MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matesz | 2025-11-10 13:02:15+00:00
Unfortunately it doesn't - even if our package definition doesn’t change output may, since software referenced by the package’s build function is not bit by bit reproducible.

The biggest issue is with Linux Kernel itself. Once kernel reproducibility will be handled, we can practically claim Guix, NixOS, Debian or any other Linux distro is reproducible as well, since with little effort we can avoid installing packages which will colour our reproducibility.

For desktop environments it’s a bit worse, but there are huge efforts to make this happen for all packages in package registries of aforementioned distros.
by martinald | 2025-11-10 13:02:41+00:00
Tbh it's probably much more useful for mobile operators than wifi. 6GHz does not propagate well at all at wifi power limits and as such one 320MHz band probably won't overlap much with neighbours, even in apartment buildings. This does preclude having 640MHz bands though in future wifi standards, but I'm not sure how important that is - Wifi7 on MLO could theoretically deliver 7.2gbit/sec in 2x2 config and double that again in 4x4. If devices need more speed (laptops more than phones) then they can move to 4x4 more?

Whereas for mobile operators it would be very useful in outdoor/indoor (airports etc) urban areas that are very busy.
by adam_patarino | 2025-11-10 13:02:59+00:00
We developed a novel optimization pipeline for LLMs so large models can run on a standard laptop.

Our first prototype optimized an 80B model to run at full 256k context at 40 tokens/s while only taking up 14gb of RAM.

We are currently leveraging this tech to build https://cortex.build a terminal AI coding assistant.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-10 13:03:40+00:00
I mean arguably those are all distractions (except for the tax thing, indirectly); what really need to be fixed are the core, boring issues. The country, fundamentally, needs to keep the lights on; it needs to fix services which have been in decline for some time, it needs a credible route forward on pensions and other funding issues (but pensions are the scariest) and so forth.

A big part of the problem with the UK is exactly that; since 2015, the UK has been lurching from crisis to crisis, and more or less ignoring actually keeping the country running (keeping the country running is boring, Brexit is not boring, and so on).
by jen20 | 2025-11-10 13:04:23+00:00
The other day I clicked "share" on a PowerPoint presentation saved in OneDrive, and it reverted to a version several hours old, losing that work. This is a typical experience using any of the Office products. Copilot is not "good at minutes and transcription" by any stretch of the imagination. It cannot understand a _simple_ word I say, with an RP-British accent, let alone many of the acronyms and terms used in industry.

Fortunately we have already switched away from Teams to Slack for chat, but since the best way to win is not to play, I just write text in vim and presentations in Keynote. Fortunately I have approximately no need for spreadsheets that aren't simple lists, though that appears to be the lock-in.

I'd rather use literally anything else. Google's stuff is probably best, but Quip was also fine.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-10 13:04:42+00:00
> Too often modernizations fail because they look at the "on paper" process, which isn't what the workers are actually doing.

Also software installations fail because management decide what they want and go shopping for it, the users are not really in the loop about what they actually need, and management is an interchangeable class of people who think they know management but have often never done the job they are managing.

At the core of what you're saying about the "on paper" process is the fact that nobody does time-and-motion studies anymore.

Systems analysts barely exist in 2025, largely because interchangeable people in management get interchangeable "solutions providers" in, and they build the only flow that fits their existing tool.

A few years back I was hired to fix a bad web-based product for a niche-ish market (a niche within a standardised market) put together by rushed remote subcontractors who'd never talked to the client.

I was handed the spec and told I was to implement it. So I implemented it to a certain point, and then (because my mother had worked in that field and I knew what annoyed her) I thought: Hold on, a core flow of this implementation is awful tiresome CRUD busywork and they will hate it within hours. I already hate it and I'm only testing it.

So I argued to change the spec, suggested a better flow that better suited their needs (and allowed two use patterns — on-the-spot and at-the-end-of-the-day — which had different flow needs), and was told by the disconnected management: that looks good but we need to stick to our plan.

So sure was I that a bunch of hard-working good-hearted people would curse my name that I "prototyped" it to show everyone, and they loved it. Because it wasn't just better and faster, it was instinctive and fun. They had already understood that they were going to quickly hate the thing built for them, but this they wanted to use.

And then we put the prototype in production because it wasn't really a prototype at all: the job was so easy that the "prototype" was the solution. It was just something nobody had thought to offer because nobody listens.

Upshot: incredibly happy end users who gained back lots of time, and also experienced so much less frustration that a subsequent feature improvement could be less rushed because they were able to spend a little more time on a process they didn't hate as much.

I dread to think what this actively-not-listening development process will do to people when solutions providers just shoehorn AI in to solve anything they don't want to do a proper process for.
by JetSetWilly | 2025-11-10 13:04:53+00:00
Raising taxes is only “necessary” because of their total lack of gumption when it comes to reducing spending. For example, 1 car in 3 on the roads in the UK is funded via PIP and that has been meteorically increasing as a proportion in the last few years. Labour bottled it in the face of their own backbench rebellion over very reasonable measures earlier in the year, and now they are coming to pick our pockets.

They’ll say they are making hard, necessary decisions, but the truth is that ramming up taxes is the default mode easy decision for labour.
by zamalek | 2025-11-10 13:05:16+00:00
Linus hates big endian, and has some choice words to say about switchable [1]. This incarnation of Linus is certainly my favorite :)

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-%3DwgYcOiFvsJzFb%2BHfB4n6W...
by mumber_typhoon | 2025-11-10 13:06:22+00:00
A 3 pack WiFi 7 BE65 mesh from TPLink at launch costed 1500$. They seem to have done their usual hardware switching to now sell a similar BE63 for 500$. But if you are going to compare the two compare the actual hardware equivalent product. For 500$ You can get a controller and a couple of APs from UniFi, the setup will be far better than a 3pack BE63.
by t0rt01se | 2025-11-10 13:06:31+00:00
Do you have any data to back up the claim that it's "quite common" to work remotely across countries within the EU/UK. Almost nothing in the "common/single market" works uniformly across the "common/single market". For instance this guy (OP) doesn't have a hope in hell of landing a job anywhere in the EU even though he's in the UK.
by K0balt | 2025-11-10 13:06:35+00:00
Nice execution, I think you nailed the vibe. Nice find on that display, it’s awesome!

If you wanted to get rid of your middleware and maybe pick up some insight, one of the things that SOTA LLMs are really good at is translating code from one language into another.

The ESP has plenty of moxie to handle the API work, so you could try translating it for the ESP, then you could drop the weight of your middleware service. I use LLMs that way when I feel roadblocked (usually laziness more than anything lol) and I’m often surprised at how much I learn from the implementation.

Just an idea, it’s fine as it is.
by cubefox | 2025-11-10 13:06:57+00:00
We could have "and" and "cand" (conditional and, his terminology), which would be more explanatory. Or we use "and" (conditional) and "ncand" (non-conditional and). Depending on which should be the default.

> More generally, I'm not sure of the benefit of tailoring the language syntax for beginners rather than experienced practitioners; the advantage of '&&', '||' and the rest of the "C-like" syntax stuff in a new language is that it's familiar to a wide base of existing experienced programmers.

At one point in time every awkward and outdated syntax was the more familiar option, but that's of course not a good argument not to improve it, otherwise we would be stuck with it forever.
by pseufaux | 2025-11-10 13:07:19+00:00
I wish there was a good in between option. I despise the autogenerated playlists for all the reasons mentioned in the article, but I also enjoy the ease of not having to choose what to listen too.

Algorithmically generated playlists from my personal library with the occasional new song thrown in. Maybe, new songs introduced that my social circle is listening to.

That said, I'm recently back to listening to albums exclusively again, which mostly solves this for me. If a friend suggests a song or I hear something on the radio, I pickup the album and listen through. It's a great way to discover new stuff while avoiding the trash. My only real issue is that so many artists I enjoy are in the EP only stage of their career, so for those, custom playlists is the only way.
by jeltz | 2025-11-10 13:07:53+00:00
So why is almost nobody here actually defending it on its own merits? In my opinion XSLT was a bad idea ~20 years ago when I started in web development. It was convoluted, not nice to work with and the implementations buggy.

Most people seem to think it is bad because it is Google who want to remove it. Personally I just see Google finally doing something good.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-10 13:08:16+00:00
What is missing in all this is testosterone levels, especially diminishing as you age.

I have lifted weights for 35 years now and just reached the point that I can not lift, recover and cut calories. I can only recover from a very light full body once a week workout. Otherwise, I need a caloric surplus so I can't cut weight.

To me, it is why there is so much bad information in this space because training is so highly variable based on genetics, hormone levels and age. When I was 20, I had no problem recovering from lifting 6 days a week, running 30 minutes a day and cutting. Now I can barely lift and more than 30 minutes a day of walking is not so easy to recover from. I would suspect this is the state that not taking testosterone becomes increasingly unhealthy. So I have basically quit lifting, cutting to 10% bodyfat and then will rebuild with lifting once on testosterone. I have never read a single reference though that lifting can be bad from the recovery demands if trying to cut at some level of hormones. We are basically in the dark ages with all this stuff so you have to figure it out for yourself.
by incomingpain | 2025-11-10 13:08:54+00:00
AHHH volume control!

It's of no surprise that bots and now even ai powered ones are on the internet. I think OP misunderstands the problem. It's not so much that bots/ai/synth will outnumber. Quantity is unimportant because 1 bot with thousands of accounts is able to manipulate and change what's being discussed. It's that it makes you think there's human activity when there is not. 1 bot has the power to censor online speech on some platforms. Which is how you end up with the dead internet because real people whose speech is censored wont keep trying to talk about it on that platform.

A platform that's declining, will hesitate to ban bots or may even have their own synthetic engagement to justify that it 'looks like' they are still as popular as ever even though people have moved on.

Having experienced the internet on forums, then social medias, then this nearly entirely synthetic era. It's very clear we are living in the dead internet era.
by bitfilped | 2025-11-10 13:09:29+00:00
Eveyone needs to hire juniors, it's how seniors get made. Management thinks they're smart and have found a shortcut to save money, but it's only going to lead to degregation of skill at the senior level as well as raise the amount of money people that truly operate at a senior level can demand. I've already seen both happen where I work.
by subscribed | 2025-11-10 13:09:36+00:00
> Brexit was a good first step

What? In a way to USA++ unbridled libertarianism, free if regulations and oversight, perhaps.

Praising _less_ ways to force the government, especially as heavily lobbied as the UK, into a positive direction is an astonishing stance.

Lest we forget who was famously the dirty man of Europe. And it's coming back, this time with unrestricted growing of the food on the industrial sludge (including a hearty dose of heavy metals and PFAS, of course).

Brexit was good to Putin and oligarchs of the UK. To no one else.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-10 13:10:38+00:00
I sometimes used to make estimates of construction projects for my uncle since he wasn't a technical guy.

I am a teen and so when I had made the switch from windows -> linux, he was a little weirded out and I tried to do things in libreoffice but he just genuinely thought it was excel itself and he was trying to use his old experience for some niche thing and I was trying mine to figure out libreoffice etc.

Um, it was decent, I still use libreoffice but at that time, I just decided to open up google sheets (iirc) and just use google sheets for excel purposes and I think that later he even preferred it since he could then go to someone else and have them open up that excel as well

We never had collaboration on powerpoint presentations or etc., our school work was basically build a presentation and mail it

I live in the east tho so I am not sure how the western world's schooling system is entrenched in powerpoints collaboration etc.

I don't like google generally but atleast their suite is in the web and so I can naturally use it in linux as well without any limitations unlike the web versions of microsoft's monopolistic suite of softwares.

That being said, I am still on mac which my brother gifted me partially because I only have a computer and sometimes I like the portability of a laptop but I genuinely feel annoyed or I do feel limited by what I can do on mac.

Yes I have installed homebrew etc. but linux actually feels more comfy for me to use to be honest, I think I like both but I personally prefer linux more as well.

I would recommend if possible to try to buy them something like a old laptop and boot them linux as well to try to teach them your knowledge and try to bond with them.

There is just this instant sense of gratification I get when I realize that my pc is mostly open source and it has even gotten to the points of being reproducible and bootstrappable so somebody would technically be able to even re-architect or (myself) as well the way I use my computers in this open source manner. All of the things open source.. Wild.

I personally have starred a lot of projects along the way I have found and I am pretty sure that some of these projects could genuinely be useful to people.

I am sure you know some really cool open source projects as well and maybe you can share these softwares which can help them in the process as well. I have found it extremely surprising in how many things can be done by already built open source softwares.

It is not as if I don't use proprietory software, I think there are some trade-offs to be made

I decided to use obsidian partially because I found it to have a better plugin system than logseq (? sorry if this isn't the correct name) and I really like the excalidraw plugin in obsidian.
by trackspike | 2025-11-10 13:10:47+00:00
I've been working on an open-source containerized agent framework called Capsule Agents. Its built around 3 key ideas I've dealt with inside the agent ecosystem

1. Agents become far more capable when they have access to a CLI and can create or reuse scripts, instead of relying solely on MCP.

2. Multi-agent setups are often overvalued as “expert personas” but they’re incredibly effective for managing context, A2A is the future.

3. Agents are useful for more than just writing code. They should be easy for non-engineers to create and capable of providing value in many domains beyond software development.

If that sounds interesting take a look! https://github.com/brycewcole/capsule-agents
by elsjaako | 2025-11-10 13:10:59+00:00
I couldn't quickly find a definition of "commercial piracy", so I will assume it doesn't have a specific technical meaning.

Facebook is a commercial company, so if you're working for Facebook doing piracy, that would be commercial piracy.

If I go by piracy as "the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright", and if Facebook is infringing on copyright in using these books (which the article alleges), then it follows that Facebook is engaging in piracy.

So it looks like Facebook is partaking in piracy of a commercial flavor.

I don't know why distributing bootlegs to people on the street would be worse than distributing PDFs within a company, but let's say it it. We are talking about 100s of cases vs millions. Is distributing on the street really 10000 times worse?

It would have to be even more than that. Because millions of copyright infringement within a company apparently has no punishment, but 100's on the street has prison. So, if you go by the punishment, 100's on the street is way worse.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-10 13:12:26+00:00
A lot of people calling themself Christian, can be in sects and I think that is the case in the USA. This has been the case a lot during history. Remarkably, during the big old concils determining the true faith, an overwhelming majority has been believing in the believes clarified as being wrong. Majority is simply not a concept to determine truth, and Christianity doesn't take it to be this way.

> he's clearly the man that American Christians want.

Maybe he is, maybe he is not. What people actually want, what they tell you they want and what the person wants they vote for can be three completely different things.
by ttoinou | 2025-11-10 13:12:28+00:00
To be really pedantic we should acknowledge there's no good reason to separate Europe from Asia, it's all one geographical continent.

The distinction between EU and Europe is very important. They're "word stealing" something as neutral as a geographical concept, to make it political.

But in this case here, probably if EU legislate on this, others non-EU european countries will follow
by simonsarris | 2025-11-10 13:12:35+00:00
This is an out of date take. Not long after the fracking boom that began in the mid 2000's, The US is now by far the world's largest oil producer. We used to produce less oil than Saudi Arabia, now we produce 66% more. We produce 4x the oil that Iran does. Oil is just not the same geopolitical force that it was in the 80's to 2010.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-production-by-country...
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-10 13:13:28+00:00
> Also another aspect of this is that the bigger companies can somehow "legally" do things which I don't think would work but they have so many resources to strech the court case for a long time.

A big part of this impression is that people very often very much underestimate what they can get away with, whereas big companies have lawyers to tell them ”oh yeah you can totally do this”.

Of course there are some exceptions. Uber and AirBnB are probably decent ones, in some jurisdictions anyway.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-10 13:13:35+00:00
Not a single mention of the Thatcher government in the 1970s, that sold off public-owed industries like British Coal and British Steel, and then set about acquiring and breaking up the shipyards themselves for scrap.

All of it was worth more smashed up and sold for scrap, for the little quick "fix" that the Money Junkies in the Conservative government wanted. Unemployment and poverty rose steadily except for the bankers and politicians, the UK lost just about all forms of skilled industry, and by 1987 it was all over with the Stock Market Crash that obliterated the economy.

We've had about 45 years of Tory misrule and right now there are no political parties prepared to effect any improvement. It's all bleating about how "illegal immigrants in small boats" are costing billions, but no real breakdown of where the money is going.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-10 13:14:02+00:00
Which begs the question, are people consciously measuring their productivity? If so, how? And did they do it the same way before and after using AI tooling?

Anecdotal, but I don't measure my productivity, because it's immeasurable. I don't want to be reduced to lines of code produced or JIRA tickets completed. We don't even measure velocity, for that matter. Plus when I do end up with a task that involves writing something, my productivity depends entirely on focus, energy levels and motivation.
by tannhaeuser | 2025-11-10 13:14:37+00:00
Worth noting XSLT is actually based on DSSSL, the Scheme-based document transformation and styling language of SGML. Core SGML already has "link processes" as a means to associate simple transforms/renames reusing other markup machinery concepts such as attributes, but is also introducing a rather low-level automaton construct to describe context-dependent and stateful transformations (the kind of which would've be used for recto/verso rendering on even/odd print pages).

I think it's interesting because XSLT, based on DSSSL, is already Turing-complete and thus the XML world lacked a "simple" sub-Turing transformation, templating, and mapping macro language that could be put in the hands of power users without going all the way to introduce a programming language requiring proper development cycles, unit testing, test harnesses, etc. to not inevitably explode in the hands of users. The idea of SGML is very much that you define your own little markup vocabulary for the kind of document you want to create at hand, including powerful features for ad-hoc custom Wiki markup such as markdown, and then create a canonical mapping to a rendering language such as HTML; a perspective completely lost in web development with nonsensical "semantic HTML" postulates and delivery of absurd amounts of CSS microsyntax.
by yooo000 | 2025-11-10 13:14:58+00:00
https://forecast.monster

Got tired of every single weather app and website being littered with ads. Half the time my weather apps don't load the weather maps but the ads work fine, c'mon! So decided to start my own; here's what I have so far...once I iron out the site I'll start on the Android app.

Feedback welcome :)
by dgroshev | 2025-11-10 13:15:21+00:00
Raising taxes is necessary because the previous governments have decimated the tax base. As of now, a median UK PAYE worker is paying about 13% on their income. A median German worker is paying about 30%.

This remarkable result was achieved by the backdoor: successive conservative governments obscured the stagnation by constantly increasing the personal allowance far in advance of the inflation. This bought them votes [1], but as a result we have a baroque tax system that tries to squeeze tax from less visible, often counter-productive places, and still doesn't collect nearly enough to cover necessary expenses. After a decade of cuts, every public service is cut to the bone, and there's no money to invest into hospitals, roads, or trains to increase the overall productivity.

PIP bullshit is a drop in the bucket compared to that.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/HENRYUK/comments/1jsyzip/tax_rates_...