MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hypeatei | 2026-01-12 02:26:03+00:00
They're already pursuing a case against another Fed board member, and now this? I have a feeling these two cases are going to suffer the same fate as the Letita James and James Comey cases: thrown out due to incompetence and/or malfeasance. It's a disgusting, clear weaponization of the DOJ.

MAGA, of course, tried to accuse Biden of weaponizing them during his term so that they could justify the Trump 2.0 revenge tour. Now we're here.
by boringg | 2026-01-12 02:26:48+00:00
One of the major reasons thats we have a climate crisis is that we knee capped Nuclear in the 80s and prevent new reactors and new technology development for 40 years. That left the only providers able to fill the gap were fossil based (oil, coal and gas) - which pumped out significant CO2.

Not surprised at all that oil and gas is still trying to protect themselves from competition.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-01-12 02:26:55+00:00
I hate to assign him so much agency. The man seems a complete buffoon who lacks the ability to plan anything beyond real estate fraud. Instead, I look to all of the people in his orbit who can orchestrate long term goals. Sure, he will self sabotage many schemes, but will directionally go where the handlers want. Vance, Miller, Heritage Foundation, etc are the ones guiding most policy decisions.

That tariffs have been so absolutely scattershot, says Trump actually is the one calling the shots there.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-12 02:26:57+00:00
It seems likely she would, and we are often similar to our kin I guess, but I still wonder if that's what the average person would consider neutral. I have no good way to answer that absolutely more than the next person though.

I tend to think that's because it doesn't matter who it is, it's always most productive to reply in a way which focuses on substance alone when one can't otherwise be positive. Particularly in pure text, it's so easy for things to come off worse than intended (something which has hit me quite well in the past as much as any). I've always assumed that's why the comment guidelines are so universally worded, mentioning what throwaways should be used for but with no mention of how they should be exempted from the usual approach. I.e. it's very easy for two people to feel like they are being neutral in text as the conversation escalates.

I've got to hop off for to get ready for work tomorrow. Thanks again for both taking the time to share your perspective as well as taking the time to respond to mal-intended throwaways with solid facts - it matters (thumbs up).
by jmyeet | 2026-01-12 02:27:05+00:00
The promise of thorium is that it requires external energy to be added to maintain the reaction. The theory is that it is safer because of this as it's far less likely that you get a runaway or out-of-control reaction.

The reality is more complex [1].

Molten salt reactors are another active area of research but they have been for decades as well.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IqcRl849R0&t=1652s
by bisby | 2026-01-12 02:28:26+00:00
Power outages here tend to last an hour or more. A UPS doesn't last forever, and depending on how much home compute you have, might not last long enough for anything more than a brief outage. A UPS doesn't magically solve things. Maybe you need a home generator to handle extended outages...

How bottomless of a pit it becomes depends on a lot of things. It CAN become a bottomless pit if you need perfect uptime.

I host a lot of stuff, but nextcloud to me is photo sync, not business. I can wait til I'm home to turn the server back on. It's not a bottomless pit for me, but I don't really care if it has downtime.
by bastawhiz | 2026-01-12 02:29:08+00:00
A dozen $7B nuclear plants is $84B, which is incidentally almost exactly the estimated cost of the SF-Gilroy-Palmdale plan for California's high speed rail. If you count all of phase 1, the P50 estimated cost goes up to $106B. That's the equivalent of 15 nuclear plants.

China has over 28 plants in progress, which should provide a total of >32GW of capacity when they're completed. That's 32×24×365= 280TWh of electricity per year. California's total electric grid in 2024 produced 216TWh.

Which is to say, $7B is a huge sum. But as far as infrastructure goes, China is currently building 130% of all of California's generation capacity that'll be complete within a decade or so, for much less than double the estimates for a high speed rail system that'll serve almost nobody by 2038.

$7B is a lot of money. But it's actually a very reasonable amount of money because the projects are actually happening. 28 $7B projects in the US are actually probably closer to a trillion dollars in investment for far less net public good over five times the timeline.
by rickydroll | 2026-01-12 02:29:10+00:00
A buddy of mine and I bought Kim-1 systems. We did all the usual things, abusing the TTY interface to rs232, overclocking the CPU so it could go faster than 9600 baud, hacking Microsoft basic so it would run on the Kim-1

I wrote an interrupt driven cassette data writer to record data while the foreground was doing something else.

The project was to strap a Kim-1 and a cassette recorder to the chest of a skydiver and record their cardiac data after they jumped out of the plane. We wanted to be able to preserve as much of the data as possible should the skydiver go splat. Kind of dark but you know, programming is not all unicorns and rainbows.

Then I did boring stuff like running fig-forth, building my own floppy disc controller and forth block disk drivers. You know, the usual Kim-1 stuff
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-12 02:29:26+00:00
You can dislike a solution but admit that you can't think of a better solution, or specify that it is better than an even worse solution.

I can see why someone would have a issues with "a bunch of rich bankers appointed by politicians" controlling American monetary policy. But I can't really see a better way at least, until we can achieve a post-scarcity economy or something.
by samhclark | 2026-01-12 02:29:37+00:00
Yeah, this is closer to what I do, too. I was surprised not to see a Containerfile in the linked github repo in the article (https://github.com/lthms/tinkerbell)

I found working with normal `dnf` and normal config files much easier than dealing with Ignition and Butane. Plus, working with your image in CI/CD instead of locally fixed my ZFS instability. When Fedora kernel updates, but ZFS doesn't support that version yet, now it fails in GitHub Actions and the container is never built, so there's no botched update that my NAS mistakenly picks up.
by coffeemug | 2026-01-12 02:30:20+00:00
It took me a couple of days to find the right level of detail to prompt it. Too high level, and the codebase gets away from me/the tooling goes off the rails. Too low level, and I may as well do it myself. Maybe also learn the sorts of things Claude Code isn't good at yet. But once I got in the groove it was very easy from there. I think the whole process took 2-3 days.
by sharat87 | 2026-01-12 02:30:32+00:00
I'm taking this more as a "pricing" change. Like, if you pay 200$ then you can use inference only in these limited scopes. If you want more unrestricted access to inference, use the API token pricing.

Which, seems fine? They could've just not offered the 200$ plan and perhaps nobody would've complained. They tried it, noticed it being unsustainable, so they're trying to remodel it to it _is_ sustainable.

I think the upset is misplaced. :shrug:
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-12 02:31:28+00:00
We've had a number of free and fair elections in the past year, including some where the Trump-supported candidate lost. That doesn't mean we're out of the woods, but Trump has not historically been willing to go out of his way to protect the electoral fortunes of people who aren't himself, and at least some of his allies are well aware that the peace and security we presently enjoy is not guaranteed in a post-democratic US.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-12 02:31:35+00:00
I hope Intel succeeds at 1.4 and manages to provide sufficient capacity. AFAIK, they are doing 1.8 at their research fab in Oregon, not sure how many wafers it can crank out per month but hopefully they'll manage to transfer the tech to a real fab when demand increases.

I've lost truck of Intel's fab cancellations and restarts, I'm not even sure if they have a (near) completed production fab with EUV in place.
by gruez | 2026-01-12 02:32:28+00:00
>Is there some well of non-rabid Trump supporters that I'm not aware of? I'm always open to the idea that I'm in a bubble, but my experience is that even the least rabid Trump supporters are completely unwilling to criticize him or oppose something he wants.

In the context of the previous comment, the "non-rabbid" (and probably median) supporter would be someone voting Trump because they think they trust him more on the economy/immigration or whatever. They might be indifferent to his claims that he'll lock up his political opponents, or think that they're actually guilty of something, but that's not the same as being "rabbid" (ie. showing up to rallies and chanting "lock her up").
by rykc | 2026-01-12 02:32:45+00:00
Not in my experience, previously ran it setup externally with a shared library for at least a year or longer, https://support.apple.com/en-ca/108345. Typically I backup to external drive 2 ways, copy of library itself and unmodified export, only had to go through above after I needed to rebuild the laptop. OP app and or https://photosbackup.app/ , seems like they might enhance my setup, will have to take a closer look.
by hardwaresofton | 2026-01-12 02:33:07+00:00
> Thank you for the kind words.

Absolutely, I meant them.

> This is trivially false... for instance here's a line:

Yep, that was really wrongly stated on my part -- what I meant is that the kind of protections that "safe" Rust provides are not available anywhere in average lines of Zig code (though they can be detected with tooling, etc).

What I should have written is that I could easily write unsafe code anywhere in Zig (as in C). In practice of course most people don't because they're not trying to destroy their own computers, and most code is benign. Rust will at least save me from myself some of the time.

> Also IMO the word "safety" should include integer overflow. I don't agree that those kind of bugs are so unimportant as to not be checked in safe builds.

Rust does do some work to catch trivial overflows, but you're right that it does not catch any slightly more complex overflows, and that is certainly unsafe in a sense. I don't think any reasonable person would disagree with that.

Rust's answer to this of course is checked_{op}/wrapping_{op}/etc options, and that's what I often see in high quality codebases where it matters. Of course, this is a footgun that could have had a safety applied and it's too late now (AFAIK) to change the default to be always wrapping or something (also, I think people may oppose always checked for perf reasons).

[EDIT] Just to compare/make this more concrete, playgrounds:

https://zig.fly.dev/p/LGnrBGXPlVJ

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit...

Rust in this case of doing something obviously wrong is at least a little more helpful -- the obvious overflow does not compile.

And of course you can get rust to do it like it allows (and what would be present in any codebase with real complexity):

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit...

It's just that little bit of safety that makes it easy for me (personally) to default to Rust. Very possible that someday that won't be true.

[EDIT2] Also, somewhat under-discussed, but if Zig supported a bolt-on a "safety check compile mode" that ran with some stricter (maybe not quite borrow checking level) semantics, that would be pretty dope. Of course not something anyone should devote any real time to for a long time (or ever?) BUT it would trivialize a lot of these discussions maybe.

But in the mean time people just using what they're comfortable with/the feel they want is obviously fine.
by Gardinengleiter | 2026-01-12 02:33:17+00:00
Sometimes it happens that you’re trying to use your mouse wheel on a website and it just doesn’t react. In other words, the website doesn’t scroll and you have no idea where it’s coming from. The last time I experienced this was with Le chat of Mistral AI.

I tried scrolling and it just didn’t work. And the solution is not so obvious, but when you know it, it’s actually pretty simple. And then you think, well, why didn’t I think about this myself? And the solution to this is to...

see the link for more.
by cmurf | 2026-01-12 02:33:42+00:00
This is his entire life's work history.

The country doesn't understand why but it elected an abuser, and voted to become poorer. And the country will be abused, and get what it voted for.

It will still not understand that it did this or why.

Perhaps once we're all gathered in the valley of despair we'll have a chance of understanding.
by gerdesj | 2026-01-12 02:33:53+00:00
I'm glad you have a stack that works for you. The great thing is we have choice and it was not always so. I suggest that you be careful of the DevOps way. Sometimes a "pet" is the way to go, especially if you only have one. If you have a thundering herd then you'll be hand rolling your own nonsense with the best of the cloudy cowboys and have a out of service sign that says "they did it" for when the lights wink out!

I also notice that the word security does not grace your blog posting. That is a sure sign of the DevOps Way 8) You might look into the sysadmin way. Its boring, to be sure: all that fussing over security and the like!

You could look into VPNs for access to your gear. An IPSEC, OpenVPN or Wireguard seems to keep most baddies away simply because it is a lot of effort to even engage with one. There are a huge number of ways that a VPN is configured. Then you have ssh, which can be very securely configured (or not).

You can also use firewalls and I'm sure you do. If you have a static IP at home then simply filter for that. Make use of allow/deny lists - there are loads for firewalls of all sorts.

Dumping remote shell access is not useful.
by nabbed | 2026-01-12 02:34:02+00:00
>Of course I would strongly prefer to not be a presidential system at all.

Having grown up in the US and having blinders on, I always thought all those parliamentary systems seemed unstable and sometimes comical. But now I see the value in it. Once a leader has demonstrated he is not up to the task, has grown out-of-touch, or has descended into madness, he can be replaced by his party, and if that didn't happen, a no-confidence vote could trigger an election. No guarantee either of those things would happen, but the option exists. The fixed four-year term idea now seems artificial and inflexible.

I suspect the current US leader and maybe even the previous US leader (maybe in his 4th year) would have suddenly found himself a back-bencher.
by swagmoney1606 | 2026-01-12 02:34:07+00:00
There hasn't been a single point in my shorter life so far where things have been this out of control. The fed is supposed to be as non-political as possible. I know politics and the economy are intertwined, but tell me how this won't end up a disaster please. How do we get back to the USA we had even 10 years ago?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-12 02:34:33+00:00
I don't think context size is really the limit for larger codebases - it's more about how you use that context.

Claude Code makes some efforts to reduce context size, but at the end of the day is loading entire source files into context (then keeping them there until told to remove them, or context is compacted). One of the major wins is to run subagents for some tasks, that use their own context rather than loading more into CCs own context.

Cursor makes more efficient use of context by building a vector database of code chunks, then only loading matching chunks into context (I believe it does this for Composer/agentic use as well as for tab/autocomplete).

One of the more obvious ways to reduce context use in a larger multi-module codebase would be to take advantage of the split between small module definition (e.g. C++ .h files) and large module implementations (.cpp files). Generally you'd only need to load module interfaces/definitions into context if you are working on code that uses the module, and Cursor's chunked approach can reduce that further.

For whole codebase overview a language server can help locate things, and one could use the AI to itself generate shortish summaries/overviews of source files and the codebase and structure, similar to what a human developer might keep in their head, rather than repeatedly reading entire source files for code that isn't actually being modified.

It seems we're really in the early days of agentic coding tools, and they have a lot of room to get better and more efficient.
by akerl_ | 2026-01-12 02:34:53+00:00
You may just be using a personalized definition of that word, that differs from what it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security)

Notably, a sandbox exists to separate one thing from other things. Limiting/filtering/monitoring what the sandboxes thing can do are often components of that, but the underlying premise is about separation.

Containers, VMs, etc. are 100% examples of sandboxing based on the actual industry definition of the term.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-12 02:34:56+00:00
Observation:

> Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

* https://xcancel.com/jasonfurman/status/2010532384924442645#m

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Furman

And Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC)

> If there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve, there should now be none. It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question.

> I will oppose the confirmation of any nominee for the Fed—including the upcoming Fed Chair vacancy—until this legal matter is fully resolved.

* https://xcancel.com/SenThomTillis/status/2010514786467959269

who sits on the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (which oversees the Fed):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee...
by cyberax | 2026-01-12 02:35:08+00:00
Because you're holding it wrong!

The dashboards are something that looks cool, but they usually are not really helpful for debugging. What you're looking for is per-request tracing and logging, so you can grab a request ID and trace it (get log messages associated with it) through multiple levels of the stack. Even maybe across different services.

Debuggers are great, but they are not a good option for production traffic.
by spiderfarmer | 2026-01-12 02:35:41+00:00
The ways in which Musk dug himself in when experts predicted this exact scenario confirmed to me he was not as smart as some people think he was. He seemed to have drank his own koolaid back then.

And if he still doesn’t realize and admit he is wrong then he is just plain dumb.

Pride is standing in the way of first principles.
by skissane | 2026-01-12 02:36:08+00:00
I think the real test will be, not whatever this administration does, but how much of that survives into the next one - how much is the new normal versus how much is a temporary aberration.

That’s true even if the next administration is Republican (Vance or whoever), but especially true if the next administration ends up being Democratic instead-which while not certain, has decent odds-the more Trump defies norms, the more voters who will wish to go back to a “normal” Presidency
by gruez | 2026-01-12 02:36:10+00:00
>But if you can talk yourself into believing that a mob sent to overturn the election and install the loser doesn't count as partisan violence, you can talk yourself into believing all kinds of catastrophes don't count.

How's this different than say...

>polls show 99% (or whatever) of people are against crime

>voters elect a soft-on-crime politician, crime goes up

>"I consider the fact that the soft-on-crime politicians got elected to have falsified all research that people are against crime"
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-12 02:36:30+00:00
I am not at all an AI sceptic, but probably less impressed by what LLMs are capable of.

Looking at these projects, I have a few questions:

1. These seem to be fairly self-contained and well specified problems, which is the best case scenario for “vibe coding”. Do you have any examples of projects where the solution was somewhat vague and open-ended? If not, how do you think Claude Code or similar would perform?

2. Did you feel excited or energized by having an LLM implement these projects end-to-end? Personally, I find LLMs useful as a closely guided assistant, particularly to interactively explore the space of solutions. I also don’t feel energized at all by having it implement anything non-trivial end to end, outside of writing tests (and even then, not all types of tests!).

3. Do you think others would find these projects useful? In particular, if you vibe coded them, why couldn’t someone else do the same thing? And once these projects are picked up by future model training runs, they’ll probably be even easier to one shot, reducing the value even further.

Let me provide an example of what I mean by (2), at least in the context of hobbyist dev. I could have Claude Code vibe code a Gameboy emulator and it would probably do a fine job given that it’s a well specified problem that is likely well represented in its training data. But the process would neither be exciting nor energizing. I would rather spend hours gradually getting more and more working and experience the fruits of my labor (I did this already btw).

At $DAYJOB, I simply do not have confidence in an LLM doing anything non-trivial end to end. Besides, the complexity remains in defining the requirements and constraints, designing the solution, gaining consensus, and devising a plan for implementation. The goal would be for the LLM to pick up discrete, well defined chunks of work.
by sevensor | 2026-01-12 02:36:47+00:00
Not who you’re replying to, but I do this as well. I carry a pocket notebook and write paragraphs describing what I want to write. Sometimes I list out the fields of a data structure. Then I revise. By the time I actually write the code, it’s more like a recitation. This is so much easier than trying to think hard about program structure while logged in to my work computer with all the messaging and email.
by rajatkulk | 2026-01-12 02:36:49+00:00
As someone who's played the game since the Beta and the AllStars maps in Frozen Throne, love when anything related to dotes shows up.

Haven't checked the repo, but guessing you using the opendota apis? Anything that you do different compared to dotabuff/opendota?

In the counter pick, would love if you could enter a match ID to prefill data, and then see what could've been a better pick? Last picked Ember but was countered by the enemy picking Ursa on their last pick. Given the rest of the draft would a different hero would be better?
by eloisius | 2026-01-12 02:37:11+00:00
They could throw some small portion of their billions of dollars into proper quality control and reproduce it themselves if they wanted to. It’s an industry-wide malaise, but it isn’t inevitable. It’s amazing that every year it becomes more and more economically unviable for basic shit to meet the modest standards of usability, yet we can use the power consumption of a small country to have Copilot in Notepad.