MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by habinero | 2025-09-20 20:17:57+00:00
It's only "not helpful" because you don't have a good argument against it. :)

Also, the founders were not British. Most of them were second and third generation immigrants.

In addition, I don't think you realize how funny this statement is:

> Ethnic politics had little opportunity to arise in these communities, which were individually mono cultural

I wonder if you can spot the massive gaping hole in this logic. I doubt it.
by riedel | 2025-09-20 20:18:01+00:00
What does 'a correct' mean to you? Wikipedia says: > Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

As an outsider from Europe, it seems that is pretty much spot on to me. In Europe this probably applies to Hungary as well.
by stonogo | 2025-09-20 20:18:02+00:00
> postmarketOS has no hybris and everything works great, but no device has all the drivers

this is why halium exists. OEMs don't produce drivers beyond whatever kernel they ship with, so this is an attempt to build a system that leverages the crap they do ship.

> why stop at the OS?

Because the OS is the only thing you control. The reason the Librem 5 costs so much for a decade-old platform is because they didn't grab a predesigned device from another OEM. Doing everything yourself is going to be the only way to produce a first-class linux phone.
by lif | 2025-09-20 20:19:12+00:00
umm, you raise a valid concern, afaict, however, e-waste is kind of a taboo word around here, or? Or maybe just another part of the 'inevitable' belief system.

Like, how about that _planned obsolescence_ of a vast majority of consumer electronics hardware? (If that ain't the case, would be happen to learn otherwise from someone with better knowledge.)
by vincent-manis | 2025-09-20 20:19:54+00:00
By default, the key emits a hitherto unused scancode, 0x6E. Windows maps this to something like `Left Shift+Super+F23', and then allows the user to define a suitable shortcut. For reasons I don't understand, remapping this combo is unreliable in Linux. So the newer kernels emit a plain F23 code, which can be easily remapped. For an older keyboard with no Copilot key, this is all a non-issue. (There are relatively few keyboards nowadays with physical F13 thru F24 keys, though once upon a time they weren't uncommon, so F23 is a suitable choice here.)
by OskarS | 2025-09-20 20:20:04+00:00
Indeed it is, and Donald Knuth spends a substantial part of the latest volume (4B) of The Art of Computer Programming on solving exact cover problems like this using Dancing Links! He presented an earlier version of the algorithm in this legendary article [1], but as good as that article is, the book is even better (and the algorithm improved!). It also has tons of exercises like this. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0011047
by mkl | 2025-09-20 20:20:39+00:00
Where did you get a large dataset of handwritten maths? I have been looking for such a thing, and I have a lot of my own, but that's just one person's handwriting.

I have had a lot of success recently using the open-weight Qwen2.5-VL-7B through Ollama to convert hundreds of handwritten slides to Latex. Plenty of manual work still needed though.
by maxbond | 2025-09-20 20:20:48+00:00
To be quite frank with you, you wouldn't be making tone arguments if you had a substantive point to make. And their use of italics is really not so different from your use of a "hint" parenthetical.

Reading between the lines, I'm pretty sure your real disagreement here is aesthetic. Perhaps it feels icky or touchy feely to you. And your semantic and tone arguments are reverse engineered from that perspective. But if I'm wrong I'd be interested to hear you answer GP's question.
by JoshGlazebrook | 2025-09-20 20:21:26+00:00
AppleCare+ basically makes it so having a case or screen protector isn't a requirement for me. I was actually only using a screen protector for about a year, but what I found was they actually are more fragile than the phone's screen itself. I was going through them every 2-3 months. So about a year ago I stopped using screen protectors as well and have dropped the phone many times like how I dropped it with the screen protector and the screen has been fine.

Sure I have some scratches on the screen, but so what? If the front or back glass shatter, it's $29 to fix.
by appcustodian2 | 2025-09-20 20:21:30+00:00
just want to point out that maintaining a knife is a whole hobby that requires a time investment of learning the skill and storage of additional tools and materials. i'm surprised at all the apparent knife enthusiast posts trashing this device. I take my victorinox (which is absolutely nothing special and surprises me that it costs $60+ dollars) to the farmers market for sharpening but sharpness isn't even the problem. Potatoes in particular stick to the blade like a strong magnet and it takes me 5x longer to prep. I enjoy cooking but not chopping endless veggies and i'm hoping this thing can carry some of that weight without looking like i'm using an oversized electric toothbrush.
by DonHopkins | 2025-09-20 20:22:04+00:00
The secret lyrics of Jean Michelle Jarre's "Zoolook" are the repeated words "I am a robot". Once you know you can't not hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F36bJ57TmM&list=OLAK5uy_khd...

They should teach proving you're not a robot in school, it's a valuable life skill.
by hermitcrab | 2025-09-20 20:22:04+00:00
Rather than being honest with people about the pros (of which there are many) and cons (of which there are some) of migration, the conservative government increased migration while telling people they were reducing it. That is malice, rather than incompetence. And now, here we are, facing the very really real possibility of loathsome grifter Farage as Prime Minister.
by Yizahi | 2025-09-20 20:22:14+00:00
If I'm not mistaken, you don't need to host a full node to access and operate BTC network. But hosting full nodes certainly adds resilience and speed to the system.

Point 1. Increasing node storage size would not be very expensive, people are buying NAS storage for fun, some of the more idealistic ones would certainly do that for BTC. BTC chain today is less than one terabyte. Even increasing chain size x10 times would still mean that it would fit on a single cheap consumer HDD. Increasing it x100 times would require something like a 6-8 HDD stripe, under 1-2 thousand bucks in price. People do that for memes or hosting torrents every day, all across the globe.

Point 2. Increasing chain size by a lot would mean that the amount of full nodes would inevitably drop, lets say by half, or even by 3/4. Still a lot would remain and the system would be very decentralized. While with lightning crutch the decentralized part is clogged permanently and is unusable for any serious currency replacement use, while users are forced on a broken by design centralized Lightning.

In my opinion the answer is obvious, if we want to have a truly decentralized currency, and not some casino replacement for gambling and law avoidance.
by SBArbeit | 2025-09-20 20:22:34+00:00
I know that OpenAI has made computing deals with other companies, and as time goes on, the percentage of inference that they run their models on will shift, but I doubt that much, if any, of that has moved from Microsoft Azure data centers yet, so that's not a reason for difference in model performance.

With that said, Microsoft has a different level of responsibility, both to its customers and to its stakeholders, to provide safety than OpenAI or any other frontier provider. That's not a criticism of OpenAI or Anthropic or anyone else, who I believe are all trying their best to provide safe usage. (Well, other than xAI and Grok, for which the lack of safety is a feature, not a bug.)

The risk to Microsoft of getting this wrong is simply higher than it is for other companies, and what's why they have a strong focus on Responsible AI (RAI) [1]. I don't know the details, but I have to assume there's a layer of RAI processing on models through Azure OpenAI that's not there for just using OpenAI models directly through the OpenAI API. That layer is valuable for the companies who choose to run their inference through Azure, who also want to maximize safety.

I wonder if that's where some of the observed changes are coming from. I hope the commenter posts their proof for further inspection. It would help everyone.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/responsible-ai
by CBLT | 2025-09-20 20:22:37+00:00
I use a knock-off of the edgepro I got for $30 online, with a nice set of compatible whetstones that click into the assembly that were $20 online. I did what everyone else does and hotglued some magnets underneath the piece you hold the knife on.

I tried a compatible strop that clicks in but it's not worth it imo; just use a normal strop.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-20 20:22:42+00:00
'We find it's fine to waive the rule that limits large media company mergers in order to protect speech because this Nexstar merger will in no way impact speech in the US'. -The FCC in the coming months

Also because some people don't seem to know this, the government can't murder a man even if he was already dying of cancer.
by o11c | 2025-09-20 20:24:25+00:00
I find rseq annoying because it is pointlessly designed to require every caller to write custom assembly code, for every target.

For very many use-cases, cpu-local variables (using the GS segment for x86) would suffice, which can then be used with ordinary atomic instructions without any asm. (Actually, even relaxed atomics are more expensive than needed, but unfortunately the language does not expose RMW primitives any other way. Fortunately this is a library problem and does not require every program to write its own asm. C standards people, please add `memory_order_volatile` and `memory_order_none` so we can use the APIs uniformly!)

The kernel already uses cpu-local variables internally, but it has the advantage of scheduling itself; userland processes have to pin everything to a single CPU (either statically, or doing its own scheduling somehow).
by Aachen | 2025-09-20 20:25:13+00:00
I've always considered it a benefit if they don't spend needless money and waste my battery life on rendering more pixels than I'll ever see.

My eyesight hasn't gotten better and as a teenager the 720p pixel density of the phablet called Galaxy Note 2 was already smaller than I can make out during normal use (i.e. not if I'm actively trying to see if I can make them out)

But sure, higher number sells better, no matter if this actually makes any difference to anyone
by starkparker | 2025-09-20 20:25:51+00:00
Isn't this just Pluto TV? Like, https://pluto.tv/us/live-tv/633354b63df9700007f6a1b7 is the sitcom channel, https://pluto.tv/us/live-tv/66ba495ffe11e5000881f049/details is the channel of just Cheers and Frasier, etc. Just playing non-stop through one episode after another on a schedule as quasi-"live" TV.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-20 20:26:07+00:00
…that is the point I am making. Which scenario is likelier:

All 7 swing states went to Republicans due to fraud, and it just so happens that everywhere else also went more Republican.

Or all 7 swing states went to Republicans because voters voted more Republican throughout the country?

Note that not voting is the same as voting for the winning party.
by maqp | 2025-09-20 20:26:23+00:00
They're really not. All you need is an angle guide you stick to the knife. Something like https://setamono.co.za/products/knife-sharpening-angle-retai...

With that all you need to do is pretty much go back and forth. Note that the whetstone eventually wears them out too.

Something to grab while you're at it, is a truing stone to take care of the whetstone as it _will_ wear out unevenly making the sharpening a pain.
by sombragris | 2025-09-20 20:26:42+00:00
There's an aspect that the article managed to imply but I think it warrants more thinking because it directly affects a lot of people, myself including: that people cannot afford to pay for a "gaming PC".

Well, I thankfully might afford it, but how could I justify the cost? I have a laptop which works very well and is my daily workhorse for everything, including gaming. But it has Intel onboard graphics. Spend something north of a thousand bucks of hard currency (even more costly in my country) just to play Baldur's Gate 3..?

This means that I can do almost everything on it except playing some games. This is because most recent games would require a quite good discrete GPU to be even playable on lowest settings (e.g., achieving something like 25 fps on low settings on 720 fps). In fact I think this is a quite stupid move by game companies, by imposing such artificial constraints on which machines can play their games and locking out millions of PCs and thus a similar number of potential users.

Seeing those games, I don't see them as being specifically advanced or better looking in their lower settings as to justify imposing such artificial barriers of entry.

To be clear, I have no problems with games being all the graphically advanced they want. They can have Ultra settings with double advanced real-time ray tracing with three parallell RTX 6000 cooled by liquid nitrogen, by all means. But don't put those stupid gatekeeps locking out onboard GPUs and thus millions of potential players from all over the world.
by maeln | 2025-09-20 20:26:45+00:00
Back in the day, and it is still true to this day in many places in the world, one way to keep worker "motivated" was to have an abysmal low wage, with barely possible targets to reach to unlock a bonus that would make it possible to eat at the end of the month.

The gig economy is just an extension of this, but instead of low wage, you now have no wage.

From a capitalist point of view, it is very efficient for low-skill job. Almost anyone can join, increasing the supply of worker and therefor lowering the amount you have to pay them, until the point where you just can't make a living out of the gig. The perfect "balance point". It also get rid of the unproductive (old, handicapped, injured, or just people who have a family to take care of) worker rapidly and with no fuss (no costly firing procedure), and only keep the ones who can make the required grind to be able to live.

It is truly the end goal of capitalism, finally turning human into just another resource to be used and discarded when it has been used.
by confidantlake | 2025-09-20 20:26:56+00:00
Even this is missing the point. While they try to distract us with the price vs quality of tvs, the cost of college and housing has skyrocketed.

60 year ago, a 20 year old guy with a high school education could support a wife and 2 kids. Today he needs his wife to work and has to wait until 30 just to buy a 1 bedroom apartment. Forget about kids. But they act like we are kings because now we have iphones.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-09-20 20:27:00+00:00
Yeah, I feel like they reach for that simplistic framing because it appeals to our sense of justice. They didn’t want you to learn about this, but I’m telling you anyway!

But the truth is closer to what you’re saying - Americans dominate international media and culture to the point where it’s hard for local culture to survive. There doesn’t need to malice involved, and there certainly isn’t in this case, but for some people it makes the world easier to understand.

I didn’t grow up with consoles or graphics cards. I played Pokémon on game boy emulators because that’s all that would run on my computer. But no one prevents me from talking about that, by any means. Here I am on HN, talking about it.
by tptacek | 2025-09-20 20:27:03+00:00
Elsewhere on the thread I pointed out that I'd noticed the video doesn't show anybody doing actual prep; making an easy but deliberate thin slice of a tomato is one thing, quickly dicing an onion or a bell pepper is a very different thing.

To that observation I'd add (h/t my Slack friends) this interesting site Seattle Ultrasonics stood up:

https://seattleultrasonics.com/pages/knife-database

One thing I notice here is that Japanese knives (and my trusty MAC) fare really well on the BESS and CATRA scale, but relatively poorly on the "Food Cutting Rank", which is based on an ad-hoc seeming performance scale of how well their robot fared with a bunch of cutting tests that included stuff like bread and cheese (h/t again Slack friends) --- which nobody uses a chef's knife to cut.

That's a weird scale to plot chef's knives across --- unless the purpose of building that scale was to showcase an electronic knife that does well on tasks people don't normally use chef's knives for, but maybe not as well on chef knife daily driver tasks.
by jmyeet | 2025-09-20 20:27:20+00:00
Europe is generally hurtling towards fascism. Some examples:

- The UK government is busy outlawing free speech, protest and dissent. Because someone threw paint at a plane, you can now be jailed as a terrorist for saying "maybe we shouldn't drop bombs on babies in Gaza". The Labor government is an accident of the right-wing vote being split between the Conservatives and the even anti-migrant even-more-hard-right Reform party that absolutely won't be repeated in the next election;

- France is teetering on the edge of fasicsm as the "centrist" president Macron openly courts the neo-Nazi National Front rather than deal with Melenchon despite his alliance getting the most votes in the last election. It's worth adding that National Front was founded by actual collaborators with the occupying Nazi party in Vichy France;

- Germany has its own Islamophobic anti-immigrant neo-Nazi party that is hurtling towards attaining power: AfD;

- Hungary is already an authoritarian right-wing state.

And literally nobody is working to defuse this bomb by addressing the underlying causes: increasing wealth inequality and declining material conditions, even in otherwise relatively progressive countries like Ireland and Spain.

So what you see and object to in the US is nothing more than Europe's future in 5-10 years if nothing changes.
by tocs3 | 2025-09-20 20:27:21+00:00
I am glad it looks like Waymo is taking safety seriously. If they are getting into fewer crashes (serious or not) that is a good thing. It is worth remembering, imho, that the ability to avoid a crash, whoever is at fault, is an important skill also. I hope they keep working at the self driving and continue getting better with their safety record.

I also hope they figure out how to keep the wheels from falling off. How did this happen? Does it happen often (to any class of vehicle)?
by ednite | 2025-09-20 20:28:30+00:00
I once knew someone who was given a short timeline. Strangely, it didn’t just change their life; it changed mine. Ten years sounds like a gift, but it also redefines what “later” really means.

I stopped thinking of time as something to save up, and started treating it like something that leaks away whether you notice or not.

The haunting part isn’t the final day. it’s the missed days you can’t get back.

As Seneca put it: “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”

So for me, the question isn’t what I’d do with 10 years. It’s whether I’ll avoid wasting today.
by newfriend | 2025-09-20 20:28:36+00:00
I don't have to be qualified for every job for this to have an effect on wages. A surplus of labor has allowed companies to be extremely selective during the interview process, while putting downward pressure on wages.

Moving jobs offshore is already cheaper and has been for decades. There's a reason it's seen as a dead end / ktlo.

This change is a big win for all American tech workers.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-20 20:29:13+00:00
I remember the good old days of xfree86. It was arse but mostly worked OK on a PC. Then this blasted Xorg thing rocked up and it was worse for a while! Nowadays I can barely remember the last time I had to create an xorg.conf.

Wayland has a few years to go yet and I'm sure it will be worth the wait. For me, it seems to work OK already.
by hearsathought | 2025-09-20 20:30:06+00:00
> You completely blipped over the part about “no property rights” which is pretty clear when you look at, for example, how their rail construction projects go. Choochoo, rail is coming through, time to move this village

Better than exterminating the natives to build railroads? Using your logic we don't have property rights in the US either.

> no eminent domain payments necessary.

Doesn't explain nail houses though.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/asia/gallery/china-nail-house...

> If ownership of a half-finished concrete shell by a bankrupt construction firm on the 33rd floor is counted as “owning property”, then the statistics will look pretty good.

Yes. 1.4 billion people live in half-finished concrete shells.

Come up with something better. You guys are getting boring repeating the same nonsense over and over again.
by theturtletalks | 2025-09-20 20:31:21+00:00
Let’s say it how it is, this is the cost of freedom. Yes, China can build more quickly and has advanced more technologically, but it came at the cost of freedom. The degree of freedom is not something I’m fit to argue.

Now, there are those they believe the difference in freedom is worth that technological advancement. I’m not so sure.

COVID was a great example of this. China was able to slow the virus spreading faster than the US since they were literally locking people into their homes. In the US, this didn’t happen because of the rights we have.
by Bender | 2025-09-20 20:31:39+00:00
Looks snazzy. Like htop could this potentially read ~/.config/nethtop/nethtop.rc or something like that to look for preferences such as user-defined targeted tcpdump additional flags -p --dont-verify-checksums -NNnnttv -B131072 -c1000 and user-defined pcap logging directory like /dev/shm to avoid artificially dropping packets due to slow storage?
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-20 20:32:28+00:00
Okay, so let's compare.

Let's assume a high-net-worth individual with $1M of annual pre-tax cash flow split evenly among qualified dividends, long-term gains, and business income, and a $3M primary home. Let's also assume that this man lives in Texas, or he lives in Germany.

In Texas he'd owe about $304k in US federal income taxes (23.8% on dividends and gains; ~37% top rate on business income) plus roughly $54k of property tax at ~1.8%, for a total near $358k.

In Germany he'd pay ~26.375% on dividends and gains ($131.9k), a roughly 45% + 5.5% solidarity surcharge on the $500k business income (~$237.4k), and low property tax (~0.3% ≈ $9k), totaling ~$378k.

The difference comes out to just $20k. That said, all services are cheaper in Europe -- medical, telecoms, legal, etc. -- so life in Europe tends to be far less expensive in general.

And you'll note that I was extremely generous and picked a state without income tax. Many US states, perhaps most, are worse than Germany.

I also picked a middle-of-the-road European state. There are some that don't seem that interested in collecting taxes, e.g. certain Swiss cantons, some Baltic states, and Monaco. (No personal income tax on salaries, dividends, interest, or capital gains + no wealth tax!)

Dude, seriously. Think about these things before you post. The tax situation in the USA is way worse than you think it is, and it's way better in Europe than you imagine.
by rediguanayum | 2025-09-20 20:32:45+00:00
The implementation is at https://trumpcard.gov where it says a "$1 million contribution, receive U.S. residency". For "$5 million contribution, you [can stay in the US] without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income". There was an earlier flagged article for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308778. Concurrent to this was the H1B Visa fees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305845