MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sofixa | 2025-11-11 16:03:36+00:00
> I think the explanation is European states spreading FUD, to manufacture further hatred of Russia and consent for an escalation of hostilities.

Based on what?

> further hatred of Russia

Russia, being an agressor terrorist state perpetrating a genocide on Europe's doorstep, is already hated by anyone with half a brain half following the news. Be it the bombing of children's hopitals or sending incendiary devices via DHL or bombing munitions depots in Czechia and Bulgaria or assasinating defectors with gruesome indiscriminate chemical or radiological warfare, they are well known, well documented, pieces of shit. Did we mention them kidnapping Ukrainian children to resettle and give for adoption to Russian families? Torturing POWs and civlians? Genuinely, they're not even trying not to be comically evil. Whatever heinous act you can think of, they've probably done it as an official state sanctioned policy.

Why would European states need to invent stuff - and note, nobody has said that it was Russian drones, a ship was impounded and its crew arrested off France for failing to provide documentation, and there have been hints it's suspected of being the drone launch platform that impacted Copehnagen Airport, but nothing has been officially said - when there is so much shit, which is publicly documented and widely accepted? We know they tried to kidnap journalists, assasinated people all over Europe, etc etc etc. If European countries wanted to respond more heavily, most of the population would be for and the main argument against would be the fact that the terrorist state has nuclear weapons, which drastically complicats the equation. If they didn't have them, things would have been so much simpler and better for everyone.
by alex43578 | 2025-11-11 16:03:50+00:00
My point was a narrow rebuttal against the idea that the military lost against shepherds. They defeated them soundly, inflicting heavy losses while operating under a comparatively restrained ROE.

In the broader context of the discussion, the post I was replying to made it sound like US military might would be rendered ineffective against drones, just the same as it supposedly would against IEDs. That isn’t the case.

While IEDs accounted for losses, the US didn’t fail to accomplish war goals in Afghanistan because of technology, power, or IEDs, but just because of simple politics.

How would you propose the armed forces act differently in Afghanistan to change “hearts and minds” among a people that quite clearly support Taliban values and the existing way of life?
by Fnoord | 2025-11-11 16:03:55+00:00
Ah yes, the game I know as 'pictionary'. There used to be an implementation of this on a website using Macromedia Shockwave. You'd have public rooms where you could start guessing. The person with most points would be next drawer. It was fantastic in start, but also a place where young kids would play, and some let us just define them as older kids who would ruin it by doing things like drawing dick pictures. Eventually, nobody would use Shockwave anymore, and you wouldn't even want to run such in a production environment anymore.

As for the name, boompje means little tree (kleine boom) but boontje means little bean (kleine boon) and koninkje means little king (kleine koning) but little queen would be koninginnetje (kleine koningin), and finally hoopje would mean little hope (kleine hoop). So while -tje is default, there are variations. If the word ends with -m, you do -pje. In this case, we have a word derived from English (game) and we need to use the way it sounds (geem) hence geempje (gamepje).

For a foreigner dealing with The Netherlands and Dutch, gametje sounds cute. It fits the role, so to say. In multiple ways. This is a kids/family game, and kids make simple mistakes in grammar when learning their native language, like adult foreigners do when learning a new language. The earlier mentioned website (I forgot the name, something like iSketch? Yes that was it [1]) existed before emoji were a thing. You'd have emoticons but not as part of a font , unless you count say wingdings or using (foreign language) symbols like :-) and more complex ones such as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISketch
by bilbo0s | 2025-11-11 16:04:16+00:00
Problem is that there's also a "real life example of how those policies will eventually play out (and tens of years of research that confirm the immense [benefits to the billionaires] of such an approach)". Just as in the US, the billionaires wield enormous influence. Maybe not quite as much, but pretty close. So as long as there are benefits to the wealthy of these policies, I think the Europeans will pursue them. (At least until the French start doing that thing that the French do when things get too unfair in this regard. And then the cycle will start all over again.)
by sabatonfan | 2025-11-11 16:04:21+00:00
I didn't know that tim cook was gay and here is one message from wikipedia I want to quote

> In June 2014, Cook attended San Francisco's gay pride parade along with a delegation of Apple staff.[85] On October 30, Cook publicly came out as gay in an editorial for Bloomberg Business, saying, "I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me."[86] While it had been reported in early 2011 that Cook was gay,[87][88] at the time, Cook tried to keep his personal life private

I feel like Tim Cook should be a man of his words and try to actually help the community he is proud to be in but I am sure that investors might not be happy but that just goes on to show that maybe even some CEO's could be puppets of shareholders and can be forced to do things solely for profit where their heart might not lie.

I think that another point is that shareholders can also be puppets of CEO's in the case of Elon musk 1 Trillion $ deal shows that imo

I feel like we live in the times where morality can be side-lined for profit and be celebrated. The whole idea why even people can be puppets of each other could be because they get profits and power and influence because of it (basically money most of the times)

But what power do those CEO's have if they can't stand for what they think is right or educate themselves on these matters.

Food for thought.

> virtue was not convenient at the time

Maybe we live just in such times.
by dymk | 2025-11-11 16:04:44+00:00
It's fascinating that this particular comment was flagged (I vouched for it).

The reason I took psychedelics the first time was also some combination of curiosity, recreation, and frustration at feeling like I'd fallen into a local min. As a cousin comment mentions, their power is giving you a different perspective which you quite literally cannot conceive of in your current mental state.

Those who have been to therapy (and had a good therapist) know the value that an honest and different outside perspective can have on your life. But there's also a barrier between you and that other person - they don't really have the full context of what motivates or worries you. Psychedelics are a new perspective on the thoughts going through your head, the sensory experience you're having, the emotions you're physically feeling.

That's not to say it's all good and no bad, but I'll leave that to the droves of comments exaggerating their risks. If you're looking for an altered mental state, mushrooms / LSD / MDMA pose far less harm than alcohol or cannabis.
by CalRobert | 2025-11-11 16:04:47+00:00
I miss when Californian ideology was of the “information wants to be free” and “connecting the people of the world will end tyranny” variety :-( .

Something really changed after the first dotcom bubble. Maybe it was my own youthful naïveté (as someone living in Sacramento desperately wishing I lived in that much cooler city to the west). Maybe it was the last drops of that wave Hunter S Thompson talked about breaking.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-11 16:04:47+00:00
In my younger years, I really did believe that cost correlated with longevity, but as I've gotten older, I'm finding that most of the very affordable things I've purchased, including shoes and pants and jackets, have lasted 15+ years. So I no longer believe that paying a thousand dollars for an item of clothing is going to yield a material benefit in terms of longevity -- I think some of it is just marketing, but there are also other elements of comfort and fit. I'm just not very discerning.
by megaman821 | 2025-11-11 16:04:49+00:00
It doesn't say if a million drones are going to be purchased from a defense contractor. Hopefully it goes to a commerical US drone company that makes drones for consumers, film, inspections, etc with an order of million military-harden drones from the Goverment. There would an expection they could tool up to many millions in a time of conflict.

Defense contractors already cover small batches of super-specialized drones.
by nusl | 2025-11-11 16:04:51+00:00
This pattern repeats itself in "high" fashion quite a lot. Simple, ridiculous things that are relatively trivial to make, yet massively expensive due to hype/brand/fomo. I guess it wouldn't exist if people didn't pay for it, but it also shows how people don't value craftsmanship so much as status symbols.

Show them two identical products, one from Apple, one from Auntie down the street, and they'll pick Apple and tell you the other is inferior.
by dpark | 2025-11-11 16:04:52+00:00
This is solving an entirely different problem than you imagine. This is solving the problem of “no one can tell I use an iPhone when it’s in my purse/pocket”. This is a conspicuous bag that loudly announces “I’m carrying an iPhone”. That’s what it’s for.

Also, can you actually not fit a phone in your pocket? I can fit the biggest iPhone in my pocket just fine in all of my pants. Conversely my wife cannot, but that’s because women’s pockets are vestigial. She couldn’t fit the 3GS in most of her pockets either.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-11 16:05:04+00:00
> requent job changes, however, translate into a much smaller severance package

This is the cutest quote I have seen this year.

IBM in the US eliminated its severance real package many years ago, everyone fired gets the same amount, 2 months notice. This translates into a 2 month severance because when you are notified, you loose your system access.

Why 2 months ? IIRC it is due to a loophole in an old Federal Plant Closing Law. I am sure that loophole will be closed before 2028.

I wonder how many other large companies do the same as IBM ?
by sneak | 2025-11-11 16:06:03+00:00
The CCP has Apple hostage. Their products are (effectively) all made there.

China has more control over Apple than the US does, at present. They are, of course, in crash override priority mode trying to change that, but nowhere else on earth can manufacture (on average) 20,000 iPhones per hour, 24/7/365. (TBH it’s probably closer to 50k per hour in the months up to release day.)

The iPhone is a Chinese product, made by tens of thousands of Chinese people, on machines in China, subject to Chinese jurisdiction and law. That’s an uncomfortable fact for the US economy.

If Apple doesn’t do exactly what China wants them to do, the iPhone does not exist, and Apple as we know it today does not exist.
by matthewfcarlson | 2025-11-11 16:06:04+00:00
I tried to build something like this during covid and got into the weeds around syncing a vuex store across server/client based on pinia (https://pinia.vuejs.org). Vue3 separated the reactivity model from the framework so when the server made a change, it forwarded the event automatically to clients. Since the game state was a series of mutations, it made it easy to replay on a client along with net code style rollback in the case of conflicts.

All told, congrats shipping something!
by PopePompus | 2025-11-11 16:07:07+00:00
There was a time when I would have salivated over this. But now I can run iPython on my phone, and have numpy, sympi, scipy, astropy and countless other packages. Physical keyboards are great for calculators - much better than virtual keyboards on phones. But the keyboard advantage seems to me most valuable for quick calculations, not elaborate things like this calculator offers. If I'm going to do matrix calculations, I want to be able to put the data into a file with a real, and familiar, editor. I want to be able to grab tables of data from the web. If I make a plot, I want to be able to save it to a PNG file. I want a high resolution color display. A phone running iPython/Python seems much better to me, especially since almost everyone who would want to do what this calculator does already has a smartphone. Also, I can ssh into my phone and interact with it using my desktop computer's keyboard and monitor, eliminating the phone keyboard limitations when a full sized computer is nearby.
by pmontra | 2025-11-11 16:07:24+00:00
It's very difficult to find something around 140 grams and 140x80 even giving them some slack about the thickness. The Samsung S25 [1] is about there but I currently still use an A40 [2] because of the size and weight. I'd give away a couple of cm of height. A zero bezel 120mm phone would be ok. 120 grams are a dream.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s25-13610.php

[2] https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a40-9642.php
by sneak | 2025-11-11 16:07:35+00:00
You can’t fight City Hall.

The iPhone is a Chinese product. China ultimately controls whether or not the iPhone exists. No place else on earth can manufacture 20,000 iPhones an hour, 24/7/365.

Making two hundred million devices of the iPhone’s complexity and quality is not a trivial matter, and takes tens of thousands of skilled (and experienced) workers. Almost all of those people are Chinese, in China, subject to Chinese law. Apple cannot meaningfully fight Chinese law.

“sit comfortably” is a big stretch here. I imagine it must upset him as much or perhaps more than it does you and I. We, after all, can speak publicly about how upsetting it is. He cannot.
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-11 16:07:50+00:00
Exactly. I think people think it means you get an EU passport immediately or something and can spend 364 days a year in any EU country?? You only get a Schengen visa and are restricted to 180 days total outside of Latvia, inside the Schengen. But you can do that without a Latvian residence permit...

AIUI it's 10 years to get an EU - sorry, Latvian - passport and for an individual year to count towards that you need 183+ days a year in Latvia
by aniviacat | 2025-11-11 16:09:59+00:00
> What we don't usually have is a "backdoor" for slavery in the form of penal labor enshrined in our Constitutions.

I don't know if you meant to exclude this using the word "usually", but Germany has a backdoor for slavery in the form of penal labor enshrined in its constitution [1]. And it's not just enshrined in the constitution, it is actually active law [2].

[1] In the German constitution, Article 12 (3), it says:

> Zwangsarbeit ist nur bei einer gerichtlich angeordneten Freiheitsentziehung zulässig.

[2] In the StVollzG, Section 41 (1), it says:

> Der Gefangene ist verpflichtet, eine ihm zugewiesene, seinen körperlichen Fähigkeiten angemessene Arbeit, arbeitstherapeutische oder sonstige Beschäftigung auszuüben, zu deren Verrichtung er auf Grund seines körperlichen Zustandes in der Lage ist.
by atlex2 | 2025-11-11 16:10:07+00:00
I built some of the first apps on the App Store. Top twenty navigation app. Won an ADA.

Still, my pocket is my iPhone pocket.

Until they release something the size of the X or smaller, I’m sticking with my iPhone 13 Mini or eventually going for a Razr style Android.

Every year they release something, I go check it out. My love for Apple dies a bit more.
by reaperducer | 2025-11-11 16:10:13+00:00
I don't necessarily believe that a priori spending $500 on a pair of pants is irrational, but I really struggle to imagine any pair of pants being worth that much money

Maybe he's amortizing them.

He says they've lasted ten years, so that's $50/year.

If they last another ten, that's $25/year.

Oh, great. Now I've invented Pants-as-a-Service.
by blfr | 2025-11-11 16:10:15+00:00
A lot of Polish media outlets seem to have completely forgone reporting from abroad. I don't even think it's propaganda, they just lost viewership to the Internet and found that there are cheaper ways to fill the airwaves than news from faraway countries requiring expensive local crews/reporters.

But yes, even many policy wonks / talking heads don't seem to realize the divergence between EU15 and the US since 2007.
by jordanb | 2025-11-11 16:10:16+00:00
"Information wants to be free" was always a pretty marginal part of the California Ideology[0].

The main difference between now and thirty years ago, is that now they're only "anti-statist" when the state tries to control them personally. They're pro-state when it's being inflicted on their perceived enemies or underlings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
by bunderbunder | 2025-11-11 16:10:54+00:00
I'm sure theirs is better than anything I could make myself in all sorts of little ways. I'm just not sure it would be $140 better.

On the other hand, if I did make one for myself (which I won't - one purse is enough) it would probably have a 2-color brioche stitch or something like that for more visual interest.
by andrewmutz | 2025-11-11 16:10:55+00:00
Steven Blank (the author) is a respected member of the startup community and is not partisan. He's been working with the defense department for 10 years (across both administrations) to modernize the way the military buys technology.

His work to create the "hacking for defense" project to modernize things is not at all like DOGE and preceeds it by many years

https://www.h4d.us/
by danans | 2025-11-11 16:11:05+00:00
> I'm not a linguist so I can't send any articles that explain the origins of this mess.

It's probably because Polish, unlike English and most Western European languages, has a case system (where nouns are modified to indicate their function, i.e subject, object, instrument, etc).

That's a pretty common feature in grammatically conservative Indo-European languages. Other living Indo-European languages, like Lithuanian, are even more conservative and have preserved nearly the entire case system of their ancestor.
by slowp_ke | 2025-11-11 16:11:19+00:00
I love seeing comments in here mulling over if the developer wrote an AGENTS.md or had some sort of appropriate planning, then the vibe coded application wouldn't have been horrible.

I'm sorry, I thought OpenAI, Anthropic, Lovable, et. al. certainly don't advertise it as needing? I certainly know the people making purchasing decisions think it's necessary.
by kossTKR | 2025-11-11 16:11:54+00:00
Your comment is the actual prowar propaganda though in my europeean eyes.

The US is worse than China in many aspects, from forever wars to climate over colonialism to fascism and support for an ongoing extremely violent genocide on over a hundred thousand civilians, - where is China geonociding hundreds a week right now? Yeah nowhere, but the US is doing that every decade.

Incredible to see this angle that 'the good guys' are bowing down to bad China in this context when you have so much poverty, political repression and lack of gay rights, abortion etc in many right wing states to straight up hyper right wing terrorism targeting vulnerable populations every year.
by mrweasel | 2025-11-11 16:11:58+00:00
The iPhone sales figures where probably a disappointment, for Apple. Had it been released by any other company it would have been viewed as a huge success. The sales numbers are just pretty poor, for an iPhone.

I think Apple has such high expectation to sales figures that even if a smaller iPhone comes in, even as the 10th best selling phone, that's maybe only 5% of all iPhone sales. Massively successful as a phone, millions of people bought it, but to Apple, the SE is a side hustle at best.

My daughters friends made fun of my iPhone SE3, they had never seen a phone that small.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-11 16:12:00+00:00
Your example is still hard-coding just the two plural categories of English "one" and "other".

These days many i18n frameworks do need to embed some business logic, even if it is mostly fun things like the CLDR plural categories: https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/48/supplemental/language...

Mozilla's Fluent, for example is designed for maximal i18n support of plural selectors and other such things i18n needs: https://projectfluent.org/
by lifenautjoe | 2025-11-11 16:12:31+00:00
Hi phy!

We actually have that level of financial detail for many of our listings from our broker partners. The challenge has been figuring out the best way to present it. putting raw financials out publicly isn't the right move for the sellers.

So our next big build is a secure data room. The goal is to use that verified data to create richer, dynamic visualizations and financial summaries that a seller or broker can share securely with a qualified buyer. it's a big priority for us.

Great feedback, it's exactly where our heads are at.
by KaiserPro | 2025-11-11 16:12:42+00:00
It's normally stored in sealed boxes, but every time its taken out to be projected then the whole reel is unspooled and exposed to the environment. Most projectors are pretty good at not blowing unfiltered air on the film, but there is a surprising amount of dust that is just floating in the air.

The room that the scanners used to be in were temperature and dust controlled, everyone was supposed to wear dust jackets when you enter.
by akersten | 2025-11-11 16:12:47+00:00
That is a separate opinion, but with respect to the question at hand, the utilitarian value of being able to ask a computer "what are the lyrics to x" and having it produce them outweighs whatever small ideological sanctity the music labels assign to being able to gatekeep the written words of a composition to a small blessed few. It's not like chat gpt is serving up the mp3 file to you. So correct, it is insane to me that mere reproduction of just the lyrics is afforded such weighty copy protection.

(Vis a vis, I take it you write a certified letter to Universal before reproducing Happy Birthday in public? ;) That is actually a far more egregious violation indeed, as it is both a performance of the copyrighted work and in front of an audience - neither of which are the case for the chatbot - yet one we all seem to understand to be fair use.
by titusjohnson | 2025-11-11 16:12:54+00:00
I take the pants that have insufficient pockets to a tailor, and ask them to extend the depth of the phone pocket. You can even ask them to do the extension in phone size if you want to restrict its movement in your pocket. On average I've needed about a 3" extension which both restricts lateral phone movement, and also carries it low enough on my thigh that the phone doesn't pinch into my hip when I sit down.

$30 or so later you'll have an integrated Pholster and don't have to carry another thing around with you. For $200 you should be able to update all the pants you have that lack a proper pocket. This is also an incredibly easy thing to sew yourself, by hand, while you watch TV. $30 for a tailor to do the first pair to give you a template to follow, $50 at a craft store will get you some decent scissors, needle, thread, and a yard of whatever material you like. You'll butcher the first pair of pants, but the second, will be better and the third will be perfect.
by energy123 | 2025-11-11 16:12:55+00:00
> Russia is doing a masterful job doing this to the U.S. Biden's foreign policy also was pretty brilliant - get Russia bogged down in a quagmire with Ukraine, while supplying just enough weaponry to Ukraine to keep the war going but not enough to win it.

I would classify these as two different things - hybrid warfare and offshore balancing. But they are both tools that can create more strategic depth and push conflict further away.