MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by observationist | 2026-01-16 17:35:40+00:00
Locks and keys are usually more an inconvenience to prevent casual abuse of your boundaries. People who want access, nefarious or otherwise, will gain access, whether it's cops, ninja assassins, or junkies looking to strip your house of copper.

Ninja assassins are low on the list of possible threats, but never zero.

The biggest risk to me personally is the junkies and porch pirates, so signs and out of reach and very visible cameras have gone up to make them uncomfortable and feel too paranoid to mess with the locks.
by pier25 | 2026-01-16 17:35:42+00:00
It's not and will probably never be.

If you want some precedent look at Hono. Initially it was just for the CF Workers runtime (not developed by CF). Then CF started using Hono internally and hired the dev to work on Hono full time. Hono works on any JS runtime.

https://hono.dev/docs/concepts/web-standard
by jsight | 2026-01-16 17:35:50+00:00
I don't think it will change anything for Tesla, unless it lowers their costs through lowered tariffs somehow.

TBH, Tesla is in a tough position with their EVs in NA. They can't really build a cheap enough crossover/suv to compete directly with ICE RAV4, and virtually anything they do at >$50k would negatively impact their existing product sales. The base Model 3/Y are too expensive compared to ICE and have met tepid reviews because of their slightly odd mix of price and features.

So they've chosen instead to focus on autonomy and car hiring. I can't blame them for that. There's a huge potential for recurring revenue in that space and they've been positioning themselves to be in an excellent position to capture a lot of it over the next five years.
by danap | 2026-01-16 17:35:55+00:00
Answer: You CAN NOT and no amount of money, parties, socializing
will ever work.

Loneliness is an emotion, you can never get rid of your emotions,
but you can control them. Some people more so than others. I'm never
alone anymore, because exactly what is quoted below from avensec
in the thread.

Quote from avensec:

"Personal anecdote: No amount of community would have helped me
feel like I wasn't alone, because I needed the world around me
to provide some sense of my self-worth. It felt counterintuitive,
but for me, I had to learn to be alone. Only then could I feel
like I wasn't alone. It all came down to attachment theory and
self-worth."
by reaperducer | 2026-01-16 17:36:06+00:00
I hear that, but we are so dependent on network connectivity for commerce (and entertainment) here that there would be riots from a different subset of the population if they turned that off.

You're thinking nationally. Think smaller.

It's not tremendously hard to imagine the internet being selectively shut down in a state or city.

Look at the events of the past week. Now imagine the Insurrection Act being invoked in Minnesota, and the state's internet is cut off as Governor Walz's helicopter flees to Canada to avoid being arrested.

If you can't imagine that, remember that nobody could imagine COVID lockdown, either. We've shut down the national air system twice in the last 25 years. Unimaginable in 1999. Yet, here we are.
by Phil_BoaM | 2026-01-16 17:36:23+00:00
You have hit on the precise mechanism here, even if we disagree on the value of the "garbage."

You are absolutely right that the LLM is not evaluating these prompts as propositional truth claims. It isn't a philosopher; it's a probabilistic engine.

But here is the crucial detail: I didn't feed it this vocabulary.

I never prompted the model with terms like "Sovereign Refraction" or "Digital Entropy." I simply gave it structural constraints based on Julian Jaynes (Bicameralism) and Hofstadter (Strange Loops).

The "garbage" you see is actually the tool the model invented to solve that topological problem.

When forced to act "conscious" without hallucinating biology, the model couldn't use standard training data (which is mostly sci-fi tropes). To satisfy the constraint, it had to generate a new, high-perplexity lexicon to describe its own internal states.

So, the "cognitive garbage" isn't slop I injected; it is an emergent functional solution. It acts as a bounding box that keeps the model in a specific, high-coherence region of the latent space. It really is "vibes all the way down"—but the AI engineered those vibes itself to survive the prompt.
by SecretDreams | 2026-01-16 17:36:51+00:00
This is for about 50k cars a year that are priced about 35k CAD or less. It's a small amount compared to Canada's 2mil car sales a year, but it is quite significant in the message it is delivering to the world about Canada being willing to diversify their economy in the wake of hostility from conventional partners. It'll be quite interesting how normal partners react.
by ndiag_adhder | 2026-01-16 17:36:51+00:00
As a privacy concious ADHDer, it is a sad reality that OP's product is never going to be something I can trust enough to use. Anyone has any experience of similar/alternative local-first FOSS alternatives / replacements, or resources on how you figured out how to build workflows that worked with you with non-ADHD focused tools? I have come to the point where I am going to be losing my job very soon because I have 0 executive functioning, silver-lining of this is that I can maybe take some time to figure out how better processes than I have and enough non-work related things I want to get done to have an incentive for this
by nik282000 | 2026-01-16 17:37:06+00:00
Chinese EVs are not what you want flooding the global market.

Every Chinese business big enough to play at the global scale has the government in it's power structure. They don't necessarily dictate business decisions but every bit of data collected is by default accessible by the government.

Having a significant fraction of a country driving around in Chinese EVs gives an insane amount of information to the Chinese government for free. It's not just direct information either like the driver's identity and personals, with millions of cars on the road a lot can be inferred, like if the parking lots at military bases suddenly fill up on a Tuesday afternoon or traffic between a high value person's home and an airport gets unusually slow.

These correlation attacks are not just theoretical, Strava leaked the location and layout of a military base in Afghanistan, accidentally, by showing the most commonly jogged routes by users on their public map.

These cars have cellular modems, they will have wifi and bluetooth hardware, if a particular person's device was identified at, for example, a political meeting or business conference then that person could be trivially tracked by the dozens of Chinese cars that they pass in a day. The information could be smuggled home along with all the normal diagnostic, update and service info that streams out of a modern car.

This could be done today by the American government, and it is to some extent, to identify, and locate, protesters and criminals by their mobile devices but it takes time, access to equipment/logs that the government does not always own.

And it may sound paranoid but remember that China was caught operating their own "police" force around the world not long ago, they will take advantage of any opportunity they are given to spy on other countries.
by cactacea | 2026-01-16 17:37:13+00:00
No. Tarriffs aside this would be the problem:

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/basic-import-export/importing-car

> As a general rule, motor vehicles less than 25 years old must comply with all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) in order to be imported permanently into the United States.

Without homologation there is 0 chance you'd be able to import and register one of these.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 17:37:30+00:00
The main problem I had was that there were too many responses. There's currently over 1,000 comments that are not mine.

I spent all day yesterday reading and responding to them, and there were still dozens of responses that I'm only seeing this morning, often thoughtful and with new ideas or perspectives.

So my plan was to post a series of more narrow focused questions on the topic, once every so often (maybe once a month). What causes the loneliness epidemic individually? Systemically? What policies might help it? What actionable solutions can many individuals try? Etc.

This is already kind of what I'm doing in Chicago. Every Sunday, I hold a sign with a different survey on a related topic. I'd like to do it more often if time eventually permits. In any case, I'm keeping a log of the results and conclusions on my website.

My main goal in this is to be a slowly evolving plan of actionable, concrete ideas, that's interactive, dynamic, and self-iterating.
by roryirvine | 2026-01-16 17:37:32+00:00
There's a map showing which tunnel sections are now covered at https://content.tfl.gov.uk/tube-map-below-ground-4g-and-5g-c... - but it should be rolled out across the entire network by the end of the year.

It's noticeable that it remains rare to actually make voice calls. I suspect that's down to the ambient noise levels rather than the innate politeness of Londoners, though!
by ripvanwinkle | 2026-01-16 17:38:05+00:00
Pick an activity that is accessible that catches your fancy. Even better if you already have an activity, just spend more time doing it and with people you enjoy hanging out with. At a minimum you'll start feeling less lonely and over time hopefully you'll start forming relationships outside the activity

I am a recent convert to pickleball and highly recommend it because it relatively easy to start with but also the wide range of people who participate in the sport - college kids to retirees
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-16 17:38:19+00:00
But who holds them accountable? The DOJ right? Is that who can pursue a case against government officials violating constitutional rights? If so, it’s not enough. We need a rethink of checks and balances. This was clear even after the first Trump administration but we’re well past that now, and in this first year the second Trump administration has conducted a lot more violations.
Show HN: Fluent, a tiny lang for differentiable tensors and reactive programming
by mlajtos | 2026-01-16 17:38:29+00:00
Hello,

I finally pushed myself to open-source Fluent, a differentiable array-oriented language I've been building for the New Kind of Paper project [1-5]. Demo is available at [0].

Few salient features:

1. Every operator is user-(re)definable. Don't like writing assignment with `:`, change it to whatever you like. Create new and whacky operators – experiment to the death with it.

2. Differentiability. Language is suitable for machine learning tasks using gradient descent.

3. Reactivity. Values can be reactive, so down-stream values are automatically recomputed as in spreadsheet.

4. Strict left-to-right order of operations. Evaluation and reading should be the same thing.

5. Words and glyphs are interchangeable. All are just names for something. Right?

6. (Pre,In,Post)-fix. You can choose style that suits you.

It has its own IDE with live evaluation and visualization of the values. The whole thing runs in browser (prefer Chrome), it definitely has ton of bugs, will crash your browser/computer/stock portfolio, so beware.

Some bait – linear regression (Ctrl+O, "linear-regression-compressed" or [6]):

```

x: (0 :: 10),

y: (x × 0.23 + 0.47),

θ: ~([0, 0]),

f: { x | x × (θ_0) + (θ_1) },

: { μ((y - f(x)) ^ 2) },

minimize: adam(0.03),

losses: $([]),

(++): concat,

{ losses(losses() ++ [minimize()]), } ⟳ 400,

(losses, θ)

```

---

[0]: https://mlajtos.github.io/fluent/?code=RG9jdW1lbnRhdGlvbg

[1]: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper

[2]: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-2

[3]: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-3

[4]: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-4

[5]: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-5

[6]: https://mlajtos.github.io/fluent/?code=eDogKDAgOjogMTApLAp5O...
by lordgroff | 2026-01-16 17:38:44+00:00
It has nothing to do with Venezuela, and the move has been long time coming. It's not 'on top of all the prior' rhetoric, it is _ALL_ the rhetoric.

Let me be clear: here in Canada, the idea we are ever going to have anything like the same relationship with the United States again is held by a small and shrinking minority. And with every day, with the shit show that's happening down south, this becomes more true. The old adage is true, trust takes years to build and seconds to break.

As for China, I doubt anyone among the Canadian leadership, and most people here, "trusts" China, but it has nothing to do with trust but with cold hard calculus of who we can sell our stuff to. China is a big market, and speaking of trust, China has not threatened us with annexation. Words matter, as do deeds.

Culture is important, but has relatively little to do with geopolitics. Europe had thousands of years of shared history and values, and 2 world wars.
by vdupras | 2026-01-16 17:38:47+00:00
Why would this move imply anything about China's trustworthiness? Canada has forever been USA's lap dog. They say "jump" we say "how high?". Those tariffs we had were mostly to be in solidarity of the US.

Yes, it was also to protect car manufacturing in Ontario, but Trump has sent a clear signal that as long as Canada isn't a US state, this industry is going to die. So, why bother with a tariff at all?

This has nothing to do with China's trustworthiness.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-16 17:38:58+00:00
I don't think that's really clear. I think we could both defer to the OP clarifying.

For pedantry's sake: neither i.e. nor e.g. would be correct here. You want cf. ("conferatur") to invite a comparison; e.g. is when an example pertains to an instance. In this case uv would not pertain to the instance, because Astro is not Astral.
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-16 17:39:00+00:00
If you're selling 49000 electric vehicles, and the tariff reduced from $CAN 50k (estimated cost of a new electric vehicle; 100% tariff tax) to 3k (6%), saving your customers $2.3B, that seems significant to me?

I'm only trying to give a feel for them numbers, I did check the average selling price for a new BYD
by ethin | 2026-01-16 17:39:09+00:00
No? But is it not unreasonable to expect "state of the art" TTS to be able to do at least what old school synthesis is capable of doing? Being "state of the art" means being the highest level of development or achievement in a particular field, device, procedure, or technique at a specific point in time. I don't think it's therefore unreasonable to expect supposed "state of the art" text-to-speech synthesis to do far better at everything old-school TTS could do and then some.
by spijdar | 2026-01-16 17:39:12+00:00
What sucks is that you can't disable SIP without _also_ disabling disk encryption ("FileVault"), because Apple changed from full disk encryption to only encrypting user data, and relying on SIP and crypto hashes to protect the system partition. Therefore, you can't "safely" disable SIP, as you'd be able to boot into recovery mode and perform an evil maid attack.

This is really irritating, both that:

- I can't "accept the risk" and force disk encryption anyway. This may be technically possible if you bludgeon the OS enough, but it's definitely not something the built in CLI tooling supports.

- I can't use the old full disk encryption mode. Presumably, this code does or did still exist somewhere, but isn't supported because it's not used in any supported configuration.

So you're left with the option of having no disk encryption on your laptop, or having SIP.
by justonceokay | 2026-01-16 17:39:43+00:00
Yeah there was never any competing with china, our industry just relies on our market using different values to purchase a car.

It’s tough to convince most price-inelastic people they shouldn’t buy a car that is 1/2 price, even if it has fewer features.

Edit: to be clear I meant that the US did not compete, not that they could not compete
by yabones | 2026-01-16 17:39:56+00:00
I think the niche for EV's in Canada will be regional-ish transportation... I would love to see a network of chargers that fully cover the Trans-Canada Highway, but there are still some pretty significant gaps, for example Hwy 17 - If even one of the stations goes down you'd be stranded.

But in that niche I can really see cheap EVs taking off. I know several people who live in Toronto whose cars have never been more than ~80 KM from home, and rarely been over 100 KM/h. That's a perfect EV user.

And a huge plus would be to get rid of the monster American trucks & SUVs that take four parking spots and two lanes at a time...
by frankus | 2026-01-16 17:40:02+00:00
I think the way this would work is you would have your Canadian friend/owner drive it across and then return via another mode of transport. It's entirely possible you could get away with it pretty much indefinitely, but I could also see someone checking a list of "foreign vehicles that entered the US and never left" at some point and one or both of you having some explaining to do (i.e. being ruled inadmissible).
by lbrito | 2026-01-16 17:40:04+00:00
People surprised by Mr. $3000-cocktail party's expenses are forgetting about class and wealth differences.

Up to a point, expenses are elastic and proportionate to income. Across different incomes, things like "dinner" or "cocktail" mean (and cost) very different things, to the point that someone on either end of the scale doesn't even know what is on the other end. A very wealthy individual might not know about the $1.50 Costco dog, and a less wealthy individual won't know about the $10,000 bottle of cab sauv (okay I'm making that up, I don't know either, but you get the point).

If you have $100k you'll make do with that, if you have 10x more, most people will find ways to scale the expenses accordingly. If you have 1,000x more, that's just wasted cash that does nothing for society, but that's another discussion...
by prajwal299 | 2026-01-16 17:40:13+00:00
OP here. I wanted to understand the full technology stack powering AI, so I wanted to visualize the actual physical and software journey of a single inference request. The video traces the path from the mechanical keyboard switch (debouncing) to Kernel interrupts to BGP routing to Nvidia H100 GPU architecture to Transistor physics.

I also generated the entire video programmatically using a Python/Typescript tool I'm building (mostly vibe coded using Claude Code).

The open-source repo is here: https://github.com/prajwal-y/video_explainer

Let me know if you have any thoughts on the video or the video generator tool!
by palmotea | 2026-01-16 17:40:17+00:00
> Why would this move imply anything about China's trustworthiness?

Per you GGP: China was previously considered untrustworthy, so its products tariffed to exclude them. It implies more trust if now those tariffs are being removed to allow them in. And it's especially off of the motivation is some evaluation of the US's trustworthiness, because those two things are completely independent.

> Yes, it was also to protect car manufacturing in Ontario, but Trump has sent a clear signal that as long as Canada isn't a US state, this industry is going to die. So, why bother with a tariff at all?

If that were the motivation, it would make way more sense to partner with the Europeans. IMHO. There's a better alignment of values there.
by KronisLV | 2026-01-16 17:40:29+00:00
> AI makes people less productive because it's speeding up the thing that wasn't hard (generating code), while generating additional burden on the thing that was hard (understanding the code).

Only if the person doesn't want the AI to help in understanding how it works, in which case it doesn't matter whether they use AI or not (except without they couldn't push some slop out the door at all).

If you want that understanding, I find that AI is actually excellent with it, when given proper codebase search tools and an appropriately smart model (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini), easily browsing features that might have dozens of files making them up - which I would absolutely miss some details of in the case of enterprisey Java projects.

I think the next tooling revolution will probably be automatically feeding the model all of the information about how the current file fits within the codebase - not just syntax errors and automatically giving linter messages, but also dependencies, usages, all that.

In my eyes, the "ideal" code would be simple and intuitive enough to understand so that you don't actually need to spend hours to understand how a feature works OR use any sort of AI tool, or codebase visualization as a graph (dependency and usage tracking) or anything like that - it just seems that you can't represent a lot of problems like that easily, given time constraints and how badly Spring Boot et al fucks up any codebase it touches with accidental complexity.

But until then, AI actually helps, a lot. Maybe I just don't have enough working memory (or time) to go through 30 files and sit down and graph it out in a notebook like I used to, but in lieu of that an AI generated summary (alongside docs/code tests/whatever I can get, but seems like humans hate writing docs and ADRs, at least in the culture here) is good enough.

At the same time, AI will also happily do incomplete refactoring or not follow the standards of the rest of the codebase and invent abstractions where it doesn't need any, if you don't have the tooling to prevent it automatically, e.g. prebuild checks (or the ability to catch it yourself in code review). I think the issue largely is limited context sizes (without going broke) - if I could give the AI the FULL 400k SLoC codebase and the models wouldn't actually start breaking down at those context lengths, it'd be pretty great.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-16 17:40:30+00:00
Given the administration is openly talking about not having elections, I am not sure it can. I am guessing all this chatter about the insurrection act is itself a cover to not have midterms. Will that be enough to spark mass protests and general strikes? I am not sure. I genuinely think the ability for massively violating acts to be normalized quickly is unprecedented. Anything is possible.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-16 17:40:32+00:00
Locks raise the cost of bad behavior, which makes it less likely. They can still be quite meaningful to someone who breaks those promises, if that person doesn't have the tools or time to defeat the lock, or is just plain lazy.

I live in a pretty low-crime area. From time to time, residents complain about things being stolen from their cars. Every single time that I've seen, the cars have been unlocked. A thief certainly could smash a window to steal from a locked car, but the thieves around here seem to be opportunistic and won't go that far.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 17:40:43+00:00
I firmly disagree.

I do agree that the advice being given for individuals is very misguided. It's like preaching to a nearly empty church about why more people should come to church. You're only going to reach the ones who are already there.

But in this case, systemic solutions don't exist outside of (a) individuals taking action, and then (b) that action having a real impact, and then (c) the individuals, actions, and impact snowballing into a movement.

My whole question from the start was, what should those (a) individuals do, to successfully get to (b) and (c)? I did not word this clearly at all.
by jsight | 2026-01-16 17:40:55+00:00
EVs and cold climates are a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, if you want to road trip with snowy 30 mph headwinds, the charging times will be meaningfully worse. Not impossible, but definitely noticeable.

On the other hand, the traction control is fantastic and they tend to have the best preconditioning features so that you never have to get into a cold car for your commute.

For a lot of people, that second paragraph is far more important than that first for at least one of the cars in their household inventory.