MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by badgersnake | 2026-01-26 10:56:56+00:00
Same, my MP is clueless. They won’t listen to the experts. This is what he said:

The UK has a strong tradition of safeguarding privacy while ensuring that appropriate action can be taken against criminals, such as child sexual abusers and terrorists. I firmly believe that privacy and security are not mutually exclusive—we can and must have both.
The Investigatory Powers Act governs how and when data can be requested by law enforcement and other relevant agencies. It includes robust safeguards and independent oversight to protect privacy, ensuring that data is accessed only in exceptional cases and only when necessary and proportionate.
The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false. It is possible for online platforms to have strong cybersecurity measures whilst also ensuring that criminal activities can be detected.
by retired | 2026-01-26 10:57:16+00:00
Had to use an LLM to generate this list:

Windows Vista was available in Starter (32-bit only, Retail and OEM), Home Basic (32-bit and 64-bit, Retail, OEM, and Volume License, plus Home Basic N 32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, in multiple languages), Home Premium (32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, Home Premium N 32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, in multiple languages), Business (32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, Business N 32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, in multiple languages), Enterprise (32/64-bit, Volume License only, Enterprise N 32/64-bit, in multiple languages), Ultimate (32/64-bit, Retail/OEM, Ultimate N 32/64-bit, Retail/OEM, in multiple languages), and the Korean-market versions Home Basic K, Home Premium K, Business K, Enterprise K, Ultimate K (all 32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, in multiple languages), plus Tablet PC editions, Media Center pre-bundled versions, and Embedded/IoT variants, each with additional 32/64-bit and N/K distinctions, creating a combinatorial explosion of literally hundreds of distinct SKUs when factoring in architecture, licensing type, language packs, and region-specific requirements.
by thephyber | 2026-01-26 10:57:26+00:00
> The jurisprudence on this issue is long-settled, and who are you to disagree with a majority of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States?

It was settled for the first time with Heller in 2008, which was not long ago. That SCOTUS decision was supposedly the first to affirm that there was an individual right to carry (not as part of a militia).

Your quote from Federalist 46 doesn’t disprove what I said.

And the Heller decision was 5-4 with one of the dissenting justices claiming it was such a terrible ruling that there should be a constitutional amendment to fix it[1].

You might want to spend some more time with an open mind. You seem extremely confident, but your facts don’t back up such confidence.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/john-paul-...
by yurishimo | 2026-01-26 10:57:34+00:00
The thing about printf debugging is that it works universally. All languages, all platforms, all stacks. Even down to the lowest levels of most software, there will always be some sort of log available.

While some tools/frameworks might have more robust debugging tools, if you have a dynamic role within an organization, you may not find it worth the effort to set them up if your target platform is constantly changing.

One real world example of this from my own work in PHP - there is a tool/lang-extension called XDebug that is great and provides step through debugging, but historically, it has been a pain to configure. It's gotten better, but when I can just as easily add a few `dump()` statements that expose the same data, it's overkill. Very rarely do I need to actually pause the running request to debug something and 99% of the time, I just want to know the state of that object within an specific `if()` block and a debug log gets me that same information.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-26 10:58:22+00:00
If the reflective material is ideal, by definition no infrared or other radiation is emitted.

Perhaps I was not clear, but the reflective surface was the interior surface, so it reflected any light, visible or infrared, back towards the emitting filament, while the front window reflected only the infrared, while transmitting the visible light.

The lamp does not overheat, because the filament is kept at a constant temperature, the same as in a classic incandescent lamp. The difference is that you need a much lower electrical current through it for maintaining the temperature, because most of the heat is not lost away, like in a classic lamp. The fact that you need a much smaller electrical current for the same temperature is the source of the greater energy efficiency.

Only if you had used the same electrical current as in a classic lamp, the lamp would have overheated and the filament destroyed.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-26 10:58:24+00:00
Steve Jobs famously did not make friends with his engineers. I do not know where you get this info. Or rather... he was the type of friend who probably made you prefer your enemies. a. He dicked Woz on the Breakout design, telling him he would split the proceeds 50/50 - turns out it was more 25/75. b. He dicked Dan Kottke (very early Apple employee and friend from Reid College with whom he backpacked in India) by cancelling his stock options when apple IPOed - Woz stepped in and gave Dan some of his share allocation. c. The last time I saw Burell Smith, he was homeless living on the streets in Palo Alto - very friendly of Steve to not do anything for him. d. Steve dicked Jef Raskin (who kicked off the original Macintosh project, thought Jef's idea was WAAAAY different than the Mac that eventually emerged)

What I learned working with (not for) NeXT in the early 90s was "Steve is not your friend."
by bartread | 2026-01-26 10:59:24+00:00
This is interesting, because in many ways I’m almost the exact opposite.

If I’m slouched in my chair, then I’m either completely disengaged or doing something mundane like dealing with email. If I’m upright or sat forward then I’m engaged and executing, but maybe not thinking deeply - I’m doing something I’ve already thought about and decided on. And if I’m on my feet and moving around, often doing some mundane chore like emptying the dishwasher, then I’m likely thinking.

It’s actually a really good illustration of why one size fits all solutions when it comes to work environment and conditions are often so unsatisfactory.
by rvz | 2026-01-26 10:59:37+00:00
And ever since Nov 2022 and beyond, his blog is now majority riddled with non-stop AI, LLMs, Chatbots and Agents slop which is what the parent comment is talking about.

As for the "browser is the sandbox" running untrusted code in the user's browser increases the risk of an unintended RCE via a sandbox escape which can be done in Chrome [0]. WASM is not going to save you either [1].

[0] https://www.ox.security/blog/the-aftermath-of-cve-2025-4609-...

[1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/334120897
by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm | 2026-01-26 10:59:58+00:00
The UK doesn't really attract EU nationals anymore and the remainder of us that here are only here because the wages are still relatively good to most of the world which still remains quite poor, lacks security or stability. Many of us would sell our assets here and would move quickly otherwise as we certainly aren't here for much of anything else in a legacy country that is on its way to nowhere.
by p4bl0 | 2026-01-26 11:00:25+00:00
I did something similar a (very) long time ago (15 years back!), a static site generator and blog engine entirely coded in sh with the idea of using it in git hook scripts, with a template engine that allows to use the Git repository as a storage backend and publishing method, both for posts content (as file or as commit bodies) and for meta data about posts (author, date, etc). It was fun to build and got a few dozen users at the time :).

The README is here: https://p4bl0.net/shebang/fugitive-readme.html
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-26 11:00:52+00:00
Woz comes to the West Coast VCF (Vintage Computer Festival) from time to time. For geeks of a certain age, he's a very engaging speaker and it's clear he loved the tech as much as the other older engineers who typically come to such events.

The vibe I got from him was he was very happy doing what he's doing and was happy to let Apple be the company it evolved into rather than the company it was in 1977.
by mbirth | 2026-01-26 11:01:03+00:00
> There isn't really much about MacOS that sets itself apart these days.

Unless you’re using an iPhone and/or iPad. The Continuity feature, seamless copy&paste between devices, notification mirroring, iPhone mirroring, and being able to move my mouse cursor from my macOS onto the iPad are things I’d really miss when switching to a Linux desktop.
by stereolambda | 2026-01-26 11:01:35+00:00
I would see it as moving the baseline, which Europe and (more historically) UK was for many people in civil rights area. If we just say that authoritarian countries are still worse, this partly implies that what Western countries are doing is becoming acceptable, as long as it is still "better" or "less bad".

The important point is, if the erosion of civil liberties continues, these governments are losing their high ground. They must stop.

As in the Cold War, I would give an allowance for the West to still be preferable (modulo strict rights record) if they actually muster some sort of power to confront tyranny. But if the rulers only want cheap rhetoric wins, no.
by laserbeam | 2026-01-26 11:01:48+00:00
Can we somehow get age verification without IDs? Age verification itself is OK as an idea. I’m happy to show ID to buy alcohol at the store… but the store clerk doesn’t take a photo of that ID and store it in logs somewhere forever.

Can we please get a law where kids won’t just take their parent’s IDs and upload them to random places?
by throw__away7391 | 2026-01-26 11:01:56+00:00
Every government in the world right now wants to get their hands on the controls and put their thumb on the scales here. Modern social media has proven to be effectively remote control for their citizens, nothing like this kind of power has never existed before and is absolutely irresistible to politicians. Expect them all to be laser focused on this until they're able to seize complete control.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2026-01-26 11:01:58+00:00
More people should scrutinize the methodology behind these AI data center water usage reports.

One widely cited Berkeley Lab figure includes the water evaporated from reservoirs behind hydroelectric dams.

Excluding that factor cuts their water usage estimate by more than half.

On AI & water, looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling alone. [0]

So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf.

[0] https://www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-dat...
by willtemperley | 2026-01-26 11:02:44+00:00
They're making some historically terrible decisions.

Now we're all going to have to pay for Gemini model storage, probably 2 to 4 GB.

That means we're probably paying $10 per-device for the storage required to have Google's model on "our" devices. Which we never asked for.

They could just make it an optional part of the install. Does anyone really care about the on-board "intelligence"?

Gemini FFS.
by RansomStark | 2026-01-26 11:03:07+00:00
I never thought I'd say this, but I now fully approve of social media bans for children, screw under 16s, let's go further no children on the internet full stop. No mobile data plans for under 18s, arrest parents if they are found allowing their children to use a computer with an internet connection at home. Remove the internet from schools.

Then we can get rid of the online safety act, no need to dox adults if we just ban the children.

Then when the government refuses to repeal the OSA, we can then have an open and honest discussion about the real reasons that act exists.

Being sarcastic, but at the same time...
by jeeybee | 2026-01-26 11:03:48+00:00
I maintain a small Postgres-native job queue for Python called PGQueuer: https://github.com/janbjorge/pgqueuer

It uses the same core primitives people are discussing here (FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED for claiming work; LISTEN/NOTIFY to wake workers), plus priorities, scheduled jobs, retries, heartbeats/visibility timeouts, and SQL-friendly observability. If you’re already on Postgres and want a pragmatic “just use Postgres” queue, it might be a useful reference / drop-in.
by aa-jv | 2026-01-26 11:04:05+00:00
I use Image Capture.app to manually retrieve my photo's - which normally works fine unless I forget to create a new folder for the task, and instead import into the older folders - which often means I overwrite prior photo's and lose data! Its so freakin' frustrating that, in the rush to get rid of files and folders from the users perception of their own personal filesystems, Apple has made it worse to maintain things manually.
by captn3m0 | 2026-01-26 11:04:30+00:00
For minimal stuff, I just have a pre-commit hook that runs

pandoc -s README.md -o index.html

I've done the xlst thing as well, but to generate markdown instead of HTML from Zotero export XML as the input. https://github.com/captn3m0/boardgame-research. But again, I throw the make command into a pre-commit because I want the README to be updated in the same commit.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-26 11:04:46+00:00
No. Thanks for the rec! (As I've mentioned too many times, Phil Dick had a special spot for the schizos but was probably (self-)diagnosed with OCD)

Yes, The happiness of Sisyphus is exactly what I think an update of the classical eudaimonia would uh formalize.

(I think it was Camus that predicted that the US would eventually lose its position as the leader of civilisation but I haven't been able to find the exact quote, or the context)
by mingus88 | 2026-01-26 11:04:59+00:00
Why do you consider a color to be an entirely different model? Storage size would be a better differentiator, but even then it’s just an option.

Do you feel the same way about cars? Have you been this fired up looking at a dealership all these years? So many paint options and wheel choices!

Idk, my phone gets hours of use each day, in my hands. Very personal device. I appreciate the options.

I agree with you about the cpu confusion, but I think most consumers largely act on price and many biased towards the lowest or highest ends every cycle. Largely any modern CPU will be enough for regular users.
by ed_blackburn | 2026-01-26 11:05:12+00:00
I think we need to accept that age verification makes the internet safer. What we cannot accept is age verification's use as a mechanism to pry too far into peoples lives. When we can separate age verification from who am I, most people will be happier. What's tricky is who validates age? Your ISP? Your government? Your OS? A thirty party? Who accredits third-parties, and can you trust them? I'm convinced there's a way to solve this do we can keep the internet safe and not intrude massively on peoples privacy.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-26 11:05:43+00:00
Yes and no. I agree with the general sentiment, but the market may be changing in a way that Cook, et al. aren't suited to understand. So... maybe. Even probably. But eventually there'll come a point where not having a product person high up on the org chart is going to come back and bite them in the rear end. But I have no idea of when that time will be.
by 4gotunameagain | 2026-01-26 11:06:37+00:00
Comparing the lack of humanity of military strikes surely is a slippery slope.

Let me remind you that many civilians died, including two children. Don't take my word for it:

The following quote can be attributed to Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa Director at Human Rights Watch:

“Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon today. The use of an explosive device whose exact location could not be reliably known would be unlawfully indiscriminate, using a means of attack that could not be directed at a specific military target and as a result would strike military targets and civilians without distinction. A prompt and impartial investigation into the attacks should be urgently conducted.”

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/18/lebanon-exploding-pagers...
by nickd2001 | 2026-01-26 11:06:43+00:00
Being completely car dependent is to me a fundamental problem in much of both countries, and the advantage USA has is that the cost of running a car (or often 2 especially for a family) takes a smaller part of a middle class salary. In UK , Europe, many countries outside of N America you're just not forced to own a car in the same way. That's not just extra costs when you've got a family, but a source of isolation for people that are old or disabled. (Not to discount the many other wonderful fantastic things about life in N America. :) )
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by retired | 2026-01-26 11:07:18+00:00
I should not have gone down that rabbit hole. Why is Apple selling three variants of the Apple Pencil and then the Apple Pencil Pro as well.

The first generation comes with a Lightning adapter and a USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter (required to pair and charge with iPad (A16) and iPad (10th generation). What are those adapters doing?

It is compatible with the "iPad Pro 9.7-inch" which I presume is the first generation iPad Pro but why does it not state the generation like they do with the iPad Pro 12.9-inch? Why state "iPad (A16)" but not use the 11th generation?

Thanks for raising my blood pressure! But I had fun doing so.
by PedroBatista | 2026-01-26 11:08:26+00:00
The delusion of the “Mac just works” crowd is only matched by the delusion of the Linux “year of the Desktop” crowd.

They share the same trait of “it works on my machine, I like it, therefore it’s my identity and everything else is wrong”

I use Linux regularly as a second OS for more than 15 years. Driver compatibility improved, software design and quality didn’t, in fact it suffers more or less the same problems of other mainstream OSs.

Linux on the desktop has been winning because the others got bad at a faster pace, I’m not sure there is anything to be celebrated.
by lproven | 2026-01-26 11:08:37+00:00
> You are so eager to reply that you haven't even read the whole comment.

Of course I did. I didn't address your objections because I think they don't hold up, that is why.

> Which of those online stores have a physical address for the normal people to do as per my comment?

Leaving out Apple as computers are not its primary product line any more... that leaves Lenovo, the biggest PC vendor in the world, followed by HP, Dell, Asus, Acer.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267018/global-market-sha...

That is the top 5.

Only Apple has retail shops worldwide. I do not know of physical stores for any of the others. Maybe some did once, years ago, but that stuff is fading away and dying now. It's all going online.

You can certainly buy Chromebooks in physical stores. Do they fix them? Only warranty repairs, but the point of Chromebooks is that you don't keep your stuff on them, and you don't upgrade them. Rightly or wrongly (that is, mostly wrongly) they are disposable tech.

It is perfectly possible to buy a computer with Linux on it: a choice of Linuxes, from a choice of vendors, in almost any country. No you can't walk into a shop and try it, but you mostly can't from any vendor. Online sales are the default for many things now. No you can't walk into the vendor's shop and get it fixed, but you can't for any of global PC brands either.

If you want that, go to a local small business. If you want Linux, go to a local small business. Same thing.

Sure there are different flavours and distros. That is _not_ a weakness of Linux. Choice is a good thing, even if sometimes it is scary. You can choose your toothpaste and your clothes and your car as well. We manage.
by throw310822 | 2026-01-26 11:08:55+00:00
His point is to insert in the conversation some disparaging remarks to paint Palestinians as parasites, pretending the occupation, oppression and blockade don't exist. Beyond this there is no consequence at all between his remarks and the point at hand, which is that the "peace" is a ploy to take the heat off Israel, free it from any obligation to pay reparations for the destruction it caused, and eventually hand over to it the Gaza strip.
by pfisherman | 2026-01-26 11:09:33+00:00
Hotels are not platforms. No network effects at play. The idea of ban is to push teen DAUs below the critical mass necessary for self sustaining retention and growth.

Sure teens will still figure out a way to access when they really want to, but they won’t be be the same level of peer pressure.

I feel like this is the strongest argument in favor of the bans. I am not sure it will be effective or is the most effective way to go about it. I am curious to see the data that comes out of Australia in a few years.