skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My laptop before getting my M2 MPB was a top of line ThinkPad P series with all the best on paper specs. As long as I was running benchmarks on it while it was plugged in and I didn't care about fan noise, performance was fine. Once you tried to use it like an actual laptop it was terrible in just about every way. Performance when on battery was either so throttled as to be barely usable, or would kill the battery in 45 minutes. The noise and heat it spit out when doing anything even moderately taxing was extreme. Despite having the most expensive graphics card they offered at the time, interactive 3D and games was still always stuttering and rarely ran smooth. Sleep was hit and miss, so if I just closed the lid and chucked in my bag, there was good chance it would be both hot and dead when I pulled it out an hour later.

There is a lot more to a good laptop than specs, and so far only Apple seems to really get that.
But why would anyone possibly hate XDG?!
If you were in a debate, and had to think through your reasoning and arguments, refining your argument, not the words you want to say but the substance of what you will say, would there be an inner voice in that situation?
Well, that was a horrifying read.
I really don't understand this "I don't want to have a choice" mindset that I only see here for stuff relating to Apple.

Why would you want something to be missing for everyone, when the people who don't want it could just not use it?
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Good question. Actually, the success of a startup doesn’t rely solely on AI or analytics. ScribeAI offers insights and data-driven recommendations, but it's not a guarantee of success. The real value of these insights is in helping you assess risks and opportunities before fully committing resources.

Even with the data, there's still a lot of unknowns—such as timing, execution, and market fit—that AI can't predict. Success still depends on the human element, creativity, and adaptability of the team behind the idea.

I would use ScribeAI to refine my idea, understand market demand, and check competition, but the real success still depends on human factors like execution, adaptability, and timing.
Serious question: Why on earth is this flagged?

I thought sharing strategies against authoritarianism would be as free speech, open discourse as it gets. Open discourse as promoted here on this site is among the first targets in any authoritarian society.

We tech people should be merit based — vuess which form of society prevents exactly this? Suddenly instead of appointing the manager of a nuclear plant based on merit, they are appointed based on their loyalty to the regime. This may have huge impact for us tech people.

I am aware that some in the US may see anti-authoritarianism as "partisan", but if you immediately think the people whose line you tow are meant when someone mentions how to deal with $BADTHING, the thing boiling your blood shouldn't be them mentioning $BADTHING, the thing boiling your blood should be that those whose line you tow got you to defend $BADTHING. And you know it is bad, because otherwise you wouldn't try to shoot the messenger.

Edit: If you disagree or think the flag is deserved, I'd be curious to hear your perspective
You are definitely right, but having it in your home may have psychological effects that allow you to read and research more.
The WHO is going to struggle to do a lot of stuff with the USA pulling a lot of their funding…
You can also just be keeping large video files around (some people only use a phone so those 258 gigs are all they have).

Another issue is having your gallery sync to google's cloud for example. Then you only have at most 10 gigs and you get warnings that you'll stop receiving your email unless you clean up or pay. The cloud sync issue I've seen multiple times on phones of relatives.
Stupid is relative to PoV, from the Trump oligarchy gallery every $1 cut is some $8 of additional unchallenged "creative accounting".
Congratulations, now can you respond to the contents of the message, instead of jumping on technicalities?

How is whether he is actually a communist relevant to the substance of what I wrote?

The point is that he wasn’t exactly trustworthy to begin with, and an erstwhile enemy. You don’t feel betrayed when your enemy does what you expected him to.
Search for 'abortion hungary' or 'hungary lgbti' in media like The Guardian for a general overview of Orbán's Hungary:

'Budapest Pride should be held indoors for ‘child protection’, says Orbán official'

'Hungary tightens abortion access with listen to ‘foetal heartbeat’ rule'

I'm more interested in knowing if there are any glimmers of hope left in Hungary.
Well it's not automatic 2 year prison sentence. The state charges you with a crime, it goes to trial, and then you have to defend yourself - if your argument is that you forgot, then it would be an interesting case - ultimately the prosecutor would need to prove that it's unlikely you forgot, say if they had proof (say CCTV recording at the airport) showing you using your phone 5 minutes before it was confiscated - it would be pretty hard to argue that in the space of those 5 minutes you forgot the password. But if you had a device in your suitcase and could successfully argue that you haven't used it in ages and the password was long and complex then yeah, I guess you'd be found not guilty - up to the judge/magister/jury depending on where exactly in the justice system you end up. But yeah, while stopped at the border saying "I forgot" is not a good card to play.
> all effects are first order

Basically they are mostly below average intelligence. The ability to think about second, third, N order effects is a sign of intelligence which is clearly lacking here. Those in power are leveraging that lack of intelligence in the populist right to execute their larger plan of dismantling the government for the benefit of the super rich.
I don't quite understand the logic.

Even if you have cheaper models if you have tons of compute power you can do more things than if you had less compute power!

You can experiment with huge societies of agents, each exploring multitude of options. You can run world models where agents can run though experiments and you can feed all this back to a single "spokesperson" and you'll have an increase in intelligence or at the very least you'll able to distill the next generation models with that and rinse and repeat.

I mean I welcome the democratizing effect of this but I fail to understand how this is something that is so readily accepted as a doom scenario for people owning or building massive compute.

If anything, what we're witnessing is the recognition that useful stuff can be achieved by multiplying matrices!
> Sometimes people just can’t work out how to send me patches at all.

This could actually be useful for "open source but not open contribution" situations. It avoids the thing where people seeing that nice easy pull request button as somehow giving them the right to expect their contribution to be accepted.

"If you don't want contributors, why is it on [insert-forge-here] in the first place?" is a question I've seen asked in discussions about such things. Some people get personally insulted when their pull doesn't happen, even though the project states clearly ahead of time that this is how things are. Heck, some seem to be offended in advance that some hypothetical patch they might produce in future would be rejected.
I've been struck by how often it is really quite senior people within criminal/terrorist organisations are the ones that get turned by the various agencies.

In the UK, there was an informant for MI5 in the IRA for years codenamed Steaknife. It turned out he was the head of IRA internal security, it was his job to hunt moles. He was the perfect agent. I seem to remember a story of a mafia don who turned out to be an informant, which seems wild to me.
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I agree. However, in those niche areas where the software is the only choice available, I can make compromises. This software has been developed over 10+ years, and many conventions did not exist that long ago. It's still great that the software exists (because there is no alternative).
I was also one of those vocal "never mac" people until I actually used one.
Interesting point! AI like ScribeAI can analyze data and offer insights, but it doesn't "create" a startup or decide its success on its own. The AI doesn’t know if an idea will succeed because success involves so many unpredictable human factors—like timing, market shifts, and execution. ScribeAI job is to help reduce the risk and give you informed insights to improve your chances, but the original idea still comes from people, not the AI. So, it’s about using AI to inform, not replace human decision-making.
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Because context matters, and the context of the comment you replied to was literally "oh, we should just build solar panels on mountainsides which are not good for other types of building": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43254135

So the conversation, in context, is literally this:

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Someone: we should build panels on mountainsides

Me: how much more expensive will building and maintaining them will be?

You: Maintaining solar panels will be always way, way, waaay cheaper than maintaining nuclear. Also batteries will need to become cheaper

Me: Erm... That doesn't answer my question, and on top of that you're admitting batteries are not cheap either

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But, again, this is on par with what I expect in such discussions
> You have to build the feature twice

Erm, isn't it three times, or am I missing something?

You have what you are currently doing (feature Null), feature A, and feature B.

Otherwise, you can't distinguish that the feature is what is causing the change as opposed to something else like "novelty" (favoring a new feature) or "familiarity" (favoring an old feature).

If all you have is "what you are currently doing" as "feature A" and "new thing" as "feature B", you're going to have a murderous time getting enough statistical power to get any real information.
I can order 2kWh of LiFePo on Amazon for 500€. Are batteries that much more expensive in the US?
Does anyone else get the feeling that OpenAI's PhD-Level Agents will secretly be powered by underpaid PhDs?
Classical era philosophers weren't completely wrong about this. They lived in a more oral literary culture where performers could recite entire works from memory.

I don't think anyone today could recite Beowulf from heart. But 1500 years ago that's exactly how it was enjoyed.
The other guy got downvoted, but... isn't there really some tooling to help with this? Some standardized way of actually sending/reviewing the e-mails?

sourcehut has some GUI around it (that I never actually used). I heard that there is some local terminal thing around the e-mail git flow...?

One thing I like - in theory - is how decentralized/federated it all is. E-mail is the original decentralization/federation! But I never had to actually use it.
It’s just oligarchy
get a data/time stamp on the news and show it on the graph at specific points, which can be traversed below as well as on the graph. People would get 2 benefits: (1) get the news, (2) see if the news had any bearing on or correlation to the price at all.
No, absolutely NO. I consider features like this blatantly user-hostile. I personally keep full text logs of all my chat conversations archived indefinitely and refer back to old logs all the time. Once I have received a message it is mine, and no device manufacturer has the right to reach into my device and delete it from me -- actual malware behaviour!

I feel the same way about the ability to edit messages and the like. Actual antifeatures, and some of the things I'm most upset being forced to accept due to network effects.
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Seems like capitalists don’t know that.
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There's plenty of games with big installs that have been out for years and can run on a steam deck or less. Which means lots of light laptops can run them too. I don't think your ideas here about desktops and laptops are true.

For consoles, PS5 doesn't have proprietary drives, that's just Xbox. And both Xbox and PlayStation let you export games onto any cheap USB drive to make room on the internal storage.

If price and hours correlate with GBs in a bad way, those are fair reasons to skip a game, but it's just confusing if you frame it as a criticism of the GBs.
Because it's $0 access to eyeballs.
Hamachi was the OG user friendly VPN.
We recently did a pretty big rollout of Tailscale and tbh I am presently surprised with how well it works. Between subnet routing to our bare metal stuff and the Kubernetes operator, especially the ability to expose services to the Tailnet has been a big win.

I was a doubter a bit as to how it would work at a bigger org but so far rock solid, easy to setup and great user experience.
Apple doesn’t have a lightweight laptop with a matte screen. Their MacBook Air is light but has a reflective screen. The Pro has a matte screen (upgrade option) but is pretty heavy.

A true portable laptop, one that can be used not just at home where lighting could perhaps be controlled, needs to by lightweight and have a non-reflective screen.
This is one of the reasons I like Flatpak, it can force misbehaving apps to not pollute my home folder with their hidden .folders that never get cleaned up on removal and instead go in a managed directory where it belongs.
No they don't. The energy you get from your battery costs 10x as much as directly from the panels, but you only get a fraction of your energy from storage.
But I don't think disappearing messages are about putting control in someone else's hands; they're about giving both parties the option to communicate more privately when needed.
Wait, no... they changed it radically last year. It no longer has the wedge shape.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/04/after-14-years-ap...
Both. Give them an educational walkthrough of the system and concerned processes. Then let them know they can break things because you have showed them how to revert the damage.

The goal is to boost both their confidence and independence. The stretch goal is to reduce risks and not have to get other people, including yourself, involved in future efforts.
A small electric car which can also double as a home battery. That would make a difference in my opinion.
What underlying network are they not funding anyway? Did they turn off the internet?

Difficult to see how they are saving any money by turning off something they've already bought that has essentially zero running costs.

Something doesn't add up for sure.
Shipping got way faster though
And when I change a setting in a program, where does it set that environment variable?
It's not advice, it's a question. What happens if you don't name anyone?
This is basically what I do. Gitea instance with closed registration. So far I did get three different people sending me emails with patches/contributions and all the interactions were quite nice. Of course the stuff I am doing is not well known and I do not advertise it anywhere, which is its own moat I'd say.
In another online community I'm part of I've watched members become mods, start to hate dealing with the messy parts of the community, get burnt out, then usually disappear. Sometimes they come back other times they don't. Or they appear in a flurry like the perseids before leaving again for a while. Most of the former mods are still in touch behind the scenes to help provide context and a sounding board when dealing with some of the personalities. It isn't the healthiest community without an influx of newcomers but it is still going and some of the people have known each other online for ~30 years.

I've generally appreciated mods in the places I hang out, but after getting a peak behind the curtain I understand why it can be a wearing role. And why rotating out of it can be a healthy plan.
As I mentioned in another comment, one of the most amazing examples of this was the British Army/MI5 mole inside the IRA, Freddie Scappaticci, codenamed Steaknife. He was a leading member of the IRA's internal security team.

It really feels counterintuitive that someone who has got to the top would be the one to turn, but it also makes sense that they would be the one's targetted.
Domestically, that is correct, you are taking away an opportunity in the market. But in a foreign embassy there are no such competitors. And controlling air pollution is typically a job for the government.
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Possibly the migrants could enter the country using the approved legal process instead of just wandering in?

It isn't reasonable to expect countries to have a generous welfare system, accept all arrivals and exist on the same planet at the billion-odd people who live on a few dollars a day. Something has to give. I vote the welfare system but keep getting overruled; so one of the other two has to go. And we don't have the space tech to pick option 3.
How can lottery tickets be riskless? I mean you need to draw winning tickets too. Even if the EV is over 1 you can end up under 1 in practice?
No, sorry, not at this time.
It also always lead to the same downward spiral of prosecutors complaining that the data they need to investigate drug trade is right there, but they can only access it for terrorism reasons, so why not add drug trade to the list of exceptions. Repeat with homicide, then fraud, all the way down to traffic infractions.
Wait until they stop sharing air quality data in the US too.
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Great insights, I think you will like OpenZiti, Anders, which is included in your list for both itself and zrok, which we built on top.

Directly answering your concerns:

- Deny by default and least privilege model means getting access to a node does not give you access to all services on the overlay. This includes SDKs so that only embedded apps are authorised, the apps have no listening ports on underlay and are literally unattackable via conventional IP-based tooling, all conventional network threats are immediately useless.

- Its open source nature means its being adopted by companies to create more powerful ecosystems.

- The overlay, while looking similar to DERP, uses individual service encryption and routing with flow control and smart routing (I know people who get much much better performance as a result).

- Our SDK includes a 'clientless' endpoint for the browser called BrowZer - https://blog.openziti.io/introducing-openziti-browzer. All users need to do it log into their IdP and everything else is done automatically, without involvement from the user.

- We don't build on Wireguard, which provides much more flexibility.
Batteries cost something like $150/kWh and live for a few thousand cycles, so power from batteries costs a couple of cents more than the power used to charge the batteries.
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It's also very probable that the verbalization the majority does internally is just that - a verbalization of the actual underlying thought process. That is what much of current cognitive linguistics points to as far as I have understood.

(Also a reason why I'm very sceptical that the current LLM approach will eventually lead to AGI, BTW)
It has a Ryzen 9900X, 64GB of DDR5, AMD Radeon RX6600XT, 2x2TB Hanye NVMe, ROG B650 ATX motherboard and 850W power supply.

I bought the system mostly to increase the single core performance from the Ryzen 5 3600 I had before. As well as to get rid of all the little 256GB SSD disks I had in the previous one.
The comment you're responding to literally spells out the reasons.

Literally literally, not figuratively literally.