MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bmitc | 2026-01-13 16:45:35+00:00
Is the iPod your only example? That was a quarter century ago.

What's hot about less ports, no headphone jack, no SD card, a tax when buying apps for your phone, planned obsolescence, antagonistic behavior towards app and software developers, an unchanged aluminum rectangle, thinner devices that look cool at the cost of performance and efficiency, heaviest laptops and phones on the market, phones made out of glass front and back, the touchbar, the notch, etc.?
by Fethbita | 2026-01-13 16:46:16+00:00
I updated but then regretted since I learned that Firewire support is now removed. I shoot retro videos with an old Firewire camera so to be able to get footage out of it, I had to stop whatever I was doing and figure out how to create a dual boot system.

Apple doing things like this is quite annoying where the hardware has support for Firewire but software removes it.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-13 16:46:23+00:00
Squash merges are a hacky solution to the git bisect problem that was solved correctly by --first-parent 20 years ago. There are fully employed software developers working on important stuff that literally were never alive in a world where squash merges were needed.

Don't erase history. Branch to a feature branch, develop in as many commits as you need, then merge to main, always creating a merge commit. Oftentimes, those commit messages that you're erasing with a squash are the most useful documentation in the entire project.
by bethekidyouwant | 2026-01-13 16:46:37+00:00
Ton arrière-arrière grand-père a vécus la grosse misère
ton arrière grand-pere il ramassait des cennes noires
et pis ton grand-pere miracle est devenue millionaires
ton pere en na hériter il a toute mit dans ses réer
et pis toé tite jeunesse tu doit ton cul au ministaire.
pas moyen davoir. un prés dans une intitustion banquaire.
pour calmer tes envie de huldoper la cassière tu lit des livre qui parle ... de simplicité vonlontaire

- I think each generation can have a different reason for adopting any philosophy it’s about whether it serves you or not.
by delecti | 2026-01-13 16:47:07+00:00
I don't want one, but all the skepticism is weird. I can see it making sense for hot desking office workers, or other similar. When I worked from home at my last job, I kept the laptop closed and out of sight and just connected my own monitors. Most people aren't picky about keyboards, so this seems like a perfectly reasonable product for plenty of people.
by rjtavares | 2026-01-13 16:47:24+00:00
I guess you haven't read how the government reacted to the incident. Let's put it mildly and say: is wasn't treated as a mistake or bad-apple cop.

Just an example: "Vance said the ICE officer was clearly justified in shooting Good. The officer was clearly acting in self-defense, Vance said. He framed Good as "a victim of left-wing ideology" who was spurred by an alleged network of politically motivated groups to interfere with law enforcement."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-vance-joins...
by pron | 2026-01-13 16:47:51+00:00
> It's not that it's a novel or strange theory, it's just wrong.

Okay. Can you provide an example of a language that steadily and gradually grew in popularity over a long time (well over a decade) and that this slow growth was the lion share of its market size growth? You say "it's just wrong" but I think it applies to 100% of cases, and if you want to be specific when it comes to numbers, then even languages whose market share has grown by a factor of 5 after age 10 is a small minority, and even a factor of 2 is a minority.

> Yeah, no. See, humans have a strong preference for the status quo so it isn't enough that some technology "offers a big competitive advantage", they'd usually just rather not actually.

Except, again, all languages, successful and unsuccessful alike, have approached their peak market share in their first decade or so. You can quibble over what I mean by "approach" but remember that Rust, at age 10+, needs to grow its market share by a factor of 10 to even match C++'s already-diminished market share today.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-13 16:48:13+00:00
Ah, if LSP is what parent meant with "VS code plugin compatible layer" then what you say makes sense, I personally also moved from vim to neovim mainly because of better LSP support.

But I understood "VS code plugin compatible layer" to mean there is something that lets you run VSCode plugins with other editors, which is what I haven't seen anywhere (yet?).
by nicomeemes | 2026-01-13 16:48:24+00:00
As far as code goes, I never contributed to anything even remotely malicious. I worked primarily on obscure scraping problems related to Puppeteer and Playwright. I built some libraries for that I published on NPM, but at no point did I ever contribute or use GitHub in any capacity for anything malicious. I am a hundred percent certain of this, and this is why I am inclined to the other explanation which seems to make more sense.
I would love to get their side of the story. The problem is the rules prohibit creating a new account to discuss the old account being banned without warning. So this sort of kneecaps any potential conversation. Nonetheless, I have broken the rules, I guess, and created a new account and tried to establish some contact, but my ticket doesn't get any responses and based on my research it doesn't seem like it will.

Point taken about mirroring to Codeberg (or sr.ht), and this is something I was already planning on doing in terms of migration. At the same time, if there was any way to restore my GitHub, that would certainly simplify all of my next steps.

More than my own repos, I'm mainly concerned about my contributions to others. I've gotten hired twice just by someone contacting me from an issue that I had fixed on a GitHub discussion and that's no longer there.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-13 16:48:34+00:00
Some snake oil treatments are very expensive and cause more harm for you and your family. For example, this was (is?) popular for breast cancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-dose_chemotherapy_and_bon...

Ivermectin is a very used cheap and safe drug, so I don't expect many nasty side effects, but IANAMD, so ask a real medical doctor before trying.
by al_borland | 2026-01-13 16:48:35+00:00
This reminds me of this Buddhist story about the cup that is already broken. I think I like this a bit better, as it's not that the cup doesn't matter, but rather enjoying it for what it is while you have it.

A monk had a beautiful, delicate tea cup.

His student asked him about the cup. And much to the student's surprise he replied that the cup is already broken. “What do you mean?” – asked the student.

The monk said – “To me this cup is already broken.”

“I enjoy it. I drink from it. It holds my water admirably – sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. When I tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put it on the shelf and the winds blows it over or I knock it off the table and it shatters on the ground then I say - of course.

When I understand the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”
by larkost | 2026-01-13 16:49:08+00:00
I don't agree that it was a "bad management decision". The Trump administration has demonstrated that it will play dirty with grants if they perceive that the receiving organization is not towing their political line as closely as they want.

Not only will they not grant future funds, but they have shown that they will not pay out previously agreed monies, and will even try (with government layers) to pull back funds from groups they have decided "do not align with the governments interests", for however they define that at that moment. There are a long list of court findings that these have been arbitrary and capricious, but every one of those findings (wins) cost the grant receivers a lot of money in court and later fees.

So any money taken from them is incurring a risk. You can disagree with the Python Foundation's calculus on this (saying it was not that large a risk), but please don't pretend that it was not an actual risk.
by fundad | 2026-01-13 16:49:51+00:00
> You can't take one tragic mistake or bad-apple cop and draw conclusions about the fate of the country from it.

Do you have any citations for that? Jonathon Ross's entire chain of command including Sec of DHS and the President has justified the killing in multiple public statements. There has not been any official admission that it was a mistake, tragic nor description of Jonathan Ross as a "bad" apple or anything.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-13 16:50:01+00:00
Thanks for that. I've read the two Lindsey papers before. I think these are all interesting, but they are also what used to be called "just-so stories". That is, they describe a way of understanding what the LLM is doing, but do not actually describe what the LLM is doing.

And this is OK and still quite interesting - we do it to ourselves all the time. Often it's the only way we have of understanding the world (or ourselves).

However, in the case of LLMs, which are tools that we have created from scratch, I think we can require a higher standard.

I don't personally think that any of these papers suggest that LLMs manipulate concepts. They do suggest that the internal representation after training is highly complex (superposition, in particular), and that when inputs are presented, it isn't unreasonable to talk about the observable behavior as if it involved represented concepts. It is useful stance to take, similar to Dennett's intentional stance.

However, while this may turn out to be how a lot of human cognition works, I don't think it is what is the significant part of what is happening when we actively reason. Nor do I think it corresponds to what most people mean by "manipulate concepts".

The LLM, despite the prescence of "features" that may correspond to human concepts, is relentlessly forward-driving: given these inputs, what is my output? Look at the description in the 3rd paper of the arithmetic example. This is not "manipulating concepts" - it's a trick that often gets to the right answer (just like many human tricks used for arithmetic, only somewhat less reliable). It is extremely different, however, from "rigorous" arithmetic - the stuff you learned when you somewhere between age 5 and 12 perhaps - that always gives the right answer and involves no pattern matter, no inference, no approximations. The same thing can be said, I think, about every other example in all 4 papers, to some degree or another.

What I do think is true (and very interesting) is that it seems somewhere between possible and likely that a lot more human cognition than we've previously suspected uses similar mechanisms as these papers are uncovering/describing.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-13 16:50:02+00:00
> client-journalism it engages in with regard to the Conservative party.

BBC Caught Altering Budget Article to Be More Favourable to Labour - https://order-order.com/2024/11/01/bbc-caught-altering-budge...

When Ivor Caplin, the former Labour MP that, among other things, attacked Musk for talking about Pakistani rape gangs, was arrested for pedophilia [1], this is the article they published - no photo, no name, no party affiliation, and no followup article - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg45y4r0yngo

BBC omits identity of Nigerian murderer from article about how he killed his wife [2,3], making it entirely about "gendered violence" instead. Readers can't make the incorrect inference if you simply withhold information from them.

BBC omits all criticism of Starmer from their reporting on his meeting with Trump [4].

The famous Trump capitol speech splicing: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/03/bbc-report-revea...

When Farage's private bank account was closed due to his politics, the BBC first simply took the bank's word that this was entirely due to financial considerations. When Farage obtained internal documents of that bank, explicitly saying he met financial criteria for an account, but it was closed despite this due to his politics, the BBC issued a correction article trying to imply his politics were merely "also" considered [5].

BBC uses all-white stock photos to warn about obnoxiously loud phone use on trains [6].

But makes sure to use a racially-diverse cast for the 1066 Battle of Hastings [7].

This is not the only such instance, nor a coincidence, by their own admission: Moffat even talks about the idea he mentions above — the excuse of “historical accuracy” that some people often give to justify an all-white cast — “[W]e’ve kind of got to tell a lie: we’ll go back into history and there will be black people where, historically, there wouldn’t have been, and we won’t dwell on that. We’ll say, ‘To hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we’ll summon it forth.’” [8,9]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Caplin

[2] https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/benalmadena-torremolinos...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyw7g4zxwzo

[4] https://x.com/chrismid/status/1950163250852540547 (contains links to full Trump-Starmer meeting and the BBC articles, on the off chance you don't trust a random tweet)

[5] "On 4 July, the BBC reported Mr Farage no longer met the financial requirements for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter. The former UKIP leader later obtained a Coutts report which indicated his political views were also considered." - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66288464

[6] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce83p1ej8j7o

[7] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/07/racially-diverse...

[8] https://www.themarysue.com/steven-moffat-on-doctor-who-diver...

[9] https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/moffat-on-diversity-in-doctor-...
by protimewaster | 2026-01-13 16:50:08+00:00
> From the pictures, I get the impression the keyboard sucks.

That was my initial thought. They made the keyboard a big part of the product, and that is the keyboard they came up with?

It's like advertising a fancy new type of AIO and then putting a crummy 50% sRGB gamut 480p TN panel in it.
by stickfigure | 2026-01-13 16:50:11+00:00
Trump will be gone in 3 years. Maybe fewer depending on his health. It's unlikely that this change will have any meaningful effect on US democracy.

On the other hand, little drones are effectively munitions now. That means drone manufacturing capacity is effectively munitions manufacturing capacity. We're giving potential adversaries economies of scale building things that may be used to kill us.

I'm generally a pretty free market guy but the war in Ukraine has changed some things. My main complaint with this law is that it is so US focused; I'd be fine with drones built in Europe or Japan or other allied nations.
by mrweasel | 2026-01-13 16:50:11+00:00
I loved Dilbert, having worked for more than one Dilbert-like company the humor frequently resonated with me.

How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he'd always had, but suppressed, did he somehow become radicalized or was it perhaps medically induced, e.g. a stroke or something. It was incredibly sad to see him throw away his life's work and go down a path most of us at least hadn't foreseen and die having alienated his fans.
by CodingJeebus | 2026-01-13 16:50:13+00:00
I think this is great, and I'm glad to hear that there are people out there doing this kind of work.

The main thing you need to watch out for in this kind of situation is corruption of the news filtering process on the local level. It's much easier to successfully bribe/coerce/undermine a single individual running an independent newsletter like this than it is an entire newsroom. Editors are helpful for vetting sources, providing guidance on how to follow up on leads, etc.
by bmitc | 2026-01-13 16:50:31+00:00
I think it's a stretch to call those experiments of the same kind as those being ran by modern corporations with access to enormous amounts of data and direct connections to people and the ability to later influence based upon the experiments.

Who ran the rock and roll experiment? That example makes no sense.

Public schools and desegregation were constructed to better society, not as some nefarious way for some corporation to improve their profit lines.
by daveguy | 2026-01-13 16:50:48+00:00
Of course you can. It's an amd64 processor with a different name and a coprocessor. Linux doesn't have any problem installing on UEFI, so unless they did something weird, it shouldn't be a problem. Apparently linux runs pretty well on the AMD AI cpus (benchmarks of lunar lake primarily vs Ryzen AI 300 in OP):

https://www.phoronix.com/review/core-ultra-7-lunar-lake-linu...

But concept-wise I think it's a dud. A laptop without a monitor. So you either carry the laptop as two pieces (some good portable monitors around) or you are limited to only plugging it in where there's a monitor available.

Also, it seems they couldn't be bothered to spring for mechanical switches when the entire product is focused around a keyboard. Sheesh.
by watwut | 2026-01-13 16:51:08+00:00
I have seen multiple high level leader say that the shooting was warranted and ok. They expressed happiness over the killing. That includes Trump, Vance and Kristi Noem. They praised the shooter and threatened others.

> You can't take one tragic mistake or bad-apple cop and draw conclusions about the fate of the country from it.

It was not bad apple. It was logical conclusion of ICE tactic and strategy. They also kidnap people, beat them up, throw them out somewhere else on the street. They throw tear gas into insides of cars or just randomly as bye package to citizens. They intentionally ram cars and cause traffic accidents.

Also, concretely, the lower level ICE members have seen to:

1.) do stuff like pointing a gun at a woman and saying "you did not learned from it".

2.) Destroyed memorial of the killed woman.

3.) Been heard to say she was "fucking bitch".

It was not bad apple. He is their hero and exactly where their tactic will go.
by Xelbair | 2026-01-13 16:51:15+00:00
You can really see how well such system works by observing USA right now.

Only way you could have any form of public financing of such endeavor without conflict of interest is to have multinational organization funded by every country.

Or you end up with BBC.

EDIT: to elaborate even further - you didn't even address the problem that ones designing this system would have to work against their own best interest. just wishy-washed that part away.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-13 16:51:21+00:00
Where I am in California, there's a $30+/mo charge to connect to the grid, and the largest savings from a battery was being able to disconnect from the grid. There's lots of time I have excess power generation when I could give to the power grid, if I were connected, but I would have to pay extra to do so, so the potential goes unused.
by markstos | 2026-01-13 16:51:31+00:00
Digital production has lowered the cost, and the Ghost platform in particular is a great value for small publishers, bundling together the blog, newsletter and subscriptions in one package, even now including ActivityPub federation.

And Ghost themselves a non-profit org that doesn't mark up the Stripe transaction fees!

One local news outlet recently switched to that, saving about %5 on Patreon fees and a second is switching now.

https://ghost.org/
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-13 16:51:38+00:00
I didn't say that fragmentation is the only thing that makes them unusable, it's just one of many. Yeah it is a big thing though.

People do have difficulty switching between Mac and Windows, but each has critical mass so it's still easy to get help with the finer details. And unrelated to fragmentation, anyone tech literate won't have nearly as many showstopping issues to ask about there in the first place.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-13 16:52:04+00:00
At some point you have to do the math. Is +$25 for the extra leg room worth it for a 3 hour flight? 6 hour flight?

I flew from DFW to Sydney on a flight that was not fully booked. They made an announcement for a $150 upgrade to have an entire row to yourself. Once in the air, all of the armrests could be raised to allow you to lay flat. $150/17hours $9/hour for a comfortable-ish sleep on a long haul flight. That's better math than the app subscription model threads have.
by jMyles | 2026-01-13 16:52:17+00:00
A society in which ubiquitous, diversely-owned and operated, unlicensed drones watch the every move of police and criminals - even though that means they watch the every move of the rest of us as well - is a society in which I want to live.

The outcome of who can lawfully create and deploy eyes in the sky is the ultimate decider of the matter of who watches the watchers.

The stakes are significant.
by beloch | 2026-01-13 16:52:48+00:00
I live in a city of one and half million. There are two "local" newspapers with histories that, in one case, reaches back over a century. One used to have offices across the street from city hall and regularly broke stories when somebody stumbled out of city hall and into their offices to report dirty deeds. The other paper was of an opposing political slant and the two papers used to fight like cats and dogs. People would read both papers to get a handle on local political winds.

Today, both papers are owned by the same Toronto-based, American-owned media conglomerate. Both papers have lost their local offices. Some work-from-home types produce localized content. Just enough to make the papers look somewhat local. Much of the local content is lazily scraped from reddit, showing up in the city's subreddit one day and appearing in the papers the next. However, 99% of the content is the same as the "local" paper in Toronto runs. The former disagreements over politics are over, and both papers run the same ranting opinion columns.

And yet... You can still walk into any convenience store in town and buy a paper copy of these two "local" papers. My parents still have both papers delivered, and haven't seemed to clue into the fact that they're both the same, American owned paper.

It's not just a loss of ad revenue that have killed local news. It's media conglomerates who are hoodwinking people into thinking they still have local news coverage when they really don't.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-13 16:52:55+00:00
Qt apps under GNOME aren’t great thanks to the client side declaration drama with the GNOME team. In short, the GNOME team believes that programs should be responsible for drawing their own titlebars/chrome (as opposed to windows being provided standard chrome for “free”), and so Qt apps have to draw a simplistic makeshift titlebar which doesn’t match anything when running under GNOME.
by appplication | 2026-01-13 16:53:09+00:00
It’s hard to say on this one. There is a pretty extensive history of Chinese govt spying via consumer products [0]. Having worked formerly with the intelligence community, they tend not to tip their hand when they are aware of asymmetrical information.

It’s plausible that the determination was made that there were backdoors/spy equipment/whatever in the products, so no audit or smooth talking from corp representatives would make a difference in this case, given the supply chain remains controlled by an adversary. If you don’t trust that an audit can be executed with integrity then there’s not much point in conducting one at all.

The fact that this has been extended to all foreign drones does make that feel like more of a political statement though, or at the very least the original intent is being hijacked for political theater.

0. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...