MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-11 21:16:12+00:00
> Everything you suggested gives customers a worse user experience - see Android vs iOS and Windows vs Macs - and higher prices because each component in the chain needs to make a profit and slower product cycles than when one company can offer an integrated experience.

None of that is true and the impression only comes about because concentrated markets create a small sample size and Microsoft and Google in particular care less about user experience than Apple.

Putting aside things like third party support (which come from incumbency and scale rather than design choices), which desktop operating system has the best user experience: Windows, macOS, or Linux? It's Linux by a hair, then macOS, with Windows a mile behind either of them. Which doesn't make any sense if vertical integration is a huge advantage, but makes perfect sense if specifically Microsoft sucks and being insulated from real competition allows them to.

"Each company has to make a margin" doesn't increase costs whatsoever because each company only gets the margin on the part they're doing. If the RAM has a net production cost of $20 and the flash is $25 and they're both made by the same company with a 10% margin then the total cost is $45 + 10%. If they're made by two different companies then one costs $20 + 10%, the other costs $25 + 10% and the total is still $45 + 10%.

And the same is true for steps that happen in series rather than in parallel, because margins aren't a fixed percentage, they're the amount you can get away with before the customer goes to a competitor, which in a competitive market is related to the cost of production + cost of capital. Having a combined retailer and wholesaler means the combined entity then has combined costs -- the "retailer" has to negotiate with manufacturers and the "wholesaler" has to operate retail stores, and therefore needs both margins to operate.

Meanwhile market consolidation is the thing that actually increases prices, because the lack of competition is what allows the supplier to increase their margins without losing business to competitors.

> If I want a regionally redundant infrastructure do I now have to negotiate with multiple companies in a region (multi AZ) and multiple regions? Do I have to negotiate with thousands of Points of preference for my CDN?

If you want a cart full of groceries, do you have to negotiate with hundreds of orange groves and chicken farms? No, supermarkets do that and then you go to any of the numerous supermarkets to get your groceries. That doesn't require the supermarkets to own the orange groves or chicken farms.

> Do all of these companies who want their own TPUs have to negotiate with TSMC?

Do all of the companies that want their own GPUs have to negotiate with TSMC? No, AMD/nVidia/Broadcom/NeoMagic/Qualcomm/etc. negotiates with TSMC/Samsung/GlobalFoundries/Intel/etc. and then you buy a GPU from a GPU company instead of the GPU/TPU customer needing to design their own GPU/TPU.
by fuzztester | 2025-08-11 21:16:21+00:00
who at microsoft said open source is unamerican

https://www.google.com/search?q=who+at+microsoft+said+open+s...

one of the results:

Weekly news wrapup: Microsoft claims Linux is un-American:

https://www.linux.com/news/weekly-news-wrapup-microsoft-clai...

from 2001.

well, gosh, I feel sorry for those American Linux developers of that time. I guess they were unAmerican, according to Allchin. if they were of this time, i guess they would have been deported by ICE.

sorry for the victim now ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-48lNCrmqxA
by dingaling | 2025-08-11 21:16:22+00:00
The XB-1 doesn't have any boom reduction shaping. That's the NASA X-59, though that aircraft is pretty much a dead-end in that it's not scalable to a passenger configuration.

The XB-1 made use of an atmospheric trick to minimise boom propagation to ground level on one test flight, so well-known in fact that Concorde sometimes used it to accelerate as it coasted-out without an audible ground-level boom. Unfortunately that trick runs out at about M1.17.
by bastawhiz | 2025-08-11 21:16:44+00:00
There's more to it, though. The inference code you linked to is Python. Unless my software is Python, I have to ship a CPython binary to run the inference code, then wire it up (or port it, if you're feeling spicy).

Ollama brings value by exposing an API (literally over sockets) with many client SDKs. You don't even need the SDKs to use it effectively. If you're writing Node or PHP or Elixir or Clojurescript or whatever else you enjoy, you're probably covered.

It also means that you can swap models trivially, since you're essentially using the same API for each one. You never need to worry about dependency hell or the issues involved in hosting more than one model at a time.

As far as I know, Ollama is really the only solution that does this. Or at the very least, it's the most mature.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-08-11 21:16:44+00:00
Boom XB-1 did 750 mph air speed. If I've got an 8 hour flight at 561 mph in an A380 that's a reduction to 5.984 hours when I move to the Boom XB-1. Who cares about saving 1.1 hours on a transatlantic flight. There is a reason why Concorde's cruise speed was 1,341 mph.

So when Boom makes a commercial airliner that hits 1000+ mph with the same availability and turnaround time as a typical passenger plane then I'll pay attention. Until then, it's for rich people who can buy their own plane.
by leach | 2025-08-11 21:17:08+00:00
Ah I see interesting, I'll have to play around with this more. I switched from Nvidia to AMD and have found AMD support to still be rolling out for these new cards. I could only get LM studio working so far but I'd like to try out more front ends.

Not a major setback because for long context I'd just use GPT or claude, but it would be cool to have 128k context locally on my machine. When I get a new CPU I'll upgrade RAM to 64, my GPU is more than capable of what I need for a while and a 5090 or 4090 is the next step up in VRAM but I don't want to shell out 2k for a card.
by jorvi | 2025-08-11 21:19:10+00:00
Nothing of the sort has been leaked or said by Microsoft.

However, their strategy seems to be going all-in on Gamepass. And if you subscribe to Gamepass, Microsoft does not care if you play on your Steam Deck, iPad or Xbox.

This is also why they mentioned they might open up the Xbox to other stores (Steam), and why they have been releasing first party titles onto the PS5[0].

If you couple that info with them axing their own handheld and instead licensing out the Xbox name to Asus with the ROG Ally Xbox, it isn't a huge leap to assume they'll just license out the Xbox name to whichever OEM feels like making a console. The Xbox One and Series X / S already run the Windows Core kernel which would make going more wide on the hardware support quite easy, and the current hardware is semi off-the-shelf stuff from AMD anyway.

[0] this led to some memery: https://images3.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED187/67a6bce7291...
by bravesoul2 | 2025-08-11 21:19:19+00:00
I like this. My view is I aint doing it if it aint a system.

A system: change diet to always have at least 3 veg per meal. Do that until you die.

A non-system: skip a meal and just eat soup for 30 days and try to drop 10kg.

Not diet advice and some people may need to drop weight quickly under doctor advise. But the general idea is to avoid will-power driven outcomes and rely on habit and system driven outcomes.

Not clever org mode needed. To develop a habit just do it every day. Track it somehow. Make it not too onerous. Forgive slip ups.
by ivanmontillam | 2025-08-11 21:19:24+00:00
As GP said:

> Long story short: MS isn't a saint. They are a business. And they have behaved relatively nice for so long that some young adults don't know any other side of MS now.

They are a business. You seem to misunderstand that businesses cannot behave like charities.

Being a business implies being for-profit.

Nobody said open source had to be free as in free beer, it just had to be free as in freedom.

It's their prerogative to make the plugins marketplace to alternative editors or not. Servers cost money. It's a business.

Does Matt Mullenweg has to let WPEngine sap server resources? Arguably not; and this opinion comes from a guy (me) that strongly dislikes WordPress (and by extension: Matt and Automattic).
by deaddodo | 2025-08-11 21:19:36+00:00
You specifically stated "since it runs Windows, I will never use it" and I addressed that point. If your qualifier is "runs MacOS/iOS", then your following question is moot for every non-Apple device.

Either way, no one can answer your subjective opinion-based query. Go test it out at the dozens of kiosks in any city in a Western nation (or, barring that, watch a youtube video) and judge for yourself.
by camel_Snake | 2025-08-11 21:19:53+00:00
going to shout-out ClozeMaster here since I first found out about it on hacker news. Always hated duolingo - it's the gamification triggered to many alarm bells to me.

Clozemaster is much more rudimentary but I do like how they use AI - there's a single button that gives you an AI grammatical summary of the translation and calls out any idioms or grammatical conventions in the target language compared to your native one.

Bought the lifetime license but it's free to use, you just get a limited amount of flash cards a day. If you wait until christmas there's generally a big discount on the lifetime license.
by Otek | 2025-08-11 21:20:36+00:00
> Kept forgetting to check Things? How does a plain text file solve that?

This. It just doesn’t. My bet is that some people just need to change their tools from time to time. And tbh I think it’s totally fine, no need to explain yourself. Just buy another todo list app and don’t feel bad about it. Or this expensive paper notebook. Or this “dumb phone” that will make you productive. Maybe just don’t try to find a deeper meaning in it or try to convince everyone that you finally solved some big mistery
by kerkeslager | 2025-08-11 21:20:37+00:00
> The only time I have used this myself was an expat style transformer for terraform (HCL). We had a lot of terraform and they kept changing the language, so I would build a fixer to make code written for say 0.10 to work with 0.12 and then again for 0.14. It was very fun and let us keep updating to newer terraform versions. Pretty simple language except for distinguishing quoted blocks from non-quoted.

I hear stories like this and I just wonder how we got here. Like, did this work provide any monetary value to anyone? It sounds like your team just got way too lost in the abstractions and forgot that they were supposed to make a product that did something, ostensibly something that makes money.

I mean, I guess if you can persuade people to give you money to do something, it's profitable. :shrug:
by pjerem | 2025-08-11 21:21:55+00:00
Apple barely does it and only for their products. I agree with you that that’s already too much and too annoying but that’s an order of magnitude less than Microsoft who advertise their products pretty aggressively AND ALSO are advertising for whoever gave them money too.

Ubuntu I didn’t use it for years, there are tons of other distributions that I prefer now but last time I checked, there was a removable default shortcut to amazon. That’s an awful symbol, if you ask me, to associate Ubuntu and its meaning to Amazon but it’s nothing when compared to Apple or Microsoft (dare I say Google) behaviors.
by db48x | 2025-08-11 21:22:00+00:00
Because it’s off topic. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
by romesmoke | 2025-08-11 21:22:22+00:00
I wouldn't have commented if the article kept neutral on when to apply its ideas. But the push for daily learning-reflecting-etc is there. Even the segment you're quoting uses days for accounting. You're downplaying one's potential to read something like this on the Internet and try to literally live by it.

As for machines and tyranny, they're terms capturing the Zeitgeist all too well.
by o0-0o | 2025-08-11 21:23:04+00:00
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Simplicity is tough, and it's hard to understand which option would be more affordable without a pricing 'calculator'.

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by xboxnolifes | 2025-08-11 21:23:04+00:00
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by slackr | 2025-08-11 21:23:26+00:00
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by geoffpado | 2025-08-11 21:23:32+00:00
Glad to see I wasn't the only one with that problem with the Terra Ignota series. I describe them to people as "my least favorite favorite books" since they're quite good, but infuriating to read.

Brandon Sanderson is another who has started to dip into this well and it's annoying there, too. Do I really have to remember that this character is named this amongst this group of people and named another thing amongst another group of people? Often, it's never even really explicitly stated that these two characters are the same and you end up having to refer to some wiki that probably has spoilers just because you find yourself wondering "am I supposed to know who this is?"
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-11 21:23:37+00:00
Probably. Whatever method I use, physical or digital, it tends to fade into the background after a while and I stop noticing it. My best bet might be to switch to a new method every few weeks, in which case it's probably best to keep them simple and cheap. Maybe a whiteboard for a while, then a notebook, then a text file, and so on looping through a few basic methods.
by maxglute | 2025-08-11 21:23:52+00:00
> long-term data we have?

My rough understanding is we have 20-50 years of efforts in the Nordics. Long enough to form "Nordic Paradox" for situation where pro-natal policies still lead to below replacement rates. There's also weird dual cultural shift - Nordic countries women labour participation rate stagnated or even decreased - more wanted to become full time moms/homemakers - so there is desire for family formation. But second culture shift is the desire is still sub replacement level, i.e. people want 1-2 kids. Not enough people want 2 kids to replace themselves. Not enough people want 2+ kids to make up the people that want 1.

> go on forever

Yeah it's more to illustrate the levels of abundance in terms of pro social policies that could sustain culturally acceptable >2 TFR. Be religious. Have UBI. Ensure people work little if they don't want to. Ensure they have access to cheap labour that does all the work for them. Then maybe TFR could settle between 2-3. Right now the few exception are a few million people sustained by disproportionate fossil exports. That model can't scale without another source of abundance.
by pavlov | 2025-08-11 21:23:58+00:00
Protected mode on the 286 was seriously flawed. It couldn’t run most existing DOS real mode applications without resetting the CPU, and it didn’t make it easy to access the new features. You now had a 16MB address space (up from 1MB on the 8086), but you still had to access it through 64kB segments. Protected mode on 286 actually made this worse because it added overhead when modifying segment registers, so accessing large memory areas got slower.

OS/2 1.x was designed for the 286 and couldn’t escape these limitations. In theory it was a decent improvement on MS-DOS, but in practice there wasn’t enough value to counter the lack of compatibility and the higher price.
by rayiner | 2025-08-11 21:24:01+00:00
Denmark has been the most systematic about collecting this sort of data about immigrants from different places. I suspect you’d see similar results in the UK and Canada if those governments collected the data. Canada’s GDP per capita has actually started declining recently.

I think Denmark’s welfare system is a model, so whoever you’re arguing with, it’s not me. I will point out that, if Denmark with its robust welfare system can’t integrate MENAPT immigrants effectively, that doesn’t bode well for other countries with less efficient welfare states.
by Xcelerate | 2025-08-11 21:24:09+00:00
I could see this. For certain personality archetypes, there are particular topics, terms, and phrases that for whatever reason ChatGPT seems to constantly direct the dialogue flow toward: "recursive", "compression", "universal". I was interested in computability theory way before 2022, but I noticed that these (and similar) terms kept appearing far more often than I would expect to due chance alone, even in unrelated queries.

Started searching and found news articles talking about LLM-induced psychosis or forum posts about people experiencing derealization. Almost all of these articles or posts included that word: "recursive". I suspect those with certain personality disorders (STPD or ScPD) may be particularly susceptible to this phenomenon. Combine eccentric, unusual, or obsessive thinking with a tool that continually reflects and confirms what you're saying right back at you, and that's a recipe for disaster.
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by sandworm101 | 2025-08-11 21:25:20+00:00
Are you kidding? On a commercial flight, between the safety briefs, seatbelt warnings, and "turn on/off your devices" there are constant announcements. And the stupid entertainment systems you cannot turn off, or at least that spring to flashing life again after each pointless announcement. I wore my ear defenders on united once, and was woken mid-flight by a steward informing me they were not allowed as i wouldnt be able to hear announcements.
by Acrobatic_Road | 2025-08-11 21:26:09+00:00
Brazil is 1.47, and Iran is 1.43. Both are lower than the United States.

Other poor countries lower than America: Mexico, Columbia, Philippines, Thailand

Source for TFRs: https://cdn.xcancel.com/pic/orig/67E402B3A81D9/media%2FGxYAq...

The correlation between wealth and fertility is quickly breaking down, both between countries and within (rich people have more kids, poor people have fewer).
by zahirbmirza | 2025-08-11 21:27:03+00:00
Narrative Control and the new Furnaces of Orwell.

Note to Moderators - This is not a Dupe (in my opinion and I will respect your greater insight) from what I have seen published on this site so far. The subject of this article covers an important starting point for discussion; that of the power of narrative control, selective publication and control of access to information.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-11 21:27:19+00:00
I’ve been in the industry for 30 years professionally and 10 years as hobbyist who paid as much attention to the industry as one could before the internet in the 80s early 90s including lying as a 9th grader pretending to be a big spender to get a free subscription to MacWeek and PCWeek.

At no point in time was Microsoft one of the cool guys.
by martin-t | 2025-08-11 21:27:37+00:00
When I encounter this, it's usually a belief that a strong and implicitly good leader is needed so that he can somehow remove/punish all the bad people.

What the people don't get is that:

- Truly good people are incredibly rare. - Those who are prone to abusing power will only show their true colors when actually given power. - Power corrupts, everyone has head this. But it also attracts people who are corrupt in the first place. And of course, they will lie and pretend to be good to get that power. - What about succession? Even if their fav leader was actually good and was so "pure" he fathered (most such promoters of this assume a man) only good children, each generation the amount of his "good genes" they'd have would halve (assuming no Habsburgcest).

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IMO the cause is people knowing they are largely powerless in the grand scheme of things (barring self-sacrifice and violence which they are increasingly indoctrinated against) but this learned helplessness is so internalized they can't conceive of a better solution than giving even more of their power away.
by armchairhacker | 2025-08-11 21:28:46+00:00
BS

> First it launched the “fake news inquiry,” making itself the initiator, investigator and judge. This was a violation of the constitutional rights of Brazilians, who are entitled to have their criminal cases tried in local and state courts, with charges brought by local and state prosecutors.

> In July 2021 they launched a “digital militia inquiry,” targeting tech companies and their platforms. It forced them to censor content and demonetize Brazilians who held opinions that the court found unacceptable. Failure to comply meant the companies could no longer operate in Brazil.

> The justice made the tribunal notably more political than it had been by actively monitoring the speech of parties, candidates and citizens and censoring those with whom he disagreed.

> Around 1,500 suspects were rounded up and some kept in prison for up to a year awaiting trial. Some were hit with severe sentences for minor transgressions.

Regulating speech, suppressing peaceful dissent, and ignoring the right to due process and a fair trial is immoral, everywhere.
by epistasis | 2025-08-11 21:28:49+00:00
I was there and it was a very common view, though perhaps not a majority view, that the iPhone was a flash in the pan. There were lots of people committed to the idea that only physical keyboards could work for mobile. Touch interfaces were viewed highly skeptically. And it wasn't just the Microsoft or Palm people saying it, it was large chunks of their customers. The initial goal of the iPhone was 1%, yes, 1% share of the phone market! And many thought that was impossible for Apple and their strange new device.