MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by petalmind | 2026-02-02 22:03:34+00:00
Question: but how many different numbers can you fit in 64 bits using your encoding (sorry I understand the general approach but I have no idea how that fast hierarchy works). I guess it's still 2^64 different numbers?

So basically you have a very low density of representable numbers (2^64 / w218), I wonder how quickly it grows as you use more and more 1-bits, and is there even a correlation between the bit pattern and the corresponding number value?
by scotty79 | 2026-02-02 22:03:39+00:00
Whataboutism is when someone tries to wipe the issue from the dialog by steering conversation towards a different issue of the same nature. I mostly acknowledge that China implemented less than stellar ideas. I'm merely suggesting that such things should be evaluated in the context. I don't believe in objective morality so how moral you are must be evaluated in relation to your peers.

> And those millions of Uyghurs they locked up couldn't possibly all be terrorists.

They were unassimilated population that China believed (while watching the west) might breed trouble. This alone makes the comparison with what US is doing right now pretty fair.

> That makes it racism and religious persecution.

Chinese was locking up all ethnic and religious groups during the pandemic. That might point to an explanation that maybe religion and race is irrelevant. Only safety matters.

If westerners did that it would be racism and religious persecution. But in a culture that gives a very little thought to both race and religion saying that might be just western projection.

> Ps how is Cuba a vassal state of the US? When you speak of a concentration camp I assume you refer to Guantanamo?

No. I'm talking about Salvador and a place built with US money where people that ICE has no idea where to send back are kept indefinitely. But I don't want to discuss that, to avoid whataboutism. I'm just telling it to provide background for evaluation how terrible were the things that China did.
Show HN: MoonLocator – Astronomical library for moon calculations in Java
by tenahu | 2026-02-02 22:03:40+00:00
I extracted the lunar calculations from my Android app Lunar Locator into a standalone Java library.

The equations are from Jean Meeus' "Astronomical Algorithms." Given a time and location, it calculates relative lunar positions, rise/set times, distance, illumination, and more.

Available on Maven Central (Java 17+): https://github.com/dgrims3/MoonLocatorLibrary

Happy to answer questions!
by rafram | 2026-02-02 22:03:42+00:00
I've looked into Tauri and Wails, but they don't seem realistic for a cross-platform app with wide distribution across multiple platforms and platform versions.

One of Electron's main selling points is that you control the browser version. Anything that relies on the system web view (like Tauri and Wails) will either force you to aggressively drop support for out-of-date OS versions, or constantly check caniuse.com and ship polyfills like you're writing a normal web app. It also forces you to test CSS that touches form controls or window chrome on every supported major version of every browser, which is just a huge pain. And you'll inevitably run into bugs with the native -> web glue that you wouldn't hit with Electron.

It is absolutely wasteful to ship a copy of Chrome with every desktop app, but Tauri/Wails don't seem like viable alternatives at the moment. As far as I can tell, there aren't really any popular commercial apps using them, so I imagine others have come to the same conclusion.
by mindslight | 2026-02-02 22:03:48+00:00
The "more prone to failure" seems to be driven by some abjectly terrible implementations (eg the notorious Kubota B3350). And it's certainly understandable that someone who knows how to repair things based on mechanical linkages would rebel against digital electronics.

But we're on a technology website. We shouldn't really be scared by a extra sensors, a CAN bus, and an embedded controller - assuming all of these things are openly documented and usable with freedom-preserving systems. In fact we should welcome them, as extra telemetry can help avoid downtime and effect repairs.
by aizk | 2026-02-02 22:03:57+00:00
Dev here:
Unfortunately, that was one thing I never managed to figure out with WikiTok - content filtering.
Wikipedia has no categorization of whether or not their articles are NSFW (imagine how much debate that would require for millions of different articles), nor something I could use in their API.
That said, anecdotally, I have found the percentage of rather NSFW articles to be quite low all things considered so it's been mostly fine.
I think the best option would be to have a quick disclaimer before your scroll, but nobody has seriously asked me for that.
by vel0city | 2026-02-02 22:04:16+00:00
You're not including an amortized cost of maintenance, registration fees, etc. Adding in tires alone ($720 for a set, 50k/1200 ~=41 months, ~$17.50/mo) brings it to almost $290/mo. Oil change every 6 months or so, add another $10/mo or so. Now we're at $300/mo and hoping nothing in the car breaks and needs repairs on a car that's already paid off, and we still haven't paid our taxes and registration fees.

Now figure in the fact you've got several thousand dollars in a car instead of even something like a high-yield savings account. At even 4% APY, if you had just $8k tied up in that car that's another ~$27/mo of income you're missing out on.

I'm not making the argument riding a taxi for every trip is cheaper than this. Just pointing out there's a lot of things people don't think about when they think of the cost of car ownership.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-02 22:04:20+00:00
Having worked in large orgs, I can totally imagine someone having an idea like Claude Code and it getting quietly shelved because it

(A) doesn’t align to some important persons vision, who is incentivized have their finger on whatever change comes about

(B) might step on a lot of adjacent stakeholders, and the employees stakeholder may be risk adverse and want to play nice.

(C) higher up stakeholder fundamentally don’t understand the domain they’re leading

(D) the creators don’t want to fight an uphill battle for their idea to win.
by pfdietz | 2026-02-02 22:04:26+00:00
I didn't say it was preservation. It doesn't have to be preservation to be acceptable. Books are destroyed by the millions all the time. Publishers pulp vast quantities of surplus books for tax reasons. Paperbacks that don't sell aren't shipped back; they're stripped of their covers and discarded.

The only thing to regret when most books are destroyed is that the resources that went into creating them were lost, and that's a minor regret.
by Ancapistani | 2026-02-02 22:04:28+00:00
Not "MAGA" here, but many people would undoubtably consider it a distinction without difference.

I don't have solar now because I live in a neighborhood. It's a quiet, older neighborhood in a small town, but a neighborhood nonetheless. I'm planning on investing in long-term stuff like that once I find the right property to start a farm and ultimately turn into a "family compound". It makes little sense to invest $20-40k in a solar system for a home that I may well sell in the next couple of years - especially since that particular improvement doesn't translate into a higher sale price in this market.
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by pixelready | 2026-02-02 22:04:34+00:00
Yeah, this is one of my guilty automation pleasures alongside self-checkout. I hate that I am displacing a human, and I mourn for the handful of really pleasant taxi / Uber experiences I’ve had over the years, but damn is Waymo such a better default experience right now.

I really hope there’s enough viable competition over time to keep costs down or I worry this will evolve into robo-limos rather than a nice cheap default option for areas without good public transit infrastructure. The DUI prevention alone is such a huge win.

There is the matter of surveillance though. I don’t love that I have to take their word on not abusing the cabin recordings, but I guess that’s pretty much all modern vehicles (via onStar and the like) not just robo-taxis. Pretty much every Sci-fi dystopian with urban infrastructure has that scene where the corrupt authorities have someone’s self-driving car pulled over remotely, that seems important as well given the state of things lately.
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by hdjrudni | 2026-02-02 22:04:51+00:00
This might actually be another area language servers shine. As I understand it, the TS Language Server can do renames. Ergo, we ought to be able to have the LLM ask the lang server to do the rename instead of trying to do it itself. That'd be easier than trying to integrate with each IDE individually. (Whereby "IDE" seems to be synonymous with "VSCode" lately...)
by tromp | 2026-02-02 22:04:54+00:00
> that headline doesn't even include "program" (or "compute").

Neither does Scott's article titled "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?" [1]

The title is just a way to invite the reader to find out why the answer isn't simply 2^64-1.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9058986
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-02 22:04:56+00:00
Aspera did the chunking and encryption for you, and it looked and acted like SFTP.

The cost of leaking data was/is catastrophic (as in company ending) So paying a bit of money to guarantee that your data was being sent to the right place (point to point) and couldn't leak was a worthwhile tradeoff.

For Point to point transfer torrenting is a lot higher overhead than you want. plus most clients have an anti-leaching setting, so you'd need not only a custom client, but a custom protocol as well.

The idea is sound though, have an index file with and then a list of chunks to pull over multiple TCP connections.
by kristopolous | 2026-02-02 22:05:48+00:00
I'm not law enforcement. This shouldn't be my job. If I see someone robbing a store with a mask on and a gun I should be able to call the police, report it, and hand it off.

If there's an accumulation of complaints against this merchant then that should warrant an investigation.

The police have like half the local city budget, can't they do their job?
by sebzim4500 | 2026-02-02 22:06:02+00:00
Cooling a datacenter in space isn't really any harder than cooling a starlink in space, the ratio of solar panels to radiating area will have to be about the same. There is nothing uniquely heat-producing about GPUs, ultimately almost all energy collected by a satellite's solar panels ends up as heat in the satellite.

IMO the big problem is the lack of maintainability.
by harikb | 2026-02-02 22:06:03+00:00
As I outlined in a sibling comment. You can still use React and your JS developers. Just don't ship a whole browser with your app.

May be an app that is as complex as Outlook needs the pixel-perfect tweaking of every little button that they need to ship their own browser for exact version match. But everything else can use *system native browser*. Use Tauri or Wails or many other solutions like these

That said, I do agree on the other comments about TUIs etc. Yes, nobody cares about the right abstractions, not even the companies that literally depend on automating these applications
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-02 22:06:08+00:00
> Open space with native vegetation, parks, playgrounds, sports fields of all kinds like soccer fields, community pools, hiking trails.. all of that is wasted land if viewed through the lens of LVT maximization.

No, because all of that would be open to the community. The waste is only if it was locked up for use by certain people.
by llama052 | 2026-02-02 22:06:16+00:00
Looks like Azure as a platform just killed the ability for VM scale operations, due to a change on a storage account ACL that hosted VM extensions. Wow... We noticed when github actions went down, then our self hosted runners because we can't scale anymore.

Information

Active - Virtual Machines and dependent services - Service management issues in multiple regions

Impact statement: As early as 19:46 UTC on 2 February 2026, we are aware of an ongoing issue causing customers to receive error notifications when performing service management operations - such as create, delete, update, scaling, start, stop - for Virtual Machines (VMs) across multiple regions. These issues are also causing impact to services with dependencies on these service management operations - including Azure Arc Enabled Servers, Azure Batch, Azure DevOps, Azure Load Testing, and GitHub. For details on the latter, please see https://www.githubstatus.com.

Current status: We have determined that these issues were caused by a recent configuration change that affected public access to certain Microsoft‑managed storage accounts, used to host extension packages. We are actively working on mitigation, including updating configuration to restore relevant access permissions. We have applied this update in one region so far, and are assessing the extent to which this mitigates customer issues. Our next update will be provided by 22:30 UTC, approximately 60 minutes from now.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
by gok | 2026-02-02 22:06:22+00:00
> it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power

We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. The proposal here is to launch that much to space every 9 hours, complete with attached computers, continuously, from the moon.

edit: Also, this would capture a very trivial percentage of the Sun's power. A few trillionths per year.
by throwaway150 | 2026-02-02 22:06:23+00:00
> Largely, if you read defensively and try to read what is not said, then you get very very far.

How far is "very, very far"? Is it far enough that, if there were a lawsuit, my liability would truly be capped at €10,000? Because that's how much liability I can afford. If that "very very far" guarantees such a limit, then yes, I agree it is very very far. But my experience tells me that without formal legal training, I cannot be confident that I have interpreted legal language correctly enough to rely on that conclusion.

Open source licenses are often relatively readable, but corporate contracts and other legal texts, including those from companies that market themselves as open source in questionable ways, can contain subtleties and loopholes. As a layperson, it is difficult to know how much exposure I might have if I misunderstand a detail and act in contradiction of the license terms.

Perhaps we are simply on opposite sides of the D-K effect here. Or maybe you simply are good with legalese and I'm being unnecessarily skeptical.

If experience with lawyers matters, I have spent many years working with lawyers across Europe. If that taught me anything, it is to avoid assuming that I can reliably interpret legal language without proper training.

Yes, I can usually grasp perhaps 80 percent of what a contract is saying at a high level. But in every contract we reviewed, lawyers consistently found issues or implications I would not have noticed. They then either refined the contract or advised taking a calculated risk. So I think it is reasonable for me to remain cautious about my own ability to interpret legal language with confidence.
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by bluGill | 2026-02-02 22:06:25+00:00
> ome of the parking lots have office buildings now and the city lots have become very expensive. Much less activity there now, about a third of the venues are closed and the remaining ones are saying they can't last very long with fewer people going.

Sounds to me like that found a valueable use for their land and got rid of the low value things you really enjoyed...

Of course to you this is bad, and the city lost the night life, but that might or might not be worse overall. They seem to be a denser area despite it, for whatever that means.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2026-02-02 22:06:31+00:00
the situations you've described and the fact that our answer as a society is seemingly to throw up our hands at our inability to solve these situations other than by increasing the number of cars on the road in a way that funnels even more wealth to a tiny group of unfathomably wealthy sociopaths who also use ourour personal information to impact our spending habits... very depressing. i really hate it here.
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by measurablefunc | 2026-02-02 22:06:46+00:00
What does the bootcamp have to do w/ anything? He is using AI slop to make money, that's all that matters in a socio-economic system wherein everyone & everything must make profits to persist.
Edit: found another example from coinbase: https://x.com/0xEricBrown/status/2018082458143699035.

Edit: I'm not going to keep addressing your comment if you keep editing it. You asked for an example & I found two very easily. I am certain there are many others so at this point the onus is on you to figure out what exactly it is you are actually arguing.
by saint_fiasco | 2026-02-02 22:06:49+00:00
You won't see it because it's mostly personal software for personal computers.

I've got a medical doctor handwriting decipherer, a board game simulator that takes a PDF of the rulebooks as input and an accounting/budgeting software that can interface with my bank via email because my bank doesn't have an API.

None of that is of any use to you. If you happen to need a similar software, it will be easier for you to ask your own AI to make a custom one for you rather than adapt the ones I had my AI make for me.

Under the circumstances, I would feel bad shipping anything. My users would be legitimately better off just vibe coding their own versions.
by UebVar | 2026-02-02 22:07:14+00:00
"Tech" was incredible light on CapExp compared with everything else (until AI hit, that is). That is what allowed its explosive growth. On the one hand alphabet is not used to that. On the other hand it is turning into a more normal business with more CapExp, and like other more "normal" business it uses more external investment. As a general rule of thumb: The more capex, the more leverage; for example commodity extraction, infrastructure or power generation are very capex heavy, and heavily leveraged.
by arjie | 2026-02-02 22:07:19+00:00
A valid question. These kinds of approaches are a pretty standard attack in the copyleft world. I don't know on what basis the community chooses forced-attribution vs deletion.

Marco Verch managed to get his stuff deleted: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests...

So it's a question of the execution of the operation really.

By the way, do you also have the same user handle on Reddit? I have the vaguest memory of you quoting someone else on the subject of denying a person suffering on the street drugs that went something to the effect of not wanting to do it because denying such a man drugs deny him his only escape from such reality or something of the sort.

I never did find that comment again, and it's been at the back of my mind for years (perhaps even a decade) and now I'm not even sure if I've asked you this before.
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-02 22:07:23+00:00
Memory and CPU are cheap (up to a point) so why not just copy/paste TCP streams. It neatly fits into multi-processing/threading as well.

When we were doing 100TB backups of storage servers we had a wrapper that run multiple rsyncs over the file system, that got throughput up to about 20gigbits a second over lan