MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-02 00:18:01+00:00
You could potentially file the below report if a corporate entity in question appears to be violating US sanctions. You will potentially get answers you seek through regulator output and actions. No guarantees for any of this, and it’s not uncommon for funds to be hands off and not keeping tabs on portfolio companies (intentionally or not). It’s also not uncommon for startups to be operating in violation of the law.

Dept of the Treausry: How can I report a possible violation of U.S. sanctions to OFAC?

https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/13

> OFAC encourages anyone who may have violated OFAC-administered sanctions programs, or anyone who is aware of potential violations, to disclose the apparent or potential violation to OFAC. Voluntary self-disclosure to OFAC is considered a mitigating factor by OFAC in enforcement actions, and pursuant to OFAC’s Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines, will result in a reduction in the base amount of any proposed civil penalty.

> Other U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) have their own disclosure procedures for voluntarily self-disclosing violations of U.S. sanctions and export control laws. Moreover, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) maintains a whistleblower incentive program for violations of OFAC-administered sanctions, in addition to violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. Individuals located in the United States or abroad who provide information may be eligible for awards, if the information they provide leads to a successful enforcement action that results in monetary penalties exceeding $1,000,000.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 00:18:09+00:00
> Usually orbits are reserved years in advance

Because planning missions took years to plan. Holidaygoers book hotels months and sometimes a year or more in advance. Business travelers don’t. That doesn’t make the latter unusual, just a different use case.

> Is this an emergency change to account for a design flaw that they just discovered?

Zero evidence or precedent for this.
by cjmcqueen | 2026-01-02 00:19:07+00:00
Part of my role is designing assessments for online courses and technical certifications. This is exactly what we want to build in our assessment development process. We want the LLM to monitor the training content and create draft questions and exercises that are vetted by humans. It's maybe a classic "human in the middle" design for content development, but the more we can put humans in at the right point and time and use LLMs for the other parts helps us create a more robust and up to date training and assessment system.
by type0 | 2026-01-02 00:19:22+00:00
That's why I think Putin won't use nukes but would just load chemical weapons on drones to attack European cities and blame it on some terrorist organization. Trump might even support him in claiming that Russia is innocent and NATO shouldn't be involved. They already tested it on Poland with empty drones and said Russia didn't send any drones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Russian_drone_incursion_i...
by basisword | 2026-01-02 00:19:22+00:00
I know a lot of people who use them as decoration. As someone who has been buying and listening to vinyl records for a long time I find it a bit odd but I understand it. Going into a friends home and checking out their book collection or record collection used to be a fun thing and tells you a bit about someone. Now that everything is digital that is completely gone so having a few of your favourite records around, even if you don't listen to them fills that void.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 00:19:34+00:00
> ion thrusters that prevent them from losing altitude as long as they are operational

Unintentional tautology. A satellite is by definition operational as long as it can station keep.

That said, yes, they should be able to station keep with ions alone. But also, ion propulsion still requires propellant. Until we figure out orbital magnetic suspension, it’s all reaction engines.
by xboxnolifes | 2026-01-02 00:19:49+00:00
It doesnt mean that it getting more and more useful though. The alternatives could be getting worse and worse. Or there just aren't alternatives.

Maybe this is just a disagreement of what it means for something to "become more useful"? As an example, If I need a bank account and every bank goes online only and shutters their physical locations, that is not online banking becoming more useful to me. I was perfectly happy going to the physical location, but i am now spending more time doing banking on the internet.
by znpy | 2026-01-02 00:20:19+00:00
i am somewhere in the middle because my work requires me to go to the office only four days per month but no one is really checking (nor they check if i go in at 9 am or 1pm).

so for me it's nice because i get to have my slow morning and go to the office during lunch break (i live relatively close).

this made me realize that i don't really mind the office (i ended up going almost every day, staying from lunch break 'till 5pm) but i loathe essentially two things:

- shitty coworkers (better to hop job at all, but avoiding them in person does help a lot)

- going to the office being mandatory (as in, not having freedom and autonomy)

in my current setup colleagues tend to autonomously organize when to meet in the office and go out for lunch together. and frankly... it's great.

the work itself has a lot of shortcomings (and i'm fixing things left and right from the first week i joined the company) but the people and the autonomy make it great.
by jdbohrman | 2026-01-02 00:20:25+00:00
Location: Knoxville, TN
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: depends
Technologies: Rust, vLLM, OpenAI, Typescript, Tailwind, Postgres, DevSecops, Azure, Firecracker, Docker, JSON, Websockets, Heuristics
CV: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=10Cv0UTahRRhf...
Email: james@atelierlogos.studio

I'd love to link up with a company to build out some internal tools for them using spec-driven development. I've built a ton of complex software using things like Claude Code and type-theory, but haven't had a change to put that to the test in a FTE role, which is a goal for 2026. Let me know if you'd like to connect.

Here's some cool projects I've built:

Colony (Vendor Ops tool): https://app.arcade.software/share/l3ClAIEprcx2X8eXBUGj
Fugu (Binary file exploration): https://app.arcade.software/share/ylVIO1iH2Nk2W9oVpL2K
Hayashi (Boundary Diagram Generator): https://github.com/atelierlogos/hayashi
by triceratops | 2026-01-02 00:20:29+00:00
You're correct. Rate-limiting has the potential to inconvenience some legit buyers.

> None of the design stops mom-who-doesn't-care from buying a token and giving it to whiny-kid-who-wont-shut-up for their "FortnighTik thingy", or kid from asking grandma for a "scratch off token" for Christmas, or whatever.

And nothing stops parents from giving their kids beer and cigarettes today, just to shut them up. But they mostly don't.

The point of my proposal is: do age verification as stringently (or loosely) and with as much privacy preservation as we currently do for alcohol and tobacco. The goal being to forestall more intrusive measures, which are really meant to expand the surveillance powers of states and corporations but are dressed up as "age verification to protect children". This proposal, or something like it, will satisfy the median voter that children are being protected without compromising anyone's privacy or anonymity.
by fsckboy | 2026-01-02 00:20:36+00:00
>Nonsense. We don’t know what prehistoric cave painters believed.

you need to study a bit more history, psychology, anthropology, etc., you have absolutely no reason to believe they thought anything different than we do today and what today's hunter gatherers believe. the evidence is on my side. If you have counter evidence, offer it.

>Also this says nothing about art.

I said something about art, whereas till I said it, art was void in the conversation which I think is a glaring mistake which is why I said it. If you have something to say about art, say it, otherwise you don't have a dog in this fight.
by jsheard | 2026-01-02 00:21:05+00:00
I'm guessing "we" was Ubisoft going by your profile and their support for Stadia around that time? I can't see any sign of Vulkan maintaining any traction there after Stadia died, their newer games are all targeting DX12 exclusively, and although R6:Siege used to offer Vulkan on Windows it was eventually patched out in favor of more DX12.
by AngryData | 2026-01-02 00:21:12+00:00
In my 2+ decades in the trades, the biggest problem is low pay and shitty bosses. Trade unions are absolutely packed full of people wanting to join them because they pay better, have more training, and offer paths towards advancement/pay/benefits over their hiring wage. But outside of the unions people pay crackhead wages then wonder why only crackheads want to lose 20 years off their life and wear out their body for customer service wages despite having a specialized trade experience and skills. Everyone who works in the trades also knows its a boom and bust cycle and they will get the shaft as soon as it is convenient for their employer which isn't a significant risk in many other industries and jobs.

And things get confused more when people only look at the top inflated wages for trade workers in the most expensive cities in the world, completely ignoring that most trade workers can't afford to live in those places and commute into the cities for their work and they almost never actually get offered the kind of wages that are advertised.
by arjie | 2026-01-02 00:21:21+00:00
I'm sympathetic to that view, but I'm also aware of a particular way it doesn't explain the world. Often I make local choices that I enjoy while nonetheless regretting them later. Text social networks are the most common way this happens to me. But the other common failure mode was with food.

Without the retatrutide dose I'm on I frequently consume large amounts of food. I love apples, and blueberries, and chicken and rice. I can easily eat an entire Costco bag of Envy Apples at a stretch. Inevitably, I regret this once I have exited my fugue state of food consumption. So why do I do it? My behaviour on retatrutide is far superior at getting me both total content and joy (in the sense of area-under-the-curve rather than point-in-time).

This concept has been explored for a long time[0]. The earliest documented I know of is the concept of Akrasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia from the Greek philosophers. But I think any notion of utility must build in the notion of regret and perhaps the bicameral mind and perhaps also the notion of non-rationality. My utility functions for the things I do are not time-translation invariant, therefore I think any model that optimizes for greater content and greater joy must necessarily involve temporally non-local terms. I don't yet have a strong model of this.

But we know this is common to many mental disorders. Part of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an interruption of some mental pattern. My wife and I have a game we find amusing to play when we want to overrule the other's temporally local preferences: we challenge the other to a game of rock-paper-scissors to see whether the countermanding applies. When she exercises it, I frequently find that even if I win the momentary desire has passed.

tl;dr: Utility functions have different values depending on the temporal stride they take

0: Recently, Elon Musk claimed that the aim for Twitter should be "unregretted user minutes". Sadly, despite this stated aim, I found that his changes decreased these and increased regret so I had to stop using his platform. I agree with the notion of maximizing (value - regret) expressed in some abstract form, however.
by tmtvl | 2026-01-02 00:21:39+00:00
It's funny how you say the way it used to be was better when people always complained about the OOM killer waiting until the system had entirely ground to a halt before acting, to the point some preferred to run with 0 swap so the system would just immediately go down instead.

Regardless, I believe EarlyOOM is pretty configurable, if you care to check it out.
by rapidfl | 2026-01-02 00:21:48+00:00
Agree subsidies does not seem like the correct incentive structure. But that's what the other guy is doing so I guess that's what we have to do.

In general, can the EV industry survive without government subsidies? Maybe now it can in the US.

Also not convinced EVs (as they are currently) are vastly superior to ICE cars. Not accounting for the potential for ICE cars to vastly improve if there wasn't so much vested interest. So the whole EV industry seems a bit unsustainable...
by AdrianB1 | 2026-01-02 00:21:49+00:00
While I think his approach is not the best, even if it worked for him, I am convinced that if you identify a few thigs you like to do you will find some other people with the same interests. There are so many activities that it creates some fragmentation of interests, but the population is still large enough to find others compatible with you.

What I would do: 1. make a list of stuff I would do; 2. check if there are local communities for each item on the list and 3. start joining those communities or look for people interested to join you on the activities on the list. Is that simple, really.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-02 00:22:28+00:00
Reminds me of one other comment on a different thread about a person trying an old CP/M machine and seeing some restriction like I think it was 50x70 pixel restriction or similar.

The point I am trying to make is that nostalgia can seem really good as that comment also pointed that, we often only remember the good parts of the system.

It's only when we recounter them that the bad parts resurface again.

Now instead of taking the fair criticism and perhaps doing something about it if possible, your dad tried to use the old technique of "back in my day ..."

And I will tell you kids ABSOLUTELY hate this. It's more so, Gramps you were forced to deal with this thing, we got digital and you aren't willing to understand my problem so why should I be stuck with the problem or the countless other examples.

I don't know much about vinyl but if it's the record players, perhaps your father can buy them a good one which could help them solve the issue they are facing.
by max_lt | 2026-01-02 00:22:29+00:00
Thanks for the clarification on CF's V8 patching strategy, that 24h turnaround is impressive and exactly why I point people to Cloudflare when they need production-grade multi-tenant security.

OpenWorkers is really aimed at a different use case: running your own code on your own infra, where the threat model is simpler. Think internal tools, compliance-constrained environments, or developers who just want the Workers DX without the vendor dependency.

Appreciate the work you and the team have done on Workers, it's been the inspiration for this project for years.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-02 00:23:31+00:00
A lot to unpack here, but the article fails to tackle the question of distribution. Creators put their videos on YouTube because that is the way to reach a nearly global audience at zero cost. I can assure you that although you can probably figure out how to host videos that nobody sees, you cannot afford to host a popular video.

The author clearly spent a lot of time writing and presenting this, but the facts and conclusions don't seem to warrant the presentation. In particular the (useless, in the narrative) section about antibiotics shows that the author is a deeply unserious person suffering from some pretty severe fallacies. Nobody can have seen a chart of childhood mortality over the 20th century and still believe such things.
by woodpanel | 2026-01-02 00:24:05+00:00
We shouldn’t.

Not just because of the assumed security issues (good point though).

But even w/o these,

- I rather have some European or American conglomerate gathering unnecessary data about me driving, than just hand it over to the Chinese state

- Buying Chinese means destroying our own base, as this market has been actively stealing IP for decades (BYD or Xiamoi just being copycats of Porsche); good luck winning piracy cases in Chinese courts

- unfair financial restrictions for redeeming returns on foreign investments fueled much of China‘s growth - and still persist

- western/asian manufacturers are de-facto not competing with mere manufacturers but the Chinese state itself since (almost?) all Chinese manufacturers are State-Owned-Companies

Now that is not to say that China‘s rise is not commendable and deserved, it is indeed. I‘m rather arguing for playing the same game as they are.
by madeofpalk | 2026-01-02 00:24:19+00:00
Is Chrome's PWA support on Android a massive glow to Android Play Store's bottom line?

I don't buy this line, that Safari is intentionally hobbled to prop up the App Store. What's iOS missing for PWA's to be a viable money-maker for companies? Surely there so much money on the line that we would see companies using them. What does Match.com's portfolio of dating apps need to be viable as websites instead?

In reality, when you actually pay attention to Apple's software engineering practices you realise how incredibly cheap and stingy they are. All the apps are so under funded and under developed. Bugs are introduced all over their native platforms all the time and never fixed.
by iamwil | 2026-01-02 00:25:06+00:00
The solution offered is pretty weak. I don't think it addresses why the internet took the shape that it did. Publishing without centralized services is too much work for people. And even if you publish, it's not the whole solution. People want distribution with their publication. Centralized services offer ease of publication and ease of distribution. So unless the decentralized internet can offer a better solution to both, this story will play out again and again.
by WJW | 2026-01-02 00:25:19+00:00
Perhaps but you while you can maybe predict where the rocket will fall, you cannot reliably predict who it might kill if it hits. People move around and even if you can see it will hit a house for the elderly, you cannot see how many (grand)children are currently visiting. Also the opposite is true: a rocket hitting a child care facility would cause double the economic damage. That is why I used an average in my previous post.

In any case, elderly and disabled are not as useless to the economy as you might suppose. There are many disabled who are economically productive. One of the most capable colleagues I've ever had was a blind programmer. Grandparents often provide things like babysitter services that don't show up in formal GDP measurements but are very valuable nonetheless. Don't count out the contribution of people to society just because they don't have a normal job.
by znpy | 2026-01-02 00:25:33+00:00
> Solitude in your 30s (particularly as a DINK or SINK household) is dangerously addictive.

Can confirm (SINK).

The real problem is that solitude in your 30s is peaceful. So peaceful. So much so that if you built your own safety net and covered your back, solitude is so peaceful that you might end up not even wanting a romantic partner at all.

Anybody that had their fair share of storms in life can confirm that having a calm, peaceful life of solitude can be so peaceful one often doesn't really want to change that.
by 65 | 2026-01-02 00:25:50+00:00
It says the same few things that always get hive mind upvoted on Hacker News. There is nothing new about this information.

Social media bad, Javascript bad, cars bad, old internet good, RSS good, personal websites good, HTML good.

If you want to farm upvotes on Hacker News, write about these topics. This content is like crack to developers.
by lcuff | 2026-01-02 00:26:04+00:00
Everybody's mileage will vary on this ... I spent a lot of time in the year after I read Paul Graham's essay on "things you can't say", searching for things that I thought matched the criteria he set out, and found a few. But it's not that the words may never cross my lips, I can say these things within some small circle of people, but would definitely not be saying them in public without being prepared for an onslaught of negative attention. Some examples of 'cancel culture' are proof of this. Donald G. McNeil comes to mind.

That said, I'm not impressed with the notion of Straussian memes and agree that way better examples are needed to give the idea some validity.
by legerdemain | 2026-01-02 00:26:12+00:00
This has absolutely never worked for me in cafes, not in decades of trying across multiple states. Cafe regulars either bring their own company or "laptops open, headphones on, heads down."

Amusingly, the rec league pinball people are absolutely ferocious about promotion. Pretty much every thread in r/bayarea about looking for friends gets a pitch from a pinball person.
by mmooss | 2026-01-02 00:26:32+00:00
Escalation is a classic trap to fall into:

The other side wants escalation of tension, otherwise they wouldn't do this. And they get to choose when and where and, to a degree, the means by which it happens - you can be sure it's a time and place and means that benefits them.

The fundamental of international relations in conflict is to deter without escalation, and to act in the time, place, and manner of your choosing. You'll see leaders cite that specifically: 'We have this problem; we will respond in the time, place, and in the way we think best.'
by tim333 | 2026-01-02 00:26:35+00:00
>following along the last few years the promise was for “exponential progress”

I've been following for many years and the main exponential thing has been the Moore's law like growth in compute. Compute per dollar is probably the best tracking one and has done a steady doubling every couple of years or so
for decades. It's exponential but quite a leisurely exponential.

The recent hype of the last couple of years is more dot com bubble like and going ahead of trend but will quite likely drop back.
Show HN: AI Motion Poster – 1-click static image to animated poster
by linkshu | 2026-01-02 00:26:59+00:00
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by roywiggins | 2026-01-02 00:27:02+00:00
I mean highly dynamic, entirely frontend sites like these are hard to archive, since you have to really preserve every bit of JavaScript dependency, including any dynamically loaded dependencies, and rewire everything to work again.

And then hope that whatever browser features you rely on aren't removed in 20 years. Flash applets from 20 years ago are usually more self-contained and Just Work if you have a functioning runtime (either the official one or Ruffle)
by recroad | 2026-01-02 00:27:05+00:00
How about you and I stay out of it and let international organizations whose job it is to monitor this have their say? Are you ok with that? You trust Amnesty and the UN?

The sign of a brainwashed person is to equate this occupation with Islamic terrorism. Unfortunately, you have fallen to propaganda by even bringing that up. Jews and Muslims have lived together peacefully for hundreds of years prior to 1948. There has been nothing but respect between those two religions going back for as long as one can remember. The change is Zionism. That’s what the problem is, not radical Islam or radical Judaism. Zionism != Judaism.
by d-lisp | 2026-01-02 00:27:09+00:00
Seriously for my part, LLMs incarns exactly the only type of person that can break my nerves. Far too often I spot an hallucination, some bullshit rambling, sycophancy, or ----hughhhhh----- rethorical elements of language that makes me go mad :(.

examples for ---hughhhhh--- inducing stuff :

"I'll be blunt !"

"Here's the ground truth, no bullshit"

"Bottom line : <UPPER CASE EXPRESSION>"

"No fluff, technical, precise, no bullshit, devoid of unnecessary rethorical shapes, <etc..."

"Blunt answer: <bold text>"

"<title> : the hard truth"

I am becoming snob ?