skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value
Essential Guide to Wash Microfiber Cloths and Towels
I read it as something completely different scanning HN
Dunno. It's not totally obvious to me, so I suspect others will struggle too.
What's the design? -Don't know, it's a simple chair.

What's it made of? -Wood and fiber.

Where were the materials sourced? -No idea

Why? -Why what?

Where was it made? -Factory in a town over

Why? -Is it the first "why" or a different one?

Was it supposed to be marked as potentially containing carcinogenics? -Sorry don't follow this one. It's chair to sit on.

I guess you were trying to show that this chair is about just as political as decades running a space race between two world powers? It's a good try but I think we'll need better questions to answer.
Boot partition is unnecessary, not unnecessary when something something, IT IS unnecessary EVERYWHERE EVERYTIME. and even if for some edgiest edge case you need boot partition, NO you do NOT need any graphics driver in your /boot, who said you need it there? Kernel does not need 3D acceleration for bringing you to userspace. You just blink your screen one more time, and prolong boot, there will be no other "effect" from that.

Also why the literal ... do people use GRUB, gummyboot, clover... still? UEFI IS your bootloader that is whole point of having UEFI, so you do not need anything else to boot your kernel and IT IS working like that. So why are linux distributions still JUST copy pasting scripts instead of making boot properly? Same annoying nonsensical debate as with supporting of 32bit. Just do things like they are supposed to work in 21 century, period.

Clear linux can boot 57 times faster then ubuntu or fedora.... JUST by not supporting intel 80486 booting process, do YOU have 486, NO. But your distribution requires you to boot like on 486 why that is ? Because nonsensical blablabla

AND on old thinkpads, you can install coreboot into "BIOSFLASH" which provides similar boot experience as in UEFI, or just put linux kernel directly into flash which will be your bootloader(kexec), that way you can even emulate features (like in clover hackintosh) and install even win11 / macos on it. or do whole ("secure") measured boot on it that way...

Why are we doing this nonsensical stuff?

If you have spare drive, install Clear linux on it. and compare boot speed with your os of choice on same drive. I am not saying you have to use Clear Linux, just maybe try to do SOME things like they do in other distros ? (package manager in Clear linux is annoying)

Focus on supporting current stuff and require itsy, tiny bit of config on OLD, not 10 year old, because that IS current (UEFI), but literally 40 year old. Most distros not even support that old system but they require you to boot like you have 40 year old system, nonsense.
Ah, Henry George was right once again.

Land Value Tax solves this.
Ok, but like, in practice this is a pretty weird edge case. It's impractical and usually worthless to have filenames that can't be described using the characters on a keyboard.
Marcan is Lina. It's no longer something to be questioned.

From Asahi Lina's creator:

https://archive.is/LrLcE

> It's the worst kept secret in history that I had to keep alive, I have no interest in keeping it alive anymore.

> I mean, Lina started as an april fools joke on Marcan's youtube channel

https://archive.is/OzKeJ

> So yes, Marcan is Asahi Lina, Asahi Lina is Marcan. It's not a secret, it never really was.

> Only really became one when Marcan found out he liked vtubing.

And if you don't like Twitter, Luna is also saying it on Bluesky:

https://archive.is/wZ0N9

> My abuser (asahi lina/marcan) is a Linux kernel contributor.
I've never read anything _without_ realizing I had skipped most of the text while thinking of something else.
My guess is that the author learned a hard lesson that really only content creators can learn:

If you offer something that is payment optional and on an anonymous basis, 95%+ of people will take it for free. It doesn't matter how virtuous your audience speaks, if you are going to offer something for free and it's not face-to-face, almost no one will pay you.
This would be true were private equity not buying up housing stock. That being the case income is now to some extent detached from housing prices.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/15/in-shift-44...
I have Jewish friends here in the US that refuse to ever buy any German car.

Volkswagen was founded by the Deutsche Arbeitsfront in 1937, the organized labor organization of the NSDAP.

Literal Nazis.

Don't google any other car makers.
Every techie that lived through dialup days was constantly downloading stuff to read offline. I'm usually not very nostalgic as I think even through crazy times like these, we are still improving, but I feel I had much better focus back then.

Of course this doesn't translate into better productivity because we have way better tools today but it was nice to read, say, the gcc manual in one go.
As a European I agree. It's a shame that in 2025, the EU tech sector is so dependent on the US companies.
’s just a, blogging prompt, but it’s, quite developed. At the semantics and the way that its able to execute The request.

NOTE: it’s an older version. It was made for less sophisticated models, but it’s still absolutely worthwhile. And, so you’ll find some use out of it. I don’t mind passing it on.

It can obviously be improved, and doesn’t need to be so complicated as today’s models understand this nuance which is one of the reasons why I’m passing it on .

So I hope you all enjoy it because it’s good. and it’s still solid as a rock but can be improved hence I don’t mine handing it out

I hope you enjoy it too

lets go…
Why do journalists and economists never understand that it is the supply and demand of CREDIT which they need focus on.
Adam Ragusea made a pretty good video about this a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sew4rctKghY
American tech companies should focus on failing their own American customers rather than continually extorting the entire globe.
Apparently hyperbole works too.
> I mean, from a certain perspective, it absolutely is.

It's "absolutely" in the same category as running a space race for decades between two superpowers, sacrificing enormous resources including human lives? Ok, then....
They have had a completely normal emergency evacuation plan since 9/24/24, if they were ever "stranded" it was before that when they would have had to use the Crew-8 Dragon in an abnormal configuration.

Is any astronaut who stays longer than planned "stranded"? Did Elon strand Crew-9 when SpaceX missed their deadline on building the Crew-10 Dragon?

Or is it just if you can't go home whenever you want? Are Crew-10 stranded right now?!?! Elon please help!!!!!
It's the land price. Rising land prices are the problem, and land is in completely fixed supply. You cannot induce more supply with rising prices. Land is the dominating factor, ergo local variations in housing elasticity don't really matter. Clearly there is some inelastic thing that is eating all the increased local income without inducing more supply: it's the land.

Edit: To the people saying "you can build more on each piece of land!" sure you can. And that should definitely mitigate price increases, but that's exactly what this paper says actually isn't predictive of prices, clearly because cost is dominantly driven by something that isn't affected by this elasticity. The value of higher density development gets immediately baked into the land prices, which then does not induce more supply of land.
An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content
China is good at producing things (thanks to the infrastructure and cheap labor, for now), but is pretty bad at consistent service and general customer friendliness. We can also be sure that their cars are not made to any stringent standards, "chabuduo" attitude (negligence + cost cutting) is very much alive. I'm waiting with interest for the first cutoff "these cars should start failing about now" date to see how Chinese brands will handle repairs, parts, and general service. My bet is, besides most of the today's brands will even disappear by that time (since it was a subsidy grab to begin with), it will not be a great experience for the owners.
Airfoil Lifting Force Misconception
My gut feeling (with bias) is that most people don't think about things around them because society is in a constant state of hurry. If someone is wondering 'how did zoning laws came to be?', they are not being productive. And our western society seems to value the individuals based on how much they produce.

The person working, or commuting to/from work, is tired and doesn't have the energy to ponder about the world around us.

The 'first researchers' if I may call them that, were the Ionians, a Greek island of merchants, that had the time and resources to pursue the interests of the mind.

That's of course, only part of the story. The other part, I'd say, is to have the habit of questioning and wondering about the world around us. That comes with practice. And ironically, lots of parents indirectly discourage their kids from asking questions by becoming annoyed at how many 'whys' their kids ask.

Our educational system is also discouraging of such way of thinking. It's mostly a production line of workers.
Multiplayer is a more general term that encompasses things like turn-based multi-player which could be anything from live-ish (people taking turns immediately after each other, like traditional board games) to very high latency (like chess by post¹).

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_chess
Land prices have been rising because of easily available funds.
I agree with this. Most European car manufacturers produce EVs now, and a lot of them are looking quite competitive compared to Tesla.

While Tesla sold more EVs than any other brand in Europe 2024, BMW and Volkswagen both sold more EVs in Germany than Tesla. And Mercedes sold about the same number of units as Tesla in 2024 in Germany. Porsche's Taycan looks very competitive compared to Tesla's fastest offerings -- And tesla still doesn't have "sports car".

Non-german car manufactures such as Skoda, Renault, Volvo, and Jaguar (if those last two are still "European") also sell a lot of interesting EVs.

Admittedly, I haven't seen many Stelantis branded EVs except for Fiat 500e.
Chromium is amazing about suspending pages, & evictions in general. They maintain multiple levels throughout the render pipelines, and because the tabs are composed of individual processes, it can trade-off somewhat against kernel. This is what a comprehensive caching strategy is: a layered, machine-aware strategy that is both aggressive and predictable under real workloads. It wasn't always perfect, but it's pretty near-perfect these days. And this is not even considering V8 and the talent pool it has acquired due to quality engineering and the network effect that came from it.

Firefox engineers are trying, and you cannot blame them (like you would blame Mozilla) because it has not seen the kind of commitment from industry talent that Chromium. There have been multiple re-writes of major components in Chromium, and they tried really hard to keep the codebase somewhat up-to-date. Firefox is comparatively dated, it's not at all sexy; had people understood this, they wouldn't be so quick with jumping to conclusions, & all. There are many objective, engineering reasons why Firefox is lagging behind the gigantic Chromium+V8 ecosystem of browsers and JS backend industry. For some champagne-socialist reason, it's really vogue to call for Firefox adoption, donating to Mozilla, etc. However, it's rarely an argument made on merit. I think, they just hate to admit that Google has largely succeeded in elevating Chromium to the likes of Linux. If you're making a browser in 2025, unless you're making an artistic point a-la privacy, or contra Chromium specifically, you would rather pick it up at upstream like you would pick up Linux, instead of re-inventing the kernel because Linux bad. That is not to say that OpenBSD, or whatever, Plan9—is without merit, just that it wouldn't surprise anybody had you picked Linux for the job. If you hate Google's SWE people, or its leadership that ostensibly could sway the course of Chromium development, then this is probably really painful! If you don't hate them, you just carry on about your business. And so everyone complies. Because why the hell wouldn't you? There's battles to fight, and there's the other kind.

It doesn't help that Mozilla is cutting the branch from underneath itself.
I think hospitals are even worse than the insurance companies.

It shouldn’t be possible that a 3-4 hr procedure, not involving surgery or medications results in a claim exceeding $200k USD.

Might as well just submit claims of $1MM for everything, including a routine physical.
The "d-defactor" channel isn't a world-famous Slack channel - Deel didn't think twice about why this supposedly internal channel name was mentioned in the communication other than being a bait, while many other things were "redacted"?
What's happening here is that fd's `-e/--extension` flag requires that its parameter value be valid UTF-8. The only case where this doesn't work is if you want to filter by a file path whose extension is not valid UTF-8. Needless to say, I can't ever think of a case where you'd really want to do this.

But if you do, fd still supports it. You just can't use the `-e/--extension` convenience:

$ touch $'a.\xFF'
$ fd '.*\.(?-u:\xFF)'
a.�

That is, `fd` requires that the regex patterns you give it be valid UTF-8, but that doesn't mean the patterns themselves are limited to only matching valid UTF-8. You can disable Unicode mode and match raw bytes via escape sequences (that's what `(?-u:\xFF)` is doing).

So as a matter of fact, the sibling comments get the analysis wrong here. `fd` doesn't assume all of its file paths are valid UTF-8. As demonstrated above, it handles non-UTF-8 paths just fine. But some conveniences, like specifying a file extension, do require valid UTF-8.
At first glance I thought they’d vertically integrate and directly compete with the Mac Studio, but but actually built by Asus, Dell, HP, Supermicro and etc.
with enough price you can raise supply of anything.
Had to lookup regex crate docs, but it's possible:

$ fd '(?-u:\xFF)'
a.�
The author also asks "If you were stranded on an island (or small hostile planetoid), what books would you want to have with you?" which I also can't answer.

I would fall into the category of someone who does research as leisure. I have been slowly unraveling the genetics behind gender dysphoria. Yes I have borrowed a few biology books from libraries, but it has mostly been reading 70 years of research papers, piecing together all the evidence to make a hypothesis, comparing it to all the research data and iterating. In the last year I have also started getting a fair number of WGS (Whole Genome Sequenced) files, and I have a whole separate pile of anecdotal that just because it isn't published doesn't mean I can ignore it either. These are about as far from books as you can get. It is something I do for leisure, so my investigation has been somewhat random, following whatever I found interating at that time including dead ends. Been doing this very open ended research for years now and at this point we have a really solid understanding of it, so the edge cases are actually now the fun stuff. I never would have made anywhere near the progress I did if I had been forced to start with reading a bunch of random unrelated biology books.
Yeah, that's mostly my issue with it. IIUC it's no longer the default behavior in version 3, so good choice on the team's part.

The problem with it is that we've had a good UX understanding of how modal behavior works for ages, and if you're going to do something modal, you need to make clear to the user that the mode has changed (especially to the naive user, who has no reason to anticipate paste enters a novel mode). The indicators that mode has shifted are too subtle: one is the buttons going green on the layer panel (which I think can be hidden at that point? I'd have to check), and the other, I have now learned, is some menu options changed. No dialog box, color switch, or text indicator to say "PASTE MODE: choose how this pasted data should be added to the image."

And when it's so high on the critical path of using the software (how long does the average user use an image editor before they try to paste something?), it's a huge hit to the overall experience and makes the user feel like this tool is too complicated.
For the same reason alcoholics can never understand the reason they tend to drink is as much because of the hangover, as it is whatever they did to start drinking.
Respectfully, why would data be controlled for "regulatory limits" and "economic stagnation"? Regulation is a constant factor, historically, not something that would be controlled for. You could have something like a "regulatory constant" but then you would need one, historically, to make it meaningful. It would also likely have to be local. None of that will exist. How exactly do you define "economic stagnation" and how would one control for it, assuming for one second that would be desirable to do so?

There is no "law of supply and demand" in the real market, only in textbooks. There is only the factor of supply and demand. Therefore, raw supply and demand is not an assumed default explanation for pricing. No one is obligated to explain why supply doesn't seem to explain price. Though, anyone is welcome to pitch as to why it might for a particular circumstance.

Other variables that are sometimes interlinked: international cash buyers, institutional cash buyers, global dollar and therefore asset and commodity value in USD (inflation), skilled labor costs and availability, interest rates, the white and blue collar unemployment rates, changing lending criteria, the cost of gasoline, regional population fluctuations, the bond market, etc.
"I cook up impractical situations and then blame my tools for it"

Nobody cares that valid filenames are anything except the null byte and /. Tell me one valid usecase for a non-UTF8 filename.
The personal space after login where you can manage stuff and eg upload videos. OP posted an internal link.
Haven't looked into this, but along with that:

- Multiple replies

- Edits

- Scheduled send

- Voice message

- Tapbacks

- Message history

- Message order is reliant on notification order

- Delays in the notification system could be different than the messaging system

- Opaque nature of message going from notification system -> messaging system, difficult if message is lost/not sent with no indication of why
It's like buying German soda in 1940. Also no politics.
Religion, and strict adherence to these laws by the general population, is a relatively late phenomenon. It only became as strict as it is now during the middle ages and more so in early modernity. Your Jewish friends are, to a large extent, a product of 18th-century Eastern European Jewish culture and Western / American homogenised understanding of religion.
yes exactly like claiming it was a rescue.

this whole thing is so politicised that just pointing out that even the astronauts involved have their own motivation for doing or saying what they do is interpreted as if I'm defending Musk.

I'm disgusted by Musk, during the infamous cave rescue comments and by all he's doing and saying now.

That said, astronauts are professionals that have put their lives at stake. They may have died while going up or died while coming back. They know exactly what they signed up for and if the mission has had technical issue and the mission command has deemed necessary for them to stay there they clearly must obey or they won't be seen as fit for the next mission.

Why is our public discourse so degraded that just pointing that out automatically means you're endorsing somebody?

Trump and Musk and their disgusting braggadocio have truly poisoned society in such a way that normal people immediately jump on the defensive. But by reacting like that you all playing into their hand.
Your wish ....

https://archive.is/qCPKJ

5 days ago
And how does that relate to this particular issue? Had they been playing political games for the sake of funding, they would've immediately jumped as soon as Musk and Trump barked, right?

Instead they carefully and patiently explained all the issues, and what is going on.

And yet, still, "ah yes, it's NASA that is lying for political clout, not the very public very shameless very serial liars"
I've always imagined the taboo originated in some practical reasons (like "pork spoils really quickly in the heat"), but or course that's simplistic, and trying to approach religious things with reasoned explanations is a fool's errand.

This article's take is interesting: economic, environmental and cultural factors that gradually became codified as religious identity markers. The tribality of this tracks, the "us" vs "them" has always been and always will be, and people pick the most random things to differentiate the "us" from "them". It makes perfect sense that these desert tribes, indistinguishable cousins basically, would end up differentiating on something so arbitrary.
That'd be nice if it was possible. However it runs into the standard social science problem -- you can't run experiments, so you have to rely on natural experiments. If the natural experiment doesn't exist, you don't have any data and you can't draw conclusions.
It's the same here in New York City. I've seen e-bike accidents and they are no picnic. The city does crack down on them from time to time.
bat, fd, and hyperfine are all by the same person??? That's incredible, I love all of these utilities.
Feel free to explain to explain to these economists what they did wrong in their paper
I have been trying this approach to some extent, but with a non-existent network it has essentially boiled down to using LinkedIn Premium features to guess who within the org might be close to the area the position is for. Thank you for the well wishes.
Yeah basically the US is no-visit now. It is too risky.
The Crew-10 was not a rescue mission because they just rotated with Crew-9 which carried the Starliner Astronauts back. Crew-9 could be called a rescue mission because they took back the Starliner Astronauts. But Rescue makes it sound more urgent and dedicated than it actually is. They would have flown anyways, just with more crew.
No Longer My Favorite Git Commit
Valuing it like a regular car company will bring share price below 50. Anything above requires faith that it will transform to some AI, energy, fsd transport company.
Author here.

Happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.
Why not do both? Its not like those activities are mutually exclusive. Mega corps desperately avoiding taxes and pushing their own agendas definitely shouldn't get a free pass
I'm VERY glad to see some evidence that rebukes the reddit/liberal hive-mind belief that we can fix the housing crisis by just "doing housing first policies" or "build more" or "kill all NIMBYs".

In general, most similar platitudes that appear like easy explanations for social problems are at best extraordinarily incomplete and are often dead wrong.
Which keyboard ?
I've seen e-bike collisions too. Unfortunately pedestrian's are still badly hurt or killed.
Advertising is not immoral. It's a kind of communication. However, advertising can absolutely be done in an immoral way and a huge amount of it (particularly online) is.
Yeah, but QEMU has worse volume handling, etc.
I would suppose they do and are free to do it - however, liberally having to spread it all over the code hurts readability. I'm sure people can say in response to that after a while you stop noticing or that their favorite IDE can collapse it and so on. It can be excuses all the way down instead of admitting that it is a shortcoming of the language.
Nvidia Commercializes Silicon Photonics with InfiniBand and Ethernet Switches