MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tracker1 | 2026-01-22 16:09:28+00:00
Or... it could be my general vision loss issues in that I can't hardly see...

I can't make out a native pixel as it is. I understand that if it had 2x the PPI that it might handle rendering better and that may help, some with visibility... I had a first generation MBP with retina display, and it was amazing. But that's not my issue here. Not to mention the trouble having my work laptop push effectively 4x the pixels if such a mythical beast existed.

The size is so that I can actually work with a single screen, editor on one side, browser on the other... it's almost like 2x 3:2 displays in one. For a workflow it's pretty good... I don't game much, but it's nice for that and content viewing as well. I had considered using side by side displays, like 2x 27" in portrait mode... but settled on this, which is working surprisingly well for now.
by the_snooze | 2026-01-22 16:09:40+00:00
It could be as simple as "wealthy areas get more county services." There are practical considerations when choosing polling places, like the availability of parking and enough space to accommodate a line, check-in tables, voting booths, and ideally separate entrance and exit doors. Public schools and county rec centers are go-to locations because the county (who administers the election) already owns them and they have the space needed. Churches are great too, but they require having an agreement with a private organization.
by gambiting | 2026-01-22 16:09:47+00:00
Ha, another Ender survivor here. I had the Ender 5 Pro for a few years, recently bought a Bambu H2D and it's like going from a bicycle to a car with heated steering wheel. It "just works" (it still has the classic 3D printing problems of edges of the print lifting up etc, but that's not the printer's fault). Vast majority of the time it just works.
by vacuity | 2026-01-22 16:09:54+00:00
Same. Somehow there tends to be some "pattern" that stands out, but I guess it's just a mix of the likelihood of "something interesting" and our minds being tuned to pick out "anything interesting". I've memorized a few SSNs and license plate numbers this way, and some digits of pi. I like it; it feels like normal memorization with a twist, without having to resort to "hardcore" techniques.
by cedws | 2026-01-22 16:09:57+00:00
It’s pretty weak sandboxing. It still grants full read only access to the file system so any secrets in your home directory can still be exfiltrated. I’m pretty sure it could also be deceptive and use a script to write where it shouldn’t be able to as well.
That’s not really sandboxing in my opinion. It should be something like unveil, the process gets a working space at startup, and it cannot ever do anything outside of that directory.
by jklinger410 | 2026-01-22 16:10:12+00:00
> the content of the papers themselves are not necessarily invalidated. For example, authors may have given an LLM a partial description of a citation and asked the LLM to produce bibtex (a formatted reference)

Maybe I'm overreacting, but this feels like an insanely biased response. They found the one potentially innocuous reason and latched onto that as a way to hand-wave the entire problem away.

Science already had a reproducibility problem, and it now has a hallucination problem. Considering the massive influence the private sector has on the both the work and the institutions themselves, the future of open science is looking bleak.
by ctoth | 2026-01-22 16:10:15+00:00
> People will risk their life in a horribly janky self driving car if it means they can swipe on social media instead of watching the road - acceptance doesn't mean it's good.

People will risk their and others' lives in a horribly janky car if it means they can swipe on social media instead of watching the road - acceptance doesn't mean it's good.

FTFY
by freedomben | 2026-01-22 16:10:49+00:00
IMHO, It's mostly ignorance coming a push/drive to "publish or perish." When the stakes are so high and output is so valued, and when reproducability isn't required, it disincentivizes thorough work. The system is set up in a way that is making it fail.

There is also the reality that "one paper" or "one study" can be found contradicted almost anything, so if you just went with "some other paper/study debunks my premise" then you'd end up producing nothing. Plus many inside know that there's a lot of slop out there that gets published, so they can (sometimes reasonably IMHO) dismiss that "one paper" even when they do know about it.

It's (mostly) not fraud or malicious intent or ignorance, it's (mostly) humans existing in the system in which they must live.
by altern8 | 2026-01-22 16:10:51+00:00
Well, OK--but at what cost?

Electricity/heating and gasoline in the EU is many times more expensive than in the U.S., and as a result EVERYTHING is more expensive.

Mix that with lower buying power and taxes and we spend 2-3 times for stuff.

I would think that most people would happily choose lower prices over clean energy and paper straws.

Our companies are also less and less competitive because of these initiatives, and companies from China take over in part thanks to the complete lack if environmental and labor laws over there.

Seems to me like this is happening more and more, and it's so widespread and obvious that it almost makes you think that politicians are being bought by Chinese companies/government.
by jimnotgym | 2026-01-22 16:10:59+00:00
There is the famous case in the Korean War at the Battle of Imjin River where the British commander of the Gloucestershire regiment reported to an American General, 'Things are a bit sticky, sir'. The American General thought that meant a good thing, like they were holding the line, when in fact they were fighting a heroic last stand outnumbered 25:1!

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/korean-war/battle-of-imjin-...
by nullc | 2026-01-22 16:11:18+00:00
The original model works, the new model significantly fails. LLMs have taken many cases that were on the border over the line into failure, by changing the resource management tradeoffs. (Both by giving valuable contributors a cheap way to get 'extra eyes' on their own terms, and by empowering a new generation of trisectors and trolls to flood out even the most efficient public submission pipelines).
by notTooFarGone | 2026-01-22 16:11:43+00:00
https://archive.is/srzRo

Also those "studies" were always more clickbait than anything else. The formula for conspiracy:

1. Have something you can't see (WiFi, 5G, Microplastics)

2. Have something that is hard to verify (See here, pictures can be faked!)

3. "Common sense" should agree with your thesis (Plastics are bad everyone knows, radiation too!, going to the moon is hard)

4. Best if it's already widely used and makes you feel special for going against the grain.

and there you have your conspiracy food for the next decade.

I don't say we should dismiss those studies at sight but I think they need more time in the sun before we can accurately have an opinion on that. But modern news can't handle this.
by leggerss | 2026-01-22 16:11:58+00:00
I don't understand: why aren't there automated tools to verify citations' existence? The data for a citation has a structured styling (APA, MLA, Chicago) and paper metadata is available via e.g. a web search, even if the paper contents are not

I guess GPTZero has such a tool. I'm confused why it isn't used more widely by paper authors and reviewers
by d-us-vb | 2026-01-22 16:12:11+00:00
Calvin is such an interesting character. He never "learns", similar to Charlie Brown, but his outlook is that of a scientist who just wants to "see what'll happen". Anything to occupy his hyperactive mind, whether it be spaceman spiff or a trip to the Triassic, or closer to reality, pranking Susie Derkins or trying to get the better of Moe (or Hobbes for that matter). He's not optimistic, but cynical. But his cynicism is irrelevant because he's driven by his avoidance of boredom.
by munk-a | 2026-01-22 16:12:23+00:00
Roof maintenance is a need in Canada regardless of the presence of solar. Solar roofs do demand additional maintenance but the benefits over relying on natural gas for power (which is the alternative in Canada outside ON/QC) is worth it.

I will stand by your statement from the philosophical point of view that nothing in life is free and everything has its trade offs - but this is a pretty clear positive. In addition, Canada has pretty decent workplace safety enforcement for the sort of workers that'd be doing the maintenance - it certainly isn't perfect but it is something that Canadians seem to find important.
by ACS_Solver | 2026-01-22 16:12:26+00:00
Yes. The unique point of ReactOS is driver compatibility. Wine is pretty great for Win32 API, Proton completes it with excellent D3D support through DXVK, and with these projects a lot of Windows userspace can run fine on Linux. Wine doesn't do anything for driver compatibility, which is where ReactOS was supposed to fill in, running any driver written for Windows 2000 or XP.

But by now, as I also wrote in the other thread on this, ReactOS should be seen as something more like GNU Hurd. An exercise in kernel development and reverse engineering, a project that clearly requires a high level of technical skill, but long past the window of opportunity for actual adoption. If Hurd had been usable by say 1995, when Linux just got started on portability, it would have had a chance. If ReactOS had been usable ten years ago, it would also have had a chance at adoption, but now it's firmly in the "purely for engineering" space.
by tock | 2026-01-22 16:12:30+00:00
1. "out of college". I'm sure you can figure out how to interview new grads and identify good devs.

2. They are not. FAANG in India pays higher than what I quoted. My senior numbers are especially on the lower end of the spectrum. If your numbers are lower then you aren't working with good devs.

These are the numbers for good devs. The ones who get into great startups/companies. 95% make less and it shows in the quality. Infosys pays new grads 4000 USD/yr.
by lowbloodsugar | 2026-01-22 16:12:35+00:00
N00b question: Language parsers gives me concrete information, like “com.foo.bar.Baz is defined here”. Does tree sitter do that or does it say “this file has a symbol declaration for Baz” and elsewhere for that file “there is a package statement for ‘com.foo.bar’” and then I have to figure that out?
by cmpalmer52 | 2026-01-22 16:13:03+00:00
I used the Junie AI coding agent by JetBrains with Claude and ChatGPT engines to create a utility web page and service to track PRs by devs across multiple repos and tied to our ticketing system.

I did it as an experiment with my constraint being that I refused to edit code, but I did review the code it made and made it make fixes.

I didn’t do it as a one shot. Roughly, I:

* sketched out a layout on paper and photographed it (very rough)
* I made a list of requirements and has the AI review and augment them
* I asked ChatGPT outside of the IDE to come up an architecture and guidelines I could give to the agent
* I presented all of that info to the AI as project guidelines and requirements
* I then created individual tasks and had it complete them one by one. Create a UI with stubbed API calls and fake data, Create the service that talks to AzureDevOps and test it, create my Node service, Hook it all up, Add features and fix bugs.

Result, fairly clean code, very attractive and responsive UI, all requirements met.

My other developers loved and immediately started asking for new features. Each new feature was another agentic task, completed over 1-3 iterations.

So it wasn’t push button automatic, but I wrote 0% of it (code wise) and probably invested 6-8 total hours. My web dev skills are rusty, so I think the same thing would have taken 4-5 days and would not have looked as nice.
by ch_123 | 2026-01-22 16:13:11+00:00
I would like to see ReactOS succeed for various reasons, mainly philosophical. On the other hand, for practical real-world use cases, it has to compete with several alternative solutions:

1. Just use Windows 11. Yes, it sucks and MS occasionally breaks stuff - but at least hardware and software vendors will develop their code against Win 11 and test it. In other words, you have the highest likelihood that your computer will work as expected with contemporary software and drivers.

2. Use an older version of Windows. If you want to use old hardware or software, odds are you will get the best experience with whatever version of Windows they were developed/tested against. You have to accept the lack of support for modern software, and you will need to take appropriate security measures such as not connecting it to the internet - but at the same time, it's unlikely that your Windows 98 retro gaming rig is your only computer, so that's probably an acceptable tradeoff.

3. Run WINE on top of Linux (or some other mature open source operating system). This might not be a good solution for the average person, but ticks the box for people who feel strongly pro-open source, or anti-Microsoft. Since Windows compatibility is dictated by Windows' libraries and frameworks and not the kernel, compatibility is likely to be comparable to ReactOS.

I am not saying that this covers every possible use case for ReactOS, but I would posit it covers enough that the majority of people who might contribute or invest into ReactOS will instead pick one of the above options and invest their time and energy elsewhere.
by mdnahas | 2026-01-22 16:13:14+00:00
Economist here. (Started as programmer, worked in finance, got Masters in Econ.) Econ is a big field. I think it knows a lot at the microeconomics level. There are impressive mathematical tools and economists have found “natural experiments” which test causality.

Macroeconomists don’t know much at all. We can’t even create artificial economies - the agent-based simulations have dozens of parameters and our tools are bad at studying those imperfect fake economies.

I’ve looked a bit into econophysics. They seem more on the path to getting somewhere. But it’s still a long road.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-22 16:13:15+00:00
We'll most likely see off-peak or dispatchable-demand energy prices become effectively negligible due to cheap intermittent sources, but the price for reliable 24/7 supply will if anything trend higher. Storage is not enough to bridge the gap in all cases, so you need either very expensive peaker plants or less expensive nuclear to provide a reliable baseload supply for those critical uses.
by __jonas | 2026-01-22 16:13:22+00:00
> Helix

I'm not sure about the other ones, but I know that helix supports language servers by default and it does not have a workspace trust system like vscode, so LSPs can automatically execute code when you enter a directory

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/9514#issuecomme...

So uninstalling VSCode would be a bit of a step back in that case
by samuelstros | 2026-01-22 16:13:55+00:00
Does the following make more sense to you in respect to SQL?

Lix uses SQL databases as storage and query engine. Aka you get a filesystem on top of your SQL database that is version controlled.

Or, the analogy to git: Git uses the computers filesystem as storage layer. Lix uses SQL database (with the nice benefit of making everything queryable via SQL).

> Lix doesn't reinvent databases — durability, ACID, and corruption recovery are handled by battle-tested SQL databases.

>> This seems like a left turn from the value prop and why the value prop matters?

Better wording might be "Lix uses a SQL database as storage layer"?

The SQL part is crucial for two reasons. First, the hard part like data loss guarantees, transactions, etc. are taking care of by the database. We don't have to build custom stuff. Which secondly, reduces the risk for adapters that data loss can occur with lix.

> As for how it works, both in the docs and in the comment I'm replying to, it's unclear how any of this interacts with the native version control embedded in M365 apps or why this tool can be trusted as effective at tracking M365 content changes.

It doesn't interact with version control in M365.

I'll update the positioning. Lix is a library to embed version control in whatever developers are building. Right now, lis is mostly interesting for startups that build AI-first solutions. They run into the problem "how do customers verify the changes AI agents make?".

The angle of universal version control, and using docx or Excel as an example, triggers the wrong comparisons. By no means is Lix competing with Sharepoint or existing version control solutions for MS Office.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-22 16:13:57+00:00
I agree you don't need a large software engineering headcount for maintenance. But there's multiple factors that change the estimate:

- You need redundancy in case someone leaves, is hit by a bus, gets sick, wants to go on vacation
- The software is bespoke, so staff need to know the ins and outs of all of it
- The more software to maintain, more knowledge needed, and more maintenance tasks
- Poorly built software/systems need a lot more maintenance
- The business leaders may (erroneously) keep asking for more changes, which creates a greater engineering load
- If the business value is based on technological capability, you will eventually need radical changes to keep up with new tech

Now, in a few cases, you can cheat. Wordpress requires less maintenance if you rely on canned plugins. But security patching is constant, and eventually you have to upgrade the entire thing as old plugins and core version go EOL. Managed instances help a lot here but still break from upstream changes. And as browsers change, so do the frontend software's compatibility.

The more complex software you depend on, the more expertise you need to fix things. If your usage keeps growing, but your app wasn't designed to scale ("just use Postgres" is not a scaling solution; some things even buying more hardware won't fix), now you need someone to bust open walls and add extensions to the building. That's a lot more dangerous with software contractors than the original engineers.

If your entire stack and app is bespoke, and you run your own VMs, or god forbid, run your own metal, it's a much larger maintenance burden (to keep it running well; lots of people limp along for years on broken equipment and software, at high risk to the business)

If we actually did build software more like we build buildings, we could bring in contractors for short stints to do either maintenance or new construction. But the complexity of current software engineering trends makes that fail a lot of the time.
by latexr | 2026-01-22 16:14:04+00:00
> and it isn't because they hate their mental health.

No, of course not. But that doesn’t also mean it can’t have an effect. Social media is harmful to many of us who still partake. Sometimes what we do isn’t what’s best. Some of those people who live alone could benefit from living with someone else, others might not. It’s not an absolute, just worth considering.

> The issue here is how hard it is to protect your own mental health when someone else refuses to respect yours

Right, but I feel too many people are focusing on dipshit housemates. Good and understanding people do exist. Like, would you be one of those disrespectful people you describe? Probably not, which proves people like you do exist.
by WarmWash | 2026-01-22 16:14:13+00:00
Donbas is mostly wheat fields, Taiwan is mostly SOTA semiconductor fabs that currently are the sole pillar holding up the AI (and compute in general) zeitgeist.

The global response would not be the same, even remotely. And what would China get from it? A tiny island of rubble and an ego boost, while losing enormous global favor? The cost of that island may well be a few trillion for China, just so they can say they defeated the nationalists.
by dpark | 2026-01-22 16:14:18+00:00
I don’t really understand how reStructuredText’s approach fixes this. The fundamental thing is that you need to remember the order and the syntax. reStructuredText matches the order of Markdown (and so does not match html) but not the syntax. It also seems like a fine format.

> under whose rules parentheses are not percent-encoded.

I don’t know. I feel like half the time I end up with parens encoded. I’ll have to keep an eye on it. Maybe that behavior isn’t common anymore.

> [urls identified with <link> in plain text] used to be very common.

I don’t recall this being common but it’s possible I’m just not remembering.
by Shocka1 | 2026-01-22 16:14:28+00:00
I think I've said several times over the years here this is the phenomenon that happens on HN - basically being a contrarian just to be a contrarian. HN users are extremely intelligent, and many of them seem to have a lot of time on their hands. Prime example is this thread and many like them, which end up going into a different universe entirely. I totally get it though - in my younger days when I had more time for myself, I was capable of extreme forms of abstract thought, and used it like a superpower. Now though with a lot of software to write and a family, I try to limit to 15 min per day.

I went on a tangent... Ultimately I'm not saying abstract thought and/or being contrarian is a bad thing, because it's actually very useful. But I would agree, it can be a vice when taken too far. Like many things in life, it should be used in moderation.
by gcr | 2026-01-22 16:14:54+00:00
It's not always possible to distinguish between fake citations and citations that are simply hard to find (e.g. wonderful old books that aren't on the Internet).

Another problem is that conferences move slowly and it's hard to adjust the publication workflow in such an invasive way. CVPR only recently moved from Microsoft's CMT to OpenReview to accept author submissions, for example.

There's a lot of opportunity for innovation in this space, but it's hard when everyone involved would need to agree to switch to a different workflow.

(Not shooting you down. It's just complicated because the people who would benefit are far away from the people who would need to do the work to support it...)
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-22 16:15:27+00:00
My take is quite different. EVERYONE in Broadchurch is at least nearly-criminally incompetent.

"Ooh, I'm an investigative detective in a homicide. I think I'll forget myself and beat up somebody in lockup!"

"What's that, evidence? I think I'll withhold it for minor personal reasons."

"Hey, there's a pedophile investigation going on. I think I'll lie about my 'alone time' with a teenage boy to EVERYONE, just to avoid arousing suspicion..."

Tennant's advantage is that, in season one, he's not emotionally tied up in this completely tangled small town. He's got some professional competencies over Miller, but not many.