MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 09:59:41+00:00
When I search for this, I find about equal numbers of stories with two opposing narratives.

One matching what you say; the other saying they're up significantly, e.g. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/byd-overtakes-tesla-world-lar...

I do not know what to make of this.

However, it is unimportant, as the main concern for this argument is all brands combined rather than any specific brand. Unfortunately, given I'm seeing two narratives that seem to be mutually exclusive for BYD, I don't think I can trust web searches to tell me about all brands combined either.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-03 10:00:34+00:00
Not really, Windows Services for UNIX was released in 1999, I am talking about Windows NT 3.51, released in 1995, which only supported POSIX.1, badly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

When Windows Services for UNIX came to be, it was already too late to matter, it wasn't really from Microsoft, and came with its own set of problems.

I am speaking from when Linux was still in baby steps, and basic stuff like ELF had just been added with the kernel version 1.0.9, in 1995.

Things could be even more different, had Microsoft kept Xenix, which was my introduction to UNIX, and one of Bill Gates darlings, actually.

https://www.theregister.com/2002/03/20/bills_vision_for_the_...

"The Future of Xenix"

https://archive.org/details/Unix_World_Vol02_10.pdf/page/n21...
by kilninvar | 2026-02-03 10:00:43+00:00
I've found this is exact opposite of what I'd dare do with AI, things you don't understand are things you can't verify. Consider you want a windowed pane for your cool project, so you ask an AI to draft a design. It looks cool and it works! Until you bring it outside where after 30 minutes it turns into explosive shrapnel, because the model didn't understand thermal expansion, nor did you.

Contrast this to something you do know but can't be arsed to make; you can keep re-rolling a design until you get something you know and can confirm works. Perfect, time saved.
by thisisharsh7 | 2026-02-03 10:00:51+00:00
Location: India

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by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 10:00:57+00:00
To me it sounds like an incredible speed to learn even 10 Mandarin words per day, let alone 20. So extreme, that I must wonder, what definition of "Mandarin words" and what definition of "learned" you are using, when you are writing that, or, that you are an extreme outlier in terms of memorizing visual information.

For me really learning a word means:

(1) Knowing how to say it.
(2) Knowing how to write it, meaning the Chinese characters, of course.
(3) Still remembering (1) and (2) after at least a month.
(4) Being able to actually use the word correctly.

Do you really learn 20 words properly under those definitions? If so, then respect. I consider myself to have quite a good memory for visual information, but if I don't try to memorize 20 words as a full-time activity on that day, and write them hundreds of times, I am fairly sure they won't stick for long, maybe not even until the next day. Some obviously will, and some have good explanations why the characters look as they do, but others don't, and feel arbitrarily constructed.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-03 10:01:05+00:00
The other method of challenging them and trying to prove your point does not work either. There is no solution it seems. They need to suffer the consequences of their decisions on their own.

Thats why I was so depressed. I have an engineering mindset of finding out how to improve things and there seems like there is no solution to this problem that involves remaining with this group as part of your society because it takes two to tango (ie. both sides need to put in genuine effort at growth).
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 10:01:09+00:00
That article ends with "The bottom line: there is no such thing as safe tobacco" which seems to try to answer a different question.

As far as I can tell, that page never actually tries to answer "Are "all-natural" cigarettes less harmful than ones with additives?".

Neither are healthy for you, yes, we get that, but the question is if one is slightly less unhealthy?
by M95D | 2026-02-03 10:01:25+00:00
I wonder if formatting the floppy is necessary. Could syslinux or maybe lilo load the kernel directly from raw floppy sectors and have the initrd appended to it and the commad line directly inside the kernel via CONFIG_CMDLINE? I know u-boot can do it, but that's 8+ MB.

As an alternative, isn't ext2 smaller by having no FAT tables?
by rawBit_io | 2026-02-03 10:01:48+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’d like to share a project I’ve been working for the last year raw₿it — a visual raw transaction builder & script debugger.

https://rawbit.io

Source:https://github.com/rawBit-io/rawbit

It’s an interactive web application that lets you drag-and-drop predefined nodes on a canvas to build real Bitcoin transactions from scratch, with every byte updating live.

How it works:
The tool runs in your browser (calculations via lightweight backend) or fully offline with local install. Connect nodes to generate preimages, signatures, witnesses, TXID/WTXID, and more — no hex editing required. Step through script execution opcode by opcode and watch the stack change in real time.

Key Features:
- Build transactions visually (P2PKH, multisig, timelocks, SegWit, etc.)
- See the exact Python code behind every node
- Change values and instantly update preimages, TXID, weight, fees
- Multi-tab workspace, undo/redo, dark mode, shareable flows, testnet/mainnet/regtest switch
- 10 hands-on lessons included (all transactions broadcast to testnet for verification)

Disclaimer:
This is an educational tool only — it is not designed or intended for handling real funds. Use it solely for learning and experimentation to avoid any risks.

Feedback, bug reports, and new lesson ideas welcome.

Thanks!
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-03 10:01:58+00:00
> The intractable problem is heat dissipation.

3 times the area of the heat dissipating surface compared to solar panel surface brings the satellite temp down to 27 deg C (300 K):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862869

> There is to little matter in space to absorb excess heat.

If that were true the Earth would have overheated, molten and turned to plasma long ago. Earth cools by.... radiative cooling. Dark space is 4 K, thats -267.15 deg C or -452.47 deg Fahrenheit. Stefan-Boltzmann law can cool your satellite just fine.

> You'd need thermal fins bigger than the solar cells.

Correct, my pessimistic calculation results in a factor of 3,...

but also Incorrect, there wouldn't be "fins" thats only useful for heat conduction and convection.
by KempyKolibri | 2026-02-03 10:02:24+00:00
This area is very interesting and lots of this is on the money. That said, I think there are some places where it overreaches and possibly verges on fear mongering based on pretty weak evidence.

I'm not sure NSS are necessarily "healthwashing" - they are genuinely a healthier alternative, at least in SSBs. Pointing to some very speculative research about "gut microbiome disruption" as if that somehow means NSS are something we should be concerned about in our diet doesn't seem to reflect the body of evidence on the subject. On balance they seem to be either a neutral or beneficial product, depending on what they replace in the diet.

I think one important distinction between UPF and cigarettes is that we have lots of examples of healthy UPFs. Are there any such examples for cigarettes? Even those researchers who voice concerns about the health impacts of UPFs (Kevin Hall, Samuel Dicken) seem to be largely interested in identifying _which_ UPFs might drive poor health outcomes and why, so we can regulate industry to make their products more health promoting.

My concern with this analogy between cigarettes and UPFs is that we end up with a movement to completely ban UPFs when they have lots of useful properties (can be stored at ambient temperature, long shelf life, reliable quality) that make them very important for people with limited means. The dream scenario, IMO, is that we regulate out the worst of the harmful properties, rather than trying to get rid of them entirely (which I think is the dream scenario with cigarettes).
by lazide | 2026-02-03 10:02:36+00:00
The situation re: psychological safety becomes very apparent when you mention to foreigners how often guns accidentally make it through TSA in peoples bags - and get discovered on screening on the return flight.

Saucers for eyes, saucers! Hah

The reality is that screening raises the bar enough that most casuals won’t risk it unless they’re crazy, which is worth something, and makes most people feel comfy, which is also worth something.

It’s like using a master lock on your shed, or a cheap kwikset on your front door.
by _fizz_buzz_ | 2026-02-03 10:03:39+00:00
Ok, that I might buy. If there is a product one can build in zero-G that one cannot build on earth. Especially something like growing crystalls. Sure. But trying to compete with something that can just as well be build on earth on the premise that it will be cheaper to do the same thing just in space is insane.

It's the same issue that I have with data centers in space. I don't think there is any big technical hurdle to send a GPU rack into space and run it there. The problem is that I have a hard time to believe it is cheaper to run a datacenter in space. When you have to compete solely on cost, it will super hard.
by latexr | 2026-02-03 10:03:54+00:00
Absolutely false. I have built tons of tools which are feature complete and continue to work to this day without intervention. Heck, I even have tools I no longer use that people asked me to keep available because they do, and they’ve been chugging along for over a decade, no bugs or maintenance necessary.

Just today I saw a report of Adobe discontinuing a tool in use by professionals because it is done and they don’t know what else to add.

https://mastodon.social/@grishka/116005782128372247

“Software is never done” is a myth they tell to keep extracting money from you.

A lot of the time, failing to to finish software indicates a badly defined scope.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-03 10:04:00+00:00
UDP by itself cannot be used to transfer files or any other kind of data with a size bigger than an IP packet.

So it is impossible to compare the performance of TCP and UDP.

UDP is used to implement various other protocols, whose performance can be compared with TCP. Any protocol implemented over UDP must have a performance better than TCP, at least in some specific scenarios, otherwise there would be no reason for its existence.

I do not know how UDP is used by iperf3, but perhaps it uses some protocol akin to TFTP, i.e. it sends a new UDP packet when the other side acknowledges the previous UDP packet. In that case the speed of iperf3 over UDP will always be inferior to that of TCP.

Sending UDP packets without acknowledgment will always be faster than for any usable transfer protocol, but the speed for this case does not provide any information about the network, but only about the speed of executing a loop in the sending computer and network-interface card.

You can transfer data without using any transfer protocol, by just sending UDP packets at maximum rate, if you accept that a fraction of the data will be lost. The fraction that is lost can be minimized, but not eliminated, by using an error-correcting code.
by emartinez-dev | 2026-02-03 10:04:03+00:00
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Remote: Yes, could also be hybrid on Barcelona

Willing to relocate: Negotiable

Roles: Backend / Full Stack Engineer / Platform Engineer / SRE

Technologies: Python; Django; Vue.js; Cucumber; Technical Writing; BDD; Docker; PostgreSQL; Kubernetes; Docker; GitOps; Ansible;

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by tirant | 2026-02-03 10:04:31+00:00
Shall we ban sex too?

Our bodies interact with extremely large amounts of elements in the environment and behavior that act beyond our conscious comprehension.

Sometimes in our favour and some others against us.

Banning everything that at some point worked against us is just establishing human life full of total deprivation. Worse than living in jail. Good luck maintaining a society in those conditions.

The individual and the society should instead focus on educating and teaching how to navigate an environment full of those elements.
by joshbee | 2026-02-03 10:04:53+00:00
Vanilla javascript is hit or miss for anything complex.

Using Typescript works great because you can still build out the interfaces and with IDE integrations the AIs can read the language server results so they get all the type hints.

I agree that the AI code is usually a pretty good starting point and gets me up to speed for new features fast rather than starting everything from scratch. I usually end up refactoring the last 10-20% manually to give it some polish because some of the code still feels off some times.
by fractallyte | 2026-02-03 10:04:58+00:00
It's realistic if just one prominent government takes a no-nonsense stance: send in troops, police the skies (shooting down drones as required), and ignore russian threats.

As for protests in their home country: deal with them firmly. People need to be told who the enemy is, how russia is destabilizing security across Europe, and that this is unacceptable. Weak governments lead to the rise of the far right, because people want to see decisiveness and action, not empty words.

Ukraine is able to defeat russia militarily - if it's given more than the "drip feed" necessary for basic survival. NATO need not be involved, and this is the utter shame of European "leadership".
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-03 10:04:59+00:00
Twinkies are just a simple yellow spongecake filled with cream. They are so unhealthy because in the quest to keep the price something that people can afford (or for greed in profits) companies are forced to turn it into processed zombie garbage but if you break it down, a Twinkie was only just originally a simple yellow spongecake with some cream. A treat served to guests during coffeetime.

Its financialization of everything including food, government tipping the scales against peoples well being and a declining purchasing power of the average american that has resulted in this awful reality where food isn't food.
by kruador | 2026-02-03 10:05:04+00:00
The international platforms are not deleted! They were brought back into use from 2018-2019 to serve the Windsor Lines, which includes the service to Reading - platforms 20-24. That somewhat reduces the congestion at Waterloo; the station throat limits adding more services.

The extension to Euston was supposed to have 11 platforms. Even the reduced scope now being implemented is 6 platforms, I believe. All 11 were required to handle the eastern leg of HS2 [providing bypass capacity for the East Coast Main Line out of King's Cross and the Midland Main Line out of St Pancras], and services to Scotland and Manchester [bypassing the West Coast Main Line from Euston's classic platforms].
by AlphaAndOmega0 | 2026-02-03 10:05:23+00:00
Same here. I did notice what I think was an actual error on someone's part, there was a chart in the files comparing black to white IQ distributions, and well, just look at it:

https://nitter.net/AFpost/status/2017415163763429779?s=201

Something clearly went wrong in the process.
by lazide | 2026-02-03 10:05:23+00:00
Airport security in India is particularly infuriating on this point. Everything gets scanned and fed through over and over again, and everyone gets wanded and patted down over and over again, with maximum ‘fuck you’ to any passenger that dares to question the sanity of restarting your entire screening - because you left your belt on.

Meanwhile, I haven’t even had a western airports metal detector even fire on the same belt in years.
by baxtr | 2026-02-03 10:05:53+00:00
Advice like this is right, in theory.

Just like: Don't smoke, don't drink, work-out, take walks, spend time with your family and friends, don't work too much. Also, don't worry too much!

All the real problems come in practice.

Don't get me wrong, it's good to have a solid basis.

However, 80% of success comes from applying these things in your messy life.
by stuxnet79 | 2026-02-03 10:06:23+00:00
This scheduler takes advantage of sched_ext which is a relatively recent kernel capability. I really thought that EEVDF was the last word on scheduling in Linux, at least for the short-medium term.

Apart from trolling I am really curious what other useful functionality sched_ext enables. One of the primary reasons CFS was replaced with EEVDF was because it has a better set of defaults which don't require tuning / patching which is exactly what sched_ext simplifies.
by walthamstow | 2026-02-03 10:06:36+00:00
> The dream scenario, IMO, is that we regulate out the worst of the harmful properties, rather than trying to get rid of them entirely (which I think is the dream scenario with cigarettes).

Isn't that basically vapes? A nicotine delivery mechanism without the most harmful properties, created by regulation on tobacco.

The thing with tobacco is it doesn't really have any benefit. It isn't a social lubricant like alcohol and doesn't have medical use like opiates. Old World societies managed fine before tobacco.
by jimminyx | 2026-02-03 10:06:41+00:00
I will keep the source code as a minimal implementation that has the core capabilities that made Clawdbot/OpenClaw useful: chat with it via messaging app (only one channel included out of the box), memory (minimal implementation that leverages CLAUDE.md and the filesystem), cron jobs, browser.

If I want to add additional capabilities for myself, I'll contribute them to the project as skills for claude code to modify the code base, rather than directly to the source. I actually want to reduce the size of the base implementation and have a PR open to strip out 300-400 LOC
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-03 10:06:50+00:00
I don't mind the inevitable death of System V. It's an archaic relic of the Linux era.

Going systemd-only is not necessarily a good choice (though I do understand it from a practical point of view). There are other, better alternatives for System V that are smaller and more modular so you still get the Unix "feel" without the absurd complexity of interlinked shell scripts that System V relies on.

I'd like to see OpenRC getting adopted in System V's place. Upstart seems to be dead (outside of ChromeOS) but it would also have sufficed. Alas, I'm not someone with the time or knowledge to maintain these tools for LFS, and unless someone else steps up to do all the hard work, we'll probably see LFS go systemd-only.

That said, there's no reason to go full-fat systemd, of course.
by Anon84 | 2026-02-03 10:08:34+00:00
Location: NYC
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by myrmidon | 2026-02-03 10:08:40+00:00
Sure, but how many "correct" decisions are not made or drag on forever because of vetos?

Allowing veto power to single participants is often crippling for institutions in practice, because you allow every political adversary (internal and external) to freely pick the weakest link whenever he wants to sabotage or paralyze decisionmaking.

This already happens in practice with the EU, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is a textbook example of how such a mechanism essentially doomed the whole thing.
by flomo | 2026-02-03 10:09:28+00:00
Yeah, I just posted that a lot of that software was amazing and pretty 'feature-complete', all while running on a very limited old personal conmputers.

Just please don't gaslight us with some alternate Amiga bullshit history. All that shit was super slow, you were begging for +5Mhz or +25KB of cache. If Amiga had any success outside of teenage gamers, that stuff would have all been historical, just like it was on the Mac.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 10:09:54+00:00
I think many learners are walking into a trap of thinking, if they just change their SPS algorithm, they will magically learn more. I think they might learn a little bit more, but the biggest effect is simply due to time investment and doing the repetitions. It is good to be able to practice known words less often, obviously, but that can be achieved using a very basic system already.

If changing their SPS or the promises about an SPS motivate the learner, then great, they're putting in the work and time to learn, but I doubt that the effect of changing the SPS is as large as some people claim.

For example I used a tool that supposedly uses FSPS, but it did have a low maximum for the duration you don't have to practice a word, and no way for me to "ban" a word, so that it asks me in 6 months or something, and simple words kept coming back, especially after not learning for a few days. I didn't make much progress using the tool, even though it had FSPS.
by lazide | 2026-02-03 10:09:56+00:00
Congrats for being one of today’s 10,000! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_423].

Notably in India, there have been a few times where Sikhs have been at the head of violent revolts - and a few times where they have been targeted by violent purges/genocides.

They’re generally pretty chill, but they aren’t pacifists.
by xzjis | 2026-02-03 10:10:00+00:00
It's a scam. I don't understand how EVERYONE falls for Elon Musk's obvious scams, when every year his claims are more fantastical and exaggerated than the last.

This is obviously about propping up a shaky business (SpaceX) by making people believe that data centers in space are a solution. It's just riding the AI hype wave.

It's impossible to cool servers effectively in space, and, even though I'm skeptical, I'm more inclined to believe in a project to put them in the ocean than in space, simply because water conducts heat, unlike a vacuum.

Sure, there's a lot of room in space, but: - it will always take more energy to get into orbit than to install servers on Earth - the distance between the data center and us adds latency, which is not desirable for an LLM - the distance between the satellites themselves adds a huge amount of latency, making the data center less efficient

In a nutshell, there are physical problems that can never, ever be solved by science or technology, and even science fiction doesn't dare to invent scenarios this implausible. But then, coming from a pedophile who lied about his ties to Epstein, is it really surprising that he's lying and trying to divert attention right now.
by midtake | 2026-02-03 10:10:10+00:00
What a load of crock! People have agency. Free will. So what if McDonalds puts out a cool new toy in their adult happy meal or some special sauce loaded with glutamates. Fuck em! Say that to them right now, in your head or out loud: fuck em!

You can stop this addiction right now by merely doing nothing and not eating "UPFs". You have the power. When you get stressed and want to burn time and energy eating because it's at least eating, how about doing a different thing? Each one of us is powered by a soul that can defy these behavior loops with some self-reflection.