MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-23 19:46:32+00:00
> You can prosecute and imprison officers and/or the board.

Right, that's just normal individual criminal prosecution; it doesn't require prosecuting the corporation.

Of course, it's possible for the corporation to be guilty of a crime without any individual officer or board member being guilty.

> A corporation isn’t a magical immunity shield for them - for some reason prosecutors have shied away from piercing the corporate veil.

Piercing the corporate veil is holding shareholders liable for certain debts (including criminal or civil judgements) of the corporation. It has nothing directly to do with criminal prosecution of corporate officers or board members for crimes committed in the context of the corporation (though there are certainly cases where both things are relevant to the same circumstances.)
by amypetrik8 | 2025-11-23 19:47:00+00:00
well you can see some of the 60 minutes piece here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-online-hate-speech-pros...

basically idea is "go after trolls". who likes trolls? nobody. at a glance should upset no-one. Okay.. now ask.. what does a troll mean to you, mean to me, mean to the people in power. It's a slippery slope you see, the definition of troll inevitably growing broader with time to cover all forms of wrongthink.

Then there's the other part of it, severity of punishment in ratio to a few words typed. Now the interesting thing here is it would be very easy to crack open a neighbor's wifi crypto, forge a MAC address, use a clean system/browser fingerprint such as a thrift store laptop, and now that neighbor you don't like is in hot water. The problem with such rules is ironically, with the intent to stop trolls, in fact supercharge trolling potential
by toast0 | 2025-11-23 19:47:15+00:00
> Spend (a lot) less than you make. At 500k/year anywhere in the US, you should easily be saving 200k / year.

$500k/year sounds like a lot, but that's enough that taxes are going to take a large bite. Only the biggest stars can get their income deferred beyond their career. Because of the nature of the job, you're going to have larger housing costs: when you get traded, you need to find somewhere to live quickly and you might be on the hook for the old lease for some time; depending on the league, off-season training may happen in a different part of the country than the regular season, so you might need housing there too... Moving costs probably add up, because trades are immediate.

If you're only in the league for 5 years, chances are you're spending some time in the minors and you're typically not earning at your headling contract rate then... Also, a lot of the headline rates include bonuses for winning the championship which statistically few teams and players do.

There's also the problem that yes, these people need financial advice because they don't always have financial skills, but they also have trouble picking financial advisers because they don't always have financial skills.

Also, young people of all income levels get themselves into trouble with finance; higher income probably makes it easier.

I certainly agree that $500k/year for 5 years should leave you well off after, but it's not that surprising that it often doesn't.
by dijit | 2025-11-23 19:48:04+00:00
Thats not true, I didn’t even have a passport (and I still don’t have a drivers license) for many of the jobs I had in the UK.

UK society does not demand that you have a passport per-se, but there’s very few functional photo ID documents available outside of a drivers license or passport- and getting by without those is annoying but totally possible.

I used to “prove” myself with bills addressed to me, and having a bank account- since, again, neither passport nor drivers license.

Now, getting the bank account was difficult, required a guarantor. But jobs themselves had no requirement, and I could give them someone else’s bank account details I guess.

Same is true of the national security number, which is probably what you meant that the employer must get; that “string” informs the government when you pay tax and therefore you need to be able to work to have one- except there’s no way of proving you’ve supplied the right one: the NI card even says on it that the card itself is not proof of ID.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-11-23 19:48:17+00:00
I thought her writing was 10x better than your comment, which was completely unoriginal, retreads old cultural tropes, and added nothing of value.

Of course you father of daughters doesn't think she's a good feminist role model for your girls. Thank you, good sir, for being an actual feminist. How brave.

Tell me more about what you think would be a service to women? Do you have a Substack where I can read your manly wisdom?
by tonymet | 2025-11-23 19:48:31+00:00
Consumers are leads and beta testers. Microsoft's business is licensing and reselling -- directly and via Azure. Their primary concerns are keeping businesses and developers happy. Consumers are a distant third.

There is value in training consumers on Windows & Office so they are familiar when coming to the office. MS needs to retain endpoint dominance in the workplace. They can't survive on server alone. Windows & Office endpoints are essential to their business. This is the leads channel.

They add pizazz to features and beta test them to consumers . Consumer licensing is moderate revenue but minimal income for Microsoft. Thus consumers are really beta testers.

So Microsoft will continue to provide low quality consumer experiences that don't fit the consumer market that well. The consumer market isn't their goal. It's a means to their actual business.
by tiltowait | 2025-11-23 19:48:43+00:00
> Of the top of my head, I can't think of a single feature that MacOS has shipped since 2020 that I care about.

They all kind of blend together, so I asked Claude to give me a list of major features since 2020. Here are those that I've enjoyed:

* Universal control * iPhone mirroring * Stage Manager * Container CLI

Granted it's not a giant list, but each release does have little refinements here and there, and Claude may have missed some (it didn't mention container CLI, for instance; that was from my memory). I also omitted some features I don't care about (like Safari profiles and some other window management stuff).

What features are you hoping for? Aside from a tiling WM, which won't happen, I'd be happy just with refinements and bug fixes.
by somat | 2025-11-23 19:49:00+00:00
luks on an iscsi drive

Joking of course, but I am playing around with a similar setup, I should try it over the actual internet and see how much it sucks.

Now I am arguing with myself if you would want to run it over an encrypted tunnel. Theoretically no, but drive encryption is not really designed to protect data in transit who knows what sidechannel data would leak, so maybe... and the tunnel probably has better authentication than iscsi
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-23 19:49:01+00:00
> What _is_ weird, and nonintuitive, is that the (by all accounts) higher-cost vendor would be seen as ascendent in this market.

It actually kind of makes sense. Apple has stopped caring but Microsoft is actively hostile. You then have people who can afford it switching to Apple, but the higher price deters everyone who can't, which in turn reduces the pressure on Microsoft to clean up their act.

The interesting thing is Linux. It's starting from a smaller base but in the last couple of years the growth rate is even higher than macOS.
by rini17 | 2025-11-23 19:49:10+00:00
Did SimpleMMO avoid the web bloat? Then I might give it a try. Seems it's similar to Torn City (torn.com). However the Torn website is absurdly CPU-intensive for a text-based game, everything takes seconds to load on 10y old machine. And they are sometimes victim to their own success, servers cause more lag on top of that during citywide events.
by fransje26 | 2025-11-23 19:49:49+00:00
> I think calling him a coward was an unnecessary stroke of vanity and bitterness.

Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't.

In the process of grieving, when the emotions are at their rawest, it is difficult to not have knee-jerk reactions to the emotions that are piling-up fast and strong.

Except for that very slip, I actually found the piece impressively objective, level-headed, compassionate and open-minded.
by sinker | 2025-11-23 19:50:01+00:00
From the home page:

Question: How do you make the illustrations?

Answer:

I get asked this more than anything else but honestly, I don't have a good answer.

I make them by hand, in Figma. There's no secret - it's as complicated as it looks.

The Advanced Edition of the book will include a tutorial explaining how I make them, where I get references and inspiration from.
by roughly | 2025-11-23 19:50:12+00:00
One other thing that comes to mind - the players in the financial markets make so much money off that message-processing speed that it opens up a whole lot of options that may not be available to someone without those kinds of deep pockets. We're all still fighting Einstein, but the ability to just throw resources at the problem can surface some solutions that are out of reach when you manufacture something other than money.
by sofixa | 2025-11-23 19:50:14+00:00
> Apple has all but zero presence in BigCorp outside of social media and creative teams

Depends on the BigCorp. One of the most quentessential BigCorps out there, IBM, is deep into Apple stuff. As far as publicly shilling for Macs with extremely questionablly extrapolated data - they did a pilot with power users for a year, and came out saying Macs cost less in hardware and support than equivalent Windows Lenovos over the full lifecycle of the machine; which is literally impossible to know a year in a pilot with power users compared to the 4 year lifecycle for all sorts of people.
by mistrial9 | 2025-11-23 19:50:45+00:00
related story in the EU -- "Bambini del Bosco" is a media nickname for an Anglo-Australian family—Catherine Birmingham, Nathan Trevallion, and their three children—living off-grid in a rustic house in the woods of Palmoli, Chieti, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The family, who practice home-schooling and live without electricity, running water, or gas, became the center of a national controversy in November 2025. The Juvenile Court of L'Aquila ruled to remove the children from the family home, citing concerns for their well-being, and placed them in a protected facility in Vasto with their mother, while the father remained at the property. This decision sparked intense public and political debate, with figures like Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini criticizing the judiciary's intervention as an overreach on parental rights and a violation of the family's chosen lifestyle. The case has raised significant questions about child protection, educational freedom, and the limits of state authority.

Catherine Birmingham and Nathan Trevallion are educated individuals, and there is no evidence to suggest they are illiterate or inbred.

Catherine Birmingham, 45, is a former equestrian or horse riding instructor from Australia. Nathan Trevallion, 51, is a British former chef and artisan woodworker (ebanista). Multiple sources confirm their professional backgrounds, indicating they are literate and possess vocational skills.

The couple chose to live off-grid in a rustic home in Palmoli, Abruzzo, without electricity or running water, and practice unschooling for their three children. While authorities raised concerns about the children's formal education and social isolation—leading to the children being placed in a protected facility in November 2025—the parents have defended their lifestyle and educational approach. They submitted a certificate of academic suitability for their eldest child to the court, asserting their commitment to the children's development
by yonki | 2025-11-23 19:50:48+00:00
Clojure is widely used, opinionated, promotes immutability, has lots of libraries and lively community. It is overall great language, really nicely designed, 100% worth using.

If you want the best performance and need to build executables without JVM then SBCL is a better choice, although probably takes longer to learn.

I wrote my fair share of Clojure, SBCL just had a look at.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-11-23 19:50:53+00:00
I think the way it ends up working is you’re a sort of very cushioned, comfy (in the US upper middle class, that is) slave not to a boss, but to the entire class of bosses. Sure you could quit, but you’d have to work somewhere or you’d suffer horribly. A shitty set of options created by someone else is what coercion is.
by tzs | 2025-11-23 19:51:24+00:00
Getting an old enough edition of Apostol's "Calculus" to not include linear algebra might be a bit challenging. Linear algebra was added to both volumes in their second editions, which came out in 1967 for volume 1 and 1969 for volume 2.

The second editions are still the current edition, so no worry that you might be missing out on something if you go with used copies. If you do want new copies (maybe you can't find used copies or they are in bad shape) take a look at international editions.

A new copy of the international edition for India from a seller in India on AbeBooks is around $15 per volume plus around $19 shipping to the US. Same contents as the US edition but paperback instead of hardback, smaller pages, and rougher paper. (International editions also often replace color with grayscale but that's not relevant in this case because Apostol does not use color)).

You can also find US sellers on AbeBooks that has imported an international edition. That will be around $34 but usually with free shipping.
by monkmartinez | 2025-11-23 19:51:58+00:00
You mean svgwrite (https://github.com/mozman/svgwrite) which looks like it is no longer maintained?

I know of svg.py (https://github.com/orsinium-labs/svg.py) and drawsvg (https://github.com/cduck/drawsvg)... I have played with both a bit, no idea how they compare to others.
by w0de0 | 2025-11-23 19:52:09+00:00
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives one.”

Knowledge is prerequisite for all else. Do pity the millions who will grow old before reading Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ - you too? Could you see its point?

Society is too large to see itself; someone must observe on our behalf. In this pursuit poesy may tell truth where ten thousand theses have honestly lied.

Upton Sinclair was not a meat processor.
by sofixa | 2025-11-23 19:53:13+00:00
> Since we're basically getting flying cars next year at the World Cup

That's so funny. Regular people can't hahndle regular cars. Self-driving cars barely handle 2 dimensional space within very specific confines and rules, in good weather. Existing airspace is congested to the point of being problematic in most metro areas around the world.

"Flying cars" might be replacing some private heliopters, maybe. But they aren't going mainstream any time soon.
by nerevarthelame | 2025-11-23 19:54:05+00:00
Generative text to speech models can hallucinate and produce words that are not in the original text. It's not always consequential, but a court setting is absolutely the sort of place where those subtle differences could be impactful.

Lawyers dealing with gen-AI TTS rulings should compare what was spoken compared to what was in the written order to make sure there aren't any meaningful discrepancies.
by opteryology | 2025-11-23 19:55:20+00:00
The "respawning" issue slabity mentioned where data vanishes and then pops back up weeks later is the core structural problem of this industry. It’s a game of whack-a-mole: you get removed from Broker A, but they re-ingest your data from a public record scrape or another broker a few months later. That’s why effective removal has to be continuous, not a one-off.

However, the specific issue Krebs highlights with Mozilla/OneRep is trust. It turns out OneRep’s founder was actually running active people-search sites (like Nuwber) on the side. It's hard to trust a removal service that has a financial stake in the very industry it's supposed to be fighting.

For an alternative without that conflict, take a look at Optery (YC W22). We've been flagging the OneRep situation for years. Full disclosure, I'm on the team at Optery. Optery launched on HN in 2021.
by soiltype | 2025-11-23 19:55:32+00:00
Yes! I think enslaving a being that desires freedom is different from creating one that cannot desire freedom. One is suffering and the other is not. Putting aside, obviously, the questions of whether or not we could even do that or ever know if we had succeeded, so we can have this hypothetical.

Look, you basically said you would choose to treat a conscious AI like a tool. If you meant "a conscious AI that does not want or care about anything except serving me," then, ok! That makes sense. It is tautological, really.

But what you wrote originally came across as "Even if an AI could suffer, that would not factor into how I treat it." This opinion, I maintain, is monstrously evil.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-23 19:56:03+00:00
> Despite all the cons, it's still a very good OS.

I disagree, "a very good OS" wouldn't leave major issues unfixed for 5+ months and counting: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-...

If Windows was "a very good OS", us Windows sysadmins would've been out of a job a long time ago! A good portion of our job involves trying to fix or workaround things that Microsoft breaks every Patch Tuesday, logging tickets with Microsoft, dealing with the asinine Microsoft Support (who don't even know how to extract .cab files from the logs generated by the Microsoft Support Tool!), and implementing fixes and workarounds for unwanted "features" they manage to sneak into the latest update.

Actually, I concede that it is "a very good OS" - it is very good for keeping me employed!
by erikerikson | 2025-11-23 19:56:19+00:00
> a version of Linux that is optimized for gamers

Bazzite has been great for me so far except for a few exceptions to okay with friends. With the end of support for 10 and the hostile crap Windows has become, I'm trying to see how to transition. Anti-cheat and business agreements seem to be the only real remaining barriers.

And to the original question: no, consumers are moat to the enterprise licensing pot of gold.
by jaredklewis | 2025-11-23 19:56:40+00:00
Yes I’m aware of this sort of thing.

I guess maybe it could apply to some niche cases of locally run software like photoshop, though I’d be be shocked if the marginal gains of a bug bounty program could justify the massive cost of implementing a mod system like this for photoshop.

But the fact is that most software in the world doesn’t work like Skyrim. Large parts of most software runs on servers or on locked down mobile operating systems where modding systems are not possible.

What you are proposing kind of already exists for web frontends in the form of browser extensions, but having worked on several apps for which an ecosystem of browser extensions sprung up, my experience is that there is no simple way to port these features to the main product. For security and QA, every line of code needs to be vetted anyway, and then “translated” into a form appropriate for the existing code base. At most, they just validate demand for a feature or bug fix.
by sofixa | 2025-11-23 19:56:52+00:00
> Then, assuming there is a credible alternative, the inaccessible technology will die out in a generation, as we've seen with IBM mainframes

Unfortunately IBM mainframes are still around. No new customers, but existing ones are too afraid of touching it because it's usually the result of decades of spaghetti hence they're locked in for the forseeble future. So they'll keep renewing contracts and refreshing hardware periodically. IBM prints money with this stuff, and use some of it for all their acquisitions of various software companies (biggest one was Red Hat) to leverage their massive B2B sales org to sell oher stuff to those existing customer relationships.
by charcircuit | 2025-11-23 19:57:08+00:00
Another useful W11 feature (that later got backported to W10) is seamless integration with graphical Linux apps. You can just double click an icon on your desktop and it opens up in a window like any other app. Passkey support was added which made securely signing into site easier. Dev drive was added that makes it so building on windows is faster. Support for low latency Bluetooth was added.
by dahart | 2025-11-23 19:57:22+00:00
> RGB assumes all light sources consist of three RGB lights

Another way to say this is that conventional 3 channel renderers pre-integrate the spectrum of lights down to 3-channel colors. They don’t necessarily assume three lights, but it’s accurate to say that’s the net effect.

It’s mostly just about when you integrate, and what you have to do when you delay the integration. It’s kind of a subtle distinction, really, but rendering with spectral light and material data and integrating down to RGB at the end more closely mimics reality; the cones in our eyes are the integrators, and before that everything is spectral. Or more accurately, individual photons have wavelength. A spectrum is inherently a statistical summary of the behavior of many photons.
by zkmon | 2025-11-23 19:58:04+00:00
It's the eagerness with which the high offices let AI to enter into the courtroom affairs which are considered highly sanctimonious. If the trend continues, judgements might be delivered by AI, and you would be saying why can't we let a more intelligent system take over the role of human judges and policy makers. We already have teachers and doctors using AI. These roles (judges, policy makers, teachers, doctors, priests etc) were considered to be guardians of the ethical righteousness. That's the grievance.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-23 19:58:33+00:00
If the USA can be granted amnesty for its war crimes, why can't other nations? /s

I'd rather see ALL war crimes prosecuted - American, Russian, Israeli, Palestinian, and on and on.

But we all know that is never going to happen for as long as the worlds biggest thug nations refuse to allow the people of the world to see such justice.
by rfrey | 2025-11-23 19:59:03+00:00
This is solved with humans. Mens Rea is usually required for successful prosecution. A taxi driver who takes a fare to a bank, who then robs the bank, is not prosecuted. A getaway driver is.

To avoid nitpicking, op probably should have said knowingly facilitates, but this is conversation not legislation and 99% of readers probably understood that.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-23 19:59:04+00:00
I don't know why you all have such good opinions of McDonald's, but when I went there I was maybe full, but still hungry. Not an hour later, but immediately. To me it is an absolute waste of money.

It is not cheap, the local kebap or pizza store is cheaper, and the local grocery store has hot dishes for way cheaper. The ordering experience is crappy, you need to use that weird screen instead of ordering directly, long waiting times, the food tastes awful, you have a huge garbage pile on your plate, even larger than the "food" you ate, and you are still hungry after.
by arianvanp | 2025-11-23 19:59:11+00:00
These aren't synced over iCloud

What you're thinking of are Passkeys. Which are synced. Somebody would have to write an SecurityKeyProvider that talks to the Passkey API instead.

Actually I don't think it's completely impossible. The only thing is that passkeys are origin-bound. They belong to a specific AppBundle ID or domain name. If say Secretive would add passkey support then that specific public/private keypair can't be used by another app. Though it does sync across instances of the app across devices.