MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by prmoustache | 2025-11-09 09:36:19+00:00
How is gnome minimalistic compared to say, a default conf of fvwm, dwm, i3, sway, weston? It has all the things most people need: access to wifi/bluetooth/launcher/a file manager, apps for nearly everything, etc.

Yes it is opinionated and there are stuff you can only configure using gconf or extensions if the default conf is not your preference but minimalistic it isn't.

Anyway I don't really understand the Gnome bashing when there are KDE and at least 6 or 7 other complete desktops availables for the users + millions of windows managers and wayland compositors for those that want a more personalized experience. The fact it is proposed as a default desktop by many distros who aren't forced to choose it is a testament at how sane its defaults are.

It is not like the situation in the windows and macOS where the desktop is almost impossible to customize without breaking stuff[1]

[1] I tried litestep on windows decades ago, it was mostly usable but it only changed the shell, windows were still managed the same terrible way as in vanilla windows.
by Lapel2742 | 2025-11-09 09:36:29+00:00
That's why I wrote "neo-nazi" and not Nazi. I'm German and I listened to all the stories my grandparents told me about the Nazi reign. In my my opinion he is f'ing Neo-nazi and if he isn't he behaves like one which in the end is the same.

You know what I learned about the Nazis from my Grandparents? Not every German was a Nazi. In fact just short above 50% voted for them. And the Nazis didn't start with war and Auschwitz. That was peak Nazi. They started with “Awake, Germany!” and river cruises.

The Holocaust was also possible because far too many people who were essentially decent turned a blind eye and found excuses for the Nazis until it was too late.
by Yoric | 2025-11-09 09:36:30+00:00
Well, not using the site probably means that you're avoiding the mini-LLMs powdered before and after the main LLM to provide filters (including some layers of censorship) and the system prompt.

So I guess it depends on how deep the bias sits. And that is something that may vary with time. Grok has been a good example of this, with the bias initially being introduced as system prompts, then apparently moved to synthetic data used to train the further generations of Grok.
by padolsey | 2025-11-09 09:39:21+00:00
I dunno. A competent human can hold the a mental image and work through it. Not too hard with experience. What I generally mean tho is: I don't think we can state the supreme capabilities of AI (which people love to do with grate fervour and rhetoric) until they can at the very least draw basic objects in well-known declarative languages. And while it may be unwise to judge an AI based on its ability to count the number of 'R' letters in various words, it -- amongst a wider suite ofc -- remains a good minimum threshold of capability.
by watwut | 2025-11-09 09:39:43+00:00
You dont live in America then. But that was not my question.

My question was while is it ok to silence progressives, feminists, left wing, critics of nazi and still be considered free speech activist while "not actively defending nazi" is excluding you from that.

Your only benchmark for free speech is "are nazi helped enough in their quest to oppress others". You dont care about anybody elses rights.
by hnaccount_rng | 2025-11-09 09:40:19+00:00
But you don't need 12kts, right? The ocean logistics is ~only about costs, as evidenced by the reduction in travel speed. That being said, cost is currently not dominated by fuel cost either. That means unless you reduce crewing requirements or build cost, there is probably not much savings that will pencil out. Plus you'd need more ships and the physical capacity to build more is limited
by metalman | 2025-11-09 09:40:46+00:00
this is real. the cognitive environment has changed, where the the things that are retained in order to survive and thrive, one, have been removed and comodified, and are no longer absolutly personal and private, and two, there is a never ending merry-go-round of changing passwords, apps, submissions,sign ins, acciunt verifications, two factor authentications, to get at, what was once absolute, personal, and private. What has been created is compliance and a lack of personal agency, and any motive to give a damn....whats the point of remembering something that you have zero chance of holding onto and building from? A population stuck in that mid stage of grief , always letting go......
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-09 09:43:24+00:00
Let's say hosting a website for cat pictures is illegal in the UK, but I am based in the US (alas, I am not).

I put up my cat picture website but because the UK is a tiny and barely known country, I don't realise that this cat website would be breaching laws there.

My website gets popular and I receive a strongly worded legal letter from an entity in the UK claiming that they want to take me to court and fine me for providing this website to their citizens.

I am like: WTF? Just fucking block it from your perspective if you don't want your citizens to see it? And I seek legal advice from my lawyer who says: Well, they have no jurisdiction here, so you can ignore this letter, but if you want to minimise hassle, you could just geoblock the UK and hopefully they'll stop coming to you.

So I implement basic geoblocking, which works 99.99% of the time (at least when it comes to figuring out which country an IP is in).

The UK entity acknowledges this in a letter and tells me that this is a sufficient solution for now, but they'll keep watching me.

I go about my business, for some reason or another I make a mirror, which I also implement the geoblocking on, now proactively, because I don't want any more annoying letters from the UK.

Some time later, the UK entity sends another letter claiming they're continuing the proceedings because someone in the UK told them that they could still access my cat website and provided evidence. Within 10 minutes myself and my lawyer both use VPNs to verify the geoblock is still working, and we're confused.

We ask the UK entity WTF, and they say: We have evidence, the fact that it's clearly still working from _our_ perspective is irrelevant, I bet you just geoblocked our IP address.

What do you do in this case?
by prmoustache | 2025-11-09 09:44:56+00:00
> But GIMP is just not a match for Affinity.

The fact a piece of software is not considered exactly as good as another one doesn't need the work cannot be done.

What is important is the outcome, not the tool. We were editing pictures at the beginning of the century on Photoshop 6 or something when it was not nearly as good as 2025's Gimp or Affinity of 5 years ago.

> And what about apps like Ableton?

Bitwig, Reaper and Waveform are available on Linux as well as Ardour, Renoise, Mixbus, Zrythm and a few others. Ableton is ome of the most popular DAW with Logic but there is not a situation in the music industry where a particular tool/format/protocol forces a monoculture.
by EdwardDiego | 2025-11-09 09:44:56+00:00
I was going to say "Needs more emojis", then I scrolled down, and phew! Purple tick box emojis! I was worried a human was in the loop for a second.

Thank God for LLM!

> Thank you for the context! That makes sense - runc is correctly rounding to 10ms (410000) as systemd requires.

You're absolutely right! I shall now commit ritualised suicide based on your feedback! <arrow in target emoji>

Having the AI reply to comments is almost like a direct insult.
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-09 09:45:49+00:00
Common misunderstanding in these comments:

Ofcom expects _you_ the foreign entity to implement geoblocking perfectly. And if not, they will try to fine you first before they even consider implementing blocking on their end.

That's the core issue here.

This has nothing to do with foreign entities circumventing UK based blocking and getting Ofcom letters for it.
by colechristensen | 2025-11-09 09:45:53+00:00
Driving on the farm is actually a lot different, you usually have no more than one or two other drivers, but there's no rules. You have to know where everybody is, know what they intend to do, and know whether or not they know where you are and if they can see you.

it makes people much better and more patient drivers because you can't just rely on traffic laws you have to know the intention of somebody in a piece of machinery and if they plan to back up or where they're going and what's in their head... and how to communicate with hands or a yell
by Freak_NL | 2025-11-09 09:46:16+00:00
He should at the very least ensure that there was some kind of liaison person at Meta for these not quite as rich (and certainly less obnoxious) Mark Zuckerbergs to reach in case of trouble with his service. This lawyer Mark should just have his account flagged with a huge 'Vetted, this guy is called that; leave it.' notice for any Meta algorithm or employee looking into it.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-09 09:47:23+00:00
> The pandemic sank the bottom lines of most shipping companies. Fickle, hastily arranged quarantine laws often left merchants waiting offshore while cargo, crew and profits wasted away.

> Companies like Maersk and CMA C&M, tightening their belts, decided passengers were more trouble than their worth. Any non-essential crew member increased the risk of infection, quarantine and delay. [...] shipping company contacts refused to take any more travellers, and a millennia-old tradition ended overnight.

Sounds like a low-hanging target for green activists. Pressure ports to give preferential treatment to cargo ships with passengers, and upscale brands to transport their merch via passenger-friendly shipping companies.
by amarcheschi | 2025-11-09 09:48:22+00:00
In Europe we don't often have recurrent bonus, and they're much smaller, but we still have banks giving you up to ~200€ to open a bank account and use it to deposit your wage, or other banks having cashback. Right now I'm having 10% cashback on everything (up to 70€/month of cashback) + 50€ for opening an account with ing. All I have to do is keeping a balance of at least 100€ for 1 day before 2026.

Other banks are starting to finally adapt to other countries and give interests on the liquidity you have in your account
by daemon_9009 | 2025-11-09 09:49:09+00:00
Intelligent people see and understand the world deeper, more than an average person can, They see the world in all its forms, good and bad, understanding too much does not bring happiness but gloom. existence seems to be absurd, the more we understand existence the more one believes that it shouldn't have existed at the first place.

"happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" is a quote by Hemingway.

Also intelligent people overthink about a particular situation, while its better for survival but it can reduce happniess.
by gdotdesign | 2025-11-09 09:50:14+00:00
1. Inside style blocks it's pretty much regular CSS except for interpolation and if/case expressions, so you can create a style for the root element and then use ids and classes if you desire, but it won't be optimized.

2. CSS definitions without interpolation compile down to static CSS while the ones with interpolation compile down to CSS variables which are set on the element where the style is assigned. This also allows for passig arguments to styles [0].

CSS nesting is supported and the interpolation doesn't conflict with the id selectors because interpolation is not supported in selectors.

[0]: https://mint-lang.com/reference/styling/arguments
by Freak_NL | 2025-11-09 09:50:39+00:00
Sure, but if tomorrow some dude with the same name as me decides to go on a killing spree, or sexually assault a toddler, I'd change my name. Just or unjust.

I'd have to change my email domain too though, so that would suck, but at least I could put up a website there explaining my new name and that I am not the now world famous terrorist who shot up a kindergarden/fondled the pope/ate a baby.
by 0xf7ff | 2025-11-09 09:50:57+00:00
OP here: Yep, it's Discord. This all happened on a Discord server for a tech youtuber, I'm not sure if they want to be "outed" but they're an 800K subscriber-ish youtube channel with a five-ish thousand member private discord. There were a bunch of people involved, but you might see Arae around in the Reddit thread, she was the one with the actual 9700X in question. None of us have met IRL and we do stay fairly anonymous, but we do chat quite regularly (I've known Arae in particular for at least six months now).

If you're looking for similar discords, I might recommend the discords for things like Bazzite, LTT, Mint, or any number of other small-tech-youtube-discords, or discords for technical video games (eg. Turing Complete, BeamNG, PCBS, Factorio). Discord has no algorithm, you have to find the content yourself!
by Hendrikto | 2025-11-09 09:53:06+00:00
> I reported these two separate issues, lack of linear map randomization, and kernel lands at static physical address in Pixel, to the Linux kernel team and Google Pixel respectively. However both of these issues are considered intended behavior. While Pixel may introduce randomized physical kernel load addresses at some later point as a feature, there are no immediate plans to resolve the lack of randomization of the Linux kernel’s linear map on arm64.

Funny how Google is paying people to find exploits in their product, and also pays people to ignore those vulnerability reports.

Pixels seem to be pretty secure when running Graphene, from what I have heard.
by Tor3 | 2025-11-09 09:53:41+00:00
I have a BeagleBoard like that in a drawer somewhere. Getting it to boot from USB may be a reason to fiddle with it again, sounds fun.

As a side note, I want that reasonably priced <https://github.com/ataradov/usb-sniffer>.. I've felt the need for one several times (I've always enjoyed work which involves looking at problematic low level traffic data, for some weird reason). But soldering a QFN chip is not something I'm set up to do, unfortunately. However, apparently AliExpress sells them pre-built.. though Taradov himself states "Do not buy CY7C68013A from eBay or AliExpress, they all are either fake or sketchy". I wonder if that also applies to pre-built boards including that MCU.
by madaxe_again | 2025-11-09 09:56:23+00:00
Apparently very popular content - a parent at my kid’s kindergarten wanted to make cake for their kids birthday, said they’d only use 1 tsp of honey in the whole thing.

Cue universal freak out in the parents’ WhatsApp group.

Apparently, sugar:

- causes cancer - causes autism - causes hyperactivity - causes blindness - makes children indolent and lazy - will permanently ruin a child if they even look at it

It’s weird, IMO. I let my kiddo have sugar within reason, and somehow she’s leaner than any of the other kids in her class, who even already have rotten teeth at two, despite their sugar free diets. They feed them simple carbs almost exclusively, and are oblivious to amylase.

Perhaps it’s because she’s physically active - the rest of her cohort are pretty much forbidden from walking or running as those pose risks, and children must be sheltered from all conceivable risk so that they grow up into independent and capable adults.

I would argue that that - physical activity - is far more important than what you shove in your face.

There have been repeatedly, credibly and demonstrably shown to be significant benefits to not spending your entire life sitting on your ass - but I guess it’s harder to get off your ass than to proselytise about sugar being an evil and artificial harmful chemical that has no place in the human body - despite it literally being what we run off of.
by bad_username | 2025-11-09 09:57:25+00:00
> It's weird how it's not considered a basic human right to be able travel to where you want, and even live where you want as long as you can support yourself and comply with the local laws and customs

The "as long as you can" is exactly the reason. There is no way to ensure the travelers or migrants can (and want) to do that, if you don't have a border.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-09 09:59:51+00:00
> Then, they either figure out a way to do that profitably (great! innovation!) or they go under.

They do figure out how. That's the problem. This stuff is all trade offs.

If you say they have to remove the videos or they're in trouble then they remove the videos even if they shouldn't.

You can come up with some other rule but you can't eliminate the trade off so the choice you're making is how you want to pay. Do you want more illegitimate takedowns or less censorship of whatever you were trying to censor?

If you tried to mandate total perfection then they wouldn't be able to do it and neither would anybody else, and then you don't have video hosting. Which nobody is going to accept.
by NotGMan | 2025-11-09 10:00:11+00:00
Have you ever asked yourself why native french doctors leave the system?

If the system would function normaly, without corrutpion and ran by meritocratic politicians this wouldn't happen.

Immigrants are not the solution, but the side effect of a corrupt system.

The majority of immigrants are also a taxpayer money sink, compared to native populations they eat up disproportionate amount of taxpayer money (wellfare), so the net effect of immigration is actually negative.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-09 10:00:36+00:00
Why, we got something similar in other countries. Here in NL it is called BSN; Burger Service Number (burger means civilian).

I believe the civilian should be able to create identities based on their private key (which only the government knows) and these should have different details. Like for example, a nickname, a realname, a telephone number, and address, or multiple of these. But then, also the civilian should be able to revoke the licenses. Or, rather: they should be valid for a short amount of time.
by Etheryte | 2025-11-09 10:01:49+00:00
Role based access control is one of the simplest examples, your routes need to be conditional and all come with related metadata for permissions and such. With file-based routing you'll then end up with your routes defined in one place and the configuration for them either in a separate different place or split up across the codebase. Whenever you need to change something you need to remember to do it everywhere else. If your routing is in code, you can define everything in one place with strict type checks, tests, and so on.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-09 10:02:47+00:00
The criticism as I understand it isn't about where the errors are actually handled but the ceremony needed in an errors-as-values model, most obviously in Go where you've got to write a couple of lines of test and early return explicitly for each such possible error, compared to C++ where you write nothing.

Rust's Try operator is the minimal ceremony, a single question mark acknowledges that we might not succeed and if so we return early - but there was still ceremony for each such early return.

I happen to think exceptions are inherently a bad idea, but for a different reason.
by charcircuit | 2025-11-09 10:03:57+00:00
Yes, they should be able to walk away from the damages of destruction of property and funerals. They would not be able to walkway from the murder charges.

In this scenario disposing of the waste = dealing with the bodies and property damage and digging a tunnel = shooting people within a school. I don't the scenario is a good analog since it was legal to dig the tunnel.
by port11 | 2025-11-09 10:05:59+00:00
At this point, the inequality is so far off the rails that I don't see any way to harmonise these 2 ways of existence — ‘normal’ people are completely alien to the ultra-rich.

If wealth accumulation is your way of life, why bother with the well-being of the plebes? I'm genuinely curious as to what solutions could there be. These people are, quite frankly, not within our realm of reality anymore.
by rcarmo | 2025-11-09 10:06:06+00:00
This is kind of why I keep an XFCE desktop with a Classic-like theme around.

I actually tried using BasiliskII over RDP but it was too limited, and I need to have at least 2 things: a modern browser and a good Markdown editor. I can sort of use Obsidian for both with enough plugins (and if I squint at it), but multiple windows are also a must.
by nvarsj | 2025-11-09 10:08:18+00:00
What is more likely to happen is a global namespace of unique names. Famous and powerful people get to pick first, because they are more important. Names can be inherited and become signs of your class and wealth.

You get to be Bob192382, because you got in early and only had to add 6 numeric digits. In the year 2100, we're at 15 digits.
by gf000 | 2025-11-09 10:11:43+00:00
We also had JSF, which was even cooler - being able to reconstruct the state server-side. It was ridiculously fast to write complex form-driver websites with that! No DTOs/schemas in different languages, no worry about how the client calls the server, what happens if it fails, etc.

The only problem is that it won't necessarily scale to some insane numbers without some care.

(Not sure why the past tense, it does work and developed still)
by 0xf7ff | 2025-11-09 10:11:54+00:00
Yeah, we completely forgot that Arae's 9700X had been PBO'ed. If you look at the Passmark bench (or screenshots, now that it's been taken down) you'll see that 5.8GHz is the *only* clock speed listed, it doesn't even state what the base clock is.

An Intel engineer in the comments did confirm that they test some CPUs to destruction in the factory (at Intel, at least), but "...if the benchmarks leave the lab, the employee leaves the company". Also that they usually do that kind of testing on golden bin chips, not a lower-clocked bin.
by charcircuit | 2025-11-09 10:12:27+00:00
>What a weird point of view.

It's not weird. It would be bad if the government was unable to have the funds to clean up the damage. And when someone is charging you with >300% profit margins, that's a sign that you should find another way to solve the issue.

>Sure, you don't mind as long as they're fined a decent amount, right?

I would mind, but I would feel that I was made whole if they paid me >3x the damages to the house.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-11-09 10:13:33+00:00
>I really like checked exceptions in Java because it's very easy to see how developers are handling errors and they also form part of the function signature.

Errors as return values also form part of the function signature in many languages.

>Most functions will just pass on exceptions verbatim so it's better than error return values because with them the entire codebase has to be littered with error handling, compared to fewer try catch blocks.

The question is whether you think that calls that might pass an error up the call chain should be marked as such. I think they should be.

I wouldn't call this "littered with error handling" just because a certain language has decided to do this in a way that resembles industrial style fly-tipping rather than just littering.
by nickcw | 2025-11-09 10:14:44+00:00
I've always had a soft spot for FORTH. I think the magic of it is how little assembly you need to write before you are writing your FORTH system in FORTH.

So in my opinion this is somewhat antithetical to the idea of FORTH

> 100% C/C++ with multi-platform support. Though classic implementation of primitives in assembly language and scripted high-level words gave the power to Forth, it also became the hurtle for newbies. Because they have to learn the assembly and Forth syntax before peeking into the internal beauty of Forth.

Fair enough to write a core of FORTH in C as a kind of portable assembler but most of the system should be written in FORTH in my opinion, then you can change it from FORTH. As fast as I can see eForth is written entirely in C.

Anyway FORTH is fun, writing your own is fun too and a great educational experience, but despite being a fan, I wouldn't write anything serious in it today. It is much too low level and it has even less memory safety than C!

The elegance of it continues to impress though with functional programming to get the job done and compile time programming to mold the language into that DSL which expresses the problem perfectly.