MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lenerdenator | 2026-01-20 21:14:45+00:00
To be fair, if you were aware enough to separate the characteristics of wealth and intelligence, you've probably seen the investing world as a casino with ego-stroking suits long before this. The difference between the cigarette-burning retiree surrendering their OASDI check at a casino in Kansas City and Wall Street investors is a diploma from the "right" schools and in the ability to sway the odds in their favor; they both can - and will - destroy themselves or those around them to indulge in their habit.

Any sort of announced intention to "somehow stop the bad actors" became laughable after 2008-2009. We had bankers and financiers kick the monetary legs out from under an entire generation and unless they did something blatantly illegal (read: were Bernie Madoff) none of them faced a consequence.

That's why you have the current situation in the US where scammers can take advantage of distrust in any and all of society's institutions, up to and including the federal government.
by jackdoe | 2026-01-20 21:14:46+00:00
> But I am having a hard time imagining it's the best way to learn to pipe together commands.

To be honest, it is very strange how hard it is to teach programming concepts, for some reason almost all humans use computers but only 0.1% or so can program them.

I am not sure we have the 'best way' to teach anything computer related.

People develop world model for physics quite early, they know they can pull with a rope but cant push with a rope.

And they get intuition, things that are thrown up, go down, and they can transfer this intuition in the math, because math is real.

For some reason its hard to do that with code. People keep trying to push with a rope, even after studying for many years.

PS: I am trying to teach her neural networks now and am working on this RNN board game https://punkx.org/projekt0/book/part2/rnn.html to fight the "square" dragon. I want her to develop good world model for neural networks, so that she understands what chatgpt is. I just keep experimenting, sometimes things click, sometimes not.
by pqtyw | 2026-01-20 21:14:48+00:00
> liquidity in swap lines is China

In Yuan? Which is certainly a more of a global reserve currency than the Euro and is certainly widely used for international trade? The same Yuan with the massive amount of liquidity outside of China?

The Canadian Dollar and Pound Sterling each are a have a significantly bigger share as reserve currencies than the Yuan....

USD/CNY havs only slightly higher volume than USD/CHF. Hardly anyone uses it anywhere outside China.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-20 21:15:21+00:00
You are right about the order of magnitude of the percentages, but the CPUs <10 W are in phones, tablets, small SBCs (single-board computers) and only in a small fraction of laptops and mini-PCs.

The vast majority of laptops and mini-PCs uses more powerful CPUs. While 15 W CPUs were normal many years ago, when Intel launched the "Ultrabook" campaign, in recent years, due to better cooling, most laptops and mini-PCs use 25 W to 30 W CPUs, and a significant fraction of them (bigger than the fraction of the laptops/mini-PCs that uses <=10 W CPUs) uses CPUs with a TDP between 35 W and 65 W.
by luke5441 | 2026-01-20 21:15:47+00:00
In case you are interested in more than definitions of words: Bond investors do not care if you default by giving them a haircut, doing things like forcefully extending the term to 100 years or lowering the currency value by printing money.
In either case they will adjust their future risk premium of US govt. bonds and of course price in future inflation.

One might be able to hide the money printing for a while, though, while the haircut is explicit.
by MBCook | 2026-01-20 21:16:10+00:00
It amazes me it’s so hard to find monitors around 210+ PPI. Glad this is one.

That said I would be scared to buy this. I’ve heard so many horror stories about the LG UltraFine 5k and the ports breaking and then having to send it in for repair for a long time.

At this point I don’t trust their build quality for monitors.

In general though, I am so glad to see big high DPI monitors have more than one or two options finally.
by anthk | 2026-01-20 21:17:18+00:00
I think IE, ActiveX and the like were reused in tons of VB5/6 applications... at least with zillions of
Spanish shareware, such as amateur games, crossword puzzles, home agendas, book databases and the like.
They worked smooth enough, but in a crazy insecure way. Today it's the reverse; Chromium/Blink can do sandboxing but they bundle everything. Video and audio codecs, HTML renderers, a JS engine, a CSS engine, TTF rendering engines, 2D drawing engines, their own window and process managers... half an OS.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-20 21:17:25+00:00
> suggest their customers for “not understanding it”

See Microsoft's recent "We don't understand how you all are not impressed by AI."

In the case of MS, you're right, Satya isn't going to fall on his own sword. They will just continue to bundle and raise prices, make it impossible to buy anything else (because you still need the other tools) and then pitch that to shareholders as success "Look how many people buy Copilot (even though it's forcefully bundled into every offering we sell("
by civancza | 2026-01-20 21:17:45+00:00
Hi,

I am looking for PMF and I need some feedback.
I already have a server-side text-to-sql and text-to-visualization that explores your database and generates visualization for a single prompt. It works cool and you can improve accuracy with gold queries and db annotations. So it's cool, but based on my research, if it comes to a dashboard, almost everyone suggests to buy an embeddable solution including dashboard management. And at this point, i built this prototype for a low-code solution for customer facing AI analytics, and i'd like to get some honest feedback on it.

How will it work?
- You can embed the UI with one line of code like <QuerypanelEmbedded dashboardId='' />.

- JWT for auth should be generated on your backend and saved into localstorage

- The ui provides limited text block editor, where you can add titles, paragraph and charts.

- Charts can be generated with AI, using a chat based modal and handling history and versions etc.

- The dashboard has a feature that sums up the data changes based on a given timeline.

- Admins can generate charts on Querypanel, and deploy them with one click to customers

- Customers (tenants) can customize their own dashboard as they wish (probably based on some RBAC)

What do you think? is it somethign that's worth further development ?
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-20 21:17:56+00:00
It appears that some people prefer IPv4 and do not need IPv6

For example, from another story (about IP addresses) on today's HN front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693867

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695198
by roenxi | 2026-01-20 21:18:04+00:00
> - Even policymakers who have publicly admitted that Iraq was a massive intelligence and political failure all agree that regional stability was always the main goal.

And in their spare time they pretend to sell bridges to people? Nobody sane would believe that invading a country promotes regional stability. The idea is absurdist, the point of invading a country is destabilising it and disrupting any power that the locals might have. Forcefully toppling governments and killing large numbers of people has never been a credible path to stability.
by lovich | 2026-01-20 21:18:13+00:00
The states in question have zero obligation to help make the feds jobs easier. The people complaining about this situation feel entitled to other states using their resources to help the federal government enact policies that they want enforced nationwide.

This is why everyone rolls their eyes when conservatives crow about states rights. They don’t actually want state rights, they want their views enforced on the other states.

I’m actually for less of states independence from the feds on a bunch of areas, and immigration is probably one of them, but as long as this is a tool in the toolbox that conservatives are eager to use, I’m going to call them out for bitching about someone else doing the same thing.
by 9rx | 2026-01-20 21:18:15+00:00
> what are you basing that off of

Observation? Children show clear signs of learning before they even make it through their first year out of the womb. Man, most people don't even consider university as an option until they are around 17-18 years of age, after they have already learned the vast majority of the things they will learn in life.

Data? Only 7-8% of the population have a university degree. Obviously you could learn in university without graduating, and unfortunately participation data is much harder to come by, but there is no evidence to suggest that the non-completion rate is anywhere high enough to think that even a majority of the population have step foot in a university even if for just one for day. If we go as far as to assume a 50% dropout rate, that is still no more than 16% of the population. Little more than rounding error.

Nothing? It's a random comment on the internet. It is not necessarily based on anything. Fundamentally, comments are only ever written for the enjoyment of writing. One trying to derive anything more from it has a misunderstanding of the world around them. I suppose you have a point that, for those who struggle to see the obvious, a university education would teach the critical thinking necessary to recognize the same. But, the fact that we are here echoes that university isn't how people learn these days.

> citing

Citing...? Like, as in quoting a passage? I can find no reason why I would want to repeat what someone else has written about. Whatever gives you enjoyment, but that seems like a pointless waste of time. It is already right there. You must be trying to say something else by this? I, unfortunately, am not in tune with your pet definition.
by pertymcpert | 2026-01-20 21:18:37+00:00
Some of work on proprietary software. Systems, firmwares, memory allocators, compilers, runtimes. You know, things that don't have fancy web pages or even stand-alone git repos because the code is just being continually reviewed and merged alongside human written code.

I'm not even OP so I don't know of it applies to them, but the above applies to me and it's been extremely helpful to me.
by NetMageSCW | 2026-01-20 21:18:45+00:00
New regulations in the EU require increased security features in connected cars and secure updates that couldn’t be implemented in the older digital systems of the 718/Macan without redesigning all new systems, and since Porsche was planning on electrifying those models first, they moved that ahead rather than create new ICE models. In retrospect that was too early a move to BEV for them.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-20 21:20:28+00:00
These cases can get quite interesting. They interviewed an investigator on a local show, and he said they often intercept money going to a scammer, and contact the person to inform them they were being scammed. Up to that point, the sender has no idea.

It can take quite a bit of effort to convince them they've been scammed. The usual reaction is "You did what?! I was sending money to a loved one. How dare you!" They then have to give the sender a sense of the evidence they have, etc.

And some percentage never believe it and remain upset. And will then resend the money through other channels.
by d--b | 2026-01-20 21:20:40+00:00
It's not addiction. That makes in sound like self pat on the back disguised as a problem.

It's the equivalent of being neat freak. Some people are annoyed when they see breadcrumbs on the floor and feel a compelling urge to clean it. You experience a compelling urge to fix tech problems.

I think many people have that on various subjects.

It's not really a problem though. More an obsession than an addiction really. Being obsessive about your work is not a problem as long as you maintain proper live/work balance.
by pocketarc | 2026-01-20 21:21:12+00:00
I use this approach for a ticket based customer support agent. There are a bunch of boolean checks that the LLM must pass before its response is allowed through. Some are hard fails, others, like you brought up, are just a weighted ding to the response's final score.

Failures are fed back to the LLM so it can regenerate taking that feedback into account. People are much happier with it than I could have imagined, though it's definitely not cheap (but the cost difference is very OK for the tradeoff).
by csense | 2026-01-20 21:21:53+00:00
> really want to generate yield

Treasuries are not the best way to do this. Almost any investment is better than yeeting a substantial portion of your net worth into Treasuries or a savings account.

> really want to preserve capital

Fiat currency, or bonds that promise payouts in fiat currency, are excellent for short-term capital preservation and terrible for long-term capital preservation, as every government that uses fiat currency has succumbed to the temptation to print more of it whenever it seems expedient.

Gold or Bitcoins are far better for preservation of capital.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-20 21:22:23+00:00
> I don't know if that's non-rational, or if people can't be expected to read the second sentence of an announcement before panicking.

These days you have AI bots doing sentiment based training.

If you ask me... all these excesses are a clear sign for one thing, we need to drastically rein in the stonk markets. The markets should serve us, not the other way around.
by andy99 | 2026-01-20 21:22:59+00:00
How much you value control is one part of the optimization problem. Obviously self hosting gives you more but it costs more, and re evals, I trust GPT, Gemini, and Claude a lot more than some smaller thing I self host, and would end up wanting to do way more evals if I self hosted a smaller model.

(Potentially interesting aside: I’d say I trust new GLM models similarly to the big 3, but they’re too big for most people to self host)
by 0x1ch | 2026-01-20 21:23:09+00:00
My biggest issue with lawnchair (and most launchers really) is that they all are horribly glitchy on my Pixel 6, and also break the app drawer / switching feature.

I literally just want a vanilla pixel experience, but be allowed to change the search engine on the home screen searchbar... This got me into the weeds on the widget and launcher ecosystem and they're all very bad.
by djsjajah | 2026-01-20 21:23:14+00:00
> including all previous experiments

How far back do you go? What about experiments into architecture features that didn’t make the cut? What about pre-transformer attention?

But more generally, why are you so sure that they team that built Gemini didn’t exclusively use TPUs while they were developing it?

I think that one of the reasons that Gemini caught up so quickly is because they have so much compute at fraction of the price of everyone else.
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-20 21:23:26+00:00
FTFA:

This clandestine treatment would have made sense had the erdstall been built as escape routes in case of invaders, but this can’t have been their purpose. They only ever have one entrance, usually located beneath the floor of a church or farmhouse, or simply under the flagstones of a town square.

That SCREAMS "hidey hole in case of invaders", to me. Like the hole Saddam Hussein was discovered hiding in.

If the countryside is overrun with invaders, there's literally no place for peasants to escape to. But if you can safely hide until dark, you have a chance. If you can wait out until the invaders pass through to their objective (strategic castle, opposing force...), you survive.
Show HN: ElkDesk – I rage-quit Zendesk and built my own
by julianpeters | 2026-01-20 21:24:05+00:00
I run a few apps (AI Singer App, Pawtograph, TravelFeed). Support emails were eating 3+ hours of my day.

Tried Zendesk. Spent 2 hours configuring triggers before I could reply to a single email. The $25/month turned into $298/month for my setup. Closed the tab.

So I built something for myself:

- Tickets left, conversation right (that's the whole UI)
- AI suggestions trained on your replies, not generic stuff
- Knowledge base that grows as you answer questions
- 5 min setup

Left out on purpose: SLAs, workforce management, skills-based routing, phone/chat. If you need those, this isn't for you.

The goal isn't "Zendesk for small teams". It's the anti-Zendesk — do 5 things well instead of 50 things adequately.

Stack: Next.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, AWS SES.

$9/mo (1 project), $29/mo (5 projects + teammate), $99/mo (20 projects + 10 teammates)

Code ANTIDESK = 20% off forever (ends Jan 31)

https://elkdesk.com

I built this for myself. If you're in the same situation, you can use it too.

Happy to answer questions about the build or product decisions.
by messe | 2026-01-20 21:24:19+00:00
> The fact that I did not choose to tailor my communication to the people obsessively fighting their ideological battles on the internet does in fact not indicate a failure on my part.

It kinda does if you're actually trying to get your message across and not just doing this for your own self gratification.

I'm done here. Too close to Godwin's law after your last remarks. I don't know what my quote had to do with Godwin's law (feel free to explain).

We're so far down the comment chain though that I don't mind saying that you're coming across as an insufferable cunt who has to be technically correct.
by mastermedo | 2026-01-20 21:24:25+00:00
What a throwback. Nova launcher sounded familiar, but I wasn't sure where to place it in my head. When I saw the logo I was immediately transported to memories of using lineage OS and bricking my new Samsung Note 4. I was trying to customize every button combination to do something smart back then. The good old days when I had the time to fix the phone after every update. I've since moved to the apple ecosystem... Set and forget.
by CoolestBeans | 2026-01-20 21:24:42+00:00
Its probably not very likely that if a large buyer pulled out, NVIDIA could just sell to other customers. If a large buyer pulls out, that's a massive signal to everyone else to begin cutting costs as well. The large buyer either knows something everyone else doesn't, or knows something that everyone else has already figured out. Either way, the large buyer pulling out signals "I don't think the overall market is large enough to support this amount of compute at these prices at current interest rates" and everybody is doing the same math too.
by fweimer | 2026-01-20 21:24:45+00:00
I don't know if the 20 limit is large enough in practice. People do weird things (after migrating from non-DNS naming services, for example). Then there is label compression, so you can have theoretically have several thousand RRs in a single 64 KiB response. These numbers are large enough that a simple multi-pass approach is probably not a good idea.

And practically speaking, none of this CNAME-chain chasing adds any functionality because recursive servers are expected to produce ready-to-use answers.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-01-20 21:25:17+00:00
Yeah...we just went through this process over here. I was more just making the point that "If its possible to use a system wrongly which undermines its security, it is already broken" isn't always true. I guess you could argue its NTLM there thats 'already broken', but the idea was more "SysAdmins are sometimes given red buttons to never press under any circumstances."
by tptacek | 2026-01-20 21:25:41+00:00
I've been working for the past several weeks in an environment where it's easy and safe to give different claudes yolo-mode, but yesterday I needed to build an Emacs TRAMP plugin, and I had to do that on my local development NUC. I am extremely spoiled for yolo-mode, because even just yes-ok'ing all the elisp fragments claude came up with was exasperating, the whole experience was draining, and that was me not being especially careful (just making sure it didn't run random bash commands to, like, install a different Emacs or something).
by jonathanlydall | 2026-01-20 21:26:11+00:00
The article actually remarks on this kind of argument.

While you are technically correct about NAT not being a firewall, it is in practice a widely used front-line defense which even if not “perfect”, it has indisputably
proven to be quite effective against a lot of malicious activity.

Against highly determined malicious actors you will of course want a proper firewall, but for 99% of people, NAT is enough to keep from being bothered by run of the mill malicious actors.

Kind of like physical home security, a lot of it is very easy to bypass, but it’s good enough for the common threats.
by tartoran | 2026-01-20 21:26:29+00:00
There's no point in a war between US and Europe, it's not gonna happen. However bad a war would be, the current situation isn't much better. There's definitely a rift going on and will cause irreversible changes to the US - EU partnership. Oh well, not only EU, it seems like US is losing friends at a very fast rate with Trump at the whelm of the country.
by smsm42 | 2026-01-20 21:26:46+00:00
DNS level is too easy to circumvent - you just set your server to 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, and it's enough just one of them refuses to kowtow to Ofcom. More likely it'd de on routing level. Which has obvious problems unless they build full-blown DPI firewall and implement VPN blocking (they may consult China for that) but to cut off the most lazy users it'd be effective.
by hattmall | 2026-01-20 21:28:58+00:00
With 10 yrs experience and taking travel jobs to remote locations you MIGHT break $100 hr without OT. With North Slope experience you can get jobs that are paying ~70 with guaranteed OT so like you will crack $100 /hr but that's working winter in Alaska. Even offshore jobs aren't paying $100. No one is paying 800.
by robocat | 2026-01-20 21:29:01+00:00
> Modern cars are far more reliable than old 'analogue' cars

They're reliable, but when they have a problem, they're too hard to fix.

Last time I got my Toyota Hybrid fixed, the recommended first step for the fault code was to "replace the ECU". Fault was elsewhere but I had to suck up that cost. I've just scrapped that car for a different fault, because although the new fault was easily fixable, the parts and labour were very expensive (and wouldn't make the car more reliable).
by pclalv | 2026-01-20 21:30:03+00:00
I have similar reservations that this expresses, and it leaves me wondering as to what kind of person is suited for this kind of environment. Perhaps that's a pointless question, although I think that there is at least one useful answer to it: I'm not the kind of person who's suited to those environment. I'm not well-suited to take such a huge chunk of my life and basically throwing it away by creating a barrier between it and my emotional life; I find it difficult to imagine even asking another human to do such a thing, and wonder how 'natural' it is to members of a species that evolved without such artificial separations between work and emotions and life.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-20 21:30:15+00:00
The 1970s suggests that when gas stations start closing they may close a lot faster than people expect. Gas has a weird margin and is often something of a "loss leader" to convenience stores (or now full supermarkets). On the supply side it is capital-heavy and demand-driven in interesting ways that will respond to demand drops in terms of a "ratchet effect", in which many types of temporary shutdowns will result in permanent shutdowns that will be more expensive to restart than there should be investment interest.

Gas logistics is fascinating with how many possible places exist for disruption (in the negative sense more than the tech sense) to cause domino chains.

Things have the possibility to get "very interesting" in a unique shutdown spiral. I don't know how soon we'll see it, or if we'll see it, but if it happens I don't think it is "far" in the future, even as the 1970s starts to feel too far out of cultural memory to use as an allegory.