MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vladgur | 2025-11-15 00:52:41+00:00
>> usually accompanied by heavily artillery fire and drone strikes, to clear out the natives.

You clearly juxtapositioned Israelis vs the natives -- who did you mean by natives if not the Palestinian arabs?

Regarding descendants of Jews being Palestinains -- I find the way you present this interesting genetic fact quite misleading, making it sound that modern day palestinians have exclusive genetic connection to the land, whereas all genetic studies done in modern years show that modern day palestinian arabs AND ashkenazi jews AND mizrahi(middle-eastern) jews have clear genetic ties to people who inhabited that land in the bronze age(aka Moses era).

Lastly, its not true that modern israelis are LARGELY a group of europeans migrated from europe. Mizrahi jews(middle east and north africa) are the largest ethnic group in Israel. Not descendants of Ashkenazi europeans. Thank Iraq and Yemen for ethnically cleansing their countries of jews in 1948 for that.
by Humorist2290 | 2025-11-15 00:52:46+00:00
It is probably a reference to the report mentioned in this article from September https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-chat-control-false-reports...

According to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), 99,375 of the 205,728 reports forwarded by the US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) were not criminally relevant, an error rate of 48.3%. This is a rise from 2023, when the number of false positives already stood at 90,950.

Indeed 50% false positive rate sounds surprisingly good, but this is under the "voluntary scheme" where Meta/Google/MS etc are not obligated to report. Notably missing from the article is the total number of scanned messages to get down to 200k reports. To my knowledge, since it's voluntary, they can also report only the very highest confidence detections. If the Danish regime were to impose reporting quotas the total number of reports would rise. And of course -- these are reports, not actually convictions.

Presumably the actual number of criminals caught by this would remain constant, so the FP rate would increase. Unless of course, the definition of criminal expands to keep the FP rate low...
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-15 00:53:19+00:00
Apologies, looks like I mis-remembered the numbers from the original debate, the actual number is about 110x 40-foot containers. It can be calculated easily enough from the # shipped, the volume of a charging case, and the volume of a shipping container.

It doesn’t alter the conclusion that much: in the grand scheme of human industrial activity, this is nothing.

I.e.: if AirPods were made by an independent company, that firm would be in the top 50 of the largest corporations in the world!

For example, a comparable sized company would be Coca Cola, which goes through 300,000 tons of aluminium annually for their cans, not to mention oil used for plastic bottles!
by quasigod | 2025-11-15 00:54:02+00:00
HN wasn't letting me comment, then I forgot about this. I wasnt trying to be hostile, I didnt think about the comment coming off that when when I wrote it. I feel you were far to quick to assume bad faith, but either way I apologize that my comment came off as argumentative.

I certainly never said nobody plays those games. I was just responding to their statement about not playing the games your friends are playing.
by BNE | 2025-11-15 00:54:48+00:00
Our hardware is arguably better (spec for spec) apart from critical areas like memory bandwidth, and GPU to GPU bandwidth. You can tweak your implementations to get the same if not better performance. We do that, we see this, our customers see this.

ROCM pre Rock, suffers from the ossification in the engineering organization. The Rock seeks to completely change that, and the team driving it is amazing. Try out the pre-alpha installer. It is already better than the default installer.

There is hope.
by greygoo222 | 2025-11-15 00:54:56+00:00
No, it is literally identical to nonexistence. An acorn is not an oak tree. If I were looking for objects that satisfied the properties of having a trunk and providing shade, an acorn would not qualify.

On an arbitrarily large timescale, many things have the potential to become other things. Depending on your preferred theory of abiogenesis, some frothy chemical soup on early Earth had the potential to become, and did become, all of life. This does not give the soup moral value equivalent to all of life. What matters is what things are now, not the other things they could turn into.
by famouswaffles | 2025-11-15 00:55:22+00:00
>Here's a thought experiment: if modern machine learning systems existed in the early 20th century, would they have been able to produce an equivalent to the theory of relativity? How about advance our understanding of the universe? Teach us about flight dynamics and take us into space? Invent the Turing machine, Von Neumann architecture, transistors?

Only a small percentage of humanity are/were capable of doing any of these. And they tend to be the best of the best in their respective fields.

>If yes, why aren't we seeing glimpses of such genius today?

Again, most humans can't actually do any of the things you just listed. Only our most intelligent can. LLMs are great, but they're not (yet?) as capable as our best and brightest (and in many ways, lag behind the average human) in most respects, so why would you expect such genius now ?
by le-mark | 2025-11-15 00:55:28+00:00
I had this happen a few times with the official client on Ubuntu back in 2020 or so: My laptop cpu and fan would go crazy and after a while I ran out disk space. I found a .so in the teams install directory was several hundred gigabytes. So I’d delete teams and reinstall. Then it would happen again a few months later. I actually caught it in progress inflating the same .so. I ended up uninstalling it permanently, luckily the team I was in didn’t depend on it, it was mostly hr that required it.

Appears they retired the linux version a while ago.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-15 00:56:08+00:00
> English loves using compound words but only if the roots are sourced from Latin or Greek: words like electrocardiogram

This is false; English loves using compound words. One example of such a compound word is "fire department", which has identical syntax to the German compound "Feuerwehr". Whether a compound word is spelled with or without internal spaces is not a fact about the language, it's a fact about the spelling.
by RandomNickname | 2025-11-15 00:57:56+00:00
Neo Nazis?

Nice propaganda.

If Ukrainians are Nazis,then so is Russia,US and rest of the World,since you'll find weirdos with extreme beliefs in every country.

The same way you can just call Palestinians terrorists because they killed bunch of people in Europe decades ago and celebrated the 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo attacks.
by erentz | 2025-11-15 00:58:09+00:00
It is so hard to believe there was a time where bundling a browser with an operating system was a huge scandal requiring a huge government antitrust case to correct.

Maybe it’s just that I’m old and crotchety but we need regulation to debundle everything, including phones. Yes iCloud, so forth no longer is bundled with a phone you have to choose the providers you want and those providers have to compete and no the Apple company isn’t allowed to make its phone work better for its own products. Just like Microsoft once upon a time wasn’t allowed to make its OS work better for its own browser (how quaint).
by josephg | 2025-11-15 00:58:18+00:00
> I believe that Rust is the language benefiting the most from agentic AI

Except in my experience, chatgpt and claude both struggle to write rust code that compiles correctly. Chatgpt is pretty good at complex tasks in typescript like "Write a simple snake game using (web framework x). It should have features X and Y". Its can be surprisingly good at some complex problems like that.

If you try the same in rust, it often fails. I've also had plenty of situations where I've had some complex borrowing error in rust code, and chatgpt just can't figure it out. It goes in loops. "Oh I see the problem. Sure, this should fix it ..." except the "fixed code" fails in just the same way.

I'm not sure why. Maybe there's just not enough rust code in the training set for chatgpt to figure it out. But rust is definitely a weakness of the current generation of models.
by lanstin | 2025-11-15 00:58:20+00:00
I think the coherence behind prompt engineering is not in the literal meanings of the words but finding the vocabulary used by the sources that have your solution. Ask questions like a high school math student and you get elementary words back. Ask questions in the lingo of a Linux bigot and you will get good awk scripts back. Use academic maths language and arXiv answers will be produced.
by OliveMate | 2025-11-15 00:58:29+00:00
> Was it worth it?

I can only give anecdotes, but the majority of the support I saw for leaving the EU wasn't rooted in hard economics – there were claims about doing our own free trade deals and having an extra £350 Million being spent on the NHS instead, but that was about it. A lot of support centred around how our culture & history ought to be perceived, limiting migration, and not having faith/trust in the EU and our Governments.

Again anecdotes, but the most common reprieve I hear from Leave supporters is that leaving would've been great if not for 1) the years of political deadlock 2) Johnson's deal being naff. For most of us life hasn't improved since leaving (the pandemic right after didn't help); and after the promises about the sunlit uplands if we left, I don't think anything short of a miracle would make it feel like it was worth it.

I think the only people who feel like it was worth it were those who voted Leave through a culture/prestiege lens and put the fact that we left above everything else.
by CMay | 2025-11-15 00:59:07+00:00
It's true that Russia and China share a border, but the infrastructure to move oil across it at large scale barely exists and I got the impression the geology is very unfavorable for it. It's probably easier to ship it, but future pipeline expansions may still happen.

The whole Belt and Road initiative seemed to mimic a Korean style labor export to increase the inflows of currency into the country while keeping people employed, but I also kind of figured it was aimed at reducing the friction of future resource transportation between the countries.
by anonzzzies | 2025-11-15 01:03:27+00:00
In the same way then that Americans as people don't exist? Or is stealing land from the natives somehow different? To what point in time you want to travel to comfortably annihilate a country and there it's people? Before the second world war; ah where was Israel again? Many lands are taken over the history of the humans: what is your great plan if you claim Ukraine is not a country but the US and israel are?
by jrm4 | 2025-11-15 01:04:25+00:00
Hmm. A bit of weird anecdata; I'm a faculty point of contact for tech issues at my very (but not overly) microsofty university and also a very longtime Linux user.

But I seem to have a better time of things in this realm than MANY of my Windows/Mac colleagues re Outlook, Teams, etc precisely because I'm always relegated to the Web/PWA stuff. They often literally seem to have more issues than me.
by sudahtigabulan | 2025-11-15 01:07:18+00:00
> That’s typical usage of Awk, where you use it in place of cut because you can’t be bothered to remember the right flags for cut.

Even you remember the flags, cut(1) will not be able to handle ls -l. And any command that uses spaces for aligning the text into fixed-width columns.

Unlike awk(1), cut(1) only works with delimiters that are a single character. Meaning, a run of spaces will be treated like several empty fields. And, depending on factors you don't control, every line will have different number of fields in it, and the data you need to extract will be in a different field.

You can either switch to awk(1), because its default field separator treats runs of spaces as one, or squeeze them with tr(1) first:

ls -l | tr -s' ' | cut -d' ' -f3
by Bender | 2025-11-15 01:07:47+00:00
In a similar spirit there is also a site to scan security headers of any site [1] and another to verify the TLS settings from the Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator [2] and a git repo with code to scan sites from the command line [3] useful if the site is not reachable on the internet or automated scans to HTML reports.

[1] - https://securityheaders.com/

[2] - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

[3] - https://github.com/testssl/testssl.sh
by HDThoreaun | 2025-11-15 01:08:54+00:00
I think there's a lot of meta thought that deserves to be done about where these new tools fit. It is easy to off handedly reject change, especially as a subject matter expert who can feel they worked so hard to do this and now theyre being replaced so the work was for nothing. I really dont want to say your wife is wrong, she almost assuredly is not. But it is important to have a curious mindset when confronted with ideas you may be biased against. Then she can rest easy knowing she is doing her best to perfect her craft, right? Otherwise she might wake up one day feeling like symbolic NLP researchers trying LLMs for the first time. Certainly a lot to consider.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-15 01:10:53+00:00
If you look at [1] you can see some derivations from Milkdrop/Project M.

There were a lot of other, good visual plugins and software. VJ software, specifically, but also Libvisual just abstracts input and output, therefore allowing you to use all of these (supported) visualization plugins on any supported media player. It isn't much developed anymore these days, but this is the correct way forward.

Looking at the actors in Livisual [3] G-Force is decent but also a couple may be missing from earlier Libvisual releases. You may also like Lemuria [4]. Winamp's AVS is also FOSS [5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop

[2] https://github.com/Libvisual/libvisual

[3] https://github.com/Libvisual/libvisual/tree/master/libvisual...

[4] https://github.com/dr-ni/lemuria-2.1.1

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Visualization_Studio
by giobox | 2025-11-15 01:10:58+00:00
Rejoining the EU can absolutely be done, but I think it's unlikely the UK could join on the terms it had before, I can't see that being accepted in the current political climate in Europe.

In theory, any new country joining the EU has to switch to the common currency, the Euro, something the UK was able to gain an exemption from while still a member along with Denmark, Sweden and a handful of others, a long time ago when the Euro was first introduced.

This has always been an issue when discussing Scottish independence too, given the SNP have always claimed Scotland could rejoin the EU and keep the pound; the EU has always said otherwise.

> https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/euro/enlargement-euro-a...
by ajross | 2025-11-15 01:12:07+00:00
The Javascript world hides its complexity outside the core language, though. JS itself isn't so weird (though as always see the "Wat?" video), but the incantations required to type and read the actual code are pretty wild.

By the time you understand all of typescript, your templating environment of choice, and especially the increasingly arcane build complexity of the npm world, you've put in hours comparable to what you'd have spent learning C# or Java for sure (probably more). Still easier than C++ or Rust though.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-15 01:12:10+00:00
And despite spending basically nothing on that lunch, we still charge kids for it

The public blamed the "lazy" lunch ladies of course but the public was the one voting down the school budget to actually pay them to cook. The actual people doing food service have as much agency over the menu as the teen behind the counter at mcdonalds. Those exact same women WERE cooking real food a decade ago. That's how long they had been doing that job.
by blendo | 2025-11-15 01:12:19+00:00
For months, Mullvad has been papering San Francisco with smart and cheeky ads, like "Mass surveillance is made by machine men with machine hearts".

I admire that they're saying this, and wish other VPN companies would do similar public relations to highlight the risks of ad targeting.

Tbh, I'm a customer. Before Mullvad, I used PIA.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/advertising-that-targets-everyon...
by xp84 | 2025-11-15 01:12:44+00:00
> you don't get to have luxuries AND complain about being poor.

Some people might be inclined to try to drag you for the first half of that statement, and honestly I'm inclined to try to not judge poor people for what I usually assume is one or two small splurges that raise their moods just high enough to not slit their wrists, you know?

But I think the second half of the sentence is kinda fair. IF they are self-aware that they are choosing to divert money from more important things, it's their life and I don't really want to pass judgment. If they whine constantly that "the system" is keeping them down while continuously making "unforced" errors with their money, that's when it makes me start to roll my eyes.
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-15 01:13:20+00:00
The presentation software itself (Excalidraw) makes this nearly unusable for me:

When it opened up the entire left-half of my screen is blank, and the diagrams are obviously cut off on the right. There is no apparent way to scroll horizontally (excepting a mouse with a horizontal scroll mechanism of some sort): There is no horizontal scroll bar and neither the arrow-keys nor click-and-drag serve to scroll horizontally. Zooming out made things a bit clear what was going on, (margin notes shifted the content far to the right).

Firefox, 1920x1200 screen.
by crote | 2025-11-15 01:13:28+00:00
The main problem is that Brexit Meant Brexit: the Leave camp was promoting a dozen different and contradictory goals at the same time, and every pro-Leaver was free to cherry-pick their own interpretation of Brexit from it.

This obviously led to a massive issue when they actually won: you simply can't have your cake and eat it - especially when it involves another foreign power! There is no universe in which it would've been possible for the UK to completely detach itself from all EU rules, while still retaining completely free transit of goods, while also taxing import certain goods for protectionist reasons. Similarly it was never going to be possible for UK citizens to retain unlimited visa-free travel to the Schengen area while retaining the possibility for the UK to arbitrarily block access to certain groups of EU citizens.

The most obvious example of this is Northern Ireland: you can't leave the Common Market, and keep an open border between NI and RoI (thus not blowing up the Good Friday agreement and not starting another civil war), and keep an open border between NI and GB (thus not partially giving up sovereignty and suggesting acceptance of a slow move towards a united Ireland). Failing to deliver on all three at once (as promised piecemeal by various pro-Leave people) isn't malicious compliance - it's reality. Something has to yield, and if you don't decide up-front you'll of course get a nasty surprise later on.
by josephg | 2025-11-15 01:14:04+00:00
> Let’s be clear: the goal is to distribute a tarball which the receiver can build.

Thanks for clearing that up. What problem does that solve? I've never tried to do that, but I can see how it would be a pain in the neck.

I wonder how hard that would be to fix. It doesn't sound like a difficult feature to implement in cargo. I wonder how amenable the cargo devs would be to adding something like that?
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-15 01:14:34+00:00
We know it's a deliberate choice. It's just wrong.

>This decision affords Wayland compositors a greater deal of flexibility — windows could be shown in several places at once, arranged in the 3D space of a VR scene, or presented in any other novel way. Wayland is designed to be generic and widely applicable to many devices and form factors.

Do ANY of these other features work? Furthermore, all our applications are built basically as 2D grids of pixels. What click position do you get if you render the same window in some "novel" way like in two places at once? I don't especially care if any of their space-age bullshit works. It NEEDS to work for the apps we have, which are just pixel arrays. Many users have been ranting about this issue for years and all we get in response from Wayland wackos is basically "live with it!" Nobody has realized any actual benefits in functionality from switching to Wayland. Maybe some graphics nerds with weird monitor setups are geeking out about fractional pixel coordinates and multiple refresh rates. The rest of us are just dealing with issues for no benefit.
by jameslarus | 2025-11-15 01:15:17+00:00
Nope, I'm still the Editor-in-Chief, and the last time I checked, I'm not an LLM. Nor are the other 100+ associate editors of the magazine.

I want to point out that this is a blog post appearing on the CACM website. It was not reviewed or edited by CACM, beyond a few cursory checks.
by veidr | 2025-11-15 01:15:21+00:00
Interesting. I recommend Incus over other hypervisor-oriented OS distributions (Proxmox, etc.), for many reasons, but one minor reason is that you can install it on Debian or Arch or whatever Linux you like. It's a comprehensive management layer for VMs and Linux containers, with good CLI, web UI, cloning/moving/copying/migrating etc., but... why does that need to be an OS?

However, I'm confident that if that is what you want, this is probably fantastic — Incus, including the old LXD (which was mainly built by the same core developers, until Canonical behaved in ways they didn't like, and they hard-forked LXD to create Incus) has been one of my favorite open-source projects for several years.

Fantastic software, steady stream of reliable releases, helpful community... Incus is great.
by sosuke | 2025-11-15 01:16:24+00:00
Doing something novel is incredibly difficult through LLM work alone. Dreaming, hallucinating, might eventually make novel possible but it has to be backed up be rock solid base work. We aren't there yet.

The working memory it holds is still extremely small compared to what we would need for regular open ended tasks.

Yes there are outliers and I'm not being specific enough but I can't type that much right now.
by GenerWork | 2025-11-15 01:16:42+00:00
>Talking about "illegals", and expressing contempt for people who care about them.

I do have contempt for illegals and the people in the countries where they're illegally present who care about them and stymie attempts to remove said illegals. It's a gross violation of the social contract and I'm tired of people just hand waving it away like it's no big deal and we just have to accept it.

>Not that it matters for immigration policy, but Britain's food was greatly improved by immigration

I agree with you that it doesn't/shouldn't matter for immigration policy, but at the same time I've heard this argument used by people who brand themselves as pro-immigration as a reason why we can't do anything about illegal immigrants because if they're deported, who will cook their unique cuisine?
by atulvi | 2025-11-15 01:17:51+00:00
Wikidive is an AI-driven exploration tool designed to help you discover interesting topics on Wikipedia.

Simply enter a topic you're interested in, and Wikidive will explore Wikipedia to find TWO related topics that an AI model thinks are interesting. You can then choose to dive deeper into one of these topics. Each "dive" presents you with related topics that you can explore further, creating an engaging journey of discovery.

EDIT: How it works:

It asks an llm this prompt: "I was going in this rabbit hole of wikipedia articles: #{chain} \n I have now found these topics:\n\n#{related_topics}\n\n Select the 2 most mind blowing topics from the list and that I'd enjoy given my rabbit hole. Ensure two topics are not the same."

and pics two articles that it returns. This is slightly better than random.(related article names are obtained from wikipedia API).