MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hmokiguess | 2025-11-30 11:43:45+00:00
Cool idea! What I liked the most was the breakdown into categories like “breaking” and “trending” plus the number of sources.

The view showing the flow with a play animation was a nice concept but I couldn’t see much value in it, wondering if you could try to get a more aggregate stats that shows a connection between these different flows, maybe they follow a pattern like ad-based campaigns or publishers who own these domains, which would explain things. Expanding on this idea, could even try and setup different scores and metrics based on major groups and sponsored content versus organic spread.
by foldr | 2025-11-30 11:45:57+00:00
>hyper-powerful

Not true; no source given.

> weirdly structured local authority

It's true that the City of London Corporation is structured differently from other local authorities, for historical reasons.

> with its own capital pile

It's unclear what this means or why it's significant. The City of London Corporation certainly has money, but so what?

> special roles in policing

The City of London Police is a separate police force from the Metropolitan Police. Really this fact is no more remarkable than the fact that the Sussex Police is separate from the Greater Manchester Police. Different parts of the country are policed by different police forces. In any case, the UK doesn't have the same kind of localized police jurisdiction as the US. An officer of the City of London Police could arrest you outside the City of London, and an officer of the Metropolitan Police could arrest you inside the City of London. So there is no particular significance to the fact that the City of London Police exists as a separate entity. It enforces the same laws as any other police force and has the same powers.

> [special roles in] court infrastructure

I googled this, but all I could find was an article explaining that the City of London Corporation has funded some new court buildings and police headquarters. This does not seem unusual to me. Indeed, people might justly complain if the City of London Corporation didn't spend any of its substantial wealth on local infrastructure. What is the 'special role' that you are referring to here?

In short, your comment is just insinuation. The Corporation is 'weird' and has 'special roles', etc. etc., but you don't actually point to anything specific that's at all sinister.
Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)
by pera | 2025-11-30 11:48:42+00:00
There is a long list of about:config settings that allow users disable most of the recently introduced AI chatbot features in Firefox but unfortunately not all:

AI Context Menu is still displayed if browser.ml.chat.enabled is set to false:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1994785

"Ask an AI Chatbot" context menu is not hidden, even if Machie Learning is disabled:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1995119

Mozilla has pretty much ignored this issue for an entire month.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-11-30 11:49:13+00:00
You could go into their wiki. It's linked from the page, and skim/skip over that installation stuff, until the chapters where they explain what they did to the kernel(s), how they compile and link optimized, schedulers, and stuff. It's not ultra-thourough, but gives a good overview.

I've settled on sched_ext: BPF scheduler "bpfland_1.0.18_g5bff813c_dirty_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu" -powersave for processes, and let mq-deadline handle internal storage, and bfq anything connected via USB.

What do you mean by "stable"?
by chfk | 2025-11-30 11:49:39+00:00
> Legend has it why Aussies call the English Poms, short for pomegranate, because they come over and get burnt to shit, end up bright red.

I love Aussies’ sense of humour!

Skin cancer is no joke, but I don’t wear much sunscreen because I don’t need to. I need all the vitamin D I can get. I wish I would’ve protected myself more earlier in life, though.
by qcnguy | 2025-11-30 11:50:18+00:00
> where public funding programs for research has begun to be funneled to startups instead of research groups.

It is darkly amusing that in one post you claim "the left has not been popular since the 70s" whilst admitting that the EU is centrally planning new companies. That's very much the sort of thing the left did in the 1970s.

> You cannot seriously suggest that the EU has moved left in any meaningful way ... the EU commission is currently trying to implement that every new regulation can only pass once an old regulation can be removed.

And who believes they'll really do it? They only got to that point after ignoring decades of warnings from the right that their left wing approach would crush their own economic power, which it did.

It's a common enough claim that "the left" refers to exactly the same set of ideas that it did in 1930, and therefore that no modern entity is left wing. But this is spurious. There are still left wing people and groups, that claim to be so and nobody disagrees with them.

All that happened is that as left wing economics became discredited over the course of the 20th century the left became better at obfuscating what they were doing. After the working classes disappointed by not rising up in revolution, the concept of equality shifted to be about gender and race instead. The EU doesn't want to openly nationalize industries, but is really keen on feminism, regulation and mass third world migration.

And economically, the left didn't need to obfuscate much. The gap between heavy regulation and nationalization is small. CEOs get to pretend that they're still in charge, but with no strong commitment to private property rights they're ultimately just transient administrators and there's not much reason to sign up for the stresses of being one. So - no startups.
by watwut | 2025-11-30 11:50:29+00:00
That explains weird generalization to "west" when it deals with America only problem and even there severely exaggerates the issue. Author seems to base their opinions on movie version of the world.

> You try to save them. You succeed, but break their rib doing CPR. Legally: they can sue you. Morally: "was that level of force really necessary?"

Both legally and morally, yes that level was necessary as ribs routinely break during CPR.
by bko | 2025-11-30 11:50:41+00:00
Job training is a lot more than learning how to use equipment. It's about showing up on time, dealing with coworkers and being a productive member of a team. That's best learned on the job and is a big reason people don't like new grads. Its like going out on a date with someone that has never had a girlfriend. Let someone else break them in and screen them.

Higher ed unfortunately almost desocializes a lot of people. They live in a bubble and become insufferable obsessed with politics and social issues that are disruptive and inappropriate in the workplace
by BanditDefender | 2025-11-30 11:52:05+00:00
I think it is way too far to say that!

We've had automated theorem proving since the 60s. What we need is automated theorem discovery. Erdős discovered these theorems even if he wasn't really able to prove them. Euler and Gauss discovered a ton of stuff they couldn't prove. It is weird that nobody considers this to be intelligence. Instead intelligence is a little game AI plays with Lean.

AI researchers keep trying to reduce intelligence into something tiny and approachable, like automated theorem proving. It's easy: you write the theorem you want proven and hope you get a proof. It works or it doesn't. Nice and benchmarkable.

Automated axiom creation seems a lot harder. How is an LLM supposed to know that "between any two points there is a line" formalizes an important property of physical space? Or how to suggest an alternative to Turing machines / lambda calculus that expresses the same underlying idea?
by popcar2 | 2025-11-30 11:54:13+00:00
This was the one to finally stop getting me to distro hop. Cachy is very easy to use and very well maintained. The performance is usually the selling point people talk about, but it's also very customizable and beginner-friendly (especially for an arch-based distro).

It uses an online installer that lets you choose the desktop environment, boot manager, file system, among other things. You can follow the defaults if you're new. Once you install it, it also comes with a few helper applications that can quickly set up things you'd want to use, like a one-click button that installs all the gaming packages you want to use and their flavor of Proton which is (allegedly) faster than the default.

They also have a really good wiki which I contributed a bit to and a very active community if you need help. All around, 10/10 would recommend to anyone. I managed to convince my friend who's new to Linux to use this instead of Zorin and he's had a great time.
by simonask | 2025-11-30 11:55:47+00:00
I did not say “default-constructed”, because that’s a whole other can of worms.

But yes, the implication of C++ move semantics is that every movable object must also define an “empty” (moved-from) state, so you cannot have something like a never-null unique ptr.

Specifically, it is not allowed for the moved-from object to be inconsistent or to say “using it in any way is UB”, because its destructor will run.
by watwut | 2025-11-30 11:55:52+00:00
> You try to save them. You succeed, but break their rib doing CPR. Legally: they can sue you. Morally: "was that level of force really necessary?"

Yes, CPR breaks ribs as a routine thing https://www.cprcoursebrisbane.com.au/does-cpr-break-ribs/#el... legal standards acknowledge that fact and moral ones should too.

Also, duty to help does exist all over the "west". And even where it does not exist, good samaritan laws are not merely a sidenote, they in fact protect people when providing help.
by dandinu | 2025-11-30 11:56:00+00:00
Oh darn, you're absolutely right (pun intended) about the 32-bit situation. SSE2 is really the "floor" there if you want any kind of reasonable compatibility. I was being a bit optimistic with SSE4.2 even for 64-bit - technically safe for most chips from that era but definitely not all.

The Pentium Pro challenge though... pure x87 FPU inference? That would be gloriously cursed. You'd basically be doing matrix math like it's 1995. `-mfpmath=387` and pray.

I'm genuinely tempted to try this now. The build flags would be something like:

-DGGML_AVX=OFF -DGGML_AVX2=OFF -DGGML_FMA=OFF \ -DGGML_F16C=OFF -DGGML_SSE42=OFF -DGGML_SSSE3=OFF \ -DGGML_SSE3=OFF -DGGML_SSE2=OFF # pain begins here

And then adding `-ffast-math` to `CMAKE_C_FLAGS` because at that point, who cares about IEEE 754 compliance, we're running a transformer on hardware that predates Google.

If someone actually has a Pentium Pro lying around and wants to see Qwen-0.5B running on it... that would be the ultimate read for me as well.

Thanks for the kind words. Always fun to find fellow retro computing degenerates in the wild.
by michaelt | 2025-11-30 11:56:08+00:00
The time you want water is when something that water can soak into is on fire. Sofas, curtains, bedding, bookshelves, carpets, filing cabinets full of paper, etc.

The water soaks in and prevents the fire re-igniting. 30 years ago, workplaces contained a lot more filing cabinets and bookshelves, and smoking was more common.

CO2 is non-conductive, and less messy. It's also great at flowing around things, making it good for spraying through vents into electrical cabinets and car engines. Downside is the CO2 dissipates within a few seconds, so if the material is prone to re-igniting it's not such a good choice.

Dry powder is in between - the powder stays around, but doesn't soak in. It's a good choice if you're only going to get one extinguisher.
by qcnguy | 2025-11-30 11:56:49+00:00
Spamming EU employees (the correct term to use) is useless not because it requires 24/7 attention but because there is no reason for any EU employee to care. The EU is constitutionally designed to eliminate democratic mechanisms. And as we saw with Brexit, citizens are kept in line by massive threats of punishment if they leave (although in the case of the UK the EU chickened out and showed itself to be a paper tiger).
by Swenrekcah | 2025-11-30 11:58:21+00:00
The problem is that almost everyone is now expected to get a degree which necessarily devalues the whole thing.

It is now necessary to get a doctorate if you want to really signal academic prowess, but that comes with an incredibly high opportunity and personal cost.

Society really needs to just accept that just over half of the population is never going to maka a good doctor, engineer, physicist, etc. and that is perfectly OK. We readily understand that very few people can become professional athletes and don’t think any less of those that can’t.
by throw__away7391 | 2025-11-30 11:58:50+00:00
I think this varies quite a lot from one location to another. I grew up in an impoverished town in the US south. When I was a kid if your car broke down, a stranger would stop to at least give you a ride or possibly even try to repair it on the spot. If you so much as threatened a woman in public you could expect to have a number of men immediately step in to confront you.

Many year later in life I lived in Manhattan, where you could literally have a frail old lady being beat up in front of a crowd of grown men and everyone would either pretend they didn't see anything or at most pull out their phones to record it.

I don't know what my old town is like today, but a few years ago I was on a bus in Latin America far from any large cities and a pickpocket robbed someone, the passengers on the bus seized the guy, beat him up, striped him naked, and the bus driver slowed down and opened the door while they shoved him out onto the curb.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-30 11:59:04+00:00
> Depends European state to state.

No it doesn't because the claim was that most of them have prepared for war. Most have not.

> Dragnets absolutely are. Every piece of intelligence matters.

This isn't, and it's not even marketed as such because that would be too patently ridiculous. It's sold on the lie of keeping children safe.

> Yet the dramatic rise in defense expenditures across Europe after 2022 and my own personal experience working with people in this space has shown a mixture of both.

There is no dramatic expenditure rise which indicates a build up for war across most of Europe. It's gone up a few points across the EU over many years and has just now barely breached the global average.

The claim was that this is justified because it is an adequate preparation for war, and preparations are being made for war, and therefore it is being done to prepare for war and is good.

None of those things are true. At best they're wild conjecture which are at odds with other facts. They are not an adequate preparation for war. Preparations for war are not being made. And they are not being done to prepare for a war.

> A major conventional war will happen in the next 5 years, and everyone is in the midst of preparation for that.

Almost no countries in Europe are preparing for invasion. If anything they are slightly upping deterrence factor, but they are not behaving though they fear being invaded, nor do they have any serious capability to participate in a major conventional war outside their borders, which is likely to involve China and be centered in the Pacific.
by dandinu | 2025-11-30 11:59:21+00:00
So the deal with AWE (Address Windowing Extensions) is that it lets 32-bit apps access memory above 4GB by essentially doing manual page mapping. You allocate physical pages, then map/unmap them into your 32-bit address space as needed. It's like having a tiny window you keep sliding around over a bigger picture.

The problemis that llama.cpp would need to be substantially rewritten to use it. We're talking:

cAllocateUserPhysicalPages() MapUserPhysicalPages() // do your tensor ops on this chunk UnmapUserPhysicalPages() // slide the window, repeat

You'd basically be implementing your own memory manager that swaps chunks of the model weights in and out of your addressable space. It's not impossible, but it's a pretty gnarly undertaking for what amounts to "running AI on a museum piece."
by james-bcn | 2025-11-30 11:59:22+00:00
>You literally just need to be in space, because no typical laws apply if you are there.

That makes no sense. Unless you are going to use the data in space (what for?), you need to import it into a country, and it is at that point the crime will have been committed. You can't, for example, circumvent GDPR laws just by sending the data into space first.
by firesteelrain | 2025-11-30 12:00:12+00:00
The correlation is backwards. America’s mid-20th-century dominance was not the result of having only about 10 percent college graduates. It came from unique post–World War II advantages: intact industrial capacity, massive federal investment like the GI Bill, NSF, DARPA, and the interstate highway system, and the fact that global competitors were rebuilding from destruction. The GI Bill greatly expanded access to higher education and economists widely credit it with boosting productivity, innovation, and the growth of the middle class. Rising college attainment in the 1990s and 2000s coincides with globalization, offshoring, and wage stagnation, which makes this a correlation problem rather than evidence that more education causes national decline.
by qcnguy | 2025-11-30 12:00:18+00:00
People can't say no to the EU. That's such a common misconception on HN. The EU has a body it lyingly calls a parliament, which doesn't get to decide what laws are proposed or passed. It's more like an upper house that can only slow down or veto legislation, which is why it fills up with political nobodies who either just cheerlead for the EU or want to see their countries leave it. It's not like they can do anything else.

So people say no and they just bring it back again, or get activist judges to discover that it was legal all along. It's not like voters can kick them out.
by smitty1e | 2025-11-30 12:02:12+00:00
> Result: we are ruled by the Unstained Incompetent. The system selects for people whose primary skill is avoiding decisions. These are not the people who will reform the system. They are the people the system was designed to produce.

I'm choosing to translate "the system" here as the entrenched bureaucracy that has grown up in the Western world in the last century.

More patriotic leaders have emerged where elections remain meaningful, and those leaders are ruthlessly attacked by "the system".

Which is an ironically non-passive behavior mode.
by pavlov | 2025-11-30 12:02:41+00:00
Every man in the White House is benefiting himself first.

Look at Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. In his previous job as CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, he became deeply involved with stablecoin cryptocurrency Tether. Supposedly Cantor Fitzgerald holds close to a hundred billion dollars of funds for Tether, but this has never been verified by an audit — the only confirmation is from Lutnick himself.

In his White House job, he has worked hard to make it easier for companies like Tether to operate in the US with no oversight. And why wouldn’t he? As the sole guarantor of Tether’s credibility, he’s probably making billions from them.
by greatgib | 2025-11-30 12:03:16+00:00
Always the same rant of people profiting open source without understanding it.

This guy is free to select whatever license it wants for his code. But don't expect profiting from the open source (in the common sense of free software) brand if you don't want to respect it's principes.

Would the package be as successful? Have has many users, contributors, ... The author is free to test that if he wants but his rant isnot justified for the whole open source world.

Also, I'm quite sure that he is also a freeloader happy to benefit without contributing. Even from big companies. I'm quite sure that he never paid or contributed for npm, GitHub or his IDE for example...
by cladopa | 2025-11-30 12:03:37+00:00
It is not a good idea listening to experts tell you what can't be done. Science and technology progresses one funeral at at time. Einstein's ideas were crazy for classical scientists and Heisenberg's for Einstein.

The most important thing is making space access ten to one hundred times cheaper with reusable rockets. Then a lot of the problems in the article will not be problems at all.

E.g ISS was designed and created when access to space was extremely expensive. Solar technology and batteries was extremely bad but also super expensive.

You can not use convention but radiation works incredibly well and you can also use the thermal technology of mobile devices.

The most important thing being cheap is that access to the Space become possible for way more people with creativity. Not just a few people with academic titles but people with practical engineering and scientific mastery (that certainly run circles around them on real projects).

There are so many opportunities to use creativity in space, with possibilities that do not exist on earth. For example you can spin or rotate things super fast and so you could have convention inside the machines that rotate.
by mesrik | 2025-11-30 12:03:46+00:00
A bit late to reply so much longer (10h) I posted my comment. But just for the record here I go.

After reading that RFC8805 here it's what it writes situation at the time of publishing August 2020.

"8. Finding Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds" and subsequent

The issue of finding, and later verifying, geolocation feeds is not formally specified in this document. At this time, only ad hoc feed discovery and verification has a modicum of established practice (see below); discussion of other mechanisms has been removed for clarity."

and subsequently

"8.1. Ad Hoc 'Well-Known' URIs

To date, geolocation feeds have been shared informally in the form of HTTPS URIs exchanged in email threads. Three example URIs ([GEO_IETF], [GEO_RIPE_NCC], and [GEO_ICANN]) describe networks that change locations periodically, the operators and operational practices of which are well known within their respective technical communities."

I spent also a moment trying to figure out what can I find about its adoption and use and didn't find much of it. Some blog posts, articles and comments to question whether Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure support it and answers were pretty much nope, no they don't at least yet time of writing last year and this year.

Thus I'm concluding it's unlikely any major source of location information for GeoIP providers like MaxMind. Nope they're not, it's too marginal source for them to spend time on so little used spec yet.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-30 12:04:30+00:00
> Not to mention rank-and-file American conservatives who see universities as bastions of liberal thought/power

To be fair, they kind of are. In the 20th century there were conservative academics at elite universities and they've since largely been excommunicated as heretics. Which has been a mistake, because then the people who would have agreed with them instead reject academia as a whole and latch on to demagogues, which is so much worse.
by ifwinterco | 2025-11-30 12:04:33+00:00
I believe in climate change but in terms of a great filter candidate it doesn't seem significant - even in a worst case scenario with a lot of warming there will be large parts of the planet that are perfectly habitable.

On the other hand: nuclear war, genetic engineering, or just plain bad luck (carrington event, asteroid impact) seem much more likely to actually wipe out modern society
by tokioyoyo | 2025-11-30 12:04:56+00:00
I’m still heavily subscribed to the idea that global access to social media ruined the kids’ expectations. Everything else is downstream effects of unrealized expectations.

In Chinese/Japanese cultures, role models and parental influence on education is still pretty huge. Japan is changing a bit, but I think school systems are still strict enough to keep it up. China is still a beast of its own.