MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fweimer | 2026-01-19 22:53:11+00:00
For most client interfaces, it's possible to just grab the addresses and ignore the CNAMEs altogether because the names do not matter, or only the name on the address record.

Of course, if the server sends unrelated address records in the answer section, that will result in incorrect data. (A simple counter can detect the end of the answer section, so it's not necessary to chase CNAMEs for section separation.)
by jakelazaroff | 2026-01-19 22:53:16+00:00
Sure, but the intent and give is to permit cops more leeway in using perceived ethnicity as a factor. In the full passage, he explicitly says that given the prevalence in LA of undocumented immigrants from Latin America working in particular jobs, local police are permitted to detain such workers who appear Latine (i.e. to racially profile them).

A fuller quote:

> To stop an individual for brief questioning about immigration status, the Government must have reasonable suspicion that the individual is illegally present in the United States ... Reasonable suspicion is a lesser requirement than probable cause and "considerably short" of the preponderance of the evidence standard ... Whether an officer has reasonable suspicion depends on the totality of the circumstances ... Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English. To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court's case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a "relevant factor" when considered along with other salient factors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanaugh_stop?wprov=sfti1#Sup...
by deinonychus | 2026-01-19 22:53:59+00:00
>Maybe the age of new and interesting apps is over?

it's a shame it really feels this way! i discovered some fun social apps recently like Bump and Retro that are a refreshing break from the big algoscrollers, but all my friends are either too locked into the existing big social apps or are determined to not mess with any social apps at all.
by guessmyname | 2026-01-19 22:54:23+00:00
> Don't do that.

> Don't never ever EVER do that.

Why not? Is the world really going to implode because someone wants a job so badly that they slip a message into some random CEO’s inbox, an inbox that’s probably already flooded with irrelevant emails from strangers asking irrelevant things?

Don’t ever convince yourself that someone is so important you can’t email them. That’s a self-defeating mindset. Send the email and let them decide whether to ignore it, mark it as spam, block you, or whatever. Life goes on, and there are far more important things to worry about.
by mothballed | 2026-01-19 22:54:47+00:00
This seems to vary based on what stage of your career you are in.

Early career when I realized trying the 1000th way to make myself seem better than all the other college graduates with the same qualifications I gave up targetting and just sprayed and prayed and got jobs that way through pure lottery luck of ending up randomly on the pile at a moment when the company was too exhausted because they lost their preferred candidate at the last minute or something like that. I basically put in so many apps that the 1 in 1 million chance happened that I was an unremarkable cog that showed up at the right place at the right time.

By mid career when I actually had something worth anything to anyone then spray and pray was no longer necessary and targetting an application could actually be effective.
by madrox | 2026-01-19 22:54:53+00:00
As a guy in his mid-forties, I sympathize with that sentiment.

I do think you're missing how this will likely go down in practice, though. Those giant codebases with years of domain rules are all legacy now. The question is how quickly a new AI codebase could catch up to that code base and overtake it, with all the AI-compatibility best practices baked in. Once that happens, there is no value in that legacy code.

Any prognostication is a fool's errand, but I wouldn't go long on those giant codebases.
by abnry | 2026-01-19 22:55:09+00:00
I love it!

I typed "hello".

> Your thought's hash is: 4358f43b660389eecd435dc2a5f5cee29786245cd2cff27bd4de0b3e8fd53b79

> Including you, 267 persons had that thought already!

> First time was 4 hours, 14 minutes ago, last time was less than a minute ago.

Of course, everyone else has thought of this. But what if I "type":
4358f43b660389eecd435dc2a5f5cee29786245cd2cff27bd4de0b3e8fd53b79

> Your thought's hash is: c37d0a8c512b9ec7074d3bc77c4545d58fdfcde55bad89a70ede71ac2ac0000d

> Including you, 8 persons had that thought already!

> First time was 2 hours, 1 minute ago, last time was 1 minute ago.

That's hilarious!

And also, "typing":
echo "hello world" | curl -d @- https://subth.ink

>Your thought's hash is: c5ba1c7e35345dbb8c2dc6be0972d0b6ddf6c6515143b64c057296948e2ba8cd

>Including you, 10 persons had that thought already!

>First time was 1 hour, 52 minutes ago, last time was 2 minutes ago.
by fatbird | 2026-01-19 22:55:46+00:00
What America got, by being the heavyweight in NATO, was the greatest economy the world has ever seen. America got rich by selling Europe a nuclear umbrella, which kept the peace, and let Europe go cheap on defense and long on developing their own economies in tandem. The USD as global reserve currency means the world loans money to the US at the lowest possible interest rate; the US extended that credit to its businesses and education system and infrastructure.

What America loses by gaining Greenland is that worldwide market and those close defense relationships forming a common bloc. The US dollar stops being the reserve currency; America's cheap credit line dries up. American soft power in Europe is gone, and Europe aligns itself with China or Russia for stability, and becomes an American adversary. All so you can have, what, a bunch of melting glaciers?
by vemv | 2026-01-19 22:55:57+00:00
Ralph is, very literally, vibe coding with extra steps.

If you'll code a demo MVP, one-off idea, etc, alright, go ahead, have your fun and waste your tokens.

However I'll be happy when the (forced) hype fades off as people realise that there's nothing novel, insightful or even well-defined behind Ralph.

Loops have always been possible. Coordination frameworks (for tracking TODOs, spawning agents, supervising completion, etc) too, and would be better embodied as a program instead of as an ad-hoc prompt.
by zahlman | 2026-01-19 22:56:19+00:00
I made no such claim.

But just for the record: the first link is completely irrelevant to the claim it's supposed to evidence; and the second and third links are not much better, in that arrest often does not require a warrant. (And citing 4A like that is incredibly dismissive; it suggests that refuting the argument is trivial, but is completely mistaken in that supposed refutation.)
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-19 22:57:21+00:00
> but in the modern interpretation, national law enforcers are supposed to be subject to the same law they are enforcing

That is true in the same sense for national law as it is for international law (that is, true in idealized theory, much less true in practice. Actually, its somewhat less true in many national law systems than of international law at the intermediate level between pure theory and practice of the concrete, on-the-books law, where law enforcers, especially at the apex, often enjoy on-the-books immunities from some or all of the law that they enforce.)
by aeonfox | 2026-01-19 22:57:33+00:00
The other flaw of the study is that it doesn't compare populations with no social media, to the ones with.^ Just because you're not on social media, doesn't mean you're not affected, specifically where bullying is involved. You might switch off social media because of this, but have worse mental health outcomes.

^ No-one can do this kind of comparison anymore because no such population really exists, save for the Amish and extant hunter-gatherers who would have plenty of other confounders contributing their mental health measures. However the upward trend in suicide since the late 2000s pretty well correlates with smartphone usage. As does the drop in fertility rates (which are now showing to not necessarily correlate with the oft-cited suspects like wealth, female educational attainment, etc.)
by quesera | 2026-01-19 22:57:47+00:00
Well I don't mean to hope for his loneliness.

I guess I hope that not too many suitresses are lost to the passion before he finds his mate of elevated luck and/or constitution.

Any resulting pups are going to have to make some difficult decisions though.

(Actually, assuming he's alive and found, relocating him is probably the most humane option)
by zahlman | 2026-01-19 22:57:52+00:00
> but you can't even imagine framing that response in terms that don't include representatives of the state's monopoly on violence being within arms reach.

This is not an accurate representation of GP:

> I don't stand in the checkout line trying to figure out how to run out without paying.... I trust that the vast, vast majority of people act similarly. If they didn't, no amount of law enforcement would be enough.
by kens | 2026-01-19 22:58:13+00:00
Yes, the 8087 uses CORDIC. I extracted the constants from the 8087's internal constant ROM and they are arctangent and log values for the CORDIC algorithm. You can implement the same functions in software, which is what floating-point emulation libraries did back then.

There's almost no public information on the 8087 microcode, but I'm working on that :-)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-19 22:58:57+00:00
I was just talking about ownership and smart pointers.

C++'s non-owning "view" classes are a different matter, and the issue there isn't ownership but lifetime of the view vs the underlying data the view is referencing (which in case of string_view could be literally anywhere - a local array of char, a malloc'd block of memory, etc!!).

I'm not a fan of a lot of the (relatively) more recent additions to C++. I think C++14 was about the peak! Given that C++ is meant to be usable as a systems programming language, not just for applications, and given that many new features being added to C++ are really library additions, not language ones, then it's important for the language to include unsafe lower level facilities than can be used for things like that, but actually encouraging application developers to use classes like this that are error-prone by design seems questionable!
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-19 22:59:52+00:00
Indeed. Before being executed, women who are believed to be virgins have to participate in a "wedding ceremony" where they are raped so that... After being executed, they cannot enter heaven.

This is who the people who renounce to denounce Oct 7th as terrorism and who constantly protested about the war in Gaza are defending: they refuse to condemn what's happening in Iran because the iranian regime is islamic and anything islamic is, in their worldview, about peace and love. Or at least it's how they post-fact rationalize their anti-semitism: there's no bigger hater of Israel than the islamic iranian regime, so no anti-semitic person shall ever criticize the atrocities of the iranian regime.

They're raping, like their friends from Hamas btw, women before killing them so they cannot go to heaven.

That's who the left is defending.
by PaulKeeble | 2026-01-19 23:01:09+00:00
Just because there are more studies doesn't increase their quality. The right way to do a systemic review is to assess studies based on their quality, such as design against bias, their size and method to include a combination of good studies and exclude the poor ones. Then assess those studies. Most studies are very low quality and combining them doesn't increase their value or their chance of being right, high quality studies are much more likely to be of value and ground truth and the better the methods and size the greater the chance of something that we can trust.

There is an awful lot of junk in Psychology in general, it has a serious replication issue and bias due to poor methodology resulting in a high chance of fake and biased results. So no you can't assume the accumulation of many studies is better than one, that is not how systemic reviews work.
by xeniafont | 2026-01-19 23:01:22+00:00
ya...

so i just use reportlab and i just created custom drawing classes for lines and arcs, which takes in a variable "weight" that controls the "thickness" of the line it draws...

and then after you generate the "basics" (A-z, digits and some basic shapes like dots and whatnot), almost all the remaining glyphs are just some (scaled) combination of those glyphs, in some way or another... and i made like a "map" of that...

does that make sense?
by lunar_mycroft | 2026-01-19 23:01:29+00:00
> Behavior does not need to be fully specified at the outset. It could be evaluated after the run.

This doesn't work when the software in question is written by competent humans, let alone the sort of random process you describe. A run of the software only tells you the behavior of the software for a given input, it doesn't tell you all possible behaviors of the software. "I ran the code and the output looked good" is no where near sufficient.

> We've actually done this before in our own technology. We studied birds and their flight characteristics, and took lessons from that for airplane development.

There is a vast chasm between "bioinspiration is sometimes a good technique" and "genetic algorithms are a viable replacement for writing code".
by jolmg | 2026-01-19 23:01:42+00:00
> There is also longer form business fan fiction. It usually follows this template: there is a hero - a humble manager/sales person, and a villain - a cocky, nerdy software developer. The villain claims that some task is impossible or takes months to complete. Then the humble hero (equipped with Opus 4.5) completes the task in 2 hours. The villain is then humiliated/fired and everyone lives happily ever after.

Can you share examples? I've never seen something like that.
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-19 23:01:47+00:00
A clearly corrupt dictatorial leader, lack of rule of law, violent oppression of ones own citizens, perpetual lying and use of mass media to influence the populous, violent incursions in to the affairs of other countries without UN support, threats of violent invasion against erstwhile allies, release of violent offenders and drug dealers (clearly in exchange for money), accepting of bribes more generally, acting against supposed allied interests, purging of military leaders according to political affiliations, manipulation of international markets for insider trading, refusal to address child trafficking for rape and sexual abuse (and possibly murder), release of violent insurrectionists, release of violent neo-nazi offenders (eg Proud Boys), breach of constitution, actions to prevent national and foreign journalists having access, actions to suppress proper reporting of the regimes actions, war crimes/murder of shipwrecked people, ...

I'm sure there's loads more if the question is somehow genuine?

Just spending $billions on an illegal (ie not established through constitutionally sound, democratic legislative means) military force, who travel in unmarked vehicles, conceal their identities, and target citizens in areas that politically oppose Trump are alone actions of a fascist regime. They murder, disappear, deport with no due process and act as if outside the law. Their actions, such as murder, are supported fully by the public face of the regime.

This regime is publicly supported by the billionaire owners of tech and media companies operating in USA.

Little people like me don't have much, but every £pound is a vote.
by wahern | 2026-01-19 23:01:53+00:00
PipeNet is also the name of the scheme independently invented by Wei Dai contemporaneously with USNRL's Onion Routing: http://www.weidai.com/pipenet.txt Onion Routing is what Tor is based on. I'm not sure if the original Tor author(s) knew about PipeNet, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were familiar.

PipeNet was conceived in 1996 (https://cryptome.org/jya/pipenet.htm), before the USNRL work was made public in 1997 (IIRC), so definitely independent, in as much as these things are ever truly independent. Both are derivative of Chaum Mixes (1979), which had become popularized as anonymous e-mail remailers in the 1990s.

P.S. Not a comment about project name clashing, just thought it would be interesting to point out. Wei Dai's PipeNet is all but forgotten these days. But I had came across it (on sci.crypt?) before stumbling on the Onion Routing web page.
by asdff | 2026-01-19 23:02:00+00:00
We also burn carbon to feed the brain. Compute is what is increasing in capability on the scale of orders of magnitudes just within our own lifetimes. Brainpower is not increasing in capability. If you want future capabilities and technological advancement to occur at the fastest pace possible, eventually we have to leave the slow ape brain behind in favor of sources of compute that can evaluate functions several orders of magnitude faster.
by AngryData | 2026-01-19 23:02:10+00:00
Theoretically people could cripple RF comms on accident, in reality that almost never happens despite many people possessing devices able to do so. My mikrotik router will let me broadcast all sorts of illegal signals with a few clicks inside their GUI, and yet I never heard about problems with people crippling city blocks with bad router settings. Or from their weird microwave setups. Or trying to run and operate some dilapidated 60 year old radios.
by whizzter | 2026-01-19 23:02:14+00:00
Not going to be claiming to be an expert, but buckling is a well documented phenomenon and I'd be surprised if there wasn't possible issues due to contraction on the other end of the spectrum when it gets colder, the track was laid this last spring/summer so it's probably not been as cold for long before on the tracks.

Also modern high speed rails are built with continious welding without thermal expansion joints.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqmOSMAtadc goes through track building and the effects and literally mentions at about 12:30 that they do need to do inspections when it gets cold if the track cracks (there was a photo linked in another post about a cracked track).

Is it the cause? No idea but doesn't feel far fetched.

Edit: Seems official investigators are now even pointing to that as an initial theory, https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/investigators-find-brok...
by Animats | 2026-01-19 23:02:21+00:00
PJM had some geomagnetic disturbance warnings, but did not progress to the alert stage or grid re-configuation actions. So, no US power grid problems.

104955 Warning Geomagnetic Disturbance Warning 01.19.2026 14:30
PJM-RTO
A Geomagnetic Disturbance Warning has been issued for
14:30 on 01.19.2026 through 16:00 on 01.19.2026 .
A GMD warning of K8 or greater is in effect for this period.
End time: 01.19.2026 16:00

(All times are prevailing Eastern US time)

I've posted on this before, for other warnings. Not going to repeat that.
by TazeTSchnitzel | 2026-01-19 23:03:05+00:00
Currently I'm getting a new “request received” or other new-support-ticket email every minute or two, from all sorts of different ZenDesk customers. It seems like I'm not the only one, and it's not limited to one particular email provider: someone I know using Gmail is getting this, whereas I'm using a well-known commercial email host with a custom domain.
by ebiester | 2026-01-19 23:03:15+00:00
It's interesting that the first thing you see in the comments is "don't contact anyone."

Right now we're in a weird place - if you have a network, you're pretty well off. If your network isn't hiring, or you are early in your career, it's brutal trying to get through the noise.

The truth is that proof of work matters. But the big problem is that proof of work is easy to fake right now. It takes being creative. I get a few emails a month right now. Honestly, I think this isn't going to work at this point - some go to my personal and some go to my professional emails. But what might work?

Look at people who are writing blogs. Is there something interesting on their blog? Is that worth engaging them on first? (I mean, don't waste their time if you aren't interested or if you're going to submarine it the second or third email - someone will feel used - but showing a dual purpose of the email might not be the worst thing and even if they don't have a position or influence on the position, you might have a good conversation.

Are you involved on bluesky/twitter/threads? Are you getting positive engagement? Are you finding ways to make community? It may not get the formal referral but it might make the social referral and give you 30 extra seconds with the resume and a reason to say yes.
by defrost | 2026-01-19 23:03:55+00:00
> China currently dominates the production of rare earths and the US doesn't have sufficient reserves, but Australia does, so higher tariffs on China than Australia create an incentive to move mining operations to Australia which breaks China's lock

There are "sufficient reserves" (known rare earths in the ground) across the globe and the US absolutely has large reserves.

> to move mining operations to Australia which breaks China's lock

There are already mining operations in Australia delivering raw concentrates in bulk to China. Again, not a shortage of mining operations or a shortage of reserves in the ground.

It's the concentrate processing that China invested time and capital in decades past - every other country about the globe (save for Malaysia, to their regret) figured they'd leave the acres of acid ponds and low level radioactive waste to the Chinese.

Now the US wants Australia to take that on, and that's a deal with the devil for Oz while the current POTUS cannot be trusted to hold up any deal.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-01-19 23:04:03+00:00
> any Dutch rail project crossing into the German border

Like this?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.901456/6.137620

https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=51.901346%7E6.137722&lvl=19.8&s...

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.9016843,6.1374348,210m/data=...
by foltik | 2026-01-19 23:04:18+00:00
> It’s physically impossible without regulation.

Not true. Bluetooth, lora, and zigbee all coexist in the same unlicensed spectrum just fine. There’s no reason phones couldn’t speak these, or that a similar low-power protocol couldn’t be standardized.

> One bad actor can render the entire RF spectrum in their area unusable.

Ok, and? That’s already true for cellular, gps, and wifi today.

> Nothing is stopping you from getting an HT for communication during power outages, natural disasters, etc.

You’re missing the point. People already carry radios everywhere which are more than capable of longer range p2p communications.

The real question is why no such standard exists, despite its obvious utility.

Telling people to just carry an HT is smug and irrelevant. Average people carry phones.