MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dgb23 | 2026-02-01 00:36:52+00:00
You're missing one important feedback loop in this system: That debt is subsidized by foreign institutions, which have been slowly pulling out as they recognize that the US has been consistently consuming beyond their means. Also almost every continent has been working on circumventing the USD as the primary exchange currency in some way or another.

This is reflected in the USD losing value at a higher pace, which means the debt cycle becomes unsustainable.

Hopefully it will gradually managed, but that requires a large amount of political will, tax hikes and budget cuts. Very hard to do fairly and different people have extremely conflicting views on who should get poorer, because that's exactly what cuts and hikes mean.

The current admin is trying to brute force a change, where they keep their cake and eat it too, but they are eroding international trust which just accelerates the issue.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-01 00:37:43+00:00
Your comments are all about "the US is bad too" which I consider whataboutism. I am not from the US nor live there and I was opposed to all the wars in the middle east and to palantir and the Snowden revelations etc.

But that doesn't make what China does better in any way. And those millions of Uyghurs they locked up couldn't possibly all be terrorists. That makes it racism and religious persecution.

Ps how is Cuba a vassal state of the US? When you speak of a concentration camp I assume you refer to Guantanamo?
by sidrag22 | 2026-02-01 00:38:11+00:00
I usually feed my articles to it and ask for insight into whats working. I usually wait to initiate any sort of AI insight until my rough draft is totally done...

Working in this manner, it is so painfully clear it doesnt really follow the flow of the article even. It misses on so many critical details and just sorta fills in its own blanks wrong... When you tell it that its missing a critical detail, it treats you like some genius, every single time.

It is hard for me to try to imagine growing up with it, and using it to write my own words for me. The only time i copy paste words to a fellow human that is ai generated, is for totally generic customer service style replies, for questions i dont totally consider worthy of any real time.

AI has kinda taken away my flow state for coding, rare as it was... I still get it when writing stuff I am passionate about, and I can't imagine I'll ever wanna outsource that.
by Bender | 2026-02-01 00:38:42+00:00
The legal landscape has also changed.

It did change a lot but the biggest changes were the ToS/AuP of server/VM providers. What was not even taboo in the early 00's was becoming a problem keeping an account active on clear-web sites. Across the board many providers starting using the vague word "lewd" a word I had never heard of even after running porn sites for a long time.

Many of us moved to .onion despite being incredibly slow at the time. We would keep an unpublished clear-web sub-domain active for the old time users so they had a fast connection. Eventually that was even problematic so many forum operators stopped accepting new users and made their forums private or semi-private. Some still exist and some got married, had kids and real life took too much time and energy to also run such sites.
by semireg | 2026-02-01 00:39:14+00:00
From DYMO: Dear user, Thank you for contacting [DYMO]. I am sorry to hear about the inconvenience you are experiencing.

Kindly be informed, that unfortunately, but the DYMO Label Software v.8. is incompatible with the new macOS 26 Tahoe. The software is officially obsolete, we do not develop it anymore. The last update for it was introduced when Apple released their macOS 11 Big Sur, it was in 2020. The printers you have, with the exception of LabelWriter 450, are incompatible with the current software.

LabelWriter Duo and LabelManager PnP Wireless are obsolete for some time now (keep in mind that LabelWriter Duo is a 20 years old printer) and there are no drivers for them in a our current DYMO Connect software.

LabelWriter 450 was still being manufactured when the DYMO Connect was released, therefore drivers for that model were and still are included in the software.

Those older models would be working on an older OS (up to macOS Sequoia) and on Windows PC. Once again, I am sorry for the inconvenience you are experiencing.

———

Disclosure: I am the developer of Label LIVE.
by firasd | 2026-02-01 00:40:11+00:00
It's interesting to think about how complex the wikipedia text is compared to something like github flavored markdown or even standard html tables (although I guess it eventually renders into standard html so it's not more complex than the latter when all other html elements are considered in addition to <table>)

For example the swatch internet time infobox is dynamically updated

{{short description|Alternate time system by watch maker Swatch}}
{{Infobox
| image = [[File:Swatch beat Logo.svg|200px|alt=Logo of Swatch Internet Time]]
| caption = Logo of Swatch Internet Time
| title = Time{{efn|at page generation }} {{purge|(update to view correct time)}}
| label1 = 24-hour time (UTC)
| data1 = {{nowrap|{{#time:H:i:s}}}}
| label2 = 24-hour time (CET)
| data2 = {{Time|CET|dst=no|df-cust=H:i:s|hide-refresh=yes}}
| label3 = .beat time (BMT)
| data3 = {{nowrap|@{{#expr: floor( {{#expr:{{#expr:{{#expr:{{#time:H|now + 1 hour}}3600}}+{{#expr:{{#time:i}}60}}+{{#time:s}}}}/86.4}} )}}}}
}}
by arjie | 2026-02-01 00:41:01+00:00
> That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source.

This happens a lot on Wikipedia. I'm not sure why, but it does and you can see its traces through the Internet as people post the mistaken information around.

One that took me a little work to fix was pointed out by someone on Twitter: https://x.com/Almost_Sure/status/1901112689138536903

When I found the source, the twitter poster was correct! Someone had decided to translate "A hundred years ago, people would have considered this an outrage. But now..." as "this function is an outrage" which honestly is ironically an outrageous translation. What the hell dude.

But it takes a lot of work to clean up stuff like that! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weierstrass_funct...

I had to go find the actual source (not the other 'sources' that repeated off Wikipedia or each other) and then make sure it was correct before dealing with it. A lie can travel halfway around the world...
by golem14 | 2026-02-01 00:42:25+00:00
How trivial is it, really? These are spread spectrum devices that could have very sparse duty cycles. If you sending only millisecond bursts a couple of times an hour, for telemetry and whatnot, it would seem pretty hard to get a good fix, especially when moving. I haven't analyzed lora traffic, so just talking out of my ass.
by eukara | 2026-02-01 00:42:30+00:00
> From a practical standpoint, any PS3 remains a reliable and accurate way to play PS1 titles today.

> Every PS3 includes a mature software emulator for PS1 titles that runs PS1 discs with near-perfect reliability. [... Then the article repeat the first quote itself ]

I would not deem that overly confident statement to be all that accurate.
Several important titles do not run on _any_ PS3 from the PS1 library. None of the original Tomb Raider discs or their variants work despite the first 4 being in the Top 20 best-selling games on that system. And games like Blaster Master Returns have graphical issues that make them difficult if not impossible to play.
You can either use community patches to fix your own discs (on a modded system only, of course) or buy the PSN versions as they're hacked to run better on Sony's emulators. But when it comes to actually emulating the original system, running the discs you already own - you might be disappointed...
by ahtihn | 2026-02-01 00:43:17+00:00
> But it isn't true; if you resell your jewelry you're going to get basically nothing compared to what you paid, unless you like to wear gold chains. The resale value of new jewelry is more like the resale value of a new car.

This entirely depends on the type of jewellery and the premium you pay for it over the price of raw materials.

I know for a fact that there's quite a lot of jewelry that trades at a fairly tight spread around the price of weight in gold (10-20% between bid and ask). Losing 20% isn't getting "basically nothing"

Of course, if there's a brand name involved you're not really paying for just the gold content anymore so there the resale value sucks.
by hedora | 2026-02-01 00:44:08+00:00
None of the statements I’ve seen from Meta, people formerly involved in WhatsApp that chimed in here (thanks!), or the quotes from the investigation are incompatible with the whistleblowers’ allegations.

At this point, I won’t trust anything short of this on the front page of an SEC filing, signed by zuck and the relevant management chain:

“The following statement is material to earnings: Facebook has never (since E2EE was rolled out) and will never access messages sent through whatsapp via any means including the encryption protocol, application backdoor moderation access or backup mechanisms. Similarly, it does not provide third parties with access to the methods, and does not have the technical capability to do so under any circumstances.”
by josephrrusso | 2026-02-01 00:44:11+00:00
911 Product guy here...

TL;DR, this is nothing new.

Carriers have offered location of your device for 911 calls for years now, through a set of metadata called Automatic Location Identification (ALI).

This is only provided to 911 (police & fire) by carriers alongside your 911 call.

Mobile Device Manufacturers can also provide "precise location" to 911 for the same calls, but that's a separate form of data and closely secured.

Bottom line - Carrier data has always been less precise, but more readily available. Device data (i.e. Apple and Google) is more precise, but harder to access.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_911
by game_the0ry | 2026-02-01 00:44:31+00:00
> It also runs on my own computer, and the latest frontier open source models are able to drive it (Kimi, etc). The future is going to be locally hosted and ad free and there’s nothing Big Tech can do about it. It’s glorious.

After messing with openclaw on an old 2018 Windows laptop running WSL2 that I was about to recycle, I am coming to the same conclusion, and the paradigm shift is blowing my mind. Tinkerers paradise.

The future is glorious indeed.
by Neywiny | 2026-02-01 00:44:54+00:00
So the way I see it is fundamentally there was an issue with receiving signals on the spacecraft and that caused issues. I'd really like to know more about that. They mention doppler shift but that's bidirectional so even without the spacecraft knowing how fast it's going, they should be able to account for it based on the received signal. Common issues could be reduced receive sensitivity, interference, oscillator drift or instability, or plenty of other things but there's no mention of even one that I've been able to find.
by tzs | 2026-02-01 00:45:03+00:00
The way most proposals that want to support age verification (or verification of other things from a typical ID such as country) without disallowing anonymous users is to involve secure hardware.

Briefly, someone (probably your goverment) issues a digital copy of your ID cryptographically tied to a key in a hardware security module you provide. There is a protocol that can be used to demonstrate to a site that you have such an ID and that you can perform operations on it using that key, and can be used to disclose anything from the ID that you wish to disclose (e.g., what country you are in, or that your birthday on the ID is at least 18 years in the past) without disclosing any other information from the ID.

This avoids the timestamp problem because the issuer of the ID is not involved in verifying things from the ID. They have no idea when or how often people are using their IDs.

So far people working on these systems are using smart phones as the secure hardware with the keys locked behind biometrics. Google's made on open source library for implementing such systems, the EU has one nearing release after several years of development, and I believe Apple's new ID storage in Wallet supports such a system.

The EU has said that they plan to add support for security devices other than smart phones, such as stand alone security keys or smart cards.
by Cyph0n | 2026-02-01 00:45:20+00:00
Also, you get the ability to use Rc (non-atomic refcount) as long as you’re not in a multithreaded env. The atomic version is Arc, similar to C++ shared_ptr.

And there are no footguns - i.e. you cannot mistakenly use a Rc across threads - because the compiler will ensure that you aren’t doing this via the Send marker trait.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-01 00:45:36+00:00
The first time someone encounters 2001, they will almost certainly come away with some WTF? vibes, at least if they're being honest with themselves.

For my first time, I made the mistake of renting a VHS and watching it on a 19" TV. Heard this was a good SF movie, guess I'll check it off my list. Yeah, no. What I saw later in a 70mm cinema was the same content, same story, same words and images, but a very different movie. The setting and presentation made all the difference between a seemingly-pointless waste of time and a profound life experience.

That said, what we saw isn't what Kubrick filmed. Bowman's exercise sequence was originally a full 10 minutes long, just pacing around in circles, and a few other sequences including the Dawn of Man prologue were also much longer. Audiences in 1968 weren't buying it. Kubrick had to tighten things up, because complaining about the audience's attention span wasn't the option back then that it apparently is now.
by eichin | 2026-02-01 00:45:49+00:00
I've committed "--i-meant-that" (for a destroy-the-remote-machine command that normally (without the arg) gives you a message and 10s to hit ^C if you're not sure, for some particularly impatient coworkers. Never ended up being used inappropriately, which is luck (but we never quantified how much luck :-)
by digiown | 2026-02-01 00:47:22+00:00
I was intending that the alternate client should exist to function as an escape hatch. I fully expect most people will still use the default one, just like how people used the official reddit/telegram client when third party ones were available. The existence of an alternative constrains how much Facebook can enshittify the experience.

E2EE is about secure transport between the endpoints. What happens to the message after the endpoint is not something an app can feasibly enforce. Having control of the clients can at most do things like enforcing deletes, which IMO is not a good idea anyway.

> every second client was pretty much a spyware

Very few people will actually use one since the official app won't be outwardly too hostile, and those who do should be sufficiently discerning.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-01 00:47:36+00:00
It's been a while, but the one I remember with the most horror was dealing with Enums, and Enum payloads. Since Swift is statically-typed, many 'type union' situations end up becoming difficult problems. The question usually boils down to thinking about choosing one of (a) Enum with Payload (b) Generic (c) Type erasure. Nearly anything technically is do-able, but I wasted many hours (ie: repeatedly, not until I figured out the 'right way' for every situation) deliberating over how!
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-01 00:47:41+00:00
> Have you tried nextcloud + memories app? Every metadata is stored in EXIF and the directory structure on disk defines the directory structure in the app (and vice versa).

Ouch. One feature I love with Immich is that I can run it as Docker containers (I think it requires four containers) and pass the drive/volume with my photos as read-only, so I'm sure Immich cannot possibly modify my files.

The last thing I want is the latest solution du jour modifying my files.
by pembrook | 2026-02-01 00:48:27+00:00
OP writes a thoughtful, evidence-based comment.

The mob responds with a 1-sentence emotional meme, devoid of any thought or rebuttal.

It's impossible to fight feelings with logic unfortunately, which is why many western countries are going to fall into this trap and ultimately kill the idea of digital privacy and the open web forever.

This particular moral panic is reaching peak trendiness, and the baptists and the bootleggers are out in full force. Both parties are begging for hamfisted over-reaction from government (the bootleggers and politicians for more nefarious reasons of course).
by john01dav | 2026-02-01 00:48:41+00:00
> I think the disturbing reality is these countries are wanting to control social media to control the population politically

The current alternative is that unaccountable private interests control this, so some regulation in this regard seems reasonable to me. However, swapping private control for public control is only barely better.

The best solution that I can think of is ending algorithmic feeds, and having subscription feeds, or maybe user curated feeds, only.
by roenxi | 2026-02-01 00:49:26+00:00
How is that relevant? You can give whatever support you like to humans, but machine learning is doing the same thing in general cognition that it has done in every competitive game. It doesn't matter how much education the humans get - if they try to make complex decisions using their brain then, silicon will outperform them at planning to achieve desirable outcomes. Material prosperity is a desirable outcome, machines will be able to plot a better path to it than some trained monkey. The only question is how long it'll take to resolve the engineering challenges.
by lazarus01 | 2026-02-01 00:50:01+00:00
> Quality of the content doesn't matter at all

Exactly.

Engagement is prioritized over quality on most mediums. I find user generated content on social media absolutely abhorrent.

Thank goodness for hacker news. I can read something, share my views and in some cases, my views may be based on some weak intuition and I learn from polite correctness.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-01 00:51:01+00:00
> After going through 25 years of changing software every few years on this front I can’t be bothered. Files on disk. Nothing over the top. Immich is just another thing to maintain. Another problem which will result in a wholesale migration down the line.

I've got the solution to this. I'm like you: files on disk. But I also use Immich: and here's the kicker... I pass the drive/volume with my photos to Immich as read-only (I use containers so it's easy: the drive itself is read-write, but Immich only has read-only access to it).

When I'm pissed off by Immich or something better comes along, I destroy the Immich containers and it's gone.

And I still my files on disk (with checksums as part of the filenames, moreover, seen that family JPG pictures aren't files that happen to change a lot and if they change, they can be renamed).
by usamaejaz | 2026-02-01 00:53:45+00:00
Well... i am not easily amused. but i started using OpenClaw.

Some use cases:
- i can ask it to check my slack/basecamp and tell me if something needs attention when i am not on my work desk
- i can finally vibe code without sacrificing my actual active work-time. this means vibe coding even when i am away from my computer/work-desk.
- a bug/issue comes, i just ask it to fix it and send PR and it does
- it daily checks for new sentry issues and our product todo list and makes PRs for things it can do well

these are mostly code related things i know. but thats not it.

- i have asked it to make me content (based on my specific instructions) every day or every x day just like how i create content
- i can ask it to work on anything. make images, edit images. listen to voice msgs that people send me and tell me what they say (when i dont want to listen to 3m voice msgs)
- i can aksk it to research about things, find items that i want to buy, etc.
- i can ask it to negotiate price of an item it found in a marketplace
- it does alot of things that i had to manually do in my work

these are jsut after 2-3 days of using openclaw.
by blueprint | 2026-02-01 00:54:51+00:00
> Hasn't everybody at least tried everything significant just because?

No, not in the slightest. I would call this one the most dangerous and unfortunate fallacies that so many intelligent people have ever accepted and been cheated by. If it were true, you'd know everything important there is to know, and be a master of philosophy, and would have many answers to some basic questions which most people have been told have no good or concrete or verifiable answers.
by MaxRegret | 2026-02-01 00:54:51+00:00
The things that "start going really wrong" are listed immediately after that quote, and have nothing to do with the drop-off trajectory. Epic had problems with the ground stations they were using to communicate with their spacecraft. One of the two stations was offline because of a power failure. Then they "discover[ed] an unlikely incompatibility between their transmissions and the ground station hardware."

On a ride share mission, the primary payload determines the target orbit. If Intuitive Machines decides they want to go to a different orbit, then Epic has to deal with it. But they will be told this well before launch, with enough time to plan how many trajectory change maneuvers they need.

But even though they know beforehand how many burns they'll need, their exact parameters have to be calculated after launch once SpaceX uses the rocket's on-board guidance instruments to determine the actual insertion orbit. Usually this is within a few meters per second of the planned orbital velocity, but you need to know that last bit of error to figure out exactly how long the correction burns need to be. This doesn't change the overall maneuver plan, just the fine details.

The problem was that after launch, when SpaceX gave them the information they needed to calculate the burn parameters, they didn't have a working uplink to command their spacecraft to do the burn. So it just stayed on its original trajectory for longer than intended, getting more off-course the whole time.
by themaninthedark | 2026-02-01 00:55:14+00:00
In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle of federal law that grants government officials performing discretionary (optional) functions immunity from lawsuits for damages unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known".

Under 42 USC § 1983, a plaintiff can sue for damages when state officials violate their constitutional rights or other federal rights.

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

Qualified Immunity only sets the bar or threshold that you have to meet in order to sue.
by slaymaker1907 | 2026-02-01 00:55:32+00:00
A vector of boxes is beneficial if you need to move objects around. If each T is 1000B or something, you really don’t want to copy or even do true moves in memory.

Hell, even if you’re not moving things around explicitly, don’t forget that vectors resize themselves. If you use Box, then these resizes will be less painful with large objects.
by dang | 2026-02-01 00:56:03+00:00
You also broke the site guidelines several times in this thread, and it looks like some of your other comments (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838413) have been doing that as well.

We ban accounts that do that repeatedly, and I don't want to ban you because some of your other comments have been substantive and fine. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules in the future? We'd appreciate it.

p.s. I've added more here than I did in my mod comment to the GP because your account is new and I thought the extra information might be helpful to orient to the kind of site we're trying for.