MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FranklinJabar | 2026-02-03 05:40:25+00:00
> perhaps with the exception of the big projects that command the full attention of central leadership.

This is notably an area where the US is massively crippled. States can manage many year projects easier, but the federal government must conceal all such projects behind defense spending. Even that is wildly mismanaged (see: all the canceled naval purchases over the last two decades, and we still have an outdated, if large, navy)
by nevon | 2026-02-03 05:40:28+00:00
You can find the forks by looking in the "network" part of the UI.

I do agree that GitHub could do more to highlight forks and their relationship to one another. But I don't think the current way - having an open pull request - is the only way to do that.

As a former maintainer, I am very in favor of this move. After having spent 10 years or so being hounded with "Any update on this?" and "Can we get this merged?", I don't think I would ever do it again as long as there aren't controls in place to be able to set the expectation that the code is free to do with as you will, and please go ahead and fork if you want it to do something different.
by unkownnomad110 | 2026-02-03 05:40:40+00:00
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by igor47 | 2026-02-03 05:40:52+00:00
Fascinating, if not surprising. I sometimes wonder whether China's firewall is a huge tactical advantage in distributed warfare like this. Open societies are vulnerable to this kind is manipulation, and I'm not sure what defenses there are short of also becoming closed societies. Russian corruption is infectious

Relatedly, I recently heard Dan Carlin (of hardcore history) on Sam Harris's podcast wonder how much of the current discord in the US is the product of Russian influence campaigns (and whether we'll ever find out)
by michaeld123 | 2026-02-03 05:41:08+00:00
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by t-writescode | 2026-02-03 05:41:55+00:00
I guess I'll take the bait. I thought this was going to be a page or collection of things that reduces the total amount of load, but really it's just a collection of opinionated alternative software.

I thought it might be "get away from one monoculture with harmful activities with a better option", but it's not that either, really?

I mean, some of these are fine, but for mosts of these, I don't see a reason for the alternative choices?

Like, if you're using AnyDesk, you're probably using it for a reason and that reason won't allow Chrome Remote Desktop, TightVNC or anything else.

If you're using MySQL or PostgreSQL, you've already made that choice on purpose. If you're using Terraform, that's a choice you made. If you're using Ruby, you definitely already know about Python - and probably hate it, honestly.

There's no defenses in the article, it's just an opinionated list without the opinion part.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-03 05:42:02+00:00
It seems to me that we're seeing precisely the opposite. Trump enjoys the appearance of inevitability, so whenever he finds something he cannot force through, he pretends that it doesn't matter to him and he never really cared about it in the first place.

I'd encourage you to make a list of the top 10 things you're worried he's about to do now, and check back in a few months to see how many of them came true. One big transition point in my thinking was in July of last year, when I remembered how much he'd bragged in March that the Department of Education would soon be shut down. He does a large number of terrible things, yes, but he also can't do most of the terrible things he says he's going to do.
by fooker | 2026-02-03 05:42:18+00:00
> Right now only upsides ...

You are missing some pretty important upsides.

Lower latency is a major one. And not having to buy land and water to power/cool it. Both are fairly limited as far as resources go, and gets exponentially expensive with competition.

The major downside is, of course, cost. In my opinion, this has never really stopped humans from building and scaling up things until the economies of scale work out.

> connect to other satellites and earth

If only there was a large number of satellites in low earth orbit and a company with expertise building these ;)
by vlovich123 | 2026-02-03 05:43:30+00:00
Not really. GPUs are stateless so your bounded lifetime regardless of how much you use them is the lifetime of the shitties capacitor on there (essentially). Modulo a design defect or manufacturing defect, I’d expect a usable lifetime of at least 10 years, well beyond the manufacturer’s desire to support the drivers for it (ie the sw should “fail” first).
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-03 05:44:28+00:00
> Parking spaces are a drop in the bucket versus what is missing.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/seattle-parking-spot-sells-...

That was 2022, $56k is probably about 10% of a one or two bedroom condo price.

> The root cause is zoning laws; particularly the height restrictions as they currently stand.

Tokyo is, as I understand it, the libertarian ideal for a city that doesn't let zoning get in the way of a good time, and parking space prices are still expensive there:

> Monthly rental rates for spots in the 23 Wards range from ¥30,000 to over ¥80,000, which reflects high underlying property value.

That's $200 to $500 a month.
by LexiMax | 2026-02-03 05:44:31+00:00
That's something I've always admired about Zig.

A lot of languages claim to be a C replacement, but Zig is the second language I've seen that seemed like it had a reasonable plan to do so at any appreciable scale. The language makes working with the C ABI pretty easy, but it also has a build system that can seamlessly integrate Zig and C together, as well as having a translate-c that actually works shockingly well in the code I've put through it.

The only thing it didn't do was be 99% compatible with existing C codebases...which was the C++ strategy, the first language I can think of with such a plan. And frankly, I think Zig keeping C's relative simplicity while avoiding some of the pitfalls of the language proper was the better play.
by Nursie | 2026-02-03 05:44:48+00:00
This is exactly it.

We have a system here in Western Australia and people use it a lot: fuelwatch.wa.gov.au

I think it's exactly that, the UK has never had this so people there either choose by brand or just convenience. But since moving to WA I've found that it's really easy to have a quick look when I notice I need to fill up, then I can head to the cheapest station nearby, and the difference can be in the range of 10-15%, occasionally 20%.

In a country where fuel is as expensive as it is in the UK, people are going to use that.
by bruce511 | 2026-02-03 05:45:36+00:00
It doesn't matter I'd they hold back or not. The perception of political instability is enough.

If, as an investor, I'm asked to throw billions at a multi-year project, political risk is going to be on the PowerPoint.

You may think this current administration is an aberration, but it serves to prove that aberrations can happen. That the levers supposed to prevent this (congress, courts) are creaking. Sure a judge ruled for now, but this is a long way from finished.)

And that's enough to create doubt. Lots of doubt. The impact of this on long-term future infrastructure projects cannot be over-stated.

(Let's leave aside that this project was 6 years in the planning, during his first term, before construction start in 2022... which just makes the current behavior worse, not better.)
by labcomputer | 2026-02-03 05:45:45+00:00
Is that actually true for SSDs? I was under the impression that manufacturers have a speed-capacity tradeoff "knob" they can adjust.

Specifically, that each buried gate can store one bit (SLC), two bits (MLC), three bits (TLC) or even more.

Obviously more bits means closer thresholds, making the gate more susceptible to electrical noise when reading and writing (and process variation in the dopant loading).

It's pretty easy to think up ways to pack in more bits that would slow down the read rate... such as applying multi-level ECC or just waiting longer for the read ADCs to settle.
by Vicinity9635 | 2026-02-03 05:46:32+00:00
TSA's searches without a warrant are illegal.

The fourth amendment:

>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

And no, you cannot convince me that searching families flying to see grandma for Christmas is a "reasonable search".
by jmathai | 2026-02-03 05:46:55+00:00
I learned all of my programming outside of university and textbooks. It’s one way to learn. Not the only way though - and it has its limits - but you can get pretty far.

But here is my advice. Learning by doing with AI seems akin to copying source from one location (I.e. view source, stackoverflow).

My tips:

- Understand all of the code in a commit before committing it (per feature/bug).

- Learn by asking AI for other ways or patterns to accomplish the something it suggests.

- Ask Claude Code to explain the code until you understand it.

- If code looks complex, ask if it can be simplified. Then ask why the simple solution is better.

- Tell AI that you’d like to use OOP, functional programming, etc.

One way to measure if you’re learning is to pay attention to how often you accept AI’s first suggestion versus how many times you steer it in a different direction,

It’s really endless if your mindset is to build AND learn. I don’t think you need to worry about it based on the fact you’re here asking this question.
by tylermarques | 2026-02-03 05:47:58+00:00
In the same vein, we recently released a version v0.1 of our humor benchmark. [1] We use human answers from a cards against humanity style game call Bad Cards [2] as ground truth for what is funny. The models get to choose a card from a hand of 3-6 cards, so not quite de novo joke creation.

[1] https://goodstartlabs.com/leaderboards/lol-arena

[2] https://bad.cards/
by saratogacx | 2026-02-03 05:48:42+00:00
I think the Colossus[1] predated the ENIAC but is still in line with your general theme of doing stuff for the military. In this case it was used for cipher breaking, not firing calculations.

You could argue that it doesn't really count though because it was only turing complete in theory: "A Colossus computer was thus not a fully Turing complete machine. However, University of San Francisco professor Benjamin Wells has shown that if all ten Colossus machines made were rearranged in a specific cluster, then the entire set of computers could have simulated a universal Turing machine, and thus be Turing complete."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
by mixmastamyk | 2026-02-03 05:48:51+00:00
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by bandrami | 2026-02-03 05:49:05+00:00
I got one of those Asus ROG laptops that bragged about having an NPU and I kept trying to figure out how to access it until I realized they just meant the integrated Ryzen GPU (which is also responsible for getting anything rendered by the discrete Nvidia GPU to the actual display). Also its alleged 16G of video memory included a mapped 8G of system RAM. I miss when vendors at least pretended to be honest.
by userbinator | 2026-02-03 05:49:41+00:00
I'm also naturally curious about the byte count --- using the accepted standard of 5 for words to characters, and since I almost never post anything but ASCII, I've been writing approximately 1.25KB per day here; or just over 5.5MB worth of text so far. Considering that English text compresses very well, and using ~20% as a rough ratio, this means that all ~1.2M words of my comments here, compressed, would still fit on one 3.5" floppy disk.
by monting | 2026-02-03 05:51:31+00:00
They "eliminated" extreme poverty caused by communist control in the first place, by going to a capitalist system.

There were tons of economic low-hanging fruits by building out large infrastructure projects, which corruption happily siphoned off of.

The ROI of these infra projects have been gone for a while, yet they continued. Also it's been stealing intellectual property, trade dumping, exporting deflation. Soaking up the manufacturing oxygen of everyone else through subsidies, elite capture, then using the leverage gained and veiled threats against others to force them to yield resources, market access and political control.
by Nursie | 2026-02-03 05:51:43+00:00
That's an extreme case though, and not what this sort of thing is aimed at.

Here in Perth, Western Australia, it's common for pump prices to vary significantly even within a small radius. But they're all on https://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/ so you can see what the price is ahead of time.

If it's 14c cheaper per litre (coming up for 10%) to go 500m one direction vs 500m another direction, which one are you going to choose?
by snailmailman | 2026-02-03 05:52:10+00:00
Interestingly, theres an account in that thread claiming to be from Gyrovague, but its not the same one thats in this thread, which has been confirmed to be legit as it is mentioned by name in this latest Gyrovague article.

I wonder, is the newer gyrovague-com account because they lost the login for the old one? or was the old one a different person? Hopefully they can clarify, because if there's an account pretending to be them that makes this story even more confusingly weird.
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by bruce511 | 2026-02-03 05:54:55+00:00
Alas you'll need to define "sane" first. That might be harder than expected.

Equally unfortunate is the need for 60 senate votes to actually have a meaningful say over what the president does. And in truth no part has had "control" of congress to this level for a while.

When one (or indeed both) sides are politically incapable of being bipartisan (witness the outcomes for those voting against party lines, on both sides) control of one house is meaningless and a majority in the senate (short of 60 votes) mostly meaningless.

Expecting any change in behavior after November, regardless of the results, is wishful thinking.
by k310 | 2026-02-03 05:55:31+00:00
Even the mild-mannered Chuck Schumer said: "Does Donald Trump need a copy of the Constitution? What he is saying is outlandishly illegal."

Yes, it's totally unconstitutional. OTOH, his friends in the judiciary have systematically taken apart the voting rights act, a federal override on actual, not imaginary, vote fraud and suppression.

In short: Having ones cake and eating it, too.

Once again, Wilhoit's Law: [0]

Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition … There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.

[0] https://systemicunlearning.substack.com/p/wilhoits-law-there...
by erikwiffin | 2026-02-03 05:56:12+00:00
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by keeda | 2026-02-03 05:58:25+00:00
> The TSA was NEVER about security. It was designed as a jobs program and make it look like we were doing something for security.

To a great extent, it is security, even if it's mostly security theater, in the sense that it is security theater that people want.

A large portion, maybe even the majority, of travelers simply won't feel safe without it. I've had and overheard multiple conversations at the airport where somebody felt uncomfortable boarding a plane because they saw the screening agent asleep at the desk. Even Brunce Schneier, who coined the term "security theater" has moderated his stance to acknowledge that it can satisfy a real psychological need, even if it's irrational.

We may be more cynical and look upon such things with disdain, but most people want the illusion of safety, even if deep down they know it's just an illusion.
by monero-xmr | 2026-02-03 06:00:44+00:00
First you must accept that engineering elegance != market value. Only certain applications and business models need the crème de le crème of engineers.

LLM has been hollowing out the mid and lower end of engineering. But has not eroded highest end. Otherwise all the LLM companies wouldn’t pay for talent, they’d just use their own LLM.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-03 06:01:18+00:00
I have this vague sense that this is the opinion of many people in the Anki community many years ago when I last used it (to improve my German vocabulary before my first child was born—with whom I speak German).

I was reminded that AnkiHub's business model is selling Anki add-ons.

So it seems clear they would decline to add competing features to Anki, but instead create an add-on to sell instead, and never add it as a feature to Anki.
by Lammy | 2026-02-03 06:01:44+00:00
> there are multiple PRs to address that, but the maintainers give no good reason for not accepting it.

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by KPGv2 | 2026-02-03 06:02:00+00:00
> All what I care about when using Anki is what's on the 2 sides of a Card, a question + answer

This is damn near the least effective way to use Anki. Cloze deletion alone surpasses this.

Also, Anki is SRS. The value of Anki is in the rescheduling, not in the fact it's flashcards. And Anki has implemented the FSRS rescheduling algorithm, which is just one more feature not all flashcard apps do.
by kajolshah_bt | 2026-02-03 06:02:08+00:00
This is a really helpful way to separate the two.

I think a lot of product discussions collapse engagement into notifications, when in reality many useful tools are pull-based by nature. I personally have apps I use weekly that would be worse if they ever notified me.

Maybe the mistake is assuming interruptions equal usefulness, when for many apps the value is exactly the opposite: being available, predictable, and quiet until needed.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2026-02-03 06:02:35+00:00
I hate FF since some random morons decided it's a good thing on mobile to use the last used folder for bookmarks, instead of the mobile bookmarks folders.

I have several thousand curated bookmarks. And I only discovered too late the new "feature".
Disrupted my former flow (mark on mobile, sort/categorize on desktop)

They could have made this configurable, but no... those smart asses knew better.

I have that GitHub issue where they initially discussed it for iOS bookmarked and screenshoted, to remind myself how utterly stupid some people are.
I hate every sucker involved.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-03 06:02:42+00:00
I've found that layoffs and RTO have multiplied the toxicity of development communities. People will openly threaten to call your HR department if you say something wrong. Developers and engineers aren't trying to get better, they're just harming each other in a loop until the most evil one survives. It's cut-throat but not even in a good way, just extremely anti-social and aggressive.

I don't recommend any development communities. If you want to try Discord, many people who will try to get you fired are available to chat with. I talk with long time friends who are developers but it's mainly really sad conversations.