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Niche topics like linux feel somewhat safe from bots. But the last time I checked the more popular subs.. yikes..

When I see 2-weeks old account "Incendiary-Leg-8592" responding to a post by another weeks old user "Pivotal-Kitchen-0498", I have a hard time believing they are humans behind them.

Great article ! This is the kind of content I always hope to find on HN's front page.

I really wonder how things are organized at Apple to allow for vertical integration to work so well. That feature alone must have involved so many people from so many different teams.

Same thing for me. I suspect their algorithm is basically "Linux+Firefox user agent using the web client ? That's gotta be a bot". From what I see on reddit, it seems that they have been massive ban waves lately. I am given the possibility to give my biometric data to prove I'm human. But no way I'm doing that..

Only for the work of the plebeian. They are still very much in effect when it benefits our overlords.

Are we really a minority ? Feels like a lot of people just suffer in silence.

Even though I dislike SQL on many levels, I would be hard pressed to find a better, widely supported alternative. I gave up writing portable SQL and just target PostgreSQL now.

Just spitballing; I have seen prefixing integers of arbitrary length with a bit 1 as the most significant bit as a way to avoid loosing the leading 0s when serializing the integers if the size is important. Also, IIRC, it's possible to implement shamir using arbitrary length integers instead of a common finite field. Not sure why someone would recommend doing either in that context though.

I hate that my first move when I see an em dash has become to check the old posts of the author to check whether it's a new "habit" of them.

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> what privileges do you feel you've had to give up on the path to a slightly more equitable society?

None. The privileges that I was supposed to enjoy thanks to my gender were either vastly exaggerated or already revoked.

But I still get to "enjoy" the measures installed to counterbalance and compensate for them anyway.

> No military conscription for one

Lucky you. I don't. And the voters for "equality" massively voted to keep it that way for me a few months ago [0]

[0] https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/article/double-non-aux-i...

If you are okay with men being forced to go to war by laws, are you also okay with women being forced to "make more people" by laws ?

We already disgrace ourselves by having some of the core ideologies of our society being blatant lies.

We have been repeatedly told that "equality" is primordial to our values. That men had to forego their privileges in the name of it.

The hypocrisy of the defenders of those ideas suddenly being so complacent when we look at the other side of the coin is revolting.

If society enforces men's roles using the law and you're fine with it, don't come complaining when it does the same for women.

I don't know. A lot of countries in East Asia seem to struggle demographically just as much as Western countries do, if not more.

But at least it seems they didn't go for the easy solutions that is mass immigration, so hopefully their children's "seats" won't be taken when they finally wake up.

On the other hand, as someone living in Central Europe, it's obvious our society is heading towards a radical change. I don't know what will happen, but I don't recall ever reading about a indigenous population becoming a minority being a good thing for them.

This is an overly charitable take on the role of AI companies. A more realistic view would be that they shamelessly plundered the work of millions of people, used it to destroy the livelihood of the original creators, while making a profit for themselves out of this collective nightmare.

> it's delivered for free (as in beer) to the government

Not everywhere though; it's up to the canton or municipality to implement this. It's literally the only reason I still buy stamps. Should be made a thing at the federal level imho.

There is a significant difference between jury duty and military service when it comes to risks and bodily harm. Equating the two as both being "reductions" is absurdly missing the point.

Sorry, I meant the spec and code of the toy project described in the post.

I don't necessarily expect their secret sauce to be openly available. But given the grandiose claims made there, I do expect something to back it up other than a corpospeak "trust me bro".

Is there a link to the specification and the resulting generated code ? I skimmed through the article and the author's github profile, but couldn't find anything related.

Seems like a serious oversight if this is your selling point.

Because Iraq or Afghanistan weren't threatening the man in power. Just take a look at what is currently happening in Iran if you wonder what happens when the local authority fears the crowd.

It's not just the ads though. Am I to think that Youtube helpfully replacing a video title (whose original text I understand) by a half-assed translation into a language that I don't speak is actually Alphabet playing 5D chess ? If so, hats off to you, Google. I totally fell for it.

Color me unconvinced. Google can't even figure what language I speak even though I voluntarily provide them the information in several different ways. I can't understand half the ads they serve me.

Unless the goal is to distract from some unfavorable, heavily redacted files. In which case, this seems to be a resounding success.

Using war to divert unwanted attention away from domestic issues is a proven approach.

Yeah, I would have been interested in the diff too.

That said, the article does mention replacing basically all the hardware and still encountering the issue. FWIW, my personal experience with Apple software so far is that the usage expected for Average Joe is well tested and polished. But stepping outside of that, it's "Here be dragons" territory very quickly.

It doesn't seem to be just Steam. From what I see (from Switzerland), other online stores relying on PayPal seem to be impacted too. Though if the store let me try to use PayPal anyway, I can just switch the currency of the purchase to USD instead of using the currency of the credit card (CHF in my case), thus having my issuing bank do the currency conversion. It seems to work fine so far.

The timing of this problem is weird. Hard not to see a link with the recent troubles with Visa and Mastercard, even if Valve claims that it's not the case.

Indeed. As far as I'm concerned, the touchpads have been the killer feature of the Steam Deck. Emulating a mouse using a stick or the gyros doesn't click for me. The touchpads are just so much better when you need both speed and precision, be it for games (specially shooters and strategy games), or desktop mode (for navigation and web browsing). Plus, it works pretty well for typing text with the virtual keyboard.

I don't understand why none of the other manufacturers implemented those. I wish the Steam Deck had just a little bit of extra power, but I'm not willing to part with those pads. I'm eagerly waiting for the Steam Deck 2.

I suspect you have an issue in the way you select the top 2 when they are several elements with the same value.

I tried an implementation with the values being integers between 1 and 100, and I found stats close enough to yours (~51% for 10 elements, ~64% for 100 elements).

When using floating point or enforcing distinct integer values, I get 50%.

My probs & stats classes are far away, but I guess it makes sense that the more elements you have, the higher the probability of collisions. And then, if you naively just take the first 2 elements and the female candidate is one of those, the higher the probability that it's because her value is the highest and distinct. Is that a sampling bias, or a selection bias ? I don't remember...

It will never cease to shock me how enslaving men for military purpose is still considered an acceptable thing to do in developed countries. Always with the same excuse "It's necessary for the common good". More like "I won't be part of the conscripts going to the battlefield, but will benefit from it, so I'm ok with it".

Even pro-equality and "My body, my choice" people seem content to just pay lip service on the matter, if even that.

Having an alter-ego is one thing, but I strongly suspect that he had at least one sock puppet here during the drama with HN [0]

* a brand new account suddenly appears, defending Marcan's behavior (the only comment/post ever of this account) with a very similar writing style

* Marcan immediately "notices" the new comment while doing "random search" (how ? he claims he doesn't browse HN, and even posted a screenshot of news.ycombinator.com being routed to 0.0.0.0 to block his own access to it the day before)

* Marcan highlights the comment in question on his media account [1], praising them "at least [this commenter] gets it"

Only circumstantial stuff, but sure smells very fishy to me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35400352

[1] https://archive.ph/zdVbA

I feel that a lot of men voted for Trump, not because they liked him, but because they felt rejected by the Left as a whole.

If you go on left-leaning media, you can find comments that would be considered gross hate speech if it targeted any other group, by the hundreds. And yet, people very rarely call them out on that, if ever. There seems to be an omerta on misandry (and anti-white racism to some extent) amongst the Democrats. More than that, a lot of them seem to even revel in it, proud of it.

Not surprising that some men end up with a mindset "I don't care if the Right wins, I need the Left to lose".

The bottom line being that America really needs a middle/center party, but I fear it might be too late.

I would guess Intel is counting on the fact that most people are not knowledgeable enough to pinpoint a defective CPU being the issue when the computer starts crashing.

Heck, even as a SWE building my own computers for almost 20 years, I still have no idea how to properly diagnose a hardware issue when it arises. Beyond checking for explicit errors in journals/logs, and the usual memtest/BIOS update/reinstall the OS from scratch, I resort to replacing each component one by one until the issue disappears. But it's time consuming, and sometimes quite costly. I suspect most people simply replace the entire thing if it's not a prebuilt PC still under warranty.

In my experience, AMD still has some massive stability issues with the VBIOS of their GPUs. But it's not a component that the users can officially update on their own (whichever version the graphic card comes with when you receive it, is what you are stuck with), and most users are not even aware of its existence (even on Windows, the official driver doesn't provide any way to update it, or even check its version). Resulting in two seemingly similar cards, with the same drivers and firmware, behaving wildly differently in some case depending on the production batches the card was part of. Ask me how I know.