MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jason_s | 2026-01-08 04:42:56+00:00
Ah, yes, the DRAM game of musical chairs. The whole history of DRAM competition is a really interesting one.

I read Jeho Lee's article and a few other sources while researching background material for Supply Chain Games: Part II --- https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1452.php#dram

In this section, we’ll take a closer look at DRAM, and see why being in the DRAM business is like farming bananas, playing poker, participating in a dance marathon, and being chased by a bear.
by venturecruelty | 2026-01-08 04:44:32+00:00
It's hard to deal with a parent who doesn't respect your boundaries. I agree, I don't think more transistors can adequately solve what is actually a communication issue. I hope OP looks into codependency/enmeshment, because some parent-child relationships, especially mother-son ones, become enmeshed, and this results in things like the mother not having appropriate boundaries with the son. This might look like, for example, frequently interrupting you in a private space.
by drannex | 2026-01-08 04:45:11+00:00
Still logging in on occasion in Midnight Sun, I am on the younger side (breaching my thirties soon) and my mother played introduced me at a very young age to play alongside her and to help guide and teach the game (and spelling, and critical thinking, and the digital world) that she had played years before I was born. Many of her longest friends that she still talks with daily she met through MS2 and the various other MUDs such as Aardwolf.

MUDs are truly wonderful, and I hope they have a resurgence in some form soon.

https://midnightsun2.org/
by LeifCarrotson | 2026-01-08 04:46:03+00:00
Those robots are not "navigating AROUND the clutter", there are no consumer-deployed object recognition physics models that let a robot say "that's a ball that will roll, that's a shirt that will tangle, that's a sheet of paper that may slip", they're just charging chaotically through it. If you allow skittering robots, do you exclude a 90s RC car with the trigger taped down?
by metadope | 2026-01-08 04:47:41+00:00
Militia on our streets without discipline or uniforms. That's what caused this tragedy.

The administration early on made the decision to allow/require ICE agents to wear whatever tactical gear they had, along with masks, and authorized/required an intentional lack of insignia.

The lack of a uniform and insignia is a real problem for ordinary Americans.

We're used to subjecting ourselves to authority. We're willing to obey commands, to cooperate, to assist, even, the officers in uniform. We are law-abiding and respectful, even to the lowly rent-a-cops in the mall.

That respect and cooperation and obedience absolutely depends on the recognition of the uniform, the badge, the symbol of authority displayed without doubt.

Someone in the administration got the bright idea to remove the symbol, the uniform, and decided that everyone should now bow down in respect to ununiformed masked militia roaming our towns in plain pickups and SUVs.

Someone thought it would be 'cool' or 'bad-ass'; they still do, I'll bet.

But the lack of uniform changes the psychology of enforcement, imho. It places less demand on the discipline of the anonymous tactical-fatigue wearer. Add the mask and you're almost there. Just need jack-boots, and you complete the transformation of officer (blessing) into thug (curse). There is no accountability, no real standard to live up to, when the uniform is gone, the mask is on, and you, as an ostensible agent of federal authority, you are Anonymous. [Yes, I would like to see ICE issue all field agents the Guy Fawkes mask. There's a uniform for you./s]

The lack of a uniform creates moments of doubt and uncertainty in a US citizen as well. We are comfortable complying with commands from an officer in uniform. But we're just not used to unpredictible swarms of masked and often angry militia pouring out of dark windowed F150s and barking out conflicting orders, surrounding us, yanking on our door handles, pulling a sidearm and pressing it against the glass of our windshield.

This tragic confrontation has to become the last. We cannot continue to tolerate roaming anonymous militia wearing disguises, conducting unpredictable federal enforcement raids on our otherwise peaceful streets, under the cover of anonymity. We need these officers to be a part of our community, to come out from behind their masks, to put on a uniform we can identify and associate with the real positive authority of a well-intentioned federal government. [Yes, prerequisite, I know, we first need a federal government that is well-intentioned.]
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-08 04:48:24+00:00
That's not the issue. The TPM isn't blinded in the above description meaning that if someone cracks the TPM they can get your key. Ideally both factors are always required to access the secret.

If you're wondering, yes this is a security issue in practice. There have been TPM vulnerabilities in the past that enabled exfiltration of secrets.
by botacode | 2026-01-08 04:48:29+00:00
A lot of folks in the thread seem to be crunching the numbers and realizing what we did: that insurance is the not-so-silent canary in the coal mine for home ownership in huge swatches of the country. Especially in HCOL markets that are particularly affected by natural disaster and global warming risks (think California, Texas, Florida).

We saw this years ago with the start of the inflationary trend and it's why we started Coverage Cat (https://www.coveragecat.com). It's an AI-native insurance search tool that helps homeowners find insurance when availability or costs are too high. It'll search the web for you without requiring you to 1) get on the phone, and 2) have your information sprayed around the internet so brokers can spam you. Our GTM focus is high-earning tech employees in the states above + WA and NY so if you're buying a home or fed up with your insurance costs give it a spin!
by margalabargala | 2026-01-08 04:48:33+00:00
I'm not saying I know the intent. I'm saying you don't know the intent, because the word of the commander in chief is not sufficient evidence.

Maybe Trump's eventual goal is to invade Venezuela with the intent of controlling it. I don't know. I do know that the intent of the brief military offensive was not to control it, because of what was done.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-08 04:48:54+00:00
Reminds me of..

(The site may be triggering..)

"Grothendieck got angry when they started pestering him. Justine recalled in an interview with Allyn Jackson: “The next thing we know, the two policemen are on the ground.” Grothendieck, who once practiced boxing, had single-handedly decked two police officers."
Show HN: I Created Wizible – A Windows Widget for Plausible Analytics
by xakpc | 2026-01-08 04:50:50+00:00
I use Plausible as a main analytics platform, but apparently I don’t have the discipline to check it regularly for all my side-projects. So it just sits there and I'm actually paying money for that just to exists.

To fix it for myself I decided that I needed a quick peek at current stats - something that’s always one gesture away and extremely easy so I could do this without any friction.

Unfortunately I use Windows, and Windows has this thing called Widgets. Apparently, that’s exactly the surface I needed. Their docs are terrible and 100% of existing widgets are useless, but the panel is fast enough for my task.

So I crafted Wizible - a Windows 11 widget for Plausible Analytics.

It’s intentionally super simple: open widgets → glance at stats → if something changes, then I open the full dashboard.

It's free, use like 20MB of RAM, and should be relatively secure and pretty fast because I put some real software engineer work there and not vibe-code slop.

It's available in Microsoft Store, I'm also might open-source it if people are interested.

Curious: what’s the ONE metric you’d want on the widget by default? (active visitors / top pages / referrers / conversions?) I choose metrics based on my understanding, but maybe my understanding is wrong.

And: would you prefer "real-time only" or "today vs yesterday" trend at a glance? Thinking how a currently missing "small size" might look.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-08 04:51:12+00:00
I reject this concept that there’s some kind of intentional demoralization happening here

If people feel demoralized it’s because they can’t generate the rage necessary to turn information into physical action

If someone is overwhelmed by it then that is a indictment that should give people pause and ask “why is my response to fear to freeze fawn or flight instead of fight”

Ultimately if the plurality of humans roll over and die when encountered with overwhelming force, then so be it and that’s the result, and they will go the way of Neanderthal

If people are not enraged then they are being intentionally ignorant and ultimately theres nothing to save
by chrledntsurf | 2026-01-08 04:51:24+00:00
The biggest issue with all this is that ICE agents are in fact NOT police officers.

As a US citizen you DO NOT have to obey them in the same manner as a police officer and their rights to detain you are limited. Unless they were placing her under arrest she was free to leave and drive on. Most ICE agents lack the same training that your average state police officer would be forced to go through and thus are far more likely to do something stupid.
by buu700 | 2026-01-08 04:51:27+00:00
Agreed, this is a big part of the problem. The average person doesn't have anything resembling a coherent mental model of nutrition, and vague conflicting nutritional advice only adds to the confusion. The average person doesn't even know what a carb is, much less understand the biochemistry of how their body processes one.

Does "reduce fat consumption" mean a proportional reduction (i.e. increase carb/protein consumption) or an absolute reduction (i.e. decrease overall caloric intake)? In either case, what macros and level of caloric intake relative to TDEE are the assumed starting point? Who knows, but the net effect has been multiple generations hooked on absurd concentrations of sugar and UPFs.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-08 04:53:27+00:00
I generally agree with you on market discussions, but I don't think you're considering this one correctly. Imagine a country responsible for just 10% of global oil production decided to stop producing. What's going to happen oil prices assuming no other country starts producing more?

They're going to skyrocket in a seemingly irrational way. But it's completely rational. The reason is that they're a finite resource that is needed, and so there is very minimal price elasticity. People will pay as low as they can, but simultaneously must have oil and so have a practically uncapped price ceiling if that's all that's available. The same is true of housing.

You're right that people won't, generally speaking, buy a house for $100 when there's another one for sale for $80. But what you've done there is greatly increase the demand for that $80 house, which is now going to naturally send its price upwards.

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Finally there's the issue that figures on the percent of homes that are owned by investment groups are misleading, because they aren't just buying homes randomly. They're going to pick up lots of houses in precise areas, and so the impact on prohibiting this behavior will be dramatic in these areas.
by zahlman | 2026-01-08 04:54:20+00:00
> But then you realize that Seattle is going to spend $180B ("B", as in "billion") to build about 50 miles of tracks.

Well yes, but that's not at all something intrinsic to the process, it's just a dysfunction that Seattle is suffering — along with most of the rest of North America.

In 2002, Toronto paid less than $1b to build the 5.5km of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_4_Sheppard , which is fully underground subway running on a custom gauge for historical reasons.

Last year, we finished https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_6_Finch_West , which is light rail running at-grade on standard gauge. It's not even twice as long but cost 3.6x as much. For light rail. And it's apparently running well below design speed and at least initially with terrible signal priority.

Currently we are building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_5_Eglinton, just over five times as long. It's light rail at a combination of underground, at grade and elevated; current projected total cost is $17.5b. So, three and a half times as much per unit distance, for what is supposed to be a considerably less expensive option.

Prices for other things have not gone so crazy in that time frame. But yeah, it isn't costing us anywhere near 3.6b USD/mile (about 3.1b CAD/km) for light rail. Yet.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-08 04:54:29+00:00
You can DoS many physical FIDO tokens by using the wrong PIN on purpose several times.

They're programmed to lock or reset as a security measure. If they're locked, they need a special process, software and credentials to unlock them, which you might not have immediate, or any, access to.

If they reset, it's no different than wiping a TPM.
by map12345678 | 2026-01-08 04:55:09+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! Since this is a side project, I'm currently running it on a free hosting platform based in the Japan region. That's likely why it felt overloaded or slow if you are connecting from the US or Europe.

I’m also aware of some weird optimization bugs where the game lags or drops frames on non-Chrome browsers and Linux (Ubuntu). I'm still looking into why this is happening.

Sorry for the lost progress and the lag! I appreciate your patience.
by tptacek | 2026-01-08 04:56:40+00:00
Before we even reach the question of how true that is, there isn't evidence that any firm holds a significant portion of the "houses on sale". A starting point here would be the fact that corporate investors buy houses and hold on to them, and thus definitionally don't hold any of the house on sale, but whatever, either way, just flesh the story out instead of handwaving it.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-08 04:58:50+00:00
Epidemiology should generally be disregarded when it comes to nutrition.

There are exceptions when there are rare natural experiments (e.g. I forget the country, but the European one where some issue caused all flour for the country to be only whole-wheat, which led to clear nutrient deficiencies due to the phytic acid there) but in general there are way too many confounds, and measurement is far too poor and unreliable (self-report that is not just quantitatively but qualitatively wrong, and you can't track enough people nearly long enough), there is virtually no control whatsoever (diets and available foods shift considerably over just decades), and much of the things being measured lack even face/content validity in the first place (e.g. "fat" is not a valid taxon, and even "saturated vs. unsaturated" is a matter of degree).

We are missing so much of the basics of what are required for a real science here I think it is far more reasonable to view almost all long-term nutritional claims as pseudoscience, unless the effect is clear and massive (e.g. consumption of large amounts of alcohol, or extremely unique / restrictive diets that have strong effects), or so extremely general that it catches a sort of primary factor (too much calories is generally harmful, regardless of the source of those calories).

But even setting that aside, you can't define or study "Mediterranean diet" rigorously even in RCTs, so I don't see how you can think you are going to get much of anything here from epidemiological work that is going to lead to anything practically actionable.
by paxys | 2026-01-08 04:59:19+00:00
I have a couple store brand cards backed by Chase (like the Amazon one) and they are basically exactly like any other first party Chase card. They show up on the Chase dashboard. You call Chase customer service for issues. Payments happen through Chase. The card benefits are all provided by Chase. The only difference is that there's Amazon printed in front and the points the card earns aren't regular Chase points. Of course their relationship with Apple could be different, but I doubt it'll be anything like the Goldman one. Remember that Goldman didn't have a consumer business at all before they signed the Apple deal.
by mancerayder | 2026-01-08 04:59:38+00:00
Additional property tax? Do you have any idea what property taxes are like in places like NJ, NY? It's 2-3% of the value, sometimes assessed at sales value. People buy despite this because they like an area or a school system. If you raise it more, rest assured that only the rich will have the right to buy. It's as regressive as it gets, your proposal.
by aw1621107 | 2026-01-08 04:59:39+00:00
> are the state machine race conditions logic races (which Rust won’t trivially solve) or data races? If they are data races, are they the kind of ones that Rust will catch (missing atomics/synchronization) or the ones it won’t (bad atomic orderings, etc.).

The example given looks like a generalized example:

spin_lock(&lock);
if (state == READY) {
spin_unlock(&lock);
// window here where another thread can change state
do_operation(); // assumes state is still READY
}

So I don't think you can draw strong conclusions from it.

> I’m bullish about Rust in the kernel, but it will not solve all of the kinds of race conditions you see in that kind of context.

Sure, all I'm trying to say is that "the class of bugs described here" covers more than what was listed in the parentheses.
by arunabha | 2026-01-08 05:00:11+00:00
So, according to your logic, the appropriate punishment for allegedly blocking federal LEO operations is to get killed?

Who decided that she was'blocking' any operations? It seems to have been an ICE agent. So, now it's ok for an ICE agent to be the judge, jury and executioner?

Sometimes, it's hard to believe the level to which we seem to have sunk. What's worse is that the partisan divide is so great that even normally sane people can't seem to see any fault from 'their' side, no matter how egregious the behaviour.

I don't know how a society can ever recover from that.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-08 05:00:26+00:00
Why would the cat being comfortable make it sit on a mat?

Many sentences require you to have some knowledge of the world to process. In this case, you need to have the knowledge that "being comfortable dictates where you sit" doesn't happen nearly as often as "where you sit dictates your comfort."

Even for humans NLP is probabilistic, which is why we still often get it wrong. Or at least I know that I do.
by tombert | 2026-01-08 05:00:31+00:00
People have very little reason to be honest during polls, so I find them hard to believe. Polling data led to predictions about Hillary winning in 2016.

Even if there was a slight “shift right” in black and Asian voters, it was still kind of marginal.

According to Pew, about 83% of black voters still voted for Kamala, with 15% voting for Trump, and 60% of Asians voted for Kamala.

I can envision that much internalized racism in either of those groups, but even if that weren’t the case, there are lots of different races and they could convince themselves that “the other ones” are the bad ones, and Trump won’t hurt them. I do not think what you are saying dispels anything I said at all.
by mmooss | 2026-01-08 05:01:05+00:00
IME companies are worse: professional investors highly focused on maximizing profits - driving up rent and minimizing costs - rather than a long-term investment by someone with another job, a sidelight and retirement plan.

I don't see how you have more recourse against a company with lawyers that can ignore you, and mom-and-pop. The latter are much more likely to respond to reason.

Of course, any landlord can be bad.
by mindslight | 2026-01-08 05:02:04+00:00
Can we please stop calling this "immigration enforcement" and supporting their nonsense narrative ? These are lawless paramilitary gangs who will attack anybody - citizens, mothers, fathers, legal residents, or anyone else they don't like the look of - with extreme violence. Even if you're a family person who drives strictly below the posted speed limit and looks forward to tax time, it's still prudent to avoid them.
by ggrantrowberry | 2026-01-08 05:03:41+00:00
I don’t think so. My favorite tool is Codex with the 5.2-codex model. I use Github Copilot and Codex at work and Codex and Cursor at home. Codex is better for harder and bigger tasks. I’ll use Copilot or Cursor for small easy things. I think Codex is better than Claude Code as well.
by tombert | 2026-01-08 05:04:28+00:00
THANK YOU.

It’s so strange to me that anyone who knew anything about him even before he announced presidency didn’t find him to be completely insufferable and an objectively terrible businessman.

He has always been incapable of speaking without constantly trying to brag about himself or bitching about how things aren’t his fault, and even before the infamous “grab her by the pussy” tape came out it was already pretty well known that he was a perv.

I do not know how he got any traction. Except, you know, he became even more outwardly racist.
by dang | 2026-01-08 05:05:02+00:00
IMO veering from minutiae of 5-codepoint Unicode sequences to hot geopolitics ("for fairly obvious reasons") is a classic generic flamewar tangent, in the textbook sense of "tangent": there's one point in common and otherwise the lines don't intersect at all.

These tangents always go in the same direction, too: they bump the thread off the back road (obscure Unicode details!) and onto the well-paved multi-line highway (to hell!).

None of that matters though, if you're going to be as good-humored as this!
by terribleidea | 2026-01-08 05:08:03+00:00
This reminds me that back in high school, I would multibox on the MUD I played regularly by logging in, pulling the plug on my dial-up modem, dialing back in and then logging back in to my initial character and a new one. Dialing in would give me a fresh IP address, but the initially logged-in character would retain the one it logged in with (also, you had to do this fast enough that the character didn't get disconnected).

I also had some scumbag moments. Namely, I helped someone else on the MUD code on his other MUD, and I saw that he never installed libcrypt or whatever, so I could view players' passwords in plaintext. Since I new him from the main MUD we played, there were a bunch of people I knew playing in both, at least to check out this guy's project. So I'd use the same IP trick to log in as them and kill their friends, as them. Fun stuff.
by throwup238 | 2026-01-08 05:08:17+00:00
> Don't conflate the US and the "west".

I only vaguely said “the West” because I didn’t want to get into the complexities of subsistence farming, regional quirks, and pedantics like “soybeans hulls are often considered roughage”.

About a third of beef in the world is truly grass finished and two thirds of that is subsistence farmers who can’t afford the grain. Most of the rest comes from Australia, Brazil, and New Zealand because it’s more competitive to leave them in pasture than import the grain.

As much as you may want to hold your nose up at the US, the (vast) majority of beef sold in the world is grain finished and has been for a long time. It’s just more economically competitive and people strongly prefer the taste and texture.
by kcplate | 2026-01-08 05:08:25+00:00
> Can you point to me the part where she was interfering with their enforcement and duties?

So is it perfectly normal for a civilian vehicle to just be blocking a street at a 90 degree angle during an active ICE operation where there are other protestors present?

“Deliberately antagonizing” might be an explanation, perhaps “unintentional but poorly timed three point turn” is another. Either way, it’s interfering with the operation.

> You just believe the law is a post-hoc rationalization for murder by the state

No, I believe that Pierson v. Ray allows law enforcement the ability to be shielded from certain laws if the legality of the action is unclear or if it’s a reasonable human response within the circumstances. I don’t agree with it (as I said and you of course ignored). However that’s the law and it was an 8-1 SCOTUS decision…so it’s unlikely to change.