MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pavlus | 2026-01-03 01:17:20+00:00
That sounds a lot as gloating mid-febraury 2022. We all know how it turned out.

> Russia has integrated air defence, anв the shit is real, it is fight-proven, it works day and night for the last 3 years. Ask Ukrainians.

Yep. There are videos of oil infrastructure destroyed every single day. Russia is big, so it's hard to defend, and most of its air defense systems are either destroyed, or try to cope with 91 imaginary drones in Valday.

> The EU will lose about 100 planes and 50 pilots

Wishful thinking. You assume EU planes flying just above Moskow, or something like that. Won't happen and Russian planes won't be able to send air missiles to intercept them, as Russia runs out of A-50s.

> will retaliate with new conventional MRBM strikes

Oreshnik does not exist. It's an experiment, that failed to launch into [mass] production. Wishful thinking again.

> Russia will also strike one large natural gas storage, one LPG from the Gulf comes into. Russian diversants will deliver several hits to the EU energy system, probably to large distribution hubs.

This is realistic and very likely, those tactics were already tested in the past few years.

> The EU stocks will drop to 70%-50% of their current value. The euro will fall by 20%-30% against global currencies. Electricity, gas, and heat prices will rise 2-3 times; gasoline and diesel prices will increase 1.5-2 times.

Not realistic. There is oil in the world, there is a lot of oil processing in Europe. US would love to send LNG and earn a lot of money, but it won't be 2-3 times. Ukraine has shown, that Russia can't keep enough pressure to stop the economy completely, so 70-50% numbers are too high.

You are not playing a war game, you are mostly fantasizing about world dominance, as many Russians did mid-feb 2022. Yes, Russia can spoil your day. No, it can't fight and defend successfully on two fronts. Yes, it has more soldiers now and experience. No, it can't protect them on marches, it's forced to fight with FPVs and will be. Armored vehicles are lost. Air defenses are lost. Many strategic aviation, including bombers and A-50s are down. Bombers didn't even knew what hit them, no ballistic missiles needed. Few A-50s were hit by ground-based air defense systems, which is kinda ironic. EU has stockpiled air defenses which, as we know, work well against Kinzhals, Onyxes, etc. EU has Saab 340s to defend against low-flying Kalibres and drones. EU doesn't have enough interceptor drones yet, but it has enough AAGs. And you should expect the same drone swarming as done in Ukraine, to penetrate the air defense with ballistics.

So, I would expect
1) Diversions
2) PsyOps
3) Combined strikes (not as devastating as you paint them)
4) CyberOps (can count as diversions)

I would not expect
1) Air superiority
2) Destruction of Europe's industrial and military infrastructure by missiles (maybe some by GBUs, but seems risky)
3) big drop in EU stocks, or increase in pricing (unless CyberOps and PsyOps succeed)
by avhception | 2026-01-03 01:18:18+00:00
The world at large doesn't care what I love, correct. But my users care about whether they have to remember that they're supposed to use port bla instead of the standard port foo, which is a common scenario with v4. Not enough addresses, and / or you can't get them to the VM or container or VPN client or whatever that needs them.
IPv6 can often fix these kinds of issues.

Does the world at large care? No.

Do I care? Yes.

Do my users care? Yes, albeit indirectly.

Does my organization care? Yes, in the sense that it removes friction from what it needs the employees to do.

And that's all the justification that's needed, I'd say.
The world very clearly doesn't need to revolve around what I love for IPv6 to be a good thing.
by apparent | 2026-01-03 01:18:37+00:00
I'm curious how you feel about AirPods, for example. They also do not have replaceable batteries, and after a few years of regular use they become increasingly unusable for their intended purpose.

I have a different memory than you regarding the expected lifespan of the ring, which I think was 1-2 years with normal usage. I don't plan to get one, but it certainly hasn't soured me on the brand. There's pretty clear tradeoffs involved with putting replaceable or rechargeable batteries in such a small device.

Some people were very upset that iPhones didn't have replaceable batteries like Blackberries. But it would seem that pretty much everyone got over that. With even tinier devices like AirPods and smart rings, it would seem like even less of an e-waste issue. I say this as someone who has no plans to get one of these things, FWIW.
by markbao | 2026-01-03 01:20:04+00:00
Hi randomsofr, this posting has been continually posted since we are hiring on a rolling basis, not just for a single position. We have made hires for this position over time and continue to have openings.

We mention in our post-submission message that we only reach out if there’s a match, to spare applicant inboxes from negative messages (though perhaps we could make this messaging clearer). This follows what some companies such as Anthropic do and some of the reasoning in this post https://pablofernandez.tech/2023/02/03/you-should-not-send-r...

But I know that different people have different opinions on this, and we might shift to sending notification emails after resume review. I appreciate the feedback and I’m sorry about your experience here.
by sekh60 | 2026-01-03 01:22:07+00:00
There's a few options I'm aware of.

The "proper" way would be to get your own ASN and use BGP to route the traffic.

If you're wanting to use a secondary WAN link as a backup for when the other goes down you could have the backup link's LAN have a lower priority. (So I guess hope everything implements RFC 4191 like you said).

You can use NAT66/NPTv6 if you want (though it's icky I guess).

How are you doing it currently?
by CharlieDigital | 2026-01-03 01:22:09+00:00
> ...you should be wary of spending too much time on things that customers don’t see

I don't think this is entirely true because there are some things that will help you ship faster like good architecture and a system design that is as simple as possible. These are worth investing, despite their obscurity to the end user, because doing it well can result in a faster pipeline and more stability.
by ezst | 2026-01-03 01:22:29+00:00
> is of zero consequence to me

It is inconsequential, until it isn't. In front of me I've got a 2017 lenovo thinkpad running the latest Fedora+KDE, as well as a 2025 HP elitebook running "last corporate-friendly-stable version of W11". I can pop open the lenovo, key in my session password and hit enter, and I'm instantly productive, with shortcuts like meta+E giving me a working file explorer within milliseconds. On the Windows' side, there are several seconds of delay between typing my password and the on-screen feedback. Once finally unlocked, I've got a laggy environment where OS-essentials like the start menu and file explorers take whole seconds to render and respond.

It's a shame, if you ask me, that a dozen-or-so CPU and "general hardware" generations between those two devices got to waste due to poor software engineering and practices. And I'm not even talking about quality/reliability which is another sore point for Windowses of late.
by smileson2 | 2026-01-03 01:22:31+00:00
I'm honestly not sure Microsoft even cares about Windows anymore, to me it's felt like they burned everything internally during Windows8 and the ValueAct battles sealed it .. hell they even entirely removed the Taskbar back then

I've always wondered what things would be like the Microsoft break up went though, I really do think personal computing would be better off and the people involved would probably have even more money to boot
by sarchertech | 2026-01-03 01:22:37+00:00
> Nothing indeed.

So the whole thing is a complete waste of time then as an evaluation exercise.

>council of AIs

This only works if the errors and idiosyncrasies of different models are independent, which isn’t likely to be the case.

>100% agreement

When different models independently graded tests 0% of grades matched exactly and the average disagreement was huge.

They only reached convergence on some questions when they allowed the AIs to deliberate. This is essentially just context poisoning.

1 model incorrectly grading a question will make the other models more likely to incorrectly grade that question.

If you don’t let models see each other’s assessments, all it takes is one person writing an answer in a slightly different way that causes disagreement among models to vastly alter the overall scores by tossing out a question.

This is not even close to something you want to use to make consequential decisions.
by synapsomorphy | 2026-01-03 01:23:05+00:00
Full stack / Generalist Engineer

Location: US (GA)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Only to PNW or Bay Area
Technologies: Python, Linux, embedded C, SQL, React, ML (PyTorch, LLMs), electrical

Résumé/CV: https://synapsomorphy.com/resume.pdf (Contains email)

Hi! Generalist here looking to work on hard and meaningful problems with cool people.

2 YoE, coming off a year building the entire tech stack for a YC alum deeptech + biotech startup, from scratch, as the sole SWE or EE. (product: https://andsonbiotech.com/platform/)

I've also built/worked on rockets, drones, a lunar lander, a Mars helicopter at NASA, a LLM-driven car, AI benchmarks, and new type of 3D printer. Read about these: https://synapsomorphy.com/

Prefer early-mid stage, say seed to C, and core products that have 1 or more of [ML, biology, hardware], in order of preference.
by bigfatkitten | 2026-01-03 01:23:12+00:00
NPTv6 is rarely used, and so its real world implementations tend to be poorly tested and buggy.

The answer in this case ends up being solutions like explicit web proxies, or alternatively a VPN concentrator or the like from which you can receive a routable prefix delegation, and then run multiple tunnels to satisfy your own availability or policy routing needs.
by andrepd | 2026-01-03 01:23:34+00:00
There are phrases that hn loves and "scalable" is one of them. Here, it is particularly inappropriate.

Some people dream that technology (preferably duly packaged by for-profit SV concerns) can and will eventually solve each and every problem in the world; unfortunately what education boils down to is good, old-fashioned teaching. By teachers. Nothing whatsoever replaces a good, talented, and attentive teacher, all the technologies in the world, from planetariums to manim, can only augment a good teacher.

Grading students with LLMs is already tone-deaf, but presenting this trainwreck of a result and framing it as any sort of success... Let's just say it reeks of 2025.
by jama211 | 2026-01-03 01:23:45+00:00
This post does examplefy what we’re seeing, a general indication of some swelling of momentum but I bet it’s still going to be from 2% to maybe 3 or 5% at most until Linux can fix a few things about the community, issues with install difficulty such as dual booting and other issues, and the technical knowledge barrier to entry until more distribution with hardware comes along. Although of course system 76 and steam deck are great moves in this direction they’re still relatively niche for now.

There will never be a “year of the Linux desktop” the same way that there has never been a “year of the Mac desktop”, it’s just a slow building of users over time anyway.
by zten | 2026-01-03 01:24:08+00:00
You might want to try dumping your work from Resolve out in ProRes 422 HQ or DNxHR HQ and then encoding to h264/h265 with Compressor (costs $; it's the encoder part of Final Cut as a separate piece of software) on a Mac or Shutter Encoder. Also, I'm making a big assumption that you're using the paid version of Resolve; disregard otherwise. It might not be worth it if your input material is video game capture but if you have something like a camera that records h264 4:2:2 10bit in a log gamma then it can help preserve some quality.
by tormeh | 2026-01-03 01:25:22+00:00
Cosmic is quite nice. There's some polishing left to do, but it's already pretty solid. The app store is a bit of a turd, but I bet that's just because it's by nature connected to the internet. More could surely be done with caching and pre-loading, but not sure if I want my computer to pre-load app store content all the time just in case I open it.

Compared to Windows it's of course absolutely unreal.
by eddythompson80 | 2026-01-03 01:25:23+00:00
On the other hand it’s easy to say “just give me enterprise level controls but in an easy and intuitive interface”

I’m not saying that’s not possible, but if you have somehow figured the “right” abstractions and interface to achieve this in an incredible simple and sensible yet just as powerful and complete way that any parent can manage it, then you’d make a killing in enterprise sales. It’s not like enterprise IT admins love Group Policy or any random Joe can be a Linux sysadmin.
by cush | 2026-01-03 01:25:53+00:00
> sell you a home charging unit, sell you solar shingles, sell you a new power plant for your home to go with those shingles

I don’t think you’re listening. This entire argument would lead to there being an expensive solar option for Teslas. There isn’t. It’s a terrible idea because the yield is bad. Solar panels are big flat panels that point at the sun. Cars are made of curved shapes.
by banksRus | 2026-01-03 01:26:14+00:00
This appears to be an alarmist article about something pretty pedestrian.
1. The fed has intentionally been pulling liquidity out of the system with quantitative tightening. Over the last few years, the fed has shrunk its balance sheet by several trillion dollars (many times what this article is talking about). The fact that there is liquidity tightness is a sign that the fed has succeeded. And they are already stopping their balance sheet run-off, so there is no reason to expect this to get worse.
2. Repos are a standard tool of the fed. This is the system working as designed when there are liquidity issues.
3. It is not even clear to me that there are liquidity issues. This looks more like window dressing. On the 31st, banks and others make themselves look a bit prettier for their regulators and shareholders by holding more cash. This always makes overnight funding a little more expensive overnight on the 31st, so more banks are more likely to use fed lines, either repos or fed funds. That doesn't mean there is a problem or sone kind of shadowy bail out. This happens every year, and to a lesser extent, every quarter end.

The way that this is written feels intentionally exaggerated. E.g. comparing how much banks earned in profit to how much they are pulling/could pull from thr fed makes no sense. Banks are highly levered. They earn low returns on assets (1-2%), so balance sheet items always look a lot bigger than profits. Thats just the business model of banks. Just wait to see how many years it will take them to earn enough money to pay back their deposits! Its comparing apples and oranges, and anyone who thinks about banks seriously knows that.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-01-03 01:27:58+00:00
For your consideration a 2025 meta-analysis[1] of 73 eligible articles concludes no change to current avoidance recommendations.

You'll notice that Lindqvist 2014, 2016, and 2020 are references 77, 78, and 79 respectively. Definitely interested in what evidence would change your mind. Any chance you could describe your evidentiary bar?

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41415029/
by _wire_ | 2026-01-03 01:28:03+00:00
There's an entrenched assumption that intelligence might freely appear in computing because it can react in a way that people regard as convincing-- Turings pointedly simplistic stub for any clear notion of intelligence.

This assumption depends on determined ignorance of a foundational structural distinctions between any computer, no matter how powerful and complex, and human beings:

Human capacities are endogenous: our intelligence manifests from life, being the sustained arrangements of ancestor molecules which have been alive since the beginning of time and will not die unless life dies.

Computing systems are inverted to life: no matter how sophisticated, computers are exogenous: they must be arranged by humans.

Human intelligence is emergent, without cause in any scientific sense of causality.

Artificial intelligence is imparted by formally structuring a machine and exposing it to stimulus created by life (humans).

There's never been a clear theoretical distinction between the human organism and its environment.

There is a clear distinction for AI: the necessity of the human being to construct the machine.

Regardless of what human beings intend to do, first we live, because we can. This is how we got here.

Machines are constructed, and as such exist wholly as a consequence of human intention.

Human intelligence is self governing and self regulating.

Computer construction is an output of life, not a form of life.

Machine "intelligence" is merely the re-appearance of human intelligence from a plane of stimulus to a plane of responses that provide humans the impression of agency through a sort of behavioral mirror.

When computers manifest, organize and sustain across human generations without direct human intention or involvement, then it might be possible to discuss "intelligence".

But as there's no analogy whatsoever between the endogenous manifestation of life and life's exogenous manifestation of computers, there's no basis for comparison: one leads to the other, but not vise versa. And there's no reason whatsoever to expect there will ever be a reversal of this dynamic, so artificial intelligence as a theory is moot.
by apparent | 2026-01-03 01:28:04+00:00
There are other STDs that you'd still be at risk of getting/giving in the case of infidelity, so getting this one vaccine doesn't actually make things all good. I imagine for some people, the thought of possibly bringing home a disease would actually be a sufficient deterrent to prevent infidelity. Not just because they wouldn't want to infect their partner, but because they know it could lead to them getting caught.
by sho_hn | 2026-01-03 01:28:32+00:00
The ring doesn't just have irreplaceable batteries, it cannot be charged. You get it charged and once it's empty, it's obsolete. The more you use it, the faster this happens, and the usage they advertised was very much not using it very regularly at that.

I'm not tilting at the "the battery cannot be removed!" windmill. This is a whole new low. It's consumable consumer electronics.

The only thing that will prevent this from becoming a cautionary tale for the ages, a Juicero of e-waste, is its lack of cultural relevance.
by Macha | 2026-01-03 01:28:32+00:00
> Pretty standard for Microsoft lately. The old stuff is still there, we're adding a completely new stack adjacent to it so now you can live with the worst of both! The Windows 8 tablet interface and the Win11 wtfever that is still sometimes kick out a dialogue box unchanged since Windows XP.

At least in Windows 10, there was even still the occasional Windows 3.1 file picker hanging around in the really dusty locations
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2026-01-03 01:29:26+00:00
If you want it to be accurate to the penny, you kinda do, no?

If you transfer 50k from one account to another and want to check your networth before the money comes back in, summing your balances won't help you.

I think this is besides the point though, I suspect OP wants to track networth over time.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-03 01:29:37+00:00
> Confidentiality

Reading a blog post about linux security? Do you actually care if the NSA/FBI/CIA/FDA/USDA or anyone else knows you read this particular blog post?

I could understand this argument if we were talking about a social media site, or something more substantial. But a blog post?

> authenticity

It's a linux security blog post. While it's technically possible for a MITM to get in between an inject false information... about linux security? Is that really a real threat?

> integrity

Maybe a real problem, assuming a malicious MITM is trying to target you. But, I suspect, there are other avenues that'd be more fruitful in that case. Just hoping that someone would visit an http site seems like a far fetched concern.
by assimpleaspossi | 2026-01-03 01:29:53+00:00
>>Tried FreeBSD for one of my servers too but hardware support wasn’t wide enough, not sure what the desktop situation there is like.

Hardware support is plenty wide enough. Just buy the hardware that supports FreeBSD and that's most of it. Same with the desktop and I've run servers and desktops for 25 years using easily found, common, name brand hardware that runs FreeBSD.
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-03 01:29:58+00:00
> Architecturally monolithic Web apps use GraphQL all the time.

Sure, but a significant motivation for using GraphQL is to stitch together a bunch of microservices into a cohesive API for the front end.

My comment about Medium using microservices was just an informed guess, but a good one. They started migrating from a monolith to microservices back in 2018: https://medium.engineering/microservice-architecture-at-medi...

Is it a coincidence that that's around the time frame that I noticed the Medium web site becoming slower than it used to be?
by therealrootuser | 2026-01-03 01:30:26+00:00
> nearly every bug can be be exploited in a malicious way
This is a bit contextually dependent. "This widget is the wrong color" is probably not a security issue in most cases, unless the widget happens to be a traffic signal, in which case it is a major safety concern.

Even the line between "this is a bug" and "this is just a missing, incomplete, or poorly thought out feature" can get a bit blurry. At a certain point, many engineers get frustrated trying to pick apart the difference between all these ways of classifying the code they are writing and just want to get on with making the system work better.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-03 01:30:54+00:00
Any infection risks sensitizing the immune system against some aspect of the human body. More likely with more severe infections, but not even a pseudo-infection is completely immune from it as it's a property of the immune system, not of the vaccine. The risk is very low, not zero.

(And dengue fever has the nasty property of making subsequent infections worse--and the vaccine does the same thing. Thus you get the really weird risk balance of only vaccinating those who have already had it. Also, Covid is prone to causing myocarditis--and the vaccine carries a small risk of doing the same thing. AFIAK no vaccine caused case is serious, though.)
by stanfordkid | 2026-01-03 01:31:13+00:00
Is it really true that nothing would change if the Sun's mass was suddenly compacted by several orders of magnitude (into a point mass or black hole)?

This seems unintuitive to me. The sun is a million miles in diameter, so surely shrinking that to zero would lower the amount of gravitational force infinitesimally since the gravity is 1/distance^2 not linear. I would think the planets would sort of drift ever so slightly farther.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-03 01:31:56+00:00
When the interest rate was zero they could borrow infinite overnight funds for nothing. When the interest rate is 3.75% it stops being a free facility. Also, post COVID, the Fed was flooding the economy with cash and market participants actually had the opposite problem: they were coming to the reverse repo facility (https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/reverse-r...). That flood has subsided, so repo activity is returning to pre-COVID norms.

Despite the tone of the OP, the people who exchange securities for cash at the repo facility are paying not just the fed rate, but a higher punitive rate. It is expensive, by design, so banks seek liquidity deals privately if they can. It is not, in any sense, bags of money from helicopters.