MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chmod775 | 2026-01-20 22:36:51+00:00
Oh. Now I get why we're talking past each other. There's a thing most computers are configured to do out of the box, but yours might be different for some reason.

I'm going to assume you're using Windows. In that case go to Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard and configure "Character Repeat". What this will do is repeat a key you're holding as if you're pressing it multiple times! Configure it until it feels natural.

This is what people were referring to when we said we're holding a key. We're not pressing it 10 times, just holding it down and having the computer automatically repeat it until we're happy with the result (such as having moved where we wanted to). It's a bit like moving a mouse cursor, where you're also not calculating the offset you want to move your mouse in advance.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-20 22:36:58+00:00
>it's not a bad thing to be late to AI. Most of it has shown to be a complete waste of time, money and resources.

This is just cognitive bias. If Apple was doing well with AI, you'd be praising it.

I've been having gemini look at my screen and add events to my calendar in 2 clicks.

Not to mention... I don't really have lots of faith in the people who don't see the value in AI. Its halved my programming costs if not more.

>As for poor security - this has got to be a joke, right? If anything, it's the Windows world that has a piss poor track record when it comes to security. Apple meanwhile, unless you're a terrorist or drug kingpin, no way the police can access a properly protected device.

You do you then. I need my device secured. I won't explain because it makes myself a target.
by drivebyhooting | 2026-01-20 22:37:14+00:00
Many of the problems are self inflicted or don’t deserve solving in the first place. In fact solving Facebook’s ad targeting “problem” is actively working against The Good.

Unfortunately, my career has been solving such things; and once I realized that, there was no going back and no job satisfaction.

I also take offense at the belief of “being the only one who can solve the problem”. This is an arrogant self serving justification to blind oneself of the harm the solutions cause.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-20 22:37:17+00:00
I haven't found many cases of this.

The only one I know of is the bet on whether Venezuela would be invaded, which PolyMarket didn't resolve as yes arguing that it technically wasn't an invasion. So it isn't that there's two realities really, it's just a very inconsequential word play on how we describe reality, and the only ones concerned with it are those who made the bet.
by neilv | 2026-01-20 22:37:55+00:00
It's impressive that wxpath does the DSL as an extension of XPath syntax. I hadn't quite thought of it that way.

I routinely used a mix of XPath and arbitrary code heavily for Web scraping (as implied in the intro for "https://docs.racket-lang.org/html-parsing/").

Then I made some DSLs for doing some of the common scraping coding patterns more concisely and declaratively, but the DSLs ended up in a Lisp-y syntax, not looking like XPath.
by pedalpete | 2026-01-20 22:38:36+00:00
The US was a safe place with consistent returns for decades.
Now the US has increased risk. It isn't a calculation of "where do we put $100B", it's a calculation of "what is the balance of managing risk and returns".

Canada and Australia are low risk, but don't have the returns of the US. Brasil, Argentina, have higher risk.

The allocations get spread across different risk profiles, and the money gets spread across different investments. Of course, this is on the assumption the majority of this money stays in Treasuries. These large funds have options beyond that. It's a mathematical calculation where every asset in the world is an option. $100B can be spread around pretty easily I'd think.
by fuzztester | 2026-01-20 22:39:06+00:00
your "is its own thing" implies "unique" to me. but if you want to hairsplit, go ahead. no issues. to each their own.

and about your "as i’m sure you know.":

how are you sure i know?

are you me?

mad props to you for being able to enter another person's mind. congrats, you may have acquired a siddhi.

/s.
by kassner | 2026-01-20 22:39:09+00:00
There are some EU cloud providers that try (OVH, Scaleway, Hetzner, Upcloud, Evroc), but AWS is a product 20+ years in the making and only in the last 5 that people are really opening their eyes to the sovereignty problem. And even if those providers did have the money and regulation breaks AWS had, today is a much different market than the one AWS grew up with, in which there wasn’t an incumbent and they were leading the market. Nowadays everyone has to be at least similar to AWS for people to consider it, and I feel sovereignty alone is not enough.

In other words: making a cloud provider isn’t that difficult, making a cloud provider that people will use INSTEAD OF AWS is an exponentially harder problem.
by theamk | 2026-01-20 22:39:21+00:00
I was not sure if they are serious or not until I read the FAQ:

> Q: Is this legal?

> A: We operate in a legal gray area that our lawyers describe as "innovative." Our terms of service are 847 pages long for a reason.

> Q: How is this different from stealing?

> A: We prefer the term "aggressive recycling." Think of it as the circular economy for API keys.
by tuckerman | 2026-01-20 22:39:41+00:00
I agree that there is hyperbole thrown around a lot here and its possible to still use some hardware for a long time or to sell it and recover some cost but my experience in planning compute at large companies is that spending money on hardware and upgrading can often result in saving money long term.

Even assuming your compute demands stay fixed, its possible that a future generation of accelerator will be sufficiently more power/cooling efficient for your workload that it is a positive return on investment to upgrade, more so when you take into account you can start depreciating them again.

If your compute demands aren't fixed you have to work around limited floor space/electricity/cooling capacity/network capacity/backup generators/etc and so moving to the next generation is required to meet demand without extremely expensive (and often slow) infrastructure projects.
by vel0city | 2026-01-20 22:39:57+00:00
> If we're using the most extreme examples to distract using visceral disgust instead of addressing the core point

I am absolutely addressing a core point, that's a big part of what you previously quoted about being unable to meet health safety requirements. I didn't bring up that example, you and the previous author did. Its quite combative to act like I'm just pulling out some extreme example, when you're the one who provided the example as a regulation strangling businesses.

You said cross contamination standards make such places impossible. I asked for concrete cross contamination examples that make it impossible, and the only one you've given me so far is sinks. So I'm sorry I'm only really talking sinks here, its the only one you've actually given me. Other than the vagueness of the fact there's a lot of tiny jurisdictions, but that doesn't really matter given we're talking about hyper local hole in the wall places. They really only care about whatever their specific local regulations are, which are usually pretty easy to go figure out.

>> Most jurisdictions require at least 3-4 different sinks—one for washing dishes (usually a large three-part sink), separate ones for washing hands, one for mopping, and often another for prepping food

Just having the mop bucket doesn't solve the problem. You take that mop bucket, and dump it where? Where do you go clean the bucket and the mop after you dump it? Where do you go to get water for the mop bucket?

What do these super tiny restaurants that are supposedly impossible to have in the US do to actually clean their dishes? What do they do to properly clean hands after handling unclean meats to prevent cross contamination? What do they do to clean the things they use to clean the facility? Do they have people with unclean hands covered in potential salmonella in the same sink they're doing dishes in? Or the sink where they cleaned the mop bucket an hour ago in? Which sink gets the axe?

You're telling me we need to get rid of these sink requirements (its the only thing you've concretely pointed to), but offering little suggestions other than "buy a mop bucket", which doesn't solve the problem at all.
by kibbul4 | 2026-01-20 22:41:12+00:00
This is one of the most impotent things I've ever read. All you've achieved here is acknowledging that you are completely defenseless and welcoming foreign militaries into your territory (the thing you were trying to avoid).

What's the plan? Trust the Chinese to defend your country out of the goodness of their hearts (without ever acting on their ability to claim it for themselves at any time knowing you will not and can not do anything to stop them)?
by nemothekid | 2026-01-20 22:41:20+00:00
The trigger architecture is actually quite interesting, especially because cleanup is relatively cheap. As far as compliance goes, it's also simply to declare that "after 45 days, deletions are permanent" as a catch all, and then you get to keep restores. For example, I think (IANAL), the CCPA gives you a 45 day buffer for right to erasure requests.

Now instead of chasing down different systems and backups, you can simply set ensure your archival process runs regularly and you should be good.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-20 22:42:24+00:00
Peter Navarro is the idiot whose mostly pushing the Trump economic policies. I say idiot, because he is really a complete and total crackpot. He's written a couple of papers where he cites himself on uncited principles as if they were ironclad economics. A flat earther to an astronomer is what Navarro is to an economist.

He is anti-trade and pro-isolation. He actually wants the US dollar to lose it's status as a world currency. His thought? If it does, then we'll better address national debt. Basically "Let's light the house on fire so we finally address the upstairs draft."
by adrian_b | 2026-01-20 22:43:03+00:00
As a Linux user, I am confused when I hear other people talking about "scaling" and even more when they talk about being able to use only a restricted set of values for "scaling".

For much more than a decade, I have not used any monitor with a resolution less than 4k with Linux. I have never used any kind of "scaling" and I would not want to use any kind of "scaling", because that by definition means a lower image quality than it should be.

In X Window System, and in any other decent graphic interface system, the sizes of graphic elements, e.g. the size of fonts or of document pages, should be specified in length units, e.g. typographic points, millimeters or inches.

The graphic system knows the dots-per-inch value of the monitor (using either a value configured by the user or the value read from the monitor EDID when the monitor is initialized). When the graphic elements, such as letters are rasterized, the algorithm uses the dimensions in length units and the DPI value to generate the corresponding bitmap.

"Scaling" normally refers to the scaling of a bitmap into another bitmap with a greater resolution, which can be done either by pixel interpolation or by pixel duplication. This is the wrong place for increasing the size of an image that has been generated by the rasterization of fonts and of vector graphics. The right place for dimension control is during the rasterization process, because only there this can be done without image quality loss.

Thus there should be no "scaling", one should just take care that the monitor DPI is configured correctly, in which case the size of the graphic elements on the screen will be independent of the resolution of the connected monitor. Using a monitor with a higher resolution must result in more beautiful letters, not in smaller letters.

Windows got this wrong, with its scaling factor for fonts, but at least in Linux XFCE this is done right, so I can set whatever DPI value I want, e.g. 137 dpi, 179 dpi, or any other value.

If you configure the exact DPI value of your monitor, then the dimensions of a text or picture on the screen will be equal to those of the same text or picture when printed on paper.

One may want to have a bigger text on screen than on paper, because you normally stay at a greater distance from the monitor than the distance at which you would hold a sheet of paper or a book in your hand.

For this, you must set a bigger DPI value than the real one, so that the rasterizer will believe that your screen is smaller and it will draw bigger letters to compensate for that.

For instance, I set 216 dpi for a Dell 27 inch 4k monitor, which will magnify the images on screen by about 4/3 in comparison with their printed size. This has nothing to do with a "scaling". The rasterizer just uses the 216 dpi value, for example when rasterizing a 12 point font, in such a way that the computed bitmap will have the desired size, which is greater than its printed size by the factor chosen by me.
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-20 22:43:12+00:00
IIRC, the original, historical plans were developed to counter a scenario where Canada had been blitzkreige-invaded by "another Northern power", as a prelude to launching an attack requiring the US to defend 2,000-miles of border.

It never was about mistrusting Canada. Mexico, maybe, if they were mad; but not Canada.
by tokioyoyo | 2026-01-20 22:43:20+00:00
Imo, the article is exaggerating quite a bit, and written from a perspective of a tourist, which is fair. Nowadays these bars aren’t hidden or try to be out of sight. Like there’s a whole google maps category just for these type of establishments.

But in general, you’d expect what was outlined in the post. From my friends and etc., food might range from pretty bad to average. Might get charged service fee if you’re not hyperlocal to the bar. Also atmosphere, once again, depends. City, neighbourhood, sleeziness level and etc.

About the gay stuff… Honestly it’s more of a “i don’t care just don’t show it off” attitude, rather than “no gays allowed”. But the “don’t show it off” part applies to straight people as well. Nobody is gonna do or say anything, but an auntie might shake their heads as they pass by.

Tattoos are a bit different. If you’re white, nobody will care unless they’re very visible (face/neck). You’ll be barred from some establishments (e.g. onsens/gyms), but if it’s coverable with the covers then it’s fine. Mostly historical reasons, and people’s aversion from accidentally hanging out with the “troublesome crowd” as one would say.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-20 22:43:20+00:00
> It's not at all true that this is an entirely new idea, though

I meant entirely new for the current generation of people running the white house, not that it's literally never ever been discussed before. The people who were previously interested in this are mostly long dead.

The purchase of Greenland was most recently the topic of intermittent but somewhat serious discussions between 1940-1955. After the cold war the US government largely lost interest in Greenland, pulled out almost all staff and closed all but one base. If some kind of Greenland acquisition had any significant backing, the US would at least have maintained a more significant presence there.

> The major proponent appears to be Stephen Miller. There are a lot of reports that the tech bro contingent is eager for it as well

It's really really hard to imagine Trump's successor being particularly interested in pursuing Greenland, especially since they wouldn't even have a complete term to work with. There's no indication that some powerful faction exists that'd be particularly interested in Greenland, and there's no obvious reason as to why such a faction would exist.
by x0x0 | 2026-01-20 22:43:38+00:00
What a bummer. I have a OnePlus that I like, and the high-speed charging is awesome. I dunno why American smartphones don't get this (well, I do know: lack of competition), but 6k mah batteries and 100w charging make you stop thinking about the battery except for 20-30 minutes charging every 3rd day. And I'm wildly jealous of Oppo's external telephoto lenses. Hopefully BBK adds US bands to Oppo.
by arduanika | 2026-01-20 22:45:13+00:00
I think we're talking less about the aspect of Bismarck where he won 3 big wars and lost none, and more about the part where he set up a delicate system that was maybe too complex for his successors to maintain, especially under idiosyncratic leaders. We're not talking about financial crises. Bismarck did not stop the Panic of 1873 (in fact, you could wave your hands and argue he indirectly caused it).

As far as "who set up the US empire, in all its complexity?", I'd argue for the 4 guys I named in my other comment, but your list might differ. And if you're just interested in the dollar system per se, I'd probably go with Harry Dexter White, who strangely enough turned out to be a Soviet spy.

Oh, and if you want a pretty clear analogy from Bismarck's system to earlier US monetary history: Benjamin Strong got the Federal Reserve System up and running and figured out a bunch of the right tricks, but he died in 1928 without getting his successors up to speed on how to run things. They failed miserably in next couple years. Bad timing!
by chippiewill | 2026-01-20 22:46:45+00:00
In the UK we have a convenient way of observing this phenomenon.

The FTSE100 is mostly multinational companies valued in pounds. The FTSE250 is mostly British companies valued in pounds. If the FTSE100 goes up while the FTSE250 stays flat or falls then it means the currency got devalued and there's no real growth.
by rpdillon | 2026-01-20 22:47:14+00:00
Oh, I'm certain that authors want to take away every right the reader has. This is easy to see empirically: we used to have the first-sale doctrine with physical books, but every digital platform has made reselling either impossible, or a violation of their terms. And yet, courts have rendered judgements that say training an AI model on a book is fair use if the book was obtained legally, meaning no additional license is needed. You assume the authors' permission is needed, but I'm not sure that assumption holds. I think your argument is mostly emotional, rather than legal.

Your use of the word "stealing" is incorrect, but regardless, I'm not condoning piracy, merely examining the incentives we've set up to lead massive, multi-billion dollar corporations from engaging in it.
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 22:47:26+00:00
What do you think the US is going to do for that bang? How could a bang ever bring the wealth and peace that its prior friendship with allies brought?

The US doesn't have the cards to play, because the current US Government doesn't even understand where the wealth has come from. That US Government has risen to power by tricking the public into thinking that the very things that make the US wealthy and powerful are actually a scam making them poorer.

The current US Government has already broken the trust that makes the US strong. The repercussions will take years to become fully visible, and without immediate course correction those future repercussions will get far far worse.
by readthenotes1 | 2026-01-20 22:48:41+00:00
"passages become seemingly impossibly narrow, as small as 16 inches (40 centimetres) in diameter. "

Vs

"and the minimum width between armrests is 39.37 cm (15.5 inches)."
https://help.ryanair.com/hc/en-us/articles/31352078107921-Se...
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2026-01-20 22:48:50+00:00
I travelled there with my same sex partner. We had zero issues in a single bed hotel room, and there were plenty of gay bars. We did find the cover charge difference for gays vs straights amusing (where gay entry was cheaper).

I’m sure there are social issues, a local bartender told us they had linguistic limitations that acted as sort of barriers to expression, and I’m sure there are issues for gay youth, but as a whole it felt relatively similar to most western countries from a safety/friendliness perspective. Gay marriage is a slow turnaround, and given Japanese culture is socially conservative I imagine that might take a while, but marriage and social acceptance are not necessarily tightly coupled.
by srini-docker | 2026-01-20 22:49:01+00:00
Hey - Srini from Docker here. We’ve seen a lot of developers turn to Docker for this use case and heard some mentions of the Docker-in-Docker block. We put out Docker Sandboxes in experimental preview as a potential answer. Still early but we're working on the next iteration based on MicroVMs and avoids Docker-in-Docker.
Looking at the numbers, I'm less productive using AI
by emerongi | 2026-01-20 22:49:31+00:00
For a few years I’ve steadily pushed 15-30 PRs per month.

I have started to try out AI a lot more for a few months, using it for almost everything. How many PRs in January so far? 4. Even when I have had slumps in the past, I have not performed this bad.

I think was having fun before and not anymore. It doesn’t help that I have to review AI-generated PRs now. It doesn’t seem like a serious job for adults anymore and I feel a bit mentally drained.

What are your stats?
by titanomachy | 2026-01-20 22:49:35+00:00
“In his journal [Crowhurst] would diligently make a list of projects that needed to be done, do a few of them half-heartedly, and then lose interest. Since he never got around to organizing his stowage, he had to ransack everywhere to find things.”

This hits close to home… I don’t think I should be a sailor.
by kens | 2026-01-20 22:50:00+00:00
As John Steinback said in East of Eden:

“I have spoken of the rich years when the rainfall was plentiful. But there were dry years too, and they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle. There would be five or six wet and wonderful years when there might be nineteen to twenty-five inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of twelve to sixteen inches of rain. And then the dry years would come, and sometimes there would be only seven or eight inches of rain. The land dried up and the grasses headed out miserably a few inches high and great bare scabby places appeared in the valley. The live oaks got a crusty look and the sage-brush was gray. The land cracked and the springs dried up and the cattle listlessly nibbled dry twigs. Then the farmers and the ranchers would be filled with disgust for the Salinas Valley. The cows would grow thin and sometimes starve to death. People would have to haul water in barrels to their farms just for drinking. Some families would sell out for nearly nothing and move away. And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
SF founders training for a boxing match – anyone want in?
by bananarabbit | 2026-01-20 22:50:13+00:00
We’re organizing a Founders Fight in San Francisco on May 2.

This is not an exhibition and not a gimmick. It’s a real boxing match, with real training, real stakes, and a crowd.

We’re looking for founders who want a hard challenge and are willing to train seriously starting by Feb 8. Boxing is unforgiving. You’ll get humbled fast. That’s the point.

Why do this?
Most founders miss having something that’s purely physical, terrifying, and binary: you either show up prepared or you don’t. No pitch decks. No spin.

Details:
– SF/Bay Area-based founders
– Structured training program at The Park Gym
– Matched opponents
– May 2 fight night
– Limited spots

If this sounds insane but compelling, you’re probably the right person.

More info + application:
theparkgym.com/foundersfight
by NightMKoder | 2026-01-20 22:50:25+00:00
This might speak to the craziness of the gstreamer plugin ecosystem - good/bad/ugly might be a fun maintenance mnemonic, but `voaacenc` is actually in `bad` - not `ugly`. Most plugins you'd want to use aren't in `good`. How are you supposed to actually use "well supported plugins" with gstreamer? Is it just to not use gstreamer at all?