MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nickjj | 2025-08-26 16:30:44+00:00
> I don't think anyone can compete with entry level MacBook in terms of experience/price.

It depends on what you want.

About a week ago I got a new 15" laptop with a Ryzen 7 6800H (8 cores / 16 threads) | Radeon 680M | 32 GB of RAM | 1 TB SSD | 1080p IPS panel for $570 USD. That 680m is an integrated GPU that can use up to 8 GB of your system RAM for its VRAM.

I put Arch Linux on it and it's quite nice. Things are very snappy.

A Macbook Air is almost 4x the price with the same memory / storage or 2x if you're ok with 16 GB of memory and a 256 GB SSD. No doubt the Air is going to be lighter, have better battery life and be quieter but this other one isn't too bad. Sure it has fans and sure it weighs 4.5 pounds but it's not a deal breaker.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-26 16:30:45+00:00
From a purely greenhouse gas accounting, sure.

Anyone who has to live in a fairly closed system (i.e. this planet) in which fossil fuels are burned for power would be beyond a fool to not strongly prefer gas over coal seeing as their greenhouse emissions are close enough to be within arguing distance. It's all the other stuff coming out that's the problem with coal.
by zahlman | 2025-08-26 16:30:46+00:00
> recently i decided to give the same prompt to several llms, then get their codes and later give each code to every single one of them to ask which one they think is the most useful without telling them that they or the other 2 llms wrote it.

The fact that you expect the result of this experiment to be useful, is more interesting than the actual result.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-08-26 16:30:51+00:00
As a Canadian I don't understand why people think Canada is different. We're just one step behind the US because there's less money to be made. But look at the concentration of wealth in the Weston family, the McCains, Rogers or the Thomsons.

These folks have tremendous political influence which they are using to roll up Canada's economy and squeeze every cent out of the working class.
by ericmay | 2025-08-26 16:30:52+00:00
> And what will you get by making a crappy product artificially competitive?

I disagree with this characterization on at least two points:

The first is that you're assuming the product is crappy. Maybe it's actually quite good but just slightly more expensive for whatever reason, maybe that's unionization or something. Many people may opt to pay $6 less for a cheaper "thing" because they're not thinking about quality or wages or other factors. I know plenty of people who opt for buy-and-replace strategies because of "cheaper" products.

Second you're assuming that the cheap product isn't also artificially competitive. Other countries subsidize manufacturing or have lower wages or have other factors that lead to the product being cheaper than it should be.

> Its absolutely hilarious seeing USA adopt policies of communist countries of the Latin America.

I'm not sure protectionist policies are inherently communist, but to the extent they are I expect leftists to cheer these policies on.

> Enjoy and suffer shit goods at shittier prices.

Sounds good - stop bothering us about our crappy decisions then?
by tolerance | 2025-08-26 16:30:58+00:00
My comment was specifically about Burna Boy, a contemporary artist.

Granted I’m indifferent to the musical heritage of Black (as in native to the African continent and its diaspora) music and will yield considerable ground to people more interested in that than I am because of this.

But speaking about culture in general, I think it’s “goofy” (to borrow a term from the grandparent comment) to brush away the influence that Black (as in US) culture has on Blacks (everywhere else) today. Not 50 years ago. Right now. I’m specifically referring to acts who may be equal in relative notoriety to the one’s you named, but are popular today like Burna Boy.

We can split hairs about the influence that Black (as in African) music had on Black people in the US. I’m sure there’s arguments to be had that vary in how appreciable they are to this premise. It’s probably equally “goofy” to wave off the idea that the “degrees of separation between Burna Boy and Chuck Berry” extend further to Berry’s great(N)-grandparents who carried the remnants of what was to be “remembered” on US soil after crossing the Middle Passage.

But I don’t think that it’s as linear a process as we’d like to imagine, at least it isn’t anymore.

Bangs (and external agents independent of Black people) disrupted the matrix and the “mother lode” is no longer centralized at the “mother land”.
by AnIrishDuck | 2025-08-26 16:31:07+00:00
What was the legal basis for this "purchase"? Because as I understand it, Trump came in, saw a law he didn't like (CHIPS), and unilaterally "altered the deal"

I don't think it's fair to characterize this as some kind of standard stock sale, as the terms were never set out as such from the start. (And to be fair, there are lots of valid criticisms of CHIPS)

Instead, funding was voted for by Congress... and then a third party came in, threatened to kill it on a dubious legal basis, and extracted protection money (well, shares). That's textbook extortion.
by yndoendo | 2025-08-26 16:31:09+00:00
Intel is dead to me for capitulating to narcissistic, authoritarian, inhuman, apathetical Donald Trump.

There is no one in the Trump administrator that has the balls to tell Donald Trump he is and idiot and doesn't know what he is talking about. Intel will bend over backwards and fail because of this mentality. Donald Trump knows better than all the engineers at Intel according to his followers. Just like when stated he knows more about dish washers than anyone else in the world.

Intel will need to hide the actual course their are taking to actual product a viable solution. This scenario seems to mirror the development of the MP43/MP44. Government was against it because the administration was too dumb to understand it. Government will also like short versus long term gains because the short gains allow for quick propaganda usage.
by jfengel | 2025-08-26 16:31:10+00:00
I’m putting Roberts safely with the liberals here. Yes, he joined Thomas and Alito in dissent in Obergefell. But he has made it his career’s work to drag the Court toward moderation and to avoid dramatic, ideologically charged, politically divisive decisions. (His success in that endeavor is debatable, but it’s clearly his motivating force.)

I believe that may have been true at one point, but things have changed. The court is going to make dramatically, ideologically-charged, politically-divisive decisions with or without him. There's simply no reason for him to ignore his own ideological predispositions; it won't save his reputation.

I think he'd rather avoid taking this case at all, but I suspect cert will be granted. TFA disagrees, and I'm not certain. But if cert is granted I think he'll rule on what he believes to be the correct grounds to rescind Obergefell.
by utrack | 2025-08-26 16:31:30+00:00
Yep - I put that rule at the bottom so that everything I want elsewhere is sorted by some preceding rule. That's how unfuck works too, though.

My ruleset looks like this now:

To: (tix|orders)@domain | From: orders@* | Subject contains (pedido|order|sipariş|confirma) -> something I bought, to Orders

To: tix@domain -> to Tickets

To: travel@domain | Subject contains (tickets|billete) -> to Travel

(some specific mailing lists by sender) -> to Reads - those are the newsletters I want to read

From: *@(domains of banks I have) -> to Banks - obviously

From: *@linkedin.com -> to Linkedin; it's noisy but sometimes useful

Header list-unsubscribe exists -> to Ads

That's about it. I don't remember the last time something I didn't want reached my inbox, however I go to the ads and do a mass unsubscription every couple of months.
by bhouston | 2025-08-26 16:31:38+00:00
> ever heard of "Laurentian elite" ?

I don't think that is the same thing at all. Laurentian elite just refers to Canada's largest population cluster as a whole and saying that the upper class in general is influential, sure. But it is far from saying that a small number of billionaires are absolute key in the Canadian elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentian_elite

Canada has significant limits to political spending and I think that is amazing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in...
by Hunpeter | 2025-08-26 16:32:03+00:00
You have made an interesting point but I think your arguments would have more force if you exercised some restraint in categorically stating your opinions about what is wrong and in what way as facts, basically.

Anyway, while I agree on these other types of "wrong" being important, I don't know about calling 1-3. wrong, per se. Also, I'm curious what part of linguistics you consider to belong under the "vanity" label, and why it would be apt to call "pointless" facts (like the age of the Earth) wrong.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-26 16:32:03+00:00
The majority of non-Chinese fabricated displays are fabricated by basically 3 companies:

1. Samsung Displays - which primarily invests in SK and ASEAN

2. LG Displays - which primarily invests in SK and ASEAN

3. Japan Displays Inc - they are JV of Sony/Hitachi/Toshiba, and primarily Japan and ASEAN

The China related data does make sense given BOE and HKC's execution, but the Taiwanese data feels like an extrapolation of AUO and Innolux's market share. If they are including Innolux's production (which includes Pioneer in Japan), then it might be overindexing Taiwanese production.
by myrmidon | 2025-08-26 16:32:07+00:00
Maybe, but Trump spent over half a billion on his 2024 campaign. Are you suggesting the outcome would have been unchanged had he spent a "sane" amount like $50M total? Because I don't think so.

Furthermore, in a country with somewhat free media you would always expect populist candidates to outperform with a given budget, because their platform is much better aligned with media interest; mass media does not want boring budget plans or quaint reforms-- rage-bait sells way better and nets populists tons of "free" online presence.
by BHSPitMonkey | 2025-08-26 16:32:14+00:00
But as you said, the check (and denial) is happening at the time the _user_ is trying to do something _they_ wish to do (e.g. install an APK from a project on GitHub).

Much of the ecosystem of Android apps that are only distributed outside the Play store will be affected by this, as many developers won't be able or willing to submit to this process or waive their privacy (especially young developers or those making apps that are legal but often targeted by litigious companies, e.g. emulators, YouTube clients/downloaders, BitTorrent clients, etc.)
by lvl155 | 2025-08-26 16:32:15+00:00
AMD needs to put out a reference motherboard to pair with their chips. They’re basically relying on third-party “manufacturers” to put up R&D. We have decades of these mobo manufacturers doing bare min churning out crappy quality mobos. No one’s interested in overclocking in 2025. Why am I paying $300 premium for a feature I don’t care about?
by lotharcable | 2025-08-26 16:32:49+00:00
With the advent of Steam deck and Valve putting time and effort into AMD GPU drivers the AMD GPU is really the best option for Linux when it comes to general desktop stuff and gaming.

The days of Nvidia proprietary drivers being a safe bet is long gone. Especially for any sort of Wayland desktop, but it still applies to X11.

Intel drivers should be good as well, since they use the same Mesa code base.

With the ROCm stuff no longer depending on AMD Pro then there is not going to be any reason to step away from the default GPU drivers provided by your distro, provided they are relatively new.

While I am sure that there are still going to be professional-grade proprietary apps that recommend Nvidia... for most of us the only reason to actually go and choose Nvidia on Linux is because of CUDA. And, personally, I would rather lease time on the cloud or have a second GPU work horse PC separate from my desktop for that.

Unfortunately Nvidia is, by far, the most popular option for Windows users. Over 4:1 ratio according to Steam statistics.

So most new Linux users are still going to have to suffer through dealing with their GPU drivers.
by Isamu | 2025-08-26 16:32:49+00:00
This is about journalism, in an age when journalism is being bulldozed by cheap content, AI hallucinations and other clickbait tactics. Journalism still has the idea of finding facts, things that correspond to something in reality.

It’s been shown that people in fact prefer to have their beliefs confirmed, rather than challenged by investigative reporting, hence the decline in real journalism, because it is both more difficult and in the end less popular across a large audience.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-26 16:33:07+00:00
Here's something to ponder. A lot of democracies have preferential voting. You vote in order of candidates and then counting votes is done in rounds where the lowest voted candidate is eliminated and those votes go to the next preference. This works well in avoiding a 2 party system since you can vote for third parties but still have your vote counted no matter which way the count lands in the end (eg. if it does come down to the 2 largest parties you haven't wasted a vote on a third party).

When there's no preferential voting system and therefore only two real parties in the political race it's easier to ensure you get the outcome you want either way. PACs don't really need to influence the election directly as much as ensure they have influence on politicians in the only two parties that have any power.
by fjfaase | 2025-08-26 16:33:23+00:00
Countries are a bit like people, they only believe something (like that fire is hot) after they have experienced it first hand. The USA has never experienced fascism first hand, so, in general they ignored every one warning them about it. I fear it is already too late to stop it from unfolding. Trump might declare the midterms invalid and/or declare marshall law.
by lotharcable | 2025-08-26 16:33:30+00:00
Things have changed a lot since Steam deck. Especially in the last 3 or 4 years.

Mobile users suffer more problems then people with dedicated desktop GPUs, but it still gotten a lot better.

The one thing to be careful about AMD GPUs is that for most GPU OEMs AMD is just a after thought. So they get sub-par QA and heatsinks compared to their more popular Nvidia models.

It is best to go with card makers that only sell AMD GPUs, like Sapphire, PowerColor, and XFX. I am partial to Sapphire.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-26 16:33:32+00:00
This.

Money definitely sways elections.

The few case where it doesn't are normally attributable to other problems with the spendy campaign.

In Wisconsin, the conservatives spent enormous sums of money talking about high level worldview issues like DEI and immigration. Which is all well and good if you're in a state where that's relevant maybe? But out here in opioid infested flyover country where people were worried about losing their housing the next week, those worldview kinds of things were just dumb issues to focus so much money on.

So yeah, you can win an election against a big spender. But normally that big spender is actually so dumb and detached from the voters that what's really happening is that they're beating themselves.
by mkw5053 | 2025-08-26 16:33:50+00:00
It's my understanding that one of the most methodologically rigorous papers is Gilens and Page (2014) [0], which analyzed 1,779 policies over 20 years and found that when rich and average Americans disagree, the rich win 90% of the time, regardless of how many regular citizens support or oppose the policy.

[0] https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_th...
by EdNutting | 2025-08-26 16:33:55+00:00
They don't require your email address to download the filters, so how exactly do they get your address in order to deliver this non-evil allow-listed notification email?

It's likely they thought: "What if our existing users/subscribers use these filters? Our own emails will end up archived?! No we can't have that..." and thus they fell into a trap of their own making. Perhaps it's 'lawful evil' to think their own mailing lists are good and everyone else's are bad? Lol.
by moduspol | 2025-08-26 16:34:17+00:00
I don't know about OP but I've also worked plenty of places where I seem to be the only person who understands TLS.

And not even at the "math" level. I mean, like, how to get them into a Java keystore. Or how to get Apache or nginx to use them. That you need to include the intermediate certificate. How to get multiple SANs instead of a wildcard certificate. How to use certbot (with HTTP requests or DNS verification). How to get your client to trust a custom CA. How to troubleshoot what's wrong from a client.

I think the most rational takeaway is just that it's too difficult for a typical IT guy to understand, and most SMBs that aren't in tech don't have anyone more knowledgeable on staff.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-08-26 16:34:46+00:00
You are fundamentally misunderstanding my point about freedom.

Yes, I can do it now, but this is only because Google allows me to do that on their approved Android distribution, not because they are unable to prevent me from doing it. I don't trust them to not take away that freedom from me as soon as they can be sure that they can afford the anti-trust lawsuit since their core business model is to show me ads.

I know that my bank doesn't care about my browser, but by relying on Play Integrity they are indirectly forcing me to operate in Google's control regime in every other aspect on my device.

I don't want them to control my software stack, period. I don't care if they act as the good guys right now, they have been steadily doing downhill in the moral department and I expect them to continue to do so.

I don't understand how you can act like there is no problem at all with technology like this.
by wojciii | 2025-08-26 16:34:50+00:00
I bought one of the keyboard from https://ergodox-ez.com/ and I hate it.

I stopped using it as I could not get used to it.

I use a wired MS split ergonomic keyboard for daily work and seem happy with it. I use a simple logitech trackball as a pointing device.

I don't have any issues with this keyboard ..
by thechao | 2025-08-26 16:35:17+00:00
This is the great part about science: whether or not you agree with the authors' conclusions, they just asked the question "is our preconceived 'obviously correct' conclusion actually correct". Then, they dove in to the data and tried to prove or disprove the hypothesis.

I'm still not sure that the local trend of population decline is a long-term indicator; but, there's a bunch of economies along the curve, and things seem fine, for now?

My worry is that this is a railroad fallacy: you can see the train coming, but it's not hitting you now, so everything must be fine in the long-term?
by Deuter8 | 2025-08-26 16:35:53+00:00
My current plan is to retrofit buttons to my clickpad. Earlier this week I ordered a few different styles of touchpad buttons from AliExpress to test. I'll build a custom little USB HID device for it once I've picked my favourite one.

I don't think I can rely on laptop manufacturers to buck the clickpad trend any time soon, so I'll do it myself.
by donkeybeer | 2025-08-26 16:36:37+00:00
>Other countries subsidize manufacturing or have lower wages or have other factors that lead to the product being cheaper than it should be.

Then do the same for Americans. Make better product, don't force people to buy crappier.

Its not just about the buyer choosing a quality-price tradeoff. Let us be honest, the USA (or any other country) isn't the best in every sector. Artificial tariffs just mean your people will have to buy worse product. Again, its a slide to Latam style communism, absolutely hilarious.

I will even agree that a careful and targeted application of tariffs can help grow certain industries and can be a beneficial thing, but again careful and targeted is key, its a teat that they should be removed from in time. But what Trump is doing isn't remotely targeted or thought out.

The fact that you somehow are pegging me as a leftist and reacting emotionally to simple statements of fact show how incredibly stupid people who love tariffs are. Absolute comedy.

Tariffs are essentially a signal you are a loser, you can't do better so you force barriers on others. And I will maintain this for all countries that do it, whether its USA, Brazil or China. You are not showing strength by tariffs you are showing how weak you are. If I were thinking of investing in a weakening country, I might think otherwise now.
by bhouston | 2025-08-26 16:36:48+00:00
> Money has an influence but it’s an exaggeration to think that it’s the only factor.

Massive amounts of money is a requirement in the US. Of course strategy still plays a role but if you do not have massive amounts of money in the first place, you don't matter.

Because you have to raise massive amounts of money, you need to prioritize big spenders, and thus you have to be responsive to the demands of those large donors.

For example Miriam Adelson who gave Trump 1/5 of his total haul, reportedly conditioned her $100M on allowing Israel to annex the West Bank:

https://forward.com/fast-forward/618034/miriam-adelson-fundi...
by ndegruchy | 2025-08-26 16:37:19+00:00
> Though the flip side of my own subjective take here is that "home directory dotfile vomit" has just never seemed as big an issue to me as many make out.

This is a fair take, and something that I've considered when going down the obsessively organized path.

Does it _ultimately_ matter? No, of course not. A file is a file is a file and if it's located in $HOME or $HOME/.config is immaterial to the OS and, generally, a program. Just so long as it can be read and written to is ultimately what _matters_.

However. Insofar as directories are a construct for humans to mentally parse out and organize data that may be just abstractly written to any number of non-consecutive sectors on a disk, _I'd_ like to at least have a clean mental image of "where" that data is. Apparently, enough people had that same idea and started the excellent XDG spec.

> This isn't silly. At all.

I will grant you that it's pedantic. Both are POSIX-esque systems and to a large degree, talk the same way and expose the underlying infrastructure in a similar manner. However, I think ignoring the platform's preferred organizational methodology is doing a disservice to the end user. If the user wants a vomit of hundreds of .<whatever> files in their home directory, fine, I'm not your mom. You do you, but I think you should follow the law of least surprise and put things where they're _supposed_ to go, first, then if over-riden, then follow the user.

> but Windows isn't a monolith

It is the very definition of said. There is only one version of Windows, and any marketing faff about different editions are just different coats of paint on the same underlying system. Windows is Windows. You don't have Windows on ARM supporting %HOME%\.datadir\local\system\noreally instead of "AppData". You have AppData and that's it. You can bank on it being the same across all versions of Windows that are still in production, even going back a long way.

WSL1/2 are bolt ons that should behave differently. They're emulating a foreign system, configuration should be stored within, to whatever specification that happens to be.