MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dismalaf | 2026-01-25 17:46:28+00:00
> Jordan Lasker, who often writes about race and intelligence under the name Crémieux

It's funny because this guy is center-left, he just happens to actually be intellectually honest.

Anyhow, either we do science or we just admit that we don't like the social implications of the evidence. Trying to hide data and gaslight the public isn't science.
by k310 | 2026-01-25 17:46:33+00:00
Not snowy on the western front, but worth sharing.

Gorgeous webcams at Yosemite. No snow right now, but beautiful when there are snow or clouds. Webcams are courtesy of Yosemite Conservancy [0]

Half Dome from Ahwahnee Meadow.

https://cdn.pixelcaster.com/public.pixelcaster.com/snapshots...

Half Dome from Sentinel Dome.

https://cdn.pixelcaster.com/public.pixelcaster.com/snapshots...

Yosemite Falls.

https://cdn.pixelcaster.com/public.pixelcaster.com/snapshots...

El Capitan and Half Dome from Tunnel View.

https://cdn.pixelcaster.com/public.pixelcaster.com/snapshots...

[0] https://yosemite.org
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-25 17:46:56+00:00
> I can't believe I just read that. What's the bar for a bad person if you haven't passed it at "it was simply easier to do the bad thing?"

For starters, the bar should be way higher than accusations from a random person.

For me,there's a red flag in the story: posting reviews and criticism of other papers is very mundane in academia. Some Nobel laureates even authored papers rejecting established theories. The very nature of peer review involves challenging claims.

So where is the author's paper featuring commentaries and letters, subjecting the author's own criticism to peer review?
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-25 17:46:59+00:00
As an aside, I'd like to mention that like 9 times out of 10 if you are driving down the road in an ICE vehicle and smell weird oil or hot coolant smells you are smelling someone else's car. The wind blows away a lot of your own stink before it gets to you. I learned to ignore anything that didn't smell 1) when I was stopped, and 2) more than once in totally different locations. After trying to track down smells that I thought were mine and were invariably from someone else nearby.
by roskelld | 2026-01-25 17:47:07+00:00
Steffest was just showing off his entry for the color cycling competition at GERP 2026 which uses a few of his tools to produce including DPaint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyB5cvA6f78

EDIT: I see he posted a link at the bottom of the Readme.md I guess I should have scrolled to the bottom first.
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-25 17:47:09+00:00
HN screwed up your second submission as well. You should email the mods, for some reason they're rewriting that second URL to something else.

EDIT: It appears that every lww.com submission gets rewritten to the same URL since September 2024. Earlier ones seem to be correct. It's probably a weird interaction between the site and HN's URL rewriting scheme (usually based on canonical links). But the URL you've linked has a canonical link and it's the same URL you provided.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-25 17:48:36+00:00
Yes, you can build feature in OP with SDK have done this. Works well...but this is something completely different to agents.

Subagents and the auth implementation are linked because Anthropic's initial strategy was to have a prompt-based interaction which, because of the progress in model performance, has ended up being limiting as users want to run things without prompting. This is why they developed Claude Code Web (this product is more similiar to what this feature will do than subagents, subagents are similar if you have a very shallow understanding...the purpose of this change is to abstract away human interaction, i assume that will use subagents but the context/prompt management is quite different).
by mindslight | 2026-01-25 17:48:58+00:00
"Are you stoned, or are you stupid?"

The main group of politicians encouraging the destruction of law and order is the regime currently occupying the White House, rejecting any sort of accountability for the revanchist militias they have sent to attack American civil society. And no, it doesn't matter that the wannabe tin-pot dictator gave them "law enforcement" badges as they clearly have no respect for the highest laws of the land.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-25 17:49:38+00:00
Good article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal with cleaned/stabilized versions of the videos, synchronized from multiple perspectives. Maybe check it out: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of...

Of course you're right to be suspicious. The Trump administration has already used AI-altered videos to bear false witness in at least one instance we know of, so it's a good idea to hunt down multiple sources.

In this case, the footage is consistent and unequivocal: an execution-style killing took place in cold blood under color of law. But I'm sure that won't always be true.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-25 17:49:39+00:00
You are 100% correct, but also 100% missing the point. When I say white people are more likely to carry the gene for cystic fibrosis, or black people are more likely to carry genetic risk factors for kidney disease, nobody will reply with a long winded explanation claiming that statement is invalid because "white" and "black" are not scientifically valid because... Comments like yours appear only when the topic of intelligence comes up, so I conclude that the real problem you have with this is the subject of intelligence, and not the categories.

And when the science on race and intelligence came out, the response of the scientific community was not "your categories are bad, and here is my study on intelligence that actually uses scientifically valid genetic groupings." It was "any further science on this subject will not be funded and if you express disagreement it will risk your career."
by oawiejrlij | 2026-01-25 17:49:57+00:00
When I was a grad student I contacted a journal to tell them my PI had falsified their data. The journal never responded. I also contacted my university's legal department. They invited me in for an hour, said they would talk to me again soon, and never spoke to me or responded to my calls again after that. This was in a Top-10-in-the-USA CS program. I have close to zero trust in academia. This is why we have a "reproducibility crisis".
by djoldman | 2026-01-25 17:50:01+00:00
> ALL UNMANNED ACFT ARE PROHIBITED FROM FLYING WITHIN A STAND-OFF DISTANCE OF 3000FT ... LATERALLY AND 1000FT ABOVE ...

> TO: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD), DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE), AND DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) FACILITIES AND MOBILE ASSETS, INCLUDING VESSELS AND GROUND VEHICLE CONVOYS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED ESCORTS, SUCH AS UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (USCG) OPERATED VESSELS

Much more restrictive than just ICE operations.

See also: https://udds-faa.opendata.arcgis.com/search
by slg | 2026-01-25 17:50:06+00:00
>Let's be honest: you're doing much more than "suggesting".

Lol, I don't know what that is supposed to mean. I'll admit to including an undercurrent of shaming with that suggestion to hopefully cause some introspection, but it's still just a suggestion.

Beyond that, I just fundamentally disagree with the point you seem to be making People can't be trusted to talk nicely so they won't get any place to talk at all just doesn't feel like the right principle for the moment.

Regardless, my original point stands. Everyone's unique role in life grants them a certain amount of power. Now is the time to consider what it will take before you use your power to exert whatever positive influence you can.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-01-25 17:50:20+00:00
One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is to have laws that are virtually impossible to not break.

I hope this gets tested in court and declared unconstitutional for being overly vague and arbitrary. For example, Montana used to have some maximum speed limits that were just "reasonable and prudent", but they were eventually rejected by courts as being too vague (what's prudent to you may not be prudent to someone else). This is similar, in that the FAA has a no fly zone but they don't actually publish what it is.

Catch-22 and 1984 weren't supposed to be instruction manuals.
by 13415 | 2026-01-25 17:51:32+00:00
It is fact and you're wrong. He was being beaten. No doubt about it and I'm willing to die on that hill. I'd even swear this under oath. There is more than one video by the way.

I'm not going to "discuss" this any further though. The evidence is crystal-clear. That's all I have to say about it. (I'm not from the US and don't care much about your internal problems, but I have eyes.)
by divan | 2026-01-25 17:51:56+00:00
It's actually good. I use it as my main photo editing app, as it's does exactly what I need, does it good and fast. So my workflow is Photo Mechanic for culling, then importing RAWs into Apple Photos (not to the gallery, just as a separate folder/album) and then it gets picked up by Photomator automatically. It's not a perfect flow (Apple does some weird conversion from RAW in the background and it takes a lot of CPU time when importing a lot of photos), but it gives me pretty much all what I need (including face recognition, ML exposure/color, quick subject/background masking, HDR photos editing, etc).
by avidiax | 2026-01-25 17:52:22+00:00
Maybe I just expect too much battery life, but I find that I get quite low or even run out when I limit charging to 80%.

My feeling is that the coulomb counting on the Pixel 8 Pro is just not very accurate, so the phone thinks it's at 80%, but is really at 60% or 40%.

I still use the feature, but now I have to top up during the day every so often. I suppose rationally I should just charge to 100% rather than take a medicine that causes the same side effect as the disease its meant to treat, but I'm not that rational.
by ops_mechanic | 2026-01-25 17:52:30+00:00
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the usual 3am outages.

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by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-25 17:52:56+00:00
You could get them, although I've never seen one. I know someone who had a MD data drive on his PC which he used for copying large audio files onto (he had a multitrack recorder that also used them) with the handy advantage that they had considerably more capacity than Zip disks.

Apparently they were reliable but godawful slow, and he was glad to move onto SmartMedia and CompactFlash cards.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-25 17:53:13+00:00
GRiD Compass was the first portable computer in the now ubiquitous clamshell format.

They have patented this, so all the early laptop manufacturers had to license their patent.

GRiD Compass was designed since the beginning with the main goal of being a computer that can be carried in a briefcase. This was somewhat similar with how the first "scientific" calculator had been designed by Hewlett-Packard, with the main goal of fitting inside a shirt pocket.

There have been a number of earlier portable computers, made by IBM, Osborne and a few others, but those were much more cumbersome and more difficult to carry, mainly because they had CRT displays, while GRiD Compass had a beautiful flat electroluminescent display.
by timr | 2026-01-25 17:53:51+00:00
If it makes you feel any better, the problem you’re describing is as old as peer review. The authors of a paper only have to get accepted once, and they have a lot more incentive to do so than you do to reject their work as an editor or reviewer.

This is one of the reasons you should never accept a single publication at face value. But this isn’t a bug — it’s part of the algorithm. It’s just that most muggles don’t know how science actually works. Once you read enough papers in an area, you have a good sense of what’s in the norm of the distribution of knowledge, and if some flashy new result comes over the transom, you might be curious, but you’re not going to accept it without a lot more evidence.

This situation is different, because it’s a case where an extremely popular bit of accepted wisdom is both wrong, and the system itself appears to be unwilling to acknowledge the error.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-25 17:54:19+00:00
> You're wasting your time if you truly believe that Bluesky is not going to end up the same way.

Indeed, there are the same incentives and commercial pressures. But you don't have to believe that that it will last for ever, you can dance while the music plays, and be prepared to leave when it stops.

Choosing when to leave as a platform gradually enshitifies is tricky, but making your peace ahead of time with the idea that it is temporary is good preparation.
by glenstein | 2026-01-25 17:54:25+00:00
>No it's not. The term originated far before this debacle, and carries a meaningful distinction than just "installing". Specifically it means installing from a non-first party source

It's amazing how many confidently wrong people are springing up out of the wordwork to present revisionist history like it's ancient wisdom. Pre-mobile computing treated "install" as neutral and primary. Sideloading as a term of art originally, in practice came into usage for transferring media to devices, and some cloud file hosts briefly used it to mean load a file to an online drive without downloading it to computer. It's usage was varied, irregular, and not at any threshold of popular acceptance for one meaning or another.

Windows, Dos, Linux, and online self-hosted services had no notion of "sideloading", or at least no usage of that vocabulary and did not use this notion of "install" that is now being retrospectively declared a longstanding historical norm. Even now, that's not a term used in Windows or Linux. Even Apple, who very much in practice utilize this controlled distribution model but even they don't use this sideloading/installing verbal distinction. In Apple's lexicon installing is neutral with respect to where an app comes from.

So it's staggering to see a specific term of art that deviates from historical precedent that only is used in an Android context be referred to as if its observing a longstanding precedent across all of computing. It's nothing of the sort.
by cb321 | 2026-01-25 17:54:52+00:00
Besides `ar` as a sibiling observed, you might also be thinking of pixz - https://github.com/vasi/pixz , but really any archive format (cpio, etc.) can in principle just put a stake in the ground to have its last file be any kind of binary / whatever index file directory like Zip. Or it could hog a special name like .__META_INF__ instead.
by simonw | 2026-01-25 17:56:37+00:00
Any time I see people say "I don't see why I should care about my privacy, I've got nothing to hide" I think about how badly things can go if the wrong people end up in positions of power.

The classic example here is what happens when someone has an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases.

This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all.
by zsoltkacsandi | 2026-01-25 17:57:20+00:00
One thing I learned from my physio: in your spine, everything is connected.

For example, even if you sit perfectly upright, if you have anterior pelvic tilt, it can change the whole dynamics of your spine, that the cervical segment takes a lot of load that it isn't supposed to do.

Or with bad habits you can reprogram your neuromuscular system that it uses the wrong muscles to maintain posture, that can lead a series of problems long term.

If you have back/neck pain or tension that does not resolve in 1-2 weeks, go to a physio.
by ajb | 2026-01-25 17:58:01+00:00
Their next one (https://baochip.com/) is going to be a SoC, piggy backed on another company's SoC. So not completely open source RTL, but enough to prove their technology on a larger scale. Bunnie's presentation of it is here: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-the-... (25 minutes in)
by lizknope | 2026-01-25 17:58:18+00:00
The other alternative is that you sprinkle spare gates around the chip. If the chip is 10mm x 10mm then every 100 microns you put a group of cells that just have their inputs tied to 0 and the outputs go nowhere. You put in a good mix of flip flops, and combinational logic cells. Then when you need to do a metal ECO the RTL team says "We need 2 AND gates, 1 OR gate, 1 mux, and they are connected to these 5 cells." So you highlight those 5 cells and find the closest spare logic group and use those.

The ECOFILLER gate array style cells are easier to use.

Then during the DRC check process in Calibre we run a check to make sure that the base layers stayed the same and only the metal layers changed. Since we have 18 metal layers in a leading edge node hopefully only metal layers 1 to 3 changed for the metal ECO so you only have to pay to make new versions of that.

A full mask set in 3nm can be over $30 million. Just a new set of metal masks is around $20 million.

A full mask run takes about 4 months in the fab. Normally you tell the fab to keep a few wafers after the base layers and don't manufacture the metal layers. Then when you do a metal respin they get those out of storage and save a month.
by baggy_three | 2026-01-25 17:58:34+00:00
This sort of thing is why I've moved away from left-wing politics as I've got older. I'm now centre-left and not much engaged with politics any more, whereas in my twenties I considered myself far-left and would be leafleting, going to protests, and have social groups full of people who felt the same way.

I came to realise that most leftists are idiots who don't think for themselves and need to be spoonfed the latest acceptable opinions, usually from a social media echo chamber. And these opinions change with the wind.

Like why shouldn't I do my own research and try to discuss it with people who supposedly have similar principles? No apparently that's not allowed and you'll get shouted down for it, maybe even banned for wrongthink.
by woleium | 2026-01-25 17:58:48+00:00
Google Workspace + Microsoft 365 together around 95% of hosted corporate seats.

Total people using email (2024–2025): about 4.5–4.6 billion.

Google (Gmail consumer + Google Workspace): ≈3.0 billion active users/mailboxes.

numbers from perplexity, but probably good enough for casual conversation
by kasperset | 2026-01-25 17:58:58+00:00
I agree with this. We are much missing these forums with civil replies and clouded behind "influencer" culture, which is optimized for incentives. Pure discussions as in this example are such a stalwarts of open web.

On the other hand, small websites and forums can disappear but that openness allows platform like archive.org to capture and "fossilize" them.
by codyb | 2026-01-25 17:59:42+00:00
Oh, lol, now I get your question. Yea, it turns out the silence and lack of distractions are what produce "shower thoughts", more so than the act of showering itself.

Doing any relatively rote act like washing dishes, walking places, etc can also give rise to them. Not having a device in your hand to constantly steal your attention really helps though.
by gtowey | 2026-01-25 17:59:52+00:00
> I hope this gets tested in court and declared unconstitutional

The rule of law has left the building. The SC is willing to rubber-stamp nearly anything right now.

Waiting and hoping for common sense to prevail is what allows authoritarian regimes to bulldoze through existing laws and norms. Even if the courts were an avenue for redress, they are being overwhelmed by the daily barrage of new illegal and unconstitutional actions. Once the courts get around to addressing these cases, the damage has been done and the precedent has been set.
by bgun | 2026-01-25 18:00:45+00:00
Developments without which the modern world would be unrecognizable:

Materials: concrete, petroleum, steel, aluminum, cotton, plastic
Music: 12 tone equal temperament
Food: Cereal crops, food preservation (canning, pasteurization), fermentation
Technology: batteries (lead-acid, lithium-ion, alkaline), circuitry, GPS
Transportation: internal combustion engine, asphalt road engineering, flight, rocketry

Lists like this, or “tech trees” as you might find in Civilization-type games, are hard in part because language is insufficient to map technological progress. There’s also no version of modernity that could exist without some form of philosophy, pedagogy, and cultural development, but naming “most significant” ones in a modern context involves going back to very ancient and deeply opinionated texts that include the Bible, Koran, Torah and so on.
by codyb | 2026-01-25 18:01:46+00:00
Posted in a few places, so sorry for the repetitive messaging!

Get out and protest, time for this regime to come collapsing down.

In NYC area...

- January 28th, 2026 - Melania rings the bell at NYSE
- February 3rd, 2026 - Petition delivered to NFL HQ demanding no ICE at the Superbowl
- February 17th, 2026 - Impeach, Convict, Remove, Defund

Find actions here - https://www.fiftyfifty.one - and presumably other spaces.

Donate to the lawyers in the courts by donating to organizations like the ACLU.
Vote of course. Get your friends out.

Boycott. Delete social media and stop giving the billionaires that line up to give Trump plaques and donations money and information. Boycott Amazon, Paramount, Disney, Apple, and all the rest, as much as possible. They all suck.

Stand up, fight back, it's not a foregone conclusion, but if you read enough history books you'll learn that shit gets really awful really fast with these things.

The time to act was yesterday, so start acting now.

I'll be out there with you!
by amluto | 2026-01-25 18:02:03+00:00
How is an operator supposed to recognize these “MOBILE ASSETS”? For the case of ICE, ICE is reputed to try fairly hard to make it challenging to recognize their mobile assets. But the NOTAM says nothing about ICE per se, and there are lots of things that seem like they would qualify. On multiple occasions, I suspect that I have personally transported “DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY … MOBILE ASSETS”, and any drone flying nearby would have seen this as … a rental car with a couple people in it. All the DOE assets would have been in the trunk or maybe the back seat. Definitely assets and definitely mobile, but I suppose a court would need to determine whether they were MOBILE ASSETS or whether they were sufficiently associated with the DOE.

(Also, had this been in effect and if a drone had been a part of the project, which would not have been unreasonable [0], it would have been really annoying if I was carrying a portable do-not-fly zone and needed to get permission from the agency to take some photos of the equipment I was carrying.)

[0] To be fair, part of this project was in a location where operating a drone would have been inappropriate for reasons that have nothing to do with the FAA or national security.
by leguminous | 2026-01-25 18:02:36+00:00
I think they are more accessible now than when that article was written. My wife and I bought a mid-trim Hyundai Kona Electric for under $35,000. Besides, lots of people buy used cars, and there are crazy deals on used EVs. I've seen Bolts go for under $15,000. 2 year old ID.4s are selling for under $20,000 in my area. You may not find a $5,000 beater, but EVs are penetrating further into the middle of the market now.

There are also lower ongoing costs for maintenance and fuel.

There is still the secondary wealth filter of having a place to park and charge, of course.