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by bluecalm | 2025-08-23 13:22:15+00:00
I am on my 3rd Thinkpad already and while I still like them they are not close to Apple quality. On my current one keyboard touches the screen when it's closed so the screen becomes dirty quickly. After Windows 11 upgrade it auto-dims on battery after like 30 seconds and I can't figure a way to turn it off. Hibernation never worked properly (apparently AMD/Windows issue). You don't need to deal with any of that on a Macbook. I would switch instantly if I didn't need to run Windows.
by wilkystyle | 2025-08-23 13:22:17+00:00
I definitely resonate with this. Getting to the point where you can just write and try things can be a little tough sometimes, but some of my best work has been done the second time around (i.e. the first pass was just doing whatever hacky, exploratory code I needed to do in order to get the feel and shape of the thing, and then the second pass was doing it for real once I had figured it out)
by rnrn | 2025-08-23 13:22:27+00:00
I thought this too, but after reading some of the other comments here I read some of the text of the chips act and the 2021 NDAA (mostly section 9902) and AFAICT Congress appropriated a bunch of money for financial assistance for semiconductor companies and gave the Dept of Commerce the authority to determine the funding type.

That they were grants instead of any other instrument appears to be a Biden Commerce decision, not a congressional one.

I’m no lawyer and could certainly be missing something i the law that says it has to be grants but from what I see it looks like figuring out what to do the the money was pretty much delegated to dept of commerce with limited direction about eligibility and review criteria.
by thunky | 2025-08-23 13:22:55+00:00
> Like you are putting money on a stock that trades at 1000 on a company that is 10 years away from being profitable? You deserve your money to go poof.

Who is suggesting that?

NVDA trades at 57x earnings, MSFT 37, GOOG 22. The article is about META and they are 27x. These are the big companies that dominate the s&p that we're talking about.

I don't think anyone is suggesting to put their life savings into Anthropic. They can't anyway, it's not public.

The s&p PE is 30, which is high, but still lower than it was in 2020 before the AI "bubble" started.
by marcusb | 2025-08-23 13:23:07+00:00
Grew up in a very poor town in Arkansas. Had a public tennis court literally next door. In the 80s, the tennis court saw frequent use. People would get mad when they lost a match or whatever and hit the balls into our yard.

My grandmother would go collect them, and we always had a basket full of balls by the door.

By the early 2000s, people stopped using the tennis court very often, and the city tore down the chain link fence around the court to use as overflow parking for the adjacent little league fields.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-23 13:24:01+00:00
> It’s not an incorrect model of the world as technically both you and an LLM ultimately have an incorrect model of the world and both you and the LLM fake it.

I should've said that the model is "missing", not "weak" when talking about LLMs, that was my mistake. Yes I'm a human with an imperfect and in many aspects incorrect conceptual model of the world, that is true. The following aren't real examples, they're hyperbolic to better illustrate the category of errors I'm talking about.

If someone asks me "can I stare into the sun without eye protection", my answer isn't going to change based on how the question is phrased because I conceptually understand that the radiation coming from the sun (and more broadly, intense visible radiation emitted from any source) causes irreversible damage to your eyes, which is a fact stored in my conceptual understanding of the world.

However LLMs will flip flop based on tone and phrasing of your question. Asked normally, they will warn you about the dangers of staring into the sun, but if your question hints at disbelief, they might reply "No you're right, staring into the sun isn't that bad".

I also know that mirrors reflect light, which allows me to intuitively understand that staring at the sun through a mirror is dangerous without being explicitly taught that fact.

If you ask an LLM whether staring into a mirror which is pointed at the sun (oriented such that you see the sun through the mirror) is safe, they might agree that it's safe to do so, even though they "know" that staring into the sun is dangerous, and they "know" that mirrors reflect light. Presumably this is because their training data doesn't explicitly state that staring at a mirror is dangerous.

The way the question is framed can completely change their answer which betrays their lack of conceptual understanding. Those are distinctly different problems. You might say that humans do this too, but we don't call that intelligent behavior, and we tend to have a low opinion of those who exhibit this behavior often.
by Certhas | 2025-08-23 13:24:01+00:00
As a European, US Unions seem absurd. I can't recall a Union in a country I lived in so blatantly agitating against technology (though I am sure you can find examples if you go looking). Maybe because they tend to be much much larger and represent broader slices of the economy, so they would advocate for retraining and education programs for the workers they represent.

In the context of autonomous busses in public transport I didn't see any statements by Verdi, the German union covering this sector, that opposed them in principle.

E.g. in Hamburg:

"Wenn das autonome Fahren dazu führt, dass der ÖPNV ausgebaut und der Takt höher wird, dann ist das ein positives Zeichen in Richtung der von uns geforderten dringend notwendigen Verkehrswende. Wir erwarten aber von den Gesellschaftern unter der Federführung unseres ersten Bürgermeisters Dr. Peter Tschentscher, Finanzsenator Dr. Andreas Dressel und Verkehrssenator Dr. Anjes Tjarks, dass die Einführung von autonomen Verkehren unter Gewährung aller Mitbestimmungsrechte des Betriebsrates der Hamburger Hochbahn eingeführt wird – ganz im Sinne von Hamburg als Stadt der guten Arbeit mit Vorbildcharakter."

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If autonomous driving leads to an expansion of public transport and more frequent service, then that is a positive sign toward the urgently needed mobility transition that we are demanding. However, we expect the shareholders, under the leadership of our First Mayor Dr. Peter Tschentscher, Finance Senator Dr. Andreas Dressel, and Transport Senator Dr. Anjes Tjarks, to ensure that the introduction of autonomous transport services is carried out with full respect for the co-determination rights of the works council of Hamburger Hochbahn — fully in line with Hamburg’s role as a city of good work and a model for others.
by nomilk | 2025-08-23 13:24:50+00:00
What does this mean in practice? Does this mean you could start with a blank .html file, and use html, css, and javascript (like normal), but then somehow run R too? e.g. to generate a ggplot using the browser (as opposed to server, as a shiny app may)?

Has anyone got a minimal reproducible examples (e.g. tiny html file that runs, say 2 * 2 in R)? The example linked to in the article has the key line <script type="module" src="repl.mjs"></script>, but that mjs file goes over my head.

Curious/eager/excited to know/see what kinds of real-world applications this has.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-23 13:25:27+00:00
We actually already have enough safe languages as well.

I am a firm beliver in the vision of Xerox PARC for computing, and think the only reason we aren't yet there are politics, lack of funding from management for doing the right thing pushing them into the market, always looking to shareholders and the next quarter, and naturally programming language religion.

We were already on the right direction with languages like Modula-3 and Active Oberon, following up on Cedar influences, unfortunately that isn't how the industry goes.
by mxuribe | 2025-08-23 13:26:26+00:00
To clarify my point, i mean that over the years, as i have engaged with *human beings* in situations that involve in real life/physical interaction (like standing in line at motrovehilces, getting passport photos at county clerk office, etc., it had been an interesting thing having to briefly explain to folks that .com, .net, and .org are not the only valid TLDs for email addresses....and where i most encountered that is gov. services as well as customer service reps.

To your point, agreed that *logins* for web site/apps and mobile apps are usually not an issue for my non- .com/.net/.org email addresses. In fact, for logins, gov services tend to be quite accomoddating and i don't ever think i had any issues there, and usually not a problem...But, years ago i *DID* encounter a couple of commercial/business/non-gov websites where they only expected .com/.net/.org email address...so it was a problem there on the non-gov website side of things...but even then, it thankfully was not very often, and nowadays its nearly a non-issue.

Again, my recommendation was just saying that for real, human interactions, if its possible, pick a common enough TLD to make life easier. ;-)
by gf000 | 2025-08-23 13:26:31+00:00
And memory is cheap, especially when we talk about backend workloads.

A tracing GCs can do the job concurrently, without slowing down the actual, work-bearing threads, so throughput will be much better.

> Golang improves on this quite a bit with its concurrent GC

Not sure what does it have to do with memory overhead. Java's GCs are at least generation ahead on every count, Go can just get away with a slower GC due to value types.
by Schiendelman | 2025-08-23 13:27:14+00:00
I usually lift rather than run, but I do the same thing, and it has changed my life. Up at 4 every day, and lift at 5. It makes everything else easier, I agree.

I do get in bed at 7:30p most nights and read, to ensure my body has the choice to get 8h of sleep.
by hopelite | 2025-08-23 13:27:42+00:00
> The same electrical potential may still be present in the clouds, but instead of being neutralized dramatically it could now be dissipating slowly rather than gone in a flash

That was my initial thought, like a “phantom power” drain, the process by which electrons knock each other is able to happen in a broad manner, not concentrated in the poles and suddenly discharging among a single path, i.e., lightning.

It seems similar to how static electricity builds up easier in dry environments because in humid ones the electrons can more easily equalize across water molecules.
by strix_varius | 2025-08-23 13:28:03+00:00
Uh he provided counter points to your distortion field comment, he doesn't have to just +1 the exact point of view of the parent comment.

But here I'll bite: I've had MBPs for work for like 15 years now and I bought a personal high spec Thinkpad. I now regret that purchase because my work machine is better than my personal machine in literally every way. My over $2k Thinkpad just sits there gathering dust because I don't want to use it. And unlike MacBooks, the secondary market for it is nothing so I can't just sell it and recover most of the loss.
by glynnormington | 2025-08-23 13:29:12+00:00
Fair point. I often copy stuff across from one project to the next. But this point is most relevant when I'm using another language etc. for the first time and I'm tempted to try to retrofit all my previous best practices.

For example, I used to work on a mainframe product that dumped the address space to disk on a crash. Then it was possible to build all sorts of fancy tooling to analyse the dump. When I moved to a different platform, without those kinds of dumps, it was tempting to try to reinvent all this stuff, but it would have been a massive time sink (and would have failed too).
by brookst | 2025-08-23 13:30:50+00:00
I was using an oversimplified example to illustrate. In practice, it appears more in large context statements about the context. If the human is wrong, there’s a good chance the AI will cheerfully agree and then be wrong too.

I was reminded of this this morning when using Claude code (which I love) and I was confidently incorrect about a feature of my app. Claude proposed a plan, I said “great, but don’t build part 3, just use the existing ModuletExist”. Claude tied itself in knots because it believes me.

(The module does exist in another project I’m working on)
by reckoner99 | 2025-08-23 13:31:01+00:00
Not sure this analysis adds much to what any follower of the Premier League has noticed: that the gap between the top and bottom has been widening for years. The biggest clubs have money, history, and stability on their side, which helps keep them at the top. But it’s also true that a new middle class has emerged in recent years. Teams like Brighton and Brentford show that smart planning, data use, and strong recruitment can help a club not only survive but become regulars in the league despite the financial imbalance.
by farazbabar | 2025-08-23 13:31:30+00:00
This is not really Veblen situation. A lot of these are primarily money laundering outfits, the artificially high prices, are simply a means of converting cash into bank deposits. Similar schemes exist in art, sculptures, and jewelry. There are some mom and pop type stores that are legit and some of the money goes to actual artists who make these but the ones in Palo Alto (or similarly unattainable rent neighborhood rug shops), are not that.
by Jensson | 2025-08-23 13:31:54+00:00
> But I guess trying to nationalize companies and "benefiting" from company profits was something people were missing. How did no one see that? Ah yes, third world countries try this routinely for "national security" and it always leads to moral hazard pointed out by the person above you.

This isn't nationalizing it though, this is just an investment into it. Investments aren't bad.
by sandreas | 2025-08-23 13:32:31+00:00
I did a lot of research regarding the trackpad situation on modern Linux and there are several reasons the macOS experience feels better for most people.

The most important one is indeed SOFTWARE/DRIVER implementation. Using a hackintosh, the feeling is not the same as a MacBook, but close (depending on which Hardware is used). Furthermore there is ONE UI framework (AppKit?!) which makes implementing things like inertial scolling and rubberbanding pretty easy in one Place. On Linux you have multiple App Frameworks (GTK, QT, ...), which is significantly harder to coordinate and the backwards compatible X11 stuff. Did you know that libinput has only one permanent maintainer (Peter Hutterer)?

Of course the amount of Hardware to support is significantly lower on apples side, which makes optimization easier.

Still, all in all I think the Linux touchpad experience is very close to macOS on my Lenovo T480s with a glass touchpad from a yoga 7 in Arch / GNOME. The only thing that really is not as good and what bothers me From time to time is Palm detection.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-23 13:32:57+00:00
"The United States is not, and should not be permitted to become, a soft compromise and amalgam of global values and tastes.

A reticence or perhaps incapacity to pronounce and to prefer, beyond the shallow and ritualistic shaming of others in the public sphere that masquerades as thought, has had costs.

A fuller statement of the causes and consequences of this reticence is set forth in The Technological Republic. In short, however, a tolerance of everything, a shallow embrace of all views and perspectives as equally valid, often and unfortunately devolves into a belief in nothing."
by gyomu | 2025-08-23 13:33:14+00:00
In the countryside where I am there are 2 buses a day (only during the school year, for students, although they let non students ride it) and the nearest train station is 30 minutes away.

The real concern here is people driving when they shouldn't (drunk, tired, etc.) because they have no other option, putting lives at risk, so to the degree that self-driving cars will curb that I am wholly for the technology.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-23 13:33:24+00:00
Soccer you play even if you badly, because the ball is on the ground, but playing soccer well is very hard.

Tennis you can't play truly badly since the ball is in the air, so there's a skill floor, probably not too dissimilar from the skill floor required to play baseball.

Some sports that have a lower skill floor than tennis are table tennis, pickeball, badminton, association football and ice hockey. The thing to understand is that it's not about fitness, it's the skill floor. It's that the beginner will miss the ball or not be able to control it.
by mxuribe | 2025-08-23 13:33:43+00:00
> Users in other countries are very likely to be more familiar with both their own local domain, and have probably also experienced websites from neighbouring countries, while your average American has never even seen a website with a .us domain (never even seen it used myself), and are a lot less likely to have needed to go to a .ca or .mx website...

Yeah, agreed; that has been my experience as well. And in fact, i think that because folks outside U.S. are at least familiar with the TLDs of their neighboring countries, that fact at least helps them understand that there are more TLDs out there than simply their country's or only .com/.net/.org...its an awareness that they at least learn about...whereas folks in the U.s. might be - i don't know - maybe sheltered more in these things.

> ...That said, I'd expect to get a similar reaction from people in other countries if you said your email was firstname.lastname@mydomain.christmas, or whatever other funny top level domain...

True, there are just so many TLDs - well, outside the country code TLDs - now that it is hard to know what is real/valid or not. :-)
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-23 13:33:53+00:00
> I hope it won't get slaughtered by Roblox's legal team.

I'm not saying Roblox won't try, but this project strikes me as very obviously legal.

If legality was a spectrum, I'd rank this higher than VLC Media Player (patents) and way above an NES emulator. I suppose it'd be below Android, and Oracle did sue over Android.

(Disclaimer, I am not a lawyer, etc.)
by W3zzy | 2025-08-23 13:33:54+00:00
We run dell or HP laptops at work. After 3 years they get replaced. I usually buy my old work laptop to use it for personal use or to hand off to my family.

Tge first one I bought in that way is still working after 14 years. I converted it from Windows to Linux a few years ago and My mother uses it for browsing, banking and email. Personally I'm using a 7 years old HP.

Batteries get upgraded when necessary and first thin I do after buying is adding RAM.

I don't get how 5 years is a good lifespan on a Mac?
by JPLeRouzic | 2025-08-23 13:34:16+00:00
> "why only tumor cell react to PAMP instead of healthy cells"

I am not a scientist, but I believe that "normal" cells do not seek long-chain alien sugars like those produced by ocean bacteria. Conversely, "cancerous" cells may find these uncommon sugars appealing, and they consume sugar eagerly (Warburg effect).

After the alien sugars are metabolized, fragments migrate to the cell membrane and might be recognized by the immune system as foreign.

The fact that large molecules trigger Pyroptosis may be helpful.
by yasserf | 2025-08-23 13:34:26+00:00
Most backends still treat HTTP as the “first-class citizen,” and everything else (WebSockets, queues, cron, mcp) feels bolted on with custom wiring and their own typings if any.

Pikku aims to take a different approach:

- Define a function once → invoke it from HTTP, WebSockets, queues, cron, or even Postgres.

- Deployment is your choice: single process, containers, serverless, or workers. Pick your own queue library, deploy scheduled tasks via lambda, the choice is endless.

- Fully typed, end-to-end → auto-generated clients are tiny, just thin wrappers over existing libs.

Built-in support for services, middleware, permissions, and auth.

Docs & examples: pikku.dev
by jsnell | 2025-08-23 13:34:42+00:00
The report also doesn't define what the word "AI" means. What are they trying to hide?!

In reality, we know what Google means by the term "Gemini Apps", because it's a term they've had to define for e.g. their privacy policies[0].

> The Gemini web app available through gemini.google.com and browser sidebars

> The Gemini mobile apps, which include:

> The Gemini app, including as your mobile assistant, on Android. Note that Gemini is hosted by the Google app, even if you download the Gemini app.

> The Gemini app on iOS

> Gemini in the Google Messages app in specific locations

> The Gemini in Chrome feature. Learn more about availability.

That established definition does not include AI summaries (actually AI Overviews) on search like you very claimed. And it's something where Google probably is going to be careful -- the "Gemini Apps" name is awkward, but they need a name that distinguishes these use cases from other AI use cases with different data boundaries / policies / controls.

If the report was talking about "Gemini apps", your objection might make sense.

[0] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en
by Balgair | 2025-08-23 13:35:45+00:00
Anecdata:

I hated exercise. Still do. People talk about a glow or a good feeling after exercise. My SO does too. I never felt it.

Until I dieted down to being 'at weight' not overweight. Only then did it feel good to exercise, and only then after I exercised. The act itself is still a terrible experience.

I've put on weight again and, yep, I hate exercise now. But now I know there is a light at the end of the dieting and weightless tunnel. Without the experimental results, I would never have known.

So, its not that I don't trust the science here, I mean, how can I refute it? It's just that my lived experience says that I'm a freak and I'm sitting out on the end of some bell curve or whatever. I know that it got a high ROI, that's why I did these weight loss experiments in the first place. It's just that for some reason, my body and mind hate exercise until I get down to healthy levels.

Thanks for letting me share this.
by madamelic | 2025-08-23 13:36:15+00:00
> Developer of such system? Company who made the car? Company who created the self driving system?

Those would in many cases be the same company. And yes, the entity responsible for injury would be the car manufacturer, not the driver or riders. Taking on legal liability for the car is part of the 'qualifications' for L3.

The specifics of what part of the system failed can be litigated if defendants (companies) need to be added to the case but in no case will the people inside of a vehicle designated higher than SAE L3 be held at fault for the accident.
by rnrn | 2025-08-23 13:36:38+00:00
Are you sure congress didn’t authorize this ? i.e. actually specified that the money could only be used for grants and could not be used for equity purchases?

> The Department of Commerce is authorized to provide funding in various forms, including grants, cooperative agreements, loans, and loan guarantees, in exercising its Section 9902 authorities

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47523

AFAICT the relevant section of law says it is up to the Secretary of Commerce to determine the funding type to be used for the semiconductor financial assistance

https://www.congress.gov/116/plaws/publ283/PLAW-116publ283.p...

See my other comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44995799
by baq | 2025-08-23 13:36:43+00:00
Also add a very important feature of ‘lid is closed - the computer is asleep and it wakes up when lid opens’. Both windows and Linux are simply broken in that regard.

What I need is Apple MacBook hardware with a 100% supported Linux OS. This combination simply doesn’t exist and there’s no amount of money to make it happen (yes I know about asahi.)
by mattmanser | 2025-08-23 13:37:21+00:00
I tried this for a bit 5/10 years ago, but I've never found this to work very well. I guess I relarely start significant greenfield, non-trivial, projects. Maybe every 3 years or so.

By which time beat practice has completely changed and everything you setup is out of date.

And that's backend, it's much worse for frontend where even 6 months later your 'perfect' template is out of date.