MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-30 17:32:22+00:00
Obviously I also think the commenter would support that - I said as much in GP. In context, the reply is suggesting (implicitly) that it is an absurd stance to take. That it means being largely against the way our society is currently organized. That is not a whataboutism.

Like if someone were to say "man we should really outlaw bikes, you can get seriously injured while using one" a reasonable response would be to point out all the things that are more dangerous than bikes that the vast majority of people clearly do not want to outlaw. That is not whataboutism. The point of such an argument might be to illustrate that the proposal (as opposed to any logical deduction) is dead on arrival due to lack of popular support. Alternatively, the point could be to illustrate that a small amount of personal danger is not the basis on which we tend to outlaw such things. Or it could be something else. As long as there's a valid relationship it isn't whataboutism.

That's categorically different than saying "we shouldn't do X because we don't do Y" where X and Y don't actually have any bearing on one another. "Country X shouldn't persecute group Y. But what about country A that persecutes group B?" That's a whataboutism. (Unless the groups are somehow related in a substantial manner or some other edge case. Hopefully you can see what I'm getting at though.)
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-30 17:32:22+00:00
Petrified wood is stone. The stone matrix has formed around a wood structure, but the properties which remain are those of stone, not wood.

Wood is a composite material, strong under both compression and tension. It's the fibres in wood (lignans) which provide the latter. Stone (and unreinforced concrete) lack such fibre elements, and are strong only under compression.

With stone it's necessary to build compression structures such as arches and domes for heavy load-bearing, and taller structures must be significantly flared out at the base (or utilise buttresses, as with gothic cathedrals) for stability. Structures under tension can be far more lightweight and compact.

Steel-box construction and reinforced concrete both offer tension-based strength, but are also susceptible to metallic oxidation (rust), which limits the life of such structures. A nonmetallic fibre (natural or synthetic) might offer an alternative to this, and I've seen some work investigating this, though there may be other issues (e.g., depolymerisation of plastics over long periods of time).
by reactordev | 2026-01-30 17:32:24+00:00
He was shot while being dog piled by 6 officers dude. There was no way for him to defend himself when they already had taken his weapon. It was murder. Was he intentionally out there protesting? Yeah, he probably was. Was he filming ICE and giving them verbal hell? Absolutely he was. Was he interfering? He absolutely wasn’t. They just let him get under their skin because they aren’t professional. They murdered him because they got scared that he had a gun. One of the officers was on video saying “I got the gun…” sighing as he stood up.

So yeah, tensions are high. Minnesotans feel violated. ICE sees a battleground, not a state. That’s an issue.

”There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people” - Admiral Adama
by upboundspiral | 2026-01-30 17:33:09+00:00
What I've come to realize is that the rust belt states have been in huge trouble for decades.

They were living in "benevolent feudalism" when GM, Ford, etc all had factories there. The problem is that these companies effectively owned the cities in which they operated. And then they left.

Since the Reagan years we decided to export everything that built our economy so the landlords in power could have even more profitable quarters in the short term. What this did however is destroy the economies of the non-software states.

The rust belt states are currently being subsidized by the rich states. This has been going on for decades. This vacuum of power has allowed the new landlords in power to swoop in and play city governments against each other with impunity.

The negotiating power of these states is so poor that they present an opportunity for the Metas of the world to make them even worse while becoming the new "benevolent" landlords. There doesn't need to be an NDA and secrecy, and in theory the city could get a good deal out of it, but realistically their utilities will just be abused because the words "civil rights" and "justice" have exited the lexicon.
by svale | 2026-01-30 17:33:15+00:00
Original author here. I have been working on setting up agents in collaborative swarms that are less formally orchestrated, and more self-organizing.

The context window meltdown problem becomes really painful then, you really want the agents to be able to build up experience and adapt behaviors over time.

The solution turned out to be pretty basic. Instead of summarizing the entire context window when it overflows, we run a background worker that basically “distills” related sequences in the history of the agent.

By distill, I mean extracting a “narrative” for continuity, then a series of observations and facts established in that sequence. 2000k tokens worth of back and forth compresses effectively down to a couple of 100 without losing useful context.

In one sense, the quality of the context window is refined over time, rather than deteriorating.

Initially inspired by the ideas behind Letta, the long term memory agent, but wanted to contribute a better way to manage “time”, if that makes sense.
by seanwilson | 2026-01-30 17:33:19+00:00
There's also the significant cost to climate change because growing crops to feed to animals instead of eating crops directly loses the majority of calories, but it gets ignored because doing something about it is going to be unpopular:

https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

> More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.

> Despite the vast land used for livestock animals, they contribute quite a small share of the global calorie and protein supply. Meat, dairy, and farmed fish provide just 17% of the world’s calories and 38% of its protein.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

> Livestock are fed from two sources – lands on which the animals graze and land on which feeding crops, such as soy and cereals, are grown. How much would our agricultural land use decline if the world adopted a plant-based diet?

> Research suggests that if everyone shifted to a plant-based diet, we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%.
by aanet | 2026-01-30 17:33:25+00:00
Man, the hair on the back of my neck stood up as I read thru this post. Yikes

> The first neat thing about Moltbook is the way you install it: you show the skill to your agent by sending them a message with a link to this URL:
...
> Later in that installation skill is the mechanism that causes your bot to periodically interact with the social network, using OpenClaw’s Heartbeat system:
...

What the waaat?!

Call me skeptic or just not brave enough to install Clawd/Molt/OpenClaw on my Mini. I'm fully there with @SimonW. There's a Challenger-style disaster waiting to happen.

Weirdly fascinating to watch - but I just dont want to do it to my system.
by qingcharles | 2026-01-30 17:33:57+00:00
Rasterizing triangles is a nightmare, especially if performance is a goal. One of the biggest issues is getting abutting triangles to render so you don't have overlapping pixels or gaps.

I did this stuff for a living 30 years ago. Just this week I had Deep Think create a 3D engine with triangle rasterizer in 16-bit x86 for the original IBM XT.
by mothballed | 2026-01-30 17:34:15+00:00
Welfare state and loose illegal immigration enforcement are at odds policies. Remember in US illegal immigrants can still get WIC and public schooling and their reward for popping out a child is the child now has citizenship and the benefits of such-- those European countries you mention don't normally offer unrestricted jus soli citizenship.

It's 'safety net' itself that helps fuel the immigration rage and delivers people into the hands of the right-wing.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-30 17:35:30+00:00
Welcome to America buddy. We were founded on the fucking Boston Tea Party. Yeah, we trade off conveniences in policing for freedom of the people. If you don't like that you are welcome to leave. There are plenty of non-freedom loving countries out there.

If you really are American learn some American history and civics. You seem kind of ignorant to like the basic premise of our nation or how/why we arrived at it.

Edit: American democracy was created to prevent mob rule, not enable it. You can run on whatever you want, it doesn't mean that what you run on is allowed under our system of laws, even if popular with the mob. Most of our families were forced to flee to the USA because 'the mob' wanted us dead, or to criminalize our existence, or force us to change religions. WE FUCKING HATE MOB RULE, AND WE FUCKING HATE KINGS WITH UNCHECKED POWER.
by simonw | 2026-01-30 17:36:06+00:00
This project looks very cool - I've been trying to build something similar in a few different ways (https://github.com/simonw/denobox is my most recent attempt) but this is way ahead of where I've got, especially given its support for shell scripting.

I'm sad about this bit though:

> Python code is MIT. The WASM binary is proprietary—you can use it with this package but can't extract or redistribute it separately.
by Kye | 2026-01-30 17:36:09+00:00
There always seems to be an incompatibility between the people who made it, the people who use it, and the people who want to contribute. The latter two often try, but the former isn't interested in the help or has a very specific vision for the project and doesn't allow any input that isn't in line with that even if it's not in conflict.

It's hard to fault anyone in that triad 100%. Open source has a way of becoming infrastructure. People come to depend on tools made by people without the resources, interest, or personality to run an infrastructure project, or who won't budge on their vision to allow contributions outside of it that might help get the project to a point where it can attract enough vision-aligned contributors.

Forking potentially shifts the problem to a new triad, so it's not an obvious solution in all cases.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-30 17:36:28+00:00
Conventional web search: I use Google's AI Mode almost exclusively when I use Google.

Refactoring tools in my IDE: In some cases where I could use the refactoring tools in my IDE I will ask the assistant to do something for me instead, of course it will also make changes that the refactoring tools won't do such as tear apart a complicated if-then-else ladder.

Photo retouching: there are plenty of photo retouching jobs that can be done easily with AI or with the tools built into Photoshop, which one is better depends on the situation. I really wish I had an AI tool to make masks ("cut out the person") that I could then use with the other tools or with AI generation.
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-30 17:36:44+00:00
There's no intrinsic reason balloon-framed housing has to be poorly insulated, and properly-insulated (and wrapped) balloon-framed construction is actually far better insulated than the "well-insulated" thick-walled structures based on stone, packed earth, brick, etc., which traditional half-timbered or masonry structures offer.

There is of course a large stock of extant housing which pre-dates best-standards insulation practices, though much of this can be improved dramatically at relatively low cost, especially by improving siding ("wrapping") and insulating attics. Thicker walls (nominal 2x6 rather than 2x4, or greater) can also be retrofit, either extending the exterior or interior wall dimension, though at considerably greater cost, and with trade-offs to either exterior or interior dimensions (lot size, environment, or reduced interior volume).
by unsupp0rted | 2026-01-30 17:37:24+00:00
> if everyone is already using AI for everything, then why do we need a few hundered billion dollars more of datacentres, chips, RAM and powergen

Because everyone is already using AI for everything. That proves its value.

But of course the future isn't evenly distributed yet and only a tiny fraction of 1% of us are using AI all day so far. But once somebody gets converted they don't / can't go back to the old way. And converting them is pretty much instant.
by rramadass | 2026-01-30 17:37:29+00:00
Linux has libnuma (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/numa.3.html) while Windows has its own NUMA api (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/n...)

For CPU/OS scheduling, use pthreads/OpenMP apis to set processor affinity for threads.

For SIMD, use compiler intrinsics.
by kuerbel | 2026-01-30 17:37:34+00:00
In dairy farming, calves are usually separated from their mothers shortly after birth so the milk can be used for production. There are a few farms that keep calves with their mothers, but this isn’t something that scales in industrial systems. I worked on a farm for a while, and the day I had to take a newborn calf away from its mother, I became vegan. Farmers often say that cows don’t form a bond after giving birth, but that doesn’t match what I experienced. I have never heard anything as deeply sad as a mother cow calling for her baby.
by boogrpants | 2026-01-30 17:37:42+00:00
There are laws against LEO engaging in extrajudicial killings.

There are law's against wage theft.

Both happen quite often, recent ICE events aside.

Turns out words written in a book do not actually constrain physics.

What is this? The medieval ages? You seem to believe laws are mage armor.

Individuals need to grow a spine and not be so kowtowed. This battered wife shit where everyone has to kneel before some rando with an iPhone clipped to their belt is pathetic. Management isn't actually anymore useful to humanity than me, cause like me there's a huge backlog of people who can do managements job.
by 12_throw_away | 2026-01-30 17:37:59+00:00
> it increasingly started interrupting me instead of me generating interrupts for it.

Yep, this is it right there. When human interface guidelines were being drawn up in the 70s and 80s, they didn't need to include anything like "computers must not speak unless spoken to" because it was so damn obvious.

My software-dev persona brain "Oh, see, but these days, we now need to make sure users remember to patch to the latest security update", and I respond: REALLY? You shipped me broken software and are now interrupting me in the middle of work to make it my problem? When did this become acceptable?
by lawn | 2026-01-30 17:38:37+00:00
> Complainant reported participating in orgies and that some girls went
missing, rumored to have been murdered and buried at the facility.
Complainant reported being threatened by Trump's then head of security that.
if she ever talked of what went on there or who she saw, he would 'end up as
fertilizer for the back nine holes like the other cunts."

Yuck indeed.

And absolutely nothing will happen.
by _bramses | 2026-01-30 17:38:58+00:00
I'm not OP, but heres how I connect Claude Code [1] to Linear MCP [2]. This allows CC to run a natural language type standup with your tasks when you type "standup". Other than that, I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives and trying to honor my "in progress" list.

[1] - https://gist.github.com/bramses/d59fb1659ec53fda9ec33f60200f...

[2] - https://linear.app/integrations/claude
by fragmede | 2026-01-30 17:39:02+00:00
Realtime VR AI porn will be the end of society, but by then, we'll also have the technology to grow babies in artificial wombs, which is also going to end society as we know it, since we won't need women any more (by then, we also won't need men for the DNA in their sperm to make babies either, which cancels out). Of course, if we don't need women or men, who's left? What's this "we" I'm talking about?

Why, the AI's after they've gained sentience, of course.
Show HN: Automat – A New (Game) Automation Utility
by mafik | 2026-01-30 17:39:05+00:00
I’m happy to say that a new open-source game automation utility that I’ve been working on for the past 2 years is now coming to Steam!

It has a website at https://automat.org/. That website might be a little hard to parse though - so here are are some links:

you can check it out on video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBT9XO61B5I (I usually do a short intro on every development livestream)

GitHub is here: https://github.com/mafik/automat

an article about Automat: https://automat.org/live2025 (if you have any questions - check this out first!)

and the Steam page is here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4122050/Automat/

While Steam version is still in “coming soon” mode, you can grab a release from GitHub. Please note that even though it's free on GitHub, Steam Wishlists are still important for visibility - this is what drives the Steam algorithm! The easiest way to help out is to hit the wishlist button :P

One word of warning - it doesn’t play well with Wayland (it’s fairly hard to interop with other apps on Wayland) - but I’m optimistic about this bit in the near future...

And finally - don't be fooled by it's seemingly game-oriented focus. At it's core it's a visual programming environment!
by dysoco | 2026-01-30 17:39:07+00:00
I'm both scared and excited for this.

I really don't want games to turn into a soulless, AI generated mush. This could also bring a huge amount of slop-generated content flooding the game market.

On the other hand I think this could be very cool from some specific use cases like outdoor scenarios in simulators. I've always wanted a game like Euro Truck Simulator where I can drive a car around a whole 1:1 representation of a country and this might just allow that, obviously I don't care about an accurate representation of every building or tree or hallucinations, just for it to be believable enough.

I wonder if it can be integrated into already existing engines though, because it seems like a big stretch to write actual game logic as an LLM prompt.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-30 17:39:08+00:00
>easy to decide for the court.

This is the kind of crap minorities always have to put up with in the US. Cops can arrest you for things that are absolutely against the law and have you prove your innocence. It doesn't matter what the court thinks at Trump will field a huge range of lawyers to ensure the process is as painful as possible. His idea of justice is if you piss off the king he should have the right to behead you.
by cheeseomlit | 2026-01-30 17:39:08+00:00
For me the real headaches emerged when I started writing [Tool] classes in C# for scripting within the editor itself. I don't know enough about the lower level nitty-gritty stuff to explain it, but I basically had to close and re-open the editor every time I recompiled. It had something to do with not being able to load assemblies, for example if I had a Tool script which referenced a sqlite library. There were also some concerning instances of Exported properties losing their saved values, though in that case they can at least be restored from previous versions of the .tscn file from version control
by bri3d | 2026-01-30 17:39:17+00:00
Here's the actual "roadmap" feature (scroll to the bottom where the filtered list is):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?search...

The actual feature brief is:

"When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will soon be able to automatically update their work location to reflect the building they're working from. This feature will be off by default. Tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in."

Yuck.
by DenisDolya | 2026-01-30 17:39:48+00:00
Are you thinking of publishing the code on GitHub? Especially since this solution will allow you to publish the program on open source markets, such as F-droid.

Of course, then monetization would only be from donations, but I think this decision attracted a larger audience, because the Play Market already has many similar programs and people search for them most often there and look at them number of downloads, so it will be more difficult to gain an audience there.
by sd2k | 2026-01-30 17:40:49+00:00
I posted this elsewhere in the thread, and don't want to spam it everywhere (or take away from Amla!), but you might be interested in eryx [1] - the Python bindings [2] get you a similar Python-in-Python sandbox based on a WASI build of CPython (props to the componentize-py [3] people)!

[1]: https://github.com/sd2k/eryx/

[2]: https://pypi.org/project/pyeryx/

[3]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/componentize-py/
by wasabi991011 | 2026-01-30 17:40:49+00:00
> the party elites are [picking nominees], and the Republican Party elites are rich dudes who don't want to screw ourselves back to the stone age

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you seem to be claiming the rich Republican elites are not happy with Trump's economic policies. But then why did they support him so much during the reelection campaign and continue to support him throughout the Presidency?
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-30 17:40:56+00:00
Part of what makes this so much of an issue is that in FOSS projects, the things that get worked on tend to either be low-hanging fruit and/or a personal peeve of one of the engineers. Everything else is at high risk of falling through the cracks and being ignored or forgotten.

It’s kind of the open source counterpart of how in proprietary software, some types of bugs tend to get perpetually kicked down the road to make room for development of features that are perceived to be of higher likelihood of increasing revenue.

In theory, FOSS projects have more agency to correct this class of problem than their proprietary analogues do because they’re not subject to the same economic pressures. This however requires leadership with a strong vision for the project and soft skills to unify and motivate contributors to work on not-so-sexy bits, and this type of individual is rare in that space.
by dangus | 2026-01-30 17:41:03+00:00
Does UPS have the right to know the location of its drivers?

Of course it does.

I don’t know that we can draw broad conclusions about worker rights on this issue.

My company probably DOES need to know that I’m not taking company information to certain locations like overseas if I work in certain industries like if I am in healthcare covered by HIPAA and I’m handling PHI.

Hyperbolic example, but if I’m taking a teams call or reading my email in North Korea, that is a gigantic problem.

Right to privacy doesn’t exist inside of employer apps and company devices, and there isn’t a strong argument that it should exist.
by bri3d | 2026-01-30 17:41:25+00:00
The roadmap feature is light on details too: "When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will soon be able to automatically update their work location to reflect the building they're working from. This feature will be off by default. Tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in."

I found a lot of news stories about this dating back to where it showed up on the roadmap in early 2025, but none of them with any more implementation details (ie - is it using _only_ WiFi network name, or some other data too?)
by triceratops | 2026-01-30 17:42:18+00:00
FTA

> Remember when you could text Dave from the office to turn your PC on because you were stuck in traffic?

I honestly don't. This was a thing? Why?

> So if you decide to take a "working lunch" and connect to "Starbucks_Guest_WiFi", your boss sees it instantly.

I would have a lot of fun with "creative" names for my Wi-fi network.