skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not at all partisan. I would openly admit that before 2001 (when I was 19) I have no idea what “republican” or “democrats” stood for. I know Abraham Lincoln was a republican and how republicans opposed slavery while democrats were like “whatever man”. Later on republicans didn’t think a government intervention was necessary for the Great Recession and a democrats had to lead the US out of that. Then Democrats were crazy about the war in Korea and Vietnam for some reason while republicans were asking for a more nuanced approach.
The best marketing campaign for Windows is finally deciding on a distro only to be presented with a bunch of bullshit options (gnome, cinnamon, xfe, kde, mate, etc) the average person is expected to somehow understand the difference between or care about if they did. And no, someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing is not going to feel comfortable picking at random.

Then the 95% odds that trying to dual boot without the correct incantations fucks up being able to boot into Windows, which somehow after 20 years still hasn’t been fixed.

And I say this as someone who’s been using it personally and professionally for 20 years. The year of the Linux desktop will come when people are met where they are, not where you want them to be. If the simplest standard things require sifting through forum posts from 2006 for hours on end, you’ve already lost.
Yeah but there isn’t one self operating supply chain that makes cars. We make more cars of ship them faster.

The day machines 100% replaced humans throughout the industries it will be an other problem because capitalism is built upon the premise that man is paid because he brings value. Once that’s over and you don’t have money the things you’ll consume less are the nice to have so whole countries might be in trouble. So either we all be able to bring other kinds of values, either the system will have to change not to collapse ?
I'm a digital nomad and have high hopes for the traveltech industry, but it won't be the next big wave of anything because the market is already captured by big tech (google, booking and others). What I'm seeing happening now is solo founders creating micro-saas that covers just a small aspect of traveling and making a living off it.
According to existing Supreme Court precedent[1], nationalization of companies requires approval by Congress, not just the President, so that would make it more difficult.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co._...
I’ve made it a game to find and report new ones on my longer runs.

There is one near me, in a relatively upscale area, that has repeatedly been taken down and thrown into a culvert. There are currently two old flock cameras still on the pole down there and seemingly unreachable. But it is always quickly replaced.
Since they are both private companies there has to be a twist, an upside.

I'm going with the $14b of value drop as a realised loss to offset some other state, and shedding his debt to the middle east who provided leveraged debt finance. Given the massive decline in tesla stock worth I can't quite see it but perhaps a side effect of things is about value over time: Musk probably acquired a massive capital gain in tesla stock even with the current drop in value.

It's either money, debt or control. Or all three. I dont personally see any upside for X or xAI.
Now that you say that, Tesla is already paying the Boring Company, to build a highly advertised ... short tunnel for Tesla Giga factory.

Which they spend 3 years or so building and which seem completely useless. The only big unknown would be how much Tesla did Boring Company for that.

So yeah...
I think “they will pay the tariffs” is an incorrect explanation of tariffs in the sense that it’s exactly the opposite of how tariffs work.

We have always had tariffs. Who is making the argument they are always bad?
But don't stick together too close or you'll get the measles.
Elon Musk's X has a new owner–Elon Musk's xAI
Aren't they just following Apple? Technically you can use an iPhone and Mac without an Apple (iCloud) account but it's pretty dang unsupported except for corp devices. If I recall correctly you can't install anything from the app store on an Mac/iPhone without an Apple account. On Mac you can run other stuff without an account. You can't on iPhone. You'd need XCode, XCode you can only get from the App Store or possibly from the developer site, Both the App store and the developer site require an account.

I'm not saying it's good, but I'd be curious how many non-corp users are using a Mac without an Apple account.

My current Windows box, Windows 11 Pro (forgot the version names). I setup an account registered with MS to get it installed. Then set up a separate user account, not registered with MS. I use that 2nd account for everything. I haven't logged into the first account in years.
There is undoubtedly correlation between neurological state and thought content. But they are not the same thing. Even if, theoretically, one could map them perfectly (which I doubt is possible but it doesn't affect my point), they would remain entirely different things.

The thought that "2+2=4", or the thought "tiger", are not the same thing as the brain states that makes them up. A tiger, or the thought of a tiger, is different from the neurological state of a brain that is thinking about a tiger. And as stated before, we can't say that "2+2=4" is correct by referring to the brain state associated with it. We need to refer to the thought itself to do this. It is not a practical problem of mapping; it is that brain states and thoughts are two entirely different things, however much they may correlate, and whatever causal links may exist between them.

This is not the case for LLMs. Whatever problems we may have in recording the state of the CPUs/GPUs are entirely practical. There is no 'thought' in an LLM, just a state (or plurality of states). An LLM can't think about a tiger. It can only switch on LEDs on a screen in such a way that we associate the image/word with a tiger.
Ah ok

On to one of the other methods employed then
I’d appreciate a coherent reply about what I’m missing.

Your reply could be summarized as “I disagree. Go back and read ‘things’. It’ll tell you you’re wrong”.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102322#:~:text=If%20you%20st...
Your comment doesn't argue against any particular mischaracterization of the left, and doesn't point out any particular strawman. So the answer seems to be not to start anywhere.
If xitter was pronounced as “shitter”, would xAIter be pronounced ʃʌit.ə (shait-uh)?

I’m in favor of the British twist.
> CDOs allowed more finance to flow to housing, which in itself is a good thing - we need more housing.

There's a big leap in that statement. Money is made up and "doesn't matter" (except that we choose to structure our society to pretend it does); what matters is actual productivity. If you want to solve the housing problem, you have to produce more houses; if you just throw money at the problem, the market will expand to consume all available money.
Windows 11 taskbar has space... for 11 icons when run on a laptop screen.

This is killing my (and maaaany others) productivity since in some jobs you constantly need to switch between multiple windows.

Yea, extrnal programs exist, but they can br buggy, cost extra money on top... and good luck installing them on a coporate computer.

Ive seen like 20-30 people with the same problem: taskbar being useless. Windows 11 is bad at switching windows.

The taskbar cant even highlight the active window since everything is "graphically flat" too
Steve Bannon disagrees. He's also wearing an oilcloth jacket symbolically as a Mao suit.
I mean, Xbox has been like this for a long time and clearly it's not dettering sales at all - and even with Windows the functionality to skip it has been well hidden and required bringing up windows console and typing in a command that rebooted the installer - hardly something that your average person would do I guess. So yeah, it's ridiculous, but Microsoft knows it will make zero difference to sales.
Fully agree. Asahi is pretty good now though, and the list of missing features continues to shrink.
Huh, DOGE ought to look into where that 700M went..
What are you gonna do with two hands?
There's an episode on the TV show Elementary, where an Uber type company employee was using a tracking device to see where riders were going so as to blackmail them if any stops seemed sketchy. Do police officers ever let their lives get out of control and get into financial straights?

We think of public surveillance as a sort of crime prevention, and in a certain ways it is. However, the possible abuse of it is mind boggling.
He’s currently bailing himself out because the collapse of his Tesla stock would likely mean he’s unable to service the loans he took out to buy X.

Honestly surprised the VCs that dumped all the money into xAI are on board. I’m guessing he still must have controlling stake.
Just sold my Ford Edge to my wife to $1.3bn - all in stock :)
Is that what a corporate lawyer would say?
So I have Windows 10, and I was not looking forward to the "upgrade" to 11 at 10's EOL because of the TPM requirement.

With this change, I have decided to accept the insecurity of not updating and stick with 10. The only thing I do on Windows is ensure my FOSS is cross-platform.
> Then the 95% odds that trying to dual boot without the correct incantations fucks up being able to boot into Windows

This is fixed now with most desktop systems using UEFI. The bootloader will always show a "UEFI setup" option, and that in turn lets you pick alternate boot choices.
Was this announced at an all hands?
Clearly the $44B price was too high for what it was really worth as a platform - Musk tried to get out of the deal, or at least decrease the price, but was forced to buy it at his initial offer by the courts. But I don't think there's any basis to say it's rapidly failing, at least from an engagement perspective - if BlueSky or Threads were going to kill X, they would have done so by now, or at least be well on their way. Besides, the real value of X is to seize control of a powerful propaganda platform from progressives, and in that he succeeded, maybe even beyond his wildest dreams.
I'm with you. The very few games I play work great on Linux. As a professional dev, there's absolutely no reason to choose Windows (or any OS, for that matter) over Desktop Linux at this point.

I'm convinced Windows is mainly for people that buy computers at Best Buy and corporate IT that are unfortunately funneled into the ecosystem (hats off salute to all you).
Sure it's different, but as noted by my last source, there's very few EV fires that start in or spread to the battery.

So not only do EVs catch fire significantly less than ICEs, but battery fires is just a small fraction of that.
Not the original, but a lossy facsimile that's Good Enough for almost anything. And as the short history of LLMs and other nets has shown us, they're often not even all that lossy.
It’s only a huge hassle now because most DJs don’t spin vinyl so a special effort has to be made for them.

Modern turntables aren’t 1970s tech any more than CDJs are 1980s tech because it has a CPU in it. For starters DJ turntables are direct drive whereas the stuff from the 70s (and, to be fair, most home record players too) are belt drive.

The reason vinyl turntables fail less is because there’s less stuff in them to fail.

That’s doesn’t mean that vinyl turntables are better. Like with a lot of modern conveniences, we gladly enjoy the benefits of the extra tech knowing that it makes those devices harder to repair. But when you say that CDJs are more reliable, I have to call that out as incorrect. It’s just reliability here isn’t the primary concern because CDJ reliability is still very good.

It’s also worth noting that DJs don’t really use CDJs any more either. These days turntables take USB pen drives rather than CDs. I forget the model name for the Pioneers off hand though.

> As badass as it is, I don't think it's all that desirable for a DJ to be opening up hardware mid-gig.

This was a squat party, so very different circumstance to your typical club. But you’d be surprised at just how crappy a lot of club gear can be. I’ve played at places that didn’t even have a working DJ mixer. And this was an iconic London venue too
I mean Belarus isn't a democracy and doesn't uphold human rights. None of that is particularly controversial. Not about outcomes, but about Dictatorship.

Also since I expected you might try to wave it away I noted Russia also violated a bilateral treaty it had with Ukraine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Ukrainian_Frie...

> the recognition of the inviolability of existing borders, and respect for territorial integrity and mutual commitment not to use its territory to harm the security of each other.

Russia has never felt compeled to follow anything. As you note one party has consistently acted in bad faith, but that party is Russia. The question is not why Russia should trust the West with regards to a fantasy of NATO invasion, it's how West or Ukraine can trust it to abide by any deals when it repeatedly violated them and started this war for no reason other then seeking to conquer or dominate Ukraine
Cheers :) I trained and worked as a writer in my previous career, so it's nice to know that at least some of those chops remain. Like every other writer on the planet, I've tried AI for generating some base text that I could then tweak, but I find myself spending so much time rewriting that it's quicker just to do it from scratch...
Ongoing discussion (329 points, 3 hours ago, 378 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509923
Why do this? It was already a loophole that most users would never know of or care about using, but it is essential for a small core user base that cares about how they set up their systems. This cannot be a good business decision.
This is most “AI” companies. It’s kind of sad tbh because I’m building an actual company and when I talk to founders in SF I feel like they’re running scams or just lying. It wasn’t like this 5 or more years ago.

Oh well. Maybe I just don’t understand the game.
Who is stealing from whom in this scenario?
I'm saying you could forbid it in the license. Like some licenses might allow personal but not non-commercial use, you could come up with other disallowed uses. Seems like a better idea than attempting to limits its use to your in-group.
While freeing fraudsters, they're also black bagging PhD students for checks notes speaking ill of a foreign nation. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-new...

It's busy work, this eroding civil liberties stuff.

Nikola's convicted ceo is defended by the current AG's relative btw, and even less surprisingly, donated over a million to trumps campaign. Oh yeah and measles is back and we're not doing the flu vaccine next year. We're totally a serious country, not a rapidly waning oligarchy.
That's been closed for a while now. Now(and even before this most recent update) even if you don't have any network devices present on your machine at all it still doesn't show any option to create an offline account - you just can't do it until you find a way to connect to the internet.

>> is it possile to then create another local user and simply use that?

Yes, that is absolutely an option. Just remember that by default your hard drive is encrypted with bitlocker and Windows sends the encryption key to microsoft to that account you signed in with without asking you first.
Why do you need a proxy? Can't you just go read his materials and see for yourself if you should take him serious or not? Do the work if you are really that interested, I think you won't be disappointed.
He's.... not tho?

> but that does not diminish the vinyl as a controller being superior to a tiny plastic spin wheel on a digital controller.

It's absolutely objective, but the feel of vinyl on a slipmat is absolutely so much nicer than a jog wheel.

But many ppl barely even use jog wheels these days. Just nudging to get in time.

When you spend countless hours getting the right light touch on a vinyl that Tactile feel is absolutely lacking when it comes to more digital interfaces.

I'm not arguing vinyl records sound better. GP and me are arguing that it feels better.
I stopped being a Libertarian around 10 years ago. I could write whole essays about, but it started when I realised that the world was already anarchist and if Libertarian societies were superior then they would naturally outcompete other societies and we would all live in an Libertarian utopia right now.
60% loss in GDP is roughly 60% loss in population. You don't recoup citizens in 10 years with 5% growth.
Probably. It would have made it a lot harder to sell to voters.
> We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience

I completely agree with this. By making Windows insufferable you're enhancing security and user experience by making users switch to Linux, which is superior in that regard. Well done, Microsoft.
Schumer had no leverage. If the budget had not passed, Musk and DOGE would have used that as a excuse to purge even more government employees.
Have you tried using a VM? That's what I do when I want to test cross platform. The benefit being you can just re-create it whenever it starts to harass you about license keys or whatever.
Doesn’t mean it’s also a fair price this time
I find it pretty amazing that so many people are calling Karoline Leavitt a liar. She is the press secretary for the president of the United States.

However, it's possible that mistakes have been made inadvertently. The stock market is down 5 trillion dollars, and the president must be very busy using his business prowess to deal with the situation (just like he did when he turned his casinos around).
The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
At this point it’s mainly my Quest 2 that’s keeping me from keeping my tower booted into Linux most of the time.
https://archive.ph/xBA7x
The author mentions Python bindings in the post.
that's why there's still two completly different UI for managing settings? With some settings available in an UI done in the new, flat style and the old control panel that's still there?
I had been mulling it for a while, but with (the last version of[0]) Windows 10 support ending, and Windows 11 looking like a dumpster fire, I bit the bullet and went Linux on my main desktop, reformatting over the last Windows install in my house. It's been a remarkably smooth transition for me.

At nearly the same time, I re-flashed my phone with LineageOS, but without Google apps. I finally completed my transition away from Google that started with Snowden's leaks, only coincidentally did the same to Microsoft at the same time.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
So there's three revenue streams, all of which are incompatible with offline usage: locking and upsell on cloud services, exfiltrating and selling your data, and showing you ads.

In an ideal world, that would be a triple decker antitrust problem!
MAV – LLM activations visualizer on terminal
working on this lately, would love any feature request/ feedback
Is AI the new research scientist? Not so, according to a human-led study
If I waste 5-7 minutes multiple times every day, that quickly adds up. It's easy to waste an hour or more fiddle farting with these unreliable tools. It's easier to just do it myself.
A slightly more-charitable option: The supporter is willing to take a small virtuous socioeconomic hit as long as Trump/Republicans ensure that "those people" remain an underclass beneath the supporter, because that's how they think the world has to work.

Structurally similar to how another person might pay more taxes if it meant free school lunches for poor kids or whatever.
Only if we have domestic supply of all the inputs, which we don’t. Domestic manufacturing still relies on imported materials.
Here in Norway there's export tariffs/duties on exactly one class of items: fish[1].

Gotta earn some bucks on that salmon going to Japan.

[1]: https://www.toll.no/no/varer/fisk/eksport-av-fisk/eksportavg...
I wasn't talking about risk, I was talking about fraud. There's a lot of fraud going on, and probably always has been and always will be. It becomes obvious when the pie is shrinking, and it's hard to notice when the pie is growing rapidly.

You're using a straw man about risk to argue against my point instead of addressing it directly.

Sure the fraud methods evolve, but the idea that it's some new recent phenomenon is what I'm arguing against.
Nintendo's new system for sharing digital Switch games
I actively avoid using a MS account on my local Windows machines. Until last week when I logged into Teams and Windows activated that account as the Windows account on the next boot. The problem is: I was using my wife's laptop. I dunno how to remove the account without creating more problems.
> Technically you can use an iPhone and Mac without an Apple (iCloud) account but it's pretty dang unsupported

That was the status quo on Windows Home. But there's a big difference between "pretty darn unsupported, expect random breakage in things like the M$ Store" and "we'll stop allowing you to do it at all".
Everybody knows Pyrex started cheaping-out on use of borosilicate glass about the time they changed the logo on measuring cups. "Pyrex" "glass" is mostly ordinary glass now and pure garbage because of the corrosive effects of long-term corporate enshitification.
Windows set up is actually insane, I did it in a VM recently to test my app on Windows. I would say not only does it require a Microsoft account but you also have to agree to (at least) 3 EULAs about sharing/selling your data that are unskippable. Pretty sure it also makes you set your ad preferences.

Absolutely insane for an OS, I don't know how people put up with it as a daily driver.
What's in a Nix Store Path
when Brazil had factories producing cpus clones that enabled McIntosh and pc xt clones to be sold, apple and others pushed the gov to intervene.

USA put on the table the suggestion of a tarif on Brazilian oranges imports, which was so profitable to the local elites there, they not only closed the two factories but also put an 80% tarif on electronics imports to rebuild them as a gesture of good will (explaining politically it was to foster legitimate innovation locally)

Brazil still have that tarif.

also, it's funny how the usa tariffs today are hurting usa companies, but could be seen as a gesture of good will to other nations if you squint as much as Brazilians would have to then, to see the real picture.
The 96GB (HBM2e) SKU is named PPU from T-head semiconductor (basically a subsidiary of Alibaba). The spec is very similar to H20. Other chips they were using include Huawei Ascend 910B (64GB) and maybe other domestic designed chips.
It's weird how Trump's leadership isn't really working out the way he promised us. First of all, the stock market is down by trillions. Second, these tariffs. It's almost as if economic markets don't like sudden changes and uncertainty.

But you're right. After all, Trump turned his casinos around, and he'll turn this situation around eventually too.
It's kind of a bizarre virtuous circle: they only want equally successful committed people. So the price barrier is doing exceptionally well. Nobody who cannot afford it will intrude, and you would have to want to make the organisers wealthy to spend $10k which means align to their philosophy.

Mass weddings for right wingers have been a thing since the Moonies. Well.. before that too but I don't want to invoke Godwin.

I almost wish Motherjones or Rollingstone or someone would drop $10k for a Hunter Thompson style take down. I'll let my imagination suffice thanks.