MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jiveturkey | 2026-01-14 05:12:44+00:00
I was going to suggest LoRA.

But a country-sized network with the purpose of evading a blackout would likely have to be full mesh. A network organized into a hierarchy (aggregated routing tables) requires some coordination that could quickly be identified and squashed.

The size of such a mesh is limited by scaling factors, so this couldn't span a nation. Let's say you could do that though. The network would be completely choked up with traffic to the point of unusability.

I think starlink, satphone, maybe packet radio on small scale are the most realistic options.
by zelon88 | 2026-01-14 05:12:45+00:00
So far we're 1 full year early according to "AI 2027". (1)

"OpenBrain presents Agent-2 to the government, including the National Security Council (NSC), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI). "

(1) https://ai-2027.com
by qubex | 2026-01-14 05:13:34+00:00
Yeah I read that but what I meant (and failed to express clearly, I openly admit) is that I hope it doesn’t somehow become core functionality you’re kinda-sorta expected to have. Pages and Numbers work fine and I’d be willing to go back to paying for them as was true back in the iLife days (I still have an iLife ‘06 or ‘09 distribution CD or DVD on my shelf in a storeroom) but paying a subscription for creative apps I just never use just to get stuff everybody will expect you to have in productivity apps is a path I hope they don’t go down. Incidentally what Numbers really lacks is a circular converge-to-solution mode like Excel has had for decades, that would make it a serious tool tor simple business planning and financial projections.
by OneMorePerson | 2026-01-14 05:13:41+00:00
I do always find it funny when people online bring up Japan as the leader of keeping housing affordable. Pretty sure the average income to house price ratio in Tokyo is much worse than it is in major US cities. (If I'm wrong on that data someone correct me, I'm basing it off of mental math of house prices I saw on a sign and salaries friends told me).
by idiotsecant | 2026-01-14 05:13:49+00:00
The internet of 2025 isn't the same thing at all. The early internet was a toy - a place for deviants and weirdos to do weird deviant things (and it was glorious). The rest of humanity found it and turned it into a mirror of the real world. That doesn't make it bad, in some ways it makes it better, in some ways worse, just definitely different.
by goku12 | 2026-01-14 05:15:01+00:00
I agree with you fully on this. Unfortunately, the odds are stacked very unfavorably against us. It's not just the manufacturers who resort to these underhanded profiteering tactics. Even the regulatory agencies are for locking down the firmware.

Their argument is that an unlocked firmware would allow us to override regulatory restrictions like the RF output power or the IMEI number. That argument has some merit. However, my opinion is that such restrictions should be implemented as hardware interlocks that are unchangeable through software. Thus, we would be free to change the software as we like. Sadly, both the manufacturers and the regulatory agencies tend to completely ignore that solution, so that they can retain their excess control.
by xp84 | 2026-01-14 05:16:26+00:00
Indeed. The biggest election win she had outside of San Francisco prior to her coronation as the nominee in 2024 was a Senate special election where she drew 40% of voters. 3 million Californians voted for her out of 7.5 million voters. California has 39 million residents, but about 5 million are non-citizens.

Actually more Californians voted for the Republican against her in the 2014 election for attorney general, than voted for Harris when she later ran for Senate in the special election.

Obama by contrast had won 3.6 million votes, in a smaller state, for a decisive 70% win in his Senate race.

Harris was a joke of a candidate who was obviously unelectable outside of a deep blue state, but she was forced on us so the DNC could virtue signal. It was a slap in the face to every qualified Democrat, many of whom would have had a chance to defeat Trump (a low bar if there ever was one).

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Kamala_Ha...

https://www.ppic.org/publication/immigrants-in-california/
by jmathai | 2026-01-14 05:16:51+00:00
I am super curious about this. I wonder baseline it needs to meet to pull me away from using ChatGPT or Claude.

My usage of it would be quite different than ChatGPT. I’d be much freer in what I ask it.

I think there’s a real opportunity for something like this. I would have thought Apple would have created it but they just announced they’ll use Gemini.

Awesome launch Moxie!
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-14 05:17:18+00:00
> But I don't understand the distinction in "kinds of murder" that you are describing; murder is always a felony

“Felony murder” is not “murder which is a felony” but “murder where malice is established not by, by the fact that the death was the consequence of the commission of a felony by the perpetrator, rather than by intent to kill or any of the other alternatives”.

> Obstructing federal officers in their duty is a federal offense

There is no reasonable case, based on any of the video I've seen, continuously from before to through the incident, to be made that she could reasonably be perceived to have been doing that when they exited their vehicle and accosted her.
by cal_dent | 2026-01-14 05:17:32+00:00
I suspect there is more propaganda warfare (online) between ideological different countries everyday than we think. Spend enough time online and you'd think Ukraine is populated by not so undercover Nazis, everyone wakes up stabbing each other in the UK, China is about collapse economically today, Dubai is the only place worth living on earth, Australia is just one big disability scam paradise etc....
by phito | 2026-01-14 05:17:53+00:00
It's crazy how some people here will just make all the assumptions possible in order to refuse to believe you. Anyone who's used a good model with open code or equivalent will know that it's plausible. Refactoring is really cheap now when paired with someone competent.

I'm doing the same as your co-founder currently. In a few days, I've rewritten old code that took previous employees months to do. Their implementation sucked and barely worked, the new one is so much better and has tests to prove it.
by kijin | 2026-01-14 05:18:14+00:00
Agreed, it just means "linear" for most people.

I think the obsession with a linear master/main is a leftover from the time when everyone used a centralized system like svn. Git wasn't designed like that; the Linux kernel project tells contributors to "embrace merges." Your commit history is supposed to look like a branching river, because that's an accurate representation of the activity within your community.

I think having a major platform like github encourages people to treat git as a centralized version control system, and care about the aesthetics of their master/main branches more than they should. The fact the github only shows the commit history as a linear timeline doesn't help, either.
by aforwardslash | 2026-01-14 05:19:01+00:00
The game changer for me was atomoxetine. Also, getting vitamin deficiencies under control (D/B12).

I often work on several projects at the same time, and that sort of "keeps everything interesting"; I also have some personal projects, that may or may not get attention depending on my enthusiasm. I often take notes on things/thoughts/ideas, but they work mostly as a mnemonic to help me recall details.

> Oh and how do you switch off?

That's the trick :) I dont.
by abetusk | 2026-01-14 05:19:47+00:00
I don't claim there's any easy answer.

To your point, market rewards are complex and doesn't always reward closed source. I would say the markets can reward companies that add value, and companies can add value by servicing a demand at reduced costs. One cost reduction measure is to use FOSS. For example, if you're building a data center, one cost saving measure is to use Linux as the underlying operating system over MS Windows.

I partially agree that pressuring consumers has issues, but the consumers we're talking about in this context are programmers, software developers, electrical engineers and other technically minded folk. Many projects only target dozens or hundreds "consumers" and, for those, advocating for purchasing FOSS might be a valid strategy.

I'm open to regulation but it's a coarse tool that favors large corporations. In my opinion, one way to larger regulation is to start small, show value from a growing community adoption and then try to push bigger. Linux was a toy operating system until it wasn't.

One minor point on regulation: From what I understand, there are some stipulations for (US) government grants to ensure FOSS artifacts get produced. I think violations of these conditions is common place. So we needed regulation in this area, we successfully got it and now we see that it's only as good as enforcement.
by dimatura | 2026-01-14 05:20:03+00:00
I preordered the hardware version sometime before it was released. At a $50 price point, I thought it was worth a gamble. I wasn't disappointed! It's more of a hacker's device at the moment - for better or worse - but it's fairly powerful under the hood. AMY is a very impressive synth. And the device is clearly a labor of love from the creator.
by Velofellow | 2026-01-14 05:21:15+00:00
At least in Texas, I've seen this go both ways in practice. There is definitely some 'give something to get something' action that helps grease the wheels early on in the permitting or development process.

Years later, Some developments / developers will petition to annex themselves from the outer reaches of their adjacent jurisdictions to prevent the city from growing into these areas and 1) exerting control and 2) obtaining the roads, utilities and treatment facilities, and drainage facilities. Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs) are a popular avenue for this, and arguably works in some cases. Adjacent cities may not have the existing tax base, utility infrastructure and operations, and public works to support the type of growth in some areas. My experience is just in the past ~7 years working in the Civil field in Texas. Probably variations on this across the US at least.

Funny you mention schools, because on at least one project of mine, we've constructed a public middle & high school along with a charter school on-premise. No doubt that was a big selling pitch during the early development meetings.
by theahura | 2026-01-14 05:22:08+00:00
I love 1k bwc, just played it at a friend's going-away party. It's surprisingly hard to explain to folks who have never played before -- there's a lot of 'wait, what am I even supposed to do?' But if you have any friends in improv or folks who are good at coming up with clever cards, it's a lot of fun
by kiwih | 2026-01-14 05:23:29+00:00
There's a drinking game which I guess is inspired by this game, which I believe is called "Pizza Box" (at least that's what everyone I ever met who knew it called it).

You start with an empty pizza box, and you need a large coin (the Australian 50 cents works well) and a sharpie.

Play progresses around the circle of players. Each player must flip the coin into the box. If they intersect no other circles, they draw a circle around the coin with the sharpie, and then write a rule into the circle (Whatever rule they come up with must fit legibly). They can change any aspect of the game. If you intersect with a circle, instead, that rule is activated. Just like 1000 cards, that could impact everyone, just you, whatever...

We usually got to a point where someone added a circle to "end the game", which then people might aim for - but usually only after a couple of hours of merriment!
by lovehashbrowns | 2026-01-14 05:24:28+00:00
I love this decision from Bandcamp. If you have seen sites like DeviantArt collapse because of AI generated trash you’ll know what it’s like for these services to completely collapse under the flood of inauthentic AI slop. They become unusable. I ended up deleting my DA last year and it looks like I’ll continue to be a Bandcamp user for many more years. I’ve found a bunch of my favorite bands from Bandcamp! No Point in Living, Iapetus, Unreqvited! Just to name a few.
by goku12 | 2026-01-14 05:24:44+00:00
I'm pleasantly surprised to see this opinion gain popularity on HN. When I raise the same point, someone usually replies with a cynical and sometimes snarky dismissal. I just wrote a long rant about it [1] in support of somebody else who made the same point.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612531
by fspeech | 2026-01-14 05:25:29+00:00
A lot of Chinese internet commentators are very ignorant of the reality in the US, but the Economist's riposte is weird too. For example how is the Chinese property malaise, which reflects an oversupply of housing and largely affordability of rent, somehow a refutation to the Chinese focusing on US homelessness? Is the Economist's position that they should create housing shortage to shore up the economy?
by maxbond | 2026-01-14 05:25:46+00:00
> You don't want folks to be able to iterate each object by incrementing the id

If you have a lot of public or semi-public data that you don't want people to page through, then I suppose this is true. But it's important to note that separate natural and primary keys are not a replacement for authorization. Random keys may mitigate an IDOR vulnerability but authorization is the correct solution. A sufficiently long and securely generated random token can be used as both as an ID and for authorization, like sharing a Google Doc with "anyone who has a link," but those requirements are important.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-14 05:26:42+00:00
If Trump were a bank robber and no one reported the bank robberies to police, but years later decided to "come out" and tell of how he robbed banks no reasonable person would think he was a bank robber based on that unfounded, unreported, unconvicted accusation.

But rape is the special crime, more special than any other, and the accusation should be enough, right? For that matter, we might even say women who don't report rape to the authorities in a timely manner are denying the accused the right to fight the allegations properly in court, so that the unsubstantiated allegations stain their reputation forever.
by stephenr | 2026-01-14 05:26:47+00:00
> at some point you’re going to need some additional tooling to make it feasible.

I mean sure, most people will pick some kind of abstraction over parsing and constructing raw HTTP messages.

But it boggles the mind that apparently a large chunk of "developers" cannot see the insanity in writing XML to generate JavaScript which generates HTML and CSS because they want to write `<Button variant="primary">Save</Button>` rather than... `<button class="primary">Save</button>`.

Like I said earlier: so much of the folly in the NodeJS community looks like bizarre adoration of early-2000s J2EE stack.

You have a language that requires no AOT.. ah better invent increasingly convoluted and ever-changing build processes for it.

You're writing output that's essentially just a string to be sent over the wire... ah better create a wrapper for the wrapper that creates the service which renders the string.

But sure. That is totally a rational approach to development, and the nodejs community has never shown itself to be prone to chasing shiny useless things or cargo culting. I must just be overreacting.
by seongjaeryu | 2026-01-14 05:27:33+00:00
Thanks for the comment, veeduzyl — honestly just happy to see the first reply!

I might be missing something, but I’m exploring Bindly more as a shared,
cloud-based memory layer that multiple chat agents can reference, rather than
a single tool with its own analytics.

I’m still very early and figuring this out as I go.

By the way, it looks like you’re experimenting with similar constraints around
feedback and telemetry — if your project is public, I’d genuinely be curious
to check it out!
by rayxi271828 | 2026-01-14 05:28:06+00:00
Slang? The IDE looked like Turbo C++ of old (blue, text based interface). Shortcuts are weird, so you need to remap keys to get sane defaults.

Probably the most unique feature is that the language supports spaces in identifiers. So you'd have variables like "Option Portfolio Risk" or functions like "Calculate Estimated PnL". Visually obviously different from Python, but it gave me Pythonic vibes.

It's also nice that it supports preconditions, so you can specify the valid range of arguments etc. It has some kind of OOP support but tbh it felt bolted on (understandably).

But the most value adding, IMHO, is the DevEx and deep integration with SecDb. Say what you want about the DOS-like IDE and the old (20+ years old for sure, maybe 30+) language, but you can deploy your code SO easily into production, with guardrails in place.

Out of cusiority, I implemented a toy language (thanks to Robert Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters) that supports spaces in identifiers (https://github.com/rayfdj/gaul-lang) as well. Makes for an interesting weekend coding project, and it helps me understand more the tradeoffs that Slang designers must have gone through.
by justsomehnguy | 2026-01-14 05:28:35+00:00
> After 60,000 sucks on the teat

> sucking on the teat

And this, kids, this is how an adult sucks when he tries to adulting.

And if you want for people to reconsider something they are doing you reaaaally shouldn't insult them in the first place. Even if you are grown-ass adult who can't stand that something.
by cthor | 2026-01-14 05:30:28+00:00
I read what you wrote and read it as sophistry. You reply by adding more.

"It's why you believe [...]" But you don't know what I believe.

"Scott Adams claimed [...] because of a response to a survey question [...]" But his statement is, if one applies some very basic "media literacy" (as you like to call it), clearly rhetorical, with the underlying message that there seems to be a lot of racial hatred from blacks towards whites in the United States in 2023, and that this racial hatred seems to be institutionally supported, and that as a white person of means he'll use his means to avoid this racial hatred and suggests others do the same. The cited survey is merely one data point he presents to support this belief. Arguing as if he arrived at this conclusion purely off of that alone is total sophistry.

I don't live in the US, so perhaps that will give you some reprieve. Scott Adams might well have been wrong. I don't claim to know here if he was, just that you haven't actually contended with his position at all despite writing a lot of angry words, and that this excess of sophistry justifies a dismissive response.
by zelon88 | 2026-01-14 05:30:51+00:00
That's a good point. In America we call this type of deposit a "core charge." The "core" is the component you return to the store to get your deposit back.

This is done for components like starter motors, alternators, power steering pumps, batteries, and a variety of other components. The complex components are re-manufactured to like-new specifications and the less complex components are recycled to recover materials. The battery is a probably the only component where the potential ecological impact drives the cost of the deposit.
by Domenic_S | 2026-01-14 05:31:02+00:00
yeah, e-waste recyclers suck, they love to ship it all to the 3rd world where piles of circuit boards get tossed in an open fire and stirred by kids to reclaim the metals.

Here's a slightly old investigation finding 40% of ewaste being shipped off to china: https://www.ban.org/news-new/2016/9/15/secret-tracking-proje...
by kamaal | 2026-01-14 05:31:17+00:00
>>I would consider that overly wasteful.

ChatGPT tells me thats very likely Puya PY32F002A and that can be as cheap as $0.0682 a piece if you order 5000 and upwards, which should be fairly the case for a mass market vape.

Hearing the term microcontroller makes you feel like a lot of compute capacity is being wasted. This is what you get in that microcontroller-

Puya PY32F002A: Cortex-M0+, up to 24 MHz, up to 20 KB Flash, 3 KB SRAM, ADC, timers, I²C/SPI/USART; available in QFN20/TSSOP20.

Its basically a small battery, a display and a microcontroller to show you battery charge and vape fluid levels. Mostly ADC work and display.
by SecondChancemnd | 2026-01-14 05:31:41+00:00
Currently working on a method to recycle / repurpose the li-ion cells obtained from the disposable vapes, trying to scale up the recycling effort by releasing products to fund the manpower required to breakdown and sort the vape components . Getting close to releasing the first 100 demo models of the product for stress testing in the wild. Currently based in the greater Seattle area and here is a link to my site if anyone wanted to know more:
https://2ndchancemnd.com/
by AuryGlenz | 2026-01-14 05:32:47+00:00
If a show that mostly featured black people was cancelled due to "looking at where it had successes and wanting a coherent demographic story to sell to advertisers and in an era where synergies between the appeals of shows on the same network was important to driving ratings, working to rearrange its offerings to focus on targeting White audiences," would you so readily dismiss the creator at being miffed at that?
by js8 | 2026-01-14 05:34:13+00:00
> No authoritarian regime wants to go down the same way Gorbachev, Husak, and Honecker did by meeting the opposition halfway.

What "regime wants" is irrelevant. "Regime" is a collective construct, and people can collectively change it. Which is what happened there, and I think it shows that peaceful transition is possible. The way these regimes have changed was by people collectively realizing they don't want it, without foreign interference.

In this case, authoritarian U.S. (and possibly also Russia) projecting power into Iran is making things worse. (Czechoslovakia was in that situation - on the way to peaceful transition - in 1968, but it was externally interrupted from Russia.)

> I sincerely hope the Iranian people get the ability to choose the government that is right for them, but based on the lived experiences of my friends and family in authoritarian states, I sadly think the Iranian regime will stand.

I agree with you, and I said above that I believe it is too violent (and you confirm that). There is decent amount of research that shows that nonviolence is a more reliable way to change regimes towards democracy.
by loeg | 2026-01-14 05:35:07+00:00
> Nearly all the plastic humans have made still exists.

And it just doesn't matter. It's a tiny amount of mass / volume.

> The great garbage patch in the Pacific is growing fast.

Ocean plastics are almost entirely a consequence of (particularly Indonesian) fishing net waste, not Western consumer products disposed of in managed landfills. The "great garbage patch" is also very much overstating the scale of the problem; it's a slightly higher plastic density region of ocean.
by spiddy | 2026-01-14 05:35:53+00:00
Weirdly this reminds me of the Raft consensus protocol: two nodes cancel each other when failing consensus as you can't tell which is the valid one, three gives you better chances, if one fails you have the other two that can get consensus. Of course in the off chance you have two failures you cannot get consensus with the only living node. Adding another two nodes make you robust to two failures.

Now replace fail with lying and you have the exact same problem.