MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-01-23 16:28:40+00:00
> I'm sure some people were motivated by animosity, racism, misogyny.

> Others were likely motivated by things Trump is willing to say out loud ... his policies actively make all those problems worse

These two things are not mutually exclusive, but rather they are directly related. Republicans reflexively categorizing people into "good people" and "other" is exactly what made them not listen to any of the substantive criticism of Trump's "policies" in the context of what he claimed they would achieve [0]

Racism, misogyny, etc form the main structure of this dynamic, because they are straightforward categories that can be quickly judged. Even without any societal history of racism, it's straightforward to adopt a 90% rule that white -> ingroup, and nonwhite -> outgroup. Since this categorization system now has "predictive power" [1], it becomes worth augmenting it with more rules and exceptions. A non-white person can become "one of the good ones" by "acting white". A white woman can remain ingroup-accepted by "knowing her place", or can become part of the outgroup by actively rejecting the heteronormative role (eg declaring herself a lesbian).

After this stews for a while, gaining more and more "predictive power" (aka confirmation bias), there becomes a tacit rule that anybody not nodding in full agreement with the Party mantras is also in the outgroup. Essentially everyone "good" is supporting this particular leader and repeating the litanies of a narrow Overton window - if you're not onboard, then the simple answer is you're not "good" and therefore not worth listening to at all - even if you're merely trying to point out how they are not going to get what they themselves claim to want.

The end result is basically a self-reinforcing cult that goes off the rails of all reason, and here we are.

[0] it's understandable that people reject criticisms of policies that come from a place of judging them with different values. For example, someone arguing that tariffs are bad because free trade is inherently good and brings benefits somewhere else, handwaving about the manufacturing economy being disrupted - not going to be very convincing to anyone that sees the lack of manufacturing jobs as a problem. But here I am talking about criticism within the policies' own stated goals. For example, even accepting the goal of wanting to bring manufacturing back, the current tariff policies are abjectly terrible.

[1] also given an effectiveness boost by most people not seeing a significant number of people from the "obvious outgroup" in their day to day lives, and instead mostly only sees them through mass media which highlights the worst examples
by Yizahi | 2026-01-23 16:28:56+00:00
Yes it is, partly because it was never democratic, and more like a an elective oligarchy. While people's and oligarchy intentions roughly aligned, we thought that "yay, democracy is working!". But as soon as the intentions diverged, this social order is slowly being exposed for what it is.

Why is it not democratic, you may ask? Because not a single one of us across the world had ever voted for or against any of the laws we must comply with (except for some lucky blokes in Switzerland). Laws were written and approved by a small number of individuals and not people.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-23 16:29:11+00:00
The named stack offsets are treated as additional hidden registers, not as additional architectural registers.

You do not access them using architectural register numbers, as you would do with the renamed physical registers, but you access them with an indexed memory addressing mode.

The aliasing between a stack location and a hidden register is of the same nature as the aliasing between a stack location from its true address in the main memory and the location in the L1 cache memory where the the stack locations are normally cached in any other modern CPU.

This optimization present in some Zen CPUs just caches some locations from the stack even closer to the execution units of the CPU core than the L1 cache used for the same purpose in other CPUs, allowing those stack locations to be accessed as fast as the registers.
by HaZeust | 2026-01-23 16:29:25+00:00
While a generalization has the flaws of being, well, a generalization; I've noticed that this trope is at least more true than not when you qualify what TYPE of Democrats and Republicans you're talking about.

I think one is true of the representatives - Democrat constituents generally fall in line without question; whereas I think the other is true of the people - Republican voters generally fall in line without question.

The rot is deep for the constituents on either side, however. There's a LOT of incentive to preserve party/ideological status quo regardless of where you land.
by pyuser583 | 2026-01-23 16:29:26+00:00
I'm sure fights happen all the time over inter-service autonomy. There was a book written recently about very nasty fighting between the CIA and DEA over whether to support a group of anti-communist guerillas who financed by running drugs.

The CIA and DEA switched positions repeatedly: one day the CIA wanted to support them to fight communism, and the DEA wanted to cut them off to stop the supply of drugs. When communism fell, the CIA saw the group as a liability who knew too much, while the the DEA wanted to pay them to destroy their drug labs and plant licit crops.

The group ended up destroying their drug labs, and focusing on money laundering, ransomware, and crypto-scams, which neither the CIA nor DEA cared about.

But the CIA is very consistent in following state department policies. They jealously guard their ability to delivery intelligence that conflicts with State Department priorities, but they don't have any strong priorities that conflict with those of State.

I'm sure things need to be ironed about by the NSA/NSC. That's normal. But the CIA isn't going fight the State department like they fight the DEA.

I'm open to correction on this. Maybe I'm just not understanding the situation.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-23 16:29:27+00:00
What some do not see, and it may even be an age thing, is that over the past ~2 decades the definition of liberal has changed in a very substantial way.

In the early 2000s I was anti-war, anti-intervention, pro free speech, pro freedom of equality, against politicians trying to legislate morality or speech in any way, and thought we should have a strong border but with good immigration opportunities to allow the best to come and make the country even better. I was a fairly text book liberal, perhaps a bit more left than average. I still hold, more or less, these same values - yet somehow in contemporary times that's deemed conservative, if not very conservative.

Why this happened is an interesting question, but it's ultimately irrelevant. It has happened. And so it's predictably going to have long-term consequences for the parties. Basically we keep using the same names for these ideologies, but the values they represent shift, and even flip flop, in dramatic ways over time frames that, in hindsight, seem extremely rapid. Yet paradoxically, it's not like there's any given year or election where you can officially say that issue [x] suddenly flipped.
by vidarh | 2026-01-23 16:29:46+00:00
Do you know how to write the code you write in assembler instead of a higher level language? How many of your peers do?

Most "know what has to be done, but not quite how it is done". This is just another level of abstraction.

I learnt the lesson 30+ years ago that while it was (and still occasionally is) useful to understand the principles of assembly, it had become useless to write assembly outside of a few narrow niches. A decade later I moved from C and C++ to higher level languages again.

Moving up the abstraction levels is learning leverage.

I deliver far more now - with or without AI - than I did when I wrote assembler, or C for that matter. I deliver more again with AI than without.

That's what matters.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-23 16:30:02+00:00
Again, there are not. The number has fallen significantly...I am not sure what you are arguing with (or why). You can just check because the number of police and the number of traffic police is reported. If you just Google, you will see that the current staffing level for overnight in Scotland is two cars for traffic police.

I live in a rural area, I have done so for two/three decades. When I moved here, you very often saw police doing speed checks because I live in an affluent area and the police would come out if you asked the right people. I don't think I have seen that for fifteen years. Again though, the data is that the number is way down since consolidation...which was the point and stated aim of the policy.

Hilarious to see pearl-clutching when people point out the SNP has been doing this after complaining about the Tories. This is why the UK is so shit, reality doesn't matter, just politics.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-23 16:30:08+00:00
Democracy has been a pretty consistent desire among large numbers of people for a long time now. I don't see that ending any time soon. I do think things will get worse before they get better, because we have a hard time learning from history. The reasons for wanting democracy are too abstract right now. Once enough people get smacked in the face by them and learn why democracy is good, it will turn around. Unfortunately, those of us who do understand history have to learn this lesson alongside them.
by Nauxuron | 2026-01-23 16:30:18+00:00
This really does not need to be that hard. For TLS, many tools support setting the SSLKEYLOGFILE environment variable to log the session keys used in connections. Wireshark can import those to decrypt everything. [1]

Unfortunately, nothing exists for SSH (yet?). [2]

I do agree that if you design a protocol that enforces encryption, you should include some debugging interface. It is much more straightforward to do this by logging the session secrets on the endpoints rather than trying to break it through a man-in-the-middle, the main thing the protocol is protecting you against.

[1]: https://wiki.wireshark.org/TLS

[2]: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/16054
by 0x1ch | 2026-01-23 16:30:29+00:00
About six months ago I switched to completely self hosted email in Hetzner, waited the billing period to receive outbound access, but still use free forwarding for outbound by default. People always complain on forums about the struggles of self hosting, but outside of an occasional email I have to whitelist because of spam filters, it's nearly hands free (mailcow).

I setup aliases for every single one of my existing protonmail and gmail accounts, and now have them forward to my aliases. I can still use my old accounts, but everything is now ran through my systems, my data that I control.

I recommend others look at doing the same.
by RansomStark | 2026-01-23 16:30:42+00:00
that's difficult when most post is dropped in a metal box on a street. But I'd argue that not the issue people have with the way these laws work in practice.

For those that don't use the UK postal service, Royal Mail has a recorded delivery option that can show that, at least something, mostly likely what was sent, was delivered to the address.

The issue here is that the UK government has given itself a pass that, 'trust us, we sent it' is fair and legal, while at the same time refusing to allow not the government to use the same argument.

People tend to get upset when laws and legal defenses are asymmetric, doubly so when its skewed to protect the bureaucracy at the expense of the citizen.

Just for reference the Royal Mail uses complaints to track losses, in the year 2017-2018, Royal Mail received 250,000 complaints for lost items, out of around 6 billion items processed [0]. Of course that requires that the sender somehow knows that the item was lost, so losses are likely significantly higher.

Without a recorded delivery, 'I never received what you sent' should absolutely be a valid defense. Although, 'Trust me I sent it', should not be a valid argument for either side, unless they can show that the item was send and received.

[0] https://descrier.co.uk/business/how-frequently-is-post-lost-...
by Ir0nMan | 2026-01-23 16:30:42+00:00
Right now, you need a guaranteed paycheck, not a speculative project.

A side hustle might replace your income one day, but it won’t move fast enough to solve a six-month rent deficit. Focus 100% of your energy on securing a job first; once your housing is stable, you can use your off-hours to build that $10k idea.
by lorenzleutgeb | 2026-01-23 16:31:28+00:00
Currently, with Radicle still under active development, we already reach convergence times that are negligible for async collaboration (like working on code or issues). Working on a well-seeded repo, my changes sync to ~10 nodes within a tenth of a second and with ~80 nodes within 3 seconds.

This is obviously not fast enough for sync collaboration, like writing on a virtual whiteboard together, but that's also not what Radicle is designed for. Also, if you share larger files (e.g. you attach a screenshot to your issue) the above times might not be a good estimation anymore, but that's the exception for now.

It's really strange to see that people assume that peer to peer networks somehow must be slow. In my experience, since everything runs locally, working with Radicle feels way more snappy than any web interface, which has lots of latency on every so-odd click.

As the network scales, it'll of course take some care to keep the speed up, but that's known and there are a few models to take inspiration from.
by r_lee | 2026-01-23 16:31:41+00:00
Is anyone actually like super hyped about "Building AI Agents" with this and that? I wish I could get excited and just become a 100% AI Agwnt vibecoding all day and building AI agents to do AI stuff but like, I don't know?

Is there a crowd that just drools whenever a new way to "Build AI Agwnts" or "Agentic Workflows" comes out or something?
by dc396 | 2026-01-23 16:31:46+00:00
As others have pointed out, using 'tmptest' works until someone buys tmptest -- unlikely, but people will buy anything these days.

I always use the ISO-3166 "user-assigned" 2-letter codes (AA, QM-QZ, XA-XZ, ZZ), with the theory being that ISO-3166 Maintenance Agency getting international consensus to move those codes back to regular country codes will take longer than the heat death of the universe, so using them for internal domains is probably safe.
by clircle | 2026-01-23 16:31:49+00:00
Guix is the combination of so many cool things: declarative OS, lisp programming, hygenic development, bootstrapping. I'm totally sold on Guix, and have been using it on an old laptop for the last few months. I'm looking forward to putting in on my desktop when I have some free time. I love love love having my whole system (and home) instantiated from a small set of text files.
by jasode | 2026-01-23 16:32:06+00:00
>That's because they put their alerts in the gmail web interface :-/

I agree and that's what I meant by Google's "web apps" having promos about Gemini.

But in terms of accessing Gmail accounts via the IMAP protocol in Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple Mail client, etc, there are no spam emails about Gemini AI. Google could easily pollute everybody's gmail inboxes with endless spam about Gemini such that all email clients with IMAP access would also see them but that doesn't seem to happen (yet). I do see 1 promo email about Youtube Premium over the last 5 years. But zero emails about Google's AI.
by shykes | 2026-01-23 16:32:10+00:00
What I would tell my younger self:

Only listen to your users and customers, ignore everyone else.

Don't hire an external CEO unless you're ready to leave. Hiring a CEO will not fix the loneliness of not having a co-founder.

Having haters is part of success. Accept it, and try to not let it get to you.

Don't partner with Red Hat. They are competitors even though they're not honest about it.

Not everyone hates you even though it may seem that way on hacker news and twitter. People actually appreciate your work and it will get better. Keep going.
by amjadfatmi1 | 2026-01-23 16:32:20+00:00
Hey @yaront111, Cordum looks like a solid piece of infrastructure especially the Safety Kernel and the NATS based dispatch.

My focus with Faramesh.dev is slightly upstream from the scheduler. I’m obsessed with the Canonicalization problem. Most schedulers take a JSON payload and check a policy, but LLMs often produce semantic tool calls that are messy or obfuscated.

I’m building CAR (Canonical Action Representation) to ensure that no matter how the LLM phrases the intent, the hash is identical. Are you guys handling the normalization of LLM outputs inside the Safety Kernel, or do you expect the agent to send perfectly formatted JSON every time?
by JohnMakin | 2026-01-23 16:32:22+00:00
I have been studying and practicing tibetan buddhism for a little over a year now, particularly dream yoga, but branched into some of the other practices. I'm always a skeptic but it is fascinating some of the stuff they can do. There is scientific evidence they can raise and lower their body temperatures through meditation, withstanding great heat/cold and deprivation conditions. I've played around with deprivation and what it has done for my mental health and body has surprised me. I'm but a novice, but I absolutely believe they are tapping into something scientific about the body/mind that is still unknown.

There are reasons to be extremely skeptical about some of their claims, but, some of it is very interesting and credible.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-23 16:32:41+00:00
> he's showing how placing different objects on the resonators changes their tone

"Have you ever thought re-patching your modular synth was too easy? Here, now your drum machine can be even harder to recreate the sound you liked last week!"

A joke, but was immediately what jumped out as scary. Not gonna lie, looks like a fun machine, but for that money, I tend to buy stuff I can use and recall old patches with. Although except for the modular obviously :/
by poemxo | 2026-01-23 16:32:52+00:00
To add on to this, in some organizations it's easier to assess risk according to RMF and similar frameworks if the application ships with stunnel and is configured from within than it is for the application to require a system-level VPN like Wireguard.

That said, I think Wireguard is easier to analyze on the wire since it has a known binary signature from the first 4 bytes, while stunnel tunnel is indifferentiable from web browsing traffic. For a bad actor looking into exfil or C2, this means an stunnel is probably the sneakier and thus more reliable method of encryption on the wire compared to wireguard.
by theptip | 2026-01-23 16:33:15+00:00
Some of these esoteric states are really weird, and it seems crazy to me that we are only now investigating them. This isn’t just “energy” woo that can’t be measured, there are clear physical phenomena.

Another good one is Niroda Samapatti (cessation) where advanced meditators can momentarily cease awareness https://awakeningdharma.org/havard-study-on-nirodha-samapatt...
by miyoji | 2026-01-23 16:33:29+00:00
That's not really what happens at all. The characters on the show never make the critical discoveries or are responsible for the major breakthroughs, they're competing in markets that they ultimately cannot win in, because while the show is fictional, it also follows real computing history.

(MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW)

For example, in the first season, the characters we follow are not inventing the PC - that has been done already. They're one of many companies making an IBM clone, and they are modestly successful but not remarkably so. At the end of the season, one of the characters sees the Apple Macintosh and realizes that everything he had done was a waste of time (from his perspective, he wanted to change the history of computers, not just make a bundle of cash), he wasn't actually inventing the future, he just thought he was. They also don't really start from being underfunded unknowns in each season - the characters find themselves in new situations based on their past experiences in ways that feel reasonable to real life.
by cbeach | 2026-01-23 16:33:33+00:00
If you'd seen the before/after video clips you'd understand that this is a pretty big deal. The BBC spliced two separate video clips nearly 1hr apart to make out that Trump was an insurrectionist.

Original quote:

"We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women"

Manipulated BBC version of quote:

"We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjPlfUt4S9U
by afandian | 2026-01-23 16:33:47+00:00
They have visible pickups, which presumably have a permanent magnet core.

But how are the resonators getting 'plucked'? Is it the same electromagnet as the pickup or a separate one? I can't imagine those two modes would work well. (i.e. dumping current across the coil would make the magnet want to escape)

Perhaps there's a field coil instead of a permanent magnet?
by mothballed | 2026-01-23 16:33:59+00:00
I think it's drifting further from even that.

The people have discovered they can vote OPM to themselves and their pet causes. ICE now has a budget 4x the size of the marine corps. SS fund is on its way to bankruptcy. Corporations get all kinds of subsidies. Farmers get their own subsidies. And it goes on and on.

Meanwhile the national debt just keeps going up.

As each guy pays more OPM to the next guy he keeps asking more for more OPM for himself to cover the OPM he's losing to others. Eventually the portion of the economy that is one big circle jerk ratchets up and then if it goes on too long the whole thing collapses.