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by heavyset_go | 2025-10-01 15:46:43+00:00
The ARM server ecosystem has it solved with SBSA, which includes ACPI, UEFI, etc as part of the standard.

There are some ARM consumer computers that implement UEFI, etc, though.

The issue is that it's cheaper to just put together bespoke boards and not implement industry standards that are expected on PCs. Vendors don't have to worry about supporting anything other than the hardware and images they ship, so they don't see a reason to make third party OS support viable.

> Is this the reason, why the Android echosystem is so abysmal when it comes to hardware driver support?

Theoretically, Android should have all of the same drivers as Linux, along with Android-specific drivers that are abstracted over stable driver interface instead of the unstable Linux interface.

What usually happens is the plethora of drivers that vanilla Linux ships with aren't built for, and distributed with, phones/tablets, and the Android drivers only have to support that specific board's hardware. Then, over time, the kernel doesn't get updated so new hardware won't be supported the longer you use the device.

If you're asking why Android devices have poor support for Linux, the OP's answer is the exact reason why.
by spicyusername | 2025-10-01 15:47:00+00:00
We are commenting on a post where someone created a game that presents normal challenges everyone faces as if it was an "Autism Simulator".

It is exactly this kind of generalization that I'm referring to in my comment - "I think autism has become a tag for the shared experiences of things"

If anything, we are both equally frustrated by the fact that everyone who has experiences they consider "autistic" will happily jump on the bandwagon, despite the fact that it is a relatively small percentage of the population who has experiences that are sufficiently severe or unusual to warrant any kind of label at all.

Nobody likes high pitched noises, everyone is distracted and disorganized, everyone has trouble concentrating or feels overwhelmed when lots of things happen at once, taking lots of medication is hard on the body for everyone, socializing in unfamiliar settings or for long periods feels uncomfortable, interacting with coworkers is weird, many people get lost in the details of things, many people like to spend long periods focused on their interests, some people have really good memories for certain things, etc, etc, etc.

That doesn't make labeling yourself as autistic useful unless your experiences are preventing you from living the life you want to live, and even then, its only useful as a tool to find strategies of getting through that life, the label has no value in-itself.
by rck | 2025-10-01 15:47:07+00:00
This is fun. But the bit at the beginning about philosophy is not correct. Parmenides did not believe in what we would call essences, but really did believe that nothing ever changes (along with his fellow Eliatic philosopher Zeno, of paradox fame). The idea that change is an illusion is pretty silly, and so Plato and especially Aristotle worked out what's wrong with that and proposed the idea of _forms_ in part to account for the nature of change. Aristotle extended Plato's idea and grounded it in material reality which we observe via the senses, and that's where the concept of essence really comes from - "essence" comes from the Latin "essentia" which was coined to deal with the tricky Greek οὐσία (ousia - "being") that Aristotle uses in his discussions of change.
by tptacek | 2025-10-01 15:48:52+00:00
I had a conversation with that person a couple weeks ago. They're nice. I think we both would tweak (if just a little bit) how we presented our articles with the benefit of hindsight.

For the record, I'm a systems programmer and a security person and I don't work for an AI company (you can Six Degrees of Sam Altman any startup to AI now if you want to make the claim, but if you try I'm just going to say "Sir, This Is A Wendy's".)
by SergeAx | 2025-10-01 15:48:53+00:00
Actually, the "he looked for a couch a week ago, let's show him all the couch ads we have" is still the best strategy in terms of CPI/CPC. And also a pretty cheap one. This is why they are doing it, not because they are dumb. It may enrage some, but what would they do, quit browsing the Internet?
by incomingpain | 2025-10-01 15:49:43+00:00
On the graph for aphantasia where it's words. I certainly dont imagine words. If I were to stretch the truth about seeing an apple, I maybe see an outline. Certainly no detail inside, like the relfection of light off the apple.

Psychedelics, like mushrooms, do nothing for me. Mushrooms, I've never had a high better than say a light buzz from alcohol, generally nothing. I never get the wavvy or beer goggles from alcohol. I could be absolutely smashed, drink a micky in a couple hours and still pass a field sobriety test; and im a cheap drunk. THC doesnt do much of anything. Opiates take alot; any amount of morphine and nothing. Still feel the pain. One time I had Dilaudid. That helped with the surgical pain maybe 50%; from intolerable to tolerable. Nothing though, no hallucinations or anything. Maybe at some peak I was feeling a wierd flush or wave feeling in my body but nothing significant.
by jfengel | 2025-10-01 15:49:54+00:00
Obama didn't want it called Obamacare. That was a disparaging name given by opponents of the Affordable Care Act.

The fact that you "don't doubt you're alone" makes it appear that you are, indeed, alone. There isn't a lot of pushback from his supporters, especially at the official level. Your legislators could do something about this, but they're literally not even in town.
by getnormality | 2025-10-01 15:49:57+00:00
That's very interesting. Maybe you are doing this the right way, and my concern as a math educator is for the people who may struggle to stay on the straight and narrow, or know what the straight and narrow is in this brave new world.

Where I see deficiencies is not so much in the calculations. When a problem class has a solution algorithm and 10,000 worked examples online, I'm not too surprised that the LLM generalizes pretty reliably to that problem class.

The problem I find is more when it's tricky, out-of-distribution, not entirely on the "happy path" of what the 10,000 examples are about. In that case, LLM responses quickly become irrelevant, illogical, and Pavlovian. It's the math version of messing up the surgeon riddle when presented with a minor variation that is logically very easy, but isn't the popular version everyone talks about [1].

[1] https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/openai-researchers-ha...
by skydhash | 2025-10-01 15:50:22+00:00
I read the title, I read the article and there’s nothing in the article that supports the claim made in the title.

Also about a tool being overly conplex. Something like find, imagemagick, ffmpeg,… are not complex in themselves. They’re solving a domain that itself is complex. But the tools are quite good the evidence is their stability where they’ve barely changed across decades.
by latexr | 2025-10-01 15:50:29+00:00
> I used to think that "We are the gods of the digital age" would be a cool business card logo, although I doubt it would go down too well!

Try “Digital Prophet”. It worked for David Shing.

https://media.philly.com/images/020914_David_Shing_600.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shing
by hnuser123456 | 2025-10-01 15:51:21+00:00
They are photographic images saved as PNG, which is lossless and intended for digitally created images with large areas of pixels with the exact same value. Please use a format intended for photographic images. Splashflag.png is 4.5 MB, it's 10.5 MB as an uncompressed BMP file, but only 600 KB as a JPEG with indistinguishable quality loss.
by shae | 2025-10-01 15:51:28+00:00
For source code diffs where a tree sitter grammar exists, difftastic is the best choice by far. It's better than you think it is.

https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

No really, if you haven't tried it, it's better than you think it is.

https://www.scannedinavian.com/tools-built-on-tree-sitters-c...

(I know, already mentioned later in comments by leeoniya, still deserves a top level comment!)
by gavinray | 2025-10-01 15:51:29+00:00
I have aphantasia but I have visuals when dreaming, and have OEV's on any psychedelic in high enough doses.

So I think it's useful to talk about dosages here.

For example, I won't have OEV's until around 200-250ug of LSD, or 20-22mg 2C-B, or 3.5g mushrooms.

Marijuana gives me the ability to have closed-eye visuals ("mind movies") even in low doses, though I don't use it because it gives me panic attacks.
by devinbhushan | 2025-10-01 15:51:33+00:00
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by tptacek | 2025-10-01 15:52:31+00:00
No, we're not going to move the goalposts here. You can tweak any argument so that the thread goes nowhere and nobody can update their mental models by positing a sufficiently misguided user of a piece of technology. I'm saying: LLMs are quite good at math tutoring, in many ways probably significantly better than human tutors (they're tireless, can explain any concept 50 different ways, and can rattle off individualized problem sets in seconds). I made that claim, and you pushed back saying that anything I saw "needed to be validated by an expert". You even said that anything I said was an unreliable narrator because I'm studying math. No, to all of this.
by buildfocus | 2025-10-01 15:52:32+00:00
They only needed to test with the latest Electron at the time of release (or indeed, any chance version - they're all affected - but latest is a reasonable baseline). If they had, they would've seen this.

There are patches out now, but only after Apple released the OS to the entire team world and people reported the issue to the Electron team.

Imo, Electron is sufficiently popular that somebody should test at least one Electron app on a major new OS version sometime before releasing it as done! Any app would've worked, and there's plenty of popular ones, as this post shows.
by loves_mangoes | 2025-10-01 15:52:47+00:00
The visuals you get from psychedelics and the visuals from imagination are different. Psychedelics seem to affect your real visual field. You're not imagining textures melting with colors and walls turning into liquid, it becomes what you see.

I normally have aphantasia, at about 2/5 on one those pop scales that show various versions of an apple. I can sort of rotate geometric shapes without the notion of color or texture.

But rarely, while lying in bed I get these full vivid pictures. It feels like a whole another visual field. I can't really control it, but these are fully detailed like a painting.

It's dizzying how fast I can imagine these when my mind decides to switch into this mode, and how it can switch from one painting to the next fully detailed picture in a fraction of a second. I normally have to strain hard to hold just a few outlines of simple shapes in my mind, evaporating the moment my focus wavers.
by aeon_ai | 2025-10-01 15:53:27+00:00
I'd tend to disagree they're interchangeable, although it may feel like it for many things. Our culture certainly wants people to equate the two, because if people believe in the myth that money = power, money has more power.

However, I'd encourage you to contemplate all the things that money can't "buy."

I categorize power not as the sum total of capability to dominate, or purchase, but influence belief, shape motivation, and inspire action.

Our body can develop power over the physical world. Our mind can develop power over the world of myths and information. Our ability to communicate can develop motivation in others through belief, inspiration, and hope.

Money can out-source, to acquire the power and resources of others.

There are many ways to power - Money is a centrally dominant one, today, but is predicated on a certain order to the world and is not universal.
by tastyface | 2025-10-01 15:53:27+00:00
It should have become obvious after Jan. 6, and yet...

I think a lot of people react the way they do because of fallacious thinking: if the US has two political parties, each with about 50% of the vote, then it is simply not possible for one of the parties to be run by radical extremists. Ergo, the other side has to be exaggerating or publishing fake news. (If someone has a name for this type of fallacy, please let me know.)

Of course, an uncomfortable number of people also cheer the authoritarian takeover of US government and try to normalize the mess for that reason.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-01 15:53:31+00:00
The arguments against auto-tune are typically different, since it's obvious to anyone that autotune can't make you sound like a soprano if you're nowhere near - so skill is still required.

The problem with autotune is more that it removes a lot of nuance from singers' voices, it's like listening to MIDI instead of listening to a real piano. This is, however, something that can be improved. Synthesizers can produce wonderful musical effects, and there's lots of highly virtuoso music on synthesizers (including voice distortions, pretty similar technically to autotune) for those that are into it. Progrock, for example, was all about using new technology in complex and extremely interesting ways. Maybe more interestingly for your particular objection, you can look at early electronic music, say Vangelis or Isao Tomita or Kraftwerk. For at least parts of their songs, they could have just programmed their synthesizers ahead of time and played concerts without even being on stage - but that doesn't take away from the fact the music itself.

Ultimately, if the music sounds good and elicits some feelings and thoughts, it's good music. Whether the musicians can reproduce it live or it's done 90% in a studio doesn't really matter here. Of course, it does mean it may not be worth going to a live show from some particular performer, and it also means that the performer is not necessarily the most relevant artist - the person programming the "auto"tune should at least be considered part of the band.
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by spoiler | 2025-10-01 15:53:49+00:00
I tried them and probably have apanthasia. Similar experience to the other comments: it's usually just overlaid on what I see. A few time when I closed my eyes and got taken away by music, it would give me a more "story-like" trip, but I don't specifically recall visuals.

I scored as hypophantastic, but I'm not sure if I'm skewing the results because I draw/paint too. So I'm not sure if I'm triggering some detail processing/recall function. I see nothing, but I know what I should be seeing. For a lot of the examples I could... I don't want to call it "visualise" details, but I could describe in detail what should be there, but its in fact blank. Not sure how relevant this is, but I'm also neuro divergent; some diagnosed: ADHD, severe dyslexia, occasionally migraine + auditory hallucinations, undiagnosed but obviously there is also tinnitus. Dunno if I'm also a bit on the spectrum becau I also need to take at least 2x the dose my friends do, and stuff like amphetamines have _zero_ effect on my headspace
by jorangreef | 2025-10-01 15:54:23+00:00
Joran from TigerBeetle here!

TigerBeetle is our open source contribution. We want to make a technical contribution to the world. And we have priorities on the list of things we want to support, and support properly, with high quality, in time.

At the same time, it's important I think that we encourage ourselves and each other here, you and I, to show respect to projects that care about craftsmanship and doing things properly, so that we don't become entitled and take open source projects and maintainers in general for granted.

Let's keep it positive!
by TuringNYC | 2025-10-01 15:54:58+00:00
>> people are okay with an AI model being 1GB but they wouldn't put up with libavcodec being 1GB.

If people are happy with the results of the libavcodec, you could rebrand it as "libavcodec-ai" and now you have a more effective codec that might be bigger, but is now palatable to users :-)
by JimDabell | 2025-10-01 15:55:17+00:00
That website is full of non-standard things. For instance Web NFC and Web Bluetooth are not standard web platform APIs, they are Blink APIs that have been rejected on privacy and security grounds by both Mozilla and Apple. Nothing apart from Blink has implemented them.

Mozilla on Web NFC:

> We believe Web NFC poses risks to users security and privacy because of the wide range of functionality of the existing NFC devices on which it would be supported, because there is no system for ensuring that private information is not accidentally exposed other than relying on user consent, and because of the difficulty of meaningfully asking the user for permission to share or write data when the browser cannot explain to the user what is being shared or written.

— https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#web-nfc

Mozilla on Web Bluetooth:

> This API provides access to the Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) of Bluetooth, which is not the lowest level of access that the specifications allow, but its generic nature makes it impossible to clearly evaluate. Like WebUSB there is significant uncertainty regarding how well prepared devices are to receive requests from arbitrary sites. The generic nature of the API means that this risk is difficult to manage. The Web Bluetooth CG has opted to only rely on user consent, which we believe is not sufficient protection. This proposal also uses a blocklist, which will require constant and active maintenance so that vulnerable devices aren't exploited. This model is unsustainable and presents a significant risk to users and their devices.

— https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#web-bluetooth
by seanhunter | 2025-10-01 15:55:32+00:00
Most of the time when people acquire something for $1 or $100 or whatever the deal includes them assuming some of the existing liabilities. Sometimes you have to pay a consideration of value to make the contract enforceable but the $100 isn't what she's actually providing, she's probably underwritten some of the creditors or agreed to pay staff and suppliers or whatever. It's not actually $100 is the whole amount she would have been on the hook for.
by buzzy_hacker | 2025-10-01 15:55:52+00:00
LLMs are making open source programs both more viable and more valuable.

I have many programs I use that I wish were a little different, but even if they were open source, it would take a while to acquaint myself with the source code organization to make these changes. LLMs, on the other hand, are pretty good at small self-contained changes like tweaks or new minor features.

This makes it easier to modify open source programs, but also means that if a program isn't open source, I can't make these changes at all. Before, I wasn't going to make the change anyway, but now that I actually can, the ability to make changes (i.e. the program is open source) becomes much more important.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-01 15:55:55+00:00
> People who blame homeowners though are all wrong. calculating risk/reward individually is extremely difficult to impossible

Disagree here. It is absolutely a part of the homebuying process - flood zones, etc., are required disclosures, and your lender will be involved, and mandate insurance. It's not something you can stand up later and say "Oh, but I didn't know".

> and if some people did not and trusted authorities, you shouldn't blame them

This is backwards. The authorities are the ones saying "this is in a flood zone", "you need flood insurance", the home insurers and mortgage lenders, too. It's that the homeowners don't care.

"But my views are priceless", "I want to be by the water", "I'll be dead before sea levels rise", "If my house floods, I'll get the money to rebuild it and be put up in a hotel while that happens".
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by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-10-01 15:56:12+00:00
Maybe all i'm suggesting is that AI can help us quickly check that what we humans are working on is indeed insane ( and switch to something else if it passes their sanity checks)

The causal path from Rodenderry to the ipod .. is.. easy to approximate compared to the causal path from Zen Monks to Darth Vader.. (though they are in roughly opposite directions)
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-01 15:56:24+00:00
That must have changed recently, it always asks me to login and I dont keep any images on their registry, that or they present it as a dark pattern where the option to NOT login is non-obvious. Even so, I'll stick to just not using Docker, I never have any use cases for it outside of as I said, evaluating software that requires it for whatever awful reason.
by TuringNYC | 2025-10-01 15:56:25+00:00
>> I've occasionally been asked by an investor to do DD on some inventor's idea. Whenever it's an obvious scam I turn down the job. If I tell the truth and say it's a scam, the "inventor" will sue me. If I lie and say the technology has promise, the investor will sue me when he loses his investment.

Wouldnt the non-confrontational approach here be to agree with everyone on a benchmark, build up the benchmark, and showcase results?