MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fencepost | 2026-01-27 17:25:05+00:00
The Fresh stores are kind of a weird shopping experience with a mix of normal, overpriced and bizarrely cheap at different times.

I've gotten into the habit of stopping in to wander the aisles and check prices because of it (e.g. I stocked up on a bunch of canned soup when most (but not all) Progresso soups were $0.44 a month or two back, and I picked up some microwavable rice+quinoa pouches for my wife at $0.35 each a couple weeks ago, but the inconsistency and overall not great prices mean it can't be my go-to grocery destination.

I'm sure the one by me will be closing since there's a significantly larger Whole Foods just a few miles away.
by clircle | 2026-01-27 17:25:11+00:00
I resisted Wayland for a longtime, but I'm sold now that I see how well it does on old hardware.

I have an old Thinkpad. Firefox on X is slow and scrolls poorly. On wayland, the scrolling is remarkably smooth for 10 y/o hardware, and the addition of touchpad gestures is very nice. Yes, there's more configuration overhead for each compositor, but I'm now accepting this trade.
by jjk166 | 2026-01-27 17:25:22+00:00
I think we've known since the time of Socrates that the practice of philosophy is not the practice of happy living. Philosophers tend to be miserable. Socrates himself chose to drink poison over moving to a different city. I think most philosophies, despite their myriad differences, agree that what people tend to want is not what philosophy will give them. Maybe some of the answers philosophy yields can be applied to increase happiness, but philosophy in practice tends to produce questions.
by Krssst | 2026-01-27 17:25:29+00:00
Liquids are not explosive, they are assumed to be used to make explosives once onboard.

Regarding quantity, hard to find information, I guess they don't want to have a terrorist handbook to making explosives online, but I would assume that 100ml would mean multiple times this amount would not be enough to make an explosive large enough bring down an airplane.

In general, considering the overall cost of the measures, I would think that there is a valid reason and that "it does not make sense at first glance so it's just a security theater" does not hold.
by NetViper | 2026-01-27 17:25:34+00:00
Great use case! Remote data collection with mixed uplinks is exactly the kind of scenario where intelligent routing matters.
Currently, Keryx doesn't natively support multi-uplink bonding at the application layer, it relies on the OS routing table and picks the best available route.
However, if BondiX is presenting the bonded connection as a single virtual interface to the OS, Keryx should work transparently over it. We've tested over various network types (fibre, cable, 5G, Starlink, etc individually) and the ML strategy selection adapts well to changing conditions.
Multi-uplink support at the Keryx level is on the roadmap - essentially treating multiple paths as independent channels and doing our own aggregation/failover. The transport layer we're using makes this technically feasible.
For your summer project, my suggestion would be:

Test with BondiX doing the bonding (should work today)
Let me know how it performs - real-world feedback from field deployments is gold
If you need native multi-path support, happy to prioritize that feature based on your timeline

Happy to stay in touch as your project develops. Feel free to email david@netviper.gr if you want to discuss the specifics of your setup, or if you are interested in testing out the GUI application.
by b1temy | 2026-01-27 17:25:51+00:00
> A timestamp wouldn't be reliable

I agree, but I'm still iffy on reading all files (already an expensive operation) in the repository, then hashing every one of them, every time you do an ls or a commit. I took a quick look and git seems to check whether it needs to recalculate the hash based on a combination of the modification timestamp and if the filesize has changed, which is not foolproof either since the timestamp can be modified, and the filesize can remain the same and just have different contents.

I'm not too sure how to solve this myself. Apparently this is a known thing in git and is called the "racy git" problem https://git-scm.com/docs/racy-git/
But to be honest, perhaps I'm biased from working in a large repository, but I'd rather the tradeoff of not rehashing often, rather than suffer the rare case of a file being changed without modifying its timestamp, whilst remaining the same size. (I suppose this might have security implications if an attacker were to place such a file into my local repository, but at that point, having them have access to my filesystem is a far larger problem...)

> I'm just not that familiar with toml... Though I would argue that the choice doesn't really matter to the user, since you would never actually write...

Again, I agree. At best, _maybe_ it would be slightly nicer for a developer or a power user debugging an issue, if they prefer the toml syntax, but ultimately, it does not matter much what format it is in. I mainly asked out of curiosity since your first thoughts were to use yaml or json, when I see (completely empirically) most Rust devs prefer toml, probably because of familiarity with Cargo.toml. Which, by the way, I see you use too in your repository (As to be expected with most Rust projects), so I suppose you must be at least a little bit familiar with it, at least from a user perspective. But I suppose you likely have even more experience with yaml and json, which is why it came to mind first.
by vidarh | 2026-01-27 17:25:54+00:00
For some projects, "better tools for the human part" is sufficient and awesome.

But for other projects, being able to scale with little or no human involvement suddenly turns some things that were borderline profitable or not possible to make profitable at all with current salaries vs. token costs into viable businesses.

Where it works, it's a paradigm shift - for both good and bad.

So it depends what you're trying to solve for. I have projects in both categories.
by freedomben | 2026-01-27 17:26:02+00:00
I pretty well span the devops spectrum from building/maintaining services to running/integrating/monitoring them in prod. LLMs are definitely better at the dev side than the ops side, no doubt about that. And when it comes to firewalld and many other sysadmin tools I agree it can often be faster to just hand type than to have the LLM do it. Even just writing Dockerfiles it's often faster to do it by hand than the LLM because the LLM will screw it up 6 to 12 times before getting it right, and usually "getting it right" is because I told it something like, "dude you can't mount, you need to copy." It's especially insanely stupid when it comes to rootless podman.

But that said, there are still plenty of ops-y situations where AI can be very helpful. Even just "here's a 125k lines of prod logs. Can you tell me what is going wrong?" has saved me lots of time in the past, especially for apps that I'm not super familiar with. It's (sometimes) pretty good at finding the needle in the haystack. The most common workflow I have now is to point an agent at it and while it's griding on it I'll do some hand greps and things. I've gotten to the bottom of some really tricky things much faster because of it. Sometimes it points me in the wrong direction (for example, one time it noticed that we were being rate-limited by the Cloudflare API, and instead of adding a single flag to the library calls it wrote it's own very convoluted queue system. But it was still helpful because at least it pinpointed the problem).

The other "small pieces of software" I find it very helpful for are bash functions or small scripts to do things. The handwritten solution is usually quick, but rarely as resilient/informative as it could be because writing a bunch of error handling can 5x or 10x the handwritten time. I will usually write the quick version, then point AI at it and have it add arg passing/handling, error handling, and usage info/documentation. It's been great for that.
by Twirrim | 2026-01-27 17:27:19+00:00
They (you?) haven't even figured out Matrix yet, from the looks of things.

edit: If you really are the author of the post, I'd strongly encourage pulling it, now. Although the damage is now already done to Cloudflare, keeping it up just exasperates it. At best you can hope a sincere apology will mitigate some of the damage.
by NewUser76312 | 2026-01-27 17:27:31+00:00
Meta comment: it seems like you can only voice a particular direction on the politic topic of immigration enforcement on this thread without getting downvoted. The opinion is obvious because everyone automatically jumps to malice as opposed to incompetence as the prevailing theory for the article's claim.

I had a condescending response from a HN mod the other day telling me that HN isn't all that left wing, just a 'slight skew'. Well OK buddy, exhibit A, read through the diversity of opinions that aren't flagged in this thread. I'd go as far to say that HN is basically like Reddit, except more of you happen to have computer science degrees.

And that's fine, it is what it is, but let's not pretend this website doesn't have a heavy bias in a particular direction.
by will__ness | 2026-01-27 17:27:44+00:00
This is very true. My biggest frustration is people who use LLMs to generate code, and then don't use LLMs to refine that code. That is how you end up with slop.I would estimate that as a SDE I spend about 30% of my time reviewing and refining my own code, and I would encourage anyone operating a coding agent to still spend 30% figuring out how to improve the code before shipping.
by suburban_strike | 2026-01-27 17:27:50+00:00
There's no sense asking questions you already know the answer to. Of course those babies are Hamas. If they aren't in baby boot camp right now, they will be 20 years from now. Until then they use their mothers as human shields, so the women have to die as well, obviously. They were breastfeeding Hamas combatants in violation of sanctions.

1 Samuel 15:3 was always the official policy; they are no longer pretending otherwise because they don't have to. Nobody's going to stop them and for anyone that tries, there's the Samson Option.

A more-fun line of questioning that outs the demons among us is asking what someone would do if they had access to a time machine. One particular demographic will consistently and proudly tell you they'd use it to go back in time and murder one specific infant. Not teenager, not young adult--given free range of choice they always opt to kill their opponent at their most helpless, as an infant that cannot fight back--which says all it needs to.
by charlescearl | 2026-01-27 17:27:54+00:00
Further, the american government across several administrations imposed sanctions which led to premature death of Iranians, worsening conditions. It instigated the Iran/Iraq war carnage. It also bombed Iran contributing to civilian casualties. Even if it were to stage “regime change” in Iran, give the american government’s track record in Afghanistan and Iraq, the resulting government would likely inflict even more hardship upon the people of Iran. This is why some on “the left” view the united states as the primary contradiction.
by behnamoh | 2026-01-27 17:27:57+00:00
5 years ago: ML-auto-complete → You had to learn coding in depth
Last Year: AI-generated suggestions → You had to be an expert to ask the right questions
Now: AI-generated code → You should learn how to be a PM
Future: AI-generated companies → You must learn how to be a CEO
Meta-future: AI-generated conglomerates → ?

Recently I realized that instead of just learning technical skills, I need to learn management skills. Specifically, project management, time management, writing specifications, setting expectations, writing tests, and in general, handling and orchestrating an entire workflow.

And I think this will only shift to the higher levels of the management hierarchy in the future. For example, in the future we will have AI models that can one-shot an entire platform like Twitter. Then the question is less about how to handle a database and more about how to handle several AI generated companies!

While we're at the project manager level now, in the future we'll be at the CEO level. It's an interesting thing to think about.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-27 17:27:58+00:00
Point to where she blamed straight white men for all social economic issues in the country (OP's words), or where a similar phrase exists in the Democrat party platform, and I'll take back my comment. There are a small handful of wacky politicians who are indeed on this "straight white man" kick, but it's not even remotely a position accepted by the broader party.
by Mindwipe | 2026-01-27 17:28:02+00:00
I did say that in the second half of the sentence.

But it still isn't an example of someone shipping an open source DRM module - it's just software to crack DRM with a leaked key.

(Incidentally and this is not legal advice, but if you are in one of many European territories and downloading software from Git here I would encourage people to think about the possibility you are committing an actual criminal offence by doing so, as you are "importing" it by virtue obtaining it from a US entity.)
by btucker | 2026-01-27 17:28:47+00:00
Last year here in Chicago my wife's bike was stolen overnight. It has an airtag hidden in a bell on the handlebars. When we woke up and noticed it was missing, we traced it to a park not too far away. We ran over there and called the Chicago PD who showed up in <10min. We told them a description of the bike and showed where FindMy said it was. They went and retrieved it. Surprisingly happy ending & I was impressed the Chicago PD were so helpful!
by mekdoonggi | 2026-01-27 17:28:53+00:00
I like the proposal, but it seems a big ask for governments to trust an organization with administering the currency. Where will the offices be located? Who will supply the technology? How do you guarantee that the currency won't be manipulated to the benefit of some nations?

A lot of trust problems that crypto tries to solve, but none of the stablecoins are stable enough to trust your government to governments deals with.
by WalterBright | 2026-01-27 17:29:15+00:00
> Value is something else entirely

Value is what you're willing to pay for something, and what you're willing to accept as payment.

> Even capitalist value is disconnected from market price, see the current stock market.

The value of a stock is the market price. There is no other value.

The value of a teacher is what you're willing to pay for him, and what he is willing to accept. The value of government paid teachers is not knowable, since the money to pay them is forcibly extracted.

> I'm fairly certain you've replied these exact words to me before.

I've written this many times here!
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-27 17:29:19+00:00
We can go from 30C to 5C in a couple minutes with a wind change, the weather here keeps your toes. We always get down into the -20sF with another 20 degrees thrown in by the windchill and can spend weeks at that, 2014/15 we spent 3 months in the -20s. Coldest I have biked in is -47 before the windchill. Windchill is tricky on a bike since you make your own wind, it is considerably colder biking than just standing or walking in such conditions.

Gear has mostly been a move away from cartridge bearings, you are lucky if those will last the winter. Old fashioned cup and cone bearings hold enough grease to get you through most winters without having to repack. For the messy and icy weather I try to ride my fixed gear, does not matter if the brakes freeze up, very simple drive train (single piece crank!) I can just ignore all winter other than oil the chain and its 1/8" chain sucks up a lot more oil than the skinny 10+ speed chains and sheds filth much better as well. 3in1 helps a lot as well, it is pretty good about shedding filth. For the brutal cold, when things are dry and for most errands it is generally my touring bike, its granny gear is nice when the grease starts to thicken in the cold and high rpm pedaling does a good job of keeping you warm but keeping the derailers working well even with friction shifters can be a chore.

Only specialty gear I have is studded BMX pedals, they do a great job of keeping your feet on the pedals and are footwear agnostic. Not the best pedal choice for a fixed gear, they can really shred your shins.
by xve | 2026-01-27 17:29:22+00:00
It's pretty clear this is a misuse of antitrust. Actually the details of these deals have very little to do with antitrust, it's likely simplecorruption. Antitrust might be used as a cover for those deals, not the other way around. The prevention of monopolies is one of the few regulations necessary for meritocratic capitalism to thrive.
by palata | 2026-01-27 17:29:40+00:00
May I kindly ask you to calm the fuck down?

I am saying that this is a human being who wrote about something they found cool, under they real identity, and they are getting insulted by people hiding behind their screens. It is a thing to insult a company or a generic title ("bad managers suck"), it is a completely different one to harass a specific person... and for what? Overselling their proof of concept?

Would you insult them if you met in person? Just for that? If yes, then maybe you go check yourself in the mirror.
by freedomben | 2026-01-27 17:30:17+00:00
I think Amazon are largely shitheads to their low level workers (and still assholes even to mid-level workers), and I am in no way defending them. I'm in fact sickened by them. I will never work for Amazon.

But the implication above was that the non-union employee is the "sub-human" option. I find that attitude pretty gross too. Humans are human whether they are union members or not.
by will__ness | 2026-01-27 17:30:32+00:00
Great questions. For me, high quality code is code that:
1) works (is functional, no bugs)
2) is secure (no security vulnerabilities)
3) is extendable (I can quickly and easily build new features with limited refactors)

I argue the code still matters because of these 3 reasons. If the code doesn't work, your product won't work. If its not secure, there's obvious consequences. If you can't build new features quickly, you will end up wasting money/time.
by adolph | 2026-01-27 17:30:42+00:00
"'Amazon Not-too-bad' store" sounds pretty reasonable. Maybe a too-clever work around for the 5-Star problem would be to call it "100-Star," which would be 4 in binary notation. Or they could call it "5th-Star" since 4 stars is the fifth number of stars b/c the range of starts is zero indexed.

Ordinal : Cardinal
1 : 0
2 : 1
3 : 2
4 : 3
5 : 4
6 : 5
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-27 17:30:44+00:00
Again, I'm not talking about moderates. I'm talking about party loyalists.

I admittedly am part of a trade organization, so I am quite friendly to both teams. Call what I see intuition. I usually place these numbers at:

>Total Loyalists: 30-40%

>Ideological Believers: 30-40%

>Ambitious Opportunists: 30%
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-27 17:30:54+00:00
Unlike the west, the Arabs or Persians have never nurtured any hatred of Jews till the British (and later the Americans) forcefully backed the creation of a Jewish state in the middle-east. Even today, muslims around the world don't give a damn about Jews or antisemitism unless it is in the context of Palestinians. This is in stark contrast to the christian west, which still harbours a lot of antisemitism and is the factory that still generates most of the modern Jewish conspiracy political tropes (some of which do find their way to religious fundamentalists in the east too). The Israeli-right, ofcourse, has a vested interest in painting Arabs and muslims as antisemites, because otherwise "Israel" can't showcase itself as a "victim". I do believe the Israelis are victims too though not in the way the Israeli-right depicts it - early Zionists never realised that the bigger plan of the western superpowers in forcing them to the middle-east (instead of giving them their own country in Europe) was part of their "divide and rule" policy for the middle-east. Frankly, Israel and Palestine will never be at peace because it is not in the interest of western superpowers. (The Israeli-right have latched on to this too, and are trying to exploit it to increase their own power and influence in the region. Unfortunately for them, that is undesirable for the west and worse, they did it in a way that brings unwanted attention to the west - the Trump and Blair lead Board of Peace is the western response to cut Israel down to size).
by jmyeet | 2026-01-27 17:30:56+00:00
What you're describing here (ironically) is unironically the basis for Western political thought.

What I'm referring to here is idealism [1]. Whether it's European colonial powers or the US, the basis for foreign intervention is, quite simply, that we are the Good Guys. Why? Because we're the Good Guys. Even slavery was justified in Christianity by converting the heathen and saving their immortal souls, a fundamentally idealistic argument.

What's the alternative? Materialism [2], the premise of which is that there is not anything metaphysical that defines "goodness". Rather, you are the product of your material circumstances. There is a constant feedback loop if you affecting your material surroundsina and those surroundings affect you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism
by kube-system | 2026-01-27 17:31:10+00:00
I think the systems are good in the context of "computer ordering systems", but not great in the context of "food accessibility". They're built with a lot of inherent presumptions that likely apply to most of the peer groups of the people designing it, but certainly do not in the field.

I am quite privileged and I know numerous people who might have trouble telling you the name of the meal they want even if presented with a hard copy of a menu.
by Faelon | 2026-01-27 17:31:17+00:00
It would be currently impossible for desalination to meet the immense water demands of the midwest. Water is not the only variable we should consider, either. That land used to constitute an immense, rich ecosystem, and now it consumes water, emits more carbon than the entire transportation sector, and kills billions of animals in the most cruel ways imaginable. Cheese is cruel and wasteful and we kid ourselves if we put our vanity above the needs of our planet and its nonhuman inhabitants
by themaninthedark | 2026-01-27 17:31:26+00:00
Walmart and Kroger near me now have one way metal cattle gates that you have to pass through when you enter. Makes me feel like cattle and that their assuming I am a thief. Trips to those locations have dropped.

The Home Depot cameras and screens that "BING BONG" loudly as you pass by to get you to notice them showing that they are recording you are also highly annoying.

I wish there was a greater variety of hardware stores near me...
by moregrist | 2026-01-27 17:31:34+00:00
I don't know the Wegman's in NY at all, but the one I used to use in the Boston area was ... okay?

It was a good grocery store with decent produce, a good frozen section, some nice specialty items, and some decent prepared meals. I would put it at roughly the early-2010s era of Whole Foods with slightly better prices. Now that I'm no longer working near there, I don't miss it much.

So I've never understood the hype. But I've also been told that the Boston stores were pretty mediocre compared to the ones in NY and especially Ithaca.
by jasonjmcghee | 2026-01-27 17:31:44+00:00
> if you want to understand the effects of quantization on model quality, it's really easy to spin up a GPU server instance and play around

Fwiw, not necessarily. I've noticed quantized models have strange and surprising failure modes where everything seems to be working well and then does a death spiral repeating a specific word or completely failing on one task of a handful of similar tasks.

8-bit vs 4-bit can be almost imperceptible or night and day.

This isn't something you'd necessarily see playing around, but when trying to do something specific