MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-23 08:50:02+00:00
For that, you'd actually need a high performance ARM core on one side (and frankly, it's just Apple at that point, they needed well over a decade to get there), and you need some way to make legacy x86/x86_64 applications to run smoothly to get over the chicken-egg effect, and you need some way for all the legacy hardware devices that people plug in into their computers.

Apple could do it not just because of their experience from the iOS device family and the IP they acquired for it, but because they didn't need to take care that much about the issues in the Windows ecosystem. Apple has long since discouraged third party hardware that can't be driven with libusb from userspace as kexts have been deprecated, Apple has been pretty ruthless in forcing developers to keep their software compileable, and their ARM Architecture License allowed them to do tweaks and extensions to make performant emulation of x86 code possible.
by 47282847 | 2025-09-23 08:50:25+00:00
How do you know what that person is doing or not doing to try and get rid of those in power, and for their survival? In fact, your government is still in power, so according to your line of argument I can hold you personally responsible for any of their action and inaction and direct and indirect support of genocide. I am not going to, since I don’t share that perspective.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-09-23 08:50:34+00:00
Every time I use notion I can feel the PMs working there under pressure to ship some arbitrary (more often than not "AI") feature each quarter to meet some arbitrary KPI set by leadership.

The base product was originally great: very smooth wysiwyg collaborative document editor with wiki-like linking. The problem is you don't need to do much on top of that. But clearly investors demand some "results" so PMs need to keep coming up with features that can be shipped in a quarter. Meanwhile bugs in the basic UX are plentiful.

Any really interesting work to improve the basic "collaborative document" experience is going to take time and experimentation, and I'm sure there's something to be found there. But the investor fueled focus on constantly doing something new and shiny means these really interesting spaces will never be explore and the product will continue to degrade with bloat each quarter.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-09-23 08:50:34+00:00
Specifically, Swanson's Law [0] that says the more solar we make, the cheaper it gets.

The price of renewables is also being driven down because we're getting better at making them. So it's a virtuous cycle; the more we make, the cheaper it gets, and the cheaper it gets, the more demand there is, so the more we make.

If the USA is not demanding renewables, the effect is less and we don't get as good at making them

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law
by sarabande | 2025-09-23 08:50:35+00:00
I enjoyed this piece, including references to the Stoics and Spinoza. It preaches serenity, goodwill, composure, etc.

As someone in their 30s with children, work and a generally busy life, I wonder if anyone can recommend some pieces with more direct application - that is, in this vein, but perhaps an operational / how-to guide. Sometimes, it's hard to translate principles to action.
by Keirmot | 2025-09-23 08:50:40+00:00
Sanctions have a theoretical basis behind them. In the Western Political Philosophical Canon, leaders and elites are expected to strive for the Common Good. From that perspective, sanctions aren’t meant as “torture for fun,” (as you put it) but as a way of creating pressure so governments change their behavior without having to resort to war. They’re basically a tool to raise the cost of bad actions and make it more attractive to adjust course.

At the same time, sanctions also work in other ways: they punish governments that break international norms, they send a signal to the world about what’s considered unacceptable, and they reaffirm shared values. That’s why they’re still used despite the harsh effects on ordinary people. They aren’t a perfect solution, but in Western thinking their role is to combine pressure, deterrence and symbolism, rather than just collective punishment for its own sake.
by piva00 | 2025-09-23 08:51:25+00:00
Those are just statistics describing what happens, not why it happens. Why does having children before getting married creates worse outcomes? Can individuals or society do something about the qualitative aspect of it?

Quantifying something doesn't explain it, it just... Quantifies it, deeper inspection is needed to understand what the statistics says.

You are prescribing what needs to be done based on something that is, ultimately, descriptive.
by Theodores | 2025-09-23 08:52:09+00:00
It might not be ostentatious looks that are the problem. Dell used to be big on up selling rucksacks and briefcases. Their bags were never good looking but they did advertise the contents of your bag as likely to contain a Dell laptop - 'please steal me now'.

As for bags as status symbol, men don't go into that but women have these things called handbags. No man in history has been interested in a woman due to her taste in handbags, which is fine since the signalling is only to other women. Compare with cars where a Porsche is only going to be noted down to model number by men, with women not caring about the specification, to them it is just a Porsche with colour being the only noteworthy aspect.

Naturally this does not apply to all men or women, however, there are patterns. Showing off is also about poor utility. A rucksack designed to carry a laptop is far too functional to be high status. However, if you make a handbag and design it so it can barely carry so much as a toothpick, then that is high status, much like how a Porsche car is high status because it is essentially not practical.

A laptop bag designed for the task, much like a Dell laptop bag of old, might stand out as advertising its contents but it is far too well designed for the task in hand to be desirable. Hence the owner won't be a showoff.
by miki123211 | 2025-09-23 08:52:16+00:00
Local-first apps haven't become popular because users want shareable links, cross-device sync and maybe security.

For cross-device sync, you need a server. Either you use iCloud (limiting yourself to Apple platforms), host one (which encourages subscriptions and defeats the point of local-first) or ask users to self-host (which is difficult and error-prone).

Shareable links also need a server. You can't use iCloud for those, and if you're asking users to self-host, you now need to ensure their server is exposed publicly and has a domain. This adds yet another complication to an already complicated process, not to mention the security implications.

Security (where some users are restricted from seeing some of the data and performing some of the actions) requires much more "smarts" in the server, and makes local sync infinitely more complicated.

For local-first apps to be viable, we need a lot more primitives first. Apple provides some, but not nearly enough, and only for their own platforms. Nobody else even bothers.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-23 08:52:33+00:00
No, absolutely not. The significant part of the proceeds from that flow aren’t going into economy (specifics of selling oil to India).

The political situation is stable for following reasons:

1. Primary beneficiaries of military spending are small industrial towns and working class. They earn a lot of money now and significant part of it is invested in property or spent on domestic products. The inequality has reduced since the start of war, not something you would expect from oligarchic capitalism.

2. It became much easier to eliminate political opposition. Thousands have left the country, some were killed, many jailed under new wartime legislation.

3. There’s general perception that Russia is winning and it’s already in the endgame (which is true - the West lost the war in the first year).
by qcnguy | 2025-09-23 08:52:49+00:00
That kind of denialism doesn't help, it just empowers the "eye for an eye" faction even more because they see that the left is incapable of self reflection.

The killer is far left. There is plenty of evidence and it's all fully consistent on that matter, even beyond the obvious nature of the act itself. It has been consistent since the first moments.

The right are upset about this! And they're even more upset about the mass celebrations on the left at the successful assassination. It comes on the heels of multiple attempts on Trump, Antifa trying to mass murder ICE agents and many other horrific events that show a sustained pattern of behavior.

When Kimmel claimed the "MAGA gang" (a deliberately insulting term) had "hit new lows", he was making the insane claim that being upset about political assassination is a "low" and "point scoring". And then he went on to deceive his audience. Instead of admitting that the "MAGA gang" were correct from the start, he claims they were "desperately trying" to "characterize" the assassin as on the left.

This phrasing tells the listener that the reason the right had to "desperately try" is because what they were saying was "a new low", weak or untrue, which is why it was a mere "characterization" and not a statement of fact.

It is obviously dishonest. When people defend such dishonesty and claim it's not a lie it reinforces the strong impression being received by hundreds of millions of people that everyone on the left is malicious and potentially dangerous. That's by far the most risky path forward.

People like Kimmel are getting this stuff from social media. It's flooded with people who are denying the truth, even trying to claim he's some sort of MAGA extremist. The author of the top politics Substack, who has over 3.2M Facebook followers and 2.5M subscribers, has told that exact lie. And she hasn't corrected herself either.

Left wing pundits need to be honest with their audience. The killer did it for their beliefs, motivated by their hatreds, encouraged by their celebrations of people like Mangione and Crooks. Instead of taking the high road and being the bearer of bad news, they've doubled down on manipulating their audience.

And now Disney has said that's OK, they approve of that behavior. The left certainly cannot claim to have a problem with misinformation now!
by that_guy_iain | 2025-09-23 08:53:11+00:00
> You need to provide some statistics to demonstrate it was a common knowledge.

It was referenced in popular media for decades... So people knew about it and it was public knowledge. The reason no one cared is that the outcome of it wasn't the horror story being repeated constantly.

The funny thing is, if you think this law would affect you, it will probably reduce the amount of data they get. Why? Because they still spy on you with end-to-end encryption, it's just more work and they hack the shit out of you.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-23 08:54:09+00:00
> Stakhanovism is kind of the opposite of US work culture in that it lionizes the worker and social contributions

Lionizes the worker for their output. Just the same as quota or target driven systems. It's the same kind of lionization as "employee of the month" schemes, i.e. a sham to encourage people to work harder.
by exe34 | 2025-09-23 08:55:02+00:00
Real men use raw nix. I don't need those new-fangled flakes and HomeManager.

Seriously though, I just never figured out the first one because I can't figure out where to start and the latter I don't really need as my home area is disposable - the data lives in a data/ partition and the dot files I care about are simply ln -s into a git repo in data/.
by bawolff | 2025-09-23 08:55:41+00:00
This is a bit of a tangent, but its a pet peve of mine

You are mixing up ICC and ICJ. South Africa brought a case to the ICJ. This is the country equivalent of suing another country so its not really forcing ICJ to investigate so much as south africa is presenting a case which icj will decide on (eventually anyways, icj is famous for being slow).

The ICC on the other hand makes its own decisions on who to investigate/charge. Countries can file referrals to it, but the ICC prosecutor has discretion on what they want to investigate and pursue.

[Anyone who thinks the ICC likes hamas should remember that the icc also filed charges against a hamas leader too. Its difficult for them to investigate hamas because they are only allowed to charge people who are currently alive]
by piva00 | 2025-09-23 08:56:06+00:00
That's the curse of wisdom, in your 60s you can tell it's advice that you in your 30s should've taken but probably in your 30s you wouldn't have had the experiences that would make them be seen as good advice at the time.

Wisdom is frustrating since to be able to fully absorb it you need to have lived experiences that cements it, it can't be generally taught.
by atomicnature | 2025-09-23 08:58:20+00:00
You seem challenged with having a basic discussion without resorting to baseless personal attacks. HN discussions have nosedived in quality over the time. Feel like I'm on reddit.

On the topic - here were my original points (with some extensions):

1. I want a smalltalk-like environment but with modern languages (webassembly makes this technically possible)

2. Alan Kay himself agrees smalltalk is no longer relevant in a concrete manner anymore - it's too old and outdated. The library support is absymal, and LLMs etc won't be as helpful as modern langs, since the training data available is less in quantity and quality. And I am in line with Dr. Kay's view - Smalltalk is indeed too old. I feel the same way about using Lisp for my particular goals.

3. I am not complaining in any way - just stating my requirements in explicit terms. Also I dont consider myself a "user". I am a system builder. I am fully capable of doing things myself if there's no alternative available.
by lproven | 2025-09-23 08:58:51+00:00
> thanks for your contributions to The Register!

Oh, thanks for saying so. :-)

> a shame that it doesn't support an external display via the dock

100% agreed. I have not seen any firm info if this new model can do it. The OEM hardware seems to be a relatively generic midrange big-and-robust Android device and so it's not something they prioritised. The manufacturer wasn't to know that a couple of years later, it'd prove to be a bit of a deal-breaker.

> makes moot the fact it supports other peripherals

Agreed again.

I mean, if it didn't run Wayland, you could run an X11 desktop over TCP/IP quite happily... :-D
by llmthrow0827 | 2025-09-23 08:59:01+00:00
> Then we call ourselves democracies, shining example to all the world. But we fail to recognize our personal responsibility for the actions of our governments. Because when a warmonger, thug, wannabe dictator or international bully-extraordinaire comes into power in a democracy, we probably could have personally done a lot more to prevent it, with little fear of repercussions, and we didn't.

Really? Tell me how Americans could have voted that would have not lead to giving billions in weapons to Israel to flatten Palestine.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-23 09:01:03+00:00
The poster above was pointing out that this is a double standard. You don't expect a US citizen to risk their livelihood to help an Iranian, but you then expect an Iranian citizen to risk their livelihood AND life to topple a regime that is doing things that the USA doesn't like.

So, you either take personal responsibility for enforcing sanctions yourself, or you admit that sanctions are a form of collective punishment for no reason. You can't have it both ways.
by comrade1234 | 2025-09-23 09:01:07+00:00
Part of identification is smell and feel.

There have been apps available for years where you upload pictures and get matches. When I find something that I'm not familiar with I use a combination of one of those apps for a quick id, then switch to a field guide that's specific to my region (sunbird app specific to Switzerland). Then in that field guide app I'm able to easily switch between similar mushrooms to try to identify what I've found.

Then once I have some idea I bring it to an expert. Here in Switzerland every municipality has a pilzkontrolle (mushroom inspector) - a government office where an expert will throw out what you can't eat and explain to you what you've found. I'm in Zurich and on the weekend the line can be out the door and down the street of people with baskets of mushrooms and as much as three inspectors working.

I would never trust just an app.

https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/gesundheit/gesundheitsschutz...
by Terr_ | 2025-09-23 09:01:11+00:00
For an example of the rot, see Florida: 10% of voting-age citizens have had their vote stolen by the local government. [0] A 2019 referendum to abolish felony disenfranchisement passed with huge margins [1], but then the Republicans passed a new "pay to vote" law, saying it wasn't enough to serve time, but people also had to pay significant fines.

[0] https://www.sentencingproject.org/fact-sheet/florida-bans-vo...

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voti...
by gwd | 2025-09-23 09:01:25+00:00
"[C]ursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

- Genesis 3:17-19

EDIT: Whether you believe this particular explanation or not, the fact that it's here is evidence that people have long felt that how unnecessarily hard work is is something that needs an explanation.
by lifeinthevoid | 2025-09-23 09:01:54+00:00
I built a similar system, meanwhile I've sold one of the RTX 3090's. Local inference is fun and feels liberating, but it's also slow, and once I was used to the immense power of the giant hosted models, the fun quickly disappeared.

I've kept a single GPU to still be able to play a bit with light local models, but not anymore for serious use.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-23 09:02:50+00:00
They don't need to make their own CPUs for that. Framework can write its own BIOS and ACPI drivers for Windows and Linux to have proper sleep support. But that's more R&D expenditure they probably can't afford.

For example, for my home lab, I bought a used Intel 12th gen industrial PC from a specialized Taiwanese embedded systems company, whose BIOS allows very granular control of all sleep states plus individual power control of most peripherals, probably because that's a must-have for customers in that space over stuff like benchmark scores and bang for the buck.

So technically, IT IS possible to do, just probably not very cost effective for consumer devices.
by ivell | 2025-09-23 09:03:56+00:00
The leadership of countries under sanctions rarely change their behavior due to sanctions. However the effect on the population of the countries is that they turn against the countries applying the sanctions. It becomes easier for the leaders to sell the sanctions to their populace as the enemy action. If the West is expecting any revolution due to sanctions, I have not seen it.

However, sanctions do have a symbolic value. And I also can't think of anything else short of military action to express displeasure.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-23 09:04:29+00:00
Yes, but it suddenly matters if you execute code in an interpreter, where the user can change any symbol/function definition at anytime. What do you do with a a struct definition, that changes? Do all the functions return something different now? Or does the return type of all the functions change to an anon struct and the name now refers to something different. Stuff like that is what the distinction is between a compiled and an interpreted language.
by onraglanroad | 2025-09-23 09:04:37+00:00
You're both wrong about the number of prisoners. The link clearly states 2/3 of prisoners are workers and 3/4 of them report being compelled to work. That works out at 1/2 of all prisoners.

Trying to spin this as benefits is...odd:

"they are required to work or face additional punishment such as solitary confinement, denial of opportunities to reduce their sentence, and loss of family visitation."
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-23 09:05:46+00:00
> But the sanctions certainly hampered their ability to acquire effective air defense.

Effective air defense against military superpower (and they were effectively fighting against American technology) is something very hard to build, with or without sanctions. Ukraine is a good proof: Russia was denied air superiority using manned aircrafts but they still manage to inflict significant damage with missiles and drones.

> I don't think the USSR is still around, and it largely collapsed due to economic pressure

It wasn’t external pressure at all. Soviet Union had everything to be self-sustainable (e.g. Russia and Ukraine have proven later that in agriculture it’s absolutely possible). They failed to execute transition to regulated market economy the way China did. Gorbachev thought democracy goes first (the entire Warsaw bloc collapsed thanks to “blue jeans” - KGB and Stasi feared Western culture the most, and the West was ready to send more of it).
by robertlagrant | 2025-09-23 09:05:57+00:00
> Just like restaurants today that only have a QR code but no physical menu

This is partly a holdover from Covid, and just as while there are a few people walking around with Covid masks on, most people aren't wearing them any more, and there are loads of restaurants that don't rely on QR codes. QR codes do have actual advantages, but also disadvantages, so they will - and have - balance against the market's requirements.
by crabmusket | 2025-09-23 09:05:59+00:00
I use a Mac M4 for work and have a Framework for myself.

The M4 is a beast, but I have a different priority for a device I want to call "my own". I want more control over "my" device, and I don't demand the highest performance or battery life. I grew up on Windows, and for a long time dual-booted with various Linuxes, and eventually used WSL on the regular. But now with my Framework I'm running Fedora, so for the first time in my life I don't have to deal with Windows at all.

It helps, I suppose, that I'm one of those weird types who likes to actually shut down their computer when they're not using it, instead of just closing the lid. I like a fresh start each time I open it up.
by sofixa | 2025-09-23 09:06:05+00:00
> You all say this, and yet at the same time you levy economic sanctions on countries like Iran, Cuba, and North Korea, with the justification that by making their citizens lives horrific, you encourage them to rise against their government.

That's (usually) a secondary goal of sanctions, if even that. The primary is to restrict the regime's ability to fund its growth, stability and military operations.

Russia can no longer (that easily) sell its oil and gas? Great, that's less money to invest into rockets and drones and tanks against Ukraine. It's also less money in the pockets of the oligarchs.

Realistically, you can't really push the civilians of a country to revolt with sanctions, or bombing. As Carl Spaatz said:

> Morale in a totalitarian society is irrelevant so long as the control patterns function effectively.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-09-23 09:06:18+00:00
> You all say this, and yet at the same time you levy economic sanctions on countries like Iran, Cuba, and North Korea, with the justification that by making their citizens lives horrific, you encourage them to rise against their government.

I think the argument is that you deprive belligerent companies from the resources they need to attack and harm others. The suffering their citizens endure is unfortunate, but why should Americans take the blame when Kim Jong Un is so obviously culpable?