MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-10-29 09:01:50+00:00
Writing RTL or LTR and alphabet alone don't make a language different.

Hindi and Urdu are 90% the exact same language, and are mutually inteligible (Urdu speaker and Hindi speaker can have complete full conversation with each other) but each is written differently (one LTR the other RTL) and with different alphabets
by igravious | 2025-10-29 09:03:20+00:00
Irish is an official language of Ireland (there is signage and instructions in Irish up and down the Republic) , Frisian is not an official language of the Netherlands to the best of my knowledge

Irish is certainly not a robust vigorous language but your 40,000-80,000 numbers downplay it I'd suggest. Here are some statistics from Deepseek

Category Region Number of Speakers Source & Year Some Ability Republic of Ireland 1,873,997 (40% of population) 2022 Census Some Ability Northern Ireland 228,600 (12.4% of population) 2021 Census Daily Speakers Republic of Ireland 71,968 2022 Census Daily Speakers Northern Ireland 43,557 2021 Census Native/Fluent Global Estimate ~80,000-170,000 Various Sources Speakers U.S. United States ~20,000+ Estimate
by gf000 | 2025-10-29 09:03:43+00:00
> think getting mainline Linux on viable and sustainable on multiple hardware devices is warmer, fuzzier foundation.

You just have to somehow speedrun the decades of development that went into Android to make it decently run on mobile hardware.. never really understood this "throwing out the baby" direction - the UNIX userspace model simply doesn't work on mobile (I would wager it also doesn't work on desktop anymore), has no security (everything runs as your user which made sense when you ran some batch job on a terminal with multiple other users, but nowadays when a single user has as many processes as all the user had back then it effectively means no security between any of those programs), there is no real resource control, no lifecycles, so the device will burn scorching hot and have terrible battery life.

On Android (and iOS) apps were always living in a world with lifecycles so if they wanted to operate correctly, they had to become decent citizens (save state when asked, so they can be stopped and resumed at any moment). This also fits nicely with sandboxes and user permissions, etc.

So without developing an alternative user-space for "GNU-Linux", it's simply not competing with android in any form or shape.

And even if you do, now every GNU app has to somehow be ported to that userspace API (you can't just kill GIMP or whatever Linux process)
by fishbacon | 2025-10-29 09:04:15+00:00
Looks amazing.

A recent game, Eclipsium[0], was a short horror game with a similar esthetic. I really liked it for the simple gameplay and the short (less than 4 hours) completion time.

I wonder if it can carry a larger scale.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2419670/Eclipsium/
by Arnt | 2025-10-29 09:04:19+00:00
Strictly speaking, there's nothing in that constitution that says "the president shall not cancel someone's building permit after he's started building" or "the president shall not cancel someone's travel permit after he's started travelling" or anything like that.

"The president shall not cancel anyone's health insurance while they're in an ambulance on the way to hospital". The constitution does not say that either. It doesn't go into that level of detail.

It doesn't even say that when the government issues a permit (a building permit, visa to travel, a driving license, whatever) then the president can't revoke it on a whim.

I think most people would want government to be trustworthy, reliable etc., though. If you get a license to operate a business or permission to return home from a conference, you should be able to rely on having that.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-29 09:04:56+00:00
The BRs already have a deliberate carve out where a CA can notify that their government requires them to break the rules and how they'll do that, and then the browsers, on behalf of relying parties can take whatever action they deem appropriate.

If you're required to (or choose to) not tell us about it, because of active monitoring when we notice it's likely your CA will be distrusted for not telling us, this is easier because there's a mechanism to tell us about it - same way that there's a way to officially notify the US that you're a spy, so, when you don't (because duh you're a spy) you're screwed 'cos you didn't follow the rules.

The tech centralization under the US government does mean there's a vulnerability on the browser side, but I wouldn't speculate about how long that would last if there's a big problem.
by cutemonster | 2025-10-29 09:06:33+00:00
Reading your other comments, I was just thinking that you seemed to group everyone who look the same, together, and think about them as if they were 1 type of person you could generalize about. For example, white men, or black men, or women. - So, yes I suppose you did.

For example, if your country gets attacked, primarily the men go and defend their country and people. Is that "thoroughly awesome"? Anyway have a nice day
by latexr | 2025-10-29 09:07:23+00:00
Yes. I used to use Wipr 1 and also found it underwhelming, eventually settling on 1Blocker. Eventually I decided to give Wipr 2 a shot and it’s much improved.

It also now allows blocking even outside of Safari. Though that requires iOS/macOS 26, which I have no intention of installing any time soon, so can’t speak for how effective that is.

https://kaylees.site/wipr-filtr.html
by preisschild | 2025-10-29 09:07:41+00:00
> Android is such a massive code base, and was designed more for surveillance and consumption

I disagree. I have been using de-googled / de-spywared Android for a decade now and I really love it. Once you remove google mobile services and rely on open source applications Android feels really good.

Also its questionable if projects such as purism or even the pinephone will ever offer such good security and privacy as a de-googled Pixel with GrapheneOS will.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112712864209034804
by ajnin | 2025-10-29 09:07:51+00:00
> Were you already complaining about this?

Yes, "we" were, definitely. I already can't freely choose the OS that I have installed on my phone because I'm limited in the apps that I can install. For example many government ID and banking apps will refuse to work on GrapheneOS even though that OS is security-focused and will probably keep you safer than your regular Chinese Android flavor. But it's not sanctioned by a big international corporation so it's a no. Is your argument that we shouldn't complain since it is already happening somewhere ?

What's an "official" copy of Android ? AOSP is supposed to be open-source. "Official" means controlled by a multinational corporation. I'm very puzzled that the reaction to these entities gaining even more power, outside of democratic control, is met with a "oh it may me worse, it may be not" type of reaction.

Would you be ok if for example your government's website to pay your taxes mandated a device with attestation knowing you can only get one from Google, Apple or Microsoft ?
by PetitPrince | 2025-10-29 09:08:29+00:00
I agree.

Practicing photography on a smartphone is terrible compared to a dedicated device; in both ergonomics (hard to get a good grip, unprecise shutter actuation due to the touchscreen, and sometime unreliable software) and quality (granted, I like to actually print my picture instead of looking at them on a tiny screen; but still the difference is noticeable).

But that doesn't doesn't necessarily mean you need a camera system that cost as much as a small car; you can get plenty joy with an entry-level mirrorless (which would be in the pareto 20% price range).
by courseofaction | 2025-10-29 09:08:59+00:00
They're right. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and Enshittification have been the core experiences of digital life with corporations in charge of platforms.

My hope is that LLMs will help open source developers provide reasonable alternatives to the gatekeeping and spyware that corporations are now making their bread and butter. Example: Recent tried to use Unity LTS for a small project - the software is a joke now, basic functionality is broken out of the box. A couple of hours with an LLM and I had all the features I needed using a more lightweight library, monogame. Not an operating system, but I'm hoping the pattern will continue as LLMs get more proficient at code - the moat of "this is hard and laborious to do" will be drained.
by gf000 | 2025-10-29 09:09:24+00:00
> The odds of having just about any Linux distro work "out of the box" without manual tweaking on just about any computer

Well, show me that magic OS that works on "just about any computer", because I am sure Windows ain't that. OSX only works on their select devices, and Windows have its own way of sucking. Let's be honest, there are shitty hardware out there and nothing will work decently on top. People just try to save these by putting Linux on top and then the software gets the blame.
by joha4270 | 2025-10-29 09:09:45+00:00
That link isn't really a source for residential 3-phase power.

Almost every electrical network is 3 phase distribution, the matter under debate is if you bring every phase to each house, or if a phase reaches every third house.

Anecdotally I have never seen an electrical panel without three phases, but when I went looking it was like trying to find a source for the fact the sky is blue.
by snthpy | 2025-10-29 09:11:14+00:00
Yeah, we deliberately left out DML to focus on DQL exclusively. I also find that appealing from a philosophical angle since it allows PRQL to remain completely functional.

I haven't thought about DML too much but what I could envision is an approach like the Elm or React architecture where you specify a new state for a table as a PRQL query and then the compiler computes the diff and issues an efficient update.

For example

DELETE FROM table_name WHERE id = 1;

would be something like

table_name = from table_name | filter id != 1

SQL:

INSERT INTO table_name (id, name) VALUES (1, 'Jane');

PRQL:

table_name = from table_name | append [{id=1, name='Jane'}]

Update is the trickiest to not have clunky syntax. For example what should the following look like?

SQL:

UPDATE table_name SET name = 'John' WHERE id = 1;

I can think of `filter` followed by `append` or maybe a case statement but neither seems great.

Any ideas?
by bonesss | 2025-10-29 09:12:07+00:00
> WFH only, limit stress, run away from job if things go bad again

I’m facing a similar set of health-based restrictions, it’s edifying and impressive how you’ve pushed through. I’m curious: how do you broach this with potential employers and shape your job search/career path around it?

Applying for pure remote positions puts one in direct competition with younger people who can pull obscene hours with no accommodation needs. Leading with disability/accommodation needs feels like the opposite of the ‘best foot forward’ honeymoon phase salesmanship associated with new jobs, and kinda soul crushing regurgitating the circumstances for chronic illness while hoping for a job. And uncontrollable management changes can eliminate medical protections and acceptable working environments, leading to an enhanced need to be able to hop jobs (exacerbating both the previous situations).

I’m fortunate my primary skills are amenable to straightforward accommodations, but you gotta get the job to do the job…
by jalapenos | 2025-10-29 09:12:25+00:00
That seems a less important bother than say that a man has ploughed into a crowd.

Well, not in Europe because that's the culture, but it objectively is.

And I mean, it's not like the racists hear "a car" and think "oh it was just a car on its lonesome, not like driven by a person from [group that I hate]", do they...
by spiderfarmer | 2025-10-29 09:12:25+00:00
Yeah, that argument is bullshit in itself. Trump learned to double and triple down on his lies from Roy Cohn:

https://forward.com/culture/431851/how-roy-cohns-shame-made-...

You'll never make me believe he doesn't do it on purpose. He thrives on it. There's no reason for him to stop lying before he's dead. Again, just like Cohn.
by kijin | 2025-10-29 09:13:13+00:00
You can do a puzzle on any flat surface, but there's always the problem of how to glue the finished puzzle to that flat surface without turning the whole thing upside down. After all, it's the backside of the puzzle that you want the glue to be on.

I found that a coating of quick-drying, low-viscosity liquid glue on the front side works pretty well, because the glue easily flows into the gaps between the pieces, and then into the space between the puzzle and the board. Once the glue dries off, all the pieces and the backing board become a single chunk of cellulose-infused plastic. This is probably much better than either the thick mod podge or the adhesive sheet that OP tried to use at first.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-29 09:13:18+00:00
Ah I see, I thought this was like a constant thing like it was for me. My flights were all regional so it wasn't so bad in terms of flight time, but it did take over my life. For example, I often had to be at a meeting at 10-11am monday morning in a country 3 hours flight away. So that meant leaving my house at 1am, driving 2.5 hours to the airport, hurrying through the airport, taking a 6am flight and rushing into a taxi to just get there in time.

By that time my whole weekend would be ruined of course and my week would start with a deep lack of sleep.

And I'm not a relationship guy, I'm a bit autistic so any business gathering means heavy stress for me, no positives.

I'm glad that "let's fly over and have a meeting" culture has been dampened a LOT since the pandemic. At least in the company I work at. It used to be basically a power move, for a manager to get a whole room of seats filled with people flying over to their meeting. Often there was hardly any need for us to be there in the first place. It was just a power move for someone to feel important.

But I'm glad you enjoy it at least some of the time!
by lifestyleguru | 2025-10-29 09:13:23+00:00
> Having lived in Europe 10 years (I am from south America), it is crazy that the rest of the world doesn't follow Europe's health coverage: everybody is covered, all the time,

Stop lying. It's trivial in Europe to end up without any health insurance even as a citizen, e.g. in Poland without employment and without unemployed status (the offices make it very difficult to register and keep the unemployed status).
by Fraterkes | 2025-10-29 09:14:01+00:00
Ironically, I think a large part of the sense of scale comes from it being a vertical video. Really helps with stacking all these layers of environment on top of each other. Anyway, Rückenfigur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCckenfigur) style concept art where there's a tiny figure in front of a huge layered environment has been common in games for decades, the difference is that with ai we can create """concepts""" that look nearly like a playable demo.

This game looks cool, but also the trailer just showing 3 static scenes from the same angle for a minute is a sure sign that this is very very early.
by kuhsaft | 2025-10-29 09:14:28+00:00
> And yet the pirates still have all of their content, because DRM doesn't work. One pirate cracks one locked device and can download their entire catalog with it.

I know and I'm saying what we are seeing is a push to plug all those holes. iOS, Android, macOS SIP, Windows Secure Boot. All root-of-trust systems, so that only operating systems that prevent copying can download it in the first place.

Those pirates aren't using locked devices to copy content. They are using devices lacking copy protection.
by sham1 | 2025-10-29 09:14:31+00:00
Yeah, this is pretty much the rationale behind the Paradox of Tolerance, which you alluded to. Just as a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance without eventually just becoming intolerant, this clearly demonstrates that the same is true for Free Software. If we tolerate the use of Free Software for the use of the non-free software, eventually one loses the freedom in Free Software.

It's of course not a perfect analogy since the original Free Software still exists, but since in practice the dependency was from free towards non-free, like in this instance, it still works. Google and its anti-freedom practices are still in effective control of the Android ecosystem even though it's still technically free by way of AOSP.

And just as how some people argue that intolerance of the intolerant by a tolerant society is bad, so do some people argue that things like the GPL is bad because it prevents downstream modifications etc. going from free to non-free. Maybe this will help re-evaluate the culture around this stuff.
by azangru | 2025-10-29 09:14:39+00:00
> When I first saw React.js, I had a quick glance and thought that it was cool, they finally figured out how to do a Cocoa-like MVC UI framework in JavaScript.

> Overall, though, the use of a true MVC UI framework seemed like a great step forward

The author keeps saying 'MVC' as if it ever made any sense in the context of React. The old react docs used to quip that react was the v of mvc, until this notion was scraped entirely; and although one might perhaps suggest that props and templating is a v, and state is conceivably an m, there has never been anything concrete one could point out and argue that it is a c.
by yourusername | 2025-10-29 09:16:11+00:00
>I'm not sure about that. The issue that I'm having is that if I could spend $10,000 and not have fridge issues for 10, 15, 20 years I might be tempted.

What kind of fridge issues are you having? I just buy a $1000 Miele/Liebherr and it's fine for 10+ years. 0 repairs.
by avadodin | 2025-10-29 09:17:08+00:00
Unless you're thinking of one of the other Swiss languages, Swiss German is actually a variety of Hochdeutsch.

Historically, Germany used to be divided into countless small fiefdoms and each of them used to speak unique barely intelligible languages.

Hochdeutsch is in opposition to Niederdeutsch which Dutch and arguably English are a variety of.
by Theofrastus | 2025-10-29 09:17:30+00:00
I moved away from tinkering, ever since I had to juggle family, job, chores, and social contacts. I don't want to spend the little free time I have fixing broken configs. Instead of rolling my own self-build NAS / home server like I used to, I just have a Synology now. I moved back to Windows after I fcked my graphics driver on linux and didn't have enough time to fix it in a day or two.

Still, I love the tinkering spirit, and it still is a part of me, but it's not very pragmatic to implement in my life nowadays.
by thunspa | 2025-10-29 09:17:32+00:00
I think there's an unfinished journey whenever I hear such a story. Like someone who learns just enough about music that they "feel like" Bach is better than Taylor Swift, but then never move to the other side to use their newly acquired competence to understand what's nice about Taylor Swift's music as well.

E.g. a great designer will be able to design houses in very different styles, because they can understand what gives each of those styles its own specific beauty.

There's a lot to say about this, but I think your coffee friend never passed the snob-like point, which is a point I think most people reach when they learn just enough about something and that makes them feel superior. But if you keep going, then you start to understand what makes Italian coffee great as well, for example.

Wrt to coffee, I speak from experience, after going through very expensive equipment, I have learned to enjoy very different styles of roasts, coffees, etc. I still have preferences, I'm just far less judgmental.

Applies to most of my hobbies, I've seen this trajectory very often.
by fooker | 2025-10-29 09:18:38+00:00
Ah you don’t seem to understand the depravity of the modern American medical system. It’s not as bad in the way you think, and significantly fucked up in a different way.

If you do not have insurance, you tell them you don’t. They’ll give you a bill lower than what you’d pay as deductible if you had insurance. Or you just don’t pay…

This raises insurance premiums and reduces the quality of healthcare in a dystopian AF feedback loop.
by falcor84 | 2025-10-29 09:19:31+00:00
It's actually an interesting example, because unlike Warp that tries to be a CLI with AI, Claude defaults to the AI (unless you prefix with an exclamation mark). Maybe it says more about me, but I now find myself asking Claude to write for me even relatively short sed/awk invocations that would have been faster to type by hand. The uncharitable interpretation is that I'm lazy, but the charitable one I tell myself is that I don't want to context-switch and prefer to keep my working memory at the higher level problem.

In any case, Claude Code is not really CLI, but rather a conversational interface.
by boobsbr | 2025-10-29 09:19:49+00:00
> HEADPHONES, blinders, and 'No'. Eliminate unwanted inputs at the earliest point of entry.

Open-floor offices, non-stop emails and chat messages, several meetings scattered throughout the week and the day.

This kills productivity and increases stress and fatigue for people that need to concentrate to work on complex stuff. There's also the time you need to properly switch contexts.
by darkwater | 2025-10-29 09:20:02+00:00
> Isn't the intelligence of every other person alien to ourselves?

If we agree that we are all humans and assume that all the other humans are conscious as one is, I think we can extrapolate that there is generic "human intelligence" concept. Even if it's pretty hard do nail it down, and even if there are several definitions of human intelligence out there.

For the other part of the comment, not too familiar with Discourse opensource approach but I guess that those rules are there mainly for employees, but since they develop in the open and public, they make them public as well.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-29 09:20:31+00:00
I don't really believe this explanation, it is too narrow (in the usual "the US is the whole world" sense typical for US-based forums), and the same trend seems to be happening in many countries and cultures at once.

My explanations would be:

a. A lot of your current life is recorded online and visible to others, and people in general behave more carefully when under de facto surveillance. Similar to self-censorship in authoritarian countries.

b. Personal contact has been supplanted by virtual contact over apps, especially among the young, and doing risky things, including sex and booze, faces a lot more obstacles when your main gateway to the rest of humanity, including friends, is a screen.

Quite a lot of my, uh, non-standard behavior in my 20s was initiated by an impulsive decision in company of others, who came up with some ...idea... This is what just does not happen when everyone is in their room alone.
by lifestyleguru | 2025-10-29 09:21:00+00:00
I would say that maybe half dozen of countries across entire Europe have this stereotypical good quality public universal healthcare. Even Germany starts experiencing bottlenecks. God have mercy on you if you need help from doctors in Poland, Romania, or Hungary. You will wait, you will be humiliated, and you will pay a lot of money multiple times. Basically you need an assistance of healthy and capable person to guide you through the corrupted system.
by submeta | 2025-10-29 09:21:32+00:00
Tinkering is the ultimate satisfaction of a hacker. When you love perfecting your tools, shaping your terminal, your Emacs, your Neovim, or whatever tool you use, exactly the way you want it. You spend hours doing it and feel enormous satisfaction from every small improvement.

That is exactly what a Japanese swordsmith, a chef, or a craftsman does. Perfecting their work, finding joy in refinement, and taking pride in the process itself.

I used to see tinkering as a form of procrastination. But not anymore. What does that even mean? That we should be doing something else, and devalue this activity? What if this very activity, and the results it produces, bring me deep satisfaction? In that case, it is not procrastination. It is the perfection of the art.