MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pstuart | 2026-01-16 17:41:02+00:00
The promise made was that they were going after "bad people", e.g., murderers, rapists, etc. I don't think many people have a problem with that.

But that's not who they're going after, it's everybody, with a focus on ethnic cleansing. It is no longer hyperbole to compare what's happening now to Germany in the 1930's.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-16 17:41:59+00:00
> Yeah thee was never any competing with china, our industry just relies on our market using different values to purchase a car.

This is patently false. The US could have competed with China if it had maintained investments spinning up battery manufacturing and downstream systems to build EVs at scale, while subsidizing EVs (fossil fuels are subsidized to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars per year [1]) and increasing taxes on combustion mobility. The US picked legacy automaker profits and fossil fuel interests instead, simply out of lack of will and short term optimization over long term success.

China is building under the same rules of physics as everyone else. You can choose not to, but that is a choice.

(I believe in climate change, so I am thrilled China is going to steamroll fossil fuel incumbents out of self interest [2] [3], regardless of negative second order effects; every 24 months of Chinese EV production destroys 1M barrels/day of global oil consumption at current production rates, as of this comment)

[1] https://www.imf.org/en/topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...

[2] https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales
by mynameisvlad | 2026-01-16 17:42:02+00:00
What lock in? They explicitly said:

> Staying open to all was a non-negotiable requirement for both us and for Cloudflare.

They have deployment guides for practically every provider out there: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/deploy/

And at the end of the day, most of the deployment is just deploying a static site... Which you can do practically anywhere.
by bflesch | 2026-01-16 17:42:47+00:00
> Can you elaborate? What's the broader point you want to get at here?

I mean that by ignoring Minsk agreement and being a bitch about weapons deliveries on top of that, the US incentivized every single country to pursue access to nuclear capabilities.

> The United States should have bombed Russia for publicly joking about Donald Trump. Give me a break. Why even post stuff like this?

They started with the public humiliation after they felt empowered because there was no credible US response to all the previous hacks that you glossed over in your response.

Yes, the US stopped credit card payments and destroyed some payment terminals. I imagine they weaponized the apple and android devices, maybe this still continues. For a couple of days, we had those impressive russian rockets which turned around and destroyed their launcher. And of course the geofenced US weapon systems. But was US able to shut down any vital russian systems except starlink and McDonald's?

Old lavrov still walks around openly with his apple watch just to farm payloads. US had to keep up social media access and steam for russians because that's their most convenient surveillance capability. Even Porsche was able to remotely shut down their cars allover russia, last I heard the American car brands are still working within russia.

> Who do you think is operating in Ukraine and advising the Ukrainians

There are observers from many countries on the ground in Ukraine, and US might even be testing some weapons. However US efforts are overshadowed by better performance of European weapons systems, both old and new. As Germany was unable to supply Taurus, European engineers stepped up and helped Ukraine design long range missiles.

Meanwhile the US artificially limits supply for US systems, so they get destroyed because they need to preserve ammo. I don't see how the situation for US gets better in the future as more and more proud boys take over key positions. Look at the defense minister who can't use a damn phone and is more interested in tattoos.

There is a lot of empty posturing and the results are really not speaking for the US.
by xpe | 2026-01-16 17:42:55+00:00
> The stochastic parrot LLM is driven by nothing but eagerness to please. Fix that, and the parrot falls off its perch.

The comment above is problematic for many reasons.

First, it has fallen prey to a common misunderstanding of the original paper. Using the phrase “stochastic parrot” in a dismissive or weaponized way usually misses the whole point of the original paper! The authors of “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” (Bender et al., 2021) would never make the above claim. The paper was about deployment risks, not capability ceilings.

Second, who even knows what the comment means by “falls off the perch.” It is a kind of claim that isn’t saying anything concrete or testable. I suspect arguing against it, just leads to a pointless debate over vague words.

Third, it is important to realize that the extent to which large language models have a willingness to please comes from fine-tuning. Even without RLHF (or similar) they have prediction capabilities that are measurable. Uneven and flawed but useful getting better.

I’m hoping we’re all getting tired of venting about AI technology.
by myrmidon | 2026-01-16 17:43:47+00:00
You absolutely have a point, I just don't see how this is functionally different from western/US policy, especially from the perspective of e.g. BRIC nations:

We have ample evidence that US intelligence siphons data from literally every meaningful company it can tap, is willing to share that data with partners abroad and uses such things without even public sanction against targets picked by the president (see Venezuela).

Sure, the US is still the devil you know, but if Americans want to claim the moral high ground then at least credible pretending is required, and under the current administration we wont even get that.
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-16 17:44:19+00:00
That might be true in theory, but in practice a find oneliner is still the fastest way to find things. It shouldn't be the case, but a fulltext search is faster than using the OS index, because the former is stable and improved for decades by low level developers, while the later is continuously recreated by people who like Javascript in the UI libraries of the OS.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-01-16 17:44:20+00:00
I think perhaps nationalizing your oil companies, looting their assets for political reasons, and driving out the only people with the competencies to operate your only valuable industry might have a tiny bit to do with the state of the country.

I feel like Mother Goose had a cautionary tale about killing your golden goose that perhaps Venezuela’s leadership ought to read up on.
by lordgroff | 2026-01-16 17:44:24+00:00
The idea that any country does 'friends' is, frankly, incredibly naive. Besides, Carney doesn't want to be friends with China, he wants to open up the market between the two countries. Of course, everyone here was better off when the trade flows crossed the natural north/south border, but this dependence created a weakness in a situation where our neighbourly hegemon decided to not be so neighbourly anymore. Turns out we weren't friends either.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-16 17:44:35+00:00
Greenland isn't entirely covered in ice. Take a look at any of the mineral resources maps floating around for the country. Everything's on the coastal margins in places only covered by seasonal snow. The interior is a big blank because no one's been able to search under the ice.

However, the adjacent Canadian provinces (Nunavut & Northern Labrador) share many of the same geologic provinces, also without significant glaciation. There aren't a lot of big mines up there relative to the mineral wealth because it's simply too challenging. Constructing big infrastructure in the arctic takes resources approaching nation-state levels. Most mining companies can't muster that or maintain it long-term.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-16 17:44:55+00:00
And there is an entire discussion about that, a vote and 17 citations!

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1276887484#Langua...

When you can't eliminate bias completely, as I think it is the case here, the next best thing is transparency, and you can hardly get better than that! Maybe no other dictionaries or encyclopedias describe it like that, but no other dictionaries or encyclopedias give so much detail on why it is described the way they do.

In the end "Zionism" is just a word, the meaning of it is what people make it to be, not what dictionaries or encyclopedias say it is, and considering the current situation, it means different things if you ask different people, so bias is unavoidable. Of course, if it is etymology you are after, the Wikipedia article covers that too, with plenty of citations.
by ghurtado | 2026-01-16 17:45:07+00:00
Originally the word "hacker" made no distinction between the two meanings. This site is pretty old, so you're right, it was intended in the original "Kevin Mitnik" sense (the original hacker, who ironically would fall outside of the modern definition)

The modern acception focused on online computer security came much later. That meaning is neither the one used in the name of this site nor the one that would be relevant to this conversation.

To summarize: today's hackers are also yesterday's hackers, but yesterday's hackers may or may not be modern hackers.
by irishcoffee | 2026-01-16 17:45:23+00:00
> Canada lowering tariffs saves Canadians money.

How many chinese EVs are in canada right now? If the answer is close enough to zero as to be insignificant, how is this saving canadians any money on chinese EVs?

If it helps, we can say something like: this adds $1-$2B gross revenue to china selling EVs to canada. Profit, probably less than a $1B. Needle still not moving.
by reaperducer | 2026-01-16 17:45:49+00:00
I built a basic LoRa network so I could send data from my washing machine in the apartment cellar to my Home Assistant box in my apartment several floors up.

I have sensors in eight of my plants that use LoRa to transmit moisture levels to an SBC running Forth that lights up a single segment in an LED bar to let me know which ones should be watered.

I like to think the electricity has made the plants super-intelligent and now they talk to each over over LoRa and plot against the cat.
by unethical_ban | 2026-01-16 17:45:55+00:00
I work in infosec and several popular platforms use elasticsearch for log storage and analysis.

I would never. Ever. Bet my savings on ES being stable enough to always be online to take in data, or predictable in retaining the data it took in.

It feels very best-effort and as a consultant, I recommend orgs use some other system for retaining their logs, even a raw filesystem with rolling zips, before relying on ES unless you have a dedicated team constantly monitoring it.
by overfeed | 2026-01-16 17:46:06+00:00
Another victory notch for the "AI Influentist" article[1].

Step 1: thought leader reveals Shocking(tm) AI achievement

Step 2: post gets traction

Step 3: additional context is revealed, dragging the original claim from the realm of the miraculous to "merely" useful.

I don't think Mitchell intentionally misrepresented/exaggerated, but the phenomenon is reccuring. What's the logical explanation for the frequency?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623195
by bflesch | 2026-01-16 17:46:14+00:00
Thank you, I missed the part with several "top of the chain" providers. So all of them would need to go down at the same time for things to really stop working.

How many "top of chain" providers is letsencrypt using? Are they a single point of failure in that regard?

I'd imagine that other "top of chain" providers want money for their certificates and that they might have a manual process which is slower than letsencrypt?
by andrewmcwatters | 2026-01-16 17:46:17+00:00
A small but big detail that irritates me is one used to be able to search Applications faster through the dedicated Applications overlay, but now this behavior appears to just be a shortcut to Spotlight, which suffers from incredibly poor index planning.

In the past, when Spotlight was too slow to show me my most used applications by the first few letters, I'd bail and use Applications.

Now I'd have to use Finder, but opening that up would be slow enough that I'd almost need a desktop shortcut.

So, in essence, I have to hack around the most common functionality of using an application on an operating system, which is finding the damn thing. And this is supposed to be the most polished operating system on the market?

Apple frequently appears to be asleep at the wheel.
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-16 17:46:19+00:00
> Never in the past decade have I thought to myself, "gawrsh, I wonder where this file is on my laptop hard drive."

I do, but 80% of the time I'm able to locate it by opening the directory where I would put it. And 10% it's in the "other" directory. And since I have the shell history, in the remaining case it is still a simple search.
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-16 17:46:54+00:00
> I feel Canada only set tariffs on cars out of some deference to the US auto industry

That is exactly what they did.

https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicl...

> The tariffs follow a May announcement by U.S. President Joe Biden of 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese-made EVs.

> Trudeau said on Sunday night that he had discussed China and other national geopolitical issues with U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan.

> smells like rolling out a Canadian auto market that is not dependent on the US

The last federal election was almost entirely decided by which leader made the best pitch to Canadians on who would be better equipped to handle Donald Trump and to make the economy less dependent on the USA as a whole.
by agwa | 2026-01-16 17:47:00+00:00
That doesn't work, as neither SNI nor the server_name field of the ECHConfig are allowed to contain IP addresses: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tls-esni-25.html#...

Even if it did work, the privacy value of hiding the SNI is pretty minimal for an IP address that hosts only a couple domains, as there are plenty of databases that let you look up an IP address to determine what domain names point there - e.g. https://bgp.tools/prefix/18.220.0.0/14#dns
by 05 | 2026-01-16 17:47:12+00:00
Yeah, seeing how better and cheaper cameras are sold every day I thought that it might be plausible.. and then it apparently isn't.. yet. Maybe with a cheap telescope :)

A covert camera placed near the keyhole is probably a better solution anyway, because most people don't flash their keys when just walking on the street (maybe when unlocking a car, but with keyless that's becoming rare).
by footy | 2026-01-16 17:47:38+00:00
As a Torontonian that last part is honestly what I'm most excited about. Massive American cars simply do not belong in most of our streets in this city, and if this starts the long process of getting them out that's going to be amazing. I've seen Cybertrucks zooming down streets that are about a Cybertruck and a half wide and it's an untenable situation.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-16 17:48:10+00:00
Teach math and CS anyway.

It's better to learn commutativity with "integer" than with "simple groups". You hand needs to know how to do the operation to get intuition to understand what the computer is showing in the screen.

You can probably drop long division, like we dropped long square root a long time ago. They are nice algorithms, so it's nice to revisit them if he is interested when he is a grow up. (Even logarithm tables and slider rules are interesting, but not for everyday use.)

Long sum and long multiplication are too important, don't drop them, probably only for 3x3 digits. Left the 17x16 digits cse for the computer.

Approximation is super important but super hard. I've seen a few attempt to teach that to 7 y.o. kids, but I think in most cases small kids should learn exact calculation that are easier.
by thesh4d0w | 2026-01-16 17:48:14+00:00
25 years?! Hardly

https://www.brokerlink.ca/blog/how-long-do-cars-last-in-cana...

> In 2020, the Automotive Industries Association of Canada (AIA Canada) reported the average age of Canadian vehicles was 9.7 years, though many industry experts believe that number is closer to 10.5 years today.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-16 17:48:14+00:00
There's even talk in the PowerShell world about Invoke-Command directly accepting HTTPS URLs to scripts, but in addition to some security questions, it is caught in a catch-22 that not enough of these scripts are Signed so there's not enough demand for it, but if more tools like this were doing code signing there's a world where the code golfed instructions are just `icm https://yourdomain.com/some/script.ps1`, and it is more secure than these examples with (`&` or `iex`) and `iwr`.
by christalwang | 2026-01-16 17:48:45+00:00
I totally hear you that there are so many products in the market that only work for the person who designed them. We designed this with hundreds of beta users (I had 5-6 deep calls per day for at least a month) and it's based off of our learnings from our 50+ adhd coaches and thousands of adhd coaching clients as well. As we build this out more, we have deeper personalization of how the app works planned too, so hopefully we'll be able to serve (not all but) many ADHDers! I'm always curious about what people build on their own though, and what about Indy wasn't fit for them. This helps us figure out what adaptability to build going forward! But if you have a system that works well for you already, that's amazing!

And hear you on that copy! We tested it with our beta community and it was based off of thousands of ADHDers main sentiment & challenge. Here are the top ones if you're curious: “I’m stuck and something has to change”; “I don’t trust myself anymore”; “I want direction, not another to-do list”; “I want to work with my ADHD, not fight it”; we'll be continuing to test this as we talk to more users!
by kylecazar | 2026-01-16 17:49:00+00:00
Great for Astro..

About the download stats for open source frameworks and libraries.. I keep reading claims of "millions of weekly downloads" -- surely this is a noisy metric, right?

NPM just counts GET requests. A significant number of those must be from CI/CD pipelines, mirrors, build servers, etc.

It still signals popularity, but probably to a much lesser degree than implied.
by jsheard | 2026-01-16 17:49:01+00:00
I don't really see the value in ECH for self-hosted sites even with this change. It works for Cloudflare and similar because they have millions of unrelated domains behind their IP addresses, so connecting to their IPs reveals essentially nothing, but if your IP is only used for a handful of things then it's pretty obvious what's going on even if the SNI is obscured.
by kevincox | 2026-01-16 17:49:07+00:00
The short-lived requirement seems pretty reasonable for IP certs as IP addresses are often rented and may bounce between users quickly. For example if you buy a VM on a cloud provider, as soon as you release that VM or IP it may be given to another customer. Now you have a valid certificate for that IP.

6 days actually seems like a long time for this situation!
by bawolff | 2026-01-16 17:49:08+00:00
The reasoning is historical precedent. If something doesn't work out the first time you try it, why would you do it again.

We are talking about at least 10 pages worth of proposed reforms. Do you have a specific one you would like to discuss? I'm not particularly interested in writing a 10 page essay in an hn comment about why i think all the proposed reforms are stupid.
by majkinetor | 2026-01-16 17:49:24+00:00
Anybody with experience in using duckdb to quickly select page of filtered transactions from the single table having a couple of billions of records and let's say 30 columns where each can be filtered using simple WHERE clausule? Lets say 10 years of payment order data. I am wondering since this is not analytical scenario.

Doing that in postgres takes some time, and even simple count(*) takes a lot of time (with all columns indexed)
by buzer | 2026-01-16 17:49:25+00:00
As far as I understand you cannot use IP address as the outer certificate as per
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tls-esni-25.txt

> In verifying the client-facing server certificate, the client MUST interpret the public name as a DNS-based reference identity [RFC6125]. Clients that incorporate DNS names and IP addresses into the same syntax (e.g. Section 7.4 of [RFC3986] and [WHATWG-IPV4]) MUST reject names that would be interpreted as IPv4 addresses.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-16 17:49:52+00:00
I would argue that laws are “bad” if there’s no way to get a proper hearing when you’re accused of violating them. Laws should constrain both sides of the law (the person subject to them and the person enforcing them) otherwise they’re just arbitrary rules by the person with more power. And while that’s a perfectly valid way to run something, it’s dishonest to dress “arbitrary personal decisions” up in the trappings of law. And realistically that applies to all the things you listed, COC, NDA, TOS etc.

But if someone can just drag out a law and vaguely accuse someone else of violating that law and then enforce a punishment with no way for the accused to get a hearing or present their case and have a real chance to prevail, then yes I would say the law is bad.
by swores | 2026-01-16 17:50:21+00:00
Other than Americans wanting to feel superior (no offence intended, I'm sure most countries want to feel that when possible!) is there actually any public evidence that's the case?

Even when it comes to superiority of physical military forces, different people (with a range of different biases) have different opinions on stuff like whether a hot, all-out (but non-nuclear) war between USA and China would prove one or the other to be stronger, and while you may read that and think "I know which side is better and anyone who disagrees is just buying into delusional propaganda" at least to form that view you've had the ability to follow a lot of publicly available details on military developments over the years, learning about current and next gen fighter jets, drones, ships... etc.

But when it comes to cyber stuff, both offensive and defensive, it's generally a lot more secretive in terms of stuff that's actually been done (see for example the speculation in this thread that US power grid failures in recent years might have been caused by foreign adversaries - there's no evidence that's true, but if the US and China had both spent the last decade trying to take offline as many of the other country's power grids as possible we likely wouldn't have heard about it). Yet alone for hypothetical but saved for war capabilities. If a hot WW3 broke out tomorrow, who actually knows what hacking tools any country (from superpowers to smaller players) actually has, waiting to be used? Presumably they all spend a lot of effort trying to learn about each other's capabilities, and maybe they're successful enough that they actually do all know most of what everyone else can do - but they don't then announce that the way we hear about North Korea testing a new missile or about America developing a new fighter jet. I feel like we the general public just have no idea how advanced or not wartime capabilities might be. Am I wrong? (I may well be, as I'm in no way an expert in this field; I just believe that things like the document you linked are massively influenced by both the politics of the authors and the information available to them.)