MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nomel | 2025-10-28 23:09:56+00:00
> Rosetta is a software translation layer, not a hardware translation layer. It doesn't take any die space.

There is hardware acceleration in place that that only exists for it to, as you just stated, give it acceptable performance.

It does take up die space, but they're going to keep it around because they've decided to reduce the types of applications supported by Rosetta 2 (and the hardware that it exists only for it) will support.

So, seems like they've decided they can't fight the fact that gaming is a Windows thing, but there's no excuse for app developers.
by ranger_danger | 2025-10-28 23:10:43+00:00
> pure C

Does not appear to be as it's using not only inline assembly (so only specific architectures are supported) but also compiler-specific attributes.

> Works in most C89 compilers.

I think it should not work in any C89 compiler, because I'm seeing variable declarations that come after code statements, as well as 64-bit integers.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-28 23:10:50+00:00
Correct, which is why being satieted is very important as it reduces snacking. Eating foods with a lower glycemic index can reduce the speed of the blood sugar spike you get after you eat which can reduce the amount of insulin produced. When you spike you'll start storing fat faster and get hungry sooner leading to eating more.

Also processed foods love removing fiber that takes a long time to digest.
by no_wizard | 2025-10-28 23:12:10+00:00
>The average US college student graduates with around $30-40K debt depending on whether they go public or private, which isn't all that hard to pay off when our wages are already significantly higher than other countries. We're especially lucky in tech where our compensation differential relative to other countries more than makes up for the cost of university education.

This is such a weird excuse for bad policy. Making more money[0][1] somehow means its okay to saddle students with an average debt of $30-40 thousand dollars. A downpayment on a first home would be a much better use of that money, for example.

Really, the average US citizen is nickel and dimed to death with this sort of thing, from health insurance, to dental, to lots of other required but not accounted for as required costs (like cars and associated car insurance).

Not to mention, we have little safety net in the US, you're really going to hurt if you have a bad run of luck after job loss. No qualms in allowing people to become homeless as a matter of policy.

If someone were to ask me, I would say that we in the US have it completely backwards in respect to how the average citizenry is expected to live. Its not thriving, its constantly having some kind of lingering potential disaster to plan for.

[0]: which I sincerely wonder about the true veracity of this statistic

[1]: Don't forget too, that more and more struggle to pay their student loans each year and the trend has generally been that its getting worse, not better.
by robotresearcher | 2025-10-28 23:12:31+00:00
It's a very tough job market right now. I'd rather put a 3.8 than a 2.8 GPA on my CV for job #1 out of college. For job #2, no one cares.

Scholarships for grad school can also be sensitive to undergrad GPA.

(For the non-Americans: 4.0 is a 'perfect' A+ 100% Grade Point Average. Strangely, >4.0 GPAs are possible too, with extra credit work.)
by electroly | 2025-10-28 23:13:01+00:00
Sure, this seems to be a restatement of my post, which started with "While true...", rather than a disagreement. I was pointing out which one of the "many acceptable opposing answers" Apple had chosen. They can't use that die area for performance because they're still using it even after this phase-out. (I'm not the person who wrote the original post.)
by daurentius523 | 2025-10-28 23:13:30+00:00
" "faith" is offensive " - and how exactly do you think most people act to science ?

Do they check every fact that they learn by experimentation?

Or do they trust/believe authority that given them such fact mindlessly?

Can we stop putting our morality and faith above another's?

Any aggressive ideology that forces it believers to censor non-believer viewpoint is ultimately self-destructive - even if you force non-believers they will not believe in it - because they never trusted it.
by layoric | 2025-10-28 23:13:35+00:00
Same setup here, one game setup I've hit but this will be a rare problem, is StarCraft Remastered. Wine has an issue with audio processing which I can't seem to configure my way out of. It pegs all 32 threads and still stutters. Thankfully this game can likely run on an actual potato, so I have a separate mini PC running windows for this when I want to get my ass kicked on battle.net.
by alsetmusic | 2025-10-28 23:13:44+00:00
Chasing services revenue has been the worst decision of the Tim Cook era:

Ads for services I don't want or need, hassling me to finish "setting up" my phone by turning on features I don't want (like AppleIntelligence and Siri), notification badges on my Settings app trying to tell me about the crap Apple wants me to know about.

There's a rumor that Apple will start allowing ads in their Maps app next year. I couldn't have imagined they'd debase themselves this much a decade ago.
by watwut | 2025-10-28 23:13:56+00:00
My point is, drinking was not deviation from the mean. It was "the mean". There was no real norm in following the law in that one. Like I said, adults would wink wink look away or directly give you alcohol.

If you was not drinking at all, you was the weird one. Literally.

The mean is shifting toward drinking less. But that does not say much about how many people are "weird".
by geuis | 2025-10-28 23:14:07+00:00
I have a pc I built when the 2080 TI came out. How is Linux support for the supporting drivers for those cards today? The machine is still more than powerful enough for my needs but I haven't used it in a couple years because Windows really is just complete garbage. I'd like to be able to take advantage of new to moderately old hardware without dealing with Windows.
by terminalshort | 2025-10-28 23:15:03+00:00
> both major app stores and the massive amount of malware in them

This is true, but it's also not the main vector of attack. The primary threat is that the user is intending to download $WELL_KNOWN_APP and instead downloads a compromised binary from a malicious third party and is instantly compromised. The app stores make the probability of this essentially zero.
by ajross | 2025-10-28 23:15:15+00:00
See... this is where conspiracy thinking takes you. It's like an addiction, and you need to keep feeding it out of your head when the spigot runs dry.

> people complain for years that industry shouldn't regulate itself, that it's too involved in studies about itself, and yet here we are, defending an indefensible status quo.

You are inferring from the article (as it wants you to believe) that somehow this letter declares the existence of heretofore unknown studies funded, performed by and then suppressed by Johnson & Johnson. It doesn't say that, at all. The author just thanks someone for sending them a PDF or whatever.

So I see a partisan rag making an ambiguous point and assuming that the straightforward interpretation ("ambiguous evidence" is like the easiest bet in science) holds. You see it, having already been primed with an interpretation, and need to start filling in details to preserve the conspiracy you've already adopted. Occam argues strongly that the Caller is just wrong and publishing garbage spin, as they've done many times in the past.

Please stop.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-28 23:15:30+00:00
I think that different people get different things out of any given activity. Using genAI absolutely sucks the joy out of programming for me by reducing the activities that I enjoy doing (e.g., letting the code flow) and increasing the activities that I don't enjoy doing (e.g., reviewing code I didn't write). However, there is no question at all that other devs may dislike the parts that I find fun, and find fun in parts I find odious.

They aren't wrong for liking what they like, and I'm not wrong for liking what I like.

However, it does appear that if genAI actually becomes a core part of the job, there are a ton of people who will find themselves in a miserable career. I think a certain amount of compassion is called for here.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-10-28 23:16:12+00:00
Yep, I think it’s blatantly obvious that autonomous cars of some flavor will eclipse human ability sometime this century.

The interesting point will be when insurance companies reduce your rate if your car doesn’t have a steering wheel (or, equivalently, charge a “driving manually” fee). It might be obscured if car companies take on the risk themselves, but at some point people will start to notice that driving manually costs more.
by spookie | 2025-10-28 23:16:12+00:00
The death of a server browser and privately owned servers led to this. The whole anti-cheat situation grew from publishers wanting to control the whole experience.

Besides, the gaming industry keeps shooting themselves in the foot by only supporting Windows (Mac is a thing too). That is slowly changing, but so many game devs are drinking the Microsoft koolaid they don't even consider using another graphics API other than DirectX. Many other decisions like that as well.

It really is impressive how many they are willing to leave behind. A quick check gives about 19% of the market.
by brailsafe | 2025-10-28 23:16:24+00:00
Agreed, although I'd characterize it as more closely related to curiosity. Some people can select particular items that make themselves look good or are high-quality for example, but are surprisingly some of the least curious people, whereas I don't think the same can be said of tinkerers. People lacking this type of curiosity get frustrated easily if you want to discuss ideas or hypotheticals, nebulous intangible problem solving etc..; they want the right answer and an authority to point to. People with this type of curiosity want to discover why it might or might not be true regardless of whether it's a solved problem for others. The former type of person wants to look up what the viewpoints are like before they agree to go on a hike, getting frustrated when they're not there yet, and the latter just wants to hike and see what it's all about, enjoying the process.

Consequently, maybe taste can be acquired by impersonation or purchased, but could be more superficial than taste acquired through deep iterative tinkering and repetition. Much like someone watching a youtube video that tells them so and so is the correct way to do something, therefore it is, and it may be true, but they didn't necessarily learn that organically or in a way that they could analytically discuss.

Incidentally, the person without this type of curiosity is extremely dull to engage in conversation with from the perspective of the curious person, and in the reverse the curious person would seem to be wasting the incurious person's time because they aren't getting to the point and there's no tangible benefit in the conversation.

Incurious people seem like they're the typical tourist or the consumer, eliminating as much inconvenience as possible but not necessarily interested the exploration of the what or why of either the problem or solution, making it hard to identify where the depth is. Good at delegating, but terrible managers.
by GreenVulpine | 2025-10-28 23:16:38+00:00
Yes, software on F-droid is free and reviewed for anti-features before publishing. Google Play has the worst, ad ridden, dark pattern filled, data guzzling, subscription packed, commercial slop with no real oversight on what gets published. Malware frequently gets on the Play Store, never heard of it being a problem on F-Droid.
by Redster | 2025-10-28 23:16:49+00:00
I've never torrented anything and have been wary that doing anything with the Tor project on my not-so-private computer just sends up a beacon asking me to be investigated. I don't do anything illegal or plan to, but being investigated alone is enough of a deterrent.

I suspect this is paranoia on my part, but I would be curious to hear thoughts from this crowd.

1. If you're threat model is surveillance state, are things like this helpful or harmful? 2. If you need a tool like this, what's the best way to obtain/install this anonymously?
by tpmoney | 2025-10-28 23:16:54+00:00
> In my prior comment, A = disclosures in journalism, B = disclosures in editorials. They are not the same thing in a way that can be applied to a singular Bernie.

I can see that reading but even with that, comparative numbers are still useful. If we continue to assume that the words in this story were carefully chosen to be what they are (which I think we both are doing that, so I don't think I'm making an out of bounds assumption here), why the "3 times in the past 2 weeks" phrasing? Why not "has stopped" (or even "appears to have stopped" if you want to hedge)? Back to my original question of "is 3 times in the past 2 weeks" 100% of the time? Is it 50%? 1%?

If 3 times is 100% of the number of times it should have happened, how many times did it happen in the 2 weeks prior to that? Or the month prior? Is 3 "conflicted" op-eds in 2 weeks high? normal? low?

Have they missed disclosures in the past? Multiple in a short window? How frequently? How many?

The current incidents were apparently corrected without any specific call out (a practice becoming far too common in the news I agree), how does that compare to previous times when they have corrected a disclosure?

We have no facts to go on. We have information, as you put it:

> about the vibe-shift at the Washington Post ... words of people who used to work there ... [mention of] the waves of resignations and subscriber cancellations, noted WaPo declined to comment on this story.

So we have implications that this means something, and maybe it does, but again we have implications. What I "make of it" is that the Post continues to be in a state of disarray, as it has been for some time now. And that's about all I make of it. And I specifically decline to make anything about "declining to comment" on a story. Second only to the police, you should shut your mouth and say nothing to the press. Everything you say can and will be used against you.
by sgarland | 2025-10-28 23:17:06+00:00
Bosch 800-series dishwashers are amazing. I’ve bought one at every house I’ve lived at, regardless of what’s installed. They’re quiet, they get everything clean no matter what, and they dry without a heating element, and without popping the front open.

Re: washing machines, I tentatively put forward LG. I bought one (and matching dryer) in the early 2010s, and it lasted 7 years before needing me to replace some balancing parts. It lasted years after that. Hoping for the same on this next move in a few days (yes, I move a lot).
by speff | 2025-10-28 23:17:29+00:00
The cost you're referring to is fairly abstract - I'm not sure how it can be implemented for the employer. The cost to the laid-off employee is a loss of income, mental trauma, potential loss of residence. What would your ideal solution for the employer be here?

Loss of money? Layoffs normally have severance packages that are paid out to the employee - this can be seen as the company taking a monetary hit - though not proportional like you said. But what's the alternative here? 5x/10x'ing the severance package? I feel like that would make the job market even rougher as companies would be even more conservative with who and how much they hire.

Mental trauma? I mentioned it in another comment, but the employees after a layoff normally do have an increased fear of future layoffs which impact morale which would result in lower productivity.

Loss of residence / food? I'm coming up blank here.
by georgefrowny | 2025-10-28 23:18:07+00:00
You could still sync with that signal because it's not perfect.

For example, say you have a scheme where a period longer than the last one is symbol A, about the same period is B and shorter is C. You will get a random-ish sequence of symbols.

If you have an algorithm that, say, resets the timer to zero whenever a certain symbol sequence is detected, you can eventually get back in sync. With some care you can make sure you only sync when the sequence happens and the light has only been off for a short period to avoid excessively long off periods or truncated on periods.

Then you just need to have a local oscillator good enough to do that timing analysis and that can maintain sync between these symbol occurrences.

You could do it on the tiniest micro. Once you've counted the zero crossing detector, these days you might save 3 to 5 whole dollars over a GPS receiver on your very expensive ICAO compliant lamp and also ruled out using DC into the bargain! And theoretically it desyncs when the grid is too stable for days on end (and you just get BBBBB or ABABAB for millions of cycles)!

In terms of what is actually used, they do often use GPS and many of them have MODBUS or similar data connections which presumably wire into the wind turbine's telemetry somehow for fault detection.
by roenxi | 2025-10-28 23:18:33+00:00
Yeah but not the riots, the standards in US politics generally demand that people separate mostly peaceful political protesters from smaller numbers of rioters who happen to be involved. The Democrats identified the riots as a major tactical blunder (although realistically I think they badly overplayed their hand, they seemed to spend a lot more time talking about J6 than developing compelling policy positions, and managed to get democracy voted out which is quite impressive - I'm hoping they disband and let someone else contest the next election) and MAGA as a whole seems to agree with them given the lack of any reoccurrences.

If you want to put that the dividing line between right and far-right as militantism for today then that makes sense. But the MAGA movement hasn't been using militant tactics, and they'd be more alt-right than far-right under that standard. They've been pretty consistent at working to win power through increasing their vote share and base of popular support. They've been dumping vast amounts of time, money and effort into it.

For the sake of argument, say that J6 riot was a planned thing. Compare the logistic efforts to get a crowd settled at a major Trump rally to the organisational support that resulted in an insurrection with less than 100 armed people. The oomph just isn't there.
by ben_w | 2025-10-28 23:19:21+00:00
To oversimplify somewhat, the reason geneticists describe "race" as a social construct is that classifying everyone into a handful of buckets created by Victorians and based on people's dermal melanin density, fails to cut reality at its joints. For a more detailed response: https://bioanth.org/about/aaba-statement-on-race-racism/

If you take various different African populations, you'll find they're genetically diverse, not one single group, and the differences within the racial categories are large compared to the differences between the racial categories.

To put it another way: dividing people up by skin colour being "black" or "white" is about as useful as doing so by their hair colour being "blonde" or "ginger" — it's not that this isn't part of the world, it is, it's just that the categorisation is functionally useless.
by kragen | 2025-10-28 23:19:24+00:00
The principle is that the owner should have full control of their own device, because that's what defines private property. In particular, everything that the maker can make the device do must be something that the owner can make the device do. If the device is simply incapable of doing a certain thing, that might be bad for the owner, but it's not an abrogation of their right to their own property, and it doesn't create an ongoing opportunity for exploitation by the maker.

Maybe in theory your washing machine could be programmed to do those things without writable program memory. Like, if you fabricated custom large ROM chips with the malicious code? And custom Harvard-architecture microcontrollers with separate off-chip program and data buses? But then the functionality would be in theory detectable at purchase time (unlike, for example, Samsung's new advertising functionality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737338) and you could avoid it by buying an older model that didn't have the malicious code. This would greatly reduce the maker's incentives to incorporate such features, even if it were possible. In practice, I don't think you could implement those features at all without writable program memory, even with the custom silicon designs I've posited here.

If you insist that manufacturers must not prevent owners from changing the code on their devices, you're insisting that they must not use any ROM, for any purpose, including things like the PLA that the 6502 used to decode instructions. It's far more viable, and probably sufficient, to insist that owners must be able to change any code on their devices that manufacturers could change.
by juris | 2025-10-28 23:19:27+00:00
"Consumer rights aren’t features" > Any attempt to weasel out of a marketed feature set is generally and colloquially known as "false advertising"; consumers have a right to the features of a product they purchase under the original conditions of the purchase agreement.

"Then sue them" > My point was that the force of the state is a necessary evil to ensure fair competition. Yours implied that the force of the state is overreach, but if you warrant that, then you wouldn't enjoy protections against corporations afforded to us by antitrust law.

"That you're not using something..." > For you to claim that sideloading presents additional threat surface to the normie consumer, you need to also claim that normie users are sideloading. This means that if 99 percent of users are not sideloading, there is no threat surface.

"Because corporations tend to die when they do anti-consumer things, but governments keep doing anti-citizen things without much trouble." > Absolutely not. The paradigm has changed from the time when you could vote with your dollar. You and I are economically and legally irrelevant (where is Congress, anyway?), and corporations like the Big G are too big to fail. They are -already- colluding with government to do both anti-consumer and anti-citizen things.

Nominatively, this is why both the government AND google do not want you to side-load software outside of their control.
by gmueckl | 2025-10-28 23:20:19+00:00
I know that this is a controversial take here, but this sideloading crackdown is just fallout from the inevitable disaster that is mixing general purpose computing with high security and reliability requirements.

There's just no way at this time in which a single computing device can run software with high reliability expectations (emergency calls), high security expectations (controlled calling/texting, banking, money transactions) at the same time as random crap from the internet and keep the user safe and secure.

The HN community is far to fixated on their own use cases to properly understand this issue and its implications which can potentially upset a person's entire existence.
by TylerE | 2025-10-28 23:20:56+00:00
There is no such thing as consumer GE products. They haven't existed for several decades. The name has been licensed to various brands in China, but the only thing actual GE made in it's last several decades (It suffered existence failure in 2024 after a series of spinoffs) is aircraft engines.

Anything sold as "GE" is just re-badged somebody else's crap, mostly Haier.