MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by like_any_other | 2026-01-06 02:20:06+00:00
The concept of 'species' only exists within the human mind [1]. In nature, there are only slowly accumulating mutations, until two populations become differentiated enough that we arbitrarily assign them different taxa. In fact, that is the central thesis of the aptly-named On the Origin of Species.

[1] And there are plenty of species that we consider distinct, that can and do interbreed and bear fertile offspring.
by alterom | 2026-01-06 02:20:17+00:00
> How about the part where the Pentagon, staffed by a Fox News anchor, fresh off firing the top legal heads, are now accusing a decorated American of sedition for reciting the law?

So, there's no doublespeak in the article. There's doublespeak in what the article is reporting on.

I agree that the event the article is discussing is not what any of us wants to see. It is very unpleasant.

The article isn't; do you have a difficulty distinguishing the two?

> We could also run on a hamster wheel. Both would be equally impactful.

If nothing is worth doing, then that surely applies to your comment that started this thread.

> We seem perfectly aligned.

Do we, now?
by nostrademons | 2026-01-06 02:20:48+00:00
Realistically speaking you're going to die of starvation or get shot by marauding gangs, or die of cancer a few decades later from radiation in the food change. NukeMap [1] has good visualizations of the relative fireball vs. blast vs. thermal radiation vs. fallout radiuses. One thing that stands out: most of the suburbs is going to survive the initial nuclear exchange. At worst, they'll have a few broken windows.

The problem is that if you eliminate ~20% of a nation's population, supply chains, continuity of government, and the economy aren't going to last long. Social organization breaks down much more widely than people die. The resultant pullback of all the trapping of society - reliable food supply, clean water, transportation infrastructure, electricity, heat - is going to kill many more people than the nukes will.

[1] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
by skybrian | 2026-01-06 02:21:46+00:00
I think for beginners, it might be more like a roguelike? You go off in the wrong direction entirely and die, but you learn something and start again.

Since we have version control, you can restart anywhere if you think it's a good place to fork from. I like greenfield development, but I suspect that there are going to be a lot more forks from now on, much like the game modding scene.
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-06 02:22:13+00:00
If Putin didn't want NATO getting involved if he started a war there's one special trick he could have played! He could have not started a war ...

The only reason Ukraine joining NATO is a problem is if Putin/Russia (or someone else) wants to attack them.

I know there's a real risk of peaceful trade, mutual alliance, humanity, and democracy from breaking out in such circumstances but somehow I think the risk might be worth it for the billions of us who aren't completely fucked up megalomaniacs.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-06 02:23:08+00:00
That requires the client to only emit ECH, even if the ISP-provided (and therefore government controlled) DNS blocks HTTPS/SVCB records. China can easily make the default for a browser in China be to never even try to use ECH as well. Then they'll only annoy people trying to actively circumvent their system. They already do TCP sessionization to extract the SNI domain. Detecting ECH and then just dropping the connection at L3 is functionally equivalent.

In theory, sites could eventually require ECH to serve anything at all. But we're very far from that.
by eru | 2026-01-06 02:23:20+00:00
If that were true, you'd expect some correlation between amount of colonisation done in the past, and wealth today.

(And even more, you'd expect to see a causal connection. So you'd need to exclude the alternative explanation that rich countries engage in a bit of colonisation as a rich man's hobby. And there's plenty of other correlations without causation.)

We could run a formal statistical analysis. But just have a look at Portugal and Spain. They ran extensive colonial empires, but aren't exactly rich these days. Germany and the Nordic countries were rather less involved in colonies, and are rather rich.

Russia ran and runs an extensive colonial empire, and they are comparatively poor (and we know that what wealth they have comes from oil and gas).

The Netherlands ran a big colonial empire and they are rich.

> I’m talking about my home, the dear old US of A.

The core of what became the US was already rich before they even stopped being colonies, and long before they had any colonies of their own.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-06 02:24:22+00:00
> How about striving for descriptive SWE clarity?

that's what got us CQRS "command query responsibility segregation" which is technically correct word but absolutely fucking meaningless to anyone that doesn't know what it means already.

It should have been called "read here, write there" but noooooooOOOOOooooo we need descriptive SWE clarity so only people with CS degrees that know all the acronyms already can understand wtf is being said.
Show HN: Diffswarm – GitHub-style review and workflow for any unified diff
by jchap | 2026-01-06 02:25:13+00:00
Pipe the output of a `diff` command to Diffswarm to get back a persistent URL that contains the diff with workflow, comments, search, etc. Basically some of the helpful features that Github offers on PR diffs, just available for any arbitrary diff.

I wrote this tool to use at work for documenting snapshot diff triaging, and also used it to help with the same thing on a couple Ty PRs. Example: https://diffswarm.dev/d-01k2gknwyq82f6x17zqf3apjxc
by jutter | 2026-01-06 02:25:49+00:00
Yes, that's the conclusion I came to as well. The best analogue I can think of is taxation, where men - whose sexual values are impacted far more by control of resources - are typically far more aggrieved by the practice than women (who typically see it as a wonderful practice that ought to be expanded).

It feels odd for them to be advertising this belief though. These are surely a lot of the same people trying to devalue virginity, glorifying public sex positivity, condemning "slut shaming", etc.
by alterom | 2026-01-06 02:26:23+00:00
>For me personally, I only want to see politics that are directly tech-adjacent here.

Since when is government censorship of social media posts[1] not "directly tech-adjacent"?

I adore the mental gymnastics here.

[1] The post with Mark Kelly being discussed: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRMxZAnlUF9/
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-06 02:26:37+00:00
That is a bold assertion to make considering China literally did retaliate against the US in North Korea once already, to the tune of war. Kidnapping heads of states is an act of war. Venezuela can't defend itself, but China certainly will do whatever is necessary to secure its vassal if the alternative is NK collapsing and having US military bases on its border.

You also rule out the possibility of an invasion of Seoul, as though it would be "unfair" -- when you're advocating for and actively in the process of tearing whatever remains of the concept of international law to shreds, what makes you think PRC would be inclined to play nice?
by makeitdouble | 2026-01-06 02:27:23+00:00
That would be fine if it was a kickstarter or some "sold as is" prototype. But looking at the page and pitch, it's sold as a regular product backed by a regular company.

We're not talking about free returns or costly perks, but manufacturing defects that got passed their QA process or resulted from design issues. Leaving the customer holding the bag for these is kinda crap, even (especially?) for a small company IMHO.
by apparent | 2026-01-06 02:27:39+00:00
When I was looking a couple years ago, most Garmins had at least 2 buttons, but only those with 5 supported music control via buttons.

I think I have used the pulse oximeter maybe 1x/year, and that's counting during COVID shutdowns, when people talked about pulse ox more than in normal times.

I will keep my Garmin and will use it when exercising. But I would never buy another one as long as I can get Pebbles instead.
by skybrian | 2026-01-06 02:28:11+00:00
This seems too pessimistic? Moore's law is a thing. Price reductions with better quality have been going on for a long time in computing and networking.

We're also seeing significant price reductions every year for LLM's. Not for frontier models, but you can get the equivalent of last year's model for cheaper. Hard to tell from the outside, but I don't think it's all subsidized?

I think maybe people over-updated on Bitcoin mining. Most tech is not inherently expensive.
by calmbonsai | 2026-01-06 02:28:14+00:00
The real issue with "clay-like design freedom" is the collective knock-on effects of thermal and conductive inefficiencies.

We've had "clay-like design freedom" since the early days of carbon-zinc batteries, but it turns out that it's far better (both for manufacturing, chemistry, and safety) to have a continuous volume of relative thermal and electrolytic quiescence that's, largely, isolated from physical strains.

That this is even being highlighted as a "feature" makes other claims even more dubious.

Suffice to say that any battery ("electrolytic cell") that's undergoing dynamic strains will have vastly different levels of conductivity (hence power output and contribution to thermal load) than one that is geometrically static.

Put another way, the performance gains from utilizing the motor as a "stressed member" (akin to F1 monocoque) in combustion vehicles was only possible circa 50+ years after the invention of the 4-stroke cycle. Talk to me in ~20 years.

FWIW, my degree is in electrical engineering and I worked on our college's solar car back when "solar car racing" was "a thing".

You do not want the stressed members of any structure being a salient contributor to its power-train. Not related, see mammalian, reptile, fish, and insect physiologies.
by regenschutz | 2026-01-06 02:29:26+00:00
Interesting project! Though, it's usually the smaller and less known-about projects that fall victim to OSS supply-chain attacks (such as the XZ attack).

Since this is a manual check, I worry that most users will just check the big and grandiose dependencies that they have.

Who would you say are your target audience with this tool? OSS developers? Security researchers? Regular users? Corporate managers?
by tom_ | 2026-01-06 02:29:28+00:00
I am interested in this as well. From the article:

```Gas Town is also expensive as hell. You won’t like Gas Town if you ever have to think, even for a moment, about where money comes from. I had to get my second Claude Code account, finally; they don’t let you siphon unlimited dollars from a single account, so you need multiple emails and siphons, it’s all very silly. My calculations show that now that Gas Town has finally achieved liftoff, I will need a third Claude Code account by the end of next week. It is a cash guzzler.'''

Since I am quite capable of shitting up my own code for free, and I've got zero interest in this stupid AI nonsense anyway, I'm vanishingly unlikely to actually use this. But, still: I like to keep half an eye on what is going on, even if I hate it. And I am more than somewhat intrigued about what the numbers actually look like.
by inadequatespace | 2026-01-06 02:30:08+00:00
> 16. Admitting what you don’t know creates more safety than pretending you do.

> Senior engineers who say “I don’t know” aren’t showing weakness - they’re creating permission. When a leader admits uncertainty, it signals that the room is safe for others to do the same. The alternative is a culture where everyone pretends to understand and problems stay hidden until they explode.

It's interesting to contrast this with Sean's statement here www.seangoedecke.com/taking-a-position/

> At that point, you need to take a position, whether you feel particularly confident or not.

> If you don’t, you’re forcing people with less technical context than you to figure it out themselves

To square the circle, I think the lesson is hide uncertainty to higher-ups, but don't to peers/ other ICs.

Of course, the challenge is that often, unfortunately, both the manager and the other ICs are in the same meeting.

Probably this is one justification of one reason why I hate meetings that include managers.
by gerdesj | 2026-01-06 02:30:17+00:00
Language cannot be decoupled from what it is trying to work with. It is a tool! We can manipulate the air in such a way with our mouths that ears can hear.

I don't think there is anything wrong with allowing a small amount of "world knowledge" to guide language parsing - the world caused language to "be" not the other way around.

Anyway whenever, outside of smoking crack, did a girl get eaten by a biscuit? Never, so that phase is unambiguous.

Object before subject: I'll grant you that - its a probable sign of madness or a green puppet.

Me, really? You screamed!
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-06 02:30:25+00:00
That’s sort of what they did with the Watch.

It has incrementally improved, and gotten cheaper, to the point that I now see them everywhere. When they first came out, they were pretty expensive. Remember the $17,000 gold Watch (which is now obsolete)? The ceramic ones were over a couple of grand.

But the dream of selling Watch apps seems to have died. I think most folks just use the built-in apps.
by elzbardico | 2026-01-06 02:30:38+00:00
Nah, believe me, the next few years are going to be very, but very interesting. We are building megatons of technical debt. On the application side, people who have no idea of how all of this works down the hood are using LLMs for things that any chimp could do with deterministic code, and even when they use it for what it is really good at, that is, dealing with natural language and other unstructured input, nobody really has the discipline to have extensive validation suits, guardrails and quality gates.

The simplicity of just plugging a few lines of code in a framework or a workflow engine means the barrier of entry is really, really low, what guarantees that we will have thousands of business process running through those duct taped agents in almost every kind of industry you can imagine.

Mountains of code nobody understand, even more Byzantine post-training to shoehorn more complex tool-usage into the models.

Compliance issues galore. Security incidents by the ton.

The future is going to be very, very interesting pretty soon. Why would you leave your front-row seat right now?

I would instead invest some good time and money in buying and learning to play a modern replica of a greek Kithara.
by nine_k | 2026-01-06 02:32:03+00:00
1 megavolt means huuuge spark gaps, I'd say no less than 20", given dry air. This also means very thick insulation, very bulky and expensive switches and breakers, etc.

Tesla 3MW charger uses 1250V DC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawatt_Charging_System

Liquid-cooled charging cables are a thing. too; one of many: https://www.mouser.com/new/phoenix-contact/phoenix-contact-5...
by llabs | 2026-01-06 02:32:31+00:00
Using an LLM with CAS math validation tools to validate it's work and then to generate a markdown document with CAS blocks:

:::cas mode=chain engine=sympy assumptions="x \neq 1"
$$ \frac{x^2 - 1}{x - 1} $$
$$ = \frac{(x-1)(x+1)}{x-1} $$
$$ = x + 1 $$
:::

Which you can run to check it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-06 02:32:33+00:00
> then pakistan wouldn't bomb India but rather America

This isn't an option. Not within a nuclear window. The only bases within range are Al Udeid and Camp Arifjan. Hence its inclusion in the above scenario.

> then China would be genuinely pissed and a WW3 conflict can arise

This is tantamount to saying Pakistan can't actually retaliate. Which is my point. Pakistan's nuclear deterrent doesn't actually deter America. China does.
by margalabargala | 2026-01-06 02:32:42+00:00
Many of the billions being invested are for the power bill of training of new models. Not to mention the hardware needed to do so. Any hardware training a new model, isn't being used for inference.

If training of new models ceased, and hardware was just dedicated to inference, what would that do to prices and speed? It's not clear to me how much inference is actually being subsidized over the actual cost to run the hardware to do it. If there's good data on that I'd love to learn more though.
by komali2 | 2026-01-06 02:32:55+00:00
> China asserted control over Taiwan since the 17th

This is a great example of why your usage of this word is an expression of your agreement with the idea of an ethnostatist meta-dynasty that a government like the CPC can claim a mandate to rule, rather than a universal fact.

It seems you don't believe Khagan-emperor Kublai was Chinese, since you pin the first "Chinese" assertion of control in the 1600s, even though the Yuan dynasty claimed Penghu.

You also give away your political agenda a bit when you accurately refer to Western actions on the island as "imperialism" but simply refer to Chinese empire activity as "asserted control," rather than what it clearly was, which is also imperialism. In fact it's especially interesting you did this considering that the entire reason the dutch colonists were expelled from the island was because of a battle between two entities that wanted to be called "China": the Qing dynasty, and Zheng Chenggong's remnant Ming dynasty. So here's another question: Manchus, Chinese, or no? Qing dynasty, Chinese, or no? Both yes? Well then both the Kingdom of Tungning and the Qing dynastic territories were China, despite being engaged in a deeply ethnostatist battle defined clearly on Han vs Manchu racial identity. And now the Manchus are 華人 just like everyone else, which demonstrates my point that the words "China" and 中國 are just a political propaganda tool to claim a mandate to rule an empire. The same fight has been fought before, except this time Taiwanese people have no desire to claim the mantle of The Empire.

You believe you're stating facts when actually you're just stating support of the CPC's claim to dynastic inheritance. Thus it's not "never clearer" what's meant by "China" in a time when all people who could be labeled "Chinese" (including PRC citizens) are reckoning with what that identity means in regards to governance and nationality.

> Ad hominem attacks and character assassiination are the tactics of the CPC, not of democratic Taiwan...

You clearly have never watched even 5 minutes of Taiwanese tv or politics lol.
by armandososa | 2026-01-06 02:32:55+00:00
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by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-06 02:33:09+00:00
https://www.brightsaver.org/ is the US advocacy group advocating for balcony solar in the US.

More US States Are Promoting Balcony Solar - https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/01/more-us-states-are-prom... - December 1st, 2025 ("Earlier this year, Utah became the first state in the US to pass legislation allowing people to purchase balcony solar equipment. In other states, there are laws on the books that make balcony solar illegal, but according to The Guardian that is about to change. Bills have been introduced in the legislatures in New York and Pennsylvania that would allow people to add balcony solar to their homes. Vermont, Maryland, and New Hampshire are expected to follow soon as well.")

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by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-06 02:33:28+00:00
> Here's the thing most people miss: promotions don't fall off the tree and land in your lap.

That's not what I learned from work. I saw people with skill way beyond their position hang around companies getting jack shit before they eventually got bored and left, and then other people getting thrust into seniority for arbitrary reasons:

> Oh, you got hired just three weeks ago? Well the rest of the team has just quit, so I guess you're in charge now.

> Corporate are trying to fix the gender imbalance in the c-suite, you're a woman, you want to be an executive?

Both of those people _were_ very good at what they did, but so were the other people who didn't get those arbitrary events.
by andreareina | 2026-01-06 02:34:06+00:00
If you don't want to use the touchscreen (I'm in the same boat, totally get it) you need to avoid their "lifestyle" ranges (Venu, Vivoactive, etc) and stick to the "outdoors"/"sport" ranges (Forerunner being the most entry-level of these), these have 5 side buttons (3 left/2 right) and the UI is designed around button-only use.
by jojobas | 2026-01-06 02:34:16+00:00
Other than by launching nukes (and getting 10x on themselves) China has no capability to attack the US. I don't think attacking SK is unlikely because it's "unfair", but rather because there's no incentive to do so. The concept of "if you attack Cuba we'll attack Europe" is an old playbook for the commies, and I think was always a bluff.
by Jach | 2026-01-06 02:34:38+00:00
Although I don't like the meta-commentary, since it's better that threads remain closer to the original topic (that is, for here, Street Fighter), I want to offer a tip on your writing style that may help cut down future meta-commentary. It's simple: be worse. Don't polish as much. If you can write a bit of English yourself, then try to leave in words or sentences that are your own even if they're incorrect in grammar or spelling. (You might ask the AI if the overall meaning is still likely to get through, but leave the errors if there are any.) Also, use "inferior" translation services like Google Translate (https://translate.google.com/) and DeepL (https://www.deepl.com/) sometimes, making sure to only give them the exact text you want translated, not any preceding context.

And as another note, it's also sort of a meme that a lot of westerners who don't really know much about Japan will take some noun from the language and make a big deal about it, like you did with 鍛錬 and 見立て, as if the concept doesn't exist in other languages, or twisting the usage into something bigger than it really is, or even just making it up. It tends to have the effect that the writer is taken less seriously. 生きがい is the most popular misused one, I think. Less misused but still kind of questionable in a lot of places is かんばん, which is quite popular with software developers who took it from Toyota's practices. A made-up nonsense example could be: "瓶 (bin), or bottle, is more than just a bottle, it also refers to the Japanese art of bottling up your feelings, and how this leads to a more harmonious society."
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-06 02:34:52+00:00
Sequential read speed is attainable while still having a (small) number of independent sequential cursors. The underlying SSD translation layer will be mapping to multiple banks/erase blocks anyway, and those are tens of megabytes each at most (even assuming a 'perfect' sequential mapping, which is virtually nonexistent). So you could be reading 5 files sequentially, each only producing blocks at 3GB/s. A not totally implausible access pattern for e.g. a LSM database, or object store.