are you trying to solve? Do you really need all of this ceremony for all of your devices and applications?
by reactordev | 2025-08-26 15:02:35+00:00
They could, but then so can a lot of tools. At least with Android, it’s still Java so you can just emulate the runtime and run the app. To upgrade, just decompile the Java bytecode back into something editable.

I had this same issue with one of my “long lost” games only, it wasn’t a mobile game but a console game, so Ghidra was my only hope.
by hennell | 2025-08-26 15:02:39+00:00
Doesn't gmail split email by promotions/social/updates by default now? I've had that for a long while and it keeps most important stuff in the inbox while hiding the mess.

I also have my own Google Apps Script app 'Gmaid' though to keep my inbox useable. It auto deletes / archives mail after X days when its tagged '3-day delete' or '5-day archive' etc. I have filters to apply appropriate tags and remove them if I want to keep something from being tidied. I wonder if I could use these filters to tag stuff that currently gets through?
by rthnbgrredf | 2025-08-26 15:02:41+00:00
Used ThinkPads from eBay, especially the smaller models from the X-Series, can make surprisingly cost effective "MiniPCs".

If you need multiple devices, as mentioned in the article, you can even stack the laptops and build a small tower of "MiniPCs" all with different purposes.

Another advantage is that they already come with a built-in screen and keyboard allowing for quick debugging, without needing to connect external peripherals.
by jmyeet | 2025-08-26 15:02:43+00:00
This is a bailout to Intel. It's essentially the US government pfoviding guarantees to Intel and its customers. How would you describe that as anything but a bailout?

But really I was talking generally, such as the bank bailouts in 2008. When a bank normally fails the FDIC comes in and takes control of it including ownership. The shareholders are SOL. In my mind, this is exactly what should've happened to all the banks that were essentially insolvent.

As another example, the US government bailed out LTCM in the 1990s when there was a willing buyer (Warren Buffett).
by kbolino | 2025-08-26 15:02:49+00:00
On the other end, when Windows first started having multiple users and locking down write access to system directories (*), lots of video games (and some other programs besides) decided to just dump their files anywhere. Just looking at my own system, I see all of the following used:

%userprofile%\Documents (which used to be called "My Documents") %userprofile%\Documents\My Games %userprofile%\Documents\Saved Games %userprofile%\Documents\SavedGames %userprofile%\Saved Games %appdata% %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow %localappdata%

As far as I can tell, there's no rhyme or reason to any of this. I know the three AppData folders have distinct meanings, but I don't think video game developers are using them according to their proper meanings. Also, I'm being generous with my use of variables above. Some programs have hardcoded the drive letters and paths.

* = I'm well aware of the real history of Windows NT but from the consumer perspective it went from 98/Me -> XP
by 0x3f | 2025-08-26 15:03:37+00:00
> Per-service email addresses are fine when I’m typing the address into a web form, but if I tell Jane the dogwalker that my email address is jane.the.dogwalker@shinytable.com, she gets confused or weirded out. In those cases, I’ll say Michael but add a semi-random suffix like michael.dw5@shinytable.com, where “dw” is for dogwalker and the 5 is in case I’ve used “dw” as a suffix before.

So many times I've spoken to customer support at [company], told them my email is [company]@[myfirstname].com, and they've thought I was an employee of [company] or similar.

But actually I find most people are fine with it and it's a mild ice-breaker to explain why you've got such an unusual email address. Especially if it's literally just *@[firstname].com

I've considered moving away from this pattern for security though. If someone targets me, they can easily work out my email address for any service.
by GaggiX | 2025-08-26 15:03:49+00:00
An image seems to be 256 tokens looking the AIstudio tab, so you can generate 3906,25 images per 1M tokens, that seems a lot if I'm not wrong in some ways.

Edit: the blog post is now loading and reports "1290 output tokens per image" even though on the AI studio it said something different.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-08-26 15:04:17+00:00
You're mixing up communism and nationalization[1]. I suppose those are related concepts, but since communism ostensibly serves the working class, I'd expect to see nationalization under communism/socialism to start with things like health-care, civilian infrastructure, and agriculture, whereas under fascism (which famously also nationalizes), I'd expect the industries which help the state expand (military and military infrastructure) or control its own population (surveillance, telecom, police) to be prioritized in nationalization efforts.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization