MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by microtonal | 2025-09-12 06:12:20+00:00
It's kinda weird to single out Samsung here, because they are pretty good with security updates and they explicitly talk about long security periods in their marketing. They are not as fast as Pixel, but somewhere mid-range and up (A5x) get monthly updates and they are usually 1-4 weeks behind Google.

It's the other vendors that are the issue. Even Fairphone is behind a lot (and they only release one model at a time).
by 9rx | 2025-09-12 06:12:50+00:00
> Yep, it baffles me that a lot of people would rather not have the option to reject cookies.

Back in the day browsers offered this natively. When the advertising companies started building browsers there was a lot of incentive to see that go by the wayside of course...

But the earlier comment isn't saying that you shouldn't have options, rather that the law needs to be more specific, such as requiring browsers to work in coordination with website operators to provide a unified solution that is agreeable to users instead of leaving it completely wide open to malicious compliance.

These kind of laws need to be careful to not stifle true innovation, so it is understandable why it wanted to remain wide open at the onset. But, now that we're in the thick of it, maybe there is a point where we can agree that popup dialogs that are purposefully designed to be annoying are in volition of the spirit and that the law should be amended to force a better solution?
by TheDong | 2025-09-12 06:13:19+00:00
There is a certain amount of expected "lock-in" for social media and network effects, as you say.

I think there are classes of product that have an outsized amount of power and should be subject to more strict judgement on this however.

ISPs, payment processors, web browsers, general purpose operating systems, etc... all of these should not discriminate and give partners an unfair leg up.

Chrome should not block bing.com from loading, and should publish everything needed for anyone to write a webpage Chrome can render. Windows should not block iTunes from running, and should publish specs on how to write software for win32 APIs. iOS should publish airdrop specs to allow alternative implementations.

The rest of my complaints amount more to norms for certain things. It has become the norm that someone who sells digital books, music, or movies allows people to access them on the platforms they're on (spotify works on iOS and android, ditto for youtube music, etc etc). Apple is the only company I know of that abuses an OS+Media monopoly for basically all media, like Amazon has the Kindle, but they still let you read books on normal Android too. Apple is violating the norm in a way that feels intended to create an anti-competitive moat.

Similarly, every other messaging app is cross-platform, and iMessage not being cross platform, banning users who use it on android (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156308), and refusing to publish their own android app, that also feels like it violates the norms of messaging apps in a way that is either gross incompetence, or anti-competitive.

I think Fortnite doesn't qualify as an "operating system" because it can't gatekeep how someone interacts with competitors. If, in some weird future, Epic started selling "Fortnight Decks" (like the steam deck), included the "Deck Apps" app store, and it became a general way of computing for some appreciable fraction of kids, then yes, I think that hypothetical "Deck Apps" store and the device could have such lock-in and I'd have the same complaints.

I also think if fortnight became the default way the next generation communicates (akin to iMessage), it would indeed be wildly anti-competitive if they partnered with Google, and made it so the chat app was only available on ChromeOS.

However, as it is now, Fortnite isn't violating norms, nor is it going out of its way to gatekeep access to the community, nor is it anyone's gateway to general computing, so it doesn't feel comparable to iMessage, nor to the app store.

Also, what do you mean by "coy" there? I don't understand the meaning in that context.
by bauruine | 2025-09-12 06:13:25+00:00
I'm sorry but it really wasn't obvious for me. So like an online shop for groceries but they don't deliver it to your home but at this shared storage location?

Doesn't realy change the second part of my answer though. People could already keep some stock at home right now but most just don't. I don't see how such a shared storage would change that.

Also stock up for a few months is what the government is for at least where I live. [0] Personel emergency supplies are only for the time till the government can start distributing their own stocks.

[0]: https://www.bwl.admin.ch/en/we-advise-emergency-supplies
by karthink | 2025-09-12 06:13:32+00:00
> Live preview works for me but only if I first do M-x org-latex-preview, it doesn’t do it automatically.

Not an error on your end. Live previews for _new_ fragments are only supported when entering \[..\] and \(..\) delimiters, and not $..$ and $$..$$. With the latter you'll have to preview it manually once, and live previews will update from then on.

Fixed the typo, thank you for reporting it.
by fawkesalbus | 2025-09-12 06:13:41+00:00
Fair points. I was looking at it more from the perspective of star power and name recognition at such a young age. Also the fact that Taylor Swift causes irrational excitement among her followers and went out of her way to more or less endorse Kamala for president.

I assumed that pretty much the vast majority of conservatives knew about Charlie. I oscillate between center left (e.g pro abortion with few restrictions, in favor of assault weapons restrictions etc) and center right (e.g pro second amendment, pro free speech, against DEI etc) and disagree with Charlie on a lot of things but even I found his videos useful and enlightening.

Regarding Charlie being just one of many conservative speakers, that’s like saying Taylor is just one of many singers.

And David Hogg is no where close to being there yet. He capitalized on the horrifying stoneman shootings to propel himself to some name recognition but I don’t think he (or Harry Sisson who I find similar to Hogg) could hold a candle to Charlie on a debate around our constitution, history etc.

Just my observations/opinions.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-12 06:14:25+00:00
The Constitution can definitely restrict the ability of the government to pass laws regulating behavior, and two-party consent statutes are definitely laws that regulate behavior. Whether the object level question is true is a different matter, but I would assume so given that you can point a camera that records audio at people in public at all.

Also, the US Constitution does constrain private actors, all the time. It bans slavery for a very simple example.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-12 06:14:49+00:00
That’s a laptop. It’s soldered for space constraints.

There are high speed memory module form factors. It just adds thickness, cost, expense, and they’re not widely available yet.

Most use cases need the high speed RAM attached to the GPU, though. Desktop CPUs are still on 2-channel memory and it’s fine. Server configs go to 12-channel or more, but desktop hasn’t even begun to crack the higher bandwidth because it’s not all that useful compared to spending the money on a GPU that will blow the CPU away anyway.
by ReptileMan | 2025-09-12 06:14:53+00:00
>We as a country are exposed to being attacked by Russia.

No you are not. First - no one can find you on a map. You are so tiny. Second for a conventional warfare Russia will have to go trough many many countries to get to you, no matter which road they take (also anyone that thinks Russia is a credible threat is smoking something strong - they don't have the capacity to subdue backwater as eastern Ukraine, let alone more developed and prepared countries as Poland, Germany or Finland, Sweden). And preparedness won't help you for nuclear.
by krackers | 2025-09-12 06:14:55+00:00
I guess you have to distinguish between # of elements vs the max bit-width of a an element. But if you're leaving the constant-memory access model (where you can assume each element fits in memory and all arithmetic on them is constant time), then doesn't it take O(n log k) (k is the numeric value of the maximum element, n is total number of elements) to simplify write out the array? You physically can't do O(n) [ignoring the k]

Maybe relevant comments [1, 2, 3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854520 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005468 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214106
by badsectoracula | 2025-09-12 06:15:11+00:00
> I have a perfectly good window manager; why does every app need its own incompatible, usually inferior window manager built in?

Because some applications do need multiple windows in the same application context. A common example would be image editors.

It is unfortunate that almost all generic MDI implementations (Win32 and Qt basically) are incredibly barebones. I want to have multiple windows visible when i'm using Krita, for example, but Qt's MDI support (that Krita does use) is worse than what Windows 95 had.
by vkou | 2025-09-12 06:15:15+00:00
There's nothing in the parent post that celebrates the assassination. It expresses no empathy for him, but lack of empathy is not a celebration.

It does outline the various ways in which Kirk worked to make the world a worse place, but an accounting of it is not a celebration of a public killing.

"Religious beliefs" is not a weapon or a shield that you can just raise to deflect all criticism of a man's actions. It rings especially hollow for one whose behavior was so highly un-Christ-like.
by mihaaly | 2025-09-12 06:15:27+00:00
There is land war in Europe. With the Russians agressively pushing for continuation!

Germany had their nationwide emergency test yesterday. there are various suggestions in countries about how to stack essentials for few days without anything - mostly means power that drives everything -, keeping some amount of cash at home, train citizens (mandatory) for basic defensive abilities.

Since there are these stupid 'we are good, fuck everyone else' kind of movements all around the world including US and parts of EU (look at the practically Russian ally Hungary by the way, protecting Russian interests directly inside EU) the whole thing became very reasonable, approaching essential level.
by riffraff | 2025-09-12 06:15:43+00:00
Around 2007 or so I worked on a semantic web search engine.

Among other things it ingested xfn (and foaf) so you could reasonably look for things like the connection between you and someone else who had a webpage, but the whole thing by itself didn't replace in any way what social networks were already offering, e.g. your feed, or direct messaging.

I think WordPress still supports xfn links, but it's not particularly useful.
by lurk2 | 2025-09-12 06:15:48+00:00
The issue the grandparent post is alluding to is more a change in consumer habits and technology. Even in 2005, recommendation algorithms were barely impacting the content you saw online. Facebook was chronological until around 2009 from what I remember; you could literally go online and find a friend had filled your feed by posting status updates over and over again. YouTube similarly prioritized your subscriptions over other content, and the other content was usually just whatever other people happened to be watching. You would go online once every couple of days, see what was new, and then log off. If there wasn’t anything new, finding it required a significantly greater time investment than opening up your short form video content app of choice.

There was also probably less duplication; these days you can find dozens of Reddit threads relevant to almost any given query, but most of them will have the same kind of comments. With short form video content you’ll often see 3 variations of the same meme within 15 minutes. Back in the early 2000s a lot of queries would only return a couple of relevant results.
by rmunn | 2025-09-12 06:16:21+00:00
For that specific question, none; I'm extrapolating from past experience, mostly not mine but other people's (who told me stories).

For regulators in general doing dumb things? Lots and lots of examples all over the place. Talk to any small-business owners you know, get them drunk, and encourage them to rant. You'll hear some stories.
by simianwords | 2025-09-12 06:17:02+00:00
Bernard Sanders is against Israel despite being Jewish. It is surprising because he seems to be one of the few people who is not corruptible despite technically having religious and cultural links to Israel.

It comes down to the fact that he is a normie. He sees people dying and he instinctively speaks against it. It is similar with economical and other political talking points.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-12 06:17:25+00:00
The EU, that's who. The law exists because these policies stifle competition and prevent the proper functioning of the free market and the DMA is a small step to restore the competitive balance.

It's bizarre that you're even framing this conversation in this way - who are you to say how Apple is allowed to behave, and how anti-competitive they deserve to be on the EU market? Are you under the impression that corporations like Apple should wield more power than world governments?

They shouldn't and they don't, but they think they can bully the EU into submission. They wouldn't dare pull this crap in China, they make every concession to be allowed access to the Chinese market. Yet the EU is expected to ask dear Apple for permission to be allowed to regulate their destructive anti-competitive behavior? Insanity.
by tiberone | 2025-09-12 06:19:03+00:00
generally speaking I don’t think they were ever really allowed, but if you tried to “take them away” the kids would just put it in their pocket and not give it up. and that was it.

the difference now is that we have things like the magnetic pouches so students physically can’t use them. the rule is the same, but now it’s actually enforceable.
by popcorncowboy | 2025-09-12 06:19:37+00:00
When I checked, these were the top comments. Can't do anything these days ;)

- Menu is accessible but done badly, like navigating blind. - Badly implemented cookie banner (let me opt out or don't use this) - Why build an inferior multi-document interfaces (which are an anti-pattern) - Waste of money - don't devs have better things to do - Neat but runs like a dog. Give me SSG pages, otherwise make it good - Nice website but no-one will use it the way they describe - It's lovely <- followed up by: "I hate you" - Websites like this have ultimately all been massive failures - Awesome, but I have no idea what they do or what their product is - Love it - blah blah blah
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-12 06:20:36+00:00
The risk level for a land war across Western Europe is probably the lowest it has ever been.

The balance of power is tilted against Russia much more than during the Cold War. That threat does not stand the most basic scrutiny. Russia couldn't reach Western Europe if they tried. Claims that it is the worst since WWII conveniently ignore the Cold War and even the 90s. Western Europe is better off now.

It is incredible the amount of BS we are spoon-fed by the media and governments in Europe... but perhaps even more worrying is how docile the people are and just eat it.

The good question is: what is the ulterior motive of the alarmists?
by rjh29 | 2025-09-12 06:21:03+00:00
Yes, it's 30% thinner... it still has no innovation with cameras, new battery technology, and removal of pen support? I am not comparing it to apple, I'm comparing it to Honor, OnePlus/Vivo, Xiaomi - China has far more development in the folding phone sector at the moment. Their phones have been consistently thinner and lighter and Samsung is only just beginning to catch up.
by Michelangelo11 | 2025-09-12 06:22:36+00:00
Boy, this stood out:

> We didn’t have Internet in the office back then so research was a bit of a problem. Making things up was the way to go, nothing like Google to make life easy back then. I remember asking Gary if I could go the library to photocopy some pictures from books to help me out! An artist back then had to know way more than an artist (who tends to get pigeonholed) these days. There was no such thing as an environment artist back then...so we did everything. Game artwork, interface (I was font boy for months!), cut scenes, animation. If we didn’t know how to do it we just learnt as we went along. Quite mad really but it seemed to work as production values were so much lower back then.
by mdhb | 2025-09-12 06:23:00+00:00
There is ample evidence to say without any shadow of a doubt that Tucker Carlson is not an honest broker, has never been an honest broker and will never be an honest broker.

He has been caught multiple times holding completely different beliefs in private to what he says in public and is actively in the business of tricking rubes for money.

People who can’t see that are typically associated with having a hard break from reality in most circles.
by selcuka | 2025-09-12 06:23:05+00:00
> US is number one or two in immigration from 3rd world countries

This is good, because over the last 150 years, immigrants have been found to be significantly less likely to commit crimes than the U.S.-born [1] [2] [3].

> It has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, and one of the lowest murder rates in the world.

I didn't deny that poverty is a factor. That's why I compared US with UK, where average poverty numbers are very close to each other. Also, Utah’s rate is low for the U.S. but still higher than many countries globally [4].

[1] https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/immigrants-are...

[2] https://www.nber.org/papers/w31440

[3] https://www.cato.org/blog/illegal-immigrants-have-low-homici...

[4] https://ibis.utah.gov/epht-view/indicator/important_facts/Ho...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-12 06:23:32+00:00
The EU law is fine, the implementation used isn't. But never blame the EU laws for cookie banners; the law does not mandate banners at all, let alone the ones full of dark patterns to nag you into accepting anyway. That's all the industry.

The industry could have come up with a standard, a browser add-on, respect a browser setting, etc but they chose the most annoying one to pester you, the user.
by void-star | 2025-09-12 06:23:53+00:00
Fart noise apps were the first iPhone killer app for a good long stretch in the early days, dominating the app leaderboards for at least half a year.

Yep… Humanity is… let’s face it, pretty stupid.

I, for one welcome, the latest bubble. And, with it, our new, venerable AI overlords!

Mobile^H^H^H^H^H^HAI first!!!!
by croes | 2025-09-12 06:23:59+00:00
So cyberbullying doesn't exist. Got it.

Go read a book about psychology before you claim words don't do damage.

Or how about you read some history and check how many people did the worst dictators in history kill single-handedly and how many died because of their words.

It was words that caused the January 6th riots. It was words that caused the salem witch trials. And I bet it was words that gave the shooter the idea that murdering Kirk was a good idea.

If words don't affect you, yuu're definetly have a mental condition.
by badsectoracula | 2025-09-12 06:24:04+00:00
> Again. This is a thing the xorg devs have already looked at. Their conclusion? "Nope. Too much work. Just use Wayland."

My comment isn't about how much work something would need, but about how it can be done.

> Once again, every... last... one of the Xorg devs is of the opinion that you should be using Wayland instead.

Good for them, but i have my own opinions.

> Even if you had changes to propose to Xorg, they will not make it into a release.

Maybe or maybe not. AFAICT the official stance has been that nobody wanted to work on these things, not that they are against it, they just do not want to do it themselves.

But if they do not make it into a release, there is also the XLibre fork or there might be other forks in the future, it isn't like Xorg is some sort of proprietary product. I'd rather stick with Xorg as it seems more professional but ultimately whatever works.

> see if you can add a protocol to the compositor to allow "overlay" of an HDR image displayed using Wayland "on top of" an X window that wants to do HDR.

TBH this sounds like an incredibly ugly and fragile hack. There are two main uses for HDR support: embedded HDR (e.g. in a firefox window) and fullscreen HDR (e.g. for videos/games). For the latter there is no point in an overlay, just give the server the full screen. For the former such an overlay will require awful workarounds when you want more than just a self-contained rectangle, e.g. you want it clipped (partially visible image) or need it to be mixed with the underlying contents (think of a non-square HDR shape that blends into SDR text beneath or wrapped around it).

From a pragmatic perspective the best approach would be to see how toolkits, etc, use HDR support in Wayland and implement something similar under X11/Xorg to make supporting both of them easy.

> But really, consider switching to Wayland.

I've been using Window Maker for decades and have no interest in something else. Honestly i think that adding Wayland support to Window Maker or making a Window Maker-like Wayland compositor are both more of an effort and harder than adding HDR support to Xorg. Also i am sometimes trying KDE Plasma Wayland for various things and i have several programs having small but annoying issues under Wayland.

That said, from a practical perspective, one can use both. The only use for HDR i can think of right now is games and videos and i can keep using my Xorg-based setup for everything while switching to another virtual terminal running KDE Plasma Wayland for games/videos that i want to see in HDR. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fn to switch virtual terminal isn't any different than pressing Win+n to switch virtual desktop.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-12 06:24:17+00:00
> That he wasn’t honestly debating ideas but fishing for soundbites to spread hate and appear intellectual

I'm not convinced political debates are good for anything else. Most people believe in things without really thinking about them. Especially politics.

If you stop and actually reason this stuff out, you're going to reach some deeply disturbing conclusions which border on wrongthink. If you try to spread the nuggets of truth you discovered, you just fail miserably at first. People will not be convinced.

They probably won't really refute you either. Maybe it's because you're right, maybe it's because they didn't even think about what you said and just responded emotionally, there's no way to know for sure because trying to test ideas in debates just doesn't work with the vast majority of human beings.

If you insist on this path, people start thinking you're acting superior to them with your unconventional ideas. At some point you start getting flagged and downvoted on sight. Then you start getting personally called out. Labeled as some "extremist". Maybe one day you become such a nuisance authorities actually knock on your door and arrest you. Maybe your ideas offend someone so much they assassinate you.

So I don't blame this guy at all for debating like a politician. If he debated seriously and won, would his opponents revise their entire belief systems and start following his logical footsteps? Of course not.