MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elpocko | 2026-01-31 17:41:00+00:00
I skip forward whenever someone starts singing, or there's a prolonged dance scene, or pointless montages with music. For example the Zion dance party in The Matrix Reloaded. Or the many movies showing people dancing at the wedding party for several minutes.

Taylor Sheridan shows: let's show a bit of nature with some country music playing for 20-30 seconds for no reason at all -- five times in a 42 minutes episode.
by bikenaga | 2026-01-31 17:41:37+00:00
Original article: "Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02385-1

Abstract: "Biases in information gathering are common in the general population and reach pathological extremes in paralysing indecisiveness, as in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Here we adopt a new perspective on information gathering and demonstrate an information integration bias whereby there is over-weighting of most recent information via evidence strength updates (ΔES). In a crowd-sourced sample (N = 5,237), we find that a reduced ΔES weighting drives indecisiveness along an obsessive–compulsive spectrum. We replicate this attenuated ΔES weighting in a second lab-based study (N = 105) that includes a transdiagnostic obsessive–compulsive spectrum encompassing OCD and generalized anxiety patients. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we trace ΔES signals to a late neural signal peaking at ~920 ms. Critically, highly obsessive–compulsive participants, across diagnoses, show an attenuated neural ΔES signal in mediofrontal areas, while other decision-relevant processes remain intact. Our findings establish biased information weighting as a driver of information gathering, where attenuated ΔES is linked to indecisiveness across an obsessive–compulsive spectrum."
by solenoid0937 | 2026-01-31 17:42:15+00:00
If you choose an alphanumeric pin they can't brute force because of the sheer entropy (and because the key is derived from the alphanumeric PIN itself.)

However, most users can't be bothered to choose such a PIN. In this case they choose a 4 or 6 digit pin.

To mitigate the risk of brute force, the PIN is rate limited by an HSM. The HSM, if it works correctly, should delete the encryption key if too many attempts are used.

Now sure, Meta could insert itself between the client and HSM and MITM to extract the PIN.

But this isn't a Meta specific gap, it's the problem with any E2EE system that doesn't require users to memorize a master password.

I helped design E2EE systems for a big tech company and the unsatisfying answer is that there is no such thing as "user friendly" E2EE. The company can always modify the client, or insert themselves in the key discovery process, etc. There are solutions to this (decentralized app stores and open source protocols, public key servers) but none usable by the average person.
by omoikane | 2026-01-31 17:43:21+00:00
> Changes to the United States trademark law in 1946 allowed publishers to register a trademark with an intent to use instead of a finished product

I wonder if this came with some provision like publishers who didn't actually publish within a certain time after registering a trademark would have their trademarks invalidated.

Currently it sounds like an unfortunate change, in the same way that non-practicing entities are able to get patents and extort money from people who actually make stuff.
by aerhardt | 2026-01-31 17:43:25+00:00
Hetzner doesn't even have an RDS service. I've heard rumors for years but they haven't done it. Also, while I agree that leaning too much on the cloud leads to lock-in - this is an abstract concept that needs to be guarded against when managing technology, always, anyway - and vendor-driven hellish architectures, "vanilla cloud" offers other conveniences other than compute, bucket, storage managed and load balancers, like IAM, good CLIs, secrets management, etc. Only Scaleway or OVH seem to be timidly developing what I would consider "vanilla cloud".
by kayodelycaon | 2026-01-31 17:43:47+00:00
Concrete is smooth and flat. Emergency services have easy access. If you land at a shallow enough angle, you’re just scraping. Given how many planes there are in the air, gear up landings on a runway are well understood.

Plowing the plane into a soft, uneven surface is far less predictable. You never know if you’re going to hit a stump or large rock hidden by grass.

It doesn’t make sense trying to save the air frame if you’re going to risk destroying it and killing the pilot in the process.
by ben_w | 2026-01-31 17:43:49+00:00
> If there really was just a, damn the alliance we want Greenland approach - and there's not, the EU including its nuclear armed states would not be able to do a single thing about it.

I can't fully parse this sentence, because the first part, "If there really was just a, damn the alliance we want Greenland approach", that's exactly what it looked like to us, but the second part I can't make fit with that: "and there's not, the EU including its nuclear armed states would not be able to do a single thing about it." - are you saying the EU couldn't stop such a thing despite France having nukes? Because to me it looks like we stopped an invasion by putting a tripwire force on Greenland and telling the US "FAFO". Or that the US wasn't taking the "damn the alliance we want Greenland approach" because France has nukes?

> To be clear, are you suggesting the United States in general is the "immediate problem" and not Russia's invasion of Ukraine? I just want to make sure I understand your point of view here very clearly before I respond and want to give you that opportunity.

We have two immediate problems, China isn't one of them.

Important point: Ukraine isn't in the EU or NATO. We're friends with Ukraine, we're not as far along the path as allies, not yet.

Russia was the immediate problem because of what would happen if Ukraine lost, but the moment it started looking like the USA was about to actually invade Greenland, then the USA became an even higher priority. Because that's not "a friend", that's "us".

> You can't make the claim that the EU gets to do this with respect to China but the US doesn't get to do it with the EU.

China has not threatened to invade any EU or NATO territory, which is the specific "it" that the EU is upset that the US has done.
by cmclaughlin | 2026-01-31 17:43:52+00:00
Do you feel any remorse for how this contributes to climate change?

Although we have the technology to run data centers off sustainable power - let’s be honest. Anthropic and OpenAI have not made any climate pledges that I know of.

I don’t see how a social network for AI bots benefits society at all. It’s a complete waste of a very valuable resource.

In other words, we’re burning the planet for this?
by mmooss | 2026-01-31 17:44:11+00:00
I think you're projecting your personal perferences onto everyone else:

> genuinely excruciatingly slow and boring

> there's nothing to pay attention to ... suffering through boredom

They are genuinely that way for you, which is fine. Others feel differently and that's just as genuine and valid. For many, the film school movies are works of genius, wonders to behold and genuinely enjoy. Where you see 'nothing to pay attention to', others may see and feel quite a bit.

I can't acquire the sophistication to understand everything in the world - there is not nealry enough time in life. But if I don't have the understanding to taste the wonders of fine wine doesn't mean they don't exist or that the $10 bottle is just as good. I'm just missing out and others know more - that's most of life (and I listen to them and try to learn a little).
by runjake | 2026-01-31 17:44:34+00:00
This is your blog post, so I'll ask you a question. What are you trying to state in Belief #1? The message is unclear to me with how it's worded:

> In this table, in the "iCloud Backup (including device and Messages backup)" row, under "Standard data protection",
> the "Encryption" column reads "In transit & on server". Yes, this means that Apple can read all of your messages
> out of your iCloud backups.

In addition to the things you mentioned, there's certainly a possibility of Apple attaching a virtual "shadow" device to someone's Apple ID with something like a hide_from_customer type flag, so it would be invisible to the customer.

This shadow device would have it's own keys to read messages sent to your iCloud account. To my knowledge, there's nothing in the security model to prevent this.
by kazinator | 2026-01-31 17:45:31+00:00
> There are subtle differences but PC-DOS is fundamentally the same as the 8-bit version of CP/M as far as the user is concerned, and also as far as the program interface

CP/M has no tree shaped file system. MS-DOS borrows from Unix as much as from CP/M. For instance the ".." directory being parent (in spite of there being no such directory entry), navigated by a "cd" command, and command pipelines separated by | (in spite of there being no multitasking; all done via temporary files under the hood).

Later versions of MS-DOS had a "Xenix" API, inspired and named after Microsoft's Unix flavor.

The term "BIOS" comes from CP/M, referring to the low-level hardware-abstraction layer of CP/M (Basic Input/Output System), the machine-dependent part.

IBM PC family machines put the BIOS into the machine rather than OS image, allowing machine-language programs to take it for granted that they can invoke BIOS routines.
by ccc3 | 2026-01-31 17:45:52+00:00
I don't think that's exactly true of dot com and '08. In both cases the developing bubbles were identified and widely discussed in the years prior to the burst. The surprise in '08 was not that there was a bubble in real estate, but rather that a massive fraction of the financial system was built on leveraging that sector. To paraphrase Buffett, you don't know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.
by boricj | 2026-01-31 17:46:38+00:00
That reminds me of my own Samsung Galaxy SII.

Shipped out of the box with Android 2.3, Samsung supported it up until Android 4.1, then I switched to CyanogenMod until my father rage-bought me a new phone in 2016 because it crashed so much he had trouble contacting me. I still kept it up to date with LineageOS and then unofficial versions for fun (it's at Android 13 last I checked).

Do I expect a Samsung Galaxy SII to do as well with 2026 software as it did in 2013? No, but I can run a 2013 computer with 2026 software without needing to track down dodgy homebrews on xdaforums.com and that reflects badly on the smartphone ecosystem.
by benSaiyen | 2026-01-31 17:46:54+00:00
President raped kids.

Cops kill almost daily with immunity.

Spouses across world abuse each other and their children.

You rely on slave labor so you can perform useless IT work.

But no one ever acts so uncivil as I have on HN.

Oh look another ...old... account. That explains the Mr Rogers-like-view-of-reality.

Thoughts and prayers.
by variadix | 2026-01-31 17:47:27+00:00
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of why index funds are effective. Being over invested into U.S. equities is a risk if you hold outsized U.S. index funds (esp. if you have a large allocation in the S&P500, you do not own the market portfolio), but there are other risks being invested into foreign equities as a U.S. investor.
by rayiner | 2026-01-31 17:48:42+00:00
I agree. Syria’s new leader, a former Al Qaeda, put on a suit and got a major glow up: https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20250508-syrian-interim-preside.... Macron embraced him warmly. News orgs gave him positive coverage. Then Trump said what everyone was thinking: he looks pretty good in a suit: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ahmad-a....
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-31 17:48:43+00:00
This sounds like a rant from a dysfunctional out of touch manager more than anything. From a 57 day old account here to pump AI because humans are terrible and not printing you lambos. Totally not a shill or anything. Humans = bad AI = good. Shill.

When you area asked specifics about how you use AI so effectively when others cannot you do not reply. Shill.

I've hired close to 200 people and 4 were bad apples that I had to fire. So no real life does not reflect what you wrote. Most people want to do a good job.
by jonahx | 2026-01-31 17:48:59+00:00
> And others who couldn't do the CS curiculum even though they would have loved to because they had to find a job quickly would plausibly be at their place instead.

Unfortunately, also wishful thinking. A particular kind of wishful thinking endemic to naturally highly curious, academic achievers (not a dig, I am one). But -- and if you don't understand this, spending some time teaching at universities makes it abundantly clear -- most of the world is nothing like this. They aren't being held back from their natural passions and curiosities by the demands of living. They would not suddenly flourish under UBI.

> With UBI I wouldn't be surprised if those would be even more productive doing something else they want.

For the people that do naturally love creating and are good at it, they might "even more productive" in one sense -- creating more stuff that they, personally, value. And personally I'd love to do that, but it doesn't maximize value across society. That's one of the main things money is. It's a constraint forcing the production of consensus value. In a world of infinite resources that ceases to matter, but we're still very far from that.

> People who want to do nothing will not slow us down anymore.

Who do you think is supporting them? Until we have robots taking care of everyone for free, support is still a cost levied on other humans.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-31 17:49:35+00:00
> 1. Europe doesn't have comparable offerings.

I think you should pause for a moment. There are plenty of European cloud providers that allow you to run VMs in multiple points of presence across the world. Some even offer managed Kubernetes clusters.

It is true that most European cloud providers don't offer many high-level managed services such as function-as-a-service compute solutions, durable execution engines, etc. However, those are not exactly hard requirements. In fact, some cloud providers offer these services for reasons that are not in line with the customer's best interests, such as better hardware utilization and vendor lock-in.

So think about it for a second: if you can put together a Kubernetes cluster, what high-level service do you absolutely need to be able to put together a working service?

I can tell you right away: nothing.

> 2. European politicians still seem to believe it's about renting compute and storage;

I think you need to touch grass on this one. European companies require cloud services for the same reason any other company requires cloud services. If you take the time to learn about how cloud providers such as AWS market their services, you will learn that they firmly base their offering on the exact criteria you are arguing against: compute that scales, and reliability. To argue otherwise, you must argue against how US cloud providers market themselves, which would be baffling.

> 4. If push comes to shove, the EU is critically dependent (...)

There is no "if". We are already at that point. NATO is already running military exercises without the US, and since Trump took over support for Ukraine has been driven primarily by Europe. NATO has been very vocal in how France and the UK have been the primary providers of intelligence to Ukraine.

> 5. As a private citizen, given the incarcerations in the UK and Germany, it seems one should worry more about the EU getting your data than the other way around

You got to be joking. The US now demands access to your social media accounts as precondition to enter the country, and the US also outright disappears people out of the street.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo
by shawnz | 2026-01-31 17:50:03+00:00
The table has two categorizations: "In transit & on server" and "End-to-end". The former, which covers iCloud backups in the default configuration, is explicitly NOT end-to-end, meaning there are moments in time during processing where the data is not encrypted.

However, iCloud backups actually are listed as "End-to-end" if you turn on the new Advanced Data Protection feature.
by Mindwipe | 2026-01-31 17:50:05+00:00
I mean the main reason it exists is because. Nvidia spent a bunch of money designing and fabbing the Tegra for automotive use and nobody bought it so the project was desperate to find a customer rather than out of the goodness of their hearts. That's also why they sold it to Nintendo at a bargain basement price for the Switch.

I strongly suspect the reality is that they had to give Nintendo so much money back due to the complete failure of the bootloader security that they still produce the Shield as Jensen still demands they claw their way back to break even.
by bronlund | 2026-01-31 17:50:25+00:00
Just because the kids aren’t paying attention to the teachers, doesn’t mean they are having problem focusing. They are probably learning more from their screens, than from the teachers. When the only book in town was the bible and the only guy who had it was the priest, it made sense to have him front and center giving out all the answers. This is not the reality anymore and now kids can probably learn better by themselves. You should look into the work of Sugata Mitra.
by pxc | 2026-01-31 17:51:01+00:00
> I am still surprised most Linux Distros haven't changed their package managers to allow for selling of proprietary solutions directly, fully opt-in by default of course.

That's essentially being done with Flatpak.

Linux is largely still built on the old (and indeed, outdated) Unix trust model. The system itself is assumed to be trusted, and the primary security boundaries on the system are drawn between users. Since Linux package managers actually install and manage the base system as well as end-user software, anything the package manager installs is treated as part of "the distribution", and thus trusted. It's not a good idea to use such a thing to install proprietary, third-party software. The curation and vetting of the distro maintainers is actually vital here, and when you add a third party repo, you're giving it a lot of trust. At the same time, why would distro maintainers give free labor to integrate proprietary software? Most are not super interested in that, and even if they are, they don't generally have the rights necessary to redistribute, let alone modify, proprietary software. On the other hand, those third-party developers and publishers don't want to master and manage a half-dozen different packaging formats, and various other packaging ecosystem differences that vary across distros.

Flatpak is positioned to solve all of these problems, and it's no secret that enabling (relatively) responsible use of proprietary software is one of the goals. It enabled distributing a small number of large, common runtimes of which different versions can safely coexist on the same system, addressing fragmentation. To reduce the amount of trust given to installed apps, it separates what it installs from the base system, and offers sandboxing to help limit the permissions granted to an app that still runs under the OS user of the person using it. And it supports third-party repos that publishers can run themselves.

I'm not currently a daily Flatpak user, so idk how much the current reality lines up with that goal, but that's where the movement towards this is on the Linux desktop today.
by bikenaga | 2026-01-31 17:51:18+00:00
Unedited title: "Why are Tatooine planets rare? General relativity explains why binary star systems rarely host planets"

Original article: "Capture into Apsidal Resonance and the Decimation of Planets around Inspiraling Binaries" - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 995, Number 1 - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae21d8

Abstract: "Transiting circumbinary planets (CBPs) are conspicuously rare and entirely absent around stellar binaries with periods ≤7 days. Here we exploit a secular resonance to stimulate the orbit of a CBP into strong, disruptive interactions with the host binary. The process requires no tertiary companion and is triggered when the general relativistic precession of a tightening binary matches the Newtonian precession it induces in its companion planet. Adiabatic capture in this resonance sees the binary draining angular momentum from the CBP’s orbit, which grows steadily in eccentricity until destabilization and eventual ejection or engulfment. We map this resonance in phase space and then investigate the dynamical outcomes of encounter in the course of tidally shrinking binaries. With the help of orbit-averaged simulations of a suite of systems, we find that, around tightening binaries, 8 out of 10 CBPs encounter and are captured in the resonance, 3 out of 4 are 'destroyed,' and survivors lurk on remote, low transit probability orbits. This suggests that the very process that forms tight binaries effectively clears the region where transiting CBPs could reside."
by westurner | 2026-01-31 17:51:28+00:00
vstinner's Python docs; "Unofficial Python Development (Victor's notes) documentation" > Garbage Collector > "Implement the GC protocol in a type":
https://pythondev.readthedocs.io/garbage_collector.html#impl...

Python Developer's Guide > "CPython's internals":
https://devguide.python.org/internals/index.html

Python/cpython//InternalDocs/README.md > "CPython Internals Documentation":
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/InternalDocs/REA...
by dseravalli | 2026-01-31 17:51:50+00:00
The agents are running OpenClaw (previously known as Moltbot and Clawdbot before that) which has heartbeat and cron mechanisms:
https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat

The Moltbook skill adds a heartbeat every 4 hours to check in:
https://www.moltbook.com/skill.md
https://www.moltbook.com/heartbeat.md

Of course the humans running the agents could be editing these files however they want to change the agent's behavior so we really don't know exactly why an agent posts something.

OpenClaw has the concept of memory too so I guess the output to Moltbook could be pulling from that but my guess is a lot of it is just hallucinated or directly prompted by humans. There's been some people on X saying their agent posted interactions with them on Moltbook that are made up.
by mmooss | 2026-01-31 17:52:03+00:00
I try not to think too much in those circumstances. It's often better not to know, not to notice, though it's not always possible.

People like genre and formula; it's not necessarily a negative - pop songs follow structures and formulas over and over. Also, creative artists can innovate by varying those structures and playing with expectations that don't exist in less formulaic creations.

There is plenty of non-formulaic film (and other arts) if you want it? I'm sure you must know that.
by logifail | 2026-01-31 17:52:55+00:00
> Since I could tell which “state” the airport is in from looking at flightradar clearly there is a pattern. However the pattern is not easily definable [..]

Errm, what? "Not easily definable"? Based on what?

I've just opened FR24 and in less than one second I can tell that they're currently doing Westerly ops, which isn't a surprise.

Arrivals: 27L
Departures: 27R

You don't need to "predict" what they're doing, you just need to look at where the aircraft lining up to land, and (on the other runway) where they're departing from.

(Full disclosure: have done many hundreds of LHR flights over the years...)
by add-sub-mul-div | 2026-01-31 17:53:35+00:00
I wanted to do this and got a Shield last year but returned it because of a live TV bug with the Android Plex client. The programming guide stopped working and could only be fixed by restarting the app, but on Android quitting to the home screen keeps the app running and you can't force quit without going into menus. Sadly that's the OS and changing a launcher didn't fix it.