MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TrnsltLife | 2026-01-25 22:56:31+00:00
Based on seeing the video, it seems an officer standing in front of the decedent is the one who drew/disarmed the weapon from the decedent's holster. This was under the arching body of another agent who was holding the decedent down. The man who shot him was standing behind him.

Despite all the outage rhetoric on here, it does not seem reasonable to assume that the officer simply decided to murder the man out of anger, spite, bloodlust, and perceived immunity.

Rather, a dispassionate analysis of the scenario might suggest that the shooter only saw the weapon be drawn by an unknown hand, and not discerning that it was one of his fellow officers disarming the struggling man, instead believed that the struggling man had managed to draw his own weapon and was preparing to fire.

Given the facing of the struggling man and the shooting officer, it seems unlikely that his first fear was for his own life but rather for the lives of his comrades, and so he fired his weapon to remove the perceived threat to his v fellow officers lives.

This explains exactly why he fired almost immediately after he saw the gun drawn. Not an extrajudicial execution as some are recklessly calling it, but a tragic example of having to make life and death decisions with an imperfect view of the ... battlefield for lack of a better term ... and the foolishness of getting in the way of armed men.

I tell my kids they have the right of way at the crosswalk but right of way is not going to save their life if the car doesn't see them, so look both ways and make sure cars are slowing down.

It made sense to protest the Vietnam war or Iraq or Afghanistan in America, not in the war zone.

We have freedom of speech and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances, but do that from the sidewalk, in court, or before Congress, not in the love of fire of a police action. And I don't believe we have the right to block roads, scream in the faces of law enforcement or military personnel, or impede them in the fulfillment of their lawful duties which these immigration enforcement actions are.
by roenxi | 2026-01-25 22:56:46+00:00
Yeah but that probably isn't going to what the original research is saying. Society is basically run by a tiny fraction of people (1-5% of the population range) and the rest are just along for the ride. Democracy is a major innovation where the majority has to nod along every few years or there is a mix up in who in the upper class gets to sit at the top of the tree.

From that perspective it becomes clearer what a 3.5% rule is getting at - 3.5% of the population mobilised is enough to overwhelm any ruling class that isn't on top of its game, especially if mass shooting of people is still of the table or if the 3.5% includes a lot of people from the upper classes. It isn't about whether an issue is supported by 3.5% of the population or more, it is a question of whether that fraction of society is actively trying to topple a government system.
by krackers | 2026-01-25 22:56:51+00:00
>LED lighting can have infrared, have a significantly more smoother spectrum curve and still last +20k hours without burnout

Do you have a link to a bulb that you can purchase meeting all these criteria? The only one I'm aware of is the bulbs made by some russian guy in his garage (good luck purchasing those today, for obvious reasons). LEDs can be made good in theory sure, but in practice they are all terrible in light quality compared to a standard incandescent.

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/sunlike-vs-starlike/64155/7
by manux81 | 2026-01-25 22:57:32+00:00
Yes, that’s a good example — thanks for the link.
Tools like this seem very strong at visualizing and exploring state, but they still tend to stay fairly close to the traditional “pause and inspect” model.
What I keep struggling with is understanding how a particular state came to be — especially with concurrency or events that happened much earlier.
That gap between state visualization and causality feels hard to bridge, and I’m not sure what the right abstraction should be yet.
by benesch | 2026-01-25 22:58:02+00:00
I agree our sample may not be representative but we try to stay focused on the current and next crop of tpuf customers. So far "CI prohibits network access during tests" just hasn't come up as a pain point for any of them, but as I mentioned in another comment [0], we're definitely keeping an open mind about introducing an offline dev experience.

(I am familiar with Bazel, but I'll have to save the war stories for another thread.)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758156
by dpc050505 | 2026-01-25 22:58:10+00:00
He did it because he thought it would be cool to free solo a building. He grew up idolizing Alain Robert, a french soloist who made his bread and butter out of soloing buildings. The guy was free soloing for free on his own without telling anyone about it for years, living out of his mom's minivan and eating cheap food, the media attention just allows him to be more comfortable as he keeps climbing obsessively. Also running his foundation probably gives a lot of meaning to what he's doing, he'd just be your average dirtbag loser otherwise.

I'm going to add that his coolest achievements were done with ropes. The friendly race to climbing a route graded 5.15 with Sonnie Trotter and Tommy Caldwell is a lot more interesting to me.
by with | 2026-01-25 22:58:27+00:00
Great application of first principles. I think it's totally reasonable also, at even most production loads. (Example: My last workplace had a service that constantly roared at 30k events per second, and our DLQs would at most have orders of hundreds of messages in them). We would get paged if a message's age was older than an hour in the queue.

The idea is that if your DLQ has consistently high volume, there is something wrong with your upstream data, or data handling logic, not the architecture.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-25 22:58:36+00:00
As soon as the bored games come out, I'm looking for the kitchen to hang out with the 1 or 2 other people completely uninterested.

EDIT: I recall a party where I was forced to play some game where you try to find the spy or something. I kept begging people to choose me as the spy so I could quit. I ended up winning the game after 2 hours. It was miserable.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-25 23:00:07+00:00
> that behavior will hurt the economy as a whole.

I don't quite follow... Advertisers want their product sold. Consumers want to buy whichever product is most suitable for their needs (based on both price and performance), ad networks have every incentive to connect these two.

In an ideal world an ad network would show me 10 ads for products I want to buy (ie. new shoes, ice cream, etc). I would have confidence that those products are the exact ones I want and that any more research would only show up inferior (worse value) products.

The ad network gets to take no profit margin - since if it did, I could find that same product cheaper elsewhere.

This leads to an equilibrium where the ad network shows mostly the perfect products - and charges a small margin - where the margin size is set to be slightly below my willingness to shop around for a better deal.

Personalized pricing just represents different users estimated willingness to shop around - but if the model is correct, even those paying a higher price are happy with the situation or else they'd shop around.
by m4rtink | 2026-01-25 23:00:09+00:00
ATC stops the train - this is actually an important plot point in both "shinaksen explosion" movies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bullet_Train

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Train_Explosion

In the movies terrorists place a bomb on board and the train crew has to maintain a minimum speed or the bomb explodes (this is where that american movie with a bus got the idea). And they have to manipulate the ATC or else it will stop the train when they enter sections of the track with lower minimum speed, or else ATC stops the train and the bomb explodes.
by xmprt | 2026-01-25 23:00:13+00:00
> No normal person engages in this stuff

That's kind of a non-statement. Of course the average person isn't engaging in this stuff because if they were then that'd imply close to half the country protesting.

The average person doesn't have the time to protest (because how do you protest when you need to go to a job to put food on the table and keep health insurance). Or they're doing fine with the current state of affairs even if they don't like what's happening. Protesting is naturally always going to be a fringe thing and you better hope for everyone's sake that it stays that way or else you end up with a coup or revolution like in less developed nations.
by pandaman | 2026-01-25 23:00:28+00:00
Can't talk for all Red states, but in Austin, TX the city police is arresting even people who try to interfere with traffic, even more so people who interfere with federal agents so there is a little chance someone reads reddit, figures there is nothing going to happen if he or she lays hands on a fed and get lit. Now, I've seen quite a few of videos from Minneapolis and there were literally 0 MPD officers in any of those. I wonder where is the police in the blue states, definitely not on the streets where riots are going on.
by tombert | 2026-01-25 23:00:34+00:00
> They probably don't wake up thinking "Today I'm going to murder someone" but they just don't realize what they're doing.

Maybe not explicitly, but I do think there's a selection bias towards people who do want to do that. If you know you can get away with exerting violence towards a group of people you don't like, then that career is going to be very appealing towards people who want to do that.

It's the same thing with priests and their abuse of children. It's not like being a priest turns you into a child-abuser. It's just that priests are in a situation that they're constantly surrounded by kids unsupervised, can live alone unmarried without anyone questioning it, and when they do something horrible and abuse their power then they're often just moved to another parish. Of course a job like that is going to be attractive to people who want to abuse children.

I think ICE is similar. I do think there are people who join ICE with genuinely noble intentions, like getting rid of cartels and whatnot, but the Trump admin has made ICE something extremely appealing to people who have worse intentions.
by GeoAtreides | 2026-01-25 23:00:36+00:00
> Keeping the reader glued to the screen is not the primary goal of writing [...] You don't write for the reader.

This is contrary to all writing advice I have read, from Robert Olen Butler to John Gardner. Sure, the natural geniuses might write from themselves or their friends (like Kafka) and because they're geniuses the writing is good, but most people aren't geniuses, so they need to keep the reader and its needs firmly (VERY firmly) in their minds.

Speaking of John Gardner, here is a quote about writing that perfectly encapsulates what the job of writer is:

"A true work of fiction does all of the following things, and does them elegantly, efficiently: it creates a vivid and continuous dream in the reader’s mind; it is implicitly philosophical; it fulfills or at least deals with all of the expectations it sets up; and it strikes us, in the end, not simply as a thing done but as a shining performance."

..."Make me care" is part of the "expectations it sets up". "Make me care" begins with the first word of the first chapter, continues with the first paragraph and the first page and, through the first scene, it eases the reader into the "vivid and continuous dream" from which the author should never jolt awake the reader.
by jrmg | 2026-01-25 23:01:02+00:00
I think you are making assumptions that are not correct. And as a ‘normal person’ surrounded by ‘normal people’ at the last No Kings protest, I very much object to your framing.

There’s a big difference between funding organizing groups like Indivisible (which, yes, foundations linked to Soros do - although I suspect not at the magnitude you’re imagining), and directly paying protestors (which doesn’t happen to any notable degree)

Want to understand this? Go to a local Indivisible or Democratic Party meetup and you will see the normal people with your own eyes. Go to a big protest like ‘No Kings’, or a rally during campaign season and you’ll be surrounded by ‘normal people’.

I’d personally be fine with restrictions on where funding for political organizations comes from (although I’m not sure how you make that compatible with the 1st amendment) - but what you’re saying is ridiculous, and it’s a worrying symptom of our current political climate that people can be so out of touch as to believe it.
Show HN: A small programming language where everything is a value
by jcparkyn | 2026-01-25 23:01:06+00:00
This is a hobby project of mine that I started a few years ago to learn about programming language implementation. It was created 95% without AI, although a few recent commits include code from Gemini CLI.

I started out following Crafting Interpreters, but gradually branched off that until I had almost nothing left in common.

Tech stack: Rust, Cranelift (JIT compilation), LALRPOP (parser).
by cmurf | 2026-01-25 23:01:15+00:00
Today, commander-at-large" of the Border Patrol, Gregory Bovino, referring to Alex Pretti.

BOVINO: I believe the fantastic training our law enforcement partners have prevented any specific, ahhh, shootings of law enforcement. So good job by our law enforcement in taking him down before he was able to do it.

The more this repugnant man speaks, the more disgusted right minded people will become, and the more they will realize there's no hope for defenders and supporters of fascism. Kick them to the curb. It's permanent.

Keep him talking.
From Narrative Authority to Verifiable Science
by dpforesi | 2026-01-25 23:01:40+00:00
Scientific publishing is entering a turbulent transition rather than a terminal collapse, a dynamic captured in The Atlantic’s January 2026 article “Science Is Drowning in AI Slop”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
The piece highlights how AI lowers the cost of producing fluent but low-quality or misleading research, overwhelming peer review and eroding trust. This feels new, but it is better understood as AI amplifying long-standing weaknesses: narrative plausibility, citation density, and prestige signals standing in for verification.

In the near term, this creates a noisy and uncomfortable phase. AI not only launders weak or outcome-engineered studies by polishing them, it also exposes how much questionable work already existed. Retractions, skepticism, and institutional anxiety increase. This phase delays reform because institutions instinctively defend existing processes—but it also makes their failure undeniable at scale.

The likely future is a shift from narrative-centric publishing to verification-centric science. As AI makes large-scale checking, replication, statistical forensics, and cross-paper analysis cheaper than traditional review, authority migrates from prose to data, code, and reproducible methods. Single papers matter less; replicated clusters matter more. What looks like breakdown today is better seen as a phase transition: the slow collapse of narrative authority and the emergence of evidence-first norms shaped as much for machine readers as for human ones.
by btschaegg | 2026-01-25 23:02:37+00:00
If I can add to that: A precursor to both of those would be the precision lathe, from which eventually two of the most crucial prerequisites for the industrialization stem: The ability to a) produce machine parts with a high degree of precision catered for their purpose and/or context, and b) the ability to develop widely established norms these parts can adhere to (or, if you will, by which they could be judged).

The steam engine wouldn't have had its impact without the possibility for e.g. precision engineered pistons, and any industrialization would have been severely impaired without the possibilities that the distributed production of exchangeable parts (even as simple as screws, nuts and bolts) to established norms came with.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-25 23:03:13+00:00
One only needs to look at Tesla to see this is real. It got the brunt of it because of Elon's nazi salutes which caused Teslas to get a 'swasticar' reputation here and it's still not recovered. Him speaking at extreme-right events in the UK has not helped either.

The Greenland crisis brought this to American brands on a higher scale and I'm sure we'll see the effects of that during the coming year. Many questions are now asked about our reliance on US products and services.
by Zigurd | 2026-01-25 23:03:15+00:00
I wrote a Bluesky app in preparation for a client project. ATProto is over-engineered for my purposes, though probably justifiably carefully engineered for the purposes of a big social Twitter-like thing. But since I didn't have to do the engineering, so what? It's a very solid platform for many kinds of multi-user information-sharing systems.

This article does give me the impression that I should make and use more test accounts than I currently do when mucking around with ATProto/Bluesky.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-25 23:04:06+00:00
I do, besides the sibling comment, there is hacker lore about these kind of issues,

> They devised a form that each engineer was required to submit every Friday, which included a field for the number of lines of code that were written that week.

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
by moogly | 2026-01-25 23:04:15+00:00
That was some rumor that was circulating for a short while, but it's unsubstantiated. Polestar just got a 600 million dollar loan from Geely too.

Some people have even speculated that it's Volvo that wants to go independent, but comments from the returning, unretired CEO that they want to do more sharing of tech makes that less likely.
by echelon | 2026-01-25 23:04:19+00:00
Peer to peer, not federation, is the way forward.

We should only build peer to peer social protocols.

Websites and communities should simply sample from the swarm and make it easy for non-technical users to post and consume. They should be optional and not central points of failure (or control).

{Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Discord} should work like {Email, BitTorrent, PGP}.

Bluesky and Mastodon are the wrong architecture.

The web, fancy javascript UI/UX, and microservices shouldn't be the focus. The protocol should be the focus.

A fully distributed protocol would dictate the solution to this exact problem.
by follower | 2026-01-25 23:04:41+00:00
The Sony MMCD[0] is a contemporary of the Sony Data Discman that people might also find of interest:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Multimedia_CD-ROM_Player

There are a couple of YouTube videos showing the device (filmed both around launch and more recently).

(I'll try to add some more context in a follow-up comment.)

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[0] a.k.a. "Sony Bookman" a.k.a. "Sony Multimedia CD-ROM Player" a.k.a. "Sony PIX100" a.k.a. "Sony Corporation Programmable CD ROM Player".
by lovich | 2026-01-25 23:04:41+00:00
He wasn’t impeding. He was filming which until recently was a 1A right in America.

The officer walked up to him and the woman with the backpack and started an altercation.

Using your right of way analogy the officer drove up on the sidewalk to take out your kids, no crosswalk involved.

If you’re going to defend this with a “well look at what she was wearing” type defense then you’re just ok with government agents executing citizens whenever they feel like it.
by DaveZale | 2026-01-25 23:04:50+00:00
Nice essay, good analysis of the Machavellian types that thrive around unlimited money, power and bullshit. Would a scene from another Russian novel about playing Russian roulette while partying would fit here? Sure you capture the spirit of that but nearly everyone has severe dopamine addiction while online these days. It has to be outrageous and over-the-top to get clicks and resharing!

The internet has become a circus and AI keeps us all on the freak show and hall of distorted mirror images.

Make it into a script/screenplay, perhaps?
by erxam | 2026-01-25 23:05:37+00:00
Let's be real, the number of anti-Zionist Jews is vanishingly small and usually consists of only vaguely ethnic Jews who have been completely assimilated into the society they live in, whose only remaining distinguishing feature is one or two members of their family. It's so distant they wouldn't be accepted into Israel under the remigration laws or whatever it's called.

Also, funny you bring up Evangelicals. I've had this same sort of argument brought up when they do some awful shit and are called out for it. "But we don't all believe/do this!" It's implicit in the very core of your religion/ideology. If you truly didn't agree with what they did, you wouldn't be one. Evangelicalism is a plague and should be treated like one. Evangelicals should be sent to quarantine centers and deprogrammed (if possible).
by krackers | 2026-01-25 23:06:20+00:00
Also even limited to visible spectrum, I have not seen any 99 CRI bulbs. The highest one I have ever found are the 98 CRI by YujiLED, but you pay around $35 for a single bulb. It is absolutely not "easy" to get flicker-free high CRI bulbs, let alone ones that cover the infrared range.
by EGreg | 2026-01-25 23:06:51+00:00
In many countries, it does work, and continues with some regularity:

2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity

2018: https://www.occrp.org/en/project/a-murdered-journalists-last...

2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aqBls-qpRM

2026: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/01/iran-authorit... -- outcome TBD ?
by jokoon | 2026-01-25 23:06:53+00:00
The source of the problem is the respect of the rule of law and due process

Data collection is not the source of the problem because people give their data willingly

Do you think data collection is a problem in China, or do you think the government and rule of law is the problem?

Companies collecting data is not the true problem. Even when data collection is illegal, a corrupt government that doesn't respect the rule of law doesn't need data collection.
by nl | 2026-01-25 23:06:59+00:00
> why is a centralized “burn” able to completely prevent me from interacting with people using Bluesky?

Presumably to stop credential reuse attacks on Bluesky itself?

Bluesky is one instance and they should enforce security on that instance. If you use a previously burnt ID, they have no way to tell it's you (indeed that's the whole point!)

I've done some work in the DID space. Not really a fan, and the space is full of half working implementations like this post documents.

But this particular criticism seems unfounded.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-01-25 23:07:22+00:00
I was with you until the last sentence.

But I went to the ABCD Study web site, and read the article they link about ethical use of data (Responsible use of population neuroscience data: Towards standards of accountability and integrity).

I didn't get the impression that consent (for this study or future ones) is the reason they gatekeep the data.
by eichin | 2026-01-25 23:07:26+00:00
Yeah, but even that isn't going to make me care about why Gwern is obsessing over Venice. Part of that is that I follow Overly Sarcastic Productions on youtube and "Blue" did a vastly better job of expressing/performing "I'm excited about Venice, and in a couple of minutes you will be too!" - an advantage of the medium and of their chosen style, for reaching someone like me who isn't all that compelled by European history.

(Yes, I get that it was an example to make a point about a writing style; one of the risks of really concrete examples is bouncing off of the example itself :-)