MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Windchaser | 2026-01-21 20:38:03+00:00
> To be honest, I'm growing even more distaste for the "validating emotions" academic concept after reading some of the mental gymnastics people are doing in this thread.

(chiming in)

It's not academic, but practical. For me, these skills have been immensely helpful for navigating both my own emotions and those of others. My relationships improved quite a bit once I started using these skills. I'm closer to more people, I can get to depth more quickly and more safely with new people, and me and those close to me are all growing/healing more quickly because we can meet our emotional needs while also gradually working to reshape those needs.

To me, "validation" is about addressing someone's actual underlying emotional needs. But it still leaves space for disagreeing with the interpretation/perception of what happened. My own saying is that we should "accept our emotions, but not always accept the story they are telling us".

> as well as all the different and conflicting definitions of "validate emotions"

What mental gymnastics do you see?
by BeetleB | 2026-01-21 20:38:10+00:00
From "20 Years of Gentoo" (https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/May/20-years-of-gentoo/):

"Even more common: “Oh, I’m not going to use Gentoo. I want to go all the way and use LFS!”

They never heed my warnings about it. Every one of them either quits in the middle of the install, or soon after, and swears off source based distributions for life.

Slackware and LFS are the Haskells of the Linux distribution world. People jump to the extreme end of the spectrum, and either get burnt or remain unproductive for life, when they should have just used OCaml or F# instead."
by paulcole | 2026-01-21 20:38:16+00:00
There's a bunch of services that charge to help you with the reinstatement process because they know what keywords to use to help you navigate the Amazon system.

I think they're worth reaching out to (I don't have one that I personally recommend as I've been out of that industry for too long). Because if things haven't changed recently then there's no "penalty" for waiting and the mistake most sellers make is rushing to put through a crappy response and they just make things worse.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-21 20:38:18+00:00
I assumed that the maintainer chose to associate PR-creation with a prediction market because they wanted a way to reward reviewers. I suppose there's nothing stopping them from using it to instead prey on reviewers... but that's not exactly a recipe for attracting motivated reviewers to your project.

As far as using prediction markets to put a hit out on people... How does that differ from how it's done now, except that the flow of money becomes part of public record where it's more likely to appear as evidence against you in court?

Anyhow, like most online media, moderation will be necessary. If we can't game-theory our way to a nice solution, we can just do the normal thing and ban the activity we don't like. I just think that where possible, designs that align incentives are likely to be more successful. Prohibition is generally ineffective, expensive to maintain, or both.
by lubujackson | 2026-01-21 20:38:19+00:00
I guess this is Anthropic's "don't be evil" moment, but it has about as much (actually much less) weight then when it was Google's motto. There is always an implicit "...for now".

No business is every going to maintain any "goodness" for long, especially once shareholders get involved. This is a role for regulation, no matter how Anthropic tries to delay it.
by mikepurvis | 2026-01-21 20:38:22+00:00
There's no question that it's a huge step up in complexity to wire together such tightly-linked front and backend components, but it is done for things like GIS, where you want data overlays.

I think it's just a different mindset; GIS libs like Leaflet kind of assume they're the centerpiece of the app and can dictate a bunch of structure around how things are going to work, whereas charting libs benefit a lot more from "just add me to your webpack bundle and call one function with an array and a div ID, I promise not to cause a bunch of integration pain!"

Last time I tried to use it for dashboarding, I found Kibana did extremely aggressive down-sampling to the point that it was averaging out the actual extremes in the data that I needed to see.
by CqtGLRGcukpy | 2026-01-21 20:38:27+00:00
I have a personal site that is listed in there, and it polls my site much more frequently then it needs to (like multiple times a day, compared to when I blog about once a week).

The user-agent includes a link to https://rss.social/bot but it says coming soon, which I think is a shame.

There's also no way to opt-out.
by p0pularopinion | 2026-01-21 20:39:07+00:00
That is good, because it is a lie that others are not following.
People love to point to China for their emissions, completely avoiding that China, as the workbench of the world, essentially is burdened with the emissions of the world.

Developing nations skip the fossil fuel stage entirely because Solar in particular and at a ceratain point wind is just cheaper than buying Oil and natural gas. Chinese EVs are also increasingly popular in emerging markets, not because they are more environmentally friendly, but because they are more cost effective to operate.

Wether or not it is because of environmental concerns or not, the world is moving towards cleaner technology, specifically it is also more efficient.

Considering that we in Europe have a remarkable absence of easily accessible fossil fuels, Europe should be continuing to push towards renewable technologies
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-01-21 20:39:28+00:00
The biggest principle is codification. Codify everything.

For instance, this skill of web development: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vercel-labs/web-interface-...

That’s too much for a model to carry in its context while it’s trying to do actual work.

Far better is to give that skill.md to a model and have it produce several hundred lines of code with a shebang at the top. Now you haven’t got a skill, you’ve got a script. And it’s a script the model can run any time to check its work, without knowing what the script does, how, or why - it just sees the errors. Now all your principles of web dev can be checked across your codebase in a few hundred milliseconds while burning zero tokens.

TDD is codification too: codifying in executable form the precise way you want your logic to work. Enforce a 10ms timeout on every unit test and as a side effect your model won’t be able to introduce I/O or anything else that prevents parallel, randomized execution of your test suite. It’s awesome to be able to run ALL the tests hundreds of times per day.

Constantly checking your UI matches your design system? Have the model write a script that looks at your frontend codebase and refuses to let the model commit anything that doesn’t match the design system.

Codification is an insanely powerful thing to build into your mindset.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-21 20:39:32+00:00
But all these companies violated that on a massive scale. It's done. They're not paying. Oh, and when asked what the consequences are for people doing illegal downloading, ChatGPT helpfully answers:

> About $750 to $30,000 per copyrighted work

> Can go up to $150,000 per work if it’s considered willful

... it was definitely willful. And these are amounts that would bankrupt even OpenAI. But I guess only you and me will have to pay these sorts of amounts, not big companies ...
by Stancyhd8 | 2026-01-21 20:39:42+00:00
Thanks so much to Henryclarkethicalhacler for helping me hack into my husband's phone so I could see what he is up to and
I was able to catch him red handed, now I am out and a lot happier credit goes to earlier mention hacker for a
good job. If you are also interested in any hack job you can contact him via his email –
HENRYCLARKETHICALHACKER @ gMAIL. COM

Tell him Victoria refer you
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-21 20:40:27+00:00
1) I trust rtings to not change their position on the basis of what makes them money; that trust is their whole brand.

2) I have not seen products jump from middling to high before, but I have seen the scores change with new methodologies, and sometimes that has the net effect of lowering the scores of older devices. Typically, that seems to represent some change in technology, or in what people are looking for in the market. For instance, I would expect (have not checked) that with the substantially increased interest in high-refresh-rate monitors, the "gaming" score has probably changed to scale with gamer expectations of higher frame rates. That would have the net effect of lowering the score of what was previously considered a "good" monitor. This seems like an inherent property of improving technologies: last year's "great" can be this year's "good" and next year's "meh".

Personally, I never pay much attention to the 0-10 scores in the first place, and always just make tables of the features and measurements I care about. The only exception is for underlying measurements that are complex and need summarizing (e.g. "Audio Reproduction Accuracy").
by ragall | 2026-01-21 20:40:51+00:00
> But it all depends on what you value, I'm not gonna say one is more "correct" than the other, we all have our preferences and so on.

I wasn't talking about values. Yours or mines are largely irrelevant.

40 years ago, much of the US economy was made of stable jobs. Contingent jobs used to be few, labour unions used to be much stronger. Europe is under the same economic pressures as the US, and it's slowly trending in the same direction, just with 20-40 years of delay.
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-21 20:40:59+00:00
Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, and Kia all appeal primarily to the strictly-utilitarian car owner, with the Accord and Civic (Honda) and Corolla and Camry (Toyota) being classically "boring" but highly-practical, dependable, and efficient vehicles. There are even more pragmatic offerings in the Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris, Hyunndai Accent, and Kia Rio. These are small, arguably ugly, but very versatile options.

There's simply nothing comparable currently produced by an American marque, though there were the Chevy Spark (Korean-built) and Ford Fiesta (Spain), both have been discontinued.
by p0pularopinion | 2026-01-21 20:41:23+00:00
> But it is by no means obvious that carbon taxes are the right path.

When the government says that the market should do something, people complain about government interference. When the government lets the market do something, but sets the right incentives, people are complaining about it again.

Co2 taxation is effectively internalizing the cost of co2 pollution. The price goes up the more we pollute, because we have less budget until we cannot reach our goals anymore.
by 306bobby | 2026-01-21 20:41:30+00:00
You must also understand this is hacker news, not politics news. Sure, this may be a comfortable area for many users and one of the only forum/news sites they browse, but nonetheless it's not a politics site. I, for one, would rather not see politics on this site. If I want to partake in that discussion, I'll go elsewhere to a place more "built" for it
by alephnerd | 2026-01-21 20:41:33+00:00
> That's one perspective, another is that US is 20-40 years behind Europe [...]

The US's HDI (0.938) is comparable to New Zealand and Liechtenstein [0], and significantly above Austria's (0.930), France's (0.920), and Italy's (0.915) [0], and the EU's HDI is itself 0.915 [1] - this puts the EU roughly in the same position as the US almost 16-17 years ago [2] despite both having a similar population.

That said, once you break the 0.900 range, the differences are essentially cosmetic.

[0] - https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union

[2] - https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/table/shdi/USA/?levels=1+4&ye...
by huntergemmer | 2026-01-21 20:41:39+00:00
Quick update: Just shipped a fix for the data zoom slider bug that several of you reported (thanks d--b, azangru, and others).

The slider should now track the cursor correctly on macOS. If you tried the million-points demo earlier and the zoom felt off, give it another shot.

This is why I love launching on HN - real feedback from people actually trying the demos. Keep it coming! :)
by fatbird | 2026-01-21 20:41:57+00:00
Don't encroach NATO on their doorstep.

Norway, a founding member of NATO, has always shared a border with Russia. Before Finland and Sweden joined NATO, they'd already developed operational compatibility with NATO going back decades. NATO encroachment was an issue only insofar as it took away local targets for Russian expansion.

Bring Russia into NATO.

Putin desired NATO membership because then, any hostilities with another NATO member would become an intra-alliance conflict that NATO couldn't deal with. When Greece and Turkey fought over Cyprus, they were both in NATO, so neither side could invoke article 5 for help. Russia in NATO wouldn't prevent Russian wars, it would neutralize NATO.
by marcyb5st | 2026-01-21 20:42:12+00:00
+1 for Interactive Brokers. You can migrate super easy by having them filing a full ATAC. I came from Charles Schwab, which I have to keep because my employer sends GSUs to either Schwab or Morgan Stanley.

Additionally, the UX is much better (IMHO) than Schwab, both on mobile and desktop.
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-21 20:42:21+00:00
A very naive materials-engineering approach. Materials are very quirky.

Carpenters must think in terms of "too long not good, but too short terrible." Wood is not isotropic, not in strength, flexibility, thermal growth, or brittleness.

Metal formers think in terms of "shape it once; reshaping can induce fatigue or unpredictable warping". Unfatigued metal is completely isotropic.

Tailors work with a material that is not only not isotropic, it's not even linearly inhomogeneous. It can be stretched, especially along its diagonals, but sometimes more along weft than warp. If you iron it first its dimensions will change. Ditto if you wash & dry it, or if it is mercerized and then washed after cutting. Most importantly, we construct 3-dimensional curved structures out of it, which end up looking like straight cylinders at a glance (spoiler: they never are!). Oh, and the junctions of these not-cylinders are never right angles, nor even straight lines.

Now, let me begin my thesis on why 2-D pictures will never produce accurate measurements of a 3-D object...
by pandaman | 2026-01-21 20:42:22+00:00
>Lots of useless names and numbers to memorize

Do you have problems with time too? I mean, 1 minute = 60 seconds, 1 hour = 60 minutes, but one day = 24 hours? Wtf??! And one week = 7 days! And one month is 30 unless you mean an actual month which is anywhere from 28 to 31. And the year is 365 days, unless it's a leap year with 366. How do you cope with that?
by da02 | 2026-01-21 20:42:42+00:00
Seems like it should work. I do not have experience with that condition. A quick search online (patella tendonitis hyaluronic acid) yielded this study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22526713/

So they are using hyaluronic acid injections for patella tendonitis. Taking hyaluronic acid orally would probably take longer for effects compared to injections. Most people would prefer the injections because they feel safer for a doctor to do all the work. I prefer the tablets. If you have the money, I guess go for the injections. I would use the H.A. tablets. (With a tall glass of water, and do not take at the same time as blood-thinning medication, like pain killers or drugs.)
by anileated | 2026-01-21 20:42:47+00:00
I'm not sure it's always bad intent. People often don't get that "machine learning" is a compound industrial term where "learning" is not literally "learning" just like "machine" is not literally "machine".

So it's sort of sentient when it comes to training and generating derivative works but when you ask "if it's actually sentient then are you in the business of abusing sentient beings?" then it's just a tool.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2026-01-21 20:42:55+00:00
LLMs really get in the way of computer security work of any form.

Constantly "I can't do that, Dave" when you're trying to deal with anything sophisticated to do with security.

Because "security bad topic, no no cannot talk about that you must be doing bad things."

Yes I know there's ways around it but that's not the point.

The irony is that LLMs being so paranoid about talking security is that it ultimately helps the bad guys by preventing the good guys from getting good security work done.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-21 20:43:08+00:00
Every place where the marketing types are making us take on dev workloads has always deprioritized bugs. The only place I ever worked at where I felt like I could get things done, and done correctly, all the managers were former devs, including the director, and didn't waste any time taking crap from anyone if the dev needed time to make sure he got something done and done correctly. That didn't mean a license to waste time by any means, but it meant we knew we could get things done correctly. Some of our products were completely off the grid once published and might not see updates for months, years, or ever again.
by jen729w | 2026-01-21 20:43:17+00:00
I built my own course presentation platform (for my own courses, not as a thing I resell), but I wasn't going to host my own videos. I use Vimeo. It's great: I upload to them, embed an iframe, job done. I don't care about maintaining a video player or bandwidth or subtitles or…

Literally the week after I launched my thing, they got bought. I have no idea what I'll do if they go to shit.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-21 20:43:23+00:00
> No. It isn't. And if you enable NAT without firewall rules, it will happily expose your internal network to external actors. In fact, that's the whole point of NAT.

How exactly would a regular NAT implementation, such as s consumer router's NAT, remove security compared to a direct connection? Assuming there is no port forwarding configured, the NAT will drop (or NACK) any packets addressed to the router's IP on any port that doesn't correspond to a currently open connection.

Since the machines behind the NAT have RFC1918 addresses, remote actors will not be able to send a packet to them, other than by sending packets to the router's IP.

So, overall, a NAT box with no firewall rules configured still acts like a stateful firewall for remote attackers. It's true that attackers that have access to the WAN port of the router, such as someone infecting your ISP, can still send traffic directly to the RFC1918 addresses behind the router, and the router would deliver them (whereas with a firewall, those would also get dropped). So a firewall is still preferable, but the difference in security is actually quite low.

> In fact, not using IPv4 NAT is enormously more secure than using IPv4 NAT, assuming you're using RFC1918 addresses internally. Primarily because non-NATted RFC1918 addresses won't be forwarded by routers on the Internet (CGNAT notwithstanding).

This statement makes no sense. If you are not using NAT of some kind, and your machines only have RFC1918 addresses, then your machines can't access the Internet at all. Now, sure, that is quite secure - but you can get the exact same security by disconnecting the WAN port of the router, with the exact same effects - so this is quite irrelevant to the use-cases being discussed.
by whit537 | 2026-01-21 20:43:48+00:00
Hey all, I published a documentary yesterday called "Gift Community: A Story About Open Source." I visited the Open Source community in Los Angeles, Denmark, India ... and, yes, Ukraine. I met Poul-Henning Kamp, Mitchell Hashimoto, Kailash Nadh, and many more. Along the way, I slept in an air-raid shelter, flew in Mitchell's private jet, and ventured out into Bangalore traffic. In the doc I tried to weave it all together into a story about "the deeper meaning of Open Source." Curious how I did. :-)
by keeda | 2026-01-21 20:44:15+00:00
Technically correct, but the workarounds AI search engines use for grounding results could be a close enough approximation. Might not be accurate, but could be better than nothing.

Also Anthropic is doing interesting work in interpretability, who knows what could come out of that.

And could be snake oil, but this startup claims to be able to attribute AI outputs to ingested content: https://prorata.ai/
by Stancyhd8 | 2026-01-21 20:44:31+00:00
Thanks so much to Henryclarkethicalhacler for helping me hack into my husband's phone so I could see what he is up to and
I was able to catch him red handed, now I am out and a lot happier credit goes to earlier mention hacker for a
good job. If you are also interested in any hack job you can contact him via his email –
HENRYCLARKETHICALHACKER@ G MAIL. COM

Tell him Victoria refer you
by ghm2199 | 2026-01-21 20:44:33+00:00
Yeah but no one uses it. I am not even sure people that are forced to use it like using it because it was productized it pretty poorly. After all who wants another google? They invested 100 Billion dollars, which is a lot of wasted money TBH.

Search indexes are hard, surely, but if you were to strip it to just a good index on the browser, made it free, kept it fresh, it cannot be 100 billion dollars to build. Then you use this DoJ decision and fight against google to not deny a free index to have equal rights on chrome you can have a massive shot at a win for a LOT less money.
by wavemode | 2026-01-21 20:45:04+00:00
Potential revenue growth is only as finite as your ideas (and ability to execute on them).

Just look at Google. They could have stopped writing new software at any point and been just fine. But in the long run they'd have missed out on trillions of dollars.

As with everything in business, it comes down to risk/reward. Not every risk pays off, but some do.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-21 20:45:11+00:00
You say ZIRP caused this, then cite crypto and AI as continuations, both post-ZIRP. Which is it?

> as long as cheap money is around you could endlessly "engineer" and pivot and bullshit around

I lived this in a particular industry firmly inside the ZIRP era. It doesn't begin to describe how things actually worked. Even if ZIRP is synonymous with endless money to you, on their end, they still had to choose how to allocate it, and it was finite. You don't go to a bank for a loan, you beg people with experience in software to believe you're trending up.

> During the ZIRP era it was all about "engagement" and DAUs/MAUs, then it was blockchain, and now it's all about AI.

Do you genuinely believe DAUs/MAUs stopped mattering once AI arrived?

Your argument requires believing that engineers collectively ran a con that no investor, board member, or executive noticed for a decade—and the only people who figured it out were PE firms after 2022. That's not market correction, that's conspiracy theory dressed in finance vocabulary.

The leveraged buyout model you're praising as "normal capitalism" is itself subsidized by cheap debt. You've correctly identified that cheap money distorts incentives. You've just misidentified which side of the transaction is the distortion.