MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aswegs8 | 2026-01-03 19:46:00+00:00
Looking just at the facts, the action to take over Venezuela seems to be a good decision.

1. Public opinion isn't as important anymore, as Trumpism has found a way to flood the zone with so much shit, they have many more options

2. International environment looks way harsher and less cooperative, stressing the need to gain resources/influence

3. Resource rich, unstable country that has been in the headline and run down for years, right on the doorstep of the US

If they really gain access to all that oil the challenges US hegemony is bolstered up again. Seems low risk high reward. If they give it the facade of legitimacy by installing a local puppet government, they might get away with it.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-03 19:46:33+00:00
I have a harm time taking the submission at face value. It's wild to me to see MSNBC / MS NOW casting such stones.

There doesn't seem to be any attempt there to find merit. Well other than the brief second paragraph, which just notes:

> and I especially enjoy fewer neo-Nazis advocating violence responding to my posts.

There's no looking at how there's a public API, there's no looking at how there are other apps all working on atproto. They don't cite any of the bad experiences where they felt wronged. It's a hit piece.

> Bluesky promotes groupthink. It’s easy to feel an illusory sense of consensus when most everyone seemingly agrees on a surface level on who the villains are. But political thinking cannot be refined without intense interrogation, friction and dissent. Bluesky’s mainstream scene is cocooned, insulated against sustained confrontation from either its left or its right.

And it's just wrong. I love this challenge here, I think this speaks to an amazing virtuous and right stance. But I see it all the time. There is a lot of agreeing about how wild the Supreme Court has been in tearing down hundreds of years of law, how ridiculously off the map the GOP is, how batshit ludicrous this grifter pedophile in the white house is. But that's all true actually? And I do see a lot of debate and engagement and questioning, discussion of topics. Sometimes it is a contest of the loudest typer winning, but overall I find Bluesky really far more interested in good engagement and discussion, better at looking for signal than anywhere else. (And we have Will Stancil posts to debate, lol.)

There's a non-zero chance that Bluesky feels boring because it's actually a somewhat reasonable place, with reasonable people. X wants to be radical and extreme. Rage bait and madness keep people engaged. A lot. It's an advantage for a site to be unreasonable alas. Oh and the new management keeps promoting the nazis & is an incredible dirtbag gutter racist & provoker. Who builds CSAM making AI.

It's not going to have the same "diverse" spirit, Zeeshan Aleem. You go on and on throwing dirt. It's unengaged in that activity, doing malice out of hand without actually building the case. I struggle to consider the article in good faith. This feels like propoganda. It feels manufactured.
by geoka9 | 2026-01-03 19:46:49+00:00
The only reason Russia has been reluctant to formally annex territories it broke away from other countries until 2022 was minimizing economic damage to itself. They knew how sensitive the western countries were to forceful changes of the world map, and felt no need to inflict economic sanctions on themselves for a mere symbolic act of annexing a territory they already fully controlled.

Once that Rubicon was crossed (sanctions were in place and there was nothing to lose), they annexed the four regions of Ukraine that they partially controlled.
by loeg | 2026-01-03 19:47:20+00:00
It's not just arbitrary renaming (Rust Result vs C++ Expected is fine) -- it's choosing a conflicting name for an extremely common abstract data type. If they wanted to call it "Elephant," great, but Optional is a well-known concept and Result/Expected isn't the same thing.

(I don't really object to the idea of skipping a real Optional<T> type in a language in favor of just Result<T, ()>.)
by stickfigure | 2026-01-03 19:48:10+00:00
Gerrymandering is atrocious and anti-democratic but it didn't affect Trump's election. States' electors are winner-take-all[1] based on statewide popular vote so district boundaries don't factor in.

[1] I just learned there are two exceptions, Maine and Nebraska. But they have few electors (9 total between them) so this was not significant in the 2024 election.
by mkoubaa | 2026-01-03 19:48:22+00:00
It's not textbook responsible when it's consistently and predictably done for only one side of every conflict.

That's like if a waiter gives the appropriate amount of attention to the tables with white guests and disregards tables with minority guests. You can't clutch your pearls and say that it isn't hypocrisy to notice that the waiter treats a given table correctly.
by JoeAltmaier | 2026-01-03 19:48:37+00:00
It's a matter of scale. When you had a few in-house servers, somebody might manage their events and exceptions. Maybe 10 a day.

When it went to the cloud, complexity rose and your visibility suffered (you had little insight into what hardware events meant on a virtual server). Maybe 100 a day.

When servers grew to hundreds, you had to use tools to manage the logs, summarize, prioritize, spot commonalities.

Thousands of servers meant now you use tools to manage the tools? Too many details even in summaries; deploying fixes takes scripts or scripts of scripts.

I sometimes think, AI isn't going to ruin our civilization. AI is our only hope for surviving the geometric growth in our civilization's complexity.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-01-03 19:49:34+00:00
The aversion to the unknown is too powerful to allow most people to live in the gray area suggested.

Besides, it's leaving a lot on the table not to leverage this for one's own will to power. Give someone the frame you want and they save the energy otherwise spent finding or creating it themselves. Social construction is too enormous an opportunity to leave up to other people.
by awesan | 2026-01-03 19:49:46+00:00
People have forgotten this, but he did the same with Windows Phone for a while at the very start of his time as CEO. His motto was "cloud first, mobile first" where cloud meant Azure and mobile meant Windows Phone. After some time he gave up and they pivoted into the direction he is now well known for, which was to focus on good developer tooling regardless of OS.
by mindcrash | 2026-01-03 19:49:49+00:00
A loI of people don't know about this and I don't know if they really went ahead with it (been away from everything Microsoft professionally just about three years now) but at the time they were pretty serious about the idea to build all Office apps in React, so (according to them) they could more easily build "great multi platform experiences" from the same codebase.

Why they thought it couldn't be done with the .NET stack they already had (this was after the purchase of Xamarin, mind you) still baffles me.
by dmix | 2026-01-03 19:49:51+00:00
This is my view of Tiktok and Instagram as well. People always complain about how it's all AI or dancing videos, but if you use it properly you can very easily get thoughtful stuff. I get musicians, local restaurant recommendations, film analysis, simpsons clips etc.

It's up to you to learn not to doomscroll where it starts showing you garbage after it burns through your personal feed.
by joseda-hg | 2026-01-03 19:50:05+00:00
Which makes total sense, the military has been Chavismo's strongest asset for as long as it's been a thing

That won't change just because Maduro isn't there, whomever does take control, will need external protection, or the US acting as an unspoken enforcer (Unspoken because "No boots on the ground right now" but "prepared for a second wave")
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-03 19:50:07+00:00
Trump's handlers have proven the USA military don't care about the Constitution. They're happy to enforce the dictators will even though they know it to be unlawful. Seems like that is a significant movement that opens the door for Trump to be even more evil. They've rallied to the sex offender, they probably have to follow through now to avoid joining him and his cohort in jail.
by simoncion | 2026-01-03 19:51:14+00:00
> I wasn't under the impression that SOHO routers normally have DHCPv6 enabled by default.

The fellow I replied to indicated that running a local DNS server on one's LAN "sounds crazy".

My commentary was intended to indicate that it's very common in SOHO networks to already be running a DNS server that automatically adds hostname->address mappings of DHCP clients on that network. It also mentioned that DHCPv6 support is supported by the combined DHCP+DNS daemon used by many (most?) SOHO routers.

My commentary was not intended to indicate that DHCPv6 support is on by default on many or most SOHO routers, only that it's likely to be supported, and that -if supported- it is very, very likely to put hostname->AAAA mappings of DHCPv6 clients into its DNS server, just as it adds hostname->A mappings for DHCPv4 clients.
by anonymars | 2026-01-03 19:51:35+00:00
I believe the argument is, this can simultaneously be a bad thing yet the best achievable outcome within the current reality.

In other words, the point is that the hypothetical good choice is not actually on the menu.

I will note a similarity to the US political situation with respect to people who, rather than choose the lesser of two evils, opt not to vote entirely.

Nevertheless, that doesn't mean humanity shouldn't strive for better.
by chasil | 2026-01-03 19:52:27+00:00
Have a closer look at the article. I read it after posting here.

Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino shared Mr Blinken's view, writing in a post on X, formerly Twitter: "We can all confirm, without a doubt, that the legitimate winner and President-elect is Edmundo González."

Ecuador, Uruguay, Costa Rica and Peru have also recognised Mr González as the president-elect...

[Machado] claimed her party's candidate, Mr Gonzalez, won by a landslide and Ms Machado said she could prove this because she had receipts from more than 80% of polling stations.

Ms Machado appealed for help, saying it was now up to the international community to decide whether to tolerate what she called an illegitimate government.
by johnnyfived | 2026-01-03 19:52:39+00:00
It's a great question that I haven't seen discussed on HN yet (though I'm not that active), I think this crowd is still very attuned to interesting but more deterministic problems technically.

This might sound basic but I keep coming back to this idea again and again. Alex Garland really did have the right idea with Ex-Machina, where in the film Caleb claims that he purposefully designed Ava (the AI robot) to have all the internal mechanisms shown, so people would understand always they are interacting with a machine. The point of his Turing test was to show whether they could see past the machine and still empathize with it as a human.
by temp0826 | 2026-01-03 19:52:53+00:00
Maybe for some people, I don't have the capacity to deal with that kind of thing willingly anymore. Stability and knowing I won't be running into some missing feature that may never get fixed/added. It's too small of a project and it's a major uphill battle having to reverse engineer literally everything. I do commend them but it's just too many question marks for wanting a reliable daily driver.
by bluecalm | 2026-01-03 19:53:07+00:00
I think they are there to help the compiler so the optimizer might (but doesn't have to) assume they are true. It's sometimes very useful to be able to do so. For example if you know that two numbers are always different or that some value is always less than x. In standard C it's impossible to do but major compilers have a way to express it as extensions. GCC for example has:

if (x)
__builtin_unreachable();

C3 makes it a language construct.
If you want runtime checks for safety you can use assert.
The compiler turns those into asserts in safe/debug mode because that help catching bugs in non performance critical builds.
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-03 19:53:07+00:00
It's hard to think through the implications of living in a world where it is accepted that countries with more power simply invade each other and take land and possessions from those with less power. I can't think how it doesn't ultimately lead to broadscale instability and ultimately, war. In turn it depresses me that this is toxic to the humanity progressing and solving its bigger picture problems.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-03 19:53:56+00:00
Having watched that video, their newer ML-based anti-cheat does not seem to rely on inspecting running processes. It is based on data surrounding when a gun is fired in the game (a certain number of ticks before and after), and the classifier is initially trained on human-reviewed "killcams." But the classifier probably takes into account other data too, for example new Steam accounts with only CS in it would probably be classified as "high risk." On the other hand someone who has had their account for a long time and has paid games in it is far less likely too cheat.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-03 19:54:24+00:00
Microwaves degrade everyone's 2.4 GHz ISM band radios. Wi-Fi occupies the ISM band because it's a garbage band that was already wrecked by this type of equipment. There isn't a solution to this; the safe leakage from a microwave oven is millions of times more powerful than wifi field strength. 5 or 6GHz band avoids the problem.
by TranquilMarmot | 2026-01-03 19:54:34+00:00
Does all reading need to be challenging and mind expanding? A lot of the books were "just for fun" sci-fi/fantasy reads. A few of them were "mind-expanding". It's good to have a mix of the two.

I listen to audiobooks while I walk the dog, which at 4x 30min walks ends up being 120min/day. At 2x speed that alone is ~4 hours of progress per day. I also listen while cooking and cleaning which adds up to a _lot_ of time.
by Dig1t | 2026-01-03 19:54:34+00:00
The watershed event that caused Musk to buy Twitter was when Twitter banned the Babylon Bee for making a joke about Katlyn Jenner.

Most left leaning people were blind to the increasingly censorious management of old Twitter. It had been ramping up pretty aggressively though up to that point.

Personally I haven’t noticed the algorithm disrupt my usage of X. I follow interesting makers and tech type people, and my feed is mostly stuff aligned with my interests. I didn't have the same network/professional usage you’re describing so maybe that’s the main difference for me.

As a way of staying informed and entertained it is better to me than old Twitter. But perhaps you are right as a way of networking or collaborating maybe it’s different now, idk because I never used it like that.
by Buttons840 | 2026-01-03 19:55:10+00:00
Maduro is alive and charged with crimes in a US court. So, we will see evidence presented I guess. This is new.

I'm surprised Maduro wasn't just killed, and wonder if he might somehow die in US custody. The US will have to make a case in court while the whole world watches. That will be embarrassing I expect.

https://youtu.be/ijFOLv17RX4
by lurk2 | 2026-01-03 19:55:17+00:00
> Asking questions in good faith is not appropriate?

You aren't asking questions in good faith, you're trying to score points.

> It seems some people prefer to paw around in the dark out of deference.

You're doing it here, implying that I'm a deferential coward instead of stating it outright. I would urge you to review the site guidelines. The only reason this site is worth visiting in the first place is because it isn't ordinarily full of the sort of Reddit-style commentary you're engaging in right now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by yencabulator | 2026-01-03 19:56:17+00:00
I had Claude nearly one-shot (well, sequence-of-oneshots) a fairly complex multi-language file pretty-printer, but only after giving it a very specific 150-line TODO file with examples of correct results, so I think pure greenfield is very achievable if you steer it well enough. I did have to really focus on writing the tasks to be such that there wasn't much room for going off the rails, thought about their ordering, etc; it was pretty far from vibecoding, produced a strict data-driven test suite, etc.

But ultimately, I agree with you, in most projects, having enough existing style, arranged in a fairly specific way, for Claude to imitate makes results a lot better. Or at least, until you get to that "good-looking codebase", you have to steer it a lot more explicitly, to the level of telling it what function signatures to use, what files to edit, etc.

Currently on another project, I've had Claude make ~10 development spikes on specific ~5 high-uncertainty features on separate branches, without ever telling it what the main project structure really is. Some of the spikes implement the same functionality with e.g. different libraries, as I'm exploring my options (ML inference as a library is still a shitshow). I think that approach has some whiff of "future of programming" to it. Previously I would have spent more effort studying the frameworks up front and committed to a choice harder, now it's "let's see if this is good enough".
by wvenable | 2026-01-03 19:56:43+00:00
If you're willing go through a little bit of trouble -- and it sounds like you are -- it's pretty easy to configure Windows 11 to look and act pretty much like Windows 7. You'd be hard pressed to tell what version of Windows I'm running if you gave it a cursory glance.

The main tool for me is https://www.startallback.com/

O2O Shutup is also pretty useful https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 for disabling anything you don't like all in one place -- it doesn't even install.
by trymas | 2026-01-03 19:56:50+00:00
> built by foreign multinationals and then expropriated by Chávez in 2007?

If you follow this reasoning - after what happened today - you will get Iran 2.0: Venezuelan boogaloo

I have zero optimism that after this - ordinary Venezuelans will have better outcomes in 10 years time.

Current USA government is some weird klepto-oligrachy. Hates brown people. It’s not doing it out of benevolence to Venezuelans. Venezuelans will get either colonialist resource extraction treatment or some power vacuum will bring just another despot.
by refibrillator | 2026-01-03 19:57:11+00:00
Sometimes I wonder if anyone else feels there is a halo effect around certain personalities on this site. When I see someone ending nearly every comment with a link to their blog or pet project, it gives me bad vibes, as if they have ulterior motives. Especially if a majority of their blog posts are content lifted from elsewhere with minimal additions. Perhaps this is just hustle culture, and YC alum status confers immunity from these types of criticisms. Perhaps my only wish is that other voices would bubble to the top in some of these threads.

In any case I’m truly grateful for this site as a whole, the good and the bad.
by encoderer | 2026-01-03 19:57:33+00:00
Is it really the moderators that make a community special? They are vital no doubt but I have never came here for the moderation.

For me the magic of a niche community like a subreddit or HN is when a 99th percentile expert in the subject shows up and gives everybody a brilliant lecture on the actual truth of things. These are not 99th percentile in Reddit use or post count or any of those things.
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-03 19:57:45+00:00
The definition of democracy usually includes the rule of law, that no longer exists in USA. Trump declared himself to be dictator, and his handlers are having him act that way. They take no account of USA law, nor of international law, nor ethics of any religious group AFAICT.

Also, paying another country to run your concentration camps is no less evil.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-03 19:58:32+00:00
And even if we accept that, the US has declared effectively that the US takeover, while removing the supposed false winner, will also not restore the actual winner that called for help, but that the US will run the country directly, while seizing its oil resources (contrast with the 1990 invasion of Panama, where we also deposed and arrested a leader we accused of illegally holding power, and charged him with US crimes, but openly stated and followed through on intent to restore the government we described as having won, and did not declare that we would run the country or seize its resources, and did not, in fact, do that.)
by incognito124 | 2026-01-03 19:58:42+00:00
My non-technical friend installed linux on her 10yo old laptop by herself after a windows update slowed down her device and rendered it unusable. She said she said she read about it somewhere and that the Ubuntu installation was pretty intuitive.

I was both amazed and proud. She's daily driving Linux now

(to be fair, it's just tv shows and web apps like chatgpt or docs, but still, Linux is now a good-enough alternative, at least anegdotally)
by burnte | 2026-01-03 19:58:59+00:00
As someone who lived through a small portion of the internal mess that was Vista, I DO NOT miss him at all. I worked there 6 months and his bizarre management directives were obvious. Behind every single developer push was a lock-in push, too. Every "open" product had to have some form of lock in or vendor-only advantage. None of it was driving customer success, it was all about enforcement and lock-in from top down.
by rsync | 2026-01-03 19:59:11+00:00
"... there simply is nothing for open source to copy but ux-decline ..."

I beg to differ. Tiling window managers like ion, ratpoison, dwm, et. al, and the simple and elegant tooling that accompany them are a wonderful example of UI innovation.

UI/UX designers who copy, and iterate on, infantile eye candy have only themselves to blame.
by blaiseclarke | 2026-01-03 19:59:46+00:00
Location: Ashburn, VA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, SQL, DuckDB, Snowflake, dbt, Prefect, Docker, Pandera, GitHub Actions, biosignal processing (MNE/NumPy)

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ijwZUUQ1h7iYxMYUP-WVzHlhMZg...

Email: bc (at) blaiseclarke.com

Hi! I'm a computational neuroscientist pivoting fully out of the wet lab into data engineering. My background is in systems neuroscience, building MATLAB codebases to analyze and quantify preclinical biomarkers in animal models.

Recent project is a containerized biosignal pipeline to analyze human EEG data:

* Uses Prefect/Python for orchestration and ingesting

* DuckDB or Snowflake for storing cleaned raw data

* dbt for modeling sleep architecture, average band power, and other metrics

* Pandera for enforcing data contracts, rejecting corrupt signal data before warehouse loading

* CI with Pytest/GitHub Actions

I'm looking for a full-time position within data engineering. I'm particularly interested/strong in high-frequency time-series data analysis (e-phys, biosignals, energy grids, etc.). I'm a quick learner and am really eager to pick up additional stacks and technologies.
by stickfigure | 2026-01-03 19:59:48+00:00
The thing I occasionally say about Trump is: "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

We ("the opposition") can't get into the frame where we say that everything Trump does is wrong. It's not frequent, but sometimes - yes even for totally wrong reasons - he does things which are probably right. Our identity needs to be more than just "the opposite of what Trump does", otherwise the Trumpists will frame all debates around issues that make us look crazy, rather than the issues that demonstrate blatant grift and criminality.

If Maduro is gone, it's a good thing. Let's go back to talking about the clear and obviously terrible things Trump does. Don't let them change the subject.