MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by numpad0 | 2025-08-25 04:44:39+00:00
Not home country, home PLMN(~=carrier). IIRC there were changes in 4G/LTE that lets the GW be at visiting carriers.

I'm suspecting that that post-4G architecture is just formalization of actual commercial deployment. Latency for roaming data was long inconsistent with the 3G diagrams, and exorbitant roaming fees that would be consistent with the diagrams also started rapidly subsiding from late 3G era.
by edg5000 | 2025-08-25 04:44:45+00:00
Even worse than blocking certain sites, would be if they burden everybody in a mountain of paperwork, making a lot of internet endaveours no longer feasible. I'm not sure how they do it in China, I know there is an internet registration number, not sure if they have paperwork, e.g. to demonstrate that your site is compliant. Let's hope they come to their senses!
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-25 04:45:28+00:00
Yes, and classic ASP, WCF, ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, etc…

It’s “fun” in the sense of piecing together history from subtle clues such as file owners, files on desktops of other admins’ profiles, etc…

I feel like this is what it must be like to open a pharaoh’s tomb. You get to step into someone else’s life from long ago, walk in their shoes for a bit, see the world through their eyes.

“What horrors did you witness brother sysadmin that made you abandon this place with uneaten takeaway lunch still on your desk next to the desiccated powder that once was a half drunk Red Bull?”
by jhallenworld | 2025-08-25 04:45:32+00:00
>Some heads up in the UK Bureaucracy created this regulation out of the desire to protect children

More likely: Ofcom is seeing traditional media dying, so the bureaucrats needed to come up with something to remain relevant and employed.

Ofcom is supposed to be funded by fees charged to the companies that it regulates. There are no hints of social media having to pay them yet, but in the future?

Think of all the work that OSA is creating: age verification companies, regulation compliance consultants, certifications, etc.

Once private companies in the US figure out how much profit they can make off this, they surely will follow..
by oefrha | 2025-08-25 04:45:54+00:00
> Is it allowed to charge more in storefronts which take these cuts? Why nobody does that?

What? There are plenty of apps charging more when you buy currency/subscription on iOS compared to when you buy from their website, or in some cases Android app. Patreon is an example that made the loudest noise recently, but it’s been a widespread practice for years. That said Apple doesn’t (didn’t?) allow you to tell users that a cheaper option exists elsewhere.
by echelon | 2025-08-25 04:46:27+00:00
> We could have had other competitors, but nobody wanted them.

Don't blame individual consumers. Bad things happen at a societal level all the time. Carbon emissions, etc. We're powerless to stop it without governmental intervention.

Your average consumer isn't educated on marketplace behaviors and doesn't understand how a lack of consumer choice leads to increased prices, inflexibility, taxation of smaller marketplace participants, less innovation, less freedom, etc. They simply can't understand the complexities of the case as deep familiarity isn't a part of their daily lives.

The large players that set these rules are squarely to blame.

> I don't think you can really blame Google or Apple for any of these failures in the same way Microsoft could be blamed in the 90's for their abuses.

You can install whatever you want on a Microsoft PC.
by dlevine | 2025-08-25 04:47:39+00:00
Something I find weird is that this article compares a 9950x with two different laptop CPUs and concludes that performance has increased massively in the past few years. If you compare the 9950x with its two Desktop predecessors (released 2 and 4 years before), you see about a 6% increase from the 7950x and a 45% increase from the 5950x. So you should consider upgrading regularly, but potentially not every single generation. I think it makes sense to consider the performance and offer an upgrade when you see a 50% or so cumulative improvement. Everywhere I have worked has upgraded developers every 3-4 years, and it might make sense to upgrade if there is a massive change (like when Macbooks went to M-series).

As for Desktop vs Laptop, that is relevant too. Desktops are typically much faster than Laptops because they are allowed much larger power envelopes, which leads to more cores and higher clock speeds for sustained periods of time. However, there is always a question as to whether your use case will be able to use all 16/32 cores/threads in a 9950X CPU. If not, you may not notice much difference with a smaller processor.

Source for CPU benchmarks: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/6211vs5031vs3862vs5717/...
by ZunarJ5 | 2025-08-25 04:47:40+00:00
For a long time now, I've hoped to see some kind of system emerge where law was written in a publicly accessible git-like system. I know some places are trending this way, but it would be so good to see with commits with relevant information and cases attached to each "push." I wonder if this could be a better and more open way for public consensus an ultimately enforcement, but the latter is always the most difficult part. And not only due to corruption, but external and unplanned factors too. This is where branching would be cool to see, where special cases are addressed. It would be a future historian's wet dream too lol. I wonder if this system, modeled on open source collaboration, would naturally cause a more horizontal strucure with better equity.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-25 04:49:52+00:00
I didn't know the Romans had the lathe. Thanks for the correction.

But they did not have a metal lathe, which is substantially more sophisticated. Invention of the metal lathe is credited to Henry Maudslay around 1800.

While steam engines with pistons existed before, the poor sealing because of inaccurate bores and pistons, made them not very efficient.
by edg5000 | 2025-08-25 04:51:02+00:00
I live in the Netherlands and got lucky with my housing situation, but given the prices here and the fact that I work mostly remove, I would have seriously considered moving to East Germany. I saw apartments for sale for 25k there. What I read everywhere is that there aren't many jobs available locally and the area is relatively sparsely populated, never really recovering from the damage done during the war and the years under Soviet rule.
by vedhsaka | 2025-08-25 04:52:12+00:00
We didn't expect this will come on hackernews. But more on this - April is voice first app so you dont have to see/use your phone.

Crash was because of the panic - we were getting late and I reversed the car while taking a turn and didn't see the pillar - I crashed into it - this was before we started recording or started speaking with April.

But that is a good flag - will update the article with more details.
by pjjpo | 2025-08-25 04:52:37+00:00
> Unlike grants, equity comes at a steep cost to Intel. Transferring grants into equity therefore risks putting Intel at a cost disadvantage relative to other chip makers

A lot of this article seems to rely on this point but the possible cost isn't clarified. I can understand equity arrangements affecting shareholders but how would it reduce the product's competitiveness, notably the unit cost which seems to be the point regards to other chipmakers. If it's about stock price going down, employee comp going down and product effects from that, it seems too speculative?

On the flip side, it sounds like instead of cash over time it becomes a lump cash infusion, which seems like it could result in benefits of its own such as bringing forward timelines.
by vedhsaka | 2025-08-25 04:53:22+00:00
I love your name, coincidentally the app mentioned here is called April - its voice only.

But for email companies - Superhuman is the most successful one.

Other solution which provide different features include Airmail, Sanebox, Mail0 to new a few - we feel this space need a bit of disruption as there is too much noise in emails while being one of the most important tool - we are trying by going voice first - will learn and implement based how it goes.
by smolder | 2025-08-25 04:53:57+00:00
It's just a different version of the same thing. In chinas case, they aggressively locked down internet influence. In the wests case, they held off a bit and made up bullshit reasons like saving the children with age verification. I cant stand this version of the 'free' west where they promote totalitarian information control and demand real IDs. This is nazi shit.
by ajuc | 2025-08-25 04:55:20+00:00
I walked for average 7km per day for the last 4 years. About 3 km before work + 20-50 km on weekends.

My back pain is gone, I lost 25 kg (also with diet change of course - but from my estimates about 300 kcal daily is just from walking).

I was already walking everywhere (I live in EU), but I work remotely so it wasn't enough.
by bsder | 2025-08-25 04:55:41+00:00
> Itanium was a flop from bad business decisions IIRC.

Itanium was a flop from a technical standpoint but not from a business one. Intel spent roughly a gigabuck and effectively scared every competitor out the pool except for IBM and AMD.

Intel is suffering because their old fab folks all retired, and no young, smart engineer over the last 20 years wanted to work for any semiconductor company let alone Intel.
by mhh__ | 2025-08-25 04:56:59+00:00
Many are racist but the deeper reason to be skeptical is that the current/dominant model assumes everyone in the world is basically fungible and can seamlessly integrate into the west without any particular guidance.

That might have even been true decades ago when rates of influx were tiny, but now we live with a firehose under the assumption that there cannot be any hysteresis — we are a big planet, any new culture is a point mass. And that all these new populations get along (they don't).

We invaded Afghanistan and started nation building on the assumption that within every Afghan is a Western liberal trying to get out. If you haven't seen it, please watch the Adam Curtis doc "Bitter lake" to see how much of a disaster this project was. We don't understand their culture at all.

Those same people who planned that war brought about the current normal of historically flows of people every year. Some of them have explicitly said they wanted to do a cultural transformation project too but I'm prepared to say that was a relatively small group of extremists.

Most of the world is very, very, different to the things westerners are used to. We don't have clans, we don't marry inside our families, we don't grow up wanting to make our parents proud anywhere near as much as in non-western countries (etc, "WEIRD" culture as argued in the now-famous book).

Not all non-western countries are the same e.g. SEA famously quite compatible with our culture up to a point, but you'd clearly give a daughter very different travel advice if she was going to Morocco versus Inverness.

If nothing else, is it not a bit weird to go to quite a few large European cities and find roughly the same distribution of people serving your coffee or waiting at your table?

I genuinely wonder what the many Chinese tourists coming to London think when they go into a shop to buy some water or something and all the staff are new arrivals to Britain speaking (say) Hindi rather than English to eachother.

And that's not to say they couldn't integrate at some point but at the moment the "purpose of a system is what it does" revealed preference is that we don't want them to.
by hakfoo | 2025-08-25 04:57:56+00:00
In some cases, the bottlenecks are external.

I've seen a test environment which has most assets local but a few shared services and databases accessed over a VPN which is evidently a VIC-20 connected over dialup.

The dev environment can take 20 seconds to render a page that takes under 1 second on prod. Going to a newer machine with twice the RAM bought no meaningful improvement.

They need a rearchitecture of their dev system far more than faster laptops.
by dmix | 2025-08-25 04:58:01+00:00
I don't think you know what counter intelligence means. That'd just be a regular intelligence or government PR operation.

I don't use 4chan but that stuffs pretty easy to spot on Tiktok and reddit if you're paying attention. Conspiracy type stuff is rampant on those sites. Especially around elections or conflicts like wars.

Content moderation or censorship can be an equally dangerous vector for government influence campaigns as well.
by jama211 | 2025-08-25 04:59:13+00:00
Your argument breaks down when you realise that doing simple operations will result in the exact same code anyway. If I want to pull the first word from a string, whether I write it myself or copy and paste it from stack overflow we’re going to likely literally result in the exact same line of code. It’s not the same as an image from google images, because that image has a far higher chance of being unique.

You can talk about how we should act and be all high and mighty all you like, but it’s just burying your head in the sand about the reality of how code is written.

Also, technically, I never said this made it perfectly ok. It’s just that it’s the reality we live in and if we got rid of everyone doing it we’d have to fire 99% of programmers.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-25 04:59:38+00:00
There are more programmers resistant to the concept of AI because of pride.

Programmers take pride in their ability to program and to reduce their own abilities into an algorithm reproducible by an LLM is both an attack on their pride and an attack on their livelihood.

It’s the same reason why artists say AI art is utter crap when in a blind folded test they usually won’t be able to tell the difference.
by sinuhe69 | 2025-08-25 05:00:09+00:00
If you don’t have original thoughts and your response is not even your (but of a machine), why should anyone care about it? And if humans don’t produce their own thoughts and feelings anymore but merely a half effort of a probabilistic parrot, where should it end and what should all this mean? Besides the collapse of all AI, I’m pretty sure our society will collapse as well.
by mlinhares | 2025-08-25 05:00:26+00:00
Being anti immigrant isn’t about being sensible, it’s about having a bogeyman to blame for all problems people face. It’s much easier to say “brown people took your life away” than to face reality many small and large decisions made by the government and the people have led to the current outcome.

For instance:

> A palpable sense of decline has spurred support for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, which won nearly 40% of local votes in the February general election.

People that don’t look “right” should seriously consider if this is the right place to live given the circumstances, which is going to make those with many options to never consider a place like this. What will be left? Not much, the rust belt in the US is a good example of towns dying because the population can’t accept outsiders. A friend, that’s a neurologist, moved to a small town in the Midwest, him and another dude were the two only neurologists in many and many miles, the supermarket cashier asked for his ID and if he was in the country legally and isn’t even brown, just cos of his accent.

Couple of months later he moved to a large city that had no shortage of neurologists and will never come back to the countryside. These people will destroy whatever is left before they accept others, so that’s what what will be.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-25 05:00:27+00:00
> They got incredibly lucky with IBM choosing the 386 for the PC platform...

1. IBM picked the 8088 for the PC platform. This was part luck, part Motorola being too slow to market with the 68k.

2. The first PC with an 80386 was made by Compaq, not IBM.

3. A big part of what held OS/2 1.x back was IBM insisting on it working with the 80286, which made properly supporting DOS programs challenging. OS/2 2.0 came out 6 years after the first 386 based machine from Compaq.
by rectang | 2025-08-25 05:01:24+00:00
Carmina Burana, which used to be ubiquitous in video games and medieval movies, says it ain’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQXehmVDLc (trad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE01DAATf6s (remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p4qcbzKWeY (deodorant ad)
by Arainach | 2025-08-25 05:01:55+00:00
>By your logic me and the majority of people using Signal are criminals

False. "The majority of X are Y" does not imply that any particular X is Y.

I don't have data for Signal. I use it extensively. Even setting aside that the American legal system makes everyone a criminal several times a day so that the laws can be selectively enforced against anyone who becomes a target, I have no data on whether the majority of Signal users are criminals, but given that criminals have significantly higher interest in secure communications than the general population it wouldn't shock me if evidence came out that it was the case.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-25 05:02:57+00:00
> storage? The technology that is absolutely exploding globally in recent years.

How is storage "exploding globally" when the bulk of long-term grid storage is still provided by pumped hydro, a technology that's built out? Short-term high-flow storage can be interesting in combination with any inflexible source (either nuclear or intermittent renewables - for one thing, it can solve the "plant has to shut down and restart every day" point you mention) but is only a small part of the problem.

> Dunkelflautes and cold spells are often correlated. A mild January sun coupled with an arctic high pressure extending south.

The point is that the correlation may be imperfect enough that nuclear can meaningfully contribute to addressing that problem, whereas extending intermittent renewables to "99%" of the grid cannot. (To be sure, there's also some limited upside from diversifying the geography of renewable sources, but that doesn't extend to anywhere near "99%".) If a shortfall remains, it can be made up by some combination of rarely-operated peaker plants with cheaper CAPEX, plus some demand response/load shedding, especially from industry.
by ofjcihen | 2025-08-25 05:03:05+00:00
OH MAN I almost forgot.

We’ve had a few of these stem from custom LLM agents. The most hilarious one we’ve seen was one that you could get to print its instructions pretty easily. In the instructions was a bit about “DON’T TALK ABOUT FILES LABELED X”.

No guardrails other than that. A little creative prompting got it to dump all files labeled X.
by jama211 | 2025-08-25 05:03:08+00:00
Hah. Obviously there’s probably something I can’t make but I mean it’s by far not the bottleneck for me. And funny you should say, because my last job was actually building peer to peer multiplayer netcode with fully deterministic rollback for a video game. It was hard and took years but we did it.

I think you keep saying “ideas are easy” (for you) and insisting therefore they’re easy for everyone else. They’re really not, good ideas anyway.
by weweersdfsd | 2025-08-25 05:03:37+00:00
>> Two-thirds of Syrian refugees are now employed, many reducing public reliance and boosting the economy.

I don't think legitimate Syrian refugees were the biggest problem. Rather, the open-door policy was abused by lots of young men from other MENA-countries, with no eligibility for asylum. Deporting them proved pretty hard, and crime stats prove that some of them had a very bad attitude towards their new host.
by jachee | 2025-08-25 05:03:39+00:00
Didn’t we “let the market decide” and the market drowned out every other player but Apple and Google?

Why did so many people pick iPhone or Android over their prior competitors? Because the developers wrote software there. Why did the devs write software there? Because people were picking those ecosystems. It was an upward spiral that changed the world a LOT in 18 years, but it was all started with Apple—being a hardware company—selling premium-quality hardware, and then adding their support for third party development.
by syphia | 2025-08-25 05:04:19+00:00
> If a game is good, it’s going to attract cheaters.

I have started to consider that games should be inherently cheat-resistant, not protected by anti-cheats.

Chess and Go are less affected by cheats by their design. It's not nearly as frustrating to lose to a cheater when they're working with the same information you are, and when they perform actions that a human could reasonably perform.

I find that rulesets enforced by nature or by the design of the system are, to me, more interesting than rulesets enforced by agreement and punishment, even if the "agreement" is not to hack the game. It forces more creativity and makes games offer more relevant experiences instead of copying the same formula.

As for identity systems etc. to permaban cheaters, I think that if it takes increasingly strict levels of monitoring and crackdown and reliance on "trusted authorities" to keep these beloved games playable, it might be better to move on and find new games. Few (if any) individual games or genres of games matter enough to warrant this attention.
by usr1106 | 2025-08-25 05:06:38+00:00
Not zero, but an only insignificant residual because zero is hard to achieve in real life. Also Pripyat has some illegal inhabitants.

(I don't think debugged software is a commonly used term, so no need to discuss the meaning)

Edit: Genuine question: Would native speakers call Detroit depopulated? The shrinkage seems to be about the same ratio.
by vondur | 2025-08-25 05:07:05+00:00
In Los Angeles, they have basically given up on doing any preventive maintenance of the water/sewer lines. They just wait for something to break and replace it. We have areas with pipes over a 100 years old. Too expensive to dig up huge areas of the city to replace the lines all at once. This may also have something to do with the notoriously corrupt LA Dept. Of Water and power too. Other cities in LA County do periodically replace the lines, but it's still tremendously expensive.
by mlinhares | 2025-08-25 05:07:25+00:00
Wild to think that the country that built the largest empire in the world would have people speaking multiple languages in its most important city.

Also, this conservative thing of being bothered by people speaking a language they don’t understand amongst themselves shows the eternal entitlement they feel. Everyone’s actions must cater to me, I must understand and be able to participate in everything I want without having to do anything extra.

It’s like people visiting the countryside in Brazil and expecting to find English speaking restaurant servers everywhere.
by jsisto | 2025-08-25 05:07:26+00:00
We don't need a "new theory of democracy" - we need to actually follow the Constitution we already have.

The author's concerns about majority rule leading to bad outcomes? That's exactly why the founders created a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy. They knew about mob rule and designed safeguards against it.

The Constitution already handles these problems:

Contradictory voting patterns: Federalism lets states make their own choices. If Kentucky votes against Medicaid expansion, that's their call - other states can do differently and we can all see what works.

Demagogues: Separation of powers stops any president from becoming a dictator. Congress controls spending, courts check unconstitutional acts, and the First Amendment protects counter-speech.

Protecting rights: The Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment protect individuals even when majorities disagree.

Rather than throwing out 250 years of constitutional law, maybe we should just enforce what we have? The framework works when we actually use it. The real problem isn't that democracy has "failed" - it's that we've stopped following our own rules.
by recallingmemory | 2025-08-25 05:07:48+00:00
"Miserere mei, Deus" is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard and I'm not religious nor do I understand the language it's written in. I've never thought of those as prerequisites to enjoying a piece of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwFXR5ett6U