MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bsenftner | 2025-06-10 11:46:18+00:00
That "lost something" is effective communications, it's not taught, not respected, and as a result we now have multiple generations of people that cannot express themselves, believe doing so is a lead up to punishment, and if asked to explain their work cannot do so with anyone that is not up to speed with the acronym salad their career pretends is communicating. The effective communication skills is also how people can sit down with widely opposing views and discuss their cherished topics: debate is not supposed to be "to win" it is supposed to be to reach a synchronized understanding so the two or more groups have a common ground to move forward. Debate to win is entertainment, and destroys the entire purpose. The fact that nobody knows this anymore is the clear indication of the success of the manipulator in this society. The dumbing down succeeded, and today people can't even formulate in their mind how. It was by attacking communication itself. Look around you, how many people do you know that can actually convey understanding of fresh new topics to others? That used to be a common skill.
by conradludgate | 2025-06-10 11:46:51+00:00
You only need to expose a docker daemon, which docker compose will use. The daemon is just a unix socket to a process that manages the containers, which is very likely a trivial change on top of the existing container codebase.

For instance, Orbstack implements the docker daemon socket protocol, so despite not being docker, it still allows using docker compose where containers are created inside of Orbstack.
by jeppester | 2025-06-10 11:46:58+00:00
> Before you jump on me, every year, I install the latest Fedora/Ubuntu (supposedly the noob-friendly recommendations) on a relatively modern PC/Laptop and not once have I stopped and thought "huh, this is actually pretty usable and stable".

Funnily enough that's how I feel every time I use Windows or Mac. Yet I'm not bold enough to call them "piss poor". I'm pretty sure I - mostly - feel like that because they are different from what I'm used to.
by resource_waste | 2025-06-10 11:47:12+00:00
This is a pretty wild take.

Its reasonable to install a different OS on Android, even if some features don't work. I've done this, my friends and family have done this, I've seen it IRL.

I've never seen anyone do this on iPhone in my entire life.

But I flipped and I'm a Google hater. Expensive phones and no aux port. At least I can get cheap androids still.
by alpaca128 | 2025-06-10 11:47:18+00:00
Getting those stats seems practically impossible if you want to include as many languages as possible (I don't know how many TIOBE includes, they don't seem to state that anywhere on their site).

How do you measure the downloads on Github? Do you include only releases or also git clones? How do you compare languages with a package manager vs languages without one? What if the language compiler is hosted on a less popular git platform or maybe a personal website? Do you contact those regularly to give you the precise numbers? How do you know those numbers are reliable? How do you e.g. count the number of Rust toolchain installations without putting telemetry into rustup? Do you count nightly + stable + testing toolchains separately?

So it makes sense TIOBE only uses search results as those are comparable - or at least they seem to be, because search engines change their ranking and filtering methods over time and maybe personalize results.
by kriro | 2025-06-10 11:48:13+00:00
Usually the biggest hurdles are Active Directory, deep Excel trenches and reliance on Outlook. The OS itself, browsers to get the job done and non-Excel office stuff are usually not an issue. There might also be deep reliance on Acrobat or some digital signature stuff etc.

Either way, great news. I hope it works well.

How are Danes submitting taxes? That's still Windows only software in many countries (though many have switched to web portals already).
by elric | 2025-06-10 11:48:20+00:00
Yeah, I hate it. I've mostly tweaked mine to be as close to an address bar as possible, but I still haven't found a way to fully revert it to an address bar. I don't mind it searching in my history or bookmarks. But automatically sending my keystrokes to a search engine by default is something that really pisses me off. I have an address bar and a search bar. One is for entering addresses, the other is for entering searches. I don't quite get why they insist on turning them into one big ball of mud.
by miroljub | 2025-06-10 11:48:35+00:00
The reasoning here is completely flawed. You don't buy a software dev, you rent him. His salary is an operational expense, that should be deductible in a year it was paid.

Now, let's imagine a company buys a slave. It's one time capital investment, like buying a car or a machine, and you need to depreciate the cost over multiple years.

The only way it makes sense to treat software developers as a capital investment instead of an operational cost is if they were treated legally as slaves. And slavery is not legal any more. Or is it?
by cess11 | 2025-06-10 11:48:41+00:00
Ninth grade introduced me to algebra and my 'technical' high school program spent a lot of resources teaching calculus and algebra. I also opted into all the other math courses they had, doing discrete math, complex numbers and stochastic math. I didn't have points to put into taking it but the school also offered a course on modern physics, teaching stuff like field equations and quantum mysteries.

One of my adolescence girlfriends left Russia after fifth grade and had an introduction to both algebra and some discrete math there.
by fragebogen | 2025-06-10 11:48:51+00:00
>It's just too fiddly, requiring way more "IT people" running around configuring Samba shares and printer drivers.

IIRC several German states went with nextcloud to make the transition a bit smoother. No idea about the effort when it comes to print servers, but on the other hand Denmark is quite digitized at this point and I would imagine printing papers is less of a thing there than in Germany.

>And LibreOffice is many many years behind MS Office, and it'll continue to be that way.

I believe you, but could you elaborate on what's missing?
by adornKey | 2025-06-10 11:48:53+00:00
Most likely it depends on what you want to do. I used LibreOffice a lot (mainly Calc). A lot of areas were surprisingly buggy, but in some important areas it had more advanced features than Excel and performance was great.

One thing I learned was, that there is no compatibility. You can load some files from Excel, but to get something done, it's better to start a new file from scratch and import the data from csv. As soon something is more advanced (like configuring an axis of a diagram) it's all different.

Most important - CSV-Import in Calc is something that works just fine in LibreOffice, while the CSV-import in Excel has always been hardly bearable.
by Waterluvian | 2025-06-10 11:49:17+00:00
Every story like this has me thinking about two things:

1. Companies have no soul. They are, by design, just chasing revenue. Everything else is just a risk to be factored.

2. There are real humans at these companies who choose to take part in the business and design and engineering, etc.

I don’t think these humans have no soul (though some won’t), and I don’t think they’re stupid (though some are). I think it’s just very, very easy to create a system of people collectively doing evil things where no one person carries the burden of evil individually enough to really feel sick enough with what they’re contributing to.
by kcplate | 2025-06-10 11:49:55+00:00
Here are a bunch of “Nobodies” talking about vaccinated folks not getting sick (or very low chance of getting sick) and not being contagious and spreading the virus. We know now that this was all bullshit.

We all can look back on this time and choose to remember what we want. I am going to remember the government mandating an ineffective vaccine and lying to me about it.

https://youtu.be/3gYbfIThc7A?si=O4SCq-RwwEiWt_7W
by stdbrouw | 2025-06-10 11:50:14+00:00
I wonder if it's really that rare for lawyers to look at a case from a strategic / economic point of view? When at some point in the past I was considering suing a company for breach of contract, that was pretty much what the entire initial conversation with our lawyers was about: they considered the timeline, probability of winning, costs for the lawyer'ing, costs for external experts, ability to recoup legal costs if successful or to incur those of the counterparty if not, ability of the counterparty to pay, alternatives to litigation and so on.

After about a day of prep work on my part, having them read through that prep work for about an hour and then discussing it with me for another hour, we concluded that the expected outcome was break even, with a time investment that was decidedly not break even, and did not proceed to litigation. They really helped our company to look at the problem objectively and without emotion, and I really hope that's not a rare experience!

(That said, I do understand that strategies for successfully dealing with being sued might need to get a bit more creative than those for deciding whether to sue.)
Show HN: High End Color Quantizer
by big-nacho | 2025-06-10 11:50:15+00:00
This is a personal project I've been working on for a long time now.

I stumbled upon the color quantization problem while doing something related for work. I then found an interesting paper for which I could find no implementations online, and the thing went from "let's implement this paper" to getting pretty obsessed with the whole thing.

It's at an early, eaaaarly stage. There's a lot of work to be done, and it's a memory hog, but generally speaking works quite well, and the output is for the most part very high quality, so I'm happy to share it as beta.
by rafaepta | 2025-06-10 11:50:45+00:00
I sometimes feel guilty. I’ve tried to set goals (I really have) but it’s just not how I’m wired. I tend to improvise my way through things. Even as a kid, I remember never feeling that urge to "win" at anything. Sports, board games, whatever. Other kids would light up with competition. I’d just… show up, participate, drift through it. I always felt slightly out of sync with that whole dynamic. That’s why this line hit me so hard: “Some of the most powerful forms of progress emerge from people who stopped trying to win and started building new game boards entirely.” Maybe that’s been the point all along. Thanks for sharing this.
by arghwhat | 2025-06-10 11:50:48+00:00
While I won't comment on whether the move made is smart:

> 1. How much is compatibility with outside users and past documents necessary?

Not an issue, document compatibility is a solved problem and any issues experienced would be minor (e.g., a missing font or broken animation leading to slightly different presentation).

> 2. What is the system management story?

Corporate "system management" solutions are entirely broken on Windows, especially upgrade and software bundle management. It actively causes more harm and security issues than it solves, and needs to die.

It's dumpster fire of technologies that get stitched on top of each other, all conflicting and ultimately training all employees to ignore all signs of malicious intervention: How do you expect a user to sceptical of questionable popups/browser hijacking/similar, when your setup involves training users to ignore cmd.exe windows popping up randomly and to always interact with highly inconsistent, constantly changing and overall questionable popups appearing at any time of day asking you to do weird things (installing apps you didn't ask for, updating, rebooting, upgrading, often with countdown timers for making decisions)?

Should you have the ill-advised desire to bring the worst and most defective parts of Windows IT management to Linux, there's a handful of big vendors providing similar solutions there. So "not an issue", other than it being a terrible idea.
by wongarsu | 2025-06-10 11:51:33+00:00
Not just planning, also concerns about privacy, data sovereignty and espionage

With the CLOUD Act any US company can be compelled to give up data of their EU customers. Fancy government structures like AWS's sovereign cloud are unlikely to solve this. You just can't responsibly store data in a US cloud if you don't want the US to know what's in there. And not storing data in the cloud is getting more and more difficult. The US is not above spying on its allies, and it's questionable if the current administration even sees Europe as allies
by jmyeet | 2025-06-10 11:52:05+00:00
I'm reminded of zombie cookies [1].

This was 15+ years ago now but Verizon (and others?) used Flash (because browsers still shipped with support for that in the 2000s) to create an undeletable cookie. This was settled for low 7 figures.

Privacy legislation has advanced a lot since then and the EU doesn't play around with GDPR violations, particularly when it's so egregious. I don't expect a $32B fine or settlement but it won't surprise me if this costs Meta $1B+.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/verizon-to-pay-1.35-milli...
by yeahforsureman | 2025-06-10 11:52:53+00:00
Disagree on almost all points. Glass and the relative absence of color, texture and patterns make it look cold, detached, almost inhuman and absent of anything your eyes could rest on. There are ways to make this approach look cool and futuristic, but it suffers from the same downside as a lot of the white/glassy modernist architecture: the human eye abhors lack of detail and natural/organic patterns and texture. (It makes for a great canvas for graffitti though...)

Meanwhile, Android's Material You/Expressive design language is taking almost an opposite approach. Personally, I prefer it to Liquid Glass by a wide margin.
by geerlingguy | 2025-06-10 11:53:03+00:00
Sounds like you're affected if you have either Facebook or Instagram app installed on an Android phone, you're signed into your account, and you don't have anything set up to block tracking pixels and the like (though that last part I'm not as sure of).

Getting through VPNs and incognito mode are the most egregious parts of this offense, though. I think some people are under the impression that's a way to act like you're in total privacy... but it's not. It's just an easy way to act like you're in a new browser session or coming from another location, mostly.
by ranguna | 2025-06-10 11:53:43+00:00
Tldr because this article has way too much fillers to my taste (but I'm sure there are people out there that enjoy reading that kind of thing):

The native Instagram and meta apps start a server listening on predefined ports when you launch said apps, they eventually run on the background as well. When you are on your browser, whether in private more, not logged, refused or disabled cookies, or anything else that might make you feel like you are not being explicitly tracked, the browser will connect to the locally running servers through webrtc and send all tracking data to said servers from the browser.

The android sandboxing thing is basically about how Android isolates each app and should only allow communication through android intents that inform the user of such inter app communication, such as sharing photos and the like. In this case, the browser is communicating with Instagram and Facebook apps without letting the user know.

The legal infregement here is that this happens even when you refuse to be tracked, which is a violation of GDPR and another law mentioned in the article.

The 32B figure is a theoretical maximum (but they also mentioned 100B+ in the article, which confuses me).
Show HN: Living room – A shared TV where anyone can change the channel
by sirbread | 2025-06-10 11:53:53+00:00
Hey HN! I made a site called living room. It's basically a TV that's shared across everybody using it. Anyone who's on the site can switch the channel, and everyone else instantly sees the change. The "channels" are just random live Twitch streams, so you never really know what you'll get. Sometimes, it's an esports guy, and sometimes, it's a sleep stream. And everybody watches it.

FYI, you can also shatter the TV screen.

Repo: https://github.com/sirbread/living-room

Would love to hear your thoughts. Try it out with some friends (or strangers). :)
by pieds | 2025-06-10 11:53:53+00:00
No, they aren't. These things happen all the time. Anyone can install Linux on a few laptops. Heck, 'anyone' can create their own Linux distribution. And plenty do. To make a difference they need to hire staff to actually manage it. And because Linux doesn't have the same facilities they probably need to be developers. Europe doesn't have a track record of hiring developers for government service. As a politician from the "Moderates" she is likely against it. It's now all privatization all the time. The US ironically does. I bet this doesn't last much longer than until there is a new minister for digitalisation.
by frenchmajesty | 2025-06-10 11:54:27+00:00
Very impressive but not surprising coming from Meta. They have an history of doing this kind of things.

Back in the early 2010s, they found a way to spy on HTTPS traffic on the iOS App Store to monitor which apps were getting popular. That's what allowed them to know WhatsApp and Instagram were good acquisition targets.

At this point, I think the race for Zuckerberg is, can Meta survive long enough for the next platform shift (AR or VR) where they will own one of the major platforms and won't need to abide by any reasonable rules before their "internet tentacles" that sustain the Ad Machine are cut off.

My bet is they will make it. Though I don't wish it, they're on track.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-06-10 11:55:03+00:00
some absurdly trivial fraction of Apple's entire value.

Sorry, that logic doesn't hold.

Charging users $1 per month for an iCloud subscription capable of backing up your phone is some absurdly trivial fraction of Apple's entire value --- yet they still do it.

Just out of pure curiosity

I think it's pretty well established that large corporations are mainly motivated by money --- not curiosity. But suggesting otherwise does tend to validate my point --- the extreme viewpoint needed to rationalize the actions of a company that touts privacy.
by jstimpfle | 2025-06-10 11:55:28+00:00
> Rent a van?

So you're going to drive a car after all?

> Or use a moving company.

You can do that if you move between apartments (and can afford to pay the service), but not if you're getting a few things spontaneously.

> Some places just aren't densely populated enough to ever make public transport work well. Many places are though, even quite small cities, and then it's freedom to not have a car.

That's why it's never either-or but typically both. Most people need, and have, access to a car in one way or another. That doesn't mean they don't use the public transport, bicycle, or walk by foot when they can.
by UncleEntity | 2025-06-10 11:55:39+00:00
Does anyone really believe their metadata is safe from any government... or non-government for that matter?

I mean, TFA's whole argument is the un-encrypted header portion, designed to route the message, can be used to track who the message is sent to. Oh, and some dude provides internet service to Russian governmental agencies with their ISP located in Russia.

If you're doing dodgy stuff (like political speech) you don't want the government to know about it's probably best to conduct that business offline as they are all watching you.
by honeybadger1 | 2025-06-10 11:56:37+00:00
LA is definitely okay with illegal immigrants, but it's akin to a deal with the devil. It's a sacrifice on their part for cheap labor in exchange for the occasional burning down and looting of their favorite locations when the tide turns against their favor as it is right now. There is an entire economic system and mechanism of living wrapped around this blood-contract in states like California. The moment something threatens it, you see them out there burning, looting, basically being a terrorizer to preserve this system.

Looking at it from both sides, they are providing cheap labor to the bourgeois, taking a penance and it's agreed that it's okay, and now an outsider is coming in(trump and his administration) threatening that contract and they expect the state leaders to protect them, as they currently are with their inaction and posturing that everything is fine and safe until Trump opened his big mouth and showed force. The inaction and posturing not being effective, now they are out there punishing the elite for not protecting them by burning down the city they love, and love for them to work in, like slave labor.

Everyone knows this to be the case in LA, the argument is does ICE have the right to go in and mass-raid? I believe it does act in the interest of the state, but I also believe that no party has ever wanted to solve the issue of illegal but otherwise law-abiding people having a path to be legal, and that issue also should also be of great interest to the state.
by creata | 2025-06-10 11:56:48+00:00
I think calcPathPoints can be made more efficient by calculating the slerp only once (for t = 1/segments), and then maintaining stepQuat like:

// before the loop let stepQuat = new THREE.Quaternion(); // at end of loop body stepQuat.multiply(slerp);

Sorry if this was discussed in the article already.
by arghwhat | 2025-06-10 11:57:20+00:00
> Usually the biggest hurdles are Active Directory, deep Excel trenches and reliance on Outlook.

It's mostly a mental block for the corporate IT department. People are already familiar with other email and calendar apps (e.g., gmail, apple mail, ...), and Active Directory only matters if you're running a lot of internal infrastructure feeding off it, usually through standard protocols like LDAP or OIDC.

> How are Danes submitting taxes?

Regular people don't submit taxes, they only make changes to the report if necessary once it comes out (e.g., to fix a missing deductible, such as commute distance deductible). Most stuff, including deductibles, are automatically reported.

All tax, including personal corrections and corporate tax, is done through an online web application. We do depend on smartphone apps for Android and iOS, but there's no Windows desktop apps or applets anywhere - at least to the public.
by lukan | 2025-06-10 11:57:23+00:00
I talked once to the OpenOffice maintainers (there was no LibreOffice yet) - they were really open for contributions.

But I still did not contribute, because their understanding of a good UI was not what I had in mind.

They are office people.

(At least at that time, but I don't think that changed)

And I was used to how graphical design software worked. I would have had to fork and that was out of my scope.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-06-10 11:57:28+00:00
I think it's a question of habit / inertia. "This is how we've always done things".

In the company I work for, 99% of people spend their days in some combination of teams, outlook, word, excel and chrome. Word is basically for random text which is expected to last longer than an email or for carting around screenshots, Excel is for people who need five lines in a table. All these things work fine in a browser. The other 1% are either accountants who actually use Excel for what it was made, designers, etc.

Among those 99% there are a bunch of people shouting from the rooftops how much security is a priority for the company, so they run around in circles trying to secure a fundamentally insecure OS, while at the same time being scared shitless to update anything for fear of "breaking something". I'm convinced that moving to something like Chrome OS would improve these 99% of people's lives tremendously. But it's not what they're used to, so everybody just keeps on going down the same path.