MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TSiege | 2026-01-03 22:11:07+00:00
I've posted this before here. The science is screaming that these ecosystems cannot recover on any meaningful timescale because these modules form over millions of years and produce the only oxygen available in the depths of the ocean where they're located. It would be like clear cutting a forest and it growing back over the course of millions of years. It's an insane thing to do, and we as a society we're showing we have no care for anything but ourselves in this moment in time. We're choosing to permanently destroy the last best preserved ecosystems on this planet essentially for good.
by kakacik | 2026-01-03 22:11:26+00:00
Its not stupid rather humane, just very ineffective from economical perspective.

You want society where its everybody for themselves, fuck the rest, be lucky with ie your health so you and your family can have a decent life and one problem big enough can wipe you out? The benefit is more money, economy works better, is more agile to ever-changing situation. Just those extra money often go to that healthcare (since we all end up with various issues over time, the only exception is early death), or university for kids, or cost of properties.

Or something glacial, without real pressure to improve, more poor, but with additional safety nets.

I keep saying it over and over - EU should take over system (and mindset, good luck there) of Swiss folks. They strike the best balance between predatory capitalism that often grinds unlucky individuals and various safety nets (free top notch public education, almost free public healthcare, very good but not ridiculous social system etc). Unsurprisingly, mix of European competency and a bit of proper capitalism creates one of best stable living standards in the world, and arguably still The most free nation in the world (TM).

Its a place that french or germans just can't swallow - neighbor showing them how much better a similar society can end up functioning with few rather minor tweaks.
by Geste | 2026-01-03 22:11:30+00:00
Not aiming at you specifically, but I am tired of seeing shitty behaviour that is dismissed as best as incompetence. I do not want to believe someone becomes the CEO of one of the strongest organization on earth without a strategy sixth sense. So, why would he be shoving AI everywhere ? What does he know that we don't about it ? Is it just plan surveillance ?
by vdupras | 2026-01-03 22:11:52+00:00
I don't know, I guess there's all kinds of tricks. It's not as if US presence made the territory magically impervious to everything. Last time, weather balloons fooled the US military good enough.

I mean, the US can't even keep migrants from illegally crossing their borders with dangerous drugs. Are you really making the case that as soon as the US have boots on the ground, that Venezuela's borders are a 100% secure? America, fuck yeah!
by stale2002 | 2026-01-03 22:13:22+00:00
Ok if you are just going to ignore all evidence or facts you could have just said that.

It you have an opinion, just say it. You don't have to pretend like you care about what other people are saying or what facts or evidence they have.

You can just be honest from the start that you don't agree with them and don't care what they have to say or show.
by eek2121 | 2026-01-03 22:13:39+00:00
According to leaks with an excellent track recordWe are getting at least 1 more console, and possibly 2. The first (most likely) is a classic Xbox, the second is a handheld. After that, who knows?

All I know is that I own both an Xbox Series X and a PS5. I use the PS5 more. I also own a PC, and it sees more than 1,000 times the usage of either. I bought the PS5 for exclusives, and Sony began changing that. However there are still alot of older PS4/PS5 titles that are fun to play, and some games are just better with a controller and a TV.

That being said, I'm likely not going to purchase any other consoles.
by oblio | 2026-01-03 22:14:43+00:00
I'm trying really hard to think of a US car maker that's actually super relevant outside of the US.

Ford in Europe is Ford Germany, a fully owned but separate entity (which is probably why Ford sales in Europe are decent). I think they have presence in other markets but most of their money comes from the US.

GM used to have Opel/Vauxhall, but it sold it to Stellantis.

Chrysler is now owned by Stellantis, which is a mostly European car maker.

Tesla is the obvious new kid on the block but unless they're the only ones with self driving cars globally, I don't really see them hanging on to their global market share 20 years from now in front of Chinese, South Korean, Japanese and European car makers.

TL;DR: I agree with you.
by grufkork | 2026-01-03 22:14:48+00:00
I think that might be a step too far, rather I'd guess the US just knows the Russian systems very well. The success of the latest campaign against Iran shows that too, and if anything they learnt even more from that.

Either way, although Trump might every now and then be a bit too friendly with Putin, but a) cooperation at this scale and b) the bad looks and damage to Russian investments I think makes it seem unlikely. Putin doesn't stick his neck out for others unless it serves him. I'm not that well read on the Russian involvement in the area though...
by stets | 2026-01-03 22:15:05+00:00
I opened Obsidian, wrote down the steps that I performed + pieces claude did. Most of what I did was little troubleshooting bits or hooking things together.

That + every little quirk or weird thing I ran into (eg: phantom process killer, which I actually did setup via adb) that I felt was worth mentioning and might help.

Then I told Claude to organize the document better, read it over myself, asked for edits or things to add, etc.
by quintu5 | 2026-01-03 22:15:14+00:00
Well you see he ran it through in through an LLM, but LLMs are lossy, so who can say if the output was a direct result of the copyrighted code or if the model focused on his unique prompting words and conjured the output from its own latent space without referencing copyrighted input at all? /s

Alternatively, we could take the model makers’ view and say that if they didn’t want their code reused, they wouldn’t have made it publicly accessible on the internet.
by stevenwoo | 2026-01-03 22:15:37+00:00
Given the current governance structure of mining in international waters with poor countries incentives to sell their rights and look the other way, and past history of early mining practices, the obvious answer is no. We already know there are ecosystems of creatures evolved to survive on detritus of dead animals floating down there and colonies of living things no one would have imagined prior to discovery. One of the most promising sources for mining, modules of metal in vast fields provide opportunities for life to thrive but that won’t come up in a start up’s cost analysis, they can just bury the data, do it and ask for forgiveness later so to speak.
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-01-03 22:17:01+00:00
You could use Substack/Blogspot/Mastodon themselves as your "static site generator".

POSSE (the concept linked here) is overrepresented in relation to revealed preference. PESOS (publish elsewhere, syndicate on site) is more compatible with how most people (including nerds) actually use the Internet; for all the talk about static site generators and "owning" your own "digital garden" >9/10 people would fall somewhere on the embarrassing part of the curve from the "Blogging vs. Blog Setups" comic. <https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/>

If you migrated to a fediverse instance with longer post length limits, you could use that to actually blog/post while mobile, and meanwhile you have a script on your homepage that "lazily" syncs those posts to your static site—

When anyone visits your homepage, they see your site as it was when you last built it.

When you visit your own homepage, it automatically fetches your social media feed, patches the previous input to the SSG with the new content, and then uses the APIs of whatever you're using to host your site for rolling out the new posts.
by kassner | 2026-01-03 22:17:16+00:00
> asset we have is our home and there are many websites out there that tell you how much it's worth but they each vary an awful lot and change dramatically - so much so sometimes that any savings you've made in the same period are eclipsed

I honestly completely ignore my purchased home value. It is not a regular asset because you have to make use of it, you can’t really liquidate it without a substantial change in your life (renting, marrying, going homeless, etc). If you trade it, you’d have to use that money to get some other housing. My strategy in my personal finances is to threat the house as if I’m renting. The money is gone from the balance, the equity isn’t tracked anywhere.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-03 22:17:35+00:00
Because it's cooler setting it up on your own than having an app do it for you. (Could even skip Termux really.) And most importantly, this sets up a full Linux environment, which can be used from hosting a simple site to programming (even the site itself; don't know if that's what author did here or site was copied from their main system) and more.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-03 22:18:27+00:00
> Everybody that is cheering this on has a significant gap in their education.

Macron, President of the French Republic, for reference, says:

"The Venezuelan people are today liberated from the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro and cannot but celebrate it.

By seizing power and trampling on fundamental freedoms, Nicolás Maduro has committed a grave affront against the dignity of his own people.

The transition that is now opening must be peaceful, democratic, and respectful of the will of the Venezuelan people. We hope that President Edmundo González Urrutia, elected in 2024, can ensure this transition as soon as possible."

--- https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/2007525843401154891
by superlucky84 | 2026-01-03 22:18:43+00:00
One more practical point is that a full monad doesn’t fit very naturally into a pipe-first interface.

Once you commit to a real monad, you need map/flatMap, lifting, unwrapping, and rules about staying inside the context across the whole pipeline.
At that point, the pipe abstraction stops being the primary mental model — the monad does.

SideEffect deliberately avoids that.
It keeps the pipe interface intact and only adds a single, explicit signal: “stop here”.
That’s why it’s less powerful than a monad, but also much simpler to integrate into existing pipe-based code.
by potsandpans | 2026-01-03 22:19:13+00:00
If Russia rolled into the United States tomorrow and deposed Trump, _most people_ would "be happy" trump was out.

It's not important at all. I've seen this exact line repeated all over the Internet today, almost like it's not a real sentiment and instead a pre seeded talking point to muddy the waters.

It is amusing to see the consent factory so efficiently spit this shit out though.
by thrwwy81faa457 | 2026-01-03 22:20:34+00:00
This is the right answer.

Source: 10+y long (past) tenure at RH in a team adjacent to the kernel team.

EDIT: also because companies like RH tend to know, and are happy to know, the details of their customers' deployments. Compare the article:

> Always remember, kernel developers:

> - do not know your use case.

> - do not know what code you use.

> - do not want to know any of this.
by joshribakoff | 2026-01-03 22:20:47+00:00
I actually just had to independently tag him on LinkedIn after my son had an issue with his Minecraft account. Their account recovery flow directs you to call on the phone and then when you call on the phone, it directs you to use the account recovery flow. When we went to their Support page we received a stack trace from asp.net. After wasting several hours, we screenshot of the error and tagged him on LinkedIn and filed a credit card dispute.

In my LinkedIn post I questioned if they can’t be trusted with a $30 game license how can we trust them with a multi million dollar copilot rollout? I pointed out that it seems like this is more than just a lack of human support. It is a company that: does not care about their own brand, the up-time of their own systems, their own employees, or their customers.

I question if their goal is to simply extract money under unethical conditions. I question whether they expect the customer to just repeatedly purchased the game every time the company fails to deliver it. I also questioned to him why he has hiring managers bragging on LinkedIn that they expect people to output 1 million lines of code per month, so they can rewrite the operating system in rust, while their systems are off-line.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-03 22:22:04+00:00
Uber and DoorDash Try to Halt NYC Law That Encourages Tipping - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297021 - December 2025

DoorDash to pay $18 million to settle Chicago City Hall lawsuit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946521 - November 2025

DoorDash: Unauthorized Dasher “Backdooring” Scheme Props Up Delivery
Operations, Undermines Safety, and Unravels as Immigration Enforcement Widens - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690430 - October 2025 (https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/cc91fda7-4669-4d1b-81ce-a0b...)

DoorDash, You’re a Loser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44384953 - July 2025 (“The delivery app giant poured $1M into defeating Zohran Mamdani. He swept the primary anyway with a platform advocating for delivery drivers.”)
by eric_cc | 2026-01-03 22:22:44+00:00
> Consider that the POTUS is a 34x convicted criminal

To be fair, they were political persecutions and show trials just so that people like you could write that sentence and help the Democrat Party keep the presidency.

I’m not saying Trump is innocent in life, so don’t mistaken what I am saying for that. I am clearly and specifically saying that the 34 convictions are a joke and that only the gullible and the zealots buy into them.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-01-03 22:22:50+00:00
That's interesting because the post-WWII Western alliance system at large is largely born of the US military and economic might: most of those countries were invaded by the US and then helped economically by the US. Obviously a commom adversary (the communists) helped but it was, and still is "led" by the US for a reason.

The global order is based on strength, both military and economic strength. I am just stating the obvious here.
by nobodywillobsrv | 2026-01-03 22:24:04+00:00
It's nice to see someone else going mad, even deeper down the well.

I don't known the details but I was wondering why people aren't "just" writing chat venues any commns protocols for the chats? So the fundamental unit is a chat that humans and agents can be a member of.

You can also have DMs etc to avoid chattiness.

But fundmantally if you start with this kind of madness you don't have a strict hierarchy and it might also be fun to see how it goes.

I briefly started building this but just spun out and am stuck using PAL MCP for now and some dumb scripts. Not super content with any of it yet.
by bambax | 2026-01-03 22:24:07+00:00
Many, many moons ago I was finishing a uni. essay on an Amstrad PC that didn't even have a hard drive. The way I worked at the time was, type first, then save to a floppy disk, because the saving operation took something like 5 minutes.

The time was 10 p.m., I was done. I hit save. While the application was writing the file to disk, I decided to move the bulky monitor from one side of my desk to the other. Somehow while doing so I hit the power button (or took the power cord with me, I'm not sure). PC went off while writing operations were still on.

The file could not be recovered, and of course there was no other copy.

I spent the rest of the night recreating the essay from memory, and thinking I had been extremely unlucky.

I've never lost any file again, ever.
by FergusArgyll | 2026-01-03 22:24:09+00:00
They already do. I don't understand?

Russia invaded Ukraine under a U.S. President that believed (and talked about often) in "international norms". Due to which international law violation did the Japanese attack pearl harbor? Do you think the reason China didn't attack Taiwan yet is because "well, America is acting moral, we can't go around disturbing the global order"
by sedatk | 2026-01-03 22:25:15+00:00
"Probably" is doing a lot of heavylifting there. Digital backup discipline for consumers emerged way before digital cameras. We used to have backups in floppies, and then CD-R's, which were common and made physical backups very cheap. Not just data, we had to backup software too because we didn't have an app store to reinstall them from.

In the late 90's, advent of MP3 also made people focus more on digital backup strategies until Bittorrent came and people started believing that they could get things back anytime from an ethereal faucet. It wasn't so. The same happened with cloud. People thought their Google Drive was their backup. It wasn't so.

So, even the opposite could be argued: that people's digital backups got worse over the last two decades because they relied too much on third party virtual services that were not as reliable as physical media.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-03 22:25:27+00:00
I’m wondering if the entire right wing has gone insane. Watching Elon Musk tweet a bunch of racist stuff for several days, followed by weird pro white ethnicity posts, followed by several fawning posts about how this attack was a good thing, is pretty shocking. But also the open hypocrisy of all of these everyday people in social media who have been saying they have not voted for more wars, now turn around completely and say that this war is OK is pretty shocking. And all of the other Republican politicians are either silent or basically claiming that the president has the full authority to do whatever he wants, is also pretty shocking.

I’m sure it is easy to say that this is what everyone should have expected, but I feel like the conduct has gone well past what people expected. The scary thing is I don’t think it will be easy to do something about this. Half the country thinks everything that is happening is completely justified and completely legal. And in practice that means it is effectively legal. So are there any remaining checks and balances that are functioning?
by ezst | 2026-01-03 22:25:52+00:00
Trust me, I really want that to happen, but who has the billions to burn (and the will to use them at that) to build a solid alternative? Most probably, the EU will have a misguided shot at it, out of desperation from the USA, and will subsidise some inadequate local actors. I'm not sure whether it will be good, timely nor sufficient.
by rm445 | 2026-01-03 22:26:13+00:00
I have all my photos back to my first digital camera in 2004. (Plus digital photos a few years further back - I used to use a service that developed and printed your film rolls and also delivered files on CD-ROM). The strategy of keep copying files to newer hardware remains undefeated.

Still, there are big gaps due to prevailing photo-taking habits. Unless you were seriously into photography, people took way fewer photos. Lots of posed pics of family and friends on special occasions, fewer of everyday life. I have like 2 pictures of my undergraduate projects.
by onaclov2000 | 2026-01-03 22:26:38+00:00
Definitely interesting, I don't see an obvious comment on hardware requirements, do you know what those are?

I've played around with OSRM, and Nominatim, etc, but had to do some trickery to run on a raspberry pi.

(For anyone interested in running some of these kind of things on a pi, I talk about it generally here, I need to post an update with more info at some point.
http://blog.onaclovtech.com/2025/02/general-purpose-to-speci...)
by lrvick | 2026-01-03 22:27:09+00:00
Knowingly giving a child poison known to cause lasting damage to their brain sounds pretty abusive to me. It is the modern day equivalent of putting whiskey in the bottle to calm a kid down.

Also it is not about 80s/90s content so much as it is about helping a kid develop a longer attention span. Give them things worth watching more than 10 seconds at a time, or puzzles and project kits worth playing with for hours.
by grumple | 2026-01-03 22:27:23+00:00
> Something like 50% of the population of the world live under rulers who were not democratically elected. Should the US taxpayers fund all of their removals?

If it's in our interest, absolutely. Venezuela nationalized (which is a nice way to say they stole) American oil interests and companies decades ago, has assisted Russia in flouting US sanctions, and has in part enabled the drug cartels. Each of those things cost us money. We're also getting a ton of immigrants from Venezuela that we have to spend money dealing with. Venezuela could also be a much better trading partner for us in the future with a liberal democratic society. All of that is directly in the best interest for the US. Believe it or not, sometimes our interests lie outside our borders.

Isolationism is a failed policy by every nation that tries it, and this is something that used to be taught to every school child in America about our past policies. It's a shame those lessons seem to have been forgotten by our people.

> On top of that, removing a ruler without any plan for follow-up frequently makes things worse, not better. We seem to have already forgotten that removing the leadership of Iraq led to the rise of ISIS and its horrifying consequences.

This is absolutely true. You have to destroy the security forces as well, and support the elected democratic leadership. We may fail to do so in this case.
by montyanderson | 2026-01-03 22:27:46+00:00
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You might be a fit if…
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by reify | 2026-01-03 22:28:36+00:00
Ive been waiting ages for AGI to surface.

It felt like sitting in the middle of an ocean, in a little rowing boat, hoping for moby fucking big dick to break the surface.

I knew it was in the pipeline. I have been waiting so impatiently.

Alas. due to the continual bullshit, all the hype, the shills, the boosters and delusional marketting, they had me convinced. Fool me once muppet shame on you.

https://destaatvanhetweb.nl/2025/07/12/the-party-trick-calle...

The party trick called LLM – blowing away smoke and break some mirrors