MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wesapien | 2026-01-20 23:03:13+00:00
Most think that the cracks in the financial system started to appear after 2008 (global financial crisis) and become truly visible after the financial system was weaponized through the seizures of Russian central bank USD reserves. It setup a precedent that it happened once it could happen again to some other country.

Cheers to you for mentioning Triffin's dilemma. In my opinion, the dilemma is in the ability of the host country to be able to make "good use" of the exorbitant privilege. The financial system was not only used against other states but against its own people. Instead of developing the country and building equity through the middle class, it cannibalized its own.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-20 23:03:25+00:00
It's unfortunate that RCS is basically a de-facto Google walled garden in most countries. On android you can only use RCS in the Google Messages app and trying to build your own is explicitly blocked. [1] And of course the bonus that rooted devices are banned from RCS. All the propaganda Google spread to get Apple onboard (only with Google's blessing of course, Google could kick apple off if they wanted) was such a big win for them.

As a business I wanted RCS to be a simple upgrade to SMS, but instead they came up with this mess. Businesses using RCS for Business can send messages to anyone, but customers wanting to get in touch with your business can't. They can only reply to a message you sent first. And of course Google is the gatekeeper for anyone to be allowed to use it.

1. https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2994
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-20 23:04:06+00:00
I mean, lower courts don't mean a lot in the grand scheme of things, for better or worse. It seems clear that the lower courts are trying to legislate from the bench in service of a moral good. The constitution is extremely unambiguous about this:

第二十四条

婚姻は、両性の合意のみに基いて成立し、夫婦が同等の権利を有することを基本として、相互の協力により、維持されなければならない。

With "両性" unambiguously meaning "both sexes" and "夫婦" unambiguously meaning "husband and wife".
by iLemming | 2026-01-20 23:04:06+00:00
> have an advantage of being intuitive

Emacs is incredibly intuitive - with a caveat. Once you internalize the model, things become incredibly intuitive. I love that EVERY single keypress, mouse movement and button press is nothing but the association to a piece of Lisp - documented, always available, fully modifiable, debuggable, profilable source. The intuition required is for Lisp only; once you grok that part, Emacs becomes an irreplaceable ally - nothing even comes close to what you can do in it with text.

And btw, Emacs is inherently a modal editor - just like Vim. Only because you're not using modality for "text editing", it doesn't mean it is not.
by accrual | 2026-01-20 23:04:43+00:00
Previous CA resident anecdata, I remember droughts being a normal part of life in central CA 1990-early 2000s. Don't run sprinklers during certain hours, odd/even watering, "the water bill" exclaimations, etc. Like another commentor mentioned I don't anticipate this will last, but it's nice to see the "official" state change even if for a bit.
by simonw | 2026-01-20 23:04:45+00:00
At first glance this looks like a credible set of calculations to me. Here's the conclusion:

> So, if I wanted to analogize the energy usage of my use of coding agents, it’s something like running the dishwasher an extra time each day, keeping an extra refrigerator, or skipping one drive to the grocery store in favor of biking there.

That's for someone spending about $15-$20 in a day on Claude Code, estimated at the equivalent of 4,400 "typical queries" to an LLM.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-20 23:04:59+00:00
I dunno, the ground condition here is "You're invisible/office and no one can see your activity" but that turns out to not actually be fully true. Maybe if it said "You're invisible/offline to the public, but mostly invisible to your friends" it'd be more true and setting the correct expectations. But of course, that's not how that feature is being sold.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-20 23:05:52+00:00
I don't know what I ended up doing as I haven't played this game and didn't really understand it as I went to the website since I found your message quite interesting

I got this error once:

Pile not found

Can you tell me what this means/fix it

Another minor nitpick but if possible, can you please create or link a video which can explain the game rules, perhaps its me who heard of the game for the first time but still, I'd be interested in learning more (maybe visually by a video demo?) if possible

I have another question but recently we saw this nvidia released model whose whole purpose was to be an autorouter. I would be wondering how that would fare or that idea might fare of autorouting in this context? (I don't know how that works tho so I can't comment about that, I am not well versed in deep AI/ML space)
by explodes | 2026-01-20 23:06:57+00:00
People should always consider the "abusive friend" scenario with regards to privacy.

Even marriages can be extremely abusive...

The assumption that people on your friend's lists, Steam or anywhere (even just people in the same household) should be able to see your personal information, such as computer use, is a bananas assumption. It is an assumption that I'm pleased to say has failed privacy reviews at at least one company larger than Steam.
by cdrnsf | 2026-01-20 23:07:53+00:00
I've lived in California my whole life (and the same town for most of that). This was the most rain I can remember in decades and the most "destruction" I've seen caused by it. Between the ground being saturated and wind before/after/during the storms there were plenty of downed trees.

We were also down to running sprinklers once a week (lawns are silly), but have had them off entirely for a bit now.
by fjdjshsh | 2026-01-20 23:08:02+00:00
Not a local, but in my experience this is due to tourists not being able to speak Japanese, which makes the people working in a place very uncomfortable ("will this person follow the rules? How can I do proper service if I can't communicate?"). A 大丈夫、少し日本語をしゃべります (it's ok, I speak a bit of japanese) has been enough to open the doors for me.

That being said, they do have issues with some nationalities. For example, the average American is way too loud for the average japanese place. Even if they think they are being polite, they just talk too loud and too much for japanese sensibilities.
by antirez | 2026-01-20 23:08:11+00:00
I believe this is actually the center of the matter. Trump surely does not represents all the Americans, but I believe he is currently acting in a so aggressive way because America has a problem, that is: for years governments of other countries are selling more and more US bonds (because the United States look progressively less able to pay back), and given the US huge debt, this would mean an incredible problem for a country that for decades spent ways more than it was possible or wise (and, this spending also helped to fuel the IT strong position the country achieved). So, now, in order to have compelling arguments to ask for certain conditions, Trump is acting in this way, since in order to have something that others don't want to give to America, America needs to be a problem the other countries. This is a way to amplify your position in the world, that is otherwise not as strong as in the past. We used to watch Russia doing something like that, and could not expect to see this from USA. But things evolve...
by simonw | 2026-01-20 23:08:18+00:00
The training cost for a model is constant. The more individual use that model gets the lower the training-cost-per-inference-query gets, since that one-time training cost is shared across every inference prompt.

It is true that there are always more training runs going, and I don't think we'll ever find out how much energy was spent on experimental or failed training runs.
by accrual | 2026-01-20 23:08:26+00:00
> Marking in the terrazzo floor of Monument Plaza showing the location of Vega, which will be our North Star in roughly 12,000 years. (Photo by Alexander Rose)

I wonder if some content creator 12K years from now will transport to Earth and stream the North Star from this position for likes/views. If that's even a thing then...
by jjav | 2026-01-20 23:08:35+00:00
> Where are all these much-vaunted "checks and balances" that I've been hearing about for so long?

That's the problem, turns out there are none.

Or to be more precise, they do exist but they rely solely on each arm of the government acting in good faith and respecting the boundaries of their power and deferring on powers that belong to a different arm of the government.

But turns out there was a 0-day bug in the constitution: if the president simply completely ignores all other branches of government, nothing can be done about it.
by NalNezumi | 2026-01-20 23:08:43+00:00
I can't find the article, but I read an article about the experience of an LGBTQ Californian that moved to Tokyo found it more friendly than US (including progressive state).

The point was that in US LGBTQ is politicized. If you tell people about it, you have to either defend it (vs conservatives) or explain it (vs progressives, but with encouragement). Both got very exhausting fast for the person, even the well intentioned ones.

In Japan, the general reaction from coworkers to landlords was へー, そうなんだ。 (oh ok, cool.) no follow up questions or prodding.

Vast majority don't care enough about your private sexual preferences. (goodness sake people it's the country of Hentai, people there really don't fucking care about your private presences) They do, however, care when you politicize it (making it their issue)

The trend is slow but good looking for LGBTQ right in Japan. It won't move forward like people expect in the west. I'd guess one or two more generations. The only risk factor I see is the west. The polarization and politization of the issue, seen from Japan, is making the conservative wings more cautious about the topic.

Either case, Shinjuku 2chome will be a very welcoming place. My gay friend from Sweden love that place more than any supposed to be gay friendly place in Europe
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2026-01-20 23:08:43+00:00
Seems like a reasonable report to me. Offline mode intentionally hides you from friends in the UI, so you would assume it would keep you hidden.

I have a number of friends who, for various social reasons, keep their Steam status as "Offline" so their friends don't know they're still logging in. If "Offline" can be bypassed, it ruins the point
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-20 23:09:02+00:00
I'm curious what you think the AOC/Mamdani left is even like. MAGA is the culmination of decades of escalating extremism. I was in OKC when the right wing terrorist killed so many innocent people, and that was what, 35 years ago? Meanwhile, AOC/Mamdami are lunatics who want ... better healthcare? Less inequality? What is so objectionable about their ideology that it justifies that absolute craziness that has consumed the right wing?
by yibg | 2026-01-20 23:09:47+00:00
To me the confusion is the word "validate". Sounds like what you're talking about is more acknowledgement than validate. I hear / see how you're feeling and I empathize.

Dictionary definition of validate are things like:

- check or prove the validity or accuracy of (something).

- demonstrate or support the truth or value of.

Which don't seem like the intent of "validating" the emotion in this context.
by techjamie | 2026-01-20 23:09:47+00:00
There's a YouTuber who makes AI Plays Mafia videos with various models going against each other. They also seemingly let past games stay in context to some extent.

What people have noted is that often times chatgpt 4o ends up surviving the entire game because the other AIs potentially see it as a gullible idiot and often the Mafia tend to early eliminate stronger models like 4.5 Opus or Kimi K2.

It's not exactly scientific data because they mostly show individual games, but it is interesting how that lines up with what you found.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-20 23:10:49+00:00
Ah I see. The thing is, I was on a work trip and the colleague I was with had been there a lot and he was constantly lecturing me about what not to do, what to wear, cover up tattoos etc. And what not to mention which was the LGBTQ topics in particular.

This kinda made me feel awkward because I couldn't be myself so I basically dissociated and just went through the motions while I was there. And didn't explore much. It was annoying because we weren't even there as businessmen but technical experts.

I think my colleague was overdoing the whole fitting in thing anyway but I was really on edge. I'm sure my impression was tainted by it now that I think of it.
by galaxyLogic | 2026-01-20 23:11:34+00:00
Both true. Perplexity knows a lot about SeqTrack, I assume it has read the UserGuide. But some things it gets wrong, seems especially things it should understand by looking at the pictures.

I'm just wondering if there's a clear path for it to improve and on what time-table. The fact that it does not tell you when it is "unsure" of course makes things worse for users. (It is never unsure).
by deepsquirrelnet | 2026-01-20 23:12:08+00:00
> If MMF doesn’t exist today, building a startup around it means betting on model improvements that are on someone else’s roadmap. You don’t control when or whether the capability arrives.

I love this. I think there's a tendency to extrapolate past performance gains into the future, while the primary driver of that (scaling) has proven to be dead. Continued improvements seem to be happening through rapid tech breakthroughs in RL training methodologies and to a lesser degree, architectures.

People should see this as a significant shift. With scaling, the path forward is more certain than what we're seeing now. That means you probably shouldn't build in anticipation of future capabilities, because it's uncertain when they will arrive.
by Loughla | 2026-01-20 23:12:32+00:00
Yeah hey but for real. The news is focused on California droughts all the time, but my part of flyover country is very, very dry. Like ponds that have never been empty are dry, sort of thing. It's getting bad. . . And we grow all your food.

Between this and all the political nonsense that's happening right now, I feel like a passenger that's noticed the car is out of control while the driver is still opening his beer.
Show HN: Poopyfeed – free, private, no account newborn tracking
by mjmasia | 2026-01-20 23:12:41+00:00
When our daughter was born in December we needed to log diapers, feedings, etc.

We tried a bunch of apps, which were good, but overkill for what we needed.

I spent the last few weeks building Poopyfeed to scratch our own itch – and I'm pretty proud of it.

It's made our lives a lot easier and helped my wife, grandparents, and I stay in sync.

It's very important to my wife and I that this project doesn't require people create an account, and stays completely free. It's a little attempt to put something good and helpful into the world.

I built this using a React Native (Expo) mobile app (iOS only for now) and Elixir + Phoenix backend. I use Phoenix Channels heavily for real-time sync of breastfeeding, pumping, and napping timers (backed by GenServers + a DynamicSupervisor).

This is just a beta build so you have to download it via TestFlight, but I'd love any feedback from the community to make improvements before submitting it to the App Store.

Website: https://develop.poopyfeed.com

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/bEpG7zSV
by gllermaly | 2026-01-20 23:12:45+00:00
Hi, I suffer lower back pain and I work 10+ hours a day sitting. Standing desk didn't work so I built an app that locks my computer until I do 10 squats. It works in a Pomodoro Timer fashion so each 25mins I have 5minutes to do 10 squats.

I published the app, is free to use. Appreciate your feedback and ideas here:

https://movedoro.userjot.com/
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-20 23:13:54+00:00
If only food service paid decent money.

I know the majority owner of a pretty massive fast food chain (600 stores, most franchises) and he was telling me he was offered 10M to sell the company. His entire life he worked day and night, and he would be getting $3M. (Mind you, he owns dozens of franchises, so he still keeps those)

He brought his kid into the business, and I can tell he has a bit of envy that I own a small software company that within a few years is approaching 1M in revenue. There is less glamor and margins in food.

I have some ideas of using my math/engineering skills to make low cost recipes that taste good, using my masters in Industrial Engineering to lower cooking/labor costs, but... economics pushes me towards high value. Any time I do the math on food service, I see myself making 100k/yr, and never 1M/yr.
by labrador | 2026-01-20 23:13:58+00:00
John Kenneth Galbraith says in his book The Great Crash 1929 that most knew it was heading for a fall, but everyone assumed they could get out before losing their money. Turns out the order system was over-whelmed so they couldn't get out.

Maybe in these times it will be a flash crash that catches everyone off guard. A flash crash that doesn't rebound like the one in 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash
by jread | 2026-01-20 23:15:01+00:00
My mother-in-law fell for a love scam last year. Luckily we caught it early and no money was lost, but I was surprised how difficult it was to convince her it was a scam despite the obvious signs and family and friends all telling her it was. The scammer claimed to be the actor Jack Wagner (popular on Hallmark channel and soap operas). Out of desperation we looked him up on cameo and paid him for a video message telling her it wasn't him texting her, and that finally snapped her out of it.
by water-data-dude | 2026-01-20 23:15:03+00:00
Water policy isn't as simple as you might think. Dams aren't a magical fix, they cause a lot of issues (like crashing the salmon populations, etc.). They're expensive to build and maintain, and the water you store in a big reservoir doesn't magically stay in place - you lose a lot to evaporation and you lose a lot that ends up going into the groundwater system. A much bigger part of the problem is western water law, where water rights are assigned based on prior appropriation and are lost if they aren't exercised. That leads to a lot of bullshit, like people growing very water hungry crops (alfalfa, rice) in the middle of the desert.

The reason we don't build like the people who first came to California did isn't because we're stupid, it's because we've learned a lot of lessons the hard way. If you're interested in some of the history I'd recommend Cadillac Desert, which is about western water in general, but which focuses a lot on California (including the machinations that the movie China Town was based on).
by tracker1 | 2026-01-20 23:15:03+00:00
Doesn't even necessarily need to be CUDA compatible... there's OpenCL and Vulkan as well, and likely China will throw enough resources at the problem to bring various libraries into closer alignment to ease of use/development.

I do think China is still 3-5 years from being really competitive, but still even if they hit 40-50% of NVidia, depending on pricing and energy costs, it could still make significant inroads with legal pressure/bans, etc.
by nixosbestos | 2026-01-20 23:15:31+00:00
It blows my mind how many stories hit the front page, every day, that bottom out on whining about proprietary software. I've literally been talking about the Win10/11 whining for 3+ years, and yet EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK THERE ARE MORE.

Lawnchair is *EXCELLENT*. I say that as a former Nova Launcher user. And Lawnchair is fully OSS and actively developed.

I just cannot fathom people who enjoy this non-stop BS rollercoaster and are happy to be passed from OG dev, to scummy publisher, to ??? publisher. And all just be happy about that instead of ... why am I even typing this shit. The people that care, care and use OSS or migrate when the writing is on the wall. The people that allow themselves to get jerked around and just take it are going to keep just taking it. And whining about it, while changing none of their behavior.

(Totally not related; see HN and the constant cycle of people shitting on decentralization and then being pikachu-shocked when proprietary centralized services do what they always do).

(Though, it's nice to finally, finally see a predominance of anecdotes of Linux experiences that aren't based on 3 year old distro ISOs. EDIT: 3 is generous, I saw people talking about a 20.04 LTS spin less than a year ago and acting like that was indicative of Linux on Desktop).

To be fair, I'm probably just way off base here. A company whose focus is absolutely not an Android Launcher surely won't enshittify or sell it in due course. Surely. Surely, surely, surely. Right? Like last time?
by buchanae | 2026-01-20 23:16:08+00:00
In my experience, archived objects are almost never accessed, and if they are, it's within a few hours or days of deletion, which leaves a fairly small chance that schema changes will have a significant impact on restoring any archived object. If you pair that with "best-effort" tooling that restores objects by calling standard "create" APIs, perhaps it's fairly safe to _not_ deal with schema changes.

Of course, as always, it depends on the system and how the archive is used. That's just my experience. I can imagine that if there are more tools or features built around the archive, the situation might be different.

I think maintaining schema changes and migrations on archived objects can be tricky in its own ways, even kept in the live tables with an 'archived_at' column, especially when objects span multiple tables with relationships. I've worked on migrations where really old archived objects just didn't make sense anymore in the new data model, and figuring out a safe migration became a difficult, error-prone project.
by legitster | 2026-01-20 23:16:51+00:00
People shouldn't really be celebrating anything here. Wet winters just mean that the much more important snowpack isn't happening:

> Recent storms have brought snow to the Sierra Nevada mountains, but the state’s snowpack remains below average. According to the Department of Water Resources, the snowpack now stands at 89% of average for this time of year.

> Much of the West has seen warmer-than-average temperatures and relatively little snow so far this winter. The snow in the Rocky Mountains remains far below average, adding to the strains on the overtapped Colorado River, a major water source for Southern California.

Refilling the reservoirs is nice and all, but this is still essentially a payday loan out of the future.

One of the complexities of global warming is that it makes weather more extreme in all directions. It can be true that the same stretch of ground can be more susceptible to flooding in the same year it's more susceptible to drought.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-20 23:16:51+00:00
If your YouTube channel was the galvanizing "complement", it may be that the Discord's usefulness shifted when your channel focus did. You could potentially find ways to better complement the new focus of the channel and see if that brings new excitement to your Discord. (Are there enough channels for your shifted focus? Are you posting your videos to them? Do people have things to say about the new focus?)

Most of what keeps a Discord active or not is content and having things to chat about. You list things in an order that suggests the chat started to slowly die and then your channel's focus shifted, but maybe it was the other way around and not as much as of the audience that had found their way through the Discord followed you through the channel refocus as you expected?