MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Qmppu842 | 2026-01-14 17:55:07+00:00
Some newbies seem to go for rules like:
It is illegal to take even number as punishment.
Or
You can only play sevens in pairs.
Or
King skips next one.

Games between my brothers and me, rules such as:
Specific card plays from next player.
Or
You are allowed to play +- 1 instead of exact same.

Nasty ones like:
Third red is illegal.
You are not allowed to put card, that would make sum of last three to be more than 15.

Those are quite fun.
But probably my all time favorite is:
"Eights live backwards"

I could live it at that, but the deeper explanation is that it is illegal to keep eights in had same way to other cards and it must be played up-side down.

This rule is the one my brother broke when he was shuffling the deck and got thought about "fixing" the eights.

Since some rules can be really rare and some really common, we started to do in expert games that the rule maker can set the card penalty.
Multiple times per play? Basic 2 card punishment.
~once per game? 3-4

Rarer than that? +5, go wild as is the name of the game.

With newbies, standard 2 card punishment keeps things simple.

When each person have 2-4 rules from them and to keep all the other hidden rules in mind, the fun is chaos and chaos is fun.

It is also cool to debrief after and discuss with people if anyone managed to guess the others rules.
by jasongross | 2026-01-14 17:55:33+00:00
There is a tradeoff between the compute required to generate a proof and the compute required to check it. Fully generic methods such as SMT solvers require compute exponential in the number of variables in scope and lines of code in a single function. Breaking the exponential requires (and is perhaps equivalent to) understanding the code in sufficient detail (cf https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11779). In practice, the computational cost of semi-automated proof generation is a significant bottleneck, cf
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/130763?show=full and https://jasongross.github.io/papers/2022-superlinear-slownes... .
by cons0le | 2026-01-14 17:55:46+00:00
Im talking about making full melt distillate. Crappy dab sludge can't go in a cart. It requires actual distillation to make what they put in the carts. QWISO is a joke.

I promise you, if it was easy, you would see more people making carts. I tried C02, water wash, sifting, heat press, everything you can think of. Its nowhere near the same. And that's just for the bare minimum distillate. We're not even talking about live resin or anything fancy.

You basically need a small factory to get close to the quality of the carts.

And my home grow prices are low. You cant just grow 2 or 4 plants if you want even a small steady supply of full melt wax. Like, 20 plants minimum is more close. And they have to be good. Living soil, aeroponic, whatever you want.

And that's if you can get actually good yield. I've seen people get such bad yield that they turn 1 pound of flower into less than 3 grams of wax. That's why you need an expert. Even putting together a successful distillation operation is no joke. Besides chemistry knowledge, you need lots of "industrial equipment" knowledge. We're not talking about using a heat press or a curling iron to make "dabs". We're talking about making the real shit.

To be honest 10k is in the range of the cheapest alibaba eqipment. Most commercial outfits, even smaller ones, use much more expensive equipment.

This is why people prefer to just buy it from the store for $20.
by mr-karan | 2026-01-14 17:55:55+00:00
Just want to say thanks for creating Vector. We use it heavily at Zerodha and wrote about our setup here: https://zerodha.tech/blog/logging-at-zerodha/

It replaced both Filebeat and Logstash for us with a single binary that actually has sane resource usage (no more JVM nightmares). VRL turned out to be way more powerful than we could imagine - we do all our log parsing, metadata enrichment, and routing to different ClickHouse tables in one place. The agent/aggregator topology with disk buffering is pretty dope.

Genuinely one of my favorite pieces of infra software. Good luck with Tero.
by stetrain | 2026-01-14 17:55:57+00:00
Absolutely. I consider that to be primarily Biden's fault for not announcing in advance that he would not seek a second term. After that point, I think each decision made was the best that could be done at the time to minimize the damage.

There have absolutely been cases of VPs becoming President without ever winning their own primary though, and I doubt most would describe those cases as DEI despite demographics often playing a large part in VP picks.
by cc_core | 2026-01-14 17:55:58+00:00
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by stereo | 2026-01-14 17:56:08+00:00
tl;dr: The full list of countries comprises of Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen
by rmah | 2026-01-14 17:56:12+00:00
You are conflating legal and illegal immigrants. The visa restrictions are on legal immigrants. And while, as a legal immigrant myself, I would like to think that the vast majority of legal immigrants work hard and contribute positively to the country, it is a fact that certain groups in certain regions have an extremely high usage of social welfare programs (SNAP, Medicaid, etc), sometimes exceeding 80%. This is cause for some concern, IMO as it suggests problems of one sort or another. All that said, I have doubts that the administration's new visa restrictions will have a meaningful impact. Of course, I've been wrong before :shrug:.
by graemep | 2026-01-14 17:56:24+00:00
A lot of countries already do this. You cannot get visas to most developed countries if you are likely to become a "public charge". In general, its a lot easier to get a visa if you are from a rich and stable country (or are rich yourself), and if you look at where countries allow visa free travel to citizens of another country the countries on this list are unlikely to qualify!
by butlike | 2026-01-14 17:56:35+00:00
Yes there's hold music, and yes there's <pink> noise for falling asleep (has a falloff), but in either case I personally don't think it should be on Spotify/another generic music streaming service.

Put a different way, if I'm listening to music on random, and Led Zeppelin finishes, do I want there to be a chance of pink noise or elevator music playing after that song? Not really, but if "it's all on Spotify," then it could happen
by wat10000 | 2026-01-14 17:56:39+00:00
Unfortunately, the 56kbps internet was a lot more usable. I've been on 256kbps cellular connections (T-Mobile free international roaming) and it works, but it's pretty bad. Everything takes way more data these days, and nobody thinks about slow connections when writing software so there are a ton of overly aggressive timeouts and bad UI that assume operations won't take more than few seconds.
by slwvx | 2026-01-14 17:56:49+00:00
Good luck with the upgrades! This looks like a useful tool.

I noticed two things immediately about the UI: the complete absence of rounded rects [1] (which seem to be everywhere, except HN), and the embeded windows (e.g. for Executive orders) with their own scroll bars and window controls. These two things different than my (not-so-educated) view of the rest of the web and took me a second to get used to.

I hope you continue to improve the site!

[1] https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html
by steffan | 2026-01-14 17:57:15+00:00
This is the equivalent of having the previous 50GB base plan and going over by $50 worth of data (an additional 50GB). If you were routinely going 50GB over the 50GB plan, I'd suggest that maybe a 50GB plan wasn't the right plan for you. Under the old plan, 100GB of data would have cost $100. Residential unlimited is $120, so for most users this would seem like an improvement.
by linuxftw | 2026-01-14 17:57:20+00:00
So, the basic process is 1) Borrow stops making payments. 2) Borrow goes into forbearance for 12 months just prior to foreclosure start. 3) Forbearance ends, borrower cannot make current. 4) FHA steps in to do loan modification. Essentially, they roll the forebeared balance into the loan, payoff the existing mortgage, and issue a new FHA-backed loan, without any income or payment ability qualifications. 5) Repeat the process again.

So, the government is making everyone whole.
by iamacyborg | 2026-01-14 17:58:47+00:00
> 1. Spotify doesn't pay artists. Spotify doesn't have direct contracts with artists. Spotify pays rights holder and distributors.

You are still being unnecessarily pedantic. Most of us understand that there are layers to this, but ultimately, what we care about is how much an artist is paid per stream and what streams are being preferred over others.
by pstuart | 2026-01-14 17:58:51+00:00
I was late to learning about him, and got to see him on tour a year or two ago, which was awesome.

Yes, it was quite rich in self-reference and I can see how he could be considered complete. I'd still see him again just because I crave live events that I feel connected to.

Lehrer exited at the top of his game and deserves solid respect for that, perhaps Minchin could take note of that?
by lbrito | 2026-01-14 17:58:52+00:00
Why do people downvote this? Bizarre - and plain stupid. This is a legitimate question and has precedent:

Hugo Calderano, the third best table tennis player in the world, is denied an entry visa to the USA. Thus, the Brazilian misses the prestigious tournament Grand Smash in Las Vegas.
https://swedenherald.com/article/hugo-calderano-denied-us-vi...

Ethiopian athletes denied U.S. visas ahead of 2026 World Athletics Cross Country Championships
https://amileaminute.com/news/ethiopian-athletes-denied-us-v...

Vancouver Whitecaps split with left back Ali Adnan following extended visa issues
https://rdnewsnow.com/2021/07/03/vancouver-whitecaps-split-w...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-14 17:59:03+00:00
yes, I think just the amount of friction it can reduce might be worth it in the first place.

Oh btw although there are many primitives which help transferring files between VM's and others by having sshfs etc., one of the things which I enjoyed doing in quickemu is using the beloved piping-server

https://github.com/nwtgck/piping-server Infinitely transfer between every device over pure HTTP with pipes or browsers

The speeds might be slow but I was using it to build simple shell scripts and you can self host it or deploy on cf workers too most likely which is really simple but I haven't done it

But for quick deployments/transfers of binaries/simple files, its great as well. Tauri is meant to be lightweight/produce small binaries so I suppose one can try it but there are other options as well

Piping Serrvers + quickemu felt like a cheatcode to me atleast for more ephemeral vm's based workflow but of course YMMV

Good luck with your project! I tried building a tauri app once for android just out of mere curiosity on linux and it was hell. I didn't know anything about android development but setting up the developer environment was really hard and I think I forgot everything I learnt from that but wish I had made notes or even video documenting the process
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-14 17:59:23+00:00
As a former landlord - who would rather get a daily anal probe with a cactus than ever do it again - there is nothing “passive” about being a landlord.

A quick Google search shows that only 1-3% of homes are owned by institutional investors and has almost nothing to do with the homes not being affordable. It’s a talking point that even the briefest Google search will contradict.

Are you also against apartments?
by QuercusMax | 2026-01-14 17:59:29+00:00
One time I decided to test whether these grocery story loyalty card XX cents off per gallon transactions were properly isolated, when my wife and I were both filling up vehicles at the same gas station at the same time. We both got the $0.50 discount per gallon with no problem. I'm sure there are lots of creative ways you can exploit the poor design of these things.
by jjwiseman | 2026-01-14 17:59:32+00:00
This is a fun project that combines a cheap PTZ camera + OpenCV, Kalman filtering, PID control, and digital stabilization to not just snap photos of aircraft flying past, but do rock solid, pixel-level tracking as long as they're in sight.

And it can be combined with a source of ADS-B data so it knows what it's looking at, displaying the info on the OSD.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-14 18:00:09+00:00
> Model S and Model X sales have been relatively stable at a low volume, typically hovering around 5,000 to 6,000 units combined per quarter globally. If we assume a generous 6,000 units for S and X in Q4 2025 (aided by a slight update), that leaves only roughly 5,600 units for the Cybertruck and Semi combined.

When put into this perspective it actually seems quite successful. My impression was that the model X was well received though niche. If the cybertruck outsells the X it's not doing too bad.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-14 18:00:10+00:00
Oh yea cities that are Coimbatore, Nagpur, or Ludhiana tier have already seen a boom in car (EV or Gas) sales, but the main market being targeted now is small towns (think Palani, Satara, or Kurkushetra type urban settlements).

Basically, if a Domino's, KFC, Chaayos, Reliance SMART, or Motilal Oswal can operate in that district, it has become a target market for consumers, and most dealflow is now trying to find opportunities to enter that market (eg. Lahori Zeera).
by gofreddygo | 2026-01-14 18:01:13+00:00
I graduated right after the 2008 crisis, took 3 years and many temp jobs to get one where I would be paid to write software. Those 3 years were terrible and I estimate it set me back by around 5-6 real years.

Looking back, what would I have done differently ?

(0) mental health is the most important at this stage. Stay close to people who are with you in this difficult time. Never forget their contributions. For me it was my grandma.

(1) have unshakable belief in myself and my worth, never letting my employability be a measure of my worth and identity.

(2) I should have absolutely used that extra time to master the interview stuff (algorithms, data structures, OS and networking concepts, etc). Sooner or later I would interview at a FAANG which measure solely on these factors, so could have used that extra time to master interview skills. I wasted time on side projects, resume padding and niche upcoming tech stuff.

(3) tech surfing. Ride the latest wave with some side projects. Don't go deep. Just surf.

(4) All things, good or bad, will end.
by marcellus23 | 2026-01-14 18:01:23+00:00
All of this is written with a sense of anger and sarcastic invective that doesn't seem appropriate. This is part of learning any new language or API. Going in with an attitude of "I should already know how all this works, why am I forced to do research or look at docs?" seems unfair and will spoil the experience of learning anything.

> Why was that so hard? Why are the models here separate from the ones in the right click menu? Too many questions.

The very screenshot above this paragraph actually answers this, in what admittedly might be an uncharacteristically clear UI: "Siri and Safari will always run translations online."
by bee_rider | 2026-01-14 18:01:23+00:00
Unless there’s some funny unit issue going on (I know there are short and long tons…), it looks like Germany consumed around 5000KT of potatoes in 2022.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/potato-co...

> A farm in Saxony has been left with 4,000 tons of potatoes in what Berliner Morgenpost is calling “a story about the absurdities of our food system”.

I dunno; it doesn’t seem too absurd, better to have too many than too few potatoes.
Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR
by code_brian | 2026-01-14 18:01:23+00:00
For the past year I've been working to rethink how AI manages timing in conversation at Tavus. I've spent a lot of time listening to conversations. Today we're announcing the release of Sparrow-1, the most advanced conversational flow model in the world.

Some technical details:
- Predicts conversational floor ownership, not speech endpoints
- Audio-native streaming model, no ASR dependency
- Human-timed responses without silence-based delays
- Zero interruptions at sub-100ms median latency
- In benchmarks Sparrow-1 beats all existing models at real world turn-taking baselines

I wrote more about the work here: https://www.tavus.io/post/sparrow-1-human-level-conversation...
by reducesuffering | 2026-01-14 18:01:24+00:00
Incorrect. Buttigieg won #1 and #2 delegates in the first two primaries of Iowa and New Hampshire. It was only at the fourth primary, South Carolina, when Biden won 6x the votes, that the Buttigieg campaign dropped realizing they had no chance because of underperformance in only the South.

Only 54% in SC say homosexuality should be accepted by society. 42% in Arkansas. In 2025! https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1lxzznb/acceptance...
by jimbob45 | 2026-01-14 18:01:24+00:00
Is there a throwaway identity that people are using? A dead person unchecked in Mississippi somewhere? Like every teen in America using the same identity like everyone's extended family does with their uncle's Netflix account?

I don't want to google it because I don't want to be put on a list but I also feel somewhat confident that this is being done. Apparently, HN feels safe to ask questions like that for me.
by lux-lux-lux | 2026-01-14 18:01:28+00:00
> Time Burke and the Kanye thing, Project Veritas in 2022 and 2023 and the ABC news guy the year before are recent ones that come to mind

Those were for computer fraud, possession of stolen property, and possession of child pornography, respectively. The first amendment allows journalists to publish classified material, it does not give them free license to commit crimes.
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-14 18:01:37+00:00
That why they have party whips and threaten deselections for people that have their own ideas.

Many of these people would not be in Parliament if they weren't selected by the party. Most people vote for a party, not the MP. So why would it benefit the MP to have their own views when they can just parrot whatever they've been told to? It doesn't.
by helterskelter | 2026-01-14 18:01:40+00:00
$.02:

- American Giant is pretty good for their pullover hoodies. They'll wear out at the cuffs first, but I've kept a single hoody in use for like five years with some repair stitching.

- Standard Issue makes good waffle knit shirts. They'll last a few years depending on how often you wash them.

- Duluth Trading makes some good cotton shirts and boxers. Quality has declined slightly, but they're the best plain cotton shirts and boxers I've found so far.

- Big John makes denim jeans on old Levi looms. They even use cotton stitching.

- Carhartt makes some okay dressy dungarees. Their work pants are worthless these days though (in my experience). They've been pivoting to lifestyle for a few years now.

- Filson in my opinion has declined, but they're still pretty good. The socks are great, but they're overpriced.

(Only posting this because I've struggled finding decent clothes myself and it's hard to tell what's good when you're shopping online)
by mytailorisrich | 2026-01-14 18:01:43+00:00
Can we not start with the personal attacks and the assumptions about other's "worldviews"?

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
by smithclay | 2026-01-14 18:01:52+00:00
Kudos to Ben for speaking to one of the elephants in the room in observability: data waste and the impact it has on your bill.

All major vendors have a nice dashboard and sometimes alerts to understand usage (broken down by signal type or tags) ... but there's clearly a need for more advanced analysis which Tero seems to be going after.

Speaking of the elephant in room in observability: why does storing data on a vendor cost so much in the first place? With most new observability startups choosing to store store data in columar formats on cheap object storage, think this is also getting challenged in 2026. The combination of cheap storage with meaningful data could breathe some new life into the space.

Excited to see what Tero builds.
by jandrese | 2026-01-14 18:02:08+00:00
I'll be interested in the Slate when I can actually buy one. I've seen far too many startup car companies fail to launch to ever get my hopes up. Also, the hopes that the very first vehicle from a brand new company will be affordable are not realistic. Making affordable vehicles requires production at large scale, and that requires enormous capital investment, which generally means your company needs to already have income. Even if it just to prove to potential investors that you have basic competence.

Don't think that just because a billionaire is interested in the project that the funding will be easy. Billionaires don't like to spend their own money and can be easily distracted by newer and shinier projects.
by perihelions | 2026-01-14 18:02:08+00:00
> "And what if something turns up which would retroactively justify it?"

US constitutional law prohibits the introduction of evidence obtained illegally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule ("Exclusionary rule")

There's no "retroactive" exception. The core point of this rule is to deter police from intentionally violating people's rights, under the expectation that what they find will, "retroactively", vindicate them. Won't work.
Clarify CRM vs. HubSpot
by isura | 2026-01-14 18:02:27+00:00
Hello all. Most CRMs suck. Some suck more than others.

We’ve been using HubSpot and, in my opinion, it’s the best among a bad bunch.

We’ve tried switching away a couple times and ended up coming back. The migration process was brutal: we introduced data inconsistencies and it noticeably hurt sales team performance.

After many years, I’m considering trying Clarify CRM, but I’m worried it’ll be a repeat of those past experiences.

Has anyone here used Clarify? How did the migration go (data integrity, pipeline hygiene, integrations)? If you’ve switched CRMs successfully, what are you using now and what made it worth the pain?