MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by prirun | 2025-11-23 17:46:54+00:00
Stopping payment sounds good, but may not work for a couple of reasons:

1) if you have payment auto deducted from a bank account, getting that stopped is not always straightforward. My bank told me they couldn't actually block ACH transactions, and to reverse one, I had to file a complaint with the company initiating the ACH, wait 30 days until the next bank statement to verify that the company didn't reverse the ACH, then ask the bank again to reverse the ACH.

2) in this case, the guy had other ISPs, but it looks like they were all satellite or DSL, which have really high latency. High latency and packet loss are way bigger issues than throughput, although with the severity of outage described in the article, high latency with no hard outage might be a better trade-off.

3) if you stop paying and get your service cut off, and it's critical for you (remote work, etc), now you have to scramble
by squidbeak | 2025-11-23 17:47:11+00:00
If you are right and that is the point, it isn't described anywhere in the proposal which has been developed over several years. Far from from a "Unified super-database", the government's role is only as reference through an API in front of departmental databases. There's no current proposal to merge them, or assume the role of the verification services who are all third party.

Then, there's no single digital identity. The wallet will hold any number of 'digital identities', each tailored to specific purposes. Each of these identities is a bundle of a subset of the attributes/proofs saved in the app. These identities can be generated on the fly in response to a prompt, but seemingly can be manually created too.

A couple of examples. For a financial application, you might need to show the financial service you're applying to a comprehensive set of data. But to get into a nightclub, you will only need a single Zero-Knowledge Proof confirming you are over 18. These will be two separate IDs. Can you see how this might strengthen citizens by giving them control over what data they show?

Beyond that, there are principles of Purpose Limitation and Minimisation which prevent potential abuse, such as companies demanding information they legally don't need.

You appear to be are under a serious misapprehension about the proposal.
by amluto | 2025-11-23 17:47:13+00:00
I would much prefer if MacOS got rid of the global menu. I've contemplated it for literally decades, and my opinion has only gotten stronger.

1. Sometimes a program has no open windows. Understanding when its menu shows up in the menu bar is confusing at best. Explaining to another user "oh, you are in [such and such program already] even though there's nothing there -- click File then Open" is silly.

2. Sometimes a program has two or more open windows. Sure, File/New makes sense in this context, but anything that acts on the current window is not visually linked to the window and is thus confusing.

3. With the advent of multiple monitors, global menus are even worse. Which monitor should they live on? Always primary? Both? There is no right answer.

4. Old-fashioned title bars tell me which window belongs to which program. Global menus try, but only if I'm sure which window's menu is currently displayed, and it does not let me identify a non-selected window without interrupting myself to select it.

5. Opening a menu that's part of a non-current window takes one click. With global menus, it's two clicks.

6. One might imagine that they conserve screen real estate, which is maybe slightly true in our brave new world of notched viewports, but it's barely true and is avoidable. And Apple doesn't seem to care about efficient use of screen real estate anyway.
by dijit | 2025-11-23 17:47:19+00:00
I had the exact same journey as you, I even very nearly install GNUStep because the file manager had miller columns.

I even started to think that perhaps Apple has an active patent on it or something.

(this happened with the Genie Lamp minimise effect on Compiz/Beryl- why it needed to have at minimum 3 "waves" before it minimised the window; though you could obviously patch it out).

FWIW I found Ranger (TUI) and Pantheon (ElementaryOS) that supports it, if you're still looking.
by mathattack | 2025-11-23 17:47:29+00:00
Seems like a lot of different audiences. My observation is this is trying to cover 2 of the 3 common tracks:

1 - Proof based calculus for math majors

2 - Technique based calculus for hard science majors

3 - Watered down calculus for soft science and business majors (yes, there are a few schools that are exceptions to this)

If he can pull off unifying 1 and 2, good for him!
by analogpixel | 2025-11-23 17:47:56+00:00
Filed under Home->News->Security and this is just an ad for Costco

> Once you’re in the door, you can check out fresh-baked goods, load up on bulk groceries to cut back on repeat trips, or stock up on all the little home essentials like paper towels that seem to disappear the moment family is through the door.

> Be sure to also look at the offerings on Costco.com to find everything from options for ordering your groceries or even planning a vacation. Your next trip might be through one of Costco’s exciting vacation packages.

> Don’t forget to stop by the Costco food court on your way out for something hot, quick, and delicious. The hot dog meals are still only $1.50.
by bjt | 2025-11-23 17:48:01+00:00
Having everything in my phone is a great convenience for me as a consumer. Pockets are small, and you only have a small number of them in any outfit.

But cloud services run in... the cloud. It's as big as you need it to be. My cloud service can have as many backing services as I want. I can switch them whenever I want. Consumers don't care.

"One model that can do everything for you" is a nice story for the hyper scalers because only companies of their size can pull that off. But I don't think the smartphone analogy holds. The convenience in that world is for the the developers of user-facing apps. Maybe some will want to use an everything model. But plenty will try something specialized. I expect the winner to be determined by which performs better. Developers aren't constrained by size or number of pockets.
by rebeca500 | 2025-11-23 17:48:02+00:00
Over the last five months I worked on a long-form experiment: using GPT-4 as a co-author to generate a 1,500-page literary project. It mixes narrative structure, symbolic analysis, and reflections on technology and culture. The full work is available for free on the website.

Sharing here in case it interests people exploring unconventional uses of LLMs or long-form AI collaboration.
by gdelfino01 | 2025-11-23 17:48:51+00:00
I used to be one of those setting everything to dark mode, custom CSS and all, but I am now cured. It was a difficult time as my eyesight was rapidly deteriorating to the point that I thought that I would need to change carers to something not involving computers. I am so thankful that it is over. The source of the problem was that I had been consistently over-prescribed by different optometrists. I don't blame them, but something must be off in how they were trained. To avoid this issue, do not use regular progressive lenses in your eyeglasses. Instead ask for an "intermediate distance" formula optimized for the typical distance between your eye and the computer monitor. In practice this is a depowered formula supposed to be used only for computer used, but I used it all the time. On my next checkup my official formula had decreases confirming that it was too strong in the first place. I know don't have to use dark mode, and my vision is much better in general (I'm in my 50s). And don't over use your phones!!
by neilv | 2025-11-23 17:49:01+00:00
Dark-mode and light-mode are both so popular as user preference, that apps and sites should make sure at least stock light and dark modes work well, out of the box. Noticeable examples of needing improvement:

* Default light and dark themes of programs/apps and sites that have illegible low-contrast color combinations. Very common, sometimes within themes they control entirely but apparently never tested both light and dark themes. (For example, the non-customizable foreground color a calendar program users to indicate task priority doesn't change when the theme changes the background color to dark. Or the terminal app thinks that yellow is a foreground color to use for highlighting warnings, and apparently the author has never heard of terminal windows with white backgrounds.)

* Bluesky's delayed page-loading full-screen interstitial of small butterfly logo against white backdrop, rendered when they know the session is in dark mode. If you've in dark mode in a dark room, winding down for bed at night, this is awful. I occasionally notice lesser problems like this with streaming video UIs, but not as consistently jarring/blinding as Bluesky. (Almost as awful as the movies/shows on home video streaming services that throw in gratuitous strobe light scenes. If it doesn't give the customers seizures, it stil can't be good for their sleep cycle. At least Bluesky's unnecessary sudden blinding white doesn't strobe.)
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-23 17:49:01+00:00
Corporate crimes can and sometimes do go to criminal court (PG&E, for instance, has convicted of 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the 2018 Camp Fire, obstruction and various criminal pipeline safety violations in the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion, and various other crimes at other times), but aside from fines most criminal punishments don’t apply to corporations. You can’t imprison a corporation as such, nor can you execute it except metaphorically. So, ultimately, that’s largely just a higher standard of proof route to fines than civil court (though probation restrictions are also a thing.)
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-11-23 17:49:24+00:00
> Perhaps they've contracted with some of these companies and don't want to break some NDA by naming them, but still know a lot about how they work.

This makes literally no sense. Why would any companies (let alone most of them) contract with this guy who seems hell bent on exposing them all.

The article is simple made up, most likely by an LLM.
by commandar | 2025-11-23 17:49:31+00:00
>It also eats vertical space with those huge icons, which is precious given the current popular screen dimensions.

This is one Windows gets wrong too, in fairness.

W11 killed the ability to move the taskbar to the left/right side of the screen. That's a real pain on ultrawide displays where you have absolutely miles of horizontal real estate and relatively limited vertical space.

Fortunately, ExplorerPatcher exists and can restore the functionality.

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/
by NotPractical | 2025-11-23 17:49:37+00:00
Previously:

Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe (268 pts) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45098411

Apple revokes EU distribution rights for an app on the Alt Store (249 pts) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45040064
by zb3 | 2025-11-23 17:49:38+00:00
GNOME is underfunded - bugs are not fixed for years, PRs are not reviewed for months. It might look more shiny on the surface, but once you realize something doesn't work - you're on your own.

See for example this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4051

Nobody is assigned to fix these.
by bostik | 2025-11-23 17:50:08+00:00
As a Finnish citizen living in the UK, I also come from a culture where a national ID system exists. I would not trust the UK to do theirs sensibly.

Even the invoked name "Digital ID" makes it very clear that this system would rely on central databases. Only. In a country where the upcoming political parties are actively proposing stripping foreigners from their immigration status, it's pretty clear that all the parties learned at least one common message from the Windrush scandal: destroying documentation of immigrants was not the problem - leaving behind evidence of such action having happened was.

EDIT: the Finnish system at least sets up _some_ guard rails around how the data is used, and mandates a physical document that one can use as a proof when (not if) the central DB is down or going through Windrush 2.0 purge.
by jedberg | 2025-11-23 17:50:10+00:00
And 99% of software development is just feeding data into a complier. But that sort of misses the point doesn't it?

AI has created a new interface with a higher level abstraction that is easier to use. Of course everyone is going to use it (how many people still code assembler?).

The point is what people are doing with it is still clever (or at least has potential to be).
by kardianos | 2025-11-23 17:50:37+00:00
I agree with this. But I don't see the students rejecting this, but the education degreed peoples who choose texts and the publishers want to make all learning for all people. This is foolish. Most people don't need to know calculus. And if you do learn it, do so with rigor so you actually learn it and not just the appearance of it, which is much much worse.
by gunsle | 2025-11-23 17:50:41+00:00
You’re never gonna get these people to understand basic economics if they don’t already. It’s mindblowing people do not understand that more regulation = more red tape = less competition as the only companies that can afford to do business in that environment are the ones already in power with resources. Taxation and regulation genuinely only further embed those in power. Ironically, most leftists that advocate for more taxation and regulation in an effort to help the poor and working classes seem to have no grasp of economic realities at all.
by marky1991 | 2025-11-23 17:51:01+00:00
I've had recurring headaches my entire life. Have been to many neurologists, none have any idea what causes them, they just give me different pills to prevent them instead. This isn't unusual for headaches, quite often the cause is basically unknown. (If you ask people they'll give you a series of common things, eg water consumption, eating enough, etc, but it's just all unprovable folk medicine) Expecting everyone to "find the cause" is unreasonable.

If you have a headache, it's totally fine to take a painkiller. (If it happens on a regular basis, eg at least once a week, it can be a good idea to get those different pills from a neurologist, because the two main painkillers have bad side effects in the long run, but those different pills are just "masking" it in a different way)
by kixiQu | 2025-11-23 17:51:08+00:00
1 week is fascinating. Was it like – the missing piece was modern version control/CD? What kind of testing would need that? (We have configs at work where the system interactions are so unknowable and the financial implications of reduced efficiency so profound that we have to run multi-week A/B tests to change values) Was it some kind of pathological documentation culture?
by busymom0 | 2025-11-23 17:51:10+00:00
No idea why this extremely poor "article" is getting so much attention on HN. There is a time and place for dark mode. For certain demographics, default dark mode may be more suitable than others. And letting the user change it covers all bases.

For example, on my site [1], I default to dark mode (not pure black though) and have settings for changing the theme to: Pure black, Light mode (white), and 2 custom themes which are off white, and a dark blue background.

I picked dark mode as default because my site is directed towards tech people (it's for STEM + Arts and Design) and thought dark mode works well for that theme.

[1] https://limereader.com/
by vogu66 | 2025-11-23 17:51:50+00:00
for what it's worth, my ophthalmologist recommended I use light mode only, with reduced blue and red (because red light actually activates the blue cones too apparently)

Then my screen time started affecting my sleep so I still use dark mode at night

But anyways all software should be configurable and follow the parent software (browser, OS) by default, css even allows for that now. There is even a "prefers-contrast" property in order to design for people who need high contrast stuff.
by marcustas | 2025-11-23 17:52:00+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with an unusual idea: creating a static, multilingual HTML page optimized specifically for LLM crawling rather than for humans.

No JS, no frameworks, no styling. Only: • clean HTML • JSON-LD (Restaurant, FAQ, WebSite, WebPage) • hreflang for 5 languages • a hand-written sitemap.xml • robots.txt explicitly allowing GPTBot, CCBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot • hosted on Netlify, with no language negotiation or redirects • served with stable 200 responses for all bots

The experiment is here: https://ai.asasushi.pl/

Goal: see whether LLMs (ChatGPT, Bing, Claude, Perplexity) start surfacing this page as part of local business knowledge, and how long indexing takes if everything is handcrafted and deterministic.

I’m interested in feedback from people who have played with AI-SEO, crawler behavior, LLM retrieval patterns, or static-site indexing.

Does this approach make sense? Anything obvious I should change?
by analog31 | 2025-11-23 17:52:28+00:00
Thinking about it, ours was a small college -- 2500 students. So there may have been a practical reason for everybody taking the same math courses. They were taught more as "service" courses for the sciences and engineering than as theoretical math courses. And the students who didn't need calculus typically satisfied their math requirement with a statistics course.

Complex analysis and real analysis were among the higher-level courses, attended mostly by math majors, with the proviso that there were a lot of double majors. That was where it got interesting.

The requirements for the physics major were only a handful of math credits shy of the math major.
by _fat_santa | 2025-11-23 17:52:33+00:00
IMHO the Gnome team should bake in Dash to Dock and Desktop Icons NG into the core package. To me they are essential to get a proper functioning desktop in Gnome and it blows my mind that they are just 3rd party extensions when really it should be 1st party support.

Ubuntu already does this with their build.
by furyofantares | 2025-11-23 17:52:55+00:00
Another slop article that could probably be good if the author was interested in writing it, but instead they dumped everything into an LLM and now I can't tell what's real and what's not and get no sense of what parts of the findings the author found important or interesting compared to what other parts.

I have to wonder, are people voting this up after reading the article fully, and I'm just wrong and this sort of info dump with LLM dressing is desirable? Or are people skimming it and upvoting? Or is it more of an excuse to talk about the topic in the title? What level of cynicism should I be on here, if any?
by comex | 2025-11-23 17:53:30+00:00
Some languages do define &&b, like Rust, where its effect is similar to the parent post's C example: it creates a temporary stack allocation initialized with &b, and then takes the address of that.

You could argue this is inconsistent or confusing. It is certainly useful though.

Incidentally, C99 lets you do something similar with compound literal syntax; this is a valid expression:

&(int *){&b}
by johnisgood | 2025-11-23 17:53:55+00:00
I am not trying to say that you are never supposed to take medications long-term. I take medications, too. Unfortunately the causes are known (or rather, there is a diagnosis), but there is no treatment or cure.

What I am trying to say is that after the Nth time you would take the kid to the doctor to find out what causes the pain, instead of just giving them painkillers. It could easily be something treatable, or rather, curable.
by diath | 2025-11-23 17:54:09+00:00
Have you tried Cinnamon? I've been happily using it for years, Cinnamon is pretty much GNOME before GNOME started getting bastardized. GNOME these days is pretty much two devs having very strong opinions about how the DE should serve them with no regards to usability or other users; I wouldn't hope that it will improve in the future.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-23 17:54:17+00:00
The only thing about Gnome3 I like is it does not give me eye strain like KDE 1 -- 5 does. I have yet to use KDE6. Granted with each release KDE is getting better with eye strain, but it still happens.

With Gnome, no issues at all. With that said, I prefer KDE far more than Gnome due to its configurability. With v5 I can deal with the eye strain, hoping v6 is better. In the old days, with KDE v3, after 15 minutes my eyes were bleeding.
by skydhash | 2025-11-23 17:54:47+00:00
After years with i3 on Linux, then macOS, then Gnome for a few months, and back to i3 again, that will be a decade since I've minimized any windows. I'm either closing a window if I don't need it anymore or move it somewhere else.

I know habits and workflows can be difficult to adjust. But an alternate paradigm can be as useful as the one you're used to.
by system2 | 2025-11-23 17:54:54+00:00
I disagree. Software development is not limited to LLM-type responses and incorporates proper logic. You are at the mercy of LLM when you build an "AI" interface for the LLM apis. 73% these "AI" companies will collapse when the original API providing company comes up with a simple option (Gemini for Sheets, for example), they will disappear. It is already happening.

AI software is not long-lasting; its results are not deterministic.
by spijdar | 2025-11-23 17:54:55+00:00
Huh. It'd never occured to me that Alpha/AXP was the only NT port that doesn't use 4KB pages (EDIT: and Itanium...). That's interesting -- I wonder how they dealt with that, especially with 16/32-bit x86 emulation (fx!32, good enough that it runs ClassiCube and Half-Life), and the dot net port that never saw the light of day, but was evidently worked on (there's still evidence of the AXP64 port in the open source dotnet, and evidence for an AXP port floating around elsewhere on GitHub...)

I know on PowerPC, with 64KB pages, IBM (?) added the subpage_prot syscall to Linux for emulation of 4KB pages, for the sake of their x86 emulation software.

Really, it's weird that NT apparently has/had some architectural support for larger pages, and then never used it again...
by giantg2 | 2025-11-23 17:55:04+00:00
Nothing moved. You gave me the 2% property tax from TX. The other person gave me the dorm in Atlanta. I gave you a real example where I will pay more in property tax than I will in interest. Property tax varies from state to state and won't be the same everywhere. I'm not sure why you're using yet another state, Alabama, for your example except to just cherry pick. But we're getting off track - $1200/yr perpetually is a lot of money for low income people.
by WillAdams | 2025-11-23 17:55:07+00:00
The task is renaming scans of checks (with the barcode/bank account info obscured by a pen) --- the checks are of varying sizes, placement is not exact, the placement and formatting of the information on the check is essentially random, and many of them are (poorly) handwritten).

The LLM is working well enough for my needs (and I'm using a locked-down computer which installing/running development environments/scripts on is awkward), and it's a marked improvement over the previous technique of opening 50 files at a time, noting the Invoice ID, closing the file, typing the Invoice ID as a name, then quitting Adobe Acrobat and re-launching it for the next 50 (if that was not done, eventually Acrobat would reach a state where it would close a file and despite the name having been typed, not save it), then using a .bat file made using concatenation in an Excel column.

It would be nice if it were perfect, but each check has to be manually entered, and the filename updated to match the entry by hand.