MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stinkbeetle | 2026-01-03 07:48:18+00:00
I don't think you followed the part where they said they believed in the rules based order and I questioned that in a bit of a sarcastic way. It was the entire point of my comment really. There is no "rules based order", the rules based order has always been whatever the wealthy and powerful can do to further enrich themselves and cement their power is the rules, and the order is that they remain on top.
by midnightclubbed | 2026-01-03 07:48:23+00:00
The Zune hardware was slick, particularly the solid state players. The music store worked great and their music licensing was so much better than Apple - $10 a month for unlimited streaming, unlimited downloads (rentals) to Zune devices and 10 free mo3 downloads to own.

Their only misstep was making one of their colorways poop brown! That and being too late to market with a phone that used the same design language
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-03 07:48:40+00:00
"The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, was presented with the inaugural 'FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World' by FIFA President Gianni Infantino during the Final Draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ at the iconic John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC" [1].

[1] https://inside.fifa.com/campaigns/football-unites-the-world/...
by dveeden2 | 2026-01-03 07:49:40+00:00
Things that I noticed are not yet there in this version: /proc, uptime, uname

Things that are working: `cal 2026`, coredumps

Things that might be broken or aren't working as expected: ps (only returns "No mem")

And utmp is in /tmp?

And no /usr/sbin or /sbin? And nothing in /usr/local?

The messages from `write root` are only in uppercase.
by nicbou | 2026-01-03 07:50:28+00:00
A single-binary static site generator would be my approach now. You can trust it to run in a few years.

I wrote my own SSG because I operate a website for a living and had specific needs. Prior to that I ran Craft CMS on the professional website and Wordpress on the personal one.

The benefit of SSGs is that the technical effort is tied to publishing. Once it’s online it stays online. You have both the human-readable source content and the static site. With traditional CMS there is a constant effort required to keep the website running. My dockerized Craft website wouldn’t start on the first few tries after a year offline.

SSGs are fantastic for building long-lasting websites with a low maintenance burden.
by kuboble | 2026-01-03 07:50:34+00:00
The odds may be the same but the game is not the same.

The point of lottery games is to offer the lowest possible probability of winning that has a perception of being winnable.

So guessing few random small numbers feels easier than picking one random large number.

The whole point of the website is to show those games in a context where people without a math degree will get how low the winning chances are.

So the games with the same winning likelihood Are Not the same game.
by panny | 2026-01-03 07:51:05+00:00
I understand it, the "disagree votes" and whatnot. At the end of the day, I fully expect to be a -4 wrongthinker for posting this. People get defensive when you start talking about their country, but they've never set foot here. It is mind blowing. You cannot buy a 30 year old vacation home ANYWHERE in the US for $650. Like, you get the land, the house, everything. You couldn't even RENT one for a month in the US at that price.

https://www.athome.co.jp/kodate/6979902125/

Life is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE better in Japan than the US. It isn't even close.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-03 07:51:55+00:00
> don’t think the US is going to be allowed to act outside the ICC for too much longer

The U.S. is not a signatory. (Most of the world's population isn't subject to ICC jurisdiction [1].)

> All of your former allies are going to insist on it before they will even think about treating your normally again

Nobody is treating the ICC seriously [2].

To be clear, this sucks. But it's America joining China and Russia (and Iran and Israel and India and every other regional power who have selectively rejected the rules-based international order).

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

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/world/middleeast/france-n...
by eternauta3k | 2026-01-03 07:52:14+00:00
> How does this differ from Russia invading Ukraine?

Cynically: maybe Venezuela will get a bit less sympathy because it's a somewhat shittier (see emigration numbers) and less democratic government than Ukraine's. And I suspect we have a more positive view of US troops than Russian troops, despite everything (Abu Ghraib is seen as an aberration and not as the normal way of working).
by yongjik | 2026-01-03 07:52:52+00:00
I doubt that. Takaichi has (IMHO needlessly) angered China and China is lashing out - because China is much bigger, the economic pain will be much greater for Japan.

It's theoretically possible that Takaichi had a plan and decided the economic pain was worth it, but generally you don't win elections by hurting economy.
by solumunus | 2026-01-03 07:54:43+00:00
It feels that way. I’m just one person but I’ve tried Linux several times over the decades and never stuck with it, for various reasons. Last year I got so fed up of Windows and tried Ubuntu. I can confidently say I’ll never install Windows again. Ubuntu has been good out of the box, but another difference to when I last tried Linux is the invention of LLM’s. Any issues I’ve had have been quickly resolved through troubleshooting with Claude/Perplexity, and I’ve used both to quickly learn the things I need. There were occasions last time where I spent literal days trying to fix things through searching and that was intolerable.
by avidiax | 2026-01-03 07:55:28+00:00
Some of the Eastern European anti-Soviet revolutions probably qualify. I suppose it depends on whether the U.S.S.R. "wanted" to crush the protests violently but couldn't. It certainly did conduct violent reprisals in several cases.

Civil rights in the US has been, I agree, sanitized. No, civil rights didn't progress solely because the majority in power was touched that minorities demanded their rights so peacefully and insistently. There was a violent side too, that provided necessary pressure.
by nicbou | 2026-01-03 07:55:47+00:00
I can confirm. I post across 5 platforms and each has its own regulars and its own vibe. The tone of my posts is slightly different on each.

The general idea for me is that I crosspost short messages about what I am current working on, but the actual finished product is self-hosted. Deleting any of the accounts will not result in lost information.
by pjb88 | 2026-01-03 07:55:59+00:00
Long term.
Like normally I do a mix of index funds wide diversification plus bonds 80/20, but even vanguard (despite always saying "get a plan and stick to it, tune out the noise") are all of a sudden saying they're under weighting growth stocks..
(Which I think is a bit strange that they don't acknowledge that it's different from their normal strategy)
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-03 07:56:05+00:00
"Murder.—
The act of a person who intentionally kills, or conspires or attempts to kill, or kills whether intentionally or unintentionally in the course of committing any other offense under this subsection, one or more persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including those placed out of combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause" [1].

Hmm. Filing this away for 2028 or 2032.

[1] ¶ (d)(1)(D)
by greatgib | 2026-01-03 07:56:23+00:00
This article looks like a giant stack of bullshit, trying to surf the wave of trendy topics.

If you are small and not have scaling problems, it is highly unlikely that you see a real difference between monolith or microservice except on the margin.

But lots of things look off in the article:
Billing needed to
...
Create the order

What? Billing service is the one creating the orders instead of the opposite?

Monday: A cascading failure took down the entire platform for 4 hours. One service had a memory leak, which caused it to slow down, which caused other services to time out, which caused retries, which brought everything down. In the monolith days, we would’ve just restarted one app. Now we had to debug a distributed system failure.

Hum, they could have restarted the service that failed, but if they had a leak in their code, even being a monolith the whole app would have gone done until the thing is fixed even constantly restarting. And I don't imagine the quality of your monolith service that is constantly restarting in full...

Finally it claims that Monday their service started to be slow, and already Wednesday the customer threatened to leave them because of the service to be slower. Doesn't look like to be a customer very hooked or needing your service if only after 2 days of issues they already want to leave.

Also, something totally suspicious is that, even if small or moderate size of company you could still have people push some architecture that they prefer, no company with a short few months cash runaway will decide to do a big refactor of the whole architecture if everything was good on the first place and no problem encountered. What will happen in theory is that you will start to face a wall, degrading performances with scale of something like that and then decide that you will have to do something, a rework. And then there will be the debate and decision about monolith, microservice, whatever else...
by nunez | 2026-01-03 07:57:51+00:00
No disrespect to you, but this solution is unacceptable.

The onus should not be on customers to workaround corporate wrongdoing. DoorDash states that 100% of the tip goes to drivers. They conveniently omit that some of their base wages will be covered by the tip. That should be illegal, and paying drivers under the table gives DoorDash the right to keep acting badly, my convenience be damned.

But let's say I was willing to gloss over this. The extra logistics just aren't customer-friendly.

Drivers see te tip before they accept the delivery mission. I would have to tip normally (so that drivers will deliver to us), take out cash (which I almost never use), add logistics for giving them a cash tip, then drop the tip to zero post-delivery (which could mess with my rankings and threaten our future with the service).

Tipping in cash is easier with something like Uber, where you'll already have cash on hand (because you're already out) and the money can change hands at the end of the ride. (To be clear: I'm not giving Uber a pass here. They also do shady stuff with driver payouts.)
Ask HN: The Alignment Tax
by brihati | 2026-01-03 07:58:38+00:00
I am having conversations with engineering leaders where they have expressed concerns that it's not only the code but a lot of other things around code:

1. Alignment between engineering teams and other stakeholders which causes the delay in finalising the requirements
2. Scope changing mid sprint, which was not accounted during planning, hence pushing deadlines
3. Engineers who have the most context of system X, is on leave or have left the company, hence decisions are delayed
4. Senior engineer changing the approved design mid sprint because of some flaws in approved design
5. Identified dependencies on other teams who have their hands tied up with other urgent tasks
.... & so on

Curious what this looks like at your company. What's the most expensive coordination failure your team has experienced? How much did it cost the company?
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-03 07:58:40+00:00
Here in middle Europe the rumble is that it is time to BDS the United States. I hear this everywhere, on the streets, at parties, at work.

I guess it’s the only way the American people will get a grip, if the rest of the world starts punishing the US and its allies economically.

It’s going to be bumpy if/when it happens, but does anyone see any other way to reign in the warmongers? What say you, Americans?
by sp34791 | 2026-01-03 07:59:29+00:00
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by dagss | 2026-01-03 08:00:02+00:00
This website that you call nonsensical was a huge help to me when starting to learn about accounting systems. And I have spent several years of my life working on a (special purpose, non-generalist) accounting system.

Nothing of what you write later argues why the website is in error, either it agrees with you or it is simply out of scope?

The important thing is just a shift of perspective. It is just a different way of viewing the same system. Not something different.

It seems your main gripe is the use of negative numbers instead of credit/debit.

I feel certain that if negative numbers where around when double entry book-keeping was first done then credit/debit would not have been invented.

Once you "grok" it, viewing an income account balance as a negative number and an expense account as a positive number makes so much sense.

Yes, using credit/debit instead of +/- is more normal, and if you use +/- you have to be prepared to translate at the UI later to terms more commonly used in accounting. But is is the same thing.

The article is not nonsensical at all.
by viraptor | 2026-01-03 08:00:36+00:00
M2.1 comes close. I'm using it now instead of Sonnet for real work every day, since the price drop is much bigger than the quality drop. And the quality isn't that far off anyway. They're likely one update away from being genuinely better. Also if you're not in a rush, just letting it run in OpenCode a few extra minutes to solve any remaining issues will cost you only a couple cents, but it will likely get the same end result as Sonnet.
by whatever1 | 2026-01-03 08:02:33+00:00
For one the whole country of Ukraine is fighting like hell for almost 4 years following the orders of their elected government to defend their country.

If Russia was on the right, the people of Ukraine would have just hanged Zelenskyy and his gov, instead of sending their children to the meat grinder.

Let’s see if Venezuelans will put their lives on the line to protect the regime.
by mvdwoord | 2026-01-03 08:02:38+00:00
Although I also know a handful of (euro) people who do not have Whatsapp, and a lot of the "missing out" can indeed be absorbed as you described. However, lots of people have a need for Whatsapp which cannot simply be ignored by walking on the beach. It is all about social trade-offs, personally I have almost all apps installed, most of them (or at least the group chats) muted. Some friends are signal only, some prefer telegram etc... sometimes it is just more "social" for you to adapt to a group. If the situation is that others want something from you, you can dictate the forms of communication, however it is quite legit for people to want to be a part of a larger group. No need for snarkiness.
by vanviegen | 2026-01-03 08:02:56+00:00
I'm finding numbers ranging from 16k (Imperial College London) up to 175k (WHO). All studies I encountered seem to be based on a statistical correlation between heath and death counts, which makes sense as 'heath' is rarely registered as an official cause of death.

Would installing more airco's help? Perhaps, especially some of the poorer regions in the south, hardest hit by climate change, may still have some nursery homes without proper cooling.

But installing airco's isn't even listed in the 4 points of advice provided by the WHO. It's about adapting lifestyles and work practices (think: construction workers) to the changing climate.

The US is not exempt from this. The NY times is reporting a doubling of heath related deaths in recent years, though I can only find numbers based on official causes of death, which cannot be compared to the European numbers.

So no, I don't think this is a great example of all of Europe being too stupid to do even simple things in its own interests.
by gallantzhangyu | 2026-01-03 08:03:04+00:00
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by like_any_other | 2026-01-03 08:03:08+00:00
> but how are they to argue that it makes a country less democratic? [..] words mean something!

You misunderstand the purpose of editorials such as these. It is not to communicate, but to push an agenda [1], here by putting PR pressure on the Japanese government. Words are just a tool in pursuit of that goal. So 'democracy' is used because of its positive affect in the minds of the public, and because it can be successfully misused without most people noticing - the line between "a set of policies I like" (how they are using the word) and "rule of the people" (what the word actually means) has been blurred through years of media effort for this very reason.

[1] I use the term neutrally, as in agendas can be either good or bad. E.g. fighting for the right for repair, and tobacco companies deceiving the public about the harm of their product, are both agendas.
by sipofwater | 2026-01-03 08:03:11+00:00
"A Big Picture View -- A Sweeping View Measured In Many Centuries -- Of The Impact Of The Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Phenomenon": https://old.reddit.com/r/411ExperiencedReaders/comments/ebi0... (old.reddit.com/r/411ExperiencedReaders/comments/ebi0fi/ufo_india_1958_four_entities_emerged_two_boys_who/fb4wgwb/)
by iamcalledrob | 2026-01-03 08:03:55+00:00
Same.

After decades of macOS, and a bit of Windows, I tried Linux again recently and it was... good? For the first time in 20+ years, I ran into no big issues and no need to switch back.

The new UI stuff happening in Gnome-land, while controversial, has started to make the desktop feel modern and cohesive.

After years of Windows Explorer, clicking around in ~~Nautilus~~Files felt so snappy. The built-in Gnome document viewer is fantastic.

Gnome is starting to show glimmers of being the natural evolution of the Mac desktop, not a poor imitation -- which is very exciting.
by ncallaway | 2026-01-03 08:04:36+00:00
Yes, if you’re curious the DoD’s own Laws of War manual uses shipwrecked survivors of an attack as “hors de combat” or out of combat.

This is very relevant to the second strike on the Venezuelan boat. I think the original strikes are also war crimes, but the second strike on the shipwrecked survivors is like… beyond all doubt a murder
by panny | 2026-01-03 08:05:28+00:00
On voting day here, you can be in and out in 5 minutes. The amount of time it takes to vote is the amount of time it takes for you to fill in the bubbles.

Tell me how that's worse than me waiting three hours in line in the Phoenix sun to vote, only to be given a provisional ballot because I'm the wrong demographic. And I know my ballot is going to be thrown in the trash and not counted.

You have never been to Japan. Visit. It will blow your mind.
by raffraffraff | 2026-01-03 08:07:03+00:00
Ok very simple, left wing media lie by omission and push agenda via slanted headlines and opinions, as much as the right do. As a traditionally left wing person I did not know the extent of this. I no longer exclusively read left wing news.

The left, in 2025, have a dreadful fear of seeming Islamophobic, and this is evident in their handling of this current situation and of the unrest in 2022 when a woman died in police custody, arrested for the crime of not wearing specific headwear. BBC headline commented on how the economic situation created the perfect conditions for unrest. How about oppression creating the perfect conditions for unrest? No, we're not allowed to comment on Iran's culture/religion, only their economy.
by epistasis | 2026-01-03 08:07:30+00:00
There has been no congressional declaration of war, no AUMF, no nothing, right?

The congress people who are military veterans recently put out a public service announcement reminding those in the military that they must refuse illegal orders, and Trump called that reminder of the law "treasonous" and said the veterans should be executed for reminding people of the law.

There should be military tribunals for all involved here to ensure that law and order is maintained. The US is losing its constitution, its rule of law. There is not country if we have two different sets of laws, one for normal people but zero laws for those following rhe president's wishes. That's a monarchy.
by coppsilgold | 2026-01-03 08:08:08+00:00
Recently, things have been advancing which may finally allow a seamless virtualization experience on the Linux desktop (and match QubesOS in some security aspects).

GPU drivers supporting native contexts with Mesa support.

Wayland sharing between guest and host. It used to be somewhat sloppy (involved protocol parsing; sommilier & wayland-proxy-virtwl) but recently someone undertook a project to do it properly that may soon bear fruit: https://codeberg.org/drakulix/wl-cross-domain-proxy

A VMM to utilize these features: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm

And a solution which ties these things together: https://git.clan.lol/clan/munix
by ncallaway | 2026-01-03 08:08:09+00:00
> and yeah who is gonna charge them ???? US have (arguably) strongest military on earth, who can put justice to them if not themselves ????

It must be us. It must be the American people.

This is (one of) the deepest moral failings of our voting public that we haven’t demanded it of our leadership.

You’re right that our leadership won’t do it unless the people absolutely demand it.

And… well, we haven’t demanded it.

So, the failure to bring them to justice belongs to me, and to every other American citizen that is eligible to cast a ballot.
by Earl_Arthur | 2026-01-03 08:08:10+00:00
Prediction: the regime will not fall. This will destabilize the country further, not so much the regime itself.

There will be a decrease in oil production, marginally boosting world prices. What's probably being taken out right now is the regime's ability to react in any meaningful way to the oil embargo.

It will also allow Maduro to throw his hands in the air and blame the US for all of VZLA's ills going forward. More poverty, more suffering, more migration.
by ildon | 2026-01-03 08:08:38+00:00
As a University professor, what I really don't get about this "experiment" is the timings. They report:

> 36 students examined over 9 days
> 25 minutes average (range: 9–64)

It appears that they examined only 4hrs each day, one student at a time. This is incredibly inefficient.

In my experience, the greatest benefit of doing something like this would be to be able to run these exams in parallel, while retaining a somewhat impartial grading system.
by theturtletalks | 2026-01-03 08:08:43+00:00
It won’t help, because once those MBAs take VC money, the incentives push the product toward enshittification sooner or later.

What we’re seeing instead is open-source becoming the real alternative. People used to look for other proprietary tools, but now open-source options are getting good enough, and more people are building personal software that fits their needs instead of bloated do-everything apps.

That’s the shift. Open-source is rising, and I don’t think these companies can reverse course fast enough.