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by arghwhat | 2025-12-25 19:18:42+00:00
> I think this is much less general than you make it out to be and has an extremely strong dependency on how you use the thing and of your preference. It makes me think of the boot theory.

The boot theory is different: It is about buying something not crafted with proper materials which will quickly fall apart and cost more in the long run. However, unlike technology, there is no cowhide 2.0 coming out 6 months after, with all leather made the cowhide 1.0 way instantly dropping in value and fading into irrelevancy.

Low-end laptops tend to be build around older SKU's which are no longer of interest but function no worse than they did when launched, and mid-tier laptops tend to be made with current SKU's in the more reasonable binning categories.

At the same time, the replacement rate also means that whatever high-end laptop will soon have its rear handed to it by a mid-tier machine of the next chip generation. While it's outdated within a year or two you of course won't replace it that soon, but that upgrade might stretch your upgrade schedule 50% to justify it - from, say, 4 years to 6. More years of being generations behind.

Keeping a Framework around for longer also only makes sense when considering upgradability.

> A case in point: at work we have HP Elitebooks. The brand-new 2025 models I see people receive have worse screens and trackpads than my 2013 MBP

HP Elitebooks are expensive, high-end machines. The issues you see is because HP, Dell and Lenovo all cater to IT department buying strategies, and therefore all offer a bargain screen option as the machines are bought in bulk and mostly used docked. You'll find that they also have an mid-tier screen option (usually a color-accurate 1080p or 1440p panel), as well as a high-end option (say, 4k OLED touchscreen with wacom digitizer).

The trackpad is a different story entirely. If you're used to a Mac trackpad, things are a bit grim on the PC side. There's some nice ones coming out though.

> They also degrade from daily use: the screen hinge loosens so it moves if you look at it wrong

Everything degrades from daily use. My hinge loosened on my last Mac, the screen damaged itself because the 15" panel did not have the necessary rigidity to main the intended 0.5mm gap to the keyboard keys (confirmed as the second panel did the same), the shitty magsafe port overheated as using pogopins for high power transfer is a terrible idea, all I/O on one side died, and the battery had inflated at least once...

My Dell XPS 13 costing 1/3rd never had any problems, and when replaced it just felt a bit slow and had a somewhat aged battery.

Price is not an indicator of quality or expected reliability, nor is the brand itself a reliable indicator. Use common sense, take a look at the product and avoid the bottom of the bargain bin.

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Do get a good mouse and keyboard though, it has a much more direct impact on your user experience and a mouse that costs twice as much isn't as much of an issue as a laptop costing twice as much. The keyboard and mouse also lasts longer if kept well.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-25 19:19:33+00:00
Ah, this is a good question. And a big one. Here’s a start, anyway.

Contrary to the historically recent error of sola scriptura, the Bible does not interpret itself. And contrary to the modernists, it is not whatever you want it to mean.

First, what is the general nature of Scripture? It is not meant to be a scientific text. It is meant to communicate, above all, revealed truths about God that are not available to unaided reason (obviously, it also contains things we can know through unaided reason, but the unique value proposition is in what we cannot know by our own wits).

Historically, the tradition of knowledge, indeed the content of Scripture itself, preceded the biblical canon. You needed that tradition to make the determination of what is canonical and what is not. Similarly, you need that tradition to determine the nature of a given book: is a historical in structure, poetic, etc? This unbroken tradition, scholarship, literary analysis, etc. tell us the nature of a given text.

In the case of something like the creation accounts in Genesis (and there are two accounts, which differ), it is clear under such an examination that these are not scientific descriptions. They are written using the language of a pre-scientific culture. They do not tell us in scientific terms how the physical universe was formed. They do tell us that creation is ex nihilo, or out of nothing. (This is not a question of a big bang btw. The big bang is not necessary. It is a question of casuality. God as the Logos - eternal Reason - is the per se - rather than per accidens - cause of the universe’s existence, sustaining it in existence at every moment. God is not some Paley-style watchmaker arranging parts into a watch out of some primordial chaos, and the universe is not the result of some clash of opposing forces.) Genesis also tells us that there was a first human couple and that original sin can be traced to the first freely chosen immoral act. There are no binding or definitive claims about how exactly this all occurred in a historical sense. We don’t know, and as interesting as that question is [0], for the relevant purposes of the text, it doesn’t matter.

The Gospels of the New Testament, however, are very much historical in character. They are eye witness accounts of Christ’s ministry, and the canonical four were deemed to be the only reliable ones. They aren’t figurative, and the early Christians, the many witnesses of Christ’s ministry, and new evidence all align with the received and continuous tradition (indeed, one of the responsibilities of the Catholic Church is to safeguard tradition from “innovation”). Figurative interpretations of the Gospels also tend not to be compelling either, especially in light of tradition.

Obviously, biblical hermeneutics is a big topic that goes beyond an HN post. I’ve included links to a couple of texts that should introduce the material with greater depth and expertise than I can [1][2].

[0] http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/09/modern-biology-and-o...

[1] https://a.co/d/4xdAc9Y

[2] https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/apost_exhorta...
by mmooss | 2025-12-25 19:20:06+00:00
> it's only one piece of a very complex problem

Right, who is disagreeing? Name someone. You've created a strawperson.

The knee-jerk anti-liberal responses (maybe that's not your motive, but it is for many) do enormous damage, by preventing good solutions from being implemented. The same thing happens with climate change, now vaccines, and other things. People are so focused on politics that they sacrifice lives and welfare of lots of people. There are good ideas from conservatives too - cutting off half the ideas is stupidity.

> People who have personally dealt with this know the hard truth that simply providing food and shelter isn't enough to stop a significant portion of people ending up in the streets.

In fact, the evidence and advocacy comes from people who have personally dealth with it, and providing housing does result in housing for a significant portion of people.

People need more than housing and that's where it becomes especially complex.
by yuuu | 2025-12-25 19:20:16+00:00
From the manuscript linked in your profile:

> The author declares the intensive and extensive use of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 3.0 Pro (Google) and sincerely thanks its unlimited interlocution capacity. The author declares as their own responsibility the abstract formulation of the research, the conceptual guidance, and the decision-making in case of intellectual dilemma. The AI performed the mathematical verification of the multiple hypotheses considered throughout the process, but the author is solely responsible for the final content of this article. The prompts are not declared because they number in the thousands, because they are not entirely preserved, and because they contain elements that are part of the author’s privacy.
by MagnumOpus | 2025-12-25 19:21:45+00:00
Nitpick: it is one life per year for the billion invested. Which after the typical metro infrastructure lifespan of a century is actually viable because the cost for a working-age US life in medical and other contexts is probably around the $10mn ballpark.

(Assuming financing happens cheaply by the federal state rather than via PPP grift; and assuming that $50bn is the number, which in NYC is an underestimate by a factor of at least five…)
by chucke | 2025-12-25 19:22:42+00:00
Both are true. Different camps meant that any significant change to the language was scrutinised loudly. If my memory doesn't fail me, the last significant changes from the time Guido was still in charge, and he mostly abandoned the BDFL because of backlash. Since then python has been on a constant "analysis paralysis" state, with only efforts about performance pushing through (no one complains about a faster horse).
by GeekyBear | 2025-12-25 19:22:46+00:00
The new project leadership team has prioritized upstreaming the existing work over reverse engineering on newer systems.

> Our priority is kernel upstreaming. Our downstream Linux tree contains over 1000 patches required for Apple Silicon that are not yet in upstream Linux. The upstream kernel moves fast, requiring us to constantly rebase our changes on top of upstream while battling merge conflicts and regressions. Janne, Neal, and marcan have rebased our tree for years, but it is laborious with so many patches. Before adding more, we need to reduce our patch stack to remain sustainable long-term.

https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/

For instance, in this month's progress report:

> Last time, we announced that the core SMC driver had finally been merged upstream after three long years. Following that success, we have started the process of merging the SMC’s subdevice drivers which integrate all of the SMC’s functionality into the various kernel subsystems. The hwmon driver has already been accepted for 6.19, meaning that the myriad voltage, current, temperature and power sensors controlled by the SMC will be readable using the standard hwmon interfaces. The SMC is also responsible for reading and setting the RTC, and the driver for this function has also been merged for 6.19! The only SMC subdevices left to merge is the driver for the power button and lid switch, which is still on the mailing list, and the battery/power supply management driver, which currently needs some tweaking to deal with changes in the SMC firmware in macOS 26.

Also finally making it upstream are the changes required to support USB3 via the USB-C ports. This too has been a long process, with our approach needing to change significantly from what we had originally developed downstream

https://asahilinux.org/2025/12/progress-report-6-18/
by digital-cygnet | 2025-12-25 19:22:49+00:00
Can you explain more why you think this? As I see it, cars in general remain very highly negative-externality, and self-driving doesn't change it much.

Regular ICE cars:
- air pollution from tire wear and brake dust
- air pollution from exhaust
- embodied carbon
- noise
- endangering other road users
- traffic congestion
- land use (sprawl)
- long term health impacts (encouraging sedentary lifestyle)

Switch to all-electric and you lose a bit of noise and all the tailpipe emissions, but gain whatever emissions generated the power (sometimes solar, great, but sometimes lignite, boo), whatever environmental damage resulted from the battery materials, and probably marginal worsening of safety as the same ranger requires a heavier vehicle

Switch to self-driving and you may increase safety (feels like Waymo basically yes, Tesla probably no based on their track record with stat manipulation), but also vastly increase use, worsening congestion and land-use. The others stay the same.

So I don't understand why you're saying the externality ratio is good. From my perspective self-driving cars don't really move the needle.
by tbenst | 2025-12-25 19:22:53+00:00
A key challenge with Alzheimer’s is there is no good mouse model for the disease. While some approximate the phenotype, it’s not clear that the disease model as commonly studied in mice matches well with mechanisms of the human disease. There’s some thinking in the field that this could be a key reason why so many treatments have appeared very promising in mice and haven’t panned out in humans.
by fwipsy | 2025-12-25 19:25:07+00:00
There were only two toys I never got tired of -- legos, and computers. Both encourage open-ended creativity. (I had older lego house sets which were quite flexible. Modern lego pieces seem more specialized.) Unfortunately, so many pieces took several minutes to clean up, so I would just leave them spread out across my bedroom floor for months at a time. These days when I want to play with legos I put a bedsheet down first.

Also, I read another article from the author and subscribed just based on how concisely she expresses her ideas. She just gets her point across, then quits. I love it.
by steveklabnik | 2025-12-25 19:25:12+00:00
It's a brand name, like any other. Usage of it requires fulfilling the brand requirements. It's like how you can't say a burger from Burger King if it's actually from McDonalds, even if it's a very similar hamburger.

But even then, this isn't uncommon for food and beverages. You can't call it "whisky" unless you follow certain requirements about the mash bill, barrel, etc.

(My dad, before his death, had started growing "Pennsylvania Simply Sweet" onions. Because you can't call them Vidalia.)
by gregsadetsky | 2025-12-25 19:26:34+00:00
I think that a better link (even though it lacks the context) is this new archive (which is mostly good as it lets you quickly see all cover pages) - https://www.newyorker.com/archive

But yeah, without a subscription, this still mostly just leads to walled off pages.

Accessing the actual archived version of every issue at https://archives.newyorker.com/ is truly wonderful as they are fully digitized back to back.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-25 19:26:40+00:00
No, they won. They never put a backdoor in.

Not sure how finding an exploit in software means the company is compliant. Microsoft would be criminally liable for untold damage if that was the case.

Kimmels bosses were kissing the ring. But it's unlikely there was real threat. The courts have been shooting Trumps authoritarian dreams down left and right.

China has no (legitimate) courts.
by nandomrumber | 2025-12-25 19:26:49+00:00
You’re right, disease labels aren’t diagnostic.

Many disease labels just mean inflammation-of-a tissue / organ.

Worth noting that some viral inflections of the respiratory tract will have a bacterial secondary, where an either commensal bacteria has over proliferated or a pathogenic bacteria has started to get a hold, and treating the bacterial secondary can help the patient better fight the viral primary.
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by acaronlex | 2025-12-25 19:27:01+00:00
I built Pivor because I wanted a simple, self-hosted CRM without cloud lock-in or per-seat pricing.

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Looking for feedback!
by Aurornis | 2025-12-25 19:27:06+00:00
There are a lot of food and drink items with official legal definitions that include the region of origin. The most famous one is champagne, which can only be called champagne if it comes from a specific region.

You can think of the name as being inclusive of the region, not simply descriptive of the variety. So if someone made a sparkling wine in a different region and sold it as champagne then they would be committing fraud.

> Like if I plant some in my yard and start selling them online or at the local farmers market, what is anyone really going to do?

At your farmer’s market? Probably nothing. But if you came across a particularly grumpy person with time and money to burn on lawyers they would have a case against you. Not actually going to happen at that scale. But if you owned vidaliaonions.com and started selling fraudulent vidalia onions at scale, the farmers would likely get together and pursue legal action to protect their prices.

It’s almost like a brand. You can sell LEGO-style bricks but you can’t call them LEGO because they didn’t come from the LEGO company.
by abanana | 2025-12-25 19:28:21+00:00
In the late 1990s, Lego went the other way with those big single-purpose pieces, and were heavily criticised (particularly by older Lego fans) for "juniorisation" - over-simplifying sets so you just couldn't build anything different with the pieces. You can't build buildings out of big vehicle parts.

Sounds like it's gone too far the other way now and they're still not managing to find a middle ground? But it does depend partly on what age of kids we're talking about.
by alsetmusic | 2025-12-25 19:28:32+00:00
Haha, looks like you use sshpass [0], which I only discovered by accident a couple of months ago. I wasn't able to get the current version of it to work for some reason, but I was able to debug it into a working state by combining bits from the current version and an earlier version.

[0] https://github.com/UninvitedActivity/UninvitedActivity/blob/...
by watwut | 2025-12-25 19:29:09+00:00
Except that is bullshit. They did worked the other parts of the year too, just not doing the exact same agricultural work as those few weeks.

That thing simply ignores everything it takes to keep animals alive year round, keep kids alive year round, create and repair tools, keep house warm, create fabric, sew cloth, actually cook without modern tools and so on and so forth.

Just because there is a rush time does not mean workers do nothing the rest od the time.
by Kirby64 | 2025-12-25 19:29:49+00:00
> That’s why I don’t like it as a consumer. If they keep producing M1 and M2 I’d assume we can get better prices because the total quantity would be much larger.

Why would this be true? An M5 MacBook Air today costs the same as an M1 MacBook Air cost in 2020 or whenever they released it, and is substantially more performant. Your dollar per performance is already better.

If they kept selling the same old stuff, then you spread production across multiple different nodes and the pricing would be inherently worse.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-25 19:30:10+00:00
> Yet another "in mice" breakthrough

I don’t get this take. Like yes, we aren’t mice, and everything that works in mice won’t work in humans. But loads of things that worked in mice did wind up working in humans, which is why most groundbreaking drugs over the past decades were first explored in mice, which is why we continue to use mouse models.
by hamza_q_ | 2025-12-25 19:30:23+00:00
Thanks for checking it out!

Yeah unfortunately, since the diarization is acoustic features based, it really does require high recorded voice fidelity/quality to get the best results.
However, I just added another knob to the Diarizer class called mer_cos, which controls the speaker merging threshold. The default is 0.875, so perhaps try lowering to 0.8. That should help.

I'll also get around to adding a oracle/min/max speakers feature at some point, for cases where you know the exact number of speakers ahead of time, or wanna set upper/lower bounds. Gotten busy with another project, so haven't done it yet. PR's welcome though! haha
by samiv | 2025-12-25 19:30:24+00:00
Shh...you're not supposed to mention these things alas you be down voted to death.

I also have tremendous issues with Plasma. Things such as graphics glitching in the alt+tab task switcher or Firefox choking the whole system when opening a single 4k PNG image. This is pre-alpha software... So back to X11 it is. Try again in another decade or two.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-25 19:30:47+00:00
Will be interesting to see if Nvidia and other have any interest & energy getting this used by others, if there actually is an ecosystem forming around it.

Google leading XLA & IREE, with awesome intermediate representations, used by lots of hardware platforms, and backing really excellent Jax & Pytorch implementations, having tools for layout & optinization folks can share: they really build an amazing community.

There's still so much room for planning/scheduling, so much hardware we have yet to target. RISC-V has really interesting vector instructions, for example, and it seems like there's so much exploration / work to do to better leverage that.

Nvidia has partners everywhere now. Nvlink is used by Intel, AWS Tritanium, others. Yesterday the Groq exclusive license that Nvidia paid to give to Groq?! Seeing how and when CUDA Tiles emerges: will be interesting. Moving from fabric partnerships, up up up the stack.
by directevolve | 2025-12-25 19:30:52+00:00
I think it’s worth addressing this with more nuance.

Companies can get a METHOD-OF-USE PATENT (MOU) on an old drug for a new INDICATION.

This gives them the exclusive right to LABEL AND MARKET that drug for that indication for a period of time.

I however, doctors can prescribe and pharmacists can substitute generics for the new indication, regardless of the MOU.

For a company to profit off an MOU, they strategically need to create a new FORMULATION. This is a new dose or delivery mechanism (extended release, topical, etc). A new formulation can be protected with conventional patents that go beyond an MOU.

With an MOU + patent on a new formulation, the company has a brand where they are the only ones allowed to make the new formulation and the only ones with a product approved to be marketed for the new indication.

Getting FDA approval for the new brand is not the main hurdle for the company. To get insurers to pay the premium they want over the cost of existing treatment options, they have to show it’s safer or more effective than those existing options. Otherwise insurance will block it.

In principle, this means that repurposing should only enable companies to profitably repurpose off patent off label applications if they can provide a real patient benefit.

Whether this is the best or most efficient way to promote this kind of innovation, or whether it works as well in practice as it would seem in theory, is a separate question.
by foresto | 2025-12-25 19:31:03+00:00
Free, reliable, enduring servers supporting all the XEPs needed to approach Matrix functionality were scarce when I last surveyed the XMPP landscape. This alone made it not viable for global, general-purpose use.

Also, only a tiny handful of clients supporting those XEPs by default were easy to find and set up, and I don't think those few covered all platforms, making the problem worse.

(And I don't recall XMPP ever being great at mixing offline delivery with multi-device support, since messages cached on a server weren't guaranteed to be held until all devices retrieved them, but I suppose it's possible that might have been solved by now.)

I do miss the Jabber glory days, and I might still consider it for smallish communities where I could reasonably provide the server and tech support, but I don't see it challenging Matrix as a practical choice for the world's general messaging needs.
by throw310822 | 2025-12-25 19:31:30+00:00
> The only plausible explanation is that it was tall in order to ensure access to light.

Thought the same, but that implies both that it grew in very dense "forests" (mono-species because there were no competitors) and probably that it had leaves (because otherwise trunks don't occlude much light).

Although, counterexample: why do (some) cactuses grow tall? Claude provides these explanations that might apply:

Water collection and storage — Height means more volume for water storage. A large saguaro can hold thousands of liters of water in its stem, which is crucial for surviving long droughts.

Temperature regulation — Being taller gets the growing tip and flowers farther from the scorching ground surface, where temperatures can be extreme. The ground in deserts can reach 70°C (160°F), while air temperature a few meters up is significantly cooler.