MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2026-01-25 12:41:01+00:00
> isn't the fastest way to a failed state to have people believe that their security agencies are good and proper when in reality they aren't?

No, but it used to be.

The fastest way right now is propaganda.

I'm not sure when the transition happened exactly, given we've had smartphones and social media lies going around the world before fact checkers wake up (even a while back there were questions about if some violence or other was the same country or year), but right now any group with convenient access to a suitable AI can do something that passes well enough to fool a sufficient number of people to break everything.

This means that even if all the current stuff dies down in the USA, you can't go back to the old status quo. Free speech is really important (and not just for the public to take down the powerful, but the powerful themselves to not become emperors who wear no clothes), but it's also extremely easy to exploit, and you can't even just rely on people learning to distrust certain sources as you have already started fighting over which sources to trust and fighting over the ability of anyone to say "${foo} is an untrustworthy source".
by neilwilson | 2026-01-25 12:41:10+00:00
Fixed exchange rate thinking I’m afraid. Try it again but with a floating exchange rate - understanding that importers into a currency area pay the local area costs of exporters from that currency area. Reducing the tax thereby means there is more sterling available for exporters to earn.

You will find then that the exchange value is a function of productivity not currency numbers.

Moving VAT to employers NICs will impact those operations that use a lot of labour and few machines. That favours those operations that have higher productivity.

Therefore the physical cost of exports will reduce and the value of imports to the local population increase.

If that reduces the number of exporters then that is of benefit to the nation, as there are more people available to work on domestic production.

With floating exchange rates you don’t need “trade deals”. The exchange rate sorts it all out for you.

Putting rocks in your own harbour is always a silly idea. If other nations play dumping games then you fix that with subsidies not tariffs.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-25 12:41:48+00:00
Governments successfully managed this before. It was called Local Loop Unbundling.

They recognised where the monopoly was: the incumbent telcos with millions of customers that had to go through them to get anywhere else.

So the government insisted that such incumbents make available space in their exchanges for third parties (not for free!), and to allow their customers to use the third parties for telephone and/or internet service, rather than themselves.

A similar argument and regulation could be made today. It could only apply to ISPs with a significant number of endpoint customers. It could require that the ISP make peering available to third parties, at the third party's cost, but the resulting transit should be settlement-free. It could require that if a peer asks the ISP to upgrade, because the ISP is deliberately underprovisioning, the ISP is compelled to allow the third party to pay reasonable costs to upgrade both sides (so the ISP can't sit on its hands, can't brazen it out, and can't set an impossible price)
by songodongo | 2026-01-25 12:41:51+00:00
> Confronted with a list like this — a deluge like this — we look for details that might explain why these people were subjected to this treatment, details that might reassure us that we, by contrast, are not in danger.

These people were absolutely murdered unnecessarily. At the same time, it’s not that simple. Neither Renée nor Alex were simply standing safely out of the way filming or protesting off a sidewalk when they were killed. Both encounters unfolded in the middle of active, chaotic confrontations involving federal agents. The details matter because we’re talking about how decisions are made in split-second, violent moments and about how we ensure that law enforcement is trained and held accountable.
by luckys | 2026-01-25 12:42:02+00:00
More bad faith interpretations.

Here is at least something tangible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surface_temperature#Glo...

On this page can be found the following graphic https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/EP...

On that graphic -- under the heading 'Ice cores (from 800,000 years before present)' in case the link gets truncated -- one can observe regular peaks in temperature that took place before the current one. I'm happy to be explained what caused them, as it could not have been human industrial activity.

That's it. I'm open to dialogue but won't entertain any more lazy dismissals and unfair characterization.
by encom | 2026-01-25 12:42:04+00:00
What is allowed and what actually happens are two very different things, my friend.

In the neighbourhood I live, there's a guy who visits someone here several times per week. His headlights are broken, the tires are worn smooth, the exhaust is loud beyond all reason. Given the general state of the vehicle, I don't have high hopes for the brakes.

I reported it to the police. I'm really not the type of person to do that, but this is worse than anything I've seen. Of course nothing happened. I didn't even get a reply. They don't give a shit. Some day that guy is going to rear-end my car and break my neck because his brake lines finally gave out.

Also, the compulsory car inspections only work for honest people. People with illegal mods will put back the stock parts for the inspection, and switch them back after. I'm not gonna say the inspections are worthless, but it does make a lot of money for the state and the private actors who run the inspection centres.

EDIT to add: They made a law recently that the inspector has to take a photo of the car inside the inspection centre, because there was so much fraud happening with vehicles just being "inspected" on paper.
by ratg13 | 2026-01-25 12:42:08+00:00
Maybe someone is posting links to a webpage somewhere?

I don't have the exact question I asked it, but it was about the use of baby foreskin in beauty products.

I just asked it a similar and more simplified question: "are there beauty products that still use baby foreskin as an ingredient" .. and grok was 1/3 sources .. my initial question it was 3/6 sources.

Citations to pages like:

https://x.com/i/grok/share/2q3paAYZAsTD2OU5RAMxFEdid?utm_sou...
by Havoc | 2026-01-25 12:42:44+00:00
>what exactly would happen as a consequence to the US?

It would trigger a loss of faith in the US and USD. Which could get really spicy given that the US relies on reserve currency status to keep things steady despite comparatively high debt/gdp

Hard to tell what would happen but I suspect its borderline enough that nobody sane wants to find out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege
by maqp | 2026-01-25 12:42:48+00:00
Yup, yet for some reason we see Telegram always pushed on secure messaging app chats, up until the point when someone points out it's not secure at all like it tries to advertise it self. Then it's always about the fun features it has, even if it's acting against the user's best interest, which is the definition of Trojan horse malware .

Also, there's a LOT of people who have joined Telegram because of its perceived security. The company has been extremely vocal about WhatsApp being horrible despite it having always-on E2EE, when in TG it's practically always off.
by clort | 2026-01-25 12:43:04+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_the_Republic_...

so Eire has 5 significant banks, and 15 'less significant'. There are also 276 Credit Unions, I don't know if they are useful. (I had a Credit Union account in the past, could send/receive online but no payment card)

(I don't know their suitability, but there are more than 5 options in your country)
Show HN: Waves – Terminal music player with download, tagging, and library
by llehouerou | 2026-01-25 12:43:10+00:00
Managing a local music library used to mean juggling multiple apps: a Soulseek client to find music, MusicBrainz Picard for tagging, a file manager to organize folders, and finally a music player. Every new album meant switching between windows, waiting for apps to rescan, and hoping everything ended up in the right place.

I built Waves to collapse that entire workflow into a single keyboard-driven terminal app.

The workflow:
- Press "f d" to search Soulseek directly from the player
- Pick a release from MusicBrainz results, download matching files
- Import with automatic tagging, album art fetching, and Picard-compatible renaming
- Music lands in your library, ready to play

No window switching. No waiting for library rescans. No manual file shuffling.

But it's also just a solid music player:
- Miller columns navigation (Artist > Album > Track) with vim bindings
- Gapless playback, MP3/FLAC/Opus/M4A support
- Radio mode: when your queue runs out, it uses Last.fm similar artists to keep playing from your own library
- Last.fm scrobbling with offline queue
- MPRIS support for desktop integration on Linux
- Playlists with folders, favorites, queue with undo/redo
- Full-text search across everything (SQLite FTS5)
- State persistence: queue, position, everything survives restarts

Built with Go, Bubble Tea, and SQLite. Soulseek integration requires a running slskd instance (https://github.com/slskd/slskd).

go install github.com/llehouerou/waves@latest
# or on Arch
yay -S waves-bin
# or with Nix
nix run github:llehouerou/waves

Press "?" for keybindings once you're in. Happy to answer questions about the architecture or take feature requests.
by avcloudy | 2026-01-25 12:43:13+00:00
This is a really ideology driven push. I don't think you really think the iOS browsers are worse, there's just less choice, because they all fundamentally use WebKit. Having to use Chromium is a worse experience, and not being able to use Gecko under Firefox is not a clear upgrade - particularly as WebKit is so tightly integrated with the hardware, leading to less battery use. If you really don't like WebKit for whatever reason, I get it. But that's not worse.

Whenever there is an app with full feature parity (WhatsApp) you assume at best it can be equal, based on nothing. You have specific apps that work for you, and that's great, but my practical experience is much different: whenever I haven't had a choice in an app (think banking apps, carrier apps, local library apps, the Covid apps) the experience has been much better on Apple. Whenever there is a choice in apps, they're often cross-written in something that allows easy porting, and very similar, or the native Apple solution is much smoother. It's rare that an app just feels better on Android, and usually limited to cases where a specific app is only available on Android or, you know, Google.
by kebman | 2026-01-25 12:43:56+00:00
ISP “choice” is mostly a meme, yeah.

But depending on local rules, you can sometimes route around the monopoly: trench your own last-mile (at least on private land), do a neighborhood co-op, connect buildings, etc. It’s sometimes expensive and you’ll hit permits/right-of-way bureaucracy, but it’s totally doable if you’ve got a few (rich) friends or a business willing to back it.

“the conduit is full” is often just BS and a super convenient excuse for incumbents to block competition indefinitely.

Romania is a good example of what happens when lots of small operators aggressively wire dense apartment blocks: brutal competition, low barrier to entry, and suddenly everyone has insane internet.

If digging is blocked, wireless works too. Point-to-point links, WISP stuff, even satellite. The main thing is: you don’t necessarily need your local ISP as your upstream, you just need a path out.
by sylware | 2026-01-25 12:44:37+00:00
What are you even talking about? Since wayland is purely discoverable and dynamic at runtime, you do not need the 'wayland people' to start to do anything.

I could tomorrow start to design my own set of 'wayland interfaces for spy agencies' in order to provide wayland clients a way to spy on all other applications and even on what the compositor is doing, and why not implement some super ultra giga user interactions that specific to accessibility. Then I could pick up GTK+ mutter, branch it, and start to dev the modules implementing such set of interfaces.

Since wayland is actually "x12", if starting anew, this is even a good opportunity for ATK/AT-SPI people to remove the non pertinent legacy burden, aka do some cleanup passes.

And you say those interface were already designed and implemented why are you whining about?
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-25 12:44:49+00:00
These measures are indeed the result of governments blaming their citizens getting scammed on phone manufacturers. There's not a lot Google can do here.

However, Google is choosing to extend these changes worldwide. That's where the problem really starts. People in Asia and Brazil may vote for idiots who will shift the blame for their citizens' lack of basic digital education onto others, but that doesn't mean that countries where this type of fraud barely exists should also be subject to these extreme measures.
by Cu3PO42 | 2026-01-25 12:45:18+00:00
> Maybe I could get a EU bank from another EU country but my employer will not accept an out of country account for salary deposits because it makes their tax life difficult and my mortgage provider doesn't trust foreign accounts either.

I do not doubt this is happening, but it is forbidden under SEPA. All IBANs, no matter from which member country, must be treated equally. Unfortunately, "IBAN discrimination" happens quite frequently still. The European commission recommends filing a complaint with your national governing body.
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-25 12:46:08+00:00
> about what content

Ask ChatGPT to generate you a very long very graphic story about how much you'd like to fuck a dog and your father is the only person who understands your desires and you want to discuss this with him via email. While fucking dogs is illegal in Germany, talking about it is (probably) not. Make the guy who asked the question regret doing it.
by h3half | 2026-01-25 12:46:23+00:00
There’s also the fact that nearly 1/4 US states require no emissions or safety checks whatsoever [1]. So everything is valid by default and realistically the only thing stopping you from driving a literal rust bucket, with tailpipe dragging, poor combustion, or modified emissions filtering (like modifying your truck so you can roll coal down Main Street) is it a cop feels like pulling you over for it

[1]: https://goodcar.com/car-ownership/vehicle-inspections-by-sta...
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-25 12:46:57+00:00
Not all old scanners were just SCSI; there parallel port and proprietary adapter card scanners too.

Some cameras and printers also had SCSI interfaces: Opex MPS-40 mail sorting camera and NeXT Color Ink Jet SCSI.

And don't forget SCSI network adapters (NICs).

I'm wondering if there were a SCSI mouse and/or a SCSI to RS-232 adapter.
by OlegPowerC | 2026-01-25 12:46:58+00:00
Hello mates! My post was deleted because I must post it in this thread. Ok.

I made one more pure Go SNMP v2c and v3 library, but smaller than gosnmp and based on a slightly modified ASN.1 parser from Go stdlib. The stdlib ASN.1 parser is pure DER but we need BER for unmarshaling.

My library has major differences with gosnmp:

PowerSNMPv3 supports get/set with single and multiple data and can return partial errors. In gosnmp, if you try to set a few OIDs but one of them fails, you cannot get detailed information, you must check it separately. In my library:

GET multiple OIDs: if one fails, you get all OK OIDs in result + partial error with failed OID and information about reason of failure

SET multiple OIDs: if one fails, you get total error because SET is atomic

You can use the parse error function for detailed information.

Walk is implemented as synchronous and asynchronous with channel and context support.

Supported: AES 128-256, SHA, SHA-2, and two key extension methods.

Tested on real hardware: Cisco/Huawei/Moxa/Eltex

For example: don't use Bulk operation with Moxa

Use Bulk operation with Eltex but increase timeouts and reduce repetition parameter to 8

GitHub: https://github.com/OlegPowerC/powersnmpv3
by simoncion | 2026-01-25 12:47:19+00:00
> ...like the TIOBE Index for programming languages.

Why would you want a list with such godawful methodology? Here's [0] what the TIOBE folks have to say about their data analysis process:

Since there are many questions about the way the TIOBE index is assembled, a special page is devoted to its definition. Basically the calculation comes down to counting hits for the search query

+"<language> programming"

The only advantage this methodology has is it's extremely cheap for the surveyor to use.

[0] <https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin...>
by jasode | 2026-01-25 12:47:19+00:00
>I don't see any iOS advantage with the apps anymore. That was maybe true in the very beginning, during the gold rush time of the app store. But not since then. In which category are there better iOS apps?

I researched iOS vs Android last year so some of my info may be out of date but this is what I collected.

Apple iOS exclusives (or earlier app versions because devs prioritized iOS):

ChatGPT iOS app -2 months before Android
Sora -2 months before 2025-11 Android
Bluesky iOS app -2 months before Android (February 2023 iOS invitation-only beta; April 2023, it was released for Android)
Blackmagic Design camera 2023-09-15 -9 months before Android 2024-06-24
Halide camera app https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/17klq40/what_are_some_good_examples_of_iphoneexclusive/k7efznt/
Zoom F6 https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/software-product-page/software-sub-cat/F6-control-app/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/f6-control/id1464118916
Godox Light https://www.diyphotography.net/godox-finally-launches-android-app-for-the-a1-but-only-for-some-phones/
ForeFlight Mobile https://support.foreflight.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004919307-Does-ForeFlight-Mobile-work-on-Android-devices https://old.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/1883eya/the_authoritative_answer_to_why_isnt_foreflight/
Adobe Fresco
Procreate
FlexRadio SmartSDR SSDR 2023-10-27T13:15:09+00:00 https://community.flexradio.com/discussion/8029186/smartsdr-for-android-device

Google Android app exclusive

TouchDRO for milling

There really aren't many Android-only apps that's intended for direct consumer download from the Google Play Store. Instead, Android dominates in OEM use as "turnkey" and "embedded" base os as the GUI for their customized hardware devices:

Amazon Fire Stick, music workstations, sewing machine GUI, geology soil tester, etc

If it's a typical mainstream user (browser + Youtube/Tiktok + WhatsApp etc), they won't see any iOS ecosystem advantages over Android.
by jchw | 2026-01-25 12:47:39+00:00
This would not be surprising at all! An impressive amount of work has gone into making the Linux VFS and filesystem code fast and scalable. I'm well aware that Linux didn't invent the RCU scheme, but it uses variations on RCU liberally to make filesystem operations minimally contentious, and aggressively caches. (I've also learned recently that the Linux VFS abstractions are quite different from BSD/UNIX, and they don't really map to eachother. Linux has many structures, like dentries and generic inodes, that map to roughly one structure in BSD/UNIX, the vnode structure. I'm not positive that this has huge performance implications but it does seem like Linux is aggressive at caching dentries which may make a difference.)

That said, I'm certainly no expert on filesystems or OS kernels, so I wouldn't know if Linux would perform faster or slower... But it would be very interesting to see a comparison, possibly even with a hypervisor adding overhead.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2026-01-25 12:48:57+00:00
you get a replication crisis on the bleeding edge between replication being possible and impossible. There’s never going to be a replication crisis in linear algebra, there’s never going to be a replication crisis in theology, there definitely was a replication crisis in psych and a replication crisis in nutrition science is distinctly plausible and would be extremely good news for the field as it moves through the edge.
by Macha | 2026-01-25 12:49:05+00:00
So I was actually planning on upgrading from a Pixel 7 Pro to a Pixel 10 around the time this announcement came out last year, but have put it on hold as I wait to see what form these changes take.

Like if it was "you need to do the developer 7-tap of the version label in settings", it'd be like "whatever". But given how long this process has taken, I suspect that is not what they've planned - it wouldn't take this long to develop, it certainly wouldn't take this long to explain.

So I suspect that we're actually in the "Maybe Later" phase of "Google wants to control which apps you install: [ ] Yes [ ] Maybe Later". And I mean, if they're proposed solution turns out to be "Me and 25 of my closest friends can install apps I make by phoning home to Google servers", then like, I can do that on iOS too. And if I'm not going to have meaningfully more control of my Android device, I may as well just go to iOS where Apple at least have a better privacy metric and don't seem to have have an all-encompassing goal of "where can we put AI features to drive AI usage metrics up the most?"
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 12:49:56+00:00
Once, back around 2011 or 2012, I was using Google Translate for a speech I was to deliver in church. It was shorter than one page printed out.

I only needed the Spanish translation. Now I am proficient in spoken and written Spanish, and I can perfectly understand what is said, and yet I still ran the English through Google Translate and printed it out without really checking through it.

I got to the podium and there was a line where I said "electricity is in the air" (a metaphor, obviously) and the Spanish translation said "electricidad no está en el aire" and I was able to correct that on-the-fly, but I was pissed at Translate, and I badmouthed it for months. And sure, it was my fault for not proofing and vetting the entire output, but come on!
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-25 12:50:29+00:00
Huh TIL. What a troubled history. Bankruptcy shortly following launch of the initial batch, then in 2022 Russia stole the launch fee and a stack of 36 satellites from them.

They're online but unfortunately it seems they don't sell directly to consumers? So you have to find a local provider. Sounds needlessly complicated.

Apparently Amazon's constellation should be available for consumers within the next 6 months as well. Qianfan not until next year (I didn't realize they had hit delays). So there should be direct-to-consumer Starlink alternatives SOON™.
by arter45 | 2026-01-25 12:51:08+00:00
Not in academia myself, but I suspect the basic issue is simply that academics are judged by the number of papers they publish.

They are pushed to publish a lot, which means journals have to review a lot of stuff (and they cannot replicate findings on their own). Once a paper is published on a decent journal, other researchers may not "waste time" replicating all findings, because they also want to publish a lot. The result is papers getting popular even if no one has actually bothered to replicate the results, especially if those papers are quoted by a lot of people and/or are written by otherwise reputable people or universities.
by FrequentLurker | 2026-01-25 12:51:17+00:00
iOS has less device models to target for. This makes it easier to support and deliver a more consistent experience, especially for gaming. I have also heard a few other points back in the day, but I am not sure how true they are now. One is that some social media apps might offer better quality in app camera experience. Another is that iOS userbase is more willing to spend money so devs are more likely to target iOS.