MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-16 20:18:22+00:00
What's the story on local-only operation with a paid subscription? If it works like it seems to from the screen shots and video, I'm more than happy to pay for this even while using the OSS version (and I probably am going to modify it myself quite a bit for my own use-cases), but in my work environment:

1. Absolutely nothing can be sent off-site

2. All AI API requests must go through our custom gateway (we've got deals with all the major AI providers, and I think that even involves a degree of isolated hosting in specific approved cloud environments)

While $20/mo feels a bit weird for an app that doesn't rely on its own cloud service, I'd subscribe right now just because I do "really want this to work".
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 20:18:24+00:00
I must have explained it wrong. He was the one who brought up politics, and also asked for my opinion about it during that interaction. He was clearly not in a rush, having come over to my table to ask the favor, and lingered here while mainly sustaining the conversation by himself, while I merely gave short answers to everything he said, partly to let him exit at any time to use the restroom, and partly because I neither expected or particularly desired a conversation, though I was okay with it as long as he wanted to have it.
by esbranson | 2026-01-16 20:18:39+00:00
We have a statutory office within the US Department of Defense meant to track UFOs (AARO).[1] Why would such things be sending electromagnetic signals from outer space?

Literally thousands of witnesses. It's very odd to say "aliens may exist, but those nuclear weapons officers are crazy, aliens would definitely be sending signals from elsewhere, they would not be and are not here."

[1] 50 USC § 3373 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3373
by tanelpoder | 2026-01-16 20:18:41+00:00
And with eBPF iterators you can bail out early and move to next if you see a non-interesting item (or one that should be filtered out) instead of emitting textual data of all items and later grepping/filtering things out in post-processing.

I use early bailout a lot (in 0x.tools xcapture) when iterating through all threads in a system and determining which ones are “active” or interesting
by thisisananth | 2026-01-16 20:18:43+00:00
agree with comment. We use ES quite extensively as a database with huge documents and touchwood we haven't had any data loss. We take hourly backups and it is simple to restore.
You have to get used to eventual consistency. If you want to read after writing even by id, you have to wait for the indexing to be complete (around 1 second).
You have to design the documents in such a way that you shouldn't need to join the data with anything else. So make sure you have all the data you need for the document inside it. In an SQL db you would normalize the data and then join. Here assume you have only one table and put all the data inside the doc.
But as we evolved and added more and more fields into the document, the document sizes have grown a lot (Megabytes) and hitting limits like (max searchable fields :1000 can be increased but not recommended) search buffer limits 100MB).

My take is that ES is good for exploration and faster development but should switch to SQL as soon the product is successful if you're using it as the main db.
by trevor-e | 2026-01-16 20:19:58+00:00
There are a couple issues with that definition:
- quality is not always correlated with "cheaply made en-masse"
- actual slop, assuming you are talking about the food, is more about preventing food waste although it happens to also be cheap.

I'm being pedantic AF because most people refer to AI slop as "low-quality or careless work". And AI is just a tool so it's possible to spend a lot of time making something of high quality with it. I get the outrage with respect to copyright and artist rights, but it certainly doesn't look like slop to me.
by palmotea | 2026-01-16 20:19:59+00:00
> I also don't think it's controversial to say that treating them as transferable undermines the whole point of the award (that they are exclusive, that they are awarded based on merit and careful judgement and not just some free-market commodity that can be bought and sold). If they were, they would be completely worthless.

My point: what's more important "the whole point of awards, trophies etc," or the well being of your country?

I'd gladly "undermine the whole point of the award" if that act offered some more important benefit to the people I care about. The integrity of the awards process is not a very important thing to me, in comparison. If I took such an action, maybe the award-granters would be mad, but who cares about them? They're comfortably ensconced in some paneled office somewhere. They'll be fine.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-16 20:20:01+00:00
>Creativity isn't scalable. Content creation has a hard productivity ceiling. Every human-created video on our feeds require some level of writing, production, and editing. Yet the For You Page has made the content consumption so efficient, that perhaps demand has exceeded supply.

I would have thought the opposite, the supply exceeded demand, driving the price so low so as to not be able to reward quality creators and/or curators. After all, demand has a hard ceiling at 24 hours per day.
by xvxvx | 2026-01-16 20:20:13+00:00
Iran International’s TV channel and website are operated by a London‑based company called Volant Media UK Ltd, whose principal shareholders are private Saudi‑British individuals, and the outlet is widely reported as being Saudi‑linked.

The Wall Street Journal reported that some Iran International journalists complained management pushed “a pro‑Saudi, anti‑Islamic Republic line,” describing a “systematic and very persistent push” in that direction.

Scholars such as Azadeh Moaveni have characterized the channel as effectively an arm of Saudi Arabia, not “organically Iranian,” implying structural bias against the current Iranian state.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-16 20:20:18+00:00
My takeaway: get people to independently create an artifact representing their priorities, share the results, discuss the differences, come to a consensus informed by everyone's insights.

Whatever artifact makes sense. Maybe a spreadsheet list. Maybe a one page, or half page, serious coherent characterization from each person.

How people independently see priorities before collective discussion, being as important as how they rate them, I would go with one page thoughtful summaries.

Having experienced partially-aligned organizations, I would want key contributors to a discussion like this to come from every major part of an organization. Emphasis on very different roles, especially important leaf roles, not just top leaders. Otherwise you get high bubble-at-the-top alignment. Top-only strong alignment is like concrete, perniciously inflexible. Which is what I experienced. End-to-end insight and discovery of alignment is needed to get adaptable, in-touch, actually effective alignment.

And as is hammered so well in "Creativity, Inc" by Ed Catmull, alignment isn't just about coordinating efforts. It is about continuously identifying and removing friction, of any kind, anywhere, for anyone, as individuals make their very different contributions in service to the common direction.
by jasonsb | 2026-01-16 20:20:18+00:00
> Anyone who has had to clean up AI comments riddled with stupid emojis from their code will understand this.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I code daily, with 80/90% of my work AI-assisted, and never had to clean one emoji.

As for emojis appearing in EHRs, a more likely explanation is the growing presence of Gen Z professionals in healthcare, who are known for integrating emojis into their communication. This trend probably has little to do with AI and more to do with generational habits.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-16 20:20:25+00:00
No. Your first sentence is framed from the point of view of your own experience. Regardless, I will not tolerate sound pollution like this. It's one thing in the city, where noise is chronic and endemic. Bringing that into a natural setting is simply inconsiderate of others, and it is the inconsiderate person who must change their behavior, not the people who are being imposed upon.
by fwsgonzo | 2026-01-16 20:20:53+00:00
This is true. A multi-tier JIT-compiler requires writable execute memory and the ability to flush icache. Loading segments dynamically is nice and covers a lot of the ground, but it won't be a magic solution to dynamic languages like JavaScript. Modern WASM emulators already implement a full compiler, linker and JIT-compiler in one, almost starting to look like v8. I'm not sure if adding in-guest JIT support is going in the right direction.
by swiftcoder | 2026-01-16 20:21:35+00:00
When I owned a 40" monitor, I had to get a deeper desk and sit pretty far from it. Even then, I couldn't game on it, because games shove the HUD and minimal into the corners, and they were too far to the side to keep an eye on.

Can't picture a 52" being usable as a PC monitor, really.
by sysnestor | 2026-01-16 20:22:32+00:00
Hi HN, I built this tool to quickly diagnose email deliverability issues caused by DNSBL/RBL listings. It checks a single IP, CIDR, or a small range (up to 256 IPs) and shows exactly which lists flagged the IPs, plus practical guidance on what to fix before delisting. I’d love feedback.
by joecool1029 | 2026-01-16 20:22:53+00:00
> Here's one I don't know how to solve: at work some folks take meetings in the bathroom.

Not legal but there’s a technical solution that’s worked in the past: pocket cell jammer. Range isn’t very far but it’ll work to boot callers a stall away or a booth away at a diner, etc. Only need to run it a few seconds to drop a call.

Do want to stress these do see enforcement now (in the US at least) but a low power pocket one used occasionally is unlikely to attract attention. It will be noticed if it’s higher power or runs in a regular location. Fines are severe and risk jailtime but hey it’s your life.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-16 20:22:54+00:00
The laughing party is the person taking the tariffs and living large off them. The American consumer is suffering.

In reality, the vast majority of Canadian exports are energy and potash, neither of which have any kind of tariffs applied.

Because if they did, Trump's supporters would lose their shit completely. Gas prices would go through the roof and farmers would be in big big trouble.
by SunlitCat | 2026-01-16 20:23:00+00:00
> So losing a bunch of them won't impact the technological advancement of your society.

This reminds me of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide, where a civilization decides that phone sanitizers are useless, until removing them quietly collapses everything else. Declaring work “non-essential to progress” usually just means we don’t understand its role.
by not_a_bot_4sho | 2026-01-16 20:23:09+00:00
Tangentially, I did this once years ago.

I had consumed a large amount of spicy food the day prior, and it pulled the fire alarm right in the middle of a phone screen. I foolishly thought I could silently and secretly handle both tasks at once.

These were the days before background noise filters. The poor candidate obviously heard unpleasant things but neither of us acknowledged it directly.

He accepted the job though. But this still bothers me decades later. Never again!
by 12_throw_away | 2026-01-16 20:23:14+00:00
To save others a trip to Kagi: DoT / DoH = DNS over TLS [1] / https [2]

E.g.:

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/encryption/dns-ove...

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/encryption/dns-ove...
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2026-01-16 20:23:27+00:00
I don't know if it's easier. I definitely think it's better, but there can be a lure to VC money that puts a company like Docker on that path. There's a world where Docker is a small company earning individually good money but with no hockey stick curve, and I think that's more sustainable and ultimately better for them.

I suppose they might disagree, of course :)
by palmotea | 2026-01-16 20:23:53+00:00
It's not sophistry, it's just the assertion that there are far more important things than the feelings of the Nobel committee and the "integrity" of their award. If you're ranking the committee's feels over those other things, then you've got your priorities out of whack.

> Common problem around here is that a lot of tech people are too busy thinking they're incredibly smart and always need to be playing 5D chess instead of being decent human beings. I hate to blame Paul Graham for that, but holy shit that /r/iamverysmart shit needs to stop.

I agree with you there. Another problem around here is getting kinda morally unglued, and prioritizing some weird abstract thing over more important and practical considerations.
by hungryhobbit | 2026-01-16 20:24:14+00:00
And you don't think that years ago people would have said "of course you'll be able to keep your security cert for more than two months"?

The people who innovate in security are failing to actually create new ways to verify things, so all that everyone else in the security industry can do to make things more secure is shorten the cert expiration. It's only logical that they'll keep doing it.
by JakeStone | 2026-01-16 20:24:50+00:00
I've got big monitors, that I hook up to my work laptop and my own laptop. I make it work with a kvm hub. It's really sweet, for my use.

I keep a browser, an IDE, and a terminal pretty much side by side on the bottom one. I keep slack, email, and a clock on the top monitor. I also place pullout tabs from my IDEs on the top one.

Thing is, no matter the cost range, I generally have to replace the KVM hub about once a year. I've just come to accept that as a part replacement cost. <shrug> This thing has its own KVM hub internally. Maybe I'm just rough on my KVM, but if someone puts significant wear and tear on this monitor, I'd imagine that part would wear out, which seems like a potential money sink if you have to keep calling the warranty folks.

For me, it's too much of a risk, but YMMV.
by theLiminator | 2026-01-16 20:25:03+00:00
I personally find polars easier to read/write than sql. Especially when you start doing UDFs with numpy/et. al. I think for me, duckdb's clear edge is the cli experience.

> It is faster to write and faster to read

At least on clickbench, polars and duckdb are roughly comparable (with polars edging out duckdb).
by prosody | 2026-01-16 20:25:05+00:00
> in an attempt to hurt relations with freer, traditionally more conservative nations

I don’t think those are the salient characteristics of the US from Canada’s perspective in this development, and because of that I don’t think of your analysis of this as motivated by short term political considerations is correct. Instead, the current US government’s unexpected decisions to turn the thumbscrews on Canada exposed Canada’s economic dependence as a vulnerability, and the Canadian government is at least trying to signal a capability to become less dependent in the future in the hopes that reduces their vulnerability as perceived by the US government. That vulnerability existed before and will outlast the current US government.
by a4isms | 2026-01-16 20:25:26+00:00
There's a complete discussion of the evolution of ideas and the fact that the distinction between "androids" or "synthetic life" versus "robots" or "humanoids machines" arose after R.U.R.

But what makes us think R.U.R. is still about robots is that the play is explicit that the robots are assembled, not grown:

> His robots resemble more modern conceptions of man-made life forms, such as the Replicants in Blade Runner, the "hosts" in the Westworld TV series and the humanoid Cylons in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, but in Čapek's time there was no conception of modern genetic engineering (DNA's role in heredity was not confirmed until 1952). There are descriptions of kneading-troughs for robot skin, great vats for liver and brains, and a factory for producing bones. Nerve fibers, arteries, and intestines are spun on factory bobbins, while the robots themselves are assembled like automobiles. Čapek's robots are living biological beings, but they are still assembled, as opposed to grown or born.
by allears | 2026-01-16 20:25:46+00:00
That's a tough call, since music producers mix and match from many different sources. I used to use a program called Band in a Box, where you fed it the chord structure and picked a style, and it would generate pretty darn good instrumental tracks, good enough that I could use them as part of a mix. I'm sure today producers use AI for even better results. I would mix live tracks, MIDI tracks, and generated tracks together to get the sound I wanted.

You'd have to define AI, and what kind of computer assistance is acceptable. What about drum machines? Sequencers? It might be hard to draw the line.
by autoexec | 2026-01-16 20:26:20+00:00
You should trust software that you can verify yourself as safe, or software written by people who you trust not to abuse the power you're giving them over your device by allowing them to modify it.

Personally, I don't trust most popular software either, but its easy to see why people would be fooled into thinking that software written by a major corporation used by millions of people might be more trustworthy than a script uploaded by a random anonymous person who couldn't be held accountable if their software infested your system with malware.
by goatlover | 2026-01-16 20:26:40+00:00
I keep telling myself America isn't 1930s Germany, that the guardrails of this democracy will hold, and if they don't, enough of the people will rise up and put a stop to this. That the military won't go along with firing on it's own citizens when and if given that order. That there is some sort of line even for Republicans and the Pentagon that can't be crossed without the current regime will be removed one way or another.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-01-16 20:26:53+00:00
But still, I think the solution is brilliant and I can't wait to try it.

If you ask someone to turn it down, it can immediately come off as confrontational, even if you're being polite. With this solution, though, it's kind of hilarious because in one sense it's more confrontational, but the original music blaster would have to ask you to turn it down - but it's just their music.

I'm a pretty nonconfrontational person, but the one time I lost it was when this late middle aged woman kept chatting away on her cell phone in the quiet car of the LIRR despite other people previously telling her that she was in the quiet car (I believe my exact words were "Hey princess, what part of 'no cellphones' do you not understand" - there is a giant sign at the front of the car that says no cellphone use). But I don't think I'd ever do this in a public situation where the rules weren't so clearly spelled out.
by lackoftactics | 2026-01-16 20:27:24+00:00
Isn't it a well-known fact that Garmin has terrible sleep tracking? The wearables can't handle deep sleep at all; even Muse with EEG can't reliably predict it, so I wouldn't be drawing conclusions here.

A small curiosity: I recently learned that sleep trackers in commercial wearables are terrible for people with sleep disorders like apneas, UARS, etc. It makes sense, as this isn't a typical dataset, but it's worth knowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FAz7QGmlBM
by dvtkrlbs | 2026-01-16 20:27:41+00:00
It is not similar imho. First NextJS build system is not really exposed apart from a simple docker example and all advanced features of NextJS is kinda coupled to Vercel. For Astro it is just a Vite project with integration designed from day mind they would have to rip everything apart and that would probably cause a prominent fork. The other part is Cloudflare is not dependent Astro being vendor locked as much as Vercel being dependent on NextJS being vendor locked.
by panick21_ | 2026-01-16 20:27:43+00:00
Look up how long a dunkelflut is and do the math yourself.

There is a reason that Germany and Europe is planning to do very long distance transport of solar energy. Only by having diverse weather pattern across Europe can you possible do it. Of course this is also incredibly expensive.

Even if you assume a very low price from batteries like Form Energy, its still insanely expensive.
by palmotea | 2026-01-16 20:28:15+00:00
> I got news for you: ICE is designed now to beat up anyone in the US. Here is one example: https://newrepublic.com/post/205280/fed-agent-permanently-bl...

Do you know what the word "designed" means? Because I don't think it means what you think it means.

I am in no way saying what that ICE agent did was right. I'm just saying being mad is not an excuse for being a sloppy thinker. What's happening here is the ICE agents' behavior is out of control and they're probably behaving illegally. That's not being anyone's "personal police" (whatever that means) or they are "designed to beat up anyone in the US," but believing such false things will probably lead to stupid slogans that end up doing more harm than good (e.g. "defund the police").
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-16 20:28:20+00:00
It takes a bit of experience and tact. Saying "excuse me, would you mind turning down your phone a bit, please" as an opening request would not likely be confrontational especially in someplace like an airport. Few people are going to be itchy to start a fight over something like that in a place full of cameras, witnesses, security people, and with fairly limited exits.
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-16 20:28:25+00:00
>Word dominates in the corporate space.

That doesnt rebut anything I said.

How about young people entering the workforce who primarily work on computers but are mostly computer illiterate?

It definitely exists. But it's shrinking. There are tons of computer illiterate people, less so but even amongst young people, but they arent primarily working on computers. There is still a sizable chunk over 40 but those days are numbered.
by mothballed | 2026-01-16 20:28:35+00:00
I was brutalized by DHS/CBP when Biden was in power, they won't do shit, and even worse when it happened not even the leftists gave a damn and even on places like HN people suggested I deserved it. No one gave a single shit about my story about being brutalized by DHS until Trump came into power, up until that moment only my own family would believe it. I remember telling the exact damn story on HN pre-and post trump -- post trump I got hundreds of upvotes and pre trump when it actually happened it was almost all people suggesting I deserved it and that I wasn't "telling the facts."

There will be zero accountability because the Democrats also need the help of those manning the federal machinery to implement their own programs. Even if they might be using it for far less reprehensible things. Civil service reform assures us of that -- it's almost impossible to fire most civil servants so best to just negotiate to overlook misdeeds in exchange for them implementing your campaign promises.
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-16 20:28:49+00:00
The battle is already lost as far as China owning the future markets for EVs and probably energy in general. It doesn't seem conceivable anybody else could match their scale, efficiency and technology advantages.

If you're going to fight economically, might as well do it in areas that aren't (a) a lost cause (b) going to hurt you economically since you'll have to settle for worse and more expensive products and (c) the alternative supplier's country isn't threatening to literally invade you and surrounding nations.