MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arjie | 2026-01-17 20:41:13+00:00
This is a negative-sum choice being made by everyone but China. Chinese cars will decimate the European motor industry. Volvo is already gone. BMW, Porsche, Volkswagen will follow. This will hurt Europe a lot more than it will hurt America.

The pressures of a democratic society will force Western governments to extract money from their productive sectors and redirect them to their comparatively unproductive auto sectors.

Watching an increasingly aging Europe try to sustain its expensive welfare state while losing its biggest industries and facing a war citizens don't have the heart to prosecute is going to be interesting. Already French retirees make more than the average working man there.

They won't fight. They won't work. They won't provide children. To retirees, replacing local industry with Chinese manufacturing is a no-brainer: everything gets cheaper. With the resulting loss of well-paying jobs, healthcare for the elderly and wait staff will get even cheaper. A bonanza for a generation soon to disappear leaving the bits to be picked up by their most ardent fans.
by counters | 2026-01-17 20:41:13+00:00
> Wait... So, to undo it all we have to do is stop doing it? Doesn't this contradict the statement right before it?

It's not quite that simple.

The intuition that you're subtly relying on is the idea that the response or effect of one of these geoengineering treatments is linear. But unfortunately, that's not something you can assume about a dynamical system. In reality, the climate system can undergo certain types of hysteresis where "undoing" the forcing doesn't revert the initial perturbation, because you're suddenly on a different response curve. Probably the most famous example of this in climate dynamics is the way that the ice-albedo effect sets up a hysteresis in the trajectory towards a "snowball Earth" scenario. Apologies for the lack of links/references; Wiki has decent write-ups on this, and it's typically covered in the first chapter of a climate dynamics textbook.

The potential response to suddenly stopping a climate change mitigation strategy has a very well-popularized name: a "termination shock." In fact, Neal Stephenson used exactly this concept in his titular novel on the topic in 2021.

As a climate scientist, my mental model to better understand the risk of termination shocks and unintended consequences boils down to how fast the response of the climate system is. Marine brightening is "less risky" because the meteorological response to these interventions is extremely fast; a cloud-precipitation system will respond on the order of minutes to hours, and unless the intervention continues unabated, it will clean the air quickly, limiting the repsonse. Stratospheric aerosol injection is more complicated, but we have a very good analogue - very large scale volcanic eruptions like Mt Pinatubo. The response to these sorts of events is measured more on the timescale of 2-5 years, although knock-on effects (such as a shift towards more diffuse solar radiation reaching the surface, which has significant effects on terrestrial and oceanic biogeochemistry) could very much persist longer than that - and don't "snap back" nearly as quickly. A continuous, Pinatubo-like intervention would compound and introduce coupled atmosphere/ocean responses that could decade years or longer to fully play out. And that's _in addition_ to the near immediate (1-2 year) response in global average temperature, which would bounce back to most of the pre-intervention level very quickly.

These things are complex. There's a lot we don't know. But, there's also a lot we _do_ know. I would encourage anyone who does not have significant experience in climate dynamics to remain curious and avoid jumping to conclusions based on simple intuition; they're probably wrong.
by fernandopj | 2026-01-17 20:42:03+00:00
This is not what OP said, at all. OP doesn't have to explain anything, or be "successful" explaining to you what the world is watching unfold in horror.

It is factually and correctly stated that any non-white, non-100%-perfectly-English-speaking person is a suspect in ICE views, detainable with no recourse. They said it themselves, the administration said that themselves, and there's ample evidence online of them enjoying doing it.

It is why people like me, who have legal status and business to conduct in USA are not gonna risk detention and deportation while ICE/DHS is operating. I'm Italian, my name is of Spanish origin, and I lived most of my life in Brazil so my accent is Brazilian. I have zero odds of convincing and ICE agent my passport isn't fake.

So, I'm out of going to Vegas, or doing talks, or anything else I have enjoyed doing in the USA in the past.
by docjay | 2026-01-17 20:43:19+00:00
```
§CONV_DIGEST§
T1:usr_query@llm-ctx-compression→math-analog(sparse-matrix|zip)?token-seq→nonsense-input→semantic-equiv-output?
T2:rsp@asymmetry_problem:compress≠decompress|llm=predict¬decode→no-bijective-map|soft-prompts∈embedding-space¬token-space+require-training|gisting(ICAE)=aux-model-compress→memory-tokens|token-compress-fails:nonlinear-distributed-mapping+syntax-semantic-entanglement|works≈lossy-semantic-distill@task-specific+finetune=collapse-instruction→weights
§T3:usr→design-full-python-impl§
T4:arch_blueprint→
DIR:src/context_compressor/{core/(base|result|pipeline)|compressors/(extractive|abstractive|semantic|entity_graph|soft_prompt|gisting|hybrid)|embeddings/(providers|clustering)|evaluation/(metrics|task_performance|benchmark)|models/(base|openai|anthropic|local)|utils/(tokenization|text_processing|config)}
CLASSES:CompressionMethod=Enum(EXTRACTIVE|ABSTRACTIVE|SEMANTIC_CLUSTERING|ENTITY_GRAPH|SOFT_PROMPT|GISTING|HYBRID)|CompressionResult@(original_text+compressed_text+original_tokens+compressed_tokens+method+compression_ratio+metadata+soft_vectors?)|TokenCounter=Protocol(count|truncate_to_limit)|EmbeddingProvider=Protocol(embed|embed_single)|LLMBackend=Protocol(generate|get_token_limit)|ContextCompressor=ABC(token_counter+target_ratio=0.25+min_tokens=50+max_tokens?→compress:abstract)|TrainableCompressor(ContextCompressor)+(train+save+load)
COMPRESSORS:extractive→(TextRank|MMR|LeadSentence)|abstractive→(LLMSummary|ChainOfDensity|HierarchicalSummary)|semantic→(ClusterCentroid|SemanticChunk|DiversityMaximizer)|entity→(EntityRelation|FactList)|soft→(SoftPrompt|PromptTuning)|gist→(GistToken|Autoencoder)|hybrid→(Cascade|Ensemble|Adaptive)
EVAL:EvaluationResult@(compression_ratio+token_reduction+embedding_similarity+entailment_score+entity_recall+fact_recall+keyword_overlap+qa_accuracy?+reconstruction_bleu?)→composite_score(weights)|CompressionEvaluator(embedding_provider+llm?+nli?)→evaluate|compare_methods
PIPELINE:CompressionPipeline(steps:list[Compressor])→sequential-apply|AdaptiveRouter(compressors:dict+classifier?)→content-based-routing
DEPS:numpy|torch|transformers|sentence-transformers|tiktoken|networkx|sklearn|spacy|openai|anthropic|pandas|pydantic+optional(accelerate|peft|datasets|sacrebleu|rouge-score)
```
by notahacker | 2026-01-17 20:43:27+00:00
Any country willing to not be lent to again in future can default on their debts, nothing special there; the actual clever bit is stringing out the ability to accumulate debt at relatively low cost into decades of investment... something they seem to be willing to sacrifice to well and truly own the libs. The sadder reality is that there isn't any megasupersmart strategy, just an ageing buffoon with the foreign policy savvy of a middle schooler who's just heard about the Louisiana purchase and tariffs, and a bunch of grifters hanging on.

The experiment in "is America too big to fail" is probably going to result in a "not quite" answer, but they're really giving it a go.
by musicale | 2026-01-17 20:43:39+00:00
The iron law of encrapification: if a company can make more money by downgrading the user experience, it will. I imagine within Apple there were still people who advocated for a better, more transparent user experience, but ultimately they seem to have lost out to services people who are willing to degrade the user experience in order to grab more money.

It's unfortunate because user experience was a core differentiating advantage for Apple that got them to where they are now.
by kyboren | 2026-01-17 20:43:40+00:00
I have lived and worked in Switzerland. My office (shared with 2 other people) was the only space in the entire floor with AC due to some obscure archaic reason.

That air conditioning worked great for years, but a few months before I left that position, the facilities management people suddenly came in and ripped it out. No justification given.

Thank God TPTB didn't notice I had AC for all those years; it really would have been miserable without it. But despite the misery I noted all around me, there was an extremely strong disdain for air conditioning that permeated the culture. When I talked to friends and colleagues about the AC situation I was regularly ribbed for being a gluttonous American wasting electricity on such a triviality. They were legitimately proud to suffer. Baffling.

I've come to the conclusion that most Western and Central Europeans--yes, including Swiss--have a masochistic superiority complex around AC. They see suffering without AC as core to the European identity and sweating it out in unproductive misery (or taking a whole month off of work) as virtuous. They willingly kill over a hundred thousand people and leave hundreds of millions in misery every year simply to feel superior and European.
by adrianmonk | 2026-01-17 20:43:42+00:00
Or it's neither, and the intended effect is zero variation in the retrieval time, as when trying to avoid leaking secrets via timing attacks.

(Or I guess, more generally, the intended effect is zero correlation between the information and the time it takes to retrieve it. If retrieval time were completely random, it would achieve the goal, but it wouldn't have zero variation.)
by linuxhansl | 2026-01-17 20:43:44+00:00
With 2024 and 2023 being 2nd and 1st resp. The last 11 years were the hottest 11 in recorded history. I don't know how more evidence we need. We are standing on the train tracks, the train is coming, and many of us say "Oh just look over there instead, we'll be fine."

Meanwhile - even if you do not care about climate - there is so much money to make with renewables (production, storage, mobility, etc). China and much of the rest of the world are charging ahead, while the US wants to be a petrol state.
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-17 20:43:54+00:00
>So Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war

That's an astonishingly weird take-away. FWIW, Canada by almost any analysis "won" this trade negotiation. China was very eager to thaw relations. Every Chinese newspaper ran a front page of Carney visiting China. They all know this is yet another brick in the collapse of the American empire.

Maybe if you just threaten military conquest more you'll reclaim something much better people built decades ago? Now the Joe Rogan generation foolishly eat up the most profoundly stupid nonsense and repeat it like clucking chickens.

>why did Canada join the US in the 2024 tariffs enactment the article is talking about in the first place? What was their motivation?

Because we foolishly engaged with a tightly integrated economy with the sort of country that casual floats conquering friendly democracies to loot their resources, and that repeatedly elects vile, unbelievably stupid criminal pedophiles? See, "America's" automakers are actually US/Mexico/Canada automakers, so we worked with the US to defend them. Then Trump decided, in his incredibly, profoundly shortsighted foolishness (being unchecked by anyone) that he would start a trade war with neighbours.

I think the most astonishing part was seeing how willing the incredibly poorly educated American public bought the silly fentanyl lie, all so that clown could claim national security grounds. This cult of personality -- one of the most vile, unbecoming liars in human history, and basically the personification of the deadly sins -- somehow convinces millions of the most outrageously stupid thing. It's astonishing, and historians must study this to prevent it in the future. Idiocracy is not a goal.
by dyauspitr | 2026-01-17 20:44:13+00:00
They are laser focused on making this a whiter nation with lesser rights for women and no ambiguous LGBTQ. From all the literature it seems like they believe that this demographic reversion will over the long term solve all their problems. They are not looking to optimize for anything else now including the loss of hegemony and influence. This is going to be completely and irreversibly devastating for the United States.
by fakedang | 2026-01-17 20:44:41+00:00
Except, apart from tech, there is no good place to invest in the US, especially given the headwinds in the current macro environment. And tech is super overvalued now.

There's a lot of investor capital moving to traditional industries in China, India, Brazil, Korea and Europe, simply because there's better returns to be made with more resilience to American problems.
by whispem | 2026-01-17 20:44:57+00:00
Thanks for your detailed feedback.

Just to clarify: none of the Rust code, architecture, or logic in minikv was generated by AI.
Every line of code was written by me personally, without copying or pasting from LLMs or any automated tools.
The only places where I used AI were a few documentation files (README, LEARNING.md, RAM_COMMUNITY.md)—never for implementation.

Regarding the commit history: I tend to work locally for a while, then push larger changes once they’re solid, so it can look like big features “appear out of nowhere.”
Sorry if that makes the process look less transparent.

As for the code being “100% broken”—if that were the case, minikv wouldn’t run at all!
In reality, it starts up, forms clusters, and passes its integration tests.
Of course, like any open source project, there are bound to be some bugs or things to improve.

If you’ve found specific places where it actually breaks or if there are unclear comments left, I’d genuinely appreciate a bug report or concrete example.

That’s the fastest way for me to make the project better.
Thanks again for taking the time to look so closely at the repo.

I’m always open to fair critique and technical suggestions!
by AndyKelley | 2026-01-17 20:47:44+00:00
Good thing I didn't develop an unnecessary dependency on this product, so now I don't have to suffer through its enshittification. It's almost like it was obvious this was going to happen years ago.

By the way don't sleep on this detail:

> The banner ads will appear in the coming weeks for logged-in users of the free version of ChatGPT *as well as the new $8 per month ChatGPT Go plan*

Even if you pay for the product, you're still the product. If we don't own our software, our software will own us.
by constantcrying | 2026-01-17 20:48:25+00:00
To be honst I think state run lotteries are a pretty good idea, if they would replace other forms of gambling, which apparently is becoming less and less true, especially with the rise of the completely under regulated prediction markets.

Regarding the subject at hand, I think a very obvious and necessary first step is banning children from participation. Obviously this is easily circumventable, but at will at least be some form of harm reduction.

I think another possibility as a first step is a forced limit on how much an account is allowed to spend in a given time, e.g. the company is only allowed to add digital goods not exceeding X euros to the owners account, together with restrictions on how these items are traded, this will make whaling impossible, which is apparently the most important demographic for developers. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4 ]
by cryptonector | 2026-01-17 20:48:32+00:00
It's not. What I have in mind is TLS handshake mediated ESP SA pair keying and policy. Why? Because ESP is much much simpler to implement in silicon than TCP+TLS.

ESP is stateless if using IPv6 (no fragmentation), or even if using IPv4 (fragmented packets -> let the host handle them; PMTUD should mean no need for fragmentation the vast majority of the time). Statelessness makes HW offload easy to implement.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-01-17 20:48:40+00:00
the fresh air inlet should be piped along the chimney walls, this would also recover the condensation heat of the water produced during combustion, but its not trivial to design while keeping in mind things like maintenance, different chimney column temperature (and thus different convective forces), capturing and effluence of the condensed water, ... the heated fresh air should not directly go to the fire but piped into the room.
by dig1 | 2026-01-17 20:48:50+00:00
True. But the US want to remain the country everyone relies on if it wants to preserve the dollar as the world's primary trade, reserve and settlement currency.

Dollar dominance gives the US disproportionate leverage over global finance and allows it to shape the rules of the system. Absent this asymmetry, it is difficult to imagine US tariffs or financial pressure (or any kind of pressure) would carry comparable global impact.
by helph67 | 2026-01-17 20:49:16+00:00
Research confirms a wider variety of gut contents provides better health... "By increasing the variety of your diet, you can improve your gut health and overall well being" (and) "A diet rich in these foods helps maintain microbiome diversity and can reduce the risk of several diseases, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease"

https://groundcover.grdc.com.au/innovation/industry-insights...
by Kuraj | 2026-01-17 20:50:02+00:00
If you already know how to play, I recommend https://tenhou.net/3/ or https://tenhou.net/4/

There are browser extensions that translate the PC versions:

- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tenhou-english-ui/...

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tenhou-ui-tra...

There is also a mobile version, but it's not available in English.
by linker3000 | 2026-01-17 20:50:16+00:00
I worked in IT support and engineering for a UK Olivetti dealer / distributor in the 1980s/90s. As such I had access to all sorts of Olivetti kit in various states of functionality. At one time, my home PC was an Olivetti M280 case with an M380 (386DX) motherboard and EGA display adapter. It had a colour monitor and the ANK 27-102 keyboard - it was a 'top end' hybrid for its time that I'd put together from several non-working machines..

I also had a 'faulty' Olivetti inkjet printer that was written off under warranty with a mysterious fault. I eventually managed to fix it by bending the metal paper detector arm so that it slotted properly into the optical sensor - it was a little out of whack and the sensor sometimes couldn't work out whether there was paper in the tray.
by wvenable | 2026-01-17 20:50:44+00:00
The Canada-US Auto Pact of 1965 effectively integrated automobile manufacturing between the two countries. This pact removed the previous tariffs and added certain guarantees. This effectively created one protected automobile market between the countries.

This is, of course, exactly why Canada joined the US in 2024 tariffs against China. We had all one market to protect.

> Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war,

For my perspective, this seems hugely beneficial to Canada in the short-term. It might even be beneficial to Canada in the long-term if the US permanently destroys the ability to build automobiles for the unified North American market in Canada.
by ttoinou | 2026-01-17 20:50:51+00:00
Coordination is almost free in a ten-person startup. It is still relatively easy in a forty-person company.

I find coordination difficult even for two / three persons for any given topic where there the tree of dependencies (of sub tasks or others topics related to it) isn’t trivial and there are unknowns to research. Unless those persons are doing the same thing and are constantly communicating, which is very expensive
by reactordev | 2026-01-17 20:50:52+00:00
“Improve [y]our security posture” absolutely is without a definition of posture. Does that mean more monitoring? More security team members?

Posture is no replacement for a plan.

Originally it was “how we follow our plan” but that has since been thrown out the window. Now, posture is code word for cover.

I don’t mean to vent it’s just tiring having to deal with varying degrees of posturing where everyone is just haphazardly laying on a couch watching TV.
by dzhiurgis | 2026-01-17 20:50:57+00:00
Can I interject regarding resistive heating? I’ve recently added one for my bedroom using home assistant and PID control, 22.5c during day, 18c at night, shuts off when nobody home (radar presence detector should be next step and likely save another 30%). It cost me 150kwh per month in NZ winter (single glazing, but got decent ceiling insulation).
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-17 20:51:20+00:00
Yes. That's the point Cory wisely makes: that America has forced other countries to agree to our draconian & anti-human brutal felony-offense-of-business-nidel IP laws, as a condition for other trade agreements.

Most regions do have these laws. Enforcement sometimes is lax, yes, but America and it's businesses do go after people internationally sort of at their pleasure.

Having a world where it's not illegal to understand & look at how the devices around us work is a bare minimum, imo, spiritually, for government to stop being in opposition to honor erectus, man, the tool maker. Letting us do things too lets us live up to our namesake of homo sapien, man the brain-ed one.
by philistine | 2026-01-17 20:51:39+00:00
> Yet, they keep every other name on wikipedia

Nope. When it's an unknown transgender person who died for being themselves, perhaps it's stupid to put the older name there. World renown Ellen Page is deadnamed right there at the top. Because they were known for decades worldwide under that name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Page
by jurf | 2026-01-17 20:51:57+00:00
This at the same time super cool and really disappointing, as I've been carrying around this idea in my head for maybe ten years as a cool side project and never got around to implementing it.

However, there might still be room for competition, heh. I always wanted to do this on the _entirety_ of Unicode to try getting the most possible resolution out of the image.
by drcongo | 2026-01-17 20:53:38+00:00
I spotted the very underrated Bloom [1] in the screenshots and thought I should give it a shout in here. I've been using it, along with Witch [2] as an app switcher so that I can hide the Finder icon, for about 2 months and love it.

[1] https://bloomapp.club

[2] https://manytricks.com/witch/
by RobertRies | 2026-01-17 20:53:39+00:00
The question is flawed.

People who do not pay for ChatGPT often have money and prefer not to pay for for a subscription for several reasons including, but not exclusively:
1) They don't use ChatGPT often enough to justify it
2) They use alternatives primarily (a subset of #1)
3) They choose to spend their money on other things
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-17 20:54:18+00:00
> You guys are all really purist with your shade of white.

A lot of the nationalist theatrics you see in political space lead to inflaming the small differences between similar peoples and getting them at each other's throats. That was clearly seen in the run-up to the tragic war between Russia and Ukraine.

It's telling that I don't see any politician in the EU addressing that threat. You'd think EU politicians would know better given the long history of bloody intra-European wars.

P.S. I reformulated my previously downvoted comment in order to make it more precise and less stingy. That will also help me understand the reason for the explanation-less downvoting - is it the truth in the content or the blemishes in form that caused it.