MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by derefr | 2026-01-20 01:27:17+00:00
> Coming from a software background, this seems bizarre, as if C++ compilers rejected valid programs unless they stuck to easy constructs with obvious assembly implementations.

To my understanding, isn’t it more like there being a perfectly good IR instruction coding for a feature, but with no extant ISA codegen targets that recognize that instruction? I.e. you get stuck at the step where you’re lowering the code for a specific FPGA impl.

And, as with compilers, one could get around this by defining a new abstract codegen target implemented only in the form of a software simulator, and adding support for the feature to that. Though it would be mightily unsatisfying to ultimately be constrained to run your FPGA bitstream on a CPU :)
by djoldman | 2026-01-20 01:27:19+00:00
> _canonicalize_table = str.maketrans(
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_.",
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz--",
)

> ...

> value = name.translate(_canonicalize_table)

> while "--" in value:

> value = value.replace("--", "-")

translate can be wildly fast compared to some commonly used regexes or replacements.
by gruez | 2026-01-20 01:28:02+00:00
>How is it possible that in 2026 we're not notified by default when we connect to a cell tower with no certificate so our communications is being broadcast into the air completely unencrypted?

5G added that with Subscription Concealed Identifier (SUCI), but it's still optional. Certificates also don't work because you need to be able to roam, and doing certificate management for every carrier on earth is fiendishly hard. Not to mention that it's not feasible to hide IMEI before authentication could begin, imagine hiding IP or MAC addresses before a connection can be established, for instance.
by echelon | 2026-01-20 01:28:08+00:00
Have we been having these more recently?

I don't ever recall seeing these in the news so frequently. It feels like there are several a year now. A decade ago, never.

And I also never remember seeing Aurora at my latitudes.

Do we just have better sensing now, or is there some cycle on a period longer than a few years? Or maybe I'm crazy and just never noticed.
by jameskilton | 2026-01-20 01:28:55+00:00
The article misses the other reason that Walmart has invested in multiple attempts at electronic payments: not paying merchant fees to Visa and Mastercard. That's why their system requires you hooking up to your bank account directly.

All of Walmart's attempts at this have been focused on making Walmart's bottom line better, which is why every one of them has failed, whereas Apple Pay is making my payment experience better, and why I use it all the time.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-01-20 01:30:02+00:00
Wrong template. Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_3 (1977) instead.

Or maybe they aren't that competent, lacking collision avoidance systems when out of controlled spacetime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangar_18_(film) :-)

Or are dumb hiveminds, having lost their queen due to whatever, and are only caring about satisfying their craving for catfood like in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9 ?

;-)
by amiga386 | 2026-01-20 01:30:54+00:00
The local community near Aston Villa's grounds, Villa Park, is predominantly Muslim.

Take a look at this map of data from the 2011 census. The dark green lumps in the north-west (>70% Muslim) and the green lumps surrounding them (45%-70% Muslim) are Perry Barr. The whitish lump (0%-5% Muslim) immediately to the east of a dark green lump is Aston.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Islam_Birmingham_201...

May I introduce you to the local MP?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/oct/17/keir-s...

> But the decision has been welcomed by Ayoub Khan, the MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, the constituency where the match will take place. He organised a petition calling for the match to be either cancelled, relocated or held behind closed doors [...]

> Khan is one of the five independent MPs elected at the last election wholly or partly because of their outright opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza and his petition suggests that his opposition to the match going ahead is motivated as much by the desire to make a political point about Israel’s conduct as by concerns about the risk of violence. The petition cites three reasons why the match should not go ahead. One is the “track record of violence by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans”, but the others are the “ongoing genocide in Gaza” and the “wider European context”. The petition says:

> As Israel continues its assault on Gaza, killing thousands and devastating civilian infrastructure, sporting fixtures involving Israeli teams cannot be separated from the wider political context. Hosting such teams sends a message of normalisation and indifference to mass atrocities.

With this in mind, perhaps you can see there was as much a political and sectarian religious element to WMP's decision as there was a security element.
by tsumnia | 2026-01-20 01:31:26+00:00
I'm still on Facebook (and Digg for those HNers that hop on to all the tech boards - you know I see you), but it's to keep up with some family that are there. But I adopted a simple catchphrase (GET OFF THE INTERNET) and time my posts for Sunday mornings to get all them folks that were waking up and immediately scrolling. Repeat that for a few weeks, and I think its helped give people the "please disconnect" message.

I'm a huge wrestling and movie dork, so... screens. And the embedded videos on Reddit didn't help since I could watch wrestling on /r/SquaredCircle rather than support the product I like. In conversations, I've blamed The Walking Dead, as that was the first show I recall encouraging people to "hop online to chat" while the new episodes aired. Then "live tweeting" became a thing and here we are.

Friends and family are still there, but they've at least gone from the "grow your business online" or "complain about politics" to talking about the NFL, or a painting they finished, or some music piece they're working on.

I still want to disconnect more, but we don't really have a cure for "shiny rock addiction" yet.
by alexey-salmin | 2026-01-20 01:32:48+00:00
The only reasonable interpretation of "possibly prefaced" is that the CNAMEs either come first or not at all (hence "possibly"). Nowhere the RFC suggests that they may come in the middle.

Something is broken in Cloudflare since a couple of years. It takes a very specific engineering culture to run the internet and it's just not there anymore.
by andrewinardeer | 2026-01-20 01:33:05+00:00
Any tips on best practices in how one can protect homelab rigs from a Carrington level event? Let's say we were given two days notice that the mother of all S4s was inbound. Just switch everything off?

What if one of my homelabs needed 100% uptime to meet my wife's SLA for messaging? Is this able to be protected?
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 01:34:34+00:00
If it only took 18 months for all that, I'd be very impressed. I was thinking at least a year of inevitable meetings and plannings and maybe 3 years of slow execution. And I still might be optimistic there.

>And what business value does this theoretical “cloud agnosticism” bring - that never is once you get to scale.

The "business value" here is not being beholden to an increasingly hostile "ally" who owns the land these servers operate on. If you aren't worried about that, then there is no point in doing any of this.

But if things do escalate to war, there's a very obvious attack vector to cripple your company with. Even if you're only 20% into the migration, that's better than 0%.
by er4hn | 2026-01-20 01:34:47+00:00
Right, that's the same situation as fuzz testing today, which is why I compared it. I feel like you're gesturing towards "Attackers only need to get lucky once, defenders need to do a good job everytime" but a lot of the times when you apply techniques like fuzz testing it doesn't take a lot of effort to get good coverage. I suspect a similar situation will play out with LLM assisted attack generation. For higher value targets based on OSS, there's projects like Google Big Sleep to bring enhanced resources.
by andyst | 2026-01-20 01:36:05+00:00
in the australian market theres often comparison between how BYD/(chinese brands) may unseat Tesla (as the scale EV first mover), but I haven't seen what I think is the prize, which is BYD want to take on Toyota as the de facto king of global car making. They want the whole car market, not just EV and are already setup to take that on.
by Steven_Vellon | 2026-01-20 01:36:33+00:00
Dire poverty by modern standards, sure. But the 19th century saw a spectacular rise in living standards even for average Britons. The literacy rate in Britain was ~60% for men and 40% for women in 1800, by the end of the century it was near universal for both genders. Life expectancy at birth rose from ~40 to 50. Median wages rose, too, climbing ~50% from 1800 to 1850 (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Real-wages-during-the-pe...).

It is simultaneously true that the average Briton (arguably wealthy Britons, too) in 1900 lived in abject poverty compared to 2025, and the 19th century saw one of the fastest rises in living standards in Britain even among average Britons.
by cbdevidal | 2026-01-20 01:36:50+00:00
That's not the target customer I had in mind, but that might be good. Was thinking of those who have elderly forgetful parents, or my wife. Or my son--we were nearly late to church because as we were pulling out of the driveway, "I think I left the stove on." Sigh.

I know there is a market for it, there are several competing products, but none use an inductive loop for easier install.
by happytoexplain | 2026-01-20 01:36:53+00:00
There are light years of space between the behavior we're seeing now and "a president working to roll back his own power," and even that has arguably happened in many presidencies, depending on what you mean. You would need much more than that to demonstrate anything approaching behavioral parity on this dimension. Otherwise - yes, politicians from every party, forever, everywhere, exhibit some similar faults.
by nobody9999 | 2026-01-20 01:37:03+00:00
>To be absolutely frank, I don't consider the Democrat party as "Left" in any (traditional?) sense at all, even though it may include Left and Left-leaning elements.

The Democratic (not "Democrat", a member of that party is a Democrat, but the party is the "Democratic" Party), and calling it the "Democrat" party has its roots in Republicans deliberately misnaming the party as one of many attempts to devalue and dismiss the Democratic Party. If that's your goal, then please continue. Otherwise, it's like calling an Englishman a Limey or a Pommie just because you've heard others do so.

Otherwise, you're quite correct, in that the US Democratic Party is mostly a center-right party, with it's most progressive/left-wing elements being firmly center-left.
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-20 01:37:20+00:00
It's defunct isn't it? If i'm being kind i would say that Americas strength comes from her people, not the constitution. I do believe that's the truth.

My main complaint on the constitution, is perfectly explained, ironically by the guy trying to defend it

>>Feldman cited another reason to
defend the Constitution: It “has the
capacity to evolve and change.” In
1919, he explained, Supreme
Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jr. “basically invented modern free speech law,” establishing, in a
series of opinions, the now-
fundamental concept that free
expression should be permitted
unless it poses a clear danger to
others. “He understood that the Constitution had to evolve,”
Feldman said.

So there you have it. The reason the constitution is great because judges allow themselves to interpret it in ways it was never intended to be interpreted (sometimes based on loyalty owed to a political faction or) that aligns with the way they want it to be, not the way it is.

That's frankly bonkers. Now i'll get back to my country run by the guys 2/3 of the country voted against, lords, a king and a supreme court run by activist judges with a large portion of our law outsourced to the EU...
by akoboldfrying | 2026-01-20 01:37:31+00:00
What I mean is: There will be bugs* in that pure Go implementation, and static linking means you're baking them in forever. Why is this preferable to dynamic linking?

* It's likely that C implementations will have bugs related to dynamic memory allocation that are absent from the Go implementation, because Go is GCed while C is not. But it would be very surprising if there were no bugs at all in the Go implementation.
by rayiner | 2026-01-20 01:38:05+00:00
The post I was responding to implied that the U.S. enjoyed a special benefit from being the one maintaining the hegemonic world order: “The US's expenditure on its military was never to protect anyone from the Soviets but to impose its own world order against the Soviets, it's been always self-serving.”

If the U.S. obtained such a special benefit, it should have grown faster than western europe from 1950 to 1990, but it didn’t. If that growth comes from peace, not being the hegemon—as you put it, a rising tide lifts all boats—then the U.S. is disproportionately bankrolled a peace that western europe equally benefitted from.

Part of the story here is that international trade just isn’t that important to the U.S. 90% of U.S. GDP is domestic. Just 1.1% is exports to Europe.
by postflopclarity | 2026-01-20 01:38:19+00:00
> We haven't had a president work to roll back his own power,

this is just not true. For example, all under the Obama administration

* the closure of Guantanamo Bay and other black sites, the prohibition of torture as an interrogation method including updates to Army Field Manual and mandatory access of Red Cross to any POW, all represented a significant reduction in executive power in how we treat detainees.

* following the Snowden leaks there were several actions taken to curtail executive power in applying surveillance programs to both US citizens and non-US persons. these also rolled back several components of the PATRIOT act (passed under his predecessor we all know and love, Dubya)

* the signing statements reform meant the executive no longer had an effective line-item veto

* the AG under Obama implemented a new DoJ policy limiting the use of "state secret" privilege during litigations.
by jameslk | 2026-01-20 01:38:20+00:00
> Chief among those hard-wired components, he said, is the Constitution’s focus on states, rather than individual voters, as the basic “representational unit.” That arrangement “shapes all the elements of our electoral and legal system,” Rana said: the House and Senate, the Electoral College, Supreme Court confirmations. And this arrangement is partly why the U.S. Constitution is among the hardest in the world to amend. It doesn’t simply undermine majority rule, he added; the minority it empowers are those who have historically weilded disproportionate influence in the political system.

This is by design. The United States is exactly meant to be that: states that are united, but independent. The federal government was never intended to lord over everyone's lives. The expansion of the federal government, especially the powers of the executive branch, is the problem everyone seems to dislike (when their favored party isn't controlling this branch), and that's what needs to change
by imglorp | 2026-01-20 01:38:24+00:00
Not hard and the glider needn't be special; most already have a stunning glide ratio. I've been up in lesser wave in a clunky old trainer. You do need to coordinate with ATC to keep separation from jets. And the oxygen rig does has to be more serious than a nasal cannula above 18000 ft.

Of course then there's these guys going to 90000 ft ... https://perlanproject.org/
by sklargh | 2026-01-20 01:39:34+00:00
I think Porsche is really in trouble here.

I’m not anti-EV but the electric Macan and Cayenne look awful. They are under equipped technologically relative to their Chinese peers (heck basically anything).

Porsche sort of sold its soul for this tech-forward design but it doesn’t deliver any meaningful benefits, these cars don’t even have level 2+ highway cruise control. In the meantime I get a bunch of crap screens and lose all the glorious physical buttons and I don’t even have a fun engine rumble to make up for it?

So, the cars are ugly and uncool (I grant a matter of taste), aren’t selling in their target market (China) won’t sell meaningfully in their backup market (US) and they’re behind GM, Tesla and BYD in all regards on quality of life stuff.

Not a recipe for endurance.
by postflopclarity | 2026-01-20 01:40:14+00:00
... I mean yeah. because FDR is not relevant. I am speaking about "long term" as in "within the lifetime of individual actors I can name and are political relevant today and are effecting plans making the US dramatically more authoritarian than I remember it to be just a few years ago."

George Washington also increased the power of POTUS substantially, from 0 to 1, but I don't think he's relevant to this discussion either.
by aseg | 2026-01-20 01:40:59+00:00
Gordo and Bruce are pioneers in the gliding world. One of their coolest flights that shows their creative flight planning shows up in their 3000km flight in the Sierra Nevada's, and the build up to it.

Some basics: The major challenge in flying gliders is the inherent stochasticity in the weather system. Think of it as a contextual bandit problem with high variance w.r.t local weather (i.e. Even the best planning cannot help if the weather doesn't comply). We have some observability due to forecasting tools (skysight.io) and any policy must have affordances for pilot skill and a margin of safety. A good pilot (or 'policy') starts with multiple plans, quickly modifies to plans to suit the environment, and can seamlessly switch between plans. The primary "reward signals" are duration of flight, distance covered, and (in competitions) hitting certain waypoints.

Previous WR's for longest flight were mostly in the Andes or Alps. You want to be in a mountain range to utilize either the [ridge lift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orographic_lift) of a mountain face or [mountain wave](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_wave), ideally in a polar region during the summer to maximize the daylight hours so you can fly under VFR for longer.

However, while the Sierra Nevada's have great mountain wave and ridge lift, the number of daylight hours is not ``competitive''. Their main innovation was in acclimatizing themselves with using night vision goggles for long duration in a glider. There's an article on this [here](https://magazine.weglide.org/gliding-at-night-breaking-the-3...) which describes the acclimatizing flights and the 3k km flight in great detail. It doesn't get official recognition because the FAI requires the flight to be done in daylight, but still an extremely cool flight!
by autoexec | 2026-01-20 01:41:01+00:00
> the government if they serve the cell phone company with a warrant or other legal proceedings

The police may have to sometimes jump though a couple of rubber stamped hoops, or hand over stacks of taxpayer money to companies for access to their online law enforcement portals, but the government is already inside taking everything that passes through those companies, using hardware those companies have been forced to install and/or by the outright seizure and occupation of their private property. There's nothing constitutional about it, but this has been true for a very long time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) and it's not going to change.
by softwaredoug | 2026-01-20 01:41:11+00:00
One challenge is the executive can move fast while legislative/courts go slow by design. But the executive needs other slow branches for lasting change.

Remember we were freaking out about a year to six months ago? A lot has either been absorbed into legal precedent, quietly rolled back by Congress / courts. But it takes a long time.

Whatever comes out of these years that lasts will probably be because of SCOTUS more than Trump.
by lgats | 2026-01-20 01:41:49+00:00
https://www.ieso.ca/Sector-Participants/RSS-Feeds/Day-0-Advi...

https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/notificati...

https://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/notices

https://emergencyprocedures.pjm.com/ep/pages/dashboard.jsf
by dijit | 2026-01-20 01:42:24+00:00
You’ve rather missed my point. I’m not saying nothing improved. I’m saying the imperial profits didn’t go to the people doing the dying for empire.

50% wage growth over fifty years whilst Britain’s running the largest empire in history? Compare that to the United States over the same period. The US saw 60% real wage growth from 1860-1890 with no empire whatsoever. If imperial profits were trickling down, you’d expect Britain to outpace non-imperial industrialising nations. It didn’t, if anything it was worse.

The literacy and life expectancy gains you’re citing came from industrialisation and public health reforms, not imperial dividends. Meanwhile the landed gentry who actually controlled the imperial trade were getting obscenely wealthy.

Life expectancy of 50 in 1900 still meant working-class Londoners in overcrowded tenements with open sewers, whilst their supposed countrymen lived in townhouses with servants. The Victorian poor saw industrial revolution gains, not imperial ones.
by appplication | 2026-01-20 01:43:30+00:00
China may become the superpower on volume but I would be surprised if the upper quartile (by price) of western buyers were interested in Chinese vehicles. Too much quality issues across the board on Chinese made products, unless you have a trusted non-Chinese company with stringent quality control (e.g. Apple model).

I’m sure they can handily win the lower end of the market though. And yes I’m aware many western manufacturers are shit tier quality.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 01:43:30+00:00
I don't think the executive overreach happening last year alone can be compared to anything from the D side until you go all the way back to FDR. And that was to establish stuff that actually benefitted us for the next 90 years.

Meanwhile we're in "weekly Watergate" mode right now. If there's nay overreaches from the Biden/Obama era, I'd happily close those loopholes to never have 2025 happen again.
by jsight | 2026-01-20 01:43:38+00:00
Is this shocking? Obviously including PHEVs helps a bit, but even outside of this it is exactly what should be happening. Their biggest sellers are SUVs, and at these price points, the EVs can be substantially than their ICE counterparts. For 2026, they probably won't even need the PHEVs to get there, since the Cayenne EV is the best EV that they've built so far.
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-20 01:44:19+00:00
> This isn't "semantic wankery".

Yeah it is. I never said it wasn't a cash cow. I said "it wasn't the cash cow it once was". I obviously meant relatively compared to other parts of Microsoft's business.

Considering you keep omitting that from what I said to make it look like I am using the phrase incorrectly. I can only assume you are continuing to engage in bad faith.

> Next time you want to use a colloquialism, make sure you look it up first.

I understand what it means fine. I did use it correctly.

> Microsoft Windows still dominates the OS market.

On on laptops and desktops. The vast majority of people at home are using phones and tablets (outside of work usage). In that space Android dominates, then iOS and have done so for about a decade now.

> Feel free to quit this conversation at any time.

You are a clown.