MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tgtweak | 2026-01-28 20:09:18+00:00
Literally just hit the MPO bug yesterday - what a shitshow that things like display scaling can fail with a mainstream gpu/cpu and windows 11 - like do they not have testing rigs for this in microsoft? if insiders preview is fine but production windows gets all these bugs... what are they inside previewing? The most stable build of windows I ever had (hell it's still chugging along with 1050 days of uptime...) was a windows 10 enterprise edition added to domain controller with update GPO set to basically never install windows updates automatically.

There is some serious work needed inside microsoft camp to continue with a 6 month release cycle.
by al_borland | 2026-01-28 20:09:25+00:00
I haven't had that Bluetooth issue (but I haven't tried connecting my non-airpods to my mac).

Have you tried this? I saw it as a fix over on Reddit.

Privacy & Security > Bluetooth > Click the + > Add Music from Applications > Toggle to disabled

(This is insane to have to do, but better than running a script to monitor for it and kill it)
by RajT88 | 2026-01-28 20:09:34+00:00
I have a few machines which lack a supported CPU. There's CPU's only 6 years old which aren't supported. There may be some newer ones even (I didn't bother to look).

If it was 2000 - it'd be like, "OK boss, you gotta upgrade that old dog of a CPU", but software bloat really hasn't kept up with CPU performance. I've got an i3 which is serviceable enough from 2014. Is it going to be able to keep up with modern SQL Server and Teams and VSCode and all that? Probably not all at once. But totally fine for basic computing.
by thijsn | 2026-01-28 20:09:48+00:00
Polars is indeed more verbose when coming from pandas, but in my experience it is an advantage for when you're reading that same code after not having touched it for months.

pandas is write-optimized, so you can quickly and powerfully transform your data. Once you're used to it, it allows you to quickly get your work done. But figuring out what is happening in that code after returning to it a while later is a lot harder compared to Polars, which is more read-optimized. This read-optimized API coincidentally allows the engine to perform more optimizations because all implicit knowledge about data must be typed out instead of kept in your head.
by jjkaczor | 2026-01-28 20:10:00+00:00
This is exactly my experience - I have a Lenovo W530 from 2013, it has an i7, 32gb RAM and SSDs (RAID0 for performance, backups are off-device) - and it is STILL lightning fast.

However - EVERY single trick I have tried... the above command, LTSC, Enterprise edition, etc, results in a situation where after installation a few days (or hours) and some updates get installed, and... blue-screen-of-death on every boot.

Gave up, installed Linux - still working through some issues (GPU driver compatibility), but overall it is a much better experience...
by ilaksh | 2026-01-28 20:10:23+00:00
From where I'm standing, the very low wage underclass arrived many years ago.

AI and robotics just make it worse.

But it is very arrogant to think that it will be limited to certain types of jobs.

Things have never been meritocratic. We have always had extreme inequality. Technology has made things slightly more fair but that is still very unevenly distributed.

We _should_ be able to leverage advanced technology to lift everyone up.

I am going to point out something uncomfortable: I think that racism, classicism, and elitism is extremely prevalent globally and may be one of the biggest impediments to the even distribution of technology benefits.

We do need to redesign society. That starts with having a realistic educated respect for human beings in general otherwise it's going to be a bad design. It also necessitates refined and contemporary worldviews that properly integrate technology rather than outdated vague ideologies.
by abustamam | 2026-01-28 20:10:37+00:00
This isn't about me though. I game on Linux. I love it. My original reply was to this in your comment

> It's unfortunate but at the same time if enough people switch to Linux then they'll be forced to change their ways.

The whole point of this subthread is that companies are not going to make Linux compatible games as long as there are customers OK with installing root kits on their companies to play their games. And most gamers are ok with that line being crossed. It sucks for the rest of us, but capitalism gonna capitalism.
by Elfener | 2026-01-28 20:10:41+00:00
Authoritarian governments (that is, what unfortunately all governments want to be) also love this, since if a few big companies control all computing, they can regulate them to control the public.

Fortunately, there are many computers already in the public's hands (which they can use to perform any computation without government restrictions and without paying/sending data to a company); but more and more people are switching to mobile platforms (and kids start out on these platforms) that I'm worried about the future.
by program_whiz | 2026-01-28 20:10:55+00:00
You're approach seems straight-forward in theory -- just check every possible move and make sure that none lead to a checkmate. The only issue is that "checking every possible move" is a huge state space (way above what is computable). Not only that, but there are cycles (so you need to deduplicate). And if the game is a draw, then that means the number of moves is technically unbounded (since there would always be a move that makes the search tree deeper), as by definition, there is no way to end the game. So the question is 'when do you stop searching?'. It could be that checkmate is possible, but you haven't searched the 1 in 1 billion part of the strategy tree. In practice, its probably down to some heuristics and a reasonable depth search, but its not formally verifiable. Its a variant of the halting program -- prove that there is a stopping point for this game.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-28 20:11:35+00:00
I know they admit it. I'm just pointing it out, since many of the comments here seem to be taking it as truth.

And they don't provide any evidence. Not a single piece. Merely claiming it's a "solid guess" doesn't make it solid. It's based on nothing. Tracking pixels are extremely common, so there's nothing to suggest it's tied specifically to this. As opposed to, like I said, a buggy bounce detector.
by godelski | 2026-01-28 20:13:19+00:00
I want to step away from the conversation about Linux

Honestly, I'm disheartened to hear this. Frankly, those don't sound like friends, or at least close friends. If a friendship can evaporate by the simple act of wanting to try another game, then it barely seems like a friendship and it seems like those will evaporate as soon as the next popular game comes about. I don't want to tell you to abandon your existing friends but I would encourage you to find friends you can have stronger bonds with. To have closer relationships. Hard truth is you need to put in work to make this happen. It doesn't matter what games you play or on what platform: everyone deserves to have deep human relationships. I really do hope you can find some friends. I hope the friendships you do have are stronger than you have conveyed because frankly, as humans, we all need close friends.
by iwanttocomment | 2026-01-28 20:13:22+00:00
Nope.

Linux user for decades, but headless since the early aughts. Decided to dip my toes back into the desktop space with Mint Cinnamon.

I can mirror or run lots of phone apps on Windows or macOS, but ironically, not Linux. I decide to run an Android emulator so I can use some phone-only apps.

I read up on reviews, then download and install Waydroid as the top contender.

Does Waydroid work? No. It fails silently launching from the shortcut after the install. Run it from the command line, and, nope, it's a window manager issue. Mint Cinnamon uses X11, not Wayland, and Waydroid apparently needs... Wayland support.

OK, I log out, log into Mint with Wayland support, then re-launch Waydroid. My screen goes into a fugue state where it randomly alternates between black and the desktop. Try a variety of things, and I guess this is just how it is. Google and try any number of fixes, end up giving up.

Yes, that's my old pal Linux on the Desktop. Older, faster and wiser, but still flaky in precisely the same ways.
by palata | 2026-01-28 20:13:40+00:00
I am not sure what you are trying to say.

Convincing a user to give their password will always be an issue, that's fundamental. But because phishing exists does not mean that security does not matter.

Without security, there is no need to phish, because the system does not protect anything. Once you have a good security, then the best attack is phishing because it's easier to trick the human than the system. This means that the security is good, not bad.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-28 20:14:23+00:00
Innovation is why american salaries in tech are so high. They funded trillion dollar companies.

If that becomes so much of a commodity that some other countries can do it for pennies on the dime, then yes. Salaries will deflate. But we sure aren't offshoring (nor using most H1bs) to see more innovation. Quite the opposite.

Tech isn't manufacturing where the biggest supply line wins by default. That's why I'm not holding my breath that the US isn't going to be outcompeted on talent anytime soon. Of anything, its own greed will consume it.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-28 20:14:44+00:00
I have never heard of this. What kind of insights are being generated? What kind of data? Am I unaware that we’re at the point that I can give a CSV of e.g. industrial measurement data to an LLM and it provides reliable and repeatable output? Are people making decisions based on the LLM output? Do the people making those decisions based on that output know that it might be completely hallucinated and the only response they’ll get from the “Data Scientists” is a shoulder shrug?

So many questions. That’s why I called it vague. I don’t know how any data scientist could read this and not have a million follow up questions. Is this offline learning? Online learning? What are the guardrails? Are there guardrails? Mostly, wtf?
by myleshenderson | 2026-01-28 20:14:46+00:00
I appreciate the follow up. I'm using Jira as the primary work tracker for my day job, so I'm hesitant to interact with that any more than is necessary. Though we do have a skill for Jira primarily for humans to tell the LLM "hey create a ticket...".

I'll play with that a bit to see what happens.
by m463 | 2026-01-28 20:14:49+00:00
I think of the term "state of the practice"

Same thing happens with renting apartments. Slowly but surely, conveniences like apartment-phone-app (to open doors, to access mailboxes) get accepted by people and then they "throw the switch" and make the remaining 3% do it. Or maybe new renters must accept it to move in. And then they can deny access to apartments imeediately, track their residents, match with online activity and more...
by saysjonathan | 2026-01-28 20:14:53+00:00
I think the key distinction is the consistent layout (main pane + stack) along with keyboard shortcuts to manage. To me it's similar to running vanilla X{11,org} vs using a window manager (hence the name). A vanilla configuration will work just fine but sometimes a constrained or opinionated environment gets more out of your way and better fits your preferred workflow.

If you already have a robust tmux workflow with a desired layout (or lack of layout) and custom keyboard shortcuts then this may not work for you. It's just one way to manage panes/windows in tmux that I hadn't seen before and different from the usual ad hoc methods.

Like most window managers, I think it's all preference. What're your current preferences for pane layout, window management, etc? Do you always create/layout panes in the same way or is it situationally dependent?
by stalfosknight | 2026-01-28 20:15:02+00:00
Apple will provide software and hardware support for any given product for at least 5 years. After those 5 years, you sometimes will still get security fixes.

The reason for this is that newer software will start using hardware features and capabilities that only exist on newer hardware, not because Tim Cook is evilly cackling in his office "hahhahha! Let's force people to buy new Macs!!!"
by cbarrick | 2026-01-28 20:15:45+00:00
That's like saying we shouldn't build anything that can be used for good if it can also be used for evil.

By that logic, we should just turn off the internet. Too much potential for evil there.

More seriously, the argument being presented seems to just be "attestation tech has been used for evil in the past, therefore all attestation tech is bad," which is obviously an unsound argument. A sound argument would have to show that attestation tech is _inherently_ bad, and I've already provided examples that I think effectively counter that. I can provide more if needed.

I get that we want to prevent attestation tech from being used for evil, but that's a regulatory problem, not a technical one. You make this point by framing the evil parties as "corporate and government interests."

Don't get me wrong, I am fully against anything that limits the freedoms of the person that owns the device. I just don't see how any of this is a valid argument that Amutable's mission is bad/immoral/invalid.

Or maybe another argument that's perhaps more aligned with the FOSS ideology: if I want e2e attestation of the software stack on my own devices, isn't this a good thing for me?
by pstuart | 2026-01-28 20:16:19+00:00
Extrapolating from what we have to where AI/Automation is going, it seems like UBI would need to be embraced. The only way that could ever happen would be for all stakeholders to collaborate and map out a transition plan.

Considering the current political climate, that is not likely to happen. There are many things about China that I do admire, but their ability to map out and move their country forward as a whole is one thing we'd be well-served to learn from.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-28 20:16:26+00:00
> Defendants have targeted Minnesota for the latest unprecedented surge not based on any real or legitimate concern for the enforcement of immigration laws

Minneapolis is literally one of several "sanctuary cities" (cities defying federal immigration law): https://www.uscisguide.com/state-regulations-and-laws/sanctu...

By what moon logic is a city openly defying immigration law not a legitimate concern for the enforcement of immigration law? Somehow the phrase "sanctuary city" appears nowhere in that entire article. If the author would lie through omission on something this basic, how many other such lies are in there? I checked one other thing - does he mention that Renee Good pressed the accelerator while her car's wheels were still pointed at the ICE agent [1]? Of course he doesn't. He mentions false attacks on ICE [2], but none of the real ones [3,4], nor does he mention the same agent that shot Renee was dragged by a car while on-duty just months prior [5].

Calculated omissions to paint a picture of no real immigration law concerns, and no real threats to agents. Journalism.

As an amusing aside, one doesn't actually have to go all the way back to the American Revolution to find the federal government 'sieging' a city - 1957 will do, when Eisenhower sent the US Army to desegregate Little Rock [6]. Yes, the army, not a law enforcement agency. Another tactical omission by the author.

[1] I encourage you to check the the slow-motion bodycam video yourself. When the wheels started spinning they're still facing forward.

[2] I will, perhaps foolishly, take his word that those attacks were falsely claimed, as I don't have time to check everything.

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/24/us/dallas-ice-shooti...

[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/alvarado-police-officer-s...

[5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/08/ice-jo...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine
by offbyone | 2026-01-28 20:16:46+00:00
Ooof. I don't mind the OSS/pro feature gate for the most part, but I really don't love that "Pro version uses smarter heartbeats to track producer liveness."

There's a difference between QoL features and reliability functions; to me, at least, that means that I can't justify trying to adopt it in my OSS projects. It's too bad, too, because this looks otherwise fantastic.
by godelski | 2026-01-28 20:16:48+00:00
I think you're oversimplifying. Those are hard questions to answer and have the impacts extend beyond the victim and perpetrator. There are social costs to each of those decisions. Part of the legal system is to ensure there is that balance. That is the social contract. Determining if this is done effectively (or even at all) is a different question, but one that can only be answered through answering a million smaller questions like this one.
by kasabali | 2026-01-28 20:17:28+00:00
you've missed:

4. used electronics in 3rd world countries are much more expensive compared to developed ones (because not as much units were sold when they were new to begin with), so 50 euros will get you a 3rd gen in a poor condition at best (or some shit tier Celeron N-thousand something with a soldered 4GB RAM)
by wat10000 | 2026-01-28 20:17:28+00:00
I'd guess one of two things. One is a conversation that goes like:

"I want to send letters to everyone who doesn't open our emails."

"We can't really detect that. We could add a tracking pixel, but–"

"Yeah, do that, the tracking pickle thing."

The other is that the "did they open this?" feature was rolled out purely for metrics knowing that it's imprecise, and later on got repurposed for something unsuitable without looking at how the "did this email get opened?" facility actually worked.
by Izikiel43 | 2026-01-28 20:17:34+00:00
Did they have vegetables, grains and some kind of meat? (Beef, chicken, fish?)

Tortellini are common, yes, but I wouldn't consider a grocery a food desert because of that. Food desert is the grocery never having stock of more basic things, like milk, oil, meat, that's a real food desert, and I've seen that happen in a high inflation country.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-28 20:17:57+00:00
> AGI has no emotions, no drive, anything. > * Conserve power as much as possible, to "stay alive"

Having no drive means there's no drive to "stay alive"

> * Optimize for power retention

Another drive that magically appeared where there are "no drives".

You're consistently failing to stay consistent, you anthropomorphize AI although you seem to understand that you shouldn't do so.
by hackeraccount | 2026-01-28 20:18:00+00:00
To be brutal about it the question isn't a how many more millionaires. Say Massachusetts has 10 new millionaires. That's great. What if Florida has 1000 new millionaires? Suddenly 10 doesn't sound great.

To my mind it's a revenue maximizing question. Is Massachusetts hitting that metric right? I have no clue. I do suspect that the voters and the people advocating taxes like this in Massachusetts and California are not thinking in those terms. I think they are doing this out of some sense that anyone making that much has to be doing something unfair and that an inefficiency in revenue is just money spent towards fixing that unfairness.
by zahlman | 2026-01-28 20:18:41+00:00
Because I was baselessly accused of lying, here's one video taken from the sidewalk (there are probably more copies of this with more views, but it's what came up in my search):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKsWCDbnMW4

The man coming into frame at :09 is Pretti. As can clearly be seen a few frames later, he is already on the road at this point and walking towards the middle of the road. By :14, as the camera backs up, we can see that the crack in the road he straddled right after coming into frame was in fact in the main traffic lane, not the lane with the stopped white car. (I do not say "parked" because there appears to be a woman sitting behind the wheel who might have the intent to leave, but for the altercation in front of her.) At :22 the camera turns back to Pretti (whose location could be inferred in the interim from his shadow) and he is standing over the median.

From :26 he can be seen making hand gestures, either to direct traffic or otherwise communicate with drivers, such as the one coming into frame and honking a horn. The fact that the horn is honked implies that the driver perceives Pretti as being in the way, and at :28 we can see that car swerve slightly to accommodate him. At :35, as the officer pushes a woman while they are both in front of the stopped car, Pretti is still also in the road. He can then be seen approaching the officer and physically interposing himself between the officer and the woman, and raising an arm to block the officer. He is at this point on the road shoulder, not the sidewalk. As he helps the woman up, both of them get sprayed; at :42 he again physically interposes, as if to shield the woman. He is then pulled up (and presumably already under arrest) and eventually separated from the woman, which he clearly physically resists; then he resists the officers who attempt to wrestle him to the ground. This "ground" is squarely in front of the stopped car. There is an extended scuffle; it takes until :59 for him to be disarmed (although it doesn't appear that any other officer would be able to see that this has happened), and the first gunshot is audible at 1:02.

Regardless of any mitigating factors in Pretti's conduct, or reasons why the shoot would be unlawful (and I have now seen analyses by many lawyers that appear very well reasoned, and there is much less consensus among them than there was in the Good case), the video inarguably shows all the things I claimed:

* He was in the street the entire time.

* He was physically attempting (and mostly successful) to get in between the officer and the woman.

* Because the woman is still in the street, and her interaction with the officer didn't start there (as seen in other video) it is entirely plausible that the officer intends to arrest her for obstruction.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-28 20:18:47+00:00
> no one uses gemma 3 in prod anyway.

Umm, we do. It's still one of the best for eu countries support / help chatbot style. It's got good (best?) multilingual support ootb, it's very "safe" (won't swear, won't display chinese characters, etc) and it's pretty fast.
by runarberg | 2026-01-28 20:19:20+00:00
Prior to the internet I used my school library for that (or when I was very young, books at my grandparent’s house). So for me personally that wasn’t a new capability. It wasn’t until I started using Wikipedia around 2004 (when I was 17 years old) that the internet replaced (or rather complemented) libraries for that function.

But I can definitely see how for many people with less access to libraries (or worse quality libraries then what I had access to) the internet provided a new avenue for gaining knowledge which wasn’t available before.