MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-08 23:26:11+00:00
"C-like" code in C++ still has C++ semantics. "modern C++" is a disputed paradigm, but not necessarily how things should be done. When you write C++, but not "modern C++", that doesn't mean you are writing C. There are also modern features in C. https://floooh.github.io/2019/09/27/modern-c-for-cpp-peeps.h...
by jsheard | 2025-11-08 23:26:32+00:00
> worrying and feeling ultra-superior about the UK government, while letting the tiktok ban and forced sale go through unchallenged.

And more to the point, many US states passing or attempting to pass laws which aren't all that different to the UKs OSA. Mississippi's version is in some ways even more onerous to enforce as it requires social networks to age-check all of their users, not just those who want to access adult or "harmful" content. Bluesky notably went along with the OSA but considered Mississippi's demands to be over the line and geoblocked them instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_...
by t0mas88 | 2025-11-08 23:26:40+00:00
Yes that's what happened. And this is a very common mistake.

A bit simplified, but what happens is that each flight is assigned a departure procedure during startup. That procedure is runway specific and designed to keep traffic clear of other runways so they can have traffic departing from multiple runways at the same time.

Imagine a runway on the left and one on the right, the left runway departure procedures would have an early left turn and the right runway departure procedures would be straight ahead until some altitude and then a right turn.

Now if you depart from the right runway but accidentally select the departure procedure for the left runway, the instruments (and autopilot) would indicate a left turn at about 500ft, right into the path of traffic from the left runway.

This mistake is common when for example a plane is first assigned the left runway and then during taxi changes to the right runway. Or the preflight paperwork includes the left runway departure procedure, but the actual assignment from ATC is the right runway (this was a source of incidents in Amsterdam for a while with some airlines)

If you're really interested, read this incident report via Google Translate, it describes exactly how this type of incident happens: https://www.lvnl.nl/voorvallen/20220415-verlies-van-afstand-...
by don_neufeld | 2025-11-08 23:26:48+00:00
What’s your source?

“The Biden administration has also carried out the most administrative returns in at least 15 years—more than 505,000 from FY 2021 through February 2024. For comparison, nearly 685,000 migrants were administratively returned over the previous two administrations, from FY 2009 through FY 2020.”

That does not sound like a lack of enforcement to me.

Source: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-re...
by kgwxd | 2025-11-08 23:26:49+00:00
My gaming PC was the only one left running Windows. 10 Pro which I paid $200 for just a few years ago. Last time I booted it up, Minecraft wouldn't work, and I couldn't update anything, even the game. Funny, no other games had issues continuing to support Win 10.

I put Arch on it last week and couldn't be happier. My 3080 is working just fine. Rocket League is even better on Proton than native Windows; turns out Java MC is a nice switch from bedrock, and my kid that I play with agrees, so we'll play that version together instead.

I have a tiny partition with unregistered Win 11 just for Roblox now. I tired to put MC on there, in case we wanted to do bedrock once in a while, but now the MC launcher is, for some reason, tightly coupled to the Microsoft Store, and if you're not logged into that, you can't play MC, not even the Java Edition, so that's the end of Windows MC for me.
by slg | 2025-11-08 23:26:53+00:00
I know many of the people reading this will think I'm being hysterical. But there was a small voice in the back of my mind when the shutdown started wondering whether that version of the American government would ever reopen and that voice has started to become much louder in recent days. Specifically the combination of this, the handling of SNAP benefits, and this all happening in November just seems intentionally designed to cause unrest. Families going hungry and/or unable to fly to spend Thanksgiving together feels like a perfectly orchestrated way to cause mass civil unrest that an authoritarian could use to seize power.
by toyg | 2025-11-08 23:27:10+00:00
> This is clearly [...] about controlling American corporations

Not exactly. On the surface, it's about kowtowing to pearl-clutching UK NGOs that are empowered by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch's hysterical tabloids; and underneath, the real agenda is about restricting the influence of unsanctioned sites that could influence UK discourse - influence that established UK press barons (like the Murdochs, Lebedev, etc) want to keep very much to themselves.
by slashdev | 2025-11-08 23:27:18+00:00
Why do you blame Trump for the shutdown? Isn't it caused by Congress basically failing to agree on a funding continuation? (I think it's been ages since they could actually go further and agree on a budget). Government shutdowns are common under both Republican and Democrat administrations.

You can say he refuses to compromise, but clearly so does the other side, hence the impasse.
by yieldcrv | 2025-11-08 23:27:28+00:00
Given that Trump and the left have the same view on this government shutdown as they’re both acknowledging how Republicans control both houses, I wouldn’t say this is part of any plan he has.

Trump has called for the Senate to remove the filibuster, which would allow for the government to reopen with a simple majority instead of needing more votes from Democrats

One could say the only endgame is unilateral control

But this is an issue with Congress which Trump does not control. The Senate is not considering getting rid of the filibuster because of the threat its used in favor of Democrats after midterms
by youngNed | 2025-11-08 23:27:31+00:00
It was a Reform politician who championed it in: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0004...

WITH A RAP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ql6tGu9aWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=r4mRo2M5VMA
by zdragnar | 2025-11-08 23:27:33+00:00
Extradition of a foreign citizen to a third country is not a simple matter, diplomatically speaking. The US might not have the hegemony it enjoyed 20-30 years ago, but it certainly has plenty of sway.

When it's a matter of drug charges or other obviously criminal activity, the US embassy and diplomats don't normally raise a fuss, but for something like this where the person made first amendment protected speech in the US? That'd definitely raise all kinds of hell.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-08 23:27:36+00:00
> the airlines would surely be glad to pay for the service themselves.

No, they would be glad to increase fares so that the flying customers pay for the service themselves. Currently, ATC is subsidized by all tax payers. Your method moves the burden to only those that pay for fares. I'm just pointing it out not saying it is good/bad.
by 13415 | 2025-11-08 23:28:03+00:00
We're aggressively blocking UK IPs before we even have our product ready, neither our website nor our software will work for visitors from the UK, our ToS will prohibit use of our software for UK residents, and we will not sell or offer the software in the UK. Ofcom would have to put a lot of effort to circumvent these measures to even know we exist.

In a nutshell, I'm moderately confident that this will suffice to keep Ofcom away.
by nullstyle | 2025-11-08 23:28:34+00:00
Part of the problem with these degens is their attitude that downvotes mean they are over the target.

This dude is just ignorant with, near as i can tell, asmongold on your brain and breath. His mistakes aren’t worth refuting, but I’ll give them one for free : despite the claim otherwise, it is in fact possible for Americans to go south to Mexico and live, and Mexico City is itself going through somewhat of a gentrification problem by gringos from the north. Channel 5 covered it recently: https://youtu.be/Oti0eNxLxyQ?si=JJqiQ3kiO46YxDSf

We all saw ICE laughing while they pepper balled a priest in the head. No one voted for that.
by Raph_Koster | 2025-11-08 23:28:35+00:00
This goes back to the motivations thing. For those who are motivated by narrative stuff, that opening works well. It sets up uncertainties and ambiguities that engage curiosity and prediction.

But you don't like those sorts of problems as much (or don't want them in that moment). Which is fine. No game works for everyone the same way.

(There is also an offhand remark in the article about gamemakers being failed moviemakers... ;) )
by exmadscientist | 2025-11-08 23:29:00+00:00
Not quite a list of fallacies, but some words about how to do it well:

Me at eevblog: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/location-and-value-of...

A discussion here a while back (not all of which I agree with): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42830948
by kragen | 2025-11-08 23:29:08+00:00
I don't think this is correct. Drills use "universal" motors which don't care if they're running on AC or DC, because 60Hz AC motors are limited to 3600rpm, which isn't nearly fast enough for a drill, and also because it's not okay if the drill stops working if it hits resistance and slows down. (Most AC motors run at a fraction of that.) You can run a cheap electric drill off 120Vdc just as easily as 120Vac. Getting it to run on 48Vdc or 30Vdc involves rewinding the motor with the same amount of copper in the form of thicker wire.

Fancy drills already have a lot of electronics that do care about the polarity of the applied voltage, but they usually want it to be DC. Once you get anything more sophisticated than phase-angle control with a TRIAC, you're using MOSFETs anyway, and you can often use half as many of them if you're using DC, because MOSFETs like DC.
by helterskelter | 2025-11-08 23:29:19+00:00
I've created something in a similar fashion. I have a dedicated machine for writing with ArchLinux, nvim+plugins, zk and kiwix. Not much else to it really. I've been thinking about pulling the wireless card out of it, but so far internet discipline hasn't been a huge issue, the main thing is that I know when I'm using that machine it's time to work.
by Hizonner | 2025-11-08 23:30:06+00:00
You shouldn't even be expected to geoblock. If I'm operating a Web site in country A, I should not have to care about country B's laws unless I am taking specific action intended to attract users in country B in particular. That's doesn't mean just to target the whole world, either. If you don't want your citizens to access something in another country, take it up with your citizens.

It was obvious from the minute that idiots started creating IP location databases in the first place that people would demand that they be used like that... and those demands seem to be winning out.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-08 23:30:15+00:00
This seems to be a somewhat inefficient system. There is no absolute need to consider aviation fees to be taxes and collect them through a federal agency.

Individual airports should be capable of financing their local ATC as they see fit, be it their own airport fees or, IDK, a surcharge on hamburgers sold in the local McD or a gift from a wealthy sponsor; and they should only have a duty to maintain certain technical standards.
by Rendello | 2025-11-08 23:30:29+00:00
I've been liking the model of the Python library Dominate [1]. You write your HTML as regular Python code, and you render() once at the end, having full control over the formatting. Well, at least in theory; in practice the formatting is brittle and the library otherwise makes some choices I don't like.

I wrote a Rust library with a more restricted/verbose API, and I've been enjoying using that. Unfortunately, I find it really hard to make it as fast as I want. It's really the perfect use case for arena allocation, but doing that and keeping the API as function calls mirroring HTML is not trivial, and probably requires macros to rewrite the tree as a series of stack pushes.

1. https://pypi.org/project/dominate/
by vitus | 2025-11-08 23:30:54+00:00
The combative stance that he's taking really doesn't do him any favors in resolving the issue.

Lawyer: "I've confirmed that at least one UK IP address is blocked."

Regulators: "We've confirmed that at least one UK IP address is not blocked."

In what world is the correct response "Dear regulators, you're incompetent. Pound sand." instead of "Can you share the IP address you used so my client can address this in their geoblock?"
by qball | 2025-11-08 23:31:54+00:00
Extraordinary rendition is still a thing, though; the US has done this several times.

Now, granted, the US is a freer country than the UK is so that doesn't usually matter all that much, but all the US would need to do to nullify its 1A would be to simply permit the UK to enforce its claims of extraterritoriality in US-friendly airspace.

What speech they might be permitted to prosecute would naturally change based on administration.
by falcor84 | 2025-11-08 23:32:25+00:00
> A coworker of mine told me that GPT’s LLM can use Excel files. No, it can’t. But the tools they plugged into it can.

It's a bit like saying that a human can't use Excel files, but when given a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected to a computer running Excel, it can. But then obviously the "Excel usage" competency is in the human; not in the tools, and a cat for example cannot use Excel proficiently however many training hours it gets and however good the keyboard is.

Taking it back to the LLMs, it is clear to me that some modern LLMs like the one running ChatGPT can be integrated with tools in a way that makes them somewhat proficient with Excel, while other simpler LLMs cannot, regardless of the tools.
by CTDOCodebases | 2025-11-08 23:32:54+00:00
This is intended for people who want to use a laptop as a single use device for the purpose of writing. So basic file management and a word processor is all that is needed.

WriterdeckOS is not meant to be an OS for general computing.

Purppose built writerdecks are quite expensive. WriterdeckOS is a practical, inexpensive and resourceful alternative to a purpose build device.

For more information on writerdecks check out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/writerDeck/
by etruong42 | 2025-11-08 23:33:10+00:00
AI will also further cement the status quo and existing power structures. Incompetent leaders in many arenas would be even less beholden to actual experts and expertise. AI will provide answers that are "good enough" to keep incompetent leaders in power.

Leaders can often be incompetent since they are often not promoted based on competency or they hang on to power long enough to either have their competence become stale or just lose it do to the passage of time.

Ultimately, AI will decide for us since it will be the crutch of the incompetent leaders. Since these leaders often decide "truth" and "reality" for most people anyways, AI will decide these truths with leaders as a proxy, and power will continue to flow in directions completely unrelated to competence.
by dom96 | 2025-11-08 23:33:28+00:00
> Ultimately, what Ofcom is doing here is the perfect modern-day lesson lesson for why the First Amendment exists in the first place

The First Amendment was created to protect against foreign governments impeding on your speech?

I feel like that's really missing the point of what this amendment is about, at a time when the First Amendment is at greatest threat from the current US government.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-11-08 23:33:32+00:00
> LLMs are garbage and they add nothing to the browsing experience.

The builtin translation feature [0] is LLM-based [1], and that adds a ton to my browsing experience, since it's made web pages in other languages accessible to me.

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

[1]: According to Wikipedia, "A large language model (LLM) is a language model trained with self-supervised machine learning on a vast amount of text, designed for natural language processing tasks" [2]. The translation code is transformer/RNN-based and trained on raw texts [3, 4], and translation definitely qualifies as a natural language processing task, meaning that the translation feature is LLM-based.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06koBcfm5w

[4]: https://marian-nmt.github.io/features/
by holowoodman | 2025-11-08 23:33:46+00:00
> In what world is the correct response "Dear regulators, you're incompetent. Pound sand." instead of "Can you share the IP address you used so my client can address this in their geoblock?"

That would imply that the client actually would like to be contacted every time Ofcom found a leak in the geoblock. Not a good idea imho.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-08 23:33:52+00:00
I heard a radio report that said something like 25,000-30,000 flights a day, so 10% would still be 2-3 thousand flights per day canceled. They said a majority of these would be the smaller legs from smaller airports to the larger hubs. The flights from hub to larger cities would be less impacted. However it breaks down, 2-3 thousand flights a day is a lot of flight crews not working, and similar cascading effects. So not only an inconvenience for travelers, but some people are going to take a financial hit because of this
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-08 23:33:52+00:00
"Now, should more productive parts of the country be subsidizing air travel in less productive parts of the country? That's for you to decide."

I would say "no", personally. In the absence of a subsidy, the network of the rural airports would likely become sparser, but the surviving ones would have better economy and, as a result, infrastructure too.
by Waterluvian | 2025-11-08 23:33:59+00:00
The sooner things become intolerably broken in the U.S. the better off I think the rest of the world is. The U.S. kind of scares me right now. So much power, wielded by deeply incompetent, broken, and evil people. And those who aren't those things are demonstrably too weak to do anything about it. I have a sense that things will only improve once they hit an intolerable low. And the longer it takes for that to happen, the more normalized it will become for all of those people. Basically: I really hope the current regime boils the water too fast.
by crazydoggers | 2025-11-08 23:34:03+00:00
Is it not possible that there is concern for individuals well beings in the midst of a mental health crisis?

It’s one thing to be talking about suicide or assisted suicide because you’ve decided it’s right for you and your situation.

It’s another to be dealing with depression from trauma, unable to get help and have no support system, and then be coerced by individuals on forums with ulterior motives.

I’m not saying I am in support of the UKs attempts, but it’s also not helpful to paint everything black and white on either side. Real solutions require dealing with the grays and the details.

edit: And for reference I have spoken to people in the later situations who have found all too many toxic individuals online who will say things like “you should definitely just kill yourself” in the midst of such situations, who after therapy consider those people to have been committing even more trauma (most likely because they get off on the control of another persons life, playing out murder fantasies etc, and who use the internets anonymity to further traumatize people at their most vulnerable)
by immibis | 2025-11-08 23:34:04+00:00
At this point I'm pretty sure my next phone will be GrapheneOS, on whichever hardware they support at the time I want to buy a new phone. As a bonus it'll probably be really annoying to use because of the security, which will make me use it less.

I'll just have to remember to never visit Spain, lest I get arrested for drug trafficking because of my phone.
by docdeek | 2025-11-08 23:34:08+00:00
Polling suggests that independents don’t “overwhelmingly" blame the GOP. It’s split 48/32/14 GOP/Dem/Equal

"Democrats and Republicans hold each other's party more responsible for the government shutdown. Among independents, 48 percent think Republicans in Congress are more responsible, while 32 percent think Democrats in Congress are more responsible and 14 percent volunteered that they think both parties are equally responsible.”

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3938
by simoncion | 2025-11-08 23:34:21+00:00
> ...the above require the developers of all window managers, all desktop compositors, all widget toolkits and applications not only to coordinate with each other but also handle various cases...

/me wonders if OP has been paying attention to how "consensus building" actually ends up working in the Wayland world

> With Wayland since everything was done from scratch, there were less people that needed to be convinced to cooperate - and in practice since Wayland originated from RedHat and the GNOME ecosystem, convincing the appropriate GNOME and Gtk developers to cooperate was probably a coffee break away...

/me realizes that the answer is "No. Not really."

To be less droll:

1) Through xrandr, even windowmaker provides the data required for an application to know the properties of the monitor that > 50% of each of its windows are on. Given how much nicer xrandr was than xinerama, WMs that cared about multihead moved over to it fairly quickly.

2) I'm certain that not every WM provides the information required for screen-DPI- and screen-scaling-aware programs to scale as desired. But, the "Wayland is a lightweight protocol that makes few policy decisions" motto turns out to mean that for most decisions that users care about, each Wayland WM (or whatever the Wayland terminology for the Wayland equivalent is) needs to re-make and reimplement those decisions. Feature fragmentation has been bad. So, no, if you're not going to hold Wayland to the "Every WM must implement all the features" standard, then you're not going to demand that of Xorg WMs.

3) You happened to mention the two things that's needed for Xorg to support both HiDPI and non-integer scaling... GUI drawing library support and a common protocol for setting and retrieving user-driven adjustments to the "natural" rendering scale given the display DPI. XRandR [0] has either always, or has effectively always provided the information required for GUI toolkits to scale their widgets according to a screen's DPI. And the XSETTINGS protocol [1] is used to store the user-commanded scaling adjustment. Glancing at the release date for those two things, they either substantially predate or came out very, very shortly after Wayland's initial release.

Weird. It's almost as if we were waiting on the GUI toolkits to use what Xorg had been providing them for ages.

Anyway. Check footnote 1 in the comment you replied to for the on-the-ground details on GUI toolkit render scaling on Xorg from an end-user's perspective.

[0] adopted no later than 2007

[1] first proposed in 2001 and adopted no later than 2009 (though, if I cared to spend more than a few minutes on the search, I expect I'd find that it was adopted much earlier)
by themafia | 2025-11-08 23:34:29+00:00
> could influence UK discourse

Is 4chan attempting to unfairly or unduly influence UK "discourse?" Or are they just _contributing_ to it as members of the public on an anonymous forum?

> Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch's hysterical tabloids

Which actually are an attempt to influence UK discourse. The framing errors are interesting.
by umanwizard | 2025-11-08 23:35:12+00:00
> 'Absolute free speech' doesn't exist anywhere

You’re right, but I never claimed it did. Even the famously expansive US freedom of speech protection is not absolute.

> Would you be arrested if you told national secrets? What would happen if you told everyone at work (unfounded) that your boss abuses their children?

Yes you would be arrested, which is a freedom of speech issue, however banning this speech, despite harming freedom, is justified by other factors that are more important in these cases.