MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by omnicognate | 2025-11-06 08:27:08+00:00
Re EXWM and:

> Emacs is single threaded, therefore if anything in the system hangs, the whole system hangs

For development work I haven't found this to be an issue. Generally when coding I use very few X apps - pretty much just a web browser and maybe occasionally a PDF preview or docs browser. I don't think I've ever had a problem with the single-threaded behaviour blocking window management there. (And as an aside, while proper threading would be nice for things that actually should be concurrent - such as EXWM's duties as a window manager - I massively prefer emacs' synchronous processing of input over the JetBrains horror of pressing a key combination and then having to wait for some asynchronous UI behaviour to occur, with different outcomes depending on whether the next keypress occurs before or after the UI behaviour the first one triggered.)

For other, more GUI-focused activities I just run a separate (wayland) session.
by utopiah | 2025-11-06 08:27:22+00:00
Yep, a memory that changed my perspective on this was in a tiny island in Italy where a grandma was riding her electrical bike uphill with no effort in the middle of the Summer.

When I mean uphill I mean not Tour de France level but damn steep still. And yet, here she was with her grocery in her bag, no problem.

That was absolutely wonderful because, despite my envy, she was autonomous!

She didn't need no stinking petrol station, she could charge at home. She didn't need a humongous garage where streets were ridiculous narrow. She could park somewhere, charge the battery home.

This moment was genuinely wonderful... and my point is that I do believe even though it felt relatively new, I can easily imagine it to deploy at scale for the benefit of most.
by dguest | 2025-11-06 08:28:43+00:00
You either believe that monopolies produce worse products or you don't.

If you believe it, the "I know they are bad" -> "but we need to complete with the boogie man" -> "we need to build our own monopoly" argument is just confusing. So we should make worse products to be competitive?

If you don't believe it, you should be explaining why monopolies make better products, not arguing that desperate times call for desperate abandonment of logic.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-06 08:29:23+00:00
90's high schooler here. Oh yeah, those basic social skills at lunchrooms at school.

Sitting in noisy lunchroom isn't fun if you have autism. Walkman/disc man was my fav (you know, that thing I used while on the bus, so no I didn't talk much there to others either). Too bad we didn't have noise-cancelling headset back then. Back to lunchroom. Went for a drink while leaving your school bag? Your scientific calculator got reset by one of the bullies. Good luck getting it ready again for math/physics/chemistry/biology class test. But I usually just lunched elsewhere anyway, since I wasn't allowed in the cool kids group, and I ended up finding solace in that. So where did I end up? In the multimedia library! 20 or so PCs which you could use for, eh... 'homework.' At one point I found out you could just edit your student number in HTML, so once I figured the student number of a bully I signed him up to study in one the silence rooms for a week. When he found out I did that, he did the same to me, but -unlike him- I was cool with that. As for that library: other, more smarter kids than me, went to sit separate to study during break. And during lunch break there were people bored, shooting with elastics, yelling, running, bullying. Book reading at school? Didn't happen much during lunch breaks. Some studying, sure. That it was so awesome before the smartphone time, is a nostalgia myth.

FTA:

> The faculty donated board games to help ease kids into the phone-free era. Student volunteers oversaw a table stacked with games: checkers, chess, Yahtzee, Scrabble, Clue, Life and Trivial Pursuit. For many of the kids, it was their first time playing the games, and they said they were enjoying it.

Oh, yeah. I played MtG back in those days but was called a 'nerd' for that, and surprisingly nobody in my class (gymnasium; highest education level on high school) would also play it. At times, I kind of enjoyed something like Black Lady and Rikken, but Poker just bored me, and I didn't like the play for money (it was officially forbidden, but you know how that goes).

> Ko said other analog activities have also made a comeback, including cards, hangman, tic-tac-toe and Polaroid cameras. “There are just a lot of memories that we make throughout high school that we want to capture,” she said. “I actually have a lot of Polaroids on my wall.”

Funny how there's still a need to make photo's. That is one thing I hate about smartphones. That excessive need to photograph everything these days.

Now, about the subject. I don't think it has to be 'all' or 'nothing'. It wasn't 'nothing' back in the days (as I already wrote above, we just consolidated a lot of devices), it wasn't perfect back in the days either.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-11-06 08:30:50+00:00
Damn, you got to this before I did!

The pigmentation of the morpho butterfly is a result of the microscopic shape of the scales which refract and diffract light. The actual pigmentation of those scales is not blue. If you took the DNA for the pigments in the butterfly scale you'd probably get some dull color.

This phenomenon is called "structural color"

The genetic and developmental pathway for butterfly scales is actually driven by what biologists call Notch signaling, which is the same signaling pathway that drives differentiation of the hair cells within your cochlear which you use for hearing.
by yason | 2025-11-06 08:30:53+00:00
I'm not part of Mozilla or any of the communities and I understood the situation by reading the damn post, on the first time.

In the follow-up, any words concerning how the person feels, words on how to talk about this further, and wanting to truly understand what he just wrote in plain and simple terms simply reek strongly of "we really won't change anything, we've made our decision, we are disagree with you but we want you to agree with what we're already doing".

I can hear the exact same tone in exact similar situations with various customer service reps, HR, corporate smooth-talkers, public officials/politicians where the decision is already written in stone and they just pretend they're listening to the customers/employees/citizens affected to quiet down the criticism.
by imtringued | 2025-11-06 08:30:57+00:00
Blocking first party Javascript is a form of lunacy that is so illogical I can only shake my head. Let's say the site runs XSLT in Javascript. Now what? There's nothing that can be done and yet you would ask for further accommodation.

Here is why this is abusive: You can always restrict the subset of the web platform you demand to a subset that is arbitrarily difficult or even impossible to support. No matter how much accommodation is granted, it will be all for naught, because some guy out there goes even further with blocking things and starts blocking CSS. Next thing you know there's a guy who blocks HTML and you're expected to render out your website as a SVG with clickable links.
by iamcomment | 2025-11-06 08:31:16+00:00
Every time I see posts like this I wait for all the 'this is me' narcasistic comments. If you think you are super smart, you should read Schopenhauer. He wrote about how most people vastly overestimate their intelligence and importance, calling vanity and self-delusion universal human flaws. He saw it as part of the reason why humanity fails to learn from history or act rationally—because everyone assumes they are the clever exception. Youare not unhappy because you are so smart.
by fingerlocks | 2025-11-06 08:31:42+00:00
I said the thread is FUD because essential tooling is baked into the OS that invalidates the central thesis of the thread. Your response was, “haha ok now try that on a separate platform that requires a well known upfront premium to circumvent binary integrity protection, because consequences are much more significant, lolz”. And I responded with “yes, confirmed circumvention possible after paying small fee”.

Or were you saying something else that I misunderstood?
by kepeko | 2025-11-06 08:31:44+00:00
Cont. I was always somebody who does well in school and thinks he is smart. But I had some situations that gave me a lesson. E.g. when I was younger I got to know some people who were kind of fun to spend time with but I thought they are a bit crazy, not smart. At some point I noticed, well, they seem to be doing better than I, in fact. They have a nice job, they have friends, they have a comfy apartment, they seem happy. I was a poor technical student in university who was struggling with studies and life, and not finding a great job. So I thought, "I think I'm smart but what use is my smarts if the dumb ones are doing better?" I developed this mindset of forgetting smarts and not categorizing people with that so much. And don't be proud of your smarts, instead show what valuable skills you have.
by TheCoelacanth | 2025-11-06 08:32:01+00:00
Sure, but a big part of the reason for that is that we produce a huge surplus of food, so food prices are extremely low compared to how wealthy the US is. That means wages for farm workers are too low for typical Americans to want to do the job.

If our food production goes down significantly, that will raise prices which will let wages for farm workers rise to the point where more people will be willing to do the job. Will it be unpleasant? Sure, but not to the point of famine, we'll just go back to spending a larger portion of our household budgets on food like we used to fifty years ago.
by pajko | 2025-11-06 08:32:46+00:00
"However, the BitLocker key is always synced to the Microsoft account (MSA)."

Welp, that's true ONLY for the primary drive the OS is installed on. If other drives are encrypted and the key is lost, well...

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1o9i0or/bitlo...
by tobyhinloopen | 2025-11-06 08:33:21+00:00
The price was also an immediate turn-off for me, and I really don't like he's advertising it. It feels like a product that is marked up crazy amounts, greenwashed with "profits get donated" (profits AFTER the people involved get their salaries, obviously).

It feels like his channel suddenly changed to go into "let's make some money", carefully packaged in a "non-profit / charity" deal.

Maybe I'm just overly pessimistic.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-11-06 08:33:29+00:00
I'd say otherwise - it's a reach out to have a relationship. It's hard to have human relationships only by writing. Of course the best way to build it is to meet in person, but if impossible - it's always good to have a video call.

If someone is frustrated, the following chats won't do much really. They have already built a wall, and we need to meet around it, not throw our letters over it.
by pastage | 2025-11-06 08:33:41+00:00
I wonder if you and the person who replied really understands how you feel when you have been part of something over 20 years and see it destroyed by tone deaf changes to text. I have no idea how Sumobot works, but it is easy to see how Mozilla or an organization with top down "ship-it-fast" incentives can trample a community led project. This is really not a question of AI, the same thing happens with professional translators.

I have had to cooperate with coporate
by rmunn | 2025-11-06 08:34:28+00:00
> It [slavery] mostly wasn't [legal] in other countries [at the time the 13th Amendment was passed, i.e. the mid 1860's]...

The history of the 19th century and when slavery was abolished in each one is actually a fascinatingly complex subject, and there's tons of interesting history hiding behind your word "mostly", to the point where I can't actually tell whether "mostly" is a correct or incorrect description. Judging by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slave... I would lean towards "definitely correct in Europe and the Americas, a lot murkier in Africa and Asia". Oddly enough, a lot of Spanish colonies in South America abolished slavery before the United States did, yet Spain itself didn't pass its law ending slavery until a year after the US's 13th Amendment came into effect.

If you're at all interested in the history of that era, the film Amazing Grace, though it takes a few liberties with the historical facts, is a mostly-accurate depiction of what it took to get slavery abolished in the United Kingdom. Interestingly, the part of Prime Minister William Pitt was played by a then-unknown Benedict Cumberbatch (Amazing Grace came out in 2006, and most people first discovered Cumberbatch when Sherlock came out in 2010). I recommend the film if you enjoy historical films; it's quite fun. (I love the "I would have been bored by botany" line).
by conductr | 2025-11-06 08:35:20+00:00
This just leaves me wondering if I’m the only one manually wiping off the dishes before they go in the washer? I’ve never had a dirty dish issue and pods work just fine, the powder works just fine, etc. pods are just a little more convenient so I use them. Also, if you rinse your dishes first there’s no large food going into the washer and I’ve already got the warm water primed.
by slcjessika | 2025-11-06 08:35:55+00:00
Thank you for the information from this debate. I absolutely love the fact all the debate is very researched and love the side of politics you both have.i am independent and can agree with both. I have a question if any one knows if we will have a site to see our citizens score for court? I live in Idaho and we are the first state to use AI in court houses and in court. The county in specific I reside has a brand new court house being built for the ai court and will be used to determine all aspects of criminal cases from pre trial, due process, bail and sentencing. I have seen the report from the senate over site committee on the DOGE access to every ones private information and the grave concern they had in visiting the DOGE office. DOGE HAS NOT POSTED ON THEIR SITE SINCE OCTOBER 06 2025. I wanted to ask them but have no reply to several calls and emails. Any information would be so helpful if you know. Thanks a ton.
by fainpul | 2025-11-06 08:36:27+00:00
Yeah, "more slower" is indeed a weird way to phrase something. People should just refer to the absolute values, not to the differences. E.g. "1.4 times as fast as …" or "1/2 as heavy as …".

If I read "300% slower", I like to think about time, not speed.

300% more time = 400% original time = 4 times as long = 1/4 the speed
by froh | 2025-11-06 08:36:48+00:00
yup.

it's american english for "oh this must be hard for you. how can we help you to cope?" and no intent to change.

a better response would rather be:

"We're sorry, we were not aware. please can we meet and you help us understand? so we can fix this situation? We'd also like to share our intentions and we hope together we can improve the situation."

telling
by TheCoelacanth | 2025-11-06 08:36:51+00:00
$1 trillion is one year of Manhattan's GDP. Painfully expensive? Absolutely, but it's absolutely affordable over the course of a few decades.

The sooner we start, the cheaper it will be, so we shouldn't put it off, but it's not going to kill everyone or even convince everyone to leave NYC in the foreseeable future.
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-11-06 08:37:12+00:00
Idk, I see it them all the time on the rust subreddit. Like, cool, but my friend, I have like ten brain cells and all of them are in overdrive. I’m not going to remember I have your TUI app installed AND remember the commands to make it work. If I have to use a CLI I just save the command I need in a text file so I don’t have to look them up. Just give me ang button any where. I’m not picky.
by silisili | 2025-11-06 08:38:50+00:00
True, but rather doubtful. UPS has owned that part of the airport for longer than I've been alive. As a kid, yeah sometimes a plane comes over but nobody really seemed to care.

Fast fwd 15 years and now the city is telling us how unsafe it is to live there, passing out studies about how airplane noise will ruin your life, etc. And they made the buyout 'optional', knowing they'd railroad the holdouts, which they did. They'd tear down every house and the road leading to your house as they went, until the holdouts gave in.

All of a sudden my neighborhood is gone. And that awful, noisy, unsafe to live in place...is full of workers in cheap steel warehouses. I guess it's more safe for them.

Many people may not realize, but UPS and Ford absolutely own Louisville. If either says jump, the city government will ask how high?
by globular-toast | 2025-11-06 08:39:10+00:00
Why would you want to live in a terminal? That's extremely limiting. What you really want is Emacs. Emacs has both a TUI web browser (EWW) and info browser already. You can even run vim in Emacs if you want, either the "real" (and inferior) thing via vterm, or use evil mode or another modal mode for Emacs like god mode.
by alexisread | 2025-11-06 08:39:13+00:00
It looks like you've looked over a number of languages, but I don't see anything about Forth, Forsp, Ante, Steps, Austral, Wat or Vale? I'd suggest they all have useful components to steal from :)

https://github.com/ablevm/able-forth

https://xorvoid.com/forsp.html

https://antelang.org/blog/why_effects/

https://tinlizzie.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43419928

https://github.com/GiacomoCau/wat-js/tree/master

https://verdagon.dev/grimoire/grimoire
by skydhash | 2025-11-06 08:39:16+00:00
The reason for the rate of updates is isially for one reason: Trust and Stability. Instead of trusting a myriad people all over the world to do their job well, I trust one team to ensure that all the tools I need do run well.

And in the Unix world, build from source can be pretty easy. When it’s hard, it’s usually the project’s fault (Firefox, Electron,..).
by p0w3n3d | 2025-11-06 08:39:37+00:00
I predict that these times of excessive trust in AI during decision making will be written in history books at some point of time. Providing that there will be books at all.

I already suspect that Duolingo destroyed real people's recording of Spanish conversations and replaced them with AI. For example I can quite often hear continental Spanish accent which has never been taught to me before (as I started with Duolingo as a freshman) - it used to be always American Spanish accent. Wrongly cut conversions is another matter.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-06 08:40:41+00:00
Your claim is based on the very strong assumption that if you have a phone or video call with a person that you already hate, things will get better.

My life experience does tell me that this is often not the case: if people are already frustrated and have built a wall, it is better to use something more impersonal, like such an online text discussion.
by Kon5ole | 2025-11-06 08:40:46+00:00
>There's no content

This is exactly why 8K tv's failed in the market, but the point here is that your computer desktop is _great_ 8k content.

The tv's that were sold for sub-1000 usd just a few years ago should be sold as monitors instead. Replace the TV tuners, app support, network cards and such and add a displayport.

Having a high-resolution desktop that basically covers your useable FOV is great, and is a way more compelling use case than watching TV on 8K ever was.
by hackinthebochs | 2025-11-06 08:42:08+00:00
>It's not really a "choice" to use words how they are commonly understood but a choice to do the opposite.

I meant a collective choice. Words evolve because someone decides to expand their scope and others find it useful. The question here shouldn't be what do other people mean by a term but whether the expanded scope is clarifying or confusing.

The question of whether submarines swim is a trivial verbal dispute, nothing of substance turns on its resolution. But we shouldn't dismiss the question of whether computers think by reference to the triviality of submarines swimming. The question we need to ask is what work does the concept of thinking do and whether that work is or can be applied to computers. This is extremely relevant in the present day.

When we say someone thinks, we are attributing some space of behavioral capacities to that person. That is, a certain competence and robustness with managing complexity to achieve a goal. Such attributions may warrant a level of responsibility and autonomy that would not be warranted without it. A system that thinks can be trusted in a much wider range of circumstances than one that doesn't. That this level of competence has historically been exclusive to humans should not preclude this consideration. When some future AI does reach this level of competence, we should use terms like thinking and understanding as indicating this competence.
by andsoitis | 2025-11-06 08:42:43+00:00
They might be paying a portion of their childcare, but they are not paying their childcare - they want it free or subsidized.

One way to see the issue more clearly is by imagining someone is getting subsidized childcare for child 1. Now they’re looking to have another child and also want that child’s childcare to be free or subsidized. Why should other people subsidize thats 2nd child? The person can clearly not afford the 2nd child. Staying with that logic, what then gives that person the right to ask me to subsidize their first child’s childcare in the first place?

If they have already cut expenses like holidays, eating out, not gambling, not buying dumb non-educational toys, etc. then I might be more empathetic, but I am confident that they are spending on those non-essential luxuries.
by atoav | 2025-11-06 08:43:14+00:00
It is gaslighting even. It is extremely manipulative to be sorry about a thing someone else did, while in fact the the fuckup originated from you. Own it or offer to investigate/fix it.

A decent answer would have been worded among the lines of:

"I am personally deeply sorry to see you go [acknowledge you take their decision serious]. I don't know the details, but if what you describe is true (and I have no reason to doubt it), this is clearly unacceptable and should never have happened [acknowledge the issue is serious and confirm it wasn't intentional]. You feeling betrayed as a result of this is only natural and understandable, and it is Mozilla that should feel ashamed for it coming to this [validate feeling, admit guilt]. I will investigate why this happened and want to find ways to ensure something like this never happens again [show that you're willing to do something substential solbing the root of the problem]. Nobody should have their hard work just automatically replaced by AI, not you, nor anybody else [afirm you're on the same page as them by appeal to general principle]. I know you likely don't want to have anything to do with this now, but I would be deeply grateful if you had a moment to talk about this with me, personally, not as a member of Mozilla but as a member of the community [ask them about help, acknowledging you can't expect any, show that you care about this beyond any purely official duties]."

Of course that means some work, but this is how I would answer such a thing.
by raverbashing | 2025-11-06 08:43:39+00:00
The more I learn about emacs the more I'm happy I never joined the cult

Don't waste my time with 70s "ergonomics" (if it can even be called that)

The comparisons with art seem almost to the point of offense to me. You're not building art, you're just building another yet plugin for emacs to do what other people do in maybe 5% less efficient ways but won't spend 2 days automating it