MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwawaypath | 2025-11-12 07:53:20+00:00
>You seem to be shifting definitions by moving from native Brits to "indigenous" Brits.

Definitions for words you clearly don't understand are not "shifting" anywhere.

>And conveniently not responding to the point that native means you're born somewhere.

I've responded multiple times, you're refusing to acknowledge it because it destroys your narrative. Native does not mean "you're born somewhere." Many cows are born in the US, yet they are not native there.

>The indigenous claim is also funny, because that would refer specifically to Celtic peoples in Britain.

No it wouldn't, Celtics displaced Neolithic Iberians before them. Not that it matters, the only extant indigenous group to London are English people, which descend in part from Celtic Britons.

>And the modern white British population is not predominantly Celtic, and definitely not indigenous.

They're a mix, and definitely indigenous.

>The Anglo-Saxons, e.g., are not indigenous to Britain.

But English people are. English people are "are an ethnic group and nation native to England." [0]

And what group do English people fall under? The "native Brits" DHH mentions. White Brits being "the White population identifying as English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Northern Irish, or British." [1]

Native Brits, more specifically English people, are the only native people indigenous to London.

QED.

>Which leads to the most hilarious point of your post, where you first equate nationality with skin color (in a particularly misguided way)

I never equated nationality with skin color, only ethnic groups. Russians share the same skin color as White Brits, yet are not White Brits, and are not native to London.

>White Brits are the only indigenous Brits", and then immediately deny that you are equating nationality with skin color.

This is what happens when you get political commentary from Bluesky and Mastodon. You had no clue that White British were an ethnicity grouping, nor did you understand the fact that English people are natives.

>That's a decent self-contradiction speedrun.

Only of you don't understand the meaning of words, which is clearly the case here.

>I don't get it. You clearly hold ethnonationalist views and aren't afraid to express them, so I wonder why you're afraid of admitting that you are an ethnonationalist. Be honest about it.

I don't get it. You clearly hold Anglophobic views and aren't afraid to express them, so I wonder why you're afraid of admitting that you are a Marxist Anglophobe. Be honest about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_British
by haunter | 2025-11-12 07:53:21+00:00
>but didn't tell me what it actually IS or DOES

It tells you right at the start:

"Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles!"

That's all you need to know. If Linux wants to be more mainstream it needs to drop the "Bottles is a wrapper around WINE". What's a wrapper? What's WINE? It doesn't matter. All the user need to know that you can easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles
by palmotea | 2025-11-12 07:55:27+00:00
> This is a long term good thing. ... By 2028 or so we'll have a 50% drop in price-per-storage for these components.

Per the op:

> and the ongoing DRAM shortage is proof of this, with memory kits costing more than double what they did just a few months ago.

> While enterprise-grade QLC SSDs would entirely power this pivot, Sandisk has already raised NAND prices by 50%, according to another DigiTimes report, after initially warning of a 10% increase two months ago.

So you're basically saying prices may return to normal in two years, and that's somehow a good thing compared to them not being inflated in the first place?
by tropicalfruit | 2025-11-12 07:55:37+00:00
> It’s funny how “ownership” in the digital world has become an illusion.

it's like every "innovation" now brings with it convenience at a higher cost and takes away ownership and often features

personally i'm quite sick of digital nothingness. its all transient.

i want to get more into real world things that have texture, weight and permanence.
by Elfener | 2025-11-12 07:55:47+00:00
The worst bluetooth pairing experience is with devices featuring "quick pair" "fast pair" and similar.

The best pairing experience is with devices that have a pair button or let you hold down the power button to enter pairing mode. Although I've now ended up with headphones (Creative Zen Hybrid (Gen 2)) that have this, but also decide to just unexpectedly enter pairing mode when you disconnect all devices from it...
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-12 07:57:02+00:00
> That’s a very important concern that is not directly relevant to whether or not the laws being enforced

Well, no, its relevant to whether what is happening is arbitrary and unlawful use of force or enforcement of the law, and if it is the former, then the whole question of "whether or not the laws being enforced are democratic" is misguided, because the shared premise assumed by both options presented is false.
by tecleandor | 2025-11-12 07:57:04+00:00
What scanner are you using, out of curiosity?

Funny thing is, in general, low and midrange desktop scanners that public can generally buy, haven't changed much in 10-20 years since they started using led lights and IR dust removal (Canon Fare, Digital ICE or similar stuff). Some are even the same hardware just slightly rebadged or with a different USB connector. But they're the same price or more expensive.

And, at a different level, professional film scanners are EXPENSIVE. Lots of people are now scanning their film using a digital camera and led backlight (now that there is affordable good quality led lights) instead of a dedicated scanner. But that's not very fast and requires some extra manual work. If this scanner offers reasonable quality and a good workflow (that not very proprietary or closed), 1000-1500 dollars is a reasonable price, especially if you have lots of film coming in, or an old collection to scan.

I could imagine my dad buying one of this to scan his hundreds and hundreds of rolls from the 70s/80s and then selling it once he finish. It would be like 1-3 USD per rolled scanned :)
by vedhant | 2025-11-12 07:57:14+00:00
I am working on a platform that simplifies access control in an enterprise.

A lot of cybersecurity attacks happen because of stolen credentials. One big example is the supply chain attack, Shai Hulud. In a lot of enterprises, credential sprawl is a huge issue and figuring out who (people, services, ai agents) has access to to what systems is a paramount task.

At https://gearsec.io, we are building a platform where accesses are created via policies. The result is that, the enterprise doesnt deal with credentials anymore. They only need to define policies and nothing more.

I would love to know if you faced this problem and how are you solving them at your workplace!
by apples_oranges | 2025-11-12 07:57:58+00:00
It's asymmetrical, you publish something online, immediately it is used by social networks or AIs for profit. Vice versa you get an app, it's not even yours.

I think we should strive to avoid playing this game..

But in the end i feel in this particular case, it’s ops fault. He can avoid using that app there’s a world of alternatives for writing apps and organizing apps.
by Topfi | 2025-11-12 08:00:03+00:00
Gaming on PC or using Adobe software is very far removed from the average in 2025. Same if you use any Office application after work hours. Heck, even Canva is, the vast majority of users are not creating on their systems, solely consuming and would be served more than well enough with only their phones. In countries where most of the population has gotten access after modern multitouch smartphones became a thing, most do use these over notebooks/PCs as their primary device, like India.

And friction on MacOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android or iOS, I don’t see that considering the vast majority still switched to 10 despite the departure from a decades long established environment and, lest we forget, quite a lot of XP/98 software also did not work well on more modern Windows, again, not really a problem for these either. There is no reason not to switch despite the brand, which I again must emphasize, is ok. They are fine enough with the status quo, even though alternatives would be more stable, secure, have better battery life, etc. I just dislike the idea that some in the space cling to that better alternatives are surely going to be adopted and the only reason they aren’t by the masses is compatibility, slight differences in UI, etc.
by omeletdufromage | 2025-11-12 08:00:21+00:00
Not the OP, but I have heard something similar from a sec conf before. Gist being if a laptop has stickers like this, then the chances of the owner being an engineer is significantly higher, so pentest teams / malicious actors can better focus their efforts on those individuals, and have a higher chance of gaining access to internal systems than if they targeted random folks in public.

Doesn't help as well that arguably the kind of stickers a laptop displays tends to hint at who's a sysadmin or not, etc.
by kakacik | 2025-11-12 08:01:05+00:00
Drones all the way, they go through roughly 1 million a year and this number keeps increasing as time goes.

Artillery was more decisive till cca 2023 when switch to new warfare model happened. Its still important, but not #1. You have (ukraine-made since US switchblades proved inefficient overpriced piece of shit) drones now that have 2-3x the reach, can carry same/bigger payload, steer them till last second, some can come back home for reload. Drone teams are much smaller and more agile compared to artillery, they can drive around in normal SUVs.
by tucnak | 2025-11-12 08:01:31+00:00
Ukrainian here, and you couldn't be more wrong.

The key advantage of the drone ecosystem is that it spans from tactical to strategic applications, from short to long distance, at very low-cost compared to traditional multiple platforms. It's not an artillery alternative, or at least not in the way you think. There are ambush-drones that go behind enemy lines, land on the ground, and wait. There are 10 flavours of FPV stuff, and by now none of it is "off-the-shelf." There are of course the fixed-wing stuff that would completely overwhelm enemy air defense and hit key strategic manufacturing and oil processing plants. There was operation Spider Web where a handful of FPV drones took out 20 or so russian strategic bombers (sic!) many thousand kilometers behind enemy lines. Most importantly, drones present a major advantage in that the operator does not have to be physically present in the target area. Moreover, the operator himself is no longer necessary in many modes of operation, like "last mile targeting"

Your opinion reads like it has been formed by exposure to some contrariant analysis by BigBrain western analyst that would go for soundbites like "drones are artillery."
by pmyteh | 2025-11-12 08:04:02+00:00
His personal philosophy was very Catholic. My reading of LotR is that it is consistent with that, valorising faithfulness, the personal in place of the modern, and avoiding the temptation to sin for power. I agree it's centre-right (though idiosyncratically) but not about military capability: the orcs are the most modern military capability and they are decidedly not valorised. The central heros are a member of the rural gentry and his gardener, who barely fight. The Shire is defiantly non-military and pre-industrial.
by mrkeen | 2025-11-12 08:04:03+00:00
My point is, for an article about functional programming and Erlang, there wasn't any functional programming in Erlang.

The author pivoted from rejecting "change state of X" to advertising "change state of mailbox".

> the return value of both 'ping/1' and 'pong/0' are irrelevant because they are ignored If they were functional, they'd be optimised away by the compiler (for being irrelevant). They only exist for their side effects. Ping and pong are procedures. This is 100% imperative.
by mattmanser | 2025-11-12 08:04:09+00:00
Timezones change, more frequently than you realize. Some countries even used to change when summer time started regularly. It's got better than it used to be afaik.

Also you need to take into account where the user is going to be. With future dates, time is relative. So at the very least you often need the time + the timezone of the location.

Book me a table at 8, means book me a table in Berlin time at 8, not in San Francisco time at 8.

Same with displaying future dates, you need the context of where.
by gattr | 2025-11-12 08:04:22+00:00
Shameless plug: active region (and sunspot group) 4274 has already produced several X-class solar flares, alas, I didn't manage to catch one during my short weekend imaging session. Though there was a nice prominence; 38-min time lapse (Earth to scale):

https://app.astrobin.com/u/GreatAttractor?i=9tkxay#gallery
by defrost | 2025-11-12 08:04:29+00:00
It's forked from MacSyma and released under a GNU General Public License (GPL).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_(software)

Cayley (1975–1993), now Magma, predates it somewhat and has recently been used to crack post Quantum cryptography candidates.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1089355.1089359

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_(computer_algebra_system...
by scandox | 2025-11-12 08:04:59+00:00
Well in fact the raising of a huge army is indeed one of the goals of the protagonists. Of course for them the goal is to defeat evil. I'm sure that the people behind Palantir, Anduril and other such companies also believe they are building a military capability that will allow the United States to defeat what they see as evil. Every centre right libertarian I've encountered also has a "great distrust of power".

All I'm saying is that it only takes a small shift of perspective to see how the LoTR will appeal broadly to anyone who believes in good vs evil narratives - whichever side they appear to be on from one's own point of view.
by tinco | 2025-11-12 08:05:58+00:00
Yeah I think LeCun is underestimating the impact that LLM's and Diffusion models are going to have, even considering the huge impact they're already having. That's no problem as I'm sure whatever LeCun is working on is going to be amazing as well, but an enterprise like Facebook can't have their top researcher work on risky things when there's surefire paths to success still available.
by cycomanic | 2025-11-12 08:07:06+00:00
I think that opens several other cans of worms, but in principle I would support a solution that allows using copyrighted materials if it is for the common good (I.e the results are released fully open, means not just weights but everything else).

As a side note i am definitely not strong into IP rights, but I can see the benefits of copyright much more clearly than patents.
by aitchnyu | 2025-11-12 08:08:20+00:00
There is a 5000-page standard for Docx I used for a Word export feature. And it was mostly devoid of details and I reverse engineered Word's output files countless times to figure out the actual format. IIRC there was a single 14000-page pdf.

https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...
by delfinom | 2025-11-12 08:08:39+00:00
The problem is, the US sea power is being dwarfed by China rapidly, who have now surpassed the size of the US Navy and are quickly going to be even larger.

And the US does not have enough missiles for a war with China or even Russia realistically.

It's why there's a panic for artillery shells. They realize any real symmetrical with an enemy that isn't some guys in caves would become a war of attrition through numbers fast.

Lobbing billion dollar missiles as a strategy fails when you run out of money for them.
by eviks | 2025-11-12 08:09:37+00:00
Thanks, doesn't help me, but you're right, a good tip to know. Though I'd still prefer a similar option to start selection directly in the UI instead of finishing the job in a text editor, this would also help highlight text in a screenshot without having to do image post-processing! I'd even accept some arcane finger-breaking ctrl-alt-win-x-y-z (which I could rebind) for the privilege

All the more annoying when such years-old fundamentals are broken in all the new "supposedly better" frameworks
by raverbashing | 2025-11-12 08:09:53+00:00
Yeah honestly I'm with the LLM people here

If you think LLMs are not the future then you need to come with something better

If you have a theoretical idea that's great, but take to at least GPT2 level first before writing off LLMs

Theoretical people love coming up with "better ideas" that fall flat or have hidden gotchas when they get to practical implementation

As Linus says, "talk is cheap, show me the code".
by renewiltord | 2025-11-12 08:10:12+00:00
Seems fine to me. Guy bought Goodnotes 5, and can use Goodnotes 5. He wants Goodnotes 6 to be included for free, but it isn't. That's life. When I got Invasion of the Vorticons, I didn't expect to get Keen Dreams for free too. Nothing new about that
by Tade0 | 2025-11-12 08:10:39+00:00
Framework is the only laptop regarding which I've had someone ask "what brand is this?".

There's genuine interest (well, at least until they hear about the price) and I guess people intuitively understand that laptops don't really have to be replaced every now and then, it's just that mainstream offerings are built this way.

The other day I wrote a lengthy essay about all the pros and cons of the device from my perspective for one 18yo son of a friend, who insisted this would be his college laptop, because he's seen some YouTuber present it. I think he's decided already, so I focused on managing expectations.
by jruohonen | 2025-11-12 08:11:06+00:00
I think this piece was a good summary of the state of affairs.

If I would have written it, I would have perhaps mentioned that similar problems exist also in other domains, including science, arts, and media. Maybe the solutions might be similar too? I am particularly pointing toward the following quote that wasn't yet discussed here:

"New reporters could be required to have established community members vouch for them, creating a web-of-trust model. This mirrors how the world worked before bug bounty platforms commodified security research. The only downside is, it risks creating an insider club."
by anal_reactor | 2025-11-12 08:11:07+00:00
> The reality is a minority of people were willing to use extraordinary violence and propaganda to present their viewpoint as "normal," but I don't agree that that made it "normal" even for the times.

Before modernity, extraordinary violence and propaganda were, well, ordinary. Hitler just made that work on industrial scale, but the underlying moral ideas weren't anything new. During antiquity, people didn't mind slaughtering entire cities. Even more modern history is full shit like that, look up Mongol invasions.

BTW don't you think that it's a little awkward that in modern times "pirates", which were people that'd literally kill seamen for profit, are considered a fun Halloween theme for children? I can imagine that in 500 years Nazi costumes will be similarly normalized.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-12 08:11:11+00:00
I'm not sure there is any law against owning an unarmed tank. But for "dangerous and unusual" weapons themselves, an important case is from 1939 - Miller vs USA. [1] And it's absurdly weird. Basically the defendant was a thug with a penchant for snitching on everybody.

In his final case, which he also snitched during, he argued that a law he had been charged under (a firearms regulation law) was unconstitutional. The judge who heard his case was very much in favor of the gun control law and had made numerous public statements as such, but he also likely knew that the law was on very shaky constitutional ground, and had been fishing for a test case to advance it. And he found that in Miller.

So he concurred with Miller about the law's unconstitutionality! That resulted in the case being appealed up to the Supreme Court. Conveniently for the state, neither Miller or his defense representation appeared. So it was argued with no defense whatsoever. And Miller was found shot to death shortly thereafter, which wasn't seen as particularly suspicious given his snitching habits. And that case set the ultimate standard that's still appealed to, to this very day.

This is made even more ironic by the fact that the weapon he was being charged for possession of as being 'dangerous and unusual' was just a short barrel shotgun, which was regularly used in the military.

[1] - https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/ECM_PRO_060964.p...
by kakco-AI | 2025-11-12 08:11:25+00:00
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by genezeta | 2025-11-12 08:12:25+00:00
In case anyone cares:

I go to "Launch MAUI in your browser" [0] in section "Try It Right Now". I click on "Word puzzle - A word puzzle game", third of the demo apps. I click on the "Randomize" button. Tiles start shifting around. I click on the left arrow at the top to go back to the main menu. The whole thing becomes locked with the word puzzle on the background and the main menu on top of it. Nothing is clickable any more.

This happens on various different browsers.

[0] https://brave-sky-0c7a41a03-preview.westeurope.3.azurestatic...
by VerifiedReports | 2025-11-12 08:12:25+00:00
They also sucked. I had an LS-2000 and the images were noisy as hell and it couldn't scan negatives for shit. I sold it on eBay. It's incredible how overrated the Nikon scanners were.

In the end I found a new in-box Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 II, pretty much the end of the line for film scanners. I haven't tried it yet!
by numpy-thagoras | 2025-11-12 08:12:28+00:00
Good. The world model is absolutely the right play in my opinion.

AI Agents like LLMs make great use of pre-computed information. Providing a comprehensive but efficient world model (one where more detail is available wherever one is paying more attention given a specific task) will definitely eke out new autonomous agents.

Swarms of these, acting in concert or with some hive mind, could be how we get to AGI.

I wish I could help, world models are something I am very passionate about.
by timr | 2025-11-12 08:12:51+00:00
Re [1], he explicitly says the opposite in the posts I linked to. You're just ignoring what he literally says and writes, and substituting your own feelings on the matter.

Regarding prisons, again, he is explicitly talking about closing down prisons. He has moderated his rhetoric more recently on this issue, but no, your interpretation of the subject is not what he's saying here, and it clearly isn't what he means, even today.

He has a long history on these topics. I'm not misinterpreting his comments.
by majormajor | 2025-11-12 08:12:52+00:00
In the "things that fit on your desk" category, slow is pretty relative - people on ebay still want thousands for Nikon 9000 scanners, and those were not fast if you were scanning high-res 16-bit. And always needed time in post too (cropping/straightening/tweaking exposure and color). An ILC kit can go a lot more quickly.