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by Cockbrand | 2025-09-08 15:18:59+00:00
Similar, and maybe more related to the article's topic: Commodore BASIC also saved the commands as tokens, so you could enter abbreviated commands like

10 ? "Hello" 20 gO 10

and a LIST command would yield

10 print "Hello" 20 goto 10

So saving commands as tokens in memory and formatting them on output was somewhat common back then.

The speccy was more advanced in terms of this (as mentioned in the parent comment), and it had the better BASIC for sure.
by exceptione | 2025-09-08 15:19:12+00:00
> It's kinda hard to be an AMD fan when you live in an alternative reality, huh?

I don't know, as I am not too much intimate with both concepts. I meant to say if both measure idle power but come with different results, are they measuring the same? Could hardware and software differences influence idle power? What values does an "idle power reading" measure actually?
by chowells | 2025-09-08 15:19:21+00:00
You've jumped to a fascinatingly false conclusion here. Is this the so-called death of media literacy? I replied to the ideas underlying the post rather than the words in it, and you think that means I didn't read it?

To go through the details: The post explicitly complained about a linter enforcing style rules. It did not object to the presence of mechanically-enforced style rules. In fact, it glorified them implicitly by saying how great it would be if everything was formatted at presentation-time. This glorification is the exact thing I was criticizing.

I think machine-enforced rules are bad because they destroy a communication channel that importantly has point 4 that I listed - when well-formatted code breaks its conventions, there must be a reason for it. That is important information that enforced presentation rules force to be put into another channel.

And it's certainly true that other channels do convey this other information, but I find more value in having it conveyed in the presentation channel than I do in having that channel replaced by mechanistic formatting.

This is the premise underlying the article that I object to. It is present so heavily in the subtext that if you pretend it's not, the post becomes incoherent.

And FWIW, HN rules say not to accuse people of not having read the article. I think that rule is mostly there because someone can read the article and notice something you missed, and it's wiser to not post than it is to assume you absorbed 100% of the context of the post.
by johndoe0815 | 2025-09-08 15:19:33+00:00
The M3/M4 chips are not yet supported by Asahi Linux (which serves as the basis for all Linux versions on Apple Silicon), so you are limited to M1 and M2 (and the respective Pro/Max) SoCs.

An overview of the supported devices can be found at https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support

Both the Macbook Pro M1 as well as the Macbook Air M1 are still pretty great devices. I would recommend to go for a 16 GB version since RAM (and SSD) cannot be upgraded.

If you need external video (monitor/projector etc.), you need to go with the Pro model, since the Air doesn't have an HDMI port and video over USB-C is not yet supported.
by gingerBill | 2025-09-08 15:19:39+00:00
It is an alternative, just clearly not one you like. And it's not an oversimplification of the problem.

Again, what is wrong with saying you should know the costs of the dependencies you include AND the alternative approaches of not using the dependencies?—e.g. using the standard library, writing it yourself, using another dependency already that might fit, etc.
by TonySyrup | 2025-09-08 15:20:00+00:00
Going to work on this immediately, thanks for the feedback. For the filtering I want to try include jobs that are remote friendly regardless of the location, so for instance if you search by USA and Frontend I want to show you frontend jobs where the HQ for the company is in the US but also show jobs in Europe that take on employees based in the US.

I shall continue trying to improve it, appreciate it!
by darkwater | 2025-09-08 15:20:04+00:00
I'm in the market for a fitness smartwatch focused on running, I have a Garmin 500 something for my bike - it was a gift - and I totally hate its UI/UX. It's not touch, super slow to refresh, maps already don't get updates, the Garmin "generate a random track" sent me on gravel/rock terrain when I have a road bike, the app try to cross-sell you other shit etc. Is at least the watches UI better?

I was now thinking to purchase a Coros Pace 3.
by mothballed | 2025-09-08 15:21:10+00:00
Just a guess but "east africa" while refusing to name country likely means someplace that theoretically you can wire money to, but in practice the AML control will start flagging like crazy and you get all your account shut down for even trying and no US based employer is going to touch with a 10 foot pole. If it were someplace like Kenya they would say, I'm guessing it's more like Somalia or Eritrea.
by gh02t | 2025-09-08 15:21:20+00:00
IIRC, Immich started as a project after Photoprism changed their licensing to restrict several features, and then picked up a ton of momentum very fast. They've pledged they won't ever pay-gate features, which isn't always a positive as those features help sustain a project long term, but they have so much community support and love that I'm not worried about that in this case.

Feature wise I think they are pretty comparable (vs the paid version of Photoprism), and I like the UI of Immich slightly more. Immich also supports singe sign on via OIDC easily, which I rather appreciate so my family doesn't have to remember 10 different passwords.

Regarding stability it's actually pretty reliable. I've been running it for a long time via Docker in the form of the TrueNAS plugin and have never had any issues, like ever, so I think it being marked as unstable was a bit overly cautious. I think they have also recently moved to a new phase of development that is also going to be even more stable. Even if it does break, all of your media is stored in a nicely organized directory structure on the filesystem so you're not going to lose anything.
by ishtanbul | 2025-09-08 15:21:30+00:00
I've looked at this space from an infrastructure investment perspective. Its really tough, and generally not considered "infrastructure" by most infra folks because of the lack of long term revenue contracts. There is not a great way to underwrite the risk of utilization of the chargers. The customers need to show up. Unless you can guarantee some of the revenue, you have a lot of capex with no clear path to repay it. The chargers also require a lot of maintenance and the grid connection is challenging with low consumption and high peak load, and long wait to get connected... Investors have been staying away.
by bluGill | 2025-09-08 15:21:55+00:00
> absent an authority to gather together all the experts with their tightly focused specializations, absent the chip fabs and the global supply network, how exactly do you build a computer? Or even something as “simple” as a pencil?

You develop that first. If there is a nuclear war and somehow I survive with 5000 people near me survive (if we are scattered around the world that doesn't help) that is enough for genetic diversity and we can start rebuilding society. There are plenty of books in libraries. I can figure out how to make a primitive printing press (likely from clay - fragile but just the ability to print say 10 books from a plate is huge and seems possible). Books in libraries will last for a while, and we can figure out better ways to store them. In many be 1000 years, but what of physics and chemistry we are able to preserve will help whoever. They will develop different supply chains. They will start knowing a spinning wheel is possible (I don't know enough about the spinning jenny to automate it) - I know where I live warm clothing is critical and so I will be sure to take the time to develop a spinning wheel thus allowing women to not have to spend 12 hours a day with a drop spindle. That is time they can then spending on investing something else while the men farm. (there is good reason for this sexual division of labor so I'd be forced to bring it back in the early days)
by bri3d | 2025-09-08 15:22:21+00:00
Oh, I understand now - you're right, OTP sensor data does protect against a real threat model I hadn't considered before:

* A remote attacker gains whatever privilege lets them get to the sensor SPI. * Without OTP calibration, the attacker could reprogram the sensor silently to report a different endstop, keeping the machine awake and the hard-cuts active. * With OTP calibration, this is closed.

So perhaps it is more security-related than I initially thought.

I was more considering the counterfeit part / supply chain / evil maid scenario, where the fact that Apple's sensors are OTP is meaningless (since a replacement sensor doesn't need to be, plus, you could just put a microcontroller pretending to be a sensor in there since there's no actual protection).

Thanks, you made me think again and figure it out!
by mildlyhostileux | 2025-09-08 15:23:58+00:00
I'm optimistic that the ease of enforcing rules like this and better customer data (maybe via the apps) will lead to a better format. The annoyance grows from the rules causing us to be prompted to do or respond to things we don't want or need. When the taco bell guy asks if I want to add sour cream for the third time, I am getting pretty annoyed. I don't like sour cream, period. But every time they hit me with "would you like to double the chicken", even if I wasn't a yes upon driving to the window, I cave when they ask and both parties are probably happier for it. Management isn't totally wrong here because there are upsells that all of us would take when presented at the right time. It's a bit like ad targeting. Its just happening in realtime at the window.

So the problem in my mind is the format. How do you not ask 3 questions with every dish? Maybe the screens can help. Now that you have an AI that can follow the rules always and likely follow more complex decision trees quickly "at the window", it reasonable chains could start to dial in how this works to be more targeted and active vs passive at the right times.
by nyrikki | 2025-09-08 15:24:00+00:00
But not on vmware, just zen and/or kvm with various management front ends.

VMware has always been a PITA, even in the late 2000's, we pivoted and bought several thousand physical machines for a new datacenter after they started to play tricks just weeks before we were going to turn up the DC.

They have always aspired to be Oracle like, where customers are hostages. Most people I knew who weren't stuck in the "Enterprise" trap moved to kvm/zen ASAP especially after the Westmere dramatically reduced the vm_exit() latency allowing for databases etc...

That was over 15 years ago, and outside of a very small number of niche use cases, tehre was no real argument to run container hosts on Vmware outside of a (IMHO) mistaken risk appetite.

It is really the fruit that ate itself, as had IT departments had a more data based risk assessment process, we would probably be heavily hybrid-cloud now. But the same Enterprise gravy train that VMware grew under killed them.

Shifting blame at great expense in licensing and agility to an _Enterprise_ solution was their jam...now Broadcom owns them an it is even worse.
by daoboy | 2025-09-08 15:24:22+00:00
I'm running Hermes Mistral and the very first thing it did was start hallucinating.

I recently started an audio dream journal and want to keep it private. Set up whisper to transcribe the .wav file and dump it in an Obsidian folder.

The plan was to put a local llm step in to clean up the punctuation and paragraphs. I entered instructions to clean the transcript without changing or adding anything else.

Hermes responded by inventing an intereview with Sun Tzu about why he wrote the Art of War. When I stopped the process it apologized and advised it misunderstood when I talked about Sun Tzu. I never mentioned Sun Tzu or even provided a transcript. Just instructions.

We went around with this for a while before I could even get it to admit the mistake, and it refused to identify why it occurred in the first place.

Having to meticulously check for weird hallucinations will be far more time consuming than just doing the editing myself. This same logic applies to a lot of the areas I'd like to have a local llm for. Hopefully they'll get there soon.
by elric | 2025-09-08 15:24:28+00:00
Their bike GPS range is...not good. I've owned two (Edge something?). Both were completely unusable for bike navigation. They're basically overpriced odometers with a shitty map bolted on as an afterthought.

Updating the maps was an exercise anger management, involving setting up accounts and syncing data to their cloud (why would I want to do that to update a map???). The maps turned out to be woefully out of date even after updating.

I managed to flash recent OSM data to one of the units, but the map rendering is so awful, cluttered, and so slow that this turned out to be just as pointless.
by alexvitkov | 2025-09-08 15:24:45+00:00
No, I did not suggest that, in fact in the very comment you're replying to I said:

My point was not that running all that on one computer is a great idea...

Regardless, if you want to strawman my passing remark, I'm happy to defend it.

Let's even say my numbers are wildly wrong, and they're processing 100x more transactions than what I claimed (which was already an overestimate). Tell me why you can't process 1600 transactions per second on one computer, especially for a country the size of the UK, where you would expect a ~15ms ping when talking to a server on the other side of the country.
by wannabebarista | 2025-09-08 15:24:58+00:00
This is a fun side project I've been working on now for a few years that looks back at research from 100, 150, and 200 years ago. Some stuff is well-known, others have been forgotten, and still others were never read at the time.

I've had lots of great suggestions from HN readers in the past. If I've missed anything cool that you like, please share!
by seneca | 2025-09-08 15:24:58+00:00
I think this is a great example of a second-order disagreement.

How about people who genuinely believe in a minimal state? They often believe in charitable giving and local community organization, in my experience. Maximal civil society vs maximal government. A good example of this type is people who believe in the ideas laid out in Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Even the more hard line Von Mises types are close to this. There are disgruntled people who are just asocial in that camp, like any other, but they are over emphasized by opponents just like every political group.

It would be very hard to argue that Nozick wasn't someone concerned with advancing society. The difference for that type is just a strong disagreement about how to do so. Painting them as first-order opponents is a mistake, I think.
by ryanwaggoner | 2025-09-08 15:25:26+00:00
From my perspective, it's more that he used to be competent, but something has changed over the last 5-10 years, and now he's essentially coasting (or more nefarious things) off the massive amount of wealth he's piled up. If you or I could come up with many better ways to accomplish Musk's stated goals than he seems to be able to execute, why would I not conclude that something has changed and he's no longer as competent as he once was?

Or maybe I'm just blinded by partisan hatred. Who knows, but I'm still not interested in supporting anything Musk produces these days. I guess we'll see in another few decades whether I'm seeing it correctly.
by joezydeco | 2025-09-08 15:25:27+00:00
They're using a pretty nifty differential Hall magnetic encoder, like this one:

https://www.novosns.com/en/hall-angle-sensor-4010

There's a fun Hackaday video using the same type of part in a rotary knob + LCD control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIrAe23f8sg
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-08 15:25:34+00:00
Yes, and it aligns with my experience. It takes a while, but it works. My home country created an app where I can have legally valid ID and driving license. When the coronavirus hit most of the infrastructure for the vaccination certificates was already there. The one where I live in now created a website where tax report boils down to a series of easily understandable questions, and most users will just click "next next next send". Train company has an app that allows me to check the timetable very easily.

I really fail to see why a mid-sized government would be incapable of providing basic email service.
by akeil_music | 2025-09-08 15:25:40+00:00
This tutorial will show you how to make a sine sweep kick that is similar to those made with ISM Bazzism or Kick by Sonic Academy. Good for a sub kick to layer or for psy-trance. I had tried before to create a similar drum using other methods to no avail. Part of the problem was that many synths don’t give precise control over envelope start time. To achieve this style of drum, the gate input on the pitch envelope and the volume envelope must be synchronized.
by hulitu | 2025-09-08 15:26:01+00:00
> It was absolutely not just social media ban, it was mostly youth protesting against the corrupt government and unfairness, social media ban was one element that was against the freedom of speech, but it was right around the time where everyone was documenting the rich politicians, their business connections and their families that have been living lavishly and just inheriting the election seats from generation to generation and spinning beurocracy to their sides.

You just gave a definition of "democracy". Thank you. /s
by bluGill | 2025-09-08 15:26:06+00:00
> I think, for example, if China experiences a disaster in the next few decades, our ability to manufacture physical goods at the quality and price they do will be set back decades or longer.

Decade perhaps, but probably not longer. We already build a lot of stuff around the world. The US makes things that we did in the 1950s when the US was the world manufacturing powerhouse - but we do so on about 1/10th as many people in manufacturing while population as doubled. We could switch many people to manufacturing - which to a large part would be automation of things China does by hand and in the end be better off - but that decade of switch we are all worse off because those jobs people are doing mostly have value.
by Pitskhela | 2025-09-08 15:26:19+00:00
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by lambda | 2025-09-08 15:26:26+00:00
There's no useful parallelization that could happen during this particular search. This took a couple of iterations of research via ChatGPT, and then reading the results and looking at the referenced sources; the total interaction time with ChatGPT is a similar 60 seconds or so, the main difference is the 3 minutes of waiting for it to generate answers vs. the maybe a couple of seconds for the searches.
by vid | 2025-09-08 15:26:54+00:00
I have looked into the Threadripper, but just can't justify it. The tension between all the options and the cost, power usage, size (EATX) is too much, and I don't think such a system, especially with 2025 era DDR5 in the 6000mt range, will hold its value well. If I were directly earning money with it, sure, but as a hobby/augmentation to my work, I will wait out a generation or lose interest in the pursuit.

Competitors to NVidia really need to figure things out, even for gaming with AI being used more I think a high end APU would be compelling with fast shared memory.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-08 15:27:21+00:00
Sorry, I don't only mean C# and Db, but just in general - the flat and sharp won't be the same outside of equal temperament. (I'm guessing details like that might matter to trombone players but I'm not sure; I play a C instrument myself).

I've only taken a cursory look and haven't tried playing violin with your app yet, but I'll post more feedback when I do!
by nunez | 2025-09-08 15:27:30+00:00
Tesla seems to be losing the plot.

They were laser-focused, and executed beautifully, on sustainable energy through beautiful EVs and innovative solar products. It's clear that they think that this mission is no longer profitable and that betting the farm on tulips [^0] is the only path to their survival.

Their latest Master Plan is so telling of this. You can tell that Elon wrote the first two plans. They were proud enough to post them on their website, even. The third was some IR-fluff on autonomy, and their latest one looks LLM-generated and says a lot without saying anything. It's also not on their website, which is odd.

I love our two Teslas. They're incredible cars, and FSD (which was always an aspirational name, and it's depressing to see them walk back on those aspirations) has no other in the market. Shame to see them spiral.

[^0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania. s/(t|T)ulip/AI/g. Like grandpa shirts and 90's running shoes, what's old is new again.
by jghn | 2025-09-08 15:27:32+00:00
We had both SPARCstations and IBM RISC workstations running AIX. Our assignments were always graded on Solaris. But the IBMs had better keyboards, so I used those. The downside? I had a real knack for finding constructs that'd lead to a segfault in Solaris but not AIX.

I was too lazy to do things like shell into a remote Solaris machine to double check before submitting though. I was YOLOing before it was cool.
by wubrr | 2025-09-08 15:27:50+00:00
> Sports have been the ways of life for many many people since forever. People identify themselves with, and bond via the sport teams they support.

Obviously not since forever, and big difference between playing sports and watching other people play sports. There are also different kinds of sports.

> Kids playing sport because they look up to their icons. That's hugely positive.

Nah, that's not a good reason to play sports. Having human 'icons' in general is not that great.

> There are pros and cons of everything, but to say sports have no benefit to the society is very shallow.

That's clearly not what I said, your engagement here is quite shallow.

> WW2 had profound and positive impact in the society.

lol, carry on bud
by aanet | 2025-09-08 15:27:57+00:00
Previously:

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563541

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40772809

3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33159796

7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42984617

4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30537564

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39731179
by gigatexal | 2025-09-08 15:27:59+00:00
You’ll pry the ARM M series chips of my Mac from my cold dead hands. They’re a game changer in the space and one of the best reasons to use a Mac.

I am not a chip expert it’s just so night and day different using a Mac with an arm chip compared to an Intel one from thermals to performance and battery life and everything in between. Intel isn’t even in the same ballpark imo.

But competition is good and let’s hope they both do —- Intel and AMD because the consumer wins.
by thepryz | 2025-09-08 15:28:06+00:00
I think you raise a good point. Everything from local newspapers, local TV news, HOA and rental management, and even community sports programs are increasingly run by national organizations that have no connection to the local community and no interest in the community aside from extracting money.

Focusing on just the media side of things, you already see how easy it is to spread propaganda and it's only getting worse with SkyDance's merger with CBS. Not sure I have any answers here, but it's definitely a problem we need to solve sooner rather than later.