MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by catigula | 2026-01-20 21:52:09+00:00
>and worse maintenance schedules/cost of ownership

Sorry, but this is simply incorrect. The Toyota Prius has the most reliable powertrain on the American market in most studies. This is the decades old Toyota hybrid planetary gearset engine and eCVT. It has less moving wear parts than an ICE engine, a generous warranty, absorbs brake wear, etc. It's pretty umambigious at this point, so I'm not sure where you're sourcing your facts from (vibes?).

Given this fact wasn't understood, there isn't much more content to engage with. Modern hybrids are popular because they're very good and side-step all of the myriad problems with electric vehicles.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-20 21:52:34+00:00
> deportation rates are much too low

“U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded nearly 238,000 apprehensions of migrants crossing the southern border illegally in fiscal year 2025” [1]. For 2012 to 2015, the chart shows about 360k, 420k, 480k and 330k, respectively.

That means ICE is spending $330 to 580 thousand dollars per additional Southwest border encounter in 2025 versus 2012. ($250 to 440 thousand if we average Obama’s second-term numbers.)

These numbers 10x even San Francisco’s circa 2016 homeless-industrial profligacy [2]. Unless ICE is a ball of wormy corruption, they’re clearly not focused on immigration enforcement.

If you prefer anecdotes, I live in Wyoming. Our farms are de facto exempt from enforcement. I believe in enforcing our immigration laws while we work to reform through the legislature. But that's clearly not what ICE is doing. The most-generous interpretation is they're making videos that make people who want enforcement feel good.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/icymi-illegal-cr...

[2] https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...
by buildbot | 2026-01-20 21:52:47+00:00
I did this for a bit with a Q900R, a 65in 8k TV - a upside or downside depending on the time of year and climate is that it uses a lot of power and generates a good amount of heat.

Here’s a review of the series - https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q900-q900r-8k-qled

One interesting thing is that it’s been firmware updated to support hdmi 2.1 on all hdmi ports now.
by baggachipz | 2026-01-20 21:53:04+00:00
> I've since moved to the apple ecosystem... Set and forget.

Careful, you'll get blasted for that in these parts. Until about 7 years ago, I had been an Android absolutist. Custom ROMs, launchers, you name it. I sneered at those Apple-loving simpletons. Then, after missing several important phone calls in a day due to the phone 'app' not working properly, I got fed up and got a Nexus 6, the official Google phone and the reference implementation for Android. The phone was big and ugly, but at least I was still using a "real" operating system.

Then, as I went through the app store looking for some needed apps, I realized that I couldn't find what I wanted. What I downloaded and installed turned out to be scams and hijacked the phone as ad-riddled malware. It slowly dawned on me: The Play Store is anarchistic, lawless hellscape.

I was too old for this shit. I went and got an iPhone and never looked back. I turn it on, it does things. I don't have to worry about it. Yes, the software quality isn't near perfect, and they seem to be gradually enshittifying their app store. But at least they make a token effort to keep things in a somewhat curated state.

It's night and day, far as I'm concerned. I've gotten to the point where I just want my things to work. I don't want to spend hours tweaking and troubleshooting. I realize I'm in a cult compound, but it's better than the Mad Max world outside.
by neilv | 2026-01-20 21:53:16+00:00
> the easiest way to break the chicken-and-egg problem of network effects is to simply cheat and use bots to make the platform look popular.

In relatively early days of Reddit, before mainstream awareness, I thought it suspicious how clever or knowledgeable so many of the comments were. Better than any other general-purpose venue I could think of.

So, when telling people about Reddit, I'd sometimes remark that I suspected they'd enlisted a bunch of writer shills, to frontload and elevate their comments traffic.

Maybe it was all genuine and organic, and an artifact of the voting system and network effects, while the bar for quality was set so low by some other venues.

Though, years after Reddit was mainstream, I heard something about the founders originally writing a lot of the comments themselves.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-20 21:53:27+00:00
Is there a shortlist of top of the line utilitarian monitors that you can just buy, without researching or being some niche gamer?* Something similar to LG G-series TV's. Seems like Apple Studio, Dell UltraSharp are on that list. Any others?

*Struggling for words, but I'm looking more for the expedient solution rather than the "craft beer" or "audiophile" solution.
by XorNot | 2026-01-20 21:53:45+00:00
This is on full display with the US's Venezuela problem: no one believes the US will hold it, so oil companies don't want to invest because last time exactly this happened - they had everything seized.

Imagine if you'd invested in lithium mining in Afghanistan 15 years ago: you'd likely have paid a lot, made little money, lost employees and then lost it to the Taliban.
by alecco | 2026-01-20 21:54:52+00:00
The problem is banks and financial institutions have been blocking legitimate transfers for ages for anything above $10k. I lost count how many times it happened to me. One time a large sum of money was in limbo for almost 5 days and I needed it for an urgent government deposit in another country, ironically.

I wish Crypto or something like that takes off and wipes them all out one day.
by impendia | 2026-01-20 21:55:22+00:00
A variant of this advice, that avoids some of the pitfalls, is to take time off to do something structured and specific.

Personally, in between jobs a long time ago, I chose to walk the Henro Trail, an approximately 800-mile Buddhist pilgrimage trail in Shikoku, Japan. To make a long story short, it was the experience of a lifetime.
by Shocka1 | 2026-01-20 21:55:33+00:00
I've been selling options for almost a decade now, including running trading algorithms, and was laughing a bit to myself because it was basically just the math in an everyday option chain. As you already know, anyone can look at the strike they are talking about, with the IV already cooked into it, on platforms like Think Or Swim or even Yahoo Finance. Some of the stuff can be pretty useful though in backtesting and exploration.

All that aside, I'm impressed it made it to the HN front page.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-20 21:57:03+00:00
If I point to the overwhelming support of Pahlavi by Iranians in the diaspora, you'll point out that opinion within Iran itself could be completely different... and you'll be correct.

If I point to a poll from within Iran, you'll say it's unreliable... and again you'll be correct.

If I point to the numerous videos from the protests featuring 'Javid Shah' chants, you'll say we can't know if they are representative... and yet again you'll be correct.

So I don't have a good source, and I don't know for certain. It's just my impression.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-20 21:57:17+00:00
> there were practical limits to currency debasement when the currency was a physical commodity

"In the second century, a modius of wheat (approximately nine liters), during normal times, had sold for ½ Denarius…. the same modius of wheat sold in 335 AD for over 6000 denarii, and in 338 AD for over 10,000" [1].

Note that inflation can also occur with zero debasement if the economy around the fixed money supply collapses. This happened in Rome when Pompey and later Augustus were trashing trade routes. It may have even led to the collapse of India's ancient democracies.

> there were serious political repercussions for it

There weren't. The state historically borrowed from the hilt of the sword. Economic collapse constrained kings and emperors. Not politics.

[1] https://etedge-insights.com/featured-insights/analysis/how-h...
by formerly_proven | 2026-01-20 21:57:25+00:00
This is an superficial review but even then

> Beyond that, it has an attention-grabbing design and off-the-charts image quality. It's one of the best monitors you can buy for content creators, despite some of the unfortunate trade-offs it comes with.

> As Sleek As Monitors Get

> The 32-inch LG UltraFine Evo 6K is a very pretty monitor. I wouldn't blame you for mistaking this as an Apple product, given the focus on clean lines, simple shapes, and designerly aesthetic. The extra-wide stand means that the base itself isn’t overly large. Like the Apple Studio Display, the flat base provides more usable desk space rather than occupying it. The stand itself has a unique design, too. It resembles the styling Apple uses on the iMac and Studio Display, but it has a textured pattern on the back. It’s gorgeous, though you probably won’t spend a lot of time looking at the back of the monitor unless your desk is in the middle of the room or in command position (if you know, you know).

I don't see any of this. It looks very thick at the edges, the rounded corners are unrefined, the ventilation holes are 2000s plasma TV vibe, the port arrangement on the back looks atrocious - ports at different heights (there are four types of ports, and all of them are at a different z-height), some sunk into the surface with a counterbore, others protruding with an extra plastic jacket (screaming "these are all unmatched connectors out of the inventory"). The entire back panel looks like that cheap late 2000s/early 2010s metallic-silver spray painted plastic from nondescript TVs and stereo equipment. (Because it probably is). The stand looks thin and flimsy with a a plastic covering/shell on the reverse side. Oh and the corners of the case are just G1 continuity, they're obviously a quarter round stuck to a flat surface.

No, wired, I don't think anyone is mistaking this for an apple product.
by DataDaoDe | 2026-01-20 21:57:25+00:00
We'd probably agree on this: people respond to incentives created by system design. One example that comes to mind is how London's Congestion Charge and how it has changed traffic behavior over the years depending on how the rules change.

There is nothing inherent about fast, large-scale, or user-friendly communication that forces spam, scams, or propaganda. Its just that those outcomes emerge when things like engagement, attention, or "reach" are rewarded without being aligned to quality, truth, or mutual cooperation.

This is a well-studied problem in economics, but also behavioral science and psychology: change the incentive and feedback structure, and behavior reliably changes.

Based on the studies I've read in and around this topic, I think harmful dynamics are not inevitable properties of communication, but really contingent on how each system rewards actions taken by participants. The solution is not slowness or barriers, but better incentive alignment and feedback loops.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-20 21:57:37+00:00
Yes that constitutes being data driven, why wouldn't it? It's tautological that if a person who works as a porn actress and prostitution puts out polls on Twitter, the population of people who answer those polls will consist of people who follow a porn actress and prostitute on Twitter, but why does that affect the quality of the data? How can you evaluate whether someone counts as a "gooner" or not based on whether they follow a specific person on Twitter or answer a poll about sex?
Do we need independence and autonomy in Edge-Cloud
by Dutchhack | 2026-01-20 21:57:45+00:00
I’ve been thinking about a different way to frame edgecloud infrastructure: not as an extension of hyperscalers, but as the first autonomous hop for devices — controlling what flows upstream to any cloud.
In this model, a fine-grained edgecloud mesh of small to medium sites sits close to users, data, and physical systems, mediating connectivity before anything reaches large centralized providers. Instead of trying to regulate hyperscalers directly, policy, security, and operational constraints could be enforced architecturally at this first hop.
A common objection is that a wide edge mesh increases the attack surface. I’m not convinced that translates to higher real-world risk. When failures or breaches happen at the edge, the blast radius is local: data loss and service disruption stay contained. When a hyperscaler fails or is breached, the impact is global.
We already see signals in this direction (e.g. NVIDIA–Nokia, AWS–Ericsson). The open question is whether the edge becomes just another hyperscaler-controlled layer, or whether a more federated ecosystem — built by many operators and vendors — can realistically deliver better resilience, security, and innovation.
From a systems or operational perspective: does a federated edgecloud mesh actually rebalance risk and control, or do coordination and complexity costs dominate in practice?
by shaftway | 2026-01-20 21:57:48+00:00
The algorithm for the checksum (the sixth digit) is subject to one of the most common human errors, swapping adjacent digits. The UPC checksum algorithm handles this without significantly more complexity. They have you multiply all of the numbers in odd positions by 3 and then add up all numbers. The last digit is chosen to make the sum a multiple of 10.

To use your example: 51076, you'd do `5*3 + 1 + 0*3 + 7 + 6*3 = 15 + 1 + 0 + 7 + 18 = 41`. The sixth digit would be 9 ((10 - (41 mod 10)) mod 10). If you were to transpose any two adjacent numbers the checksum would be off. 3 is chosen because it's the smallest number that is co-prime with 10.
by MBCook | 2026-01-20 21:58:04+00:00
The company I work at gives all new developers a pair of 1080p displays that could have come right out of 2010.

It amazes me, and it’s so sad. They have no idea what they’re missing. I’m sure high PPI would pay off fast in eye strain. And it’s not like monitors need replacement yearly. Tons of time to recoup that small cost.

I’m not arguing for $2k 37” monitors, just better than $200 ones.
by rpdillon | 2026-01-20 21:58:48+00:00
So, you're not wrong.

People that work for money will want money, and ultimately can be bought.

People that work for love produce the best they can with limited resources, and are often broke.

I don't think we've found a way to bridge the gap. I've come to generally rely on work people do for love, and I contribute to them, but it's clearly not sustainable unless they have another source of income.

Anyone who solves this will produce immense value.
by pizzafeelsright | 2026-01-20 21:59:06+00:00
Language is not the problem but clear intent along with direction of action and defined and not implied subject.

Consider:

"Eat grandma if you're hungry"

"Eat grandma, if you're hungry"

"Eat grandma. if you're hungry"

Same words and entirely different outcome.

Pseudo code to clarify:

[Action | Directive - Eat] [Subject - Grandma] [Conditional of Subject - if hungry]
by nospice | 2026-01-20 21:59:12+00:00
I don't think people care all that much about phones. It's just that phones are power-constrained, so manufacturers wanted to move to OLEDs; and because the displays are small, the tech was easier to roll out there than on 6k 32-inch monitors.

But premium displays exist. IPS displays on higher-end laptops, such as ThinkPads, are great. Color is a matter of calibration if you care.
by hibikir | 2026-01-20 21:59:20+00:00
And yet they aren't running planes and engines all from 2023 or beyond: See the MD-11 that crashed in Louisville: Nobody has made a new MD-11 in over 20 years. Planes move to less competitive routes, change carriers, and eventually might even stop carrying people and switch to cargo, but the plane itself doesn't get to have zero value when the new one comes out. An airline will want to replace their planes, but a new plane isn't fully amortized in a year or three: It still has value for quite a while
by accrual | 2026-01-20 21:59:40+00:00
Anecdata but I played games at 4K on a 4GHz Haswell (2013) + 1080 Ti (2017). Definitely faster at 2K but 4K was servicable. It's probably less true now that I'm 1+ years away from the hardware, but 4K gameplay is surprisingly accessible for modest hardware IMO.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-20 21:59:58+00:00
The sad reality is Americans really don't care about foreign policy -- the only thing that could actually lead to major strikes or protests large enough to move the needle would be if large numbers of American soldiers were dying (i.e., Vietnam).

Plus, I just saw a little segment on Fox News where it was portraying this whole Greenland deal as a way to "help Greenlanders boost their economy, each person will get X cash, blah blah". So anyone only watching Fox is probably convinced we're doing Greenland a favor, liberating them from Danish oppression, just like we recently liberated Venezuela from oppression (in case you didn't know!).
by Dutchhack | 2026-01-20 22:00:40+00:00
One serious doubt I still have is this: there’s a huge open-source community producing excellent building blocks, but turning those into integrated, production-grade edgecloud platforms seems to require either very large capital (i.e. big tech) or a level of sustained focus that’s hard to achieve.
That raises a question for me. Is the missing piece actually money and scale or is it where and with whom this integration happens? In other words, can domain-specific Edge-cloud systems realistically be built and maintained by smaller, focused teams working closely with the stakeholders who need them, or does this inevitably collapse back into hyperscaler-led platforms?
Anyway would an initiative such as now being launched in Europe, the OFEIA fly ?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/open-federated-edgecloud-infr...
by sleepybrett | 2026-01-20 22:02:25+00:00
What you don't think we can put up a shadow internet running at 250kbps?

That said, I picked up a couple of prebuilt lora solar nodes and a couple of mobile nodes (seed solar jobies and seeed mobile jobies) and stuck the solar ones into my upper story windows just over new years, one is set up as a meshtastic repeater the other as a meshcore repeater.

I'm pretty amazed at the distances I hear from, I'm getting stuff this morning over meshcore all the way from vancouver bc into my office in seattle (pugetnet.org).

To get it all dialed in having a discord full of old HAM guys that know RF pretty well certainly doesn't hurt.

It's certainly hobbiest grade at best. It seems like it could be very interesting for installs in small communities and larger estates for backhaul for remote iot applications. Obviously you aren't going to push video over that bandwidth but for weather stations and the like seems cool.

Reticulum becomes more interesting when you are talking about some of the more robust radio technologies. Building a mesh LAN out of old wifi gear is interesting in concept.
by TimorousBestie | 2026-01-20 22:02:43+00:00
Yes, yes, it technically didn’t but the result was largely the same, and as we all know technically correct is the best kind of correct.

> The final resolution, unanimously adopted by the North Atlantic Council on September 12, was a compromise that only contingently invoked Article 5, dependent on a later determination that the attacks had originated from abroad.[7] According to the final text of the declaration, "if it is determined that this attack was directed from abroad against the United States, it shall be regarded as an action covered by Article 5 of the Washington Treaty".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_NATO_Article_5_contingenc...

Does this rise to the level of misinformation? I doubt it. It’s administrative trivia only of interest to UN enthusiasts.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-20 22:03:27+00:00
> During the Age of Exploration/Colonization, competing European powers each minted metal currencies and couldn't reasonably debase their metals without immediately being out-competed

You're hitting the nail on the head. Metalness didn't matter. It was competition in money supplies (and strength of private property).

The fact that a banker in Italy could finance (or not) a war by Great Britain is what restrained governments. Same as in the 1990s, the bond market was king.

The historical record simply does not support the hypothesis that metal-based economies are more peaceful or inflate less than modern fiat-based ones. I'm open to revising that opinion if someone has re-run the data. But everything I've seen comes from blogs that start with the conclusion, itself reached from assumptions from first principles that rarely contemplate how armies were actually financed in antiquity. (Hint: they take your shit. Marketing campaigns sharing the martial term isn't a coincidence. If you're a general in the olden times, you got wealthy through your commission because your army took the enemy's shit. If you needed help getting there, you paid a 'friendly' visit to your nobles.)
by pixl97 | 2026-01-20 22:03:31+00:00
>CG-NAT does have the benefit of making v4 address reputation less reliable

heh, less reliable is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. You mean "complete and total trash". We need to get to the point where Cloudflare/AWS/some other big sites just block CG-NAT nodes for a day going this IP address is a risk.

Instead if you're a website, instead of doing an easy block by IP, you're left filtering out AI crawlers, spammers, and lots of other crap hiding behind a single IP with thousands of other users behind it, and ISPs that don't really give a shit about doing anything about it.

We need to push the value of IPv4 to nearly zero and finally move away from that crap.
by jmalicki | 2026-01-20 22:03:32+00:00
Sometimes anonymous strangers in similar situations help more than either:

1) close colleagues you might not want to be vulnerable towards, or

2) people you are close to and feel vulnerable to you, but do not have similar career trajectories or experiences.

There is a reason why "communities of practice" have always existed, and HN kind-of-sort-of happens to be one.
by kbolino | 2026-01-20 22:04:06+00:00
It's kinda hard to handle MERGE failures gracefully. You generally expect the whole thing to succeed, and the syntax deceptively makes it seem like you can handle all the cases. But because of MVCC, you get these TOCTOU-style spurious constraint violations, yet there's no way to address them on a per-row basis, leading to the entire statement rolling back even for the rows that had no issues. If you are designing for concurrent OLTP workloads against the table, you should probably just avoid MERGE altogether. It's more useful for one-off manual fixups.
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-20 22:04:53+00:00
That reference - my initial gut feeling was that `MERGE` felt more readable, but then I read this paragraph

> If you want the generality of MERGE, you have to accept the fact that you might get unique constraint violations, when there are concurrent inserts, versus with INSERT ON CONFLICT, the way it's designed with its speculative insertions, guarantees that you either get an INSERT or an UPDATE and that is true even if there are concurrent inserts. You might want to choose INSERT ON CONFLICT if you need the guarantee.

Basically, `MERGE` is susceptible to a concurrent process also writing `INSERT` where that `INSERT` and `MERGE` are unaware of one another, causing a duplicate value to be used.
by piskov | 2026-01-20 22:04:58+00:00
6k 16:10 32” oled/microRGB with true rgb subpixels, please.

Though the wait seems 5 more years, at the least. Too many pixels and no tolerance for dead ones.

—

If you — like most of us — care only about pixel density for that sweet crisp code, Chinese 6k XDR knock-off by the name of Kuycon G32P got you covered for a few years now and with a fraction of a price ($1700)