MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RadiozRadioz | 2026-01-03 10:16:30+00:00
> Then there was the problem of fragility: any syntax problems with your XHTML and your users would get a blank screen

I don't call that fragile, I call that well-founded. It has always perturbed me that, when encountering an error, HTML parsers will guess what they think you meant instead of throwing it back. I don't want my parser to do guesswork with potentially undefined behavior. I don't want my mistakes to be obscured so they can later come back to bite me - I want to be called out on issues loud and clear before my users see them.

Perhaps it works under the context of manually-authored markup with minimal effort, so I can see why the choice was made. These days it's yet another reason why the web is a precarious pile of sticks. HTML freely lets you put a broken oddly-shaped stick right in the middle and topple the whole stack.

The people turning the web from a handcrafted document sharing system into the world's premiere application platform should have made XHTML win.
by iov6throwaway | 2026-01-03 10:17:52+00:00
I ran network team at an organization with hundreds of thousands hardware hosts in tens-of-megawatts large data centers, millions of VMs and containers, links between data centers, links to ISPs and IXes. We ran out of RFC1918 addresses at around 2011-2012 and went IPv6-only. IPv4 is delivered as a service to nodes requiring it via an overlay network. We intentionally simplified network design by doing so.

This is neither hard nor expensive.
by user34283 | 2026-01-03 10:18:07+00:00
'Randomly' here likely corresponds to a typo in the search term.

If I type "Visual Std" instead of "Visual Stu" it goes to the Bing results.

Alternatively it shows No results if you disable Bing in the Search settings found in the top right meatballs menu.

I also would expect fuzzy search by default instead of typos sending users to Bing.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-03 10:18:31+00:00
> That IP will respond with a 403 error if they try to connect to it. So Azure is indirectly training people that 403 potentially IS a "network issue"...

You are not describing a network issue. You're sending requests that by design the origin servers refuse to authorize. This is basic HTTP.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7231#page-59

The origin servers could also return 404 in this usecase, but 403 is more informative and easier to troubleshoot, because it means "yeah your request to this resource could be good but it's failing some precondition".
by monerozcash | 2026-01-03 10:20:03+00:00
>It doesn't matter what Americans consider to be the representatives of the legitimate government.

Really? I thought the US just arrested Maduro. To me, that seems like something that would matter.

>Maduro was the legitimate government, American wishful thinking is just another affront to Venezuelan sovereignty.

Can you actually try to explain why? Can you explain why a reasonable person looking at this from the outside should arrive at the conclusion that "Maduro was the legitimate government"?
by MrBuddyCasino | 2026-01-03 10:20:31+00:00
„We use the unrevised edition because we believe the revised edition (the revisions were done by Carnegie’s relatives after his death) forcefully makes the language of the book gender neutral and politically correct and takes away from the originality of the work.

They even went so far ahead as to make quotes from other people gender neutral and politically correct.

Most of the revised editions available today do not include Parts 5 and 6. Even the included parts see many paragraphs and examples omitted.

In many places, characters in examples who were male have been edited to be female.

It appears that Carnegie’s relatives decided to heavily excise content and highhandedly edit the work to match their own sensibilities and what appears to the webmasters as a feminist agenda.

The unrevised edition as on this website is complete without exclusions and edits.

We believe this text written by Dale Carnegie himself while he was alive without the alterations made by his relatives after his death is more readable, complete, and enjoyable.“
by beAbU | 2026-01-03 10:20:43+00:00
Some mornings when I wake my laptop from sleep, my USB webcam doesn't work. No matter how many times I plug and unplug, no dice. Sometimes the wifi just refuses to connect to my network. Only a full reboot fixes things.

Sometimes, while I do things on a browser, I get a BSOD, no warning.

Some mornings, usually when I left important work open and half finished the night before, my computer decides to do an update and all my open windows, tabs, reference documents etc are gone, as if someone came and cleared my workbench mid project and now I need to set up all my shit again from scratch.

My personal laptop is a 10 year old POS thinkpad T-something with Linux Mint. Biggest issue is I forget to properly shut it down, and to plug it in every now and then, and the shot battery runs down. Admittedly, the bluetooth is sometimes a little iffy, but I've spent 0 effort trying to resolve it. I just open the lid, and my computer is ready for me. Boots up in an instant and always in the state I left it in (unless I let the battery run down).

My new, modern, high spec, high ram, high-res laptop is easily an order of magnitude more frustrating to use than my linux shitbox laptop.

I quit my job, and bought the laptop from the company. It's getting a wipe this weekend and some flavour of linux, and the wife is getting it as a belated christmas gift. She's due an upgrade, and I decided she's ready to move to linux now.
by eternauta3k | 2026-01-03 10:21:13+00:00
Venezuela already was a refugee crisis ~5 years ago, until they liberalized the economy slightly some years ago. Not sure what the current status is.

I could foresee

* some US-backed pro-business president coming to power
* GDP going up
* still no completely liberal democracy but anyway better than Maduro
* less emigration or maybe people start coming back

The main casualty is the notion that the US follows rules instead of doing whatever it wants. I'm not sure if I'd say democracy is a casualty as well, because (AFAIK with my non-leftist sources) Venezuela wasn't a real democracy.
by Root_Denied | 2026-01-03 10:21:25+00:00
For a lot of those people the options are "spend a lot of money to upgrade your hardware to either run Win11 or buy a Macbook" or "use your existing hardware and ask your tech friend for a Linux distro recommendation".

When prices are going nuts and the economy is tanking the option that doesn't cost you money starts to look a lot more appealing, and for some the first isn't even an option; they're completely priced out of the new market for the foreseeable future.
by baubino | 2026-01-03 10:22:00+00:00
The only news I see on flights is from Yahoo News: “FAA bans US commercial flights in Venezuela airspace over ‘ongoing military activity’ ahead of explosions in Caracas.”

Redirecting flights in and around Venezuela could be causing delays elsewhere.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/faa-bans-us-commercial-f...
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-03 10:22:44+00:00
It’s kind of amazing that this is a weak point in the Pentagons’ opsec.

Like, surely they could afford to have their own pizza ovens installed .. or does all that cash really just need to be spent slaughtering innocents instead?

One bad anchovy batch and the world might be at peace for a while, hmm…
by radu_floricica | 2026-01-03 10:23:09+00:00
I don't like using these terms without qualifications, just like socialism means three different things in three different contexts.

But saying the Democratic party, with AOC, Bernie Sanders and two decades of progressism is "right"... you might as well say the sky is green. That's just ignoring any meaning of the words, not trying to find a more precise one.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-03 10:24:47+00:00
Yes, with strong religious and historically early ethnonationalist motivations, including against denominations of European colonists who weren't English-speaking, while the British opposition was largely motivated by pragmatic diplomatic efforts to avoid large wars, expenses or both. Taylor's book American Revolutions is a great starting point for the period (with depth exceeding the typical ACOUP article) and the bibliography delivers plenty of follow-up material by topic and/or place.
by hhh | 2026-01-03 10:24:50+00:00
The pizza report is very annoying to me. It’s a trivial thing for any interested party ( few thousand dollars) to sway up when they want to bring attention to an action the pentagon is doing, and has been such a measure for so long that it’s (in my opinion) ridiculous to still follow it as a source for actual activity. Maybe I should start manipulating it myself.
by zeapo | 2026-01-03 10:24:59+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. You're right, it's part of the long term goals.

I'd like to keep the center of the screen clutter free and add side-bars later on with tooling. Among them, an inspector just like what PyCharm has when opening a notebook. For globals it's quite simple to add, however to inspect the content of a single compound statement it might be a bit tricky (if you've got ideas I'd love to learn more).

Some of the next "urgent" features are improving the code state management (history), having multiple sessions, being able to save them, etc. Maybe adding a way to bring the data online somehow.
Show HN: ΔX – When an AI System Is Allowed to Stay Silent
by DELTA-X | 2026-01-03 10:25:14+00:00
This work explores a simple but often ignored question:

What if an AI system is allowed to not answer?

ΔX is a constraint-layer approach where output is conditional, not mandatory.
Silence is treated as a valid system state, not a failure.

The goal is not better text generation, but behavioral justification:
— when an answer is produced
— when it is withheld
— and why

All materials, protocols, and references are openly published on Zenodo.
This is not a product launch, but a research disclosure.

Feedback, critique, and edge cases are welcome.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-03 10:25:15+00:00
Yeah there are many things coming together on top of W11 fuckups.

Proton was good, but SteamDeck did 2 things:

* informed bigger public that hey, it is good enough for vast majority of games/gamers in the public eye

* more importantly, *made developers care* about their stuff working on Steam Deck. And if it works on Steam Deck, very good chance it will work on <generic linux distro> just fine
by anthk | 2026-01-03 10:25:48+00:00
If I were the Pentagon I would run far away. The Chinese will plant missiles in Cuba. And China is not Venezuela, they don't chicken out.

PD: nuclear missiles.

Oh, btw, Venezuelan and Cuban Hispanics in Miami for sure they will love being sent as cannon fodder because, you know, of being Spanish speakers against Cubans. But that won't matter as you would have highly trained Chinese men in Cuba, and they'll make the US Hispanics flee like crazy. Again, the Chinese are no joke. The US can bully the world but against a bigger bully they just set their head down.

Maduro isn't my best choice as a politician but the opposition it's the same populist crap but from the right side. And ofc backed by the CIA. So in the end nothing will change for Venezuelans. If any, a money shift.
by jmonty900 | 2026-01-03 10:26:08+00:00
Years ago I had a cubicle right next to the supervisor's office. I noticed that he was having more closed-door meetings than usual, and mentioned it to my good friend who was also my boss. My boss did a good job not reacting, because she already knew a layoff was eminent but couldn't share that with me (I was not one of those let go.) Events like this can be surprisingly accurate indicators of something significant going on.
by linguae | 2026-01-03 10:26:22+00:00
I’m an American and I love Japan, in fact, I’m typing this in my hotel room in Tokyo. This is my 14th trip here in 16 years; my seventh trip since Japan lifted COVID-19 travel restrictions in late 2022.

Japan does many things well; I love the efficient and clean public transportation, the excellent customer service, the lack of price gouging at hotels and airports, and the general kindness of the people. I love the social harmony here. I also used to work for a Japanese company before switching careers to academia, and in many ways I seem to fit in better with corporate Japan than modern corporate America.

However, not everything in Japan is better than the United States. I stayed in Japan for nearly two months last summer and I found myself craving a nice deli sandwich when I returned to America. Deli sandwiches aren’t really a thing in Japan other than Subway.

For more serious matters, I know many Japanese people who moved to Silicon Valley because there were more opportunities there compared to Japan. I know a few Japanese women who felt stifled in Japan due to gender expectations and ended up thriving in America in careers such as art and biotechnology. While Japanese K-12 schools are better on average than their American counterparts, American higher education is still the best in the world, though it’s very expensive. While I had great experiences at the Japanese company I worked for (both in Japan and the US), not all companies in Japan are good. The work culture here can involve very long hours. Additionally, salaries in tech are much lower than in America, and the yen has been weak since 2022.

Additionally, the United States is a multicultural nation. While it still has a long way to go when it comes to rooting out racism and xenophobia, and while things are challenging with the current political situation, there’s still the idea that anyone can become an American no matter their birthplace. In contrast, Japan is a Japanese nation. I could naturalize, but I’ll never be treated as truly Japanese, and if I have children, even if they are half-Japanese, they would not be treated as truly Japanese.

I love Japan; I want to continue traveling here twice per year and I can see myself spending a sabbatical year here one day. However, Japan is not paradise, and while things in the United States are rather tumultuous now, there are still aspects of American life that are nicer than in Japan, and not just cheese and deli sandwiches.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-03 10:26:24+00:00
Ethnic Cleansing is a policy of rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area. You seem to be using a commonly cited inaccurate definition of genocide instead of the broader term “ethnic cleansing”, but note that even genocide does not require killing as the means, as it is defined (in the 1948 Genocide Convention) as any combination of one or more of seven different acts (one of which is killing members of the group) when undertaken with the specific intent to destroy the given racial, ethnic, national, or religious group.
by wanderingbit | 2026-01-03 10:26:47+00:00
> And they didn't even bother to test the most important thing. Were the LLM evaluations even accurate!

This is not true; the professor and the TAs graded every student submission. See this paragraph from the article:

(Just in case you are wondering, I graded all exams myself and I asked the TA to also grade the exams; we mostly agreed with the LLM grades, and I aligned mostly with the softie Gemini. However, when examining the cases when my grades disagreed with the council, I found that the council was more consistent across students and I often thought that the council graded more strictly but more fairly.)
Show HN: Tibet-Audit – Like Lynis, but for Regulations (GDPR, AI Act, PIPA, LGPD
by jaspervdmeent | 2026-01-03 10:26:47+00:00
Hey HN! We built a compliance health scanner that gives you a score in seconds.

The problem: Compliance is fragmented. GDPR in Europe, AI Act coming, PIPA in Korea (24-hour breach notification!), LGPD in Brazil, PDPA in Singapore... each with different requirements.

tibet-audit scans your codebase and tells you:
- What's missing (breach procedures, consent mechanisms, DPO designation)
- How to fix it (auto-fix with --auto)
- Your compliance health score (0-100)

45 checks across 10 frameworks, covering all inhabited continents.

We call the auto-fix "The Diaper Protocol" – because compliance shouldn't require your full attention. One command, hands free, done.

$ pip install tibet-audit
$ tibet-audit scan

Built by a human + AI team at HumoticaOS. Happy to answer questions!
by 3rodents | 2026-01-03 10:27:05+00:00
And then what? Putin could have assassinated / abducted the Ukrainian president… and it wouldn’t have gotten him any closer to his goal. Trump has taken Maduro because he (ostensibly) believes Maduro specifically to be a criminal funnelling drugs into the U.S. A completely different situation. Trump wants Maduro, Putin wants Ukraine.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-03 10:28:01+00:00
Speaking of HK, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0K8jkNLPdQ is amazingly accessible, but looking at AM it does seem that {c,m}-pop stars have short lifespans? Are they like the May Queen/Wicker King archetype, sacrificed young so their fans may collect their relics? Or have I just over extrapolated from N=2 (and Joplin et al) :-) ?

Lagniappe: (these guys are no longer this young) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZLIWoUbcyo
by beAbU | 2026-01-03 10:28:20+00:00
I don't mind an MS account to be honest.

My problem is that Windows fucks up my user name when I log in to my account when setting up a new machine. I drives me up the wall.

My name is Daniel. My name on my MS account is Daniel. When I log in to a new Windows machine, the fucking thing decides my user name, and therefore my user folder, is "Danie". This is NOT my name, it's a different name that is not mine and it makes my computer grating to use every time.

For some retarded reason, windows does not allow online account users to have a username longer than 5 chars, so it goes and truncates whatever the first name it gets back from the mothership when logging in. A local account does not have this issue.
by roenxi | 2026-01-03 10:29:02+00:00
The polling indicates that the US is desperate for an alternative for something other than the two incumbent parties. They're wildly unpopular and there actually seems to be a political consensus that the US is sliding into ruin which reflects badly on the mainstream policy consensus the majors have been pushing over last few decades.

Just a post ago you identified that Mr. "Why do we have nukes if we don't use them?" was the best available option. That doesn't mean he's a good option, it means there were two choices and the other one was generally seen as the same or worse than Trump. Which given all the stuff that got thrown at Trump is an impressive level of failure.
by webdevver | 2026-01-03 10:29:56+00:00
no way - this notion of "exchanges" isnt real, certainly i will never believe it.

why would the US 'play nice', when it can have its cake and eat it too? venezuela show of force, followed by imminent regime change in iran, ukraine will get more weapons, and china will continue getting surrounded via japan.

i think the people hoping to see some kind of change to the status-quo will be disappointed! pax americana alive and well.
by krapp | 2026-01-03 10:30:19+00:00
>Which is why they have been subverted and subjugated and all their will usurped.

But America's armed populace and the stalwart vigilance of its militias are supposed to make that impossible.

Americans were more up in arms (literal and figurative) over Obamacare and Covid lockdowns than anything Trump has done, domestically or abroad. The only rational conclusion is that they're either complicit or else they simply don't care.
by ichik | 2026-01-03 10:30:27+00:00
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by strenholme | 2026-01-03 10:30:28+00:00
“There is only one 10.0.0.0/8”

Also:

- There are 16 172.{16-31}.0.0/16s (I used 172.23 because Docker uses one of these)

- There are 256 192.168.{0-255}.0/8s

And that’s just what RFC1918 gives us. There are other private subnets defined in newer RFCs.

I like IPv6 but it caused issues with browsers accepting my Letsencrypt certs on my website, so my website is now IPv4 only.

“Announcing that address block using BGP gives you a permanent block of routable addresses that follows you from ISP to ISP.”

Enough people have done this that BGP networking has become a real mess at the ISP level. Can BGP really handle every person in the world doing this?
by DarkNova6 | 2026-01-03 10:30:50+00:00
I was hoping to read an article on how smells guide our bio-chemistry, but it’s more a historical piece.

Sense of smell strikes me as the sense with the greatest discrepency between individuals. Some are incredibly attuned, others are completely oblivious to it.

Clearly the piece is written by somebody very passionate about their own sense of smell.
by wiseowise | 2026-01-03 10:31:11+00:00
"Bro please just give me the Sudetenland. I swear bro just let me take the rest of Czechoslovakia and I'm done. It's my last territorial demand bro I promise. Just one more annexation and the Treaty of Versailles is fixed. Please bro it's just for the living space."

"Bro please just let me take Kyiv. I swear bro just one more special military operation and the security buffer is complete. It's not a war bro it's denazification. Just give me the Donbas and the land bridge and I'll be chill. One more mobilization and the multipolar world order is saved bro please."

"Bro please just acknowledge the Nine-Dash Line. I swear bro just let me have Taiwan and the great rejuvenation is complete. It's totally an internal matter bro. Just one more island chain and the century of humiliation is over. Please bro just let me cross the strait."

"Bro please just let me bring them freedom. I swear bro just one more regime change and the region is stable. It's about democracy bro it's not about the oil reserves I promise. Just let me install an interim president. Please bro just one more coup."
by arch1t3cht | 2026-01-03 10:31:18+00:00
HDR is nothing more than metadata about the color spaces. The way the underlying pixel data is encoded does not change. HDR consists of

1. A larger color space, allowing for more colors (through different color primaries) and a higher brightness range (though a different gamma function)

2. Metadata (either static or per-scene or per-frame) like a scene's peak brightness concrete tonemapping settinsg, which can help players and displays map the video's colors to the set of colors it can display.

I actually have a more advanced but more compact "list of resources" on video stuff in another gist; that has a section on color spaces and HDR:

https://gist.github.com/arch1t3cht/ef5ec3fe0e2e8ae58fcbae903...
by mourner | 2026-01-03 10:31:28+00:00
Soviet stockpiles nearly depleted, 1.5 million dead or wounded, Black Sea fleet practically destroyed, third of strategic bomber fleet destroyed, economy in downfall, no major cities captured in 4 years of all out war, gas and oil revenues plummeting, and there are STILL people saying “oh they just didn’t even start for real yet, just you wait”, gosh. Just laughable.