MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aryonoco | 2026-01-01 00:20:08+00:00
I’m always on the hunt for single language cross platform solutions, and I thought I knew every player in the field but had not heard of Elements before. So I followed your link enthusiastically. But these are just some of the excerpts from the website:

Java
Build code for any of the billions of devices, PCs and servers that run JavaSE, JavaEE or the OpenJVM.

.NET Core

The cross-platform .NET Core runtime is the future of .NET and will fully replace the current classic .NET 4.x framework when .NET Core 5 ships in late 2020.

It really seems like it was last updated sometime in the last decade. Not sure I want to base a future project on it.
by Fnoord | 2026-01-01 00:20:34+00:00
Why not? Have you tried? I have, must've been almost 30 years ago now, at Wageningen University. They taste quite well, if well prepared (they were). Insect burgers are also nice. I liked Damhert's insect burger [1]. People just think too much it looks like [2]

[1] https://www.jumbo.com/producten/damhert-nutrition-insecta-gr...

[2] https://www.theburningplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/0...
by newyankee | 2026-01-01 00:20:47+00:00
Which is something that when I try to explain to some 'environmentalists' do not get the point.

The other benefits of a biodiverse green belt are great, but if tomorrow I have a concrete system that captures CO2 at 10x the level of trees over lifetime in a similar density, guess what I would like my futuristic city to look like.
by CPLX | 2026-01-01 00:20:52+00:00
Buffet is not a good guy. Our society’s greatest problem right now is concentrated corporate power being used to destroy the ability of working people to prosper.

Buffet had an active and direct role in making this happen. He supported and advocated for monopoly, and profited from it.

He lived a lavish life that included opulent mansions and private jets, and used his resources to deftly drive a media narrative of himself as a regular guy, with apparent success as your post demonstrates.
by rkomorn | 2026-01-01 00:21:21+00:00
> I think the first successful autopilot landing with passengers onboard happened last week.

What definition are you using for "autopilot landing" here? Autopilots have been able to land planes for quite some time.

Conversely, autopilots still can't handle takeoff (though the more modern airliners have significantly more takeoff automation than before).
by algoghostf | 2026-01-01 00:21:59+00:00
I think self publishing and publishing via an editor serve 2 different purposes.
In my case, I always self published. My objective was simply to get my writing out there and have it as a "business card" with all the freedom. Publishing with editors is a different can of worms : more constraints, more process.. and to me removes part of the pleasure and the "amateur" aspect of it and a LOT of freedom. But is surely more professional though.
by lr4444lr | 2026-01-01 00:22:48+00:00
I respect Buffett greatly on a professional level, and think it's the height of arrogance to believe any one of us personally has the moral right to decide which level of lawful activity becomes turpitudinous greed.

THAT SAID...

My uncle (he's 98) had a passing acquaintance with Buffett during their overlap at Penn, and in the one econ class they shared, he remarked having heard Buffett say in almost salivating eagerness as he rubbed his hands that if only there could be another Great Depression, he would make a killing. The dude has value investing in his DNA beyond anything else, I truly believe. But he's argued for changing complex and unfair taxation, and always been a good citizen as far as I can tell. I think if all of Wall Street were like him, the world would be a much better place.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2026-01-01 00:23:04+00:00
If it's Italian, it's pasta.

If they have 3 names or a middle initial and sound old, they're a politician.

If they have a suspiciously common name, they're a comedy actor.

If they have two names and they're old, they're a writer. If they're young, they're a cartoonist.
Show HN: Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address)
by kkovacs | 2026-01-01 00:23:28+00:00
I built a simple, ephemeral chat service that connects you only with users who share the exact same public IP address as you.

It's essentially a temporary, isolated chat room defined by your NAT gateway.

It's not super useful nowadays, but let's see where this takes us. :)
by andy99 | 2026-01-01 00:24:37+00:00
I agree with this - I have often seen people get upset because someone used a project that was explicitly licensed to allow them to do whatever they wanted with it, with no obligation, in a way that they don’t like, or without doing something that’s apparently expected of them. This happened e.g. with whatever Amazon services wrapped open source projects.

The only way anyone knows your intent as a developer is in the restrictions and terms you release under. There are open source contributors that really want nothing. It makes no sense to say you want nothing and then get upset when you don’t get something.

If someone doesn’t like Apache 2.0, MIT, or BSD, there are lots of other options they can release the source under, or they can start a proprietary software business.

The donation here is great obviously, “paying it forward” is great, but so is using software under the terms its writer told you you could.
by nntwozz | 2026-01-01 00:24:58+00:00
Well, impossible to prove of course but it reminds me of Ingvar Kamprad (the man behind IKEA) who used to drive an old Volvo when in Sweden to appear as a "man of the people".

In fact he had his main residence in Switzerland and was filthy rich which is a bit of a hard swallow especially in Sweden, a country still very much affected by the "Law of Jante".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

A reporter that was doing a documentary about his wealth asked him once directly when stepping out of his old Volvo and Kamprad kinda lost it; it was a big kerfuffle at the time on the telly.

For those paying attention it was really revealing about the true nature of the man (let me add he was a young Nazi back in the day).

Most people came to his defense like the red-blooded capitalist gentleman commenting above about Buffet being a 100% American.

The older generation still swallow the farce hook, line and sinker. For the rest of us it's pretty clear it was a well thought-out facade to placate the plebeians to sell more cheap furniture.
by mr_00ff00 | 2026-01-01 00:24:59+00:00
Not doubting you, but any specific examples of him supporting monopoly?

Or are you saying the general environment of high finance supports this?

No doubt he had more money than he needed but if this is referring to his preference for coka-cola and apple stock / any stocks with the ability to set their own prices because of market dominance, I feel like that’s not a totally fair criticism.
by eukara | 2026-01-01 00:25:30+00:00
There is work underway to replace those bad ones!
When the IA is back up, you can find some uploaded here: https://archive.org/details/@davidga

There's been several people in the archive community identifying and pointing them out, digging through large tape collections as well of syndications of it. David however got to go through the original masters recently

If only TechTV had such an archive
by cebert | 2026-01-01 00:25:55+00:00
I’m a big fan of the idea of an Office of the CTO group reporting directly to the CTO that helps with prototyping greenfield projects and exploring innovative ideas. I believe a group like this would be beneficial for larger organizations, like the one I work in. There are numerous opportunities for market disruption, but it becomes increasingly challenging to make bold bets as the company expands. If I had the power to do so, I’d set this up at my company asap.
by cpgxiii | 2026-01-01 00:26:32+00:00
> It just creates entrenched players and monopolies in domains where it should be near trivial to move (browsers are definitely trivial to jump ship)

I think this is understating the cost of jumping. Basically zero users care about the "technological" elements of their browser (e.g. the render engine, JS engine, video codecs) so long as it offers feature equivalence, but they do care a lot about comparatively "minor" UX elements (e.g. password manager, profile sync, cross-platform consistency, etc) which probably actually dominate their user interaction with the browser itself and thus understandably prove remarkably sticky ("minor" here is in terms of implementation complexity versus the rest of a browser).
by scotty79 | 2026-01-01 00:26:47+00:00
> That sure does trivialize him. If that was your goal, you nailed it.

Pretty much. I'm always interested what's left once I reject te ususal narratives that people keep repeating to each other. I find this kind of excercise insightful and satisfying.

While in every working thing there's myriad of significant details, the main engine of operation is usually just one usually quite straightforward thing. I like making attempts at recognizing those main things. I'm sometimes wrong but even when I am I find satisfaction that I tried instead just repeating some selection of what other people said.
by notatoad | 2026-01-01 00:28:56+00:00
i don't think mountain rescue is asking for a better vehicle. traditional helicopters work.

flying taxi startups, drone companies, jetpack companies, and all the other fantastical flying startyps keep trying to say they have applications in mountain rescue, but i'm pretty sure that's providing a lot more benefit to the flying taxi startup's pitch deck than it is to any mountain rescue operation.
by lrvick | 2026-01-01 00:29:29+00:00
Yet most distros have maintainers build and sign their own package recipes and/or artifacts on their own random home workstations infected with who knows what so the trust is distributed (but not decentralized) which is the worst of all worlds. And that is for the ones that bother with maintainer signing at all, as distros like nix and alpine fully skip caring about bare minimum supply chain security.

Some distros do build on a centralized machine, but almost always one many maintainers have access to from their workstations, so once again any single compromised home computer backdoors everything.

The trust model of the linux distros that power most servers on the internet is totally yolo, without the funding to even approach doing build and release right, let alone code review. One compromised maintainer workstation burns it all to the ground.

Sorry if this ruins anyones rosy worldview. The internet is fragile as hell, and one bored teen away from another slammer-worm style meltdown.

Relevant context: I founded stagex exactly because no previous Linux distribution has a decentralized trust story appropriate for production use hosting public internet services.

Once you decentralize supply chain trust then the question of "which place and people people do we trust for the one holy server" totally goes away.
by nateb2022 | 2026-01-01 00:31:01+00:00
> But they...don't. Look at the CPU to GPU ratio in any business vs an "AI business".

First off, the language of the article implies that the _hardware itself_, regardless of CPU/GPU ratio (which isn't mentioned at all), _is inherently incapable of anything but serving AI._ Its very assumption is a false dichotomy between "AI hardware" and "general purpose technology", an assumption that the hardware that runs "AI" can't serve YouTube videos, store cloud backups, or serve "narrow AI," whatever the author's definition of that is.

Second, it's incorrect to claim "nobody had GPUs in servers." Virtual desktop infrastructure, HPC (pharma sim, fintech modeling, oil and gas), media streaming and transcoding, VFX/Hollywood, all use similar CPU/GPU ratios.

Moreover, the specialized HBM + ASIC infrastructure many companies are now turning to, is driving a ton of research and innovation in the space. These technologies aren't new, and continue to be widely used in many other applications other than "AI," which the author would believe is the sole utility of these "AI investments."
by narrator | 2026-01-01 00:31:27+00:00
Hey, with all the de-industrializing Europe has been doing, everything is now made in China and the only decision western civilization has to make is how do we equally distribute those goods. I mean why do absolutely anything if they just do it China? You can just demand your share of the goods as a human right. They can't shut you down, you're the heroic consumer after all without which the economy wouldn't exist. /s
by lrvick | 2026-01-01 00:31:32+00:00
Once supply chain attacks enter your threat model, you suddenly realize that the entire internet breaks if any one of a few hundred volunteer owned home computers are compromised.

Fixing this requires universal reproducible builds redundantly built and signed by independently controlled hardware. Once you have that then you no longer have single points of failure so centralized high security colo cost becomes a moot issue.
by astrange | 2026-01-01 00:31:40+00:00
Claude is a better explainer, but yes they're all capable of teaching you to write a raytracer.

It has nothing to do with "raytracers are well-represented in the training set" though. I find it so strange when people get overly specific in an attempt to sound savvy. You should be able to easily think of like five other ways it could work.
by actuallyalys | 2026-01-01 00:32:32+00:00
While the article is correct about the basic fact about an AI bubble driving up memory costs, which in turn makes it harder to purchase laptops and other consumer technology, there's a lot of dubious economics shoehorned in. I'm not sure why this article is here when so many other articles have been written about the memory shortage. (That being said, I don't think it's flag-worthy, just mediocre.)
by andy99 | 2026-01-01 00:33:06+00:00
That’s certainly not a legal principle of any kind. It’s like the 17 pieces of flair thing, if they want you to have more, they should tell you, we don’t need some weird unspoken guidelines related to licenses, it’s why we have the license.

If I get tremendous value out of MS office 365 but my agreement with MS charges me only $15/month, should I donate some extra to them because of how much it helps my business?
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-01 00:33:25+00:00
It has ZERO to do with the amount of money given.

Look up Republicans policy to 'starve the beast'. Republican's policy is to run up the government debt so high it can't function. They don't care about money/costs, they just do not want ANY government oversight. They EXPLICITLY demonstrate this with their 'starve the beast' policy. It's not about money/cost, it's about undercutting oversite.

Regulators are ineffective because half of the political environment, Republicans, do everything they can do to make them ineffective.
by tacostakohashi | 2026-01-01 00:33:30+00:00
This is true for so many things - even driverless taxis, drone deliveries, even office jobs / AI.

The narrative is that human labor is expensive super expensive, there are "skills shortages", etc etc... but in actuality, hiring a few people rounds down to 0 in the context of an airliner or an office building in Manhattan, and you get a lot of political sway for employing folks and paying payroll taxes, and the "doorman fallacy" is very real. The "robots taking our jobs" narrative seems hugely exaggerated to me.
by riazrizvi | 2026-01-01 00:34:06+00:00
Yes I exactly did that! Moved into an SRO on the edge of Chinatown. It's a nice tiny apartment, I'm on the edge of a mecca of affordable grocery stores, and I'm two blocks from my part-time job that gives me free-time to self-fund my software hustle. But there are other options. What's wrong with living with good people in a room share?
by mothballed | 2026-01-01 00:34:50+00:00
And if you do have kids, the most profitable thing for your wife to do upon learning you won't be working any longer would be to divorce you, take 50%, impute your income for child support calculation at what you were earning before (so every 5 years you owe your full pre-tax salary). That way their quality of life won't be impacted nearly as much.

So likely at least 8x your pre-tax salary (like 11 or 12x post tax) is gone right off the bat as soon as you retire. So if you are retiring before age 40 basically all of your wealth will vaporize as soon as the mother of your children realizes they can basically take the entire wealth through a mixture of divorce, child support, and alimony and they must act fast before the imputed income calculation drops.
by verteu | 2026-01-01 00:34:52+00:00
Interesting that his performance was essentially identical to the S&P over the past 30 years (Sortino 0.72 vs 0.69): https://testfol.io/?s=jJ4P0GrZxLi

I wonder how much is due to the market becoming more efficient, vs Berkshire's size / market impact?
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-01 00:35:59+00:00
Only tangentially releated but I thought the EU required that you can delete selective data. Example: Being able to delete a single email vs having to delete all emails.

And yet, Gemini does not seem to let me delete queries. This is unusual for Google who provides ways to delete pretty much all data on selective basis. Maybe I just can't find the option. Or maybe this option only exists if I'm in the EU
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-01 00:35:59+00:00
Can we replicate the process of reaching muscle fatigue/failure to spur muscle growth without the strength training or anabolic steroids? Think GLP-1RAs but for this specific biological pathway.

https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/lilly-terminate-obesity-t...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...
by nkrisc | 2026-01-01 00:36:21+00:00
I dunno where the OP lives but in my part of the US I only get carded at the one store that cards literally everyone as a matter of policy, regardless of how obviously old they are.

Other than that, I’m under 40 and I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve been carded in the last 10 years on one hand. The fact my beard is mostly grey and I inherited male pattern baldness probably helps. Never had my driver’s license scanned, ever, for alcohol.

My wife on the other hand, who looks much younger than her age, gets carded all the time.
by canadiantim | 2026-01-01 00:36:30+00:00
Very interesting, especially in light of the Chinese study’s claiming to have success with a large subset of Alzheimer’s by adding a shunt to the cervical lymphatic nodes, which seems to be exactly what they’re doing here too.

For those who don’t want to wait and have someone they love who can benefit from this, simply massaging the lymph nodes in the neck 10 minutes a day also significantly increases flow through these lymph nodes and thereby increases drainage of lymph from the brain.
by lp0_on_fire | 2026-01-01 00:36:31+00:00
It doesn’t matter how much lipstick they put on the pig. The foundation is rotten and the everything that comes out of it needs to be treated as suspect.

Clearly in this case the “controls” they have do not work and frankly your comment is a perfect example of how these companies operate - move fast, break things, and accuse anyone trying to reign it in as unknowledgeable or without nuance.

Forgive me, but we’ve seen this play out before time and time again throughout history.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-01 00:37:06+00:00
Serious question: how important is `pip search` to your workflows? I don’t think I ever used it, back when PyPI still had an XMLRPC search endpoint.

(I think the biggest blocker on CLI search isn’t infrastructure, but that there’s no clear agreement on the value of CLI search without a clear scope of what that search would do. Just listing matches over the package names would be less useful than structured metadata search for example, but the latter makes a lot of assumptions about the availability of structured metadata!)
by kccqzy | 2026-01-01 00:38:14+00:00
> That sounds eerily similar to the "OOP is for large teams" defence

False. They are only similar to you. Haskell is a pure functional programming language and it is very much noun-based. Type classes like functors and monads are nouns that describe the structure of many types. Modern Haskell best practices involve way more types than other languages. Very few people operate on JSON for example, instead almost everyone will parse that JSON into a domain-specific type. The “parse don’t validate” idea is based on the idea that data that has been checked and data that has not been checked should have different types.

Rust also is decidedly not OOP: it does not even have inheritance. Yet it also has way more types than usual. Most languages would be satisfied with something like a Hashable interface, but Rust further decouples the calculation of hash values into traversing a type's fields and updating the internal state of the hash function. This results in both Hash and Hasher types. This is a wonderful design decision that helps programmers despite an increase in the number of nouns.

> a combinatoric explosion of types and their interactions

Absolutely not my experience at all. There is nothing combinatoric here. Most types do not interact with many other types. The structure is more like a tree than a complete graph.
by enjeyw | 2026-01-01 00:39:15+00:00
I used to share a somewhat similar sentiment.

I know one anecdote is not data, but his investment in BYD all the way back in 2008 does counter that viewpoint somewhat - his investment success in the BYD case isn’t from other investors following him in, it’s from him identifying BYD as a successful company far before any other major investors did.
by browningstreet | 2026-01-01 00:39:16+00:00
We have a pretty good idea of what products Apple is likely to release next year.

We no longer have an actual product roadmap of revenue viable product releases from Elon and Tesla. It’s just irrational market exuberance but all the products are being abandoned.

That isn’t really sustainable.

I drive a Y. I’ve said before that Elon was peak Elon when they released the 3/Y and he sent the Roadster into space. Everything since has been a grift of diminishing returns, in terms of reality and actual hardline income.

Grok and xAi are a thing but they mostly cost money right now. I kinda wonder if he isn’t irrationally energetic enough to get something interesting out of Macrohard but he can no longer iterate product releases to save his life.

My other long bet is that Google will win a big chunk of AI (because TPUs and frontier and other income and enterprise sales) and Elon will mostly succeed in outspending OpenAI and plundering their chances (save the magical odds of their Jony Ive bet delivering some kind of post-moat income autonomy). xAI and OpenAI will sink into the deep together.
by vlod | 2026-01-01 00:39:44+00:00
I agree with this, but for those newbies be careful at what you define as "failure".

I've f.up my MCL by not listening to my body and I have the stability of a typical 85 year old while I try and 'heal'. It takes longer as you get older (you're probably not 20 year old) and stupid stuff can really take you out.
by t0mas88 | 2026-01-01 00:40:05+00:00
Windows 10/11 UX is very slow in general. Combined with Intel mobile CPUs of the last few years running much hotter compared to Apple M models makes for terrible laptops. Lots of fan noise with a sluggish UI doesn't feel anywhere near a Macbook Air, even an M1. While full power raw CPU performance may actually be very close and the Intel based laptops typically cheaper.
by mrob | 2026-01-01 00:40:23+00:00
Depending on what you mean by "fail" and "stretching", that sounds a lot like eccentric training [0] (a.k.a. "negatives"). It's effective but notorious for causing delayed onset muscle soreness.

I trained myself to do pull-ups using this method, repeatedly lowering myself in a controlled motion from the top position while I was too weak to actually pull myself up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccentric_training