MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nivdc | 2026-01-11 05:33:17+00:00
The author of this theory is currently building a low-code platform based on reversible computation (and some of its extensions), called Nop Platform.

Its official slogan is:

App = Delta x-extends Generator<DSL>

The extended theory gets fairly complex, and I don’t fully understand all of it myself.

If you’re curious, the documentation goes much deeper.

I haven’t found any academic papers on this yet—perhaps none exist. And, the Nop Platform is under the Apache-2.0 license.

So if you decide to share or reference this idea elsewhere, please make sure to credit the author and their ongoing work.

Heroes deserve proper recognition.

Official introduction:

https://gitee.com/canonical-entropy/nop-entropy/blob/master/...

Repositories:

Gitee: https://gitee.com/canonical-entropy/nop-entropy
GitHub: https://github.com/entropy-cloud/nop-entropy
by drysine | 2026-01-11 05:34:02+00:00
>I don't want them unknowingly consuming foreign propaganda campaign content and maximally politically divisive conversation.

Good point.

That's what Putin's "foreign agents" law addresses.

The law is much criticized by Western media and "NGOs" for some reason.

As a matter of fact, it marginalizes any recipient of foreign money even if they do something genuinely good for Russian people, but I doubt it is why the West doesn't like this law.
by spankibalt | 2026-01-11 05:36:04+00:00
> "Either way I think the losers are going to be [...] maybe even wikis, ie all the non standard ways people have been documenting their work to date."

Org mode never touched ConnectedText for me; I'd probably still use it if the tool either had gotten open-sourced and/or taken over by a dedicated team (of professionals). Its pros were user friendlieness, powerful scripting, reliability, having an extremely good search functionality, and a small but dedicated community. In other words some things Org mode still has not. And getting text in and out was trivial.

Sadly, AFAIK, the dev threw in the towel after facing a refactorization of the code. Having single-dev complex applications is very seldom a sign of sustainability (SPOF).

And functioning wikis obviously implement standards; several of them can run on flat-file structures (e. g. TiddlyWiki). Org mode can or could run them as front-end. Et cetera.
by FilosofumRex | 2026-01-11 05:36:28+00:00
> The first six of which to my understanding are token roles, sometimes de jure, but definitely de facto.

All European kings have the power to dismiss the elected prime ministers and are the nominal head of the armed forces. Iran "Supreme Leader" has never removed any elected presidents or members of parliament and has no authority over government expenditures or taxes, therefore is not responsible for mis-management of economy.

So those who call for his removal are not motivated by economic hardship but are politically motivated who can't win democratic elections
by pstuart | 2026-01-11 05:38:44+00:00
This doesn't surprise me at all. There's countless examples of his narcissism and cruelty to go by.

He was brilliant when it came to the creation and rejuvenation of Apple, his famous Reality Distortion Field, and his insight into the power and direction of technology.

We can acknowledge Jobs the Digital Guru while recognizing that Jobs the man was not a good person.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-11 05:40:45+00:00
The region in NB where this issue is occurring is the hub for NB's and North America's forestry industry. Over 40% of all harvested forest land in NB is treated with glyphosates [0].

Commercial forestry at JD Irving's scale largely died out in much of the US excluding Maine (where it is also has inordinate political power [1][2]).

[0] - https://www.conservationcouncil.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/0...

[1] - https://themainemonitor.org/maines-future-with-irving/

[2] - https://mainebiz.biz/article/the-irving-influence-a-look-at-...
by rramadass | 2026-01-11 05:40:51+00:00
Yes.

1) Walk everyday.

2) Vary the pace i.e. brisk walking interspersed with slow walking.

3) Use weight vests/weighed backpacks/ankle weights from time to time.

4) Do uphill/downhill and/or up-the-stairs/down-the-stairs periodically.

5) Walk after Meals and after Exercise.

6) Get up and Walk during breaks in between tasks.
by glpgeFwac | 2026-01-11 05:41:51+00:00
Assuming this isn't a rhetorical question: San Diego, Davis, Irvine, and Santa Barbara all rank in the top 15 US public, top 50 US / top 200 global universities (USN&WR, THE, QS rankings) and have specific programs that are world class ( including the ones you mention--two UCSB professors won last year's Nobel in physics.

Though Berkeley and UCLA have the advantage of most all departments being top 10, "average school" is not a fair assessment for the rest.
by numpad0 | 2026-01-11 05:42:13+00:00
What's truly "sad" is that it's ok if Google does it. It's apparently not ok when OpenAI, Musk, etc do literally the same thing.

This whole controversy reminds me of that Rhodesian designed shotgun marketed as "Street Sweeper" in the US. Making a tool is one thing. Brandishing its unsafe working end to potential customers in an attempt to impress them, alas, could lead to interesting situations...
by anonnon | 2026-01-11 05:43:08+00:00
I watched a documentary about Morgellons, and the patients would often seem quite reasonable at first, but the more they spoke, and the more they described their symptoms, the crazier they sounded.

One patient, whose brother, ironically, was a physician (and one skeptical of Morgellons as anything other than delusional parasitosis), seemed earnest, if intense, in describing how Morgellons had destroyed his quality of life... but then he started describing how he felt like he was able to inadvertently affect electronic devices, especially RF-based ones, because the Morgellons "fibers" in his extremities caused some kind of interference. At this point, he sounded squarely cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

However, one could very well imagine an infectious disease, with or without a dermatological component, causing delusional parasitosis. Maybe they have some virus or something that makes them think they have these "fibers?" Or a parasite? Toxoplasma gondii is known to affect inhibition. UTIs in the elderly are notorious for making them crazy.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-11 05:43:55+00:00
Fedora.

Best Linux experience I've ever had. Using it for a few years now, but wish I switched sooner (been using various distros since Ubuntu 8.04). Dnf is GOAT, upgrades don't break shit, moderately up-to-date, but not bleeding-edge, vanilla Gnome, no bloat, full systemd commitment, btrfs, few idiosyncrasies, RPMs are widely available, flatpak for the rest. (Don't have a printer tho...)

However, due to e.g. the need to install the Fusion repo for non-free software, I don't think it's suitable for total non-tech beginners, who don't want to touch the terminal at all. Don't get me wrong, Fedora is extremely hands-off, default is bliss experience, but because of their software license policies you likely have to install the Fusion repo at some point and that's not the most straight-forward thing to do.

Only negative for me: The GUI updater wants to install updates during shutdown frequently, which is mighty annoying with full-disk encryption. I live dangerously and do my updates live with dnf, which by the way can be configured to fetch packages in the background, making updating super fast, no need for permanent internet connection.

If you are annoyed by Ubuntu, not old enough for Debian, but already fed up with Arch, please, do try Fedora!
by tricorn | 2026-01-11 05:46:29+00:00
Don't optimize the language to fit the tokens, optimize the tokens to fit the language. Tokenization is just a means to compress the text, use a lot of code in target languages to determine the tokenizing, then do the training using those tokens. More important is to have a language where the model can make valid predictions of what effective code will be.
Models are "good" at Python because they see so much of it. To determine what language might be most appropriate for an AI to work with, you'd need to train multiple models, each with a tokenizer optimized for a language and training specifically targeting that language.
One language I've had good success with, despite having low levels of training in it, is Tcl/Tk. As the language is essentially a wordy version of Lisp (despite Stallman's disdain for it), it is extremely introspective with the ability to modify the language from within itself. It also has a very robust extensible sandbox, and is reasonably efficient for an interpreted language.
I've written a scaffold that uses Tcl as the sole tool-calling mechanism, and despite a lot of training distracting the model towards Python and JSON, it does fairly well. Unfortunately I'm limited in the models I can use because I have an old 8GB GPU, but I was surprised at how well it manages to use the Tcl sandbox with just a relatively small system prompt.
Tcl is a very regular language with a very predictive structure and seems ideal for an LLM to use for tool calling, note taking, context trimming, delegation, etc. I haven't been working on this long, but it is close to the point where the model will be able to start extending its own environment (with anything potentially dangerous needing human intervention).
by mandynoee | 2026-01-11 05:47:45+00:00
I’m Mandy, a 20-year-old student and like most students during finals, my friends and I were absolutely cooked.

We’d sit down to study, promise ourselves we’d focus and somehow end up doomscrolling, zoning out, or procrastinating. We wanted a way to hold each other accountable, actually accomplish our tasks, and make productivity fun and enjoyable.

So I built LockIn.

LockIn is a social focus & productivity app; think Instagram, but for getting things done. You can set focus timers, enter immersive focus rooms with lofi music, and then share your completed focus sessions and to-dos. Instead of doomscrolling, you scroll your productivity feed to see what others are working on and it turns scrolling into motivation instead of distraction.

You’ll also earn rewards, unlock puzzle pieces after every session, and compete with friends on leaderboards to stay accountable.

This app started as something my friends and I needed and I hope it helps you stay focused and actually get things done too.

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or questions!

And if you’re a marketing wizard who’s excited to help blow this up, I’m very open to collaborating so shoot me an email at thetmyatnoe1217@gmail.com
by vineyardmike | 2026-01-11 05:48:50+00:00
I think the author also misses that humans still make mugs. They're just low-skill, low-craft jobs in a factory instead. The parts that easy have been automated, while humans still handle the tough bits. The jobs have also been centralized and moved to a factory in a third-world country instead of being distributed, in every other town across the world.

To push <profession> the way of the potter is to commodify it, underpay the workers while draining the job of its craft and creativity. Then charge comparably wealthy people for the privilege of doing it for 2hrs a week as a recreational activity. A dozen people in major cities can get really good at it then have boutique studios where they charge wealthy people 100x the commodified price to be able to buy the same product but locally made.

We can't easily close Pandora's box of globalism and automation, but let's not glorify the destruction of craft and artisanship without recognition of the trade society made.
by gofreddygo | 2026-01-11 05:48:56+00:00
> CSS is pleasant

So is SQL. To me. But some otherwise rational people have an irrational dislike of sql. Almost like someone seeking to seal a small bruise with wire mesh because bandaids are hard to rip off. The consequence shows with poorly implemented schema-free nosql and bloated orm tools mixed in with sql.

But some folks just like it that way. And most reasons boil down to a combination of (1) a myopic solution to a hyper specific usecase or (2) an enterprise situation where you have a codebase written by monkeys with keyboards and you want to limit their powers for everyone's good or (3) koolaid infused resume driven development.
by shimman | 2026-01-11 05:49:12+00:00
Debugging CSS nowadays is way easier than even 5 years ago. There are a lot of cool browser debugging tools for animations, z-indexes. The browsers have come a long way since firebug. Definitely look into both chrome or firefox, their tooling is great. Especially firefox, they have debugging tools where you can create css shapes in the browser and save them. Very handy for those artsy fartsy sites.
by esquire_900 | 2026-01-11 05:50:23+00:00
Cool social experiment. It's interesting how narrow the scope of all top voted PRs are: change this or that detail in the voting (daily, count down votes etc), or make it more efficient (rust).

I wonder if this has the potential to build a "community" that will take this into a completely different direction, or if it will neatly stay within the initial boundaries.
by snailmailman | 2026-01-11 05:51:41+00:00
Ive been trying to learn a new language and this feature is awful.

It constantly either translates language-learning videos entirely into english or into the language i'm trying to learn. Despite all settings on my account being set to english, if I include any non-english text in my search query that is enough to get youtube to translate all videos out of english. When it does this, there is seemingly no built-in feature to change this back, other than through addons. And there isn't even an indication that conveys the fact the video title and description are auto-translated, other than maybe i recognize the channel and can tell that its supposed to be in another language.

And part of me thinks, "maybe once i learn enough, such a feature could maybe be helpful in learning a language" But every video ive seen so far thats auto-translated into English is done so quite badly and confusingly. I can't trust the translation.
by ggm | 2026-01-11 05:52:34+00:00
Many people believe running fibre between buildings, even in ducts, is safer than running copper because you get opto-isolation from lightning.

The second thing is that domestic buildings usually do not come with a consistent ground plane. I worked in a 1960s build purpose made for mainframes and we had ~48v floating between racks at either end of the building and had to do a shitload of work to reground the building, in the 90s (-we were decommissioning an IBM 3033 and deploying a secondhand cray1) the point being somehow, God knows how, prior rs232 serial wiring didn't care and the ground plane for the mainframe was fine at the time. Pre Ethernet this stuff maybe just passed code.

I suspect people who build their own home to some spec acquire these theories. Data comms? Not much reason tbh unless you're pushing a lot more data than normal.
by alienchow | 2026-01-11 05:52:38+00:00
It's one of those "just because" moments. The idea was to future proof my home infra for a 25G NAS connection. Most ethernet connections tap out at 10G. While theoretically speaking Cat 8 cables can do 40G, hardware support for full 40G Cat 8 NICs is rare. Fibre is very very flexible with its potential bandwidth and SFP28 transceivers are relatively affordable (if you don't do what I did by using SMF. Home networks should only use MMF if the property isn't a mansion.)
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-11 05:52:40+00:00
>Which is a little odd, and the value is questionable, but fundamentally seems...fine?

1. Brand management is strict for a reason. You don't want some third party pretending to represent you and suddenly they become malicious or simply get hacked and have their customers (and indirectly, your customers) assosiswte you with frustration and danger. Or even something completely inconsequential in the grand scheme of things but a PR nightmare. Like having Nintendo products in a list next to some Magnum condoms.

2. There's subtle issues with making things "too convenient" to buy. Trackers and affiliates get frustrated, so it might make you less money in the long term. You might have related items to tempt buyers to buy more so spending goes down. Less users accounts (be it an email list, curation algorithms, or following on social media) weaken outreach for future holiday deals.

And those are 2 points when not considering a trillion dollar tech giant and the Ai concerns.
by bert64 | 2026-01-11 05:52:44+00:00
Since starlink supports v6, starlink users can p2p communicate with other v6 users.
Both starlink and local carriers don't provide proper legacy connectivity, they are encumbered by cgnat so p2p does not work. Without p2p communications, users are forced into a client-server model and it's much easier to block a small number of servers rather than millions of potential peers.
by ssunboyy | 2026-01-11 05:54:41+00:00
Compared to a YouTube lecture, the core difference is not just that things move on screen, but that the learner controls what happens and when. In a video, the explanation and animation follow a fixed path chosen by the creator. Even if the content is excellent, you are mostly a passive observer. Here, even if the current interaction is simple, the learner is making choices and triggering outcomes, which changes the mental model from watching to doing.
by alextingle | 2026-01-11 05:55:52+00:00
Are you sure that's what customers want, or maybe it's what dealers want?

The check engine light tells you nothing. It tells your local mechanic nothing. Do you can't get the problem fixed easily or cheaply.

What it does, is force you to take the car to a dealer, who has the specialist, proprietary equipment needed to interpret the fault. And these gatekeepers will charge you a fat premium for that.

So no. I don't think this design choices are driven by a desire to serve the customer.
by therealwardo | 2026-01-11 05:56:56+00:00
I really want to love this, but my experience in the first 20 seconds is unfortunately like some of my other experiences coding against Fly APIs, they're broken.

https://sprites.dev/api has this command:

$ curl -X POST "https://api.sprites.dev/v1/sprites" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SPRITES_TOKEN" \
-d '{"name": "my-sprite"}'

which responds with

{"error":"name is required"}

if you use the request body in the full "Create Sprite" documentation at https://sprites.dev/api/sprites#create then it does work.

can I live with some rough edges for some personal workflows that only impact me when things break? sure. however, I was thinking about playing with some CI/CD stuff using sprites that would impact our whole team if things broke and I'm really on the fence because of this experience in the first 20 seconds.

Fly team - please put some black box probes or just better testing on the example you give in the quick start. if you document it, test it.
by msephton | 2026-01-11 05:56:59+00:00
Will need a magnifying glass to see the text on the screenshots.

I find it makes sense to take screenshots in a window big enough to show what's going on, but no bigger. This means probably not full screen, or maximised, especially if you're running at a very high resolution. If there's a lot of dead/empty space in the window that's a signal it's too big. This way you guarantee the screenshots are readable without zooming in, on smaller displays than your own, for example mobile.
by popalchemist | 2026-01-11 05:57:08+00:00
You do realize you have no idea whether it's slop or not, don't you? Or are you so arrogant as to think you know the value of something you haven't seen? I have been a full-stack developer for over 20 years. I can tell if what I'm putting out meets a certain standard.

Take a look at yourself and honestly ask yourself why you felt the need to shit on a random stranger's hobby project without knowing anything about it. What in you is so hurt that you had to hurt another?
by antonvs | 2026-01-11 05:57:18+00:00
This is certainly possible, but it sounds more like what AA tells its clients. Doctors are less likely to say things like this, because it can have consequences for them.

Going cold turkey like you're saying he did is fine if (1) it doesn't kill you and (2) you're able to do it. For many people, it's just not very practical.

I don't think it's a good idea to demonize medical professionals for doing their jobs to the best of their abilities in the face of enormous challenges. That's the kind of thing that the conspiracy theorist and anti-science Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does, and it's not helping the US in any way at all.
by FilosofumRex | 2026-01-11 05:57:43+00:00
> It's a circular logic. He elects people who elect him.

"Supreme Leader" does not elect anyone, he appoints the head of judiciary, according to the tradition and customs of Sharia law. People elect parliament, president and Assembly of Experts. The Guardian Counsel's only power is to certify minimum qualifications of candidates, according to election laws not personal prerogative of the "Supreme Leader".

Iran's "regime" is only 45 years old, the first 8 years of which was in war and the last 25 years, under sanctions by the Western "democracies". This is after 3,000 years of absolute monarchy or occupation.

You, your king and your Mossad handlers may control the internet, but will never be able to return to Iran.
by nevi-me | 2026-01-11 05:58:14+00:00
I sympathise with burying cables that you think are for life, only to need to replace them later.

We ran fibre cables in the ceiling when constructing our house. I requested the electrician to shield the cables with some tubing, but he probably thought I was being extreme. We have 9 cables, 2 of them don't work, likely from being bent by mistake or something.

The wiring is intermixed with electrical and ethernet (for cameras) cables, making the process a bit tricky. At least for us we might only have to cut the ceiling boards in a few places to help guide the replacement cables.
by wltr | 2026-01-11 05:58:51+00:00
Thanks for formulating this, as I’m too lazy to even start the conversation with the folks who’d like to have a lot of everything on their screens, with myriads of distractions and just ugly little everything. Otherwise ‘that’s tablet,’ and it’s ‘the Gnome team pushing their nonsense,’ not the particular user being used to something completely wrong from the UI/UX perspective. I’m having no issues with teaching Gnome anyone. It’s simple. Yet powerful, I can use it no issues, and it’s my second favourite after Sway. I feel those of us who actually appreciate Gnome should be more vocal about it, otherwise these weirdos with 2 mins of Gnome experience yelling too loud.
by zippyman55 | 2026-01-11 06:00:11+00:00
For years I had the worst car in the parking lot. Probably close to the highest salary too. I was amazed at the cost of the cars for even low level cars. I was also amazed at how people noticed when someone had a flashy car. I only got rid of my car when it was no longer safe to drive.
Caveat: some large towns, you need a more reliable car. I get that. But I just can’t see paying over $30k for a vehicle, and for very local commutes, that $2000 car was fine.
by ajross | 2026-01-11 06:00:35+00:00
> the brands have a closer connection to their customers

That's... not a thing though. No such thing as "brand rights" beyond stuff like trademark, which clearly doesn't apply here. In particular there's no inherent recognition of a manufacturers ability to control what happens to downstream goods. Stuff is stuff, if you sell stuff the people you sell it to can sell it too.