skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, it felt perfectly natural to me, coming up from 8 bit, and having done my little stay on the demoscene back in the day.
The network effects of Apple devices are really tiny, compared to say: Microsoft, which holds nearly every company in Europe ransom in effect because Excel is a default tool you need to interact with your government in nearly every country as a business.

Sure, your iPhone doesn't connect as seamlessly to your Windows computer as it would a Mac, but those aren't network effects, thats vertical integration.

Nobody is forcing you to buy a Mac, and Apple themselves are intentionally overcharging for upgrades on the basis that: "If you really need it, you'll pay for it". Most people don't need it but will buy the upgrades anyway then complain that they're too expensive.

I'm aware that it limits the longevity of the devices, but that might also be intentional here, not abusive though. Just a bit bare-faced profit seeking. Which seems to be working because, as you point out, it's one of the worlds most valuable mega-corporations.

If someone else comes out with good premium laptops I'll move over happily, but for now the best laptop you can buy is unfortunately a macbook, and they've decided that upgrades are worth this money, if you don't agree then the answer is to simply not upgrade, or avoid the devices entirely.
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> Nowadays you can even get better performing miniPCs for half the price than your MacBook Air M3

This is a stupid comparison: even a Mac mini pretty much fulfills this, since the M4 is a step up from the M3 and the actively-cooled mini can sustain higher performance than the passively-cooled MacBook Air, and at about half the price of an M3 MacBook Air.
I guess it fits with the tradition of metal bands up in the north.
Was there data? All I saw on the article was a vibe check.
History may not repeat, but it absolutely rhymes. If had a nickel for every time I heard about a government proposing to round up and deport thousands of people to a special island just so that their normal Constitution rules wouldn't apply, I'd have two nickels--which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
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You don't visit youtube?
same here. it even runs most of my demanding ableton projects just fine.

i need more compute? using a saas solution
i need more storage? tiny external ssd or cloud storage

the 8gigs of ram also aren't holding me back, i think most people just cry based on principle and would be fine with it in a double-blind test
How the hell is this news site loading so fast, with no popups, nag screens, in-body ads, call-to-actions and autoplaying videos? Jesus, since when do we have the technology to achieve that?!
Do they? They're different and theoretically better in some respects, but are they better in ways that matter and truly deliver value to users?

Commutativity of patches is neat, but it's just not that big a deal. I think Pijul's best feature is first-class conflicts, an idea that Jujutsu has also incorporated.
I didn't find a link to the package in the article. It seems to be a quite capable package, and the given two examples that are trivial to solve analytically don't really do it justice.
FiveThirtyEight was interesting in its time, but in the past few years I felt it ironically became exactly what it was initially trying to oppose: a site full of opinion-based punditry. All their "538 chats" were basically the same as talking heads on TV. Okay, the 538 talking heads maybe paid more attention to data, but the good part of 538 was the intent to cut to the chase, dispense with all the puffery that ordinary news sources shove at you, and just let the data speak for itself. In recent years they moved away from that and became less distinguishable from the opinion section of a mainstream news source.
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I've said it before, it's like these guys turned up to study economics, learnt about free markets on day 1, then just went home.
Brother had denied this claim

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using...
I don't understand how your comment relates to mine unless you're assuming I'm saying things I haven't said
Enshittification is a given. Once bankers take over, users become lusers that serve to stuff their pockets. This was always going to happen to discord.

Slack, discord, teams, zoom, hipchat (if you remember that one) etc. all kind of overlap in functionality. They are all commercial tools with slightly different takes on the same space: team communication. Google's internally paranoid schizophrenic mix of ever flopping chat solutions also have some adjacent products. Meets doesn't do chat and chat doesn't do video.

What do all of these have in common: they are running backwards and are ever fiddling with ways to ask money for their centralized services. Slack is now owned by salesforce. Zoom peaked during the pandemic but turned out to be a one trick pony. Teams is causing MS to retire Skype and is universally hated for its bloat, poor performance, and pervasiveness in dreadful enterprise heavy companies. And discord does essentially the same things but for gamers.

I'm not familiar with revolt. But this stuff is obviously a commodity given the many contenders in this crowded market. So, free and open source should be good enough. There's a long history of chat solutions peaking and then sliding away into obscurity. ICQ, Yahoo messenger, MSN, AOL, etc. The bazillion Google chat/communication products that flopped hard. All gone. All predecessors to Slack and modern equivalents. I was chatting with colleagues in the late nineties using ICQ. These days I use Slack. And Whatsapp. And Meets. And Teams (because our customers are really into masochistic Microsoft products). And all the rest.

Revolt is only partially open source unfortunately. IMHO this is a mistake. It's yet another walled garden. It's 2025; we still don't have a proper federated solution (like email) that doesn't lock you in to 1 company, 1 UI, 1 network, etc. The reason email is still around is that federation is important. Everything else comes, enshittifies, and then goes away. Email stays. Why do I need different apps to chat/video call to different people? I have about half a dozen on my phone currently. It's ridiculous.
Some of those fbi agents are active participants and true believers too.
Thanks, this could’ve worked for my Raspberry Pi! I would’ve tried it if it was still in commission. Next time?
Picasa could have had the same promising future as Sketchup.

For Google+ I cannot say, but what I know is that even if the launch, the initial iterations and the leadership was bad, destroying the thing just as people starting to settle in might make sense in a short sighted way but it destroyed any chance google had to be trusted in the next decade. Just watch how people openly discussed here and elsewhere from time to time if GCP will continue to exist.

It also probably destroyed any chance google had to capture a significant chunk of social media and as time passes I think this is a good thing.

Same goes for search. People have complained for years, but the quality keeps declining. And I am starting to think this is a great thing since we now see more promising search engines that wouldn't have had a chance against 2012 Google Search.
Did you know that there are about 2,160 counties across these 40 states that collectively have a smaller population than Los Angeles county? Who cares about a "county map"?
Wow, so providing a tool for bypassing the protection mechanism of a device (cpu) is accepted when it comes from google?

Try this on any game console or drm protected device ans you are DMCAed before you know it.
So do you also disagree with the premise of the government providing to this service, or only that it’s not the stated role of embassies to do it?

In deciding it’s quite reasonable to stop, is the thinking that “mission creep” = bad, so it justifies stopping something regardless of the big picture benefits? Or do you not consider the benefits significant?

Given a business with many departments, say you notice one department has some mission creep but somehow it’s also increasing profitability for the company overall.

What do you focus on - only mentioning stopping the department mission creep, or first mentioning people should make damn sure the value is preserved as they consider any reorganization?
Yes! We, too, happily used Discord for years in our small company - it was absolutely amazing and I also wonder why they don't have a version for companies - in my mind it easily beats Teams in nearly any factor that's important to us - though admittedly we're not a typical Microsoft-using enterprise.

(BTW we ended up writing our own tool instead and use that now => https://www.inetsoftware.de/products/cowork)
I stopped buying tech books, started a safari online subscription. Much better. Now I have just one thing staring at me (virtually) from the internet, instead of a dozen things staring at me from the book shelf. It's less intrusive.
Doesn't changing how your cpu's microcode works mean you can bypass or leak all kinds of security measures and secrets?
Because, thanks to removing buttons and such, it's an integral part of operating the car.

In my Renault Megane e-Tech, if my windshield suddenly fogs up I can hit a physical button[1] to max the heater and blower. In the ID.4 it goes via the touch screen.

So, you press the "button" on the screen, nothing happens, so you press it again, except it turns out the system registered the first time it was just slow and so now you've turned it back off again. Or, you press it and nothing happens and you press another 5x times and still nothing because your finger is too dry...

I see the 2024 variant[2] kept the all-touch approach, but I haven't tried it so perhaps it works better in practice.

[1]: https://www.megautos.com/nuevo-renault-megane-e-tech-electri... (row below the center console screen)

[1]: https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/volkswagen-id-buzz-cargo-te...
How is that in his head? That is the code.
I'm cooked then.
It automatically resizes so even though I have a tall screen, I didn't think to scroll down because it looked like a basic landing page and had links at the top.
It’s an understatement to say Canada is extremely displeased at this, it will cost the US billions in lost trade and tourism. And for what? The trade deficit if you take out oil exports from Canada to the US is actually in favor of the US. Many American jobs will be lost because of this.

That trust and relationship will not be rebuilt easily, you vastly underestimate the damage and cost that will come from all the ill will being generated.

Words from a president are not just words, they carry weight, but now that tariffs are actually in effect we can see plain as day the first part of him carrying to execution his reckless and completely senseless ideas.
I saw from the comments that they provide smaller binaries, which may have worked on my Raspberry Pi. Maybe I’ll give it a try one day.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1207/small-tailscale
Because I have many loved ones that I don't want to be too far from. It's worth enduring a lot to be around them.
It’s more money for Jeep, and it looks like they can get away with it, because there are no alternatives for the buyers(?). I’d be surprised if that is in any way good/cheaper for the users.
This is the first time I’m hearing about Nebula. How does it compare to Tailscale?
Tailscale is also crazy unreliable in my experience, at least on Android. It had to be force quit and restarted every day, and even outside of that apps would randomly get connection errors. And they don't seem to care about bug reports. I ended up switching to regular Wireguard, which has since been perfectly reliable.
Interesting, thanks, I have been using opam, but since I am lal alone and by myself, I never hit the cases you mentioned
You shouldn’t push him. You should encourage him.

If he likes to do math you make it available, if he would rather play with legos instead of doing math you let him do that in his free time.

You can encourage learning and problem solving without it having to be math, or pushing.
Fyi, i'm not sure if it does what you want, but make sure to check out 1Piece. It has a ton of options...

https://app1piece.com/
All that for product analytics? Lmao
"Von der Leyen outlined the five-point plan at a critical time for the future of Europe's security.

One of them is a proposal to suspend strict budget rules to allow member states to ramp up "their defence expenditures without triggering the excessive deficit procedure," Von der Leyen said.[1]"

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/eus-von-der-leyen-proposes-800-billion...
The specs on paper do not do Apple justice. The screen alone is worth it. Your eyes are worth it
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I think you are crazy. The performance difference between MacOS and WSL is like night and day. I was just shopping for a Linux laptop and I have found that the top end models from Microsoft, Lenovo and Dell to be as or more expensive than Apple (with the exception of having user replaceable SSDs). There is nothing in the PC world that compares to Apple Silicon. If the price is too much, look at the refurb or used market where you can get really significant discounts.
I guess I’ll never understand why there are so many restrictions in buying lottery tickets, because in Hong Kong all you need do to buy all the numbers is a single transaction and paying enough money. And it is never a profitable strategy, big jackpots always attract a huge crowd and most of the time it is split at least 4 way
… I mean, yeah, if the US increases tariffs on the EU, the EU will increase tariffs on the US. That is how trade wars _work_.
This scenario happens in basically any form of gambling with a progressive (grows over time until hit) jackpot. For instance there are literally pro video poker players. For some imaginary numbers let's say there's a video poker game where you play for $1 and the house has a 2% edge against perfect play. This means each time you play (in the longrun) you lose $0.02. But now let's say there's a jackpot that you have a 1 in a million chance of hitting, that has $1 million in it. This means that your expected value from the jackpot is $1 per play.

So the net result in our game is that each hand you play, you win $0.98. A skilled video poker player can get around 1000 hands per hour, so you'd be earning around $980 per hour in the longrun. Casino comps make this even more profitable. Depending on the game/casino casinos will generally comp around ~20% of their expected profit against you, and that excludes jackpots. For our imaginary $1 game with a 2% margin that means you'd also be getting $0.004 per hand back in comps. It becomes quite significant at high stakes.
I have T14s Gen 3 AMD running Linux and I don't even come close to 12 hours, maybe half of that. That's my biggest complaint.
The author is obviously entitled to whatever workflow he chooses to use, and he isn't proselytizing here, but by choosing to sidestep industry standards he is ultimately just putting obstacles in front of other coders who might like to contribute.

Unless you're really into git and email, it's just tiresome and a time sink having to work all this out.

Fwiw I've used putty in the past and appreciate his efforts, if not his obscurantist tendencies.
Having a good revenue stream is also a pre-req for staying private long term.

I think the fear here is that a public company is going to optimize heavily for profits to the detriment of the service itself, which public tech companies seem to often do (not that private companies don't do this, it just doesn't seem like they generally do it as consistently and to the same extent as public companies). Subjectively I've found acquisitions or IPOs are often a bad sign for product quality.
The way I see it is that Apple competitors have given up on premium portable devices. Apple tech is so far ahead that consumers looking for the best non gaming hardware will most likely choose Apple devices.

For competitors, spending a huge amount of money in R&D to try to compete with Apple, will be most likely at a loss. At least until some chip manufacturer (read: Intel) doesn't step up their game.

As a consequence, competition has moved to the middle-low quality segment, one in which they can still compete because of 2 main factors: Apple is not interested in that segment and most companies won't move away from Windows (even if they probably should).
What is political in sharing scientific measurements? Can you point to a specific person who is irritated by it? Why it irritates you personally?
"in a federal system it is often considered important"

by whom?

Definitely not James Madison who only grudgingly accepted this framework in Federalist No 62: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed62.asp
> That's 5,273 people like me getting $15,000,000.

That's also each American citizen getting... $23.27 each year for 10 years.

People are just awful at conceptualizing large numbers. Assuming that number is accurate, $7.9 billion is wasted in the process of delivering $1.6 trillion in 2024. Waste and loss scales with the work being done, it doesn't care that you got sticker shock.

I challenge you to find anything you do in your day with greater than 99.5% efficiency. You waste a higher percentage of the food you eat, stuck to the pan.
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Kleptocracy 101. Reduce government capacity and make sure government spending is funneled to the companies of me and my friends.

The problem with making government profitable for oligarchs is that they never want to relinquish control of it. The last thing they want are pesky elections that ruin everything.
Well, they may say they care, but their actions are often not aligned with that.
What do you think the odds are that Denmark would ‘start’ a war between the US and NATO over Greenland?

That answer is why he’ll almost certainly end up ‘taking’ Greenland.
Both Apple and Android (stock) are candidates for anti-monopoly regulations regarding the limited, vendor locked backup API.

Enforcing choice of the backup solution would solve the problem of rogue countries like the UK meddling with privacy and security.

Like the browser choice, backup provider choice can end up being enforced, likely by the EU as they have a good history of breaking up vendor lock-ins.

Possibly an information/lobby campaign can be started and endorsed by some major online storage providers?
The thing that people are excited about here is unified memory that the GPU can address. Mac Pro had discrete GPUs with their own memory.
Well, it's a good thing that the US stop acting like the world leader/police in everything. The US is just a country among many and it is about time it starts acting like that. And it's about time the "Western world" stops relying on the US for basic stuff like national defense.

More to the topic: why the hell are the US embassies reporting other countries' cities air quality? While it's a "nice" thing to do, it would be even nicer if those countries monitored that themselves. The fact that we think we need the US to do it because other countries tend to be dishonest about it is incredibly depressing.
This seems wildly overblown.

I'm running Windows laptops / desktops these days, and drive an iPhone and the sun hasn't exploded.
Yes, the whole point of abuse, and why there's a social taboo against it, is that it works. It achieves its desired effect.

Microsoft is also a deeply abusive corporation. The discussion was not about them, though.
>> How do we slow down or control the flow of information ?

It’s not a completely new problem. Voltaire wrote about this in Candide in the 1750s. I’m sure there are other (earlier or contemporary) examples that I don’t know, but Candide is the one obvious (partial) commentary on the “flood of information” phenomenon that always comes to my mind. Voltaire’s conclusion was to just ignore it. Worry about your own life. Live on a farm and work a physically exhausting job every day then spend your nights with your family and loved ones that you have no time for all the frivolous noise of news and world events that don’t affect you. When there is an actual signal among the noise, it’ll reach you and you should use your educated/good instinct that you have cultivated from the prior years when you were young and absorbing knowledge and information, and vote accordingly.

Obviously this is my interpretation of the work. Also obviously Voltaire was a very vocal opponent of voting and the will of the masses to enact real political and societal change through education and general shift in social beliefs and attitudes. He was also an advocate for acceptance of others and in Candide he had the wise old man who gives the final philosophical point in the book be a Turkish Muslim man in opposition to everything Christian French people believed in the 1700s. He was also a massive racist against black Africans and didn’t even consider them humans. Soooo your mileage may vary.
100%! I find that folks like this are comparing specs on paper but have no clue what the real life differences are like in practice, hence missing out. Or maybe they are trying to justify not spending the money but still life is short, go for the best
I remember living in Beijing when the US Embassary Air Quality Twitter account tweeted "Error: value above measurable range" (paraphrasing) -- that was a fun day.
> a US administration hostile to China...

Based on actions alone, what is the evidence for this?
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Timothy Snyder wrote a book on resisting authoritarian regimes: On Tyranny.

He also did a reading of each chapter on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhZxrogyToZsllfRqQlly...
Mostly because the current president likes tariffs and Russia and doesn't seem to like his democratic allies much. But I'm not sure it's of much benefit to the rest of America. Is anyone saying this stuff is a good idea apart from Trump?
There's no point anymore since everyone has AQI & PM2.5 meters.

Incredibly popular is questionable, definitely among tier1 libtards in embassy and consulate cities on twitter at the time. There was just as much nationalist on renren then weibo who thought this was US interference.

>> It led to China improving air quality.

This is charitably western propaganda trying to take credit by fabricating notion that muh free speech can push CCP to change. Reality is BJ recognized pollution issue and had renewable policy underway a few years before this i.e. moving extra polluting factories out, controlling construction dust, vehicle registration systems, better emission standards etc. There was going to be coordinated effort to bring AQI down to <100s during 2008 Olympics and try to make it stick after, US Embassy was trying to stir shit leading up. Like if US embassy AQI shitposts was actually significant in pushing PRC enviromental policies, it would be an incredible own goal that pushed PRC to dominate renewable production chains and EVs while bankrupting western incumbants.