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And yet it still contains what looks like human error, e.g. the "Software Components" table mixed up the columns for the database.

Of course immigrants should follow the legal process and illegal immigrants are called that rightfully so.

If you want more people to immigrate you should make the legal pathways more accessible, not tolerate the illegal ones.

> The idea that illegal immigrants need to be deported (and not have a path to legal residency) comes from a view that those jobs should go to American citizens (which will bring economic pain that is intolerable) or from a view that browns don't belong in the USA.

Doesn't the qualification of them being illegal immigrants imply that they aren't going through the legal processes immigrants should go through to get work and residency?

If illegal immigrants gain the same rights as legal immigrants, why even bother following the rules?

> Both Digital Euro and GNU Taler have the psychological burden that you have to exchange "real money" for some kind of digital "monopoly money"

Isn't the idea behind the digital euro the exact opposite? That the money you see on your conventional bank account is famously not real (as the bank goes bankrupt if everyone tries to withdraw), while the money you have in the form of digital euro is real money, the way cash is?

I don't see how you would look at the German constitution as tyrannical. It guarantees rights, not restrictions. (The German constitution is fairly weak btw, most of its articles are optional.) The only potentially oppressive article is the military draft for men.

What the AfD struggles with is that the constitution enforces democracy. And while this is obviously an instance of the tolerance paradox, prohibiting people from removing democracy is the only way to ensure their rights and freedoms, and most importantly their power to control the government (by voting).

The AfD became relevant precisely because the conservatives (CDU) were not far right enough. They exist to be more right wing than the conservatives. They are as blatently far right as it gets.

Germany has five to six parties (depending on election cycle) in the parliament. Noone calls the SPD far right. You may find people debating whether the SPD or the CDU marks the center, but the AfD is clearly far right.

It's funny how people avoid this term. The far left party in the German parliament ("Die Linke") would never deny they're far left. (Their name literally translates to "The Left".)

The entire point of a constitution is to remain unchanged.

The constitution protects people from voting their rights away forever just because they look for a quick solution. This has happened in the past, and to prevent it from happening again, the constitution has been strengthened to the point of banning anticonstitutional parties.

The exact purpose of a constitution is to protect people from voting their rights away. There is lots of history establishing why successful democracies need strong constitutions.

Noone decides that, because that's not the metric. The metric is whether the party is antidemocratic. As we know from history, sometimes people do vote for antidemocratic parties. But back in 1946 it was decided that no antidemocratic parties shall be allowed anymore, no matter how much support they gain.

> you aren't held hostage by someone else for a library you depend on

Is this really the way you look at open-source libraries that are given to you for free, i.e. as a gift? I hope you look differently at gifts people give you in real life.

Which US or Chinese time-series foundation models do you prefer over Mistral's?

> the difference between Early-2025 AI and Late-2026 AI is absolutely massive

If you only accept papers that were published in reputable venues and analyze LLMs that are less than a month old, you are left with zero useful papers (since writing a useful paper takes longer than a month). It is impossible to have an intellectual discussion if all scientific material is disregarded.

Artificial analysis puts it next to Mistral's new model.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the syntax either. But to me the benefits of NixOS far outweigh having to use an unwieldy config syntax.

On many operating systems you keep accumulating junk around your system which become ever harder to clean up. Many techy people re-install their system every few years to clean it up, many non-techy people simply watch their system become ever slower and filled with cruft until they end up buying a new device.

This is the main issue NixOS solves for me. I don't have systemd units or cronjobs or random config files spread across the system. I have one config file/directory, which contains everything.

> Or the modern period where it turns out the security situation in Europe was so totally mishandled that we ended up with the Ukraine war?

What do you mean by this? Ukraine is not part of the EU.

Online polls being easy to manipulate makes it so weird to me that the European Central Bank made an online poll on what the new Euro bank note design should be. (Participants did not have to identify themselves in any way.) I wonder if the results will at all be taken into consideration in the following decision-making process.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr2609...

I learned about it from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798354

I didn't check every linked case, but just the first one is about the left allowing merely 20% fewer buildings than what the organization asked for.

That doesn't seem too unusual, considering the organization probably asks for as much as possible, even if it knows some asks might be unreasonable.

Why would it be stopped by the courts? The constitution explicitly allows expropriation for the public good. It also explicitly says the compensation amount shall account for the interests of the public. (GG Article 14 Point 3)

Cloudflare Tunnels has been a free service of Cloudflare for quite a while now. What's new is being able to use them without needing an account.

> I see a lot of HN users up in arms on the front page thread about LG TVs having VPN SDKs within them etc. And then five minutes later they will go back to their frontier LLMs to print their pay cheque. Fucking hypocrites of the highest order. It's oh noes how bad this tech is in my house but we will happily benefit from it.

Something something participate in society

(Or more elaborate: Disagreeing with the status quo does not make you a hypocrite for benefiting from the status quo.)

The difference matters, as it means that AVIF's "progressive decoding" serves no technical benefit and is only a minor ergonomic benefit: On a website, you could achieve the same effect simply by layering two <img> elements on top of each other, one with the thumbnail and one with the final image.

If layering to <img> elements is fine for your use case, then it simply means you have no need for progressive decoding.

> Progressive rendering (which AVIF supports) decodes a low-fidelity rendition before the full image arrives. AVIF didn't support progressive rendering for a while, and during that time I believe it was deeply oversold. Now that libavif has implemented it (it was always possible), the conversation appears to be over.

This is false. AVIF does not support progressive decoding/rendering. What the author is referring to here is image layering. A lower resolution image layered below the full resolution image, which is loaded and rendered first. That is not progressive decoding/rendering. It is a thumbnail.

Unlike AVIF's false advertising, JXL truly supports progressive decoding/rendering. With JXL, you do not first load a thumbnail before loading the actual image. The lower-quality image that JXL shows while decoding is derived from the data of the actual, full-resolution image.

I don't think that fully captures the situation.

My mother plants tomatoes in her garden. She invests a lot of work into them, only to get a few tomatoes a year. Clearly it is not an economic effort; clearly she is doing it out of passion, not for the actual value of the tomatoes.

However, imagine the plants stopped yielding tomatoes, and would never do so again. Would my mother continue working on her tomatoes? I do not believe so.

I believe that even if you are doing a craft purely out of passion, it is still important to gain value out of the fruits of your labor, be it ever so little.

The files (even the go.mod) contain references to "yourusername". You can be certain this project's LLM use was not highly reviewed and controlled.

Writing out all these names made me realize just how poor the naming schemes of many companies' earbuds are.

I'm sure Apple comes out ahead.

Still, it seems like a good deal. Other high-end earbuds (such as the Sony WF-1000XM6, the Technics EAH-AZ100, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2. Gen) easily cost over $200. Whether the AirPods 5 actually match up to these is to be seen, but I'm optimistic.

tl;dr:

- GrapheneOS is only supported on Motorola's flagship devices, which the author deems too expensive

- Motorola historically has made unlocking the bootloader difficult, and GrapheneOS has not yet confirmed that this will become easier.

- The author does not trust Motorola.