MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quantumcotton | 2026-01-06 02:35:03+00:00
You must have forgotten the world has rules and weight classes. But reality hits hard and doesn't care. The USA with this administration is not to be tested. If there is anything you can say about trump. The world is actually terrified at what he will do because he will do anything he thinks is right. Not what is. But he's controlling the strongest most intelligent military on the planet. If you think war or capturing prisoners as another country is safe. You're dumber than the ring leader himself.
by vel0city | 2026-01-06 02:35:10+00:00
I do see tool vendors often adding their own logos to the tools. They choose non-functional colors for styling. They'll make something more rounded or more squared for aesthetic reasons. For consumer-facing tools there are lots of little non-functional changes they'll choose to do for their own stylistic and branding purposes. They do want to ultimately differentiate their products from competitors, not just be the exact same as all the others on the shelf.
by acdha | 2026-01-06 02:35:22+00:00
China knows about carriers, and tracks them carefully. They have built a variety of weapons to sink them, too, but I don’t think they’d need to use them: note how the raid on Maduro went so quietly that people have been looking for evidence that some of the Venezuelan military were in on it? North Korea has built up a lot more paranoia and China wouldn’t need to sink a carrier, simply ensuring that the NK military knows what’s coming as soon as planes take off and communicates that in a way which makes it impossible for any potentially disloyal faction to act short of declaring a coup (you can’t “accidentally” miss something the entire chain of command knows about). I detest the NK government but I’d expect that to be a much bloodier fight, especially after a huge warning.
by ehnto | 2026-01-06 02:35:22+00:00
Youtube has been spammed with these multi-account back and fourth discussion advertisements for a while. They're frequently for small local attorneys or financial advisors, and I have to wonder if those individuals realise how they're being marketed in bad faith.

I used to co-work next to a SEO specialist back in my freelance days and he would offer rankings, but the client would not be told that they were getting said rankings by blackhat SEO tactics (that mostly no longer work).

It's all so obvious and standardised that I have to imagine it is part of a toolkit or framework marketers are using without much thought.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-06 02:35:32+00:00
Some comments 2 months ago (15 points, 7 comments)

2012 (28 points, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4434744

2010 (65 points, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221399
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by booleandilemma | 2026-01-06 02:36:29+00:00
At least those people are aware of where they sit and who they depend on, and they're not hiding it. A movie producer doesn't pretend to have created the movie by himself, someone who uses AI to write their blog posts on the other hand...

It's too tempting for people to have AI do all the creative work and then take credit for it, and it gives these people the delusion of thinking they're literally artists, authors, bloggers, etc.
by hn_acc1 | 2026-01-06 02:36:32+00:00
And, sorry, but your analogy sucks. Multiple students can get 0-100% on any given test independently.

Now imagine if only one student out of a class of ~200 (~195 countries in the world) can get the right answer to each question (200 questions total) and once one person answers the question, no one else can get credit for it (if you burn oil, it's gone).

By default, each country should get 1 question or 0.5% (percent of oil) on the test. Now the teacher announces that the answer to 16 questions (8%) can be found in the library and the person who gets there first gets all those points.. Getting a hold of even ONE block of 8% probably puts you in the top 10 students in the class. If you can find such a block to add to your 3% (US), at 11%, you're likely to be in the top 5 students in the class. Add another 10% (Venezuela) and 6% (Canada), and at 27%, you're probably #1.
by terafo | 2026-01-06 02:36:36+00:00
Dynamic libraries are a dumpster fire with how they are implemented right now, and I'd really prefer everything to be statically linked. But ideally, I'd like to see exploration of a hybrid solution, where library code is tagged inside a binary, so if the OS detects that multiple applications are using the same version of a library, it's not duplicated in RAM. Such a design would also allow for libraries to be updated if absolutely necessary, either by runtime or some kind of package manager.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-06 02:36:46+00:00
> It's really not. Once they've launched, it's pretty clear where they're going

What are you basing this on? Even back when warheads were strictly ballistic we couldn't do that. Russia's arsenal, today, contains maneuverable warheads.

Flip it around: if we committed to a first strike on Russia and China, is there a world in which we wouldn't say it's to glass North Korea?

> All NATO needs is enough time to respond

This is not how strategic nuclear exchanges are ever modeled. Because it's now how strategic war plans are ever written.

Use it or lose it. Silo-based missiles are sitting ducks. By the time nukes are landing in Ukraine they could be landing across a good chunk of Europe and Turkey.

> If you look, their nuclear policy is to respond overwhelmingly to a nuclear strike

I'm not saying India will nuke Russia. I'm saying India and China would both exact a price from Russia for normalising nuclear war in the modern context. This has been repeatedly messaged by both in respect of the Ukraine invasion.
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by ramses0 | 2026-01-06 02:38:13+00:00
Exactly the killer use-case for pebble! It's "blue-toothy" range, so it'll mostly work in adjacent rooms but might have difficulty going diagonally upstairs v. downstairs, or ranging too far outside.

IIRC, pebble had a "vibrate on BT-loss", which could remind you to go retrieve the phone when ranging outside to rake leaves (or forgetting your phone in a restaurant or something).
by coppsilgold | 2026-01-06 02:38:15+00:00
Escaping a properly set up container is a kernel 0day. Due to how large the kernel attack surface is, such 0days are generally believed to exist. Unless you are a high value target, a container sandbox will likely be sufficient for your needs. If cloud service providers discounted this possibility then a 0day could be burned to attack them at scale.

Also, you can use the runsc (gvisor) runtime for docker, if you are careful not to expose vulnerable protocols to the container there will be nothing escaping it with that runtime.
by nine_k | 2026-01-06 02:38:52+00:00
It depends; not all drones are kamikaze-type. Great many drones are used for delivery (food, ammo, medkits), for reconnaissance, as carriers of smaller drones, and as radio retransmitters. Bomber drones also fly a large number of sorties before being shot down.

Ground teams usually have a bunch of batteries for quick replacement, because charging is slow. With these fast-charging batteries, they may need to lug fewer batteries, and larger generators.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-06 02:39:09+00:00
> It's that old tinfoil hat theory that the Jetsons and the Flintstones took place in the same point in history, the Jetsons were in the sky with their mind-bending technology, all their needs met, meanwhile the Flintstones are down on the planet, working menial jobs wearing and eating literal scraps.

That’s the current situation. Not tinfoil hat needed.

I recently watched a short clip (1) of the comedians who followed Joe Rogan to Austin lamenting how bad of an idea it was.

Notably Shane Gillis described to Rogan:

Gillis: Yeah you got a driver and a body guard and do Karate, it’s fun. I’m walking around thinking “I’m going to get fucked up”

Rogan: Don’t walk around, gotta secure the perimeter.

This is real life today and both of these guys are either millionaires or incredibly popular comedians with significant amounts of cash to throw around.

If the distinction between these two people is that broad, you’re well past conspiracy territory.

I can tell you for a fact in the trenches of Chicago and Miami where I have a lot of transiently homeless friends, they are living way worse than the Flintstones because they don’t even have a community to rely on.

1: https://youtube.com/shorts/shYkz-dlLQs?si=prN07elAoX-jWmNs
by eliasdejong | 2026-01-06 02:39:24+00:00
> 14 GB/s

Yes, those numbers are real but only in very short bursts of strictly sequential reads, sustained speeds will be closer to 8-10 GB/s. And real workloads will be lower than that, because they contain random access.

Most NVMe drivers on Linux actually DMA the pages directly into host memory over the PCIe link, so it is not actually the CPU that is moving the data. Whenever the CPU is involved in any data movement, the 6 GB/s per core limit still applies.
by singleshot_ | 2026-01-06 02:40:51+00:00
The codification happened hundreds of years ago, though.

But you could do it too! The Congressional Record is a thing, and it publishes all the acts of Congress, all the way back to the beginning.

The problem is that after you were done, the first thing someone would ask you is to cross-cite everything into the West Annotated code because no one else has your code and no one cares about it, because we all have Westlaw.

(Which publishes commented editions of the codes, with cross references, references to relevant court decisions, etc.)

It's all a little bit antiquated but it works fine. Someday it will change. I too thought it should work the way people are describing upthread when I was a computer guy but it is what it is.
by ThreatSystems | 2026-01-06 02:41:28+00:00
*Unless your in the cloud, then it's a metric to nickel and dime with throttling!

On a more serious note, the performance of hardware today is mind boggling from what we all encountered way back when. What I struggle to comprehend though is how some software (particularly Windows as an OS, instant messaging applications etc.) feel less performant now than they ever were.
by dang | 2026-01-06 02:41:35+00:00
(Wnat you wrote here is so different than what I thought I was reading above that I had to ask myself why it felt like a slur in the first place. Probably the "nepo founders" bit was what got me, and "fraud-aligned" didn't help either. And maybe also this is a case of the 'rebound' phenomenon where the reply comment says more clearly what was originally meant; that happens a lot too.)

I appreciate this follow-up. There's another variable, though, which I think may be relevant and that's that all of us who have been following YC for the past 10+ years are, by definition, 10+ years older ourselves. People tend to get more jaded and cynical as they get older. I mention this not to accuse you of more than your share of this, but because it's on my mind a lot about the HN community in general. It's why we added "don't be curmudgeonly" to the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, for example.
by hurubaw | 2026-01-06 02:41:55+00:00
Can't stop heckling for this shit. Current administarion just casually recreates seasons 3-5 of the House of Cards added a few autistic lawyers payrolled by this jesusnazi giving them cool and convoluted new legal dilemmas, tactics and catch22s to add to the carnage.

And then they just fucking rolled with it with the confidence of a slightly stupid frat guy, but who's dad is a senator.

And when some actual adult navy captain peeks his head out to tell people that maybe dont do war crimes and shit, they bully the fuck out of him, and then invade a small country, just to get a feel of how it works before invading bigger one.

Sworn movie enemies for like 70 years also got a cool leader (he wrestless bears and installs weak windows in the buildings of his political opposition), but then that leader invaded a country that the main guys wife really likes, so that's a bummer. Guess send some of the old military shit in there until the free demolition part of the construction projects of the New Triviera are completed and they can start building oil jacks and hotels with gilded everything. Classy. Send a bill for the demolition gear to the EU just to see if they actually pay it (they did).
by refurb | 2026-01-06 02:42:57+00:00
> That debt issued by a central bank to its government to productively utilize real resources is not inflationary and not really “owed” to anyone. It’s an accounting detail.

This sentence doesn't make sense. "Debt issued to it's government"?

I presume you mean government debt issued to the central bank, whereby the central bank prints new money as a part of the loan?

It absolutely can be inflationary (see US inflation during Covid) if the money eventually makes it into the economy (e.g. by paying workers).

And yes, debt is always owed to someone. Whether that someone is the central bank doesn't mean it's a free lunch - not paying back the loan has consequences to the economy.
by icegreentea2 | 2026-01-06 02:43:34+00:00
It's cause you get better returns in centralized installations.

For example, NREL estimates that centralized installations cost half as much as commercial rooftop, and a third of residential (https://www.nrel.gov/solar/market-research-analysis/solar-in...) on a per-watt basis.

Now normally, in a commercial or residential installation, as an owner you don't need to pay for cost of property. But as a utility (or government, or whatever), if you need to offer loans to get these installed, then those loans act a lot like property acquisition costs.

There are definitely factors that can tip things in favour of such an approach (for example, if your land acquisition fees are particularly high for whatever reason, or you really really want a distributed grid), but I suspect that it's this fundamental aspect that keeps utilities from trying to push residential solar.
by nine_k | 2026-01-06 02:43:44+00:00
I agree, but I suppose most batteries in circulation at the front lines are not fresh, and likely have 75%-90% of the original capacity after intense discharge-charge cycles multiple times a day. If his battery does not deteriorate as quickly, it may be worth the price, for non-kamikaze-type drones. Not a shaped charge and ramming into armor, but a mortar round dropped from 300-500m, undetected. There is a ton of videos on YouTube with footage from such bomber drones.

10 extra minutes may mean extra 5 kilometers of range, or of a patrol / recon route.
by singleshot_ | 2026-01-06 02:43:55+00:00
I would imagine you either start with the first acts of your legislature and codify it from the beginning, or you start with some version of the code you figure you have rights to and go from there. It seems like it would be insane to do that job halfway, but that's not my area of expertise.

I have no idea whatsoever what is going on in Nevada.
by nostrademons | 2026-01-06 02:44:13+00:00
Note that MAD only works when there are a small number of players. Once it gets up past around 12, a.) it becomes too easy to detonate a nuclear weapon and then blame somebody else to take the fall and b.) the chance of somebody doing something crazy and irrational becomes high. Same reason that oligopolies can have steady profit but once you have ~10-12 market players you enter perfect competition and inevitably get a price war.

There are 9 nuclear-armed states today. Likely this has set us on a path where nuclear war is inevitable.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-06 02:44:38+00:00
I have a town home, so not ideal for a Roomba but...I have a Eufy now and having it (mostly) mop/(some) vacuum my kitchen/living room every night has been a huge improvement to keeping the floor clean (before something gets stuck on it between when I can do it on the weekend).

Chinese tech has come a long way in the last 5 years. Roomba just went bankrupt for a good reason.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-06 02:44:40+00:00
It’s really dumb I’m sitting at -2 and the top reply is about a Macron tweet from 2 days ago, lying and saying no one else from Europe has said anything, and lying and saying anything besides the King of Spain was actually celebrating. You’re making stuff up. Full stop. You could easily have googled either thing I mentioned. You didn’t, choosing to free associate instead. May you reap what you sow.
by wahnfrieden | 2026-01-06 02:45:00+00:00
I quickly searched and here are a few that showed up immediately

https://x.com/UpwardChanging posts Hitler content, 14 words, black sun graphics, swastikas, antisemitic content etc. 21k followers

https://x.com/hvitrulfur supportively reposts swastika content, white supremacism, anti-black racism, islamophobia, 14 words

https://x.com/unconquered_sol black sun, swastikas, fasces, hitler glorification. 70k followers
by theamk | 2026-01-06 02:45:06+00:00
Sadly the many "local-first" apps have significant usability problems which mean you got to be _really_ dedicated to ideals to run them.

The P2P is the worst offender.. Who is going to "keep my laptop awake every night just to ensure a p2panda node was available for new users"? Pretty much every P2P needs some sort of centralized support to work.. IPFS needs pinning services, large torrent trackers use out-of-protocol "reputation score" to ensure rarely used files are seeded.

"No spinners" gets super annoying when devices go to sleep or internet is spotty. Am I looking at the latest data? Is it safe to turn off my phone / exit the app, or is still uploading? I dunno, let's give it a minute just in case...

This is could be all tolerable if there were real advantages.. but the main argument for local-first is "if the company dies, your data is gone". Thats not a good reason! To sane your data, there is no need to suffer "local-first" apps. Use cloud services with good UX and nice mobile device support, but run automated backups... Use Google Drive, but run "rclone" via crontab to ensure you can still access data even if you get banned. Own your email domain, and sync to local maildir. Download your notes hourly. Yes, your workflow would be disrupted if one of the companies die, but at least the data is safe.

IMHO if we want to stop depending on megacorps, the right approach is open data format and export protocols first, and easily hostable cloud second. Kinda like email - BYO domain + IMAP means I can migrate from one hosted provider to another with minimal disruptions.
by the_af | 2026-01-06 02:45:46+00:00
> Us has these nifty things called aircraft carriers, which were used to capture Maduro as well.

It wasn't just carriers in Maduro's case. The operation was carried from multiple places, including out of Caribbean countries aligned with the US. The US was literally signing deals with those countries months in advance.

Who would those countries be in an hypothetical NK strike? Because those countries would suffer retaliation.
by toss1 | 2026-01-06 02:46:49+00:00
So your claim is eliminating the massive overhead and personal/corporate intrusion of income tax will have no effect, benefits, or positive behavior change in response?

And on top of that a $5000 difference in a $1,000,000 transaction is do onerous that it will kill liquidity?

Yikes! Maybe run some numbers before posting?

Seriously, at any wealth level I'd trade income tax for a pennies-on-$1000 transaction tax any day.
by rob_c | 2026-01-06 02:47:26+00:00
This is basically just a rehash of "trained" DNN are a function which is strongly dependent on the initialization parameters. (Easily provable)

It would be awesome to have a way of finding them in advance but this is also just a case of avoid pure DNNs due to their strong reliance on initialization parameters.

Looking at transformers by comparison you see a much much weaker dependence of the model on the input initial parameters. Does this mean the model is better or worse at learning or just more stable?
by staticassertion | 2026-01-06 02:47:53+00:00
No, I said what I said for a reason. I'm familiar with how build scripts work. As mentioned, I build insanitybit/cargo-sandbox exactly to deal with malicious build scripts.

The reason I consider it different from "I'm opening SSH to the public, anyone can run a shell" is because the attack typically has to either be through a random package, which significantly reduces exposure, or through a compromised package, which requires an additional attack.

Running a command yourself that may include code you don't expect is not, to me, the same as arbitrary code execution. It often implies it but I don't consider those to be identical.

You can disagree with whether or not this meaningfully changes things (I don't feel strongly about it), but then I'd just point to "I don't think it's a sufficient barrier for either threat model but it's still an improvement".

That isn't to downplay the situation at all. Once again,

> that doesn't mean I think `insanitybit/cargo-sandbox` is a sufficient barrier to arbitrary code execution, which is why I also had a hardened `cargo add` that looked for typosquatting of package names, and why I think package manager security in general needs to be improved.
by scythe | 2026-01-06 02:48:19+00:00
There's no mention of the underlying cell chemistry on the landing page or under the "battery" tab, and only three people listed under the "About Us" of which the only one who sounds remotely technical is Ville Piippo, so I punched him into Google Scholar and found this:

https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/a9608639-3897-4878-979b-0d95...

If this guy has developed a revolutionary new battery cell then he has really learned a lot in ten years.

So we have no chemistry and no researchers but this startup claims to have blown everyone else out of the water. We'll see, I guess.