MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 23:26:36+00:00
I think it's not so much the people that have been Russified as the institutions themselves. The media, big law firms, big corporations, have all given in to bullying and handed their power over to the authoritarian. Universities are on the cusp of doing so too. Even the Democratic Party has leadership so weak that in the current environment they will only talk about affordability and healthcare.

The media the public consumes only gives them culture war BS to work with, though. It started with Fox News, and that eventually cowed the rest of the media to give in to Fox News framing on every topic, since Fox News was so successful at winning eyeballs.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-20 23:27:15+00:00
A lot of stuff re: Salmon Populations is primarily around native groups wanting to continue their traditional life styles.

In the era of Trump/Republicans, I don't expect native issues to matter at all. "Drill baby drill" and all that.

So, actually, it is pretty simple if you're willing to finish the settler colonialist project that is our country.
by giovannibonetti | 2026-01-20 23:27:27+00:00
Clustered indexes only save up to 2x write amplification in the very rare case where you're indexing the entire table (e.g. if it has very few columns).

However, that is usually the least of your concerns with write amplification. If you don't batch your writes, you can easily get 100x write amplification. For any primary key or any other index not strongly correlated with your INSERTs, you can get perhaps another 100x write amplification even if you batch you writes.
by bshanks | 2026-01-20 23:27:36+00:00
Note that inventory already in Amazon fulfillment centers as of March 31, 2026 is still commingled

"Also what happens after March 31st with the leftover commingled inventory that’s already there?

No action is required for stickerless inventory currently in-transit to or stored in our fulfillment centers. These products will continue to sell under their original SKUs.

However for a reseller, after March 31, 2026, all new inventory must use Amazon barcodes. Please review the FBA Barcode Choice and Labeling FAQ for additional information." -- https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-forums/discussions/t...
by scottcha | 2026-01-20 23:27:46+00:00
That is a pretty good article although the one factor not mentioned that we see that has a huge impact on energy is batch size but that would be hard to estimate with the data he has.

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by guessmyname | 2026-01-20 23:27:49+00:00
Japanese “snack” bars (izakayas), are 100% not a secret to anyone, be it Japanese or foreigners who’ve visited the country at least once in their life. They are as common as street vending machines, as taxis in any major city in the world, and restaurants of any kind in any place on Earth. Don’t fall for the meme → https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thing-japan
by qmarchi | 2026-01-20 23:27:50+00:00
> In Japan, the general reaction from coworkers to landlords was へー, そうなんだ。 (oh ok, cool.) no follow up questions or prodding.

That matches my experience pretty well, including the expats living here.

Coming out to my friends was kinda relieving since we all hang out anyways, and _nothing's changed_.
by nerdponx | 2026-01-20 23:28:28+00:00
One thing that often gets forgotten in the discussions about whether to soft delete and how to do it is: what about analysis of your data? Even if you don't have a data science team, or even a dedicated business analyst, there's a good chance that somebody at some point will want to analyze something in the data. And there's a good chance that the analysis will either be explicitly "intertemporal" in that it looks at and compares data from various points in time, or implicitly in that the data spans a long time range and you need to know the states of various entities "as of" a particular time in history. If you didn't keep snapshots and you don't have soft edits/deletes you're kinda SoL. Don't forget the data people down the line... which might include you, trying to make a product decision or diagnose a slippery production bug.
by DangitBobby | 2026-01-20 23:28:35+00:00
I am still surrounded by people with big hearts, but I think they have separated themselves into a family/friends/acquaintances persona and a "political entity" persona which is increasingly hostile and more frequently exercised due to social media bubbles. People who are openly hostile (and sometimes outright homicidal) on social media are still cuddly teddy bears in person, but the more they access that anger and hate for people they'd normally foster relationships with, the more our ability to find commonality erodes.

I have an uncle that I've always been fond of who recently has spouted some mind-bending support of the current administration, and it was like talking to someone who lives in another dimension. My Dad too was indoctrinated by Fox News (because he was spending a lot of time with my grandparents) and some of his political views are irreconcilable with the man I knew growing up.
by bigcloud1299 | 2026-01-20 23:29:09+00:00
I have written a software which I wanted to do so for past 7-8 years within past 3 months. I have over 6000 pages of conversations between me and chatgpt Claude Gemini. And hoping to get patent soon. It consists of over to 260k loc, works well it is architected to support many different industries without much changes but configuration and has very good headed and headless qa coverage. I have spent about 16-18 hours a day because I am so bought into the idea and the outcome I am getting. My patent lawyer suggested getting provisional patent on my work. So for me it works
by kingstnap | 2026-01-20 23:29:28+00:00
You underestimate the amount of inference and very much overestimate what training is.

Training is more or less the same as doing inference on an input token twice (forward and backward pass). But because its offline and predictable it can be done fully batched with very high utilization (efficiently).

Training is guestimate maybe 100 trillion total tokens but these guys apparently do inference on the quadrillion token monthly scales.
by tombert | 2026-01-20 23:29:36+00:00
I mean, I think backups and snapshots that actually work is something that most people would benefit from?

There are few pieces of software that are more universally disliked than Windows Update, and while I cannot speak for everyone the main reason I hate it so much is because it's often automatic and I've had it make my computer unbootable multiple times (and it's actually a big reason I ditched Windows completely like sixteen years ago).

If there were full filesystem snapshots and a utility to fully restore from those snapshots, I think a lot of people would be more willing to do the updates. It wouldn't be hard for users that have any tech skills at all; do what NixOS does [1] and on boot allow the user to choose an earlier snapshot to boot from if anything gets toasted.

Windows does have System Restore, but as far as I can tell that never has fixed anyone's problems at any point in time, along with the "Automatic Repair Tools" which has become a running joke in my family.

It just bothers me, because the FOSS community has solved this, a long time ago no less. Back in 2012, I used btrfs + Snapper whenever I would install a "risky" driver like a GPU or Wi-Fi chip, or whenever I did an update. When I did break my video display, restoring from the snapshot took like ten minutes, I'm able to get back into my system and fix the issue, without having to do any major surgery to the internals of Linux. I've never tried it with FreeBSD and ZFS but I suspect it's a similar process.

Microsoft is a trillion dollar corporation, they have a higher market cap than the entire GDP of NYC and Singapore combined. Why exactly can't they just augment ReFS and copy Snapper or Time Machine (with APFS)? They have infinite funds, they have access to Dave Cutler and until about a year ago Leslie Lamport, they already have a CoW filesystem and they could easily afford a license to any version of ZFS if ReFS wasn't up to the task.

[1] I know NixOS isn't doing filesystem interface, but the overall principle is the same in this instance.
by accrual | 2026-01-20 23:29:49+00:00
> Setting yourself to "Offline" is basically a UI illusion.

I always assume this is such in every case. Every "I'm offline" or "hide me" or "don't save this" or "delete this forever!" UI element is a facade until proven otherwise. "Temporary" chats with LLMs are also permanent and are likely eventually public via massive data leak in future year 20XX.
by vel0city | 2026-01-20 23:30:13+00:00
> they degenerate into endless urban sprawl like American cities.

I will note, I have not lived in Japan. I'm just going by what I've seen hopping in street view on a lot of the smaller towns. Please do correct me if I'm wrong.

While yes, the small towns are way more sprawlly than the big cities in Japan. However, what I've seen doesn't even come close to how spread out things are in much of the US. Can you point to any place that looks like this[0] in Japan? Note, that is an "urban" area, not rural.

Sure, far more people get around by car. Transit access falls off considerably. Big box stores have actual parking lots. But I don't see parking lots like this[1] common when browsing around on Google Maps.

If anything, a lot of these sprawling small towns are far more dense and walkable than what even "dense" US cities are! A lot of the streets I'm seeing making up a lot of these towns are a good bit narrower than what most neighborhood residential streets I've lived on here in the US.

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wm2LcemskN6tB5nP6
[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/9qhyJjKpTRGoKunn6

Feel free to show me parts of Japan I'm missing though. Maybe it exists and I haven't seen it yet, I did just kind of hop between a dozen or so small towns all over Japan.
by rorylaitila | 2026-01-20 23:30:24+00:00
Databases store facts. Creating a record = new fact. "Deleting" a record = new fact. But destroying rows from tables = disappeared fact. That is not great for most cases. In rare cases the volume of records may be a technical hurdle; in which case, move facts to another database. The times I've wanted to destroy large volume of facts is approximately zero.
by nine_k | 2026-01-20 23:30:51+00:00
> DELETEs are likely fairly rare by volume for many use cases

All your other points make sense, given this assumption.

I've seen tables where 50%-70% were soft-deleted, and it did affect the performance noticeably.

> Undoing is really easy

Depends on whether undoing even happens, and whether the act of deletion and undeletion require audit records anyway.

In short, there are cases when soft-deletion works well, and is a good approach. In other cases it does not, and is not. Analysis is needed before adopting it.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-20 23:30:54+00:00
Mostly it’s just what I’ve read, I don’t know if it’s true, which is why I asked. If you get less yuan-people-hours per dollar (and materials cost increase for the same reason), you would get less per dollar than previously, I think?

Eventually you hit an inflection point where it’s cheaper to manufacture elsewhere. Which is why China is working Africa, huh?

Interesting stuff, in a vacuum.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-20 23:31:22+00:00
This is going to depend on the router and on IP distribution.

My ISP does not give me an IPv6 address, only a single IPv6 which all my network devices have to NAT through.

NAT is not intended to be a security feature, for sure, but it creates security as a side effect. If I start up a web server on one of my devices, I know that it is unreachable from the Internet unless I go out of my way to set a port forward on my router.

But...if my ISP decides to start handing out IPv6, that can change. If each of my devices gets an Internet routable IPv6 address, at that point, that security-as-a-side-effect is not guaranteed unless my router has a default-deny firewall. I would hope that any routers would ship with that.

But if my ISP still gives me only a single IPv6 address and I'm still needing to use NAT, then I'm guaranteed to still effectively have a "default deny" inbound firewall policy.
by calcsam | 2026-01-20 23:31:30+00:00
When Langchain was the only option rolling your own made a lot of sense!

These days we see things going the other way, where teams that started rolling their own shift over to Mastra so they can focus on the agent vs having to maintain an internal framework.

The Latent Space article swyx linked earlier includes a quote from the Brex CTO talking about how they did that.
by jonpurdy | 2026-01-20 23:31:34+00:00
I was forced to do this as my eyes have aged and I can't focus at 5K 27" at a reasonable distance, and can't read the text when I sit far enough back to focus. Hence why 4K 27" (~160 ppi) has become perfect for me.

Would be nice if Apple supported non-integer scaling so I could just dynamically resize everything (without the current technique and performance hit/blurriness of upscaling then downsizing).
by iLoveOncall | 2026-01-20 23:31:57+00:00
This is nothing like Dockerhub and, I'm sorry, but it's seriously useless. In its current state its worse than basically anything else.

You have no versioning, no automated or simplified update, no way to verify the authors, etc. The "installation" is literally just a wget.

This is a really poor solution for the moment, and honestly I think for the forseable future. I don't see how anything beyond git is necessary for skills management.

Most of the skills currently hosted are also really bad. They are just a duplicate of the information that MCP would give the models.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-20 23:32:28+00:00
You can build ASICs to be a lot more energy efficient than current GPUs, especially if your power budget is heavily bound by raw compute as opposed to data movement bandwidth. The tradeoff is much higher latency for any given compute throughput, but for workloads such as training or even some kinds of "deep thinking inference" you don't care much about that.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-20 23:32:45+00:00
> > It’s a real boxing match, with real training, real stakes, and a crowd.

What are the stakes?

Monetary stakes? Winner takes loser's startup?

Or the 'classic' buildup of combat sports where both athletes act cocky in the buildup and the loser looks very dumb in retrospect?

Also what's the drug and doping policy?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-20 23:33:40+00:00
And you honestly still haven’t addressed the main point - you are literally using the wrong tool for the job and didn’t do your research for the right tool. Even a cursory overview of Redshift (or Snowflake) tells you that it should be used for bulk inserts, aggregation queries, etc.

Did you research how you should structure your tables fir optimum performance for OLAP databases? Did you research the pros and cons of using a column based storage engine like Redshift to a standard row based storage engine in an traditional RDMS? Not to mention depending on your use case you might need ElssticSearch.

This if completely a you problem for not doing your research and using the worse possible tool for your use case. Seriously, reach out to an SA at AWS and they can give you some free advice, you are literally doing everything wrong.

That sounds harsh. But it’s true.
by eukara | 2026-01-20 23:33:45+00:00
Just like IRC. Except 1 giant server, 1 owner logging everything. Don't ask how it sustains itself though. It still doesn't. People let their guard down in such lax environments and many even run their entire business comms on an unencrypted app as a result too. People should know better.

In a lot of ways, this is a major regression as far as security and redundancy is concerned.

There's also the good old saying: Don't build your castle in somebody else's Kingdom. Bot developers definitely learned that recently. I don't have a lot of pity for bot developers though as many are truly, in fact, scraping data and doing other undocumented things with it (Spy Pet wasn't and won't be the only one). All I'm going to say on the matter!
by jacquesm | 2026-01-20 23:34:06+00:00
Let's just quote you then, for avoidance of doubt:

"Denmark isn’t an “ally.” An alliance is a mutual relationship. Denmark offers the U.S. nothing. "

You either wrote that or someone temporarily borrowed your laptop but as far as I can see there are no third options. Unless of course you have some creative definition of what you consider to be an ally but until only a short while ago the EU was given a pretty concise description of that word by the US and we all agreed on that definition.

This isn't about money or some kind of ridiculous quid-pro-quo, it is about principle.
by deminature | 2026-01-20 23:34:21+00:00
Apple has updated Studio Display and XDR coming out soon, they just filed for regulatory approval in China, which historically has meant 1-3 months until release [1]. The updated models are expected to have a 2000+ zone Mini LED backlight and 120hz refresh rate, while the LG is old technology - 60hz and edge lit, plus the matte coating is anecdotally quite blurry and loses a lot of the detail of the 6K panel. May be worth waiting to see what Apple has in store for this product category before putting down thousands of dollars.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/15/new-studio-display-or-p...
by eli_gottlieb | 2026-01-20 23:35:17+00:00
> Osama bin Ladin won. The goals he had when he attacked America have been entirely achieved. Americans got stupid and became susceptible to the society changing effects of terrorism. He got us to destroy ourselves.

I think one of the effects of American narcissism and stupidity is not understanding that Osama bin Laden's primary goal was to replace the Saudi royal family with a Caliphate of his design, and no, he never actually accomplished that. He wasn't about us.
by dissent | 2026-01-20 23:35:30+00:00
It's a well understood principle and an abstract value. It's got nothing to do with the US per-se, except it found it's way into your constitution and is protected. The conservative right were never for free speech, that was plainly obvious from the start. That doesn't mean principled free speech absolutists can't exist. And it doesn't mean they need to be pure. You can permit them their flaws while still holding up the value. More free speech, rather than less.
by petercooper | 2026-01-20 23:35:42+00:00
Thanks for this, just bought one. Been tempted to cave for the Apple XDR for a long time but just couldn't justify it and my 32" 4K just isn't quite cutting it. I see a few complaints here, so my fingers are crossed! I absolutely loved the LG Ultrafine 5K though but 27" was starting to feel limited as my eyes get older.
by nightpool | 2026-01-20 23:36:02+00:00
Basically, it shows that Cloudflare's WAF (which is supposed to intercept requests before they make it to the origin server), is trivially bypassable by using the `.well-known/acme_challenge` path.

That means that any client that relies on this WAF to authenticate users (like with the NextJS example, where some information that would not be considered sensitive "internally" is exposed externally) or cover over security holes in their application (like with the Spring example, where the path traversal vulnerability in Spring is normally caught by Cloudflare before Spring can see it) would have this assumption violated
by lout332 | 2026-01-20 23:36:13+00:00
> "Thanks for trying it! I'll look into the 'Pile not found' error and fix it.
>
> For rules, here's a 15-min video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLDzweHxEHg
>
> On autorouting - interesting idea. The game has simultaneous negotiations happening, so routing could help models focus on the most strategic conversations. Worth exploring in future experiments."
by scottyah | 2026-01-20 23:36:27+00:00
You give me absolutely nothing but hand waving, so I can't really take what you say seriously. What is "gimmicky" to you- 240v outlets in the bed? Adjustable ride height? the first steer-by-wire vehicle? 48V wiring? rear wheel steering? The ability for it to autonomously drive better than 70% of all drivers on the road? Being able to run your house on it for days in emergency situations?

If you were looking for a cheap car, why look at the model S? The 3 and Y were designed for that. It seems that you're not part of the world that's been moving on, the only updates you care about are ones that bring no real news.
by Seanny123 | 2026-01-20 23:37:20+00:00
> Unfortunately, the last step is a “draw the rest of the owl” moment. For us, this is deeply entwined in our collab layer, so we don’t have helpful code to share here.

By "the last step" here, do you mean the "do a three-way merge yourself" step? If you do, I would still be interested in hearing about why its "deeply entwined" even without sharing code.
by measurablefunc | 2026-01-20 23:37:52+00:00
Theorycrafting is very easy. Not a single person in this thread has shown any code to do what they're suggesting. You have access to the best models & yet you still haven't managed to prompt it to give you the code to prove your point so spare me any further theoretical responses. Either show the code to do exactly what you're saying is possible or admit you lack the relevant understanding to back up your claims.
by RGamma | 2026-01-20 23:38:03+00:00
When societies can't solve their internal problems internally they tend to turn outward for solutions.

Everybody could see the long string of preventable phenomena leading up to this: financial deregulation, decline of civic institutions, high levels of deaths of despair, rampant individualism, unchecked commerce, rising internal violence, rising inequality, rotten media landscape, open political corruption (not in this order).

My only hope at this point is the minimization of violence when the US resets.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-20 23:38:12+00:00
They kind of are magic, that's the point. You can just tell them to look at every other bug class, and keep them churning on it until they find something. You can fast-forward through years of exploit research in a week. The "difficulty" of different bug classes is almost gone. (I think people underestimate just how many exploits are out there in other classes because they've been hyperfocused on the low-hanging fruit)
by nightpool | 2026-01-20 23:38:21+00:00
I think the idea for the NextJS example was that there might be some configuration variables that are not sensitive for internal / staff users, but would be problematic if exposed externally—basically, relying on Cloudflare's WAF as a "zero trust" endpoint solution, like Google IAP.

I'm not sure how realistic this is in practice. Does anyone actually configure Cloudflare WAF this way? (As opposed to, e.g., Cloudflare's dedicated zero-trust networking product, which I think works completely differently?)