MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-20 23:59:27+00:00
>the Chinese will seek something in return. They're not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

of course they aren't but it's also obvious what they want. Design a new global order where they have a seat at the table and get to determine standards, processes and technologies. That's the point of investing in telecommunications, cars, and so on. But what they don't want is annex European territory.

China is still ambitious enough to imagine itself as creating new international orders rather than just creating disorder, and so they'll likely make for a better partner for any civilized country than powers that descend into 19th century colonial neo-imperialism run by people who may as well come straight out of the Warhammer universe.
by gruez | 2026-01-20 23:59:44+00:00
You're right, but in this case I think some narrative liberty was justified, especially since Valve basically delegated triaging bug reports to HackerOne, but this relationship might not be immediately obvious to some readers. Suppose a nightclub contracts its bouncers from some security security firm. You get kicked out by the contract security guard. I think most people would think it's fair to characterize this situation as "the nightclub kicked me out" on a review or whatever.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2026-01-20 23:59:46+00:00
Probably not needed.

The computation of the code is not computationally expensive (human computation is a requirement) so no real impact on server having to perform the full computation.

I guess if implemented client side it might provide a sanity check for the user before submitting, but it's more work for the human and they are almost as likely to get the checksum calculation wrong as any other part of it.

So I would probably remove it.
by lossyalgo | 2026-01-21 00:00:20+00:00
Yeah but OpenAI is adding ads this year for the free versions, which I'm guessing is most of their users. They are probably hedging on taking a big slice of Google's advertising monopoly-pie (which is why Google is also now all-in on forcing Gemini opt-out on every product they own, they can see the writing on the wall).
by _heimdall | 2026-01-21 00:01:04+00:00
I don't doubt that the programs are helpful, but how does that equate to evidence?

Creating a campaign doesn't prove in anyway the specific problems caused by gambling, especially at the societal level. It only shows that there is a group willing to fund programs against gambling addictions.

In no way am I questioning the intent or value of such programs, I hope it doesn't read that way. It just isn't necessarily relevant with regards to evidence.
by krisoft | 2026-01-21 00:01:06+00:00
> Just, stop.

Why do you mind what others do?

> A leading zero does not unambiguously say "there are no implied nonzero digits to the left of this zero".

Nor does it anywhere say that it means that or that it should mean that. To me the the leading zero in front of 1931 means “Do you think a thousand year is long? Think on a longer scale.” It is a vibe.

> Or is that the usual truncation of 101931, since most relevant dates are in this decamillennium?

The sentients of 101931 won’t be confused because they will know that 01931 refers to our time. Simply from all the context clues acrued. Such as the fact that the document was written in HTML (an archaic markup format rarely used past 8470 as any historicaly inclined sentient of that age would know) and found saved on an SD—card in the backpack of an astronaut who crash landed on the far side of the moon in 2457. Same as you don’t get confused about which milenia a roman public inscription unearthed in Pompei refers to.
by Aloisius | 2026-01-21 00:01:27+00:00
> Leading zeros don't do what you think they do

It's has been pretty normal for clocks with digital displays to include leading zeros for seconds, minutes, hours and/or days for about a century. Doing the same for years, while unusual, doesn't seem particularly confusing. And of course, there is precedent with things like ISO86011 - where 0400 is the year 400 CE.

I'm not sure why one would assume it was a truncation of 101931. That doesn't really make much sense. The first decamillennium digit started at 0, just like the first millennium digit started at 0. 101931 would be 99,905 years in the future.

> how people say 03 when they mean 2003

Making people think beyond that form of casual shorthand (even omitting the apostrophe which would indicate the omission!) is sort of the point? Never mind that 03 doesn't necessarily mean 2003.
by scottyah | 2026-01-21 00:01:49+00:00
Bikes and cars can easily coexist on streets, and if the street is too big/busy I bet there's a parallel side road that is much better. If you are too lazy to walk to your nearest grocer, ride a bike.

It is true that some sacrifices and brief periods of discomfort must be made if you care for the environment, this is nothing new and generally accepted.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-21 00:02:26+00:00
I have never seen any of this in real life.

However, all of this is in the RCS spec. If Apple implements the RCS spec beyond the bare basics, all of this should Just Work.

RCS is much more than just "SMS but via weird HTTP" and things like chatbots and interactive components were one of the selling points towards ISPs to bother supporting it.

Unfortunately, nobody seems to bother dealing with the standard. Now Google is at it again, selling "RCS for business" when the RCS standard itself is supposed to be used in a federated, carrier-to-carrier fashion just like SMS.
by hamstergene | 2026-01-21 00:02:29+00:00
Imagine being a person like me who has always been expressing himself like that. Using em dash, too.

LLMs didn’t randomly invent their own unique style, they learned it from books. This is just how people write when they get slightly more literate than nowadays texting-era kids.

And these suspicions are in vain even if happen to be right this one time. LLMs are champions of copying styles, there is no problem asking one to slap Gen Z slang all over and finish the post with the phrase “I literally can’t! <sad-smiley>”. “Detecting LLMs” doesn’t get you ahead of LLMs, it only gets you ahead of the person using them. Why not appreciate example of concise and on-point self-expression and focus on usefulness of content?
by tombert | 2026-01-21 00:03:10+00:00
Ever since Lowtax killed himself and I felt a lot of undeserved guilt over it [1] [2] I have developed a sort of "savior complex".

I always liked being helpful, but at this point I've sort of become "aggressively helpful", which ironically probably isn't helping. I feel a constant need to take care of people and help people, and I think it's in no small part because a tiny part of me is afraid they're going to do something horrible to themselves, or they're going to make some decision that I think is "wrong".

It's more than a little frustrating, because at some level I'm aware I'm doing it, and of course I have to ask myself "who made me the 'correct' decision-maker?", but I also can't really stop myself from doing it either, and at a certain level I'm considerably more willing to help other people than myself because I'm ultimately a coward and I'm really afraid of guilt. Many people have told me that it's not my job to assume responsibility for everyone, and they're objectively correct about this, but human psychology is stupid. Or at least mine is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29185822

[2] https://blog.tombert.com/Posts/Personal/July-2023/Guilt-and-...
by araes | 2026-01-21 00:03:29+00:00
Tax collector avoidance is actually a pretty excellent alternative proposal. From searching, it looks like a lot of the taxes were on stuff that was difficult to hide, like farm animals owned, and houses / farmland.

However, this site [1] shows several categories for taxation that might be hidden to falsify the taxation basis. Cash, Inventories, Household Goods, Luxury Clothing. Admittedly, it seems like there would be a greater percentage of items left behind in some of these locations, since there often tend to be something. Yet, for taxation avoidance purposes, maybe they're very motivated to recollect everything that was hidden.

[1] https://ehs.org.uk/taxation-and-wealth-inequality-in-the-ger...
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-21 00:03:45+00:00
While not common, regulations requiring a hard delete do exist in some fields even in the US. The ones I familiar with are effectively "anti-retention" laws that mandate data must be removed from the system after some specified period of time e.g. all data in the system is deleted no more than 90 days after insertion. This allows compliance to be automated.

The data subject to the regulation had a high potential for abuse. Automated anti-retention limits the risk and potential damage.
by holoduke | 2026-01-21 00:04:23+00:00
I wanted to vibe code an app in an evening with some friends including setting up coolify for production and testing environments. Ended up with giving Claude root access to a cluster of servers. Vibe coded the entire application with 3 people. Did not touch a line of code. The only shell command given was claude. It spend couple hours to self configure the system. Result was remarkable good. Amazing how far we are already in the ai race.
by cyberax | 2026-01-21 00:04:33+00:00
Soft deletes + GC for the win!

We have an offline-first infrastructure that replicates the state to possibly offline clients. Hard deletes were causing a lot of fun issues with conflicts, where a client could "resurrect" a deleted object. Or deletion might succeed locally but fail later because somebody added a dependent object. There are ways around that, of course, but why bother?

Soft deletes can be handled just like any regular update. Then we just periodically run a garbage collector to hard-delete objects after some time.
by ccgibson | 2026-01-21 00:04:53+00:00
To add a bit more to what @scottcha is saying: overall GPU load has a fairly significant impact on the energy per result. Energy per result is inversely related, since the idle TDP of these servers is significant the more the energy gets spread the more efficient the system becomes. I imagine Anthropic is able to harness that efficiency since I imagine their servers are far from idle :)
by x0x0 | 2026-01-21 00:04:54+00:00
What I think this is: as a reward to themselves for not stopping the tidal wave of fraud and phishing distributed via sms, they're going to charge businesses to message you in verifiable manner. So when your bank, ups/fedex for package delivery, walgreens/cvs for prescriptions, etc want to contact you google is going to charge.

As a reward for helping make sms untrustworthy, they're going to tax trustworthy communications.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-21 00:04:59+00:00
Overall some great points here, but some don't make sense.

> The real problem is that Russia wants a warm water port on the Black Sea

Russia already had several other ports on the Black Sea, so it's not clear to me why they'd need to invade Ukrainian territory to get one extra.

> Germany would always veto Ukraine's membership because they don't want NATO on Russia's borders.

They've already voted three other Russia-bordering countries into NATO. They were practically falling over themselves to add Finland (along with Sweden)[1]

> The process in the Bundestag was "extremely fast," DW's political correspondent Nina Haase said.

> Haase said, citing unnamed sources, that Germany had intended to become the first country to ratify the accession, but other countries were faster. "But nevertheless, the signal remains the same... [Germany] is firmly behind the idea of Finland and Sweden joining NATO," she added.

You make the point that the US is insecure about any other system being successful, I think there's a case to be made that Russia similarly couldn't tolerate a prosperous democratic Ukraine sitting right next door and embarrassing them. You could also argue that, materially, Ukraine has natural resources that Russia just wants to steal.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-approves-finland-and-sweden-na...
by yibg | 2026-01-21 00:05:27+00:00
I feel a bit conflicted on this.

On the one hand I do want someone (or a group of someones) to stick it to the US and "teach it a lesson". I see the US as a bully, and I want to see the bully get punched in the nose.

On the other, I don't wish harm to the US (mostly the people). Also because the US backed against a corner can have potentially devastating consequences for the rest of the world.
by nixosbestos | 2026-01-21 00:05:31+00:00
remember when you agreed with me that it was maybe regretable that the Favorites space was removed in favor of a process that required multiple clicks? and now it's months later and Element still has this redesign shipped, with every single one of the original flaws mentioned, still present.

I think Matrix has a lot of smart people involved, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but dear god, are you hiring for a TPM, by chance?

Every, single, time I have to go "Home" -> "Expand" -> "Favorites" to do what used to take one click, I lose a bit more faith in Element/Matrix.

Though, y'all did finally fix the notification sound that made me want to kill myself every single time it violated my ear drums. Only took.... 4 years? for that?
by gyomu | 2026-01-21 00:05:39+00:00
> Oddly only the French did understand the sentiment

French culture is a rare culture where shop owners won't be afraid to tell off/talk back at customers that don't show a basic level of politeness. You, as a customer, are in the shopkeeper's "home", so to speak, and you should behave accordingly. Someone who doesn't use the customary "bonjour/merci/au revoir" is likely to be met with some response like "tout d'abord, bonjour" ("first of all, hello"), or "et la politesse, alors?" ("what about politeness?").

(of course, people from older generations would be likely to say that these things are going away)

I'm French/American, raised across both countries, and even as a kid it shocked me that a customer in the US could get away with "I'll have a coke" as their only utterance to a waiter - no hello, please, thank you.

I suspect this is why the French have a reputation for rudeness. It's easy to understand why tourists from cultures where "the customer is king" would be shocked when they get told off for being loud/rude/inconsiderate.

(I've lived in Japan for a few years now, and ironically enough, I find Japanese customer service culture to be closer to that of the US than France - the customer is king, and while thankfully not too common, some Japanese customers will definitely abuse that dynamic. There's been a growing awareness and pushback on カスハラ, but it's a real thing, and is very cringe to witness)
by nospice | 2026-01-21 00:05:42+00:00
I'm not sure I like this method of accounting for it. The critics of LLMs tend to conflate the costs of training LLMs with the cost of generation. But this makes the opposite error: it pretends that training isn't happening as a consequence of consumer demand. There are enormous resources poured into it on an ongoing basis, so it feels like it needs to be amortized on top of the per-token generation costs.

At some point, we might end up in a steady state where the models are as good as they can be and the training arms race is over, but we're not there yet.
by unethical_ban | 2026-01-21 00:05:59+00:00
No, I don't unfortunately.

https://fairvote.org has info on Ranked Choice Voting. It is, to me, the single most bang-for-buck reform we should have in government.

A voting system where voters give preferences to multiple candidates on a ballot takes away the "spoiler effect", where a candidate too similar to the two main candidates will split the vote.

We need a freer market of political parties for a number of reasons. People need to feel like political change is possible. The two main parties need more pressure to evolve or die within their section of the political spectrum. Allowing more political parties to exist allows splinter parties to have a chance. Imagine a "sane Republican" party, or a progressive party, or some hybrid-centrist party that likes unions and public education but doesn't like massive social services, and so on.

MAGA would be polling at 15% or less, I think.

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SCOTUS term limits is just an idea I heard once. Most other democracies have it in place.

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I am skeptical of the Senate's utility in a modern federal government - the difference between the population of Virginia and Rhode Island was far less extreme than the difference between California and Wyoming today. The electoral inequality is too much.

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Electoral college has to go for obvious reasons, as does gerrymandering.

Maybe I should blog about it.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-21 00:06:27+00:00
Basically what he just said, last week I put in a ton of time researching and came to the same exact conclusion.

But of course, you read that. So, I’ll take a hack at guessing what’s on your mind past that.

I bet it won’t be much more expensive than the LG list price, $2000. LG seems hellbent on making margins on this panel in their 1st party monitor. Ex. You can get the same panel but better quality in Asus Proart for $1300.

The key thing to watch here is, is Apple’s also 6K? If so, are they getting better panels than LG gives itself or Asus? (likely)

Regardless, it’s a shitshow with this panel, I’d rather get a used UltraFine 5K than get one of LGs. I’d try Asus if it was easy for me to return. Only new option that’s better than a 10 year old UltraFine 5K with my fellow HiDPI nerds is…the $6K XDR display :/

(n.b. I’m not being precious either, this an extremely painful conclusion I have every incentive to avoid, tl;dr I abandoned an UltraFine 5K to the trash heap because I didn’t have time to figure out how to move it 3,000 miles and assumed _surely_ there was a good option between 24-32” in hidpi…)
by makeitdouble | 2026-01-21 00:06:38+00:00
> the port arrangement on the back looks atrocious - ports at different heights (there are four types of ports, and all of them are at a different z-height), some sunk into the surface with a counterbore, others protruding with an extra plastic jacket (screaming "these are all unmatched connectors out of the inventory").

- DP: it's the one protuding, and I applaud them. Most DP plugs need to be squized, and having an extra few mm to depress the bit sounds comfortable.

- HDMI: it's flushed, and I applaud them. HDMI cables came in a lot of end sizes, some thin some bulky, I'd hate to be stuck with a cable that doesn't fit because they wanted the hole to be recessed.

- USB-C: they're all recessed. I wouldn't have minded them to be flushed, but then it's easier to tell from touch where's the USB hole is. USB are the ones that will be plugged/unplugged the most, it's kinda nice they're clearly differentiated.

- the last hole is for power ? It will be permanently plugged so I'm not sure it even matters.

Reading your comment I was expecting some really bad decisions, and instead ended up agreeing with every single choices. My only surprise is no USB-A.

It reminded me of the Apple philosophy of minimalism and uniformity for the sake of it. I want my devices to be usable and well designed, especially the back panel of a monitor where most people will be trying to plug/ilunplug stuff blind.
by krapp | 2026-01-21 00:06:45+00:00
LLM generated comments aren't allowed on HN[0]. Period.

If any of the other instances whereby HN users have quoted the guidelines or tone policed each other are allowed then calling out generated content should be allowed.

It's constructive to do so because there is obvious and constant pressure to normalize the use of LLM generated content on this forum as there is everywhere else in our society. For all its faults and to its credit Hacker News is and should remain a place where human beings talk to other human beings. If we don't push back against this then HN will become nothing but bots posting and talking to other bots.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654
by epolanski | 2026-01-21 00:07:12+00:00
The number of people defending prediction markets here is mind boggling.

Any moderately intelligent people should realize why insider trading, banning athletes from betting, etc measures have been put in place. One should understand why without those (and even with) those there's perverse incentives to act in destructive ways.

Yet people here would be trying to discuss philosophy, semantics and tell you this is good because an insider betting on an attack on Venezuela 4 hours before it happened increases the accuracy of the prediction and the information being public, ignoring the elephant in the room of having the perverse incentives to influence destructive events. Just think about it: there might be people with incentives of attacking Greenland because they bet on it. This is madness.

This is the worst degeneracy of gambling and dangerous incentives combined, and it's all for nothing else but money. Just look at whose behind these projects: bs crypto adjacent fintechs and gambling companies.

I know we live in numb times where people have thrown in the towel of any hope for a better world, but ffs.
by munksbeer | 2026-01-21 00:07:51+00:00
Why would I need to respond to a random reddit thread and few figures you throw around?

You're wanting to overturn the widely held orthodox view that pax americana worked as intended. I'm sure there is an enormous amount of literature about that you could read. I don't think the onus is on me to come up with proof that you're wrong and the orthodox view is in fact, correct.
by kyboren | 2026-01-21 00:08:45+00:00
Oh, right. I forgot that European states have no agency or responsibility and are innocent victims of big bad America. Mea culpa.

I wrote "Western" rather than "European" specifically because I believe American weakness has played a role, too. But would it really make it better if Russia invaded Europe solely because of American weakness? That European states are so weak and helpless that they hardly even factor into Putin's calculus?
by trollbridge | 2026-01-21 00:08:50+00:00
"Unlike the bars or nightclubs many tourists may imagine, snack bars are warm, home-like places," said Mayuko Igarashi, president and director of Snack Yokocho Culture Inc, which has been offering tours of snack bars across Japan for travellers since 2021. "The 'mama'… welcomes guests with a sense of personal care."

“We found this really unique thing to serve local people, so now we’re going to exploit it with an endless stream of tourists.”
by gruez | 2026-01-21 00:09:04+00:00
>Counterproposal: Let's update HN's guidelines to ban blatant misinformation generated by a narrative storyteller spambot.

This will inevitably get abused to shut down dissent. When there's something people vehemently disagree with, detractors come out of the woodwork to nitpick every single flaw. Find one inconsistency in a blog post about Gaza/ICE/covid? Well all you need to do is also find a LLM tell, like "it's not x, it's y", or an out of place emoji and you can invoke the "misinformation generated by a narrative storyteller spambot" excuse. It's like the fishing expedition for Lisa Cook, but for HN posts.
by 3rodents | 2026-01-21 00:09:10+00:00
Soft deletes are an example of where engineers unintentionally lead product instead of product leading engineering. Soft delete isn’t language used by users so it should not be used by engineers when making product facing decisions.

“Delete” “archive” “hide” are the type of actions a user typically wants, each with their own semantics specific to the product. A flag on the row, a separate table, deleting a row, these are all implementation options that should be led by the product.
by glial | 2026-01-21 00:09:12+00:00
> lacking many core values to guide them

This is a fundamental problem and one reason we're mired in this culture war. Social friction is caused by jostling based on group membership, and there's no common values-based scaffolding we can use to collaborate in building a better way.

I used to scoff when told to say the pledge of allegiance as a young person. Now, the closing words "liberty and justice for all" sound quite aspirational.