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by xpe | 2025-10-07 15:01:47+00:00
The comment above is problematic for various reasons.

> Just because you already afraid or want others to be afraid.

We need to be more careful with our thinking and writing. [1] The word "just" indicates the commenter landed only on one explanation, but there are other plausible explanations, including, for example:

- others have different experiences -- but if this experience was communicated and understood, another person would incorporate the new information modify their assessment somewhat

- others have various values and preferences (some overlapping, some phrased differently, some in tension)

- others are using different reasoning (and if one's goal is to learn, it would be better to ask and clarify rather than over simplify and accuse them of having nefarious motives.)

Second, the commenter above is speculating. They don't know me, nor have they engaged in a sincere, constructive, meaningful discussion to understand what I'm saying.

Third, to me, the comment above comes across as unnecessarily abrasive, to the point of being self-defeating and degrading the quality of a shared discussion.

[1] If one is writing privately (e.g. a journal), I care relatively less about logical fallacies such as motivated reasoning. [2] But here in public, wayward reasoning has more negative externalities. Our time would be better spent if more people took the time to write thoughtfully. I don't think most people here are lacking in sufficient computational ability. However, they must choose to respect their audience -- their time, their diversity of values, their different experiences -- and remember that one's hasty comment (authored in say 2 minutes) might be read by hundreds of people (wasting say 100+ minutes). Lastly, it is nice to see when a person has the character to say "thank you for the correction", but this is uncommon on HN.

[2] But I still care because society is highly interconnected and the downstream effects matter to me. Put another way, "Your Rationality is My Business" as explained here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/anCubLdggTWjnEvBS/your-ratio...
by triceratops | 2025-10-07 15:01:54+00:00
If Medicare funding disappeared tomorrow the healthcare industry would figure out how to fund residents. The alternative is no new doctors. Nobody wants that.

I'm not advocating pulling the plug overnight without planning an alternative. That would guarantee a collapse as you said. But announcing an expiration of the program would heavily incentivize all participants to figure something out.

Residents make like $70k a year plus benefits. I'm sure the hospital bills their work for a lot more than that, even accounting for the time of attending physicians. Right now that profit margin probably subsidizes other loss-making activities in the hospital.
by beAbU | 2025-10-07 15:02:14+00:00
> It's sad that such a thing needs regulation in the first place.

Profit motivated business (i.e. almost all of them) have a fiduciary duty towards the owners or shareholders. They are legally bound to maximize profits at all costs. If they don't do this, the leadership will be found guilty of dereliction of duty and be sanctioned.

Business aren't people, therefore human morality does not apply. Regulations are the only thing that keeps this behaviour in check. It's the nature of the beast unfortunately.

> and yet that doesn't seem to cause a negative outcome for them

It absolutely has a negative outcome for them, there is a post on the front-page of HN right now about how a California law is forcing Netflix and other streaming services to turn down the volume of their ad breaks.
by Moomoomoo309 | 2025-10-07 15:02:20+00:00
Stock market increases are bad if they are being put to something unprofitable, whuch AI seems to be. Lagging behind Europe is bad because the US loses its competitive advantage, which can become a vicious cycle and kill the sector entirely. Low immigration causing a labor force squeeze is bad because critical industries like farming have crops rot on the field, causing food waste. Reduced demand because of AI is bad because it lowers employment, causing people to become destitute, desperate, and/or dead.

None of this is contradictory.
by tombert | 2025-10-07 15:02:28+00:00
I doubt it’s going to happen, but a part of me prays that people will eventually get sick Microsoft’s increasing bullshit and it really can become the Year of the Linux Desktop. Gnome has genuinely gotten pretty great in the last couple years, and I think a lot of former Windows would genuinely like it if they gave it a chance, and virtually any Linux you install will have less tracking bullshit than Windows.

I suspect, though, people will realistically just migrate to Chromebooks, which I suppose are “Linux”, but not what I would consider the “Linux Desktop”
by eyalitki | 2025-10-07 15:02:42+00:00
The article is a follow up for an earlier thread of mine that was published here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613791.

While the previous article presented the problem domain (multiple issues with using .a archives of plain object-code files for static libraries), this article presents the technical white paper that formally proposes an alternative format (accompanied by a POC on top of GNU's ld), as well as the gist of the ELF committee's discussion about the proposal.

Given the decision of the ELF committee, the format will be judged by adoption in practice and the feedback it receives from users. In other words, your opinion is more than welcome.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-07 15:03:00+00:00
I see that as an advantage.

Make and Bazel already exist. Just and Mise and other options don’t need to reinvent that wheel. My last employer used Bazel and I liked using Mise as a wrapper around it so that `mise test` invoked the complex command line to run all the tests, kind of like a set of shell aliases that only affect that one repo.
by oluminate | 2025-10-07 15:03:01+00:00
I don't think four year olds demonstrating the ability to read several levels above their grade level is 1.) rare and 2.) a talent you can realistically tease out from over-parenting at that age.

Given the extreme levels of segregation in certain parts of the country (NYC for example has fewer than 5 percent of Black and Latino kindergartners in G&T programs, but higher enrollment for Black and Latino students in third grade) school systems like that one should seriously consider pivoting to prioritizing equality over G&T funding.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-07 15:03:08+00:00
Sad that the state of affairs is that "offering a light and dark mode" is seen as a best practice for user choice in web styling. Oh, thank you, web developer, for letting me choose between two color schemes! Meanwhile, I can choose my desktop window colors, text colors, fonts, text size, down to the individual element, and have been able to do this since at least the 90s. If I want yellow comic sans on purple window backgrounds, I can have it. But not on a web page! How far we have regressed when it comes to user preferences and honoring them.
by piltdownman | 2025-10-07 15:03:17+00:00
So why on earth did ARM sue to stop their release and force a clean-sheet redesign? Other than SoftBank being Softbank.

//ARM’s CEO wrote in a contemporaneous internal message that the Nuvia ALA “had left a route to blow a hole in [ARM’s] revenue plan” because “Qualcomm already ha[d] a v9 architecture license” under its own ALA. That observation led him to vent that “I’m struggling not to be pissed that we set up a route for Qualcomm to collapse the payments to Arm,” which “feels like in our chess game we left ourselves very exposed.”

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/delawar...

Re: Handheld gaming - The dedicated Xbox gaming handheld was cancelled because AMD required a minimum of 10 million units in its contract. With Steam Deck only selling ~5 million units and ASUS ROG/Lenovo Legion only selling 1-2 million MS didn't want to take the risk.

Reduce that BOM, go with ARM, and realise there's an incumbent leaving the market, and you have a compelling argument for Qualcomm. Particularly given the Nintendo Switch 2 sold 1.6M units in June, the highest launch month unit sales for video game hardware in US history
by cheald | 2025-10-07 15:03:27+00:00
Not only is it competitive, it's actually superior in many instances.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-s...

Basically the only games that don't work are those which include anticheat which intentionally borks Linux. Check https://www.protondb.com/ for any game you're interested in to see if it'll run or not.
by Moral_ | 2025-10-07 15:03:32+00:00
Quoting Arm stock prices is hilarious considering that there is only 10% float available to be traded and 95% of that 10% is owned by institutions already. That stock is so heavily manipulated so the big boys can make insane profits on options.

On the other topic

>>Outside of Snapdragon its basically 5G Telecoms atm

>seems to be the only thing going for it.

Did you guys forget the $4B a year in auto rev that they generate, they essentially captured the entire auto market from Nvidia and NXP.
by mobilene | 2025-10-07 15:03:33+00:00
I entered middle school in 1979, at which time I was slotted into available "advanced" classes. This was as close to a G&T program as we had. It changed my game. Not because of the knowledge imparted, but because (a) I was with other kids who wanted to learn and were willing to work, and (b) I was largely removed from the disruptions I had increasingly experienced from kids who didn't want to be there. At last, I could relax and just do school. It didn't make school a paradise, but it sure removed the worst of what was problematic for me about it. Freed from most of the nonsense, I was in a better head space and was able to do well.
by zozbot234 | 2025-10-07 15:03:47+00:00
> If you show me an LLM that can take in serialized RDF and perform reasoning on it, I will be surprised

It's easy, you just ask the LLM to convert your question to a SPARQL query, then you sanity-check it and run it on your dataset. The RDF input step is just so that the LLM knows what your schema looks like in the first place.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-10-07 15:04:17+00:00
So, yeah, this whole thing is a bit silly, and also discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497384 (and possibly elsewhere).

My TL;DR: a. Get a Microsoft 365 subscription, so you can set up Entra ID and avoid the 'consumer' account nonsense; b. It would sure be nice if the EU DMA would also be applied to this obviously monopolistic situation; c. Do, however, note that there are exactly zero Linux distros that even come close to offering comparable functionality...
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-07 15:04:21+00:00
"...here, let me teach you how to sweep a floor, wise Bartholomew III" [hands intelligent student broom] "...now push. It's a simple task for a simple person."

src: I was a bored gifted one; only swept the floors long enough to want to change my behavior(s). I was also once a teacher for children with behavior issues.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-10-07 15:04:34+00:00
I don't care about a Microsoft account as long as they don't force me to log in, remember some kind of password,or use some Microsoft email. If they locked me out of my machine or transmitted data to their servers violating the GDPR, then that would be a problem. Windows 11 is a paid product, it's quite expensive, and that alone means Microsoft is fully liable for damages from negligence and failure.
by masfuerte | 2025-10-07 15:04:39+00:00
It worked like that before they changed the law and it can work like that again.

> The work was already published by somebody else.

This is just wrong. It is literally the platform that does the publishing. However, section 230 says that we won't treat the platform as the publisher.

This is not some logical necessity. It's just a law that we can change.
by teiferer | 2025-10-07 15:04:56+00:00
Not necessarily a good idea. Dealing with disagreements, distractions, conflicts, low and high performers around you, that's all part of social education. It's not explicitly on the curriculum, but if you just give everybody a super sheltered cotton-clad education environment until they are 18 then they will be better at using the pythagorean theorem or discussing Shakespeare, but they will utterly fail on the street and will scream hate crime the first time somebody disagrees with them at the workplace.

I'm obviously exaggerating, but it's not purely good to remove "distracting elements".
by Nifty3929 | 2025-10-07 15:05:09+00:00
Oh man! Focus stealing is the worst! Bitwarden used to do this while I was typing my master password, stealing focus in the middle of what I'm typing to ask if I want to interrupt what I'm trying to accomplish to get their next minor upgrade. Which, of course typing my password very quickly I often hit enter at that moment, forcing me down an upgrade path. Beside the point of having my typing part of my password into a context it wasn't meant for. I think they've fixed it though.
by realityfactchex | 2025-10-07 15:05:20+00:00
Yeah, it's a myth, and a pervasive one. Decent description at [0].

Not only that, but people actually think they know that.

Since people believe it, it's "real to them".

IMO, this helps make it easier to go from "we're going to make the best widgets and be good, responsible, ethical corps" to "we will extract as much value as possible from customers, anything within the law is fair game, external consequences not being our concern".

[0] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...
by timschmidt | 2025-10-07 15:05:22+00:00
> If he decided not to chlorinate the well in order to fully decide which specific bacteria was causing cholera, that would have been stupid.

Thankfully that is not the choice anyone is confronted with. John Snow identified and treated the well and also proposed the first substantially complete and correct model for the cause of the disease. Both efforts informed each other and contributed to the solution which may not have been possible otherwise.

Proponents of the miasma theory surely thought he was wasting his time.

Fillipo Pacini isolated the bacterium the very same year. How wonderful it is that we can all collaborate to solve many aspects of the same problem.
by Y_Y | 2025-10-07 15:05:26+00:00
For what it's worth, I think my experience was similar to yours. That's why I'm drilling down on the definition of "need". I agree qwth what you say, my only point was that gifted students have a different, less urgent, kind of "need". Hence, as a mayter of institutional dynamics, we have the inadequate systems we have (for the gifted at least).
by gattilorenz | 2025-10-07 15:05:52+00:00
What I meant is not "I can't find what it is", but that the landing page of Bazzite says this: "The next generation of Linux gaming - Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

Play your favorite games - Bazzite is designed for Linux newcomers and enthusiasts alike with Steam pre-installed, HDR & VRR support, improved CPU schedulers for responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools and tweaks to streamline your gaming and streaming experience."

In the first 5 words after the 1st title there should be mentioned "Linux distribution". It's not even in the 2nd paragraph, now.

If this is the clarity of the landing page, I suspect documentation is equally user-hostile/inaccessible, which is why 2025 is still not the year of the Linux desktop... in the Linux world there's still an abundance of great developers, and a terrible lack of HCI/UX expertise.
by FranOntanaya | 2025-10-07 15:06:01+00:00
A lot of styling is done still in the old Advanced Substation subtitle format, which is nice in a whole number of ways but doesn't have any standards working group behind and so it's a bit ignored in software and operations.

People use either some flavor of W3C's Timed Text or WebVTT instead (and it was already a pain to get them to drag their feet into them and drop the old analog broadcast formats). Now, here's the thing. WebVTT isn't radically different in format and features to (A)SSA and it has plenty of styling options... but, once again, a lot of platforms and software are dragging their feet to support them.

So the industry has been sloooowly doing the right thing moving to the W3C standards (not a huge fan of Timed Text myself, but it exists for a reason), but only with the most basic and safe features. Which are also about as many features you get out of plain speech to text output, so it's even easier to make that decision.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-10-07 15:06:01+00:00
Many public schools are going to opposite route, which is causing a lot of problems — classes are becoming fully integrated with both special needs and gifted students in the same room. You'll often get a teacher and a near minimum-wage assistant in one class...

Generally this is a response to a massive teacher shortage in the US, which is likely caused by low pay relative to the sheer amount of work and angst that teachers have to put up with (from both parents and students).

If the US were truly a society that valued education, teachers would be some of the highest paid professionals in the country... but teacher salaries have actually been declining relative to the average, and like many positions haven't been keeping up with the rate of inflation either. This is in addition to the long-known fact that many teachers end up buying their own supplies.
by mtalantikite | 2025-10-07 15:06:01+00:00
> In some schools of Buddhism, the tradition was to live with only one bowl and one spoon. The practice was to beg daily

It still exists today. A friend of mine was a monk for many years and would make daily alms rounds.

It also happens in other lineages of Hinduism too. A Baul teacher of mine was supposed to do a short teaching tour here in the US a few months ago and actually got turned away at SFO by immigration because the immigration officer just couldn't understand that she doesn't make money and eats all her meals from alms. He told her no one exists like that anymore, detained her, and sent her back to Bengal.
by thisisit | 2025-10-07 15:06:15+00:00
It seems to me that people think AI is somehow magic. Recently I led a product demo. The conversation went something like this:

End users (at my company) - Can your AI system look at numbers and find differences and generate a text description?

Pre-sales - (trying to clarify) For our systems to generate text it will be better if you give it some live examples so that it understands what text to generate.

End users - But there is supporting data (metadata) around the numbers. Can't your AI system just generate text?

Pre-Sales - It can but you need to provide context and examples. Otherwise it is going to generic text like "there is x difference".

End user - You mean I need to write comments manually first? That is too much work.

Now these users have a call with another product - MS Copilot.
by dfex | 2025-10-07 15:06:28+00:00
Not the OP, but have had some experience with the Arduino Opta around this time twelve months ago (Oct 24) through a professional development course I took at my local university on industrial control systems programming.

While it's nice to have exposure to PLC programming at an Arduino price point, the IDE, and PLC firmware was VERY rough around the edges. It took lots of resets and fiddling to even get the units connected over their USB serial, and you'd come back the next day and you'd have to repeat the process. Lots of "hold your tongue the right way while pressing this button". The IDE was also very buggy (though it may have improved in the last 12 months), but once you got things going, it did the job.
by abakker | 2025-10-07 15:07:03+00:00
I don't think this is correct. The reasons economists separate capital and labor is that they do have different characteristics. Labor has skill, capital can have technology. Assets exist regardless of utilization, labor cannot be stored up in an inventory since labor is time which flows inexorably onwards.

A shortage of an asset is a reflection of inventory levels. A shortage of labor reflects a lack of skill or time OR a lack of willingness to pay for that skill and time.

They're different for good reasons.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-10-07 15:07:06+00:00
It occurs to me that maybe user behavior metrics are to blame, because our default response to these stupid intrusions (click any button to make it go away) appears as "engagement" to the devs/markting people: "oh look, people are clicking our popup buttons!" so then they are encouraged to add more of them. "Look how much engagement we're driving!"
by palmotea | 2025-10-07 15:07:10+00:00
> I’ve had the exact same experience. I’ve been vibe coding most of my research now, previously was an MLE handcrafting model code.

What happened to the MLE? Are they all going to end up that way?

> A lot of negative comments on here, which seems to always be the case with HN and vibe coding. The reality is that it’s actually starting to work, quite well.

It's hard to be positive about the idea of your skills getting devalued and getting kicked to the curb.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-10-07 15:07:24+00:00
That's true, some are big and messy, or the change has to be created across a couple of PRs, but I don't think that the answer to "some PRs are messy" is "let's include all the mess". I don't think the job is made easier by having to dig through a half dozen messy commits to find where the bug is as opposed to one or two large ones.
by jerojero | 2025-10-07 15:07:49+00:00
I've been thinking of trying out the iphone for a while now.

The reason I wasn't switching is that I install a lot of open source apps on my android device, for all kinds of things.

This change seems like it might greatly affect the current developer landscape. I've been looking for alternatives on the iphone to the apps I use and in most cases they do exist. I imagine the same will happen with android. Lots of devs are going to register and so on.

However, at that point, what difference will there be between ios and android systems that will meaningfully make me stay in android? I'll try out the iphone and see how I like it. Maybe theres something thats so commonplace right now for me that will become a deal breaker. Sort of doubt it.

Big L, as always google just doing what they do best.
by BryantD | 2025-10-07 15:07:57+00:00
I think maybe one other lesson, although I certainly agree with yours, and with the other commenters who talk about the unreliability of this particular method? This feels like an argument for using an editor that autosaves history. "Disk is cheap," as they say -- so what if your undo buffer for any given file goes back seven days, or a month? With a good interface to browse through the history?

I'm sure there's an emacs module for this.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-07 15:08:05+00:00
It's cheaper and easier to just spin your own boards at that point. Arduinos are not complex or special in any way. Even if you did need a ton of off the shelf boards, there are countless clones that will sell you as many as you want for next to nothing.

Plus the market you're implying exists is so small as to be utterly worthless to Qualcomm. They are in no way interested in individuals or small businesses
by potatolicious | 2025-10-07 15:08:06+00:00
Yeah I'm kind of puzzled by what Qualcomm is getting out of this.

Arduino has so little presence in production devices and is largely an enthusiast and hobbyist product. To be clear, this is good! Having well-supported high-quality enthusiast products is awesome.

But it just doesn't... seem to overlap with the bulk of Qualcomm's business, which is large-scale silicon sales to consumer and industrial clients.