MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-05 05:19:22+00:00
Neither does a parent, based on all available evidence, and multiple jurisdictions make vaccination compulsory without exception. Parents aren’t special, and they are failing in this regard by believing they should have a right to say no, simply for being a parent. Anyone, broadly speaking, can have children. That does not make them good or qualified parents unfortunately. It just makes them temporary guardians (until their children are adults) with an opinion.

~54% of Americans read below a sixth grade reading level, for example. We would trust your average American’s judgement on vaccination need or schedule, especially for their children, why?
by danpalmer | 2026-01-05 05:19:24+00:00
These are all very much in the same category of hacks that I mentioned.

A cat doesn't know its way around a house when it's born, but it also doesn't have to flick through markdown files to find its way around. A child can touch a hot stove once and be neurotic about touching hot things for the rest of their life, without having to read flash cards each morning or think for a few minutes about "what do I know about stoves" every time they're in the kitchen.
by giardini | 2026-01-05 05:19:28+00:00
I disagree.

One multimillion dollar unit can cover only one location and the area nearby. And that unit requires logistical support, cover and time to move to another location.

IOW I'm well aware of the "cost-per-shot" analysis and believe it doesn't hold water and isn't the future.

Future drones will be more like the "hunter-seeker" in the novel Dune: that is the future of drones. Here are depictions from several Dune movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxgIpBFpzDs
by anonnon | 2026-01-05 05:19:29+00:00
It's illegal to carry, even if properly licensed, a firearm on Capitol grounds. So searching for "Unlawful Possession of a Firearm on Capitol Grounds or Buildings" yields an approximate total number of rioters carrying firearms (as opposed to just "deadly weapons," which also includes things like batons, baseball bats, and various household objects). That total number is 6.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-05 05:19:40+00:00
> Sure they are, tolls regulate the amount of traffic on a toll road and should hopefully decrease congestion and improve travel time. Eliminate the tolls, you will gain more traffic, more congestion, and more travel time. This will diminish its utility in that regard and it becomes yet another congested path.

That is (further) evidence the two metrics are linked, not that they are independent.

I'm also not convinced lack of use is a great measure of utility either, I think the measure of utility you're actually chasing is, still just average time for the group defined to use it. I.e. don't get the way tolls try to achieve their utility conflated with what that utility actually is.

> Not that sure that a Marxist-style “equity” argument is all that convincing here. There is no huge mass public benefit here in eliminating an existing toll road. Your only true benefliciaries of this change are those people 1) who have to go from point A to point B, 2) need to arrive somewhat sooner than they do now (and can’t leave any sooner to get there) and 3) cannot afford the toll to get there faster under any circumstance.
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> Bear in mind, I am only arguing against the elimination of existing toll roads. Public infrastructure needs are what they are and region planners should make best efforts to deliver reliable and reasonable road infrastructure for its population. However, there is no doubt that toll roads can help improve overall transportation needs. So if a beneficial road can be created sooner if its costs can be offset via toll vs. waiting until public money is available to fund the construction, I think there is value to be explored there.

Your list of 3 potential reasons still excludes ones I had already laid out in my initial reply and is focused more on identifying those who would find paying a toll worthwhile rather than any consideration of the overall cost effectiveness of adding a toll road to the network. How much people are (or aren't) willing to pay for a toll road that only tells which toll roads will be profitable, not how efficient the return on investment is in terms of the road system as a whole.

It's also not clear what you mean by "eliminate". If you mean "dig up and demolish" then I'd agree, that'd be throwing the baby out with the bath water. What's built has been built, you'd need good reason to un-build it completely. If you mean "just not have them be tolls" then no, it really does end up being more efficient on average - even if it doesn't seem it to the people who were paying the toll before.
by davkan | 2026-01-05 05:20:08+00:00
You just get used to trail running over time. If you’re nimble and light on your feet a slip almost never turns into a fall. With practice you dodge the bad steps without much thought or you step knowing it’s iffy, slide and keep running. You don’t commit hard down on your heel.

The form i use basically the “natural” running style. Land with your body over your foot, land on your foot flat or on the ball. This is good for trail running because it’s much easier to not commit to a step when you’re not planting hard with your heel.

I’ve never sprained an ankle trail running, not that it can’t happen. I’ve gone like 90 degrees on my ankle before but I can usually unweight and collapse on that leg and catch myself on the other leg and keep running. I run in sandals and I backpack in trail runners.

Trail running strengthens your ankles what with all the uneven ground that has to be compensated for.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-05 05:20:31+00:00
Typically awsome-subject-matter repositories link out to other resources.

There are so so so many prompts & agentic pattern repositories out there. I'm pretty turned off by this repo flouting the convention of what awsome-* repos are, being the work, rather than linking the good work that's out there. For us to decide with.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-05 05:20:53+00:00
How will my work make you feel better?

I think what you're really asking is how can your work make the world a better place? And you're looking for ideas?

How many people do you need to "improve" to make you feel self-worth? 1? 10? A billion?

What do your customers think? Do they think their world is improved by spending their money with you? Do you think they're spending money with you because it makes them worse off?

In truth 99% of people make the world better, even at a small scale, even if they don't know it. That person directing traffic, flipping buyers, working on a production line, is contributing to society.

Even traditionally despised occupations (tax collector, adware programmer) perform vital functions that society needs to function well.

In our journey through life its common to reach a point where one seeks to find "significance". Naturally the first place you look for this is work. If you are functionally easily replaced (think payroll clerk) then it's easy to become despondent. But easy replacement doesn't make you less significant to the people who rely on you every month.

Equally you dismiss "paying the bills". As if your loved ones are not sufficient for "making the world better". Or as if the people receiving those bills are not sufficient. That waiter you tip, that grocery you buy, the mechanic who fixes your car - you lean on them for your life, and they benefit from your custom.

I'll close by suggesting that significance seldom comes from work. It comes from how you treat people. "Seeing" people, saying hello, treating them with humanity, that's how you make the world better. Thank people sincerely for the way they improve your life. Acknowledge the hidden people who make your life easy. (Go thank your payroll clerk.) Tell others how they are significant in your life, regardless of how menial their task for you is.

When you find the significance in others, you'll also find it in yourself.

I wish you well.
by antonhand | 2026-01-05 05:21:01+00:00
I think it's also worth mentioning, along with all the very valid points of the article, that 3d printed figures, even at their best, simply cannot match the properties of GW's injection molded plastic at the same time.

FDM prints have visual artifacts you cannot escape with many shapes, and even the most flexible of the expensive resins isn't nearly as durable as a plastic model. Plus plastic models insta-bond with plastic glue making them both easier to assemble and repair (as everything will eventually get damaged through years of play).

I've been doing model work for 30 years, and while 3d print stuff has many uses within the hobby (like making epic terrain way more accessible), replacing the core figures for something like warhammer, to anyone who cares about finish quality and durability at the same time is not one of them.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-05 05:23:06+00:00
> it might very well just lead to leveling up the entire workforce.

How could that possibly work?

At some point I could see white collar work trending down fast, in a way that radically increased the value of blue color work. Software gets cheaper much faster than hardware.

But then the innovation and investments go into smart hardware, and robotics effectiveness/cost goes up.

If you can see a path where AI isn't a one-generational transition to most human (economic) obsolescence, I would certainly be interested in the principle or mechanism you see.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-05 05:23:06+00:00
I guess I can see how I didn't communicate clearly, but that was really not the point I was getting at. The point about the room is more that ordinary people need to acquire shelter and food to survive. If those things are not freely provided for them as they were for Pascal, their life will have many problems in the pursuit of those things. Meditating quietly in nature is all well and good, but doing so will hardly free you from all the problems that are associated with the pursuit of survival and/or procreation, and which make up the majority of human problems.

Pascal also stated...

> as we should always be, in the suffering of evils, in the deprivation of all the goods and pleasures of the senses, free from all the passions that work throughout the course of life, without ambition, without avarice, in the continual expectation of death

while going so far as rejecting medical care for an illness that eventually led to his death at a young 39. In other words, his attained enlightenment was suffering in the name of his religion to the point of dying. He certainly committed to his beliefs, but I don't find his form of enlightenment inspiring, and do not believe that humanity should strive to follow in his footsteps of fatal self-deprivation. The only way sitting quietly solves all of humanity's problems is if all of humanity commits to doing only that until they wither away and die without any pursuit of the things they need to survive. He framed it as giving up ambition and avarice, but even without ambition and avarice you will endure struggles merely to sustain yourself if you are not born into wealth. I, personally, am quite content dealing with those struggles and have no interest in solving them by dying prematurely as Pascal might prefer to do.
by spankibalt | 2026-01-05 05:23:21+00:00
> "I imagine this same argument happening when people stopped using machine code and assembly en masse and started using FORTRAN or COBOL."

Yeah, certainly. But since this has nothing to do with my argument, which was an answer to the very existential question of a (postulated) non-coder, and not a comment on a forgotten pissing contest between coders, it's utterly irrelevant.

:(
by aforwardslash | 2026-01-05 05:26:09+00:00
If I understood correctly, you'te talking about using descriptors to map segments; the issue with this approach is two-fold: it is slow (as each descriptor needs to be created for each segment - and sometimes more than one, if you need write-execute permissions), and there is a practical limit on the number of descriptors you can have - 8192 total, including call gates and whatnot. To extend this, you need to use LDTs, that - again - also require a descriptor in the GDT and are limited to 8192 entries. In a modern desktop system, 67 million segments would be both quite slow and at the same time quite limited.
by shrubble | 2026-01-05 05:26:20+00:00
For object you have the IBM i Series / AS400 based systems which used an object capabilities model (as far as I understand it). A refinement and simplification of what was pioneered in the less successful System/38.

For linear, you have the Sun SPARC processor coming out in 1986, the same year that 386 shipped in volume. I think the use by Unix of linear made it more popular (the MIPSR2000 came out in January 1986, also).
by patsreynolds | 2026-01-05 05:26:44+00:00
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by zerosizedweasle | 2026-01-05 05:27:46+00:00
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"Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and others are spending tens of billions of dollars to build or lease hyperscale data centres that may define the next phase of computing. In fact, it most likely will. But this exponential, debt-funded capex also has the hallmarks of a late-cycle surge in spending that can trigger multiple re-ratings and credit stress.

History rarely rewards lenders who finance capital-intensive growth booms at their peak. In the late 1990s, telecom companies borrowed heavily to lay fibre-optic cables, confident that data demand would ensure adequate returns. Although the infrastructure transformed the economy, it generated little return on investment for years.

In the mid-2000s, wildcatters levered up to chase $100 oil. The shale revolution reshaped US energy production, yet the companies behind the build-out still endured long periods of weak returns and balance-sheet pressure. Both episodes ended the same way: overcapacity, writedowns and years of debt overhang, despite laying the groundwork for genuine economic change."
by quuxplusone | 2026-01-05 05:28:01+00:00
I'm not sure I follow the section titled "From periods to sentences." One of the topic sentences in that section is "Aristotle preferred periodic diction"; but I don't see any examples from Aristotle.

Instead we get an example from the Bible (Psalms 100:4), displaying characteristic parallelism but still with perfectly modern sentence structure: "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name."

And then we get a new section heading, "Modern English emerges with bibles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries," quoting an identically constructed sentence from the same Bible (Acts 4:8–9): "Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, [consider] the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole," etc.

If there's any distinction to be made there, surely it's that the former quotation is from Hebrew and the latter from Greek — but then isn't it rather a little surprising that the exact same rhetorical device, this specific type of parallelism, should be used, than that there should be anything different about the structure of these two verses? But then — guess what — there's nothing different about their structure at all!

So what's the deal with that whole section (or pair of sections), and what actually is the author's thesis? What is the "great shift" mentioned in the headline?

If the thesis is that there was some big shift in sentence structure circa 1600, I'd say it's just demonstrably wrong. Look for example at Chaucer, circa 1400: https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/tale-melibee-0 Nothing unusual about those sentences, is there?
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-05 05:29:02+00:00
You know, on the internet I've read a lot about how "it's not weird" to sit alone in cafe's and restaurants. But in real life, even when I don't think it's weird, people go out of their way to make sure I know it is. You can try and ignore what people think, but it is an exhausting exercise in mental gymnastics.

Same goes for not caring about what people in think when you're trying to work on your health and go to a gym.

I don't know, it just feels really bad, no one wants to be treated badly, it's that simple. But if you can manage to find a good spot where it just works out for you, treasure/keep that.

Solitude is precious when it is done with purpose.
by utbabya | 2026-01-05 05:30:05+00:00
As much as we meme about it internally, one of my favourite things about AWS was the leadership principles. I always worried I've became cult like biased. Seeing how these converge to similar great ideas is a relief.

IMO the most common denominator among all these is trust, in order for many of these to work. From policy setting at strategic level, hiring, to tactical process refinement, the invariant must always be building an environment and culture of trust. Which isn't trivial to scale.
by vineyardmike | 2026-01-05 05:30:14+00:00
> If tech companies didn't hoard and sell people's data, the brainwashing would be less profitable, Google would pay lower salaries, and the entire industry's salaries would go down as a result.

I’d like to see data on this. Obviously Oracle and Meta and companies that agressively track you would be impacted, but how much would Google search be changed if it wasn’t personalized? Would there be a meaningful financial impact?

Also as far as I understand, data brokers tend to exclude meta, Google, et al because they don’t sell their data they just use it internally. This could further entrench these players more.
Show HN: Agentu Minimalist Python AI agent framework
by init0 | 2026-01-05 05:30:57+00:00
After building dozens of agents, I kept hitting the same wall.

So I built agentu.

The core is simple:
→ >> chains steps sequentially
→ & runs them in parallel

But it's grown into a full stack:

- Sessions: stateful conversations with automatic context
- Evaluation: test your agents before production
- Observability: real-time dashboard, metrics, tracing
- Skills: domain expertise that loads on-demand
- Tool Search: scale to 100s of tools without context bloat
- MCP Integration: Model Context Protocol support

`pip install agentu`

https://pypi.org/project/agentu/
by wdr1 | 2026-01-05 05:32:15+00:00
I remember it too!

But not everyone was on dial-up. A lot were in dorms w/ (for the time) high speed connections or workplaces with it.

Remember at the time it wasn't clear that search was going to be the dominate pattern for how people found information on the web. It seems crazy now, but in the early days of the web, the space was small enough that a directory-style approach worked pretty well. It was Yahoo's directory that made it initially popular, not its search.

And so there was a fair bit of debate on which was better -- something like a directory + search (a la Yahoo!) vs just search.

It took a bit of time before search proved if it was done really well, you didn't need a directory.
Show HN: How to maintain calculators and product logic outside the core system
by zeguru | 2026-01-05 05:35:10+00:00
We've all been there: You build a nice calculator or product logic then celebrate when it graduates to production:

- Months down the line you are unable to answer a simple question like "why are we applying 16% rate before computing the gross ?" and so on.

- You cant rapidly adjust the logic / calculation without refactoring. Or take too long to simply reorder the steps of the calculation.

- Worse case. Only a specific engineer(s) or key person can explain the workings of that calculator or service logic.

We are looking for a simple, low code rule engine having a simple ui and so far we have not been able to find one. Kindly point me to a better alternative if any.

To get going i have built a lightweight rule engine to solve our problem: changing business logic (pricing, validation, state management) without redeploying backend services.

BaaS - Business logic As A Service

The engine runs as a Docker container and evaluates rules defined outside the application code. Uses REST api. The goal is to keep decision logic explicit, verifieable and debatable between technical and non technical users.

Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/zeguru/baas

Happy to answer any questions or explain design tradeoffs.
by oblio | 2026-01-05 05:36:38+00:00
You'd be surprised what you can do with Claude Code. Pick any mature programming language, including niche ones like Ada and treat the project seriously. Write detailed agent files, features spec files, start from the bottom with CI/CD and set up a test suite, coding guidelines, static analysis. Be careful to create a consistent architecture and code base early.

You'll get a lot further and faster than you'd expect.

Things will probably plateau as you master the new tech, but it's possible you'll not write a ton of code manually along the way.

Oh, your general software development experience should help with debugging the weird corner cases.

I imagine it's really hard to do this with 0 software dev experience, for example. Yeah, you'll build some simple things but you'll need and entire tech education to put anything complex in prod.
by georgemcbay | 2026-01-05 05:37:31+00:00
Glad this exists but skeptical about enforcement, particularly for any data broker hosting outside of the US.

My phone number is on the national Do Not Call registry and that isn't stopping me from getting 1-2 calls a day from loan scam companies (and they are literally calling from a different phone number every time, so there's no real way to block them).
by aboardRat4 | 2026-01-05 05:39:14+00:00
It doesn't really matter where I live. In any case, "worksforme" ia not a solution.

We are discussing a supposedly global standard, which should work and be better for everyone, including Russia, China, Iran, everyone.

You know, Western politicians usually have exactly the same desires as their authoritarian Eastern counterparts, they are just unable to express them publicly. But hey, ipv6 is a niche problem discussed only by geeks, they don't actually have to say anything publicly about it, they can just silently sabotage its implementation.

China obviously has a state security service, but it doesn't really matter, I used FSB as a generic term for a law enforcement agency which tells ISPs what to do.