MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by topaz0 | 2026-01-23 14:48:32+00:00
Generously, it could be that some relevant phenomenon does exist, but the studies are testing a hypothesis that is too strong or misaligned with the real phenomenon. Like, say, maybe the studies are attempting to show that people divide along these lines for all purposes, when the actual phenomenon only applies to matters of sufficient gravity; or maybe the studies are attempting to show that cultures divide along these lines, but actually individuals vary much more within cultures than between them. There's a million related hypotheses that you could try to parse, and finding that some of the strong ones are not supported by evidence is interesting but not evidence that the concepts aren't useful at some level.

Regardless of the above, it seems uncontroversial to say that some interactions have one or the other character -- and that it could sometimes be useful to name that character.
by Tor3 | 2026-01-23 14:49:09+00:00
I haven't been able to find reliable LED lighting, except when compared to particularly low-quality incadecent lights. Cost-wise it's a no-brainer, LEDs are more expensive. They are, however, getting better. They used to be totally terrible, at least that's changing. However, they're still advertising "N hours", where the "N" counts only 3 or 4 hours (typically) per day, so (and get this) the calculation is something like this: "20000 hours = 833 days, if you use them 3 hours only, of those days". Whereas the incadecent light bulbs "1200 hours" is 1200 hours of actual use.

As for your question, living in a country where 100% of domestic power is electric (save the occasional wood heater which is more for decoration but can be useful in certain very cold areas during winter), yes there's indeed a ton of resistive heating. All the heating in my home is resistive, except for the heat pump in the living room. And the living room is upstairs. The house is very well insulated though, even for a house many decades old, so it's not that expensive to heat.

In the summer? Well, this far north it doesn't get that hot, and we don't actually need to use electric lighting at all during the better part of summer, unless the room is windowless. 24 hour daylight.
by lorenzleutgeb | 2026-01-23 14:49:12+00:00
Tangled is built on top of the AT Protocol, and "mediates" between what they call "knots". Git servers. Their strength is to use AT Protocol to make communication across multiple Git servers work smoothly.

Radicle is completely peer to peer. There are no such things as servers and clients, only nodes. However, there are quite a few nodes that then act as HTTP servers to offer convenient access via the browser.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-23 14:49:36+00:00
I’m not saying someone isn’t a friend if you can’t live together long term. But if you can’t “stand being around” someone “all day,” they’re clearly less than a friend.

If my friends fell on hard times, they’d have a place to crash. I cannot say that of everyone I hang out with because not all of them are people whom I’d (a) enjoy being around and (b) trust to respect my boundaries (and trust myself to be tolerant of their incongruities with my preferences).
by jadbox | 2026-01-23 14:50:01+00:00
If TRUE and consciousness is eternal (using whatever framework you like), the idea of death becomes double sided. On one hand, physical death is sad as it's the end of this physical 'epic story' before our consciousness moves onto a new body/story. On the flip side, approaching body death is a sort of a temporary great relief as we are immortal and cannot actually die. I.e. After ten thousand years of being alive, a vampire looks forward to sleeping in their coffin at night.
by dagmx | 2026-01-23 14:50:40+00:00
Your question as stated is exactly why there are so many pointer types.

Is it a pointer to raw memory or a pointer to a type? Does it have a known size? Should it be allowed to be changed?

These are all questions you have to answer in C but cannot without annotations or documentation. Languages with more expressive type systems need to map that ambiguity to something.
by ptsneves | 2026-01-23 14:51:28+00:00
As someone who had a company in Portugal I do not understand what you meant about requiring an employee to have limited liability company. You may be referring to the need for one of the owners needing to pay social security but it only needs to do so if it does not pay in any other form. It hurts but it is not unreasonable and may provide unemployment benefits.

The accountant requirement I confirm, but also true in Poland for example.

The really big offense is that one must pay taxes for the next year based on the previous tax payments. They give a small grace period but then it’s on. It was supposed to be an emergency measure but of course it was never removed. It is a free loan to the state.

You can open a single person business though and skip the accountant.
by WarmWash | 2026-01-23 14:51:31+00:00
This almost perfectly encapsulates the problems that create friction for new technology. People want/expect the new technology to be an upgraded version of the old technology.

"AI is going to make screen readers amazing!"

No, that is not what AI is going to do. That is the exact kind of missing the forest for the trees that comes with new tech.

AI will be used to act as a sighted person sitting next to the blind person, who the blind person is conversing with (at whatever speed they wish) to interpret and do stuff on the screen. It's a total misapplication of AI to think the goal is to leverage it to make screen readers better.

They can have sighted servant who is gleefully collaborating with them to use their computer. You don't need 900 words per minute read to you so you can build a full mental model of every webpage. You can just say "Lets go on amazon and look for paper towels", "Lets check the top stories on HN"
by yomismoaqui | 2026-01-23 14:51:48+00:00
Until now code was something costly to make and could only be created by our monkey brains.

But now we have some kind of electronic brains that can also generate code, not at the level of the best human brains out there but good enough for most projects. And they are quicker and cheaper than humans, for sure.

So maybe in the end this will reduce the need for human contributions to opensource projects.

I just know that as a solo developer AI coding agents enable me to tackle projects I didn't think about event starting before.
by miki123211 | 2026-01-23 14:51:51+00:00
This wouldn't be easy due to Eloquence's internal architecture. eci.[dll|so|dylib] only contains the low-level platform abstraction layer, things like threads, queues, mutexes etc, as well as utility classes for .ini file handling and such. It then loads a language module (from a path specified in eci.ini). The actual speech stack is statically linked separately into each language module (possibly with modifications, not sure about that); in theory, if you reverse-engineered the API between the main and language libraries, you could write an Eloquence wrapper for any arbitrary speech synthesizer. This means you'd have to reverse-engineer this separately for each language.

From what we know, Eloquence was compiled in two stages, stage1 compiled a proprietary language called Delta (for text-to-phoneme rules) to C++, which was then compiled to machine code. A lot of the existing code is likely autogenerated from a much more compact representation, probably via finite state transducers or some such.
by Schmerika | 2026-01-23 14:51:51+00:00
Yeah, some of the estimates to fix are ridiculous. 40 hours to fix auto-correct?? On how many devices?

Yes, they acknowledged the numbers are completely made up. But, even with a 100x or more increase in those estimates the point would still stand. Why undermine the argument with such wildly silly (and, as you say, insulting) estimates?
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-23 14:51:57+00:00
In my strictly non-professional opinion, as a watcher of this stuff: the hoarders stuff almost always replaces something. Maybe it's a person who is gone, or was driven away. Maybe it's a purpose they only had before they retired. Maybe it's an event that drove them to crazy places to get by, and even though it's past, it's scars remain. Maybe it's merely the abstract concept of control, and agency; this one crops up a lot with the older female subjects of the shows, who's abusive husbands controlled them their entire lives, almost with regularity exhibiting all the classic signs of Battered Woman Syndrome.

It's hard for me to disentangle this with the inhumane way modern life lets people live.
by palmotea | 2026-01-23 14:52:26+00:00
> Every Republican you know, including a substantial percentage of the users here, is directly responsible for what we have in front of us today.

Democrats, too. They, collectively, made decisions that allowed a guy like Trump to win, twice. They screamed about the risks every day, but that was only a campaign tactic. It was massively selfish and incompetent for them not to make major policy pivots with the goal of just annihilating Trump and his movement. Instead they just treated it as a regular election, where the goal was to eek out a victory for their partisans.

When when you say your opponent is a fascist, it's time to tell your partisans to be quiet, and expand your tent massively.

> This is precisely the thing they voted for.

Come on, that's obviously false. Your response to misinformation and deception is to spread your own misinformation and deception? Any kind of "every X" state describing a large group of people is almost certainly false, and is really just evidence of your own black-and-white thinking and partisan battle mentality.

It's the partisan battle mentality that got us here, and if we're going to get out of it, vilification needs to be limited to only a very small number of people. Do you really think it's smart to bind people closer to Trump by attacking them?
by Thews | 2026-01-23 14:52:38+00:00
I liked the summary of what you do besides write code, and those things are enjoyable to me too. Understanding something better by writing code that unravels the mystery is a treat, but also sometimes frustrating.

I still do enjoy having an LLM help me through some mental roadblocks, explore alternatives, or give me insight on patterns or languages I'm not immediately familiar with. It speeds up the process for me.
by zabzonk | 2026-01-23 14:52:56+00:00
I had a couple of thousand books in my flat in london, including about 500 technical computing ones (design, languages, other stuff). I got my nephew to fix up the flat, for sale. He asked me "Which of these books do you want to keep?", my response after a few seconds "None".

It's so easy to hang on to things you really don't need.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-23 14:52:59+00:00
Also scrapbooking. I've really gotten into that lately as I struggle to get rid of like, strange things. Parking passes and tickets for concerts, receipts from dinners on trips, that sort of thing.

Scrap booking is wonderful for such things. And when I need a boost, I pop it open and get a rush of memories from all the lovely things I've gotten to do.
by rationalist | 2026-01-23 14:53:29+00:00
I'm not a hoarder, but my dad is.

I have a couple of items from my dead grandparents, and it's a connection.

It's a tangible connection that feels more real than something intangible like memories.

As for my dad though, I have no idea. He recognizes that it's a problem, but can't stop. It's stuff like plastic ship models, or stuff he wants to buy on eBay - postcards from defunct airlines that he used to fly on.
by jenowigner | 2026-01-23 14:53:53+00:00
amazing project ! well done ! inspiring to see it this morning the youtube algo recommended it for me. I was thinking what would be a budget way of creating this ? maybe a $20 SDR instead of the hack rf , seems to be a waste of the hack rf to use it as a lamp :)) I think the way you did must have cost you over $1k. Thanks for the inspiration !
by rvermeulen98 | 2026-01-23 14:53:57+00:00
I think this is only a problem when building from source, right? It is indeed because of the dependency on https://github.com/golang-design/clipboard.

I hesitated a bit bringing in this feature. On one hand, I really like to have clipboard support, on the other hand, I don't like that it requires you to change from static to dynamic linking (and have the x11 dependency).

Maybe I could write an install.sh script for installation that detects the OS and fetches the correct version/tarball from the Github release.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-23 14:54:20+00:00
Yeah, the cold would bother me less than the rain and darkness, tbh.

> for short stints.

This is the issue though, we have a 2.5 year old who's just super active, and it's much easier to tire him out when the weather is better and there's more light. Like, right now in Ireland it's still completely dark by 5.30 which means it's hard to tire him out in the winter.

> and we still have 3rd Places nearby, like community centers

That's cool, we have those too but they're mostly kid friendly in the mornings and afternoons and used for adult stuff in the evenings.
by cjs_ac | 2026-01-23 14:54:35+00:00
> The British arm of Elon Musk's electric car giant has faced multiple criminal court proceedings over the past two years linked to alleged road traffic offences.

> Tesla offers its vehicles on long-term leases, and in such a scenario the leasing company is typically the registered keeper of the car.

> Drivers of rented or company cars caught speeding have to be named before they can face prosecution and companies which fail to return paperwork to police can be prosecuted instead.
by bmitch3020 | 2026-01-23 14:55:22+00:00
I agree with a lot of the above, but then there's:

> Docker is still maintaining the runtime on which orbstack, podman etc are all using, and all the cloud providers are using

I need to fact check that one. runc was donated by Docker to OCI a while back. And containerd was created under the CNCF from a lot of Docker code and ideas. podman is sitting on the RedHat containers stack, which has their own code base. Docker itself uses runc and containerd, and so do most Kubernetes deployments. Many of these tools go to containerd directly without deploying the Docker engine.
by anovikov | 2026-01-23 14:55:34+00:00
Nuclear power resurgence is bullshit and it will always remain a drop in the bucket, especially for large countries. US has too much natural gas, China too much renewables, Russia well, it's of virtually no economic impact worldwide and whatever they might do is irrelevant (unless they nuke us).

Any country that starts a new nuclear power plant construction today won't finish it before electricity will be comprehensively solved by renewables. It pertains even to dictatorship where public opinion does not exist and there's no red tape (Belarus: 14 years from decision to first reactor start) let alone not in free countries. It puts them into 2040+. In EU let's say there will be certainly no fossil fuel electricity at all, maybe apart from few percents of natgas for prolonged quiet periods in winter, and whatever nuclear power remains will be easy to replace. China? go figure, they have a problem of removing coal generation and that's essentially same as nuclear from standpoint of its behaviour on the grid, and there is so much more coal, nuclear will be squashed simply as a byproduct of whatever solution (which will likely be solar+batteries) they come up with.
by gnosis67 | 2026-01-23 14:56:05+00:00
Yes.

Democracy requires well decimated truth, prosperity, and peace.

And liberality has been infested with a prevalent malady of Man. We are at a crossroads of our humanity, and the things you think of as the most important of your age, are only your interpretations of symptomatic influences.

You have been rooted. You have been hacked. All of your bases do not belong to you.

You have been undone. You have been sold out. And while yes, the shit you are now on about is very real and affects everyone, it is the conversation you are not comfortable having that frames every discussion our discussions are based upon.

The Exogenous of Power has become as God among you, and you are its deniers.

You will enjoy the comforts and convenience your lifestyle offers and deny your obligations to integrity AMONG YOUR OWN. All sides, every one of you.

Power is savage and the terrible burden falls upon those who mitigate savage Powers with a civilizing accord.

Without a Righteous Rule of Law among you, you are screwed.

I’m not talking about Trump however I would hang Bannon and his spook army for treason.
by elevation | 2026-01-23 14:56:10+00:00
If Ireland is still used as a tax haven for large multinationals (including the companies that provide widespread encrypted messaging) then it would be the ideal venue for anti-privacy lobbying -- large companies may be able to close a token office in a small country to move beyond the reach of sanctions, but if that country is enabling billions of dollars a year in tax savings, then their influence may be the biggest global threat to user privacy.
by AlexandrB | 2026-01-23 14:57:07+00:00
Given that this is coming out of the UK, I thought it was going to be about some Orwellian request for Tesla to detect speeding and report it to the police. It's actually a much more reasonable situation where Tesla is failing to identify drivers of leased/rented cars and Tesla clearly seems in the wrong.

> Tesla offers its vehicles on long-term leases, and in such a scenario the leasing company is typically the registered keeper of the car.

> Drivers of rented or company cars caught speeding have to be named before they can face prosecution and companies which fail to return paperwork to police can be prosecuted instead.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-01-23 14:57:20+00:00
> isn't really fair? Because not even you or I really know how to do so in a fair and reasonable manner, unless we start to involve trials with multiple developers and so on.

I think in a small conversation like this, it's probably not entirely fair.

However, we're hearing similar things from much larger organisations who definitely have the resources to do studies like this, and yet there's very little decent work available.

In fact, lots of the time they are deliberately misleading people (25% of our code generated by AI being copilot/other autocomplete). Like, that 25% stat was probably true historically with JetBrains products and using any form of code generations (for protobufs et al) so it's wildly deceptive et al.
by daxfohl | 2026-01-23 14:57:25+00:00
A couple thoughts:

A delivery driver isn't made into a reverse centaur by AI. It is by monitoring. AI has nothing to do with it. Similarly, businesses could already have made engineers into reverse-centaurs by monitoring at-desk-time, keystrokes, even eye movements given our jobs are on computers with cameras all day. They haven't, so IDK if there's reason to expect AI will change that.

Industry-wise, there are a ton more delivery drivers now than a decade ago. Tech made delivery cheaper, increasing quantity demanded. So if something similar is going to happen in the engineering world, it could cause engineering employment to explode rather than plunge.

Yet even in full reverse-centaur mode, the usual economics of supply and demand will persist: some people will be much better at it than others, and businesses will pay substantial premiums for such people if it gives them a competitive advantage. Therefore even if the industry is totally revolutionized, engineers might not experience any reduction in demand or in compensation. The job may cater to slightly different qualities; speed vs thoroughness, etc., but the demand for engineering aptitude isn't going to go away. Only complete automation would kill off the field entirely.
by lorenzleutgeb | 2026-01-23 14:58:01+00:00
Radicle is peer to peer. There are no "instances" or "servers" you interact with. The process that runs on your machine to synchronize changes across the network is the same as you would run on a server somewhere else. This is the core difference in topology.

What Forgejo are working on is to have their servers/instances communicate with each other via ActivityPub (IIRC). Think about it more like GitHub : Forgejo :: Twitter : Mastodon and possibly Filesharing : BitTorrent :: Software Development : Radicle.

With Forgejo every instance has its own user accounts, and controls them, i.e. decides whether some user may log in or not. This is not the case with Radicle. Since there is no such authority, user accounts are self-certifying. Also, since there is no "standard location" like "the server", Radicle has developed a way to abstract from the user namespaces of the maintainers of a repo, to a canonical namespace. This is how references are lifted from individuals to a project. Not by having a copy on some particular server, which access control. Of course, Radicle also has access control, but it is tied to the self-certifying identities, not to some server.
by mlajtos | 2026-01-23 14:58:30+00:00
You are exactly right that the original vision of APL was handwritten non-ambiguous executable math notation. This was never accomplished.

In 2021 I made a prototype of calculator designed for iPad & Pencil and did four essays called "New Kind of Paper" which described this concept. Video demonstration of the prototype [Demo] sums up pretty well of how it might be used.

In 2024, Apple released Math Notes that implements this concept for standard math notation. My "review" of it is at [MathNotes]. In short, currently it is a preview of a damn great tool. But its future depends on the notation.

APL is a language from 2066 created in 1966. While the semantics makes more sense now due to machine learning, syntactically it is still alien to most people. Backus' FP/FL and Iverson's J are more approachable to current programmers, but still not there. In New Kind of Paper, I created a tiny language called Fluent, which is nowhere near the ambition of any language mentioned, but it is intentionally designed to be hand-written. A week ago, I open-sourced it. [Fluent] There is plenty of stuff that needs to be done, but it is a good start.

[NKoP]: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper

[MathNotes]: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-5

[Fluent]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649223

[Demo]: https://youtu.be/y5Tpp_y2TBk

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-23 14:58:51+00:00
Trust would need to be established through other channels, or through careful code review, same as a repo by an unknown dev on GitHub. Once trust is established, you can look for other repos owned by the same DID if you want to see more by the same dev. If multiple versions of the same repo exist, and you want to find the “real” one, you may look for the one recommended by a trusted source or the one that is mentioned most elsewhere. Failing that you could look at development activity on the repo.

Imagine a project with multiple repos on GitHub (not “forks” but someone actually uploaded it as a new repo). Similar problem. I’ve seen this before with some simple C libraries that haven’t changed in years.
by rationalist | 2026-01-23 14:59:48+00:00
There is nothing that he has hoarded that I want to keep. I have told him that.

I have told him that he has so much stuff, that it would be impossible for me to recognize the $1,000 model boxes from the worthless model boxes, and that when he dies, I'm just going to have to wholesale the lot for probably a penny on the dollar.

I told him him that the people who will pay money for plastic model kits are the same age as him, and if they all die around the same time or before him, there will be no one to buy the model kits.