MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-25 23:07:27+00:00
Microsoft has subsidiaries all over the world. They'd still have standing to sue, even if say Germany and France ignored American IP laws( which they definitely won't).

Plus it's not out of the question for them to personally sue WINE contributors. It's not about winning, a simple DMCA takedown notice to any entity hosting WINE code would probably be enough to stop the project.

I want a future of competition between different OSes. I use Linux everyday, but I don't think a market share of 3.86% is sweating anyone at Microsoft.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

I could see Lenovo, which is ultimately a Chinese company, making more aggressive steps to offer Linux. But outside of certain ThinkPads you can't even buy a laptop with Linux pre installed.

In my dream world you'd have to buy Windows separately with any hardware. I guess Best Buy could still offer Windows installation as a service though.
by Muromec | 2026-01-25 23:07:47+00:00
You can't have that with phones. You are always at the mercy of the hardware supplier and their trusted boot chain that starts with the actual phone processor (the one running GSM stuff, not user interface stuff). That one is always locked down and decides to boot you fancy android stuff.

The fact that it's locked down and remotely killable is a feature that people pay for and regulators enforce from their side too.

At the very best, the supplier plays nice and allows you to run your own applications, remove whatever crap they preinstalled and change to font face. If you are really lucky, you can choose to run practically useless linux distribution instead of practically useful linux distribution with their blessing. Blessing is a transient thing that can be revoked any time.
by bummy_commenter | 2026-01-25 23:07:50+00:00
I read what you're saying. I don't want to go into detail about all the things in the article that rubbed me the wrong way, although saying that makes me feel like I owe that, so, sorry about that.

I will say: I don't know who _you_ are, but I feel like _the average Joe_ would love to be this guy and would love to have his problems instead of Joe's.

Succumbing to the pressure of knowing "an honest negative critique could tank an author's career" sounds like a skill issue, as the young folk say. If that's your worry, you are not this Joe's reviewer! I want an _honest_ critique! That that's a lot to ask of my number one TikTok bookfluencer is dystopian!
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-25 23:08:23+00:00
True there was talk of a workshop in the US at my workplace and I informed them from the start that I would be unwilling to attend. It's in a super blue state but no.

We have a lot of people in the US including leaders and some at the meeting were irritated because it draws attention to the issue they're trying to pretend doesn't exist, but I don't care.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-25 23:08:30+00:00
Yes, though noting that since the antirollback is apparently implemented by the bootloader itself on this Qualcomm SoC, this will blow the fuse on devices where the new version is installed, so the unofficial EDL-mode tools that the community seems to be most concerned about will still be unavailable, and users will still be unable to downgrade from the newer to older custom ROM builds.
by jfim | 2026-01-25 23:09:06+00:00
The biggest problem with Canadian capital markets is that investors aren't really that comfortable with taking risk, because the alternative for them is to park their money in real estate, which has done quite well with little risk in Canada.

If Carney really wants to make this happen, he'd have to thread the needle on deflating the property bubble in order to make venture capital and productivity investments more attractive compared to real estate, all while managing the rest of the highly US dependent economy for the upcoming years.

Switzerland has fewer sociocultural problems than the US, but it's also a smaller relatively homogenous society with far less immigration, and a highly educated and politically involved population.
by drusepth | 2026-01-25 23:09:07+00:00
A quick double-check search purports they are.

From https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-kingdom/freedom-net/...:

> According to an April 2025 freedom of information report filed by The Times, over 12,000 people were arrested, including for social media posts, in 2023 under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988. The report also found that the number of annual arrests had more than doubled since 2017 (though in 2023, less than one-tenth of arrests resulted in sentencing).
by webworker | 2026-01-25 23:09:09+00:00
An excellent dissection, but took me a minute to get through it!

I really don't know what they were thinking with trying to scare off all the little indie creatives with the pivoting to enterprise stuff, who won in that strategy? And why wasn't there room for both? They could have just left the old Vimeo in stasis for those people and created an entirely new product line that'd have been better suited, especially since they were rewriting stuff from scratch anyway.

As pointed out, if you want to win in enterprise, you have to be willing to bend over backward, which is exactly what Microsoft did/had to do to get entrenched and at least part of what locked Apple out until iOS came along.

The bit about BrightCove and the competition explains so much.
by jjsullivan5196 | 2026-01-25 23:10:01+00:00
There was no need to make America "great" again. Before this reality TV star came to tell us how much we suck, we held our heads high, we overcame our differences and struggle, and created one of the greatest societies in the world. Now, it's being burned down by the outwardly fascist cabal we've been warned about since the National Socialists took over Germany in the early 20th century.

There is no excuse for state sanctioned terrorism of this nature, the people defending "law enforcement" have no concept of how the legal system works in this country. They only wish for chaos and destruction, to eliminate anyone who doesn't obey in advance. Do not give in.
by dehrmann | 2026-01-25 23:10:03+00:00
I was at Cisco when the Apple iPhone was announced. It was rumored to be happening, so Cisco rushed out a Linksys VoIP(?) phone rebranded (it might have just been a sticker) as an "iPhone" so they could defend the trademark. They quickly reached an agreement with Apple. I remember they might have been getting their VPN included on the device. I'm sure there was a similar issue with iOS, and that caused me to get a lot of not-so-relevant emails from recruiters looking for mobile devs.
by danpalmer | 2026-01-25 23:10:06+00:00
Bluesky has been asymptotically approaching full decentralisation. A few years ago the gap was everything except a decentralised design, then it was AppViews, now it's "tooling and documentation" for the bit of the PKI that only 50 entities have done.

Meanwhile I lost my Mastodon account history because I moved once, couldn't interact with half the network or apps because I was on a non-Mastodon codebase instance, lost my account again because I stopped paying for access to the instance I was on, all classic signs of centralisation.
by imiric | 2026-01-25 23:10:09+00:00
> The track had been inspected very recently. Maybe the inspection standards are inadequate?

Spanish officials are very good at deflecting blame and playing politics. Nobody wants to be held accountable for a catastrophe. Also see the 2024 floods in Valencia; a partially preventable tragedy, followed by a whole lot of mud slinging, but zero accountability.

So while inspection standards might be inadequate, I would take anything a senior official says with a pound of salt.
by HNisCIS | 2026-01-25 23:10:22+00:00
Sure, but I don't see them mention what they're actually using for LEDs at all. They mention a "colour fidelity index" but I'd expect a manufacturer part number or something so I can pull the datasheet.

Funny enough, the best evidence for this study is that they should probably move somewhere with more sunlight if they can't spell "color" right... /s
by input_sh | 2026-01-25 23:10:22+00:00
> and if those in power use violence against the non-violent it increases public sympathy for them.

Even then there's like a fine balancing line where some level of state violence is "acceptable", as in it crushes the spirits of those out on the streets before they manage to organise enough, and yet doesn't get nearly enough attention or wide-enough condemnation (both within and outside of the country). This buys the regime some time even when they're nowhere near 50% of support, and then the very next elections become even more of a sham than they were before. The regime still magically gets as close to 50% of the votes as possible, while still winning with a wide-enough margin that you have no legal recourse to challenge the elections, which only crushes people's spirits even further.

For post-2019 examples, see Georgia (ruling party won with 53.93% in 2024) and Serbia (has yet to have an election, despite largest protests in its history calling for early elections for the past 15 months).

My point being, to overthrow such a regime via a ballot box, 55% against just doesn't cut it. At the very least you need 70%.
by gmd63 | 2026-01-25 23:11:27+00:00
As someone who really hates what this unlawful administration is doing, I went to my local progressive club meeting for the first time expecting at least a fraction of what MAGA folks fantasize about - elite schemers developing an actual strategy to fight back.

Instead what I found were a bunch of kind mostly elderly people sharing news that I had read online a week before, and some folks gathering signatures for positions running for office.

You are doing a huge disservice to yourself by staying indoors and making assumptions about stuff that you aren't investigating in person.
by dahinds | 2026-01-25 23:11:46+00:00
What does it mean to "fund protests"? I'm also a "normal" person who has been to a couple No Kings protests, and no one paid me. Someone spent some money on fliers, I suppose.

The major No Kings events were in June and October last year. January is not a great time for outdoors protests in much of the country. Does it somehow make the protests inauthentic if focus has now shifted towards ICE?
by anon7000 | 2026-01-25 23:12:39+00:00
Bluesky is designed the way it is because of scale. How do you make a p2p app that can handle hundreds of millions of posts per day without beefy servers helping? Bsky is designed so that the microservices themselves can be decentralized and so multiple different types of apps can be built on the same protocol/infra.

Obviously, it’s early days, and hopefully there is even more experimentation in the p2p space. But atproto architecture is a very fair experiment in this space. I can store my data on my own server, use a client app I wrote, subscribe to a specific aggregation/feed service I prefer, use the moderation list I want… all while still being connected to the larger protocol & network. It’s pretty neat.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-25 23:13:02+00:00
Yes, I am sure it plays a factor, giving people justification for their actions. The issue is that restoring order is not easy. And when the people making disorder are antagonistic to the people restoring order that clash leads to unfortunate scenarios. Lack of training (specifically direct experience of dealing with such behavior) or screening plays a role in how order is restored but these are reactive actions. In my mind everyone would be better off if we all maintained order so these clashes didn't have to happen in the first place.
by ameligrana | 2026-01-25 23:15:16+00:00
SeanLuke, I tried to fix an issue about Mason I opened when I was looking into this a while back two years ago and tried to notify people about that (https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/ABMFrameworksComparison/iss...) with https://github.com/JuliaDynamics/ABMFrameworksComparison/pul..., hopefully the methodology is correct, I know very little about Java...In general, I don't think there is any very good comparison on performance in this field unfortunately at the moment, though if someone is interested in trying to make a correct one, I will be happy to contribute
by jfim | 2026-01-25 23:15:22+00:00
I'm a bit disconnected from Canadian politics these days, but wasn't Pierre Poilièvre polling quite well compared to the liberals until the US election?

And while it's true that there are no confidence votes, Harper has prorogued the parliament before in order to prevent such a vote.

Canadian politics is healthier in general than in the US but it's not a panacea.
by chowchowchow | 2026-01-25 23:15:23+00:00
>This is systematically not true as citizens can not be legally deported.

And yet.

>If someone is not a citizen and are here illegally they should be removed, no matter their intentions. If you are willing to break the law to stay here, I personally don't want them back in the country.

Without even getting into the subject of kids who are brought here.. I just have to say, why? Immigrants are net contributors in the US. Many of these people who are here "illegally" are in a bureaucratic maze and are attempting to follow the rules. Some aren't, sure, but we live in a society where we don't draconianly punish people for a certain level of breaking the rules in cases where there is no real harm done. And I say deportation, particularly to 3rd country like the USA is doing now sometimes, qualifies as very draconian.
by goatlover | 2026-01-25 23:15:36+00:00
I don't understand this comment. What protesting does is let other people know there is dissent, and some people are willing to take to the streets. Enough people do that and you have networking effects as other people are motivated to take a stand. It makes the mainstream media, and representatives feel pressure to address the issue. I've been to a number of protests over the last year, and I can tell you there are even more people honking in support who drive by.
by taylorlapeyre | 2026-01-25 23:16:40+00:00
Sex is not like other subjects, it is peculiarly liable to harm, obsess, distract us. Sexual content is uniquely powerful in its ability to reduce human beings to objects for use, and having the ability to generate endless amounts of it completely privately is a very dangerous power to have. I worry about what it will do to us to have this technology, and I worry that OpenAI is treating this subject with too little concern.
by ihlamury | 2026-01-25 23:17:05+00:00
I extracted design specifications from 13 companies and packaged them as skills that AI coding agents can follow.

The problem: AI generates inconsistent UIs because it doesn't have access to real design system constraints. "Build a dashboard like Linear" produces something that looks nothing like Linear.

The solution: Structured constraint documents in MUST/SHOULD/NEVER format containing:
- Semantic color tokens (not just hex codes)
- Typography scale with named styles
- Spacing grid
- Component specifications
- Interactive state treatments

Example constraint:
- MUST use #5E6AD2 as primary action color
- MUST use 4px grid for spacing
- SHOULD use 6px border-radius for interactive elements
- NEVER use pure black for backgrounds

Installation: `npx skills add ihlamury/design-skills`

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or paste into any AI chat.

Available: Linear, Stripe, Spotify, Notion, Discord, GitHub, Vercel, Robinhood, Slack, Airbnb, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mercury

https://github.com/ihlamury/design-skills
by hdaz0017 | 2026-01-25 23:17:29+00:00
There's only one way to stop this, protesting is fine but the only way to make the point is for each state or the whole of USA to go on strike! not just for one day but weeks / months! every working person that thinks this is deranged it's only the start.

If your government can go on strike for weeks and months, why can't the normal people?
by mistermaster1 | 2026-01-25 23:17:31+00:00
Thank you for taking ownership. Unfortunately when the online “gang” effectively amplifies itself (either through correlation of their voices as they see something that isn’t there; or in actual coordination/racing to echo one another) the emergent effect is one of ostracization and it becomes easier to see how some people become radicalized and even get cornered into dishonestly defending worse and worse actions & positions which they never would have otherwise defended. I chose not to do that, but only because this isn’t the first time that I’ve been mobbed by groupthinkers who want to defend whatever article or tagline they are promoting to the point of attacking me for making any point that seems critical of any part of their current bible of choice.
by hedora | 2026-01-25 23:18:02+00:00
They use rf numbers, which is a newer standard, so that's probably good.

However, the experimental group (extra light sources) got rf 91 bulbs, and the control ("LED lighting") got rf 85 bulbs.

The two scales are not exactly comparable, but they both max out at 100. The only source I could find that discusses both says that > 90 CRI is "excellent" and just below that is "very good". It says > 85 rf is "very good", which tells me it's comparable to a mid-80's CRI bulb.

If I accidentally buy a mid-80 CRI bulb, I either return it to the store, or just throw it away.

So, I'd say this study's experimental setup doesn't support any useful conclusions. They showed that so-painfully-bad-California-won't-subsidize-them LEDs are worse than passable LEDs with supplementation from another light source.

The passable LEDs in the study are probably comparable to the cheap ones at our local hardware store, but worse than the ones that cost $10-20 on amazon ten years ago.

This would have been much more interesting if they'd compared high-end LEDs with and without supplementation, and found a difference. (And by "high-end", I mean "still much cheaper then the electricity they save")
by seabass-labrax | 2026-01-25 23:19:19+00:00
The other aspect to consider is changing requirements. Maybe a device capable of transmitting PSTN-level audio quality wirelessly would have been popular twenty years ago, but nowadays most people wouldn't settle for anything with less than 44.1kHz bandwidth. A faster processor means that there's some room for software upgrades later on, future-proofing the device and potentially reducing electronic waste. Unfortunately, that advantage is almost always squandered in practice by planned obsolescence and an industry obsession with locked-down, proprietary firmware.
by wrs | 2026-01-25 23:19:53+00:00
There were investigations. There were indictments (including four of Trump himself). Here we are. What we learned is that the only constitutional remedy is impeachment (which was also tried twice). What has disabled all the checks and balances is the knife-edge Congressional majority, the takeover of the judiciary, and the purging of the civil service. Changing the President stops the active craziness but doesn't address the underlying problem.
by pdpi | 2026-01-25 23:20:21+00:00
Yeah, not disagreeing with you. It's just that, every time we have this discussion, we see comments like GP's rebutted by comments like yours, and vice versa.

All I'm saying is that we have to acknowledge that both are true. And, if both are true, we need to have a serious conversation about who gets to choose the core used in our front door locks.
by chrsw | 2026-01-25 23:20:36+00:00
Here's another one

https://scrutinydebugger.com/

It's for embedded systems though, which is where I come from. In embedded we have this concept called instruction trace where every instruction executed with the target gets sent over to the host. The host can reconstruct part of what's been going on in the target system. But there's usually so much data, I've always assumed a live view is kind of impractical and only used it for offline debugging. But maybe that's not a correct assumption. I would love to see better observability in embedded systems.
by mdasen | 2026-01-25 23:20:54+00:00
> Working outside of did:plc is a choice

What you're saying is: working outside of centralization is a choice. did:plc is a centralized database controlled by Bluesky.

Bluesky talks a big game about decentralization when it's extremely centralized. Everyone uses the centralized did:plc because it's the one way to really make it function. Until very recently, everyone used the centralized Bluesky AppView - and even now, well over 99% do. Bluesky will say things like "the protocol is locked open", but Bluesky could decide to shut off their firehose at anytime (leaving third parties cut off) and could decide to stop taking incoming data from third parties (leaving anyone on non-Bluesky servers cut off from basically everyone).

In a lot of ways, Bluesky is more like Twitter a decade or so ago. It offers APIs that third parties can use to build off of - but at any time, Bluesky could shut down those APIs. Back then, you could read the Twitter firehose and store the tweets and create your own app view with your own front-end if you wanted. Tweets would need to be sent to the Twitter APIs, but that's not really different than your third-party PDS server sending them to Bluesky if you want anyone else to read them.

You aren't open if someone controls the vast majority of a system because at any time they can decide "why are we doing this open thing? we could probably force the <1% of people elsewhere to migrate to our service if we cut off interoperability." Google Talk (GChat) offered XMPP federation and a lot of people bought into the platform because it was open. At some point, Google realized that the promise of openness had served its purpose and closed it off.

And it's important to think about the long-run here. Twitter was that benevolent dictator for a long time. Bluesky is still early and looking to grow - when they want people building off their system, giving them engagement, ideas, and designs they can copy. We're around year-5 of Bluesky. A decade from now after Bluesky builds its popularity on the back of "we're open and decentralized" while making decentralization extremely difficult, will that change? If Bluesky gets to a few hundred million users and then a third party starts looking like a potential threat, maybe they'll cut that off before they have genuine competition.

Maybe that won't happen with Bluesky. Maybe their investors won't care about the potential for a pay day. But if they have control (either through centralization like did:plc or by controlling the vast majority of the network), there will always be the potential for them to break interoperability. If they start monetizing Bluesky, why should they keep hosting, processing, and serving all that data for third party clients they can't monetize? Why shouldn't they stop federating with third parties before a third party becomes competition?
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-25 23:21:08+00:00
We blew up shipwrecked survivors a few weeks ago, which is a textbook example of a war crime.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attac...

> Two survivors of the initial attack later appeared to wave at the aircraft after clambering aboard an overturned piece of the hull, before the military killed them in a follow-up strike that also sank the wreckage. It is not clear whether the initial survivors knew that the explosion on their vessel had been caused by a missile attack.

And "textbook" is not an exaggeration.

https://apnews.com/article/boat-strikes-survivors-hegseth-72...

> The Pentagon’s own manual on the laws of war describes a scenario similar to the Sept. 2 boat strike when discussing when service members should refuse to comply with unlawful orders. “For example,” the manual says, “orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.”