MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ysnp | 2025-11-20 17:43:21+00:00
>Think mesh networking, resilient ad-hoc application clustering, non-Internet P2P, like Freifunk but everywhere.

(if dumbed down) What's are the gaps in features and functionality between what you're describing and what might be achievable today (given enough software glue) with an SDR transceiver and something like Reticulum [1] on an Android?
by jdefr89 | 2025-11-20 17:44:22+00:00
Ok.. Let’s ask a different question. Assuming development of super-intelligence is possible.. How do you measure it? What criteria satisfies the “this is super intelligence”? You honestly sound like most pseudo-intellectuals I hear discussing this very topic..: Ironic how you think you’re the brilliant one and it’s others who are stupid… Actually not really ironic a fool doesn’t know he is a fool.
by x0x0 | 2025-11-20 17:44:40+00:00
> why are news organizations exempt from this rule in Europe?

In the main, because the GDPR is an attack on advertising-supported services. You cannot build a business on context-free ads given they pay somewhere between 1/100 and 1/10000 as much as ads that profile.

Thus news orgs basically told regulators that the options were no free news (or realistically, the mess America is in, where real news orgs charge and the free ones are propaganda arms) or being allowed to do consent or pay. Because a paywall complies with all laws but has negative societal effects.
by tharne | 2025-11-20 17:44:51+00:00
> China should be stopped invading Taiwan.

Exactly who do you think is going to stop them? The citizens of Western nations may sympathize with Taiwan, but that's very different from them being willing to send their sons and daughters to fight and die for someone else's country.

If China decides to invade Taiwan, I don't see anyone realistically trying to stop them militarily. I imagine a bunch of nations will "strongly condemn" their actions, but I would be shocked if the West is even willing to impose economic sanctions in that scenario.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-11-20 17:45:23+00:00
> Bluey is the saving grace there

I somehow had never heard about Bluey until TheOdd1sOut (YouTuber who does hilarious 10-15 minute video on slice-of-life topics) did a video about it.

https://youtu.be/nEQHiJVH79o

The TL;DW is that Bluey is a kids show that not only recognizes that the parents will likely be in the room while the show is on and therefore will occasionally have lines that are meant for them, but will actually tackle tough topics that children and their families may be dealing with. For example, in one episode, Bluey's mom is despairing because Bluey isn't reaching development milestones when he should be, she's blaming herself, and another character comes to console her, and the character looks directly towards the viewer and says "You're doing great!"

I'm almost tempted to actually watch the show even though I don't have kids.
by RajT88 | 2025-11-20 17:45:29+00:00
I loved my old Toshiba Tecra 780-DVD back in the day. I bought it used as laptop prices were falling, and got a lot of kit with it. A web cam (unheard of for its generation), DVD drive and hardware decoding (also very baller), and a docking station where I could chunk in PCI and ISA cards and full size desktop drives (I put in a DVD burner and a large desktop HDD - I forget the size, but probably tens of gigabytes).

I told my wife that in today's dollars, the whole kit would have cost about $11k. It's hard to sink that kind of money into a laptop with OEM accessories today even if you tried hard.
by blibble | 2025-11-20 17:46:06+00:00
> So. Yes, complying with GDPR is trivial for most companies. No, your yet-another-shitty-startup does not need to sell my precise geolocation data to data brokers to store for 12 years to survive: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1817122117093056541 And no, it's not a burden not to do that.

this is exactly the attitude of these people

for most legitimate businesses the "pain" of the GDPR consisted of maybe removing Google Analytics from their website

the entire point is to stop the shitty companies (facebook) data harvesting everything they can get their dirty mits on
by nis0s | 2025-11-20 17:46:13+00:00
Several things occur to me. First note that I am not anti-China or pro-US. I like certain ideas, and I don’t associate those ideas with any country, in particular.

Now let’s take make some comparisons. Tencent has done really well for itself by leaning into innovation and focusing on non-US markets. But companies like Huawei and TikTok run into issues because they try to tap into sanctioned markets, or the surveillance-entertainment industry. Companies that do well focus on non-Western markets, and some Chinese companies still make the list of consumer magazines in western markets, so their products get sold, regardless. So there’s huge potential here to develop a home grown industry in consumer electronics and devices, which still need many areas of innovation. Even if you filter out the western countries, you have 20-25T (that’s a T!) market to tap into based on some rough estimates of consumer spending.

My question is a simple one: if my country has top talent, why would I want it to go elsewhere, and not work in my country? I’d retain it instead for building a strong economy, improving home industries, and depriving my detractors of my home grown talent. Youth unemployment is really high in China right now. Why not fund some startups, or whatever to get folks into building and selling shit. Again, western markets aren’t the only ones with money to spend.

Maybe the answer is geopolitical, that it’s better not to waste your time building things at home. Just go somewhere else where you tap into an industry that’s not going to face issues with whatever you sell. Or the answer is that you can fool your detractors into replacing their home grown talent with yours. So, it kind of subverts the whole “immigration causes brain drain” thing. Now that’s a real innovation.
by creata | 2025-11-20 17:46:15+00:00
> this world sucks and it's not worth bringing anyone into it

What exactly is wrong ("moaning and groaning", something that you "grew up" from), in your estimation, about that perspective?

> realized family is extremely meaningful

I believe that many people with the aforementioned perspective would agree with you, but would add that reducing further suffering is an overriding priority.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-20 17:46:37+00:00
Everything anyone says is an "opinion" according to some definitions of "opinion." The distinction here is whether something is a claim of fact or simply a claim. A claim of fact is something that can be verified through some sort of objective measurement or detection.

"Some pigs fly," "Bill Johnson signed over his rights to the song," and "This fish is 3 pounds, 4 ounces" are claims of fact.

"Some pigs are beautiful," "Bill Johnson writes too many songs," and "People who catch fish are probably the same type of people who support terrorists" are just claims.
by tharne | 2025-11-20 17:47:14+00:00
> It's not about what's "right" or what's "allowed". Those are squishy concepts.

This seems to be a very common issue on HN, I've noticed. People are constantly conflating how the world works with how it should work. And, when others point this out, they're immediately accused of endorsing something morally, when really they're just stating a fact about the world, human nature, or geopolitics.
by Jabrov | 2025-11-20 17:47:39+00:00
I don't know if that's so much a mistake as it is ambiguity though? To me, using the viewer's perspective in this case seems totally reasonable.

Does it still use the viewer's perspective if the prompt specifies "Put a strawberry in the _patient's left eye_"? If it does, then you're onto something. Otherwise I completely disagree with this.
by tastyfreeze | 2025-11-20 17:47:48+00:00
There is a ridiculous perception that privately run high occupancy housing is abusive. I don't understand that at all. They are running a business that is compassionate enough to offer, at the bare minimum, shelter from the elements. If there is competition in that market, as there used to be, then the bad actors go out of business.

Like many things I think the answer is less regulation to prevent possible bad things from happening. Accept that bad things might happen and punish the people that do bad things.

I agree, this kind of renting needs to be allowed. If I rent a bed to somebody for 10 bucks a night in my home nobody is harmed and somebody had a warm place to sleep.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-20 17:48:05+00:00
Are they in POSIX? I do not think they are. All of them is a convention from what I remember.

Shebang is a kernel feature, for example, and POSIX does define the sh shell language and utilities, but does not specify how executables are invoked by the kernel.

Similarly, POSIX only requires that sh exists somewhere in the PATH, and the /bin/sh convention comes from the traditional Unix and FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), but POSIX does not mandate filesystem layout.

... and so on.

Correct me if I am wrong, perhaps with citations?
by parliament32 | 2025-11-20 17:48:06+00:00
Because these goals are inherently at odds with for-profit software development. If you're a business who produces software, you must not only 1) charge money, but also 2) plan to charge more money.

Windows usage is broad enough that the "new users" revenue stream is pretty dry, but it's also hard to say "we increased the price to $X while making windows smaller".. so they will endlessly pump in new "features" and bloat.

I recommend using an operating system that isn't driven by a thirst for revenue.
by programjames | 2025-11-20 17:48:09+00:00
> I don't appreciate your expletives in your original unedited post, by the way, but the fact that you lost your temper is once again proof of something.

It was the first edit where I added them, since I could not reply to your post, and I removed them once I could reply. Yes, I lost my temper. You did too (and first)... you're just less honest and put up a facade of politeness.

> And the world will have to make do without "training" on your secret "methods to measure intelligence", somehow.

Is the goal here to provoke me enough to get what you want? lol. Maximally adversarial.
by x0x0 | 2025-11-20 17:48:22+00:00
the edpb did not. that was explicitly -- in the very first paragraph -- under the DSA, not GDPR:

> The scope of this opinion is indeed limited to the implementation by large online platforms

Separately, in the first couple of paragraphs, they basically complain that they don't like the alternative that platforms can legally implement of paywalls for all. :shrug: Which they may not like, but is legal. So consent or pay is essentially a realpolitik deal to not implement paywalls.
by dan-bailey | 2025-11-20 17:48:53+00:00
Thirty-two years ago, I got them tattooed onto my leg, the day after I arrived at Ft. Bragg, NC. It's faded and blurred out from the waxing and waning of muscle tone in my calf, and sunlight, and the occasional scrape from crashing the bike. But it's been part of me for so long, the only real option left is to get it lasered-down and redone.
by lproven | 2025-11-20 17:49:00+00:00
We'll see.

I approached John Ronco from SiFive who had just come off stage after a talk at the Ubuntu Summit in Rīga:

https://events.canonical.com/event/31/contributions/199/

... and asked him, telling him that I was the Linux reporter from The Register. He swore blind that I'd be blown away by the kit that SiFive would release the next year.

That was November 2023.

It didn't happen.

At the following Ubuntu Summit, I spoke to Nirav Patel right after he did this demo:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/riscv_framework_main_...

I tried that machine.

I tried to be charitable:

« It runs, it works, and even high-definition video playback is smooth, but this is not a powerhouse CPU. The machine we tried was sluggish and not very responsive. Even playing a single YouTube video, CPU utilization in the System Monitor was pretty high, and it was working hard when we tried moving the video window around. Minimizing it did reduce the CPU burden, though. Aside from video decoding, the machine felt less responsive than our old Raspberry Pi 3, to pick a more familiar example. In our opinion, RISC-V is not yet competitive with Arm in performance. »

We are another year on, and I just recently returned from the following Ubuntu Summit. I am still waiting.
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-11-20 17:49:15+00:00
- 99.9999%

Wow! That's a great many indeed. Can you just name 1 though? Just 1?

Let's start with fire, certainly making and controlling fire is a skill that uses knowledge, a "technology". Go from there, try to find one technology that did not find itself in the service of power, for consolidating resources, etc..

Don't get me wrong, I think might, both intellectual and physical, should serve the purposes of benevolence and valour. I'm not complaining, I'm taking note of reality.
by NegativeK | 2025-11-20 17:49:52+00:00
It's a vulnerability via pathing, not a worry that the shebang script could be malicious.

Someone may have dropped a malicious executable somewhere in the user's path that the shebang calls. The someone shouldn't be able to do that, but "shouldn't" isn't enough for security.

Or maybe the relatively pathed executable has unexpected interactions with the shebanged script, compared to what the script author expected.

Etc.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-20 17:49:56+00:00
> Also, charter schools are also public, not private.

Charter schools are funded by the public district issuing the charter, but can be any of public, private non-profit, or private for-profit.

They are public in the sense of being governed by the rules (with exceptions provided in the charter, but which exceptions are allowed is also part of the rules) applicable to the public system, which they form part of, but they aren't necessarily public entities.
by magicalist | 2025-11-20 17:50:07+00:00
> none of the other top labs release thier models like meta

Don't basically all the "top labs" except Anthropic now have open weight models? And Zuckerberg said they were now going to be "careful about what we choose to open source" in the future, which is a shift from their previous rhetoric about "Open Source AI is the Path Forward".
by iLemming | 2025-11-20 17:50:45+00:00
Clojurescript supports transients https://clojureverse.org/t/transients-in-clojurescript/9102/...

Runtime cost of using Clojurescipt is undeniably there but for most applications is pretty negligible price to pay for the big wins. In practice, Clojurescript apps can often perform faster than similar apps built traditionally - especially for things like render optimization - immutable data enables cheap equality checks for memoization, it prevents unnecessary re-renders; data transform pipelines - transducers give you lazy evaluation, it's great for filtering/mapping through large datasets; caching - immutable data is safe to cache indefinitely, you don't have to worry about stale data;

You guys keep worrying about some theoretical "costs" - in practice, I have yet to encounter a problem that genuinely makes it so impossibly slow that Clojuresript just outright can't be used. Situations where it incurs a practical cost to pay are outliers, not a general rule.
by fainpul | 2025-11-20 17:51:34+00:00
Like sharing your WLAN. It works great between iPhones, if you know how it works and the preconditions are fulfilled (it's undiscoverable). You can't share with Android devices by showing them a QR code – which I would consider the "usual" way and which is easy to do on Android devices.

Edit:

Here is the procedure I was talking about and all prerequisites for it to work:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102635
by patja | 2025-11-20 17:51:55+00:00
I agree that satire and parody have a valuable place in discourse.

But I believe there are some subject matters including sexual assault and more specifically pedophilia that are pretty much never in good taste or useful to parody. Apparently this position is somewhat outspoken here.

Swift's Modest Proposal mentions eating babies which is very obviously an extreme behavior that is not tolerated by anyone anywhere, which is a distinct contrast to sexual assault which has victims in the millions if not billions.

Also just to note that the comment I replied to is now dead and flagged, so I guess I'm not the only one with these opinions.
by zrn900 | 2025-11-20 17:52:19+00:00
> HTTP logs are retained for 7 days

There you go. The moment you save any information that can help identify someone for any period, you are within the scope of the law. God forbid you keep the IPS for any reason.

> for security analysis

The law doesnt give a zit about what you do it for. If you retain any personal info or set any cookie, you have to tell the user about it and give options.

> Matomo instance

Hahaha - matomo itself is non-compliant with the law. Its developers think that anonymizing info or collecting bits and pieces for functional info and setting a cookie for that purpose allows you not to show a banner. That's wrong. It doesnt matter for what you collect info or set a cookie - the moment you set a cookie, you have to show a cookie banner and tell exactly what you are collecting and what you are using it for. Even for functional cookies.

The only way you can be compliant with this law is by setting an apache header or something to delete all cookies the moment they are set so that you wont leave any cookie. Even in that case, you may be responsible for you are holding that information even for a few miliseconds. (yeah, you as a techie think that its not important, but law doesnt work that way). Best chance is to have a server that does not set any cookie or collect any info in any way. Good job preventing spam, fraud, ddos with such a setup.
by satvikpendem | 2025-11-20 17:52:27+00:00
Not really, when the training burden is the same between knowing DOM manipulation and knowing React, yet the latter is more scalable when multiple people are working on a project, and just in general even for solo development without having to go through the annoying process of imperatively adding DOM nodes to the HTML. Anyone "capable" can do it but it doesn't mean it's the best way. This is like the same argument C or C++ devs use when they talk about memory safety as opposed to Rust which lets the computer handle it.
by roguecoder | 2025-11-20 17:52:58+00:00
Tech workers are prime targets for SROs, and it is wild that zoning has kept them out. I have had plenty of coworkers who ate the vast majority of their meals at work anyway and only used their kitchen to store clothes.

This portrays them just as an option for poor people, but if they were legal we would have high-end SROs also, for people who want high-end amenities but don't need giant amounts of space. Removing them hurts the people without other options the most, but zoning has hurt everyone's options.
by salawat | 2025-11-20 17:53:02+00:00
This was an inevitable outcome once the political class realized there may be a technical primitive to even desire this sort of thing. This is why shit like device based attestation should never have been pursued. It should have been treated as anathema, and anyone actually working on it ostracized by peers.

Tech is one of the few things where we can truly completely undermine social structures before we're ready. This is one of those sorts of things.
by do_not_redeem | 2025-11-20 17:53:03+00:00
Reading between the lines, it seems like Google is playing a bit of chess here. Reminds me of the Beeper Mini stunt, except this time by a trillion-dollar company they can't just sweep under the rug.

> we welcome the opportunity to work with Apple to enable “Contacts Only” mode in the future.

> I applaud the effort to open more secure information sharing between platforms and encourage Google and Apple to work together more on this.

Your move, Apple.
by charcircuit | 2025-11-20 17:53:11+00:00
>where what you wrote doesn't apply

You can configure your flatpak app so that it will have permission to read microphone in the background or have full access to the disk. Many flatpaks of real apps request dangerous permissions that users have been conditioned to ignore. For example Blender is such an app which has full disk access and background microphone access, and I'm sure many people have installed that. This is unlike Android where these are locked down for every app.
by wazdra | 2025-11-20 17:53:25+00:00
Tails works like this, and has gained a lot of traction in the past few years — although one may argue that running from RAM is only indirectly responsible for its popularity.

I think this idea appeals to many people, also concerning remanence: keeping your system and user data separate to the point that you could virtually mount your /home on any given UNIX host, with the added bonus that if the host is not compatible with your setup, you can always reboot it on your USB stick, run a live ISO on RAM, and retrieve a decent work environment.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-11-20 17:54:27+00:00
> (You should also buy real copies if you still can, because they're great.)

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Calvin-Hobbes-Box-Set/dp/074...

I got this when it came out. It's absolutely amazing, filled with commentary from Bill Watterson.

I've read the whole set twice, but it's been at least 15 years. I should read it again.
by programjames | 2025-11-20 17:54:37+00:00
I literally gave you the criterion. You can measure, "I have this model that is supposed to compress data. I have this data. Does it compress the data into fewer bits than other models? Than humans?"

Or, "I have this game and this model. Does the model win the game more often than other models or humans?"

Or, "I have this model that takes in states in an environment and outputs actions. I have this environment. Does the actions it outputs have a higher discounted future entropy than other models or humans?"
by huijzer | 2025-11-20 17:55:03+00:00
> bureaucracy to fight at European level so we still don't have a real unified market, neither in physical goods (our economy's backbone) nor services which doesn't allow national startups to scale at European level

I guess you have been part of software startups and you severely underestimate the bureaucracy that is involved in physical companies nowadays. Farmers, fishermen, factory-owners, and other small to medium size companies all have severe difficulties with ever increasing regulations. By itself the regulations are not always bad, but usually it takes way too long to get through the system which makes it hard to compete with, for example, China.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-20 17:55:14+00:00
> Part of the purpose of sarcasm is to inject humor.

No, the purpose of sarcasm (and what distinguishes it from mere irony is having this purpose) is to mock or inflict emotional pain.

It may involve humor (irony, which sarcasm is a specific use of, is often, but not always, humorous), but that is not the purpose of sarcasm.
by Matticus_Rex | 2025-11-20 17:55:22+00:00
Tenant rights didn't end SROs, but they made them much more expensive to operate in cities that make evictions difficult. Most cities were already discouraging them with zoning and building codes, and tenant rights expansions in some of the most expensive cities just doubled down.

Where they still exist in significant quantity, it's usually because of subsidies, carve-outs that exempt them from some code or regulatory requirements, or both. NYC still has the most in the country, and might stop losing the ones they have so quickly thanks to some 2023 carve-outs and subsidies. But as a percentage of the housing stock (which is already too low!) they've declined from ~10% in the 1950s to >1% now. But it's very, very rare anywhere for new SROs to be built, and especially in the cities that could benefit most from them.

Chicago passed an ordinance in 2014 to preserve the SROs they had, with subsidized loans and tax credits to operators, but between 2015 and 2020 they still lost 37% of their remaining SRO buildings (no more recent data seems easily available).