skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statement misrepresents the data and introduces confusion; it relies on hyperbole and vague terms to push forward a point that lacks evidence.

The U.S. population was about 340 million people in November 2024.[1] Most people shouldn't think the term "half the country" originates from that number, because then they will presume that 170 million people voted for Trump, greater than the total amount that voted in 2024. Not everyone in that count is permitted to vote, so it's not an accurate number to use as a reference. However, when claiming "half the country voted for Trump" it is calling upon this number in people's minds to give weight to an inaccurate statement.

If one then uses the more accurate term "Half the voting population voted for Trump," we cull that total census number down to about 244 million people eligible to vote.[2] The total voter count in 2024 was about 156 million.[3] The total number of voters who voted for Trump was about 77 million.[3] Even with this more precise statement we can see that half the possible number did not vote for Trump. If we're trying to be fair to the writer and use the definition "half the eligible voters voted for Trump" we can see that this claim is false.

All we can end with is the very obvious "A little over half the votes went to Trump" which lacks the significance of the hyperbolic statement used in the article, perhaps even to the level of insignificance to not be included in the article. So then why was it included?

1. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2...
2. https://election.lab.ufl.edu/2024-general-election-turnout/
3. https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers
They just get a couple of harder punch back. But you missed the point in your rush to make a dramatic comment. It's not about how someone would interpret the causality or how they react. It is about about how a set of events can't be considered as an isolated system of chain of causally related things, disconnected from other things. If you like to think about it in terms of punches, I think you would get lots of them.
Impressive persistence. It’s easy to read a timeline like this and overlook the uncertainty and second-guessing that happens in between. I work in technical marketing, SEO, and product advocacy at a product-based startup, so I know the grind of trying to get traction.

You mentioned grinding on marketing early on—what actually moved the needle? Was it pure consistency, or were there specific channels or strategies that made the biggest impact?
What agency is that?
I am still using Windows 10. A major reason for me to not upgrade is all the media coverage of ads, user tracking, forced subscriptions and unnecessary AI features in Windows 11. Also, Windows 10 is just plain really good. I do have TPM and strong hardware. Windows 11 reputation is the main concern.
I can see court siding with "IT broke because we applied security fix" much more than "it was using insecure library but was working".

Governments dislike insecure.
> when I got around to setting up Windows on it I ordered a Win 10 license. They're still available even now, I think.

The licenses are the same -- you can install Win10 media using a Win11 license key.
> If you’re comfortable hypothetically giving up extra free hours in the day for a company…

You are not giving those hours to your company. The company gets no more or less for your hours of commute time than they do from your colleague who can walk to the office in 5 minutes. That is an investment you are making (because of your location), along with your labor, in exchange for money. If the investment is not worth it to you—why would you do it?

The “get over” comment is really meant for the realization that your location in proximity to your office is really meaningless to your organization. No need to feel guilty if you don’t want to make that time investment or location change. You do you. Just realize that your company’s concern for your individual happiness will be limited to what it can do for the aggregate net happiness of all its employees. Your individual reactions and feelings and how the relate to productivity outside their net HR benefits are kind of in your ballpark to solve.

You might hate the metaphor, but we really are just cogs in the machine. I have had a long career and can tell you that I learned long ago that the organizational cost of an unhappy cog is much much more than the cost of replacing them.
I... Don't really understand what's "new" in W11. Other then i had to switch around the start bar. It's nice though and as nice as 10.
> and lets see for how long Microsoft will keep tolerating that.

Is that something we actually have to worry about? Wine has been around for more than 30 years in one form or another, and AFAIK Microsoft hasn't really taken any legal action against them.

Are you saying that that has been the case because Wine has historically not been great, so Microsoft didn't perceive it as a threat?
Who cares about security. As long as the libs are crying, right?
By the way, if you want to see a proper growth calculator, Trevor Blackwell made one many many years ago. https://growth.tlb.org
The problem with NYSE Chicago, formerly the Chicago Stock Exchange, was not that it was in Chicago, but that it was not liquid. CBOE operates four equity exchanges, formerly operated by BATS, which was based in Lenexa, Kansas of all places. From what I've read, the value of NYSE Chicago is simply in the exchange license. NYSE bought it when it was the Chicago Stock Exchange in 2018, when it was already an illiquid skeleton of an exchange.
Which later became Caldera Deutschland and played a bit of a role in Caldera Open Linux. And which happened to have its offices well within commuting range of everything SuSE. I've been wondering about local connections ever since I recognized the Caldera sign on that building (back in the 20th).
Ditto.

I have a number of laptops and desktops around home, and I mostly cannot distinguish between the Win 10 vs Win 11 ones - except, Win 11 is more annoying. The inability to move taskbar is one, but they've also removed a lot of keyboard shortcuts for common desktop and file explorer activities for no reason I can discern. So I'll type up a shortcut, nothing or bad things will happen, and that's my clue "oh yeah, this one is on $#&@ Windows 11" :-/.

Also when I need to configure something, like sound or network or power options, it seems like the number of separate windows in different styles to hunt through keeps proliferating.
Maybe they should fire these kids and replace them with REAL engineers.

And I know some of those kids probably read Hackernews, so here’s the advice: put away ChatGPT and learn what the fuck you’re doing.
I did that, I'm gaming on linux mint with steam and don't miss anything. Mostly everything works, only a playstation-dedicated wheel doesn't work reliably. PS4 pad works fine in most games. The rest that are native windows games work without hitch. I even tried running some demoscene entries through steam to test my gf card, works too.
Sometimes the tool doesn't have to know he's a tool. The Russians use the term "useful idiot".

They've created the back doors, I'm sure that the Russians and the Chinese are now in the systems the DOGE people broke.
>...The way that the modern Supreme Court (starting with its extremely conservative turn around 2005 with the replacement of O'Connor with Alito) has treated Qualified Immunity is that the constitutional violation (in this case, the violation of her 4th Amendment rights) needs to have been clearly found in previous cases in this particular circuit (or by the Supreme Court itself).

The modern over-expansion of QI actually started in 1982:

>The modern test for qualified immunity was established in Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982).

Since then, while several justices (Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, Sotomayor ) have sometimes dissented and criticized the over expansion of QI, the overall court doesn't seem to want to touch it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/qualified-immunity-lega...
I never really thought about this perspective but in some ways it makes sense. I think the ironic part is that LinkedIn now provides built-in AI tools that make you sound more like a bot.

Maybe they could fingerprint slop generated with they tools and allow it through to incentivize upgrading
I guess DOGE lives up to "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" even better than Twitter.
> Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 - all of these had a published 10 year support lifecycle when they came out.

Windows 10 at one point advertised that it was the last "new" release of Windows ever.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/938964/microsoft-clarif...

I guess it was one exec at a conference, but they didn't really explicitly disclaim the statement either.
>The right-wing position is, the claimed consequences can be mitigated with sea walls etc

They'll make governments compensate corporations for their losses to climate change while those same corps fund skepticism.
Thanks for crafting and sharing this; Japanese podcast transcriptions and translations were very impressive. Are you using whisper or something else?
It would really be the end of the amateur exhibitionist community there though. This is already under heavy pressure from all the OnlyFans teasers.

But hopefully some of them will find their way to Lemmynsfw.

Ps for what it's worth I used to actually subscribe to Reddit. When it was called Reddit gold. But at some point they more than doubled the price and gave you crap tokens to give away to other people. I didn't want to do that and didn't want to pay so much so I quit. I think they can get a lot more subscribers if they just lowered the price somewhat.
Was it possible to build a PC with new components that wouldn't be compatible with Windows 11?

I mean I find it pretty hard to understand what are the actual requirements besides TPM 2.0 but all >= 8th gen Intel CPUs should support that?
I agree, it's another form of identity politics. Trying to break this down, I think:

Either you believe in increasing equality in American society, or you don't. If you don't, well I think that is sort of the statement you are suggesting, which is, people have every right to be privileged, born or otherwise.

If you do believe in increasing equality, then if you focus on class - let's just all it family wealth to avoid controversial loaded words - if you focus on family wealth and privilege people with less, then at least you're getting to the root of the issue.

However, if you believe in increasing equality and you don't focus on wealth, and you care only about skin color or genital type or gender identity, then I think you're making the problem worse for the reasons I wrote in the parent thread here, the points around privileging the already privileged (i.e. upper class 'of color' people), while creating suspicion around anyone who's a minority ('my cubicle neighbor got here not out of merit'). All of this is toxic.
The real DEI crisis is incompetent LLMs being promoted into jobs over qualified humans. LLMs suck at almost everything they try to do, while fan boys continue to make excuses for them.

AI stands for automated irresponsibility.
Civil servants (as are FBI agents) should be protected from arbitrary dismissal. The only exception I can imagine is political appointees, which can misplace their loyalty on the person who nominated them over the country.
The article was pretty light on what critical value was purchased out of the bankruptcy. Was it the coventure Advanced Traction Battery Systems, critical IP, factories in China, or what?

Is this a failure of industrial policy where USA would be the leader if we just pumped enough money in it, or was the outcome based on fundamental comparative advantage.
At least as recently as 2014, I was aware of some random Windows 3.1 (yes) machines running in a corporate data center owned by a very recognizable Fortune 500 company. At the time, they were upgrading all their Windows PCs from XP to 7 and this 3.1 box showed up. I confirmed that it was, in fact, real.
Chatbots with temperature are probably the wrong tool.

An LLM that can translate english into formal proof, a logic engine that can apply law to events and situations, and then a translator that can turn the result back into English should be achievable.

It all comes back to "trust but verify." Until it outperforms humans with less mistakes, it needs an editor reviewing the work closely. The main problem with current LLM output and humans right now is that the LLM outputs such verbose text, humans are overwhelmed and just go with it, instead of applying the time it saved them to reviewing the work, they just move on.
Please stop sharing paywall content. We are not paying subscriptions because some headline.
The one good thing about them all being so young is it explains why I never got an interview; at 28 I was too old to ever get a job there
Nvidia/Mellanox ConnectX-5: Making a Custom Ghidra Processor Module for iRISC
I'm looking forward to the better window placement snaps. I plan on buying an ultra-widescreen monitor the day that work upgrades us to Windows 11. Manually positioning windows for a monitor that size is frustrating in Windows 10, you pretty much have to disable all the snaps because they work against you snapping windows into undesired sizes if you come close to the edge of the screen.

I hate all the advertising and spyware, so I'll never run Windows 11 at home, but we have a whole team dedicated to disabling that sort of stuff at work, so I don't have to think about it.
Worked for me. I got a little popup that I dismissed, then I saw the full article.
I think the lineage of "good" MS releases is: Windows XP > Windows 7 > Windows 10

Although for me personally I would add Windows 2000.
For diagnostics and usage patterns only, of course.
> Who says you can’t make a library that does both?

Of course you can. I just meant that the linked article didn't.

> On LR/SC: to any atomics experts listening, isn’t it technically “obstruction-free” (as per the Wikipedia definitions at least) rather than lock-free?

The better criterion IMO is loop-free, which makes it a little easier to understand. Consider the following spin-locking code (with overabundant memory barriers):

do { p = *a; } while (p == 0x1 || !atomic_compare_and_swap(p, 0x1, a));
memory_barrier();
// do stuff that looks at *p
q->next = p;
memory_barrier();
atomic_store(q, a);

Here's the equivalent LL/SC version:

do {
p = ll(a);
memory_barrier();
// do stuff that looks at *p
q->next = p;
memory_barrier();
} while (!sc(q, a));

The pointer-tagging version is also obviously not loop-free. Which is faster, in which cases, and by how much?

The oversimplified answer is that LL/SC is probably slightly faster than spin-locking on most platforms and cases, but pointer-tagging might not be.
You wouldn't need anything so extreme. Just prohibiting landings on runway 33 simultaneous with helicopter traffic underneath the approach path would have done wonders here. Additionally, require military traffic to have ADS-B, and ensure that the tower is sufficiently staffed to have the dedicated helicopter controller that it's supposed to have.
Show HN: A Simple Extension That Lets You Change Search Engines on the Fly
Thank you, and all the best for a long-awaited and much-needed update to the book!
You've got the causality backwards. Pulling back from the world and ending the US as a source of stability will destroy the status of global reserve currency. And the focus on the "deficit" (which tacitly ignores all the artificially-cheap loans given to the financial industry by the Federal Reserve) is just a kayfabe partisan point rather than a real analysis. In actuality that high price inflation from the first Trump term caused the first shred of fiscal responsibility from the Fed that we've seen in over two decades. Our country would be in a much better state if monetary creation could have continued with deliberate spending on domestic industry rather than being directed back at the everything bubble plus some magical-thinking tariffs.
It's not bots flagging these things, it's regular users. Unless the regular users are bots, which seems unlikely.

When there's a major ongoing topic like this one, especially when it's divisive, the flags tend to come from a combination of (1) users who flag one-sidedly for what appear to be political reasons, and (2) users who don't think the story is on-topic for HN, whether because it's too sensational / flame-prone, too repetitive, or both. The first is a bad reason to flag and the second is a good reason. When we notice users flagging repeatedly for bad reasons, we take their flagging privileges away.
- Windows 8.1 had 7 years of support after Windows 10 was released.

- Windows 7 was supported for 7 years after Windows 8 came out.

- Same for Vista after 7 and Windows XP after Vista.

- Windows ME had 5 years of support after the release of Windows XP

- Windows 98 had 6 years after ME.

- Windows 1, 2, 3.0 and 3.1 all had 6 years of support after Windows 95 came out.

Only 4 years of support after the release of the next version of the operating system is highly unusual for Microsoft. They have always supported previous versions long enough that you could skip one version without running out of support, usually even two entire releases.

Instead they follow the schedule introduced in the "Windows 10 is the last Windows" era where two new versions are released each year and each version has three years of support. But this only makes sense if you treat Windows 11 as a rebranded Windows 10 that got a new name for legal reasons. Which Microsoft pretends it isn't, so I don't feel compelled to follow that reasoning when it benefits them. They can't have it both ways
Smells exactly like llm created solution.
I doubt they would bother honestly, Wine/Proton being good further cements "just develop for Windows, everyone else will accommodate."
Boring Cities, AI, and DOGE [video]
I'm curious what Microsoft will do in 8 months when over half of PC users will be running a Windows version that doesn't get security patches. As a comparison to your 60% figure for Windows 10, Windows 7 had around 30% market share and Windows XP had around 25% market share 8 months before their respective EOL dates. The only options I can think of are loosening the Windows 11 system requirements (dropping the TPM requirement for example) and doing something similar to the GWX program that forced Windows 7/8 users onto Windows 10, or extending the Windows 10 EOL date.
Pascal died for several very good reasons.
https://s8-hzde.freeconvert.com/task/67af828674bf6ba8db63d11...
Meta's Plan for Humanoid Robots
This is the exact sort of QOL feature that could convert me. I get tired of seeing the same recycled AI listicles for certain search genres, and it sounds like Kagi could help me manage that for my preferences.
Yup. At 28 you’re going to have way more things in your life distracting you from the job, you’re probably prioritizing work life balance which is a red flag.
Stop and listen to yourself for a minute. You're missing the point to dive head-first into pedanticism.

Does your objection invalidate the point that was made?

> So then why was it included?

Because real people are not Lt. Cmdr. Data, and do not always speak and write with the maximum possible precision.
In my experience, Copilot is not able to fix rust code flagged by the borrow checker. Its suggestions are almost always wrong.This is a hard problem and often requires restructing the code (and sometimes using inner mutuability constructs such as RefCell and so on).
I thought the runtime was essentially a fixed cost, and that a compiled Go binary would be similar in size to the native binary for the same source tree. Are you saying it grows faster?
I tried moving to Windows 11, discovered that pinning folders in Explorer was bugged to hell, and moved back to 10. All of the features I care to use in windows have been in since Windows 7; moving to 11 broke one of the very few moving parts in my workflow. Horrible experience!

Combine that with some of the smartest people I know at microsoft telling me that their current task is to add one iframe to the UI to inject more advertising (and that it had taken six months) and I am an active advocate on not upgrading. I have a test gaming system I'm going to install Arch on to prepare for the win10pocalypse.
> I remember 10-15 years ago you would get blocked for not using IE or whatever, even though the site worked fine and there was no technical reason for the block

Reminds me of when I discovered that Google Inbox worked in Firefox, even though Google decided to only allow Chrome to access it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8606879 - "Why Is Google Blocking Inbox on Firefox?" - 213 points | Nov 14, 2014 | 208 comments

(correct link to the gist is https://gist.github.com/victorb/1d0f4ee6dc5ec0d6646e today)

I think that "ongoing" push you're talking about was/is accidental, because a lot of people use Chrome. What I'm seeing now seems to be intentional, because people disagree with the ethics/morals surrounding AI, or seeing a large impact on their servers because of resource consumption, so more philosophical and/or practical, rather than accidental.

But who knows, I won't claim to have exact insights into exactly what caused "Chrome is the new IE", could be it was very intentional and they never stopped.
...or endpoints not requiring any credentials at all.
San Diego's limit is 150% but if you don't have a heat pump/car charger to start with, you're def going to be at more than 150%. Did you have to show them concrete plans for EV charger or heat pump?
The big problem with that is you’ll eventually blow your context window feeding the model with stuff that it mostly doesn’t need in order to complete its task.
Maybe. But maybe some like the more disconnected way of coding with ai.
FWIW, one thing they're pretty competent at is sentiment analysis, so if they read your comment, even in isolation, what they'll probably learn that reading that kind of thing into a name is really bad in general.

It's not like the bad old days where sentiment analysis was a bag of words model, add up all the "positive" words and subtract from that total the number of "negative" words — back then, they would mis-identify e.g. "Product was not as described, it did not come with batteries, and the surface wasn't even painted" as "this review favours this product" because they couldn't handle "not" or "wasn't".
Those other ones, doge related etc, are a different issue. This Blue Origin one is .. just news. And there's a number of posts. Stuff moves fast around here.