MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2026-01-21 15:59:56+00:00
> I don't know what you mean by India-wash though?

For examples - should EU-US digital services be impacted by larger diplomatic spat, as much of GCP's development and leadership is colocated in HYD, if needed leadership and operations could become part of Google Cloud India Pvt Ltd [0]. Most American (and Israeli) tech companies have an Indian subsidiary that can do such a motion.

> Personally I meant either hosting open source software or building my own open source software and hosting it for the most part imo

You can contribute OSS on your own, but from personal experience the EU is primarily looking to it's private sector players who themselves are largely using American (but developed in India) or Israeli closed source products under the hood.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/2026164D:IN
by t-3 | 2026-01-21 16:00:24+00:00
Huh. If anything I have a better memory for things that I've experienced than others. My fully-phantasic siblings seem to struggle with recalling conversations and events from childhood that I can recount in detail, but they can do things like draw stuff from memory or put together outfits while shopping without having pictures of their closet or taking out stuff they've already purchased to match the colors.

I don't have the visual imagination, episodic memory, or time travel of the paper you linked, but I have had full-sensory dreams and I can make myself salivate and taste sourness by thinking of lemons. Hypnosis has never worked on me. I've experienced visualization once, under the influence of heroin (only tried it the one time, no idea if that experience was anomalous or not). Other drugs, including other opiates and opiods and a variety of hallucinogens have had no effect of inducing visualization for me.
by grayhatter | 2026-01-21 16:00:48+00:00
> Having the ability to start OpenCode, give it an issue, add a little extra context, and have the issue completed without writing a single line of code?

Is this a good thing? I'm asking why you said it like this, I'm not asking you to defend anything. I'm genuinely curious about your rational/reasoning/context for why you used those words specifically?

I ask, because I wouldn't willingly phrase it like this. I enjoy writing code. The expression of the idea, while not even close to value I assign to fixing the thing, still has meaning.

e.g. I would happily share code my friend wrote that fixed something. But I wouldn't take and pride in it. Is that difference irrelevant to you, or do you still feel that sense of significance when an LLM emits the code for you?

> should still acknowledge that this is a massive leap in capabilities and our field is changed forever.

Equally, I don't think I have to agree with this. Our field is likely changed, arguably for the worse if the default IDE now requires a monthly rent payment. But I have only found examples of AI generating boiler plate. If it's not able to copy the code from some other existing source, it's unable to emit anything functional. I wouldn't agree that's a massive leap. Boilerplate has always been the least significant portion of code, no?
by account42 | 2026-01-21 16:00:54+00:00
> Of course, ipv6 is not less secure because it doesn't have NAT, as the same filtering behavior can be replicated with a firewall. That may even have advantages over NAT.

I don't think this follows - defaults matter after all. More precise would be to say that IPv6 setups can be as secure as IPv4 setups.
by ckozlowski | 2026-01-21 16:01:12+00:00
Oh, I feel this. As a pre-teen, I loved it. SETI@Home running on our family's Pentium 100, X-Files, and hanging out on the "Parascope" forum and chatroom on AOL for all things UFO related. An "I Want To Believe" poster on my wall.

I've (thankfully) moved on past that, but I look back at that with nostalgia.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-21 16:01:20+00:00
I believe the main reason is the current "situation" with the US. European agencies and law enforcement have relied heavily on NSA signal intelligence via low-level intelligence exchange and it has become more and more clear that this is a dangerous dependence. In a sense, the turn towards codifying and legalizing surveillance had already started with the Snowden revelations because at that time many people realized that the usual practices were basically illegal and wanted more legal certainty.

That's my take on it. I'd love to hear other explanations. It's indeed curious why so many EU countries are pushing for increased surveillance so heavily.
by ratelimitsteve | 2026-01-21 16:01:30+00:00
"They" don't exist. There are no Russians who replied to me in any manner when I said "You need to just overthrow your government" because I never said such a thing to anyone. Nothing I said was sarcastic, it was all meant to be taken extremely literally. You're trying to catch me out as a hypocrite but I didn't do what you said I did.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-21 16:01:41+00:00
> in ipv4, if my laptop tries to use a printer with a public ipv4 address, that raises alarms.

The only way that’s possible is that you have a firewall rule blocking outbound connections to common printer ports like 631. NAT couldn’t care less what outbound port you’re connecting to, so it has to be a firewall doing that work.

> in ipv6, if my laptop tries to use a printer with an ipv6 address...

…so enable that same rule you manually configured on IPv4 on the IPv6 firewall, too.

What you’re describing is not default or inherent behavior. If you went out of your way to enable it, you have the skills to do it twice. That’s assuming your firewall is more complicated that “block outbound port <631> to <any IP>”, which covers both protocols on most firewalls I’ve used.
by borenstein | 2026-01-21 16:01:59+00:00
Hi, thanks for your feedback! I can see this from a couple of different perspectives.

On the one hand, you're right: those commit messages are proof positive that the security is not perfect. On the other hand, the threat model is that most threats from AI agents stem from human inattention, and that agents powered by hyperscaler models are unlikely to be overtly malicious without an outside attacker.

There are some known limitations of the security model, and they are limitations that I can accept. But I do believe that yolo-cage provides security in depth, and that the security it provides is greater than what is achieved through permission prompts that pop up during agent turns in Claude Code.
by lostmsu | 2026-01-21 16:02:03+00:00
Scaling is for legacy apps, right? Modern apps should get the area to render and the desired pixel density.

Not sure what you mean specifically by "need" in "need ... to do compositing". Compositing is just a way (e.g. rerender only on changes, cache results) of running a desktop environment. Strictly speaking you don't need compositing, you can just use immediate mode across the DE and apps.

The tradeoff of course is that if an app is lagging you get a blank rectangle instead of a frozen picture. Well not quite 0 or 1. You can cache lowres and/or compressed frozen picture periodically to improve UX.
by mikepurvis | 2026-01-21 16:02:08+00:00
I've always been a bit skeptical of JS charting libs that want to bring the entire data to the client and do the rendering there, vs at least having the option to render image tiles on the server and then stream back tooltips and other interactive elements interactively.

However, this is pretty great; there really aren't that many use cases that require more than a million points. You might finally unseat dygraphs as the gold standard in this space.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-01-21 16:02:48+00:00
The theta 2 is installed in millions. It the failure rate was even close to 20% within 30k miles dealers would be overwhelmed.

It may it be as well designed and that is responsible for some failures when combined with poor maintenance. I think the manufacturing issues bumped it to a percentage that is noticeable.

However. It can't be a significant amount because it would collapse the dealer network
by snuxoll | 2026-01-21 16:02:52+00:00
> But that's getting rather off topic. The dispute was about whether or not NAT of IPv4 is of reasonable benefit to end user security in practice, not about whether or not typical IPv6 equipment provides a suitable alternative.

And, my argument, is that the only substantial difference is the action of a netfilter rule being MASQUERADE instead of ALLOW.

This is what literally everyone here, including yourself, continues to miss. Dynamic source NAT is literally a set of stateful firewall rules that have an action to modify src_ip and src_port in a packet header, and add the mapping to a connecting tracking table so that return packets can be identified and then mapped on the way back.

There's no need to do address and port translation with IPv6, so the only difference to secure an IPv6 network is your masquerade rule turns into "accept established, related". That's it, that's the magic! There's no magical extra security from "NAT" - in fact, there are ways to implement SNAT that do not properly validate that traffic is coming from an established connection; which, ironically, we routinely rely on to make things like STUN/TURN work!
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-21 16:03:23+00:00
That seems to be a myth. Real world data is showing most EV batteries are still in their first use (powering cars) at the 20 year mark. Once you have removed early model years of Nissan's Leaf and Tesla's everything before they began actively managing battery temperature (and removed the high totaled by accident rate of Teslas), EVs are generally lasting 15-20 years.

(The other direction: the costs of battery replacements haven't gone down because the demand mostly doesn't exist. The "range degradation" of EV batteries at 20 years isn't noticeable to the owners at 20 years.)
by MisterTea | 2026-01-21 16:03:28+00:00
While dangerous a good craftsman understands the dangers and how to avoid them. I grew up in a family machine shop business and the main thing is to be aware of the moves you are making, where you are standing relative to the work, and ensure no loose clothing, jewelry or hair is flopping around. I've ran milling machines, lathes, presses, table and band saws and never had a serious injury.
by KronisLV | 2026-01-21 16:03:31+00:00
> I think web and GUI programmers must stop expeting the database to contain the data already selected and formatted for their nice page.

So a widespread, common and valid practice shouldn't be made better supported and instead should rely on awkward hacks like "deleted_at" where sooner or later people or ORMs will forget about those semantics and will select the wrong thing? I don't think I agree. I also don't think that it has much to do with how or where you represent the data. Temporal tables already do something similar, just with slightly different semantics.
by its_ethan | 2026-01-21 16:03:34+00:00
0 degrees F is a cold winter day, 100 degrees F is a hot summer day

0 degrees C is a cold winter day, 100 degrees C means you're dead

I think he's suggesting that a 0-100 scale for temperature/"relative warmth outside" is more intuitive than a 0-37 scale. It's easier to to place 73 degrees on a 0-100 relative warmth scale than it is to place 18 degrees on a 0-37 scale (unless of course you grew up calibrated to the 0-37 scale and know that 18degrees means you maybe need a light jacket or whatever).

I think it's funny that one of the main benefits of metric is its base-10-ness where things scale so nicely from 1-10-100-1000 etc. but then for temperature we're supposed to be fine with a 0-37? Fahrenheit is basically the 1-100 version of temperature (when it comes to weather).
by mattnewton | 2026-01-21 16:04:07+00:00
Last time I went on X my feed which I curated from ML contributors and a few politicians had multiple white nationalist memes, and engagement slop. Fact checks frequently are added after millions of impressions.

I am sure there are very smart well meaning people working on it but it certainly doesn’t feel better than the BBC to me. At least I know that’s state media of the UK and when something is published I see the same article as other people.
by jollyllama | 2026-01-21 16:04:08+00:00
Prior reserve currency failures involved currency collapses. I think Gresham accounts for this. Looking at the particular mechanisms of collapse, I think they all involve a failed transition to fiat. Can you name another example of a currency that survived the transition to pure fiat (i.e. not backed by metals in any respect)? The dollar did this in the 70s and continued to increase its dominance in the decades that followed. In all cases of prior world currencies, I don't think any survived the transition to pure fiat. Sure, a theoretical dollar collapse could spell a return to gold or silver, but you'd have to make a case for total collapse, rather than just the dollar being eclipsed by some other currency.
by technothrasher | 2026-01-21 16:04:34+00:00
> the useful scale of Fahrenheit is far superior 0-100 versus 0-32.

Well, first of all, I'm not sure why you're defining those scales as the "useful" ones. They don't even equate to each other. But why are you arbitrarily using 100 as the end of your Fahrenheit scale? Just so you can declare it 'Metric-y'? If you read his paper, Fahrenheit's scale is actually 0-96.
by whynotmaybe | 2026-01-21 16:04:38+00:00
> AI suffix including monitors

What now ?

My quick google-fu brought me this : https://www.samsung.com/ca/monitors/smart-monitor/

I guess that if I could I adapt to cleartype when I ditched my 16" VGA Philips CRT, I'll be ready for "AI-powered Immersive Experiences", whatever that means in Visual Studio Code.
by gnramires | 2026-01-21 16:04:53+00:00
This is extremely far from any of my expertises, but I'll offer an answer while no one else did (please correct me!). Basically, all medicine (i.e. drugs) we have are proteins or certain compounds that fit within some of our cell's (or viruses) molecules and does funny stuff to them, like disabling certain parts, acting as a signal to regulate behavior, and so on. Doing funny stuff is basically about fitting into another molecule. So research about how proteins (most molecules (after water) in our body, I guess) interact is incredibly important in basically all medicine, specially in the discovery of medicine (like suggesting compounds (drug) that could fit in certain receptors or perform certain function), and understanding disease/pathologies (which give ideas on how to prevent and treat them).

If folding@home helps to understand and model this behavior of molecules (which I guess tends to be difficult and unreliable to do without the aid of computers), it is extremely helpful. Now I don't know other details like, perhaps molecular biology is the bottleneck and there is scant available molecules to analyze (reducing its impact/marginal sensitivity), or perhaps compute really is a bottleneck in this particular problem. But nonetheless it seems like a great project for which contributions do make a difference.

(Note: although, that said, if you were expecting something like 'compute->miracle drug comes out', I believe that's not quite how it works; research in general rarely works that way, I think because the constraint space and problem space that would require this approach is too large and complicated; and in fact I believe many if not most significant discoveries have resulted from playing around and investigating random molecules, often from (nonhuman) animals, plants and bacteria[1]; although molecular sciences (molecular biology) seem to enable a slightly more methodological approach)

[1] The GLP-1 based weight loss drugs for example came from investigating the Gila monster lizard venom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLP-1_receptor_agonist#History
by palmotea | 2026-01-21 16:05:13+00:00
> What was my type of American supposed to have done? This is a sincere question, since I'm racking my brain over it. People debate this with one another constantly. We may have more common cause with you than it might seem on the surface.

Honestly? Your type of American is supposed to make sure the Democrats stop behaving so stupidly that they create openings for someone like Trump to win.

The dysfunction is America is bipartisan, but I put a lot of fault on Democrats for not rising to the occasion, as they present themselves as the party of responsible people opposed to this craziness. But that's a lie, because unfortunately they lack the maturity to escape from their own narrow partisan ideology, and keep handing opportunity after opportunity to people like Trump. They need to own their role in this mess, which they never, ever fess up to.

Like seriously: if Democrats handled immigration better and took some flashy steps against free trade and globalization (like Trumps tariffs), Trump would have lost handily. If they put a lid on strident progressives setting the tone on social policy, they'd be dominant for a generation. Democracy would have been saved! Unfortunately they're too beholden to technocrats and activists, and the result of that is Trump.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-21 16:05:17+00:00
Yes, yes I have. I've known a lot of Canadians over the decades. They would totally commit to guerilla warfare to defend their nation, same as most other people would. They'd be damned good at it, too.

If you think there's something about Canadians that would stop them from getting down, dirty, and vicious, then you don't know Canadians very well (and have never seen a Canadian hockey game).

Could they hold out alone over the long term? Probably not, but maybe. Smaller, less capable nations have pulled off such feats.

But also, they wouldn't be alone. They'd have quite a lot of support.
by nospice | 2026-01-21 16:05:39+00:00
My point is that on average, filing bad but plausibly-sounding reports makes the reporter money. Curl is the odd exception with naming-and-shaming, not the rule. Spamming H1 with AI-generated reports is lucrative. A modest deposit is unlikely to change that. A big deposit (thousands of dollars) would, but it would also discourage a lot of legitimate reports.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 16:06:00+00:00
This actually looks really cool! Especially the dark mode and the feature of showing the comments reply to which actually is something that I wanted as well!

Honestly this is how Hackernews should look haha!

It does take some time in firefox/zen tho in the start so its not really instant (especially the bars which are shown next to the comment to indicate who they are responding to)

For some reason also, Hackernews stopped working when I installed this extension, my wifi may have glitched and I reconnected to wifi so its working now.

It's pretty cool fwiw.
by dent9 | 2026-01-21 16:06:04+00:00
Keep doing tech work but work for more meaningful organizations. Look into STEM and science and health fields that need help with their technology. Shifting your career away from tech is a massive mistake. You need to shop your skills to organizations that are more meaningful to you. Non-tech science and health companies and orgs won't pay as well as pure tech or other fields but you get the satisfaction of knowing that your work changes the world for a positive benefit and possibly saves lives
by borenstein | 2026-01-21 16:06:34+00:00
Thank you, good question! My original implementation was actually a bunch of manifests on my own microk8s cluster. I was finding that this meant a lot of ad-hoc adjustments with every little tweak. (Ironic, given the whole "pets vs cattle" thing.) So I started testing the changes in a VM.

Then I was talking to a security engineer at my company, who pointed out that a VM would make him feel better about the whole thing anyway. And it occurred to me: if I packaged it as a VM, then I'd get both isolation and determinism. It would be easier to install and easier to debug.

So that's why I decided to go with a Vagrant-based installation. The obvious downside is that it's harder now to integrate it with external systems or to use the full power of whatever environment you deploy it in.
by consp | 2026-01-21 16:06:43+00:00
It used to be based on relative size, so if you have a set of spoons and cups and use the same for all measurements they are ballpark right for your recipe (and some minor difference accounting for user error). These day's it's defined anyway in both metric and imperial. As soon as you start weighing something from the recipe it goes out of the window as that defines the rest of the relative measurements. For that reason I really dislike the recipes telling you to measure teaspoons of spices but grams or ounces of flour. I don't have two sets of measurement cups available. These days most cooking sites mention both though.

On a sidenote: an ounce is 100g here and a pound 500g. Mainly by being in common usage and translated to common used weights. "An ounce more okay?" is an easy way to sell more without mentioning how much it actually is in numbers.
by vondur | 2026-01-21 16:06:45+00:00
It’s a bit odd in the U.S. because we use a mix of units, largely due to industries that combine metric and imperial systems. Most people are familiar with metric volume since so many drinks are sold in 1 and 2 liter bottles, and medications are typically measured in milligrams. Lengths and weights are more of a mixed bag. Many track and field events use metric units now, though longer distances are still measured in miles. Temperatures are still Fahrenheit, which I tend to prefer because the smaller increments give a more nuanced sense of change. I’m comfortable with the metric system since I was a chemistry major in college and a mountain biker, where measurements like suspension travel are usually given in millimeters.
by singingbard | 2026-01-21 16:06:57+00:00
“Good” is some mix of taste and skill.

People without taste hide behind skill. They do everything technically correctly and still make something bad. This is the threat of new mediums to them — it takes away their only strength.

But at the same time, something like AI suddenly enables people with neither taste nor skill to produce. I don’t want to see AI art right now — AI art is currently a lot of noise.

The sentiment of photography not being real art hasn’t been a thing for a while now though.
by analognoise | 2026-01-21 16:07:05+00:00
So we chose growth, and now are trying empire, because of memes about our supposed strength on paper, pushed by unserious “conservatives” who can’t form a cohesive argument about anything?

We stand a good chance of this totally destroying us, because the “technocracy” set actually believe their own Paper Divisions are unstoppable and the legal mind of “stick your fingers in your ears and say NAH NAH NAH” to be unassailable.

What an embarrassing ending to the American story this all is, eh?

Maybe whatever comes next will be more serious and will choose differently.