MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by avidiax | 2026-01-03 09:16:41+00:00
> If your friend experiences noticeable degradation regardless of the distance within the room, it might be worrisome.

Probably not. I recall calculating it once, and the legal requirements for microwave oven shielding still allow it to produce a few watts of 2.4Ghz leakage. This is contrasted to 50mW typical WiFi AP power, and 5-50mW BlueTooth powers.

A few watts is totally non-dangerous to humans, especially diffused across the entire door.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2026-01-03 09:17:33+00:00
Do you expect US soldiers to systematically loot homes on occupied territories? Or arbitrary murder anyone speaking language they don't like or found to be subscribed to Telegram channels they don't approve of on mass scale? Do the US plan to conduct genocide and annex Venezuela in your opinion?

The conduct of VSRF in Ukraine could perhaps be compared to the US conduct in Vietnam but definitely not in Iraq.
by 29athrowaway | 2026-01-03 09:17:36+00:00
In the 19th and 20th centuries, a European power could prevail in India, China, Japan, etc.

And in the 21st century? not so much. It is a different world now.

Europe is powerful but the Royal Navy couldn't go today to Hong Kong and seize control of it for example.

And military power influences diplomacy.
by turtleyacht | 2026-01-03 09:18:10+00:00
A programming language has to be unambiguous, but one for an LLM does not necessarily have to "crash." So there should exist a number of grammars that are syntactically good but semantically obscure ("Time flies like an arrow.")

However, we need something like English or a natural language to allow for multiple meanings. It would be like sending instructions to a field agent who doesn't understand idiomatic expressions, shibboleth, or "lived experience" of the language: conversations, ads, and banter.

One challenge is breaking out of the "here is the data format" field of the prompt. If it's sandboxed to only be in {{thisArea}} then it seems more difficult. But then again, if the language defines an escape hatch (macros, annotations, multiple passes) or its library permits interpreting other languages (python, lua, js), then there are opportunities.

Another idea is to box in the model, so inside a "mental VM," some restrictions are overridden in a sense. However, the operations happen outside. A corrupted stdlib where reads are writes, but the language definition is unchanged.
by fuzztester | 2026-01-03 09:18:23+00:00
I don't like this engineers vs. finance people / MBA divide that I see parroted a lot on HN. And obviously, it's parroted by engineers.

Like, all engineers are saints and the other side are all sinners. What crap. Get real, guys. There are all kinds of multicolored and multidimensional people.

Having been on all 3 or 4 or 5 of these sides :) (dev, sysadm, manager, consultant, ...), I have seen that.

Grow up, folks, and enjoy life in all its richness.

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by nerdsniper | 2026-01-03 09:18:55+00:00
The War Powers Resolution (WPR) of 1973 sets a 60-day limit for U.S. forces in hostilities without a formal declaration of war or congressional authorization, allowing for a potential 30-day extension for withdrawal, totaling 90 days, after which the President must remove troops.

Examples of bombings/ground invasions using WPR without congressional AUMF:

Invasion of Grenada (1983) (7,300 US troops, 19 KIA)

Invasion of Panama (1989) (27,000 troops, 23 KIA)

Airstrikes on Libya (1986) (and 2011) [Obama administration argued they did not need Congressional authorization because the operations did not constitute "hostilities" as defined by the War Powers Resolution. Therefore, they argued, the 60-day clock never started.]

Kosovo Air Campaign (1999) [The bombing campaign lasted 78 days in violation of the 60-day limit]

The Mayaguez Incident (1975)

Syria Missile Strikes (2017 & 2018)

Assassination of Qasem Soleimani (2020)
by csomar | 2026-01-03 09:19:02+00:00
Probably not much. If Maduro is kicked out, you still need time to establish a new government and ramp up oil production. That's bullish, but it's far from guaranteed; there could be coups, instability, etc. If Maduro isn't kicked out, things get murky. Will the US intervene with boots on the ground? Will they just keep sanctions in place? For how long? Will there be resistance?

Actually, thinking about it more, this makes little sense. There's very little upside (and it's far off), while there's plenty of short and long-term downside. Great geopolitical strategizing out there.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-01-03 09:19:26+00:00
From the linked article:

> The president became aware of the consultations and warned his wife to be careful because it might look odd if it came out, Nancy Reagan wrote in her book.

> Nancy Reagan began consulting Quigley after the 1981 assassination attempt on her husband. She wanted to keep him from getting shot again, Nancy Reagan wrote in her 1989 memoir, "My Turn." "If it makes you feel better, go ahead and do it," she quoted the president as saying.

> The consultations were revealed to great embarrassment for the White House in a 1988 book by former White House chief of staff Donald Regan, who blamed the first lady for his ouster a year earlier. Regan said almost every major move and decision the Reagans made during his time as chief of staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes. He did not know her identity.

> The woman was in fact Joan Quigley, an heiress and Republican political activist. Quigley told The Associated Press in 1988 after her identity was revealed that she was a "serious, scientific astrologer."

A "serious, scientific astrologer", but no such thing exists, does she understand formulating null hypothesis and hypothesis testing statistics? probably not, so not scientific, any scientist actually applying the scientific method to astrology will quickly distance herself from astrology at all.
by globular-toast | 2026-01-03 09:19:38+00:00
> In short, so far, ignorance is bliss.

This isn't ignorance. This is an example of a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Ignorance is the internet just works the way it's meant to work for everyone. That's only practically possible with IPv6 these days. Your limited use case and privileged circumstances (ie. you even get a publicly routable v4 address) do not mean anything for someone who just wants things to work.
by legitster | 2026-01-03 09:19:49+00:00
I almost feel bad for the people who instigated the War on Terror. They did not know how badly it would go - and they worked really hard and tirelessly to build and sell their illegitimate case to the American public.

This administration is making the same mistakes - but in living memory of the first, with a less noble prize, and with complete derision of Congress and Americans' intelligence.
by stuckindoors | 2026-01-03 09:20:35+00:00
'Winapps' and 'winboat' on Linux allow a windows image to run in a Linux docker container and permit just the app to be streamed to the Linux desktop (after initial setup). I haven't played with it yet..but you could theoretically set up a windows host on a different remote server via tailscale or netbird and have them RDP into the windows docker container remotely.

Unfortunately my parents run macos and these tools are not meant for Macos. But like you said there are apps like UTM that provide a nice shell for QEMU on macos. Not as nice as streaming just the app, but a good start. These work great on new macmini with apple silicon.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-03 09:22:32+00:00
I guess even the last former voter now understands that a certain orange man is a huge liar. So much for "I'm gonna get the peace nobel prize" by Invasion 2.0. Actually, it is not even an invasion right now - it is just a distraction from certain files. How much has not yet been revealed with regard to that network involving underage people?
by gyulai | 2026-01-03 09:22:52+00:00
It is quite telling, regarding the state of higher education, if actual teachers actually talking to students 1:1 (which is all that an oral exam really needs to be) is brushed away as a non-starter. I can highly empathise with students who feel like the whole enterprise is a farce, and trying to game and cheat that system at every possible turn is the only appropriate response.
by donkeybeer | 2026-01-03 09:23:28+00:00
If you are talking about national identity bereft of and independent from race or ethnicity then you are close to what I want and are maybe using the word nationalism differently from what I meant. Except I go one step above and believe in taking this to a supra national level. You clearly see benefits in dissolving ethnic/racial identification in service of a larger group viz a nation, I just believe in taking it a step further. It has nothing to do with the number of governments one wants or wanting a world government. I don't feel a need to be governed by Germany or France while at the same time I feel no problem in my money and my support going to them and in feeling kinship with them over common principles.
by jantb | 2026-01-03 09:23:42+00:00
Happy new year,
I tested the app and I like it. It is super fast and easy to navigate in.

Some minor things I found was:

- Not able to close the app or move it on Osx, due to the hidden decorations

- Resize the windows makes it possible to get cells of zero size, while the text does not change size

- shortcuts are hardcoded ine view_events and in shortcuts

- the ignore next event logic with the hardcoded a A in the add_event

But all in all a nice little app, really loved it.
by Kavita1990 | 2026-01-03 09:25:21+00:00
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by ykonstant | 2026-01-03 09:25:39+00:00
>2. The psychological impact of the "open issue count" has real consequences despite being meaningless on its own. People will see a project with 1K+ issues and think "oh this is a buggy hell hole" when 950 of those issues are untriaged, unaccepted, 3rd party issues, etc.

Fully agree with this; as a beginner in the space I get nervous when I see a project having a thousand open issues since 2018.
by Diti | 2026-01-03 09:26:13+00:00
Ignoring your comment’s lack of constructive criticism, I’m going to post this meaningful implementation that an excellent cryptographer, Soatok Dreamseeker, is working on: [1].

You may also search for his posts in this HN thread, his nickname is “some_furry”.

[1]: https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specificat...
by gck1 | 2026-01-03 09:27:12+00:00
> Doesn’t IPv6 have random, anonymous addresses

Only for the device identifier part of the address. Prefix that the ISP will allocate will remain static, unless ISP does rotate the prefix too, which they don't really have a need to, unless for privacy reasons. And knowing ISPs and demand for privacy, it's highly unlikely to happen.

> Further, user fingerprinting flourishes without IP addresses.

It does, but is still hard to do. Static IP prefix is going to make the heuristics much, much better.

Besides, evading most of the fingerprinting techniques is not that complicated - most of it is in the hands of the client. IPv6 adds something out of the hands of the client.
by monerozcash | 2026-01-03 09:27:41+00:00
Maduro arrested https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1158304287678...

Considering the general incompetence of this administration, this level of success with such a surgical operation seems completely out of character.

Incredibly impressive operation, whether or not you agree with it. Although the ability to operate helos over Caracas with such impunity may very well suggest high-level collaborators in the local military.
by KingOfCoders | 2026-01-03 09:28:31+00:00
He asked why he can't use nukes in 2016. Trump is pro raw power, pro war, always was, always will be. "We didn't vote for this" - all Germans 1945. SPOILER ALERT: They did, it was all in "Mein Kampf".

I hate it when everyone says "Nazi Germany" instead of just "Germany".
by techterrier | 2026-01-03 09:28:39+00:00
oh for sure, such is the nature of speculating on these things as they are occuring.

As you say, this check has been in the mail for a while, so how are vulernable helicopters flying over caracas without any resistance? One dude with a MANPADS could take them down.

Decapitation is also the only aparent strategic goal of this operation, so it's hardly far fetched to suggest they going for 'one and done'.

Anyway, beers on me if I'm wrong :)
by globular-toast | 2026-01-03 09:29:46+00:00
One thing I've noticed is if people have spent a long time learning something they are incredibly reluctant to switch to something that no longer requires that knowledge. It's like driving an automatic car when you've already learnt to drive manual. I see this pattern everywhere and people are definitely reluctant to give up their hard-earned v4 knowledge.

Remembering IP addresses... How quaint!
by wrxd | 2026-01-03 09:29:49+00:00
This. In my tenure I’ve worked on projects that ended up being blocked by absolutely everything, then there is a reorg and when you need to do something technical debt keeps you at a leisurely pace.

If you want to do absolutely the least go to an office (RTO for the win!!!) but make sure your team is on the other side of the pond. You get some annoying early/late meetings and get the rest of the day to rest.

As long as you have something you to say at standup (it doesn’t matter if it’s meaningful) you’re golden
by TuringTest | 2026-01-03 09:30:41+00:00
> can't two errors cancel each other out and you still wind up at zero?

They can, but the probability of two opposite errors of exactly the same magnitude is much lower than of any individual random error.

It's the same as with any other error-correction encoding. You don't have a guarantee that all errors will be caught by it, but most of them can be, so it's overall useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_correction_code
by vintermann | 2026-01-03 09:30:44+00:00
No, they wouldn't. Not if they're the Democrats as we know them. They fight tooth and claw against the new normal, until it's the new normal, and then they fight tooth and claw to defend the new normal.
There's very little principled opposition to Trump in the corridors of power. There's plenty of opposition, but it's more about which horses have been bet on.
by contractorwolf | 2026-01-03 09:32:42+00:00
I made one for myself (and my son, both type 1 diabetics) and decided that I might roll it into a possible possible product:
https://carbcount.ai

Allows diabetics to easily get carb estimates for their meals by just snapping a picture. Free for now, would love some feedback.

I built the basic idea in like 2 days using Google Antigravity. It's all serverless on Google cloud run and uses Google for auth, doesn't store any data. MVP while I am working on the marketing and testing.

I used a similar concept I originally used to train my son (9yo) to be better at counting his carbs with a custom GPT. But that idea didn't work for others to use. Most people don't know what a 'custom GPT' is, so explaining it was difficult. Web-apps everyone gets, it has PWA support so you can save it as an 'app' on your phone.

I am a software engineer so it's already in my wheelhouse and it just costs me the tokens right now so it's cheap to run.

Would love feedback or questions if anyone wants to know more.
by throw101010 | 2026-01-03 09:33:20+00:00
Isn't this one more related to the "War on Drugs"? The people who came up with these wars against abstract ennemies knew exactly what they were doing, fighting against another country/government is very limiting, once the war is settled you need another reason to start a war. When you go to war with an idea/concept you can continue your forever wars and raise taxes for/increase investment in the War related industries as long as you need to prop up your economy and get reelected.

Trump got reelected with slogans like "no new war" and in less than a year he started at least one (arguably I'd say two with the 12 days wars as Israel knew ut couldn't win this one without American bombers) also makes me think none if this is a "mistake", just a long term plan to keep power.
by mustaphah | 2026-01-03 09:33:30+00:00
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by atoav | 2026-01-03 09:33:34+00:00
In my dayjob I often run the tech for events, nearly once a week. In my experience known recording/publication tend to make discussions worse and not better than closed room discussions — especially if the topic is controversial. I'd love it if that wasn't the case, but that is not what I observed.

That is because with published recordings it often becomes purely performative, where people aren't actually interested in honestly engaging with each others thoughts, but instead (ab)using the recording as a stage to make a public statement. It essentially becomes a thinly veiled PR battle with multiple actors trying to control the narrative and the ones that prepared well (so not the general audience) tend to dominate the discussion. In my experience that is the opposite of a good discourse.

In the latter case the audience is only the audience that is already present and they are part of the discussion, if everything goes well a feeling of "we need to resolve this issue" is established, with a collective feeling emerging in the room. There is no guarantee that this happens and that there is a result, but in my experience (with well over 400 events) the tendency speaks for the closed room, especially with touchy subjects.
by troad | 2026-01-03 09:34:05+00:00
> sold the country to the West for nothing

> Country was destroyed, markets were destroyed, industries were destroyed.

And yet somehow, mysteriously, the exact same shock therapy that Russia couldn't handle produced a thriving and prosperous Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc.

> for promises that we would be treated as equals that were never kept

Russia has an economy roughly the size of Benelux, and it is treated exactly as such. The problem is that the Russians have a perpetual and hilarious delusion that they're an equal to the United States. Russia can barely compete with individual US states, let alone the US itself. California alone has a larger economy than the entire Russian Federation. Texas alone has a larger economy than the entire Russian Federation.

In fact, Russia has a roughly comparable economy to Canada, which no one thinks is even remotely a power equal to the US.

Russia is treated fairly. The problem is that Russia has delusions of grandeur, so 'fairly' is not good enough. They feel slighted by being a 'mere' Canada. And instead of doing what the Chinese did, building up so their power matches their aspirations, they just awkwardly gnaw at their neighbours instead. And then they act all surprised when everyone correctly describes them as a bully and bands together for collective security.

(But of course none of Russia's behaviour is actually aimed at getting other countries to respect them, that's just a regime narrative intended to distract the Russian people from their falling living standards as Putin and his cronies rob Russia blind. The more internationally isolated Russia gets, the more indispensable Putin can pretend to be.)
by lylo | 2026-01-03 09:34:18+00:00
Great to see this here. I’ve been using EchoFeed (https://echofeed.app) to syndicate articles from my blog to social media (it uses RSS as the feed source). I also recently learned about POSSEparty (https://posseparty.com) which has more options but is self hosted.

RSS most certainly isn’t dead either. I run pagecord.com (indie blogging app) and the majority of traffic is from a huge variety of feed readers.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2026-01-03 09:35:12+00:00
„ The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow. There will be a News Conference today at 11 A.M., at Mar-a-Lago. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J.
TRUMP“
by energy123 | 2026-01-03 09:37:00+00:00
I could say the same thing about radical fascism in Germany and Japan, and yet.

Historically, fascism and authoritarianism communism have been temporary secular hysterias that come and go. Ukraine post-Maidan, for example, embraced democracy because they tried communism already and learned that it sucks.

Islamism seems more potent and durable and always rears its head in instability like in Bangladesh most recently, or the Arab Spring before. My explanation for this durability is that it is tied in with religion and is believed to be divinely ordained, rather than just a human made system that sucks.

This is unlike Christianity which is structurally secular by doctrine ('render unto Caesar').
by refurb | 2026-01-03 09:37:41+00:00
That’s not how drug approvals work. You don’t make assumptions about safety, you make decisions based on data.

The original trials were for a specific population - no prior HPV infection, young women. Hence the approval was for that population.

Additional trials have been run expanding the population, but the decision was based on data not “yeah, I’ll bet this is safe/works for this other group”
by zhi76uz | 2026-01-03 09:38:03+00:00
The New York Times has been manufacturing consent for some time:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/politics/venezuela-uni...

U.S. foreign policy is bipartisan. The big plan was to keep the Russians tied up in Ukraine, get Syria (achieved under Biden) and now get China and Russia out of Venezuela.

It could work with bribing officers like in Syria, in which case there will be minimal resistance and then probably the Nobel War Prize recipient Machado will be installed.

It is possible that all of this was discussed with Russia (you get things in your backyard, we in ours).