MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-01 14:51:55+00:00
Yeah I wish they would do that.

Another thing about the current sponsor fragments is that it obviously prompts a lot of people to install sponsorblock and that will kinda make them think: "why not go the whole way and just block ads altogether?". I do think more people would subscribe if sponsors would be blocked on premium.

Also this effect would be beneficial for both YT itself and the creators, they don't get paid anything for views from adblockers.

It would be great to see less sponsors too because there's too many youtubers selling their soul. Like LTT with their Honey app promotion, knowingly promoting malware. Or all the glossy reviewers that really are not all that impartial.
by FunnyUsername | 2026-01-01 14:53:11+00:00
As the sibling comment notes, these days 400a residential service is available as an option in many places.

One home actually consuming close to 400a is pretty rare, but it's possible if using things like electric tankless water heaters (which are admittedly niche), in addition to multiple EV chargers, a range, dryer, etc.

In any case 100kW just doesn't seem like a lot, when there are industrial sites all around us (such as datacenters) using many megawatts.
by dangus | 2026-01-01 14:53:53+00:00
Yes, wired very differently. I think that’s why I used the Star Trek analogy.

This motivation is like a strange curiosity to me. This pursuit of product is so foreign to me, and from the outside it doesn’t seem healthy. But I guess if the Klingon like going into glorious battles to the death better than chilling at home with their family, who am I to question their motivation?

I build stuff at work because it’s a financial obligation, because it’s better than cleaning bathrooms or waiting tables for a living. If I had some kind of better option for paying my bills with less labor involved I’d take it in a heartbeat.
by mk_stjames | 2026-01-01 14:54:03+00:00
I'd wager they will use what is known as a 'Float-on/float-off' ship for transport... it's rather common actually-

It's a ship with a very low deck line that partially submerges itself, with the center of the deck underwater deep enough so the other vessel can 'float on' over the deck. They they pump the water back out, raising the deck above water and the boat on top it just rests flat.

They do this for some oil rigs as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy-lift_ship#Semi-submersib...
by spectralista | 2026-01-01 14:54:07+00:00
It is actually the opposite. The less things you have, the less things you will want.

I even experience this with food. If I am on a strict diet for 2 weeks and then have a "cheat" meal, a previously normal meal feels like a satisfying feast.

If I splurge on food for 2 weeks, even 3/4th a pizza doesn't satisfy. I just want the other 1/4th.

It is really why we have so much wealth as a society but so much discontent. It is like believing there is some amount of alcohol that would satisfy the alcoholic. It just grows the desire for more while contentment is harder and harder to achieve.

I am pretty sure this is just a property of the dopaminergic system.
by epistasis | 2026-01-01 14:54:48+00:00
VW executives went to prison:

https://qz.com/dieselgate-sentences-handed-down-1851782440

I do not yet know if there's wrongdoing here, but even if it was screaming bad, all US government enforcement bodies have been gutted and made completely subservient to the will of the president rather than their legislatively mandated mission, under a novel "unitary executive" philosophy.

Further, that unitary executive is completely corrupt, and has already been laid off by Meta. Ukraine is a model of clean government with proper anti-corruption investigations and teeth compared to the US.
by We_the_Governed | 2026-01-01 14:55:02+00:00
With the current distrust in the US government and the lack of true representation I am trying to get a decentralized platform built for voters to poll, put forward non party affilliated candidates and develop metrics to improve the nation by competition between districts. All 435 of them. I dont have the know how to build this project I do have the passion to see it through. Im here asking for help. The github url is https://github.com/wethegoverned1776-lab/WetheGoverned If you can help contact me through there. Ive just started this so its going to be pretty empty but I have to start somewhere. Thank you for any and all help.
by antonvs | 2026-01-01 14:55:03+00:00
> In other words, are the silenced errors guaranteed to be memory leaks/use after frees?

No, not at all. The examples at the beginning of the article show this - they'll execute correctly. The borrow checker is quite conservative, and rules out all sorts of code that won't (normally!) cause runtime errors.

It's fairly easy to see this if you think about the core of Rust's ownership model: every value in Rust has a single owner. The compiler enforces that for any value, there's either one mutable reference or any number of immutable references to it at a time.

This model has the advantage of being simple, easy to reason about, and ruling out large classes of errors. But like most static checks, including e.g. traditional type checks, it also rules out a great deal of otherwise valid code.

It's easy to think of examples in which you have multiple mutable references to a value that won't cause errors. Aside from trivial examples like in the article, in C-like languages you can have many concurrent mutable references to the same mutable value. You can safely (with some caveats) manage access to it via locks, protocols, documentation, or just being careful. Rust with the borrow checker simply doesn't allow multiple concurrent mutable references to the same value to exist. Rust without the borrow checker, as in the article, would allow this.
by jstummbillig | 2026-01-01 14:55:07+00:00
A child is from the parents perspective a lot of repetitive motion over a very long time, and, I think, a main contributor to speeding up your relative passage of time.

Which you might find super rewarding! But I am fairly confused by the claim that children are interesting and wonder how people spent their pre-children time to arrive at that conclusion – or how much they actually are involved in all the parts of taking care of their kid.
by windexh8er | 2026-01-01 14:56:08+00:00
Wow.

You’re using ‘derived’ to imply ‘therefore equivalent.’ That’s a category error. A cookbook is derived from food culture. Does an LLM taste food? Can it think about how good that cookie tastes?

A flight simulator is derived from aerodynamics - yet it doesn’t fly.

Likewise, text that resembles reasoning isn’t the same thing as a system that has beliefs, intentions, or understanding. Humans do. LLMs don't.

Also... Ask an LLM what's the difference between a human brain and an LLM. If an LLM could "think" it wouldn't give you the answer it just did.
by mikepurvis | 2026-01-01 14:56:12+00:00
This stuff is valid, but a lot of it is more "be there in a crisis", which is not the day to day.

For me, the significant thing about having local community is the ability to throw stuff together last minute. Not every gathering has to have a spreadsheet of guests and canva invites and endless emails booking a band, a keg, whatever else.

A lot can and should just be "hey dudes, anything doing anything? Want to come over for a game/movie/whatever?" Those kinds of low-stakes hangouts are the real backbone of community, and they're hard to do if you don't have a friend group that's physically close by.
by maxandersen | 2026-01-01 14:56:35+00:00
java took a hit on this move by Java and Oracle...and the way they still provide a java executable that tells you to download from somewhere else is really annoying - but you do realize Apple removed python from Mac in 2024 and never distributed python3, right?

So will we see python stop being used?

No, because instead of sitting in corner and mope about it the ecosystem just kept working and filling in the gaps.

Java ecosystems done lot of that - but general public keep having the old changes stuck in their mind.

Lets change that :)
by bombcar | 2026-01-01 14:57:45+00:00
This is something more dangerous that people realize, especially those “working for retirement” - if you only live to work, and then retire, you may find you retire from living, too.

Seen it a few too many times. Live life today, people!

“ So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.”

“ And don't worry 'bout tomorrow, hey
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today”
by antasvara | 2026-01-01 14:58:12+00:00
I don't have a "problem" with AI being used in this fashion. That being said, this article (and others on the blog) sound quite generic. They're characterized by the staccato, "I wanted this. Then this. Also this" sentence structure and headings like "The Problem" and "What it Does" etc.

The thing about an editor is that if you're not careful, your voice is lost. That's fine if the publication you're writing for has a distinctive voice or you have a specific style in mind; this article [1] describes the "New Yorker" voice as an example:

>The New Yorker sort of voice—or rather, the New Yorker voice I was using—is one that sounds on top, or ahead, of the material under discussion. It is a voice of intelligent curiosity; it implies that the writer has synthesized a great deal of information; it confidently takes readers by the hand, introduces them to surprising characters, recounts dramatic scenes, and leads them through key ideas and issues. The voice narrates the material in the first-person and describes the researcher conducting the research, encountering people, reacting to situations, thinking thoughts. The voice is smart-sounding. It is an effective voice for a lot of long-form journalism...

The "default" LLM voice isn't one that I find particularly appealing. For lack of a better term, it has these "zingers" every third or fourth sentence that, if you were writing a spammy piece, would be bolded/italicized. It also reads like the LLM has no faith in the reader's intelligence, or that it's trying too hard to make you feel smart.

This article has that feel to it. I'm not saying it was written by an LLM; I trust that the author isn't lying about only using it for editing. But it has that same style and voice that spammy LinkedIn/Facebook posts have.

[1]: https://www.publicbooks.org/ditching-the-new-yorker-voice/
by MegaDeKay | 2026-01-01 14:59:00+00:00
Indeed. It is really just tension x time under tension within a sensible rep range (probably around 5 - 30 reps or so). Menno on Youtube has a bunch of videos on this, the link below being the latest one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmOBmTZARq8

Basically work the muscle harder and get more jacked. It isn't that hard. Full body workouts are also great for this reason: you can hit a muscle more times per week and be fresher when you hit that muscle, so both the tension and time under tension can be higher vs a body part split.
by snickerbockers | 2026-01-01 14:59:55+00:00
Their constant warmongering is why they constantly are being bombarded with rockets.

That you're primarily concerned with disruption to life and financial burden rather than casualties and infrastructure indicates that iron dome is already capable of preventing these rockets from being a serious threat.

The absolute asymmetry of every war they fight is proof enough that the only real solution is a commitment to negotiations and diplomacy. Palestine has under constant siege since long before I was born and they still haven't given up despite having the worst kdr of the last 80 years. They don't care about the laser dome, they will keep fighting.

Also I have doubts about this laser boondoggle, its far more susceptible to atmospheric disturbance and flack than a surface-to-air missile and it relies upon having access to a stable source of electricity during an air raid.
by DeusExMachina | 2026-01-01 15:00:24+00:00
> I understand that some companies depend on ads, but this is not my problem

It is their problem, though, and they have figured out that pop-ups work. It is not their problem, however, if you decide to never go to their website again. They likely do not want you to go anymore to their website if you are never going to contribute anything.
by sph | 2026-01-01 15:02:24+00:00
Funny, I've had the exact same thought, and doubts, as yours. I really dislike communities focused on a certain topic, as I really don't see myself as part of any one thing that defines me. If I were doing rock climbing, I still wouldn't enjoy talking about rock climbing the entire day with my rock climbing friends; my interests are much wider. Which is the reason I do not participate in any community on- and off-line.

I honestly wish social clubs were a thing, and you would get introduced to people from all walks of life. Perhaps this is the reason the Internet is so polarizing: people don't intermingle much, they live in their small niches and echo chambers, and have to put real effort and go out of their way to engage with someone that has a new perspective. Algorithms entrenching us deeper within the same niches are to blame.

I enjoy socialising (sparingly), but I'm not an extrovert and herding people is not my definition of fun, yet I keep feeling I should be the one to form whatever community I and people like me would enjoy participating in. What a conundrum. It's also much easier to make and advertise a club around a topic than an open one for "interesting" people without sounding like a posh cult for elitists.
by metadope | 2026-01-01 15:02:38+00:00
Too many words.

Be forewarned: this piece is purple prose that takes a long time to get to its point. Lots of adjectives and adverbs to climb over within the hills and valleys of each sentence.

I've been guilty of this crime myself, on a smaller scale. I seek to critique, not condemn.

Halfway through I found myself wondering if the composition was AI assisted. That thought may have been influenced by the context in which I discovered this essay (i.e. finding it here on HN), or it may have been the result of simple fatigue, but I had to push myself to finish.

I'd be interested in reading a less verbose version.

Usefully, the article includes a reference to https://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/
by samset7 | 2026-01-01 15:02:38+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback, grenran. You're right that domain ownership is the gold standard for digital sovereignty. We considered it, but realized it creates the exact complexity we're trying to eliminate: DNS management, registrar renewals, deliverability issues, etc. That said, your point about lock-in is valid. Here's our thinking: Portability matters. Your emails are yours. You can export everything via IMAP anytime, no artificial barriers. If you leave, you take your data. We're not gatekeeping your identity. We're providing infrastructure. Think of it like renting an apartment vs. buying a house, both are valid, and renting doesn't mean your landlord owns your furniture. For power users who want domain ownership, you're probably better served by Fastmail, Migadu, or self-hosting. We're not trying to replace those. We're targeting people who just want firstname@lastname.re without learning what an MX record is. The tradeoff is real: simplicity vs. full ownership. We chose to optimize for the 95% who want email to "just work." But we hear you, and we're exploring options like letting users transfer their address to their own domain if they ever want to graduate to full control. Would that kind of "graduation path" address your concern?
by 666lumberjack | 2026-01-01 15:02:50+00:00
The median legendary pokemon in any given generation is typically quite mediocre in terms of viability/power, so I'm not sure it's quite correct to say that most tiers are free of legendaries. Even in ZU, the lowest possible tier, you have Pokemon like Mesprit, Regirock and Articuno kicking around in spite of their relatively high stats.

It is completely true to say that the so-called 'box legendaries' specifically - with base stat totals in the 670-700 range - tend to be excellent Pokemon and with rare exceptions are banned from 'standard' formats for being overcentralizing.
by dangus | 2026-01-01 15:03:19+00:00
You bring up apps like Skype doing similar work in 2005, but Skype was barely out of its 2003 public alpha by then. Version 2.0 beta came out in 2005 and was the first version to support video, and only supported video calling between two people.

And you bring up things that are supposedly bad about Slack that are basically non-existent boogeymen. UI stutter, load time, and excessive memory use, I can’t think of any time any of these things have existed at all or noticeably impacted my experience on Slack on a basic low end laptop.

Those older apps like MSN Messenger and the original Skype didn’t actually do the things that Slack does now. I mean specifically multiple simultaneous screen shares plus annotations plus HD video feeds (with important features like blurred and replaced backgrounds, added by Skype in 2019) for all participants plus running an entire productivity app in the background at the same time.

Skype didn’t have screen sharing, at all, until 2009.

https://content.dsp.co.uk/history-of-skype

You call this situation “unjustifiable” but we would struggle to find any personal computing device sold at any price point that can’t handle the application smoothly. If I go back five years and buy a $200 mini PC or a $300 iPad or $500 laptop it’s going to run Slack just fine.

Specs are just arbitrary numbers on a box. It doesn’t matter that we got to the moon using a turd and a ham sandwich for a computer.

You can’t accept that the layperson doesn’t care that back in my day we walked uphill both ways for 15 miles on our dial-up connection. If it works, it works.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-01 15:03:42+00:00
> Apple is very late to the foldable phones now, not sure that's the best example

“PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” — Palm CEO Ed Colligan, 2006, https://www.engadget.com/2006-11-21-palms-ed-colligan-laughs...

“A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.” — Gandalf the Gray

:)
by pornel | 2026-01-01 15:04:06+00:00
The compiler has deep assumptions about exclusive ownership and moves, which affects destructors and deallocation of objects.

It doesn't actually depend on the borrow checker. All lifetime labels are discarded after being checked. Code generation has no idea about borrow checking. Once the code is checked, it is compiled just like C or C++ would, just assuming the code is valid and doesn't use dangling pointers.

Borrow checker doesn't affect program behavior. It either stops compilation or does nothing at all. It's like an external static analysis tool.
by Lerc | 2026-01-01 15:05:52+00:00
I am not referring to any particular argument here, I mentioned it to place in context one of my motivations to challenging ideas is to seek the truth, not to prove my point of view correct.

It was bought up here because it seemed like the post I was replying to was contesting the reasons for making a point rather than the point it was making.

>Folks who cause harm should be punished not excused.

In this instance I think the issue is not think that was suggested otherwise. The issue was more of Are the claims true, Does it have the impact stated, and who caused them.

Personally I do not want those who cause harm to be punished. I want them to not cause harm. Seeking vengeance on harm already done is unlikely to lead to an understanding of why their actions were harmful. It motivates them to not get caught in future, I would much rather they not want to harm.
by aeonik | 2026-01-01 15:06:58+00:00
Yea I get that.

But the context of the conversation is white collar crime, corruption, or unfair practices, and paying significantly above market rate.

Costco is a very egalitarian organization. They pay is flatter across the entire hierarchy. Lower rank people are paid more, higher ranked people are paid less. They are a super ethical organization, I'm a big fan (though they could do better at incentivizing innovation).

It's just not the same pattern as paying gigantic amounts of money to hoard up "CS grads" or lawyers.
by simpaticoder | 2026-01-01 15:08:27+00:00
I agree the loss of the 3.5mm jack is a short-sighted and poor decision. There is at least one mitigation, which is the ability to recover the jack through a USB-C DAC. Apple sells them for USD10. I have several, in the car and in my backpack.

It's not a good solution though. In particular I find the USB-C port gets worn out pretty quickly. Its also easy to lose the dongle and of course it's more complicated to setup. (I'm not sure how to articulate the "it's more complicated" part. I think adding the dongle pulls the action of "plug in headphones" from something you can do without attention to something that requires attention, and I don't think that.)
by moogly | 2026-01-01 15:08:43+00:00
I've always considered these collections (the entire namespace) to be unfortunately misnamed.

I've had to explain a lot of times, especially to polyglot co-workers that might not have used C# for ages, that they should not be the default choice and very seldom used, if not most likely never unless you have some really special use-cases, like massive thread-safe updates of ASTs etc. like they were designed for when Roslyn was developed.

Apart from `ImmutableArray<T>` (which probably shouldn't live with the other ones), they are _meant_ to be updated.

Perhaps they should've been named Copy-on-Write Collections or something like that instead, even though that's a leaky name.
by max_lt | 2026-01-01 15:09:06+00:00
I've been working on this for some time now, starting with vm2, then deno-core for 2 years, and recently rewrote it on rusty_v8 with Claude's help.

OpenWorkers lets you run untrusted JS in V8 isolates on your own infrastructure. Same DX as Cloudflare Workers, no vendor lock-in.

What works today: fetch, KV, Postgres bindings, S3/R2, cron scheduling, crypto.subtle.

Self-hosting is a single docker-compose file + Postgres.

Would love feedback on the architecture and what feature you'd want next.
by nathanlied | 2026-01-01 15:09:20+00:00
When Iran directly, materially, and openly, supports groups or organizations that have as an overt stated goal to destroy Israel, and actively work towards it (both with indiscriminate attacks against civilians, and building infrastructure for future invasions/attacks), I don't think the war is necessarily 'unprovoked'.

We may say that it was unproductive, badly conducted, or a lot of other things, but saying it was unprovoked is like saying that Ukraine has no reasons to attack Iran and/or Belarus. They do have those reasons, because both of those countries directly and materially support their attackers. It just might not be productive to do so (and indeed, Ukraine seems to believe it isn't).
by rainsford | 2026-01-01 15:09:25+00:00
I'm even struggling to come up with counter examples where a major established company is able to successfully pivot when the business model that brought them success is no long as viable as it once was. Maybe IBM counts in that they still exist, although I'd argue they aren't nearly the omnipresent force they were back in the day. You could also count widely diversified companies, but I probably wouldn't because they never really have to try to pivot the entire business.

As you said, finding a balance is hard and maybe not truly possible.