MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alphazard | 2026-01-15 23:25:32+00:00
Companies need ways for individuals to bet against projects and people that are likely to fail.
So much of the overhead in a large organization is from bad decisions, or people who usually make bad decisions remaining in positions of power.

Imagine if instead of having to speak up, and risk political capital, you could simply place a bet, and carry on with your work.
Leadership can see that people are betting against a project, and make updates in real time.
Good decision makers could earn significant bonuses, even if they don't have the title/role to make the decisions.
If someone makes more by betting than their manager takes home in salary, maybe it's time for an adjustment.

Such a system is clearly aligned with the interests of the shareholders, and the rank-and-file. But the stranglehold that bureaucrats have over most companies would prevent it from being put in place.
by newfriend | 2026-01-15 23:25:32+00:00
Simply incorrect.

That study is yet another that fails to account for the fact that immigration status is not known immediately upon arrest.

> Studies purporting to show low illegal immigrant crime rates in Texas fail to account for the fact that illegal immigrants are not always identified immediately upon arrest. In many cases, illegal immigrants are identified only after they are imprisoned. Given sufficient time for data collection, it appears that illegal immigrants have above average conviction rates for homicide and sexual assault, while they have lower rates for robbery and drugs. [1]

There is also the question of how many illegal aliens actually exist in the US, which severely complicates calculation of rates for their population.

[1] https://cis.org/Report/Misuse-Texas-Data-Understates-Illegal...
by acuozzo | 2026-01-15 23:26:02+00:00
> A bunch of people wasting years of their life, not to mention all the resources, is a tragedy worth avoiding.

Is it? We live in a world in which social safety nets are eroding; an economically-divided one in which the middle class is rapidly disappearing.

These things (e.g. bullshit projects/jobs) are a form of "white collar welfare", no?

That's not bad. It's not like we're actually going to fix the underlying problem.

Perhaps another bored patent clerk will use his downtime to change the world.
by sailfast | 2026-01-15 23:26:31+00:00
Not a doctor or anything, but what happens if you check your assumptions about someone's actions being hollow or making it about them and consider that they actually want to support you and show you love or empathy as a possibility? Removing some of our own defensive layers might be a first step - though I understand how difficult that can be since we've been burned so many times and they layers are there for a reason!
by MrTravisB | 2026-01-15 23:26:56+00:00
Regarding the browser instances: While VM boot times have definitely improved, accessing a site through a full browser render isn't always the most efficient way to retrieve information. Our goal is to get the most up-to-date information as fast as possible.

For example, something we may consider for the future is balancing when to implement direct API access versus browser rendering. If a website offers the same information via an API, that would almost always be faster and lighter than spinning up a headless browser, regardless of how fast the VM boots. While we don't support that hybrid approach yet, it illustrates why we are optimizing for the best tool for the job rather than just defaulting to a full browser every time.

Regarding robots.txt: We agree. Not all potential customers are going to want a service that respects robots.txt or other content-owner-friendly policies. As I alluded to in another comment, we have a difficult task ahead of us to do our best by both the content owners and the developers trying to access that content.

As part of Mozilla, we have certain values that we work by and will remain true to. If that ultimately means some number of potential customers choose a competitor, that is a trade-off we are comfortable with.
by nereye | 2026-01-15 23:27:33+00:00
Which Seattle library (am assuming you're referring to SPL/Seattle Public Library system) has a maker space?

There is no maker space listed at https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/a-z-programs-and-s....

Within KCLS, there are two public libraries that have maker spaces (AFAIK): Bellevue, Federal Way.

PS this is not meant to be confrontational, would love it if there were more maker spaces in libraries (when have asked in the past, the usual answer is that they do not have enough space for it).
by mattbillenstein | 2026-01-15 23:27:43+00:00
The key I think with s3 is using it mostly as a blobstore. We put the important metadata we want into postgres so we can quickly select stuff that needs to be updated based on other things being newer. So, we don't need to touch s3 that often if we don't need the actual data.

When we actually need to manipulate or generate something in Python, we download/upload to S3 and wrap it all in a tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() to cleanup the local disk when we're done. If you don't do this, you end up with a bunch of garbage eventually in /tmp/ you need to deal with.

We also have some longer-lived disk caches and using the data in the db and a os.stat() on the file we can easily know if the cache is up to date without hitting s3. And this cache, we can just delete stuff that's old wrt os.stat() to manage the size of it since we can always get it from s3 again if needed in the future.
by pcthrowaway | 2026-01-15 23:27:47+00:00
Agreed, I'd like to know more about this also.

As someone raised in the Jewish faith, and having spent time also learning about the New Testament and the Quran (though without having read the texts directly), I'm inclined to think Christianity on paper is "the best" of the Abrahamic religions, in that the core messages of Jesus are about forgiveness, nonviolence, and helping one another. These messages are in the Torah and the Quran too, to be clear, but specifically with matters of sexuality, gender, and gender roles, Christianity is the most "forgiving" of people who are non-normative or opposed to those norms in the first place.

I say this as someone who doesn't believe in any religion fwiw, not as a born-again Christian or whatever.

And I also want to be clear that there are progressive interpretations of all religious texts, people of all religious practices can be LGBTQ, poly, drug users. And religion can also be used to justify incredible acts of evil. Christianity was the justification for the Inquisition and the Crusades after all, despite the violence of both certainly going against the teachings of Jesus.
by acdha | 2026-01-15 23:28:02+00:00
> No, he did not

Those were his words, I’m not sure why you’d expect your assertion to be more credible.

> nobody was claiming that Grayson reviewed Quinn's games beyond like a day or two of confusion

They spent a year lying about her “unethical” actions justifying all of the abuse, and it all traced back to that foundational lie.
by JLO64 | 2026-01-15 23:28:39+00:00
I’ve been pretty content with Postmark but I decided to compare pricing out of curiosity.

The free tier Remails offers is pretty generous in my opinion (3k a month) and I really like when the people making a service make blog posts like this. However having the next tier up (100k a month) start at €100 is a no go for me. It’s not that I think the price is bad, it’s that for my service I expect to send only 30k per month by the end of the year. Having a smaller capacity tier would be great for small but not tiny projects.
by phs318u | 2026-01-15 23:28:49+00:00
The corollary to this law is that if someone publishes a paper saying a thing is bad, there will be a flippant, dismissive response ignoring the content and context, and using attacks on credibility to dismiss the findings.

Given that we know significant numbers of people (mostly younger) are using LLMs as confidantes/therapists, to the extent that some have self-harmed following alleged prompting/encouragement by the LLMs, perhaps it would be useful to understand why this behaviour in the LLM emerges and whether it is linked to specific types of training data, and subsequently - maybe - figure out a way to mitigate these kinds of risks to human users.

But hey, who doesn't enjoy giving a free kick to those that don't have our superior understanding, am I right?
by bossyTeacher | 2026-01-15 23:28:49+00:00
> You have to be the one who creates things to do.

This. Isn't it fascinating that for all the different ways we have to reach people (almost immediately, anywhere in the world, at virtually no cost) and all the different social entertainment options, people feel unable to perform an action that is so simple? An action that their ancestors going back all the way to the hominids has done at massively greater costs to them?

What is it that makes people feel this powerless?
by mft_ | 2026-01-15 23:28:51+00:00
> This guidance lays a line in the sand and will remove some of the reviewer-to-reviewer variance present in the current FDA staff.

That would be nice, but my experience is there can be quite significant variability between reviewers in different teams/groups, even on topics you'd think were well-established for many years, and for which there is existing FDA guidance.
by tyleo | 2026-01-15 23:28:58+00:00
I’ve generally had more good outcomes than bad, as long as I don’t take on the emotional burden myself.

Some people don’t actually want advice. In those cases, the issue isn’t technical, it’s interpersonal. In my experience, engineers who refuse to hear advice tend to struggle the most for obvious reasons.

Where I’ve gone wrong is taking on the emotional weight of other people’s projects. When I do that, the balance shifts toward more bad outcomes than good ones.
by giardini | 2026-01-15 23:29:26+00:00
I'd nursed a foot callus for years that hurt badly when I walked barefoot. Weeks ago, sitting on the locker room bench, I hit my limit. In desperation I pulled out my pocket knife to do some field surgery. A few minutes into it I glanced up to see two guys sitting across the room staring at me open-eyed as I dug into my foot with the tip of that pointy knife (8.5" with 3.5" blade)! I just smiled and dug that sucker out.

Should have gone after that callus a year ago! Amazing how such a tiny thing can aggravate.

But you're right about a knife. To me it's just a working tool, but years ago in another life I opened a similar knife (to cut a cable) and my boss literally jumped backward and exclaimed in fear. But he came from a place where, when someone pulls out a knife someone else usually gets stabbed.
by darth_avocado | 2026-01-15 23:30:00+00:00
> Yes, it seems cruel and also counter to ensuring the org succeeds. Your perceived ability as an engineer might go up if your colleagues fail, but your colleagues failing when you knew a possible way for things to go better is harmful to your org's goals and culture

In hypothetical situations where every single person has good intentions, sure. Human beings are complex and sometimes, this doesn’t sit well with others. I personally know of someone who when did this, ended up with a manager escalation and eventually losing their job. Because someone else felt their competence being questioned and took it as an opportunity to get someone who tried to help, get fired.

Sometime a good deed doesn’t go unpunished. Corporate culture mostly dictates that only help when asked, when it will come back to bite you, or if the you know the people who are being helped closely. Everything else, don’t get involved.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-15 23:30:01+00:00
> Reminds me of one of my managers who said, “Sometimes, you have to let people fail.”

I often say "Sometimes, you have to let the manager fail."

Some managers don't like being told their ideas won't work. If you refuse or argue, you are seen as the reason his idea failed. I've found what works best with them is to proceed with the work, but keep them informed very frequently, so they can see how things evolve, and will be able to see the failure you had anticipated a long time ago before it is too late.

Then you're seen in a positive light, and he'll separate you from the project failure.
by coder543 | 2026-01-15 23:30:15+00:00
Another one is Soprano-1.1.

It seems like it is being trained by one person, and it is surprisingly natural for such a small model.

I remember when TTS always meant the most robotic, barely comprehensible voices.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qcusnt/soprano...

https://huggingface.co/ekwek/Soprano-1.1-80M
by iwontberude | 2026-01-15 23:30:27+00:00
Corruption is the only moat. Oligarchs can buy anything and funnel attention and money into it, creating financial success for shareholders despite poor leadership, zero social responsibility, suboptimal ideas and execution (see: Tesla)

Just commit fraud repeatedly while owning the people who run DoJ, easy peasy, no amount of attention or cash flow can displace that.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-15 23:30:32+00:00
Dems elected majoritarian focused centrists in 2020. Harris did things like promise to have a republican in her cabinet and campaigned with Liz Cheney. Durbin intervened in judicial oversight to avoid making a big thing out of Clarence Thomas' bribes. Schumer refused to endorse Mamdani. The dems supported a bill to expand ICE.

And the big one: the Biden administration slow rolled prosecuting Trump for trying to install himself as president despite losing the election.

The majoritarians winning in 2026 and 2028 just repeats the failures of 2020. What we need is a serious response to fascism.
by uxcolumbo | 2026-01-15 23:31:01+00:00
I read your story you shared here. Fkn hell is all I can say. That you survived this as a kid is kind of a miracle.

I admire your strength. How as a kid did you escape the brainwashing?

Regarding the replies above, they might be referring to how you can say “I love you” even though you don’t really know them. Just a guess.

I’m glad you made it out and that you’re now trying to help others.
by l-j-g | 2026-01-15 23:31:03+00:00
We need an open-source dating / social platform that isn’t designed to monetise loneliness.

We’ve outsourced forming relationships to profit-driven systems that trade comfort and convenience for reduced real-world social effort. By substituting the need to approach people in person, these platforms quietly erode social confidence and reinforce avoidance, exacerbating the social problems they claim to solve.
by recursive | 2026-01-15 23:31:09+00:00
I don't understand this point of view. Most of the people aren't wasting their time. They're getting paid for the effort. The business is taking a risk, and pays people to realize their vision. Some visions are bad.

Getting personally attached and emotionally invested in work you get paid for is a risk too. There's nothing wrong with that. But there's also nothing wrong putting your time in and churning out requirements if that's what you want.
by rookonfire | 2026-01-15 23:32:04+00:00
Hi everyone. I’m reaching out from a small team of MIT students working on a tool we’d love your input on.

We’ve talked to a lot of family lawyers, and what kept coming up was how draining it is to constantly chase clients for basic documents that enable them to do their job.

So, we built a portal clients log into that electronically finds and pulls different types of information (tax returns, pay statements, bank statements, etc.) in hopes to reduce work for clients and for you.

We’re still early and finishing up required compliances to ensure client data security, but until that’s complete, we do have a preorder link here: www.octadox.org. If you sign up, we’ll schedule a call to build custom integrations if necessary and personally onboard your first few clients. If this sounds interesting, please reach out or sign up. We’d love to talk.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-15 23:32:06+00:00
[EDIT] Updated original comment to include matrix dimensions.

If you want a serious text that goes through the relevant linear algebra and optimization mathematics in depth up front, Neural Network Design, 2nd edition is a good one. [Disclaimer, co-author]. We took great pains to walk through every conceptual and mathematical topic before we apply those concepts to machine learning. We use MATLAB a lot, which may or may not be helpful.

Another potential option is "Linear Algebra and Optimization for Machine Learning", which looks good and also starts out with linear algebra before machine learning. I haven't read it, but the first 2020 edition gets good reviews, and a second 2026 edition just came out, apparently with a fair amount of positive revision. Given the speed of change, that's nice to see.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-15 23:32:55+00:00
It is ICE (née the police) that is harassing people, and why should anyone need to carry proof of citizenship?

Further, even if you have proof of citizenship, what makes you think you'll be asked for it, rather than just being shoved into an SUV? There have been numerous citizens that were detained:

* https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...

And being detained may be for the fortunate case: many US citizens have been deported.
by newfriend | 2026-01-15 23:33:12+00:00
Illegal aliens are shown to commit more crimes than citizens when time is given to determine immigration status. [1]

> Studies purporting to show low illegal immigrant crime rates in Texas fail to account for the fact that illegal immigrants are not always identified immediately upon arrest. In many cases, illegal immigrants are identified only after they are imprisoned. Given sufficient time for data collection, it appears that illegal immigrants have above average conviction rates for homicide and sexual assault, while they have lower rates for robbery and drugs.

There is also the question of how many illegal aliens actually exist in the US, which severely complicates calculation of rates for their population.

Your pdf is a repost of the exact study (Light) cited here as being flawed.

[1] https://cis.org/Report/Misuse-Texas-Data-Understates-Illegal...
by fakedang | 2026-01-15 23:34:25+00:00
Y'all got any of those bilateral trade deals yet? Brexit was done and dusted by 2019, it's been 7 years now. Where are those deals you're talking about? Where's your trade deal with English-speaking economies like the US? Heck, not even CANZ want to deal with you guys now.

On the NHS, of course, gut the only thing that's keeping the country sane. I can literally not keep count anymore of the number of skilled doctors and talent who have left the UK after years of practice because the pay was becoming untenable with current living needs. Remove the NHS and you might as well call yourself a client state of the US.

On renewables and net-zero, yes, what we need is more reliance on conventional fuels so that we can be ever more reliant on Russia and the Middle East and the US right? Meanwhile economies like China, India and even your brethren in Australia are racing to put in more renewables capacity because it is just so much more cheaper and efficient now. Those guys are forging real paths to energy independence, unlike you lot.

Renewables haven't been reducing your energy bills because you guys haven't been putting up anything of note. Wake me up when Hinckley Point C comes online.
by kcplate | 2026-01-15 23:34:49+00:00
> What kind of deal do you imagine?

No idea, but Greenland fits in this renewal of the Monroe Doctrine, so my guess is something sort of deal where US has more influence there than it does now, perhaps as a protectorate, but falls short of all the “51st state” rhetoric, which is obvious Trump bloviating to press people to the table and to a deal. Just consider all the tariff back and forths and ups and downs.

> There isn't a law which would allow Denmark to sell or give away Greenland, but of course we will come to the defense of a NATO member if they are attacked, we've done so before.

Except…Greenland is not a member of NATO. Which is probably one of the reasons considering its strategic arctic location and interest to Russia/China that Trump is interested in it. It sits squarely in the Monroe Doctrine area of interest. If Russia were to invade, some NaTO countries may decide to stay out and could according to the treaty.

> but every European nation has been building up the EU defense industry and have been avoiding making US purchases for a year

Which is good, but can you honestly say that in 2026 Europe could economically handle a Russian aggression into a NATO state without the US? It’s important to keep NATO together for Europe’s sake until Europe no longer needs the US for its defense. I don’t think you are there yet.
by ztjio | 2026-01-15 23:34:53+00:00
No? I don't see how you arrived at that, it seems entirely non-sequitur. I guess you deeply misunderstood what I meant by "moral distance." I'm simply trying to give a name to the idea that there isn't just a binary good vs. bad, and that some things are vastly worse than others. You might choose to represent it on a simple scale where bad is in the negative and good in the positive. In such a case, moral distance would be the distance between the two points on that scale. That's all. This representation would have no impact on whether a single individual can do things that exist on polar opposites of such a scale.

In the context of my comment the point is more about the distance between saying something rude and killing someone, it would be a large distance despite both being negative, and the tolerance levels would likely start somewhere in the negative side of the scale, though in reality you're going to be dealing with much more complex perceptions of good vs. bad behavior and social tolerance of it. But when you compare to the law that's going to have more of a concrete boundary. But it's still not 0 on this scale.
by chrisb | 2026-01-15 23:35:43+00:00
The linked article is misrepresented.

Two points regarding blade recycling techniques taken straight from the top of the article:

- Cement co-processing and chemical dissolution are primary viable methods, yielding $27.57/ton and $199.71/ton returns respectively.

- Chemical recycling achieves top circularity (PCI=0.7) and notable carbon reduction (−0.475 t CO₂/ton).

Chemical recycling is not yet ready for industrial use; cement co-processing is.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-15 23:36:08+00:00
If it breaks the law in the EU, then the European employees staffing the data center refuse, because they don't want to go to jail or pay fines.

That's the entire point of setting it up like this.

Think of it like fast-food franchises. They have to sell the same food and use the same branding and charge the same prices. But if McDonald's tells you to start selling cocaine on the side, you tell them nope, that's not in the contract and I don't feel like going to prison.

Edit: what on earth is with the downvotes? I'm just explaining how it works. I'm not even expressing an opinion or anything.
Ask HN: Books to Learn Ruby/Rails?
by georgel | 2026-01-15 23:36:08+00:00
I started a new job where I need to get up to speed with RoR. I've dabbled with it a decade ago, and understand the scaffolding/generators/etc but still feel very out of place on actual fundamentals.

I have been doing lots of iOS, Python, React/Angular and Node.js/Express work for the last 10+ years so I am not looking for "how to learn to program" type books, more so understanding the patterns of Ruby/Rails.
by hlloyd1925 | 2026-01-15 23:37:28+00:00
If I or some neutral party were to go to the effort to learn how to pull up the information they used from the American Community Survey [1] and it matched what CIS published would you be open to changing your mind on either the absurd sounding statistics of the rate of Somalians using welfare or the reputation of CIS in general?

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.h...