MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defrost | 2026-01-21 05:48:29+00:00
The message sent, perhaps more accurately, was that the USofA electorate fully bought into the Trump / Project 2025 framing of the "problems" facing the USofA.

eg:

> People don’t want an open border. Not in America, not anywhere else.

And yet recently prior administrations famously did enforce contempory border protections and prioritised chasing down people with actual criminal records.

Past administrations, eg. the Republican Eisenhower, have been in favour of open borders for the cheap labour and boost to the agricultural industry.

His often cited border enforcement operation was undertaken at the request of the Mexican government who were losing labor to US agribusiness.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

All that aside, the USofA Democrat party has a messaging and PR problem of epic proportions and the USofA has spiralled into a two party Hotelling's Law cesspit despite the founders largely disliking party politics - a fundemental flaw in the forward iteration of an "adequate for now" electoral system centuries old.
by Nursie | 2026-01-21 05:48:47+00:00
That's quite a clickbaity headline!

It's forcing lexus to disable the remote starting of ICE vehicles so that they can be idled and warm-up pre-use.

Idling is regulated in a bunch of places, for reasons of emissions and air pollution. For instance it's illegal to park up and idle your engine on a public road in the UK.

Is this move by the German government reasonable? I'm not sure, but it's not completely out of the blue, or as severe as the headline would lead you to believe.
by willturman | 2026-01-21 05:48:59+00:00
Yes, of course, those natural wildfires started by downed power infrastructure [1], bullets [2], and campfires on red flag days [3].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldor_Fire

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Fire
by nl | 2026-01-21 05:50:09+00:00
> You have access to the best models & yet you still haven't managed to prompt it to give you the code to prove your point so spare me any further theoretical responses. Either show the code to do exactly what you're saying is possible

GPU poor here though...

To quote someone (you...) on the internet:

> More generally, don't ask random people on the internet to do work for you for free.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689232
by onion2k | 2026-01-21 05:50:43+00:00
History seems to indicate that in the absence of law, those with the most people inside a fortified structure and position are the most likely to survive.

I don't think that's true. I imagine the people with the highest chance of survival are the ones whose governing/ruling people seek peace and the rule law quickest. Second would be people who flee to the nearest safe and lawful area. A fortification is probably the third best option if you can't have either of the first, but the probability of that structure keeping you alive is very low, especially if the conflict lasts long enough to become a siege. Entire cities managed to hold out from sieges that lasted for years, but the ordinary people inside did not.
by morpheuskafka | 2026-01-21 05:51:04+00:00
> I have read of some vendors selling iPhones that would be unlocked at first but lock themselves to the first carrier they see.

Yeah, there's no official documentation, but that's how the Best Buy ones are. I've seen it called "US Reseller Flex" and "SIM Out" policies. There are some shady websites that have a GSX login that will report the policy name, anti theft lock status, and service history if you put in the IMEI. The intent is to prevent having to keep separate stocks of identical hardware pre-assigned to each carrier you sell for.

IIRC, Best Buy isn't supposed to sell you a phone without at least adding it to an existing carrier account. They act as an agent of the carrier, not selling the phone standalone like Apple does. It's possible that someone could then resell it while in-box as a scam, but that's not what Apple/carrier intended.
by cyberax | 2026-01-21 05:51:35+00:00
Please. _I_ invoked that argument, and I bet I know more about IPv6 than you do.

All my services and networks have IPv6. And my first operational issues with IPv6 were in 2008, when my Asterisk SIP server started failing after ~12 hours.

Culprit? Privacy addresses kept accumulating until they overflowed the SIP UDP packet size because it listed all the combinations of supported codecs/endpoints.

Oh, btw, do try to answer this message: https://www.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/131ex1x/ipv6_sip_trun... - it's still relevant to this day.
by oenton | 2026-01-21 05:51:51+00:00
I guess I'll be the one to say it:

Having an organization that collectively bargains for the employees would be very useful right about now. I know, I know... unions can be corrupted and next thing you know, it's a legalized mob.

Well, if my choice is that or "upskill myself" and "negotiate", while ignoring the inherent and overwhelming power asymmetry that exists between an employee and the employer, I'll go with the mob; at least they have my back.

Yes I'm being glib, but there's also some truth to that. Almost all of the reasons or arguments I've seen from those who oppose unions are based on some myth or combination of myths, such as:
- We don't need unions because we're 'well paid' (relatively speaking)
- Unions only value seniority
- Make it nye impossible to get rid of poor performers
- Dark money comes in and corrupts the nomination process, now the CEO's buddy runs the union and you don't even know this is controlled opposition

Okay I'm being facetious on that last one, but seriously. We are long, long overdue for a power shift that values the workers. Emphasis on values because that word value has been cooped to be synonymous with money, and it is anything but.
by mmooss | 2026-01-21 05:53:22+00:00
Looking at Gadget Review's front page, stories are a bit creative and sensational. The article is not a news report, but an anti-green diatribe; for example:

> Your luxury car just became the latest battlefield in Europe’s climate wars, where bureaucrats decide which buttons work in your own vehicle. The real question isn’t whether remote start causes pollution—it’s whether you still own the features you bought.

There are still real questions here. I wonder how the feature was sold in the first place. Does it predate the relevant laws?

Also, what would it take to add an aftermarket electric engine warmer? I know people in some northern climates have accessories that plug in and warm the engine, but maybe those come with the car.
by avaer | 2026-01-21 05:53:25+00:00
If I had some heartfelt advice for the Mastra devrel team it would be to shut up about about Gatsby.

I'm a happy Mastra user and I'm biased to their success. But I think linking it to an unrelated project is only going to matter to non-technical CXOs who choose technology based on names not merits. And that's not the audience Mastra needs to appeal to to be successful. Good dev tools and techs trickle from the bottom up in engineering organizations.
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-21 05:53:27+00:00
I'm in California, and I'm lucky that I've been able to renew my home insurance. My brother wasn't able to, because every insurer had pulled out of the area, and he had to buy insurance directly from the state for several times more than what private providers charge, and those rates are likely to go up because the state program that runs it is bankrupt.

If anything happens to the my house, it can take a year or more to get permission to rebuild it, and if fire or earthquake or flood takes out the neighborhood, the permitting backlog can take multiple years. My neighbor tried to build a house on a slope, and it took ten years to get the county to acknowledge that the engineering plans were sound, but by that point my neighbor was too old to build the house.

It's really common to have power outages here at least annually, if not more often, and that's been a problem for decades, but there's significant resistance to building new power plants, including solar and wind, which wouldn't fix the instability anyway, and a tenth of our power comes from the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, which is past its design life and we'd be lucky to get another five years out of it.

The oil refineries keep shutting down, we don't have any pipelines to bring in oil, and gas stations are required to sell a California-specific formula anyway.

Restaurants are closing everywhere, discount stores are closing, the 99¢ Only chain went bankrupt, eliminating one of the few affordable sources of fresh fruits and vegetables.

We've been so obsessed with NIMBYism for so long that we're losing our infrastructure and quickly approaching a collapse. A high paying job is necessary to barely scrape by, a generator is a must, gasoline shortages may soon become a problem, and electricity outages may grow from seasonal to regular.

I have contingency plans for all of these issues, but long term I'll probably just move to Nevada, Idaho, or Utah.
by dunder_cat | 2026-01-21 05:53:54+00:00
In theory, IPv6 Privacy Extensions (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4941) could mitigate this. In practice, I imagine when you bind to `[::]:port`, that also means that the randomized addresses would work for new inbound connections, too. Not sure how long they typically last, but you'd be fighting against the clock at least before a new randomized address.

That being said, on a slightly less common note: it is quite possible to have each individual service running on a /128. E.g. on IPv6 k8s clusters, each pod can have a publicly addressable /128, so activities like NTP would require the container to have an NTP client in it to expose in that way. That'd mitigate a good chunk of information exposure -- that being said, I agree with the larger point about security via obscurity being insufficient.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-21 05:54:18+00:00
Again, that's a very modern perspective. When Portugal faced colonial revolts in the 1960s and early 1970s, NATO didn't help at all, and some members including the United States actively hoped Portugal would lose and free their colonies. Nor did they help France in the Algerian War. (The terms of the NATO treaty anticipated these conflicts, formally excluding all territory outside of Europe and North America from collective defense obligations so there'd be no question that help wouldn't come.)
by j_bum | 2026-01-21 05:54:27+00:00
Well I am pretty much you but maybe several years junior. I went to a state school, was obsessively focused only on my field of study, and scoffed at the idea of exploring anything else (save for some Jung and Nietzsche).

But as I’m “aging” into the real world after grad school, I’ve similarly realized how silly it was to turn my head to literature.

Curious if you’d be willing to recommend a classic, or share the genres that you’ve been enjoying.
by netsharc | 2026-01-21 05:55:43+00:00
One hopes, if it gets that far, somebody in the military will finally defy orders, and although the US has its first coup d'etat, the rule of law can return.

I still remember some redditor saying what happened in Nazi Germany couldn't happen in the US because of patriotism. Oh how smug I'd be to ask him "how did that work out?". Hopefully the military doesn't lock step into Armageddon, but "hope" is doing a lot of work there.
by m463 | 2026-01-21 05:55:49+00:00
> Americans are stuck in ICE engines because they’ve been told they’re “car enthusiasts”

actually I think there are two strange things going on.

Tesla has completely dominated acceleration vs ice cars. The model S can dor 0-60 in (admittedly fudged) 1.99 seconds. The model 3 performance has 500 or 600 horsepower.

This has created lots of EV enthusiasts.

BUT - they have also been screwing things up.

By taking away displays like the dashboard in model 3, or controls like drive select, turn signals and putting everything on the touchscreen... there's a really terrible UI. Who can be an enthusiast without being part of the car control equation?
by Semaphor | 2026-01-21 05:56:13+00:00
Huh? My Pixel 9 was free (late 2024) with a 20€/month 2 year contract that includes unlimited calls, SMS, and 5 gigs of 5G data. 480€ when the cheapest full price was over 500 (and then wouldn’t include the data or calls). Certainly not an American thing, and certainly not "significantly more".
by kldg | 2026-01-21 05:56:29+00:00
Strongly agree with this. I actually kind of wish I could go back to SMB IT (well, I mean I can, but I'm ~retired) with the knowledge I now have; I would've done things very differently/better. If it's small enough, you'll find yourself taking on all sorts of interesting facilities work; it can be pretty fun not knowing what the work day will be like. Some days I would paint, other days I'd be cursing at Active Directory, other days I would be working on the security system, other days I would be running new cables, and sometimes I'd just sit around and play video games. I left IT to do on-call overnight/weekend work in B2B tech support with the same company, where my role upgraded to sleeping through my shift.
by nomilk | 2026-01-21 05:56:37+00:00
Only time encountering the word syllogism was a Norm Macdonald joke.

Disappointingly, syllogism seems to have 3 definitions which mean slightly different things: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/syllogism

I guess the commonality is that a syllogism typically contains deductive reasoning (i.e. from the general to the specific)
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-21 05:57:44+00:00
The writing was on the wall for about half a year (publicly) now. The oAI 2nd place at the atcoder world championship competition was the first one, and I remember it being dismissed at the time. Sakana also got 1st place in another atcoder competition a few weeks ago. Google also released a blog a few months back on gemini 2.5 netting them 1% reduction in training time on real-world tasks by optimising kernels.

If the models get a good feedback loop + easy (cheap) verification, they get to bang their tokens against the wall until they find a better solution.
by tyuu | 2026-01-21 05:58:04+00:00
Any advice that you both understand and fits perfectly into your mental model is probably coming from whatever dogma you already follow and is therefore useless.

Any advice you don't understand is, of course, useless.

Any advice you do understand but doesn't fit into your mental model will just get rejected.

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-21 05:58:52+00:00
I don't do take home assignments, but when I did, I would offer to do it at my hourly rate, even if it was just an hour. It's time I would otherwise spend making money.

Anyone worth working with respected that and I landed several clients who forwent the assignment altogether. It's chump change in the grand scheme of things, and often a formality.

Does help that I have a very public web presence and portfolio, though.
by locknitpicker | 2026-01-21 05:59:09+00:00
From the article:

> One of the enduring, almost comical truths of DevOps is this: Developers often think DevOps is too Ops-centric. Ops folks think DevOps is too Dev-centric. Both sides are convinced the other one got the better end of the deal. You know what that usually means? It’s probably a decent deal. Nobody got everything they wanted, which is often the only way progress happens.

This is evidence that DevOps failed: the fact that there are Dev folk and Ops folk.

It's a scenario where Platform folk are given the incentive to not allow DevOps principles to succeed, as they would be working themselves out of relevance and even out of a job.

I sadly have worked in such a place where this was rather obvious. The DevOps guys made it their point to move every single bit of infrastructure provisioning onto their own custom templates and scripts even if that is used once throughout the whole org, require Dev folk to only touch provisioning through their custom templates, and sit on infrastructure PRs for weeks under the excuse they don't have time to review them because too many external teams want to touch their templates.

The platform team ended up building a moat to protect their job security, placed the DevOps flag over it, and everyone suffers.

Unless you have a single team responsible for their whole operation, DevOps won't succeed. The incentives are not there.
by altmanaltman | 2026-01-21 05:59:32+00:00
Okay, lets see how it ages. Will revisit this comment in an year and get back to you. I still stand by the fact that its a pipe dream until proved otherwise. As I said, the issue is not just w/ the tools or infra, the entire conept of "code without knowing code" is flawed imo but lets see how it plays out.
by Retric | 2026-01-21 06:00:22+00:00
Having grandchildren “coast through life” is different than extending copyright to say 10 years after an author dies which would destroy any real incentive to knock off an author.

Honestly I find it difficult to understand why a fixed 40 year term isn’t long enough to benefit from copyright. Trademark is already indefinite, JK Rowling is hardly going to be meaningfully harmed if someone publishes a work based on the first Harry Potter book in 2037.
by m463 | 2026-01-21 06:01:58+00:00
> Why is anyone even tolerating a carrier selling them a phone locked for a single day

When I graduated from college, a large majority of the recent graduates at my first job had new cars.

I still see this trend - young people with the latest iphone and/or new cars, and not worrying about being tied to payments.

I think this will happen... forever.
by ahefner | 2026-01-21 06:02:23+00:00
I think you're not technically wrong, but you're defining NAT differently than the majority of people you're arguing with (those who assume NAT also implies a firewall blocking inbound connections), and the remaining minority (the "on the WAN subnet" crowd) are dismissing outright the idea as a reasonable attack vector that an attacker close enough to be able to send packets destined for non-internet routable addresses to your router.

Is the latter something that was/is actively exploited?
by eviks | 2026-01-21 06:02:31+00:00
> It's slower to "stop precisely"on key hold/release

For longer distances, unless your repeat speed is very slow, you're often either holding a key repeat and stop before a few lines and then tap or overshooting and tap to go back. So ok, it's not 1x10, but 7+1x3 or 12-1x2

(but yes, the initial leg of the journey is more mouse-like "natural", but still not that because you can't vary speed on most keyboards unlike with they mouse/hand)

For smaller distances you could just tap a few times.
by throwaway81523 | 2026-01-21 06:03:01+00:00
I didn't see much cryptic except having to click on "perf_takehome.py" without being told to. But, 2 hours didn't seem like much to bring the sample code into some kind of test environment, debug it enough to works out details of its behaviour, read through the reference kernel and get some idea of what the algorithm is doing, read through the simulator to understand the VM instruction set, understand the test harness enough to see how the parallelism works, re-code the algorithm in the VM's machine language while iterating performance tweaks and running simulations, etc.

Basically it's a long enough problem that I'd be annoyed at being asked to do it at home for free, if what I wanted from that was a shot at an interview. If I had time on my hands though, it's something I could see trying for fun.
by mjevans | 2026-01-21 06:03:05+00:00
It doesn't confer much since it COULD be only NAT and no firewall.

It's INCREDIBLY unlikely to find a case of that in the wild, but possible.

A common example of a host that might have such an address but lacks that sort of security is anything as the default route for inbound packets, E.G. like you'd want your _own_ router / firewall rather than the ISP's modem.
by nl | 2026-01-21 06:03:10+00:00
Not exactly sure what you are looking for here.

That GRPO works?

> Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a variant reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm of Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) (Schulman et al., 2017).
GRPO foregoes the critic model, instead estimating the baseline from group scores, significantly
reducing training resources. By solely using a subset of English instruction tuning data, GRPO
obtains a substantial improvement over the strong DeepSeekMath-Instruct, including both
in-domain (GSM8K: 82.9% → 88.2%, MATH: 46.8% → 51.7%) and out-of-domain mathematical
tasks (e.g., CMATH: 84.6% → 88.8%) during the reinforcement learning phase

Page 2 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03300

That GRPO on code works?

> Similarly, for code competition prompts, a compiler can be utilized to evaluate the model’s responses against a suite of predefined test cases, thereby generating objective feedback on
correctness

Page 4 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948
by dlcarrier | 2026-01-21 06:03:22+00:00
That's probably the best strategy, but no one wants to admit it. Everyone seems to think that Lord of the Flies depicts human nature, when in reality teen boys on a deserted island are more likely to form a band than kill each other (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_castaways#Cast_away) and adults are even better behaved.
by Maro | 2026-01-21 06:03:29+00:00
> This repo contains a version of Anthropic's original performance take-home, before Claude Opus 4.5 started doing better than humans given only 2 hours.

Was the screening format here that this problem was sent out, and candidates had to reply with a solution within 2 hours?

Or, are they just saying that the latest frontier coding models do better in 2 hours than human candidates have done in the past in multiple days?
by patates | 2026-01-21 06:04:01+00:00
Trigger-based approach is the only one that really works in my experience. Partition the archive table in a way that makes sense for your data and you're good to go.

Some more rules to keep it under control:

Partition table has to be append-only. Duh.

Recovering from a delete needs to be done in the application layer. The archive is meant to be a historical record, not an operational data store. Also by the time you need to recover something, the world may have changed. The application can validate that restoring this data still makes sense.

If you need to handle updates, treat them as soft deletes on the source table. The trigger captures both the old state (before update) and continues normally. Your application can then reconstruct the timeline by ordering archive records by timestamp.

Needless to say, make sure your trigger fires BEFORE the operation, not AFTER. You want to capture the row state before it's gone. And keep the trigger logic dead simple as any complexity there will bite you during high-traffic periods.

For the partition strategy, I've found monthly partitions work well for most use cases. Yearly if your volume is low, daily if you're in write-heavy territory. The key is making sure your common queries (usually "show me history for entity X" or "what changed between dates Y and Z") align with your partition boundaries.
by 0928374082 | 2026-01-21 06:04:47+00:00
My relatively stable high trust society has bunker space for more or less the entire population; if the world goes to hell I'd much rather be* among people who (even on our right wing) habitually put solidarity into practice than be worrying about generators, ice augers, and looters.

* one of the best pieces of advice I ever got, related to skating to where the puck is going to be: "if you know where to be, you can let the young guys run"