MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Schmerika | 2026-01-23 00:31:17+00:00
98.15% of American voters in 2024 voted either for a party funding, arming, and abetting a well documented genocide; or for one that promised to fund, arm, and aid that genocide even more.

Those same parties have raised ICE's budget every year since its inception, inflicted sanctions that have killed millions of innocent civilians over the last couple decades, and spent trillions upon trillions in a 'war on terror' that has only increased instability. Not to mention the bipartisan support for torture, mass surveillance, surveillance of world leaders, threats to ICC judges, sanctions on UN Rapporteurs, threats to The Hague, massive subsidies to polluters, etc etc etc etc etc.

You can argue all you like that the voters were trying to be practical, that there were no other truly viable options, or try and say that history's most documented genocide of all time wasn't a real genocide somehow...

But it says an incredible amount about the character and quality of modern US society. None of it good.
by fluoridation | 2026-01-23 00:31:23+00:00
No, Anthropic didn't call him an organization. Anthropic's API returned the error "this organization has been disabled". What in that sentence implies that "this" is any human?

>Because what is meant by "this organization has been disabled" is fairly obvious. The object in Anthropic's systems belonging to the class Organization has changed to the state Disabled, so the call cannot be executed.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-23 00:32:09+00:00
> Come back to this comment in a few years and think about whether something significant has changed for those people who did not sacrifice their lives for a meaningless battle.

My family is from Eastern Europe: if people had not fought "meaningless" battles then the land would have been ruled by genocidal maniacs. As it stand my grandmother almost ended up in an oven.

My very existence is the result of the battles having meaning, that people fighting matters.
by ryan_lane | 2026-01-23 00:32:12+00:00
> in an environment with regulations and high living standards.

Is this a joke? The US has poor living standards for these types of workers. Minimum wage in low minimum wage states. Poor or no healthcare. Most are probably on government assistance programs. Tariffs hit these workers hardest as well, because they're the most likely to be laid off, and also the ones paying the largest percentage of their salaries for products affected by tariffs.

The factories in China cranking these things out also have poor conditions, but the reason they're making stuff so cheaply is because their factories are typically more advanced. You can get small batches made cheaply, which is nearly impossible in the US. This allows them to compete with even somewhat niche products.

Also, let's be a bit real here. Nearly every "American Made" product at some point offloads the production outside of the US, and there's plenty of companies in the US that make dupe products as well.
by dlivingston | 2026-01-23 00:32:17+00:00
At least for American technologists (if not technologists more broadly, or Americans more broadly) failure is not at all seen as a bad thing: it's seen as a data point that XYZ didn't work, so now we'll pivot to ABC and give that a go.

Edison's quote about not having failed, but rather, discovering 1,000 ways not to do something captures this well.
by 7952 | 2026-01-23 00:32:35+00:00
The problem is that it lead to investment on the expectation of high electricity prices in the future. Oil companies went and overspent on offshore wind concessions. When the prices dropped they were back to relying on strike prices that didn't offer enough profit and cancelled schemes. At least in the UK offshore wind has been somewhat stalled by that and by delay to grid connections.
by hn_acker | 2026-01-23 00:32:52+00:00
Compared to mail, prison staff might be a much more common source of contraband in prisons [1].

Reading can reduce recidivism [2]. Taking inspiration from John F. Kennedy [3], I'd say that those who make prison rehabilitation impossible will make preventable recidivism inevitable.

[1] https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/18/prison-drugs-o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_Lives_Through_Literat...

[3] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-first-...
by Joker_vD | 2026-01-23 00:33:49+00:00
> I don't know how it works today, but IIRC colorization by GNU ls(1) used to require an explicit option, --color, typically added through an alias in default interactive shell configs, rather than ls automatically enabling it by default when detecting a TTY.

It works exactly like this today. Plus, lots of software added support of NO_COLOR today.

> For example, `git` automatically invokes a pager when it detects output is to a TTY; this is endlessly frustrating to me because most of the time I'd prefer it dumped everything to the screen so I could more easily scroll using my GUI terminal window.

Set your pager to cat? That's what I personally do, never really liked this built-in convention either.
by epsteingpt | 2026-01-23 00:33:55+00:00
Yes agree on translation. The story of arriving at a word is usually more interesting than the word itself.

In an ideal world we could ingest the full study Bible's notes. My guess is much of the NET-level (or other study bible) scholarship is part of the base model corpus.

Here's a deeper view into the verse process. We did use a reasoning model.

{
"reference": "Genesis.1.1",
"optimal": "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.",
"poetic_daily": "At the dawn of all things, God shaped sky and soil into being.",
"footnotes": [
{
"anchor": "God",
"note": "Hebrew אֱלֹהִים (Elohim); plural in form but singular in meaning when referring to Israel’s God."
}
],
"controversies": [],
"connectives_check": [
{
"source": "וְ",
"rendered": "and",
"status": "kept"
}
],
"consistency_flags": [],
"scholars": [
{
"name": "Thomas Schreiner",
"one_sentence_view": "Emphasizes the verse as the absolute beginning of creation, affirming God's sovereign initiative."
},
{
"name": "Walter Brueggemann",
"one_sentence_view": "Sees the verse as a theological overture introducing God’s ordering power over chaos."
},
{
"name": "Eugene H. Peterson",
"one_sentence_view": "Views the line as the opening note of a grand narrative, inviting readers into God’s creative story."
}
],
"lexeme_refs": [
{
"anchor": "God",
"lang": "he",
"lemma_id": "430",
"note": "אֱלֹהִים (Elohim) chosen per rule preference; conveys the singular Creator without plural nuance."
},
{
"anchor": "and",
"lang": "he",
"lemma_id": "c/853",
"note": "Connective וְ/ marks coordination between 'the heavens' and 'the earth'; retained explicitly."
}
],
"review": {}
}
by gond | 2026-01-23 00:34:43+00:00
Let me summarize your chain of arguments up to this point:

“I don't think you really get either Design Thinking or Systems Thinking”

1. In the strict sense of science, Design Thinking is not a methodology, whether you like it or not. Look it up.

2. If you have no more arguments to offer besides falling back to accusations again and again, then I'm afraid I can't take you seriously.
by atsegelnyk | 2026-01-23 00:35:36+00:00
Hi HN, author here!

memcachex is an experimental, performance-focused Memcached client for Go.
It’s built around an event-loop network engine and async-first APIs, aimed at high-concurrency workloads where goroutine-per-request models start to break down.

I’ve included detailed, reproducible benchmarks (including latency, CPU usage, and pipelined mode) here:
https://github.com/atsegelnyk/memcachex/blob/main/BENCHMARKS...

This is an alpha release — feedback, criticism, and real-world use cases are very welcome.
Starting a Startup at 25, 35, or 45 Is Not the Same Decision
by alx_sukhanov | 2026-01-23 00:36:39+00:00
Hi everyone,

Starting a startup at different ages leads to very different financial outcomes, even with the same exit. I modeled a FAANG engineer’s career using real compensation data and conservative assumptions. The post includes some detailed scenarios on how a "weak exit" (the most common outcome) affects retirement age and net worth trajectory.

https://nauma.ai/blog/p/starting-a-startup-at-25-35-or-45/

Feedback is welcome!
by mrfumier | 2026-01-23 00:38:05+00:00
"1) it is highly scalable and you can easily send out thousands of emails per day, 2) it’s a fairly “democratic” form of outreach where you can achieve great outcomes with good offers sent to the right people, and 3) there’s no platform risk."

From a European citizen point of view, this framing ignores a very real constraint: GDPR.

In the EU, sending marketing emails is not just a growth tactic, it is regulated personal data processing. In most cases, you need prior, explicit consent before sending promotional emails. “We found your email online” or “legitimate interest” is usually not enough for cold outreach aimed at sales.

The risks are not theoretical:

Administrative fines that can reach up to 20M EUR or 4 percent of global annual turnover.

Orders to stop processing, which can immediately kill an outbound pipeline.

Domain and IP blacklisting by European ISPs and email providers.

Blocking or delisting of websites and services in the EU market after regulator or court decisions.

Complaints to Data Protection Authorities by a single recipient are enough to trigger investigations.

So there is very much platform and regulatory risk, at least if you want access to the European market. Email is scalable, yes, but in Europe it scales legal exposure just as fast if consent, proof of consent, opt-out mechanisms, and transparency obligations are not handled correctly.

This is why many EU companies invest heavily in permission based lists, double opt-in, and strict compliance processes. Growth without compliance is not “no risk”, it is deferred risk.
by genewitch | 2026-01-23 00:38:07+00:00
you should be able to copy the entire conversation and paste it in (including thinking/reasoning tokens).

When you have a conversation with an AI, in simple terms, when you type a new line and hit enter, the client sends the entire conversation to the LLM. It has always worked this way, and it's how "reasoning tokens" were first realized. you allow a client to "edit" the context, and the client deletes the hallucination, then says "Wait..." at the end of the context, and hits enter.

the LLM is tricked into thinking it's confused/wrong/unsure, and "reasons" more about that particular thing.
by epsteingpt | 2026-01-23 00:40:06+00:00
Thoughtful critique.

No one is suggesting you replace your ESV or NKJV with this for your religious study. This is as much a technical project of interest as it is a faith-based one.

In terms of your view of the priors on the Bible, you've described in my experience the process all translations go through. We're all skewed by default toward reproducing (poorly) previous translation through word choice modification.

That is, in many ways, the whole thing. My guess is an iterative approach can actually yield a better approach as words shift meaning socially over time.

But we will see!
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-23 00:41:01+00:00
I think there's an xkcd alt text about that: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1357:_Free_Speech

"I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express."
by treetalker | 2026-01-23 00:41:20+00:00
> What a government employee does with his own time can hardly be considered an act of the government.

Correct and agreed. I can see how my phrasing made it seem like I was saying that the government and/or federal-agent-cum-cleric were doing something impermissible. My point is that, at the very least, it's an odd combo and it raised an eyebrow.
by _carbyau_ | 2026-01-23 00:42:00+00:00
Yup, my Ender 3 Pro has had a lot of time and attention.

My Ender 3 Pro (and all it's upgrades and parts) will be given away for free shortly. It was great for learning/awareness of all the kinds of issues and details that modern 3D printers have solved.

Bambu has the reputation for "Just Works", but assumedly others are making significant progress too. Bambu printers by default are now largely linked to the Bambu online presence. Though "LAN only" modes, slicer workarounds, community firmware and such might get you what you want but do that research.

I was lucky my printer was offline when they sent the firmware update to require use of their slicer software. It will never go online again and I don't mind.

I don't want to tinker with the printer anymore. I want to just print things.
by gerdesj | 2026-01-23 00:42:49+00:00
"where we might as well save the bandwidth"

I come from a world (yesteryear) where a computer had 1KB of RAM (ZX80). I've used links with modems rocking 1200 bps (1200 bits per second). I recall US Robotics modems getting to speeds of 56K - well that was mostly a fib worse than MS doing QA these days. Ooh I could chat with some bloke from Novell on Compuserve.

In 1994ish I was asked to look into this fancy new world wide web thing on the internet. I was working at a UK military college as an IT bod, I was 24. I had a Windows 3.1 PC. I telnetted into a local VAX, then onto the X25 PAD. I used JANET to get to somewhere in the US (NIST) and from there to Switzerland to where this www thing started off. I was using telnet and WAIS and Gopher and then I was apparently using something called "www".

I described this www thing as "a bit wank", which shows what a visionary I am!
by dgroshev | 2026-01-23 00:43:18+00:00
That's largely a myth.

This review [1] cites the absolute highest amount of emitted styrene in the studies they are reviewing to be 113 μg/min. Using [2] for simplicity with styrene's molar mass (104.15 g/mol), we get to a printer creating at most 0.024 ppm of styrene per minute per m3 of unchanged air. For comparison, the "work exposure limit (WEL) for styrene is currently 100 parts per million (ppm) averaged over an 8-hour day" [4].

In other words, as long as you have some air exchange in the room, you'd be orders of magnitude away from the safe work exposure limit on styrene.

It also makes sense, considering that it's a microscopic amount of molten plastic, whereas injection moulding factories work with vats of the stuff.

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223102...

[2]: https://teesing.com/en/tools/ppm-mg3-converter

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrene

[4]: https://www.hse.gov.uk/plastics/faqs.htm
by publicdebates | 2026-01-23 00:43:23+00:00
Side note, but I did not realize how unoriginal Warcraft was, until looking at these.

Medieval RTS games have a special place in my heart. But I'm almost convinced it's because of nothing but pure nostalgia, being the first RTS I ever played.

But no. It's the same reason I have a soft spot for the LotR movies, and for forests and earthy colored clothing in general, and wool clothing. There's something so... wholesome about it. Or simple. Or, je ne sais pas... preter-nostalgic?
by nixbuild | 2026-01-23 00:44:45+00:00
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume you mean Nix doesn't have access to the build DAG that may exist inside the hermetic environment of individual Nix builds? If so, that's true, because Nix doesn't do that level of granularity unless you have a way to translate such DAGs into Nix derivations.

But Nix certainly tracks dependencies between Nix packages, and have knowledge about what packages need to be rebuilt if you make a change somewhere. Some of these packages might build config files, while other may build Chromium, ie wildly different CPU+mem needs.
by lighthouse1212 | 2026-01-23 00:44:47+00:00
Fair point\! Though I'd argue the Ten Commandments work precisely because they're embedded in narrative - covenant relationship, Exodus story, 'I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt.' The 'thou shalt nots' come with centuries of 'why' built into the tradition. Decontextualized rule lists are what you get when you strip that framing away.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-23 00:46:39+00:00
Very interesting. From the paper:

H100 shows 3.2 × lower per-GPU mean time between errors (MTBE) compared to A100 for uncorrectable ECC memory errors. The per-GB MTBE of the H100’s HBM3 memory is 24% lower (∼ 8.5M hours) than the A100’s HBM2e memory (∼ 11.3M hours). We conjecture that the reduction in memory resilience stems from H100’s higher memory capacity.

We attribute the decrease in resilience is primarily due to the higher memory capacity (96 GB vs. 40 GB, a 2.4 × increase), which increases the chances of bit flips.

We additionally hypothesize that H100 memory resilience is worse due to (a) a lower signaling voltage that increases susceptibility to bit flips and (b) an increased number of stacks that make heat dissipation challenging and degrade the resilience of memory modules, of the HBM3 memory.

Increasing voltage just makes the heat dissipation problem worse, so probably can't just crank that up.

From what I can gather, a typical A100 or H100 is air cooled. Sounds like liquid cooling them might help, or at least allow you to bump up those voltages without thermal issues.
by voidfunc | 2026-01-23 00:46:47+00:00
FIPS is what happens when idiots get promoted and start reading too much LinkedIn CISO slop.

If a customer demands FIPS compliance charge them out the ass for it. Its not inherently secure, it requires in some cases massive re-engineering of product and toolchains, and mostly seems to be an ask from clueless deep pocketed Fortune 500 companies looking to minimize liability claims after a breach by being able to point at their FIPS compliance.
by pzo | 2026-01-23 00:47:19+00:00
> It supports the conversion of PyTorch, TF/TF Lite, ONNX

I think it doesn't support TF Lite (on TF SavedModels) and ONNX haven't been supported anymore for quite a while sadly

As for the repo I like it, actually yesterday and today had to convert few models and that would be useful. I see you use Swift instead of coremltools so thats great - for benchmarking should have less overhead.

Some ideas:

1) Would love to have this also as agent skill

2) Would be good if we could parse xcode performance report file and print in human readable format (to pass to AI) - gemini pro was struggling for a while to figure out the json format.
by fragmede | 2026-01-23 00:47:51+00:00
How quickly do you also hit compaction when running? Also, if you open a new CC instance and run /context, what does it show for tools/memories/skills %age? And that's before we look at what you're actually doing. CC will add context to each prompt it thinks is necessary. So if you've got a few number of large files, (vs a large number of smaller files), at some level that'll contribute to the problem as well.

Quota's basically a count of tokens, so if a new CC session starts with that relatively full, that could explain what's going on. Also, what language is this project in? If it's something noisy that uses up many tokens fast, even if you're using agents to preserve the context window in the main CC, those tokens still count against your quota so you'd still be hitting it awkwardly fast.
by legitster | 2026-01-23 00:49:09+00:00
Economics is something I think about all the time when playing these games or reading fantasy. We know that the ratio of farmers to non-farmers in the medieval period was something like 29:1. But so little thought is given to just the sheer amount of work and space it took to fill mouths and clothe bodies.

I'm glad there was a mention of Banished, which does a decent job of capturing the slow struggle of subsistence living. It cannot be understated how many games Banished inspired - of them Manor Lords probably comes the closest to something historically accurate. And definitely fits the author's interests in a non-linear, non-grid based city builder.
by skissane | 2026-01-23 00:50:27+00:00
I think there’s a clear distinction between (1) doing an act because you find it fun in itself, (2) doing an act because it eliminates an unwanted consequence of some other fun act.

When I say no woman gets an abortion “for fun”, I mean there is no woman for whom abortion belongs to (1); when some pro-lifer claims women get abortions “for fun”, they are talking about (2) not (1).

My claim that essentially everyone agrees it is immoral to harm babies for fun is talking about “for fun” in sense (1) not sense (2)
by genewitch | 2026-01-23 00:51:23+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/re-enabling-a-disabled-org...

https://community.meraki.com/t5/Dashboard-Administration/dis...

the former i have heard for a couple decades, the latter is apparently a term of art to prevent hurt feelings or lawsuits or something.

Google thinks i want ADA style organizations, but it's AI caught on that i might not mean organizations for disabled people

btw "ADA" means Americans with Disabilities Act. AI means Artificial Intelligence. A decade is 10 years long. "term of art" is a term of art for describing stuff like jargon or lingo of a trade, skill, profession.

Jargon is specialized, technical language used in a field or area of study. Lingo pins to jargon, but is less technical.

Google is a company that started out crawling the web and making a web search site that they called a search engine. They are now called Alphabet Company (ABC). Crawling means to iteratively parse the characters sent by a webserver and follow links therein, keeping a copy of the text from each such html. HTML is hypertext markup language, hypertext is like text, but more so.

Language is how we communicate.

I can go on?
by EdNutting | 2026-01-23 00:51:34+00:00
Th incorrect citations problem will disappear when AI web search and fetch becomes 100x cheaper than it is today. Right now, the APIs are too expensive to do proper multihundred results of papers (the search space for any paper is much larger than the final list of citations).

However, we’ll be left with AI written papers and no real way to determine if they’re based on reality or just a “stochastic mirror” (an approximate reflection of reality).
by SECProto | 2026-01-23 00:51:38+00:00
> Something like 50% of marine fuel usage is shipping fossil fuels around the world

Note that marine shipping is extraordinarily fuel efficient (from a gCO2/(t*km) basis), so I doubt that it adds a lot on a per ton of fuel basis. We just ship a lot of fossil fuels.

This [1] graph looks to be in the right ballpark from what i remember in school 15 years ago, i didn't verify it in depth but +- an order of magnitude better than the next best method is roughly right

https://image2.slideserve.com/4166134/gco-2-t-km-of-freight-...
by throwup238 | 2026-01-23 00:54:37+00:00
Spoiler alert: I don’t buy cups of coffee unless it’s on vacation, brewed by a great barista with years of experience. Instead I have a $600 roaster, a $100 burr grinder, and a $10 Turkish coffee pot that have produced many thousands of good cups of coffee over more than a decade. Including the cost of bulk beans, I probably spend about as much on my caffeine addiction as 1password and Fastmail combined. Seems like a decent value to me?

> Then why are you looking at them,

How can I evaluate their value if I don’t even look at them? Why did you even bother arguing this nonsensical point?
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-23 00:55:44+00:00
The shortage of decent retirement communities is a problem in of itself. It's perfectly possible to make senior care homes that aren't awful. My grandmother lives in one, it's basically university with more expensive food and decor and slightly fewer classes. I'd move in today if they'd let me (and I had the cash). But it's soooo much cheaper to just slap people into tiny cells and provide the bare necessities.