MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mekdoonggi | 2026-01-09 21:16:37+00:00
This person was trained extensively. If most human beings would not assume that the driver was trying to attack the agent, why should a trained agent not be held to a higher standard.

The safety of the citizens should be paramount. If this is how similar situations will be adjudicated in the future, it will give ICE tyrannical control of the lives of US citizens.
by agentifysh | 2026-01-09 21:17:05+00:00
I have mixed feelings about what's taking place in Iran. I am for liberation of Iranian people from theocracy but seems like nobody remembers how the Iranian Revolution came to be and why the Shah was unpopular.

My optimism is at best minimized because very few countries that were "liberated" are thriving vs most that remain in chaos or deadlocked into stagnation.

The only upside perhaps is that China loses 70% of its oil sources and that it may be hard to invade Taiwan as a result of these energy shocks and reliance on Russia one that coupled with economic downturn will inevitably lead to similar chaos taking place in Iran.

When people have no bread (or rice), they will fear nothing.
by verteu | 2026-01-09 21:17:18+00:00
It's a standardized mean difference, which I believe can roughly be interpreted as: "treated groups had 0.67 stddev lower depression score than control groups."

That's a pretty substantial improvement - consider someone who's more depressed than 75% of the population becoming completely average. (Because the 75th percentile is about 0.67stddev above the median.)
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-09 21:18:04+00:00
I posted a comment on here and then deleted it when I considered the topic.

From the guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities.... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

There are plenty of places online to discuss politics and current events and HN is intended to be something else.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-09 21:18:09+00:00
> younger generations in the West absolutely support military action against Israel

The West–and America in particular–has always had a contingent that believes in drawing foreign borders through force. Particularly in the Middle East. It goes back to Sykes and Picot.

I wouldn't put a war with Israel out of the cards in my lifetime. But it’s not happening in the next two decades—our neo-imperial ambitions have found purchase closer to home.
by mindslight | 2026-01-09 21:18:15+00:00
So to be clear, you haven't actually seen any definitive evidence that her goal was to physically impede ICE, yet you're jumping to that strong conclusion based on how she stopped the car? Why wouldn't you assume she was merely turning her car for a better filming/viewing angle, sparing us all from having to view one more video with an A-pillar smack in the middle?

> Renee and her wife were positioning their car

What do you mean they both were? Was it a drivers' ed car with pedals and steering wheel on both sides? Is co-driving some kind of lesbian thing I don't know about?

Listen, I assumed good faith here. I use some pretty strong language to condemn this regime and its cheerleaders, but I personally had been steelmanning Trump up through June of 2020 (when it had fully set in for me that he was dividing rather than leading us through Covid). I really want to be mistaken here - it would be fantastic to find out that my country actually isn't being taken over by fascists, right? I welcome anybody that convinces me this isn't the case!

But trying to discuss these events in an intellectual manner, it seems I always end up seeing these telltale signs of motivated reasoning - in this case casually mentioning a detail ("her wife") that has seemingly zero bearing on the situation, yet what it does do is emphasize her identity as part of an outgroup. Now like everything, I could be misjudging here. Perhaps I've jumped the gun and you've got some very valid reason why that little detail, and only that little detail, is relevant. Please do enlighten me.
by jjtheblunt | 2026-01-09 21:18:40+00:00
agreed. in one of the articles linked, they further summarize

"Dog ancestors diverged from modern wolf ancestors at least 27,000 years ago"

which is still compatible with the two diverged ancestries sharing a proto-canid ancestor from which proto-wolves and proto-dogs both were derived.

Interestingly, the article about Belgian prehistoric canid dna says the genetics are so varied that they don't form a clear group.
by burningChrome | 2026-01-09 21:18:50+00:00
>> I'm a non-competitive athlete

Honest question, but what do you mean by this?

I've played competitive team sports my whole life and have a very competitive drive. If its not team sports, its rock climbing where I feel like I'm competing against myself or my brain trying to solve a route. If I'm hiking, I'm competing against the clock or how far I can go. If I'm lifting weights, its about how many sets I can do and what weight in order to push myself.

So even in what most people deem "non-competitive" activities I'm still competing against a clock, or my body, or my brain.

I'm just curious what you meant is all.
by Lerc | 2026-01-09 21:18:54+00:00
You have to keep in mind that for anything like this, the platform has to exist before the ways to game the rules are thought up. To change things after the platform is up and running makes it a moving target and for something like this a fixed target is intrinsically part of the appeal.

Dwitter used the definition of what Twitter at the time used. The solution of https://beta.dwitter.net/ mitigates the lack of accessibility of the encoding, while keeping the fixed target at the same time introducing a new practical target.

The Math.sin css color encoder were concessions to practicality, there has been much discussion as to whether a Dwitter 2 should simply include additional characters required to the same preconfig and let people do it themselves, and let them use the characters for something else if they can think of something.

I'd like something like this just to see how creative people get in doing that. How small can you make a bit of JavaScript that copies every static method of Math to window?

and creativity is the goal here. No matter how people stretch the system, it can't be denied they have been doing so creatively.
by avidiax | 2026-01-09 21:19:10+00:00
My suspicion as someone with lifelong weight struggles and having tried GLP-1 medication: overweight people require more willpower to lose or maintain weight relative to those of normal weight.

So the advise or admonishment of the normally weighted that losing weight "just requires willpower" is true but facile.

If we were to medically induce a constant feeling of hunger and insatiability into a person of normal weight, I'm sure they could keep the weight off, but would find that their willpower is highly depleted.

There are medications that cause increased appetite and weight gain (ex: some bipolar depression medications, prednisolone). This effect is so pronounced, that if a doctor sees the patient not gaining weight, they will suspect non-compliance and have to rule it out. Of course, some patients use extreme diet and exercise (willpower) to avoid these effects, but a normal person accustomed to expending a normal amount of willpower to maintain weight will find themselves gaining.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-09 21:19:13+00:00
> There is no one in this World who will do things purely for altruistic purposes. Even if not for money, it would be for something intangible that ingratiates the Self (fame for example).

And pretty much none of that is threatened by AI. LLMs learning from code, or articles, found online, are at worst neutral to this, and in many ways beneficial. They're only negative if you're using your contribution as bait to hold your audience, in lieu of a more honest approach of openly selling it to them.

> Building a sustainable business model was a great way to justify open source. Not anymore.

Or poison it. Open Source as a business model was always an anti-competitive hack, similar to "free with ads": drive price down to 0, destroying any other way of making money in this space, including "honest exchange of money for value".
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-09 21:19:21+00:00
> Most people on the planet view this as a black and white issue. Zionists are the modern day Nazis and I don't see a lot of sympathy for them.

No. Most people see the nuance. There are a small number of extremists (on both sides, granted) who see this as a black-and-white issue requiring extermination.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-09 21:20:21+00:00
I urge you to pull yourself out of the radicalization spiral you're in. This video shows an innocent victim whose murderer will be prosecuted and convicted. He calls the victim a "fucking bitch" at the end, I'm genuinely baffled what twists of logic you're using to not see this.

I would emphasize since you mentioned it that I don’t intend any sort of threat. Despite the murderers’ best efforts, we do still live in a free country with free speech. Supporting murder is a terrible thing to do, and I will never in this lifetime hold the hand of someone who does, but it isn’t a crime and doesn’t deserve anything other than deep and enduring shame.
by jmward01 | 2026-01-09 21:20:37+00:00
Not the topic of the article, but security of opening anything up in my network is always super concerning. I really want a zero-advertise way to find and connect to my network. So, for instance, there could be a trusted server that I advertise my IP to so that I can find it when I am off my local network. Not dynamic dns, something that requires me to send them a key so that only my devices can get the IP. Then, some form of port knocking could hide the connection port actually used like I send a sequence of knocks based on my key encoding the port I will use to actually try to connect my VPN so that I can rotate that around. A bit overkill but I am paranoid now. It is a jungle out there and security is hard for experts much less people like me.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-09 21:20:38+00:00
Yeah, in low-fraud scenarios it's a very good idea. Otherwise, though, you have the problem of what happens when a robber takes it.

I'm thinking a ring type device might be better--put a pulse oximeter into it, you unlock it with your phone, it remains unlocked only so long as it gets basically perfect data from the oximeter, locks if it fails for a second. Thus said robber can neither snatch your ring nor cut off your finger and use it. I like the metal mesh straps that can hold my device very snugly against my skin without being tight and that would be good enough, but a looser strap would not.
by rapatel0 | 2026-01-09 21:20:44+00:00
Profit is the life blood of a business. It’s what pays for, mistakes, new ideas, responding to changes in the market. It tells you your are doing good things and that you are doing them well

It’s the engineering tolerance that allows a company to operate and remain reliable.

It’s amazing to me that engineers don’t understand this concept.

(Clarification, not talking about excess profits)
by j-krieger | 2026-01-09 21:21:07+00:00
188 Criminal Code Insult, defamation and slander directed against persons in political life[1]:

(1) If an insult (§ 185) is committed against a person involved in the political life of the people, either publicly, at a meeting or by disseminating content (§ 11 (3)), for reasons related to the position of the offended person in public life, and if the act is likely to significantly impede their public activities, the penalty shall be imprisonment for up to three years or a fine. The political life of the people extends to the local level.

(2) Under the same conditions, defamation (§ 186) shall be punished with imprisonment from three months to five years, and slander (§ 187) with imprisonment from six months to five years.

This law is commonly criticized by free speech activists in Germany, as well as liberal parties like Die Linke and FDP. It was updated to be even harsher by our last government. David Bendels received a sentence of 7 months for posting an edited insulting picture of Nancy Faeser, Germany's last minister for interior affairs. The case sparked an international outcry and got a lot of press coverage [2]. Note that ironically the doctored image showed Faeser holding a sign with the message "I hate freedom of speech".

[1]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__188.html
[2]: https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/germany-insult...
by browningstreet | 2026-01-09 21:21:21+00:00
If you eat poorly, those foods will not satiate and the "hunger" (it's not the hunger of a body starved of calories) persists. Eat for sustenance and the hunger you may feel will be different.

I also know that if I overeat, I have a strong urge to keep feeding (more chips, more pizza, more chipsahoy). Whereas when I eat a proper meal, I'm fine when the eating of that meal ends.
by mothballed | 2026-01-09 21:21:35+00:00
The entire US immigration schema has always been based on collective punishment. USA requires visa from countries where people have been less likely to return. They have the most onerous scrutiny in places with the lowest compliance rates. If a foreign leader does something we don't like, we might punish their entire population by even banning any of them from easily coming.

I don't agree with the bond personally, nor the idea of collective punishment, I'll just note it follows a principle that is generally followed on the world stage with a few notable exceptions like Svalbard.
by trympet | 2026-01-09 21:21:59+00:00
Yep, hyperscalers go on and on about the "fungible" datacenter capacity in their earning calls as a hedge for a sudden decrease in demand. I could see a scenario where there would be an abundance of GPU capacity, but I’m sure we’d find uses for those too. For instance, there are classic data retrieval workloads that can be accelerated using GPUs.
by metaphysicalyes | 2026-01-09 21:22:01+00:00
> If anything, it indicts Gruber for wanting to bandwagon

I am all for bandwagoning if it makes a dent in spread of fascism. I am all for bandwagoning behind keeping mothers alive. I am all for bandwagoning for the right to human dignity.

> She accelerated against the officer, hit them, he defended himself

By that standard all drivers in Manhattan will be dead within couple of months. Standing in front of a car which is clearly trying to move and on contact shooting two times from the side window is not the cheat code to kill you think it is.

Why do you feel the need to make disingenuous claims?
by vntok | 2026-01-09 21:22:04+00:00
Your mental model is wrong. Read the post again, slowly, and it will probably make more sense to you. Here are the relevant bits

> This gives us the string `00000034` to uniquely represent this specific set of promotions, without information loss.

> How many possible strings are there? Generating this by brute force, we end up with 495 distinct strings

> This can be stored in 9 bits for each side

Hint: 2^9 is 512 and 512 > 495
by hbn | 2026-01-09 21:22:54+00:00
“Better” is debatable.

With Google doing everything in its power to end ad blocking, I’ve made a real attempt to switch to Firefox and Firefox-based browsers. I unpinned Chrome from my taskbar and only popped into it when I needed to. Over the span of a couple months, eventually the Chrome window never got closed… Eventually it was pinned to my taskbar again… And at some point it was my default browser again and all I was using.

I don’t like how Firefox handles tab groups, I don’t want to rely on extensions to fix that, I don’t like their dev tools, I don’t like how their private window shortcut is different from what every other browser uses with no way to change it, I personally think it’s ugly, I could go on.

I tried alternatives like Zen but I end up not liking their weird ideas of how a browser should be used, and trusting small FOSS project maintainers to ship a stable, secure browser has not been great in my experience.

Chrome is boring and reliable which is really what I want. Edge is a slightly worse version of it due to Microsoft incompetence/lack of taste but I’d still rather use that than Firefox.
by anildash | 2026-01-09 21:23:33+00:00
I liked Textile a lot better initially, and it came out first. And interestingly, both launched at the same time on the platform (Movable Type) where Markdown debuted. So it really was sort of a clean A-B test about which one users chose.

This piece was already pretty long, so I cut out most of the sidebar about Dean Allen and Textile, but he was a special guy, and certainly influential on so many parts of this era, not just Markdown.
by icyfox | 2026-01-09 21:23:37+00:00
At the risk of being overly pedantic, topologists would typically classify this as venom.

Venom is inert if digested; it's only a problem if it gets in your blood stream. So arrows that were laced with venom and thereby contaminated meat were actually perfectly safe to eat.

Poison is different. If ingested, inhaled, or absorbed it will kill you.
by vunderba | 2026-01-09 21:24:06+00:00
Thanks for the support. Honestly, I probably shouldn’t get so defensive either, it’s a bad habit and a pretty poor "evolutionary holdover" in the internet age of anonymity and social media.

I thought one way to help mitigate my emotional responses was to desensitize myself, but who really wants to expose themselves to the requisite sufficient threshold of personal attacks? That’s not exactly a fun callus to develop.
by hairofadog | 2026-01-09 21:24:25+00:00
The fourth amendment of the constitution says

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

However, our Supreme Court is out of control, and Justice Kavanaugh recently issued a ruling allowing racial profiling, meaning people can be detained for looking a certain way. These sorts of racially motivated detentions are now known as "Kavanaugh Stops": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanaugh_stop

So ICE agents don't have to suspect them of any crime; if they "look illegal", they can be detained and deported without due process.
by filchermcurr | 2026-01-09 21:24:26+00:00
I'm not sure this is the type of depression being talked about here. It's unfortunate that we have conflated periods of being sad / down with clinical depression. I have no doubt that reading a book or cleaning the kitchen or accomplishing a goal can help with feeling down or general sadness, but clinical depression is a whole separate beast without such easy a fix.
by dahart | 2026-01-09 21:24:27+00:00
I wouldn’t phrase it that way. Relying on willpower is a recipe for failure. Humans generally don’t have enough willpower, it goes for most things, even when you don’t have strong physiological forces involved. The key to getting a diet to work is in figuring out how to not require willpower, which means thinking about it differently, forming new habits. Stress and social environment also need attention or they will steamroll your goals.
by Someone | 2026-01-09 21:24:32+00:00
> a fun way to consider an upper bound on the total number of board states and therefore how hard it is to 'solve' chess compared to a game like checkers

That and therefore doesn’t follow. As a counterexample, consider a NIM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim) game starting with a googolplex number of piles of size 1. That has way more board states than chess or go, but is easily solved, as the game is trivial.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-09 21:24:34+00:00
> This person was trained extensively.

Has that been established? Perhaps you have more faith in US police than I.

> If most human beings would not assume that the driver was trying to attack the agent

If you mean most human beings if in the agents place, then this has definitely not been established. And this particular agent was dragged by a car just a few months prior [1], so it's likely he was too trigger happy as a result.

I do agree he has no business with a gun and badge, and there should probably be some criminal charges involved, but all in all it looks like an overreaction, not a cold-blooded execution as some try to frame it, and not much different than the many other borderline police shootings that happen every year. Their number can be reduced, but not eliminated. And contrary to popular belief, ranked by number of police killings per homicide, the US is comparable to most countries.

> The safety of the citizens should be paramount.

If you google for "killed by immigrant" [2], it's not at all clear that disregarding immigration law and leaving borders open doesn't harm citizen safety.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/08/ice-jo...

[2] I've kindly assembled a few examples (among others), in case Google decides to only return "immigrant killed by" results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558388
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-09 21:24:53+00:00
> Would you say that the Linux Foundation is a net positive on the software ecosystem?

On the software ecosystem? Maybe. For society? Now that's a difficult question, and I haven't really made up my mind on that yet.

On the one hand, OSS in general is a great win in terms of innovation. On the other hand, it pretty much destroyed the ability to make money on software directly in a honest way - exchanging money for providing value. This, in turn, became a major driver of turning everything into subscription, and for the surveillance economy.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-09 21:25:12+00:00
The concern about individual ownership of general purpose computing is of concern to a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of people. In the USA, at least, even more basic issues that should matter to a large portion of the population don't because they're distracted by "culture wars" and "wedge issues".

Money is speech, and speech builds political power. Industry lobbies have vastly more money than the minuscule number of people to whom this matters.

On top of that, the market doesn't want general purpose computers. The market wants TikTok terminals and selfie cams. The market wants "content consumption", "AI slop", and "influencers".

If there's no market for what I want it doesn't matter if it's legislated out of existence or not. Nobody will build it if nobody will buy it.

Then there's the apologists for big tech who cry "But they're not computers, they're phones!" when the fact is brought up that we're all carrying general purpose supercomputers bristling with sensors and radios in our pockets but we're not allowed to own them or use them for what we want. (Cue sob stories about clearing malware from oldsters' computers in 3... 2... 1...)

Technologists (who I'd argue should want general purpose computing in the hands of the masses) can't make any money re-architecting the OS and application metaphors and paradigms that give rise to the malware-laden cesspools of end users PCs so they just direct their efforts to working at big tech building the walled-garden prisons that we're all going to be forced into.

It's hard not to feel like I have to accept this fate.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-09 21:25:13+00:00
Aren't those Fritz!Box routers (common in Europe) precisely examples of "shitty routers with terrible security?"

The first thing I would do with a typical residential Internet connection is to ask the ISP to give me an ONT so that I can use my own router, a commodity x86 PC running Linux. Their underpowered plastic boxes simply won't cut it when it comes to complex firewall rules and high VPN throughput. I also don't want to deal with their shitty web UIs and would rather script the setup I want.