MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paxys | 2026-01-21 04:22:24+00:00
You sure about that? Look up Visible, Mint Mobile, Total Wireless, US Mobile, Tello... Same carrier networks, same quality of service. You can even pay a bit extra for prioritized data and other fancy features. You can get basic unlimited plans for $15-30 and premium plans in the $30-50 range vs $100+ at the big carriers. The only difference is that you aren't paying for your "free" phone.
by SanjayMehta | 2026-01-21 04:23:40+00:00
Thank you for your research and thoughtful responses.

While it appears the term is indeed older than what I thought, the usage which we in India (also the "third world, global south) are familiar with is some USAian official talking down to us without specifying which treaty they are using to place their latest unilateral demands.

And now it appears the term backfired and Carney is one the first to show some spine: "We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim."

The last part of his statement resonates especially when it comes to conveniently labelled "war crimes" committed by non USAian and non European heads of state and subsequent abduction and "prosecution" by corrupt institutions in the West.
by dh2022 | 2026-01-21 04:23:44+00:00
Europeans volunteered troops in Afghanistan to help America fight Al-Quaida. When America was not right about invading Iraq, European nations tried to help America to see the truth. When America took on Libyan dictator Kadhafi European nations provided some air support.

Europe helped America when they could and when they thought it was the right thing to do.
by da_chicken | 2026-01-21 04:25:24+00:00
No, the reality is that every modern network device running NAT for a user device network is also already a fully stateful firewall, because the software required to do one is virtually identical to the other.

You can't buy a home router with NAT and no firewall, and no home routers ship that don't also have a default deny rule on that firewall. The same is true for SOHO routers and effectively every consumer network gateway device you might buy.

You literally have to go well out of your way to find a network device capable of NAT that can't function as a stateful firewall, and when you find it, it's likely to be carrier-grade. In other words, not intended to be capable of any security at all. The amount of NAT processing it's intended to handle will challenge the hardware enough as it is.
by YZF | 2026-01-21 04:25:46+00:00
You're right that PP doesn't have great polls: https://angusreid.org/federal-politics-poilievre-favourabili...

But he polled better than Trudeau: https://angusreid.org/trudeau-tracker/

CPC was firmly in the lead for the elections before Trumps' attention to Canada and the Liberals jumping on this to frame PP as another Trump or someone who would yield to Trump, both couldn't be farther away from his actual policy stances, but in the age of social media (and I guess major government owned media that does its bidding) that doesn't matter.
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-01-21 04:26:53+00:00
Nuclear annihilation will go restrain growth outside of obvious geographic spheres in theory.

Industry was not globalized in the previous regimes of pre-World war imperialism. That is the novel difference now. And China requires globalized trade in order to support its overindustrialization and economy.

America also currently requires it because it doesn't have its industrial base anymore. It will probably re-industrialize over the next coming decades but that's something that happens over decades.

However, I feel the new rise of imperialism also marks the end of civilization's historical memory of industrial warfare of the world wars.

And that is a very very bad thing
by qart | 2026-01-21 04:26:54+00:00
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement is not a significant movement in India. I have plenty of connections with Sikhs and Sikhism in India. Apart from a very tiny minority of people, who quickly set off to Canada, this movement does not exist in India. They are courted by Canadian parliamentarians, which included Trudeau.

This book has more details about the movement: https://www.amazon.in/Blood-Fifty-Global-Khalistan-Project/d...
by lovich | 2026-01-21 04:26:58+00:00
> Feds: hey you arrested individual_x, he's in the country illegally and oh by the way has a few other outstanding warrants, can you please hold him at the jail house, we're going to pick him up for immigration proceedings.

> Cops: sure thing, let us know when you get here

> And now we get.

> Feds: hey hold that guy you arrested, he's got a standing deportation order from years ago, hold him until we get there.

> Cops: No, in fact, we're going to let him go.

You’ve accurately described how states who do not want to assist the federal government, send instructions to their employees on how to not assist the federal government

> You continued to imply that banning the former is somehow preferable, even though the latter results in ... street raids.

The latter results in street raids because of the choices of the federal government and the current leader. It is not an immutable law of physics that street raids have to happen.

This is abuser logic. Do what I want or I _have_ to hurt you.

> I'm not really seeing how I'm the bad guy here, and honestly I think your real policy preference is simply that no immigration law is enforced at all. You should have the courage to say so, since that is quite clearly the policy preference for a large portion of the electorate, and possibly a majority of the Democratic Party.

My preferred immigration policies are ones that brain drain the rest of the planet for my countries benefit.

I am calling out how states not enforcing federal policy for free is an example of states rights.

This comment chain started with me responding to `Jensson stating

> I thought it was so states could knowingly house illegal aliens or illegal drug businesses without doing anything.

> Normally states wouldn't have that right, but I see many who think they should have it.

Which is patently false if you believe in states rights unless you are a hypocrite or belief that states only have the right to believe in the federal governments commands
by grayhatter | 2026-01-21 04:27:21+00:00
I'm not looking for a fancy webpage. I'm not looking for revolutionary output. I'm looking for at it's most basic level commits, that are, without a doubt meaningful. I'm looking for someone to say; "look at this" I claim that I couldn't have done this is the same amount of time without AI, it would have been harder without, and I'm proud of this.

Someone to claim, honestly. They've created something they take pride in, something they feel to them, is impressive. That they couldn't have done without AI.

And then for it to appear to anyone that looks, that the thing they're proud of is obviously, and meaningfully significant such that it' couldn't be considered by anyone half reasonable to be boilerplate. And then, ideally but not required; for me to not feel embarrassed by proxy for them, when they claim they're proud of the AI supported output.

Surely, if it's as helpful, and as revolutionary as the current fervor claims. Someone, or anyone, should be willing to say. Look at this commit. Look at this project, look at this repo. I'm proud of it, and I want everyone to know I'm proud of it. And I wouldn't have been able to to it with out the support of an LLM? At least someone would have created something, they wish to release into the open source world. And claim they take pride in it?
by triceratops | 2026-01-21 04:27:45+00:00
You're confirming what I said earlier. There are both happy and unhappy "homogenous" countries. There's literally no correlation.

Instead of stopping there you're regurgitating, and it's unfortunate I'm confirming Poe's law, Mein Kampf.

> The US was 85-90% white in 1965. That's pretty homogenous.

I think you know nothing about culture, ethnicity, or the history of bigotry, xenophobia, and racism in the US if you can confidently make that statement. You're reducing all the diverse peoples that made up the nation into a single group based on their skin color.
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-21 04:28:42+00:00
I've rarely met a cop who didn't believe they were in a special profession, above most of the rest of us.

I know from prostitutes that cops routinely abuse them in many different ways. They use intimidation to coerce "freebies" (which is rape, plain and simple). They "befriend" them and become their "boyfriends", which is of course just a lie to get a side piece. When they arrest them, they sneer and insult them as "whores".
by verelo | 2026-01-21 04:28:49+00:00
LOL sorry, here's the list:

Generator 5kw - you want something with a higher duty cycle than you need so it can run for extended periods

Diesel storage for back of a truck - 330 Gallon (nice to have, after a week or two supply lines got fixed)

Diesel - for said tank

Medical supplies - IFAK kit (NAR is a good vendor). Bleeding control & dexamethasone.

Solar power - 1-5kwh. We still get 10-15 hrs a day on the grid, but this would be ideal.

Batteries - minimum 5+kwh storage

Network cable - 300m+ to start. I'm shocked how many times I need a cable and cant get any.

Hand pumps or small electric pump for different fuels and water

Ice auger - gas, but electric ideally, large / long drill bit 2" works too if you have a drill and smaller pipes?

Take a first aid course - MARCH protocol

Iodine pills not important - way bigger issues if you're resorting to that.

Get a rifle - not good for military but useful against looters and other unarmed crazy people

Get familiar with remote detonation with drones, these are what we use to set off the molotovs: <https://www.amazon.co.uk/100-30cm-Electric-Fireworks-Igniter...>

Edit: formatting
by lq9AJ8yrfs | 2026-01-21 04:28:51+00:00
NAT causes security issues too. Reflection attacks are much harder to stop if the endpoint and its network address are decoupled.

You can provoke loops and tangles of many sorts, some at the same protocol level and others going up and down.

My memory is fading but I vaguely recall a time when all of AOL shared something like a dozen egress addresses for certain traffic -- might have been proxies as opposed to NAT/"PAT" as we know it today. Iow, you couldn't block one without blocking 1/12 of AOL users.

Stronger memories of a time when your IP address (some were nat, some were not, varied by ISP) depended on which modem bank you dialed into, which was strongly influenced by what phone number you dialed. Which diluted the identity value of a given IP for a computer or user.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-21 04:29:09+00:00
Again these values are independent so what really matters is self consistency. They vary because they measure different things. For instance the CPI focuses on consumer goods and includes imported goods, which is extremely informative for wages. By contrast the GDP excludes imports which makes it informative for the overall size of a domestic economy. They cannot be directly compared, but their relative growth can be directly compared and is quite informative.

The reason your graph of labor compensation is stable is because it includes all forms of compensation for all 'workers'. So for instance Elon hitting his milestones will result in direct stock compensation in the ballpark of $1 trillion - those 22 million years of median income (not even wages) are then counted as 'labor compensation.' That's obviously an extreme example, but there are countless smaller scale examples that collectively distort the figure even more than Elon. Compensation, and even direct wages, at the top have skyrocketed while the majority of society has stagnated or declined. So we are set to become the first country with a trillionaire, and a country with 42 million people who can't afford food without government handouts. A tale of two cities?

In any case this is a big part of the reason why I think lifestyle descriptions are so much more useful than numbers. The stories of the boomer generation sound like fairy tales now a days - somebody putting themselves through college, buying the first car, and even having enough squirreled away for the down payment on their first house - all on the back of a part time job that didn't even require a college degree. It simply doesn't sound real, yet you can verify that it was fully viable by looking at wage and cost data at the time - it's real. But the fact that it doesn't sound real, even from a relatively very recent perspective - our own, rather emphasizes the point of stories being more useful than numbers.
by rgovostes | 2026-01-21 04:29:28+00:00
Sadly it is true. It’s called Flex Lock or US Carrier Flex Policy: https://www.usmobile.com/blog/what-is-flex-lock/

The gist is that it allows a third-party seller to stock a bunch of identical, not-yet-locked phones and offer a choice of carrier plans. The phone binds to whichever carrier the user first activated on.

So if you’re buying a phone, verify it is not one of these units.
by omoikane | 2026-01-21 04:29:35+00:00
I see this page pop up with some regularity, and unfortunately the disasters mentioned within seem to become more and more likely each time I read it. Maybe I am just growing more pessimistic, but COVID-19 felt like yesterday and all the large scale layoffs certainly don't inspire confidence.

I renewed my home insurance policy recently and there was one clause along the lines of coverage being excluded for war/insurrection/rebellion/military related reasons. Previously I would have thought nothing of it. These days I read these exclusion clauses in the same spirit as the "problem space" sections listed in this disaster planning doc.
by elliot07 | 2026-01-21 04:30:46+00:00
Why has public comms been so poor on this issue? There's been lots of Github issues posted in the Claude Code repo with lots of new comments each day screaming into the void, but radio silence from Anthropic since the revert in December. It's clearly causing a lot of frustration for users leading to clever workarounds like this.

It was obviously a complex issue (I appreciate that and your work!). But I think there's a lot to be improved on with communication. This issue in particular seems like it has lost a lot of user trust - not because it was hard to solve and took awhile - but because the comms and progress around it was so limited.

Eg issues:
* https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1913
* https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/826
* https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3648
by kelseydh | 2026-01-21 04:31:05+00:00
America has already been living in a decline of living standards relative to Europe for many decades.

EU vs US Comparison

Life expectancy
EU: 82 yrs
US: 78 yrs

Infant mortality (per 1,000)
EU: 3.3
US: 5.6

Poverty rate (below 50% of median income)
EU: 15%
US: 18%

Public debt
EU: 81% of GDP
US: 120% of GDP

Top 1% wealth share
EU: ~25%
US: 40%

Student debt
EU: ~€0
US: $40k

Homicides (per 100k)
EU: 2
US: 5

Prison population (per 100k)
EU: 111
US: 531

Women in workforce
EU: 71%
US: 57%

Workplace deaths (per 100k)
EU: 1.63
US: 3.5

Source: OECD, Eurostat, CDC
by greatgib | 2026-01-21 04:31:15+00:00
> typical times of day when someone is active, usage patterns over time,

> Users [...] will always have a [...] simple way to confirm their age and restore their full access with a selfie through Persona, a secure identity-verification service.

Nice, so now your most secret inner talk with the LLM can be directly associated with face and ID. Get ready for the fun moment when Trump decide that he needs to see what are your discussions with the AI when you pass the border or piss him off...
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-21 04:31:34+00:00
> the Roman Republic declined and gave way to Roman Empire for a long time before Rome finally waned

The Roman Republic was a rising power for centuries. It became the eminent Mediterranean power in 146 BCE and annexed Gaul under Caesar, right as it was collapsing. The Roman Empire then lasted for centuries more.

> doesn't feel like it would be a good time for the rest of the world if the United States gave way to the United Empire for next 500 years

Or America trying for that future. That’s WWIII.
by zahlman | 2026-01-21 04:31:40+00:00
> The claim was that ICE is going after people for protected speech.

No, it wasn't. The claim was:

> There are now dozens of videos of them harassing, intimidating, beating, or detaining people for exercising protected speech.

> The link is a determination by a federal judge to that effect, with the allegation going all the way to the top of the food chain.

No, it isn't. First off, your "food chain" logic is invalid. Trump is the one who wanted the activists in question deported; it's not "ICE" "going after" them. In fact, the judge explicitly:

> ...praised the homeland security officials who testified in his courtroom about their efforts to carry out their responsibilities to keep the country safe — and said their skills were misused by their leaders.

Second, this isn't the activists being "harassed, intimidated, beaten or detained"; it's them being deported.

Third, these are still non legally binding comments by the judge, not a "determination".

Fourth, there is nothing here to substantiate the judge's opinion — no reference to what was supposedly said or done by the activists, or how the judge came to the conclusion that any 1A violation occurred.

> This is a person being hunted and swept into a van by masked federal agents on the basis of her protected speech. There's no ambiguity here. The administration has said that's why they did it, and a judge has affirmed that as well (see prior link)

The video demonstrates nothing of the sort. She's approached on the sidewalk and, in the AP's words, "detained". There's nothing here that could reasonably be characterized as "hunted". There isn't even a van in frame. There is nothing in either the video or the article to corroborate the claim that "the administration has said that's why they did it".

And I don't care if the agents are masked.

> The claim that arrests can be made upon reasonable suspicion is indeed flatly refuted by the text of the 4th Amendment.

No, it is not, because 4A speaks of warrants and not of arrests, and as you cede, arrests do not require a warrant.
by acidburnNSA | 2026-01-21 04:31:57+00:00
Lots of good stuff in here. One thing to note about building off-grid self-sufficient abodes for "Problem space #3: The zombie apocalypse" is that the roving hordes of warlord-run gangs will consider finding those to be the ultimate booty. This point is made quite clearly in Six Minutes to Winter, the new book about nuclear war by Mark Lynas. As much as I always wanted a sweet prepper cave, the idea has now soured on me a bit.
by deathanatos | 2026-01-21 04:31:58+00:00
Can you? Yes, and TFA demonstrates this quite clearly.

Should you?

This is where I'd be more careful. Maybe it makes sense to some of the langs in TFA. But it reminds me of [named]tuples in Python, which are iterable, but when used as tuples, in particular, as heterogeneous arrays¹ to support returning multiple values or a quick and dirty product type (/struct), the ability to iterate is just a problem. Doing so is almost always a bug, because iteration through a such tuple is nigh always nonsensical.

So, can an array also be f(index) -> T? Sure. But does that make sense in enough context, or does it promote more bugs and less clear code is what I'd be thinking hard about before I implemented such a thing.

¹sometimes tuples are used as an immutable homogeneous array, and that case is different; iteration is clearly sane, then
by triceratops | 2026-01-21 04:32:59+00:00
That barely scratches the surface of the bigotry that existed. Protestant or Catholic, Jewish or Gentile/Christian, Eastern European or Western European, Anglo or non-Anglo, Anglo + German or non, Southern European or Northern European - these are all lines people use to discriminate upon that I can think of just off the top of my head. That's without even getting into skin color.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-21 04:33:40+00:00
This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what happened in WW2. The tl'dr is Hitler lost, fascism won.

Germany only became a national project in the 19th century. It was a collection of principalities before that. Unlike its neighbours, who were actual Great Powers at the time, it lacked colonial interests to exploit and get rich from. And then when oil became important in the early 20th century, Germany didn't have access to oil.

So Germany felt like it would get swallowed up by its neighbours at some point and sought to assert its dominance, throwing away the Bismarck order. When scores were settled, Germany was punished with devastating reparations that laid the groundwork for WW2 and, on the side, countries like Britain secured their oil interests in the Middle East.

Post-WWI brought the Spanish flu (pandemic anyone?), hyperinflation to Germany, a badly attempted coup (the Beer Hall Putsch; sound familiar?) and the rise of a populist fascist who blamed all of Germany's problems on undesirables, Jews and Communists (any modern parallels, at all?).

Europe had entered an era of appeasement, desperately seeking to not repeat the "Great War". Reunification of German peoples was used as an excuse to seize all sorts of land.

Now Stalin tried to warn Britain and France of the dangers of Hitler and form an alliance in 1939, which failed [1]. So instead Stalin formed what you'd have to call an uneasy alliance with Hitler.

WW2 breaks out, yada yada yada, Hitler betrays Stalin and Stalin basically defeated Hitler at a terrible cost. The US had 400k casulaties in the European theater of WW2. The estimates for Soviet military and civilian losses in the same period are between 26 and 29 million.

Where FDR had sought to rebalance the inequalities in the Depression and created lasting legacies we depend on today such as Social Security, Truman decided Communism was the enemy and, as such, the USSR was the Great Enemy, a decision that led directly to the Korean and Vietnam Wars and other smaller conflicts.

And who would be good at killing Communists? Nazis of course. Operation Paperclip is well known. Less well known is how hudnreds if not thousands of former Nazis were forgiven their "moral lapses" and joined the ranks of the CIA, the FBI and NATO as well as the new West German military command [2].

Hitler and Stalin were fundamentally different beasts. I'm not saying Stalin was a good guy. He commited his share of atrocities. So did every American president if we're keeping score. But one thing Stalin was really good at was killing Nazis.

So began almost 50 years of Cold War that saw the Red Scare and the near complete destruction of any form of organized labor in the US. All to fight Communism.

I say "fascism won" because the Nazis weren't wiped out and we're seeing fascism reborn in the US and Europe while people who survived the Holocaust are still alive. That's how little time it took.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_alliance_negotiations

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2014/11/05/361427276/how-thousands-of-na...
by verelo | 2026-01-21 04:33:41+00:00
Funny, not funny, this friend and I met up in early 2020 and had a beer down the road. He was telling me he'd rented his apartment in Liviv and was moving here next week. He had to go home to get some things, hand over the unit, and then he'd be back.

Next week was the pandemic, borders closed. He never left, and now he /still/ cant.