MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ggm | 2026-01-11 06:01:41+00:00
Part of the concern is the structural opposition to clarity in a response. I don't know if this runs along party lines, or interpersonal relationships, or a state/national funding issue in public health, but something about how the problem was handled and public trust has gone badly wrong.

It's entirely possible as for cancer clusters there is no single causative agent. That stuff demands really careful thoughtful handling, not just brush-offs. Getting the public past personal experiences to epidemiology and subsequently things like mental health, is very hard.

Look at ME and what post covid syndrome showed.
by soganess | 2026-01-11 06:02:51+00:00
"I usually don't comment on stories like this..."

I humbly suggest you revert the commit that changed your policy.

"women needs to get a grip... men who are 40 or 50 years older"

Because all men 40 or 50 years older than her are rapist? We should really just put them in jail! Or is it because women in their 20s shouldn't have the right to date older men without assuming they are going to get raped?

Wild idea: every adult should be able to date every other adult without having to do rape calculus.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-11 06:06:06+00:00
I dunno. I literally use Apple Weather for that (can I run an errand in the next 25 min before the rain comes back) and it works the same as it did with Dark Sky. No decline that I've noticed. Like, it doesn't suddenly start raining after only 10 min when the app said I'd have 25 min.
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-11 06:06:29+00:00
For me, it was for a nearly 100ft run that try as I may to get a good termination, I'd often find my Mac Studio and Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch struggle to negotiate at more than 5gbps. So I got a smaller switch upstairs, ran 10GbE to it, approximately 10ft, and then ran OM-3 fiber for the 100ft up into my attic, across my house and down into the garage. Rock solid at 10 Gbps.
by willmarch | 2026-01-11 06:06:51+00:00
It's only natural for you to try to deflect away from discussing your own clear struggles with neurosis and insecurities about your own mental health, but I really do feel like you'd benefit from leaning into this moment and maybe discovering why you're unable to hold a discussion without resorting to overly transparent attempts at painting anyone that disagrees with you as mentally unwell rather than engaging with anything of substance. It speaks to a deeply rooted issue in your psyche where you must project your own fears and worries about your mental health on to others rather than face your own ignorance and a lack of basic maturity that is unbecoming of someone of your age.

I'm guessing you struggle to keep longterm relationships because you blame all of your issues on other people rather than being able to self-reflect on your own flaws and, because of your own supreme confidence in your own flawed judgement, it drives everyone away that might care about you. Is it hard to be that miserable and unlikeable? I'm sure it is, but the good news is that you can work on yourself and you can improve your relations with your fellow humans. It is possible to change and grow.
by jackprescott | 2026-01-11 06:08:37+00:00
Marten is built around one simple idea: "the framework you reach for when you want nothing in the way."
It keeps full stdlib purity (untouched context.Context, zero external deps) but refuses to force you into boilerplate: clean Gin-like helpers (c.JSON, c.Bind, c.Param) + production middleware included by default (gzip, CORS, secure headers, rate limiting, timeout, etc.).
So you get Chi-level cleanliness with meaningful productivity gains right from the first handler—no extra packages, no compromises.
by ggm | 2026-01-11 06:09:48+00:00
All kinds of things could be said about the second order effects of them booting an app, and most of them do ultimately involve the threat aspect of state actors or other rich VC class people and what they do.

I think we tend to forget, that their legals will be telling them they simply don't HAVE to do this. Not, what they should think, or do, but providing the cash focussed getout: you have no obligation here.

That passivity brings them advantages. Not having to act, means choosing to "wait and see" is a low bar justifiable decision inside their role and obligations. Not what you and I might think, what they feel obligated to do.

Remember that when Apple did voluntarily explore CSAM scanning logic, the community pushed back hard. So they have recent experience to drive wanting not to act. It hurt last time.
by tim-tday | 2026-01-11 06:10:38+00:00
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

A high quality used car beats a new car for value 99 times out of a hundred. The only exception being the weird outlier that is rare and desirable enough to appreciate in the two years after sale. If you can spot those you already know more than me. (The Toyota Tacoma springs to mind)

Look at prices for 20 year old cars. Find the cars tha have the highest resale value (avoid the ones that fall off a value cliff). Then find that one like that but five or ten years old, avoid the three main things that go wrong with that model and you’ve got a stable, reliable car that holds its value well. Maintain it and keep it clean. Drive it for five years and you’ll be able to sell it for almost what you paid for it, it’s basically free to drive for five years. This is called the value plateau. If you like it just keep it, the high value at 20 years means the maintenance costs are minimal.

I’m currently driving a car that’s worth about as much as it was when I bought it 3 years ago. I’ve got a car I bought 8 years ago that’s worth more than I paid for it.

Compare that to a $70k new car that is worth $20k five years later.

Buying new cars is a suckers game. (Thanks to all the suckers for buying them because otherwise there’d be no used car market)

Publishing an article saying new and used are comparable is idiotic at best.
by exploraz | 2026-01-11 06:12:00+00:00
> The biggest issue I’ve had so far is Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. For some reason, Microsoft hasn’t prioritized making a Linux version of Bedrock. Java Edition works fine in Linux, but I play Minecraft with my kids, and they’re on Bedrock Edition on their iPads. There’s supposed to be a way to run the Android app with MCPE Launcher, but I couldn’t get it to work.

The launcher was somewhat pretty stable all along, until Microsoft enabled Google's Integrity Protection "DRM" into it. [0]

Fortunately, they have found a way to run it even with that added in after a couple of weeks later since they added that at Q3/4 last year.

> but I couldn’t get it to work.

From what I've seen, the game will crash when vibrant visuals (a built-in alternative rendering option with shaders-like experience in Minecraft Bedrock) volumetric fog is enabled. [1]

[0]: https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest/iss...
[1]: https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest/iss...
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-11 06:12:49+00:00
As the source article covers, some manufacturers routinely ensure this kind of closer connection through contractual promises from authorized retailers. (Obviously any individual person who buys a product can still resell it, but for things like clothes consumers widely understand this to be a separate "second-hand market".) Amazon invests a lot of effort themselves in the consumer experience, they understand very well that stuff isn't just stuff and it matters how you sell it.
by ericd | 2026-01-11 06:13:46+00:00
10GbE rj45 (normal ethernet jack) spf modules tend to burn power and get extremely hot, like to the point of burning you if you touch it - the manual for my switch said to leave adjacent ports unoccupied if using one of those. The fiber ones run cool to the touch.

Also, not needing to rerun any cabling if we want to bump up speeds in the future, you just change the laser module on either end. These should be good to >100x current speeds. Not the case with copper.
by alienchow | 2026-01-11 06:14:38+00:00
I do have PVC conduits under the flooring. You can see the photos here: https://alienchow.dev/post/homelab1/

In theory I can pull a new cable through. But practically it might be tough due to the number of bends (shelter -> wall -> vent -> ceiling -> wall -> floor -> room). In the worst case scenario I can give it a try, but it's probably going to destroy the new fibre cable when I pull it through. For now the connection still works, so I am hoping it doesn't get to the point where I have to give that a try.
by amluto | 2026-01-11 06:15:52+00:00
> The second thing is that domestic buildings usually do not come with a consistent ground plane.

Ordinary unshielded copper Ethernet doesn’t care: it’s transformer-isolated at both ends. Shielded cable may object to carrying any substantial amount of current through the shield.

Anyway, there are a handful of good reasons to use fiber:

- Length. Copper is specced for 100m. Panduit will sell fancy copper cable that they pinky-swear works for Ethernet at 150m. Single mode fiber will work at silly long distances.

- High bandwidth. Copper will do 10Gbps. High speed specs exist, but there is approximately zero commercial availability of anything beyond 10G using copper at any appreciable distance. Fiber has no such problems.

IMO if you are running fiber anywhere that makes it awkward to replace (i.e. not just within a single room), use single mode. Multimode fiber has gone through ~5 revisions over the last few decades, and the earlier ones have very unimpressive bandwidth capabilities at any reasonable distance. Even the latest version, where truly heroic engineering has gone into reducing modal dispersion, relies on fancy multistrand cables for the faster Ethernet speeds. Single-mode fiber, meanwhile, continues to work very well and supports truly huge bandwidth at rather long distances, and even decades-old fiber supports the latest standards. And the transceivers for single-mode fiber are no longer much more expensive than multimode transceivers.
by tzs | 2026-01-11 06:16:09+00:00
Even getting admitted to two colleges would be financial crippling to a majority of applicants.

Insurance premiums would be a significant fraction of the average tuition, which would be beyond the reach of many.

The effect of the proposed system would be that most people would just apply to one school. If rejected they would try another next year, if they haven’t given up on college, and so on.
by ggm | 2026-01-11 06:16:57+00:00
Not missed but ideas for the future

* Adopt a colour scheme with similarity to the old BOM?

* Some way to store longer baseline movie animations in local state so people can avoid cost in you but run the weather radar for longer?

* Tide info? Hyper specific to people who do water things. Willyweather does this really well.

I use Willyweather and Windy. I used to use a weather app written by some mob called "shifty jelly" and their git logs were .. hysterical. Drunk fairy penguins seemed to cause most of the bugs.
by Panzerschrek | 2026-01-11 06:19:41+00:00
GPU-driven rendering in video games still requires some data transfer from CPU - at least for transformations of game objects. In some cases it can create a bottleneck. That's why it should be considered to implement game logic on GPU and limit data transfer only by player input.

I once experimented with such approach. It generally works, but it's hard to do so - one need to use only a shading language for general game logic, debugging is practically non-existing.
by wtarreau | 2026-01-11 06:19:42+00:00
In my opinion it's the opposite. This type of associations is welcome, and they are fine to promote free software and help people, but they are exactly like neighborhood associations: they're mostly local, relying on volunteers with limited time who become a new dependency for people who were not using these services. That's fine for limited use case but it doesn't scale at all, and causes a huge duplication of efforts (organization, software creation -- several of them reinvented stuff that already exists, advertising etc). And associations rarely if ever merge, because most often association creators have a very clear view of what they're seeking (often idealist) and are rarely willing to compromise it and accept to adopt another association's mostly similar but not exactly identical goals (it often works very similarly to political parties). GAFAMs would never exist under this model.

The problem is that such services which proudly run on low budget, volunteers and recycled hardware, cannot be relied on by companies without risking to enter legal trouble in case of major incident, so it means that a higher-grade service is still needed, with a dedicate funding, and we're facing fragmentation. We must not reproduce the scheme of cloudwatt either. Too much money injected into a wet dream that was only used to spend lots of money in consultants coming here just to confirm their presence and get their check.

What is needed instead is to sponsor the development of such activities by a few (2-3) well-established competing companies, so as to avoid the regular risk of monoculture that diverges from what users expect, and help them reach the point where their offerings can compete with GAFAM's for both end users and enterprise. The contract should be clear that services must rely on open formats, make it possible for leaving users to retrieve all their data, that software developed under such funding must be opensource, though technology acquisition is fine, and that these offerings must become self-sustaining at one point (i.e. a mix of free+paid services). The EU funders should have enough shares of these activities so that their permission is required for business acquisition and that they can restrict it to EU-based companies, so that such companies can still grow and seek public funding.

What we need is a few durable big players, not 10000 incompatible associations each with their own software suite, that no enterprise can trust over the long term and that cannot resist a trivial DDoS by lack of a robust infrastructure, and who are not organized enough to run full-stack security audits to make sure that user data are properly protected. These ones are only fine for friends and family but that's not what we're missing the most (the proof is that they already exist).
by alephnerd | 2026-01-11 06:19:42+00:00
Margins in the House of Commons have been paper thin for decades, and this gives inordinate power for MPs to threaten a no-confidence motion behind closed doors.

In a province like NB where most politicians from both parties either solicits donations from Irving or are former Irving careerists(eg. the former Premier Higgs who was Irving's CFO), it gives Irving's leadership an inordinate amount of power.

My relative who owns a construction business would do something similar in Punjabi heavy ridings in BC as well - he's become fairly prominent in the Gurdawara and Mandir circuit, and because most older Punjabi Canadian voters don't really follow English language news (and in some cases cannot even speak English), tend to defer to the candidate and party that the Gurdawara or Mandir committee makes a hukumnama for. In ridings across much of BC, there are enough of these kinds of Punjabi voters (Sikh and Hindu) that MPs will try to co-opt these committees to become their de facto enforcers for the community.

Eric Adams in NYC used similar immigrant machine politics which landed him on the FBI radar, because the old country's intel organizations continue to monitor their diasporas, and oftentimes leverage them tactically, which led him to being caught in the dragnet due to two separate investigations into Turkish [0] and Chinese [1] influence ops in NYC.

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/nyregion/eric-adams-brian...

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/nyregion/adams-china-camp...
by saghm | 2026-01-11 06:20:05+00:00
> Through “Buy For Me,” customers were placing orders for Chua’s products on Amazon.com to be fulfilled through Chua’s Shopify account. Chua’s products have since been removed — she contacted Amazon at branddirect@amazon.com to opt out, per the company’s FAQ page for sellers — but Chua said other small online merchants like herself could be unknowingly opted into Amazon’s “Buy For Me” program.

It seems pretty likely that no one would even know that this exists in order to opt out of this until at least some purchases have been made. This isn't even "opting out" in the traditional (and already user-hostile) way of doing something by default that's orthogonal to what the user signed up for; it's a lot closer to the whole "shadow profile" thing Facebook does where the account exists without anyone signing up in the first place.
by lenkite | 2026-01-11 06:20:21+00:00
> Which is a little odd, and the value is questionable, but fundamentally seems...fine? You're a merchant, you're selling pencils on the internet, people are buying your pencils from you.

Why not apply your exact "its fine" standards to Amazon too ? Standards go BOTH ways, after all.

> In November, Amazon sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity over its new Comet browser, which lets users ask an AI agent to find and buy items on Amazon. In a statement, Amazon said third-party shopping agents should “operate openly and respect service provider decisions” on whether or not to participate.

These people want Amazon to "respect service provider decisions" - just like Amazon demands of other people.
by mindslight | 2026-01-11 06:20:23+00:00
> why an agent would deliberately put themselves at the front of a car if they'd previously been in such an incident

One reason would be that after the first time he fucked around and found out with a vehicle, he resolved to shoot the driver the next time. This would explain why he tried to box in the car with his own body, keeping an exit strategy but being positioned at the right place to claim he was worried about being hit without actually getting hit. It would also mean this incident was premeditated murder.
by vrighter | 2026-01-11 06:21:46+00:00
no, writing tests to verify that the "compiled" code semantically matches the code in the source language is not a good thing. The guarantees that I'm talking about are different.

You write tests for your own logic, not to do the compiler's job.

I have no idea why you are so stuck on determinism. That has nothing to do with what i'm saying. Sure compilers can be nondeterministic with things such as register allocation, but that is totally transparent to the programmer. The compiled code will do exactly what the source code describes. The nondeterminism in llms does not apply just to those things. An llm's nondeterminism might mean it decides to encode different logic, instead of a different implementation that is logically equivalent.

We don't usually write steps to verify that the compiler decided to ignore our code and do its own thing. You have to do that with llms
by tombert | 2026-01-11 06:21:48+00:00
Yeah, I was working on more of an infra thing (involving caching and indexing). Certainly important given the size of the company, but not something that gets lots of hype or sexiness.

There were occasional bits of ambition to occasionally work on interesting stuff, but it was mostly a “keep the lights on and then figure out how to make yourself seem important”.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when engineers say that we can’t do something because we would have to learn something new. I got into several arguments because I wanted to rewrite some buggy mutex-heavy code (that kept getting me paged in the middle of the night) with ZeroMQ, and people acted like learning it was some insurmountable challenge. My response would usually be something to the effect of “I’m sorry, I was under the impression that we were engineers, and that we had the ability to learn new things”.

As I said, complaints about my attitude weren’t completely unfounded, but it’s just immensely frustrating for people using their unwillingness to learn new things as an excuse to keep some code in a broken state.
by 20after4 | 2026-01-11 06:22:11+00:00
This is the most compelling reason (unless you really need the range of fiber) - 10GbE can be really power hungry. Each 10G switch port that is in use adds something like 1-5 watts to the power budget. 1 watt is reasonable but most switch hardware isn't nearly that efficient. That could mean 10 watts for every single link if you're using 5 watts at each end. Multiply that by several links and it starts to add up really quickly.
by dbetteridge | 2026-01-11 06:24:27+00:00
Fair enough! I had a cursory search in the post for mention of conduit and couldn't see anything obvious so wasn't sure.

AFAIK fibre cable should be pretty flexible, though not a massive fan of tension.

From memory bends shouldn't be less than 5cm radius or thereabouts so it depends on your conduit size!

Nice post btw, appreciate the detailed planning involved.
by SXX | 2026-01-11 06:25:38+00:00
Does it really matter what official statements say if a country have stock exchange, group of billionares and market economy?

Iived there for quite some time to understand its likely less regulated and government controlled than many ex-USSR countries (im from russia).

Of course politically Vietnam is what it state it is compared to e.g Indonesia that I now explore. But economically it's the same capitalism as everywhere else.
by saghm | 2026-01-11 06:27:04+00:00
"Fundamentally fine"? How do you think Amazon would react to someone scraping their marketplace and posting the inventory under their own service? Unless the answer is "they'd be perfectly happy to have to opt out individually in each case", that's a double standard. The only reason they wouldn't actually need to care about this is because they have comparatively inexhaustive resources to be able to shut this sort of thing down with a sledgehammer without having to risk meaningful consequences rather than what they're telling sellers to do, which is to ask nicely to stop being included, and that's a sign of an unhealthy ecosystem where competition is non-existent.
by otterley | 2026-01-11 06:28:39+00:00
No. The producer of a good has no copyright in images made of that good by someone else. Ordinarily, the photographer holds the copyright to an image, unless it was a work for hire.

So if I buy a thing, take a photo of it, then use my photo to accompany a listing for that thing, the manufacturer of that thing has no recourse in copyright law.
by Supermancho | 2026-01-11 06:30:27+00:00
> What a strange take. Does this also apply to every soldier in the armed forces? Seems your criteria is equally applicable there.

Why? There are different rules for different endeavors, specializations, and roles. NASA is ostensibly for exploration, in an expansive sense. Hiding information of any kind, seems antithetical to the over-arching mission.

> The relevant people that can do the research and write future policies based on the data obviously will have the information.

Given recent events, this assumption of fidelity is not something I can subscribe to, for the rest of my days.
by culi | 2026-01-11 06:30:53+00:00
A couple years I looked for a similar service and failed to find it. I did however find this incredible podcast network called New Books In where they interview authors about their new books. It's a massive network that's broken down by categories that can get pretty niche. Everything from "Digital Humanities" to "Diplomatic History" to "Critical Theory". Episodes appear in multiple categories so broad categories like "Science" also exist

https://newbooksnetwork.com/subscribe

It's definitely biased towards academia which I personally see as a pro not a con