MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmyeet | 2026-01-19 14:20:46+00:00
This has been my prediction for the last year: the EU is going to be forced to take the China approach of creating their own version of all US tech companies.

The current US administration has done more to destroy US soft power on the world stage than any other in the country's history. The administration seems intent on destroying NATO. Personally I'm fine with that because it's a protection racket and a tool of imperialism. But this is going to materially hurt the US defense contractors who profit off of arms sales. That's really the turning point for any fascist regime: when you start screwing up the bag.

US tech companies are also a tool of American foreign policy in pretty much the exact same way the administration accuses China of doing.

So the EU needs to be responsible for its own security. And it's own platforms. But it may be too late for that as the EU itself may well splinter under the rise of far-right governments that are currently in place (eg Hungary) and only one election away from taking place (eg UK, Geermany maybe even France; even though the UK isn't in the EU I'm still counting it as part of Europe).

Unfortunately the EU (and the UK) is too committed to the US imperial project, such as in the Middle East. People don't seem to realize just how connected things like imperialism and the erosion of your own rights at home are inextricably intertwined.
by frogperson | 2026-01-19 14:21:07+00:00
The ATF can barely even define what a gun is. Todays platforms are modular so essentially they choose the largest, non-ware part and put the serial number there. That one part then becomes the "gun". In some cases that part doest even resemble a gun at all.

Will the restriction apply to addative manufacturing as well? will they also limit subtractive manufacturing like CNC? CNC is older, and capable of producing actual high quality firearms. Why not start there?

Are they going to limit highend commercial 3d printers? There exist farms of very high end printers that create parts on demand out of plastic and metal. whats going to happen to their business if parts get randomly flagged as a "gun" because some AI halucinates?

Are they going to ban producing toy guns and props?

Ill stop now, i feel like ive already put more thought into this than the legislators have.
by bluegatty | 2026-01-19 14:21:25+00:00
The government has to mandate it on some level with purchasing power.

If the government switched away from Microsft and refused to accept MS document formats for any legal reason - then things might shift.

Most businesses just don't care, they want they easy button.

A law firm does not want to screw around, they just click 'buy' on Word, Outlook, Teams.

There's a deep psychology to it.

I remember a developer telling me that Oracle 'was the only real database'.

It's not so much propaganda, just the propagandistic power of incumbency. People who only know one thing are hard pressed to believe there could be something else.

This is more than 50% brand, narrative etc.

We techies tend to underestimate the power of perception, even when it's of our own creation etc. i.e. people fighting over Linux and it's various distros.
by leshenka | 2026-01-19 14:21:50+00:00
I just hope someday we will have actual cameras adding provenance data to the image file, digitally signing it and its miniature version. Image editing software will then collect that data from all images used to create an artifact and append their miniatures and signatures to it. So as long this data is not removed you can verify that the image came from an actual camera and evaluate the degree to which it was edited.

But really I'm not a professional in this field. I'm sure there are pitfalls in my imagined solution. I just want some traceability from the images used in news articles.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-19 14:21:59+00:00
I've rarely experienced issues, Amazon has always been happy to correct any issues, and I strongly suspect prices are going to jump significantly. I can't find any other notes of skepticism and I'm heavily doubting as I write these words, but it's surprising to me how much scorn and disdain people have for commingling.

It's wild to me that everyone's happy product makers have full price control now.
by dukeyukey | 2026-01-19 14:22:30+00:00
> So if you boycott Coca-Cola brands, maybe 20% of the impact goes to Coca-Cola US, while 80% is felt by the local company and its employees.

Assuming the person burns the money they would've spent on Cola in the first place. But they aren't, they'll probably just redirect that money to an alternative soft drink, probably a more local one.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-19 14:22:42+00:00
> It seems like you think that some shadowy cabal somewhere decided to differentiate systems languages from managed languages and keep them divided. That is not the case.

You could have made that point without the strawman, and what a ridiculous thing to say anyway.

> The distinction describes how the language has been implemented, which is based on the choices of the language authors alone, and is usually down to practical considerations about how to implement the thing at all.

That is so obvious I do not understand what point you are trying to make here.

> Saying "There should be no such difference." is a bit like saying bicycles should be allowed on the highway and semi trucks should be accepted on walking paths. The difference is inherent in the thing. A result of how they were built. And what they can and can't accomplish as a result.

No, the error is yours: you are interpreting my sentence in a way that is blatantly wrong and then argue with the outcome. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be 'trucks or bicycles' in terms of programming languages. What I'm saying is that the boundary between where you use a 'systems programming language' and where you use an 'application programming language' is artificial and that we are using too much of the former in a place where we probably should be using the latter.
by defrost | 2026-01-19 14:22:59+00:00
Source paper

Tracing the origin, transport, and distribution of elevated iodine-129 in seawater from the West Philippine Sea

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2026 Jan, doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.118916

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41197174/
by PaulRobinson | 2026-01-19 14:23:12+00:00
That just means they have all the infrastructure they need to bottle syrup from another source and start selling that instead - no capex needed, just maybe need to get together with other franchisees and figure out how to spend some opex on marketing and getting it onto store shelves. Coca-cola has a moat, but it's hardly protective of franchisees here.
by camel-cdr | 2026-01-19 14:23:24+00:00
The SpacemiT K3 with 8 SpacemiT X100 RVA23 cores, which are faster than Pi4 but slower than Pi5, should be available in a couple of months:

geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16145076

rvv-bench: https://camel-cdr.github.io/rvv-bench-results/spacemit_x100/...

There are also 8 additional SpacemiT-A100 cores with 1024-bit wide vectors, which are more like an additional accelerator for number crunshing.

The Milk-V Titan has slightly faster scalar performance, than the K3.
by hwillis | 2026-01-19 14:23:26+00:00
Idk that there's much of a privacy sell vs. messages being encrypted. In the end users are just trusting Apple to actually be securing messages; they aren't going to love that they are trusting dozens of strangers instead of telecoms. Plus, police etc. already snoop on phones by spoofing cell tower relays anyway.

> Showcasing it's use on a cruise ship, in a packed stadium

Stadiums will still max out the pipe out of the local area, so I suspect it wouldn't help much. Festivals and cruise ships, where you want to reach people who are nearby (and at a festival, you might even have a good idea via gps which peers are better) are in desperate need of this and idk why apple didnt solve it years ago.
by kaoD | 2026-01-19 14:23:28+00:00
OP isn't claiming all runtime bugs can be prevented with static lints suggested by LLMs but, if at least some can, I don't see how your comment is contributing. Yet another case of "your suggestion isn't perfect so I'll dismiss it" in Hacker News.

Why is this such a common occurrence here? Does this fallacy have a name?

EDIT: seems to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
by gus_massa | 2026-01-19 14:23:47+00:00
OK, I give up for now for 12. Let's try 4. I hope I can do 4 at least.

The clock has only the numbers 0, 3, 6, 9 (I replaced 12 with 0 to save a character.)

[spoiler alert] Initially the state is [0]--- After the first move it goes to 3 or 9.

Case 3) Let's assume it first move to 3, so the state is now 0[3]--

There is a 50% chance that it goes to 6 and we get 03[6]- so the answer is 9

There is a 50% chance that it goes to 0 again, and we have [0]3--.

- Now there is a 50% chance that it goes to 9 and we get 03-[9] and the answer is 6.

- Now there is a 50% chance that it goes to 3 back and we get 0[3]--.

So starting from 0[3]--, there is a 50% of "9", 25% of "6", and 25% of back to 0[3]--. Using standard series trick, we can split the 25% loop in the final answers "9" and "6", in the same proportion of 50% vs 25%.

So the net result is that starting from 0[3]--, there is a 66.6...% of "9", 33.3...% of "6".

Case 9) Let's assume it first move to 9, so the state is now 0--[9] yada yada there is a 66.6...% of "3", 33.3...% of "6".

---

In total: (66.6%+0%)*50% = 33.3...% for 3 and the same for 9, and (33.3..%+33.3...%)*50%=33% for 6. So all endings are equiprobable. I still can believe my eyes, and I'm afraid there is an "obvious" solution that I'm missing.
by jruohonen | 2026-01-19 14:24:15+00:00
> Probabilistic systems do make sense at the edges

Sure, and that's why I used the wording most application domains.

> So the failure mode isn’t "probabilistic vs deterministic" per se, but where the probabilistic boundary is drawn -- and whether it’s explicit.

If you take a look at

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.22418

it is difficult to draw any boundaries because a dice is rolled at so many stages. Unpredictability is acknowledged but unreliable probabilistic verification is done; requirements and specifications are prompted on the fly in response to unpredictable outputs; debugging is psychologically stochastic too and deterministic tools are used for trying to control stochastic outputs; and so forth and so on.
by MonkeyClub | 2026-01-19 14:24:21+00:00
Masks have been of for a while, but as long as the EU people can't vote the EU presidency out of office, it's to no avail.

It was a (steel and coal) corp affordances union to begin with, so it's no wonder it's pandering to business rather than civic interests after all.

Von der Leyen is corrupt yet shapes EU policy without backlash, and the citizenry is left to pay the price, precisely because the EU pretends to speak for the people.
by latexr | 2026-01-19 14:24:27+00:00
> But according to you, care and deliberate attention (software as craft) are the only way. An absolutist position.

No! That is not what I’m saying! How can you argue my position is an absolute when I just explicitly described it as a spectrum?!

However, I do believe you’re arguing in good faith, I just don’t think we’re on the same page. I wish we were, as while I think we might still disagree, I also believe we’d have an interesting conversation. Probably more so in person.

Unfortunately, I have to go get some work done so I’m unable to continue as of now. Still, instead of leaving you hanging, I wanted to thank you for the respectful conversation as well as your patience and I believe genuine effort in trying to understand my position.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-19 14:24:35+00:00
I’ve got a novel idea of how podcasters can make money - give people a product they are willing to pay for.

I pay for the Strategery bundle (as do enough other people to make him over $5 million a year), a Slate subscription with all of their related podcasts and a couple of others - Downstream and ATP.

On the ad supported side, Gruber’s podcast has been going strong for decades and Manager Tools/Career Tools only has ads for its own conferences and it’s been podcasting weekly since 2005.

The Acquired podcast negotiates long term sponsorship deals.

Relay.FM podcasts seem to be going strong between ads and paid members

The trend you see is that it’s better to be a niche podcaster and have “1000 true fans” and an audience either willing to pay or one that advertisers want to reach - like Apple customers who are more willing to pay for stuff.
by devsda | 2026-01-19 14:24:49+00:00
The most critical and impactful modern day tech is smartphone and that is US tech.

As long as mobile os and adjacent services like the store etc are controlled there is no true path to digital independence especially in a highly digitalized region like the EU.

One example is if EU allows the Android developer verification to pass this year in its current or even in more relaxed form, that just means EU is still open for some hard lessons in the future.
by sph | 2026-01-19 14:25:06+00:00
Is it a silver lining? I think it's clear that whoever runs any government is free to do whatever they want with total impunity. Dissatisfied citizens complaining on Twitter is not gonna remove any "pro-corpo anti-citizen" politician from power. And if they take it to the streets, they'll just copy the UK's playbook.

Power corrupts, and the more steps removed politicians are from whomever put them in power, the safer they are.
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by trueno | 2026-01-19 14:25:55+00:00
EU and the rest of the world needs to ditch their anti circumvention laws that they put in place to appease the US demands on trade deals historically. They're getting tarrif'd anyways so YOLO. I think you'd see a lot of pressures ease up that are probably putting a lot of politicians around the world in compromised or blackmail-able positions. US Tech really needs to lose this massive leverage they have over the world right now.
by mathgeek | 2026-01-19 14:26:51+00:00
There's a middle ground here that you're not considering (at least in the small amount of text). Vibe coders will spit out a lot of nonsense because they don't have the skills (or choose not) to tweak the output of their agents. A well seasoned developer using tools like Claude Code on such a codebase can remediate a lot more quickly at this point than someone not using any AI. The current best practices are akin to thinking like a mathematician with regards to calculator use, rather than like a student trying to just pass a class. Working in small chunks and understanding the output at every step is the best approach in some situations.
by PaulRobinson | 2026-01-19 14:27:02+00:00
The US already has bases on Greenland. It is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and therefore is already a NATO ally territory. They already have all the "control" they need to keep it out of the hands of Russia and China. There is no need to "let" the US have "control". If the US were being run by people who understood the basis on which they have a base there, they would realise they already have all the control they need from a strategic perspective.
by Balinares | 2026-01-19 14:28:50+00:00
Hard disagree. I've yet to see a "brilliant asshole" with anywhere near the kind results I expect from my teams. The usual pattern is your typical asshole will ship broken stuff and then blame everyone else for the breakages.

Now, average assholes who self-promote as brilliant and hope no one will see through their crap, sure, plenty of those. I'd recommend against failing to see through their crap, though. They'll make your actually good engineers leave.
by webdevver | 2026-01-19 14:29:10+00:00
I have increasingly negative things to say about this.

There is (so far) nothing 'open' about RISC-V. and I wonder if there really ever was any desire for it, at this point.

This whole "Open ISA" crap appears to be a thin veneer to funnel quite large sums of investment into an otherwise completely proprietary and locked-down environment that could never harm the incumbents in any meaningful way - while still maintaining just enough of a pretense of open source, that the (regrettably myself included) shallow nerds and geeks could get smitten by it.

Where is the RTL? Where are the GDSII masks? Why am I unable to look at the branch predictor unit in the Github code viewer? Or (God forbid!) the USB/HDMI/GPU IP? I reject the notion that these are unreasonable questions.

I want my SoC to have a special register that has the git SHA ID of the exact snapshot of the repository that was used to cook the masks. that, now that - is Open Source. that is Open Computing. And nothing less!

I dont care about the piece of paper with instruction encodings - the least interesting part of any computer!

Wasn't that the whole point? We're more than a quarter of a century in and we're still begging SoC vendors for datasheets. Really incredibly embarassing and disappointing.
by clydethefrog | 2026-01-19 14:29:33+00:00
Just as with most parts of the EU (imo both it's strength and it's weakness) there is some complexity and bureaucracy involved with founding out the political spectrum of MEPs. You can research the EU political groups and the political alliances and the corresponding positions on these Wikipedia pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_Europe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_political_alliances
by _heimdall | 2026-01-19 14:29:35+00:00
> It is almost impossible to escape the constant barrage of takes and news headlines these days without being a total luddite

Its odd to me to still use "luddite" disparagingly while implying that avoiding certain tech would actually have some high impact benefits. At that point I can't help but think the only real issue with being a luddite is not following the crowd and fitting in.
by billy99k | 2026-01-19 14:29:45+00:00
Slop bug bounty reports have always been an issue. Sites like HackerOne have a triage team that's supposed to filter through the garbage, before it gets to program management.

On the other side of it, I've submitted reports that are valid, have the steps, and show impact. Companies will do everything in their power to not pay you, including changing the back-end code or just stating it doesn't have any impact on business.
by boxed | 2026-01-19 14:29:46+00:00
Not really. Imagine a world where Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria scaled up nuclear power in the 70s. In that situation Putin wouldn't have had any money for his army in the first place.

You have to think about the system as a whole as I said, not get blinded by some detail right now.

And yea, scaling up nuclear right now is probably not super useful as batteries and solar have dropped so much in price. But we certainly shouldn't shut down nuclear reactors like Germany did.
by mikepurvis | 2026-01-19 14:30:11+00:00
> follow regulation

This one bit me recently when I bought a package of budget light fixtures (in Canada, from amazon.ca) and then my licensed electrician informed me that he wouldn't be able to install them as they didn't have a CE mark.

To their credit, Amazon did allow me to return them without penalty, and now my review there warns other consumers that those are only for DIY use and even then you are risking your home's insurance coverage.
by DudeOpotomus | 2026-01-19 14:30:44+00:00
Advertising is a cancer. Adtech is the delivery mechanism.

Paying creators is the dumbest and most consequential aspect of modern media. There is no reason to reward creators, zero. They should actually be paying Youtube for access to their audience. They actually would pay to be seen, paying them is both stupid and unnecessary. Kill the incentives and you kill the cancer.
by GrowingSideways | 2026-01-19 14:31:00+00:00
Again, I don't think most people are prepared to articulate what behavior they want. Fortran (and every other formal language) used to force this, but now you just kind of jerk off on the keyboard.

Reactionarily? Sure. Maybe AI has some role to play there. Maybe you can ask the chatbot to modify settings.

I am no fan of chatbots. But i do have empathy for the people responsible for them when their users start complaining that programs don't do what they want, despite the chatbots delivering precisely the code demanded.
by deviation | 2026-01-19 14:31:02+00:00
It's true. Usually, the first time you see Everest is from the Everest View Hotel (a small hike up from Namche Bazaar) -- so around day 3, depending on your speed -- and then once or twice more on the approach to Gorakshep.

From there, you either hike up the Kala Patthar view-point which has that famous panoramic view of Everest, basecamp, and all the surrounding peaks... Or you trek around the canyon and begin the approach to EBC itself.
by kakacik | 2026-01-19 14:31:02+00:00
You can see it, but best views are from nearby hill called Kala Pathar. I presume you meant from Everest Base Camp, from EBC hike you can see Everest pyramid many times.

There is a very nice variant of EBC hike called 3 passes trek. Goes over 3 high altitude passes (5500, 5400, 5300m) on top of base camp, making a nice loop. A better challenge, once outside main valley just few people, and views are stunning, ie from Gokyo Ri, or north walls of Taboche or Cholatse. A difference between meh and stunning for me.
by eloisant | 2026-01-19 14:31:16+00:00
Yes it is.

One thing important to take into account in the life of a device is what happens when it's thrown out.

A friend of mine works at an electronics recycling facility, and with regular desktop or laptop they're able to take them apart to scavenge some rare metals, separate inert materials like cases from dangerous ones like the battery.

That's much more costly for Apple products because of how they're integrated, so they end up not recycling much.
by gcr | 2026-01-19 14:31:55+00:00
You get that that’s worse though, right?

Windows renders the window once at a single DIP resolution. The other side of the window appears either too big or too small.

MacOS renders the window once at a single DIP resolution. Then, the other half of the window is upscaled or downscaled for the other screen. It’s going out of its way to make it consistent; Windows doesn’t bother.

Your worries about blurry text go away when you use nearest neighbor upscaling (this is configurable in the MacOS zoom settings). Nice crisp text, at the right size.
by shadowgovt | 2026-01-19 14:32:05+00:00
Not scold (that is how we shape social behavior), but only note that Safe Harbor essentially grants the opposite of this (away from the potential default of "By transiting malware you are complicit and liable in the effect of the malware") so it'd have to be a finely-crafted law to have the desired effect without shutting down the ability to do both online advertising and online forums at all.

... which doesn't sound impossible. It's also entirely possible that the value of Section 230 has run its course and it should generally be remarkably curtailed (its intent was to make online forums and user-generated-content networks, of which ad networks are a kind, possible, but one could make the case that it has been demonstrated that operators of online forums have immense responsibility and need to be held accountable for more of the harms done via the online spaces they set up).