MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by its-summertime | 2025-11-06 18:18:16+00:00
Of solutions, Numba, Nuitka, are probably also worth mentioning.

Then just looking at those, I now know of Shedskin and ComPyler.

I do feel like one nice thing about so many people working on solutions to every problem in python, is that it means that when you do encounter a serious downside, you have a lot more flexibility to move forwards along a different path.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-06 18:18:16+00:00
If your friend wants to build a remote off-grid house that's in the middle of nowhere, why wouldn't they shop for a jurisdiction that allows it? Places that require utility connections are actual places generally. When you live out in the center of Inyo County you can be off the grid if you want. It sounds to me like your friend wants the benefits of proximity to developed places, but also wants to opt-out of contributing to the development of the place.
by FarmerPotato | 2025-11-06 18:18:24+00:00
Aha.

I had to reverse engineer the 1980s style ASW screen and replicate it, bugs and all. It had on-screen side effects where hitting TAB would cause numbers to recalculate according to a buggy LIBOR interpolation rule that persisted until ASW got replaced around 2010. Yet traders would take ASW as gospel.

I spent many evenings hand-marking dozens of Bloomberg screen prints to satisfy Accounting that my calculations were right and our Bloomberg operators were getting fooled.
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-06 18:18:55+00:00
> It's quite fun (and educational) with the kids to work out when to put the car on to charge, when to run the dryer etc, looking at the few days ahead forecasts.

As if we aren't busy enough. I see this as just yet _another_ job the government/business is making us do instead of them.

Is it too much to ask for my government to provide sensibly and simply priced energy so we can get on with our day, working, studying, raising kids etc?

IMO this is just setting us up for insane surge pricing for those people who don't do the good citizen thing of becoming nocturnal
by repelsteeltje | 2025-11-06 18:19:21+00:00
That, and it's solid, well supported software most people are familiar with.

From those doing the paperwork with Microsoft procurement for Dutch government I learned there have been legal disputes going on for years about what even constitutes "telemetry". That was a decade ago, and even then there was push to move away from Microsoft in the government. Toward open source, or even Oracle.

I suppose that with the Dutch being Dutch all the lobbying M$ needed was suggesting a discount.
by zkmon | 2025-11-06 18:19:30+00:00
None of the languages have their own static existence. Just like a river doesn't have a precise start location and end location, a language doesn't have a precise boundary in space and time. More so in time. Language can't be separated from culture, people and place. All of these - language, culture, people, and places change massively over time, to the extent of losing identity.

If English doesn't exist on its own, French doesn't either. Nor does Latin, Greek or Sanskrit. All of these are incremental variations or dialects of some other language.
by b112 | 2025-11-06 18:19:47+00:00
Yes indeed.

All those unfortunate children will be introduced to the toxic, horrid internet.

They'll be addicted, have no attention span, have their own data used against them to exploit and track them, and end up with their political system reeling under manipulative AI and generic bots.

Far better to just give them books for their educarional system, and leave the evil Internet out of it.
by zapzupnz | 2025-11-06 18:20:04+00:00
> is it easier in theory to port swift to freebsd rather than linux? the facts that macOs has shared history with freebsd tells me yes

That shared history goes back a LONG way. The base components from FreeBSD that are in macOS are absolutely ancient. I think the most modern shared components are just the userland tools.

So I don't think it would make much difference at all.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-11-06 18:20:17+00:00
They sure as shit do have ads. Have you ever accidentally followed a link using a browser profile that has no ad blocking enabled?

I only rarely browse without some form of content blocking (usually privacy-focused... that takes care of enough ads for me, most of the time). I keep a browser profile that's got no customizations at all, though, for verifying that bugs I see/want to report are not related to one of my extensions.

Every once in a while, I'll accidentally open a link to a news site (or to an archive of such a site) in that vanilla profile. I'm shocked at how many ads you see if you don't take some counter measures.

I just confirmed in that profile: archive.is definitely puts ads around the sites they've archived.
by vinceguidry | 2025-11-06 18:20:28+00:00
I wanted to like modal editing in Emacs. But I had to come to terms with the fact that it's always going to be a kludge. Boon is the best I've seen it get, but when I wanted to improve it, I realized it would be less work over the long run to just make my own text editor, though that's mostly because my chosen language, ruby, just doesn't have very good tooling yet.

If you're willing to live in elisp, Emacs is amazing. I'm not, I'm always going to want to do it with ruby, and well, Emacs doesn't let you do that.
by tguvot | 2025-11-06 18:20:36+00:00
sometimes even the company that made equipment doesn't know how it works.

my dishwasher after few months suddenly instead of filling water and starting wash cycle initiated some kind of fill & drain cycle that went for a while without going into wash mode.

i called in service. they replaced pump, solenoid. talked with manufacturer directly, swapped a couple of main boards. it made dishwasher snap out of it.

few months later it started again. this time i allowed it to do whatever it was doing. after 15 minutes it started to wash.

over the time i noticed that dishwasher does this water cycling every few months and adds extra time to estimated program duration.

about once a year after asking a few questions if sprayer hands/filters/etc are clean, it will add 2 hours to wash cycle.

none of it described in manual, manufacturer service personal and "Factory support" that service talk to know about it (maybe they do by now. they didn't few years ago)
by wikipedia | 2025-11-06 18:20:43+00:00
> Canada should never collaborate with any US authorities!

Cross-border collaboration is a good thing. Our agencies regularly collaborate to bring people who feel insulted and emboldened to account for their crimes. This works both ways.

As someone who has dealt with media of me as a minor (~around 11/yo) from Omegle being shared across the internet, the role archivers play in keeping illegal content “alive” isn’t well recognized. Thankfully, the Internet Archive has a matured process to purge pages that host illegal content.

We do not know what the investigation is for. All is up to speculation. Not all investigations are bad.

Here is an example on archive.is. I submitted multiple complaints to NCMEC but didn’t get results. Germany, though, was able to get the archives purged.

https://archive.is/https://ezgif.com/maker/*

On the page, you will see:

> In response to a request we received from 'jugendschutz.net' the page is not currently available.

That page held many, many images of minors. It is good that it is gone.

August 12, 2025 - Canadian Man Sentenced to 188 Months for Attempted Online Enticement of a Minor and Possessing Child Pornography [1]

August 21, 2024 - Canadian National Extradited To The United States Pleads Guilty To Production Of Child Sex Abuse Material And Enticement Of Minors

December 20, 2024 - Extradited Canadian National Sentenced To Life In Federal Prison for producing child sexual abuse material and enticement of a minor [3]

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/canadian-man-sentenced-...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/canadian-national-extra...

[3] https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/extradited-canadian-nat...
by themgt | 2025-11-06 18:20:45+00:00
> So yeah, the clock ticked and now we’re in a new and exciting era for geopolitics and who knows what system will prevail in the end. What is certain is that the US abdicated their leadership.

In fact John Yoo, most famous for authoring the "Torture Memos" for Dubya over 20 years ago, has been perhaps the most prominent legal thinker arguing in favor of the actions Trump's taken against the ICC:

What can the incoming Trump administration do? It could impose severe sanctions on the ICC judges and its prosecutor, Karim Ahmad Khan, who engineered this debacle, by blocking their ability to transact business through our banking system, for example. It could threaten severe sanctions against any nation that arrested Netanyahu or Gallant pursuant to the ICC warrants. It could also display its contempt for the ICC by inviting the Israeli premier to the White House and Congress.

Furthermore, the Trump administration should take action against nations that are funding and supporting the ICC so generously. Some of the ICC’s largest financial benefactors, including Japan and the European Union nations, are also dependent on the United States for their security. Yet while asking Washington, D.C., to protect them, they finance a global institution that hamstrings our ability to do so. If Tokyo, for example, wants the United States to lead a new alliance to contain China, Trump can demand that Japan eliminate its subsidy for an international institution that seeks to undermine the American national sovereignty he was elected to restore.

There's a nearly straight through-line from the logic and approach to executive power Yoo helped architect under Bush and these attacks on the ICC under Trump. It's just that many have decided to bizarrely retcon the Bush administration into respected elder statesman instead of the lawless war criminals they were and are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/why-international-arrest-warrants...
by PeterCorless | 2025-11-06 18:21:02+00:00
French is actually <30%. There is a well-sourced Wikipedia article about this.

• French (including Old French: 11.66%; Anglo-French: 1.88%; and French: 14.77%): 28.30%;

• Latin (including modern scientific and technical Latin): 28.24%;

• Germanic languages (including Old English, Proto-Germanic and others: 20.13%;

• Old Norse: 1.83%; Middle English: 1.53%; Dutch: 1.07%; excluding Germanic words borrowed from a Romance language): 25%;[a]

• Greek: 5.32%;

• no etymology given: 4.04%;

• derived from proper names: 3.28%; and

• all other languages: less than 1%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-language_influences_in...

Also, one could argue French itself is an agglomeration of Vulgar Latin (87%) as well as its own Frankish Germanic roots (10%), and a few of Gaulish and Breton Celtic origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_words_of_German...
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-06 18:21:05+00:00
I'd been doing that somewhat too, but also a mix of the old -ProfileManager. The new UI is shiny enough I may consider consolidating to just one Edition, though I haven't decided which Edition yet.

(Fun fact, you can even switch to the Developer Edition default profile from regular Firefox with the -ProfileManager though that is not generally a good idea because Developer Edition is intentionally a half-step version or two ahead of "retail" Firefox. Developer Edition assumes you don't mind being a little bit closer to the bleeding edge. Still not the same as using Firefox Nightly as your daily driver, but still often a "power user preview" version.)
by Lapel2742 | 2025-11-06 18:21:06+00:00
At least they seem to be actively working on it:

https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk

They have some real users too. I know of some out of my head. According to ChatGPT:

- Robert Koch Institute (RKI) – entered a contract on 11 June 2025 to use openDesk as the technical basis for the “Agora” platform for public‑health authorities.

- BWI GmbH – the IT infrastructure provider for the German armed forces (Bundeswehr); signed a framework contract for openDesk.

- Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie – also mentioned as an early adopter of openDesk.

- Föderale IT‑Kooperation (FITKO) – listed as a user in the EU OSS Catalogue entry for openDesk.

I think I read that some German states use the software too.

You never know what will happen in the long run but the solution will probably be maintained for some time given it's backing by the federal government of Germany.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-11-06 18:21:08+00:00
Why is that sarcastic comments like this are always predicated on the idea that its the software engineers doing these marketing activities, and not... you know, a separate marketing team?

Personally, I do want them to increase their installed user base. I'd rather the Mozilla org spend money on marketing Firefox instead of political activism. If this works even a little bit, then great.
by stebalien | 2025-11-06 18:21:53+00:00
If you want to try eshell, try combining it with EAT (eat-eshell-mode).

> Maybe in my retirement I will end my career by helping to make emacs + EXWM multi threaded. I am guessing that is a daunting project, but it sure would be fulfilling.

This isn't fixable with threads, unfortunately. The issue is that:

1. Emacs e.g., launches a process with call-process. This blocks EVERYTHING (including other threads). 2. That process wants to map the window but EXWM can't respond to this request because Emacs is blocked. 3. The call to call-process never returns because the process can't create its window.

You'd have to fix Emacs to not block everything in cases like this, but that has been tried before: https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-06/msg007...

At this point, I think the right answer is to write a minimal out-of-process window manager (e.g., a wayland compositor).

1. During normal operation, it would behave like EXWM and ask Emacs how to manage windows, etc. 2. In special cases (TBD), it would behave autonomously, acting like a standard floating window manager until Emacs becomes responsive again.
by sema4hacker | 2025-11-06 18:22:00+00:00
Other than being a list of all the details you need to pay attention to, wouldn't a simulation ultimately hinge on how well your product or service is received? Are you going to pretend your sales are terrific?

The infamous "beer distribution game" shows how difficult it is to simulate and manage an almost trivial supply chain. I would expect trying to simulate an entire startup would have so many variables that any simulation would only end up predicting real world performance purely by chance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game
by tharne | 2025-11-06 18:22:05+00:00
This is something I've never totally understood when it comes to Rust's much loved memory safety vs. C's lack of memory safety. When it comes to replacing C code with Rust, aren't we just trading memory risk for supply chain risk?

Maybe one is more important than the other, I don't know. All the languages I use for work or hobbies are garbage collected and I'm not a security professional. But it does seem like the typical Rust program with it's massive number of "cargo adds" is an enormous attack surface.
by larusso | 2025-11-06 18:22:13+00:00
I still wonder who came up with the charge your car during the day / use it as a batterie. I don’t have the luxury’s of owning two EVs that I can charge and use at the same time. If my car stand unused at home so I can charge it would mean I use it during the night? I understand that there could be useage pattern where someone works from home once or twice a week and waits with the charge during these peek hours. But the generalization of just charge your car during the day is weird.

Unless that also counts when the car could charge for free at the workplace of course.
by umanwizard | 2025-11-06 18:22:25+00:00
English is 0% German other than loanwords like "zeitgeist".

What is more accurate to say is that English and German descend from a common ancestor: Proto-Germanic. Saying English descended from German would be just as wrong as saying German descended from English.

The fact that "German" and "Germanic" sound similar does not mean that they are the same thing, nor that modern standard German is somehow the official representative of the Germanic languages.
by Gracana | 2025-11-06 18:22:35+00:00
If you want to do it at home, ik_llama.cpp has some performance optimizations that make it semi-practical to run a model of this size on a server with lots of memory bandwidth and a GPU or two for offload. You can get 6-10 tok/s with modest hardware workstation hardware. Thinking chews up a lot of tokens though, so it will be a slog.
by ThomasMiconi | 2025-11-06 18:22:52+00:00
The book's title is not from Clemenceau, but from Alexandre Dumas, in "Twenty years after" (the sequel to the Three Musketeers).

Fun fact: this passage is somehow excised from the English translation of the book used by Project Gutenberg and Wikisource! (you can see it in the original French version, chapter 68: "l'anglais n'est que du français mal prononcé")
by vincvinc | 2025-11-06 18:23:36+00:00
Related:

"IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT" (white house, feb 2025) https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/impo...

Microsoft admits in French court it can't keep EU data safe from US authorities (jul 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822902
by tialaramex | 2025-11-06 18:23:37+00:00
Actually because of provenance the C pointers are their only type which isn't just basically the machine integers again.

A char is just a machine integer with implementation specified signedness (crazy), bools are just machine integers which aren't supposed to have values other than 0 or 1, and the floating point types are just integers reinterpreted as binary fractions in a strange way.

Addresses are just machine integers of course, but pointers have provenance which means that it matters why you have the pointer, whereas for the machine integers their value is entirely determined by the bits making them up.
by mindslight | 2025-11-06 18:23:48+00:00
You're assuming way too much with "not there yet". The point is the corpos will violate copyright with impunity today, and then in a few years sign a bunch of settlement agreements and pull the ladder up behind them.

I'd love to see copyright slowly become irrelevant, but even with that goal we should expect to see large corpos being the last to stop respecting it.
by mrandish | 2025-11-06 18:23:56+00:00
> I’d think mayor would be ousted

That already happened in SF, although it took far too long. So far, things haven't improved much or, alternatively, have gotten even worse. It depends on who you ask and where they happen to stand on highly-politicized SF city governance issues.

That politicization is really the root cause of all this - and it goes back decades. Long enough to undermine or weaken so many underlying structural fundamentals it may not even be possible to fix anytime soon. Realizing this, I got out quite a while ago.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-11-06 18:24:16+00:00
They spoke French because they were Normans and married mostly with the continental aristocracy.

Their claim to the French throne was based on the rules of succession and an argument over them (arising from those intertwinned lineages).

An interesting fact is that King Richard I (Sean Connery in Robin Hood with Kevin Costner)'s mother was from South West France and he grew up there, and so he spoke French and Occitan but not really English.

[1]
by Johnny555 | 2025-11-06 18:24:26+00:00
The same reason most organizations use it -- inertia and because it's been the standard for so long, it's the best at what it does.

The startup I used to work at was exclusively on OSX + GoogleDocs, when we were small, but as we grew (and especially when the Finance team grew) more and more employees found a need for the MS Office Suite as well as apps that only run on Windows, so they started rolling out Windows VM's and then full Windows machines.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-11-06 18:24:56+00:00
China also invests in solar/alternative energy because they still import a lot of coal from many other countries (some of which are aligned with the US) and that is something that could be leveraged in case of conflict.

Therefore reaching self sufficiency in terms of power generation will make this threat less relevant and an enemy will no be able to use it to make them back off.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-06 18:25:27+00:00
The objective function is the problem. The objective function is given in all problems.

In "find an X such that Y" the objective function is "is this an X? is Y satisfied?". In induction you have P and n to ratchet up the proof by increasing n such that P(n) holds.

Combining this reply with your previous one, it sounds like you're setting up a situation where the LLM can neither know the problem nor whether it's making progress on the problem. With those constraints no human could do mathematics either or really anything else.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-06 18:25:38+00:00
High intelligence is an anomaly. And anomalous brains are often anomalous in more than one way at the same time. More intelligent brains aren't better. They are just more unusual in many aspects but both in positive and negative direction. So if you average out intelligent people across other axes they pretty much sum up to the same mean despite some of them being surprisingly strange.

For every super-intelligent Holocaust denier you'd find one other equally intelligent person with superbly strong bullshit filter that won't fall for any fake narrative.
by btilly | 2025-11-06 18:26:07+00:00
The human in question was a CEO for around 20 years. People who spend that long in the C-suite absorb a certain amount of corporate language.

And while you may consider corporate culture to be bullshit, others don't. Where others includes every entrepreneur who built a large company that I've ever seen speak on the subject.

I've been lucky enough to see good versus bad corporate cultures first hand. So I also fit into that other bucket. Though admittedly more looking at the issue from somewhere near the bottom, rather than the view from the top.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-11-06 18:26:23+00:00
Selling pardons for money is inherently a very political act. It means that you are aligning yourself with moneyed interests, which is clearly the heart of Trumpist politics. Setting ideology aside even, the open selling of pardons sends the message to the moneyed interests in general that he's on their side, even if they don't need a pardon at this exact moment. It serves both practical (get rich people to like you and therefore donate money to your campaigns and causes to help them succeed) and ideological (supply-sider-esque doctrine going back to at least the protestant reformation says that rich people should be in charge because they're rich, QED) purposes.