MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-18 21:19:12+00:00
Right. But that's where tight feedback loop comes into place. New AI developments enable that in at least two ways: offloading busywork and necessary but straightforward work (LLMs can already write and iterate orders of magnitude faster than people), and having a multi-domain expert on call to lean on.

The thing about important details is that what ultimately matters is getting them right eventually, not necessarily the first time around. The real cost limiting creative and engineering efforts isn't the one of making a bad choice, but that of undoing it. In software development, AI makes even large-scale rewrites orders of magnitude cheaper than they ever were before, which makes a lot more decisions easily undoable in practice, when before that used to be prohibitively costly. I see that as one major way towards enabling this kind of iterative, detail-light development.
by coryrc | 2026-01-18 21:19:28+00:00
> The idea includes gaps where the roof meets the ceiling, so air is drawn from outside.

Of course you should have soffit venting, but forced ventilation results in negative pressure, regardless of whether that venting is a cupola harnessing the wind or a motorized fan. That negative pressure will pull conditioned air out and building science research shows higher attic temperatures are better than forced ventilation.

Even better is larger amounts of passive ventilation, but if the only thing you change is adding forced ventilation, then you're creating negative pressure and this is worse if using A/C.
by littlecranky67 | 2026-01-18 21:19:56+00:00
See my sibling response. More people will use adblock if all they have to do is prompt a single line into their computer. Hell people will not even visit websites. They will ask AI to present it in whatever form they prefer. I can have a big-breasted anime character reading my personalized news for me, or have it printed in a 1890 style newspaper. Ads will not make it into either format, because I prompt that out.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-18 21:21:18+00:00
There are already a lot of special cases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Quota

Local producers follow the rules, dot theit i and cross their t, because it's more profitable to sell the premium parts of the cow to Europe and the rest in the local market.

There are controls here and also when it arrives to Europe.
by rpiguy | 2026-01-18 21:22:01+00:00
I am more than willing to listen. You seem to be the one who ignores words.

I never claimed the J6 crowd to be non-violent? I was referring specifically to the murder of Ashley Babbit.

The J6 crowd gathered once. They did not systematically intimidate fellow citizens nation wide while hiding behind masks.

I will reiterate Antifa and the coalition of masked and violent left wing protesters resemble hitlers brownshirts far more than the anomalous J6 morons.
by mappu | 2026-01-18 21:22:08+00:00
Dokku user for a decade here, congrats on shipping, love to see more self-hosted PaaS options like this.

Why are binaries checked into the bin/ directory in the repo?

Compared to Dokku, I like how your LE support is builtin instead of a plugin. Is your main www ingress server an nginx that gets externally configured (like Dokku) or are you using net/http or libcaddy directly?

Dokku has a history of trying to compete with Heroku buildpacks - as a non Heroku/non Ruby developer this never resonated with me and there are a lot of vestigal parts (e.g. .web.1) that i would just put in my own Dockerfile directly. So focusing solely on Dockerfiles i personally feel is a good move.

One issue i faced with Dokku is eventually the build process for my Dockerized app was too memory-intensive to run on the VPS. I switched to running docker build locally, sending the container via `docker export | ssh | docker import`, and having a single `FROM myapp` dockerfile in Dokku. This was not particularly ergonomic to set up. Is it possible you can improve the UX of client-side built containers, or will you focus solely on the GitOps deploy?
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-01-18 21:22:26+00:00
> You could probably detect essay cheating (AI written) in the exact same way by questioning the student about it - why did they organize the essay in this way, what was their motivation for focusing on X, or expressing something as Y... Of course anyone can concoct an explanation on the fly, but it should be obvious if they are speaking from the experience of having authored it or just coming up with a post-hoc rationalization.

I wouldn't claim that I am bad at writing (at least in my native language, which is not English) - at least many colleagues say so. But I do insist that when writing I don't think that way. If I were to answer these question, my honest answers would be:

"why did they organize the essay in this way": I just wrote down the thoughts that came to my mind, and then gave them some structure that seemed right.

"what was their motivation for focusing on X": Either "because it felt right" or "I had to write at most x pages, and indeed it would have made sense to focus on more topics, so I focused on this arbitrary thing"

So indeed I would claim that a lot of sensible reasons why things are this way actually are post-hoc rationalizations. :-)
by culi | 2026-01-18 21:23:50+00:00
I've looked into this a lot and I'd say the actual leading theory is that it's an infertile hybrid of two Ferula species that grew mostly in African Mediterranean. It likely went extinct from its overharvest and inability to reproduce through seeds.

The Ferula genus contains fennel and asafoetida (aka hing). Ferula drudeana is suspected to be one of the species that was hybridized.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-18 21:24:29+00:00
I don't think there's a connection there. If I'm not trying to buy a GPU at the moment, the situation re: GPU vendors being unable to reach me is unchanged whether they are one or many.

I suspect it's gonna be clickbaity stuff, gambling apps, distractions and addictions... stuff we can afford to let suffer. If you're actually solving a problem that your audience has, they'll be trying to find you, you don't have to find them. There's a minimum amount of marketing necessary to be findable, but beyond that it's at best a waste of time and at worst a catalyst for other problems that we'd rather avoid.
by rbanffy | 2026-01-18 21:24:40+00:00
Large endeavours require some level of “megachurchness”. Linux back then was tiny in comparison with what it is today. So was Python. Nowadays we have much larger projects that encompass a much larger space than we had in the 1990s. You can’t make things consistent at these sizes without some governance in place.

There are still a lot of space for projects without much structure- if you have NSA codenames that aren’t public yet (and you are not subject to US laws) you can contribute with the nsaname tool and have cool names for your servers and containers. If you want to help adding glyphs to my 3278 font, you can. You can do that to millions of small projects that are small enough to not require much structure.
by webspinner | 2026-01-18 21:24:43+00:00
OK, but default ones are bad! Let me add my own custom ones, why did you add default ones??? Also, I'm a screen reader user, and what your using for accessibility appears to be subpar. Lol I'm willing to fully test it for you, but you should probably further develop that thingy!! It definitely isn't the worst one I've ever seen, but not the best either. If I can add custom ones, and I didn't find it in my testing uh... huh... lol, then that isn't exactly my fault either, could be partially that for not being a fully trained tester, though, of which I'm not. I'm not an expert. You get what you get for free, hah!!
by svat | 2026-01-18 21:24:52+00:00
For comparison, one candidate for the longest word in Sanskrit: https://hellenisteukontos.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-is-longe...

> nirantarāndhakāritā-digantara-kandaladamanda-sudhārasa-bindu-sāndratara-ghanāghana-vr̥nda-sandehakara-syandamāna-makaranda-bindu-bandhuratara-mākanda-taru-kula-talpa-kalpa-mr̥dula-sikatā-jāla-jaṭila-mūla-tala-maruvaka-miladalaghu-laghu-laya-kalita-ramaṇīya-pānīya-śālikā-bālikā-karāra-vinda-galantikā-galadelā-lavaṅga-pāṭala-ghanasāra-kastūrikātisaurabha-medura-laghutara-madhura-śītalatara-saliladhārā-nirākariṣṇu-tadīya-vimala-vilocana-mayūkha-rekhāpasārita-pipāsāyāsa-pathika-lokān

It's not actually the longest though; e.g. here's someone asking how to get TeX to hyphenate a routine compound that would be about 1361 characters long in transliteration: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/404690/how-to-make-a...

> Is there really a 797 character long word in Sanskrit?

> Yes its ! Some times even the book completely will be like this. What is the solution?
by reify | 2026-01-18 21:25:00+00:00
No evidence that High cholesterol causes Cardiovascular Disease

1. Dietary Cholesterol and the Lack of Evidence in Cardiovascular Disease

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6024687/

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. For years, dietary cholesterol was implicated in increasing blood cholesterol levels leading to the elevated risk of CVD. To date, extensive research did not show evidence to support a role of dietary cholesterol in the development of CVD.

2, Doubt cast on wisdom of targeting ‘bad’ cholesterol to curb heart disease risk

British Medical journal

https://bmjgroup.com/doubt-cast-on-wisdom-of-targeting-bad-cholesterol-to-curb-heart-disease-risk/

Decades of research have failed to show consistent benefit for this approach, say researchers

Setting targets for ‘bad’ (LDL) cholesterol levels to ward off heart disease and death in those at risk might seem intuitive, but decades of research have failed to show any consistent benefit for this approach, reveals an analysis of the available data, published online in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.

The cholesterol panic is great for big pharma and the millions they make prescibing Statins.

For 20 + years I have lived on a high fat diet with 70% of my calories from fats.

My cholesterol has been quite normal
by tomashubelbauer | 2026-01-18 21:25:07+00:00
I am an ESL speaker but I don't see why the sentence fragment in parentheses couldn't be parsed as relating only to "Python stack" as opposed to "systems not using the Python stack". I read it that way, but again, as an ESL speaker, I might be missing intuition or actual grammatical knowledge that would tick off a native speaker such as, presumably, yourself.
by nphardon | 2026-01-18 21:25:37+00:00
We have also seen the Boomer's cannibalize themselves, even my 7 year old can see that her grandma's screen addiction is a very scary thing and something to be avoided; very cautionary. The Boomer's inability to defend themselves against the algorithms is a wild case study in screen addiction.

I think AI is just a tipping point and an easy target.
by ben_w | 2026-01-18 21:25:51+00:00
At this point, I'd say terms rather than generations.

I mean, I'm old enough to remember people saying "Never Forget" about 9/11, but it's barely in any discourse at this point, and that was a single generation ago and had two major wars a bunch of PoW scandals, war crime scandals that led to Manning, and domestic surveillance that led to Snowden. And yet, despite all that, I've only heard 9/11 mentioned exactly once since visiting NYC in 2017, and that was Steve Bannon and Giuliani refusing to believe that Mamdani was legitimate.

So, yeah, if Trump fades away this could be forgotten in 8 years or so; if this escalates to a war (I'm not confident, but if I had to guess I'd say 10% or so?), then I see it rising to the level of generations.
by llmidiot | 2026-01-18 21:26:20+00:00
I supported Redis against Valkey because I felt software should not be appropriated like that.

Now that the Redis author supports broad copyright violations and has turned into an LLM influencer, I regret having ever supported Redis. I have watched many open source authors, who have positioned themselves as rebels and open source populists, go fully corporate. This is the latest instance.
by schiffern | 2026-01-18 21:26:32+00:00
For a Union Auto Summit that would make sense. Instead they branded it an "EV Summit" and had Biden say this on live TV:

> [GM's Mary Barra] electrified the entire automotive industry. I’m serious. You led, and it matters.

That unconvincing[0] knife-twisting was just to curry favor with UAW, and throw a bone to progressive Democrats whose actual policies Biden was blocking. And what could be the harm in snubbing Musk?

Even the Industry Electrifier Mary Barra says[1] the administration badly miscalculated the cost/benefit ratio on that one.

[0] https://cleantechnica.com/2021/11/19/president-biden-claims-...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/gm-ceo-joe-biden-elon-musk-t...
by kybernetikos | 2026-01-18 21:27:05+00:00
I was not particularly a fan of them - the plot seemed to find overly easy solutions to all the actual messiness that comes when dealing with others very unlike yourself, which given the rest of the stories, feels like it undercuts the entire point of them.

The Tchaikovsky novella I really like is Elder Race. Technology-as-magic is done in so many places (Ventus is another favourite), and I usually enjoy it, but I felt that in Elder Race it was pulled off in an unusually elegant way.
by autoexec | 2026-01-18 21:27:39+00:00
The majority of members of the military are trump supporters.

We've already seen that it's extremely rare for even the national guard to support protesters in their own communities when being deployed against them

We've already seen that the military will willfully follow trump's unlawful orders, including clear violations of international law

Acting unlawfully and then falling back on "just following orders" is far less likely to have negative consequences for soldiers than refusing to follow unlawful orders would
by sidibe | 2026-01-18 21:28:03+00:00
I really love this series, probably my favorite of his stuff along with Cage of Souls. I got a little bored with the first one but glad I kept on, the second and third were amazing.

I almost like everything he writes which is something because there's a ton of it and it's all over the place. Only ones I've DNFd are the Shards of Earth which is weird because I normally like space opera.
by cmckn | 2026-01-18 21:28:21+00:00
I tried to set up a macOS VM recently so I could run an old version of iTunes to manage my iPods. I found it nearly impossible to even download an installer for older versions of the OS, and could never get it working. Where can one acquire an IPSW for, say, macOS Mojave? My understanding is this is not the same thing as the “Install macOS.app”?
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-18 21:28:51+00:00
Sorry, but I wouldn't like that either. I often intentionally don't initialize members and don't want that to be an error. How would you initialize the following:

struct S {
enum {
NO_MODE,
MODE_A,
MODE_B,
MODE_C,
} mode;
union {
struct mode_a {
float x, y;
} a;
struct mode_c {
time_t start;
bool flag;
} c;
};
};

S s;
s.mode = NO_MODE;

?
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-18 21:29:20+00:00
This story is set thousands of years in the future, and yet their social norms are broadly those of 1960s America, conspicuously minus the racism. Their notion of gender equality, for instance, is to segregate, but add "(and women)" after every few "men" (respectively "(and husbands)" after "wives"). Stubby Trevelyan smokes, and litters the cigarette butts. This has to be deliberate on the part of the author. I wonder what Ladislas Ingenescu, Registered Historian, has to say about the matter?… if, indeed, he has any original thoughts to share.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-18 21:30:43+00:00
You're over doing the self promotion, perhaps you could review the guidelines, specificly:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Show us things you're curious about!
by lukebechtel | 2026-01-18 21:31:31+00:00
Ah, I see your point more clearly now.

At some level you have to do semantic compression... To your point on non-explicitness -- the dependencies between the specs and sub-specs can be explicit (i.e. file:// links, etc).

But your overall point on assumption invalidation remains... Reminds me of a startup some time ago that was doing "Automated UX Testing" where user personas (i.e. prosumer, avg joe, etc) were created, and Goals/ Implicit UX flows through the UI were described (i.e. "I want to see my dashboard", etc). Then, an LLM could pretend to be each persona, and test each day whether that user type could achieve the goals behind their user flow.

This doesn't fully solve your problem, but it hints at a solution perhaps.

Some of what you're looking for is found by adding strict linter / tests. But your repo looks like something in an entirely different paradigm and I'm curious to dig into it more.
by tpm | 2026-01-18 21:31:32+00:00
> another way to phrase that is that it is less exercise

Biking is less demanding on some parts of the body that only can take so much stress. So you can push other parts more if that makes sense: top cyclists can do 400-600 W sustained or 1-2 kW in short sprints. That's not less exercise, that's several times more than a walker or runner can do. So in the same time as walking you can either be faster at your destination and save time and/or energy, or go further while spending the same or less energy, or output more energy. The choice is yours.

Anyway, from the CO2 perspective, biking vs walking is splitting hairs really.
by arghwhat | 2026-01-18 21:31:34+00:00
> The best apis are those that are hated by the developer and loved by the end users.

No, just those loved by the API consumer. Negative emotions on one end doens't do anything positive.

In the case of plan9, not everything can be described elegantly in the filesystem paradigm and a lot of things end up having really awkward "ctl" files which you write command strings to that the fileserver needs to parse. It also handicaps performance due to the number of filesystem operation roundtrips you usually end up making.

Maybe if combined with something io_uring-esque, but the complexity of that wouldn't be very plan9-esque.
by arjie | 2026-01-18 21:31:50+00:00
Adrian Tchaikovsky is really good at these alien ecosystems kind of thing (his Children of * range being quite good). This was a terrific short story. One thing I am curious about is whether there is a different kind of science fiction out there. The driving thread through all of modern English sci-fi is "we shouldn't go out there and do anything; we are the bad that ruins a delicate thing". That's a cool story but somewhat overly tropey at this point I think. This short story, the Avatar series, they have this ecological moralizing. AT is creative enough that the novel ideas (single species life-cycle planet) carry the tale even though the moral thread is the same as the Avatar movie: corporations destroy ecosystems they don't understand in the resource pursuit.

I enjoy the "what if we're the baddies" just as much as anyone else. But are there big stories with these exciting concepts where we aren't the baddies in the Anglosphere?

A thing I enjoy about other cultures is seeing what is unusually different about them. In the Three Body Problem, spoilers to follow for the series, humanity aren't The Bad Guys With Agency. We aren't even The Big Bad or The Big Good. We're sort of just other participants in this universe. The dual vector foil is employed by someone else, the guys who want space back from the pocket dimension to reboot the universe are just someone else, everything is someone else. We are bit part players in this play.

This goes on even to a few movies. The Wandering Earth movie (somewhat different from the short story) has this part at the end (obvious spoilers to follow) where the heroes accomplish the task and reboot their Earth Engine after conquering all odds - only for the camera to zoom out and show numerous other teams also having done the same. This wasn't the only struggle won. Cool alternative tale where it isn't so much One Team Saves The World or One Team Ruins The World.
by SR2Z | 2026-01-18 21:32:28+00:00
The US gave $7500 per car sold in the US to any manufacturer, with the "Buy American" restriction added only in the last two years of the policy.

I'm also curious to hear your source for the subsidies - from what I can see China has spent anywhere from 3x to 5x propping up the domestic EV industry as the US has over the last 15 years. The US had Tesla which almost went bankrupt multiple times despite the subsidies; China has a dozen EV manufacturers, half of whom are on life support now that the government is withdrawing subsidies.
by dingaling | 2026-01-18 21:33:18+00:00
> We already have the right to station as many troops there as we want!

Only at Thule. The 2004 re-agreement rescinded the unrestricted establishment of bases:

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/04-806-Denm...

It significantly emasculated the 1951 agreement:

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/den001.asp#art2para...
by culi | 2026-01-18 21:33:43+00:00
The best explanation I've heard is that it was a sterile hybrid of two Ferula species. Many Ferula have a long history of mythology behind them. Asafoetida (aka hing) is probably where the heart symbol came from (its roughly heart-shaped root was used as an aphrodisiac).

Silphium similarly had much demand as an aphrodisiac.

This hybrid likely grew in the African Mediterranean and the high demand for it, alongside its inability to reproduce through seed, is probably what led to its extinction.
by dmurray | 2026-01-18 21:33:48+00:00
> 2029: $50.00 (Suuuuuuuper bullish case) - Approaching Google’s ~$60 ARPU. By now, the infrastructure is mature, and "Conversational Commerce" is the standard. This is what Softbank is praying will happen.

There's no way Softbank's, or any other investor's, extreme bull case is that four years from now, ChatGPT sells the same amount of advertising as Google and earns $50 a year.

The extreme bull projection is that everyone buys everything through ChatGPT and each user is worth thousands per year. If you don't believe there's at least a slim chance of this you shouldn't be investing in OpenAI, and if you're an OpenAI executive who doesn't think there's a chance of this you shouldn't be writing pitch decks for SoftBank.
by atzpawn | 2026-01-18 21:34:00+00:00
All countries in the world recognise Greenland as a territory of the Danish crown, including the US. Danish for 700 years. This is why it is so outrageous for the US President to announce to break the law of the nations with imagined up reasons that are never properly explained. It does not help to punish those who disagree. The European Union has no other choice than to respond to this unilateral escalation.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-18 21:34:06+00:00
It's to deal with problematic filenames (e.g. containing a newline) and enables setting of variables within the current process. Putting multiple commands into the "-exec" of find is possible, but looks horrible. To be fair, my example didn't use multiple commands, so your version is okay for simple processing.

Don't get me wrong, the BASH man page is great, it's just that I prefer to work with examples.

For reference, here's the Greg's Wiki explanation: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#for_f_in_.24.28ls_....
by jtbaker | 2026-01-18 21:34:18+00:00
Not a language problem, it's a dev culture problem. You can hold your devs accountable to the quality of their code. Strong er typing support via static analysis as well as runtime validation with untrusted input/data has really helped python alot.

I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of python, but writing a data engineering tool in a non-data engineering focused language seems like a bad decision. Now when the OP leaves the organization is in a much tougher position.