MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bsimpson | 2026-01-28 23:34:39+00:00
I'm a lifelong Mac user, but a gaming handheld has gotten me into some of these topics. I dual-boot SteamOS and Windows.

On SteamOS, my 5.1 stereo just works.

On Windows, apparently there was some software package called DTS Live (and/or Dolby Live) needed to wrap the audio stream in a container that the stereo understands. There was a time when there was a patent pool on the AC-3 codec (or something like that - I'm handwaving because I don't know all the details). So Microsoft stopped licensing the patent, and now you just can't use AC-3 on Windows. I spent an evening installing something called Virtual CABLE and trying to use it to juryrig my own Dolby Live encoder with ffmpeg… Never got it to work.

It's easy to fall deep into the tinkerhole on Linux, which has kept me away for a long time, but as mainstream platforms get more locked down, or stop supporting things they decide should be obsolete, it's nice to have a refuge where you're still in control, and things still work.

(Insert meme about the Windows API in Proton being a more stable target than actual Windows.)
by paulirish | 2026-01-28 23:34:54+00:00
This was not spoofed at the ADS-B layer. It was just spoofed to adsb exchange. (While typically a feeder contributes to multiple sites, this one didn't.) eg:

- https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-80.030&zo...

- https://adsb.lol/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-80.030&zoom=14...

Relevant discussion on r/adsb: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comments/1qp3q9n/interesting/ where they note it's also absent on FR24, airplanes.live, and theairtraffic.com.

The adsb-x feeder map: https://map.adsbexchange.com/mlat-map/ They probably won't have a hard time identifying who contributed that data.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-28 23:35:03+00:00
I really recommend you read Bob Woodward's four most recent books, starting with Fear[¹] . They give us a fascinating look into Trump's mind, and we get frank discussions from Trump and the people around him about how he not only idolizes strong men like Putin and Kim, but wishes he could be more like them if it weren't for the limits on his power and weak people around him (i.e. more feared/respected by his subordinates, able to command them with an iron fist, etc.).

[¹] The title of the book comes from Trump remarking to Woodward that "Real power is – I don’t even want to use the word – fear."
by pessimizer | 2026-01-28 23:35:12+00:00
I want them to use antitrust regulation against everyone, including me. That's what having values is like.

Markets without competition degenerate. Markets are also artificial and always rely on government enforcement to exist - Apple sues people who try to get around its market manipulation. You just prefer that governments help enforce trusts and destroy competition that those trusts denote as unfair.
by ipaddr | 2026-01-28 23:35:26+00:00
Not sure lawyers or climate scientists have more empathy then a middle age man who lives with his mother and cares for her while getting a disability check. But woman prefer the former.

The answer is woman value status.

Getting murdered is a hollywood / news fear that rarely happens. People should be worried about deadly things that happen often like cancer or heart attacks. Those are rarely the leading story on the nightly news.

Programmers are around programmers but the rate they marry another programmer is much less. Even with a gender imbalance women programmers are not seeking male programmers like women doctors.
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-28 23:35:26+00:00
But it's not tarnishment. In the BS case, they found that it wasn't infringement, but that they were using it in a way that would cause reputational damage (also dubious, but sure). Here it would seem the claim that it causes reputational damage is even more tenuous; the food truck is not portraying them in any kind of negative light. In fact, an even better fit is likely the Chewy Vuitton toys[0]:

> While it is true that finding a mark to be strong and famous usually favors the plaintiff in a trademark infringement case, the opposite may be true when a legitimate claim of parody is involved. As the district court observed, "In cases of parody, a strong mark’s fame and popularity is precisely the mechanism by which likelihood of confusion is avoided."

> In a similar vein, when considering factors (v) and (vi), it becomes apparent that Haute Diggity Dog intentionally associated its marks, but only partially and certainly imperfectly, so as to convey the simultaneous message that it was not in fact a source of LVM products. Rather, as a parody, it separated itself from the LVM marks in order to make fun of them.

In the BS case, SCOTUS explicitly noted that parody is a factor in determining confusion and therefore infringement[1]:

> But a trademark’s expressive message—particularly a parodic one, as VIP asserts—may properly figure in assessing the likelihood of confusion ... So although VIP’s effort to ridicule Jack Daniel’s does not justify use of the Rogers test, it may make a difference in the standard trademark analysis. Consistent with our ordinary practice, we remand that issue to the courts below.

And then the ultimate conclusion was that it was not infringement. SCOTUS ruled the lower court had taken an incorrect shortcut, but ultimately the answer (on the infringement question) was the same for basically the same reason.

[0] https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/062267.P.pdf

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-148_3e04.pdf
by belorn | 2026-01-28 23:35:30+00:00
I mentioned it in the comment above. Commands that you run in a shell script do not always block execution until the underlying resources is fully available. If we take the network as an example, the script to open a vpn tunnel and providing the tap0 device may not be available for the next command to use just because you first run the network script, then start the vpn daemon, and then start the next daemon. What people did was to add a bunch of sleep(10) in hope that the tap0 was up by the end of the sleep, and this might had worked great for a few years until the admin added a few too many complex rules to the network daemon and now it need to be sleep(15) instead, but only on some days in the week. Everyone also knew (and ignored) that adding sleep in the initscript was a sign of bad design and extremely brittleness.

Debian did have a fairly good init builder that attempted to do some form of dependency ordering and trickery to get things done in the right order and in the right time, where you wrote a service-like configuration file and than rebuilt the initscript. The builder then compiled the configuration files into an generated shell script. Redhat did something similar if I recall right.

Manually editing the generated shell script was seen as both dodgy, brittle and dangerous given that it could be arbitrary changed by any installed package. Some packages also sed and awk directly at the generated init script.
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by agmmnn | 2026-01-28 23:35:36+00:00
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by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-28 23:35:52+00:00
>Real friendships require work. That's true of any relationship.

indeed. Perhaps that is part of my frustration. Friendships can also be a 2 way street, and it can feel like I'm putting in a lot more effort than the other party when it comes to trying to form them. I don't expect 50/50 effort, but when it's 95/5, are they a friend or simply a familiar guest?

Maybe I need to accept that the tech circles here aren't going to have that deep bond and expand. But I'll admit that the job hunt also slowed down my efforts to break out of my comfort zone.
by rav3ndust | 2026-01-28 23:35:57+00:00
> Don't do it like "let's play this game because it runs on Linux" do it like "let's play this game because it's fun".

Indeed! i have some online and irl buddies who aren't on linux that i've got playing games like veloren with me, simply because they are good games. i've got loads of hours in games like veloren, luanti, xonotic, pokeMMO, and osu! for example lol and encourage everyone to check those games out if they're up their alley. :)
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-28 23:36:21+00:00
This SV you speak of seems to have their own [upper-middle "Harvard-Stanford"] version/vision of the Linebarger steamroller.

Compare: you decided the IP will always be made of bigots :)

I'm guessing they (ditto alphn,PH) are not (openly?) defecting to the global murine movement because they figure their steamroller has a shot against the steamroller of the current IP (somewhat like the UK IP-branch?)

How about Merz? Is he IP, or are (some of) the people thumbing their noses at his BlackRock connections IP?

https://wid.world/www-site/uploads/2024/02/WorldInequalityLa...

The only other country
documented to have a historical Brahmin left is Japan (see Gethin et al. 2021, Chapter 11).

Peter might be interested in the history of the Japanese salarymen :)
by leptons | 2026-01-28 23:36:38+00:00
Apple also includes a web browser on iOS, but forces every other browser you can install to use their browser engine. It's one of the many reasons they are being sued by the DOJ for anti-competitive practices.

Apple also sits on a board that approves new web technologies for standards formalization, so they can squash adoption of anything that might make web browser APIs as capable as a native application, so that they can force people to make native apps where they can extract a percentage from it (they can't do that with a web application). Rather than work out reasonable ways to support things other browsers allow, they just say "no thanks" and then there is no standard allowed to move forward.

It's extremely abusive and anti-competitive. I hope the DOJ continues to pursue litigation against Apple for this and many other things.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline
by bsimpson | 2026-01-28 23:37:14+00:00
Pair-programming Nix with Gemini has taught me a lot about the assistive power of LLMs.

They're still slow and annoying at languages I'm good at. But it's really handy to be able to take one I'm not (like Nix or even C++) and say "write me a patch that does …" Applying a lot of the same thinking/structuring skills, but not tripping on the syntax.
by Bender | 2026-01-28 23:37:23+00:00
I hear ya. This is just my opinion but I don't think journalists are going to be much help. The bots would have to be hurting something belonging to the government or the government is paying for to really get them on it. e.g. some big orgs in the government embed your maps on their site. They would have to create legislation and then someone would have to trace the bots back to their operator for attribution and then someone would have to file lawsuits against them once it is illegal.

I think your only hope would be to either find subtle differences between them and real legit users or change how your site works so that bots have to be authenticated unless they have a whitelisted IP/CIDR or put your site behind something else that spots the bots. Beyond that all anyone can do is beef up their infrastructure to handle much more than the bots could dish out.

Have you tried silly simple things like hidden javascript puzzles the browser has to solve?
by cyanydeez | 2026-01-28 23:37:23+00:00
I think you arn't paying attention: AS long as there's 1 seller and 1 buyer, Capitalism will happily burn the rest of the population.

Sure there's some other limits on social cohesion, but the idea that we can't squeeze upward and leave a bunch of poor people destitute is optimistic.

It's also how you ensure no one thinks: Hey, maybe capitalism isn't an optimal distribution of social good.
by motbus3 | 2026-01-28 23:37:35+00:00
Same, and I ain't in any of those locations.

The thing is that there will be less work, but that certainly is not looking like universal income.
It is more like rich people will get rid of those who they don't need with some sort of "let's kill parasites" or "cutting weed" because the world is in danger of poor people destroying it.
In certain ways, they are already trying to tell that to people so nobody notices that no single person should have a trillion or even a billion of money
by epolanski | 2026-01-28 23:37:59+00:00
> This is counterproductive. The only alternative to letting Apple exploit you is letting Google exploit you.

Or allowing users to control their hardware and software and give them the freedom to install the hell they want on it?

We've been using computers for eternities where we still have the possibility, yet, as soon as it is about phones then "no way, we protecting you from bad actors".

Give me a break, you want to help protect me from bad actors implement proper software/hardware jails/containers for third party software and that's it.
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-01-28 23:38:18+00:00
All very well to have a plan, and I'm sure some people manage to successfully "repurpose" themselves, but historically the way this plays out is that redundant workers live out their days in relative poverty and it's their children/grandchildren who find new opportunities out of economic necessity. Usually takes 2-3 generations for the impact on workers to fully shake out.
by moshegramovsky | 2026-01-28 23:39:17+00:00
> I still use them but find that more of the time is spent arguing with it and correcting problems with it than actually getting any useful product.

I feel the same. They're better at some things yes, but also worse at other things. And for me, they're worse at my really important use cases. I could spend a month typing prompts into Codex or AntiGravity and still be left holding the bag. Just yesterday I had a fresh prompt and Geminin bombed super hard on some basic work. Insisting the problem was X when it wasn't. I don't know. I was super bullish but now I'm feeling far from sold on it.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-28 23:39:39+00:00
>spammers already have no issue paying for junk mail.

Junk mail isn't that expensive in the grand scheme of things. And I'd be surprised if the margins for this was so high that a mere 1 cent transactions wouldn't deter so many of them.

I see it the opposite. You will never stop truly motivated propaganda from spreading its messae. They put millions into it and the goal isn't necessarily profit. But you stop a lot of low time scammers with a small cost barrier.If only because they then take a cheaper grift.
by techblueberry | 2026-01-28 23:40:01+00:00
> At the same time, what's the alternative? Progress happens.

I actually wonder if solving this problem - this feeling of powerlessness in the face of progress is an interesting problem to solve in our time. Plenty of people have figured this out. The Amish, people move to islands and other countries to not be part of modern progress.

"Making up jobs to keep people employed isn't a viable solution to me. " Why not? I mean Keynes argued something like: if the Treasury filled old bottles with banknotes, buried them in disused coal mines, filled the mines with rubbish, and then left it to private enterprise to dig them up again, there would be no more unemployment and the real income of the community would probably become a good deal larger than it actually was."

But it really does feel sometimes like. Why do we feel this powerlessness to progress? Why can't we architect the world we want to have? I have really been wondering. Lots of religious groups want to revert some progress. Maybe these whole network cities folks have a point. Maybe we can have a city like pegged to the like technical and architectural standards of the victorian era.
by InterviewFrog | 2026-01-28 23:40:31+00:00
Ironically, being anti-science is pro-science. Skepticism of institutions and consensus is the scientific method.

The main reason being scientific consensus can lag reality significantly, especially when career incentives discourage dissent. The history of science includes many cases where consensus was wrong and critics were marginalized rather than engaged.

Deference to science as an authority is the opposite.

Feynman has a quote on this:

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says, 'Science teaches such and such,' he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn't teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, 'Science has shown such and such,' you might ask, 'How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?' It should not be 'science has shown' but 'this experiment, this effect, has shown.' And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments — but be patient and listen to all the evidence — to judge whether a sensible conclusion has been arrived at."
by abustamam | 2026-01-28 23:41:30+00:00
> Fewer anti-consumer dark patterns

> isn't worth it

This is a gross reduction of why people choose Linux. People don't choose it just for a snappier file browser and fewer anti-consumer dark patterns.

1. games that install what amounts to be rootkits on my computer are not ok
2. windows potentially spying on my data without my consent is not ok

If you wanna label these as dark patterns, that's fine, but let's not pretend that this behavior is ok.

I like playing games. But I like privacy and security more than playing games, which is why I have a linux gaming machine and a PS5. Some people would rather just play games and not worry about the other stuff, which is understandable for the reasons you mentioned.
by dexdal | 2026-01-28 23:42:35+00:00
Right. Each context window is a partial view, so it cannot “know the codebase” unless you supply stable artefacts. Treat project state as inputs: invariants, interfaces, constraints, and a small set of must-keep facts. Then force changes through a plan and a diff, and gate with tests and checks. That turns context limits into a controlled boundary instead of a surprise.
by thebruce87m | 2026-01-28 23:42:55+00:00
USB-C is only a connector/socket - a device having a USB-C socket does not guarantee much beyond being able to plug a USB-C connector into it.

Some USB-C devices only use the port for charging for example. Others might only support USB 2.0.

Getting a display out from something with USB-C socket needs the device to support something called DP Alt Mode.

Note that cables matter too - you can have a DP alt mode enabled monitor and phone, but if you have the wrong cable it won’t work. Welcome to the future.
by decimalenough | 2026-01-28 23:43:02+00:00
Unless I'm much mistaken, the spoofed data is centered over Mar-a-Lago!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/fjqtAa2qgcWsJvFfA

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.680&lon=-...
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-28 23:43:04+00:00
If you mention Java, I think you may only incite more nostalgia for the monopolies of yesteryear. Was Microsoft's approach to Java evil and ill-intentioned, yes, absolutely. But it eventually resulted in .NET and C#, so I'd say that particular battle was a net benefit to humanity in the end. .NET is even truly cross-platform now, and open-source. Meanwhile Apple achieves interesting technical advances with their new hardware but I will never benefit from the existence of it because I will not use hardware that is locked to a prison OS.
by egorfine | 2026-01-28 23:43:46+00:00
> we try to make every new feature that might be disruptive optional in systemd and opt-in

I find it hard to believe. Like, at all. Especially given that the general posture of your project leader is the exact opposite of that.

> systemd a healthy project

I can see that we share the same view that there are indeed differences in opinion.
by rekabis | 2026-01-28 23:43:46+00:00
I take an adversarial approach to Windows. Which started with Windows XP and its supremely annoying zip-files-as-folders approach. Sorry, but I didn’t want that, and I still gleefully rip it out of every Windows install I touch.

And then things started snowballing with every version.

Plus, I had elderly clients that got hopelessly lost on any UI after XP, so I had a lot of hacking-and-slashing to do there for not only them, but also myself. Like, just give me the option of a traditional XP-style start menu, goddammit. Thank goodness for StartIsBack.

But what took me about 6-8hrs of directed work with XP is now about 24-48hrs of work with Windows 11. Honestly, I am at the point where I just want to create a highly opinionated one-click configuration app that does everything for me.

And I would, if I still did as many installs as I was doing even half a decade ago.

Hmmm… as a DotNet developer… anyone interested in a spyware-eviscerating, copilot-extracting, settings-preserving app that allows you to retain a mostly-XP style look, and which remains resident to alert you of Microslop changing settings back?
by nomel | 2026-01-28 23:43:54+00:00
> The last time Windows had such brute-force rendering was in Windows XP, 25 years ago.

To be fair, UXGA was a thing 20 years ago. I don't think it makes sense for Apple to care all that much about low DPI monitors. They don't sell any, and they wouldn't be acceptable to most Apple people, who have had crisp displays available for > 10 years now. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of Apple users on low dpi is single digit percentage.
by bossyTeacher | 2026-01-28 23:44:04+00:00
I wonder what does this mean for the attestation layer? If you can run banking apps on a desktop, this would be a massive game changer for many of us who only use normie OSes because of the need to use services that are mobile app only (or with functionally limited web apps). Means we would only need to keep a single phone rather than two
by jujube3 | 2026-01-28 23:44:25+00:00
None of what you're saying is related to what the parent post is saying at all. He's saying, if the immigrants are exceptional, they should be on an O-1 visa, which is specifically designed for exceptional people. If they're not exceptional, then why not hire an unemployed American worker instead?

H1B supposedly is designed to address "shortages", but there are no actual shortages.
by tim333 | 2026-01-28 23:44:29+00:00
It's a completely different system really - Russia with it's ruler in Moscow commanding a large army and dictating what happens vs the EU with no central army, no central ruler, governed by local democracies and human rights laws and the like.

It doesn't fit with their way of thinking much really. With Trump they can kind of say we get this bit of Ukraine you get that, we both get rich from iffy minerals deals but the EU doesn't work like that.

Kaja Kallas for example recently announced "the first €10 million for the establishment of a Special Tribunal for Crimes of Aggression." She wants to prosecute the Russians for war crimes, not make a deal with them. So you can understand why they are not keen to chat there.

Not sure how that all works out.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-28 23:44:42+00:00
Not really. A different place to look for this is in chemical reactions and things biological life does.

You may have some simple chemical life needs, and life may have some other simple chemical it can use to get the needed simple chemical, but the processing steps are complex and limited by physics themselves. Evolution almost always finds a path of using the minimum activation energy to let these reactions occur. Trying to make the process simpler just doesn't get you what you need.