MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1123581321 | 2026-01-31 01:37:37+00:00
Nope--they don't need to prove they believed the device had something they wanted. That's just the motivation for them to go after you for inconveniencing them.

Same for your second paragraph: "oh we think one of them had some evidence..." - that's not how it works! It's your intent to destroy evidence that is the crime, not whether you destroyed evidence. They do not need to prove you destroyed evidence or even likely storage of evidence to get you convicted.

This is the main thing you're saying that is bad legal advice.

For your other point, yes, if they can't tell anything happened, or it seems like an accident, then you're probably going to get away with it. This happens a lot. I think that's a different topic. Original topic was: if you wink at your phone or use a weird finger (or some other visible gesture) and now your phone's wiped, could you get in legal trouble for that sequence of events.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-31 01:37:51+00:00
> I didn’t realize the price of silver was collapsing.

Wait. It "collapsed" to the price it was on the 9th of january 2026. Which back then was it's all-time high.

FWIW I hold SLV (a BlackRock/iShares ETF on silver, the biggest and most liquid silver ETF in the world) since $26. I noticed the recent craze. So I bought PUTs when it was at $102, protecting me at a strike of $96. These PUTs were pricey but, so far, worth it. But here comes the kicker: I'm financing those PUTs by selling CALLs on SLV (that simple options strategy is called a "collar").

And as I'm a silverbug, I own silver coins too. But these aren't liquid as you noticed.

When you trade paper silver (like the ETF SLV), the price of the market is the price of the market. SLV is not 100% following an ounce of silver's price, but SLV's market price is SLV's market price. It was $105 at close yesterday and $75 at close today and that's just the price of SLV.

I do like that: not getting ripped off by some side-of-the-road hustler.

That dude giving you $80 then giving you $35 is taking a more than 50% cut compared to the nearest low of day. That's quite a rip off.
by lores | 2026-01-31 01:39:10+00:00
Hello. There is a paramilitary force murdering people with impunity. The president and its administration consider themselves above the law. They encourage political violence against their enemies. They use state power to punish dissent. Corporatism reigns. Minorities and intellectuals are scapegoated.

I'm going to say you're the one who doesn't understand the word "fascist".
by rayiner | 2026-01-31 01:40:25+00:00
You don’t seem to understand the legal issues here if you’re saying this was an “error of basic law.”

What happened is that the feds took an aggressive but plausible legal position, and the district court disagreed. There are concurrent federal and state prosecutions. Ordinarily, murder is a state law charge. Some nexus to the federal government is required to elevate it to a federal crime.

Here, New York doesn’t have the death penalty, so the feds invoked 18 USC 924(c) in connection with a federal stalking charge. That allows the death penalty where someone is killed with a firearm during a federal “crime of violence.” So the question is whether stalking is a “crime of violence.” Seems like it could be, right?

The term “crime of violence” is the subject of a ton of litigation: https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/2025-04-25_LSB11293_4ec.... So the feds made an aggressive argument to secure the death penalty, and the district court disagreed. There’s nothing incompetent at all. Federal prosecutors sometimes take aggressive legal positions, and federal judges sometimes reject those positions.

You didn’t mention that Bondi was Florida’s AG for 8 years. Even Democrat Senators who voted against her acknowledged she is well qualified: https://www.welch.senate.gov/welch-votes-against-advancing-p... (“Pam Bondi is qualified. She has done outstanding work as an Attorney General, both as a County Prosecutor and as the Florida Attorney General, and I actually quite admire the grit that she had to take on a challenging statewide campaign to become Attorney General”).
by imglorp | 2026-01-31 01:42:10+00:00
> still failing to communicate out of band.

I don't understand countries or operators that do this.

There's no secrets about hardware position and orbit. Even amateur astronomers can track spacecraft.

There's no benefit to trashing orbit from failure to coordinate and cooperate. Any collision in LEO will deny it to everyone for several years.

So who is being insular and why is it to their advantage?
by adw | 2026-01-31 01:42:20+00:00
The tool-calling thing here is overblown.

When you do "tool calling" with an LLM, all you're doing is having the LLM generate output in a particular format you can parse out of the response; it's then your code's responsibility to run the tools (locally) and stick the results back into the conversation.

So that _specific_ part isn't RCE. It's still bad for the nine million other obvious reasons though.
by Retric | 2026-01-31 01:43:13+00:00
> How is it possible to abstract without encapsulation.

Historically pure machine code with jumps etc lacked any from of encapsulation as any data can be accessed and updated by anything.

However, you would still use abstractions. If you pretend the train is actually going 80.2 MPH instead of somewhere between 80.1573 MPH to 80.2485 MPH which you got from different sensors you don’t need to do every calculation that follows twice.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2026-01-31 01:44:26+00:00
If the rumors are true, the Iranian gov systematically cut off all escape and communication for the 30k people it just ruthlessly murdered. While I agree meddling in other countries’ happenings should be little to none, that’s a lot of people slaughtered and no one even tried to stop it. Whataboutism won’t bring those people back either.
by narrator | 2026-01-31 01:45:03+00:00
That lesson plan is a good practical start. I think it misses the very big picture of what we've created and the awesomeness of it.

The simplest explanation I can give is we have a machine that you feed it some text from the internet, and you turn the crank. Most machines we've had previously would stop getting better at predicting the next word after a few thousand cranks. You can crank the crank on an LLM 10^20 times and it will still get smarter. It will get so smart so quickly that no human can fit in their mind all the complexity of what it's built inside of it except through indirect methods but we know that it's getting smarter through benchmarks and some reasonably simple proofs that it can simulate any electronic circuit. We only understand how it works by the smallest increment of its intelligence improvement and through induction understanding that that should lead to further improvements in its intelligence.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-31 01:45:24+00:00
$1.4M defense fund (so far), exceptional legal team, jury nullification, lots of paths to success. His case is going well so far, and appeals are always an option. “Proof beyond a reasonable doubt” is the bar.

How confident are you there isn’t at least one juror who hasn’t been harmed by their health insurance, financially or medically?
by tayo42 | 2026-01-31 01:45:31+00:00
I feel like collectively we should just stop talking about this and speculating and just see what happens in a year.

Is programming obsolete, or is it needed more then ever becasue we need to fix all the crap generated. Let's just all follow up at the end of the year.

Itll be quiet though if we're still hand writing code though I think
by avadodin | 2026-01-31 01:45:34+00:00
It is only irrelevant because devices made in this century put a lot of work into not transmitting outside of the intended frequencies.

My old Nokia would smash the whole range of AM/FM and UHF bands.

I don't know about higher frequencies that could escape one of these cages intended to block WiFi/5G/GPS but it is possible in theory and then it would be likely a backdoor that only becomes active when no signal can be detected.
by kawsper | 2026-01-31 01:46:26+00:00
Oxylabs sells proxies for scrapers, I suppose you can use the socks-proxy as a VPN, and they claim to use Honeygain.

Honeygain is a platform where people sell their residential internet connection and bandwidth to these companies for money.

For comparison Honeygain pays someone 10 cents per GB, and Oxylabs sells it for $8/GB.
by zahlman | 2026-01-31 01:46:50+00:00
Doesn't Numpy already use a C inner loop to do the main data loading, since Numpy is wrapping around C data structures that the loading process loads into? Surely for a reasonably sized array, the overhead of parsing the header info in Python would not be the bottleneck?

I don't mean to write off the possibility (especially in 2014) that OP could have written (especially hardware-specific) faster C code for the loading process. But I would take that as more of a reason to contribute to the project than to do what's described here.
by cheema33 | 2026-01-31 01:48:00+00:00
This is how you do things if you are new to this game.

Get two other, different, LLMs to thoroughly review the code. If you don’t have an automated way to do all of this, you will struggle and eventually put yourself out of a job.

If you do use this approach, you will get code that is better than what most software devs put out. And that gives you a good base to work with if you need to add polish to it.
by drekipus | 2026-01-31 01:48:07+00:00
instantly awesome.

I suck at chinese but I want to get better and I'm too embarassed to try and talk with real people and practise.

This is a great compromise. even just practising for a few minutes I already feel way more confident based on its feedback, and I feel like I know more about the details of pronunciation.

I'm worried this might get too big and start sucking like everything else.
by hirako2000 | 2026-01-31 01:48:37+00:00
But politics isn't involved.

The point of tender is to represent value.

Your water in the desert costing 100 times what it costs where it rains is meant to represent its scarcity here vs over there.

Take cuban dollars vs normal dollar. In there the two tenders aren't proxy for value. Proxy for a political control so that the wealthy visitor pays 10 times, for the same bottle of water on the same shelf.
by supertrope | 2026-01-31 01:49:16+00:00
It also shows a lack of imagination. If you have to provide a union with a job bank, why not re-deploy employees to other roles? With one person per train, re-deploy people to run more trains therefore decreasing the interval between trains. Stations used to have medics but this was cut. How about re-train people to be those medics? The subway could use a signaling upgrade and positive train control. Installing platform screen doors to greatly reduce the incidence of people falling onto the tracks is going to need a lot of labor.
by blopker | 2026-01-31 01:50:37+00:00
As always, it really depends on what the source is. Often images are created with some software like Photoshop, would you commit the psd file to git? If you're a photographer, would you commit 20mb+ raw image files? Might make sense for a few images, but git is just not the right solution for binary data in general. Every modification has to duplicate the entire file. This makes working with the repo unpleasant very quickly.

In general, I recommend people back up binary files to cloud storage, like S3, and only commit optimized, deployment ready assets to git. There's also GitLFS, but it's clucky to use.
by askvictor | 2026-01-31 01:51:40+00:00
It's useful to add oil after cooking pasta if you're going to save it for later; otherwise you definitely don't want to. I've never had pasta foam over as I cook without a lid (though haven't tried it with oil and a lid); it's also completely possible to cook it without any heat; once the pasta is added, bring back to boil, then turn off the heat, cover, and let it sit until it's done. It only needs about 80C to cook, which the remnant heat will provide.

Also, (and I learnt this much too late in my life), cook the pasta until a few minutes before it's done, and _finish cooking in the sauce_. This is what makes the sauce adhere. Keep a cup of the starchy pasta water to add in case it needs to be loosened a bit.
by echelon | 2026-01-31 01:52:22+00:00
The "Mar a Lago Accord" plan [1], for those curious. The US debt is one major rationale behind the strategy.

It's a dangerous plan that relies on keeping allies happy and re-establishing hegemony via a Plaza Accords / Bretton Woods 2.0 type system.

It's not going to work if you simultaneously piss all of the allies off.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ts5wJ6OfzA by Money & Macro, which is a fantastic economics YouTube channel. Patrick Boyle has also spoken about this in pieces.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-31 01:52:53+00:00
About as usual for a CEF/Electron app last I tested ~ a year ago. I.e. "impressively well considering, but still not all too great". For a while there was an issue where it was launching games in compatibility mode, but I assume that's been long fixed without needing to migrate the base app (if anyone regularly uses GoG on their Mac feel free to chime in, I only have a work MacBook these days).
by kranner | 2026-01-31 01:55:15+00:00
> written Farsi doesn’t include short vowels… so can you derive pronunciation from the text using rules?

You can't, but Farsi dictionaries list the missing short vowels/diacritics/"eraab" for every word.

For instance, see this entry: https://vajehyab.com/dehkhoda/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8?q=%D8...

With the short vowel on the first letter it would be written حِساب (normally written as just حساب)

The dictionary entry linked shows that there is a ِ on the first letter ح

But you would have to disambiguate between homographs that differ only in the eraab.
by crimsonnoodle58 | 2026-01-31 01:55:22+00:00
Yes the binding interface can be specified, but the default for -p 11434:11434 is 0.0.0.0.

IMO the default should be 127.0.0.1 and the user should have to explicitly bind to all via -p 0.0.0.0:11434:11434.
by blopker | 2026-01-31 01:55:24+00:00
Google answers this question in the FAQ: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq#does_webp_suppo...

But in my experience, webp is better enough that the whole file loads around the same time the jpg progressive loading kicks in. Given that progressive jpgs are larger than non progressive (so not a 'free' feature), jpg is just a waste of bandwidth at this point.
by rayiner | 2026-01-31 01:55:30+00:00
> The US economy depends on the country's position of world hegemon

Citation needed? This feels like a retcon. Remember that the U.S. became the biggest economy in the world in 1890: https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&.... That was half a century before World War II and the military empire that followed.
by verhash | 2026-01-31 01:56:03+00:00
Verified facts:

“The sky is blue”

“Water is wet”

Candidate outputs:

“The sky is blue”

“The sky is green”

Each sentence is embedded deterministically (in the demo, via a hash-based mock embedder so results are reproducible). For each candidate, I compute:

similarity to the closest verified fact

distance from that fact

a penalty function based on those values

Penalty accumulates over a fixed number of steps. If it exceeds a fixed threshold, the candidate is rejected. In this example, “The sky is blue” stays below the threshold; “The sky is green” crosses it and is excluded.

What I tested:

Identical inputs + identical config always produce identical outputs (verified by hashing a canonical JSON of inputs + outputs).

Re-running the same scenario repeatedly produces the same decision and the same hash.

Changing a single parameter (distance, threshold, steps) predictably changes the outcome.

Why this isn’t “AI slop”:

There’s no generative model here at all.

The terminology is unfortunate but the code is explicit arithmetic.

The entire point is removing non-determinism, not adding hand-wavy intelligence.

If you think the framing obscures that rather than clarifies it, that’s useful feedback—I’m actively dialing the language back. But the underlying claim is narrow: you can build governance filters that are deterministic, replayable, and auditable, which most current AI pipelines are not.

If that’s still uninteresting, fair enough—but it’s not trying to be mystical or persuasive, just mechanically verifiable.

You can test it here if you like,
https://huggingface.co/spaces/RumleyRum/Deterministic-Govern...
by jaeh | 2026-01-31 01:56:21+00:00
I met Sir Terry Pratchett only once, briefly, at a book signing, and got scolded for a bad joke (and for letting him sign his first book, which he did not like), i think it's really hard to guess what he would have wanted at that time. This happened around 2006, after he knew about the dementia, but well before i or the public knew about it.

The younger Terry, unencumbered by dementia, would likely have loved the idea of analyzing his writing for most scientific purposes, he co-wrote multiple scientific fiction books together with physicists and other science communicators.

I actually regret making him upset, i did not know about his troubles at the time and i would not make the same (completely unrelated to his ailment) joke knowing about it, neither would i have brought his first book if i knew he disliked it.

Just imagine having your head full of a world you created, a world filled with more stories than you could ever write down, and realizing that you will never get a chance to do so and that it will all fade before you can share it. That experience must be extremely painful and for sure leads to changes in personality traits.

Right before i had my turn he signed the book of my girlfriend and he also signed her journal even though there was a strict "only one book per person" rule. When she asked him if he would sign the journal as well he said
"I would even sign your hand, madam". This is the Terry i will remember, the charming and incredibly witty person that bestowed upon me the best stories i have ever enjoyed.

GNU Terry Pratchett, for Death can not have him!
by TheRoque | 2026-01-31 01:57:11+00:00
Yeah. Even if OpenAI models were the best, I still wouldn't used them, given how the Sam Altman persona is despicable (constantly hyping, lying, asking for no regulations, then asking for regulations, leaked emails where founders say they just wanna get rich without any consideration of their initial "open" claims...). I know other companies are not better, but at least they have a business model and something to lose.
by breput | 2026-01-31 01:57:46+00:00
Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B[0][1] is a very impressive local model. It is very good with tool calling and works great with Roo Code for local development.

It doesn't get a ton of attention on /r/LocalLLaMA but it is worth trying out, even if you have a relatively modest machine.

[0] https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B...

[1] https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-GGUF
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-31 01:58:08+00:00
Way back in the flip phone days, I had evil tracking software on my corpo phone for a time.

I didn't mind that they knew where I was when I was being paid, but I had issues with abuse by one particular manager (who was more my equal than my boss, but nevermind that).

This tracking software could be disabled with a couple of button pushes, or the phone simply turned off, but these action generated alerts that were sent home to the mothership. I did not like this aspect at all.

So I bought a little Faraday bag from somewhere in China -- back then, probably from DealExtreme. It fit the phone so well that it seemed like it must have been made for that specific model (even though it almost certainly was not). Inside, it had two compartments: One that encapsulated the device well-enough with conductive fabric, and another that was outside of (and adjacent to) that envelope, which just protected the phone from things like incidental abrasions.

I used it as an every-day phone case. When I wanted the phone to work, I used the non-shielded part. If I wanted the phone to not work, then I used the shielded compartment instead.

In imprecise practical terms, this bag blocked successful RF communications. (And I knew this to be true, because I also had access to the mothership's web interface and could review the tracking data for myself and my coworkers.)

---

I can accept that "blocked" is not the most-precise term. In a way that is similar to many other things, a valid and accurate technical description of what was achieved would require additional precision.

But such precision is not always necessary in order to succinctly have words convey their desired intent, and I don't think it's required here for OP's intent to be understood.
by eternityforest | 2026-01-31 01:58:39+00:00
I'd love to see a new battery standard.

Something future proof for new chemistries, consumer friendly and self protected, able to be series-es and paralleled if needed, etc.

Maybe even designed to be an external part of the case like 2 way radio and tool batteries, with the option of a retaining screw for toys and tamper resistance.

A few different sizes, from keychain up to power tool, and paralleling adapters to go bigger.

The electronics would probably cost pennies in volume, just like the tech that goes into those lithium AAs with built-in chargers and buck converters that are almost really awesome.
by stego-tech | 2026-01-31 01:58:47+00:00
Everyone is focused on commodities and ignoring basically the entire global market got shook today. Bonds, indices, commodities, and securities all got tanked. Nothing in my portfolio was in the green today, and I generally invest conservatively since it’s my (maybe, hopefully, someday) house down payment at stake.

That said, I agree with you that this feels like a bunch of prominent exits to convert paper profits into actual ones. The underlying problems remain and will become increasingly exacerbated as the year drags on.

I figure I’ll recover losses by this time next year if I just refrain from panic selling.
by habinero | 2026-01-31 01:59:05+00:00
I don't get it, either. There's an entire class of people on here who just run around looking for anyone to lead them.

I had a guy crash out after I told him that "so and so said Thing was good" was not sufficient to say whether Thing was good or not.

I told him he needed to develop enough skill to determine that for himself or he'd constantly fall for hype.

My dude pasted a ChatGPT list of engineers who had ever said anything about LLMs and was like ARE THEY ALL WRONG??

... did you listen to nothing I said? lol
by funkyfiddler369 | 2026-01-31 01:59:29+00:00
> catching up

with what? Define your own benchmarks and expectations. All of them will fail. But which of them will give you an inkling of how a human being who was trained to be nice to you, would act as nice to you as it can based on your prompt.

You are not looking for super-human intelligence, are you? You are looking for a servant.