MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deepzn | 2026-01-03 17:55:22+00:00
Daft Punk is one of my favorite artists ever but I am not familiar with all their discography(my shame and I mean to remedy that). But this was such a cool read from an obvious bigger fan than me. Half way through was only when I realized the significance of a BPM of 123.45, I didn't read it out without the decimal until then lol. And so many more fans in the comments, wow.
by k310 | 2026-01-03 17:55:22+00:00
Hacker News is a friendly forum, heavily moderated, for the exchange of ideas.

It’s basically “what the internet is supposed to be like”, IMNSHO.

Ideas are influential. Everything you see started out as an idea. Don’t like what you see? Create something better, and follow through.

As for RFC’s and the like, there are github and alternatives.
by xg15 | 2026-01-03 17:56:10+00:00
Yeah, I was mostly surprised about the brazenness of it all. So the plan is to take over the government, take over the oil industry, sell the oil and in infinite grace give the Venezuelans some part of it back (minus the "compensation" for the years in which US companies were kept out of the country)

And all that as official doctrine, not even some secret strategy paper or covert ops campaign.

Edit: I had to chuckle at his "reviewing" of the Monroe doctrine as DONRoe doctrine. There is "on the nose" and there is "punching someone in the face"...
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-01-03 17:56:23+00:00
> My mobile operator and my ISP at home both provide IPv6 connectivity without me asking. All I had to do was to enable IPv6 on my router.

I think this is representative of every IPv6 deployment. You get it or you don't. If it isn't available to you, asking won't make any difference.

FTR we have 5 wireline ISP here. The one cable has IPv6, the 4 fiber operators do not.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-03 17:56:41+00:00
> A lot of Venezuelans are happy about it.

Which Venezuelans? I ask because this exact same argument was used to justify the many failed assassination attempts, the Bay of Pigs debacle and sanctions on Cuba where many Cuban Americans were anti-Castro.

Now that might've been true but consider the source: many Cubans in America fled when Batista was ousted or in response to that. A famous example of that is Rafael Cruz, the father of Senator Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz famously said he hates communism because his father was tortured... by Batista [1]. And it's a failure in journalism that he wasn't challenged and lambasted for this idiotic take.

There are a lot of Venezuealsn in the US who justifiably fled the chaos there. But why was it chaotic? The US will try and tell you it's because of Maduro. But what about the sanctions? As a reminder, sanctions are a nice way of starving "we're goign to starve you and deny you medicine in the hopes you do what we want to the administration we can't otherwise topple".

Also, the US doesn't actually care about any of the crimes they accuse Maduro of. This is the same country who deposed Allende and installed Pinochet into Chile, who was a brutal dictator. That too was about resources. Oh and let's not forget Iran, who had their democratically elected government deposed to install yet another brutal dicator, the Shah, in 1953, again for oil. Or the United Fruit Company in Guatemala. The list goes on. This happens so much there's a Wikipedia page on it [2].

So, for anyone who celebates this (and I mean this generally, not at the commenter I'm responding to), you will see no benefit for this. A few billionaires will get richer, probably. The US was probably pour countless billions into supporting some puppet, probably Machado but we'll see. And I would be surprised if the lives of Venezuelans gets any better.

And if the lives of Venezuelans does actually get better, it's probably by lifting sanctions and you should be asking why we were starving them in the first place.

As a reminder, the US knows the effects of sanctions. When confronted by a report on sanctions killing 500,000 Iraqi children in 1996, then UN Ambassador and later Secretary of State responded [3]:

> “We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima,” asked Stahl, “And, you know, is the price worth it?”

> “I think that is a very hard choice,” Albright answered, “but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I2AdbLDVb0Q

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

[3]: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/25/lets-remember-m...
by OJFord | 2026-01-03 17:56:58+00:00
I assume at least some of it was technical disagreement, so PMs sure but also TPMs and what have been called SWEs even if hypothetically we don't call them that any more because in the brave new AI world they don't need to directly create software any more.

(I've personally never applied to somewhere that advertised that it would call me a 'developer', because that just sounds like a very boring factory-line 'churn out the code as described in this work ticket' role to me, that I don't want and didn't get a professional degree for, even before all this LLM/'agentic' possibility.)
by ratamacue | 2026-01-03 17:57:26+00:00
My political reaction comes from the following chain of thought:

* My country just did something I think is wrong.

* My country is led by people elected by a process that I trust.

* The process or the people have failed and I want to stop this from happening by fixing the process so the people are replaced.

And, now I am stuck on how to do this. There a other actions I can take to help the people of Venezuela, but from a civics perspective, I believe it is my responsibility to partake in a discussion about the systemic failure that lead to this.

I think it is common for Americans to do this because we have a history of at least trying to fix our government because we usually believe we can.
by dangus | 2026-01-03 17:57:51+00:00
It’s a stupid business model for this product category and shows their leadership doesn’t understand the market.

If you buy a Pixel and flash GrapheneOS, you’re getting a better secured phone, better phone hardware, and for less money if you shop smart.

The only reason you’d buy this product over that solution is that you literally don’t know any better.

If they want to monetize their OS they should just do what every other phone manufacturer does and sell optional but integrated services.

There’s no need to push them as mandatory because a lot of people will end up with them anyway (e.g., iCloud+ and Google One).
by newsoftheday | 2026-01-03 17:58:31+00:00
I installed, she could do the same, insert USB stick, run the graphical installer, remove it, boot into the new OS. That's all I did, on this machine, our LR TV PC, MVR PC, DR PC (for pleasant visual videos on YouTube), her PC, etc. Some are Dell, some are Lenovo, my last PC was an HP. I personally have used nVidia on multiple machines and models the past 2 decades. On mid-2000's machines I'd sometimes have to run the driver installer .sh file I downloaded from their site. The past at least 10 years, it gets installed automatically, didn't have to do anything.

Glad we agree on casual users. She uses Chrome and only 2 apps, same as when she was on Windows. Would you agree that probably most of the world is made up of casual users?
by Brian_K_White | 2026-01-03 17:58:38+00:00
The very similar "stepped in it" definitely has the same connotation in English.

But it needs the "it". "step in" alone or in any context where "it" isn't a mystery doesn't do it.

"step into the function" or "step into the hallway" doesn't do it even slightly.

The opposite even. In the case of "step into the hallway" where "step" does actually refer to literally using ones feet, saying step is a bit more sophisticated option for something like walk or go, invoking a sense of dancing vs merely relocating. So the "step in" is actually more elegant and tasteful.

Stepping into into or through a function doesn't invoke any dancing, merely the non-continuous, non-analog nature of the process.

But "here's where we stepped in it" has exactly the image and meaning he means.

Perhaps there is some other word in Russian that would do a better job of expressing something that proceeds in hard jumps? Maybe "step" was always just a too-literal translation from English or other languages because there is obviously a Russian word for "step"?

Is the 90-degree shape of stair called a step in Russian? Were instructions called steps in Russian before the western world put our own words for computer stuff into everyone else's languages overnight? Would a 400 year old document describe the recipe for a soup as a set of steps? In that case "step" was not merely a too-literal translation.
by wltr | 2026-01-03 17:58:39+00:00
I used Arch Linux on my MacBook Pro 13” (2011) and it was almost perfect (one iGPU), some weird sleep issues, plus battery calibration issues: battery often went down to 7% within like 30 minutes, and then it takes a couple of hours to 0%. But if you happened to close it, it will either power off or hibernate (won’t recall). Then a couple of keys would stop working, and I’d just rsync my entire system to a newer (2014) retina MacBook Pro 13” (instead of fixing the keyboard, there’s no point in that). Perhaps, these laptops are very popular for Linux enthusiasts — I think 15” from 2015 is the best Linux laptop you can get for the money — but this laptop is just perfect! Everything works flawlessly, sleep, hibernation, screen, keyboard backlight… ah, I forgot about the web camera, doesn’t, but I never used it really, it’s crap anyway. The battery life is amazing, I’m getting like 8 hours of real work for the new battery, or even longer for very light work. So, I’d say it depends on the hardware quite a lot. Maybe I’m just very experienced now, but I won’t say I am.
by Etheryte | 2026-01-03 17:59:10+00:00
Important to note here that the $200/week figure from 80s is the same as $830/week today due to inflation [0]. Rent and degrees specifically have gone up a ridiculous amount, yes, but as far as the rest of it goes, most students today would jump at the opportunity of having that much disposable income.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
by simoncion | 2026-01-03 17:59:12+00:00
I "solved" this by running a separate VLAN for work machines that provides addresses in a slightly weird /24 carved out of the 172.16.0.0/12 [0] range. Is it as collision-resistant as a ULA address? No. But -sadly- I've yet to see an Enterprise VPN that wasn't run as an IPv4-only thing, so it's the best I can do.

[0] Or whatever the netmask actually is. I'm never sure about the 172.16.x.x space.
by maxlybbert | 2026-01-03 17:59:33+00:00
Even though the military was involved, I think this was officially a law enforcement action, much like capturing Manuel Noriega and sentencing him to prison.

Nicolás Maduro was indicted for various crimes in 2020. I have a feeling the "possession of a machinegun" charge will be dropped, but the US does have a long track record of saying drug activity affects the US enough that it can arrest and prosecute almost anybody.

The invasion of Ukraine, on the other hand, is -- I believe -- a regular military exercise. Putin has claimed that he wants to achieve some unusual goals ("denazify the Ukraine special forces"), but even those goals aren't really law enforcement.
by jgrahamc | 2026-01-03 18:01:40+00:00
Neat. Hey, OP, can you update my bio though? I used to be CTO of Cloudflare but I retired last March[1] and the new CTO is Dane Knecht (dknecht here). Now I'm just a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/en-us/three-chapters-at-cloudfla...
by alephnerd | 2026-01-03 18:02:00+00:00
In the eyes of the US, the expropriation of American assets in Venezuela [0] and then selling them to Russian [1], Chinese [2], and Indian [3] interests was theft.

Russian-US relations are tense for the same reasons due to the saga of Sakhalin-I's nationalization from Exxon [4] following the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine and Russia's sale of Exxon's stake to Japanese [5] and Indian [6] interests.

The previous administration also stopped Saudi and UAE from invading Qatar in 2017 [7] due to Rex Tillerson's personal interests with Exxon's stake in Qatar's energy infra [8]

That said, assuming the US doesn't attempt a Venezuelan version of de-Baathification [9], this should be a fairly standard transfer of power - US-Venezuela relations only really tanked when Maduro came to power and hard pivoted Eastward, as even under Chavez American business operations continued and the relationship wasn't severely tense. And from the sounds of it, the faction backing Delcy Rodriguez chose to give Maduro up and (reading between the lines) roll back nationalization in return for staying in power.

Almost everything in political science can be modeled using Tsebelis's Veto Player model, Mesquita's Selectorate Theory, Kuran's Revolutionary Threshold, and the Agency Problem.

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/may/02/oilandpetro...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venezuela-approves-1...

[2] - https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/latest-news...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-ongc-says-oil...

[4] - https://www.upstreamonline.com/production/russia-takes-contr...

[5] - https://www.japex.co.jp/en/business/oilgas/sakhalin1/

[6] - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-ongc-moves-cl...

[7] - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/8/1/rex-tillerson-stoppe...

[8] - https://www.qatarenergylng.qa/english/AboutUs/Corporate-Stru...

[9] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Ba%27athification
by throwfaraway135 | 2026-01-03 18:02:06+00:00
The GitHub project has more details: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c

Some ways C3 differs from C:

- No mandatory header files

- New semantic macro system

- Module-based namespacing

- Slices

- Operator overloading

- Compile-time reflection

- Enhanced compile-time execution

- Generics via generic modules

- "Result"-based zero-overhead error handling

- Defer

- Value methods

- Associated enum data

- No preprocessor

- Less undefined behavior, with added runtime checks in "safe" mode

- Limited operator overloading (to enable userland dynamic arrays)

- Optional pre- and post-conditions
by annexrichmond | 2026-01-03 18:02:42+00:00
They attacked Venezuela because it's ruled by an illegitimate leader who allegedly commands a drug cartel responsible for smuggling cocaine and fentanyl.

It's also not difficult to see the broader strategy: every US adversary (China, Russia, Iran) has been taking a piece of Venezuela over the past several months. They were already "conquered". This could also give the US an upper hand in ending the war in Ukraine as it further weakens Russia as it loses access to cheap oil.
by tres | 2026-01-03 18:02:58+00:00
I believe the Jesus Jones song, "Right Here, Right Now" has become an ironic commentary on Gen X; in that brief moment in the 90's when we thought the nuclear sword of Damocles dangling over all of us had finally been cut down...

Not a great song, but one that expresses the zeitgeist in a pretty succinct way.

We thought that we were at the cusp of a new era... one where we could overcome the injustices of the past and author a future based on the best version of ourselves.

In the end, Gen X never even got a chance to start; we watched from the sidelines as geriatric Boomers clung (and still cling) to power -- leaving less and less of that (ever more naive) dream behind.

"Right here, right now,

there's no other place I'd rather be.

Right here, right now,

watching the world wake up from history."

The song hasn't aged well & has become a cloy reminder of that time and what we didn't become.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2026-01-03 18:03:12+00:00
We have solved the better C issue, but nobody seems keen on solving the better compiler issue

Why do we still have to recompile the whole program everytime we make a change, the only project i am aware of who wants to tackle this is Zig with binary patching, and that's imo where we should focus our effort on..

C3 does look interesting tho, the idea of ABI compatibility with C is pretty ingenious, you get to tap into C's ecosystem for free
by KellyCriterion | 2026-01-03 18:03:14+00:00
EU citizen here, for several reasons:

- while HN is somewhat focussed on SV, it is coveraging a very broad global set of new & inspiring information

- HN runs flawless on nearly everyone device with superslow capacity (I have been in places where HN was the only page that was loaded because of the bad internet connection, while all other pages failed, even Google or Wikipedia). The page just loads - and this very fast

- for sure, here we do not have Ads

- from a personal perspective: So far this is the only page covering my core interests that broadly: they are arround tech, web, internet, digital, finance, economy, useful news, inspirations, psychology

- HN is that influental in my country, that local tech websites are actually copying the content from here

So let me put it that way:
HN is a melting pot of a very thin group of people who are working on inspiring stuff I like.

(and I like the lurkers here: Very often there is an article about X, then someone shows up in the comments and says "Im working on X, I can explain in all details")
by Alifatisk | 2026-01-03 18:03:17+00:00
Looks can be deceiving.

C3 provides a module system for cleaner code organization across files, unlike Zig where files act as modules with nesting limitations.

C3 offers first class lambdas and dynamic interfaces for flexible runtime polymorphism without Zigs struct based workarounds.

C3s operator overloading enables intuitive math types like vectors, which Zig avoids to prevent hidden control flow.
by azan_ | 2026-01-03 18:03:39+00:00
No, it's what I found in 2025 in Moscow, if I were to look in whole Russia I would find hundreds of these. I'm ending this discussion, unfortunately it's very typical for Russians to discuss like this - always deny anything wrong even when facts are very clear, and when it's impossible to deny then just downplay it or even say that the wrongdoing you do is actually good.
by GarnetFloride | 2026-01-03 18:04:08+00:00
Location: Orem, Utah
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Technical Writing, Information Development, User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI), Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-fassmann/
Email: stephan /dot/ fassmann /at/ gmail /dot/ com

I created documentation that allowed customers to successful self-service reducing support calls by 60%.
I expanded the knowledge base with 200+ articles, reducing support call duration by 40%.
I spearheaded a tiger team when I found that customers were not getting the license keys they paid, and the database team misplaced many customers in a migration, saving $50 million in customer accounts.
by 5ver | 2026-01-03 18:04:47+00:00
As far as one can reasonably know something it’s clear that Maduro was not the fairly elected president. Chavez and Maduro were disastrous for Venezuela and millions now have hope for a better future.

Your perception about Iran in 1953 is badly wrong.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articl...
by themafia | 2026-01-03 18:04:57+00:00
> He was someone who took the country illegally with cartel people.

That's an allegation. We are from a nation of laws where this behavior within it's borders would be in violation of the constitution.

> Maduro was smuggling drugs in USA

Shall we talk about what the CIA has been doing in Venezuela for decades?

> You want China and Russia be there?

The worst form of whataboutism.

> And people from Venezuela were the biggest migration wave in the World last decades.

Is that because they hate Maduro or because they need money?

> You want millions of refugees?

We already have them. Can we /please/ talk about WHY without getting distracted by nonsense drug dealing claims?
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-03 18:04:59+00:00
Not a shred of evidence was ever provided that the crewmen of these boats were "terrorists." That alone makes these murders very different from other illegal extrajudicial killings, where this evidence is usually provided or readily available.

That's not to say that I would in any way support extrajudicial killings, in many cases the high civilian/bystander casualties have been completely unsupportable. I just wanted to point out the stark difference between "normal" extrajudicial killings and these murders.
by tavavex | 2026-01-03 18:05:54+00:00
Luckily, there's not that much Windows-only software I must use. Unluckily, it's pretty essential:

- Fusion 360 (the only alternative seems to be learning a different, likely far more involved CAD)

- Paint.NET (a simple, quick, no-nonsense image editor - while there are image editor alternatives, as far as I can tell there's nothing quite like it)

The bigger issue that might keep me dual-booting are graphical features. Things like VR and HDR are already known to be janky on their "native" Windows implementations, so I'm scared to imagine what any of that is going to be like on Linux. Neither are common use cases, but I still want to hold onto those where possible.
by FridayoLeary | 2026-01-03 18:06:10+00:00
At least he's honest, even if it's more like he lacks an effective filter. "bannana republics" and "bigger gun diplomacy" don't quite describe Trumps approach to foreign policy. One thing i can say about the operation is that it's a lot cheaper and less bloody then a ground invasion.

Someone should tell him Iran has loads of oil and China is getting it all...
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-03 18:06:15+00:00
Huh... I went looking in the 2,000s, thinking "same as last year probably".

| Year | Rank | Domain | Total Score | Stories | |
|------+--------+---------------+-------------+---------+-----|
| 2025 | 719 | evalapply.org | 661 | 5 | 132 |
| 2024 | 2138 | evalapply.org | 154 | 1 | 154 |
| 2023 | 1674 | evalapply.org | 296 | 2 | 148 |
| 2022 | > 5000 | NPC | NPC | NPC | NPC |

brb, eating a sweet to celebrate popularity
by apparent | 2026-01-03 18:06:29+00:00
> Apple Watch SE is $250, and all the re-pebbles are $200 price range? Color me impressed!

I have wondered why Eric didn't price them higher, and I think it comes down to wanting to make sure there is sufficient demand to justify production runs, and staving off competition that could front-run him and use his open source software too.

I am genuinely curious to see what competition emerges, and how long it takes to appear.
by isr | 2026-01-03 18:06:57+00:00
Completely dishonest answer. Sanctions decimated Venezuela's ability to maintain its oil infrastructure. Everything, from machined parts, to the various chemicals needed, everything, was affected.

It just took a few years for the sanctions to bite, as the Venezuelans conserved & used stockpiles.

Again, a completely dishonest take. Speaks volumes, when most defenders of todays criminality keep spouting arguments to this effect.
by bikelang | 2026-01-03 18:07:01+00:00
This is super cool. I’ve been kicking around an idea for ages regarding tile-based routing that I think would be excellent for offline routing. You could leverage the quadtree aspect of tiling to encapsulate faster, direct routes (ie highways) and as you go to deeper zoom levels you’d unlock small roads - even down to pathways. This keeps your in-memory graph small while traversing large distances (which would just be highways anyways) and once you eliminated most of the distance your remaining graph traversal on local roads would be small