skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there even a Linux community that could express what it wanted from desktop linux in unified, actionable message? I rather doubt it. I mean, the fact that GNOME and KDE still exist as separate entities after 20+ years seems evidence enough.

Some people seem to want a deep-pocketed daddy to come and fix it, but even if such an entity existed, I fail to see how they would achieve any return on their investment. And the community is so fractious/holds such high standards (take your pick) that whatever they do is sure to be criticized from the first byte to the last. It's a rare PM who would relish that fight inside the executive suite and out on the mean streets of the mailing lists.

Other entities? Eh, not so confident. Bodies like the Linux Foundation feel like places where projects go to die (corporations pay a small tax to get a Gold badge, dump some deadweight code, take some tax relief, and burnish a resume). Not seeing any mileage here.

Smaller UI shops like Zorin and PopOS? Doing the Lord's work cleaning and polishing, but in the absence of a clean and stable set of interfaces, it's all very fragile.

HW vendors have no incentive to care since desktop linux is a tiny market. (I find the requirement that desktop linux must work on anything mystifying because there are probably only 5 pc makers that really matter in terms of volume and anyone else can wait and see before committing.) If you are dell, all you really care about is linux on poweredge, and if some weird state government insists on linux to you, well, fine, youll freeze the BOM on a few rounds of Dell Latitude, charge extra, and it'll be fine.

It would be a delicious irony if the best Linux desktop environment ends up being WSL2 after all these years.
Yeah, I did some cursory research and the reason most claimed is that minivans are simply not that popular.

But neither are Hummers, yes they appeal to some people but you really don't see a lot of them out on the road.
This is probably the Matrix they meant: https://matrix.org/
That's not looking for life. It's looking for fossils.
Docs just almost entirely does not function for me on Firefox on Linux. As in, I've had it crash the entire browser while just trying to type in a document. In general, Google just aggressively seems to be hostile to any non-Chrome browser using any of their sites. I'm sure they cloak it in "well Firefox just hasn't implemented this spec yet" but when it's functionally enforcing their browser monopoly I have to assume malice at this point.

Too many Google sites behave worse on any non-Chrome browser for it not to be intentional.
That's a weird comparison.

Would you also count the number of hours it took for someone to write the OS, the editor, etc? The programmer wouldn't be effective without those things.
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Do you think those cheap decent EVs would pass US safety test testing?
Are either of those numbers relevant? US auto companies heavily outsource component manufacturing to many, many other smaller companies. Seemingly you’d want to compare to compare the supply chain included job numbers along with the number of cars.
Custom LEGO Boeing 747 with motorized landing gear and flaps [video]
Uranium is pretty abundant. The US has a lot, China twice as much, Kazakhstan a lot more, and Australia puts everyone to shame.

Thorium isn't ready to be fuel and must be enriched (granted, you need to do this for uranium too but some is naturally in a fissile state). So there's things like breeder reactors that enrich during the cycle but this is challenging and presents other issues such as turning it into weapons manufacturing (increase proliferation concerns).

There's a lot of small details that matter a lot. Fwiw, the parent has written a fair amount on this and runs a website with a lot of useful information for anyone curious. You can check their comments too as they usually participate anytime nuclear comes up

https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html
> BYD is succeeding only on CCP support is a clown.

their success is an outcome of a brutal competition in the past, orchestrated by the CCP. They're now obviously no longer "helped" by the CCP, but this company (and other companies, which might've died already) were definitely recipients of state support in the early days.

The current crop of ICE car manufacturers in the west did not see it coming, and assumed they'd always have a dominant position. They deserve to lose. However, in the event of a war, this sort of loss would've had huge impact on the industrial capacity of the US, and might directly lead to a loss.

The loss of industrial capacity for ship building in the US is already evident. Back in WW2, it's due to the US's shipbuilding (look up liberty ships) that allowed the logistics to sustain the war and ultimately win. It's due to having the car factories being available to convert to tank factories, that allowed the US to produce the masses of tanks and trucks and such required to sustain the war.

So if a WW2 scenario happens today, the US will not have such options any more. With the exception of perhaps, air power. But surely, china is not only encroaching but likely will succeed in having a domestic plane manufacturing base.

Sanctions, and export restrictions will not help. Tarriffs is only going to make cheap goods more expensive, but will not bring the manufacturing back.
Yes. They pass euro and others so why not. Have you even looked?
You got it backwards. Training is extremely costly in many different ways, while running inference is much less expensive. Meta, Google, Alibaba, and some others train their models and put them into the open for free burning through their cash reserves trying hard not to lose it all to OpenAI (and MSFT).
Is that true? They are big but seem naturally… round. Teardrop-y.
Life is more than that competitions?

For example, antirez mentioned LoRa in the earlier thread - that's a cheap, license-free radio, which achieves a large range at the expense of low rate (250 bit/sec). That's 30 bytes/second, not including framing overhead and retransmission.

If you wanted to build a communication system out of those, this compression method would be great. You'd have LORA device that connects to a regular cell phone and provides connectivity, and all the compression/decompression and UI happens on the cell phone. 150MB is nothing for modern phones, but you'd see a real improvement in message speed.
Wouldn’t it be good to also post a wallet address in case people wanted to tip the author directly? I’ve often thought that having a method to contribute directly to an author would be beneficial for some edge cases.

I’m of the same mind as Corey Doctorow that free electronic versions of books serve to increase distribution and create new fans. I have no problem with giving a book to a friend even though the author does not directly benefit. If I make a new fan the author benefits. Likewise I sometimes pirate a book from an author who I haven’t read before to see if I’m a fan (honestly this is super rare but it has happened).

I just bought a book at a used bookstore yesterday. If I love it I’d like to be able to tip the author via contribution to a public wallet.

I have previously toyed with the idea of creating a service to allow fans to submit payment directly to content creators. I never pursued it because the legal morass seemed unpleasant.
> I reluctantly concede that BYD makes a good car.

why the reluctance? If they make a good car, there should be no reluctance in accepting it. Other than, of course, nationalism and/or racism. Just like how in the past, japanese cars were "reluctantly" accepted as good quality cars at cheap prices.
Ruby is great as the first language.

Productive as an engineer.

Expressive as a linguist.

Elegant as an artist.

Magic as a blackbox.

Succinct as math.
It is supposed to be an AI robot that explains the Bible and takes questions and answers them with Bible verses.
I liked the awe you shared -- it made me want to learn more about entropy.
This is my understanding of whats going on.
I wish someone would do something like this but without the preamble like "t2x ask 'bla bla'"

All I want to do is talk to my computer, like:

"Sort these files" or whatever. Straight away. No noise.

And it should have a history of what was done already, so it knows what I'm talking about.

If people are concerned about safety, it could just be a 'mode' or an app that isn't a terminal but looks like a terminal.
99% of FB's moderation has nothing to do with "biases", unless you think FB is biased against spam, scams, and all the other dregs of the internet that incessantly pops up anywhere users can post content.
Both! And/or, either
I was commissioned to make a video explaining what Fivery is and what makes it powerful. It was a couple of years ago, but I believe the core principles still stand. In case someone is interested to learn more and is ok with video format, check it out: https://youtu.be/ddgJGoQBdtQ

I think Fibery is a very interesting product and an incredibly powerful platform. Developed by a small team.
> It shouldn't limit you from using magic, and it doesn't, and that is good.

But it does limit how good you can be at magic since you can't get as high magic stat, hence lesser wizard.
It's nice to hear from a ZTC++ user!
Some Chinese auto manufactures are pretty good, but a lot are startups in the worst sense of the term: a couple of months from shutting down.

Cars are not disposable, so you kinda want a 15-years of support. Which isn’t just the brand keeping the lights on, it’s a whole service infrastructure.

That’s where Tesla fails, and where a lot of Chinese manufacturers fail: they don’t build one. In that, they aren’t very different than Tesla.
"China's energy independence will threaten our national security!" -- trump, probably...
We desperately need more literal coconut coverage here on HN
15 yrs is not that bad from conception/design to a prototype.
These were showstopper bugs that betrayed anything they touched.

Avoiding this is obviously a huge effort.
> I want legacy EU/US automakers to pull their heads out of their a* and compete

Honestly, what can they do? Labor is very expensive here, and would be loads of pushback for a fully automated assembly line. Plus safety, taxes, and other regulations would push the price up.
Easily as they are already 5 stars on the euro ncap.

https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/byd/seal/50012
What do developers want the most in 2025
Even if Berkeley Mono is good at console outputs or terminal-wise outputs, it is not good for coding unlike MonoLisa or Operator Mono. I don't like at all the behavior of that guy for simply example Houston Mono’s case. It is said to be released in 2024 ,nowadays says 2025 since 2023. Rule of thumb that I firmly cling that “never rely heavily on someone else”
> but transhipment hubs don’t have to be islands. In fact they usually aren’t. Hawaii isn’t and it’s the only landmass for thousands of miles.

Hawaii isn't a hub because it's the only land for thousands of miles. You want the hub to be on the way to wherever you're going, not a quarter of the way across the world from there.
I obviously wouldn’t put my key into a third-party site. However, is there any concern with the self-hosted solution? Looks pretty cool and wouldn’t mind using it. Just make a key specifically for this?
> If you want to fill your world with racist, ableist, sexist asshats and tell your players that their orc character is going to be inherently stupider than other races because they're inherently (genetically?) inferior, you still can.

Maybe people are angry over all this judgmental crap? Orcs are so dumb that they weren't a PC class before, you just fought them as monsters, its like saying its racism to call bears dumber than humans.

If you judge people like this, expect them to judge you back and call you names as well.

> What they're really saying, as always, is 'why does inclusivity have to be opt-out instead of opt-in?'

The game is still not inclusive, the people who wanna play as a bugbear or a mindflayer still have to do opt-in etc. There will always be monsters that the players cannot play unless you change the entire game to the core.

There is no reason Orcs should be a player race, them doing that is just because they see Orcs as black people, so who is the racist here?
This is super cool and something I’ve been waiting on. Would be interesting to intersperse these thinking steps into token generation. What would be the effect of adding lets say 5 thinking «thoughts» for every 50 generated tokens?
I know I'm answering late, but WOW I didn't know this was an ADHD thing. I have noticed that if I talk about doing a thing, I don't do the thing, and the opposite is true. I thought this was just a ME thing. Mind blown. Thank you for sharing this!
Read this article: https://www.zhihu.com/question/639536083/answer/3542708279
Then you would find out how reliable these Chinese EV is
My wife had surgery last summer and had about 10 medications she needed to take immediately afterwards - each of them had their own period so I needed to know what we took, and what was "overdue" at any point in time.

I whipped up a spreadsheet in google sheets and added a google form that allowed me to quickly pick a medication that was just taken - it'd enter it into the sheet and an "overview" page would show me what was pending, with color coding if something was "overdue".

I felt like I was abusing what a spreadsheet was meant for but it worked quite well.

If I knew about Glide I probably could have made it look even nicer.
Minivans are extremely popular in the US, when lifted and with the roof removed from the back.
Some would consider a Google device as malware out of the box. At least you know who is spying on you I guess.
China is communist in name only these days.
It needs to be in f-droid, or maybe on ffupdater.
How did you find the cause of it?
Nice! Thank you!

I just wonder if browsers will limit the amount of characters in URLs.

If memory serves me, there was a limit. But it might be high enough to work fro most pages.
> but probably not the sort of strategy that the US wanted to adopt

only after having enjoyed the lowered cost goods and such. But there's a price to everything, always. And if you're not paying that price up front, it's gonna come to roost at some point.

> There is a pretty good chance that China implodes because of the authoritarian and bureaucratic streak their government has.

i dont think so. China's gov't has been stable enough for long enough, that the people it is governing over don't feel the need to overthrow them. And i don't see any trigger for this either - the average wealth and wellbeing of the chinese citizen has only grown better over the decades. Even now, where there's an economic slowdown, you don't have people starving in the streets.

It is merely wishful thinking that the west's media want to push, that there's a governance problem in china.
The practical use for this could be satellite messaging (e.g. InReach) where a message is limited to ~160 characters, and costs about a dollar per message.
M.A. was the highest degree available in the UK at the time [1]. The closest equivalent to a PhD program might be the Prize Fellowship that Hardy had from 1900 to 1906, though it's certainly not one to one. Don't get the impression that Hardy was done with his education when he got his masters degree.

[1] https://www.economics.soton.ac.uk/staff/aldrich/Doc1.htm

[2] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1949.000...
If tariffs don't bring domestic manufacturing back, what will?
I wasted an inordinate amount of time trying to fight Apple Vision Pro to get it to read my Yubikey.

I failed. My apple vision pro was rendered useless because of a single passkey.

Dumbest tech ever.
Not just US auto makers. Modern car companies don’t manufacture, they assemble (and for a pretty good reason, but I digress).
For me, some of the best books I read this year, are:

- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, I have seen many narratives on the fault at the core of current values and goals of human civilization, but never saw a laid out alternative. Whatever it might be, I like the book for attempting at presenting one.

- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, I like this book for extremely original thoughts. This books was so thin (~200 pages), yet it was grand. I also wrote a review [0].

- The Happiness Trap by Russ Hariss, was very helpful to me in sorting through some things. Very practical book.

- Anathem by Neal Stephenson, one of the most original book, and probably the best one by Stephenson. Very original ideas, mind expanding.

- Permutation City by Greg Egan, this book raised the standard for possibly all SciFi book that I will read in the future. Extremely original and grand ideas.

- The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt, another book that lays out alternatives to what is now considered mainstream.

- Sotyi Rupkatha by Parimal Bhattacharya (Bengali), a book without any ideological or emotional baggage explaining the plight and pain of a tribal community for Aluminium mining. The way colonialism lives in mining was eye-opening. Aluminium mining, separating, etc. are done in lesser fortunate countries where huge amounts of water is wasted and the environment polluted. The West still imports that refined raw material in cheap and produces final products with lesser environmental impact and peofits by selling the finished products to the same countries in large profits. It was refreshing to see that this book did not have a Communist undertone.

- Krishna Basudev by Bani Basu (Bengali), life of God Krishna in form of a novel in crisp prose, written maintaining authenticity of core books like Bhagavat Purana and Harivansha.

- I am currently listening to "The Hobbit" audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis. This is peak audiobook for me.

[0]: https://ritogh.substack.com/p/not-merely-a-story-of-a-man-fa...
You've got a long way from your original questions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552853 .

What you describe now has nothing to do with a river and can no longer be called 'pollution'. For one, storm surge flooding has been around long enough that the ecosystem has adapted to the occasional event, making it part of the pristine state.
Video shows close call between Gonzaga men's basketball plane, Delta flight
deeply irrational fear
Economic Gurus Debate Elon Musk's Visa Clash with Trump's MAGA Base
It is still very much a one-party state, which is a key component of communism. Same as Vietnam.
How to get upvoted on Hacker News
From someone whose maximum number of votes on HN is one - Its still interesting .....
PINs on SIMs are still very uncommon in India. No more contacts on SIM though. It was a common practice back then though, as it was easy to swap phones, as long as you didn’t have so many contacts that they wouldn’t fit on the SIM.
You wouldn't toss out your radio because it picks up a bit of static now and then, would you? That's all that posts like that one amount to... static.
How many Chinese are needed to find a better name than "Build your Dreams" though?
Not on their own websites, AFAIK.
From my experience observing and interacting with “normal” non-tech users, slowness of apps and long loading times are simply ignored. I would think “how the hell can you live like that?!”, and they would at best say “yeah it’s kinda slow”.
Sounds like "BeyondTrust" has lived up to their name, literally.
Plane on the ground seems too have stopped quickly. As it would be able too , since its speed is low. Scaru, I wonder how it happened ....?
https://lobste.rs/s/5hjq6v/unbearable_slowness_being_why_do_...

Revised weights for lobste.rs!

And herein is one clue of many to resolve, as a microcosmic start , the nerd-jock dichotomy in academia (thank you for "the ressentiment of ions"!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment#Girard

Placeholder for subsequent vibes around "ataraxia", aka Epicurean Mechanics:
https://donaldrobertson.name/2016/05/20/cicero-on-epicurus-a...
Isn’t most of the manufacturing already done in countries with far cheaper labor costs? It seems like a design problem, to me.
Why waste your time? Some of us are just in it for the love of the game
US manufacturers can get within 20% cost difference which tariffs can ameliorate. That's fine. A few extra environmental and labor protections won't break everything. TSMC managed it.

But right now it's... 100% or 200%, or infinity since they simply have no models for some form factors. That's just rank incompetence.
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> The changes to remove perceived racial biases may improve inclusion for some minority of players

Everyone is represented by the same race by the rules, just like the left wants, humans are just one race all with the same abilities. Even all genders have the same stats, so dungeons and dragons was the progressive utopia from the start where every human has no biological differences stat wise.

The only ones who see an issue are those who thinks that black people are orcs, but black people aren't orcs black people are humans just like white people.
Definitely a baseless conspiracy theory to suggest that Google is harvesting data from their GCP customers
He means "treat workers like slaves, deny basic human rights, etc." if I'm not mistaken.
> sending a lot of their best companies abroad in search of capital.

which is fine, because china's method is one where they (the CCP) retains ultimate control despite foreign financing - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/variable-interest-entit...

basically, this legal entity has not been 100% "legal" and undisputed in the chinese legal system - it's vague, and deliberately left so. It allows the CCP any reason to crackdown on any company's foreign ownership (by simply declaring this VIE structure illegal and void).

The CCP has two goals with this method (queue conspiracy music here). The first is to ensure state control all the time, even if the CCP isn't financially invested in said company. The second, and imho, a bit more insidious, is to prevent the local capital markets from developing too maturely.

The reason the CCP don't want the citizenry to have easy and low cost access to capital markets, is to prevent wealth from being built up by ordinary citizens in large numbers (like how it is in the west). Wealth is power, and the CCP don't want power to spread out to ordinary citizens, except as rising economic prosperity (ala, good jobs, cheap access to goods/services etc). It's the reason why they crushed the real estate property sector when they did. It is why stock markets are very difficult to invest in for ordinary citizens.
Populations don’t just vanish because they are not some oligarchs employee.

Lay off all Americans and they can stand their ground collectively against a handful of aged like moldy cheese people.

Physics rules the world not our dipshit philosophy.
> A usable/useful bookmark manager with things like sorting, tags/labels, timestamps, etc.

which bookmark manager can do that ?
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (born 25 April 1989) is the 11th Panchen Lama belonging to the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, as recognized and announced by the 14th Dalai Lama on 14 May 1995. Three days later on 17 May,

the six-year-old Panchen Lama was kidnapped and forcibly disappeared by the Chinese government,

after the State Council of the People's Republic of China failed in its efforts to install a substitute.

Since his kidnapping, the whereabouts of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima have been unknown. Chinese officials state that his whereabouts are kept undisclosed to protect him. Human rights organizations termed him the "youngest political prisoner in the world". No foreign party has been allowed to visit him.

As of 2024, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima has not been seen by any independent observer since his disappearance in 1995.
Maybe if you are like a high profile target of a state actor, but otherwise this is a paranoid take
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