MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2026-01-20 20:30:17+00:00
> they implicitly expect

Sure, but crucially "expect some" is not "expect all". The presence of some X is not the same as absolutely zero limitations on X.

Suppose the Federal government chooses to award a letter of Marque and Reprisal to... Bob. However, Bob is in State prison for life, because he was convicted of multiple murders, boat-theft, ramming boats into other boats, selling guns for drugs, whatever.

This sets up a State/Federal conflict, with four major types of resolution:

1. [Specific, State] The Federal government chose a useless agent, but that's their problem for making a stupid choice instead of picking someone not in prison who can wave a gun around and do the job they want done.

2. [Specific, Federal] A lawsuit occurs and it is decided the State has to specifically release Bob from prison and wave a gun around as long as he has that special Federal status.

3. [General, State] The Federal government loses all ability to deputize people because that could potentially cause a conflict.

[General, Federal] The State government loses all ability to imprison anyone or control anybody's gun-waving, because that could potentially cause a conflict.

Surely you'd agree that #4 (and #3) would be insane? Nobody drafted or ratified that M&R clause thinking that they agreed to nullify their State's ability to imprison, nor that the M&R clause itself would be dead on arrival. (Aside, #2 is problematic since it would give Congress a secret pardoning power even more-powerful than the President's.)
by randerson | 2026-01-20 20:30:28+00:00
The "soccer mom" SUVs are their best sellers and literally saved the company. I beg you to test-drive a Cayenne Turbo GT if you think they can't deliver a sports-car-like experience in a large SUV. Or a Macan GTS (which is only 7" longer than a 911 btw.)

The Taycan is pretty close to being an electric 911. There's a 718 EV coming out soon but Porsche realized there was not enough demand so now they're retrofitting a gas engine into the design.

The lack of demand for the 718 EV boils down to EVs being heavy, and therefore less chuckable than the gas one, and the lack of soul & engagement in cars without an engine. Solid state batteries will eventually solve the first problem. I'm not sure how we can solve the second one. Perhaps kids of today will grow up caring less about mechanical sounds.
by derrida | 2026-01-20 20:31:30+00:00
My city (Sydney) is known for having a huge supply of water & the council is now talking about shortage and need for planning as they expect the data centre in 1 block to be using 25% of it because of the AI tools https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-27/ai-to-take-up-one-qua...
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-01-20 20:32:08+00:00
No, actually to be frank, I'd rather the Nazis go back to hiding under the floorboards in fear of public retribution.

I don't want them to share their perspective, I don't want to normalize their beliefs and pretend their narrative is equally valid, I want their objectively horrific worldview to die with them and not do their best to attempt to poison the wells of my society.

Especially since it's working and the US now has a blatant Nazi party in full control of every branch of government for the foreseeable future.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-20 20:32:31+00:00
If we are talking about complete privacy. I am trying out https://confer.to (created by signal team) too and I am unable to run it on my mac (passkey support)(I tried it both in zen & orion) but I tried it on an android chrome (tablet) and I am kinda more optimistic about it too

I have heard good things about Kagi in fact, that's the reason why I tried orion and still have it in the first place but I haven't bought Kagi, I just used the free searches orion gives & I don't know if it has Kagi's assistant.

I think proton's Lumo is another good bet.

If you want something to not track you, I once asked cerebras team on their discord if they track the queries and responses from their website try now feature and they said that they don't. I don't really see a reason why they might lie about it given that its only meant for very basic purposes & they don't train models or anything.

You also get one of the fastest inferences for models including GLM 4.7 (which z.ai uses)

You might not get search results though but for search related queries duck.ai's pretty good and you can always mix and match.

But Cerebras recently got a 10 billion $ investment from OpenAI and I Have been critical of them from now on so do be wary now.

Kagi Assistant does seem to be good if someone already uses Kagi or has a subscription of it from what I feel like.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-20 20:32:44+00:00
Doesn't this assume you bi-directionally share directories between the host or the VM? Or how would the AI inside the VM be able to write to your .git repository or Vagrantfile? That's not the default setup with VMs (AFAIK, you need to explicitly use "shared directories" or similar), nor should you do that if you're trying to use VM for containment of something.

I basically do something like "take snapshot -> run tiny vm -> let agent do what it does -> take snapshot -> look at diff" for each change, restarting if it doesn't give me what I wanted, or I misdirected it somehow. But there is no automatic sync of files, that'd defeat the entire point of putting it into a VM in the first place, wouldn't it?
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by Nativeline | 2026-01-20 20:32:46+00:00
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Happy to answer questions about the tech, the approach, or why I made certain decisions.
by elzbardico | 2026-01-20 20:33:15+00:00
I have a few friends either without degrees or degrees in unrelated areas working as engineers for Google. In my experience, most tech companies were always a bit flexible for that. Google at their beginning, was a bit anal about wanting only PhDs from Stanford, but this was really during their initial years.

It is like Facebook that once wanted only young people and now have their share of greybeards.

It is traditional economy companies and consultancies like Accenture that usually don't have exceptions for people without formal credentials.
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 20:33:16+00:00
What is considered "white" now certainly wasn't in the past. It took a long time before Italians were considered to be part of the in-group. Irish and Italian people were considered an inferior race and suffered extreme racial prejudice when lots of immigrants came from those nations.

And that evolution itself tells the story of the US itself. The people in non-homogenous neighborhoods are happy and harmonious, but outsiders scared of cultural differences cause racial strife and discontent.

Those who let themselves get worked up about racism are the problem, not the non-homogenous races.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-20 20:33:42+00:00
I found this discussion (linked to in the PR) more illuminating: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/7azc2i/comment/dpg...

I tried Lawnchair out when figuring out what I was going to replace Nova with. I didn't end up choosing it, but if I had known they tried to do this (even if it only made it to the alpha channel) I wouldn't have even bothered to try it out.
by wyldfire | 2026-01-20 20:33:44+00:00
I think this comment denies the reality that we see in Minneapolis. It's not merely some corporate boss who says "yes I know there's a court order but we are making tons of dough here!" It's the individuals themselves who opted to work for ICE who believe that their mission supersedes justice as meted by courts.

They see the former world order as not equipped to handle the "reality" of a "legalized invasion." So they think they are just in restoring hierarchy between Whites and Others. They are whipped up by a cult of personality and the leadership within the administration is just like them.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-20 20:33:50+00:00
In some regions, such as much of the American southwest, demand for water is too high for how much water they get, they're covering the difference with fossil aquifers but those are finite and rapidly draining. Most n those regions just pretend that a solution will magically appear some day, maybe they'll somehow get other neighboring regions to pipe all their water over hundreds of miles, but that's a pipe dream. Realistically those areas are too crowded and people need to move to more ecological sensible regions.
by csa | 2026-01-20 20:34:07+00:00
> Then they should have points deducted for that. Effective communication of answers is part of any exam.

Agreed. Then let me type my answers out like any reasonable person would do.

For reference…

For my last written blue book exam (in grad school) in the 90s, the professor insisted on blue books and handwriting.

I asked if I could type my answers or hand write my answers in the blue books and later type them out for her (with the blue book being the original source).

I told her point blank that my “clean” handwriting was produced at about a third of the speed that I can type, and that my legible chicken scratch was at about 80% of my typing rate. I hadn’t handwritten anything longer than a short note in over 5 years. She insisted that she could read any handwriting, and she wasn’t tech savvy enough to monitor any potential cheating in real time (which I think was accurate and fair).

I ended up writing my last sentence as the time ran out. I got an A+ on the exam and a comment about one of my answers being one of the best and most original that she had read. She also said that I would be allowed to type out my handwritten blue book tests if I took her other class.

All of this is to say that I would have been egregiously misgraded if “clean handwriting” had been a requirement. There is absolutely no reason to put this burden on people, especially as handwriting has become even less relevant since that exam I took in the 90s.
by seanwilson | 2026-01-20 20:34:10+00:00
I know what you meant, but WCAG2 is actually flawed for dark mode. For gray body text on black, going with the minimum 4.5:1 ratio is hard to read. APCA attempts to fix this https://git.apcacontrast.com/documentation/APCA_in_a_Nutshel....
by Retr0id | 2026-01-20 20:34:41+00:00
I'll almost certainly get used for both, but I believe "adult content" is the primary motivator. If it was just for ads they wouldn't even bother announcing it as a "feature", they'd just do it.

Also:

"Users can check if safeguards have been added to their account and start this process at any time by going to Settings > Account."
by avidiax | 2026-01-20 20:34:42+00:00
> Electric water pumps are a great idea

They are a great idea if they are reliable, or cheap and easy to replace. The BMW unit was neither.

The timing chain thing also came with plastic parts. Mount the timing chain at the back if it's needed for other goals, but don't cheap out on a bit of metal. It really seems like planned obsolescence.
by ryukoposting | 2026-01-20 20:35:14+00:00
Yeah, I was rocking Nova on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus back in 2012. It was the first time I ever paid for an app. Back then Nova was a huge upgrade to usability, but stock launchers eventually caught up, and by the late 2010s I was really just using it to make my phone look cool. I've heard it's borderline abandonware at this point, which is a shame.
by spicyusername | 2026-01-20 20:36:25+00:00
Nothing wrong on the surface with this, and the author explicitly acknowledges this risk, but it bears repeating:

Corporate environments are almost always toxic places to fulfill your emotional needs.

It is true that finding a job that "resonates" with your personality is key to living a fulfilling life, and that software engineering is the kind of profession that is really going to fit certain personality types extremely well, but despite that corporate culture can and will take advantage of you, divide you and your work "friends", exploit your willingness to serve, and discard you like trash at any moment.

Be mindful of how much of yourself you derive from serving the financial goals of others.
by Shocka1 | 2026-01-20 20:36:57+00:00
It's very sad, but this applies to what seems like everyone now. Required reading for internet users should be *The Anatomy of Peace* by the Harbinger Institute. I suppose you'd have to peel people away from their social algorithms though, which might be an impossibility due to the decreasing attention span. The more I live in this world, the more I realize that this seems like the new norm, and hate it. I grew up around a lot of great people with big hearts, and I just don't get it. I think John Coffey said it best when hes said "Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other.
by hamdingers | 2026-01-20 20:37:17+00:00
There is an entire category of casino games where the house is a player. These are called house-banked games and they include most of what you imagine when you think of a casino floor: blackjack, roulette, craps, slots, etc.

But even in player-banked games like poker, the house is an agent participating in the game through the dealer. They can still exercise their right to free association and not play with you.

A corrected analogy would be Nintendo banning you from Mario Kart Online for suspected cheating. Yes, Nintendo isn't playing, but they still have that authority as the facilitator.
by mfkp | 2026-01-20 20:37:20+00:00
I recently switched to a OnePlus 15 and Nova Launcher had a really annoying 0.5-1 second delay every time you went back home.

I've been a paid Nova user and used it on every android device for the past 10 years or so.

I ended up migrating to the stock OnePlus launcher and it's actually surprisingly good, other than you have to disable the stupid google recommended page every time you reboot the phone, so I'm still open to alternatives.
by howenterprisey | 2026-01-20 20:37:28+00:00
> This appears to be an AI-generated draft with severe hallucination problems bordering on WP:HOAX. For one, it calls it the "Margo Largo Accord" -- a name that is not and never was real. The draft also claims the accord was already introduced, and goes into detail about its supposed contents, effects, and reactions to it; the problem is, no actual accord was introduced at the time (or now), so pretty much all of that is made up. The sourcing gives an impression of WP:SIGCOV [significant coverage] but almost all of it appears to be background information about various topics that aren't the accord.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio..., the discussion that concluded with the article's deletion
by twalichiewicz | 2026-01-20 20:37:49+00:00
Thanks for all your feedback!

I was suspicious when I first coded this that it needed a better way to introduce the rules. I've gone ahead and buffed the HINT so that time doesn't resume until you get a chance to type out your first word. I also added a background hint on the return phase instead of just leaving it blank.

Another comment mentioned that the instructions that I put on itch.io made it clearer (and forgot to post on HN, whoops!) so I've pasted them below.

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HOW TO PLAY

1. Type HIT to serve

2. Type your opponent's word to line up your character with the ball, then type your word to send a volley back

3. Submit your word before the time runs out. The faster you submit your word, the faster your hit!

RULES

1. Words must be 3 letters or longer

2. No repeated words in the same rally

SCORING

1. Tennis rules: 15-30-40-Game

2. Best of 3 games wins the match

CONTROLS

Desktop: Type and press Enter or Space to submit

Mobile: On-screen keyboard
by mindcrime | 2026-01-20 20:37:54+00:00
Telefork reminds me of my days writing MPI code on Beowulf clusters! I even took a stab at a similar'ish idea, that was meant to make running code on distributed clusters in Java "just a library" that (somewhat) emulated the existing Threads API. I actually got it to work, but I don't think it was practically useful for anything. More of a learning project. Still, it was fun. :-)
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-20 20:37:55+00:00
I was a lot like you believe it or not. I was super libertarian (though came from being raised by hippies). It wasn't until my mom was dying of cancer and was harassed for wearing a mask and pundits were saying 'just let her die' that I stepped back and went wait, this isn't right.

What I did was block using NextDNS all right wing sites. Didn't watch anything right wing. Let my opinion be more organic, and I found I did not align at all with what I had previously supported, it had all drifted far from where we started. But to this day my brain will type in Instapundit or other sites I used to visit, it was such a dopamine fix for me.
by choonway | 2026-01-20 20:38:14+00:00
I have purposely omitted the specifics as I also have given up trying to convince others interested in my worthwhile problem. If interests align, we will naturally meet.

I usually tell them it is more important that they should take some time (6 months - 1 year) to reflect in isolation to find their own worthwhile problems, and not get distracted by fads and drama.
by robinsoncrusue | 2026-01-20 20:38:18+00:00
> As applied to the United States, the current account version of Triffin runs as follows. The global accumulation of dollar reserves requires the United States to run a current account deficit. Since desired reserves rise with world nominal GDP, which is growing faster than US nominal GDP, the growth of dollar reserves will raise US external indebtedness unsustainably. Either the United States will not run the current account deficits, leading to an insufficiency of global reserves. Or US indebtedness will rise without limit, undermining the value of the dollar and the reserves denominated in it.
by rayiner | 2026-01-20 20:38:48+00:00
Why do you always respond to substantive posts with feelings and personal attacks?

In the thread you linked to, I pointed out that Denmark is a country the size of Maryland and couldn't meaningfully move the needle in any serious engagement involving the U.S. military. If the U.S. went to war with China, having Denmark in our camp versus not having Denmark in our camp would make literally no difference. Do you disagree with that?

Instead of disagreeing with me, your response was that Danish soldiers died fighting in Afghanistan. That's a response based on feelings and emotions, not analysis. It's completely unresponsive to anything I said.
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 20:39:02+00:00
As a US citizen, I agree with you that if the US was a stable power we would have gotten rid of the dictator for good after the first term. And most definitely after trying to usurp an entire election. Or worst case after he issued pardons to all people involved in any way to usurp the election, including many hardened criminals. After all these things, even if we get control of the US government and place it into stable, hands, it will take a generation to rebuild the broken trust.

But I don't think that the people downvoting you are necessarily other US citizens. It feels like HN is very good at eliminating bots, but in these sorts of discussions lots of sleeper agent bots come out to try to shift discussion. Every bit of our social media is full of it and I think that the downvotes your comment probably come from that.
by p1necone | 2026-01-20 20:39:24+00:00
This feels inevitable for any 'unique' company that lives long enough for leadership to retire and starts hiring replacement c-levels externally.

Those external people are going to run Apple just like whatever other companies they were running before. You need to keep the vision alive and promote people internally who understand that vision to keep running the company.

Being publicly traded probably doesn't help either.
by schmichael | 2026-01-20 20:39:37+00:00
> feeling entitled to continue living in a place

Are you suggesting people are not entitled to live on land they own and should be forced to relocate? Since you've made their land worthless, how are they paying for this new place to live?

I heard a water district manager for a southwestern US city once say: "it's easier to move water than people." What if we adapted your statement for what the law actually allows?

> A whole lot of it is water being in stupid places feeling entitled to continue being in a place without the people nearby to drink it.

This implies we should move water to where people need it which is both legal and reflects reality even if it sounds very silly. Physics is even on our side here: water is deposited as snow on mountains where there are few people. It flows downward under the force of gravity to where people actually live. It's a pretty nice natural system to take advantage of!

The details here matter a lot: should we socialize the costs of moving water among people who do not directly need that water? Should people in Seattle pay for people in Yakima to get water? Irrigating dry unpopulated areas is a great way to produce food that is uneconomical to produce in or near cities!

Water management is a complex problem since it's needed for sustaining not just people, but the food people eat. There's no easy switch to flip here and just solve the thing.
by Beretta_Vexee | 2026-01-20 20:40:22+00:00
It's complicated, there are two types of applications and networks.

1) Direct payment systems via mobile phone, generally designed initially for payments between friends and family. They have been set up in several countries by neobanks, generally based on the Mastercard network (very common among neobanks). A Latvian neobank may expand into the Baltic countries, but is unlikely to succeed in Portugal. These systems are not interoperable with each other.

2) Systems promoted by banking networks, such as Bizum in Spain, which has expanded to the Iberian Peninsula, and Wero, which is supported by BNP Paribas (France, Belgium, Germany). These networks are independent of Mastercard, Visa, etc., but they seek to favor their members and do not seek to become widespread.

Discussions have been ongoing for years to achieve interoperability. The idea for the moment was to let the market structure itself naturally without too much intervention, other than to say “we must move towards interoperability at the European level.” This approach has worked very well for bank transfers, which have become simple, fast, and relatively secure, but it has taken a long time (Europe, consensus, etc.).
by waltwalther | 2026-01-20 20:40:25+00:00
I love every minute of my sysadmin job (different job, I know)..and it's not always easy. I enjoy the work. I enjoy educating the users. I even enjoy being on call. And it isn't necessarily the money. I enjoy researching and fixing issues that I might not have come across before, and improving on the current infrastructure and workflow. I even enjoy talking to the salespeople and vendors who call. I love putting projects together and seeing them work when finished.

Many people in my line of work do not share my attitude, and many of my coworkers are grouchy and complain they're overworked. They do just enough to get by, and are generally rude to the users (but, not always).

I am in my early fifties, and have been in the business most of my career. I have worked at only two different companies, and have had a great life, even the long days that turned into late nights/early mornings.

I would definitely say I am addicted to being useful.