MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CSSer | 2025-11-09 02:20:17+00:00
I, a Millenial with a very active voter record, increasingly do. What seems to be the problem? Perhaps I should point out that representatives still must bring issues to bear, and the age of the average representatives has only very recently dipped into even high Gen X territory. Regardless, if your goal is to spread a little bit of the recent blame around, by all means, don't let me stop you. We should do something about it.
by pols45 | 2025-11-09 02:21:23+00:00
Requires good stories/music/dance/mysticism. And rituals. And modernized pastoral care.

This is why religions have survived the fall of kings, empires and nations. When system starts collapsing under the weight of its ever building contradictions, they allow for stabilization, repair and continuity.

But with the arrival of the printing press and then the internet info tsunami, those older stories and rituals (which act as sync mechanism for large groups over different time frames - daily-weekly-yearly touch points) start loosing influence. This is happening without a good story/sync replacement (see Philosopher Charles Taylor's The Secular Age).

So look to HBO/Netflix/Pixar or the WWE. One is interactive almost real time narrative/emotion resonance/ritual engineering and the other is a deeper slower process. Those are the kind of spaces where potential breakthroughs will come from. Not the totally clueless science or tech world.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-11-09 02:22:14+00:00
'In the early twentieth century, anthropologists embarked on a more ambitious project - demonstrating that something about primitive culture proved that their own political faction was right about everything. Marxists discovered idyllic tribes untouched by capitalism, peacefully sharing their communal resources. Missionaries discovered that every primitive religion was merely a distorted form of Christianity, with a few extra gods and rituals added in to serve local appetites. Feminists discovered that women everywhere developed unique indigenous forms of resistance to patriarchal domination. Postcolonialists discovered that all the other anthropologists were racist.'

The survey of polity mortality this book is supposedly about seems fundamentally biased by the idea that power-seeking and inequality are inherently negative, when that's only a framework that is applicable to the 1859-1973 period of labor shortages relative to land under cultivation making economic growth dependent on restraining the expression of hard power.

In societies without a state there is almost universally a high rate of male mortality from infrequent violent squabbles (about once a year) over territory used for social production - game rangelands, prey pastureland, cropland, marriageable women, adoptable children, choice of protégés. When labor is in the normal case of oversupply second sons don't always make peace with having little to inherit and despots act as a way to restrain the activity of their class.

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It seems a lot of damage done unintentionally in academic works conflating valuable discovery with unevidenced bias comes from being insufficiently reductionist.

People with dark triad traits don't materialise out of the ether, they are selected for by their effect on group reproductive fitness. Their motives and those motives' motives are accountable and transparent to sufficiently thorough psychoanalysis and the root causes for why they keep becoming privileged economically can be found by digging into the weeds of information theory.
by reyqn | 2025-11-09 02:22:38+00:00
NMT doesn't "contain" tranformers and deep RNNs, it can use them. LLMs use a transformer architecture, not everything using a transformer architecture is an LLM. NMT can actually use an LLM, but that's not the case according to the documentation you linked, they use a parallel dataset to train their models.
by Unearned5161 | 2025-11-09 02:24:03+00:00
I think "reduce" has always been pipe dream by the de-growth sector. At its core I'm not convinced that humans can ever willfully engage in managed decline. When I say this I mean societies, large groups, cities, etc. Not individuals. De-growth has a serious scaling issue. It's fundamentally incompatible with the bedrock of why humans come together.
by SahAssar | 2025-11-09 02:24:05+00:00
A supported way would imply guarantees of compatibility and stability.

These sort of perfs in user.js or about:config are clearly labeled as not having those guarantees and therefore "unsupported".

As someone who extensively customizes the look, feel and way that firefox works I think this makes sense. I of course would like mozilla to make a lot more options "officially" supported, especially turning off anything that contacts a remote server without explicitly wanted.
by pentagrama | 2025-11-09 02:25:31+00:00
Nice guide. One small practical tip I rarely see mentioned: if the setup forces a Microsoft account, just create a fresh throwaway account during install. In my experience it only asked for a name and password, no phone or extra data. Once Windows finishes installing you can immediately disconnect that account and leave it unused, or delete it later if you prefer. No command-line tricks needed, just a quick burner account and you’re done.

Plus: I also recommend running O&O ShutUp10++ (ShutUpWin11) for quick privacy hardening. It’s portable and includes a good default preset that makes Windows less intrusive. From the same developer, O&O AppBuster lets you remove bundled apps that can’t normally be uninstalled. Both are one-time portable tools, and while Windows updates may re-enable some settings or reinstall apps, it’s still a solid baseline to start from.

Or of course, ditch Windows for Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin or other solid distro, but you can't always do that for friends and family without causing issues for them.
by ndiddy | 2025-11-09 02:25:36+00:00
You can buy an iBook G3 for ~$50 if by "something a lot like Classic Mac OS" you'd be fine with running actual Classic Mac OS. I agree with you that it seems like AppleWorks or Word 5.1 or something in OS 9 would be a nicer writing environment than the TUI word processor offered here.
by simonw | 2025-11-09 02:25:50+00:00
Presumably their "$1bn ARR from Claude Code" number isn't just the $200/month subscribers, they have $20/month and $100/month plans too, both of which their internal analytics could be crediting to Claude Code based on API usage patterns.

That $1bn number was in a paywalled Information article which was then re-reported by TechCrunch so the actual source of the number isn't clear. I'm assuming someone leaked to the Information, they appear to have some very useful sources.

I doubt this is just US developers - they've boasted about how successful they are in Europe recently too:

> Businesses across Europe are trusting Claude with their most important work. As a result, EMEA has become our fastest-growing region, with a run-rate revenue that has grown more than 9x in the past year.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/new-offices-in-paris-and-muni...
by Isamu | 2025-11-09 02:25:51+00:00
The book is Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp. I am hopeful for this one, most generalizations about collapse are not very good, they rely on avoiding the details of history and instead make sweeping generalizations.

Collapse is one of those tropes that is poorly treated, popular among people who aren’t interested in the details of history and only some grand lesson or some justification for some feeling in their gut about impending doom.
by TwoNineFive | 2025-11-09 02:25:59+00:00
Some good advice but terrible form. Some of you software people have a loud, pretentious, and arrogant ego problem.

With self-serving advertblogs like this, I always imagine that Simpsons episode where Bart has a pot on his head and is banging two pans together, yelling "I AM SO GREAT, I AM SO GREAT, EVERYBODY LOVES ME, I AM SO GREAT!" lol
by fouc | 2025-11-09 02:26:00+00:00
Speaking of writing javascript instead of JSX, I'm a big fan of the hyperscript approach:

var ListComponent = () => { let count = 0, selected = null return { view: ({attrs: {items}}) => m("div", [ m("p", "Clicked: " + count + " times"), m("ul", items.map(item => m("li", { onclick: () => { count++; selected = item }, style: {cursor: "pointer", color: item === selected ? "blue" : "black"} }, item) )), selected && m("p", "Selected: " + selected) ]) } }
by Silhouette | 2025-11-09 02:26:36+00:00
Then no country should have legal authority over companies operating in the country but based internationally.

But this is the real issue. To what extent is a company "operating in" a country where it has no staff and no physical presence?

The principle that someone should become subject to the laws of a country they've never visited and where they have no assets just because they communicated with someone else who does live in that country seems questionable. Even if money is sent by the person living in that country to someone based elsewhere it still seems questionable.

Taken to their logical conclusion these kinds of arguments would kill off a lot of the value of the modern Internet (assuming they could be practically enforced). Can you even write a blog post any more if it might be controversial in any country in the world? Do you have to pay if you show ads next to that blog post and someone from the Sovereign Republic Of East Nowhere visits - but the Sovereign Republic Of East Nowhere has a law prohibiting online advertising as a social harm and imposing a fine of 1000% of global revenues generated through ads? What happens when the laws of two different countries are in direct conflict and one requires you to include an official warning of some kind alongside certain information on your blog but the other one prohibits such statements unless you're formally qualified to give advice in the field?

If you want to interfere with international trade or international communications at all then it makes far more sense practically - and arguably both morally and legally as well - to legislate so that your own people in your own country who are subject to your own laws are the ones who must or must not act in a certain way. If there's some kind of regulation on physical goods then make the person importing those goods responsible for compliance. If you want to tax international transactions then make the person in your country who is participating in those transactions responsible for declaring and paying the tax. But realistically this leads to a lot of non-compliance because your citizens don't have to be experts in international tax law so you can collect your $1.53 when they bought a new T-shirt from some online store based in another country and had it shipped.
by grvdrm | 2025-11-09 02:27:50+00:00
My first thought after reading: where does a guy like Peter Attia fit into the mix? Is he motivated and communicating in legitimate ways? Just a promotion machine at this point? Somewhere in between?

I love the idea of knowing biomarkers but have trouble with what I might do with them. Yes there are specific actions, but then what? A lifetime of SaaS to monitor?

Planning to ask my doctor for expanded tests in upcoming physical - definitely exploring everything I can.

But, doing basics too. Lot of exercise. Weights. Good diet. Get min 7 hours of sleep if possible. Try not to be a maniac filled with stress.
by teeray | 2025-11-09 02:27:55+00:00
“MTBF in decades” is marketing fiction. The diode itself might last forever in a lab, but the driver electronics, thermal paste, seals, and optics sure don’t. Real-world LED headlights die from heat cycling, moisture ingress, and driver board failure long before the diode hits its theoretical limit. Most assemblies don’t even have a serviceable “bulb” to replace. Pretending you can just pop in a $40 LED chip instead of the $900 housing is wishful thinking.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-11-09 02:28:22+00:00
Yea that's the point I'm making that it's a natural monopoly. And yea the examples you provide are another way to handle a monopoly, though it's not really clear to me what the comprehensive benefits actually would be. Other than to create an appearance of arms length from government.

Would have the upside of not being shutdown due to the USA's crazy government shutdown nonsense, tho possibly you still have the shutdowns of a union strike.

Kind of reminds me about how people slip up and occasionally call BC Ferries a crown corporation, and are corrected that no, actually BC Ferries is an independent, company, simply one with the sole monopoly contract to provide ferry service that is 100% owned by BC Ferry Authority, which is... owned by the Province and whose board is 44% selected by the Province (another 44% by municipalities, who are creatures of the Province).

(boy sure does sound like a crown corporation...)
by Nevermark | 2025-11-09 02:29:37+00:00
It is commonly recognized that Democracy could not exist at a granularity where everyone verifiably gets to contribute to every decision (even if only to abstain), including throughout the resolution of unsettled downstream decisions during implementation of settled upstream decisions.

This is very much not a surprise to anyone.

For any Democratic system to work, it must include systems of delegation.

One can usefully talk about tradeoffs of different kinds, granularity, processes and limits of delegation.
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-09 02:30:09+00:00
Maybe? I don't think this is beyond societies, but it does require society to expect it. The idea of reducing had an effect on society back in the 80s and into the 90s, people did reduce, but it didn't last. This is not "de-growth," unless you think growth is a measure of the number of people who live a life a leisure.
by scoot | 2025-11-09 02:30:25+00:00
That isn't how trademarks work. There can be multiple business with the same name, as long as they operate in a different field. Case in point, Apple Computer had to pay for the rights to The Beatles label Apple Music only when they entered the music industry (not that they didn't try to contest it!)

Copyright is something different entirely!

https://xkcd.com/386/
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-11-09 02:30:34+00:00
It's true that you can't turn disable software updates without a registry edit, but those updates are purely security patches and nothing else. Although I do believe on principle that users should always be able to control updates, there's really not a lot to complain about here. (And you can control the updates, with a registry edit.)

> there's still a Windows store in the latest version.

There is? Not in mine.

I just double checked, I'm running Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, which appears to still be the latest.
by misswaterfairy | 2025-11-09 02:30:48+00:00
> I thought SPARK was a paid (not free) license. Am I mistaken?

Similar model to Qt: permissive licensed open source version, with a commercial 'Pro' offering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

https://alire.ada.dev/transition_from_gnat_community.html
by floam | 2025-11-09 02:32:04+00:00
I wouldn’t kneecap a OS project I wish to be adopted by licensing it GPL. Look at glibc which basically can’t practically support static linking.

You make any of your OS standard libraries GPL and they need to suck to use and can’t statically link your code without being forced to also be licensed GPL.

That viral property some people find desirable.
by chrisweekly | 2025-11-09 02:32:47+00:00
> "With the "traditional" freighter I would have the right of way"

In theory, perhaps. In praxis, might makes right, bigger wins, and if you in your sailboat want to play chicken with a freighter of any kind, you're taking an unreasonable risk. Actually, commercial boats get priority over pleasurecraft, so even in theory it's probably your job to stay out of the way.
by bofadeez | 2025-11-09 02:33:24+00:00
I think we can all agree on this. It would just be nice if there was consistent enthusiasm for the first amendment when it comes to actual taboo ideas. Are you quoting this when you hear about right wing extremists being canceled or jailed in Europe? In the 1970s, Jewish lawyers at the ACLU defended the American Nazi Party’s right to march in Skokie. Not out of support, but to uphold the principle of free speech for all. What happened to intellectual honesty?
by majormajor | 2025-11-09 02:33:29+00:00
There are certainly lots of extra ways for your life to end in the past.

Bit of a silly comparison, though. Material comforts do not make one happy, poke around the internet inquiring about mental health if you are unconvinced. The more relevant comparison to past times wouldn't be a middle class worker vs a king, it's vs being a peasant. Give me the king job any day and twice on Sundays, I'll feel way more alive. I'll get used to the garderobes.

So then the question is... how have we let ourselves, in some of the richest nations in history, re-invent mental misery despite physical comfort? Work in an office job for 40-60 hours a week and then ferry your kids around to scheduled extracurriculars in the evenings and weekends to make their college applications look good so they can replace you in the middle-class-robot-drone-job. Is that the best we can do? Hustle 24/7, but in more comfort than scrabbling in the dirt for a historical king?
by sssathe | 2025-11-09 02:34:13+00:00
Hey everyone my team and I created this product.

Really appreciate the comments.

My story is I’ve been obsessed with my eye health for years. I have high myopia and was a software engineer and often get blurry vision after a long work day. It’s very frustrating that there are no good solutions out there for digital eye strain. Doctors will tell you “just take more breaks” but that doesn’t feel sustainable when I have to spend half of my waking hours or more in front of a screen every single day for work. I feel that screens are the root cause - a technology problem that deserves a technology solution. I wanted to do everything possible to prevent eye strain on the day to day, and worsening vision in the long term, while still using a computer.

We’ve worked with Stanford ophthalmologists to bring clinically grounded perspectives to our first product.

Our goal is to help you use a computer for hours without eye strain, and for kids, to maybe even prevent myopia progression. For those curious I have more details below. If you have any questions feel free to drop your email on the bottom of this link and I’ll reach out https://www.visualinstruments.co/phantom/display.

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More details:

On digital eye strain

- If you go to an eye doctor complaining of digital eye strain they’ll tell you to do the 20/20/20 rule - look 20 feet away every 20 minutes.

- The point of the 20/20/20 rule is switching your depth of focus, which exercises your focusing (ciliary) muscle through its full range of motion.

- Our display helps you switch your depth of focus much more frequently because you can look through it.

- Looking through a screen is much easier than moving your head and eyes away from a regular screen.

- Frequent focus switching prevents accommodative spasm (a big component of eye strain)

On myopia progression

- Mostly a problem for kids, but adult myopia progression is more common now

- Research suggests that increasing ambient light exposure is protective against myopia progression in children (see ref).

- Our screen helps you get more ambient light to your eyes because it can be pointed out a window or even used outside. Most screens can’t be comfortably viewed outside, but ours is an order of magnitude brighter than most screens (several thousand nits peak brightness)

Everyone’s eye health is basically getting put through the meat grinder because of screen time nowadays - we want to change that. Down the line we hope to add in a bunch of software + eye tracking to track your eye health and intervene on your behalf to protect your vision.

Ref: https://www.myopiaprofile.com/articles/the-visual-environmen...
by walterbell | 2025-11-09 02:34:18+00:00
https://opencloud.eu/sites/default/files/media/documents/202...

> OpenCloud is based on a fork of the open source software ‘ownCloud Infinite Scale' (OCIS), whose components were co-developed by developers from the science organisation CERN and other active contributors. OpenCloud is now being further developed.. clear focus on data protection, interoperability..

https://owncloud.dev/ocis/ | https://github.com/owncloud/ocis

> modern file-sync and share platform.. oCIS breaks down the old [PHP] ownCloud 10 user specific namespace.. makes the individual parts accessible to clients as storage spaces and storage space registries.. WebDAV based oc sync protocol to manage files and folders, ocs to manage shares and TUS to upload files in a resumable way. On the server side REVA is the reference implementation of the CS3 apis which is defined using protobuf. By embedding libregraph/idm, oCIS provides a LDAP interface to make accounts, including guests available to firewalls and other systems.

2021, https://owncloud.com/news/owncloud-infinite-scale-live-at-ce... | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oBQfD9QrCs

> [oCIS] first production deployment.. CERN IT department‘s storage team has engaged in UI, API and backend development with ownCloud for many years.. users have access to the underlying data repository containing 1.4 billion files and 12 petabytes of data.

2025 fork, https://github.com/orgs/opencloud-eu/discussions/262 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cZKzpEw62M | https://www.heise.de/en/news/Ex-ownCloud-devs-seek-new-start...

> OpenCloud discusses the challenges that arise when proprietary products are discontinued or acquired by competitors.. examines a current case.. new company is likely to include over a dozen employees who previously worked on Infinite Scale for ownCloud.
by fujigawa | 2025-11-09 02:35:01+00:00
Do you think it's impossible that there are undocumented folks living under false identities and/or stolen SSNs casting votes in elections? It's a yes or no question.

To put it another way, do you believe non-citizens in this country illegally (and thus already breaking the law), have some sort of deference when it comes to obeying election laws?

Thankfully we have the spry 45 year old election judges to oversee it all.
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-09 02:35:26+00:00
I find partisan messaging on government sites to be sleazy. But also I don’t understand how this is a violation of government employees’ rights. When people are employees of the government, they don’t have rights to use the resources of their job as if they own the same resources as a private citizen. Their speech is restricted to some degree as part of doing their job, and they are employed to do their agency’s bidding. How is their private right to free speech violated here?
by jkrejcha | 2025-11-09 02:35:34+00:00
The problem is fundamentally the fact that it is a visual based system.

It is generally faster to communicate orally and process communication aurally than by text message when the message is short enough and requires immediate attention. This is also why urgent alarms (such as those provided by the Gound Proximity Warning System (GPWS) or Traffic Collision Avoidance System[1] (TCAS) have such a component). Some stall prevention systems are even partially tactile based (making a pretty unmistakable shaking feeling (it is loud as well)).

It is incredibly slow to type and then process that visual information. In addition, it's also just much more reliable.

For time critical situations, it's not a viable option.

[1]: Yes, TCAS has a visual component and many alarms do too, but the RAs are auditory and give specific, to the point, instructions on what to do ("climb", "descend").
by SilverElfin | 2025-11-09 02:37:05+00:00
> What happened to intellectual honesty?

It’s gone. The ACLU itself is pretty anti free speech these days and happily looks the other way when censorship on private social media platforms aligns with their ideological views. People have been writing about free speech issues at the ACLU for about a decade now:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/is-the-aclu...