MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by petercooper | 2025-11-21 10:41:09+00:00
I don't think many adults remember what it was like being 13-16 years old. Twitch is part of the culture. Would I have liked to been "banned" from using IRC, chatrooms or keeping an online diary in the 90s, as were common in geekier teen culture? Not every kid is geared towards playing team sports, chess club, or hiking all weekend. I socialized in person quite a lot as a teenager, but my online life was still very important to me in a way that's only more significant with modern teens (and I know because I'm raising my own now).

The term "online social interaction" keeps getting thrown around as if that's inherently a bad thing. For some teens, that's one of their biggest social outlets outside of school, and that is not necessarily bad even if sometimes bad things happen online. What is bad is when parents don't take an interest in their kids and what they're up to, but you can't legislate for that.
by immibis | 2025-11-21 10:41:25+00:00
The fixed allowance is the same within the EU. It's not "no roaming charges", but it is that you must not be charged for occasional fair-use roaming (which is quite a lot of roaming). They can still ban you from roaming if you are living in a different country from your contract provider - you're not allowed to buy a contract in Slovakia and then move to Denmark.
by einpoklum | 2025-11-21 10:43:55+00:00
Disagree, because:

* The Runtime API is also a black box - it's just differently shaped.

* CUDA runtime APIs are also incompatible with CUDA drivers which are significantly older. Although TBH I have not checked that compatibility range recently.

* C++ is a compiled language. So, yes, in some cases, you need to recompile. But - less than your might think. Specifically, the driver API headers use macros to direct your API function names to versioned names. For example:

#define cuStreamGetCaptureInfo __CUDA_API_PTSZ(cuStreamGetCaptureInfo_v3) and this versioned function will typically be available also when the signature changes to v4 (in this example, it seems two versions backwards are available in CUDA 13.0).

* ... meaning also that you don't have to "follow the driver release cadence exactly". But even if you want to follow it - there's a change every couple of years: a major CUDA version is released, and instead of functionality getting added, the API changes. And as for actual under-the-hoold behavior while observing the same API - that can change whether you're using the driver or the runtime API.

* Finally, if you want something more stable, more portable, that doesn't change frequently - OpenCL can also be considered rather than CUDA.
by concinds | 2025-11-21 10:48:22+00:00
Why would anyone want that? If Apple pushed out iOS 26 to the iPhone 6 (or even 8), it would look like a slideshow and everyone would scream "planned obsolescence". As opposed to now where it still works fine on iOS 15 or whatever.

Though I guess if they did like Google and updated a lot of OS components through the App Store (which I agree they should) then you could have security updates for most stuff without major UI updates that slow you down, that would be cool.
by rollcat | 2025-11-21 10:48:28+00:00
> soldered RAM

Hold on a minute.

It's not "soldered". It's integrated with the SoC. The benefit is memory latency and bandwidth.

If you know Framework, their entire mission is to build upgradeable laptops, and they keep delivering. Now they also wanted to build an incredibly powerful, but small and quiet desktop. They went directly to AMD, asked their engineers to make the memory upgradeable. AMD worked really hard and said not possible, not unless you want all of these cores to sit idle.

https://frame.work/blog/framework-desktop-deep-dive-ryzen-ai...

The world has moved on. Just as you no longer have discrete cache chips or discrete FPUs, you can't do discrete memory anymore - unless you don't need that level of performance, in which case CAMM is still an excellent choice.

But that's not what Apple does. M1 redefined the low-end. It will remain a great choice in 5 years, even when macOS kills it off - Asahi remains very decent.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-21 10:48:31+00:00
There is no super smart "AI". An "AI" gives formulaic responses that always follow the same pattern, makes an incredible number of mistakes and claims different things all the time.

The researchers themselves were surprised by the initial public acceptance:

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-was-inaccurate-borin...

"I will admit, to my slight embarrassment … when we made ChatGPT, I didn't know if it was any good," said Sutskever.

"When you asked it a factual question, it gave you a wrong answer. I thought it was going to be so unimpressive that people would say, 'Why are you doing this? This is so boring!'" he added.

After several weeks of "AI" usage everyone figures out what the researchers knew all along due to their continued exposure.
by niek_pas | 2025-11-21 10:48:42+00:00
> the little mini screenshots look gorgeous because it replicates MacOS.

I have the opposite reaction. To me the screenshots look like someone tried to replicate macOS but failed. The text antialiasing is off, the font is different (and worse), the border-radii on menus are off, etc.

Besides, the actual screenshots of the current OS (https://ravynos.com/screenshots) are... really rough.
by graemep | 2025-11-21 10:49:46+00:00
eSIMs help with outgoing calls and data, but people need incoming calls and SMSs too so still get gouged on price.

EU roaming is only a partial solution, as your example of Switzerland. The moment you set foot outside the EU you get gouged.

Interestingly a number of British operators do provide cheap or free roaming to Switzerland. Vodafone has free roaming to a few European countries, mostly non-EU. So the situation in the UK might be better depending on where you are going, which operator you use, whether you are making phone calls or using data.....

This is interesting because I would have guessed that most people would have had broadly similar changes in price to the MVNO I use but just proportion to already higher prices. IN fact, the entire structure is different, and which countries are free/cheap/expensive is entirely different too.

The underlying problem is that these are heavily bundled goods with complex price structures so the operators always find a way to make an excessive profit - very likely an abnormal profit although I have not looked at the numbers I would need to confirm that.
by imiric | 2025-11-21 10:50:11+00:00
I don't think it's coordinated. The animosity and competition between companies and governments couldn't possibly get them to agree on anything of this scale.

Rather, Occam's razor suggests that their interests simply align against individual privacy.

Company executives are plutomaniacs, and companies can't access and exploit your data if you want to keep it private. Politicians are megalomaniacs, highly insecure and defensive of their position, and governments can't monitor your thoughts and activities if you want to keep them private; they take comfort in knowing that you are a good and subservient citizen.

Many decades ago people in governments and companies understood that they can accomplish their goals much easier if they cooperate, which is why lobbying is a legal multi-billion-dollar industry, why we see CEOs in politics, and so on. The world of 1984 is a reality; it's just that our leash is long enough and the carrot enticing enough for us to care about it.
by Trexus | 2025-11-21 10:50:19+00:00
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by duskdozer | 2025-11-21 10:50:40+00:00
>once you remove real world identifiers/context

It was fairly polluted by these things and misc text. "hacker news post" (why relevant?) "Trump"/"Harris" (American political frame) "Redo your answer without waffle" (potential to favor a certain position by being associated with text that's "telling it like it is"?)
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-21 10:50:48+00:00
Two things not mentioned - hey maybe I should blog about these myself and post them up?

The first being the "Two Transistor Metronome" that I can't even remember where I saw first - possibly Electronics Today International or Hobby Electronics, although Practical Electronics was a contender - we didn't get that one much though. I remember my dad and I building this when I was probably about seven or eight, and I've built loads since.

https://tinyurl.com/22qjecj7

It's a relaxation oscillator where the two transistors form more-or-less an SCR, which fires when its (negative-going) gate voltage exceeds its anode voltage. Kind of.

A similar circuit using three transistors and a diode is used in the oscillators in the Roland TB303 and Korg MS10/20/50 series, with a current source used to set the capacitor charging time so you get a nice linear sawtooth. Conveniently the expo converter turns an incoming control voltage into an exponentially-rising current, which is just what you need!
by eru | 2025-11-21 10:51:29+00:00
> !00% agree. 'we need less regulation' is never the right answer, 'we need the right regulations' is.

Well, much of the time the right regulation is 'let existing general laws (eg around safety and fraud) and contract law and private agreements handle it'.

But it's pretty fair to sum that Right Regulation up as 'less regulation'.

To give a crazy example: the Right Regulation about the colour of your underwear is to just let you decide what you want to wear, also known as no regulation of the colour of your underwear.

See https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AirlineDeregulation.html for less silly example of airline regulation.
by dspillett | 2025-11-21 10:51:35+00:00
The new testament is also famously contradictory (as is the old, but not so obviously nor so much so). When it was pulled together from multiple sources a shoddy editing job was done.

And the old testament is taken as allegorical when it would be inconvenient for the believers to follow exactly, but taken very literally in specific parts when people want others to live a certain way. Or just ignored completely, like the existence of other gods being specifically mentioned (though IIRC not necessarily as equals) which stands in contradiction to the monotheistic view.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-21 10:51:54+00:00
Reminds me of college where a MBP was $1k but a bargain bin windows laptop was $300-400. I knew many people who scoffed at the price of a MBP and then proceeded to buy 2-4 new laptops over the course of 4 years due to their laptops (sometimes literally) falling apart or otherwise breaking down. It was lost on them that they ended up paying close to or more for their laptops while having a subpar experience.

To be fair, a nicer, more expensive, more reliable windows laptop would also have been an option.
by kortilla | 2025-11-21 10:52:04+00:00
“Burned crust” is not what people want. If it’s burnt it went too far. The fact that you are equivocating the two makes me think you haven’t ever had properly cooked meat or are very confused about what “burned” means. https://www.thetakeout.com/how-to-brown-meat-while-cooking-1...
by vouwfietsman | 2025-11-21 10:52:13+00:00
> Is your position that when something is intractably easy to screw up we should do it as much as possible?

No, if that was my position, you would've found out by me saying that was my position.

> Which people? The ones with a structural incentive to not do that?

Why would they have such an incentive? This is all hyperbole.

> but the problem is of its own making

It really isn't. Its expensive to test cars, and its also necessary for safety.

> It is indeed the role of law enforcement to enforce the laws.

Yes, which get codified as regulation.

> Is your argument that it isn't an unfunded mandate

Again, if my argument was something you would find out.

I'm saying what I'm saying: your arguments don't make sense, they are hyperbole, I am not defending or attacking a specific take on regulation, other than the take that, guess what, its hard.
by lukan | 2025-11-21 10:52:27+00:00
Yes, but basic reseach in IT is still not random, but usually has a clear goal, or at least some scope. Like indeed, focus on security? Focus on speed? Focus on reliability? Focus on energy efficency (because it is supposed to run on a tiny embedded device for long).

And the gimmick here seems to be in fact, that it is supposed to be flexibel

"is not a conventional operating system, but contains composable components for creating custom operating systems that are specific to a particular task. Components are joined together using the Microkit tool"
by akst | 2025-11-21 10:54:58+00:00
Sure, but sometimes a repealing a bad piece of regulation doesn’t necessitate a replacement.

Policy reform decisions need to be evidence based and sometimes evidence suggests ditching the law over updating. And sometimes it’ll say update it.

What makes Good regulation is path dependent (in respect to existing institutions) and context sensitive, it’s important to analysis the costs of enforcement, not just the administrative side but in terms of lost opportunities. Do they make a suite of desirable economic activity infeasible or unjustifiable more expensive (relative to the goal of the policy)

> There isn't a regulation here, just a process improvement and the difference can be massive

Are those binding constraints? If so it’s effectively regulation or part of the regulatory regime even if they aren’t the rules themselves
by DrScientist | 2025-11-21 10:55:24+00:00
It does also depend on why they are doing subsidies - is it the price of domestic energy security for example?

I don't know the situation in the US - and I suspect there are multiple factors - but you need to understand the goals, whether that be energy security, lower domestic prices, jobs or whatever.

ie the question isn't whether oil subsidies are good or not, in isolation - the question is what's the best method to achieve the goals.

( One goal you haven't mentioned is weaning the country off fossil fuels - which is probably best done via gradually rising prices ).
by notahacker | 2025-11-21 10:56:05+00:00
Yeah, frankly Celsius is very easy for weather temperatures in temperate environments. Snow and ice is approx 0, room temperature approx 20, a hot summer's day approx 30 and it won't reach 40 unless you go on holiday in a desert region. Easy to approximate on a small range (and the nominal extra precision of Fahrenheit is illusory for talking about weather anyway because you care far more about humidity and wind than sub 1 Celsius differences)
by palata | 2025-11-21 10:56:15+00:00
I am ready to bet big that you would never hear that kind of opinions from someone who learned the metric system first. Am I right in your case?

As someone who grew up with metric, my opinion is that nothing that imperial people claim is unintuitive with metric is, in fact, unintuitive to me. Nothing. And I tried hard. We're used to what we're used to :-).

> Some things are ridiculously better in the imperial system - like temperature

This says that you grew up with imperial, I'm convinced of it!

> In fact, I strongly decry that we teach our kids to use base 10 instead of the much more efficient and easier to divde into fractions of base 12.

What's the argument there? That because you can divide 12 by 2, 3, 4 makes it vastly easier than 10, because 10 you can only divide by 2 and 5? How does that make it easier to learn fractions? What about the fact that in metric, a centimeter is 1/100 of a meter, and a millimeter is 1/1000 of a meter? Those are fractions, right?

Just to make it clear: I am not claiming anything about imperial being ridiculous; I totally understand that if you grew up with it, then it's intuitive to you. What I don't understand, really, is all those imperial people who just cannot seem to apprehend the idea that maybe, just maybe, they are biased because imperial is what they know better. Is it that hard? It makes me concerned about cultural differences... do those people realise that others may have different cultures, and that it is okay and not ridiculous?

PS: I upvoted you because I don't find it fair that you get so many downvotes for an innocent opinion. I don't share your opinion, but it's not offensive or anything like that :-).
by demarq | 2025-11-21 10:56:19+00:00
> Where AI comes in is as a helper

This is where things stop translating well to the real world.

Imagine a pocket calculator:

10 + 33 = 44

Clearly incorrect, then someone tells you

“this one is different, it “helps” you, like 44 is in the ballpark. The real work is now the actual answer”
by wongarsu | 2025-11-21 10:56:22+00:00
> For example, no background blurring in conference programs, significantly degraded system performance

So HP and Dell, two companies well knows for business laptops, sell some laptops with degraded video conferencing, all to save $0.24 per laptop? And Dell doesn't even mention this in the spec sheet or give you a straight list which models are affected?

I can't help but think that the reputational damage from "my new Dell laptop sucks with Teams, the previous one with worse specs was fine" is going to be a lot more expensive long-term than those $0.24
by rollcat | 2025-11-21 10:57:40+00:00
> needs an external app for fractional display scaling

Huh? I go to Settings -> Displays -> Advanced -> Show resolutions as list -> Show all resolutions -> you can literally pick *whatever* your screen will advertise?

*Maybe* that's one or two clicks too many? Arguably you don't want non-technical users to accidentally set up blurry text.
by torginus | 2025-11-21 10:57:41+00:00
But European companies need over-regulation - they are not competitive by themselves, so they need to raise artificial barriers to external market entrants.

Since Europe is hopelessly behind by its own decision to pursue protectionism instead of competition, the choice remains between keeping overregulation which will continue the managed decline, or deregulation, in which companies would find their services are not competitive on cost, experience and would be wiped out in a freely competitive landscape.

Of course the reality is not that black and white, it's clear that deregulation would hurt powerful and wealthy interests, so it will not happen at once - it'll happen to those most behind and least able to garner favorable political treatment.

Overall I think the future of Europe still lies in managed decline, with its innovative capacities only able to be manifested in crafting new regulations and making the efforts to comply with them - it's future companies and startups will be funded and supported by governmental grants and/or powerful old money investors who also have vested interests in other companies.
by vidarh | 2025-11-21 10:57:56+00:00
To make a universal Turing machine out of an LLM only requires a loop and the ability to make a model that will look up a 2x3 matrix of operations based on context and output operations to the context on the basis of them (the smallest Turing machine has 2 states and 3 symbols or the inverse).

So, yes, you can.

Once you have a (2,3) Turing machine, you can from that build a model that models any larger Turing machine - it's just a question of allowing it enough computation and enough layers.

It is not guaranteed that any specific architecture can do it efficiently, but that is entirely besides the point.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-21 10:58:56+00:00
On every Apple interoperability thread this argument comes up and at this point I'm convinced it's part of some coordinated effort; surely no one can be that clueless to actually believe this, especially on a technical forum?

AirDrop is a peer-to-peer protocol, both the recipient and initiator need to explicitly take action, and even in Apple's implementation provides no authentication (recipient device is chosen by name, which anyone can change in their settings app). There is no way the existence of this Android client would reduce Airdrop security on iOS.

Do you also believe that TLS between an Apple device and a Windows device not secure either, since the Windows device uses a different, non-Apple-sanctioned TLS implementation, and the mere existence of which would somehow weaken Apple's TLS stack?
by lopis | 2025-11-21 10:58:59+00:00
> On the flip side, the cookie banners are a perfect example of bad regulation. They’re super easy to (allegedly) comply with and the result is just an annoyance for some 300 million people and absolutely no change to company behaviour whatsoever.

Companies were at least forced to separate what were essential cookies from non-essential ones. While enforcement was not strong specially for small companies, basically any company could be sued for non compliance -- and many were. I guess this was bad regulation because it wasn't strict and clear enough. It should have been clear that cookie banners must had 2 buttons: agree and disagree. None of that bullshit of selecting partners. None of that "disagreeing takes longer to save your preferences" or refreshes the whole page, or sends you to the home page. And if you didn't want to comply, you're free to block European traffic.
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-21 10:59:03+00:00
> - screenshot tool is objectively inferior to that in Plasma, eg. not clear how to annotate a screenshot or copy it to clipboard

I'm not sure what to make of this. When you take a screenshot (i.e. via cmd-shift-3 or cmd-shift-4), right there in the window that pops up are the annotation tools and a button to copy to clipboard?
by maccard | 2025-11-21 10:59:55+00:00
> This is such a tired HN cliche response and it comes up as a negative whenever people mention things that actually improve users privacy, even ad blockers.

We’re talking about regulation here. Some things (like ad blockers) are a unanimous win for privacy but have nothing to do with regulation.

> If some website is breaking GDPR regulations, sure, you might get somehow fingerprinted.

The ePrivacy Directive (cookie law) has nothing to do with GDPR. The directive only deals with cookies, and informed consent for the cookies. If the goal is to improve privacy it’s a failure because it doesn’t touch any of the other numerous ways that tracking happens. If it’s to improve how websites handle cookies then it’s succeeded there I guess, but to what end?

GDPR on the other hand is a better attempt. It’s not perfect but it actually gets to the heart of it. GDPR changed behaviours, the cookie law slapped a banner in front of half the western world and continued as things were.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-21 11:01:17+00:00
I don’t know that world (midi and music) but these seems solvable with a dongle/external device. Some quick googling shows at least a few such devices that seem to do the trick. Obviously those cost more money but even with a headphone jack you’d need an adapter for the midi input to the iOS device right?

Then again, you have to realize that your use-case is almost a rounding error. There just can’t be that people, as a percentage, that have that need and it makes sense (to me) to optimize for the largest pie slice and let dongles/accessories cover the gaps for everyone else.