MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wisty | 2026-01-09 08:24:48+00:00
Toyota has tonnes of heirarchy.

Their "andon" just means that if anyone suspects a fault, they raise a red flag (old school andon - a literal flag, US companies heard it and made it an app lol) and the line goes down until it's fixed.

This isn't anarchy or even democracy. It's totally standard for anything safety critical, Toyota just treats a flaw in a Corolla engine the same way most people treat airline crashes.

A US carrier group has tonnes of heirarchy but if the lowest ranked person sees loose spanner on the deck the whole thing shuts down instantly.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-09 08:25:21+00:00
A big thing overlooked with speed is binary size. WebAssembly is incredibly inefficient at storage space. For people still on DSL they will have to wait seconds (or minutes in the case of Godot) for the blob to download before execution can start.

Meanwhile javascript will be much faster to download since it is smaller and javascript can execute while it is downloading.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-09 08:25:37+00:00
It's utter trash, it was good when we had industry focused economies instead of service focused ones.

Everybody mocked Russia for having the same gdp as Spain. As it turns out your economy is much stronger when it's focused on heavy industries, steel, mining, oil, &c. Than when it is focused on tourism and other services

One produces value, the other generates money, when shits hit the fan you need energy, the drunk brits coming in your strip clubs aren't that useful anymore
by wewxjfq | 2026-01-09 08:25:53+00:00
Clean water was a one-time thing and more driven by state action than GDP growth. Fittingly, right now the AI bubble is making access to clean water worse for some, fracking did so too. Nutrition? GDP growth made food harder to access for many people before it got better - city laborers had worse food access than farmers. Still today people are living in food deserts. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" showed what kind of food unfettered GDP growth actually delivers.

And mere decades ago, life was more or less the same, if not arguably better in many ways.
by mariusor | 2026-01-09 08:26:01+00:00
I think it's a gross omission on the part of whomever wrote the guidelines if discussions about ethics are deemed off topic.

Because many of these events where tech is being used, or abused, in a way that's morally challenging lead to those discussions, and I for one, am very curious why the tech literate crowd of HackerNews is uncomfortable in talking about them, and presents their amorality as "it's against the guidelines".
by Lily_666 | 2026-01-09 08:26:13+00:00
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by bojan | 2026-01-09 08:26:31+00:00
That progress in India comes as an excuse to weaken their democratic institutions. The fallacy is that Modi is to praise - the progress comes mostly because of enormously positive global trends developed in the past decades, the ones that are now being threatened.

> Couple decades ago there were rather isolated Yugoslav Wars.

A bit of nuance, they ended in 1999, however the whole thing is still influencing Europe negatively and is not as isolated as it seems. Not just there are now seven countries instead of one to consider and negotiate with, a couple of them are utterly disfunctional. Further, two biggest chunks are deeply sunk into nationalism. Far too little effort had been made back then to try to reform the place into a functional system.
by jmward01 | 2026-01-09 08:26:40+00:00
Agreed. Long term economic health is always tied to long term social health. We should be, ultimately, trying to look at a broader index than some simplistic view of just money. It is a hard problem though to pin down an index for social health. As soon as we name a measure or index it becomes a target and its value drops. I tried to think of a more 'universal' index, one that could be applied to civilizations in the past and present and the best I could come up with is the healthier a civilization the more people can live together, longer, without killing each other. Not rigorous, but in general when I view history it seems to fit reasonably well.
by pcdevils | 2026-01-09 08:26:46+00:00
It's focus stacking so basically just compensating for the way macro lenses and large apertures work.
There's nothing artificial about it, the software is just layering the sharpest parts into the photo. It's a common technique, heavily used for things like astro photography and landscape photography as well.
https://www.canon.co.uk/get-inspired/tips-and-techniques/foc...
by Tom-Farmer | 2026-01-09 08:27:14+00:00
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by bonesss | 2026-01-09 08:27:49+00:00
Nerd circles are in no way immune to fashion, and often contain a strong orthodoxy (IMO driven by cognitive dissonance caused by the humbling complexity of the world).

Cargo cults, where people reflexively shout slogans and truisms, even when misapplied. Lots of people who’ve heard a pithy framing waiting for any excuse to hammer it into a conversation for self glorification. Not critical humble thinkers, per se.

Hype and trends appeal to young insecure men, it gives them a way to create identity and a sense of belonging. MS and Oracle and the rest are happy to feed into it (cert mills, default examples that assume huge running subscriptions), even as they get eaten up by it on occasion.
by lbreakjai | 2026-01-09 08:28:14+00:00
The logic isn't flawed. If you are a European investor, then you care about the returns in your currency, and the fact is your pile of money only grew by 4%.

Inversely, as a US investor, if you invested 100€ in the eurostoxx 50, your pile of money would have grown to about $140 (20% index growth, 15% dollar debasement). It absolutely makes a difference, that's $20 more in your pocket compared to the index.

Your comparison with temperatures is wrong. Celsius and Fahrenheit are fixed units, whereas the value of currencies fluctuate.
by kajika91 | 2026-01-09 08:29:11+00:00
Yes we should run URL-unaware manager, but nearly no one understand security, especially in browser. Let's see the permission asked for the #1 manager in firefox (Authenticator):

Input data to the clipboard
Access your data for sites in the dropboxapi.com domain
Access your data for www.google.com
Access your data for www.googleapis.com
Access your data for accounts.google.com
Access your data for graph.microsoft.com
Access your data for login.microsoftonline.com

Yep! And #2 (2FAS Auth):

Display notifications to you
Access browser tabs
Access browser activity during navigation
Access your data for all websites

Even better, maybe at one point web browser can get their sh* together and build better permission system (and not just disable functions like manifest v3). For now the majority of people trust opaque organization shoving them unknown code their run with way too many permissions on their computers.

Talking about unknown code there is a lot of work to be done on reproducible build as anything touching web has nearly nothing about it.
by DELTA-X | 2026-01-09 08:29:16+00:00
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Instead of optimizing outputs or replacing human judgment, the system constrains AI to structural verification, explicit stop conditions, and third-party auditability.

The goal is not performance, but preventing interpretative drift and authority transfer from human to system.

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by apignotti | 2026-01-09 08:29:41+00:00
We use WebAssembly aggressively at Leaning Technologies across our tools.

WebAssembly makes it possible to:

* Run x86 binaries in the browser via JIT-ting (https://webvm.io)

* Run Java applications in the browser, including Minecraft (https://browsercraft.cheerpj.com)

* Run node.js containers in the browser (https://browserpod.io)

It's an incredibly powerful tool, but very much a power-user one. Expecting your average front-end logic to be compiled in WebAssembly does not make much sense.
by shuka | 2026-01-09 08:29:56+00:00
It's a mix of the lack of documentation for the response payloads and the integration with the shell commands. My tip would be to wrap everything in shell, handle errors on the AppleScript end, and keeping it incredibly simple.

For example, the errors raised from the AppleScript without printing the error inside a try-catch are incredibly dim. So instead I've opted to wrap them on the AppleScript level, print the error and return an empty string. Kinda reminded me of old-school shitty C code.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-09 08:32:03+00:00
While I agree that the land has been taken by force, unfortunately returning the land is no longer an acceptable option.

The land of Israel has been developed in such a way that it has become completely different from what it was one century ago, and there is no doubt that its previous owners could have never succeeded to do a similar development, due to a combination of lacking both the financial means and the skilled labor capabilities.

While I believe that returning the land would be unjust at this time, I also believe that the never-ending war between Israelis and their neighbors can be stopped in only 2 ways, one of which is not acceptable in the modern world and which would bring eternal shame on Israel if they would ever succeed to realize it.

The second option is for Israel to do the same that Israel has demanded and has obtained from states like Germany. This means that Israel should admit that they have occupied the land by force and they should repair this by paying a just compensation to the remaining descendants of the former inhabitants, exactly like Israel has received from countries responsible for the oppression against Jews during WWII.
by Erlangen | 2026-01-09 08:32:08+00:00
> Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not.

Though it's an interesting quote, I have to disagree. The reindeers on St. Matthew Island continued to multiply and depleted their food resources without any predators, until an extreme snow storms struck. They don't "instinctively" develops a natural equilibrium.

https://www.adn.com/features/article/what-wiped-out-st-matth...
by IshKebab | 2026-01-09 08:32:38+00:00
Yeah the real answer is that all of this stuff is still a work in progress. Last I checked WASI doesn't have a concept of "current directory" for example, so porting software is not trivial.

Also WASI is a way of running a single process. If your app needs to run subprocesses you'll need to do more work.
by ceving | 2026-01-09 08:32:51+00:00
The data exchange between host and guest is still unspecified. You can not access host objects from Wasm. Most do just string serialization, which is not fast. Or they write libraries for some particular languages, which damages the universal idea of Wasm. And WASI seems to be quite controversial: https://www.assemblyscript.org/standards-objections.html
by rwmj | 2026-01-09 08:33:26+00:00
Only if you convert it at a loss and are unable to wait for USD to recover. If (and it is, admittedly, a big assumption) we assume that USD and EUR are broadly stable currencies over the long term, then short term changes in the ratio don't matter for long term investors. You're buying a share of productive capacity, the currency it is listed in doesn't matter.
by shuka | 2026-01-09 08:33:59+00:00
Oooh not yet, I've thought about it, as well as some other ideas of bulk syncing and diffs. I'd love for open issues—or better so PR's—on the repo!

What I tend to do—you can also see in the readme—is that I push it to Notes, then pull if I've made any changes. When you already have the id on the note, you can move your note anywhere you'd like (:
by Earw0rm | 2026-01-09 08:34:01+00:00
The difference in a hierarchical org is that the structure is laid out on paper for everyone to see. The power dynamic is explicit rather than implicit.

(At least, it's supposed to be. You do get weird inversions from time to time, when a weak manager is put in charge of a domineering empire-builder, but it's rare - and even in that case, the rest of the org can see the anomaly - as they have a frame of reference to measure it against.)

"Humans are complicated" => that is my uncertainty caveat. We're not absolute-hierarchical nor absolute-flat, in much the same way as we're neither exactly chimp-like nor gorilla-like in terms of monogamy. My observation though (and hardly an original one) is that when we build organisations which try to deny hierarchy, it has a habit of sneaking in thru the back door.
by sp0ck | 2026-01-09 08:34:30+00:00
It's already in use at least it automotive. If you are not working with safety critical systems (ADAS type) Rust and to some extent embassy is already in the wild. Companies like ETAS (https://www.etas.com/ww/en/) or Ferrous (https://ferrous-systems.com) are working to certify Rust and some crates (embassy is there) to be used with safety critical components. It's not question if but when it will be used. Volvo, Renault and some Chinese brands already ship cars with Rust embedded components in non safety critical path.
by jibal | 2026-01-09 08:34:32+00:00
I don't agree that it is either unfalsifiable or unproductive. And even if it is unfalsifiable, it's not "by definition"--so often that phrase is misused to add an aura of authority, but there's no tautology here. I find your claims to be self-reflectively unproductive and erroneous.

(I would note that, strictly speaking, my statement is provably false (therefore falsifiable) since by definition nothing can be at setting 11 on an implied scale of 1-10.)

I also take issue with "I'd argue" ... so often that phrase is misused to characterize an assertion with no accompanying argumentation.

Further discussion is unlikely to be productive so I won't comment further.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-09 08:34:56+00:00
I am kind of disappointed with regard to WebAssembly.

There were several articles that promoted it heavily - aka the hype phase.

And then ... nothing really materialized. If you look at, for instance, ruby WASM, https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm - there is virtually zero real documentation. Granted, this is a specific problem of ruby, and japanese devs not understanding english; but when you search for webassembly, contrast it to the numerous tutorials we have with regards to HTML, CSS, JavaScript. I get it, it is younger, it is harder than the other three tech stacks, but virtually nothing really improves here. It is like a borne-dead technology that has only a tiny niche, e. g. Rust developers. That's about it. And I fear this is also not going to change anymore. After a while, if the hype fails to deliver, people will lose interest - and a technology will eventually subside. That also happened to e. g. XHTML and the heavy use of XML in general in, say, 2000. I also don't think WebAssembly can be brought back now that the hype stage went off.
by alexwrboulter | 2026-01-09 08:35:27+00:00
Seek is great for more casual users, but also having that ML classification option inside iNat is useful for users like myself who fall somewhere in the middle between casual and enthusiast. I actively want to contribute observations but am often doing it while out doing other things and don't always have the time to agonise over the ID, so the ML classification is great for me, plus, because it's so accurate, it avoids that unfortunately common scenario where you upload an observation with an ID you're not entirely confident in, hoping another user will step in and correct it if necessary, but then it never gets that second input and you're left wondering why you bothered.
by Alex1Morgan | 2026-01-09 08:35:35+00:00
Author here.

This post explores a simple idea: treating compression as an online optimization process,
where mode switching is driven by how the compressor itself responds to the data,
rather than by inspecting or classifying the data.

I implemented a small experimental controller applying this principle to existing compressors
as a discussion artifact here:
https://github.com/Alex256-core/AdaptiveZip

The goal is not a new compression algorithm,
but a mathematically motivated way to select and switch modes automatically.
Critical feedback is very welcome.
by huhkerrf | 2026-01-09 08:35:47+00:00
> Don't forget that Millennials are the first generation to be poorer than their parents in a long time...

This is simply not true. At some point, we do need to rely on data other than "lived experience," which compares one's quality of life at 22 to someone's quality of life at 50.

"Younger Americans (millennials and Gen Zers) owned $1.23 for every $1 of wealth owned by Gen Xers at the same age."

"Younger Americans (millennials and Gen Zers) owned $1.35 for every $1 of wealth owned by baby boomers at the same age."

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2025/june/the-state-of...
by zz5759 | 2026-01-09 08:36:48+00:00
I’m not convinced CAPTCHA is the right long-term solution anymore.

Most low-effort bots can already bypass basic CAPTCHA, while it mostly adds friction for legitimate users. HN’s strength is the quality of discussion, and that seems better protected by behavior-based signals (account age, posting patterns, community feedback) rather than one-time verification challenges.
by close04 | 2026-01-09 08:37:21+00:00
You're either generalizing or just making a mistake stating so definitively that sitting on an asset means being stupid with investments. You know your house and situation but that's far from representative. Sitting on it might turn out to be the stupidest or the smartest decision you can make. If you take the hard stance that it can only mean one thing, you're just being stupid with investments in all the "other" cases.

I am surrounded by people who sat on houses for a decade only to triple their money after inflation adjustment when they sold. We're talking 7 figure profits. Trying to sound smarter than everyone else sometimes backfires.
by sixhobbits | 2026-01-09 08:38:00+00:00
I'm more of a backend guy but afaik most popular backend frameworks like Django, Rails, Laravel etc have 10+ years of top-level work and run on much smaller annual budgets.

Not saying that it's right, and there's a whole philosophical debate about open source being financially sustainable, but in terms of "You can't expect a decade of work for free" - I think you can and many people do.
by 5d41402abc4b | 2026-01-09 08:38:14+00:00
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by ellie_dcruz | 2026-01-09 08:38:17+00:00
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by mirzap | 2026-01-09 08:38:51+00:00
There’s no doubt that AI has had a significant impact on this type of business model - selling premium components. That said, in 2026 there are still plenty of premium kits generating substantial revenue despite AI.

I believe something else has had a much greater impact on Tailwind UI’s business than AI, and that is shadcn, which was released in September 2023. The fact that Adam didn’t recognize this shift and adapt Tailwind UI to align with the shadcn ecosystem is, in my view, the primary reason sales have declined, not AI.

I used Tailwind UI Plus extensively before shadcn, but after its release, I lost the motivation to copy, paste, and manually modify components when I can simply pull free components (or components from another kit) directly via shadcn.

I genuinely hope Adam updates Tailwind Plus and creates a shadcn compatible registry for their components. That alone could significantly boost sales.
by skrebbel | 2026-01-09 08:40:26+00:00
> Now one problem with the "French Cafe" technique is that you can only
learn words that the customers use. What if you want to learn other
words? Say for example you want to learn to swear in French? You would
try ordering something at the cafe, then stepping on the waiters toe
or poking him in the eye when he gives you your order. As you are
being kicked out you take copious notes on the words he uses.

This is written so compellingly that I almost want to try this approach to learn French swearing.