MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjevans | 2026-01-17 18:25:55+00:00
Or (real) SQLite for reasonably scaled work.

I also like (old) .ini / TOML for small (bootstrap) config files / data exchange blobs a human might touch.

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Re: PostgreSQL 'unfit' conversations.

I'd like some clearer examples of the desired transactions which don't fit well. After thinking about them in the background a bit I've started to suspect it might be an algorithmic / approach issue obscured by storage patterns that happen to be enabled by some other platforms which work 'at scale' supported by hardware (to a given point).

As an example of a pattern that might not perform well under PostgreSQL, something like lock-heavy multiple updates for flushing a transaction atomically. E.G. Bank Transaction Clearance like tasks. If every single double-entry booking requires it's own atomic transaction that clearly won't scale well in an ACID system. Rather the smaller grains of sand should be combined into a sandstone block / window of transactions which are processed at the same time and applied during the same overall update. The most obvious approach to this would be to switch from a no-intermediate values 'apply deduction and increment atomically' action to a versioned view of the global data state PLUS a 'pending transactions to apply' log / table (either/both can be sharded). At a given moment the transactions can be reconciled, for performance a cache for 'dirty' accounts can store the non-contested value of available balance.
by JCM9 | 2026-01-17 18:26:02+00:00
You’re getting downvoted because you touched on a sensitive spot with some folks, but you’re right.

If other countries want to stop their reliance on US tech then they need to build better tech. Your BlackBerry quote shows that playing out in reverse. A non-US company dominated the market, a US company built something better (the iPhone) and the non-US company imploded.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-01-17 18:26:04+00:00
So Joe Biden and George W Bush are also master persuaders?

I feel we've cheapened the title "master persuader" if every elected politician in semi-democratic nations, even the nepo babies, gets that accolade.

I'm really looking for masterful persuasion, preferably of people who haven't already poisoned themselves with a diet of misinformation.
by Izkata | 2026-01-17 18:26:40+00:00
I dunno, going to the last example at the bottom of the page and comparing the contrast slider all the way up and all the way down, all these enhancements combined turns it into a blurry mush where it's harder to distinguish the shapes. It's the exact same problem I had with anti-aliasing fonts on older monitors (smaller resolutions) and why I always disabled it wherever I could.
by misswaterfairy | 2026-01-17 18:26:53+00:00
Not OP, but a notepad, a calendar (both I already get for free on my phone), and medication.

Your app interesting, but the tracking data and linked data required is an absolute non-starter for me. Privacy is key, especially for those who are really sensitive about revealing their ADHD diagnosis or symptoms. I know of people who have been discriminated against because of their ADHD diagnosis.
by reactordev | 2026-01-17 18:26:53+00:00
We can start by stopping the use of posture like you’re squirming in your seat. I’ve heard that term for the last 10 years and never has it been useful. Policy yes, Practice if you must, Mandate absolutely, Governance required.

Using posture is a kin to modeling or showing off clothes, the likes of which will never see the streets. Let’s all start agreeing that the term is a rug cover for whatever security wants it to be. Without checks and balances.

If your posture is having your rear end exposed and up in public then…
by Frotag | 2026-01-17 18:27:11+00:00
I've had the opposite problem with laptops. There's like 3 different menus to configure sleep but none of them actually let you disable it even if they claim they do.

They don't even share the same state and can be set to conflicting values, with the oldest looking one usually taking priority.

Disabling screen timeout is even worse since there's additionally the screensaver settings to muddy the waters.
Show HN: Interactive timeline of US Military bases and interventions, 1900–today
by metaphorician | 2026-01-17 18:27:58+00:00
Built with D3 and canvas. Uses CShapes data from ETH Zürich for historically accurate country borders that shift as you play through the timeline.

Military base data from David Vine's research, interventions from Congressional Research Service reports, among many other sources.

You can toggle categories, zoom to regions, and hover for details. Click to pin tooltips.

If you find anything missing or misleading, I'd love to hear it, so I can improve the accuracy.
by neilwilson | 2026-01-17 18:28:06+00:00
That’s what a C compiler does when generating a binary.

There was a time when you had to know ‘as’, ‘ld’ and maybe even ‘ar’ to get an executable.

In the early days of g++, there was no guarantee the object code worked as intended. But it was fun working that out and filing the bug reports.

This new tool is just a different sort of transpiler and optimiser.

Treat it as such.
by vaylian | 2026-01-17 18:28:07+00:00
Whenever you hear a politician say "carbon neutral by 2050", interrupt them. The real goal is to avoid getting too far over 1.5 degrees warming. We need to avoid reaching tipping points that will cause non-recoverable damage to the earth system. The year 2050 is meaningless. Actual global average temperatures is what should be measured.
by emptybits | 2026-01-17 18:28:33+00:00
These statements are pretty well supported.

Re/ deporting 100 million Americans: The actual number would be 53 million and I'll explain. The USA Department of Homeland Security made an official statement two weeks ago which included an image of a classic American car on a beach with blue sky and the headline "America after 100 million deportations."[1][2] According to the US Census there are fewer than 47 million people living in the USA who are foreign born.[3] So even if every single immigrant is deported, including legal residents and naturalized citizens, hitting the government's goal of 100 million deportations would require deporting approximately 53 million people born in the USA who are, according to the 14th Amendment, entitled to citizenship. The Supreme Court has said the exceptions to this citizenship right are 1) children of foreign diplomats, and 2) children of an occupying enemy force. I'm going to say #1 is tiny and #2 is zero. DHS appears to have a goal to deport approximately 53 million Americans.

Re/ invading allied nations: For months the world has listened to the American president and republicans threatening to annex and control allied nations, such as Canada and Greenland. I don't think that claim even requires a citation, does it?

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DS8Tx3XCRLQ

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/03/homeland-sec...

[3] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/POP645223#PO...
by general1465 | 2026-01-17 18:28:49+00:00
> Let French engineers sell jailbreaking hardware

It is sold by Israeli engineers for at least a decade and mostly bought by law enforcement.

> Romanian developers sell unlock keys for John Deere tractors

That infrastructure exists since year 2000. Called chiptuning tools, but it is usually done by Italians or Swiss. And specifically for John Deere we had some Ukrainian company, I don't remember exact name.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-17 18:28:50+00:00
The market isn't AI everything. Only 1.8% of office subscription holders think it's worth paying for copilot.

https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commer...

The free Copilot chatbot stands at about 1%: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/09/is-microsoft-losing...
by dyauspitr | 2026-01-17 18:29:03+00:00
Yeah fireplaces don’t make sense to me. Hot air rises and it sucks the existing heated air in the house which all flows out. The only way to heat the space is you need something with a lot of thermal mass that heats up in the process and then radiates heat. So a lot of bricks around the fire, some sort of baffle to enable the heat transfer and a system that sucks in air from the outside.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-17 18:29:05+00:00
As far as I can tell, censored by mods is quite rare. It's almost always for violating the site guidelines (repeatedly and/or extremely flagrantly), rather than based on the ideology of the content. Most of the "censorship" is downvoting and/or flagging from users, not from mods.

But you can post almost anything here. You want to post Marxist stuff? You can, but you need to be more than just a propagandist. Actually thoughtfully interact with opposing ideas; admit when the data is against you.

You want to support capitalism? You can do that too, but again, be more than a shill (though being a shill for capitalism is more accepted here).

You want to criticize the US? Many of us do, from time to time. But again, don't just be a propagandist or ideologue. "USA is only evil! Down with USA!" gets censored. "The United States is acting like a bully in international relations, and has a long history of doing so" is (mostly) accepted as a reasonable and accurate statement.

You want to support Hitler, Stalin, or Mao? Yeah, that's a tougher sell here. You're probably going to get downvoted to oblivion for it.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-17 18:29:30+00:00
The "army" part largely resonates with me - I understand that universities have very high staff ratios. I even tried to openly acknowledge that in my response! I specifically used your language in my words: "the army of staff at my tier 1.5 university".

But whats the median pay for those staff members? I’m mainly arguing the “absurdly overpaid” part of the “army of absurdly overpaid admins” claim. Myself and many coworkers in this IT department have left high-pressure 60-80 hour/week jobs in tech / consulting / etc. We took a ~40% paycut (and reduction in benefits! my health insurance is very poor) in exchange for a much more relaxed environment. I was making $140,000 before this, but now I'm making $80,000 - and I'm one of the more highly-paid people in my department.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-17 18:30:16+00:00
The trouble is, when I receive my paycheck, it just comes as "dollars". I don't know whether my employer got them by providing services to communities which are working in other ways, or whether they come from more nefarious behavior--and I have no way to refuse one sort but accept the other.

The kind of community action you're describing happens, but we need to find ways to help it scale.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-17 18:30:18+00:00
Technologically practical? Certainly. Kick renewables and electrification into high gear. Treat it like the emergency that it is.

Politically practical? Not a chance. It was already a major struggle a decade ago when the political climate was much more favorable to addressing the problem. Now, even the countries that want to do something about it are going to be more concerned about more immediate threats like being invaded.

Our best hope is that green technology quickly gets to the point where it so heavily outcompetes CO2-emitting technology that the latter disappears on its own. But this will take longer than it should.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-17 18:30:23+00:00
Russia don't have to be able to win a full-scale war against the EU for such a war to break out, it suffices that deterrence breaks down sufficiently that Russia get the idea they can get away with some land grab, e.g. in one of the Baltic countries.

The war in Ukraine illustrates very well the difference between perception and reality. Perception counts for deterrence.
Show HN: Xarticles – Browse X articles by category
by vierj | 2026-01-17 18:30:42+00:00
Hey HN,

Right now it's impossible to discover articles on X unless they happen to appear in your timeline.

So I spent a few hours building xarticles.io, a minimal directory that makes it easier to browse X Articles by category.

This will only really work if it becomes community-powered. So if you’ve written an article (or found a good one) I’d love for you to submit it and help populate the directory.

I'm also open to feedback to make it a better experience.
by DiscourseFan | 2026-01-17 18:30:46+00:00
Why is every service considered a “rent”? These services basically depend on commodity production—bell may have had a monopoly on phone service but not on the phones themselves. Or the copper used to manufacture their cables, or the housing which their employees slept in or the food they consumed. Service monopoly =! Neofeudalism, just because it is a more recent phenomenon does not mean its unique, JP Morgan had a rail monopoly, nobody considered his business “Neofeudalism.”
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-17 18:31:00+00:00
Yes in many parts of the US it's not just the heat but the humidity. One summer I tried going without AC as much as possible to see how much it would change my electric bill. I could handle the temperature most of the time but the humidity especially at night started giving me mold problems in the house. Cleaned that up and went back to using the AC and no more mold. Not sure how people controlled this back in the pre-AC days, maybe just a lot more cleaning.
by text0404 | 2026-01-17 18:31:14+00:00
It's probably the fact that you created two accounts in 30 mins to astroturf/troll a thread about climate change which is an actual, measurable phenomenon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hasanabi

Edit: this one too? https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=doktor2un
by ltbarcly3 | 2026-01-17 18:32:02+00:00
I'm not sure what we should do, it's very hard to determine what minimizes harm and maximizes benefits at a global scale. It's certainly not as simple as extremists would like to believe. Certainly it would be much (MUCH) less risky to slow warming as much as possible and maintain constant or slowly reducing CO2 levels.

I think from the standpoint of predicting what will happen, my best guess is that people will use fossil fuels until it is economically not viable to do so. If you want hasten it at an individual level, buy solar panels and have your house disconnected from the grid until fees you pay no longer subsidize fossil fuels. Frown at people and refuse to give them positive social cues when they buy a car that isn't electric. Instead of "oh nice car" just say "it would be so cool if they had a plugin version!". Support electrification of things like heat and water heating so long as it can be powered by non-fossil sources.

In the long run I think solar power, effective battery technology, and the peaking of the global population combine to cause fossil fuel usage to reduce over the next 100 years or so until CO2 levels stabilize. Lots of large CO2 emitters are already leveling off - the output is too high to sustain but at least it's no longer increasing year over year - such as from cement production.

Honestly it's not much but that's what you can do, larger social movements and political action do not work when someone's decision is whether to spend $800 a month or $100 a month to heat their house. Anyone who says it does should buy a thermometer, but instead they will get a plane ticket to the next big city to run around in the street yelling at police (literally the only people paid to not care about your slogans) while nobody really notices.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-17 18:32:54+00:00
> That's what awnings (or solar overhangs, or light shelves) are for.

Right, this is my point. We already think about these things.

> Isn't the idea of mcmansions

I don't think McMansions, or whatever your favorite example of bad architecture is, shows that we've somehow lost knowledge. Architects and builders are aware of all of these things, but that doesn't mean there aren't still clients who want less energy-efficient designs for all sorts of reasons, like aesthetics.

We know how to build energy-efficient buildings that are appropriate for the location and seasons. We also know how to build buildings for other purposes, and are aware of the tradeoffs in how they use more energy. Energy conservation isn't the only goal in home design.
by blibble | 2026-01-17 18:34:10+00:00
> As a result, oligarchs like (eg.) Arnault (LVMH) would metaphorically slap Macron like they did on multiple occasions [0][1], and threaten to switch to supporting the RN. If they made Macron in 2017 [2], they can unmake him in 2026 [3].

I don't think americans quite understand how much the population has shifted from being pro-USA to anti-USA

in the space of a year, as the orange cretin has been throwing his wrecking ball around

we don't have the cancer that is fox news

some billionaire who makes fancy handbags saying he's going to support a different political party will have zero impact on election results
by kmaitreys | 2026-01-17 18:34:18+00:00
Your examples are not equivalent at all. Why do you think the person was bullied? It's additional information that makes the picture clear, which is the purpose of an encyclopedia.

Any information which is relevant to the subject of article and brings clarity should not be censored, ideally.

Also if you could understand what I'm saying, you would realise I'm not asking to put birth names of every trans person with a wikipedia article in their article. Because it's not relevant.

You keep mentioning "harm" but never exactly describe what harm? What more harm can you imagine for a person who committed suicide due to bullying?
by could-of | 2026-01-17 18:34:27+00:00
The guidelines on gender identity are based on the BLP policies [1], which call for taking harm into account and not going into excess detail on someone's personal life.

Everything people are upset over in this thread is explained clearly in the BLP section on privacy, the gender identity section of the Manual of Style [2], and this essay on gender identity [3].

This particular example is completely clear-cut. Sources didn't cover them at all under any previous names because they're only known from one event. Someone who isn't transgender would be covered the exact same way. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a gossip rag.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Biog...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gender_identity
by dpark | 2026-01-17 18:35:05+00:00
I think the idea with McMansions is that they are just tacky. Poorly aped styles. Columns that don’t do anything and are proportioned wrong for the load they are intended to look like they carry. Complex roofs that do nothing useful but “look fancy”. 100% style over substance, but with style that snooty people look down on.

I imagine that McMansions are generally about as energy efficient (per square foot) as other contemporary homes, though.
by tomnicholas1 | 2026-01-17 18:35:20+00:00
People have literally used Zarr for this - at one point Gemini used Zarr for checkpointing model weights. Not sure what the current fashion in that space is though.

It's definitely one of many fields that see convergent evolution towards something that just looks like Zarr. In fact you can use VirtualiZarr to parse HuggingFace's "SafeTensors" format [0].

[0]: https://github.com/zarr-developers/VirtualiZarr/pull/555
by OCASMv2 | 2026-01-17 18:35:48+00:00
> unless you consider cop brutality "a good aspect".

No, I was referring to cooperating with law enforcement authorities instead of antagonizing them at every possible chance. How many victims of police shootings could have avoided that fate by simply peacefully cooperating with the officers involved?

> Nah, crime rates in marginalized eras don't prove what you claim, and neither do they justify cop violence.

They do.

> No. You are just fixated on your favorite boogie man, while decrying cops and racism being singled out by "the radical left". The "BLM leaders" are irrelevant -- this is a decentralized rallying cry against police brutality, not a hierarchical organization -- what matters is the outcry on people who reacted to police brutality. You are grasping at straws anyway, anyone on HN can see that arguing about funding has nothing to do with whether protesting police brutality is a just cause.

Not all police shootings are police brutality. In fact, I'd argue most are perfectly justified by suspects refusing to follow orders.

> Your stats show police shooting victims are NOT primarily white. I think you meant "blacks aren't the majority", but that's not the winning argument you think it is: nobody said cops are exclusively prejudiced against blacks. Also, shooting is not the only way the police exerts violence and discrimination.

I prefer to rely on hard data than on paranoid conspiracy theories.

> Finally, your link supports the fact police brutality is a problem in the US.

More palatable to blame the cops than the suspects who needlesly refuse to cooperate.

> The comment I was replying to argued Adams was radicalized, but blamed the hysterical left. It pays to read the conversation before jumping in.

I read the comment. I disagree with the characterization.
by kiba | 2026-01-17 18:35:50+00:00
Network effect is basically the same thing as urban agglomeration in real life. The value of a city is from all the people aggregating together to provide goods and services and people are worrying about the housing crisis.

So what is the correct solution to all of this? I would be tempted to reach for a land value tax except this doesn't really apply to cyberspace. The only "land" is built by the platform themselves, but at the same time the platform isn't solely responsible for all the value generated on the platform. So, maybe we should tax network effects.
by lithocarpus | 2026-01-17 18:36:14+00:00
To balance the picture, some LLM estimates on the other side of the coin:

Heart disease in adults age 55-65: 10% to 15% (50% increase)

Diabetes or Pre-diabetes in adults 55-65: 45% to 78% (75% increase)

Diabetes or Pre-diabetes in children/teens: 12% to 34% (180% increase)

Chronic autoimmune disease in adults: 4% to 12% (200% increase)

Daily avg screen time for adults: 4hrs to 9.5hrs (130% increase)

Depression 8% to 18% (125% increase)
by quesera | 2026-01-17 18:36:15+00:00
It's not like the wisdom is lost, it's just ignored in modern builds.

All architects think about siting and solar exposure. But the builders are in charge, and they optimize for what the market responds to -- which does not always include factors like these which contribute to long-term comfort and livability.

So I would say that consumers could learn a thing or two. That said, most buyers are not buying newly-built homes, so their ability to influence the inclusion of some of these features are limited.

The industry is downstream of market demands. If customers aren't aware enough to demand smart things, builders will skip them to save money, or to optimize for more visible features. Same old story.
by amlib | 2026-01-17 18:36:28+00:00
Except that the tree is so malformed and the core structure so unsound that it can't grow much past its germination and dies of malnourishment because since you have zero understanding of biology, forestry and related fields there is no knowledge to save it or help it grow healthy.

Also out of nowhere an invasive species that was inside the seed starts replicating geometrically and within seconds takes out the whole forest and you then wonder what the hell is this crypto locker thing over everything. You assumed the process would only plagiarize the good bits, but seems like it also sometimes plagiarizes the bad bits too, oops.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-17 18:36:44+00:00
This article is just wrong about the facts. Doctorow says "Anticircumvention law originates in the USA", but anticircumvention law originates in the WIPO Copyright Treaty, which all EU members and all their major trade partners are signatory to. The DMCA was passed to 2 years after this treaty was signed to implement the American obligations under it.