MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neom | 2026-01-08 17:32:00+00:00
For me number 1 is difficult basically because of who runs Cloudflare. I trust Matthew Prince because I find him to be: consistent and credible.

I work in go to market, specifically for businesses like Cloudflare, I can and have said "this real world situation is going to have resonance for the next 5-10 days, what is the lowest cost blog post you could publish that is related?" - because I only manage teams who produce content that is genuinely, at some level, value add or interesting to my target market, you would end up with a blog post exactly like this. In fact, this blog post is doing that job, here we are, cloudflare users, discussing cloudflare.
by regularfry | 2026-01-08 17:32:12+00:00
On a purely theoretical-finance level, I don't think the circular funding is actually a problem in itself. It's analogous to fractional reserve banking.

Whether there's also fraud, misreporting of revenue, or other misbehaviour of weird and wonderful classifications that will keep economics history professors in papers for decades is a separate question. I just find that people get fixated on this one structural feature and I think it's a distraction. It might be smoke, but it's not the fire.
by gambiting | 2026-01-08 17:32:18+00:00
We have a VW e-Up, with a very meagre 80hp electric motor - I can guarantee that off the lights that car is faster than pretty much any muscle or sports car, because it just instantly accelerates from standstil. I used to own an AMG few years ago, and to match what the e-Up can do I'd have to put it into Sports+ mode then enable launch control, then sit there with revs at 4000rpm just waiting for the light to change so the car would actually launch quickly. But off the standing start from idle? No chance.
by praptak | 2026-01-08 17:32:32+00:00
There is no blanket ban on politics. The guidelines only say "Most stories on politics" are off topic. The top guideline is that if it "gratifies intellectual curiosity" then it is okay. Even the tech angle is not mandatory, unless you believe that politics is just inherently unable to be the object of curiosity (to each his own but I would disagree with that).
by snide | 2026-01-08 17:32:35+00:00
I have 2012 Sonos hardware. You can still get the original Sonos S1 controller, which works with old stuff. It's pretty annoying that all the new stuff is S2 (and that app is better supported), but it's not as hard as you're describing it. You can get it off Google Play and just use it.

The quality of the software, and the fact that it isn't really updated, is another thing, but the actual software availability is there.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-08 17:32:35+00:00
<< The ICE agent is maybe pushed by a car moving at low speed. Maybe. He is still never in danger of losing his life or being seriously harmed.

The standard is whether the agent reasonably believes he is in danger. It is not based on whether the car is going too slow to cause damage based on an arm chair's expert claim online.

Now, if you are saying there is nothing in that video that makes you question some of your assumptions, we can stop this conversation now. You are too motivated to make 'your side' win.
by mattkrause | 2026-01-08 17:32:43+00:00
The link is essentially a press release. The information you want is (sorta) in the actual paper it describes *.

"The images were analyzed using a commercially available AI-CAD system (Lunit INSIGHT MMG, version 1.1.7.0; Lunit Inc.), developed with deep convolutional neural networks and validated in multinational studies [1, 4]."

It's presumably a proprietary model, so you're not going to get a lot more information about it, but it's also one that's currently deployed in clinics, so...it's arguably a better comparison than a SOTA model some lab dumped on GitHub. I'd add that the post headline is also missing the point of the article: many of the missed cases can be detected with a different form of imaging. It's not really meant to be a model shoot-out style paper.

* Kim, J. Y., Kim, J. J., Lee, H. J., Hwangbo, L., Song, Y. S., Lee, J. W., Lee, N. K., Hong, S. B., & Kim, S. (2025). Added value of diffusion-weighted imaging in detecting breast cancer missed by artificial intelligence-based mammography. La Radiologia medica, 10.1007/s11547-025-02161-1. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11547-025-02161
by maerF0x0 | 2026-01-08 17:32:49+00:00
It's an interesting point. I would suggest the its kinda recursive.

Good food ingredients are those which are or composed of Good food ingredients.

We can intuitively realize that A salad composed of Tomatoes, lettuce, radish, kale, cucumber, figs etc is at least as good as just eating Tomatoes. But each of those ingredients is a simple good food. IMO the issue is fractionation and concentration (and is weighted by dose). Corn on the cob, good. Corn syrup, bad.

Lots of the traditional dishes from the places you mentioned would be using very whole foods. Like a traditional, non industrial, mole is pretty much a gravy/sauce of very nutrition whole foods. But it's notable there is a highly processed equivalent in a jar.

Michael Pollan interestingly noted that when people cook food for themselves more or less from scratch they usually default to high quality whole foods because we often cannot make the low quality ultra-processed food in our own homes, they can only be made with industrial/factory equipment.
by sethammons | 2026-01-08 17:32:55+00:00
I've used both professionally. I think elixir has some amazing ideas. I love pattern matching. However! Just like all other interpreted languages, in elixir, I have to go to the call sites of the function that I am editing to understand what it is that is actually available and to understand what I can edit. I don't know what has been passed into my function. The lack of types is not fixed by having a type spec and dialyzer. Pattern matching helps. I wish Go had it. But when it comes to a growing organization, more and more of the codebase cannot fit in your head, and I find that teams and organizations are indeed faster in Go.

I recall hearing that Jose was making progress on types. Not sure where that landed.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-08 17:33:23+00:00
Build quality of Bose products is good in my opinion. The headphones are alright but so are Sony, Plantronics and Apple. I love the sound of Airpods Pro in particular even if they don't want to stay in my ears [1] and the pairing experience even with the iPhone isn't what I expect of >$100 headphones in 2016.

If you want really good stereo or 5.1 sound there is no substitute for big speakers that can move a lot of air.

[1] maybe it is that gene polymorphism that makes my ears overflow with wax and has my doctor warnings they will plug up one of these days
by audunw | 2026-01-08 17:33:35+00:00
Yes and no. It's not a good word, but it has generally been defined in a way that wouldn't include any of the steps you mentioned.

One common description is that it includes lots of ingredients you wouldn't find in your kitchen.

It sometimes also includes ingredients that have been turned into extremely fine powder, and other very heavy industrial processing. My way of thinking of this is: adults shouldn't eat baby food. Some fast food essentially becomes way to easy to absorb.

I think this interview had a really good description about the problems of the "ultra-processed" label.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAPgzCiSk9Y&t=377s

But at least the label is triggering some interesting discussions and awareness about bad aspects of industrial fast food.
by afavour | 2026-01-08 17:33:50+00:00
> There is no blanket ban on politics

Nor did I claim there was. My point is simply that there is a very obvious pattern to what passes this subjective "gratifies intellectual curiosity" test among those with the ability to flag posts from the front page.

Case in point, this thread is now being visibly flagged off the homepage:

"ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543420

It's inarguably tech-relevant and for the intellectually curious. And yet...
by unoti | 2026-01-08 17:34:06+00:00
> Are there decent wifi communicators on the market? I looked into some Lora projects for this but they never seem to actually ship or get past prorotype

Yes, 100%. Meshtastic and Meshcore both do this, but I'd recommend Meshcore. Here in the Seattle area we have a network that fairly reliably delivers messages from Canada through the Seattle metro area all the way down to Portland. Fully encrypted with dual key cryptography. Meshcore uses a different strategy than Meshtastic, which enables Meshcore to work more reliably. To see what's happening in your area for Meshcore see https://analyzer.letsmesh.net/map

Is very fun to set up a repeater for under $50 and see a noticeable difference in the coverage area. Is a fun technical project that combines the best of hiking/walking/driving geocaching style, ham radio (but without a license requirement), antenna building, and more. I'm getting acquainted with people in my neighborhood too which is a bonus.

Figuring out what hardware to buy that'll actually work can be a challenge, to get started search amazon for "heltec v3" and make sure you get something that includes a battery, and you'll see 2-packs of radios for $60. There's a web flasher at the above link that'll put the software on the radios for you.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-08 17:34:07+00:00
> I think it would be pretty risky to allow this key to directly sign for packages, because this would imply that any party that can use that key for signing can sign for any package.

There must be some misunderstanding. For trusted publishing a short lived API token is issued that can be used to upload the finished product. You could instead imagine negotiating a key (ephemeral or otherwise) and then verifying the signature on upload.

Obviously the signing key can't be shared between projects any more than the API token is. I think I see where the misunderstanding arose now. Because I said "just verify the pipeline identity" and you interpreted that as "let end users get things signed by a single global provider key" or something to that effect, right?

The only difference I had intended to communicate was the ability of the downstream consumer to verify the same claim (via signature) that the registry currently verifies via token. But it sounds like that's more or less what attestation is? (Hopefully I understood correctly.) But that leaves me wondering why Trusted Publishing exists at all. By the time you've done the OIDC dance why not just sign the package fingerprint and be done with it? ("We didn't feel like it" is of course a perfectly valid answer here. I'm just curious.)

I did see that attestation has some other stuff about sigstore and countersignatures and etc. I'm not saying that additional stuff is bad, I'm asking if Trusted Publishing wouldn't be improved by offering a signature so that downstream could verify for itself. Was there some technical blocker to doing that?

> the IdP itself is only trusted as an identity source

"Only"? Doesn't being an identity source mean it can do pretty much anything if it goes rogue? (We "only" trust AD as an identity source.)
by nphardon | 2026-01-08 17:34:16+00:00
M.I.A.'s clothing brand is looking real good now. There are others but hers was the first I heard about. Seems like the waist bag would be critical for activists.

From the Ohmni website:

"...fabric's work by utilizing the principles of a Faraday cage to block or shield against electrical signals, electromagnetic radiation (EMR), and radio frequency interference (RFI)."
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-08 17:34:27+00:00
<< Either way, regardless of her background, three agents gave conflicting instructions, acted in a bullying manner, escalated a situation and shot a citizen.

This should be the rallying cry. But it isn't. As I noted in previous posts, I am not super happy about it, but at this point, the case is alreadya political football.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-08 17:35:07+00:00
This this also good marketing, if other companies I currently buy speakers from follow their footsteps I'll keep supporting them, but I might otherwise just move towards Bose in the future. I wish Apple would do this for their ultra legacy stuff, Microsoft does it for their legacy stuff. Not sure if we'll ever get a fully open sourced legacy version of Windows (ignoring the source code leak) but it would be cool to one day see the Windows XP source code on GitHub.
by estebank | 2026-01-08 17:35:14+00:00
On a Lenovo T460 (mid-range laptop from 2016), with a fresh clone of https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/ and the default config:

$ time ./x.py build
... snip ...
Build completed successfully in 0:21:24

real 21m24.736s
user 67m48.195s
sys 1m54.906s

Subsequent builds during development are faster (as 1. it doesn't build the same compiler multiple times, you can use the stage 1 build as normal, stage 2 is not strictly necessary and 2. if you modify one of the constituent crates of the compiler, the ones that are lower in the dep tree don't get recompiled). I've used this laptop on and off for rustc development for the last 10 years. Nowadays I spent more time using a cloud desktop that has much faster IO, but still use it during travels sometimes.

From the sound of it, I suspect that your issue might be that you don't have enough RAM and your build is swapping a lot.
by bornfreddy | 2026-01-08 17:35:32+00:00
I had the new QC Ultra and gave it away. The sound was mediocre at best and you can't turn NC off - a dealbreaker for me (no, passthru is not the same as off). Hope it helps someone make my mistake aa they are quite pricey.

Now if I could change the firmware to turn NC off, that would be something entirely different...
by dr3dpir8 | 2026-01-08 17:35:34+00:00
Biased by thin-skinned low-skilled first worlders who bristle at having to be an adult.

To dang and the SV/VC world, everything should work like it does in Mr Rogers ... they can stare at their computer and live in the land of the make believe it affords them.

GenX and Millennials are just as ignorant and self-absorbed as Boomers. America is a shit hole country of adults with the emotions of middle schoolers.
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by empath75 | 2026-01-08 17:35:40+00:00
The dirty secret about American politics is that people care about any of that stuff only to the extent that it supports their actual ideological goals. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, state's rights, all of it. They want it for them, and don't care if anybody else has it _at best_, and actively want to take it away from others at worst.

Documents like the Declaration and Constitution only get written after centuries of bloodshed that we are far removed from, and people forget why anybody cared about such abstract principles to begin with.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-08 17:36:06+00:00
Certain views on human "races" are incompatible with intelligence. A highly intelligent individual may instrumentalize useful idiots through emotional and conspiratorial agitation, but they wouldn't be honestly convinced by these narratives themself. Not these days, there is too much scientific evidence to the contrary. The far right mob is easy to rule, if you can free yourself of empathy, dignity and honor. The people in power are not true believers, they are psychopathic opportunists.
by gruez | 2026-01-08 17:36:07+00:00
>The material does not say how Penlink obtains the smartphone location data in the first place. But surveillance companies and data brokers broadly gather it in two different ways. The first is from small bundles of code included in ordinary apps called software development kits, or SDKs. SDK owners then pay the app developers, who might make things like weather or prayer apps, for their users’ location data. The second is through real-time bidding, or RTB. This is where companies in the online advertising industry place near instantaneous bids to get their advert in front of a certain demographic. A side effect is that companies can obtain data about peoples’ individual devices, including their GPS coordinates. Spy firms have sourced this sort of RTB information from hugely popular smartphone apps.

Sounds like if you're denying location permissions to shady apps (why would you allow in the first place?), you're probably fine.
by genewitch | 2026-01-08 17:36:24+00:00
you're on a country road with 1 lane in each direction, no reflectors, no fog line, and there's a lifted truck driving toward you with the brights on. There's a gentle curve in the road, to the left (you're driving on the right side of the road)

what do you do?

this happens every ~10 minutes on average when i drive between civil twilight and midnight. It stops being a problem after about 3AM. Maybe all the cool kids are asleep.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-08 17:37:09+00:00
The import restrictions (can't import) on Chinese connected vehicles. It isn't about tariffs, they just can't import them. However, since Waymo is adding custom electronics in the US (and the Chinese vehicle is shipped to them with none), this restriction doesn't apply.

This all comes from an article one year ago:

https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-finds-a-way-around-us-rest...

They still have to pay a 100% tariff on the vehicle they receive, but It is probably somewhere in the realm of just $10k-$20k since they are receiving fairly stripped down vehicles.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-08 17:37:16+00:00
the numbers I have seen suggest that institutional investors own about 500k of the ~100M residential properties in the US. Small investors probably own about 15M in total. Roughly 2M units are for sale, so even if every single institution-owned unit was for sale they wouldn't be able to exert much influence. The fact that this is a big, complex and widely distributed market IS the reason they can't distort it like they do with specific industries in a given geography.
by RRWagner | 2026-01-08 17:37:49+00:00
Pretty much every school in the US has students using touchscreen Chromebooks. It's funnyish when a young person tries to touch my MacBook screen to do a quick action, and I have to tell them that it's necessary to go to the touchpad, diddle a little to find the cursor, then do a move action to get to get to the target. Dragging is even more puzzling, touch and drag on a screen vs. move, double-tap or ctrl-click, then drag, then tap to release. I'm sure some will help me with faster touchpad methods, but that aside, I've used Mac laptops for 30+ years, and generally feel that those who perceive touchscreens as a gorilla-arm problem just haven't used a touchscreen laptop. They provide a much more efficient interface for some common actions. Touchscreens are so common now that most Windows and Chrome devices have them as the norm. Always strikes me as a bit strange that Apple-priced Mac laptops lack a feature found in low-price competitors.
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-08 17:38:06+00:00
>You can mess around with PYTHONPATH and importlib to work around that but that's a horrible hack that also breaks all tooling

....no.

import keyword uses importlib under the hood. It just does a lot of things for you like setting up namespace. But importlib has all the functionality to add the code in any python file cleanly.

My custom agent that I use basically has the functionality to wrap every piece of code it writes as a tool and stores it into python files. During tool calls, it pretty much dynamically imports that code as part of a module within the project. Works perfectly fine.
by resters | 2026-01-08 17:38:08+00:00
As someone who eats whole fruits and vegetables, some meat and fish, etc. already, I would like to feel more confident in the following:

- there is no way that any of the fish I am eating was from polluted water or contains any harmful chemicals.

- there is no way that any of the meat I am eating was sick, raised in horrible conditions, had cancer, had significant wounds or puss-producing sores, was fed the feces of other animals, was fed chemicals or hormones, etc.

- there is no way that any of the vegetables I am eating were watered with dirty water or fertilized or exposed to pesticides that are not 100% safe.
Ask HN: What's the current state of paraphrasing anonymyty tools?
by NooneAtAll3 | 2026-01-08 17:38:14+00:00
I don't think it's a secret anymore that you can be tracked statistically by your vocabulary - the "find your hackernews alt" posts with this attack have scored high several times now

But I don't think I've seen a satisfying solution yet? At the time, comments under those posts discussed a service or two that use Ai to paraphrase what you say - but it kinda against the whole point to give your original text away to someone to anonymize

Have there been any progress in open source local tools for this? And by progress I mean any examples at all to try out?
by amarant | 2026-01-08 17:38:16+00:00
Man this post is a rollercoaster. First half of the post I was absolutely starstruck by how amazing go is(I haven't had time to play with it myself yet), and was making mental note after mental note to try it out asap!

Then I got to the second half of the post, with the things he didn't like about go.

No enums? Wtf? Not having sum types is a lesser evil imo, it places you in the mediocre, but mediocre is mostly ok so that's kinda fine. But no enums? We're stuck with magic numbers? Hell naw, we banished that demon in the nineties, I ain't signing up to bring it back!