MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nifty3929 | 2026-01-14 15:45:03+00:00
The guns haven't been taken away only because people do care so much about the 2nd amendment. Those people understand that the 2nd amendment is the only ultimate defense for the people against the government.

I too wish people also cared as much about the 1st amendment, but sadly I think the tide is turning on that. Too many on both the right and left seem okay with censorship and harassment.
by ta-asdo989 | 2026-01-14 15:45:07+00:00
I had a job in twenty-nine
When everything was going fine
I knew the pace was pretty fast
But thought that it would always last

When organizers came to town
I'd always sneer and turn them down
I thought the boss was my best friend
He'd stick by me to the end

Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!
Ain't got a word to say
He chiseled down my pay
Then took my job away
"Boom" went the boom one day
It made a noise that way
I wish I had been wise
Next time I'll organize
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-14 15:45:33+00:00
Indeed, don't blame the individual (all thought the individual has plenty of individual blame going their way, rightfully so), blame the system.

Unless the system changes, it'll continue to let people misuse it to their own gain. Trump was hardly the first one, and depending on how things will go, he might be the last, but "last" in a good way or in a bad way remains to be seen.
by thunderfork | 2026-01-14 15:45:44+00:00
What you're demonstrating is that "left" and "right" are not useful terms for this sort of conversation. If you mean Dems, say Dems. If you mean "they don't agree with me on xyz", say that.

Saying "they're biased towards the left" is bereft of actual meaning, with such a wide range of interpretation that it's not useful for discussion.
by naravara | 2026-01-14 15:45:49+00:00
I hope Washington Post does a better job of training their reporters than my friend’s former employer did.

They sent her off to a certain country with highly repressive speech laws and secret police to interview and survey various civil rights activist groups. They gave her little to no guidance about how to protect herself aside from “Use a VPN to send any documents to us.” They didn’t even instruct her to use an encrypted email provider or to use a VPN for any online work that didn’t get sent to the employer.

It’s very fortunate she knew me and I could at least give her some basic guidance to use an encrypted email service, avoid doing any work on anything sensitive that syncs to a cloud server, make sure she has FileVault enabled, get her using a password manager, verify that her VPN provider is trustworthy, etc.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-14 15:46:01+00:00
My employer also bought Copilot for all the employees. Now, we regularly get emails from management showing the usage rates at the individual level (names along with the number of time the person used Copilot), begging us to please use Copilot more.

Less than 1% of the workforce has used Copilot more than once or twice.
by vanderZwan | 2026-01-14 15:46:02+00:00
I can't speak for this conference, but fake conference scams do exist.

I have a friend who fell for one. He won the Dutch "Student of the Year" award in... I think 2006. When our then-minister of education proposed to make maths more popular in high school by dumbing down the curriculum, he organized a giant STEM activity day on a nation-wide scale to popularize it. We were both physics student at the time.

Anyway, as part of the award he was allowed to pick a conference to go to. He chose one in Spain. When he arrived it turned out he had fallen for an internet scam: the conference only existed as a scam website and the money had disappeared. He still had a nice weekend with his best buddy (now husband) though, and at least it didn't cost him anything.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-14 15:46:11+00:00
I think this is a strong case of a story having her side, his side, and the truth.

I think the reasonable position to take is that she was not intending to run him over, but he believed (reasonably) that she was, and so shot.

In this case, it'd be wrong to accuse Ross of murder, but it'd also be wrong to label Good as a domestic terrorist as Trump and his administration have been doing.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-14 15:46:32+00:00
>Where will all those students rotate for their clinical years? There aren’t enough hospital slots.

This is a policy fiction. Residency slots are capped by federal law, not by hospital capacity. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 froze Medicare-funded residency positions, and despite modest expansions decades later, the cap remains largely intact. Teaching hospitals routinely report excess clinical volume relative to trainee supply. The bottleneck is artificial and regulatory, not logistical.

>Stop taking aim at people who sacrifice so much to help you. The real cost driver is administrative bloat.

This framing collapses under scrutiny. Administrative bloat is real and well-documented, but pretending physician incentives are irrelevant requires willful blindness. Numerous studies show that U.S. physicians earn multiples of their OECD peers while delivering no commensurate advantage in outcomes. Many doctors are motivated by altruism, but many are also motivated by status, income, and professional gatekeeping—normal human incentives in a high-prestige, high-pay profession.

Further, high patient throughput is not an accident. Fee-for-service reimbursement structurally rewards volume over care quality. Seeing 20–30 patients a day is not a moral failure of individual doctors, but it does predictably lead to burnout, emotional detachment, and assembly-line medicine. Incentives shape behavior. Ignoring that is not compassion, it’s denial.

>Physician reimbursement is only ~9% of national healthcare spending.

That statistic is repeatedly used as a rhetorical shield, and it shouldn’t be. Cost systems do not fail because of a single oversized line item; they fail because multiple protected constituencies simultaneously extract rents while deflecting blame. Administrative overhead, defensive medicine, pharmaceutical pricing, hospital consolidation, reimbursement incentives, and physician compensation are jointly optimized for revenue, not outcomes.

Nine percent of a multi-trillion-dollar system is not trivial. More importantly, physician compensation is not isolated—it drives downstream costs through referral patterns, test ordering, procedure rates, and resistance to scope-of-practice reform. Treating physicians as a sacred class exempt from economic critique is precisely how you end up with a system that is unaffordable, unaccountable, and structurally resistant to reform.

If the argument is “9% is too small to question,” then by that logic no component is ever large enough to examine in isolation, which is how dysfunctional systems persist indefinitely. Real reform requires abandoning moralized narratives and admitting the obvious: healthcare costs are the product of aligned incentives across many actors, and physicians are not magically outside that system simply because the story is uncomfortable.
by actionfromafar | 2026-01-14 15:46:56+00:00
If the would-be invaders were "normal", they'd not go near populated areas. They'd just set up base wherever they wanted to extract resources or whatever.

But the US already had excellent relations with Denmark and could probably have gotten mining rights or whatever they wanted without this weird display of power.

The huge downside to that would be it would quickly demonstrate how incredibly expensive, slow and uncertain such mining operations would be.

I must conclude the annexation of Greenland is mostly a play for the US domestic audience. Very similar to Russia - Ukraine. Maybe a way to put pressure on Canada too.
by jkarneges | 2026-01-14 15:47:36+00:00
> Some people have reported that, thanks to Rust’s checks, they are more willing to write code that’s a bit more dangerous than in the equivalent C (or C++)

I rewrote a C project in Rust some years ago, and in the Rust version I included many optimizations that I probably wouldn't have in C code, thanks to the ability to do them "fearlessly". The end result was so much more performant I had to double check I didn't leave something out!
by tstrimple | 2026-01-14 15:47:36+00:00
Most developer jobs are like working at Ikea, but most developers on HN pretend they are fine furniture craftsman and that's really what everyone needs or the whole world will fall apart. It turns out, the vast majority of the population is quite happy with a LACK side table and their carefully crafted dovetail joinery adds nothing but expense to the average use case.
by mothballed | 2026-01-14 15:47:46+00:00
Who said anything about actually invading? I'm talking about the threat of invading to make it cost Denmark even more than it currently does to hold. The US doesn't need to invade, only create a bluff to make it more painful to hold it.

And no, 99% of countries on the planet do not get 10-15k of outside subsidies per resident.

Also I think you are ignoring nuance on the importance of alliance; the population density and population is incredibly low and they are situated quite close to the US. The US has disproportionately strong-armed virtually every nation around it of similar size/strength; that's why central America and the Caribbean are chalk full of stories of US meddling. It's not similar to places like Brazil where an invasion of a world power would still cost an adversary a lot more than they bargain for in ground losses even without alliance even if the adversary would doubtlessly win a clear victory. They are far weaker at the negotiation table than, say, Germany, when in comes to foreign influence.
by kmkemp | 2026-01-14 15:47:53+00:00
It's all a policy choice, though. The USA could, for example, increase property taxes on non-primary homes and offset investor losses by adding an incentive to sell non-primary residences for some length of time (say, 2 years). The problem isn't that the solution is a mystery. It's that we barely live in a democracy and the people that own multiple homes have more power than the young-ish (median first time home buyer is up to 40 years old now) population that doesn't vote in large (enough) numbers to offset the power imbalance.
by Wilder7977 | 2026-01-14 15:47:56+00:00
For certain things, makefiles are great options. For others though they are a nightmare. From a security perspective, especially if you are trying to reach SLSA level 2+, you want all the build execution to be isolated and executed in a trusted, attestable and disposable environment, following predefined steps. Having makefiles (or scripts) with logical steps within them, makes it much, much harder to have properly attested outputs.

Using makefiles mixes execution contexts between the CI pipeline and the code within the repository (that ends up containing the logic for the build), instead of using - centrally stored - external workflows that contains all the business logic for the build steps (e.g., compiler options, docker build steps etc.).

For example, how can you attest in the CI that your code is tested if the workflow only contains "make test"? You need to double check at runtime what the makefile did, but the makefile might have been modified by that time, so you need to build a chain of trust etc.
Instead, in a standardized workflow, you just need to establish the ground truth (e.g., tools are installed and are at this path), and the execution cannot be modified by in-repo resources.
by ig0r0 | 2026-01-14 15:48:10+00:00
Working on Yomu, an indie iOS Japanese reader intended to make intermediate reading easier.

It started while I was studying for JLPT N4 — I wanted adaptive furigana that hides readings for kanji I already know, so I could focus on real text without constant lookups. That shaped the core architecture: level-based furigana, offline dictionary (JMDict), and custom tokenization logic with IPADic for accuracy.

Some interesting challenges have been furigana edge cases, Safari text paste quirks, and balancing offline performance with accuracy.

Yomu is live on the App Store now, and I’m writing about the problems that led me to build it on my blog: https://blog.kulman.sk/japanese-reading-problem/.
by zingar | 2026-01-14 15:48:13+00:00
Just to clarify: you're saying the alcohol vs crime stats are from a research unit of a university? If so:

- I admit that I don't know much about ONS but its name suggests that they are not about research/speculation/anecdata into how we got where we are or how to fix it, they are just there to collect data
- I would count the reduction in alcohol consumption as an extremely positive step for fixing problems; societal problems like crime need holistic solutions. What the correct solution is seems orthogonal to my point which is that stats orgs work hard to produce rigorous data and it is dangerous to undermine them in favour of groups (bloggers?) who have no such standards applied to their work

> It is wrong to blame immigrants for crime but correct to blame people outside London

I'm not sure what point you're making, I'm not blaming crime on people outside London. I imagine that the small amount of crime in London is committed by people in and around London. I expect the tiny minority of immigrants to be responsible for a tiny minority of those crimes.

> there is a link between crime and immigration

I'd be interested to read stats from a reputable source that applies the sort of rigour that the non-political civil servants who typically gather stats.

> You are implying that public opinion should be manipulated to hide this fact

I am stating that the fact of low crime rates in London should not be undermined in favour of conspiracy theories that are used to demonise the civil service.

Even if there is a link between crime and immigration the low rate makes it far less of a problem than the other societal problems we face, like the quick political points scored by demonising and hollowing out the civil service.

> even though this is already something the government does

This government already bows to this immigration nonsense. They are not a good example in your case.
by tillcarlos | 2026-01-14 15:48:36+00:00
I own a vinfast theon S and a daybike quantum s1. Living in Vietnam.

prices were 2.6k usd and 1.9 for the quantum. Ranges are 100km and 250km

I will probably never buy a gas bike again. Ranges are not a problem in the city. They are quiet and fast. And I pay almost nothing to charge them.

If I complain about air quality I at least feel like I need to put money into companies that are actively working on solutions. Especially for small bikes it’s a no-brainer to go electric.
by runjake | 2026-01-14 15:48:55+00:00
OpenStreetMap. No "s", no spaces. Happy hacking! :)

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenMapTiles

There are various ways to implement a self-hosted OpenStreetMap. Here's one: https://blog.netmanageit.com/openstreetmap-server-self-hoste...
by Aydarbek | 2026-01-14 15:49:14+00:00
That makes a lot of sense the hard part isn’t “HTTP paging”, it’s defining a safe cursor (in SQL that becomes “which column is actually stable/monotonic”), and without an external spec/libs it turns into bikeshedding. In Ayder the cursor is an explicit per-partition log offset, so resumability/paging is inherent, which is why Feed API’s mental model resonates a lot. I’d love to see a minimal “event log profile” of that spec someday.
by khelavastr | 2026-01-14 15:49:22+00:00
By modern standards, this person's teacher was a neo-Nazi idealogue promoting the segregation of a cripple so she could spend more time on kids with average abilities.

It's downright bizarre that people call Trump a "Nazi", but not a person who literally removes disabled, functional kids from regular classrooms because she doesn't believe the disabled kids should have the same opportunities with a little extra cost.
by kenneth2g60 | 2026-01-14 15:49:26+00:00
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by steeleduncan | 2026-01-14 15:49:41+00:00
I do the same with Nix as it works for macOS builds as well

It has the massive benefit of solving the lock-in problem. Your workflow is generally very short so it is easy to move to an alternative CI if (for example) Github were to jack up their prices for self hosted runners...

That said, when using it in this way I personally love Github actions
by Zigurd | 2026-01-14 15:49:43+00:00
Of course the Trumpist response is going to be the entire news media is failing and lying and doesn't do actual journalism and doesn't have multiple sources. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published links to multiple data sources, as well as publishing the data for multiple nations as a percentage of GDP, which provides context such as that Japan is running a bigger trade surplus as a percentage of GDP. https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-stealth-trade-surplus
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-01-14 15:49:45+00:00
We are going to have to rethink power for smart dust. Like consider that no creature out there is powered by batteries. From the biggest land animal to the smallest microbe it’s all chemistry.

Maybe the smart dust will have to eat microbes and stuff to stay active.

As for communication, we can’t go shoving antennas in them as then they’d be larger than dust. And you can’t use the optical part of the spectrum because of interference with basically everything. You can’t use wavelengths smaller either as you get into UV and high radiation. There is the terahertz radio spectrum [0] between 3mm and 30um that is pretty open and not utilized at all because we haven’t figured out how to make good transmitters. Plus the spectrum isn’t very useful as it isn’t very penetrating and water vapor absorbs it… and it requires lots of power.

Smart dust might have to be more of a distributed computer or something. Or a micro machine that uses chemistry and mechanical magic to do its operations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation
by benrutter | 2026-01-14 15:50:01+00:00
I am tall enough that shrinking t-shirts is a constant annoyance! (though I have to admit I haven't ever tried the 'conditioner and water' trick, even though I've heard of it before).

Low temperature washes and avoiding tumble dryers works. I've also noticed thicker material t-shirts seem to definitely shrink a lot less! Much thinner cottton t-shirts seem to shrink a lot more, my mental model is that there's less material so when it bunches together to it's "happy place", it ends up a lot smaller. I have no evidence for this though.

Any other tips from people here? Also, has anyone actually tried stretching with hair conditioner?
by trinix912 | 2026-01-14 15:50:08+00:00
Have you ever actually seen these systems in person? It's usually a microcontroller which already rules out a ton of stuff you're talking about. Serious places will buy 2-3 of them at the time of installation to have some spares. The ones here are "user-replaceable" as well (unplug these three cables, replace the box, plug them back in). It's not some mysterious bunch-of-wires-on-arduino-pins magic box that nobody dares to touch.

The one at my previous office even had centralized management through an RS232 connection to a PC. No internet and related downtime at all. And I don't recall us ever being locked out because of that.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-14 15:50:51+00:00
it's a universal thing I think. in self-defense, when your life is at risk, you can use those guns, what do you have to lose. But in every other case, you have more to lose so guns are useless outside of use by aggressors.

They don't need to take your gun away, they just need to give you enough reasons to not use them. And even in 1779, it required lots of planning and coordination, and lots of loss to life and property to achieve change that way.

The focus should be more on elected politicians, and voters themselves and how they vote/not vote. If the mid-terms were being held today, how many people would vote? It's scary, who wants to risk their lives for a vote? not many.

I fear the governors of states will have to intervene, and the way that goes might lead to a conflict with the federal gov.
by ratmice | 2026-01-14 15:51:16+00:00
> Proprietary use, commercial redistribution, or publishing modified versions with ads or tracking is strictly prohibited under GPLv3 or later.

These all sound to me like "Further restrictions" which the GPL says:

> If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it > is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.

It seems like if you want those clauses that GPL doesn't seem like the license you want?
by dabluecaboose | 2026-01-14 15:51:23+00:00
The American Left has spent the better part of the last century attacking the 2nd Amendment, limiting firearms ownership, and portraying gun owners as paranoid losers. That would drive many on-the-fence gun owners away from supporting them.

Just a few years ago, their own supporters were smugly saying that standing up to the government is a fantasy for paranoid whackjobs.

Is there any surprise that there's a dearth of armed citizens ready to stand up for them?

"A rifle behind every blade of grass only works if you've been watering the lawn"
by anttiharju | 2026-01-14 15:51:56+00:00
Issue is, op is trying to use matrix strategy when with cross-compiling they could avoid it. I have done it for https://github.com/anttiharju/compare-changes (which has nontrivial CI pipelines but they could be a lot simpler for op's needs)

Main issue is Rust. Writing catchy headlines about hating something may feel good, but a lot of people could avoid these pains if

- zig cc gets support for new linker flag that Rust requires https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/30628
- rust-lang/libc gets to 1.0 which removes iconv issues for macos https://github.com/rust-lang/libc/issues/3248
by srean | 2026-01-14 15:52:02+00:00
In India we have been through this the last 14 years or so.

Look up Stanswamy, an octagenarian jailed on the basis of trumped up charges and planted evidence (most likely with the help of Israeli companies). Journalists held in jail for five years without any charges pressed. Same fate for those who criticize the government too vocally.

Now pretty much all of the press is but a government press release with a few holding out here and there.
by the_af | 2026-01-14 15:52:07+00:00
> There is no amount of good one can do to compensate for even the slightest misdeed.

I think there is. You can compensate for some misdeeds. But in this example, murdering a person is not "the slightest misdeed".

The context is that doing wonderful things doesn't cancel doing horrible things, not just minor misdeeds.
by joering2 | 2026-01-14 15:52:10+00:00
Take it for whats its worth but I been good friends with someone who works in Newsom camp, and constantly goes for a bite with his team. They talk alot. The main theme now is how to use illegal immigration situation to their benefit. If Newsom is elected President, he wants to go door to door in search for illegal guns that illegals are harboring. Of course all this is BS, or in such insignificant amount that its rather irrelevant. But they want to use Republican's hate for immigrants to help them catalog all serials numbers and ownership of us-owned guns. To some degree it will be fun to watch the "all she had to do is comply with Federal law not to get killed while running away in her car" people rounded up and having their guns cataloged in the name of fight with illegal immigration, and in accordance with Federal law :)