MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by firefax | 2026-01-11 00:40:28+00:00
>Even ignoring your flawed understanding of the UK's government, what is your glorious bill of rights worth at the end of the day? Your president just does whatever the hell he wants, ignoring any checks and balances as he sees fit.

Are you talking about Bush, or Trump? Because the logic goes both ways -- when Blair bent over over when Bush wanted to go gallivanting into Iraq, we were set upon this path, one that started before I was old enough to vote... so maybe don't show up at the finish line to tut after literal decades of inaction?
by rainliu | 2026-01-11 00:40:45+00:00
https://github.com/webrtc-rs/rtc/blob/master/examples/exampl... lists examples how to write the event loop with sansio::Protocol interface.

sansio::Protocol API is stable, since crate sansio is stable v1.0.

The mdns-query-and-gather example shows how to control multiple I/O sockets to use and how to multiplex them with sansio::Protocol API.

For bandwidth estimation, you can register your own Interceptor with callback or event message to tell the video encoder.
by setheron | 2026-01-11 00:40:48+00:00
I see.

Also "containers" always had the option to attach durable storage via bind mounts.

I still get confused by the "this isn't containers" but it's kind of similar.

Maybe I am just too caught up in semantics.

A VPS that is instant to boot, super simple automatic routing and https proxy, with snapshot and durable is a win regardless.
by rubyn00bie | 2026-01-11 00:40:49+00:00
I think there’s a certain amount of novelty to this, and the aesthetic of the language I find pleasing, but I’m a little confused… Admittedly, I didn’t read the entire doc and only quickly glanced at the source… But is it just transpiling Golang code to and from this syntax, or is it intended to be a whole language eventually? Can folks able to just import golang packages or do they have to only use what packages are currently supported?

Additionally I have two thoughts about it:

1. I think this might be more practical as a transparent layer so users can write and get Golang (or whatever) the original language was back. Essentially making it something only the model reads/outputs.

2.) Longer term it seems like both NVidia and AMD along with the companies training/running the models are focused on driving down cost per token because it’s just too damn high. And I personally don’t see a world where AI becomes pervasive without a huge drop in cost token— it’s not sustainable for companies running the models and end users really can’t afford the real costs as they are today. My point being, will this even be necessary in a 12-18 months?

I could totally be missing things or lacking the vision of where this could go but I personally would worry that anything written with this has a very short shelf life.

That’s not to say it’s not useful in the meantime, or not a cool project, more so if there is a longer term vision for it, I think it would be worth calling out.
by obsoleetorr | 2026-01-11 00:40:53+00:00
something simpler I've did, in the same spirit: LXC containers (using Incus) in a VM. LXC containers look and feel like VMs, but are very lightweight. And the VM they all run in provide the hard sandbox.

and when I spin up a new LXC container cloud-init sets it up with the agents and my repos inside
by zokier | 2026-01-11 00:41:04+00:00
The thing that is unintuitive to me is the timeline and scale. The age of universe is 13.8B years and age of Earth is 4.5B years. And yet Earth has many of these elements in abundance which are produced by complex chains and in trace quantities. Like the elements need first to be produced in stars, then ejected out, then accumulated into protoplanetary dust, then aggregated into planets. It feels wild to me that the process took only twice as long as what Earth has existed.
by furyofantares | 2026-01-11 00:41:11+00:00
Hold'em is offered in casinos routinely, I'm not sure where else one even goes to play it aside from private games, but it is not against the casino. It's against other players, and the casino takes a percentage of the pot.

Others may differ and I am biased because 99% of my play has been online, but I'd say it's almost entirely playing the odds. Or at least, the popular romantic conception of looking for tells or whatever, is, I would expect, a really minimal edge compared to simply playing better.

You do learn the other players' tendencies and adapt accordingly, and table selection is very important, so in that sense it is very much about reading players.

A large part of my play was heads up where it's very much about understanding the other player's play as deeply as possible, and so if I wanted to be technically accurate about reading players vs playing the odds, I'd say both are very important. But if I'm answering someone who has the popular conception of what those phrases mean, I think saying "it's about playing the odds" would give them the more accurate picture.

You really want to be good at playing the odds, and you don't want to stray too far from fundamentally good play. If someone is learning how to play and I'm advising them, I'm teaching them all about playing the odds, and trying to get them to read players less. Only once they have a solid fundamental understanding of the odds would I teach them how to adjust.
by netbioserror | 2026-01-11 00:41:26+00:00
I've used JSON as an additional options input to a native-compiled CLI program's various commands because 1) the schema of each option is radically different, 2) they need to be passed most of the way down the call stack easily for each stage of our calculation and report generation.

It works fantastically well, and don't let anyone tell you that you MUST bloat the CLI interface of your program with every possible dial or lever it contains. We should all be cogent of the fact that, in this very young and rapidly evolving profession, textbook and real-world best practice often do not overlap, and are converging and diverging all the time.
by pinusc | 2026-01-11 00:41:34+00:00
I have been using breezy weather and I like it overall. But after reading this article I can't help but be bugged off that the information density in the main page is significantly worse here than in Dark Sky.
Dark Sky showed hourly forecast with a 2h resolution. This is a negligible difference in precision IMHO (weather predictions are inherently imprecise anyway - and a more precise graph could be - is - one tap away), but it allows to show a time range that is twice as wide! On my screen, breezy weather is able to show me the forecast for the next 5h until I scroll - this is OK, but it's annoying. The hours are very spaced apart, and there is a 1h resolution. With tighter spacing and 2h resolution, 12 or 16 hours could be displayed at once - which is far more likely to cover the time I am going to spend outside, which as the article states, is the main reason why I might want to check an hourly forecast anyway.

All the other android apps mentioned here have the same issue.

I might try to open an issue in their GH, or even a PR... A toggle for "denser graphs" and a setting for hourly resolution could do wonders.
by jamesponddotco | 2026-01-11 00:41:45+00:00
First time I'm seeing it, to be honest, but it looks interesting. I do plan on having an UI for Librario (built a few mockups yesterday[1][2][3]), and I think the idea is similar, but BookBrainz looks bigger in scope.

I could add them as an extractor, I suppose :thinking:

[1]: https://i.cpimg.sh/pexvlwybvbkzuuk8.png

[2]: https://i.cpimg.sh/eypej9bshk2udtqd.png

[3]: https://i.cpimg.sh/6iw3z0jtrhfytn2u.png
by Etherlord87 | 2026-01-11 00:41:50+00:00
I'm not an expert on this, but the way I see it, the opposite is true: people don't vote on small parties, because if a small party doesn't reach the minimum required, the vote is wasted. This way there's only a few parties (if the minimum is 5% then there can't really be more than 20 parties, and since the distribution is very far from even, you get around around 4-7 parties with 5% minimum).

However, the big parties often consist of sub-factions.

However, it seems there are mechanisms that turn parties into dictatorships with one person ruling everything in the entire party, as well as people get carried away with negative emotions and vote against, polarizing the politics into just 2 parties alternating in power.
by frrn | 2026-01-11 00:42:36+00:00
Agreed that nothing is fully trustless on Earth. The point isn’t eliminating operators, it’s avoiding single points of coercion and failure. One exit can be shut down but many exits and type of networks (includong more alternative infra like the Guifi.net’s meshnetworks in Spain for example) across jurisdictions raise the cost from “call a CEO” to sustained political pressure or directly a CEO that has control over an entire network and its also a billionaire CEO with a messiah complex, far-right leanings and tendency to drug abuse.

Absolute decentralization is impossible. Reducing capture and increasing resilience is not. That’s a meaningful difference.

Said that, I’m happy with Starlink as an extra actor for a healthy mix of ISPs and networks that brings resilience.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-11 00:43:03+00:00
Yes, but also we've gotten better at diagnosis. Both things are likely true to varying degrees.

That said, Elon is one of the most obviously autistic people I've ever seen. He's not a great example of overdiagnosis. In fact, if autism hadn't already been discovered they'd have taken one look at him and invented Elontism.
by alt187 | 2026-01-11 00:43:22+00:00
Holy cows, same. But it's not PTSD. People think you can tell because of ternary rhythm, —, big-words and other shenanigans. These are tactics over strategy, obsessing over the minutiae. But I think what you're feeling (and what I sure fucking am) is a lack of voice.

This writing says something, has a point, and you could even say it has a correct way to get to the point, but it lacks any voice, any personality. I may be wrong -I stopped reading midway- but I really don't think so.
by messe | 2026-01-11 00:43:29+00:00
A mix of public and private can work with proper regulation (especially when combined with state owned private companies).

This article only refers to the US. This is the second time I've brought it up over the last week, but it'd be nice if the US and "the west" weren't constantly conflated.

Not all of us have fucked over their citizens and spiraled into borderline dictatorships that are well on their way to becoming international pariahs as much as the US have.
by godelski | 2026-01-11 00:43:31+00:00
I remember them working on a hybrid OS that would run on your phone or tablet and then you could switch it to desktop mode. Actually looks like they're still working on that

https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/

Edit:

seriously guys, can we design product pages so they actually give you a sense of how the product actually works? That page sucks.

I found a video and honestly while I love the idea it seems that the implementation is the worst of both worlds. Who thought that this pull down menu style was a reasonable idea....

https://youtu.be/BuuW5X_ukAk?t=109
by somewhereoutth | 2026-01-11 00:43:47+00:00
I feel that this article (like many other endeavors) has been derailed by the whole AI thing. Let's ignore that part.

The major point is that yes both clay and code are mediums for expression and they have advantages and drawbacks - for expression, for monetization, for utility and so on. I myself are quite interested in how these (and other) different mediums affect the author (artist/designer/potter/coder etc) in how they think, what they think about, and how that mediates their relation with the world around them - and indeed the consequent cultures emerging therein.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-11 00:44:23+00:00
> I’d be curious to compare US PE run facilities with government run facilities in Canada.

You don't have to do that, we have US government ran facilities. It's the VA.

And if you look at the costs associated with the VA, they are much much cheaper than almost any private care [1].

And if you know a few vets, you know they almost universally love the VA. It's one of the best perks of serving in the military.

[1] https://www.herc.research.va.gov/include/page.asp?ID=inpatie...
by genzer | 2026-01-11 00:44:45+00:00
I argee. Up until now, the most PITA for me in Markdown is the table syntax. Even CommonMark does not have any spec for table except for long running discussions with lots of proposals.

AsciiDoc(tor) has a nice support for tables. It also supports more complex features like merged cells, span cols and all but the syntax suffers from there. I guess that is also why AsciiDoc was not widely adopted.
by ben_w | 2026-01-11 00:45:48+00:00
Might be, but as usual, people pick a side on qualia and are far too confident about that side.

We only experience qualia, we don't know what it actually is to have it, we don't know why the moist electrochemistry 'twixt our ears has it nor what makes it go away for most of our sleep only to return for our dreams (or if it's absent during the dreams and we only have qualia of the memories of the dreams), we cannot truly be sure that any given AI does or doesn't have it until we know what it is that it does or doesn't have.

We also definitely can't just ask LLMs, which has been a problem since Blake Lemoine getting fooled by an AI that was definitely making up impossible stories about experiences it couldn't have had, and both the fooling itself and the response to which demonstrated Alan Turing wrong with regard to the idea people would reject what he called "the extreme and solipsist point of view" of:

the only way by which one could be sure that machine thinks is to be the machine and to feel oneself thinking. One could then describe these feelings to the world, but of course no one would be justified in taking any notice. Likewise according to this view the only way to know that a man thinks is to be that particular man.

- https://genius.com/Alan-turing-computing-machinery-and-intel...

These machines can absolutely answer "viva voce", even when we also know they're making stuff up.
by nailer | 2026-01-11 00:45:54+00:00
Dan. The above is verifiable, not flamebait - childen in UNRWA schools in Palestine will happily celebrate wanting to cleanse Israel of Jews. It’s not a secret or something than anyone with the remotest idea of Middle Eastern politics would dispute.

But I suspect you’re not actually interested in the truth. As you’re aware we’ve had this conversation before. HN is becoming a political hotbed because moderators are manually unflagging stories. You are complaining about the effects of this decision.

*There is someone in this thread that is posting that Jews don’t come from Israel on Hacker News.*

This kind out of outright racism would have been unthinkable on HN five years ago.

Or short version: *why the fuck are you talking to me?*

Stop bothering me and get your house in order or delete my account and let HN be a website where people talk about how Jewish people control the weather.

Don’t act like you’re tired of our nonsense. We’re all fucking tired of HN becoming a flamewar website because of yours.
by markdown | 2026-01-11 00:46:02+00:00
> It seems insane when you think about it, but that’s what your grandparents voted for.

Our grandparents wanted a nice hospital and that's what they voted for. The people they elected needed funds to build the hospital, so they sought funding. The IMF and World Bank said "sure, we'll help you fund it. But in order to do so, you need to privatize your healthcare industry."

Our grandparents got a nice hospital for a while, the politicians got another 4 years in power, and a few years later we noticed that our free healthcare was gone.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-11 00:46:03+00:00
Government is probably the worst actor to run healthcare facilities

Are those your gut feelings, or do you have an argument to back it up?

In reality, the outcomes from Government operated hospitals in Scandinavian Countries do not need to hide behind those of other countries, especially not with the US

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
by renewiltord | 2026-01-11 00:46:29+00:00
Private equity goes where the money is. Nothing is magically non-exploitative just because it's done by a bunch of small businessmen instead of a private equity company. There's a reason why Private Equity bought so many dialysis clinics. There's a reason why they're doing this.

It's easy to scam the government out of money for this because a bunch of well-meaning "useful idiots" will say "pay whatever it takes; give them as much money as they need; it's for human lives!" and none of that is true. It's all about using different battalions to rent-seek on normal tax-paying Americans.

Tim Walz lost his hope for re-election over this but he's not the only one. In time we will discover a large array of healthcare scams and home-care and autism/child mental health are going to be near the top.
by tzs | 2026-01-11 00:46:41+00:00
Germany has high gasoline cost. If what Google tells me is correct about current costs per kWh to charge at Tesla Superchargers there (0.40-0.70 Euro) and current gas prices there (1.70 Euro/liter) an EV charged at Superchargers would have about the same energy costs as an ICE car that gets 16 km/l if you charge at the more expensive Supercharges and an ICE car that gets 28 km/l if you charge at the less expensive Superchargers.
by visarga | 2026-01-11 00:46:55+00:00
This sounds pretty damning, why don't they implement a n-gram based bloom filter to ensure they don't replicate expression too close to the protected IP they trained on? Almost any random 10 word ngram is unique on the internet.

Alternatively they could train on synthetic data like summaries and QA pairs extracted from protected sources, so the model gets the ideas separated from their original expression. Since it never saw the originals it can't regurgitate them.
by blibble | 2026-01-11 00:47:42+00:00
ah yes, another market where the private equity scum have realised that "the market is inefficient" and that the existing businesses aren't "extracting maximum consumer surplus"

fortunately the UK doesn't have this problem for people as the state run healthcare system has set the price floor at zero

it hasn't stopped the private equity scum completely though, instead they have bought up most of the country's formerly independent vets

> From only 10% in 2013, almost 60% of veterinary practices are now owned by large companies

they then immediately "optimise the demand curve", doubling/tripling their prices, meaning there are now people that can no longer afford to treat their pets
by renewiltord | 2026-01-11 00:48:04+00:00
I've listened to numerous Europeans describe the Roma - online and in real life. America is not pure on the violence and racism aspect, but it's less like the pot calling the kettle black and more like the grey felt calling the BLK 3.0 black.

In the end, there are people alive today who escaped the European 250k/month killings. Nothing comparable in the US.
by 20after4 | 2026-01-11 00:48:30+00:00
I think that many methadone clinics are operating very unethically, to the point I would call it fraudulent. Certainly it's cruel to the patients. They essentially set up the patient to be a lifetime methadone addict. This may be an improvement over getting your fix on the street but it's still addiction dependence and it's expensive (profitable!). I'm unsure if it's just a few or a large fraction of them that operate this way. Maybe my data point is a unique outlier but here's what I saw:

I had a friend who was going through the program in Springfield Missouri, approximately 10 years ago, and the clinic literally increased his dose every week or two. They also had strict controls to make sure the patients actually take the full dose (because otherwise they might sell some of it on the street). So they were left with just 2 options, either drop out of the program and find their fix elsewhere, or accept a gradually increasing dose of methadone, forever. It's a sick program that is set up to make sure patients gradually descend deeper into addiction while they rake in huge profits. It's not really any different from what the drug dealers on the street are doing except that it's even more exploitative and dishonest. The doctors had zero plan for weaning people off of the methadone and some people had been on the program for years, with correspondingly huge doses doled out to them every time they came in. This was 10 years ago, at the time it cost something like $50 per visit, paid by the patient or possibly medicaid.

Edited slightly for clarity.
by epistasis | 2026-01-11 00:48:34+00:00
It's a wee later and I just saw this comment, but do you still think drugs were a motivator for taking Maduro?

The only thing I have seen Trump talk about is oil.

Also, what does "even CBS" mean to you? It used to be that CBS has normal journalistic values, ie truth first, but acquisitions have resulted in political leadership that pushes state propaganda first.

What do you think opens my eyes means? Gutlessley accepting politically driven propaganda as truth?

I'm a scientist, show me the data. Don't give mine your propaganda and tell me it's truth v
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-11 00:50:41+00:00
> Who do you mean by "we", here?

Voters, broadly and monolithically.

> only possible entities who could buy a company are either a bigger company, or private equity

Communities. Forcing PE to divest from healthcare would require setting up a lending facility communities can borrow from to buy back their healthcare infrastructure. (Or have the government just buy it outright.)

I guess you could make it work as a window-dressing bill. Force PE to divest. Leave unsaid that you’re letting billionaires and family offices buy it up to continue the same shit. But actually solving the problem means ponying up cash to buy this stuff back. Even if it’s out of bankruptcy. (I’m not even touching the politics of paying PE and its lenders with public money.)
by raincole | 2026-01-11 00:50:41+00:00
> My initial thoughts are that poker such as TX hold 'em is not a game offered in a casino

Why not? Because you think it's a game where the casino can lose?

If so it's not an issue, as casinos that provide poker take "fees" from the stakes. Like how stock exchanges work: there are people making or losing money from stock market, but exchanges are always making profit.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-11 00:51:09+00:00
If your ideology involves hurting people, to a point, you should be left alone by the government. but by that same principle, others should be left alone too when they show similar levels of hostility or worse.

You shouldn't lose your fundamental human rights, up to a point, that point is when you start believing and spreading a belief that other people should lose their fundamental human rights.
by bloaf | 2026-01-11 00:51:16+00:00
We all know there has been a replication crisis across many different disciplines of science. I think that the set of things we actually know about nutrition and health is a lot smaller than the experts think.

However, the problem is that the public has also come to that conclusion. The public has gone on to decide "that means my incredibly weakly-evidenced idea is just as good as the expert opinions" which does not follow and is often disastrously wrong.

So I'm also sympathetic to the idea that the saturated fat picture is more complex than a blanket ban suggests. But I know better than to treat things like Brad's arguments as anything other than "interesting hypothesis" as opposed to "something we actually know about nutrition."
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-11 00:51:18+00:00
The OpenAI platformization take feels like the safest bet here (imo it's already the consensus in most SF infra circles - my ttwo cents here: https://philippdubach.com/posts/how-ai-is-shaping-my-investm...).
The medical MLLM grafting is a much higher-stakes claim. Let’s see if "regulatory-grade" ever actually happens without a full retraining—history suggests the FDA isn't a fan of modular grafts.