MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nephihaha | 2026-01-31 01:04:05+00:00
In Europe, I think war was a major motivation in moving towards simpler styles. The Bauhaus movement was adopted in some quarters after WW1, because some people wanted to leave behind the pre-war regime(s) which had led to the war. After WW2, there was a more practical demand, i.e. a need to build large quantities of housing quickly to replace stock destroyed by the war and rehome vast numbers of people. Certain modernist styles were seen as cheaper and faster to build. Khrushchevkas reflect that and destalinisation.
by graemefawcett | 2026-01-31 01:04:31+00:00
By fixing a tiny machine class (say s=2,3; k=2) and exhaustively asking “what’s the fastest way any machine of this size can compute this function?”, Wolfram is effectively mapping absolute speed limits within a constrained computational universe. That’s not solving P vs NP, but it is answering a nearby, clean question: given a bounded program-size budget, what time-complexity phases actually occur, and which functions are forced into each phase?

You can also read these experiments as a kind of “finite TTL” study. Bound the algorithmic information content of the machine (number of states / rule bits), and measure how many steps (hops) you inevitably have to spend to transform input into output. Some functions admit linear-time realizations under that budget; some only quadratic; some only exponential. Even in these toy universes, there are intrinsic routing costs that no cleverness can remove without increasing the size of the machine.

That feels very much in the ruliological spirit: instead of arguing in the abstract about “hardness” in an infinite model, you enumerate a small slice of the Ruliad and see which notions of difficulty survive contact with explicit programs. Whether or not this ever touches the global P vs NP question, it gives a detailed picture of how computational irreducibility and speed limits show up in actually existing rule spaces, not just in asymptotic folklore.
by hocuspocus | 2026-01-31 01:05:04+00:00
Mostly the latter. Scala 3 is almost completely irrelevant to the big data space so far. Databricks took six years before upgrading their proprietary Spark runtime to Scala 2.13. Flink dropped the Scala API before even moving to 2.13. I don't know if Scio will seriously attempt the move to Scala 3. All of them suffer from Twitter libraries being abandoned, which isn't insurmountable, but an annoyance still.

And I don't think it matters anymore. I predict that the JVM will eventually be out of the equation. We're already seeing query engines being replaced by proprietary or open source equivalents in C++ or Rust. Large scale distribution is less of a selling point with modern cloud computing. Do you really need 100 executors when you can get a bare metal instance with 192, 256 or 384 cores?

People want a dataframe API in Python because that's what the the ML/DS/AI crowd knows. Queries and processing will be done in C++ or Rust, with little or even zero need for a distributed runtime. The JVM and Scala solve a problem that simply won't exist anymore.
by TsepoMkwebu | 2026-01-31 01:05:41+00:00
I’m a foreigner in Poland and needed a root canal.
My insurance covered ~500 zł, private clinics were very expensive.

A medical-student friend suggested a student dental clinic. I was skeptical, but learned that procedures are done by students under licensed dentists, who step in if needed. The treatment was supervised and significantly cheaper.

While researching, I noticed there’s no easy way—especially in English—to find and book student dental clinics. Most sites are Polish-only or hard to navigate.

So I’m building StudDent: a simple platform to discover and book student dental clinics in English
by giantg2 | 2026-01-31 01:06:03+00:00
The definition isn't that long. The definition is usually something like 1 year at the state level. But then the rules allow large chunks of time to be excluded from that 1 year requirement, like time waiting for a court doctor to declare someone competent, finding a witness, etc. In all my jury duty selections, the crime was committed 2-3 years before the trial commenced.
by stubish | 2026-01-31 01:06:10+00:00
Risk gets passed along until someone accepts it, usually an insurance company or the operator. If the risk was accepted and paid for by Tesla, then the cost would simply be passed down to consumers. All consumers, including those that want to accept the risk themselves. In particular, if you have a fleet of cars it can be cheaper to accept the risk and only pay for mandatory insurance, because not all of your cars are going to crash at the same time, and even if they did, not all in the worst way possible. This is how insurance works, by amortizing lots of risk to make it highly improbable to make a loss in the long run.
by chongli | 2026-01-31 01:06:23+00:00
I have heard of Celeste and I have played through VVVVVV. I will check out the others.

Celeste is kind of an example of what I was talking about though. The game gives you a ton of movement options and "floaty" air control with a lot of maneuverability. NES games never did that. The controls were simple and highly responsive, but generally very "committal."

The only recent game I know of with controls that really felt like a NES game was La Mulana. That game did not allow you to reverse directions in the air after a jump. Once you jumped forward you were fully committed to the arc of that jump.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-31 01:06:40+00:00
> Not unless you use a weird definition of orbit that is very different from the one lotsofpulp was using. And if you do that you're not countering their argument, you're misconstruing it.

All of science is like this. Change your frame of reference/theory. Why did we pick one system vs another? Its arbitrary.
by zahlman | 2026-01-31 01:06:50+00:00
> I can understand DOJ charging him with conspiracy if he took part of the planning

The story includes a link to the entire livestream. You may be interested in the interview with protest coordinators before they enter the church.

I remember seeing an edited video on the order of 5 minutes long on Don Lemon's own channel that seems to be gone now, although the livestream is still there.
by p_ing | 2026-01-31 01:06:59+00:00
Of course they don’t care about F/OSS — the vast majority of games are closed proprietary software. The small minority of Linux gamers are there for anti-Windows reasons rather than pro-Linux or F/OSS reasons. Which given Microsoft is now signaling a pull back on AI and a gear to improved performance/quality in Windows, if those anti-reasons evaporate, you’ll have the more frustrated Linux gamers potentially move back.

Linux needs a positive reason for Linux rather than relying on anti-Windows reasons (and there are, but I see those reasons outside of the gaming space).

There are 1B Windows 11 devices. Granted not all are for games, but it is not an unpopular OS by the numbers alone.
by robwwilliams | 2026-01-31 01:08:06+00:00
Not too dissimilar to the situation of the well known neurosurgical patient Henry Molaison (H.M.) who had very limit long term memory of his childhood and young adulthood but little after surgery at 27 years of age. He retained cognitive abilities and self-consciousness but within a narrow temporal world.

Good at cross/word puzzles and conversations of specific types.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison
by karanSF | 2026-01-31 01:08:22+00:00
Thanks @todsacerdoti for sharing sysp, really appreciate you noticing it! I'm a highly motivated engineer, with plenty of skills ranging from web development to embedded engineering, and would love to discuss potentially being a part of your team at Pipedream. I'm open to chat about roles/fit on X, @karans4_SF or you can contact me though my email on my website (check my profile).

-- Karan
by jjcm | 2026-01-31 01:09:33+00:00
Not only has OpenAI's market share gone down significantly in the last 6mo, Nvidia has been using its newfound liquid funds to train its own family of models[1]. An alliance with OpenAI just makes less sense today than it did 6mo ago.

[1] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-models-data-tools-acceler...
by guybedo | 2026-01-31 01:09:58+00:00
shameless plug here, i'm building something that might be of interest.

It's an opinionated app so it might not fit everyone's needs but that's my dream productivity app: LLM*(notes+tasks+rss+flashcards+routines). So basically an all in one app with LLM actions and workflows. no subscription, optional cloud service (can be self hosted too).

Here's a very early landing page: https://getmetis.app
by phkahler | 2026-01-31 01:10:00+00:00
The dollar is going down in value right now. Thats the plan. It makes foreign goods more expensive and exports more affordable to other countries. Meanwhile it should have less inflationary pressure on domestically produced stuff like housing.

I dont know if this is going to work or collapse. If it does work IMO they still need to reduce the debt - current actions are because we are backed into a corner, so that needs to be corrected.
by Morromist | 2026-01-31 01:10:14+00:00
Nvidia had the chance to build its own AI software and chose not to. It was a good choice so far, better to sell shovels than go to the mines - but they still could go mining if the other miners start making their own shovels.

If I were Nvidia I would be hedging my bets a little. OpenAI looks like it's on shaky ground, it might not be around in a few years.
by pron | 2026-01-31 01:10:15+00:00
> Similarly, maybe AI can generate software for any task, but maybe it cannot do that task just as well as the task-specialized software.

Yes, maybe, but assuming that is the case in general seems completely arbitrary. Maybe not all jobs are like writing software, but why assume software is especially easy for AI?

> Even if AI is as good as specialized software for a given task, the specialized software will likely be more efficient since it uses direct computation

Right, but surely an AI that can "build pretty much anything" can also figure out that it should write specialised software for itself to make its job faster or cheaper (after all, to "build pretty much anything", it needs to know about optimisation).
by meltyness | 2026-01-31 01:10:19+00:00
This is a weakness of docker, a bit, I think.

I was rigging this up, myself, and conciscious of the fact that basic docker is "all or none" for container port forwarding because it's for presenting network services, had to dig around with iptables so it'd be similar to binding on localhost.

The use case https://github.com/meltyness/tax-pal

The ollama container is fairly easy to deploy, and supports GPU inference through container toolkit. I'd imagine many of these are docker containers.

e: i stand corrected, apparently -p of `docker run` can have a binding interface stipulated

e2: https://docs.docker.com/engine/containers/run/#exposed-ports which is not in some docs

e3: but it's in the man page ofc
by swed420 | 2026-01-31 01:10:22+00:00
> On Bluesky, the boundaries of acceptable discourse are unusually narrow and strongly enforced, which predictably produces ideological clustering.

This isn't in conflict with my original comment.

> As for bots or “controlled opposition”: you don’t need conspiracy theories to explain why a heavily moderated platform with explicit cultural norms converges on a particular worldview. I’m disinclined to apply anything beyond Occam’s razor when accounting for “deranged spectacle” behavior; ordinary selection effects are sufficient.

These aren't conspiracy theories, and they pre-date and extend beyond Bluesky. They are easily observable patterns in most modern news media and social media. For one, silos are much easier to advertise to. Follow the money, like everything else.
by defrost | 2026-01-31 01:10:41+00:00
Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered Manhattan federal prosecutors last April to seek the death penalty against Mangione.
...
Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge that had enabled prosecutors to seek capital punishment, finding it technically flawed.

~ https://apnews.com/article/mangione-unitedhealthcare-death-p...

How many gross errors of basic law and procedure has the current AG made and overseen to date?

In 2020, Bondi was one of President Donald Trump's defense lawyers during his first impeachment trial. By 2024, she led the legal arm of the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute. On November 21, 2024, President-elect Trump announced his intention to nominate Bondi for U.S. attorney general after former congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration.

Personal lawyer, legal advisor for political think tank, second choice after Matt "F-ing" Gaetz ...

These are impressive credentials.
by cardanome | 2026-01-31 01:11:19+00:00
The Godot devs tried bindings to other languages first and it sucked: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/faq.html#what-w...

GDScript might be a bad general purpose language but it is a good language for Godot.

You say Python is a "normal" language for me while I love Python, modern Python has gotten way too complicated and clunky with lots of new features added. For me GDScript feels much closer to the original pythonic ideal. Plus it is much easier to learn for people that are not professional programmers.

Maybe you don't enjoy using GDScript and that is fine but saying it is a "objectively bad" language is really uncalled for. For many devs it is the right fit.
by usednoise4sale | 2026-01-31 01:11:58+00:00
I believe that is a widely misunderstood conception of the origin of money. Gold has generally not been used as currency. The sovereign right to dictate the value of a coin struck in a metal is called "seigniorage", and exists for all of those 3000 years. The value of the currency comes from the demand for it by the government to pay taxes, not the value of the metal in the coin. The metal in the coin makes it expensive to counterfeit said coin, with punishment by death doing the rest of the disincentive.

There is a reason the coins have the emperor's face on them. They are what he will accept as payment for the taxes he requests, and in assessing taxes according to his power, he dictates their value by fiat.
by ranger_danger | 2026-01-31 01:12:24+00:00
You're also assuming they even think something may have been destroyed in the first place. A wiped/clean device is not necessarily indicative of anything. For a criminal case they still have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they believed the device had something they wanted on it (and now it doesn't), with evidence to back that up... not just "well it COULD have had something". That might fly a bit farther in civil cases but not criminal.

And remember that without a court case alleging something in the first place, they wouldn't even have access to the device to know 1. it existed and 2. it might have had something useful on it. If I had two devices in my house and they're both clean, you can't just say "oh we think one of them had some evidence that was destroyed"... you need some kind of proof that it at least likely contained something relevant in the past before you can even begin to presume it might have been destroyed.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-31 01:13:08+00:00
> The article doesn't explain clearly why, even though no one seems to be disputing the murder, the murder charge is being dismissed.

I mean, its literally being dismissed because the defendant successfully disputed the murder (as even a valid charge under the prosecutors own allegations.) He also, in the parallel state case which does not rely on the much narrower federal murder statute used in the federal case, is disputing the alleged murder as a matter of fact.

So, it is inaccurate to say “no one is disputing the murder”.
by akst | 2026-01-31 01:13:18+00:00
ATM I feel like LLM writing tests can be a bit dangerous at times, there are cases where it's fine there are cases where it's not. I don't really think I could articulate a systemised basis for identifying either case, but I know it when I see it I guess.

Like the the other day, I gave it a bunch of use cases to write tests for, the use cases were correct the code was not, it saw one of the tests broken so it sought to rewrite the test. You risking suboptimal results when an agent is dictating its own success criteria.

At one point I did try and use seperate Claude instances to write tests, then I'd get the other instance to write the implementation unaware of the tests. But it's a bit to much setup.
by pron | 2026-01-31 01:13:44+00:00
I didn't say it wants to do anything. It also doesn't want to build software. But why would it be the case that an AI told to build an air traffic control software could successfully do that, but an AI told to make sure planes arrive where they're supposed to safely and on time won't be able to figure out the rest?

Now, I'm not saying it's impossible for there to be something that makes the first job significantly easier than the second, but it's strange for me to assume that an AI would definitely be able to do the former soon, yet not the latter. I think it could be reasonable to believe it will be able to do neither or both soon, but I don't understand how we can expect the ability line to just happen to fall between software and pretty much everything else.
by almosthere | 2026-01-31 01:13:57+00:00
Does Go have versioned libs yet? Last time I tried it, people were asking me to compile something that depended on another git repo, like a direct connection to a different git repo, that had diverged in API. And it was broken - no one cared, almost like that's normal. This was probably 10 years ago though, so it's probably different now.

Self answered - Go Modules. I guess so. I'll take another look, getting sick of Python lately.
by logicprog | 2026-01-31 01:14:44+00:00
Kimi K2T was good. This model is outstanding, based on the time I've had to test it (basically since it came out). It's so good at following my instructions, staying on task, and not getting context poisoned. I don't use Claude or GPT, so I can't say how good it is compared to them, but it's definitely head and shoulders above the open weight competitors
by RobotToaster | 2026-01-31 01:15:18+00:00
Interesting, that would be a big plus once it works.

I don't have a concrete use case, I just know that it's generally easier to "attach this cube to this face", than having to work out the formula to position it correctly, especially once you start working with weird angles, or wanting something to be tangent to a circle. That is how every professional CAD package I've ever used works.
by backpackviolet | 2026-01-31 01:15:25+00:00
But what the republican party has, is a lot of isolationist voters who cannot be moved by appeals to markets or international trade. They don’t care about that stuff.

Sure, the republicans will look hilarious trying to replace Trump for a while … but those Americans aren’t going anywhere and will gladly vote for the next Trump whenever they show up, same as they voted for Reagan and Bush II.

The American attitude driving this current period is much deeper and wider than one man, and people thinking it will all go away when one old man steps down are going to be “surprised” when we’re dealing with this again in ten years or twenty years or three years.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-31 01:16:01+00:00
> Drunk driving isn't the primary mover of high risk driving.

It kind of is. They're responsible for something like 30% of traffic fatalities despite being a far smaller percentage of drivers.

> People who can't afford self driving cars (now the insurance industry has a good proxy for income that they couldn't tap into before)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30172108/

But also, wouldn't they already have this by using the vehicle model and year?

> Enthusiasts who like driving their cars (cruisers, racers, Helcat revving, people who like doing donuts, etc...)

Again something that seems like it would already be accounted for by vehicle model.

> Older people who don't trust technology.

How sure are we that the people who don't trust technology are older? And again, the insurance company already knows your age.

> Also, if self driving cars go mainstream, they are bound to include the safest drivers overnight

Are they? They're more likely to include the people who spend the most time in cars, which is another higher risk pool, because it allows those people to spend the time on a phone/laptop instead of driving the car, which is worth more to people the more time they spend doing it and so justifies the cost of a newer vehicle more easily.

> Oh, and those self driving cars are expensive

Isn't that more of a problem for the self-driving pool? Also, isn't most of the cost that the sensors aren't as common and they'd end up costing less as a result of volume production anyway?

> Self driving cars have a lot of sensors/recorders. While this could work to your advantage (proving that you aren't at fault), it often isn't (they have evidence that you were at fault). Whereas before fault might have been much more hazy (both at fault, or both no fault).

Which is only a problem for the worse drivers who are actually at fault, which makes them more likely to move into the self-driving car pool.

> The biggest factor comes if self driving cars really are much safer than human drivers.

The biggest factor is which drivers switch to self-driving cars. If half of human drivers switched to self-driving cars but they were chosen completely at random then the insurance rates for the remaining drivers would be essentially unaffected. How safe they are is only relevant insofar as it affects your chances of getting into a collision with another vehicle, and if they're safer then it would make that chance go down to have more of them on the road.
by trhway | 2026-01-31 01:16:40+00:00
Noem at the Senate hearing : "Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, and suspend their right to ..."

After senator cut her off and explained what habeas corpus really is, Noem responded:

"I support habeas corpus. I also recognize that the president of the United States has the authority under the Constitution to decide if it should be suspended or not."
by zahlman | 2026-01-31 01:17:05+00:00
> Do you honestly think I have not read that before? Like seriously?

It immediately and completely refutes your position, so if you have read it then you have no excuse.

> I don't even know where that is posted, I just see folks quote it all the time.

It is in one of the links in the page footer.

> I obviously don't abide, those were written at a different time with a different HN.

Two wrongs don't make a right. The policy is there for a reason, and I'm confident that any of the moderators will happily tell you that it's meant exactly as seriously now as it was at the beginning. But you don't have to take my word for it; you can also email hn@ycombinator.com.
by fcantournet | 2026-01-31 01:17:07+00:00
ECB is doing one reckless thing after another which will inevitably lead to Germany leaving Eurozone at some point.

I'm not even sure what you're trying to say with the rest of it but this is nonsense. The ECB policy IS German, and has been for 3 decades. All of germany's economy is organized around the existence of the eurozone with Germany controlling a unified monetary policy.
by jaredcwhite | 2026-01-31 01:17:10+00:00
Just because a bunch of people tell you the practice of performing the art form of producing software via handwriting code is over doesn't mean it's over. This form of hyperbole is intended to overwhelm your reason, get you to forget your own expertise, and trick you into engaging with the topic in a fearful manner (literally FOMO). Don't fall for this cheap stunt.