MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pornel | 2026-01-25 21:30:56+00:00
Once a week you plug it in for ~30 minutes somewhere.

EVs charge unattended, so they can be left charging while you do something else. Shopping malls often have chargers.

At city distances and city speeds BEVs often have enough battery to last a week or two, and the battery doesn't drop when the car isn't used.

You don't have to charge to full if you don't have time. Even if you plug it in for 10 minutes, you'll probably return home with more charge that when you left.
by arter45 | 2026-01-25 21:30:57+00:00
Everything is a trade-off.

Signal trades some decreased convenience (for example in terms of backup) for some added security. Whatsapp has more “cosmetic” features (polls,…).

If you value privacy over convenience and other features Signal is a great choice. If you value convenience and other features over privacy Whatsapp is a great choice.

I think it’s safe to say that different people have different priorities which result in different choices.
by lll-o-lll | 2026-01-25 21:31:08+00:00
> And for a technology example, a database server disappearing might raise a single alarm, but the applications that rely on that database might raise countless alarms as attempts to connect fail over and over again.

Right. The lingo for this is “cascading alarms”, and there are various mechanisms to suppress consequential alarms if you design well. If an “upstream” alarm results in further alarms/events downstream; these should be suppressed (still recorded, just not alarms), until the root alarm cause is resolved.

I thought this was well understood in the industry, but perhaps not.
by kmoser | 2026-01-25 21:31:29+00:00
> This is something I find fascinating about TikTok: on that platform you literally get a few seconds to catch the attention of your audience before they skip to the next video.

Before TikTok, the YouTube "hook" was to choose the right image thumbnail that would entice people to click on your video. There was a time when YouTube didn't let you select a thumbnail; they would automatically select an image from a certain time in the video, so producers adapted by filming their videos so the most visually engaging moment came at that time.
by otikik | 2026-01-25 21:31:30+00:00
>If a train exceeds its permitted speed for any reason, the system intervenes immediately

That might be because Japan did have a huge railway accident in 2005 due to excessive speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment

> Of the roughly 700 passengers, 106 passengers and the driver were killed, and 562 others were injured

The Santiago de Compostela derailment (first link on the parent comment) happened in 2013 for the same reason.

All that said, I would not be surprised if the culprit for this particular case is lack of maintenance. However I would wait until the official investigation is over before drawing conclusions.
by mindslight | 2026-01-25 21:31:52+00:00
One failing of framing it as "just ... since television became widespread" is that it ignores the actual power "television" (really, mass media, and now individually-tailored mass media) has to exert effective population control. The worrying thing here isn't so much the specific draconian actions themselves, but how much of the population is actively and gleefully cheering for them. And as it's obvious that none of these policies are going to make our country materially better (eg economically or social cohesion), this performative vice signalling stands to get worse and worse as this goes on.

I'm certainly not a slavery apologist, but the Civil War was a terrible precedent that we are now paying the price for. Like always, power always gets agglomerated because the hero (Lincoln) desires to to good. But once it's been agglomerated, it tends to attract evil.

One of the clear underlying pillars of support for Trumpism is China/Russia trying to break up the United States so that it is less able to project power over the world. In this sense, supporting the paradigm of a weakened federal government is helping fulfill that goal. But it would be one way to stop the hemorrhaging and at least get us some breathing room in the short term. The current opposition party has trouble even mustering the will to avoid voting to fund the out of control executive, so whatever reforms we push for have to be simple and leverage existing centers of power. We can't let the national Democrats simply do another stint of business-as-usual phoning it in as the less-bad option, or we'll be right back here just like we are now from last time.
by mindslight | 2026-01-25 21:32:05+00:00
At the suburban protest I was at a few weeks ago there was a kid, he couldn't have been more than 20, circling around in his ~25 year old car with broken exhaust and mismatched-color body panels, filming, pointing, and laughing. I felt bad. At least the 50-something guys screaming with the blood vessels bulging out of their foreheads merely had the world change around them - supporting Republicans was halfway reasonable 30 or even 15 years ago, and if they haven't realized by now they're never going to. Whereas this kid is going to have plenty of time to cringe at how terribly stupid and naive he was.
by AstroBen | 2026-01-25 21:32:09+00:00
> The models don’t have to get better, the costs don’t have to come down (heck, they could even double and it’d still be worth it)

What worries me about this is that it might end up putting up a barrier for those that can't afford it. What do things look like if models cost $1000 or more a month and genuinely provide 3x productivity improvements?
by araes | 2026-01-25 21:32:22+00:00
Similar reasoning, don't know if it's "wrong" reasoning.

The large chip looks like it's purposely placed to intercept every single incoming signal, and then route them through afterward. Just because they're "experts" does not mean they notice issues that a "naive" observer might have noticed. Get lost in the trees.

It looks like a big chip for doing "secret spy stuff".
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-25 21:32:28+00:00
Fair enough, at least my Leaf had that too, and I guess the ID.4 as well. However for the Leaf and my current car it's just the driver side, and you still can't get the car started, or turn on the heat say.

The latter can be an issue as my sister got stranded in the mountains during winter. Battery ran flat while they were on a long ski trip, and they couldn't get it fired up when they got back. Took a few hours before rescue vehicle arrived and gave them a boost.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-25 21:32:34+00:00
Everything even vaguely critical of trump is immediately flagged, tech or not. Christ, we've seen outright propaganda generated by this administration using AI, which is obviously something hackers care about, be flagged relentlessly.

It's very obvious this administration and it's supporters are trying to control the narrative of their crimes against the American people. It's evident with their doctoring of evidence, their outright deceit, and the suspicious censorship we see across the entire web. Including HN.
by RHSeeger | 2026-01-25 21:32:41+00:00
> The NSA knowing your search history is no big deal (as long as you're not looking for anything illegal)

Until someone at or above the TSA decides they don't like you. And then they use your search history to blackmail you. Because lots of people search for things that wouldn't be comfortable being public. Or search for things that could easily be taken out of context. Especially when that out of context makes it seem like they might be planning something illegal

Heck, there's lots of times where people mention a term / name for something on the internet; and, even though that thing is benign, the _name/term_ for it is not. It's common for people to note that they're not going to search for that term to learn more about it, because it will look bad or the results will include things they don't want to see.
by arjie | 2026-01-25 21:32:52+00:00
My experience using ATProto is that it is somewhat like how the nascent blockchain apps were when they first came out: there's no written content that is viable. Instead, you're supposed to use ephemeral conversations and read a widely disparate set of notes in order to use it. In the end, the upshot of all this is that you get to use a slightly worse form of Twitter - which is already rather unpleasant to use for me because there's a lot of rage content there.

Microblogs are fun, and very often I can't justify a whole blog post, but I have seen that others just post their thoughts intermingled and it makes me wonder if perhaps that is what I should do. There's not that much utility to the wide audience anyway. Talking to people who understand you is much nicer anyway.
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2026-01-25 21:33:07+00:00
No, that gap was created after the rail broke and the train derailed as a result.

The crack was in the weld, causing one side to sink and the wheel to hit the start of the next section of rail which was no longer welded to it, causing stress fractures to form in the rail which later caused that 40cm piece to break off.
by trhway | 2026-01-25 21:33:16+00:00
so 1mm2 peppered by those cores at 300MHz will give you 4 Tflops. And whole 200mm wafer - 100 Petaflops, like 10 B200s, and just at less than $3K/wafer. Giving half area to memory we'll get 50 PFlops with 300Gb RAM. Power draw is like 10-20KW. So, giving these numbers i'd guess Cerebras has tremendous margin and is just printing money :)
by palata | 2026-01-25 21:34:02+00:00
I am totally against ICE, but I came here to say that I agree with the parent. In situations of stress like this, you never know how one may react. It takes a great deal of training to be able to stay calm and rational in such situations.

Obviously, the ICE agents have to rationalise what they do. "We are the good guy, we work against the bad guys". But I don't think that they wake up in the morning hoping that they will have an opportunity to hurt what they themselves consider "average americans".

Looking at the video, I could totally imagine that the first shot fired was a mistake, and then one or more of the agents panic and shoot... well... a LOT of times. That doesn't seem rational, or professional. I don't think that the agent thinks "ahah! Here is my opportunity, I'll shoot him 5 more times". Still, they killed someone for no apparent reason (it's not a proportional defense, quite obviously) and they should be judged for that.
by michaelbarton | 2026-01-25 21:34:11+00:00
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

I remember reading 1984 when I was a kid and enjoying it, at no point did I think it was more than sci-fi though. I suppose it goes to show how much we took for granted the last 80+ years.

It also makes me respect Orwell so much more. Which was already very high based on how he makes tea. How was he able to see you presciently?

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
by legitster | 2026-01-25 21:34:19+00:00
I was once pulled over by a police officer when I was a teenager. I was let off with a warning, but he was sure to give me a little speech that culminated with "driving is a privilege in this country - not a right".

Only later did it dawn on me how messed up his speech was - we do not have any rights except those which law enforcement allow us to have.

I absolutely believe in the necessity of police and respect officers who do the job. But there's a reason they must always be bound and subservient to civilian oversight and the court system.

These are positions of power. They are inherently going to attract the worst kinds of people and carve out special privileges for themselves. People who think order and authority and respect are more important than nerdy, pedantic laws.
by scbzzzzz | 2026-01-25 21:34:22+00:00
Make perfect sense, Thanks kind stranger. Hope it is the reason and not some corporate greed. It on me, lately my thoughts are defaulted towards corporates sabotaging consumers. I need to work on it.

The effects on custom os community is causing me worried ( I am still rocking my oneplus 7t with crdroid and oneplus used to most geek friendly)
Now I am wondering if there are other ways they could achieved the same without blowing a fuse or be more transparent about this.
by tstrimple | 2026-01-25 21:34:44+00:00
Unfortunately liberals seem to care far more about "unity" than justice in any sense. They have been letting conservatives get away with damaging our country repeatedly throughout the decades and always welcome them back with open bipartisan arms. Maybe we could have nipped this in the bud if the confederate states were forced to de-radicalize like Germany was. Instead literal traitors to our country were right back to running for national office again and have been sowing dissent literally ever since. How many Democrats just voted for even more ICE funding for fucks sake?
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-25 21:35:03+00:00
Sorry, but what's stopping the DLQ being a different topic on that Kafka - I get that the consumer(s) might be dead, preventing them from moving the message to the DLQ topic, but if that's the case then no messages are being consumed at all.

If the problem is that the consumers themselves cannot write to the DLQ, then that feels like either Kafka is dying (no more writes allowed) or the consumers have been misconfigured.

Edit: In fact there seems to be a self inflicted problem being created here - having the DLQ on a different system, whether it be another instance of Kafka, or Postgres, or what have you, is really just creating another point of failure.
by rexpop | 2026-01-25 21:35:19+00:00
Don't do that. High-performing teams maintain a ratio of approxima ~6:1 positive comments for every criticism.

Systematic use of shame aligns with toxic leadership patterns that produce measurably negative outcomes.

Public humiliation at work can compromise social connectedness, threaten an employee's sense of belongingness, and create adversarial environments where constructive measures become impossible. When employees are disciplined publicly in front of their teams, they experience a complex mix of shame and self-doubt directed inward, compounded by anger and distrust directed outward.

Organizations lacking psychological safety fail to create cooperative collaboration environments, directly harming employee well-being and organizational performance.

The scientific literature overwhelmingly supports constructive feedback delivered privately with specific, actionable guidance focused on behaviors rather than personal attacks.
by sph | 2026-01-25 21:35:49+00:00
> I see a lot of my fellow developers burying their heads in the sand, refusing to acknowledge the truth in front of their eyes, and it breaks my heart because a lot of us are scared, confused, or uncertain, and not enough of us are talking honestly about it.

Imagine if we had to suffer these posts, day in and day out, when React or Kubernetes or any other piece of technology got released. This kind of proselyting that is the very reason there is tribalism with AI.

I don't want to use it, just like I don't want to use many technologies that got released, while I have adopted others. Can we please move on, or do we have to suffer this kind of moaning until everybody has converted to the new religion?

Never in my 20 years in this career have I seen such maniacal obsession as it has been over the past few years, the never-ending hype that have transformed this forum into a place I do not recognise, into a career I don't recognise, where people you used to respect [1] have gone into a psychosis and dream of ferrets, and if you dare being skeptical about any of it, you are bombarded with "I used to dislike AI, now I have seen the light and if you haven't I'm sorry for you. Please reconsider." stories like this one.

Jesus, live and let live. Stop trying to make AI a religion. It's posts like this one that create the sort of tribalism they rail against, into a battle between the "enlightened few" versus the silly Luddites.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744397
by spudlyo | 2026-01-25 21:36:20+00:00
Man is a tool using animal. Language, writing, the printing press, photography, audio recording, computers, the Internet, and now AI -- each of these innovations has fundamentally changed how we create and preserve knowledge, art, and culture.

None of these changes came without losses. Writing eroded our capacity to remember, printing fueled decades of bloody religious conflict, photography harmed portrait artists, audio recordings wrecked social collaborative parlor music, computers fucked up our spelling & arithmetic, and the Internet... don't get me started.

Ultimately there is no going back, we will change and adapt to our new capabilities. Some will be harmed and some will be left behind. So turns the wheel of progress, I don't think anyone can stop it.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-25 21:36:56+00:00
> Every single one of the tens of millions of people who have illegally immigrated to the United States over the past few decades is a criminal who can be legally deported.

There are an estimated 100K illegal immigrants in Minnesota,[1] and about 2M in Texas.[2] With 900K in Florida, 350K in Georgia, 325K in North Carolina, etc. [3]

Why doesn't ICE concentrate on fishing where the fish are… but of course that would mean doing stuff in red states.

[1] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unauthorized-immigrant-...

[2] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unauthorized-immigrant-...

[3] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-unauthorized-immigra...
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-25 21:37:12+00:00
> True fascism would not allow the massive criticism and outrage (including by active lawmakers and heads of state & local governments) that recent events have reasonably led to.

It hasn't yet captured the whole country. The parts of criticism they have had the power to silence, they have already silenced. Who's in the White House press corps again?

When they will capture all the power they need, the criticism will be silenced.

I fear that we might not see a definitive Democratic win though at the midterms. I think your country is already past the point of no return and your population is just not getting it yet.
by delaminator | 2026-01-25 21:37:26+00:00
Far-right leaders join Trump in welcoming Boris Johnson to No 10

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/24/far-right-lead...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/far-right

About 6,735 results for The far right

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by cma256 | 2026-01-25 21:37:32+00:00
If citizenship is required to vote then how would accessing voter rolls suppress liberal voters? Honest question; I'm not concern trolling. I had to Google who's allowed to vote.

I found this article[1] by the Brennan Center. It alleges this is an attempted federal takeover of elections but it doesn't suggest or allude to voter suppression. I'm not convinced by the article that having access to voter rolls can be considered a federal takeover of election administration (but I'm not in the know and would need things explained more verbosely).

If you have more information about the attempted centralization of election administration and its impacts on voter suppression I would be interested to know more.

1. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trum...
by ricardobeat | 2026-01-25 21:37:52+00:00
For context: the aforementioned crash in Japan was not on a high-speed / Shinkansen line but a normal commuter train. Both the 2013 accident in Spain and the recent one were high speed trains.

I’m not sure these are
comparable, high-speed rail needs much tighter tolerances as the risk is orders of magnitude higher. As the parent comment stated there have been zero major crashes on the japanese shinkansen lines.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-25 21:38:07+00:00
The petrol in the tank will boil quickly and blow the tank apart, especially if it's already a bit melty. You won't get enough pressure for a proper "BLEVE" because the leaky plastic bucket won't hold enough pressure to stop it beginning to boil, but it'll throw burning fuel all over.

An automotive LPG tank is a bit different to the kind of thing you'd run your barbecue off with a "multivalve" that's got a float to shut off the filling port when it's full and act as a level gauge (similar to a petrol tank) and a pipe to pick liquid up from the bottom. You get "four hole" tanks with a vapour tap that you can use a normal regulator in, which is handy for things like motorhomes - same tank runs the engine and the cooker :-)

They're only pressurised to about 8 bar, low enough that you can use plastic pipe to connect them to the vapouriser at the engine. It's kind of nylon tubing with braid over and a PVC outer jacket, and it handles liquid propane at tank pressure.

If there's an overpressure because it gets really hot (like, car is on fire hot) it'll burp out a bit of gas which will cause a puff of flame but you're talking about something like a deodorant can on a bonfire (and don't tell me you've never done that).

Quite honestly, I'm more wary around the 15 bar air suspension tank and lines. That's where pressurised gases start to get a bit spicy.
by xracy | 2026-01-25 21:38:52+00:00
> "I'm not sure about "profitable" because these are very young (2 - 3 years old) private companies"

In any other industry, this is the death knell for your company. It's only in tech where the investors drop so much money on early investments, that companies can get away with losing money for "2-3 years".

>The revenue growth -- assuming these investors are not all colluding to fudge these numbers on a grand scale -- is way higher than what most have seen before.

As a matter of strict numbers? The revenue growth could be higher just because of inflation.

You really seem to be doing a Gish Gallup here of links, which don't really prove any of your points. If there are specific metrics you can point to in these links that prove your point, then please call that out, but every one of these that I have clicked on has felt like a nothing burger.

> Menlovc link: is just talking about investment in AI, which proves my point

> FT: Paywall

> Stripe: You've got correlation, but not causation. An alternative thing you're proving could be that more investment in the space makes it easier to bring a product to market and earn revenue (How does this compare to SaaS Startups 5-10 years ago)

> Medium Link: is more of "proving my original point"

> CNBC: It's not clear what the metric is here that's making your case

> a16z: It looks to me like, this is actually proving the point that every one of these is considering "investments" as "revenue" which is wild.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-25 21:38:55+00:00
A valid perspective, and I agree that a democracy only works as long as its citizens remain civically engaged. Unfortunately, I think it's too late for the US in its current form, and it might not be long before we see it split up into smaller regions, unless something suddenly kicks Congress into gear and people break ranks to impeach and disparage the Trump administration.
by penultimatename | 2026-01-25 21:39:25+00:00
This is literally backed by data. 21 out of 25 emergency docker cases taken up with the Supreme Court were ruled in the Trump administration’s favor. Only one of the cases against the administration was unanimous.

At the appellate level, Trump appointed judges vote in favor of his policies at a substantially higher rate than any previous president at 92% of cases.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/looking-back-at-2025-the-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/politics/trumps-appeal...