MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-02-04 06:14:19+00:00
> Eloquent, moving, and more-or-less exactly what people said when cameras first hit the scene.

This is a non sequitur. Cameras have not replaced paintings, assuming this is the inference. Instead, they serve only to be an additional medium for the same concerns quoted:

The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you
towards understanding what you actually want to make,
whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning.

Just as this is applicable to refining a software solution captured in code, just as a painter discards unsatisfactory paintings and tries again, so too is it when people say, "that picture didn't come out the way I like, let's take another one."
by IhateAI | 2026-02-04 06:15:20+00:00
I refer to it as "Think for me SaaS", and it should be avoided like the plague. Literally, it will give your brain a disease we haven't even named yet.

It's as if I woke up in a world where half of resturaunts worldwide started changing their name to McDonalds and gaslighting all their customers into thinking McDonalds is better than their "from scratch" menu.

Just dont use these agentic tools, they legitimately are weapons who's target is your brain. You can ship just as fast with autocomplete and decent workflows, and you know it.

Its weird, I dont understand why any self respecting dev would support these companies. They are openly hostile about their plans for the software industry (and many other verticles).

I see it as a weapon being used by a sect of the ruling class to diminsh the value of labor. While im not confident they'll be successful, I'm very disappointed in my peers that are cheering them on in that mission. My peers are obviously being tricked by promises of being able join that class, but that's not what's going to happen.

You're going to lose that thinking muscle and therefor the value of your labor is going to be directly correlated to the quantity and quality of tokens you can afford (or be given, loaned!?)

Be wary!!!
by mlyle | 2026-02-04 06:15:51+00:00
> I do not make this assumption! all heat generated in the cooling, power and other support systems

Nah -- when we're talking about how much it takes to power 70kW of GPUs, we need to include some kind of power utilization efficiency number. If 70kW is really 100kW, then we need to make this ridiculously big design 40% larger.

> >You can pick a color that absorbs very little *visible light* but readily emits in *infrared*-

> how well it absorbs photons at that wavelength as well as how efficiently it sheds energy at that wavelength.

Yes. Planetshine is infrared, 290K-ish; sunshine, and even planetary albedo, is 5500K-ish, with a very small portion of its light being infrared. You are being long winded and not even reading what you reply to.

So, for example, white silicate paint or aluminized FEP has a equilibrium temperature in full sun, with negligible heat conducted to or away from it, somewhere in the span of -70 to -40C depending upon your assumptions. It will happily net radiate away heat from above-room temperature components while facing the sun.

It will also happily net radiate away heat when facing the planet because the planet is under room temperature and the planet doesn't subtend a whole hemisphere even in LEO.

I don't really like argument from authority, but... I will point out that I am the PI for multiple satellite projects and have owned thermal design, and that the stuff I've flown in space has ended up at very close to predicted temperatures. I don't feel like this is an easy thermal problem.

I mean, it's easy in the sense of "it takes a radiator area about the same as the floor area of my house". It's not easy in the sense of "holy shit I need to launch a radiator that's bigger than my house and somehow conduct all that heat to it while keeping the source cool."

> of course I realize there will be a thermal gradient from base to apex of the pyramidal satellite

No, there will be a thermal gradient from the hot thing -- the GPU -- to the radiator surface. S-B analysis is OK for an exterior temperature, but it doesn't mean the stuff you want to keep cool will be that average temperature. This is why we end up with heat pipes, active cooling loops, etc, in spacecraft.

If this wasn't a concern, you could fly a big inflated-and-then-rigidized structure and getting lots of area wouldn't be scary. But since you need to think about circulating fluids and actively conducting heat this is much less pleasant.
by LeFantome | 2026-02-04 06:15:53+00:00
> the Rust for Linux project wants to use the newly prototyped features right away
> they depend on not-yet-released features from unstable nightly versions of Rust

This is not true. Since kernel 6.11 they have specified a minimum version that is already stable. The strategy for the Rust kernel is to use the version of Rust that ships with Debian Stable. That is very far from using "the newly prototyped features right away".

https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy

Of course, the kernel continues to inform Rust evolution. But you do not need an unstable version of Rust to compile Linux.
by leosarev | 2026-02-04 06:16:28+00:00
Safe and socially acceptable:
"war is bad and I wish it will end sooner". "We should be friends with Ukraine and/or West". "Putin was not right to start a war". "I want that Putin resigns and/or voted out"

Safe for regular person, but socially risky:
"We should surrender and pay reparations" "This war is totally Putin'a fault" "Putin is corrupt dictator" "Zelensky is a good guy"

Could in theory lead to a fine and/or losing job, but mostly safe:
"I support Navalny", donation to ACF or some kind of western-affiliated NGO.

Could lead to a fine and/or prison time, when it done in social media or on the square:
"Slava Ukraine", Butcha fakes, Let's willingly donate to Ukraine war effort, etc
by tensor | 2026-02-04 06:16:30+00:00
Allowing the US to gain such soft power is the issue, not the size of a company. In fact, it would be even better for consumers if there were more standards and companies that compete by building against those standards. The fact that there is only one Microsoft is as much problem for the US itself as it is for others.

In any case, it's absolutely essential that the western world remove dependency on US technology.
by duskwuff | 2026-02-04 06:16:42+00:00
> Solar panels in space are more efficient...

... if you completely ignore the difficulty of getting them up there. I'd be interested to see a comparison between the amount of energy required to get a solar panel into space, and the amount of energy it produces during its lifetime there. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a net negative; getting mass into orbit requires a tremendous amount of energy, and putting it there with a rocket is not an efficient process.
by kijin | 2026-02-04 06:16:54+00:00
I'm sure updating can be done with OS APIs, though MS doesn't look like they're in any hurry to integrate even their own store with the Windows Update mechanism.

The problem is finding and installing new software. Without a well-known official repository, people end up downloading Windows apps from random websites filled with ads and five different "Download" buttons, bundled with everything from McAfee to Adobe Reader.

We should be asking how to enable adding external sources like Ubuntu PPAs (which can then be updated like the rest), not whether there should be an official repository to bootstrap the package manager in the first place. "Store" is just a typical name for such a repository, it's not mandatory.
by orwin | 2026-02-04 06:17:06+00:00
Sorry, I'm not a legal expert, it's mostly what I remember from classes. I'll do my best

1-2/ I'm pretty sure the procureur can be named from anywhere , to any court, an can be an ex-arttorney while I think the juge d'instruction is named by the local magistrates, but have to have followed a very strict formation beforehand (and I think you have to be a top scorer or something).

3/ judges are chosen by passing a very competitive test before 31yo, then being taught during 3 more years (to access the test you need a master degree, if you fail you can still become an attorney, and attorneys can work a number of years and pass the test again, but in that case the age limit is like 40)

4/ here I'm not exactly sure. I go to the police, they investigate. If they found nothing but have reasonable suspicions, they ask a judge to authorise a 'perquisition' (basically a warrant, which have to be served between 8 AM and 10 PM). A juge d'instruction will only be responsible for an investigation in very difficult administrative cases (they are insulated from political pressure as much as possible, that makes them very good to investigate corruption cases) or in a heinous crime (basically anything involving children, multiple murders, terrorism)
by autoexec | 2026-02-04 06:17:21+00:00
> protest should be aimed at intimidating the government as a whole, not a specific individual

If I find out that a city councilman is accepting bribes or using public money for personal expenses, why should I protest "government as a whole" and not that one city councilman doing the bad thing? What is protesting government as a whole going to do about raising awareness of one person's corruption?

> Even in a mob with 500 torches and pitchforks outside your family's house?

Yes, provided there was a member of my family here who worked for the government who those people were peacefully protesting.

> For an established journalist, it would be trivial to obtain a politician's address even if it were not public record.

How exactly? Stalking? There are other ways, true, but those are available to anyone right? What way exists that is trivial for a journalist, but not trivial for anyone else?

If a government worker's address are already easy for anyone to find even if they aren't public record than what's the harm in them being public record anyway? (you could equally argue that if every government worker's address was trivial to find elsewhere there'd be no need to make them available in public records, but there are advantages to having a standardized process that works everywhere for everyone vs trying to find various other means until one works)

> Knowing a politician's address doesn't stop them from killing people.

It can pressure them to resign, or generate enough press and attention that they are removed from their position (voted out by the people for example), or just pressure them to do a better job so as not to outrage the people they're supposed to serve. Not every protest at someone's home turns into a murder.
by pclmulqdq | 2026-02-04 06:17:52+00:00
"High emissivity, high temperature" sounds good on paper, but to create that temperature gradient within your spacecraft the way you want costs a lot of energy. What you actually do is add a shit load of surface area to your spacecraft, give that whole thing a coating that improves its emissivity, and try your hardest to minimize the thermal gradient from the heat source (the hot part) throughout the radiator. Emissivity isn't going past 1 in that equation, and you're going to have a very hard time getting your radiator to be hotter than your heat source.

Note that KSP is a game that fictionalizes a lot of things, and sizes of solar panels and radiators are one of those things.
by pyrale | 2026-02-04 06:18:08+00:00
The first two points of the official document, which I re-quote below are about CSAM.

> complicité de détention d’images de mineurs présentant un caractère pédopornographique

> complicité de diffusion, offre ou mise à disposition en bande organisée d'image de mineurs
présentant un caractère pédopornographique

[1]: https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files...
by badsectoracula | 2026-02-04 06:18:32+00:00
AFAIK - and what is mentioned at the bottom here[0] - La Suite is a joint effort by French and German (and others) governments.

I did try a local installation of Docs when i first saw the project a few months ago (i do not remember if it was posted here or on Reddit, though i think one of the developers posted in the comments wherever i saw it), it seems fine though it did feel a bit sparse for all the docker containers it expected from me to setup. I guess for an organization this might be ok, but it did feel a bit overengineered, especially since the actual functionality doesn't seem to be much (and the core editor isn't even written by them).

[0] https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-04 06:19:07+00:00
Oh. Indeed you're correct. I was thinking in computer terms instead of scientific terms. Personally I see this as reinforcing that computers as a context wouldn't really benefit from using "proper" SI.

Note that no one is going to confuse mB for millibytes because what would that even mean? But also in practice MB versus Mb aren't ambiguous because except for mass storage no one mixes bytes with powers of ten AFAIK.

And let's take a minute to appreciate the inconsistency of (SI) km vs Mm. KB to GB is more consistent.
by conception | 2026-02-04 06:20:39+00:00
“We now buy our bread… it comes sliced… and sure you can just go and make your sandwich and it won’t be a rustic, sourdough that you spent months cultivating. Your tomatoes will be store bought not grown heirlooms. In the end… you have lost the art of baking bread. And your sandwich making skills are lost to time… will humanity ever bake again with these mass factories of bread? What have we lost! Woe is me. Woe is me.”
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-04 06:20:54+00:00
Kamala Harris/Tim Walz 75,019,230 48.34%
Donald J. Trump/J.D. Vance 77,303,568 49.81%
Various Others 2,878,359 1.85%

So, 50.19% voted against Trump, 49.81% voted for him.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-04 06:22:21+00:00
You can't without hacking it! That's my point! The only places you can easily are via the API directly, or "coomer" frontends like SillyTavern, Oobabooga, etc.

Same problem with image generation (lack of support for different SDE solvers, the image version of LLM sampling) but they have different "coomer" tools, i.e. ComfyUI or Automatic1111
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-04 06:22:27+00:00
> For example, pardons are for sale.

This seems like a pretty good example of how Trump is "different" but not actually different.

The traditional way this works is through prosecutorial discretion. You make friends with the politician and then when they're in office you don't get prosecuted or the case gets dropped or settled under favorable terms. Example: When Bush got elected, the antitrust case against Microsoft was effectively made to go away "for some reason" (https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/microsoft-political-...).

Doing the same thing with pardons is way more conspicuous, because instead of something that doesn't happen (prosecution) you have something that does happen, and in public view (official pardon).

Politicians traditionally care about distinctions like that because it makes it much easier to accuse them of the thing, whereas Trump DGAF. But it's fundamentally not a different thing and the actual problem isn't that Trump isn't being subtle about it, it's that they should not be getting away with it even when they are being subtle about it.

> Secondly he's set up a direct method for paying him, TrumpCoin. That's different to campaign contributions.

Eh. It's not that much different to campaign contributions and it's not really different at all to the longstanding practice of politicians or their family members owning a private company which then gets into a bunch of peculiarly advantageous business dealings while they're in office.

> In terms of international relations it's all new. He's blowing up trust in the US, via tarrifs, threats to invade a NATO country and so on. This is long term damage at unprecedented scale for no apparent actual gain.

The problem with this one is it's the hating the other party's President one. Congress passed a law letting the President set tariffs, didn't repeal it for many years, and then the President started setting some tariffs. You can argue that it's a bad policy, you can argue that they should repeal the law that lets him do it, but he ran for office saying he was going to do this, got into office, and now he's doing it.

> There are plenty of laws which say he can't do any of this. Adding more laws is not the solution. A weak congress, and a weak Supreme Court unwilling to enforce the laws is the problem.

There are two kinds of laws in this context.

The first is the ones that punish him for doing something. Those are useless in this context because the executive isn't going to prosecute itself so you're down to impeachment and for that you need bipartisan consensus.

The second is the ones that prevent him from doing something. Take away the law that lets the President set tariffs and he can't unilaterally set any tariffs.
by tensor | 2026-02-04 06:24:05+00:00
You are being denied the ability to sell to the French government, not denied selling into the market. Just like no one has "rights" to sell to the US government, you don't have any "right" to sell to any foreign government if they choose not to deal with you. And frankly it should be a matter of national security for governments to control the source and deployment of the software they use.
by dragontamer | 2026-02-04 06:25:06+00:00
The entire FSRS parameter set (~20+ parameters, depending on FSRS version) is per deck.

Each card is tuned to... 2 parameters IIRC? f(Difficulty, Stability, Time) == Retrievability. Time is just time so its not really a parameter, but Difficulty and Stability is solved on a per-card basis.
by guessmyname | 2026-02-04 06:25:17+00:00
Certain reimbursements/allowances for volunteering are treated favorably for tax purposes if conditions are met, e.g. ehrenamtspauschale (volunteer allowance).

Also, as Gemeinnützig, for tax and for issuing donation receipts.

It could also function as community service hours ordered by a court (sozialstunden).

Stuff like that.
by trhway | 2026-02-04 06:25:37+00:00
>That would make your solar panel (40kg) around $60K to put into space.

with the GPU costing the same, it would only double the capex.

>Even being generous and assuming you could get it to $100 per kg that's still $4000

noise compare to the main cost - GPUs.

>There's a lot of land in the middle of nowhere that is going to be cheaper than sending shit to space.

Cheapness of location of your major investment - GPUs - may as well happen to be secondary to other considerations - power/cooling capacity stable availability, jurisdiction, etc.
by publicprivacy | 2026-02-04 06:27:03+00:00
Security Engineer and Full-Stack Developer who "bleeds tech." I am also a justice-impacted individual. Since being released from incarceration three years ago, I have fought every single day to rebuild. It hasn’t been easy. In Spring 2023, I secured a life-changing DevSecOps role at a Canada-based firm, only to have the offer rescinded due to a background check. Just months ago, I lost a promising contract-to-hire position after being transparent about my "colorful background" pre-offer.

I have protected systems at Tinder, Verizon Media, UCLA Health, and Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

I am looking for the one company willing to take a chance on a re-entering citizen who brings a level of resilience you won't find in a standard resume.

Open To:
Support Engineering (Tier 2/3)
Technical Sales / TAM
Security Analyst / Vulnerability Management
Junior/Associate Cloud Engineering

See previous post for more context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858075
by NoPicklez | 2026-02-04 06:27:15+00:00
I'd ask the people saying "there's no definition for UPF" or that the NOVA system is terrible, try and come up with your own improvement. As they're attempts to help classify these foods.

Not everyone has a good nutritional understanding of their foods, so these are short form efforts to try and help.

Rather than knocking what's out there, how about also trying to determine an alternative and see how challenging it is.

I read a lot of people poking holes, but not a lot of suggestions of how to improve things.
by int_19h | 2026-02-04 06:28:03+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Luty#Firearms_design

> one particular design, outlined in his book Expedient Homemade Firearms, is the best known. This design makes extensive use of easily procured materials such as folded sheet metal, bar stock, washers, and hex screws. It is a simple blowback-operated sub-machine gun and entirely made from craft-produced components, including the magazine and pistol grip. The major drawback of such designs is the lack of rifling in the barrel, which results in poor accuracy and limited range

This book was openly sold on Amazon 10 years ago. I still have one on my shelf.
by 1-800-throwaway | 2026-02-04 06:28:55+00:00
Honestly, this take sounds extremely naive. Most public employees have no authority and certainly aren't roaming the streets with guns roughing people up. They're doing office work. And you know who takes up an outsized share of their time? Completely unhinged members of the public, who can't be told to "go away" like they could at any other job, because the government must serve everyone, by law, no matter how kooky they are. You shouldn't be signing up to be easily harassed and threatened in your personal life just by taking a public sector job. See my other comment for some examples.
by cubefox | 2026-02-04 06:29:04+00:00
First of all, the Guardian is known to be heavily biased again Musk. They always try hard to make everything about him sound as negative as possible. Second, last time I tried, Grok even refused to create pictures of naked adults. I just tried again and this is still the case:

https://x.com/i/grok/share/1cd2a181583f473f811c0d58996232ab

The claim that they released a tool with "seemingly no guardrailes" is therefore clearly false. I think what instead has happened here is that some people found a hack to circumvent some of those guardrails via something like a jailbreak.
by openclawai | 2026-02-04 06:29:06+00:00
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by LeFantome | 2026-02-04 06:30:48+00:00
> There are many architectures that NetBSD supports where Rust is not available

Are there many architectures that NetBSD supports where GCC is not available?

The rustc_codegen_gcc project allows using the rustc compiler to target any architecture that GCC supports. I think it is pretty far along.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc

> getting a Rust compiler running in the first place is hard

> bootstrap relies on a binary package

> the compiler would also have to be part of the base system

The gccrs project aims to make Rust a fully supported language in GCC. It is fully self-hosting and can be built from source. Once accepted, it will be one of the languages you get when you build GCC.

https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs

When gccrs is ready, it will address all the above objections.

Linux faces the same issues. Today, Rust is optional in Linux and can be skipped on any platform not supported in LLVM and rustc. For Rust to become mandatory in Linux, gccrs is going to be required (for some platforms).

> the release cycles of Rust are not compatible with the NetBSD ones

I do not fully grasp the objection here. Obviously NetBSD would not be forced to use any Rust features they cannot compile. And using gccrs for the NetBSD kernel would not prevent them from bundling LLVM and rustc as well if they want.

Anyway, I am not advocating the use of Rust in NetBSD. I am merely pointing out that solutions to the issues raised are being worked on.