MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RadiozRadioz | 2026-01-03 17:06:24+00:00
Without looking I knew who was #1. Another thing worth mentioning is that these folks are also prolific commenters on this site. It's not infrequent that I'm browsing around and see a thoughtful comment from Simon, Jeff, etc. It's part of what makes this feel like a nice close community. They're not just mythical blogging entities, they're people like us.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-01-03 17:07:01+00:00
> No, they lost the 2024 election by a landslide

I don't belittle what VE has gone thru and I accept that something awful for you has been removed from the board.

> it’s one of the reasons of what happened today.

I would clarify that the current US leadership has little/no history of taking actions that are genuinely for others' welfare. The admin continually claims it is doing good. It's a continual stream, one after the other. By the time one is debunked (and they are), ten more are issued.

This method is dividing many Americans (by design) between those who believe the stream of claims and those being overwhelmed by the mountain of debunked falsehoods.
by jdranczewski | 2026-01-03 17:08:01+00:00
If you've managed to find more details about what process exactly they're implementing I'd be glad to see it - I assumed plasma-based growth, since the BBC article mentions that it's a plasma that is at 1000C here (making heat dissipation less of a problem too), but if they're growing ingots that would usually be done from liquid silicon, which sounds like a mess in space. So are they doing plasma-growth of ingots (which I haven't heard of, but I haven't heard of many things), or are they bringing wafers up and growing ultra-pure layers on top... The website is not super clear on this from what I've seen.
by brandonb | 2026-01-03 17:08:06+00:00
The main side effects of statins are muscle pain and brain fog (from some statins -- others cross the blood-brain barrier much less).

The benefit of statins is to not only lower LDL cholesterol, but also inflammation, which is now actually a stronger risk factor for cardiovascular disease than cholesterol:
https://www.empirical.health/blog/inflammation-and-heart-hea...

Layering PCSK9 inhibitors, ezetimibe, and statins can lower ApoB/LDL cholesterol by 85–90%, which would have been unheard of until recently.

On the horizon, drugs in clinical trials lower Lp(a) (the strongest hereditary risk factor for heart disease) by 94%. Currently, there are four RNA-based drugs in trials that effectively silence the gene that makes Lp(a) in liver cells: lepodisiran, olpasiran, pelacarsen, and zerlasiran.
by WhatsTheBigIdea | 2026-01-03 17:08:11+00:00
This paper's core idea is based on the assumption that circulating LDL is the cause of heart disease. That assumption is false.

Taking satins is proven to reduce heart disease rates, but there are lots of other drugs that lower LDL... many with much more efficacy than satins.

These non-satin drugs do not reduce heart disease rates significantly.

There something else going on here. High LDL is correlated with the development of heart disease, but it does not cause heart disease. Satins do reduce the risk of heart disease and they do reduce LDL, but their positive effect on heart disease rates is not caused by reduced LDL.
by Macha | 2026-01-03 17:08:55+00:00
As others have mentioned, there's SNI and host headers to have multiple sites on port 443, but there is also the SVCB/HTTPS aliases (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9460) which will allow having the plain domain alias to other hosts including ones with embedded port numbers. Non-browser support is pretty lacking though.
by estearum | 2026-01-03 17:08:59+00:00
Sure it's conceivable. Can you go a level deeper on your analysis?

Are you suggesting that cutting off oil flow to those nations will be advantageous to us? Is this like... tomorrow? During a potential armed conflict? When?

By what specific mechanism does the US assert "control" over the oil? POTUS just now said it's via a ground occupation "until transition of power." What's the transition plan?
by andrekandre | 2026-01-03 17:09:08+00:00
> AI to summarize meetings

we tried that a little while ago to summarize a few meetings into a timeline of events; turns out the thing invented several milestones and events that don't exist and meeting summaries for meetings that never happened... sigh

> so AI is still not ready for that

it really isnt, at least for the tools we are using...
by tim-tday | 2026-01-03 17:09:18+00:00
It’s true. Americans balance on the edge of destruction. Trump just made healthcare impossible for 10M Americans. I see normal working people pushed over the edge into homelessness daily just because something unexpected pushed them over the edge. High housing costs, high transportation costs, low wages, impossible healthcare.

Everyone is supposed to get a fair shake, but under the us system the wealthy and powerful are protected and normal working people are not.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-03 17:09:26+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion

>> In geopolitics, an invasion typically refers to a military offensive in which a polity sends combatants, usually in large numbers, to forcefully enter the territory of another polity,[1] with either side possibly being supported by one or more allies. While strategic goals for an invasion can be numerous and complex in nature, the foremost tactical objective normally involves militarily occupying part or all of the invaded polity's territory. Today, if a polity conducts an invasion without having been attacked by their opponent beforehand, it is widely considered to constitute an international crime and condemned as an act of aggression.
by acdha | 2026-01-03 17:09:40+00:00
> The US has no use for Venezuelan oil. The US is sitting on a vast reserve of relatively good quality oil and is pumping as much as the global markets can handle.

First, our oil tends to be better for making gasoline but worse did asphalt or diesel, so there is a market for Venezuelan oil replacing Alberta’s.

Second, this is what the man himself has been talking about. He spent weeks going on about the nationalization in the 70s–and note how much of his worldview is stuck half a century ago when he was young—and in the first interview today he said this: “We’re going to have our very large US oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so. So we were prepared to do a second wave.”

There are reasonable arguments about how much this is really worth but one thing we’ve learned is that he doesn’t do subterfuge or misdirection well. If he’s talking about making the world safe for Exxon, I’d bet that he believes it.
by dagss | 2026-01-03 17:10:08+00:00
Overdrafting accounts or negative balance in a bank account has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

A negative number in my comment is just the "from" part of a flow.

Just like in engineering, if you consider a dam, you can talk about the outflow as "-100 L/min" to indicate that the dam looses 100 litres per minute, for instance.

That does not mean that the litres of water anywhere ever becomes negative.

You do not say using negative numbers in engineering is a hack just because some numbers (like volume of water in the dam) is constrained to be positive.

In accounting one instead talks about the dam being debited 100 L and the electric plant being credited 100 L. That is basically just a different way of spelling "minus". It is the same thing just using different words.

And it is of course entirely possible to overdraft an account by debiting too much and get an invalid state entirely without negative numbers.

Negative numbers are actually a "hack" (or useful invention) in engineering and everywhere else too. They don't actually "exist", it is an abstraction similar to imaginary numbers and real numbers. But all of these are useful.
by somewhereoutth | 2026-01-03 17:10:52+00:00
Probably we can distinguish between military invasion, and the use (arguably miss use) of the word colloquially in the US for home intruders.

Per the Cambridge Dictionary: "an occasion when an army or country uses force to enter and take control of another country"

In our case no 'taking control' has occurred, so this is not an invasion.
by linsomniac | 2026-01-03 17:11:51+00:00
If you want to do similar for block devices: https://github.com/rolffokkens/bdsync

I use it to back up a few virtual machines that, in the event of a site loss, would be difficult to rebuild but also critical to getting our developers back to work. I take an LVM snapshot of the VM, then use bdsync to replicate it to our backup server, and from there I replicate it off to backblaze, then destroy the snapshot.
by brandonb | 2026-01-03 17:11:53+00:00
I think the title is deliberately provocative, but they're not wrong.

Heart disease is largely solvable from a biomedical standpoint: we have accurate biomarkers (e.g., ApoB, Lp(a), hs-CRP), long-term risk prediction models, precision nutrition, and highly effective next-generation drugs (PCSK9 inhibitors, lepodisiran, etc).

But practically speaking, heart disease remains the #1 cause of death due to bottlenecks in care delivery: e.g., 46% U.S. counties have no cardiologists, providing guideline-recommended preventive care would require ~27 hours per doctor per day, and incentives are misaligned (health systems profit when hospital beds are full, not from prevention).
by rationalist | 2026-01-03 17:12:01+00:00
True, but how is that a problem; it is God. Is a human a better than God to make those decisions?

I suppose all of this assumes that God is infallible, but I imagine God has more information and processing power than the President.

I am not suggesting a theocracy. I doubt God is whispering in anyone's ear today, and humans can still make bad decisions and claim it was God's will. Just a thought exercise.
by MPSimmons | 2026-01-03 17:12:25+00:00
>Lp(a) levels are almost purely genetically determined and so elevated Lp(a) is essentially due to a poor roll of the genetic dice... For simplicity, we will devote little further attention to either of these secondary risk factors”

As someone who rolled poorly on those genetic dice, I would like to complain. But also, disregarding a factor that impacts 20%[1] of the population seems disingenuous.

[1] - https://familyheart.org/family-sharing-tools/high-lpa-family...
by ks2048 | 2026-01-03 17:12:27+00:00
> Venezuela is Catholic and while it definitely has crime issues, there's no religious/fundamentalist element to the violence so the odds of anyone fighting to the death to support their failed dictator and his ideology is slim to none.

Colombia managed a decades long violent armed conflict with the same demographics. Organized crime, political instability, political ideologues, etc all can get people to kill each other without religious extremists.
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by -i | 2026-01-03 17:12:52+00:00
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by bob1029 | 2026-01-03 17:12:55+00:00
> The key insight is that long prompts should not be fed into the neural network (e.g., Transformer) directly but should instead be treated as part of the environment that the LLM can symbolically interact with.

How is this fundamentally different from RAG? Looking at Figure 4, it seems like the key innovation here is that the LLM is responsible for implementing the retrieval mechanism as opposed to a human doing it.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-03 17:13:18+00:00
Come on, this is borderline insulting. I think most of us are educated enough in US history and foreign policy to know that this is fanciful.

I don't doubt that there were people in the Venezuelan govt who want Maduro gone and would be happy for a US-backed coup and collaborated with the US (i.e., provided intel, etc.)

But it's still a foreign coup and military-backed regime change, no matter how you or Trump spin it.

The lesson to the world continues to be: if you're big and powerful, you can do whatever the f you want in other countries to ensure they are "on your side" and to gain access to their natural resources.
by swsieber | 2026-01-03 17:14:06+00:00
Where do you draw the line in the list of "not the right [method]"? I would assert that this is not justified, (in addition to not being the right method).

Can we send troops down there and just starting kill people until they pay us? Torture them maybe? Start spraying agent orange?

If someone steals something from me, I'm justified in beating them up, threatening their family, maybe even burning their house down until I get what I want, 50 years later?

Where do you draw the line between justified and unjustified when it comes to "not the right [method]"?
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-03 17:14:10+00:00
I am not convinced that it is really 123.45 BPM, more like 123.48

Reasons are:

- Someone here commented that Reaper gives 123.47 BPM

- I implemented my own BPM finder back in the days, which is quite accurate with electronic music that doesn't change tempo, dug it out, and got a result of 123.48 BPM

- I looked for files for rhythm games, and I found this https://osu.ri.mk/beatmapset/1495670 with a listed BPM of 123.48

If you want precise BPM, I suggest looking at rhythm games (DDR/ITG stepcharts, OSU beatmaps, etc...). People playing these games really want tight timing, in the order of 10 ms or less, it means that a difference of 0.01 BPM matters. For top players, a difference of 0.03 BPM would be completely off after a couple of minutes.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-03 17:14:11+00:00
I haven't yet seen what the legal cover for this use of military action was but there's a lot of guessing it will be the same Authorization of the Use of Military Force that was passed in response to 9/11 [1]. Yes, seriously.

The actual reason is that the Supreme Court has made Trump a dictator and Congress has abdicated any responsibility on checking the power of the president.

The people behind this don't call Trump a dictator. They couch it in softer, more legalistic language. It's called the unitary executive theory [2].

FWIW (not much), you can say that this kind of thing isn't unprecedented for a US President. I'm referring specifically to Panama's General Manual Noriega [3].

[1]: https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...
by Rochus | 2026-01-03 17:14:36+00:00
Just wanted to say that I skipped LuaTex 1.10 because not even a bare Hello World worked. So I switched to LuaTex 1.18 including the HarfBuzz library. I even implemented my own OTF loader in C (with Lua bindings for additional required HarfBuzz functions) and added it to the LuaHBTex executable. The font loading works, and also the layout in principle, but the result is ugly. So I came to the conclusion that there is still a lot of Lua and TeX code required to get the famous LuaTeX typographic quality, and there is little chance to get it with only the LuaHBTeX engine itself.

For that reason I now left LuaTeX altogether and re-start with my own implementation of the Knuth algorithms based on HarfBuzz, FreeType, MicroTeX and Cairo. For the time being I limit the typesetting to western languages (LTR-only), which I hope allows me to get a working MVP version in a few months.
by netbioserror | 2026-01-03 17:14:38+00:00
This is neat and I wish C3 well. But using Nim has shown me the light on maybe the most important innovation I've seen in a native-compiled systems language: Everything, even heap-allocated data, having value semantics by default.

In Nim, strings and seqs exist on the heap, but are managed by simple value-semantic wrappers on the stack, where the pointer's lifetime is easy to statically analyze. Moves and destroys can be automatic by default. All string ops return string, there are no special derivative types. Seq ops return seq, there are no special derivative types. Do you pay the price of the occasional copy? Yes. But there are opt-in trapdoors to allocate RC- or manually-managed strings and seqs. Otherwise, the default mode of interacting with heap data is an absolute breeze.

For the life of me, I don't know why other languages haven't leaned harder into such a transformative feature.
by Dumblydorr | 2026-01-03 17:14:59+00:00
To me it seems like an obvious oversight that they didn’t acknowledge the irony of mentioning on this board not to read this board’s posts.

They could’ve actually done what they stated, talked about the people, instead of just a meta-criticism of HN, which is probably the #1 type of comment on threads on HN already.

And yes I’ll acknowledge this is a meta criticism of a meta criticism.
by shash | 2026-01-03 17:15:16+00:00
A good scanning electron microscope costs at most a few million? And is pretty common in a decently funded lab pretty much anywhere? Resolutions of 5nm is not uncommon. A scanning tunnelling microscope can go much lower (single atom types) and isn’t all that much more expensive either (comparatively I mean).

I think it’s common knowledge by now that the smallest feature in a 5nm chip isn’t really 5nm. So that’s not (yet?) a viable strategy.
by mupuff1234 | 2026-01-03 17:16:29+00:00
Not cutting off, but it's enough that the US increases oil supply which lowers the prices to significantly hurt Russia and Iran. And then you have China which is the main consumer of Venezuelan oil so you get another point of leverage.

Also probably helps to ensure the petro dollar is here to stay for longer.

Obviously this is a very shallow analysis, and there's definitely significant risks, but I do think it's obvious that it has large potential upsides.
by Fabricio20 | 2026-01-03 17:16:34+00:00
Yet almost all websites I visit on the daily still dont support IPv6. Discord, probably the biggest chat platform in the world refuses to use Ipv6 because it bypasses rate limiting and IP bans. I don't think i've ever seen a video game ever support IPv6. Using different scopes (for say, failover/load balancing) doesn't work with Ipv6 because computers are configured to ignore local-scoped addresses when sending packets over Ipv6 so you just get downtime instead of having your router handle a failover. Or pay up for BGP. DHCPv6 might as well not work at all (at least SLAAC was decently easy to setup once you wrangle a full allocation from your ISP).

Besides all of those, you are still most likely going to encounter network slowdowns when you have IPv6 because it's gonna try IPv6 and fail to load the target website since even website that have an AAAA record are usually inaccessible over v6 for some reason. Oh and firewall is a set of separate configurations on v4 and v6 (iptables vs ip6tables, having to reconfigure it on nftables for both, etc..) at least ufw handles it nicely nowadays. I had IPv6 enabled for a month about three months ago and all I experienced was slowdowns (due to websites having to fall back to v4) and things not working (such as my failover setup - global scope vs local scope). It's back to disabled in my home network.
Ask HN: Why is HN so important?
by keepamovin | 2026-01-03 17:16:35+00:00
I recently produced a few projects that gave me an insight into the raw numbers of HN, and they're not that "impressive". We here have less MAU than your typical TikTok influencer or YouTuber. We have way loss total "subscribers" (excluding just lurkers) than your average C-tier YouTuber, or even a Rumbler.

Despite that, a crack on HN is heard around the world. A shot here can take you to the stratosphere (I know, some of my best deals and customers have come from random comments). I don't know how this can be because, the numbers dohn't lie:

each month only around 40,000 MAU contribute here. 40,000 geeks, in a "way more niche than I actually thought" orange-site internet forum, is somehow the "revolutionary salon" for where new bourgening internets are born.

How can this be? We are not special (at least, compared to the global internetizenry, I am not). And I don't think the rest of us are that special either, special in our own lives sure, but none of us have huge reach. And even if we did, I'd doubt the "handful of super influentials shaping the effects of HN globally" theory. Just seems wrong.

Despite that, somehow this little poxy orange website (sorry, mods, but you know it's true), is able to influence many things. How? God, damnit, how!?

What is the reason? I don't buy that it's the "YC" association. So what. Some hostname. Blah. That no one ever visits! Few, even fewer than here.

What is this place about, that makes it influential? I'd like to analogically understand if by comparing it with the "usenet" forums of YORE, where things like Linux and RFCs for now-standard net backbone tech were first promulgated. But that's not really the same thing.

Am I wrong? Is it uninfluential? Becuase despite the numbers (and numbers don't lie), this place seems fricking way more influential than its weight.

How can that be? It's not demographically concentrated. What is the cause of this anomaly? Ponder on that, the purpose of this question is.
by simoncion | 2026-01-03 17:16:35+00:00
> Can somebody please explain how was he able to do that without Congress approval?

Decades and decades of Congress generally refusing to do their job and also refusing to counter the ever-larger expansion of the Executive branch's assumed authority.

You might also note that the last time the US has declared war was WWII. [0] Vietnam? Korea? Afghanistan? Those weren't wars, they were "military actions", "military interventions", or "international police actions". [1]

[0] <https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-...>

[1] See the "The Korean War" section here: <https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11236>
by chaosbolt | 2026-01-03 17:16:41+00:00
It's funny how all the comments are discussing it from a "was Maduro good or bad" point of view.

This is an invasion for oil, nothing to do with drugs since they come from Mexico, and that propaganda is weak. And nothing to do with Maduro being a dictator or anything similar since each one of our politicians is objectively worse than him, I wish this was an exgeration, but when you look at the Epstein files, even the few unredacted things found there (and most of them are redacted) make it obvious that we are literally ruled by criminals.

Now you either look at it as it is, and accept that Santa isn't real, and that life is hard, and we are greedy, and we don't care about other people, and then you stop the moralizing when you do nothing about it, or you keep gobbling up the lie after lie, that Murica is the good guy, and everyone else is evil, and that all Murica's wars are moral and bringing freedom and liberating those third worlders.

TLDR: free your mind before you talk about freeing others (which is ironic because I'm doing the same thing, but I'm also writing this message for myself).
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-03 17:17:20+00:00
Headscratching is not an international consequence.

"Right" rarely matters in geopolitics.

What matters is who opposes a course of action, and how far they're willing to go in their opposition.

Is China or the UK going to insist that former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández be prosecuted on drug crimes? If not, then the US is realpolitik free to do what it wants.

Similarly with Maduro. Who's going to support him? And how far are they prepared to go?