MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ahmgeek | 2026-01-04 02:45:58+00:00
If you just want to use a Voklit number for meetings, you can already:
- Set your Voklit number as caller ID when dialing out
- Forward calls to your Teams/Zoom meeting dial-in

That's easy.

If you mean enterprise support, that's on the grid, if I have enough money to quit and focus / hire for Voklit. I would do that.
by spudlyo | 2026-01-04 02:46:36+00:00
The new Liquid Glass UI has a lot of detractors, both on iOS and on macOS, but it seems like the clamor is even louder on macOS. Beyond the looks, it's created a lot of usability issues for folks. Buttons and controls can overlap awkwardly, navigation can be more difficult when it's hard to identify different UI elements on the screen, all the eye candy like transparency and rounded corners can create accessibility problems for folks less than perfect vision. It's a bit of a mess.
by nospice | 2026-01-04 02:47:46+00:00
Four things that give me a pause:

1) The maze on the carton can't be solved.

2) Two of the maze walls appear to be smudged, but nothing else in the image is.

3) The floral pattern on the plate is messed up - it repeats, but berries randomly change positions and the leaves change shape.

4) The milk carton has a splotchy texture that's really common in ChatGPT-generated illustrations.

I suspect it's not 100% gen AI - for example, the sharp outline around an out-of-focus xmas tree feels like a human-made artistic choice - but I'd bet it's at least partly composed from AI-generated elements.

And for what it's worth, the image pretty consistently trips gen AI image detectors (e.g., https://hivemoderation.com/ai-generated-content-detection).
by jtpagency | 2026-01-04 02:48:37+00:00
To ground this in a concrete scenario, consider the "Haunted Text Field" for writing assistants:

1. The Seamless Way (Current):
You type clumsily, and the AI silently fixes it. You feel like a genius, but you have learned nothing and possess skills you do not actually have. This is "silent delegation" that leads to deskilling.

2. The "Ghost" Way (Proposed):
As the AI suggests a fix, your original, clumsy keystrokes remain visible as a faint, translucent "Ghost" overlaying the corrected text. This artifact proves that the AI intervened and allows you to compare your original intent with the machine's execution in real-time.

By rendering the discarded "raw" input as a lingering artifact, we reintroduce "meaningful friction". We must treat a user's error not as trash to be deleted, but as a historical layer to be preserved.

If we continue to design for seamlessness, we design for sleepwalking. We need mechanics, not magic.
by tguvot | 2026-01-04 02:49:31+00:00
my point is that diplomatic immunity is international law. signatories to rome statue said that they will violate it (diplomatic immunity of Israeli head of state) because of icc warrant.

this is violation of international law that multiple countries openly stated that they will perform.

essentially it means that international law is not binding and selectively enforced. this is slippery slope.

if you can ignore vienna convention why not ignore whatever other part of international law that prohibits invasion ?

PS. UK and France just bombed ISIS in Syria. Is it also invasion and morally wrong ?
by centur | 2026-01-04 02:49:34+00:00
Honestly, I'm absolutely not. I still vividly remember those times when we have to install codecs separately. And every month something something new and incompatible pops up on a radar, which sent all users on a wild hunt for that exact codec and instructions how to tweak it so the funny clip could play. Oh dear I'm not loking back to times od all versions of divX xVid, matroska, mkv avi wma, mp4, mp3 vba ogg and everything else, all thos cryptic incantations to summon a non-broken video frame on a modern hardvare, for everyone but few people in anime community who drove that insanity on everyone else.
I'll die on a hill of VLC, despite all its flaws, because it gave an escape route for everyone else - if you don't give a F about "pixel perfect lowest overhead most progressive compression that is still a scientific experiment but we want to encode a clip with it" and simply want to view a video - vlc was the way. Nothing else made so much good to users who simply want to watch a video and not be extatic about its perfect colour profile, loosless sound and smallest size possible.

All other players lost their plot when they tried to steer users into some madness pit of millions tweaks and configurations that somehow excites aughors of those players and some cohort of people who encode videos that way.

I istall vlc very single time, because this is a blunt answer to all video playing problems, even if its imperfect. And walked away from ever single player who tries to sell me something better asking to configure 100 parameters I've no idea about.
Hope this answers the question why VLC won.
by sky2224 | 2026-01-04 02:49:40+00:00
This is a perfect example of an element of Q&A forums that is being lost. Another thing that I don't think we'll see as much of anymore is interaction from developers that have extensive internal knowledge on products.

An example I can think of was when Eric Lippert, a developer on the C# compiler at the time, responded to a question about a "gotcha" in the language: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8899347/10470363

Developer interaction like that is going to be completely lost.
by erulabs | 2026-01-04 02:51:11+00:00
Loved Myst/Riven when I was a kid. Played most of it sitting on my grandpas lap.

I can’t explain why, maybe it’s my current lack of sleep, but I can’t imagine a life where someone has the time to dig so deep into something so recreational. I mean no spite and no insult! This is cool! Maybe I’m just jealous - I spent my day choring and looking after kids - and I will collapse in 2 hours when I’m done with my obligations.

If you find yourself with free time - use it! Create works like this article or like Riven itself. Life is SO short. Make something people want. Apparently I wanted to spend 10 minutes comparing renders from 30 years ago instead of picking up toys!
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-04 02:51:21+00:00
I'd argue it's no less safe than the status quo, just easier to use. The standard "assert" can be switched off. There's "__builtin_assume". My personal utility library has "assume" which switches between the two based on NDEBUG.

C is a knife. Knives are sharp. If that's a problem then C is the wrong language.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-04 02:51:31+00:00
I have developed neural paths for them. 00 is black, 80, grey, FF white. They can always be two padded digits instead of one to three, therefore more regular and compact. Letters are pronounced just fine.

For example, I'd prefer c0a8.0001 to 192.168.0.1/16 notation. The limitation is that the netmask delimiter can only split by nibble.
by Anon1096 | 2026-01-04 02:51:44+00:00
Glasses as a computer form factor is not really proven out yet, but cameras on the glasses are one of the things that people are actually using the Meta Raybans for. One of the primary things people do with them is capture POV video. Take away the cameras and you're left with what. ChatGPT on command and headphones and that's it? The Humane Pin would like a word. People buy smart glasses specifically for a rich feature set, the more the better (because it's a nerd/early adopter product as of now).

And also in the real world people just do not care about cameras on glasses as much as people on HN trot out the glasshole articles from a decade ago. Both smart glasses and phones that are actively recording are everywhere already.
by jesuslop | 2026-01-04 02:52:30+00:00
I skimmed the chapter on operators (7) and always liked that way of thinking (plug things like the derivative operation D into things that expect numbers instead, and see what happens). So plugging into 1/x and getting integrals. Dattoli and Tom Copeland do serious stuff starting from that kind of considerations that go way beyond cocktail party tricks.
by mzajc | 2026-01-04 02:53:07+00:00
> In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out—because the more people take shortcuts, the less quality will remain for readers to flock to, even if the overall quantity of options is much larger.

I really want this to be the case, but what I've observed so far is that slop networks with thousands of domains and millions generated articles simply drown out everything else. It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell apart pages written by humans from those written by conmen, especially if I'm not an expert on the subject matter.

As an incredibly egregious example, here's one of the top results (#1/#2 on duckduckgo) for "wireguard mesh": https://www.ltwireworks.com/blog/how-to-configure-wireguard-.... Yes, it's a grill mesh manufacturer.
by komali2 | 2026-01-04 02:54:11+00:00
You can't blame America for every single problem people suffer. Cuba was also embargoed and managed to pull off a medical system with a lower infant mortality rate than the USA, and as far as I know nobody starved there to the degree they did in Venezuela.

USA sanctions means Venezuela can't be a Petrostate, that's it. There's nothing stopping the government from organizing state industries in agriculture and mineral extraction as well as distribution to build a hyper localized economy. Hell, they're supposed to be communists, this is supposed to be the whole thing they're meant to be doing anyway.

The state of Venezuela is mostly the fault of Maduro's failed governance, and some of the responsibility lays also on the heads of Venezuelans. I personally believe to pretend it's all America's fault is to engage in a prejudice of low expectations.
by simondotau | 2026-01-04 02:54:17+00:00
I agree there’s a lot of security paternalism, but the “trusted appliance” model is also the objectively correct choice for 99 percent of users. The frog-in-warming-water problem, in my view, isn’t control being taken away — it’s the exponential growth of operating system complexity and connectivity.

Ultimately, choosing macOS is choosing to trust Apple. So the real question is: what do I get in return for that trust? As a "1 percenter" you’d think I’d resent ceding control. But when I look at Gatekeeper, notarization, Signed System Volume, and the rest, my reaction is: thank you, Apple, for doing your fucking job — for doing what I pay YOU to do for ME. If I don’t want Apple managing the security of my computer, then I shouldn’t trust Apple, period. And if I don’t trust Apple, I shouldn’t be running macOS, period.

Even as a 1 percenter, I still treat my main desktop as an appliance. Any time I want to go deeper into a computer, I'm in an ssh terminal to Linux machines under my control.
by makeitdouble | 2026-01-04 02:54:37+00:00
> Its undoubtedly the whole region will be better off without its hold

This is BS. If he was an issue for the region he needed to be tried by his country by his own people and they should get their power back. A foreign power taking over the country to siphon it's oil doesn't help in any way.

It's the same situation with Trump, China swooping in and kidnapping Trump wouldn't help. We'd need the US population to fix it's own mess if we're hoping for any improvement.

We're just getting into another cycle of pain and grudges.
by xp84 | 2026-01-04 02:55:03+00:00
The reason it doesn’t matter is that everyone who chooses to vote third party does so fully knowing who the two front runners are, as well as the likely margin of their state. Most third-party voters are in extremely uncompetitive states, making it quite safe to make a statement vote, even though it potentially dampens your “lesser of two evils” candidate’s apparent mandate.

For instance, I wrote an invalid write-in candidate since both major parties ran clowns in 2024, but Harris carried my state by a mile.
by yukinon | 2026-01-04 02:55:18+00:00
I don't know if "more convenient" would be the words I would use. Setup on this project is very easy, it has very straightforward instructions. Meanwhile, I did a quick 5 minute pressure test of what you suggested and found myself with more questions than answers. I am not saying one way is better than the other, I am just thinking that for those that don't breathe SSH/VPN/Wireguard/Terminal Emulators/etc.. this project is actually far easier to understand.

Also, funny enough on compatibility, but "Termux" is not on iOS, so it fails that basic check. But there's alternatives, of course. Just an observation.
by aristofun | 2026-01-04 02:55:53+00:00
> I'm missing out on utilizing these tools fully.

mastering a tool doesn’t make you a better engineer, only better expert in a particular tool. And it is not the “next level”.

Next level is about getting a wider perspective and bigger picture view on your craft and your job.

On a conceptual/phylosophical level any decent book about building, engineering or designing any complex thing (preferably based on real events, not some made up boring fluff like “deadline” by Tom Demarco) would contain some gems.

I don’t know any single book that is full of gems.

To make this comment useful this is one of many examples, of a book that have couple of good ideas (about feedback system for example) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1501427.Managing_The_Des...
by aenean | 2026-01-04 02:56:08+00:00
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by aboardRat4 | 2026-01-04 02:56:38+00:00
>That is a quite extreme outlier, then. Hardly relevant to the global IPv6 and peer-to-peer conversation we're having here

It's China with it's 1bn of internet users and 2bn+ devices .

If you're happy to exclude half of the internet from your "global peer-to-peer conversation", then you don't need ipv6 either, just use the Chinese IPs for your own purposes, there are plenty of them.

Actually this is the attitude I am seeing from the ipv6 zealots all the time: blatant disregard of reality. Nobody wielding and non-negligible amount of power wants peer-to-peer communication. Companies don't want it, governments don't want it, large masses of people who want a person with a vested interest to be responsible for the link quality don't want it.

What ipv6 zealots don't realize is that ipv6 will not bring them their coveted p2p, because, guess what, incoming connections are to peasant computers are blocked by ISPs by default.
by csdreamer7 | 2026-01-04 02:58:03+00:00
> Microsoft pays well. The prudent move is to not increase spending until saving up at a bare minimum 6 months of "runway".

> I live in Washington. My accountant told me stories, one of which was a Microsoftian who got the big job, and promptly bought the most expensive house he could swing. He soon ran into trouble because he didn't have enough left to pay the property tax, and was forced to sell it.

> Never, ever, EVER assume that a high paying job is a guarantee for life.

I do not know why you wrote this. This wasn't a guy who blew all his money on a big house and was forced to sell it when he lost his job.

The guy's kid was born with a low functioning level of Autism that required expensive therapy to treat. You do not choose that. He had savings, but he may be taking care of the kid for the rest of his life. What is he suppose to do? Eat ramen to save up 40 years of out of pocket therapy treatment when he was fired from a position that Microsoft should have kept? No, that is ridiculous.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-04 02:58:13+00:00
What can be stated without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. It is IMO pretty clear to me there is no substance to this post, without knowing anything about the author.

In general all such claims today are without substance, as they are made without any real metrics, and the metrics we actually need we just don't have. I.e. we need to quantify the technical debt of LLM code, how often it has errors relative to human-written code, and how critical / costly those errors are in each case relative to the cost of developer wages, and also need to be clear if the LLM usage is just boilerplate / webshit vs. on legacy codebases involving non-trivial logic and/or context, and whether e.g. the velocity / usefulness of the LLM-generated code decreases as the codebase grows, and etc.

Otherwise, anyone can make vague claims that might even be in earnest, only to have e.g. studies show that in fact the productivity is reduced, despite the developer "feeling" faster. Vague claims are useless at this point without concrete measurements and numbers.
by komali2 | 2026-01-04 02:59:31+00:00
To an extent yes, but individually I have much more nuanced interactions here with users. Whereas on Reddit I get dog piled by hundreds of black and white thinkers all circle jerking each other, making identical replies to my comments.

Here I often will get a deep thread with one user that's quite interesting, even if we disagree in many ways. It's also usually polite for the most part.
by kazinator | 2026-01-04 03:01:02+00:00
> The thought crossed my mind that it would be really interesting if someone were to write Nick's story," he says. In 2014, by then a published author in his 40s, he sat down to do just that, telling neither his agent nor his editor. It was only when he delivered the manuscript 10 months later that he learned copyright law meant he'd have to wait until 2021 to publish it.

WTf? Can't write an original spin off on some nearly hundred year old thing, without brushing with copyright law?
by renewiltord | 2026-01-04 03:01:05+00:00
Surely the fact that "It says low-fat milk and whole milk; no one would do that" is followed by "oh the real props do that" should cause everyone who thought the former to down-rank their own ability to tell what's AI and what's not. If they don't then they aren't incorporating evidence about the world and their skill.

To have a separate conversation from everyone else (who is talking about whether it's real or AI), I think it's interesting to see people's epistemology. If you thought something was X because of A (i.e. P(X|A) > P(X), maybe much greater), your posterior for P(X|A) should be different from your prior in response to the evidence "it was X, but not X also has A" and I think the directionality should be obvious.

For those who don't do that, I should update my adjustment factor to their claims of fact and not in their favour.
by mrkstu | 2026-01-04 03:01:28+00:00
Until the party system existed, this was true. As soon as the party system evolved (pretty much immediately), with the President nominally the head of the party and the President has at least 1/3 of the Senate, the President comes near to immune from dismissal.

At that point, combined with the recent Supreme Court decisions holding 'official acts' as non-prosecutable, has swung the power meter severely to the executive.
by zephen | 2026-01-04 03:02:19+00:00
I think you are overcomplicating this.

This is exactly the syntax Python uses, and there is no "search" per se.

Either an identifier is in the current namespace or not.

And if it is in the current namespace, there can only be one.

The only time multiple namespaces are searched is when you are scoped within a function or class which might have a local variable or member of the same name.

> find foo::bar(), then we know that the path is <some path>::foo, the function is `bar` consequently we search for all modules matching the substring ::foo,

The only reason you need to have a search and think about all the possibilities is that you are deliberately allowing implicit lookups. Again, in Python:

1) Everything is explicit; but
2) you can easily create shorthand aliases when you want.

> note that for every module we have that has a struct, we need to speculatively dive into it to see if it might give a match. And then give a good error message to the user if everything fails.

Only if you rely on search, as opposed to, you know, if you 'import foo' then 'foo' refers to what you imported.
by csdreamer7 | 2026-01-04 03:02:26+00:00
> KDE Plasma will no longer sleep when your controller is plugged in

Misleading title:

"Using a game controller will now count as “activity”, stopping the system from automatically going to sleep or locking the screen. (Yelsin Sepulveda, KDE bug #328987)"

Using a controller, not just having it plugged in will count as activity.
by the_gastropod | 2026-01-04 03:02:26+00:00
It blows my mind anyone can hold this opinion after 10+ years of Trump very publicly spewing racist garbage. Let's just review a few recent examples:

- Claimed Haitian immigrants were eating neighbors' pets

- Currently claiming Somalian immigrants have setup vast networks of fraudulent daycares

- While he's worked diligently to stop immigration from, what he calls, "shithole countries" like Somalia, Haiti, and Afghanistan, he's advocated for increased immigration from "nice" or "beautiful" countries like Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. He also specially carved out a special South African Afrikaner refugee status for white South Africans.

- Habitually calls predominantly non-white opponents "low-iq individuals".

- Repeatedly called SARS-CoV-2 the Chinese virus, "kung-flu", etc.

- Told four congresswomen of color (3 of whom were born in the U.S.) to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came". A bipartisan resolution was passed in The House condemning these comments as racist.

- And we can go back a long time ago, and remember the Central Park Five, where he relentlessly attacked five innocent black and latino children, calling for the death penalty for them. Even after DNA evidence proved their innocence, Trump never apologized or acknowledged wrongdoing.

Each of these you could try to individually explain away as a misunderstanding or whatever. But there's an abundantly clear pattern of racism, not just with Trump, but much of his administration.
by thundergolfer | 2026-01-04 03:02:52+00:00
Writing that is aimed at the truth should be written to best convey it. But truth is not the only aim of writing, and it's most often not the primary aim.

Truth is also not the aim of these:

> Suits for interviews. Combed hair for dates. Makeup to feel prettier.

The latter is for the pursuit of beauty. The first is because the almighty British empire started wearing suits and we all followed.

Wearing a grubby t-shirt to a job is not because you value truth so much. It's failing to value the other things.

The lads on the Manhattan project almost surely dressed better than a truth-loving rationalist.
by andrewflnr | 2026-01-04 03:02:55+00:00
If it was intentional, they wouldn't be as shy about admitting it.

But as far as your "correction" goes, even if the anti-genAI overtones at its inception are a coincidence, it wouldn't be too crazy for someone making related art today to play up the coincidence anyway. So I think your original idea was still a reasonable guess.
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-04 03:02:59+00:00
> Especially in places like StackOverflow where the people asking questions are often inexperienced.

Except that SO has a crystal clear policy that the answer to questions should be helpful for everybody reaching it through search, not only the person asking it. And that questions should never be asked twice.

So if by chance, after all this dance the person asking the question actually needs the answer to a different question, you'll just answer it with some completely unrelated information and that will the the mandatory correct answer for everybody that has the original problem for any reason.
by CGamesPlay | 2026-01-04 03:03:43+00:00
I recall when they disabled the data export a few years ago [0], March 2023. Almost certainly did this in response to the metrics they were seeing, but it accelerated the decline [1].

[0] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389922/june-2023-da...

[1] https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/1926...