MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fhars | 2025-11-23 17:39:05+00:00
There is another interpretation, reading "bits" as "set bits" and assuming that textual description (especially the operator "of the") has a higher precedence than multiplication, then your initial number is 9 with 2 bits set, and the largest number is 52 with 3 bits set, and 3 < 2 * 3 + 1 = 7.
by dijit | 2025-11-23 17:39:47+00:00
1) Your argument is: "improving anything that doesn't effect me very much is not worth it."

I mean, there are larger things to fix, but this one is probably larger than you think, even if it's not helping you very much, it'll help crack down on illegal workers (hey, we don't like that, right?) and it'll make the social systems have much less friction.

2) Notice that outside of Stockholm, Swedish house prices are not pegged to infinite like the UK is? I'm not saying that it's because of a central ID system, but you seem to imply that it precludes reasonable house prices... which is weird.

3) The economy is better when it's more efficient. Plenty of people argue inefficiency for the sake of jobs (people pushing paperwork have jobs! cushy government jobs! without them having jobs there'll be more unemployed people! -- I see this a lot more with Americans, and I find it to be an uncompelling argument usually).

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That is to say, I'm actually on your side, I don't trust the UK government, I'm merely offering a contra-point because in other EU countries these things are actually great and simplify a lot of things that you only really notice when you live with it - thus a lot of the hypotheticals fall on deaf ears to me.

It's like watching people argue that having legs won't improve your life because someone can take away your shoes.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-23 17:40:17+00:00
Saying we don’t hate people because of the color of their skin was something that conservatives said with Reagan through Bush 2 when he spoke in solidarity with American Muslims after 9/11.

If we ban any symbol that might be used as politics we should ban the American flag in classrooms since that now has become a symbol of the MAGA movement. Defending banning a poster showing hands of people of different colors is just as non sensical - there were no pride colors on the poster, no pro immigration signaling nothing.

I bet you a paycheck they would have banned a multi racial group picture of kids just playing together because it was “too woke”.

In fact, there is a long history of states being triggered showing people of multiple races actually getting along

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/05/sesame-str...

It’s not about political signaling - it’s straight out racism
by commandar | 2025-11-23 17:40:20+00:00
>I think people who do this think that people who use Windows perceive that the Mac experience is smoother, and may have some sort of Mac envy.

There's an irony in this due to this:

>b) WSL-based, VSCode-using devs who are one step away from just using Linux. These are the folk who fifteen years ago would have been using what was then still OSX. But these folk don't use Windows as Windows: they use it as a semi-Unix.

The people still doing the "hurr durr wind0ze suxx" routine are the ones stuck 15 years in the past. Modern Windows is an entirely different and vastly more capable beast and it still runs huge swathes of the enterprise world.

The best technologists I know don't really care all that much which desktop platform you stick them on anymore since most of what they really need is either available everywhere or running on a backend that isn't their desktop anyway.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-11-23 17:40:21+00:00
None of us here ever knew the man, and the only reports we have on his life are from a pseudo anon author who admits that they also did not know him very well. That any of us, including the author, are justified in calling him "villanous" is a big stretch in my opinion. It feels more likely that the author, and perhaps you, simply disagree with the decisions he made. Which is fine, but a far cry from villainy.
by rane | 2025-11-23 17:40:25+00:00
Have used Alfred for 10+ years at this point. Some colleagues are hyped about Raycast, but to me the pricing model is a joke. Pay (monthly) for AI - how about I bring my own API key? Pay (again, monthly) for unlimited clipboard history - lol. Free plan, "Free, forever". Yeah, until it isn't.

Alfred isn't the shiniest thing anymore but it's stood the time remarkably well, something I value very highly for tools as central to my workflow as Alfred.
by protimewaster | 2025-11-23 17:41:11+00:00
I always found this take a bit odd. Not because I think he's wrong necessarily, but because they realized that piracy is a service problem and then proceeded to fail to compete with piracy in a number of ways.

E.g., I don't need an account to pirate, but I need an account to purchase games on Steam. I don't need a launcher or extra software / external services to play pirated games, but Steam requires the launcher, which requires internet, which requires the Steam servers to be up, etc. I can archive pirated games long term and they're likely to continue working as like as computers exist to run the code, but many Steam titles will stop working when Steam shuts down. I can transfer pirated games to my kids or whatever when I'm done with them (or in my will when I die), but Steam doesn't allow either individual title transfers or wholesale account transfers.

It was always baffling to me that they simultaneously hit the nail on the head with identifying that there are advantages of piracy beyond cost while also seemingly going out of their way to not offer most of those advantages.
by varenc | 2025-11-23 17:41:48+00:00
It's "WiFi-Aware" which seems like a related standard. I think the difference is it handles the discovery and secure connection part, then once established its like WiFi-Direct. Because of this I think it's unlikely.

And Apple devices can do this while simultaneously connected to another wifi network. Maybe Android does too. Which would make your concern more possible if it does this too!
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-23 17:42:00+00:00
I concur on the incompetence (or rather, corruption disguised as incompetence) of the UK gov (and most others for that matter) when it comes to tech, but:

> only this time having all our IDs on it?

But what's the actual risk? The data that would be on a digital ID is just a certificate linking basic personal details and foreign keys to your records in various gov DBs (HMRC, NHS, etc). This is the same data every company already collects and has leaked dozens of times.

The actual ability to cryptographically prove your identity can't leak because it would be linked to possession of your private key (which is stored in your phone's HSM, or a smartcard, etc)... and even if the system did not use actual cryptography and just shared secrets and all of them were to leak, the government is just going to say that this iteration of digital IDs is no longer valid for ID verification and we're back to the current system of non-cryptographic document verification approaches.
by brudgers | 2025-11-23 17:42:22+00:00
Currently most parties there take minutes to process messages

I suspect that the energy market is a bit different from markets where being ruthlessly fast might be a good long term behavior. So there might be good reasons for that way of doing business due to the specific nature of the energy market.

For example a limited number of counter parties might make stable B2B relationships more valuable. Or regulatory compliance might require extra steps. Or the messaging system might be noisy.

Or not. I wonder how executives at the trading companies would describe the delay.
by Lapel2742 | 2025-11-23 17:42:37+00:00
> As someone who has never really clicked with virtual desktop, this doesn’t work for me. This feels like such a glaring omission of a convention that has been around for decades (even in past versions of Gnome).

As someone who uses Gnome simply because IMHO the alternatives like KDE are worse, I came to the conclusion that these people do not work on desktop computers. It feels like an interface designed for tablets and laptops you operate by some swipe gestures.
by nalekberov | 2025-11-23 17:42:43+00:00
A little bit irrelevant, but as a Mac user I couldn't prevent Raycast from phoning home even though I disabled AI, telemetry etc. Finally I blocked all connections from Little Snitch.

As a tool I think it's superior to Spotlight, but I still have concerns about privacy, specifically why their developers think that it's okay to send requests without user's knowledge.
by blackcatsec | 2025-11-23 17:42:49+00:00
Yeah. This is generally the type of thing that turns me off to working in the Linux/MacOS world. It's just a near constant "We're living in the 90s" attitude towards everything Microsoft does or has done. It's just absolutely insufferable.

I know more about both Windows AND Linux than most Linux Systems Administrators that I encounter. I know more about how making them work together in an enterprise than any Linux Administrator. I understand more about literally every underlying protocol AND how to manage those items on Linux and Windows, from DHCP, DNS, Networking, etc.

For all intents, I could be a pretty bad ass "Linux guru"--and for the most part, I hold my own quite well. I know how to manage SSSD, understand integrating Linux and Windows environments into harmony with each other. But my peers often see something in Windows they dislike, or a single thing that Microsoft hasn't really bothered to improve, and holy fuck in their minds the sky is falling and it's the absolutely worse thing they've ever had to do with a computer.

So I keep one foot outside of that world because these people are just fucking insufferable to work with and around.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-11-23 17:42:52+00:00
Once i realized he was gay and chinese it just read how i expected it would go for most in that situation and time period. I am not gay, traditional, chinese or quite as old (probably i am 15 years younger than the gay dad) but i hope i would pull it off as well as he appears to in that situation. He raised only minorly messed up kids, managed to find a little of what his heart felt was love. Biggest fail was not finding a lesbian in the same situation to pull this off together and avoid the lieing and resentment and pain caused to the other partner from a marriage only known to be a sham to one party.
by paulbgd | 2025-11-23 17:42:55+00:00
I like plasma as well, my main complaints with it rn are

- configuring stuff like the task bar has always been buggy, the drag/drop frustratingly won't drop stuff in the right place, I've even had to completely log out to fix being locked in the editing mode earlier this year

- settings app goes deep and it makes it harder to find simple stuff. one example for my friends is when they wanted to turn on gsync/freesync, the toggle for it on gnome is right inside of refresh rate like you'd expect

- I hate to say this because I know it's gnome/gtk's fault, but apps on gnome look much more consistent for me than apps on plasma. gtk apps don't look good, qt apps don't look good, and plasma apps do look pretty good but they're in the minority. It has been a year since I've tried ricing KDE though, so I'd accept if this has gotten better

I don't totally agree with the extensions thing, the only one I use is quake terminal so that I can have ghostty pop up (since gnome doesn't support the protocol needed for that to work natively) and I consider myself a pretty technical user. Even on plasma I like a lot of the gnome apps like nautilus for being opinionated/polished. it's been a struggle to get a good feeling environment on plasma without a lot of tinkering (which to its credit, is doable!) whereas gnome feels pretty good ootb
by fluoridation | 2025-11-23 17:43:01+00:00
>If you count human brain time and attention as the most valuable and sparse of resource

But it's not, though. Human brain time (just in general, with no additional conditions) is pretty worthless, that's why people piss it away in idle activities. Just look at services like Mechanical Turk. The so-called attention economy is not about the attention itself. It's about getting the brains that give the attention to spend money.
by ordersofmag | 2025-11-23 17:43:43+00:00
Or it doesn't. Because "software as an organic thing" like all analogies is an analogy, not truth. Systems can sit there and run happily for a decade performing the needed function in exactly the way that is needed with no 'rot'. And then maybe the environment changes and you decide to replace it with something new because you decide the time is right. Doesn't always happen. Maybe not even the majority of the time. But in my experience running high-uptime systems over multiple decades it happens. Not having somebody outside forcing you to change because it suits their philosophy or profit strategy is preferrable.
by jppope | 2025-11-23 17:44:03+00:00
One of the things that bothers me about this (though indirect), which I say every time these articles are posted (about alcohol and health) is that we are working with an incomplete data set. It is absolutely true that the physical effects of any alcohol use are bad for your health, the problem is that we have no way to know if the social/psychological effects of moderate drinking outweigh the negatives... there has never been a longitudinal study on the matter, which is very frustrating.

We know that people who meet with their friends once a week for dinner are happier and have better health outcomes. We know that being married increases your lifespan. What story does alcohol with its deep cultural influence and use in social settings play in health outcomes - we don't know. We just know that alcohol is a poison, a poison that humans as a species have adapted to be able to consume and process better than other animals.

Speaking without any evidence whatsoever to back it up, I could totally imagine bimodal health impacts from alcohol where one group increases their health outcomes through moderate drinking as a social lubricant decreasing stress, increasing community, increasing the likelihood of marriage, and another group increases stress, isolation, and negative health impacts through excessive drinking.

Either way it would go, I would like real, empirical, LONGITUDINAL data to direct me on how to view alcohol, as opposed to the current state of things.
by jaredklewis | 2025-11-23 17:44:26+00:00
That seems different to me: a user can download and run a mod, but the fix isn’t then a part of the game itself and available by default to all users. Unless of course the real developers back port it to the game, but that’s just the kind of development effort the parent’s comment seems to be seeking to avoid.

The parent seems to be talking about the companies using bug bounties as a way to fix bugs in their software and the fixes becoming part of that software (not a separate mod run on top).
by linsomniac | 2025-11-23 17:44:28+00:00
I once had the joy of reversing the script on Xfinity tech support. I was online in the middle of the night and my cable connection went down. I switched over to cellular and noticed a bunch of other local people with cable modem IPs on an IRC channel frequented by my friends also disconnected at the same time.

So I called Xfinity support to report the outage, the tech did some digging when I told him a bunch of local people seemed to be impacted, he found a report in their systems of an outage impacting my area.

I asked him if he had tried rebooting their router.
by moth-fuzz | 2025-11-23 17:44:45+00:00
I agree with the author - I'm sick of hearing the cliches from people who prefer 'dark mode'. But I remember long before there was 'light mode' and 'dark mode' there were themes based on a spectrum of hues and values - actual colors. Why not bring that back? "Light mode" can be way more bearable if it's not pure #ffffff. I dislike the invented dichotomy of light and dark anyway, there's an entire spectrum that designers can use, and I think apps in general would look way better if they took advantage of that.
by Traclea | 2025-11-23 17:45:19+00:00
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by nradov | 2025-11-23 17:45:48+00:00
Nah. There's no such thing as prompt engineering. It doesn't exist. Engineering involves applying scientific principles to solve real world problems. There are no clear scientific principles to apply here. It's all instinct, hunches, educated guesses, and heuristics with maybe some sort of feedback loop. And that's fine, it can still produce useful results. Just don't call it engineering. Maybe artisanal prompt crafting? Or prompt alchemy?
by RugnirViking | 2025-11-23 17:46:25+00:00
I don't really like firefox translate, despite having made the switch many years ago. For a long time it didnt have the (european) language of the country I live in. Now it does have it. Every time I want it to translate I have to manually find both languages in the insanely long dropdowns. It will not save it the way I want it, but impressively seems to manage to always save it in the other direction...
by samtheprogram | 2025-11-23 17:46:44+00:00
I never minimize windows. They are almost always full screen or split screen (unless I'm quickly grabbing a file in a Nautilus/Finder/Explorer window), and I just hide windows if I really need to. The same is true for macOS.

Forget what I do in Windows, been a couple years since I daily drove it.

I wonder if that's because I've used macOS and Gnome more than Windows for the last decade -- because its confusing as hell to cmd/alt-tab back to an app or click it in the dock and for its window to not appear because you minimized it rather than hiding it. When that happens, it usually takes 30 seconds until I realize the app is hiding in the task bar or dock.
by godelski | 2025-11-23 17:46:47+00:00
> If normal mode bothers you so much, it says one thing: your ambient lighting is crap

It's easier to change software than hardware. My screen only gets so dim.

It's easier to change software than the sun. Neither its brightness nor when its up or down.

Wikipedia, why the fuck do you have "auto" if it's not the default? I've never wanted to slap someone in the face so much.

But seriously, we can detect the desktop setting trivially. We have options!

We can both win here!

There's no reason for a war here, yet one still exists. Light mode sucks because the designers suck. Stop being so lazy. The vast majority of templates have an auto toggle! You have to go out of your way to remove it. If you're going to do things by hand, you have even less of an excuse. There's no "one size fits all" and it's clear there's significant numbers of people that like both styles. So do the "hard" work, especially when its not hard

Stop being so lazy.

And if you're mad at me calling you lazy for not adding the option, then you'll be more mad to know I think you're the problem.
by antonvs | 2025-11-23 17:46:49+00:00
A lot of settlement in financial markets is still pretty slow. That’s a big reason why there was so much fintech interest in blockchain.

You may be thinking of high frequency trading. In that case, traders interact directly with an exchange - e.g. via direct market access[1] - so it’s a pre-established two-party interaction. There’s no particular technical difficulty with making that fast. Usually, slow transaction times are a consequence of the structure of the market, not a technical issue particularly.

[1] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/career-map/s...
by mjburgess | 2025-11-23 17:46:50+00:00
Nope, but mathematics research is one of the most rarefied fields being extremely difficlt to get into, hard to get money, etc. -- (this is my understanding, at least). Progress is made here by people who, aged 10 are already showing signs of capability.

There's not much need for a large amount of PhD places, and funding, for pure mathematics research.

Likewise, on the applied side, "calculus" now as a pure thing has been dead alone time. Gradients are computed with algorithms and numerical approximations, that are better taught -- with the formal stuff maintained via intuition.

I'm much more open to the idea that the west has this wrong, and we should be more focused on developing the applied side after spending the last century overly focused on the pure
by Kiro | 2025-11-23 17:46:51+00:00
While (I presume) technically correct I don't think your clarifications are helpful for someone trying to understand shaders. The only thing that made me understand (fragment) shaders was something similar to the parent's explanation. Do you have anything better?

It's not about the correct way to draw a square or a line but using something simple to illustrate the difference. How would you make a shader drawing a 10x10 pixels red square on shadertoy?
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-23 17:46:52+00:00
Charter revocation is, I think, technically on the books in every state, but its not used for variety of reasons, one of which is because while it destroys the corporate entity, it mostly punishes the people least responsible for any wrongdoing (it can sometimes be accompanied by real punishment for the responsible actors, but those are separate processes that doesn’t require charter revocation, such as individual criminal prosecution or civil process that ends with fines, being barred from serving as a corporate officer, etc.)
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-23 17:46:54+00:00
Four incomes is the number of full-time jobs paying typical (most obtainable) wages. Presumably that would be 4 people.

In my market: In mid 1990s one person could afford basic bills on typical, full-time wages. By 2007 living costs had doubled, most due to housing increases. For the next 12 years, wages and living costs mostly kept parity until 2020.

During 2020, basic bills (mostly housing) rose and a typical wage-earning home required ~3 incomes as rents shot up. By late 2021 we were firmly at 4 incomes while everything shot up, especially housing and insurances.