MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-25 20:40:02+00:00
I actually think that there is an amalgam of ideologies here (I know, so very fascist of them). Trump is more of a monarchist. A lot of the people supporting him are outright fascists. Some are plain idiots.

Them winning absolute control over the country would be a disaster for their movement though. They'd turn to internal fighting, the entropy of victory and all that. And they don't seem terribly competent with governance, it would probably turn off a lot of smart people, so the country would lose a lot of its capabilities.

EDIT: Also, there are funny things going on with the political submissions. I think there is active interference going on, they get flagged almost immediately. This got flagged and unflagged in the space of a couple minutes, so thanks to the mod team they are letting it up, I think there is important conversation to be had here.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-25 20:40:08+00:00
No, it might belong to the router. If it does then the connection goes to the router, but if it's set to a LAN machine's IP then the packet gets routed to the LAN machine.

You aren't in control of the contents of inbound packets, and NAT won't filter them to enforce anything about the destination IPs in them either.
by hibikir | 2026-01-25 20:40:42+00:00
They are two very different accidents: The second was insufficient/poor maintenance: Supposedly the train that checks for this had passed 2 months before, and someone will have to wonder whether it's just not passing often enough, or if the inspections are just poor in general.

The first was purely a matter of not upgrading the signaling in a very low speed section: The crash could have happened with regional trains too. Every engineer knew that it was unsafe and one distraction was enough to get someone killed, but Spain is still well in the middle of track expansion, so it's all the horrors of politicking. Unless you have a crash, not upgrading those signals costs nothing, but, say, the very expensive connection to Asturias was worth a lot, so iffy tradeoffs were made.

Hopefully better engineering-driven tradeoffs are made regarding track maintenance, but hey, this is Spain, not a place where we are good at efficient, reliable safety processes: See the failures in Valencia for the DANA, where the chain between the meteorologists seeing a risk that led to recommending evacuation, and the actual order of evacuation was so slow, so we ended up with 229 deaths.
by mitjafelicijan | 2026-01-25 20:40:48+00:00
It is interesting that somehow every conversation now pivots to LLM's. It's almost like people are paranoid or something. I have no issue with AI. But it should be used carefully when learning/working so you don't miss the little details that usually make a big difference later. But to each their own.

It is just getting tiring that people assume more and more that things were written with AI for everything. It's like, OMG, can you stop it for a second. And who cares, really. Do your due diligence, check the code and decide for yourself. But maybe, this is just projection. Or a nice way of insulting/dismissing people, which I find quite funny.

And like you said, the age of AI-assisted coding is already here. There is beauty in piping core utils together and being really productive with them. No doubt about it. But there are also new ways of computing emerging, and we should learn about that too.
by scresswell | 2026-01-25 20:41:08+00:00
Yes, SKIP LOCKED is great. In practice you nearly always want LIMIT, which the article did not mention. Be careful if your selection spans multiple tables: only the relations you explicitly lock are protected (see SELECT … FOR UPDATE OF t1, t2). ORDER BY matters because it controls fairness and retry behaviour. Also watch ANALYZE: autoanalyze only runs once the dead to live tuple threshold is crossed, and on large or append heavy tables with lots of old rows this can lag, leading to poor plans and bad SKIP LOCKED performance. Finally, think about deletion and lifecycle: deleting on success, scheduled cleanup (consider pg_cron), or partitioning old data all help keep it efficient.
by antonvs | 2026-01-25 20:42:20+00:00
These things are not an inevitable consequence of freedom of the press. Commercially-influenced legislation like the Communications Decency Act, which largely absolves platforms for the content of the material they publish, have pushed us in this direction. One could certainly imagine legislation which puts society's interests first to improve the situation.

The real problem is the almost total capture of the political process by money, which weaponizes the legislative branch against common citizens in the interests of corporate owners.
by jasode | 2026-01-25 20:42:40+00:00
>I get why those apps matter to you, [...] I am just saying that the answer "no but I checked the app I like on iOS and a handful of them don't exist on Android" was kind of one anecdotal data point in the discussion.

No, you don't get why it matters to me. That paragraph where you think my comment was just a list of my favorite apps is way off base. To be clear, I have never installed nor use any of those apps on either iOS nor Android.

So if I don't have any personal connection to those apps, why do I have that list handy?!? Because I was researching the coding strategy for a new smartphone app:

- have 2 separate native mobile codebases (Swift AND Kotlin) from the start and therefore can release at the same time on both Apple App Store and Google Play. Difficult and expensive.

- or start with deliberate handicap of just 1 native codebase (e.g. iOS-only for initial launch) and see if it can attract revenue/funding to pay for the other native codebase (e.g. then Android). Or do the reverse of Android-first-then-iOS. The drawback is a clone app could quickly show up on the platform I didn't code for.

- or 1 cross-platform toolkit with something like React Native which is what Meta and Microsoft Office apps like Outlook did.

That was why and how that list was created. The purpose was to get enough industry examples to form a generalization of what others did. I often do software research and my notes let me make lists about it. (Another previous example listing software I don't use but I do know the monthly costs : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331312)

I thought the iOS apps list was a neutral comment full of factual information and also counterbalanced with the areas where Android has an enormous influence. Yet somehow, my comment is still interpreted as some type of smear on Android. If you're confused about downvotes, I am too!

If you go back to the gp's comment I replied to, he literally asked: >"What else is there, where is the advantage?"

This thread is full of people replying with examples of the "what else". How could any of us seriously answer that question without the answers being criticized as "arbitrary" ?
by jhatemyjob | 2026-01-25 20:43:20+00:00
I don't understand how, almost 20 years after the release of these platforms, there are fully grown adult mobile OS fanboys still out there that either consciously or unconsciously spread lies about the difference between the platforms. Not just the parent comment, but this entire comment tree. For both iOS and Android. It's an almost religious cult-like type of behavior that reminds me of teenagers back in the early 2010s engaging in flamewars in YouTube comments arguing in favor of whichever gaming console they happen to own.

In that context, it made sense because they were kids, but also, these platforms were new with not much information out there, and the users were basically forced to pick one platform or the other because of the diminishing returns from owning both. 15 years ago, a PS3 or an Xbox 360 cost around $500, which adjusted for inflation is around $800 today. Not worth dropping an extra $800 for a few exclusive titles.

In the context of Android and iOS, you can gain access to both of these platforms quite easily... I mean, presumably, you already own an Android or iOS device already. For $150 you can get a decent device on the used market. Not state-of-the-art, but pretty good, all things considered. And with that you can gain a holistic perspective.

I seriously just don't get how you can stay faithful to either Android or iOS. They both are awful. I sort of see it as a necessary evil, pick your poison sort of thing. But some people get Stockholm Syndrome and never bother to try the alternatives I guess? I find that really odd.
by david-gpu | 2026-01-25 20:43:22+00:00
From the linked article:

> [The] stretch of track that was renovated last May and inspected on January 7.

The track had been inspected very recently. Maybe the inspection standards are inadequate?

The linked article also shows figures that are quite meaningless without context.

> [The] vast majority [of Spain's high-speed rail budget] went to new infrastructure with only some 16% earmarked for maintenance, renewal and upgrades. That compares with between 34% to 39% spent by France, Germany and Italy,

They simply can't compare those numbers as-is. Of course Spain will be spending less in maintenance as a percentage of the total budget if it's still mainly building new tracks. It's not a useful figure.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-25 20:43:35+00:00
Eugenics is the name of a scientific theory, part of "scientific racism", first formulated by Francis Galton, a half-cousin of Darwin. See 1865 article "Hereditary Talent and Character", and 1869 book "Hereditary Genius".

Make sure you research on the science and history of eugenics instead of seeking support for your prejudice about it. Of course, it's a shameful example of accepted but disastrous "science", which social scientists, media and politicians don't like to talk about. They always have many theories, to provide room for plausible deniability, but eugenics was accepted no less than any other social theory at the time.

That theory was significantly expanded later and used by politicians in the US to justify forced sterilization of Irish and black women (not sure about others - DO research"),

It was also used and adapted by Hitler to justify his racial believes and policies.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-25 20:43:49+00:00
I think most people would agree that the country has a right to enforce its border integrity -- after all, that's sort of a prerequisite for being a sovereign nation.

But not with an unaccountable, unidentifiable, largely-untrained, and "absolutely immune" paramilitary police force, forcibly deployed in cities that don't want them there. Cities that are, in any event, nowhere near any borders.

This isn't really about immigration enforcement. If it were, then what ICE was doing under Biden was more effective than what Trump is doing now, just going by the numbers. There is a widespread conspiracy theory, to which I wholeheartedly subscribe, that maintains that Trump is deliberately trying to provoke circumstances that will justify his use of the Insurrection Act or other quasi-legal shenanigans to ratfuck the midterm elections.
Hive – Plugin-based dev orchestrator with zero-downtime deploys
by mgorunuch | 2026-01-25 20:44:51+00:00
I've been building various dev tools for myself and recently wrote a spec for something I've wanted for a long time: a unified local dev orchestrator.

Hive is designed to manage mixed environments (native processes, containers, whatever) through a single YAML config with built-in reverse proxy and zero-downtime deploys.

Key ideas:

- Everything is a plugin (runners, env providers, health checks, log handlers)
- Plugins auto-install on first use
- Blue-green deployments built into the spec
- Native support for secrets (1Password, Vault, dotenv)
- Think docker-compose but runner-agnostic with traffic management

Example: define a service with script runner, 1password secrets, blue-green rollout on ports 8080/8081, reverse proxy at /api, and http health checks. Run "adi hive up" and it handles the rest.

This is just the spec – not built yet. Sharing to get feedback before implementation.

Spec: https://github.com/adi-family/cli/blob/main/.adi/docs/hive-yaml.md

Side question: Are there funds/accelerators that invest in open-source dev tools? I've been self-funding my projects but curious if there's a sustainable path while keeping things open.
by zkmon | 2026-01-25 20:44:51+00:00
> When writing, first, make the reader care, one way or another. Because if I am not hooked by the first screen, I will probably not keep reading—no matter how good the rest of it is!

Keeping the reader glued to the screen is not the primary goal of writing. This artificial goal pollutes the connection between writer and reader. It makes them buyer and seller and rewards sales tactics. You don't write for the reader. You write for yourself first. Readers sometimes, just happen to appreciate it about as much you do.
by belorn | 2026-01-25 20:46:22+00:00
It is fairly well established that social economic status is the largest predictor for crime than any other predictor. In order for immigrants to commit crimes at a lower rate than US born people we would have to make the claim that immigrants has an average higher social economical status than US born people.

The statistics you are looking for is that the sum of all crimes is lower for immigrants than US born people. 13.8% of the US population are immigrant residents, so in order for the sum of immigration crime to be higher than US born people the rate would need to be close to 1000% larger, which it is not.
by tombert | 2026-01-25 20:46:27+00:00
> This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all.

Apparently any time they do anything horrifying, they will just declare that victim as a "terrorist" or something, and their sycophantic supporters will happily agree.

What I find amusing is that when the Snowden leaks happened and I would discuss it, when I said something like "let's pretend for a moment that we can't trust every single person in the government" I would usually get an agreeable laugh.

But using these same arguments with ICE + Palantir, these same people will say something like "ICE IS ONLY DEPORTING THE CRIMINALS YOU JUST WANT OPEN BORDERS!!!". People's hypocrisy knows no bounds.
by neilwilson | 2026-01-25 20:46:28+00:00
There is more sterling available to FX, which is where the exchange rate is set. The tax flow has been moved one step along. So the uk importer doesn’t pay the tax (on the goods), the uk exporter does (on their staff). That changes the sterling flow across the boundary and shifts the exchange rate. Quite where it settles between importers paying more and exporters receiving more is market/productivity determined.
by burgen | 2026-01-25 20:46:54+00:00
The discussion has mostly revolved around the scientific system (it definitely has plenty of problems), but how about ethics?

The paper in question shows - credibly or not - that companies focusing on sustainability perform better in a variety of metrics, including generating revenue. In other words: Not only can you have companies that do less harm, but these ethically superior companies also make more money. You can have your cake and eat it too. It likely has given many people a way to align their moral compass with their need to gain status and perform well within our system.

Even if the paper is a completely fabrication, I'm convinced it has made the world a better a place. I can't help but wonder if Gelman and King paused to consider the possible repercussions of their actions, and of what kinds of motivations they might have had. The linked post briefly dips into ethics, benevolently proclaiming that the original authors of the paper are not necessarily bad people.

Which feels ironic, as it seems to me that Gelman and King are doing the wrong here.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-01-25 20:47:09+00:00
per grid operator PJM Interconnection:

PJM's outages are higher than the grid planned, Mul added,
saying there is less flexibility in the PJM system than a few years ago
because of power plant retirements and a surge in demand from data centers.

In the above statement, PJM indicates that plant retirements are a primary driver of 'less flexibility' and these outages.

But we also have renewable sources that can't get connected to the grid - which seems like an odd problem to have in the face of plant retirements.

connecting new energy projects to the grid, known as interconnection,
has become a major bottleneck, slowing the deployment of new renewable
energy sources.

ref: https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-interconnection-challenge-wh...
by econ | 2026-01-25 20:47:53+00:00
The www wins. All you need is something that can run a browser. You edit a line, save, refresh and there it is, the real finished product, not emulation.

Apps have terrible reliability too. I just wanted to order a pizza, the restaurant website offered a button for the play store and app store.

There it said the app was for an outdated version of Android.

Perhaps it had been like that for a long time? But lets imagine it happened today. Where are you to get your orders from? Ahh yes, the website.

If apps didn't get the icon on the home screen 90% wouldn't have a reason to exist.

Bunch of pictures with descriptions and an add to cart button. One shouldn't even need to write code, it should be as simple and obvious as serving a document. In stead you need a full time carpenter to keep the store running. The counter and shelves spontaneously collapse, doors regularly get stuck, light fixtures rain down from the ceiling.

People trying to sell pizza deserve better, we can do better.
by dzbarsky | 2026-01-25 20:48:01+00:00
Look into Bazel, a very standard build system used at many large tech companies. It splits fetches from build/test actions and allows blocking network for build/test actions with a single CLI flag. No hassle at all.

The fact that you haven't come across this kind of setup suggests that your hundreds of CI systems are not representative of the industry as a whole.
by shoo | 2026-01-25 20:48:07+00:00
re: SKIP LOCKED, introduced in postgres 9.5, here's an an archived copy [†] of the excellent 2016 2ndquadrant post discussing it

https://web.archive.org/web/20240309030618/https://www.2ndqu...

corresponding HN discussion thread from 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676859

[†] it seems that all the old 2ndquadrant.com blog post links have been broken after their acquisition by enterprisedb
by lukev | 2026-01-25 20:48:08+00:00
This is, like, the entire problem ATProto is designed to solve.

Sure, Bluesky can block you from showing up in Bluesky the application. But if they do, you can still host your own content (as is being done here) or access it via alternative apps (like Blacksky).

This is like saying that "RSS isn't yours because Google Reader can block you."
by hackeraccount | 2026-01-25 20:49:13+00:00
When I go out running a might feel a twinge in Achilles. Or a pain in my knee. Maybe I'm just tired.

When that happens I have to do a mental inventory and ask myself, "Am I better off finishing the run or should I just bag it and take tomorrow off?" Two things; firstly every run hurts a little bit - especially the first mile. I usually get into a groove and sometimes, very rarely, I really have gotten to that place where I'm feeling no pain and a run seems like less effort then a walk - mostly though the nice part of a run has an undeniable unpleasantness bound up with it. I like being able to go out for a run though so I put up with the bad. Second thing. I'm an unreliable source. For all the reasons I just talked about I don't trust my ability to take stock of my physical state. I do occasionally take off or skip for days at a stretch but it's like candy - I don't trust it because I like it so.

Here's the thing. If I get that balance wrong I end up walking in the middle of my run.

I imagine Honnold has to do that same self assessment. If he gets it wrong he plunges to his death. Which - to my mind - is totally crazy. Takes all kinds though.
by testing22321 | 2026-01-25 20:49:41+00:00
The US Attorney General also just said they’ll withdraw ICE from Minnesota if they hand over voter registration files.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-ice-minnesota-shooting-ti...

They’re not even hiding the fact this has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with compiling lists of people to target later.
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-25 20:49:42+00:00
> I am so terribly disturbed by the ICE shootings (and killings). There is no justification for them.

I think they are simply poorly trained people that are given free reign. The results are disastrous. They probably don't wake up thinking "Today I'm going to murder someone" but they just don't realize what they're doing. I'm not sure how it's at the destructiveness scale at this moment, but these organizations can and it probably will get much worse as their internal culture morphs into more directly aggressive stance.

The shootings were incredibly dumb, and it's pretty much what one would expect when they create this kind of situation. Listening to the "Revolutions" podcast I realized situations like these are incredibly common all along history, you have armed people with tense spirits, a gun goes off and tragedy ensues. The most terrible part of all of this is the reaction of the authorities that lie, gaslight and support these people, get them off the hook and this reaction will only generate more violence and more deaths as ICE realizes they _really can_ act with impunity.
by Trasmatta | 2026-01-25 20:49:44+00:00
> We respect that Second Amendment right, but those rights don’t count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct, and impede law enforcement officers — and most especially when you mean to do that beforehand.

Absurd. None of those things happened. Not to mention the accusation of a thought crime. (Once again, without evidence. Bovino just claims he "meant to do that beforehand".)

They just make up shit now, without even the pretense of evidence.
by closewith | 2026-01-25 20:49:44+00:00
Assuming this is about Harju, it seems the author read "245 million sq m" and assumed the m was miles, not metres.

So the already large 24,500 hectare farm became a ludicrous 245 million square mile multi-planetary behemoth.

Reading sq m as square miles is a surprisingly common error in the US, but usually gets caught before production or publication because the result is orders of magnitude out.
by EveW | 2026-01-25 20:50:15+00:00
If you examine Chinese Communist Party politics and Zhang’s history closely, you will realize that—given his rank, network, and seniority—no amount of corruption or personal misconduct would lead to an arrest. The only reason for his downfall is a political issue: collaborating with the United States.
The fact that an official announcement was made within 24 hours of his detention is unprecedented (usually, such announcements take months or even years); corruption alone does not trigger that kind of urgency. It is much like when Saddam Hussein discovered his son-in-law was cooperating with the U.S., lured him back from Jordan, and had him publicly shamed.
This event is the greatest blow to the CCP—more significant than the potential collapse of Venezuela and Iran combined. Xi’s rule is set to enter its most turbulent era yet.
by EveW | 2026-01-25 20:50:47+00:00
You have to analyze why someone would say that. The CCP’s consistent tactic is that its members only act in the interest of the Party and their own families—never for the good of the people or the U.S. There is corruption everywhere; why aren't the Standing Committee members being arrested? It’s nonsense. Regarding the military, it’s not just about 'collusion' with the West; it’s about planning a coup while seeking Western support. Venezuela is the perfect case study for them: if successful, they can eliminate their enemies and achieve their political goals. At this moment, the CCP is bound to release fake news—a 'Poison Pill Plan' designed to lead anyone who buys into it to their ruin
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