MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by porridgeraisin | 2025-08-26 04:58:23+00:00
Yeah of course the compositor can do anything, but that's completely useless. Community applications need to be able to do it. Such applications are easily the most popular productivity applications on every other OS. If they're oh-so-concerned about security, a featureful accessibility API like the one macos has is table stakes, and needs to be developed before anything else. Its disgusting to release half baked theater like wayland does. </rant>
by greygoo222 | 2025-08-26 04:59:24+00:00
73% of Canadians support MAID https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38910003/ 71% of Americans believe doctors should be "allowed by law to end the patient’s life by some painless means if the patient and his or her family request it" https://news.gallup.com/poll/648215/americans-favor-legal-eu...

These policies are supported by a strong majority of people.
by Lockal | 2025-08-26 05:00:10+00:00
A lot of slop and not a single word about libx264. Why 2003 format? We spend years designing better formats, implementing hardware optimized algorithms, learning psychoacoustics, building actually streaming-friendly formats, adding thousands of CU to GPUs, end user still pulls crappy H.264 out of obsolete tutorials (this time with removed date of writing).

Yes, AI will add "You are absolutely right!" and "Why it works", pull h264_nvenc out of thin air, but in the end you streamed crap as the input to LLM and got digested crap of second degree as an output.
by dang | 2025-08-26 05:01:19+00:00
I'm sure that would help, yes. Also, there's no need to phrase such a comment in terms of someone else lacking any experience of X - there are too many ways to get that wrong, and even if you're right, it can easily come across as a putdown. If you'd made your point in this case, for example, in terms of your own experience managing a web-facing service, you could have included all the same useful information, if not more!

(One other thing is that the "tell me without telling me" thing is an internet trope and the site guidelines ask people to avoid those - they tend to make for unsubstantive comments, plus they're repetitive and we're trying to avoid that here. But I just mention this for completeness - it's secondary to the other point.)
by somenameforme | 2025-08-26 05:02:43+00:00
Food is about 90% domestically produced [1], so tariffs are inconsequential there. The things that are going to be largely affected by tariffs are things like imported electronics, furniture, and so on.

The tariffs are primarily hitting the discretionary sector of products, which means people can simply stop buying them. There's also product replacement as an option. For instance the next time somebody's coffee maker breaks they end up buying a French press only to discover that not only is it way cheaper (no filters!), but it never breaks and makes way better coffee anyhow! (Pro Tip: don't use boiling water)

[1] - https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-...
by Frieren | 2025-08-26 05:03:03+00:00
> but denoising (which basically every smartphone camera does) often has the effect of removing details like wrinkles.

I do not get the argument of "if nothing happens when an ant bites you then I can shot you with a cannon be cause it is the same thing just larger". The impact on society matters for me, and it is very different. Justifying AI at any cost is a marketing strategy that will hurt us long-term.
by alexvitkov | 2025-08-26 05:04:25+00:00
It's not illegal to not release your software on a platform. But the mobile market is so top-heavy on both the apps and the games side, that without a few key developers - Meta, ByteDance, Tencent, etc your union is dead in the water - and the top 1% of developers would very much like to more friction for new developers, not less.
by rayiner | 2025-08-26 05:06:02+00:00
The Obama folks were correct about demographics being destiny: https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/07/demographi.... Mass immigration killed the Mccain/Romney GOP. What they overlooked is that, the vacuum would be filled by a right wing party that looks more like the right wing parties you see in the rest of the world.

Trump, with his lying and outright vote buying (No Taxes on Tips) is the kind of right wing candidate that can win enough immigrants to be nationally viable. Blue Rose research estimates Trump tied with naturalized citizens. Little Bangladesh in Queens swung 50 points to the right from 2020. Populist rhetoric unrooted in facts is really popular among third world voters.
by Daub | 2025-08-26 05:06:27+00:00
Good question. I'm no expert, but I guess that the key issue is one of categorization. Without language, it is impossible to effectively categorize our perceptual domain.

It is also true that among mammals, chromatic vision is pretty much restricted to primates. The ability to perceive difference of light is a must if you don't want to become someone else's food. In contrast, chromatic vision is an 'extra' that in many ways serves as a (literally) florid extension to our lives. To me it is no surprise that range of emotion and range of hue are so often associated with each other. Interestingly enough, they are similarly mapped: as a set of differences, rather than as a degree of intensity.
by jajuuka | 2025-08-26 05:07:01+00:00
Phones with unlock able boot loaders still exist. Samsung phones outside the US that use Exynos, Pixel, OnePlus, Motorola, etc. The features people made custom rom's for have just become part of Google Android or part of other OEM versions. Even though these popular phones do have unlock able boot loaders there just isn't a large interest in custom rom's. The interest in custom roms and more locked boatloaders happened in parallel.
by sandreas | 2025-08-26 05:08:01+00:00
In my opinion AMD is on a good way having at least comparable performance to MacBooks copying Apples architectural decisions. Unfortunately their jump on the latest AI Hype Train did not suit them well for efficiency. Ryzen 7840U was significantly more efficient than Ryzen AI 7 350 [1]

However, with AMD Strix Halo aka AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (PRO) there are Notebooks like the ZBook Ultra G1a and Tablets like the Asus ROG Flow Z13, that come close to the MacBook power / performance ratio[2] due to the fact, that they used high bandwidth soldered on memory, which allows for GPUs with shared VRAM similar to Apple's strategy.

Framework did not manage to put this thing in notebook yet, but shipped a Desktop variant. They also pointed out, that there was no way to use LPCAMM2 or any other modular RAM tech with that machine, because it would have slowed it down / increased latencies to an unusable state.

So I'm pretty sure the main reason for Apple's success is the deeply integrated architecture and I'm hopeful that AMD's next generation STRIX Halo APUs might provide this with higher efficiency and hopefully Framework adapts these chips in their notebooks. Maybe they just did in the 16?! Let's wait for this announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZRG7Og61mw

Regarding the deeply thought through integration there is a story I often tell: Apple used to make iPods. These had support for audio playback control with their headphone remotes (e.g. EarPods), which are still available today. These had a proprietary ultra sonic chirp protocol[3] to identify Apple devices and supported volume control and complex playback control actions. You could even navigate through menus via voiceover with longpress and then using the volume buttons to navigate. Until today with their USB-C-to-AudioJack Adapters these still work on nearly every apple device published after 2013 and the wireless earbuds also support parts of this. Android has tried to copy this tiny little engineering wonder, but until today they did not manage to get it working[4]. They instead focus on their proprietary "longpress" should work in our favour and start "hey google" thing, which is ridiculously hard to intercept / override in officially published Android apps... what a shame ;)

1: https://youtu.be/51W0eq7-xrY?t=773

2: https://youtu.be/oyrAur5yYrA

3: https://tinymicros.com/wiki/Apple_iPod_Remote_Protocol

4: https://github.com/androidx/media/issues/2637
by hommelix | 2025-08-26 05:08:10+00:00
If a government was to plan something like that, there would be protest in front of the parliament. Were are the protest in front of Google main office? If there are a few hundreds of angry developers handing out flyers at Google employees on there way to the office, explaining how bad is Google, maybe Google will move, because they care about the bad publicity. Open source developers involved with Android and app in California should walk in front of Google offices to protest.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-26 05:08:11+00:00
It's a giant pet peeve of mine when people post a link that very superficially backs their argument, but then when you go and read it, it directly contradicts their point. Critical sentence from point 4: "Instead, impose a consumption tax, designed to be progressive to protect lower-income households."

Tariffs are the exact opposite of that, they're highly regressive.
by aceofspades19 | 2025-08-26 05:09:20+00:00
Neither of those links give us evidence of "exponential" growth as one would normally define exponential growth. I did agree that it definitely has increased, just not exponentially. As well, the first link demonstrates that the GDP has increased greater than the healthcare expenditure. Only in the "forecast ed" area does it outstrip GDP as an annual percentage.

If you search the CBC, they have articles both for and against MAID. I think its kind of silly to say that all positive news articles about MAID is government propaganda as there is likely to be a non-zero amount of positive experiences with it. Should the government not allow the press to make any comments on MAID to avoid biasing anyone for, or against it? For example, here is a negative video the CBC posted about MAID: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6521196
by autoexec | 2025-08-26 05:10:28+00:00
There's a growing amount of research on cognitive changes/decline following even mild covid infections. I think the realization that governments were so incompetent in handling a crisis and also fully willing to let people die for nothing didn't help either. Especially in those people who tend to be more fearful and less trusting in general. Fear and insecurity don't lead to people making the best choices.
by arp242 | 2025-08-26 05:11:05+00:00
(2016); and used to be "Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving", but apparently the author's opinion of the xz format has worsened.

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39871914 - Mar 2024 (26 comments)

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868810 - Mar 2024 (9 comments)

Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210438 - Jul 2022 (158 comments)

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103255 - Jun 2019 (58 comments)

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884832 - Apr 2018 (136 comments)

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425 - Oct 2016 (91 comments)
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-26 05:12:15+00:00
It seems like the best of both worlds, here, would be to put the files in ~/.config/yourprogram, and symlink that to `~/Library/Application Support/org.example.yourprogram`. That would satisfy folks expecting to find it in either place. The only folks it wouldn't satisfy would be those complaining about the files being present in one of those places at all, and that seems like the least of the concerns compared to making sure people find it.
by TkTech | 2025-08-26 05:12:35+00:00
> Perhaps the now-suspended Veterans Affairs caseworker who...

They were immediately fired, referred to the RCMP for investigation, and a systematic review launched that found 4 incidents[1] - all by the same employee. There have been no further incidents reported since this happened. Since 2022.

> That's followed by an anecdote in which a Vancouver patient in a suicidal crisis claims a hospital clinician said there were no beds available, but that MAID would be a "more peaceful" option than suicide.

This was in 2023. It was covered a bunch at the time until it was revealed that it was a standard question asking if she had ever considered MAID before[2], since she had a history of depression and suicidal thoughts.

The Atlantic reporter you're referencing is themselves anti-MAID due to her religious convictions and wishes to remove choice from individuals. It is not an unbiased source of information. The MAID system is _routinely_ criticized from the religious base here in Canada for the last 9 years, and yet not even a hint of systematic abuse of the system has ever been found.

[1] https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/about-vac/reports-policies-and... [2] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/arti...
by diarmuidc | 2025-08-26 05:12:36+00:00
Why is there no mention of PTP here? If you want accurate time synchronisation in a network just use the correct tool, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol

Linux PTP (https://linuxptp.sourceforge.net/) and hardware timestamping in the network card will get you in the sub 100ns range
by lanstin | 2025-08-26 05:12:57+00:00
Which is reasonable I guess, except that even with modern hardware, updating the same record in an ACID database has a surprising low capacity in terms of txn / second; if you have some popular item in your inventory (or popular merchant in your 2-sided shopping thing), you'll be forced to create multiple receiving accounts or other ugly stuff if you do the balance based transactionality.
by wpm | 2025-08-26 05:14:43+00:00
Tahoe is the first macOS that I don't "get", and its fucking scary. I can stay on Sequoia for another year or so, and then what?

When Tahoe came out, I tried it for a day, liked some of it, hated most of it. I gave it a week. Still hated most of it.

The end of that week I bought a used ThinkPad and installed Arch on it. My future is no longer on the Mac. I have a few years to try and transition, but I am otherwise done with them. Butt ugly uber-rounded bouba squircles for fucking windows that cut off the content in my PDFs? That can't even help but cut off the buttom of the scroll bars? This piss ugly grey on light grey on grey with the most pathetic, cowardly whisper of texture they call "glass"? It's fucking over. At least until Alan Dye crawls back into whatever print ad shithole he crawled out of.
by o11c | 2025-08-26 05:15:21+00:00
As always when this is posted: this is quite overstated. If you're only using .xz on something already protected by a sha2sum or something, and you trust the source, almost all of this is immediately invalidated (and the rest is "whatever, good enough").

Now, "trust the source" does have a hole that most people might not think about - are you sure the archive you just created corresponds to the files you tried to add? Doing extraction comparison tests should be mandatory ... but the same applies to all other archive formats, and very few tools automate the check in a way that also generates the hash.
by baron816 | 2025-08-26 05:15:39+00:00
In a sane political system, we would’ve raised taxes (across the board). That would’ve slowed down consumption and allowed the Fed to lower interest rates, which would’ve raised investment. It also would’ve reduced the deficit, which would also be good for long term economic health.

Instead, we blew up the deficit and lowered taxes (but only for the really rich).

So many problems and social angst is downstream of expensive housing. Higher interest rates, fewer laborers, and more expensive building supplies (due to tariffs) is just making the housing crisis worse.

Oh and just wait until the Fed’s independence is completely gone. Our economy is galloping towards Peronism. Favored groups get economic benefits. Inflation is out of control. Competitiveness is gone. Capital flight. Rapid erosion of quality of life. It won’t be fun.
by defrost | 2025-08-26 05:15:58+00:00
What goes around comes around and yes, musical forms from Africa that were remembered in the US and branched from over time feed back into their mother lode.

I seek not to dis the US modifications, just to remind some that these were not and never the OG sources.

> But you can’t really believe that an afrobeats artist isn’t somehow influenced by Black (as in US) culture.

I can say I struggle to see the line from R.L. Burnside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M to Touré Kunda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6u0omHFhqE

I would like to hear more about the US precursors that influenced(?) Mory Kante's Yeke Yeke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Cmv2K07R0 .. I was unaware of an underground kora-playing griot scene in the US.

Just for the chuckle value, here's arguably the greatest dis of US hardcore rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ouDZkX1Yh8

> I’d go as far as to say that an artist in that genre will not receive any mainstream popularity

Errr, by "mainstream" do mean "USofA" ? I can assure that all the names I mentioned are known to numbers that rival any audience that can be found in the US .. just not to audiences that register with the US zeitgeist.

Early Angélique Kidjo was a traditional musician who went on to and jammed with European bands https://youtu.be/_-YlMyUgzC8?t=96 , slightly later AK was independent with European producers, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4NsRS3S1UY

Mature A-K played about, riffing on Hendrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN_K84TAxNs, reworking Talking Heads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8jgFGmqvU, backing and supporting Australians*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGomSuDPeSU

If you care to listen to the linked tracks you might reflect on the influence there from "black USA" ... it's more that she joined in with the Hendrix legacy for the joy of collaboration than it formed an integral part of her background.

* For some value of Australian... :-)
by soganess | 2025-08-26 05:16:35+00:00
That's not true, at least not really.

The Supreme Court has been ducking the question of the legality of the recent firings by reversing, on the shadow docket, any lower court injunctions that stay the firings. When the cases eventually percolate again on the merits, Roberts and Co. may well find that it is illegal for the president to fire so-and-so... right as the administration changes parties.

Sure, it's nakedly transparent. And yes, it amounts to setting the rule-of-law on fire while plugging your ears and repeating “I know you are but what am I.” But dang if it isn't brazenly effective politicking.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-08-26 05:17:01+00:00
I have to cringe every time this article is brought up, because while xz does have made some questionable design choices, it practically works well and doesn't do anything fundamentally inadaquate as a compression file format [1]. And yet about a half of this article is devoted to the xz's inadaquateness as an archival format for which xz was never designed (use a properly designed archival format if you want). At this point lzip should be avoided because of this article. Sigh.

[1] Refers to file formats like .gz, .bz2 and of course .xz; doesn't include .tar, .zip or .7z.
by nurettin | 2025-08-26 05:17:13+00:00
If I were in the 0.01%, savings wouldn't be a thing. I wouldn't even need a home. Just go around staying wherever I like for as long as I like doing whatever I want. I wouldn't really care about what google or apple does with their devices, who attacked or defeated whom and all that bs because I wouldn't be in survival mode.

At least this is probably how people in charge of enshittification think like.
by orlp | 2025-08-26 05:18:46+00:00
I and others have brought this up with the dirs Rust crate maintainer but they refuse to see it this way: https://codeberg.org/dirs/dirs-rs/issues/64. It's very frustrating.

I now use a combination of xdg + known-folders manually:

[target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies] known-folders = "1.2.0" [target.'cfg(not(windows))'.dependencies] xdg = "2.5.2"

to get the config directory:

use anyhow::{Context, Result}; #[cfg(windows)] fn get_config_base_dir() -> Result<PathBuf> { use known_folders::{KnownFolder, get_known_folder_path}; get_known_folder_path(KnownFolder::RoamingAppData).context("unable to get config dir") } #[cfg(not(windows))] fn get_config_base_dir() -> Result<PathBuf> { let base_dirs = xdg::BaseDirectories::new().context("unable to get config dir")?; Ok(base_dirs.get_config_home()) }
by arp242 | 2025-08-26 05:19:51+00:00
Most of these are not really serious issues in the real world. It's been critiqued extensively in the past (posted those discussions in a separate comment) and I'll not repeat it here. But I will add that lzip's "yo, here's a tarball, trust me bro"-model of distribution is no longer fit for 2025, for reasons that should be obvious. In my opinion this blows any concerns about xz out of the water. Technically this is about formats and not implementations, both de-facto have one dominant implementation, so that's a bit of an academic distinction.

Anyway, zstd is the future for most use cases.
by poly2it | 2025-08-26 05:20:04+00:00
If your businesses idea doesn't work without you being evil, you deserve to go bankrupt. I perceive a tendency to assume it is necessary for a company like Google to maintain full control over our ecosystem to further our progress and maintain order. However, we should know by now that this isn't the case. You don't have to be evil to be useful. See GNOME, GrapheneOS, Steam, KDE, Wikipedia, Linux or Mozilla (previously). Tricking us of their inevitability is their greatest success.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-26 05:20:16+00:00
We have! The only problem is a very limited amount of legal decisions accidentally paved the way for a massive dystopia. In particular, the first sale doctrine [1] solves everything immediately.

The courts assumed good faith with a licensing exception, and maybe it was. But that opened the door to essentially completely dismantle the first-sale doctrine. Get rid of that loophole and all this stupidity ends, immediately. Well that and the DMCA. Once you buy something, it's yours to do whatever you want to do with it short of replicating it for commercial benefit.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine