MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by themafia | 2025-11-08 23:16:45+00:00
> The settings UI.

From the posted article: "The main problem with this is users are having this forced on them with no gui option to disable these features."

> and you decide to disable them in some unsupported way

The preferences file is "unspported?" Why? Is firefox intentionally making their browser hard to distribute? All the settings, even in the UI, have simple textual names. Is there some reason they need to have this support envelope be so underwhelming? What advantage does that actually bring? If there is none, then why _shouldn't_ I complain? The alternative is I can stop using the project and recommend to everyone that they do so as well.

Here's the awesome support you get through the UI:

"If you are also dealing with CPU spikes and battery drain from Firefox's new AI features, you can disable them through the browser's advanced settings. Head to about:config in a new tab, accept the risk warning, and use the search bar to find the controls. To kill the AI chatbot feature, search for browser.ml.chat.enabled and set it to false. To stop smart tab grouping, search for browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled and set it to false."

Give me a break.

> I don't think this is really a reasonable proposition as a general matter.

Then I won't use your software. I will recommend against it. I will ensure that everyone understands it's faults. That's the only reasonable response as an irritated user.
by imiric | 2025-11-08 23:17:28+00:00
> how did my country turn into this?

There are two components to this answer.

First, your country has been divided since at least the mid-19th century. Every war has a winning and losing side, but the losers don't simply vanish. Their mentality persists throughout generations, even if it remains in the background, and is ignored by the other side.

Secondly, all this technology you've built and allowed the world to use can and has been exploited by your enemies to your own detriment. The same systems you've built that allow manipulating people into buying things are also ideal channels for spreading propaganda and disinformation. Information warfare is not new, but modern technology has made it more effective than ever at manipulating groups of people, sowing dissent, and generally causing chaos and confusion within a nation.

So, putting those two together, it's not difficult to see how acts of information warfare could be used to fuel the deeply rooted social divide, directly causing or strongly contributing to the internal sociopolitical instability you've been experiencing for the past decade.

Meanwhile, your enemies can sit back and enjoy the show of an imploding nation. They know that you're untouchable via traditional warfare, which is why these tactics are so perfect. They do require a long time to come into effect, but they're highly effective, very cheap to deploy, and the best part is that they're completely untraceable to the attacker. It's still debatable whether there was Russian interference in your elections, and how effective it actually was, even though there is evidence for it. It's still debatable whether Chinese-operated social media platforms are a national security threat or not. Were J6 protesters rioters or patriots? And so on about every controversial sociopolitical topic.

This confusion is exactly the intended effect. Your regular checks and balances, your laws, ideals and values, make no difference if your communication channels are corrupted.

I don't see how you can get out of this mess, and I expect things will get much worse before they get better. Not just for you, but globally. These same tactics are also deployed in other countries, by the US as well. Though, ironically, countries that are cut off from the global internet have an upper hand in this conflict.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-08 23:17:28+00:00
So I won't defend what was done here, there doesn't seem much to argue.

> copying stories beat for beat. That's much different than rehashing a few ideas from other works. It is not expected and it is very much considered plagiarism by fiction writers.

Some operas are a greek play. There rehashes of the Faust, the Beggars Opera is a copy of a play from Shakespeare, there are modern versions of Pride and Prejustice, there are tons of stories that are a copy of the Westside Story, which is itself a copy of Romeo and Julia, which I thinks comes from an even older story. This often don't come with any attribution at all, although the listener is sometimes expected to know that the original exists. They change the settings, but the plot is basically the same. Do you consider all of that to be plagiarism? These would be all a reason to call it plagiarism when considering a paper, but for books nobody bats an eye. This is because authors don't sell abstract ideas or a plot, they sell concrete stories.
by scratcheee | 2025-11-08 23:17:52+00:00
You make a strong case for voice, but that doesn’t necessarily invalidate their argument, they never said voice should be replaced.

Here’s some ideas: 1. A data side channel 2. Use it to send originator for each message, have unique note on other end per sender so they don’t need to check visually, but also show on their display so corrupted or suspicious sender can be verified, in desperate circumstances (rather than the current case of “that cannot be done at all”). 3. Digital audio, allowing actual high quality audio, which we know does improve comprehension, which should not be optional in this context. 4. Take some lessons from modern coms systems on how to handle overlapping coms, plus the extra bandwidth from digital, so overlapping coms is handled gracefully (I realise the realtime nature prevents being too clever, but perhaps blocking all but the first to speak and playing a tone if you’re being blocked), perhaps with some sensible overrides like atc and anyone declaring an emergency getting priority. Currently overlap obliterates both messages and it’s possible for senders to not even know their message was lost. This has contributed to accidents, whilst basic direct radio transmissions cannot avoid this, smart algorithms with some networking could definitely reduce the failure cases to very rare and extreme scenarios 5. Let atc interact with flight planners on aircraft, show the aircraft’s actual locally programmed flight plan to atc, with clear icons if it differs from the filed plan atc has, and perhaps as an emergency only measure, allow atc to submit a flight plan to the aircraft (not replacing the active plan of course, just as a suggestion/support for struggling pilots, “since you have not understood my instructions 3 times, please review the submitted plan on your flight computer, note how it differs from what you programmed”) 6. Aircraft usually know where they are, and which atc they’re meant to be communicating with, have the data channels talk even when the audio channel is not set correctly. If incompetent pilots forget to switch channel, you can force an alarm instead of launching a fighter jet, or just have a button for “connect to correct atc” and a red light when you’re not on the correct one.

That’s just the ideas I’ve come up with just now. 4. Is probably quite hard to get right, and 5 could add load, so should be done carefully. But hard to believe the current system is technically optimal, or even vaguely close to optimal.

Admittedly, I know the real reason is that having 1 working system for everyone is better than a theoretically great system that is barely implemented and a complicated mess of handoffs between the 2. But with care they can absolutely improve things, but feels like things are moving a few decades slower than they should be.
by npteljes | 2025-11-08 23:18:04+00:00
>I just don't understand how inhumane hostile behavior is just so rampant and like allowed to exist in our society.

It's because that's the default. Do you see any other facet of human organization which doesn't have constant hostile behavior? If it's large enough, or going on for enough time, there is abuse happening in it.

>Like are people just careless and distracted 24/7?

People just want to live their lives, on which a removed Win 11 bypass video has zero effect.
by Marsymars | 2025-11-08 23:18:32+00:00
That is a very opinionated tool - it doesn't just uninstall some bloat, it disables Windows Updates, Windows Defender, memory compression, automatic BitLocker, core parking, switches to dark mode by default, adjusts the time the OS waits to kill apps, adjusts cursor acceleration, etc. (And it has an open issue of "default settings cause overheating during sleep".)
by mzajc | 2025-11-08 23:18:37+00:00
> The primary one is that the notion of a “UK based IP” is nonsense. Geolocation databases work by figuring out where people log in from and only after doing a lot of pattern recognition do those addresses get associated with that location.

I support the cause, but I don't think that's true. RIPE, the RIR responsible for UK, makes available a list of allocations per country. For UK:

https://stat.ripe.net/data/country-resource-list/data.json?resource=gb

These are actual per-country allocations, not interpolations from access patterns.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-08 23:19:01+00:00
Ironically, I saw this 3 days ago. Was just watching the tuning fork piano build video. https://youtu.be/VD7xivhWYQ8

TIL: Dulcitone exists that's pretty much a tuning fork piano and Scandinavia has a Harbor Freight-like shop that's called Biltema.
by mcny | 2025-11-08 23:19:34+00:00
First of all, I anal and also this is more of a question than a statement but

a us person could travel to a country x and that x could send this us person to a UK prison? I don't know if doing so would be legal but when the rubber hits the road, each country x is technically sovereign and does not have to honor the first amendment of the US constitution.

So even if it might be frowned upon to extradite foreign (US) nationals in country X (such as Canada or India) to the UK, they could do it anyway to send a message?
by 8note | 2025-11-08 23:19:43+00:00
the bravado makes for some great irony. worrying and feeling ultra-superior about the UK government, while letting the tiktok ban and forced sale go through unchallenged.

altogether, if you dont care about following this UK law, whats the need to carr what the UK government does? just dont go there or do business with people who care about the UK government. same as US sanctions and secondary sanctions. the UK at least is a small market
by khannn | 2025-11-08 23:20:50+00:00
I'm not glazing ICE by any means, but we have to be real here: the vast majority of people that are being picked up are in violation of immigration law and no amount of "No warrant" is going to change people's mind.

The majority of illegal immigration in my location are people overstaying their student visas and they're getting sent back. Saw a former co-worker's wife was sent back, no I didn't snitch, but I don't feel sorry for someone who overstayed a student visa then worked under the table for a decade.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-11-08 23:21:12+00:00
I don't know, maybe it's just me seeing things differently.

I always thought that you got to choose wisely people that you need their expertise, especially in healthcare, but once you picked one hospital you got to commit and let them do their job.

I understand it's not easy when you are in charge of a 9 month old but you got to suffer through that.

If someone was to go so wrong that even an untrained eye could see, it's different.

Maybe I didn't have my fair share of bureaucracy. Maybe my standard are too low.

I sure did have my fair share of mistake when I went to emergencies, undiagnosed broken bones for instance. I never thought a second about requiring 'better' doctors, more competent nurses or more attention. I just accepted that it's thing that happens and nothing is perfect. Went back to the hospital 2 more times and eventually got everything back in order.
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-11-08 23:21:18+00:00
Good points all around.

That said, I’d possibly contest you on the single source issue you brought up. IBM likely would have told NS… much like they told Intel back in the day… that if they wanted to do business with them, that they needed to ensure second sourcing was possible.

Judging by how desperate NS was willing to make deals, I’m quite sure that hurdle would have been overcome quite easily, with AMD or even MOS Technology stepping up to fill the void.
by crooked-v | 2025-11-08 23:21:30+00:00
By attempting to enforce legal judgments in absentia against people who live in the US, operate in the US, and block access from the UK; and then using those judgments to arrest that person as soon as they step anywhere the UK has real influence, or similarly seize their assets anywhere a judge has a sympathetic ear.

Of course it's not literally 'violating the First Amendment', but it sure seems like the kind of thing the writers of Constitution would have tried to protect against if they knew it could happen someday.
by wombatpm | 2025-11-08 23:21:58+00:00
The children might be citizens, but ICE seizes them so that the immigrant parents have to show up and claim them.

Chicago schools are reporting lower attendance as a result.

We just had a case where a daycare provider was hauled out despite having her papers in order-she was subsequently released.

Priests being shot in the head with pepper balls, intentional accidents being caused by agents. And when they do something so egregious that they might face charges, they runaway to other states with vehicles and evidence.

I look forward to everyone in these organizations facing accountability. And not just the thugs on the street but the leaders first all the way to the top.

Under the auspices of civil disobedience I refer people to Beverly Hills Cop and the bananas scene. Also, Bass Pro Shops sell liquid skunk smell. It would be a shame if it were to end up in vehicles or on the outside air vents of cars. No damage, just annoying.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-08 23:22:15+00:00
I didn't choose the language. "Deep copy" is the phrase that everyone uses.

At the end of the day C++ copy (incl. pass-by-value) does whatever the copy constructors of the types you are using does, which is going to be a combination of the "copy" semantics of the standard library's types, plus that of your own types.

Obviously you could choose to write a copy constructor that violates what most reasonable people might expect of "copy" semantics, but this is going to be rare, and I think conceptualizing C++ copy as "deep/recursive copy" holds up well even if pointers (smart or raw) are involved.
by kragen | 2025-11-08 23:22:20+00:00
No, only for about a minute or two. But there are a lot of lithium-ion batteries capable of 10C discharge rates which can survive several minutes of max load. For 100 amps I am guessing you'd need 10 amp-hours of 10C-capable lithium-ion batteries, roughly a 4S4P or 4P4S configuration of 10C 18650s. I think this is about US$128 of batteries, a similar price to the car battery but much smaller and more inflammable.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-08 23:22:21+00:00
> So it would fail to compile when configuring static analysis to build on error when using C with C++ compiler.

What do you mean? I don't think I can follow you.

> yet the compiler language switches to use C extensions in C++ mode keep being used across many projects.

When you use compiler extensions, that just happen to be both available in C and C++, I wouldn't say you are writing C in C++, I mean the extension isn't standard C either.

Code written in C++ has different semantics, even when it is word-for-word the same as C code. They ARE different languages.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-08 23:22:41+00:00
> But if you're unwilling to try and understand how it's possible that over half the country voted for someone who would enact policies that lead to what we're seeing now, you're simply not paying attention.

Anyone who's read about the history of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s should understand how it's possible. We can still feel disappointed and helpless that the same mentality is rearing its head again, especially in a country that itself sent people overseas to fight it 100 years ago.

Off and on throughout my life as an American, I thought my fellow Americans could be sometimes be described as arrogant, sometimes uninformed, sometimes overconfident, sometimes over-patriotic, sometimes selfish. But never needlessly cruel and cold-blooded like millions are today. This is new and terrible. It's absolutely sickening to walk outside in my neighborhood, look at 10 houses and think maybe 3 or 4 of them are homes to people who are OK with what is happening.
by foldr | 2025-11-08 23:22:45+00:00
That particular example is irrelevant to poverty of the stimulus arguments because no-one has ever suggested that kids acquiring English lack evidence for the irregular past tense of ‘go’.

See above for some examples of the kinds of grammatical principles that can form the basis of a poverty of the stimulus argument. They’re not generally the kind of thing that parental corrections could conceivably help with, for two reasons:

1) (The main reason) Poverty of the stimulus arguments relate to features of grammatical constructions that are rarely exemplified. As examples are rarely uttered, deviant instances are rarely corrected, even assuming the presence of superlatively wise and attentive caregivers.

2) (The reason that you mention) Explicit instruction on grammatical rules has almost no effect on most people, especially young children. So corrections at most add a few more examples of bad sentences to the child’s dataset, which they can probably obtain anyway via more indirect cues.

If corrections were really effective, someone should be able to do a killer experiment where they show an improved (i.e. more adult-like) handling of, say, quantifier scope in four year olds after giving them lots of relevant corrections. I am open minded about the outcome of such an experiment, but I’d bet a fairly large amount of money that it would go nowhere.
by jrexilius | 2025-11-08 23:23:10+00:00
I live in Chicago and it is a BIG city. I've seen, in real life, none of this. But the online reports are legion. I think, like a lot of things, you can choose what reality you want to inhabit and find anecdata online to support any of it. During the Obama adminstration the right wing whackos came up with theories about black helicopters and UN camps and the rest. This may be _slightly_ more factual as the Orange Troll is more purposefully playing a media game, but I'd still take these reports with a grain of salt.
by ALLTaken | 2025-11-08 23:23:49+00:00
Someone posted here, thanks for that!! It immediately reminded me of HAML: https://harcstack.org/

I like HAML a lot, it was the most pleasant to develop with. And it shares a lot in common with Stylus. They both shared things in common.

NO NEED FOR: Curly braces, parentheses and semicolons. The cool thing, it was all optional and I wasn't forced to make use of all shortcuts!

I developed my own CSS Framework in 2003, shared with some UX guy at Yahoo, who incorporated it into YUI mostly as is, after I waived all rights. Most of that became internet standard. Later I had my own PHP based CSS scaffolding framework in 2005 that could also generate grids (before flex-box). SCASS/LESS was really similar to my framework, when it came out.

But I disliked it, it just looked like PHP mixed with CSS. I thought why accept the ugly syntax, despite a compiler being available?

The best ever existed is: HAML + Stylus + (HARC?)

See the beauty of it: https://stylus-lang.com/docs/selectors.html

Now compare with HAML https://haml.info/

I think https://harcstack.org/ makes a good successor.
by bbor | 2025-11-08 23:23:54+00:00
So the story behind the title is that the UK gov claims that the IP block wasn't working? And the author agrees that IP blocks can't really work, even?

Separate from the free speech debate, the international law part of this seems pretty cut and dry. Here's the bolded parts:

So, it appears, as with 4chan, Ofcom has elected to proceed with a mock execution... Ofcom is trying to set the precedent that... you have to follow its rules – even if you’re American and you’re engaged in constitutionally protected speech and conduct. To that end, Ofcom has renewed its previous threats of fines, arrest, and imprisonment, against SaSu and its operators – all Americans.

Isn't that how laws work...? Like, it's illegal to be gay in some countries. Theoretically, those countries could open proceedings against every openly-gay person in the world, and try them in absentia. That would be evil and silly of course, but I don't understand what legal principle it would be violating?

More pointedly: what is this lawyer actually "representing" these "clients" for? I don't see any mention of any US legal action, and presumably you need to be british to represent people in UK court. Isn't this just activism, not representation?
by 3rodents | 2025-11-08 23:24:06+00:00
That’s because he’s barely a lawyer. He’s a blogger with a legal education. His legal practice is pro bono because nobody would pay for him to LARP as someone with credibility on the subject of free speech.

Edit: I appreciate the down votes but research him, he has never participated in a real case. He is not a practicing lawyer by any real measure.
by musicale | 2025-11-08 23:24:27+00:00
It is certainly shocking news that Apple has secretly developed a locked-down smartphone that only runs Apple-approved software, and that Apple is charging developer fees.

Next we'll hear that Nintendo has secretly developed a locked-down game console that only runs Nintendo-approved software, and Nintendo is charging developer fees.

It is surely a coincidence that 70% of Apple's iOS App Store revenue is from games.
by logicprog | 2025-11-08 23:24:37+00:00
I think you may be suffering from AI psychosis. There have been a ton of cases of this, especially with ChatGPT, recently, and this bears all the hallmarks. Here are some resources:

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/2pkNCvBtK6G6FKoNn/so-you-...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-o...

https://minihf.com/posts/2025-07-22-on-chatgpt-psychosis-and...

Please seek help. I bear you no ill will. Its just a scary thing to see happen to someone.
by nostrademons | 2025-11-08 23:24:51+00:00
It's interesting how the effects of filter bubbles are playing out here. Everyone believes that they have the upper hand and the majority of the American people are on their side, because computerized personalization shows them only opinions from people who agree with them. As a result, they think that the negative popular opinion for the shutdown will fall primarily on the other party, and so it is rational for them to continue the shutdown until the other party blinks. Of course, the other party has the same information distortion in the opposite direction, so they also believe that if they just keep going, the American public will blame their opponents.

In reality, the public is pretty close to split down the middle, and both parties are getting blamed, and the real message that people are taking away from this is that Congress is dysfunctional. It's a game of chicken where both parties think that the other side will blink, and so they just end up crashing.
by takoid | 2025-11-08 23:24:54+00:00
If you’re interested in accurate examples of visual effects of hallucinogens, check out /r/Replications. Some of them are shockingly accurate. Here are some good examples:

https://reddit.com/r/replications/comments/1ll9k7o/flight/

https://reddit.com/r/replications/comments/1jkajcq/that_mome...

https://reddit.com/r/replications/comments/1hruv4t/just_visi...
by pwthornton | 2025-11-08 23:26:11+00:00
It is kind of wild that airports themselves don't straight up pay for this. I can understand not wanting to privatize it, as they'll be liable to half-ass it, but surely a usage fee on flights would cover it?

I wonder if this is because bigger airports near major cities and businesses would basically be subsidizing tons of airports in the middle of nowhere, and some people don't want to admit that?