MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-03 13:18:21+00:00
> It's far easier to reduce consumption by cutting the supply entering your country

So easy. Exactly why Sweden have had a "zero tolerance" policy against drugs, particularly Cannabis, yet usage keeps growing no matter how much resources they keep throwing at stricter border controls and trying to reduce both supply and demand by arresting everyone with even traces of Cannabinoids in their blood. https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/country-drug-reports...

> People selling drugs such as fentanyl or cocaine have various techniques to hook consumers and keep them addicted regardless of their mental state. Selling hard drugs is criminalized for a good reason.

You're making the argument for why these things should be sold in controlled circumstances, rather than by private individuals who don't care about anything else but themselves, yet you end with "is criminalized for a good reason". Completely opposite, you're making the argument for why it needs to be legalized.
by current_robot | 2026-01-03 13:18:30+00:00
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by benjiro | 2026-01-03 13:19:03+00:00
> Not really, this is only true for mobile devices.

Tell that to my fixed line provider, with their CGNAT ... And its just about every provider in Germany pulling that crap. O, and dynamic IPv6 pre-fix also, because can't have you run any servers!

Yes, plenty of ways to bypass it but when you have ISP's still stuck in 1990's attitude, with dynamic IPv4/IPv6, limited upload (1/3 to 1/5 of your download), etc ...
by jules | 2026-01-03 13:20:01+00:00
I don’t see what the benefit of most of that is, and why publication fees are a good way to pay for it. Take video recordings: why should we pay for them to develop a video hosting platform when perfectly good ones exist? In fact, conferences that I am familiar with put the recordings on YouTube, and this works great.

> ACM has to be careful to not get into financial trouble by giving away their crown jewels without generating sufficiently stable alternative income sources.

The attitude that the work of science belongs to these publishers is what grates me the most. Yes, ACM is not as bad as Elsevier, but this attitude is still fundamentally wrong. They are in the position they are mostly by historical accident, able to extract rents because it requires a lot of coordination to switch.

Why do I call it rent extraction despite the ACM doing stuff? Suppose the ACM charged separately for using their video platform. Would anyone pay for that?

> For example, authors no longer generate their own PDFs but submit the LaTeX/Word manuscripts to a central service (TAPS), developed and operated for ACM by an Indian company, Aptara

And what good is that? Why should we pay for a separate company to run pdflatex for us? The system exists primarily to check that we’ve put ACM branding in the paper.

Sometimes people also say that the real service is long term storage of pdfs, but let me preempt that right now: there are government sponsored long term storage facilities like Zenodo that are likely to outlast ACM. Second, commercial storage paid for indefinitely using an annuity would cost less than $1 in present value for hosting the pdfs of a conference, about 0.0001% of ACM publication fees.
by libertine | 2026-01-03 13:20:23+00:00
The only thing I disagree is that "is truly new".

It's not new, it's been the prevalent way of being for thousands of years - we had a brief moment of piece with the creation of the UN.

But apparently there are a lot of countries that think the UN and international law is cumbersome, and are in the way of securing their "sovereignty" (more like securing regimes) - it was obvious this was going to be outcome.

Funny enough, some of those have collapsed or are in the verge of collapsing: Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Russia...

Let's hope Europe doesn't flip to far right and start their own campaign, history shows they can be quite effective and destructive.

The best outcome is that this is just the final breath of those old regimes, and this is temporary.
by DrBazza | 2026-01-03 13:22:07+00:00
Well, 'western' 'rules based order' involves democratic elections and being in 166th place for government transparency isn't a good sign. Appointing your successor isn't exactly democratic, in fact it's very much the sign of most countries that end in dictatorship:

"Chavez was elected to a third term in October 2012. However, he was never sworn in due to medical complications; he died in March 2013.[95] Nicolás Maduro was picked by Chavez as his successor, appointing him vice president in 2013."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela#Bolivarian_governmen...
by ozim | 2026-01-03 13:22:18+00:00
Getting LLM to write the classifier should be the way to go.

That’s what I mostly do, I give it some examples ask to write code to handle stuff.

I don’t just dump data into LLM and ask for results, mostly because I don’t want to share all the data and I make up examples. But it also is much cheaper as once I have code to process data I don’t have to pay for processing besides what it costs to run that code on my machine.
by goku12 | 2026-01-03 13:22:21+00:00
> ... but I think ipv6 is inherently more complicated than ipv4 for the average use case. It's not just a thinking shift.

IPv6 isn't all that complicated for most common use cases. Its fundamental concepts and rules are simple. It also obviates the necessity of the complicated workaround called NAT, without which IPv4 is impractical these days.

It's more like the imperial vs metric system debate. If the world hadn't seen IPv4, I believe that we'd all be using IPv6 without any complaints. The real problem is that IPv6 isn't taught well.

> Separate from that, deliberate decisions were made to make it a "clean slate" without consideration for existing ipv4 hosts. Guess they were hoping the separate stacks would go away eventually, but in hindsight, no way.

I'm not sure what to make of this. The presence of the IPv4 stack isn't what blocks the adoption of IPv6 - at least not technically. They can coexist on the same host and function concurrently without interfering with each other. It was designed to operate like that. The actual blocker is the attitude that people hold towards IPv6 - "We have IPv4 that works already. Why should we care about an alternative?". You can see that expressed on this discussion thread itself.

There is one crucial detail that the IPv6 detractors neglect - the scarcity of IPv4 addresses means that IPv4 address blocks are now heavily coveted and therefore subject to moneyed interests. That isn't very good for the health of the open internet, digital rights and equity. They're thinking about individual trees and losing sight of the whole damn forest. IPv6 isn't a solution looking for a problem. It's the solution for a problem that people simply ignore.
by nhgiang | 2026-01-03 13:22:58+00:00
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by bmacho | 2026-01-03 13:23:06+00:00
There is no philosophical or technical continuity. Go is really not the continuation of anything from Bell labs, not the philosophy, not the technologies, and not even its purposes.

Go was created at Google, for Google, by Google employees. They looked at how Google was using C++ at that time, sat down, and created a new language that would suit that task more. Here's an article of what and how by Rob Pike https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...
by adastra22 | 2026-01-03 13:23:19+00:00
As an American, I’m outraged at this blatant disregard for international norms.

As a person living in the Americas… I’m surprised at how good this outcome is? Did we just remove a terrible regime in a comparably bloodless way?

This appears to be a prisoner’s dilemma. What just happened is probably a utilitarian win. But the president it sets could enable horrible abuses in the future.
by Someone | 2026-01-03 13:24:42+00:00
>> So, we need to swap to the logarithmic graphs to get a better picture

> I wish more people would know about decibels.

Huh? Is there any difference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel:

“The decibel […] expresses the ratio of two values of a power or root-power quantity on a logarithmic scale”
by m4nu3l | 2026-01-03 13:25:02+00:00
It seems it was her wife who pushed for that. By reading the article, it doesn't sound like he believed any of that.

> "If it makes you feel better, go ahead and do it," she quoted the president as saying.

Also

> Both the president and Nancy Reagan denied that any policies or decisions were based on astrology.

So we can't really tell to what extent, if any, those consultations affected the actual policies.

In general, I don't trust politicians by default. Still, I also don't trust astrologers (and even less so), so there is no reason for me to believe the astrologer more than the president.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-01-03 13:25:20+00:00
Side-stepping regulatory process forgoes the benefit of a highly refined system for determining safety and efficacy, that is obvious - but it also forgoes seller liability. Which means you have no one to sue.

Also why risk permanently destroying yourself. We each only get one human mind and one human body - it’s irrational to do something with so much downside risk.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-03 13:25:21+00:00
> It's funny how many people already see this as a book that is opened and closed on the same day.

What gives you that impression? I haven't seen a single comment that is surprised or wasn't aware of the existing history between the two nations, nor a single comment saying that "Ok, I'm glad/sad that that's over now". What comments specifically are you talking about?
by agumonkey | 2026-01-03 13:25:24+00:00
it's a positive step for the population, my worry is about global signalling.. we were trying to keep the armed fascists floodgates tight since putin invaded ukraine and now US is doing bold military regime changes, not even covert (some would argue old CIA was worse).

hard to sleep well these days

ps: if anybody knows places where people discuss this, feel free to hit me
by weinzierl | 2026-01-03 13:25:51+00:00
A friend of mine used to say, "Companies that are about to go bankrupt start behaving strangely."
I always just nodded in agreement without really knowing what she meant.

A couple of years later, one morning, I noticed that the daycare my daughter attended had swapped the large iMac in their office for an old Dell monitor. I didn’t think much of it at the time.

Somewhat later, the soft wipes in the diaper-changing room were gone. There only were the cheap, sandpaper-like ones to be found.

Not long after that, they announced their bankruptcy, shortly after the piano had mysteriously disappeared, without any explanation.

Now I know what "strange behavior" looks like.
by dataviz1000 | 2026-01-03 13:26:24+00:00
I've been traveling South America including Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Brazil. There are no good guys anywhere. A lot of the low wage labor come from Venezuela, and in the case of southern Brazil, Cuba. In Lima, Peru it is impossible to take an Uber without having to hear about how much a shit Maduro is. The crisis has strongly affected all countries in South America and if the Venezuelans are able return home and democratically elect a new regime it will be better for everybody.
by rcbdev | 2026-01-03 13:26:38+00:00
What an odd othering you have committed here.

There's plenty of European technologists who feel completely alienated from most stuff around c3 and hacker spaces because, believe it or not, most members there do tend to adhere to radical left-wing ideologies. This usually invites a whole grab bag of problems, if one has more right-wing beliefs and tries to engage.

I will concede to you that it did not used to be this bad. But it is now. Chalking this issue up to a 'long tradition' is like saying: "Community X has a long tradition of radicalization, so it's a-ok!"
by dijit | 2026-01-03 13:26:41+00:00
I have an auto-whitelist if my greylisting has been handled properly, which means that, the first signup email is indeed invalid, but the second works.

On rare occasions I get frustrated by this, and I'm forced to login via ssh and manually permit a greylisted address through - though normally I am not so time sensitive. My greylisting is only 5 minutes.
by treetalker | 2026-01-03 13:26:44+00:00
Meanwhile, One America News Network's front page reporting that Mamdani is undoing protections against "antisemitism"; DOJ is demanding Minnesota voting records; Will Smith accused of sexual harassment of a male violinist; and, of course, polling readers on the question "Does President Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?"

http://archive.today/PIvHL

So we know what many Red-Hats are seeing right now.

The "president of peace," everybody!
by DrBazza | 2026-01-03 13:27:11+00:00
On the other hand, in an alternate reality, this could be preventing a North Korea style dictatorship. Or to flip it, had the USA stayed in South Korea and carried on fighting, it might have prevented North Korea and the Kims and saved literally millions of deaths of North Koreans at the hands of their own government.

What do the Venezuelans actually think about this, given that Maduro rigged the last election in 2024 and denied them their democratic choice?
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-03 13:27:22+00:00
I'm struggling with the idea that you can use maths to recover information from a video that simply was not present in the video.

I get that what you're describing can statisically "unblur" stuff you've blurred with overly-simplistic algorithms.

I can provide you with real-world footage that has "natural" motion blur in it, if you can demonstrate this technique working? I'd really like to see how it's done.
by krapp | 2026-01-03 13:27:35+00:00
Populations of far less affluent countries under far more oppressive regimes without a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms and a billion dollar domestic arms industry that flooded their country with more guns than people and a culture of "give me liberty or give me death" have managed it.

The right got Jan. 6th and the left got Portland, so resistance is possible on both sides. In any country that took things half as seriously as the US claims to, Washington DC would look like a war zone. But what are we doing? Twerking in front of ICE in frog costumes?
by lorenzo1860 | 2026-01-03 13:27:39+00:00
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by retsibsi | 2026-01-03 13:27:39+00:00
This is interesting but IMO it's very likely to be chosen more often than average.

If you choose a random number, then for each other player your chance of picking the same numbers as them is the same as your chance of winning: in the case of Powerball, 1 in 292,201,338 = 0.0000000034. If you instead non-randomly choose 123456, then for each player that actively avoids 123456 your chance of picking the same numbers as them only decreases by 0.0000000034 (from 0.0000000034 to 0). But for each player that actively chooses 123456, your chance of picking the same numbers as them increases by 0.9999999966 (from 0.0000000034 to 1).

We could model this more precisely by looking at the other players' choices as semi-random with some combinations weighted higher and some lower, but you see my point: even if lots of people are repelled by 'obvious' sequences like 123456, this can be outweighed by a very small number being attracted to them.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-03 13:27:56+00:00
Oil is fungible. If America takes Venezuelan oil for themselves and doesn't let China have any, China will just buy more from Russia and the Middle East instead. There's no oil blockade to China, those ships aren't being stopped, and the minute such a blockade would be announced is the minute this 5th generation warfare WW3 turns into a 3rd generation war.
by einsteinx2 | 2026-01-03 13:27:57+00:00
> She switches it on, double-clicks the Firefox icon, and it opens up.

> That's it. That's the whole thing. I did originally have it set to just launch Firefox full screen on startup, but she didn't like it like that.

I don’t know why, but I immediately thought of the cake mix that was created that originally included egg powder so you just had to add water but people didn’t feel like they were really baking so they removed it and have you add eggs which made people happy and it became super popular.

Something about not wanting Firefox to just open automatically and wanting to double click it instead gave me the same vibes haha.
by resters | 2026-01-03 13:29:42+00:00
it's truly incredible the harm that the psychological need for "strong man" leaders has on the world. What's even more strange, in my opinion, is that the bumbling and incoherent stuff Trump says is actually viewed by anyone as tough or strong. In my view it shows tremendous fear of directness and accountability. To call it womanish would be an insult to women.

Similarly, how does picking on much weaker countries (some of whom are allies) seem tough to anyone? In my view it's ugly and shows weakness rather than strength.
by johneth | 2026-01-03 13:29:50+00:00
> I imagine many of their privately held beliefs are just as horrible but they’re not dumb enough to say them publicly.

Why would you support a company run by someone stupid enough to say their polarising beliefs publicly? It doesn't inspire confidence in their judgment. Even if you personally agree with their polarising beliefs, you have to question their decision making process in why they chose to deliberately make them public, damaging the company. If they're stupid like that, maybe they've made stupid decisions with their products (which in Elon's case, yes, he has, and not just at Tesla).
by benjiro | 2026-01-03 13:30:16+00:00
Man, readability of IP numbers is a important thing. You are not always in a situation where you can simply copy the address.

I can tell you what is what simply from the Ipv4 address, but when its IPv6, my dyslexia is going to kick my behind.

Readability reduces errors, and IPv6 is extreme unreadable. And we have not talked yet about pre-fix, post-fix, that range :: indicator, ... Reading a Ipv6 network stack is just head pain inducing, where as Ipv4 is not always fun but way more readable.

They where able to just extend IPv4 with a extra range, like 1.192.120.121.122, 2.... and you have another 255 Ipv's ... They did the same thing for the Belgium number plates (1-abc-001) and they will run out in the year 11990 somewhere lol...

The problem is, that Ipv6 is over engineered, and had no proper transition from Ipv4 > Ipv6 build in, and that is why 30 years later, we are still dealing with the fallout.
by nullifidian | 2026-01-03 13:31:06+00:00
>Chechnya

So they invaded their own internationally recognized territory. Wonderful. By that standard Ukraine invaded Donbass after they declared themselves independent of Ukraine.

>Syria

Even more outlandish claim, considering they were invited by the government. Whether the west considered the government illegitimate or not didn't matter.

>Moldova
>Georgia

in both conflicts in protection of a minority, on whose territory a larger state laid claim using Soviet drawn borders and dissolution of the USSR. Since the Ukrainian conflict started I observed lots of enthusiasm for Soviet borders on the side of Russia's detractors, which were often drawn with territories assigned as a form of favoritism, simply because communist leadership in Moscow had better a relationship with the communist leaders of one of the ethnicities in question. That way historic Armenian land of Artsakh was assigned to Azerbaijan for example -- the recent ethnic cleansing outcome of that is well known.
by filldorns | 2026-01-03 13:31:38+00:00
It's time for you Americans to wake up. You're supporting the wrong things!

National sovereignty is a fundamental principle of international law and cannot be selectively applied according to the interests of global powers. Donald Trump’s threats and aggressive rhetoric toward Venezuela undermine this principle by treating a nation’s self-determination as negotiable. Criticizing this stance does not mean endorsing the Venezuelan government, but acknowledging that sanctions, intimidation, and external pressure rarely affect political elites and instead harm ordinary people, deepening humanitarian crises.

Latin American history reveals a recurring pattern of foreign interference framed as the defense of democracy. From a moral standpoint, collective punishment and imposed solutions are indefensible. If such actions would be unacceptable when directed at the United States, they cannot be justified against Venezuela. A responsible international approach requires multilateral dialogue, international mediation, and genuine respect for the sovereignty of nations.
by anthk | 2026-01-03 13:31:39+00:00
The US just stole every good ever. The Maine. Union Fruit/Banana Company.

If the US tried to survive by just fair economics it would crumble into dust in less than a decade. Yet they use Latin America as their own backyard in order to avoid this.

And, well, as an European I have to say that France does the same with Africa in order to be semi on par with Germany. If not, their GDP would just be slightly better than Spain, if not worse because centralisation it's hell for modern times.

Some states in the US would do fine, OFC. But in order to support the whole USA, that's unfeasible. You can't have a country where a few powerhouses have to carry up the rest in a really innefective way, such as oil dependant transportation.

Meanwhile, the Chinese and Europe will just build non-polluting railways everywhere.
by HPsquared | 2026-01-03 13:31:51+00:00
To quote from internet history, the famous "you forgot Poland" from the 2004 presidential debates:

"KERRY: ...when we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That's not a grand coalition. We can do better.

LEHRER: Thirty seconds, Mr. President

BUSH: Well, actually, he forgot Poland. And now there's 30 nations involved, standing side by side with our American troops."