MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jhbadger | 2026-01-16 12:09:36+00:00
I'm not sure "keeping out outsiders" is a bug. The US is experiencing what it is like to be governed by an outsider with no previous political experience and who thinks things like "laws" don't apply to him, and who thinks experts can't be trusted and puts unqualified people in charge of the military, science and health. Politicians need to develop -- they should start with a local position, and "graduate" to a national-level position before they even attempt to rule a nation.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-16 12:10:06+00:00
I believe it goes like this:

Boeing: Do you want a two line code which triggers a potentially life-saving warning when your flying sausage with wings has an important sensor malfunction?
Customer: Of course!
Boeing: That'll be $25K, thanks.

Also, no-smoking light toggle labeled Off - Auto - On is being relabeled and rewired to On - On - On is hilarious.
by ramraj07 | 2026-01-16 12:10:20+00:00
Part of humanity will be sure. But what about the rest?

Climate change will not kill humanity off, but its likely to cause suffering we haven’t seen since WWII (or worse).

Unfortunately I've seen a glimpse of how the bottom 50% of people (not in a developed country but globally) get by today. If one doesnt care for their suffering and their lives, its easy to confirm that the society on average (not on median) will be more prosperous. But that will more likely manifest through a few hundred trillionaires living in space and a few ten thousand billionaires who serve them with their services.

The bottom billions will likely just starve, move around desperately due to war, famine, fire and flood, turned away at closed borders, and who knows what new type of cruelty that will bubble up in the future. What do we tell them?
by andybak | 2026-01-16 12:11:29+00:00
> and little to no follow-up engagement from their authors.

A strategy I sometimes use for external contributions is to immediately ask a question about the pull request. Ignoring PRs where I don't get a reply or the reply doesn't make sense potentially eliminates a lot of low quality contributions.

I wonder if a "no AI" rule is an overly blunt instrument. I can sympathise with it but babies and bathwater etc.
by zipy124 | 2026-01-16 12:12:20+00:00
Here you go dude:
- https://fractory.com/
- https://lasercutsend.uk/
- https://www.andoverlaser.co.uk/

The second is the most similar to the company in the video, but the first is a much more established company. If none of these can do what you need, I suggest looking around the large manufacturing cities, so sheffield/derby/birmingham where there are still lots of small bespoke workshops that service large companies like forgemaster, rolls royce and JLR etc....
by acheong08 | 2026-01-16 12:12:30+00:00
I've never actually compared so I don't know if there's a better one for the price but the one I bought was "Zealsound RGB Recording Microphone With Articulated Arm/USB Condenser Mic with Tripod"

The sound quality doesn't feel crazy but definitely usable for anything I need. Also seems to filter out my laptop fan noise which is much appreciated
by microtonal | 2026-01-16 12:12:50+00:00
The only reliable solution I know to that is for people to be principled.

...and educated.

Today it seems like we've lost that almost entirely.

We replaced it by egoism. Through decades of neoliberalism we are taught to only care about ourselves, not our communities. Making money and buying things became our main philosophy. It does not matter if you are actually well-off, everyone is in a race with everyone else.

As a result, we don't stand up against injustice as long as it does not affect us much. And the egoism makes everything seem like a zero-sum game, if an immigrant gets a house paid by taxes, then I must be losing something.

This is also what permeates current US policy - you can only win if someone else loses. In this mindset it is not possible to have cooperation that is mutually beneficial.

I hope we can heal as mankind and take care of each other again.
by incomingpain | 2026-01-16 12:13:24+00:00
The USA is designed around trains and large communities. Leading into cars from horses and suburbs. This design and walkability far pre-existed the loneliness epidemic.

As for otherside, could this help the situation? Very much doubt it and reallocating a trillion $ means you have to defund a great deal of other things. Never happening, and likely to make the situation that much worse.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-01-16 12:13:34+00:00
The type of person who outsources their thinking to their social media feed news stories and isn't intellectually curious enough to deeply explore the models themselves in order for the models to display their increase in strength, isn't going to be able to tell this themselves.

I would think this also correlates with the type of person who hasn't done enough data analysis themselves to understand all the lies and misleading half-truths "data" often tells. In the reverse also, that experience with data inoculates one to some degree against the bullshitting LLM so it is probably easier to get value from the model.

I would imagine there are all kinds of factors like this that multiple so some people are really having vastly different experiences with the models than others.
by bmitch3020 | 2026-01-16 12:14:52+00:00
The spectrum comes with multiple tradeoffs, and isn't a simple "bare metal is more secure" narrative. Because as you move into VMs, containers, and code sandboxes, you lose isolation which increases risks, but you also gain capabilities to limit the application which decreases risk. So I believe the most secure approach is layered with much multiple types of isolation working together.

For example, you may isolate a specific customer to bare metal so an escape doesn't compromise other customers. But within that bare metal, you may run containers because they make it easier to work with a read only root filesystem that's also trivial to upgrade. You can also add on user namespaces and seccomp in the container to minimize the risk of a container escape. And then the application may have its own sandbox that limits individual capabilities and which API calls it can run.

Every use case is different, and some layers may not be available depending on that use case. But rather than picking one point on the spectrum, one should pick a list of technologies that best solve each use case.
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by delaminator | 2026-01-16 12:15:27+00:00
> It would probably take like 3 to 5 years to catch up with the benefit of hindsight and existing talent and tools?

Are you talking about TSMC - because that is a single, albiet primary, node in a supply chain, that's also what you have to replicate. AMSR is another vital node.

So many people with "it's just a factory, how hard can it be". The answer is "VERY", as a few endavours have found out already - and they will probably find out even at TSMC Arizona.

I shall illustrate with Adrian Thompson's 1996 FPGA experiment at the University of Sussex.

Thompson used a genetic algorithm to evolve a circuit on an FPGA. The task was simple: get it to distinguish between a 1kHz tone and a 10kHz tone using only 100 logic gates and no system clock.

After about 4,000 generations of evolution, the chip could reliably do it but the final program did not work reliably when it was loaded onto other FPGAs of the same type.

When Thompson looked inside at what evolved, he found something baffling:

The plucky chip was utilizing only thirty-seven of its one hundred logic gates, and most of them were arranged in a curious collection of feedback loops. Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest - with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output - yet when he disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the tones.

Welcome to building semi-conductors.

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-16 12:16:24+00:00
Notably, we could do that while still abolishing first past the post. Requirements for holding a previous position could be added while simultaneously reforming the federal (and hopefully also state) systems to be compatible with multiple parties. I imagine it would be sufficient for each level to require a single term served at the previous level - city or county, state, and federal.

The downside is encouraging career politicians, but the upside is that if you can't win increasingly high stakes elections over a period of 10 years or so then you probably have no business being the president of a country this size.
by aeonik | 2026-01-16 12:16:29+00:00
Datalog has the same capabilities as prolog but allows strings right?

My understanding is that they have very different evaluation strategies, bottom up vs top down. But with laziness and pruning you can still achieve the same goals in datalog with more ergonomics, right?

I think every language should have a prolog or datalog implementation, kind of like regex.
by adamcharnock | 2026-01-16 12:16:30+00:00
We've been using JuiceFS in production for a few months now and I'm a big fan. I've felt for a while that block-level filesystems do not adapt at all well to being implemented across a network (with my personal experience being of AWS EBS and OpenEBS Mayastor). So the fact that JuiceFS is interfaces at the POSIX layer felt intuitively better to me.

I also like that it can keep a local read-cache, rather than having to hit object storage for every read. This is because it can perform a freshness check with with the (relatively fast) metadata store to determine if its cached data is valid, prior to serving the request from cache.

We back it with a 3-node (Redis-compatible) HA Valkey cluster, and in-cluster MinIO object storage, all in bare-metal Kubernetes. We can saturate a 25g NIC with (IIRC) 16+ concurrent users.

It is also one of the few Kubernetes storage providers that provides read-write-many (RWX) access. Which can also be rather helpful in some situations.

In an early test we were running it against MinIO with zero redundancy. Which is not recommended in any case. There we did see some file corruption creep in. In which case some files in JuiceFS become unreadable, but the system as a whole kept working.

Another reason I think JuiceFS works well, is indeed because of its custom block-based storage format. It is disconcerting because you cannot see your files in object storage, but instead just a lot of chunks. But this does buy some real performance benefits, especially when doing partial file reads or updates.

Another test we're doing is running a small-to-medium sized Prometheus persisted to JuiceFS. It hasn't shown any issues so far.

And, if you've made it this, far: check us out if you want a hand installing and operating this kind of infra: https://lithus.eu . We deploy to bare-metal Hetzner.
by Ray20 | 2026-01-16 12:16:42+00:00
> Get all the cleaners, cooks, hotel workers and other "servants" to strike, pool up to fund a salary-light for them while they strike

You mean to try to get them all and find out they're not really against what's happening? There's a reason why socialists, originally fighters for workers' dictatorship, have almost entirely switched to supporting minorities and not workers.
by rayiner | 2026-01-16 12:18:10+00:00
I am also here on someone else’s H1B. I wasn’t even a citizen until high school. It doesn’t matter, it has nothing to do with the aggregate effects of immigration on the country. I’m sure you’re a highly intelligent person. You should be able to separate yourself from the analysis. Even more than that—we should be skeptical of analyses that flattering to our own personal narratives.

Family reunification is a broken feature of our immigration system. It’s why a handful of skilled immigrants from my home country have begotten massive enclaves of poorly educated and poorly assimilated immigrants in places like Queens. The New York Times did a great podcast that covers the broken promises of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act and how family reunification was a major loophole in it: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/podcasts/the-daily/electi...
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 12:18:27+00:00
This definitely helps a little.

But the other part of loneliness is feeling like (or knowing that) nobody cares what you think or feel or have to say.

I've been (accidentally) helping people with my surveys for a few months now. It brings a sense of joy when someone comes up to me and tells me that my presence has helped them or that they look forward to my surveys. But it also increases the loneliness that I feel, because none of them care about me or what I think or how I feel. None of them have ever asked.

Well, except for a couple friends I've made, who clearly do care now, and have shown it in a few ways, but we just haven't had an opportunity yet to have coffee or some other interaction where they can show more directly that they care about me, by asking me about how I feel, etc. But those are the exception.

I suppose, that's what I'm after. Not just personally for myself, but what I'm trying to help solve for other people: to help them get to a point where others actually do care about them, and they have opportunities to show it, such as asking how their day was over coffee. For countless people who are just like me, I think this is all they need to not feel lonely anymore. So that's my goal.

And I don't think volunteering is the answer, but I think it can be a start for some of them, a way to meet people. But just as good a way to meet people as saying hi to the person at the next self checkout kisk or the bus stop. The problem for most people is that they don't say hi. Maybe they're convinced, like I am, that nobody would ever want them to, that they would only be a burdensome bother to others, and therefore should always stay silent.

I suppose this is what I'm trying to solve. How to convince others that this isn't true, as one person standing outside holding a sign.
by antman | 2026-01-16 12:18:40+00:00
I will agree but rephrase, they were not incapable limiting supply of housing or chinese imports or international information channels is the model. Artificial barriers, ethical redefinitions, rag pulling, tollboothing have been the way to divide and conquer to channel the decaying international and domestic market share to political affiliates. Most political , maga, lgbt, policing, race etc issues are highlighted and disproportionately promoted to noise out discourse about money. If money and safety is considered as a key factor of historical actions and current events, then countries grievances are eastbti explain. When I hear for the other side the media to claim “they went crazy”, “they are barbarian subhumans” I know I am being manipulated.
by f1shy | 2026-01-16 12:19:37+00:00
In english is much better now... but:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier-Transformation

That is much more as it used to be in english. Anyway I stated clearly, it was a time ago, and now may be better, that it was just an example. In german is still shooting mathematical symbols that anybody who does not already know what FT is, will 99% not even start to understand what is it about.
by _heimdall | 2026-01-16 12:21:19+00:00
For sure, I agree education helps and could be considered a prerequisite to someone really be principled to begin with. It takes wisdom to learn what matters to you and to see patterns behind any particular topic of the day, and wisdom only comes about through education and experience.

I am always torn a bit on education as a goal though. I don't like centralized education, it makes it much to easy to lead to similar problems we have today when any small group of people can decide what and how every person is required to be taught.

We need people educated by their own choice, going down whatever paths they find interesting and learning from that journey. Its my belief that people are generally good, and given the time and space to find their own core principles, and a Democratic type of system where our voices can be heard, things will generally work out for the best in the end. I'll always take the collective opinion of principled individuals over the strongly held views of the small few in power at the time.
by MrVandemar | 2026-01-16 12:21:33+00:00
> Most if not all of those kids who were called names and isolated in some way found ways to break out of their pigeon hole:

Social exclusion is psychologically damaging, and often is directed at people who are ND, LGBTQI+, introverted, different culture/skin colour, etc.

I find it troubling that you say "most if not all ... were heroes ... and they thrived". No. You describe abuse, plain and simple. Abuse is not the forge of character development or great art. What you excuse as sounding "overly idealistic" is actually incredibly toxic.

And I know people who are deeply, profoundly psychologically broken as a result of this amazing process you describe that causes "most, if not all" of these people to "thrive".

> I normally don't contribute to HN comments these days

I see why.
by palata | 2026-01-16 12:22:06+00:00
> So here you go, you I gave you the entire list of manufacturers (two) for which to my knowledge secure boot provides some value to the phone owner

You say correct things, but you make wrong conclusions. Secure boot does provide value to the phone owner, period. Not against the manufacturer, but there is pretty much nothing consumers can do against the manufacturer except trusting it.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-16 12:22:23+00:00
I concur and want to add a realization I had some time ago: Considering the state of dysthymia and feeling depressed as one end of a spectrum and a fulfilling, content "happy life" as the other, the sole determining metric is the degree of experiencing self-efficacy.

The experience of self-efficacy is witnessing your willing satisfy your desires and needs through your own working. And self-efficacy is a basic, most important human need, completely independent of grand ideological or intellectual nesting. You may experience it when putting on your pants, going for a run, or building a house; a successful hunt and finding shelter; you may or may not experience it through work. Doing something you deeply don't care about, lacking intrinsic motivation, luck and wealth alone do not grant you the experience of self-efficacy. It's not abstract power, but concrete evidence of you qualitatively changing your world for the better.

Seeking to increase this metric is not a basis for ethics, but guidance for finding lasting satisfaction in life, even under adversarial circumstances. Nihilism, or defeatism is learned helplessness, or depression made religion.
by pousada | 2026-01-16 12:22:24+00:00
IMO the 5% rule is pretty good.

Otherwise we would have loonies like the Grey Panthers (old people party), the “Spiritual Party”, or the extreme right-wing “Republicans” (AFD is moderate compared to those) being able to vote on laws etc.

Of course that also cuts out some parties that I have supported in the past, but the system allows a lot of parties to participate that aren’t _that_ populist (e.g. the Greens, the Left, the Pirates (I think they managed to get a seat or two in the past))

Of course it’s not perfect, but I still think it’s one of the best flawed systems we came up with so far.
We should keep iterating on it but very slowly and carefully.
by fsflover | 2026-01-16 12:22:54+00:00
> No, that's simply not the case.

You keep repeating this without providing any actual statistics. I provided statistics about Qubes vulnerabilities, https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/. Show me the numbers please.

> anything in the disposable VM would be at risk.

This just shows that you don't understand the security approach of Qubes. You do not store anything important in a disposable. You run it specifically for one task of opening something untrusted and then it's destroyed. It's in the name: Disposable. Moreover, nothing prevents you from running Bubblewrap inside Qubes. Then one single VM will be as secure as your whole setup, and in addition, you get reliable isolation.

> Source? I assume they are referring to misconfigurations

You never give any actual reference, only I have to. Here you go: https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap.

> bubblewrap is not a complete, ready-made sandbox with a specific security policy.

> As a result, the level of protection between the sandboxed processes and the host system is entirely determined by the arguments passed to bubblewrap.

> Everything mounted into the sandbox can potentially be used to escalate privileges.

This is not a robust system designed for security first. You can use this to be (much) more secure than otherwise, but it's not a security-oriented design, unlike Qubes.

> Anything in the disposable VM is still at risk.

Which means nothing. Disposable can't store anything, it's destroyed every time you stop it.

> You've said before you don't have a lot of security knowledge and it continues to show.

I see the same about you. You keep repeating some myths about Qubes OS based on misunderstandings of its security approach. I don't have to be a professional in security to understand simple concepts. Qubes is not an OS made for professionals but for users.

> Qubes doesn't offer any more security than having a bunch of different machines to do different tasks on.

Yes, it does: https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/faq.html#how...

> SEL4, ASOS and CuBit are all more secure than Qubes.

Do I have to trust you on this, or do you have any reasonable reference to security people? You don't even provide your threat model when saying this, which clearly shows how amateur your approach to security is.

> I'm just refuting your preposterous zealotry for it

Relying on professionals in the field is not zealotry. In contrast, you show exactly the latter. I see no references.

> The developers of Qubes would absolutely disagree with your claims.

This is plain false:

https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/faq.html#wha...

https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/faq.html#how...

https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/faq.html#wha...

https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/faq.html#why...
by malka1986 | 2026-01-16 12:23:43+00:00
I am making an app in Elixir.

100% of code is made by Claude.

It is damn good at making "blocks".

However, Elixir seems to be a langage that works very well for LLM, cf. https://elixirforum.com/t/llm-coding-benchmark-by-language/7...
by machiaweliczny | 2026-01-16 12:24:23+00:00
Yeah, that's my current gripe but I think this just needs some good examples in AGENTS.md (I've done some for hooks and it kinda works but need to remind it). I need good AGENTS.md that explain what good abstraction boundary is and how to define is the problem is I am not sure I know how to put it into words, if anyone has idea please let me know.