MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bruce511 | 2026-01-20 05:14:22+00:00
Sure it can :).

Probably not 7 days a week, but a couple days a week, sure.

And of course not everyone. Maybe 10%?

Not that it matters. What do I care about the needs of some Texans? (I mean that non perjorativly). I mean just because ranchers still need horses doesn't mean the rest of us have to use them.

The world will go EV, even much of the US will go EV, regardless of what some folks need.
by ycombiredd | 2026-01-20 05:14:45+00:00
Yes. This type of behavior was what I was referring to in an earlier comment mentioning flashbacks to seeing logs from named filled with "cannot have cname and other data", and slapping my forehead asking "who keeps doing this?", in the days when editing files by hand was the norm. And then, of course having repeats of this feeling as tools were built, automations became increasingly common, and large service providers "standardized" interfaces (ostensibly to ensure correctness) allowing or even encouraging creation of bad zone configurations.

The more things change, the more things stay the same. :-)
by kelseydh | 2026-01-20 05:15:34+00:00
Disturbance storm time index (DST) is a better measure of peak intensity as KP is just a weighted average of the intensity from the last three hours across monitoring stations.

The May 2024 G5 electrical storm had a peak measured DST of −412 nT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms

The Carrington Event had an estimated peak DST of −800 nT to −1750 nT, but no one really knows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
by strogonoff | 2026-01-20 05:15:49+00:00
It is unfortunate that you cannot simply move a block of HTML elsewhere where the context is otherwise perfectly suitable but expected heading level is different[0].

Section-relative headings were briefly part of the spec but quickly got removed. As it stands, I would not consider any block of HTML with an <hX> element portable.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2026-01-20 05:16:31+00:00
Not having standing armies also creates structural problems (mostly getting invaded). There are only 21 countries without a standing army, and they're almost all micronations with <200k population (mostly tiny islands). Iceland is the only one of them with a GDP per capita worth mentioning, but it's also part of Nato, the largest military alliance in the world.
by chrisco255 | 2026-01-20 05:16:51+00:00
How is that instructive? The British empire was mostly gone by the 1950s and a hell of a lot happened after that. It would be more instructive to look at Britain just before WW1 compared to the other countries.

At their peak, virtually all of the aforementioned empires brought enormous wealth to the homeland. It might not be profitable in the long run, but the long run can mean centuries before it becomes a net negative.

Also, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark were part of a Danish empire at one point.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-20 05:17:25+00:00
> If someone’s opinion is that not all human lives have equal value, then yes it does make them awful.

FWIW, it’s a little more nuanced.

Do all human lives have equal intrinsic moral worth? Many, though not all ethical systems say yes. I think this is the case you’re thinking of.

Are all lives valued equally in decisions, emotions, or outcomes?

If all lives are truly equal, how do we justify medical triage? War? Immigration limits? Prioritizing children over the elderly? Choosing to save your family over strangers?

If lives are not equal, on what basis do we rank them without sliding into cruelty or abuse?

There’s no fully stable resolution to this tension and every society lives with it.
by xelxebar | 2026-01-20 05:19:50+00:00
> This is by design. ... The federal government was never intended to lord over everyone's lives.

So behavior of the system fails to meet its design goals? It honestly sounds like you kind of agree with the excerpt you quote.

> The expansion of the federal government ... [is] what needs to change

What are you proposing though? Even assuming the premise here, achieving said goals requires changes to lots of little details and incentives. It's not like there's a single potentiometer controlling Gov't Size™. So what are you actually suggesting?

Certainly, the details of fundamental electoral structure engage deeply with the operation of our government, and the legal scholars in the article seem to be honestly pointing out levers (and big ones at that) we could possibly pull to create a less expansive federal government, or whatever the goal may be.

Imagine a plane crashes and analysts start attempting a root cause analysis, discussing control system specifics and whatnot. To me, your stance reads like "This is by design. Plane parts are united but independent. Control systems were never intended to lord over every part of the plane. The expansion of control systems is what needs to change."

I mean... maybe? But even if we agree on that point, any random contraction of the control system seems unlikely to make a plane that flies better. We have to actually engage with the details of what's going on here.
by tisdadd | 2026-01-20 05:20:20+00:00
I haven't played with the Shadow Dom since Polymer one, but we had defaults and variables to address this that worked amazingly, and helped standardize it with other teams far better than other css things we had done at the time. It looks like that is still a thing - https://shadow-style.github.io/ - without which people injected things through the CMS that were not fun to deal with.
What's biggest mistake companies make when trying to implement Generative AI?
by datacouch | 2026-01-20 05:20:41+00:00
The biggest mistake is piloting AI in isolation without parallel human upskilling. Companies focus on tech but neglect training teams to use it contextually, causing projects to fail.

Avoid it by pairing every AI implementation with intensive, role-specific training. Transform your people and processes together. This dual strategy bridges the execution gap and delivers real outcomes.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-20 05:21:00+00:00
https://archive.today/zpTNQ

Related:

https://x.com/BirthGauge/status/2013145955395080332 | https://archive.today/swHrT

> The number of births in China collapsed to 7.92 million in 2025, a decline of 17% compared to 2024 (similar declines were reported by Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao).

> The TFR [total fertility rate] declined to 0.93 children per woman. (1.10 in 2024).

(China 2025 TFR)
by SllX | 2026-01-20 05:21:07+00:00
Windows & Devices is still a $14ish Billion/year or so business for Microsoft. I know that doesn’t seem like a lot, but that’s a lot of money they’re apparently not making which would make their most recent 10K filing with the SEC a lie. It’s apparently enough money they’re not making that they keep screwing with Windows in unproductive ways that make their Windows customers resent them every time they release an update.
by nubinetwork | 2026-01-20 05:22:24+00:00
Total pool size and speed. Less data scrubs faster, as do faster disks or disk topology (a 3 way stripe of nvme will scrub faster than a single sata ssd)

For what its worth, I scrub daily mostly because I can. It's completely overkill, but if it only takes half an hour, then it can run in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping.
by MarioMan | 2026-01-20 05:24:13+00:00
>Car prices have increased well above the rate of inflation over the last decade

This is a fair concern, but also, looking at the rise of average car prices is like looking at the rise of average iPhone prices. That is to say, cars (and iPhones) are providing increasingly premium offerings that didn’t exist decades ago. If you look at the entry levels of both these things, you find that the bottom-line price broadly keeps pace with inflation. And for cars, that’s with the addition of now-standard safety and convenience features. When you match cars feature-for-feature (an unrealistic comparison, as there aren’t really bare-bones cars on offer anymore), you’d see that cars are increasing in price much more slowly than inflation, and in other words, are effectively cheaper. Ultimately, whether car prices are rising or falling depends a lot on how you calculate things.

I’ll also add that EV pricing doesn’t have to mean insane car costs. The US market has the Chevy Bolt and Nissan Leaf each selling for about $30k new and can be readily bought for half that with used inventory.
by pear01 | 2026-01-20 05:24:22+00:00
True enough but really this boils down to we are just doing what they are doing. The reason they had it higher for longer was because for longer the situation was reversed, our cars were better. Now they have surpassed us and don't really need protection. We didn't before either, so it was a moot point. Now we do, so we do the same thing.

The point however is that the United States is supposed to operate under a different model than China. The reason to bring up the ways we act the same is then to find clarity in the contradiction.

This is essentially the same tension that runs through much of modern American discourse. It's never welfare if the beneficiary is a rich CEO at a corporation, only if it's a family in poverty. It's not like Chinese cars can't employ American workers just as Japanese and other foreign automakers do.

To my mind then, I think it's less about reciprocity and more about corporate welfare. Putting aside ICE automakers, there is also a very obvious individual who turned conspicuously political as of late who owes a great deal of his fortune to the expectation that his electric car company will one day rule the world. It would be quite embarrassing for even him if demand for his vehicles suddenly got demolished on his own turf. I would think he and others would be willing to spend a small fortune to keep the political needle tipped in their favor on this issue, the average consumer be damned.

At some level there is nothing wrong with such naked self interest. I just prefer we be honest about it, as only then can we really analyze it.
by anonfornoreason | 2026-01-20 05:24:26+00:00
I always loved BMWs from the 80s and 90s, but settled on Volkswagens because I was just a poor teen or early 20 year old. Finally got the means to buy a top of the line X7, and have regretted the purchase for may of the reasons you listed.

The software is garbage, the car is too fancy (electric folding seats) but poorly implemented so it’s just frustrating. Total nanny car, can’t turn off backup beeping alerts. Rear row of seats randomly go to full hot on the climate system.

New battery is $700. Can only use a BMW battery installed by a BMW technician with computer access (they are coded and only a tech with the keys can pair the new battery to your car).

Should have just bought a damned minivan, but the wife likes it and doesn’t want to get rid of it.

The enthusiasts car company is no more.
by jbullock35 | 2026-01-20 05:24:40+00:00
From the article:

> A new preprint reports that in nearly one third of studies on social media appearing in major interdisciplinary journals, the authors have ties to industry that should be disclosed but aren’t. Some received funding from a social media company; others previously co-authored work with industry employees.

Note that last part. It makes this effort seem silly: there's no conflict of interest just because one of your past co-authors at one time worked for someone in the industry.
by deaux | 2026-01-20 05:25:33+00:00
Correct, this is meaningless. It's purely to provide a facade for companies and countries who are still fully in bed with US big tech, so they have something to point at and can delay the inevitable for longer.

Another goal with this is to muddy the waters on the word "sovereign" in relation to tech e.g. "cloud". This is a big reason why they've chosen this exact name. Now every discussion regarding it is more prone to devolve into "but what does it really mean!? Amazon has a 'sovereign cloud'!!". Taking time away from discussing the core and actual sovereign cloud.

It's the umpteenth despicable play by US big tech. It doesn't matter what guarantees they give, the US is in charge of anything remotely related to Amazon, even if they set up "independent subsidiaries", do everything through "local partners" and what not.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-20 05:25:57+00:00
No. I would probably do something like: Have Claude Code replicate + triage everything. If a report gets triaged as "won't fix", send an email to the reporter explaining what Claude found and why it was marked as "won't fix". Tell the reporter they still have a chance at the bounty if they think Claude made a mistake, but they have to pay a $10 review fee to have a human take a look. (Or a $1 LLM token fee for Claude to take another look, in case of simple confabulation.)

Note I haven't actually tried Claude Code (not coding due to chronic illness), so I'm mostly extrapolating based on HN discussion etc.
by coffeemug | 2026-01-20 05:28:06+00:00
What is the evidence that America is falling apart? From all my reading of American history, America has _always_ been this way. With a wide lens it appears as healthy as it's ever been. This is a genuine question-- I've read a lot of American history, but I'm still a dilettante. It's extremely difficult to tell if there are genuinely new conditions, or if we're engaging in a vigorous political process as we always did.
by LeFantome | 2026-01-20 05:28:08+00:00
While your points are fair, whoever told you those system were “nearly desktop performance” was lying.

That said, this is the year.

The Tenstorrent Ascalon is supposed to be as fast as AMD Ryzen 5 (according to the guy who created that Architecture at AMD). It is aimed at servers initially but they say they will release their own silicon sometime in the first half of this year. Even if that is optimistic, sometime this year seems likely. They released the licensable IP last year.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3rtN8TTGf4&pp=0gcJCTIBo7VqN5t...
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-20 05:28:32+00:00
The cost of a scrub is just a flurry of disk reads and a reduction in performance during a scrub.

If this cost is affordable on a daily basis, then do a scrub daily. If it's only affordable less often, then do it less often.

(Whatever the case: It's not like a scrub causes any harm to the hardware or the data. It can run as frequently as you elect to tolerate.)
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-20 05:29:20+00:00
> We killed millions over the ability to own humans because the north viewed it as a religious duty to do so.

No, we didn’t, because if that was the reason the fight, it would have happened before the South, fearing the long-term prospects for the institution of slavery, not only seceded to protect it, but also preemptively attacked federal installations.
by mieses | 2026-01-20 05:29:30+00:00
why flagged? is this site politically to the right of the theverge.com?

most of the comments are dodging the point of the article and looking for unrelated strawmen to attack. ok, maybe the site has cookies. who cares? the issue is the phone not the marketing site. so that is a weak point.

overall the idea sounds good. but is Jolla open source? Can we compile it and run it on the phone?
by compounding_it | 2026-01-20 05:30:16+00:00
I quit (deleted accounts) all social media 5 years ago (before reels and short form media entered) and LinkedIn a year ago. This whole 'there is value in comments and DMs and connections for jobs' is the hook basically. I considered whether it was worth it. The answer for probably most people is 'No'.

Here is something I noticed: More present in the real world (no more head buried in the phone, neck feels better too). Less social comparisons (the worst part of social media that people don't understand). Depression and anxiety got better. Believe it or not but my quality of social interactions vastly improved after quitting social media. I also no longer take my phone out for pictures unnecessarily. There is no platform to show or compare or share. So I just take pictures for myself when I want to remember something and live the experience for just me. This is not selfish, this is just how reality is. But given that I am more present, I actually engage in the world and remember things as they are cause I am not distracted. I am mindful.

I have been an advocate for a while that social media is a really bad thing. My entire family is so addicted to all this. Mindfulness is the most important part. People are subconsciously comparing their lives to this world and it's driving their decision. Children are sitting with phones scrolling. I really find it concerning that people don't see this as a serious problem.

Get rid of it and don't think twice. The people really important and close to you will either call you or meet you for a meal. Everyone else was probably just a casual connection.
by Nursie | 2026-01-20 05:31:40+00:00
> not a democracy

Democracy comes in many flavours and it's very hard to see the US federal system as outside of that when it is composed of elected representatives.

It's not a direct democracy, it's not a democracy where each vote counts the same, but it certainly falls within the very wide definition of democracy -

"a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."
by toast0 | 2026-01-20 05:31:46+00:00
Once a month seems like a reasonable rule of thumb.

But you're balancing the cost of the scrub vs the benefit of learning about a problem as soon as possible.

A scrub does a lot of I/O and a fair amount of computing. The scrub load competes with your application load and depending on the size of your disk(s) and their read bandwidth, it may take quite some time to do the scrub. There's even maybe some potential that the read load could push a weak drive over the edge to failure.

On my personal servers, application load is nearly meaningless, so I do an about monthly scrub from cron which I think will only scrub one zpool at a time per machine, which seems reasonable enough to me. I run relatively large spinning disks, so if I scrubbed on a daily basis, the drives would spend most of the day scrubbing and that doesn't seem reasonable. I haven't run ZFS in a work environment... I'd have to really consider how the read load impacted the production load and if scrubbing with limits to reduce production impact would complete in a reasonable amount of time... I've run some systems that are essentially alwayd busy and if a scrub would take several months, I'd probably only scrub when other systems indicate a problem and I can take the machine out of rotation to examine it.

If I had very high reliability needs or a long time to get replacement drives, I might scrub more often?

If I was worried about power consumption, I might scrub less often (and also let my servers and drives go into standby). The article's recommendation to scan at least once every 4 months seems pretty reasonable, although if you have seriously offline disks, maybe once a year is more approachable. I don't think I'd push beyond that, lots of things don't like to sit for a year and then turn on correctly.
by ragall | 2026-01-20 05:32:05+00:00
I agree that something like that is very unlikely in the US, which is why so many people in this thread (I presume Americans) were incredulous as to whether they that was possible, but elsewhere in Western Europe good software and electronic/electrical engineers can be making very good money for the local standards in stable jobs, which is at the same time being paid a lot less than they would be in a similar job in in of the US major tech hubs.
by rangestransform | 2026-01-20 05:32:54+00:00
Social welfare needs to be handled at the same level that mobility exists, because otherwise all destitute people will bumrush the nearest jurisdiction that is giving out generous welfare benefits. The issue is most often seen at the city level (e.g. Bellevue “encouraging” homeless to go to Seattle), but more generous policies like housing-first will need to be federally administered to prevent the most generous states from getting bumrushed.
by xelxebar | 2026-01-20 05:33:08+00:00
Googol, googolplex, Graham's number, Ackermann's function, TREE, BB, Rayo's number ... For some reason big numbers seem to tickle some childlike fascination in me.

I randomly stumbled across this series that incrementally walks through the construction of truly gargantuan (computable) numbers. The fact that this touches on deep areas of math feels unexpected and fascinating.

Just wanted to share.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-20 05:35:06+00:00
BTW regarding "suggested fixes", an interesting attack would be to report a bug along with a prompt injection which will cause Claude to suggest inserting a vulnerability in the codebase in question. So, it's important to review bug-report-originated Claude suggestions extra carefully. (And watch for prompt injection attacks.)

Another thought is the reproducible builds become more valuable than ever, because it actually becomes feasible for lots and lots of devs to scan the entire codebase for vulns using an LLM and then verify reproducibility.
by swyx | 2026-01-20 05:36:40+00:00
official announcement here: https://x.com/XEng/status/2013471689087086804

looks like this is the "for you" feed, once again shared without weights so we only have so much visibility into the actual influence of each trait.

"We have eliminated every single hand-engineered feature and most heuristics from the system. The Grok-based transformer does all the heavy lifting by understanding your engagement history (what you liked, replied to, shared, etc.) and using that to determine what content is relevant to you." aka it's a black box now.

the README is actually pretty nice, would recommend reading this.

sharing additonal notes while diving through the source: https://deepwiki.com/xai-org/x-algorithm

and a codemap of the signal generation pipeline: https://deepwiki.com/search/make-a-map-of-all-the-signals_3d...

- Phoenix (out of network) ranker seems to have all the interesting predictive ML work. it estimates P(favorite), P(reply), P(repost), P(quote), P(click), P(video_view), P(share), P(follow_author), P(not_interested), P(block_author), P(mute_author), P(report) independently and then the `WeightedScorer` combines them using configurable weights.

- Two-Tower retrieval uses dot product similarity between user features/engagement (User Tower) and normalized embeddings for all items (Candidate Tower).

- Grok-1 JAX transformer (https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/phoenix/REA...) uses special attention masking that prevents candidates from attending to each other during inference. Each candidate only attends to the user context (engagement history). This ensures a candidate's score is independent of which other candidates are in the batch, enabling score consistency and caching. nice image here https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/phoenix/REA...

- kind of nice usage of Rust traits to create a type safe data pipeline. look at this beautiful flow chart https://deepwiki.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/3-candidate-pipelin... and the "Field Ownership pattern" https://deepwiki.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/3.6-scorer-trait#fi...

open questions from me

- how large is the production reranker? default param count is here https://deepwiki.com/search/how-many-params-is-the-transfo_c... but that gives no indication
by FreakLegion | 2026-01-20 05:37:41+00:00
Unions don't inherently prevent you from negotiating your own terms, keep talented people from raising to new levels, or prevent the removal of people who should have been fired long ago. There are some unions that have these problems, yes, but then there are others that don't. The big Hollywood unions (SAG, DGA, WGA, etc.) are examples of the latter.