MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by masklinn | 2025-11-19 20:03:00+00:00
> the movement not nearly as difficult as people claimed.

Original was really rough because the core team had gone in the wrong direction on migration, and the Python io module was hell as well.

By 3.3-3.4 it was relatively smooth sailing but that took a lot of work from the community and core team both (reminder that Python 2.7 was released after 3.1, backporting a number of features to make compatibility easier, and old features were reintroduced as late as 3.5).
by exasperaited | 2025-11-19 20:03:19+00:00
> By that definition Islam should be considered a cult as it calls for severe consequences for apostasy, ranging from social ostracism to the death penalty. However it's not a cult, it's a mainstream religion.

I make the distinction elsewhere that it is not the belief structure (e.g. apostasy) that I am talking about.

I am talking about how a cult cuts you off from non-believers entirely, and that is combined with financial control.

Islam, Judaism, they do neither of these things, at an individual level. And Islam really lacks "cult control" mechanisms because it has such a limited concept of hierarchy of faith or obedience to any non-family authority.

Cults work at the deeply personal, individual level.
by herpdyderp | 2025-11-19 20:03:27+00:00
imo it feels like art because there are an infinite number of needs to keep in mind when writing code and everyone prioritizes them differently. Even when the output is the same, different implementations will have different effects elsewhere: performance, legibility, security, type safety, error prone, etc.

So I would say "it either does, or does not, do what it was designed to do" isn't the full picture. I'm not sure it needs to truly be art though.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-19 20:03:34+00:00
Because you cannot look up a pictogram to divine its meaning. There are a million words in English. You can trivially look any of them up.

> "pictograms were used long ago so they are bad"

Please don't put words in my mouth that I never wrote.

Pictograms evolved into phonetic alphabets over and over in history, because phonetic alphabets are objectively better.

Take a chapter from "Lord of the Rings" and redo it with pictograms. Good luck with that.
by popcornricecake | 2025-11-19 20:03:45+00:00
To my knowledge, every PWA installed from Firefox on Android will become a bookmark. For Firefox I believe that means for example that if you try to open a link elsewhere that is within the manifest scope, it will not open in the PWA. That's because it's not possible to deep link to the PWA without it having an AndroidManifest with a corresponding intent filter, which is what the Chrome WebAPK achieves and why they can support for example custom protocol handlers or share targets or launch handling options.
by Brendinooo | 2025-11-19 20:03:51+00:00
>Isn't this just better web search?

It's basically any technology. The whole point of technology is essentially to reduce friction.

I have something ranging from learned helplessness to total indifference about taking care of horses, or how to appropriately pitch a tent to survive a cold night, because modernity doesn't require me to care about these things.
by rckt | 2025-11-19 20:03:56+00:00
I get that too many regulations is a bad thing. But when we talk privacy and personal data there should be no gray zone. It has to be black and white. When I see a stupid cookie banner I search for "Reject all". There's no some data that companies can collect and process without my consent, they just shouldn't be able to collect anything without me actively opting in. Business never respects anything, but profits. Seeing news about relaxing these laws with the "AI" going after this leaves a bitter taste. And with them also trying to push the Chat Control thing, it gets even worse.
by fabioyy | 2025-11-19 20:04:30+00:00
The numbers seems to be too much near 65535 to be a coincidence.

are you making the request from a single IP address source? are you aware of the limit of using the same source IP address for the same destination IP address ( and port )? ( each connection can have only a unique source address and source port to the destination, maxing out in source 65535 ports ) for the same destination
by ineedasername | 2025-11-19 20:04:38+00:00
Medium has things dialed in. When both high and low are coherent but medium goes to cubism? That’s intent. Or it had a miscue on proportions vs shape placement. Either way, it’s great, sandwiched the way it is, between the other two. Did it put a comment in all of them or just the one w/ the hat?

Also, thanks for the posts— it’s hugely helpful to have a continuity of insightful perspective throughout.
by MoonWalk | 2025-11-19 20:05:32+00:00
I don't know. Isn't Python still viewed as a mess now? I was thinking of taking the time to learn it as the best way to write cross-platform utilities, but encountered a lot of negative sentiment about its ecosystem. And all the environment managers you seem to need for it are a turn-off.

Granted, this is coming from a relative noob who read and followed a couple of "how to set up Python properly" articles and that's about it. But I pretty much decided to spend my time on JavaScript, despite its cumbersomeness for implementing simple utilities.
by manquer | 2025-11-19 20:06:38+00:00
Not legal issues in the sense issues contested in court, rather they mean to say the combination of regulations and compliance to state laws that any business particularly a large one with significant physical footprint[1] would need to comply with. Politicians are in the business of passing and enforcing those laws or giving exceptions to compliance.

[1] A lot of less permits would be needed for 10,000 member software company compared to a rocket launch provider or a manufacturing unit.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-19 20:06:45+00:00
That is an interesting concept. But actually, even in this extreme situation, relatively few Trumper officials have no friends on the other side of the aisle; that will change over time as things become even more impossible to defend, but the "it's just a gig" aspect of it has not entirely faded.

There is definitely more "control" at the executive branch level: FBI people have literally been told they will be fired if they don't cut off contact with former FBI Trump critics.

But even so, being told you will be fired is small beer compared to how proper cults deal with dissent, and the level of control (you won't get a job in this town) is different to the level of psychological control a proper cult wields.

They will get there over time, I think.
by mihaaly | 2025-11-19 20:07:10+00:00
I do not care about 100s of startups and how they want to use my data for advertisement or other things they benefit from.

I care about keeping my personal data private so it will be more difficult to use for profiling me for whatever (whatever!) reason, but all are for other's benefit on no or marginal benefit for me in overwhelmingly major part of the cases.

If startups cannot do properly, then they should not do at all! They must spend on handling personal data well if they want to handle personal data at all! There are way enough already and most are just go out and bust, circulating data collected who knows where and how. And they are surprised it is so hard compiling data on people, people are increasingly reluctant to share because the so many abuse and actual damages caused by personal data abused.

People are important, not the startups!
by Neikius | 2025-11-19 20:07:51+00:00
Biggest issue with this is the modern web ads don't even work.

You get ads for fridge AFTER you bought one since they now know you browsed them.

What works is content based advertising - so advertise a power drill on a woodworking hobbyist site. No tracking required there. Conversion can be obtained when user clicks a link via redirect. Like in the good ol times.

But this modern approach that massively invades privacy has been sold to businesses and now they require it even though it is probably ineffectual.
by MrAlex94 | 2025-11-19 20:08:05+00:00
I can attest to that! While I never reached the upper echelons of virality that other browsers in recent memory have, I had much the same experience with Waterfox. Right place, right time gave it its initial user base: posting about a 64-bit build of Firefox on the Overclock.net forums. It hit the right time as people were starting to switch to 64-bit Windows and upgrading their hardware to match

I think that first week the project got 50k downloads! I was of course only 16 so had no concept of what to do but just keep getting new builds out - after all I made the builds because I couldn’t find anyone who would consistently and regularly do so.
by VintageRobot | 2025-11-19 20:08:22+00:00
> As someone building a particularly stupid car in a genre almost but not entirely unlike the OP (a turbo LS1-swapped Rover P5),

I have no idea why people do this stuff to a nice car like a Rover P5. It isn't my car though.

> Start somewhere, and the more you do, the more you can do.

Obviously. But I had to do a lot of stuff that I wasn't prepared to do far quicker because the previous person who doing this took short cuts. I almost had the dash catch fire because someone did a bodge job on electricals instead of paying £15 for the correct part (a plastic plug).

The point I was making is that you are making it sound far simpler than it actually is. There been a good few weekends that have been sunny and I have honestly felt like I was wasting my time and couldn't face working on it.

I had to fit a new turbo and it took me about 3-4 weeks. Not because it was difficult (actually it one of the easier and nicer jobs IMO), it was sourcing parts around the turbo such as gaskets, copper washer kits and other dumb stuff like that.

There was constant trips to tool shops because I was always missing like a tool, trying to find a fitting/gromit in Halfords (they never have it) or a parts supplier 40 miles away in the sticks. It all adds up in both time and cost.

Now I know roughly who the order from, what I should order from etc. But that is going to be different for almost different manufacturer and worse if the stuff is more niche/custom.

The amount of the projects that get given up, suggest it not that easy.
by astroflection | 2025-11-19 20:08:24+00:00
Regurgitation ≠ learning

Regurgitation involves short term memory and micmicking. It does not build new neural connections.

Learning involves longer term memory, synthesis of new perspectives(in the learner), and integration of knowledge across multiple domains. Learning is the building of new neural connections.

I posit that you did not actually learn how to learn and thus just regurgitated your way through math.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-19 20:08:43+00:00
Let's take the highest perspective possible:

What is the value of technology which allows people communicate clearly with other people of any language? That is what these large language models have achieved. We can now translate pretty much perfectly between all the languages in the world. The curse from the tower of Babel has been lifted.

There will be a time in the future, when people will not be able to comprehend that you couldn't exchange information regardless of personal language skills.

So what is the value of that? Economically, culturally, politically, spiritually?
by KPGv2 | 2025-11-19 20:08:58+00:00
> I'm incredibly impressed at how feature deficit email is . . . It's just a lot of little things that add up. Like why is tagging and sorting so hard?

If you read the specifications for the various email protocols, you'll soon discover that email, at the protocol level, is at its most feature-rich akin to flat files stored in a hierarchy of folders.

Tags, sorting, etc. are all the responsibility of clients. (Which is as it should be, since sorting is part of viewing data, not storing or sending it. Regarding tags, I suppose you could roll out a new email protocol, but SMTP is nothing more than a few text commands to send and receive bytes, and any tagging would be done by the client alone or the server alone as a value-add. The feature itself could not be implemented via, for example, the SMTP spec.

When you send an email via SMTP, you send the server "MAIL FROM" plus sender's address, RCPT TO plus destination, DATA and the contents of the email, and then a dot to represent the end of the email.

The email is then immutable. The receiver would be the one who wants to tag an email, and since the email is immutable, there's nothing you can do. And even if the sender wants to tag it, there's no command. I suppose in theory you could just add the tags to the email body, but every recipient not using your "improved" email format would just see that in the body of the email
by worik | 2025-11-19 20:09:25+00:00
Back in the day it was Perl or PHP on the web

I was a Perl programmer, and I looked down my nose at PHP. Silly me, then and now

Why did PHP, an objectively a worse language, win?

Rasmus Lerdorf said in a quote I can no longer find, it was modperl vs. modphp for Apache.

Modperl was, typically for Perl, very comprehensive and allowed access to all the Apache processing hooks

Modphp was, typically for PHP, just enough to speed up rendering so only allowed access to the barest minimal set of hooks

Modperl, so much better (I can hear myself say 30 years ago)

But at the time most websites, by count not by traffic, ran on shared hosts where the system administrator gave you access to software. If they installed mosdperl you would be able to intercept, read, and change traffic for all websites hosted on that machine

Modphp, not so.

So PHP was widely available to the pioneers in the day, people scratching together a little web hosting business and growing . Perl was not

Not enough on its own to kill Perl, but an important nail in its coffin
by notahacker | 2025-11-19 20:09:29+00:00
I mean, without the trade secret exemption that's basically any written exchange with government....

I'm not seeing much to be gained by making it impossible for governments to do due diligence with many suppliers because they'd rather turn down the contract than broadcast such information to their competitors (not sure it'd jive particularly well with public company control over what is and isn't public information either)...
by johndhi | 2025-11-19 20:09:49+00:00
Protecting users in the bargains we strike with big tech is a worthwhile and noble effort, but privacy law has generally woefully failed to do this.

Millions upon millions have been spent on cookie banners -- people are still arguing about them in this thread -- but there is almost zero benefit to this expense.

The main thing that's good about this, IMO, is that fundamentally training a large language model and privacy law as it's written today cannot coexist. They are incompatible. And allowing someone to break the law forever (as is happening today) is not a good long-term solution.
by fzysingularity | 2025-11-19 20:09:59+00:00
SAM3 is cool - you can already do this more interactively on chat.vlm.run [1], and do much more.

It's built on our new Orion [2] model; we've been able to integrate with SAM and several other computer-vision models in a truly composable manner. Video segmentation and tracking is also coming soon!

[1] https://chat.vlm.run

[2] https://vlm.run/orion
by chuckadams | 2025-11-19 20:09:59+00:00
Mise is pretty nice, I'd recommend it over all the other gazillion version-manager things out there, but it's not without its own weak spots: I tried mise for a php project, neither of the backends available for php had a binary for macos, and both of them failed to build it. I now use a flake.nix, along with direnv and `use flake`. The nix language definitely makes for some baffling boilerplate around the dependencies list, but devs unfamiliar with nix can ignore it and just paste in the package name from nixpkgs search.

There's also jbadeau/mise-nix that lets you use flakes in mise, but I figured at that point I may as well just use flake.nix.
by Dig1t | 2025-11-19 20:10:05+00:00
The ACLU only writes these articles when the system is being used to take down something they like politically.

They never had a problem with the App Store removing Gab, Parler, or Infowars. It’s hard to take institutions like the ACLU seriously when they have such obvious bias. If the ACLU had taken a principled stance when the system was being used to take down things that they didn’t like, they would have been able to keep their legitimacy.
by thyristan | 2025-11-19 20:10:20+00:00
You don't need to turn off STP, usually it's enough to set the forward delay to a very small value ("port fast" in cisco commands). If there is a loop, the port will usually still detect it, you at the most get a handful of multiplied packets.

And all the "http boot" firmware I've seen either always ignores certificate errors or doesn't do TLS anyways.
by sojsurf | 2025-11-19 20:10:54+00:00
Probably using off-the-shelf analytics because rolling your own analytics takes time away from solving the central problems your users are paying you for. No one is _using_ the data. It's often not even really PII except that GDPR's net is incredibly broad.

I have not seen GDPR reduce the amount of data people track. It's just resulted in piles of cash being burned on lawyers' advice to make sure the company has as little GDPR-related liability as possible. Subprocessor agreements, updated Terms and Conditions, etc.

Some good has come out of it, such as less backup retention, and some basic data breach plans, but a lot of it is theater.
by philipkglass | 2025-11-19 20:11:08+00:00
I think that what is really behind the AI bubble is the same thing behind most money, power, and influence: land and resources. The AI future that is promised, whether to you and me or to the billionaires, requires the same thing: lots of energy, lots of land, and lots of water.

If you just wanted land, water, and electricity, you could buy them directly instead of buying $100 million of computer hardware bundled with $2 million worth of land and water rights. Why are high end GPUs selling in record numbers if AI is just a cover story for the acquisition of land, electricity, and water?
by XenophileJKO | 2025-11-19 20:11:37+00:00
Not really that weird. This isn't intended to be a "general" model. This is a coding model so they showed the coding evals. The assumption would be relative to GPT5.1, non-coding evals would be likely regress or be similar.

Like when advertising the new airliner, most people don't care about how fast it taxis.
by oezi | 2025-11-19 20:11:50+00:00
Anonymization unfortunately is completely broken under GDPR. In principle it providesa clean path for personal data to become usable outside of the restrictions of GDPR, but in practice it turns out to be impossible based on current definitions.

The key issue is that anonymization under GDPR requires that a link to a real person can never be re-established even considering the person doing the anonymization. Consider a clincial study on 100 patients and their some diagnostic parameter such as creatinine or H1bc which was legally collected using consent and everything. Lets assume we would like to share only the 100 values of the diagnostic without any personal data. It would seem quite anonymous, but GDPR would put a simple test if anybody using reasonable efforts could re-establish an identity. And sure the original researcher can because s/he has a master file containing the mapping. So the data isn't anonymous and actually can never be anonymous.
by craftkiller | 2025-11-19 20:11:55+00:00
I'm not the author but my parents have pretty much decided they will never use a game console newer than the nintendo wii, but so far two of their wiis have died. Since no one is making wiis anymore, I decided to future-proof their gaming by setting them up with a mele quieter 4c [0], with the official wii bluetooth module attached over USB for perfect wiimote compatibility, running the dolphin emulator. Not every game runs perfectly, but every game they want to play runs perfectly AND it is smaller, silent, and consumes less power than the real wii.

[0] My experience with that mini computer: I bought two. The first one was great, but the 2nd one had coil whine so I had to return it. Aside from the whine, I love the box. If I could guarantee I wouldn't get whine I'd buy another today.
by tb_technical | 2025-11-19 20:11:57+00:00
That's simply not true, many HAMs in remote areas join to learn how to operate radio equipment and assist crisis responders - especially in the northern frontier states. There's a big appeal in my community - but we might not be the norm.

Look into the ARES program (ARRL).

They absolutely also enjoy it for personal use, but in areas where dying from exposure is a real concern in winter, the radio is an important lifeline.
by polotics | 2025-11-19 20:13:03+00:00
what a low effort post. the whole content is this:

Read in the Substack app Open app The "Learned Helplessness" of AI we're losing our ability to think himanshu Nov 19, 2025

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Every time you ask ChatGPT to write the difficult logic, prepare a plan, or do something creative, you are doing one thing: outsourcing friction.

And friction is where skill is built.

We are training our brains to believe: If I can’t instantly retrieve the answer, the machine will retrieve it for me.

This isn’t about being productive. This is about being functionally dependent. The moment we loose access to an LLM, we become clueless 3 year olds.

I might be wrong , i’ll write another post about accelerated learning through AI.

Subscribe to himanshu
by karel-3d | 2025-11-19 20:13:08+00:00
You unlocked hidden memories within me.

I never understood why Perl has all these crazy features. It feels like someone going "hah it would be funny if it worked like this..." but actually really implementing it.

People always said "it's because Larry Wall is a linguist!" as if it explains anything!

You always go from "this is neat" to "...but why" quickly with perl.
by bix6 | 2025-11-19 20:13:15+00:00
We could communicate with people before LLMs just fine though? We have hand gestures and some people learn multiple languages and google translate was pretty solid. I got by just fine in countries where I didn’t know the language because hand gestures work or someone speaks English.

What is the value of losing our uniqueness to a computer that lies and makes us all talk the same?
by esbranson | 2025-11-19 20:13:50+00:00
The judge says the expert assessment was inadequate (« caractère insuffisant de l'expertise réalisée »).[1][2] The statute that the judge found was not followed says the examination of each application for a certificate is entrusted by the Minister of Culture to one or more individuals who assess the historical, artistic, or archaeological significance of the property.[3] The judge provides no further information about why they think that law was not followed.

France does have Télérecours for attorneys like the US CM/ECF, but they do not provide public access to the case docket like the US PACER system or the US Supreme Court. (To be fair, no other country has such a basic commitment to transparency for judicial dockets and filings.)

[1] https://paris.tribunal-administratif.fr/decisions-de-justice...

[2] https://paris.tribunal-administratif.fr/Media/mediatheque-ta...

[3] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000...
by Telemakhos | 2025-11-19 20:13:52+00:00
I've never seen a piece of software that managed to implement all of the iCalendar specification, which to me seemed like a data model for a good productivity app that's just never manifested. iCalendar (RFC 2445 from 1998) outlined not only events but todo and a journal component for memorializing meetings. Outlook seems to ignore VTODO entries in iCalendar completely, and VJOURNAL support is deprecated.