MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-02 22:37:33+00:00
> If you don't read all of it then how would you know you're abiding by it

Why would it matter, because Christianity is very much not about following a large set of rules. It's more (some branches of) Jewry, that is famous for knowing and following a large set of rules. Most of the interaction with the priests is about how that is not actually sufficient and doesn't actually matters all that much. There is even a passage how someone following all the rules still won't succeed (the rich young man). The only real hard rule fits into a single sentence (double commandment of loving).

> it's a collection of works that you agree with and want to associate with?

Disagreeing is a normal and expected part of the faith and is the topic of some books in the collection. If you don't disagree with anything in the bible, I don't thing you are actually believing, you are just regurgitating things. The bible is a side effect of the formation of cultures and the getting to know in a relationship, and there is quite a development in it.

> I haven't read Mein Kampf / The Communist Manifesto but I would bet some pages if not chapters are agreeable to a lay-person while the overall theme wasn't.

Maybe in the Communist Manifesto, but Mein Kampf is total bullshit.

> Death Panels in ObamaCare.

No clue what that is, must be an US insider.

> This is how we end with the Dunning-Kruger effect

You know that Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation, right? https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...
by derektank | 2026-01-02 22:37:56+00:00
This is a minor point but the US did not weather inflation better than any other country. I know that peak inflation in Mexico was lower (Mexico began at a higher baseline, and has not lowered its inflation as much since, but the shock to the US was definitely greater) and I’m confident it was lower elsewhere too. The US did handle COVID quite well, but it was not perfect.
by stonogo | 2026-01-02 22:38:20+00:00
No, it's not that well integrated. They don't call it 'tags' but they work exactly the same way. JIRA, the most commonly cited example in this thread, has a whole separate engine for it and your JIRA admin builds the ticket flow manually. All the way back in RT this sort of thing was handled by a cron job. Github leveraging actions to accomplish this isn't much of a difference.

P.S. I didn't ask
by UltraSane | 2026-01-02 22:38:42+00:00
At first I though so too but IPv6 is actually easier. instead of CIDR you always have 64 bits for network and 64 for host. You get a public /48 IPv6 prefix that allows for 16 bits of subnets and then the host addresses can just start at 1 if you really want. So addresses can be prefix_1_1 if you want. And the prefix is easy to memorize since it never changes.

I DO think using 64 bits for hosts was stupid but oh well.
by F7F7F7 | 2026-01-02 22:38:53+00:00
Agencies regularly charge $50k+ (on the low end) for what amounts to hours and hours of customizing a Shopify template. I was pulled into a $150k rebrand and Webflow project where the latter accounted for 40% of the budget. It was a splashy home page that violated every rule of good page design (scroll jacking, progress bars, heavy animations) and 3 inner page templates that was essentially a set of the same blocks ordered differently (thanks Boostrap!!).

I was ultimately surprised how much time actually went into that Webflow project. Like OP mentioned (in the article) clients never make time to participate or give early feedback. Most of the time they don’t even know how being actively involved in the process will save them money. Is it the service providers job to educate them?

TLDR; like the article says. Sometimes you just have to ask.
by BizarroLand | 2026-01-02 22:39:09+00:00
I was against mandatory seatbelt laws at first because I disliked the intrusion.

That was it. My entire argument was (and I emphasize WAS) that I didn't like no gubment tell me what to do. If I wanted to be a damn fool and kill myself why would they care? It's a stupid act to try to outlaw stupidity.

Then I found out that seatbelt laws are actually about decreasing the financial burden of underinsured accident victims. The "gubment" doesn't care if you die, but they do care if they have to fund weeks of medical support before you die despite the treatment, or if you survive but are disabled and wind up on social security.

That realization made me give up.

It was always about saving money, not lives. With seatbelts and airbags you are more likely to either walk away uninjured or at least not so injured that you spend more than a few hours in the hospital.
by solarengineer | 2026-01-02 22:39:27+00:00
It would appear that your comment is about ECC itself.

The way I explain ECC RAM and file systems is "Since data is present in RAM before it is given to a file system driver to store and after data is retrieved by the file system driver, the data is only as good as what the RAM can assure." ZFS handles everything once the data is in its purview. It provides various features to ensure redundancies and recoverability in case the underlying hardware fails for any reason.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-02 22:39:47+00:00
And the AI videos are going the same way as full self driving:

1) looking like Tesla is easily two year, probably more behind everyone else

2) the others are seeing real SOTA performance ... and are not planning products because they think it won't work, or at least not yet

I must say ... really reminds me of the Tesla autopilot situation.

And I'd add 3) the really impressive robots, ie. the ones based on Boston Dynamics, are not based on ML algorithms. They are augmented by AI, not running actual AI algorithms in the control loop. The founder was an electrical engineering professor who moved into a CS direction (you know the sort of person who insists not just writing control loops in realtime, in assembly, but actually develops custom hardware for those algorithms. And I don't mean FPGAs or DSPs, I mean actual circuits)

So the entire approach of Tesla (and a lot of other startups) could be very wrong, and could very well be 5 theoretical breakthroughs removed from being feasible.
by themantalope | 2026-01-02 22:39:51+00:00
There is a lot in this comment I agree with, however I think may universities have backed themselves into a corner with the degree of tuition inflation that has taken place over the last 20+ years.

I graduated from a SUNY school in 2012. At the time, you could still actually go to school and work part time and get through it. Not saying it was easy by any stretch but it was possible. Tuition + living expenses were about $17/year on campus , less expensive housing was available off campus.

Now, even state schools have tuition which is only affordable through family wealth or loans. Going to university is no longer a low stakes choice - if you flunk you’re stuck with that debt forever. Not to say students aren’t responsible for understanding that when signing up, but the stakes are just a lot higher than what it used to be.
by altairprime | 2026-01-02 22:39:57+00:00
This is thematically amazing when you consider what the song is about — the roboticization of the abducted band. (Music video:)

https://youtu.be/gAjR4_CbPpQ

In this song, which is also chapter four of the movie Interstella 5000 movie (spoilers from here!), the knocked-out singers are scanned, parameterized, brainwashed, uploaded into The Matrix, and then used in the following songs of the movie-album to robotically mass produce music.

It makes perfect sense that the BPM is 123.45 because that’s exactly the sort of thing you get when a manager (who’s shown at the end!) just enters some numbers on the keyboard into the bpm field. They don’t keysmash the numpad; they just hit 123456789 until the field is full!

So not only does the song itself convey what some boss thinks is music, robotically beating at 123.45 bpm, but it is itself about being endlessly-rotating brainwashed-boring cogs in a pop music production industrial machine. I’m pretty sure the movie scene cuts and animations are timed specifically to the beats of the song, but knowing that they’re timed to a machine-specific bpm that a human would never select at random with a metronome?

Absolute genius.

I had no idea. Thanks for posting this.
by develoopest | 2026-01-02 22:39:58+00:00
I know someone working in Cyber Security, basically his job is to set a bunch of alerts for the client companies, all already predefined by a software, he basically sits, checks for new alerts from time to time and reports any issues, it does not require more than a 3 min investigation per alert or more work than to block the attacker IP in obvious cases.

I'm thinking of leaving my job and join the same company, it even pays decently.
by jpgvm | 2026-01-02 22:40:47+00:00
Late stage capitalism, protracted and targeted destruction of public education and health systems, lack of STEM focus eroding most of their massive lead in innovation, overemphasis on preservation and subsidisation of dying energy vs new energy (also contributing to innovation losses), overemphasis on meaningless politics and culture wars that ultimately mean absolutely nothing, excessive inequality resulting in the destruction of productivity in the lower ~50% of the wealth pyramid, over-extraction of the middle class leading to declining birth rates (increasing reliance on immigration), poorer health outcomes than other developed countries due to numerous factors (broken overly exploitive health insurance system, terrible diet/obesity, decreasing vaccination rates), toothless antitrust leading to monopolies/duopolies in most critical areas further exacerbating the rent-seeking and over-extraction, loss of soft power due to destruction of the state system under first Trump admin and continued decline due to tariffs and being an unreliable international partner.

So there isn't one reason, there is a ton of reasons.

It's not irrecoverable but it's bad. I honestly hope there is some wake-up moment for Americans when they realise that their leaders have been selling them out for decades now.
by anhner | 2026-01-02 22:41:28+00:00
What the fuck are you talking about bro?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crew8y7pwd5o

At least get your facts straight. And by the way, last I checked the war started in 2022, that's (almost) 4 years away, not "5 and running".

Go and cope harder.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-02 22:41:42+00:00
While we don't have access to their minds we do generally have access to what they say. They think they are shooting at bad guys, the claim is innocents hit without military advantage--if they considered the target valid they'll generally either say what they were aiming at or that the ones hit aren't actually innocents. The Chinese embassy case illustrates what I'm talking about--we admitted we made a mistake and indicated what the intended target was. Nobody challenged the validity of the intended target. Or, multiple times, Israel hits some high profile "innocent", in response to the criticism they release pictures that show the person wasn't an innocent.
by ggm | 2026-01-02 22:41:53+00:00
I do not understand the P/E at all. It feels to me like a screaming red flag. If I'd been in front of this, holding long, I would be walking to other investment now and only looking to buy when the inevitable corrections come. But I don't hold directly and nobody I know who does feels the way i do about the P/E so.. I just don't understand.

Can you think of any non tech business where a P/E like this was not a signal of corporate diseased thinking?
by fcoury | 2026-01-02 22:41:54+00:00
Just ported it to rust and plan on maintaining it if you want to add it to your original comment.

More details on a sibling comment:

https://github.com/fcoury/fracturedjson-rs
https://crates.io/crates/fracturedjson

Comment with details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468641
by araes | 2026-01-02 22:42:27+00:00
General survey of ferry prices in the 25+ meter range to give you an idea. Length number can be changed to filter for longer / shorter. There's 37 in the 25+ range, 19 in the 50+ range, and 11 in the 100+ range currently, although a few false positives on the keyword matches.

https://www.yachtworld.com/boats-for-sale/length-25/keyword-...
by ynac | 2026-01-02 22:42:39+00:00
I struggle with the purity of meaning for text-only as well. Before this thread, I didn't understand the mime settings; I've been living a lie with a browser friendly landing page that uses:

<!DOCTYPE HTML><plaintext>

And then all the other pages of the site to be pure *.txt files. In the end, until there are standards to point to, I just accept minimalism as the scale. I have ads, layouts, boxes / frames, and all sorts of possibly annoying aspects to my textsites. It is a medium that's just as easily abused as any!
by jandrese | 2026-01-02 22:42:47+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean by "leak your IP" since IP address is always how you communicate. I guess you mean you no longer have a 192.168 or a 10. address that is "hidden" from the Internet for whatever value that has? One nice thing about IPv6 is your local client can continually change their address if they so want (and this is actually a common feature) to disrupt tracking. Sure you have the same prefix, but that's exactly the same boat you were in with IPv4 and NAT.
by fpgaminer | 2026-01-02 22:43:05+00:00
> FPGAs will never rival gpus or TPUs for inference. The main reason is that GPUs aren't really gpus anymore.

Yeah. Even for Bitcoin mining GPUs dominated FPGAs. I created the Bitcoin mining FPGA project(s), and they were only interesting for two reasons: 1) they were far more power efficient, which in the case of mining changes the equation significantly. 2) GPUs at the time had poor binary math support, which hampered their performance; whereas an FPGA is just one giant binary math machine.
by bccdee | 2026-01-02 22:43:16+00:00
> Rust by default doesn't really encourage the group-element mindset and people have to work against the language in order to do it.

It's true that you don't see stuff like arena allocators very often, but Rust's lifetime/ownership semantics mean it's often best for related pieces of data to be owned by a single parent, which unifies their lifetimes such that they all start and stop being valid at the same time. I suppose that's only part of the equation, since an arena has you allocate everything at once in a continuous block, which has performance advantages.

Still, I can't help but see an underlying conceptual symmetry there. I feel like the scoped arena school of memory management would be nicely complemented by compiler lifetime analysis. Arenas definitely simplify lifetime issues, but that feels like an opportunity to experiment with additional static compiler checks, not a reason to eschew them. I'd love to see a language which required explicit deallocation but enforced it with linear types.

None of this is a criticism, btw. I liked your post!
by npalli | 2026-01-02 22:43:30+00:00
LOL, this is the list to keep in your head for this so called "manual". Best of luck of those who will work through this. BTW, Karpathy made that comment in 2025 not 2024.

Morphability - natural language as morphable code
Abstraction - tasks become reusable commands
Recursion - stack abstractions for leverage
Internal Consistency - prevent system drift
Reproducibility - crash-resilient design
Morphic Complexity - recognize over-engineering
E2E Autonomy - measure actual capabilities
Token Efficiency - maximize work per token
Mutation & Exploration - controlled self-improvement
by MobiusHorizons | 2026-01-02 22:44:31+00:00
that is what I thought you were saying, and it doesn't make much sense to me. AFAICT the point of arrays as a data structure is to allow relatively cheap indexing at the cost of more expensive resizing operations. What else would you do with an array other than index into it?

> e.g. split an array into slices and access those slices

How is this not indexing with a little abstraction? Aren't slices just a way of packaging an array with a length field it a standard way? I'm not aware of many array implementations without a length (and usually also capacity) field somewhere , so this seems like a mostly meaningless distinction (ie all sclices are arrays, right).
by evil-olive | 2026-01-02 22:45:04+00:00
> for the most part outside the Cybertruck they have decent products

your definition of "decent products" is different from mine.

15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open [0, 1]

0: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-22/tesla-doo...

1: https://archive.is/VpB1H
by observationist | 2026-01-02 22:45:16+00:00
It'd have to be locally controlled, or securely siloed in a cloud, with auditable and accountable interactions. Any sort of home robot will have that challenge; I wouldn't trust any company or person with that sort of access. When even the highest security clearance and most secure facilities and job titles in the world frequently involve people randomly scanning around, trolling through mass surveillance, stalking exes or arbitrary targets, rifling through people's private photos and messages, there's no way a mid-tier tech company job is going to be the one where they suddenly behave ethically and respect security.

That said, robots in factories are a no-brainer, you gain a massive margin over human operated manufacturing, and the technology is effectively at an alpha level of rollout, with more or less full capability of doing any particular thing any human can do, with near perfect repeatability and millisecond granular control, and the effective cost at scale is pennies per year over whatever salary you'd have to pay a human. For municipal jobs, you can get multiple robots to do things like street cleaning, building maintenance, cleaning, facilities maintenance, guard patrols, and so forth. There are all sorts of large scale deployments that are much more compatible with low-trust , low-privacy issues than home robot butlers, and those widely deployed factory and janitor bots will help finance the robo-butlers.

Imagine robot street repair crews that operate on a 24/7 basis, with self driving cars that go around town searching out potholes and other safety issues for the robots to fix. Neighborhood robots that shovel snow or clean out water drains, or trot out with safety cones if a hazard appears. That's millions and millions of dollars in savings year over year compared the cost of paying humans, and it gets rid of the perverse incentives that lead to things like sub-standard materials being used, so that you have to replace materials every year in order to keep the union teams employed doing overpriced roadwork.

Robot contractors that learn from Amish techniques to build a well-made house inside 48 hours, or Earth Day citywide robot blitzes where the robots clean everything, and so on. The economics of things that people won't do, or aren't worth paying to do, change radically when it's a mindless robot's time being allocated.

Even if it's not Optimus, the robots are basically here, the next decade is gonna be full of fun politics and figuring out how to cope with radical change.
by craftkiller | 2026-01-02 22:45:40+00:00
It still helps. I have a 1U in a colo which gives me a /64 for ipv6 and ~5 addresses for ipv4. I just set up a dual stack kubernetes cluster on 6 virtual machines. When I want to ssh into one of the machines, my options are either:

1. Use IPv6 which works and goes directly to the virtual machine because each virtual machine grabs its own address from one of my 18446744073709551616 addresses.
2. Use IPv4 and either have to do a jumphost or do port forwarding, giving each virtual machine its own port which forwards to port 22 on the virtual machine.
3. Use a VPN.

I have all 3 working, but #1 was significantly less setup and works the best.

Also being able to generate unique ULA subnets is super nice.
by addobot | 2026-01-02 22:46:25+00:00
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Ask HN: Is the window for local-first AI closing?
by zerocool86 | 2026-01-02 22:47:19+00:00
I've spent 20 years building backend systems and the last 12 on cloud infrastructure. Now I'm betting the other way.

The thesis isn't "local AI is better." It's that the window to build credible alternatives is closing. Apple, Google, Amazon are all watching local inference become viable. Their response will be "local" AI that phones home - on-device processing with cloud-mandatory features, privacy marketing with telemetry requirements.

Once those defaults ship, it doesn't matter if alternatives exist. Most people never look for options once something convenient is already there. Search, social, mobile, cloud - the pattern repeats.

The question I keep asking: does building local-first alternatives matter if they don't win market share? My current answer is yes - the existence of a credible exit changes how platforms behave, even if most users never take it.

But I'm also aware this could be cope. The self-hosting crowd has lost every major battle. Email, messaging, social - private options stayed niche every time. Maybe AI is different because the models are finally capable at small sizes. Maybe it isn't.

Building something in this space. Curious if others see the same window, or if I'm just rationalizing a preference into a market.
by simianparrot | 2026-01-02 22:47:24+00:00
They’re anti-unelected tyrants in Brussels. So am I as a Norwegian, and we’re not full members. They’re anti-censorship, something that’s rampant in the UK and Germany among others. They’re for the _core_ principles of the EU

The trade “war” is pressuring without kinetic force, yes. And our populations need the help, because our governments are spineless.
by ynac | 2026-01-02 22:48:02+00:00
"Terence Eden's blog - add .txt to any URl."

For my textsites, I use the whole address, e.g., http://ynac.freeshell.org/Yuengling.txt and will often repeat the instruction to right-click on any link to follow. That way, navigation is strong and layout just that much more challenging.
by Kristopher1337 | 2026-01-02 22:48:48+00:00
Im not a bot. I also don't believe I was praising Tesla. I won't buy another one even if I haven't had any issues with the one I currently have. My Model 3 has honestly been a great car for me. If it was any other manufacturer I would have absolutely bought another one. I will only consider an EV but I won't buy another Tesla. It's pretty unfortunate TBH.