MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rvz | 2026-01-28 13:31:53+00:00
It’s not really hard to see such a migration if you simply follow the money. See [0] and [1]

[0] https://www.forthcapital.com/uk/articles/2025-wealth-migrati...

[1] https://www.henleyglobal.com/publications/henley-private-wea...
by rswail | 2026-01-28 13:32:25+00:00
That's not a problem of the platform, but is a problem of the developers.

The extra cost of an Android capable tablet (maybe $200 especially wholesale) is a minimal hardware cost considering the overall price of the equipment is in the thousands.

But finding good embedded developers is a very difficult problem to solve, much easier to find Android app developers and then you get the Android eco-system for free like device management, OTA updates etc.

Put all the sensors and controls on a USB bus and you need one or two actual embedded developers to deal with the drivers and the rest of the developers can build the UI that people see.

In the case of a gym, the person buying the equipment is the customer, not you.

They want features that will make you "sticky" to the gym, plus save costs on training you on how to use the equipment.
by apothegm | 2026-01-28 13:32:39+00:00
I’m watching people listen to AI-generated music and not notice (or even prefer it over human-produced music). I’m watching people on FB who can’t tell the most ridiculous AI-generated imagery from reality.

It may not be good enough for you or me; but the average consumer is not all that discerning. They’ll choose whatever gives them a dopamine hit.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-28 13:32:50+00:00
>That's more an indictment of the way you (the US) starve your public services of proper regulatory power with the right level of personnel to handle it.

>Blaming the "government" for what happens from obvious policy failures

Who creates the policy that fails if not the government? If a supplier kept telling you they'd do something and kept screwing it up at what point do you move them to the bottom of your list for who to call to get stuff?

It's really easy to sit there enveloped in pure ignorance and say "those idiots just need to fund an administrative agency to prevent fraudulent daycare" or whatever but nobody in the US wants to do that because everyone's seen with their own two these sorts of endeavors turn into feeding troughs and revolving doors and rackets that the politicians and politically connected use to run businesses that make money by going through motions that provide little (just enough to keep some political support form useful idiots) value at taxpayer expense. How do you solve such a problem? It's immensely hard and complex.

I'm so sick of ideologues who can't think two steps ahead peddling these sorts of "just do this" simple and wrong solutions.
by secstate | 2026-01-28 13:33:00+00:00
Christ, this is like a textbook definition of sealioning. You've hijacked multiple threads here persistently asking for more and more evidence of their claims. If you don't agree with an argument, provide your own counter evidence. Stop harassing people and do your own work, or stop reading the threads with people you don't think have valid opinions or have no evidence.

At this point, I'd almost think you were a bot yourself, as your oblivious to the social standards of online forums and/or manipulating them intentionally.
by phatfish | 2026-01-28 13:33:00+00:00
The dysfunction on the corporate side just gets swept under the rug, only in extreme cases does it get brought to the attention of the public.

Governments have to operate in a more open manner (at least those with a reasonable amount of democratic accountability do). So the dysfunction is made public more often, and likely used over decades for political point-scoring.

It's similar to open source development. Everyone moans that open source projects are full of infighting slowing down development compared to closed projects.

Then, as soon as someone comes along and gets shit done like with systemd or the Linux kernel it's the opposite complaint. The doer is now a wannabe dictator ordering everyone about.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-28 13:33:28+00:00
> Listen, Trump won almost every single demographic. His numbers increased % wise among them vs 2016. To claim it was all lies, racism and sexism is just wrong.

I'm not claiming it was all that. For example, some people are single issue voters on abortion, so of course they are going to vote R. But a lot of people bought into the trans panic ads, the xenophobia, etc.

> DO not double down on the mistakes of the Harris campaign again and then put fingers in your ears and blame the voters for being misinformed, please.

The voters were misinformed, though. Without a doubt the last election showed the people are much more of a problem than any party.
by self_awareness | 2026-01-28 13:33:51+00:00
As a non-American, I'm just wondering, why won't you help these people get legal citizenship status since it's clear as day most people want them in?

Why won't you protest against current citizenship rules, since it's clear you want them to be changed?

edit: I see it's just a simple "f** ice" and "you need to go" case. I'll show myself out
by lima | 2026-01-28 13:33:55+00:00
First of all, as your article shows, batteries rarely need replacement at all, even at very high mileage. And those are old vehicles, battery management and cell chemistry are much better now.

And when they do, it's usually just a few cells that need replacing. In Europe, there are specialized third party repair shops that can do it a fraction of the cost of a new battery: https://www.smart-emotion.de/article/431-cell-replacement-at...

Lots of real world data shows that the TCO of EVs is much lower - fewer moving parts, less complexity, less maintenance.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-28 13:34:28+00:00
> then governments use this data, but can wash their hands of it saying "we didn't collect it"

These are CMMS and HHS data. The government literally collected it. On government forms.

This thread is Exhibit A for how the tech-privacy community so often trips itself up. We have abuse of government data at hand. It’s clear. It’s sharp. Nobody denies the government has the data, how they got the data or how they’re using it.

So instead we go into parallel construction and advertising dragnets and a bunch of stuff that isn’t clear cut, isn’t relevant, but is someone’s bogeybear that has to be scratched.
by Aerbil313 | 2026-01-28 13:34:29+00:00
That talking point - that rapid-form media creates attention deficit problems is honestly overdone and there's no evidence that it's true at all (that I know of). ADHD exists and is a mostly genetic condition, you can't catch it without something serious like cPTSD. Amusing Ourselves To Death emphasized way more the angle of densensitization.

I used to think doomscrolling broke my brain before I was diagnosed. Later I realized I was "doomscrolling" way before I got my first digital device, rereading the same fiction books late into the night.

I can buy the argument that rapid-form media consumption acutely creates symptoms like ADHD (for at most a few hours after exposure) because I see it even in NT people.
by JAL_UK | 2026-01-28 13:35:39+00:00
A web app that uses Ollama for an RLM influenced implementation. Whereas RLM was primarily concerned about context rot this leverages the chunking approach to work around the small context windows of local LLMS.

From the MIT RLM white paper:

rom the paper:

"Even without sub-calling capabilities, our ablation of the RLM is able to scale beyond the context limit of the model, and outperform the base model and other task-agnostic baselines on most long context settings."

This approach keeps the spirit of this.

All state is stored in the browser in indexed DB including text extracted from PDF and Docs, and the App will attempt to detect a local running Ollama instance.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-28 13:35:45+00:00
> I was predicting all this

You predicted HHS and CMMS having the address patients give them on HHS and CMMS forms? Like, sure. Good job. I predict the IRS has my address.

> This is a devil's bargain

Medicare (and the IRS) having your home address is a devil’s bargain?
by zbentley | 2026-01-28 13:36:04+00:00
Couldn’t it just as easily be equivalent to saying “you grew this year, so contribute some money back to society for enabling you to have the educated hiring base/financial infrastructure/physical infrastructure that enabled you to grow”?

Like, sure, you don’t owe growth taxes for a quarter when you didn’t grow. But why should you be refunded just because prior taxable growth isn’t denominated in money in a bank account?
by Const-me | 2026-01-28 13:36:08+00:00
> run games through a Proton-like shim even on Windows

Already happening, to an extent. Specifically, modern Intel GPUs do not support DirectX 9 in hardware, yet legacy apps run fine. The readme.txt they ship with the drivers contains a paragraph which starts with the following text: “SOFTWARE: dxvk The zlib/libpng License” DXVK is a library which implements Direct3D on top of Vulkan, and an important component of SteamOS.
by susam | 2026-01-28 13:36:13+00:00
Indeed. This is precisely what we did for the HN Personal Websites Directory at <https://hnpwd.github.io/>. The website info cards are shown in random order, with the ordering reshuffled every hour.

I have been using JavaScript since 2001 or so as an amateur, hobbyist web developer. But it is only this month that I realised JavaScript does not have a way to seed the pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). So there was no way to do something like:

srand(Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000 / 3600))

As a result, I had to implement a linear congruential generator (LCG) based on the Knuth parameters: <https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd/blob/1e513b1/web/script.js>. When I first came across the LCG algorithm (in K&R with different parameters) in the early 2000s, I felt it was neat but assumed I would never need it, since almost every mainstream language comes with a reasonable PRNG. Little did I know back then that the most ubiquitous language on the web would make that old knowledge useful again, some 25 years later.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-28 13:36:27+00:00
Apologies. I may have come too strong possibly, because I do it myself sometimes by referencing shows as a means to convey relatable message to the audience. Lately, however, I started to think that the shorthand those references introduce may be more of a problem than not. I am not even familiar with the particular show you are referencing.

I think my concern was that we think too much in terms popular culture. That itself is a problem. Still, as problems go, it is not urgent. Hence my apology.
by pc86 | 2026-01-28 13:36:39+00:00
There is a reason that many of the rights enumerated in the Constitution, at some level, restrict the government (originally just the federal government, not even the states) and not private enterprises.

The go-to example is recording. Watch any "First Amendment auditor" video on YouTube (prepare yourself, most of them are a struggle to watch). I can walk into any government building, and as long as I'm in a publicly accessible area, I can record almost whatever and whoever I want. This includes otherwise private property that the government is leasing. I essentially cannot be kicked out unless I cause a disturbance as long as the location is open for public business. This is true for DMVs, county administrative buildings, police offices, jails, any government service with a public area and public hours.

On the flip side, if Target wants to ban recording in their stores, not only can they do so with zero risk of litigation, but if you get trespassed you can be fined or go to jail for a violation. The penalties get even harsher for the same trespassing crime if it's a private residence and not a business.

I'm sure we can come up with counterexamples, and maybe surveillance is the best one, but philosophically it's pretty easy to see why it's worse for the government to do a Bad Thing than for any individual or private enterprise to do the exact same Bad Thing.

Edit: I'd love to hear a justification as to why this is being downvoted because nothing in the content warrants that.
by kurthr | 2026-01-28 13:36:41+00:00
Yes, retroactively manufactured cause for a warrant to find only the information you want.

Also, don't forget that profit maximization means selling to the highest bidder, which might not be US govt. Certainly, there is means, motive, and opportunity for individuals with access to sell this info to geopolitical adversaries, and it is BY FAR the easiest way for adversaries to acquire it.

It has happened before and it will happen again.
by palmotea | 2026-01-28 13:37:05+00:00
> One argument could be that maybe entrepreneurial personality traits aren't normally distributed, and unless you find a way change people's personalities in mass, the imbalance in wealth attraction will remain inherent.

Luck always plays the biggest role. Maybe the billionaires would have always been successful in some way, but not be a billionaire or even a millionaire.

Also, your argument sounds like a just-so story designed to support the status quo.

> the imbalance in wealth attraction will remain inherent.

Is is really a good idea to be ruled by the people with the greatest "wealth attraction?"

> Then you might ask, if that's true, do you I want to enforce equality, potentially dragging down the economy to mediocracy (for example many stagnating European economies) or maybe accept that current nature does not meet our societal desire for equality.

Yes, because regardless of anything else, the wealth imbalance has been politically destabilizing. Your comment strikes me as out-of-touch quantitative thinking: making certain easily-measured numbers going up the highest goal, while ignoring other things that are harder to quantify. That's a blind spot shared by a lot of people, especially tech people.
by I-M-S | 2026-01-28 13:37:50+00:00
Only two Abu Ghraib perpetrators were ever sent to jail. One served 6.5 years, the other 1.5 years. I invite everyone to scroll this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone... from top to bottom and decide for themself if that should be considered a commensurate punishment.
by sofixa | 2026-01-28 13:37:55+00:00
> Microsoft becoming Apple (but shittier)

At least Microsoft haven't fallen so low as to fail basic design principles like having transparent on top of transparent buttons, having disappearing controls depending on window size (scrollbars), or having corners so rounded that the click to drag mostly being outside the actual window.

The Windows 11 UI is annoying, but at least it doesn't look like a kid's toy.
by augusto-moura | 2026-01-28 13:38:02+00:00
It might take some time to end though, executive power without laws is very close to dictatorships, and some dictatorships take a long time to dissolve (if they dissolve at all). They might not even have an end. As an example, look at Russia, from an empire to a dictatorship to an oligarchy. It never seemed full democracy and there's no hope of it changing in the next decade. There's a lot of speculation on what will happen at the end of Trumps presidency
by flohofwoe | 2026-01-28 13:38:12+00:00
29 years is a lot more than the 5.. years time window I'm talking about. 3 decades is basically "I will need an emulator for that" ;)

But I think even a lot of D3D9 games should still work, and that's 2002 stuff. Also try running a 1997 Linux game binary on a modern Linux distro without recompiling, I doubt that's works all that well...
by api | 2026-01-28 13:38:25+00:00
I'm referring to mobile phones, software that constantly spies on you, location tracking, and mass data fusion without any regard for legal limitations or privacy.

Each individual data point seems normal or innocuous, but when you tie them all together and then leverage the tech panopticon you have an insane amount of detail on every person. There are no meaningful legal safeguards on how this data is used, especially when it's laundered through private contractors not subject to much oversight.

When you couple this with increasingly unlimited powers granted to law enforcement agencies, you get a situation where a system could decide you're a threat and some just comes and beats the shit out of you, takes your property, or shoots you, and you have little recourse.

The people cheering for this seem to think it'll never be used against them.
by palata | 2026-01-28 13:38:25+00:00
Same, but my PC runs on Linux so I don't feel threatened.

I feel like at some point normies may end up just using iPadOS or Android as a "convergent" device: a tablet/phone that they can plug into a docking station and use as a computer.

I am sort of hoping that it will work with something like GrapheneOS, so that I will be able to benefit from it on my phone.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-28 13:38:35+00:00
>at devs consider multi-gigabyte Electron apps "good enough" as the apps themselves.

This kind of misses out on a hierarchy of devs here and the amount of work to make it happen. Electron took a large chunk from a multi-billion dollar endeavor to use to make all this work. Electron only worked because Chrome was there. Chrome worked because Google already had unlimited money from advertising, and getting advertising on every device possible was their goal.

Devs might want light apps everywhere, but seemingly none are going to dedicate the rest of their life and money to make it work.
by WillAdams | 2026-01-28 13:38:47+00:00
The great thing about OpenSCAD is that one can model anything which one can describe using mathematics and cubes, cylinders, spheres, and transformations/relocations of same.

The awful thing about OpenSCAD is that what one can model is bounded by one's fluency with mathematics and one's ability to place and transform cubes, cylinders, and spheres.
by ndr | 2026-01-28 13:39:02+00:00
I'm doing all of these and None of it works out of the box.

Adding a field needs a default_db, otherwise old-code fails to `INSERT`. You need to audit all the `create`-like calls otherwise.

Deleting similarly will make old-code fail all `SELECT`s.

For deletion I need a special 3-step dance with managed=False for one deploy. And for all of these I need to run old-tests on new-schema to see if there's some usage any member of our team missed.
by sgarland | 2026-01-28 13:39:02+00:00
If you go to an emergency room at a hospital which accepts Medicare (so, essentially all of them), you will be screened, and if in danger, medically stabilized (modulo difficult pregnancies in some states with anti-abortion laws, unfortunately).

I assume if you then fill paperwork out, they’d have your data - though I’m not sure why you’d agree to fill it out if you know you can’t pay, and that you’re just going to be discharged.
by lippihom | 2026-01-28 13:39:26+00:00
There's two kinds of news I read, both of which I've found give a "good enough" / "middle ground" picture of things.

1) Financial news, specifically the Financial Times - middle, Bloomberg - slightly left leaning, and the Economist, slightly right leaning. I've found that they have incentives to keep their news as close to just presenting the pure information as possible, as their readers are often making investment decisions based on the quality of the information, resulting in wanting zero "spin". This isn't the case for the NYT or WSJ, which have an incentive misalignment.

2) Anything that shows up on Hacker News. I trust that if something is important enough to get posted here (and make the front page), then I should probably be aware of it. The comments are for the most part measured, analytical, and thought-provoking.
by neomantra | 2026-01-28 13:39:26+00:00
Over the weekend I took pictures of the four walls of my office and asked Claude Desktop to examine them and give me a plan for tackling it. It absolutely “understood” my room, identifying the different (messy) workspaces and various piles of stuff on the ground. It generated a checklist with targeted advice and said that I should be motivated to clean up because the “welcome back daddy” sign up on the wall indicates that my kids love me and want a nice space to share with me.

I vibe-code TUI and GUI by making statements like “make the panel on the right side two pixels thinner”.

Related to this thread, I explored agentic looping for 3d models (with a swift library, could be done with this Rust one by following the workflow:
https://github.com/ConAcademy/WeaselToonCadova
by samiv | 2026-01-28 13:39:37+00:00
Also the way QE works is that the rich companies and individuals are the ones who can take out large loans against their previous economic assets as collateral and leverage that money in the market such as the AI bubble. They also are the first to spend the new money so the inflationary effects only kick in after they've taken out then loans.

The wage earners feel the inflation in their wallets.
by kreetx | 2026-01-28 13:39:56+00:00
(to the sibling, mmustapic)

What I'm saying is that he did have a gun, this particular gun was taken away, then he was apparently reaching for something else, which may have been mistaken for a gun, hence the shot. Or, the officer fired at him for some other suspicion. Regardless, you don't have perfect information in a situation like this. The guy wasn't behaving peacefully either.

My suggestion would be to obey orders, don't bring weapons to protests, don't resist when you're being detained. And so on.
by noisy_boy | 2026-01-28 13:40:08+00:00
Does this guy do anything that is user-friendly and is as per open source ethos of freedom and user control? In all this shit-show of Microsoft shoving AI down the throat of its users, I was happy to be firmly in the Linux camp for many many years. And along come these kind of people to shit on that parade too.

P.S: Upvoted you. I don't care about downvotes either.
by CPLX | 2026-01-28 13:40:10+00:00
The government restructures endlessly what are you talking about.

DHS was founded in 2002, TSA was founded in 2001. CFPB in 2010, Space Force in 2019.

Even agencies that have been around “forever” aren’t that old. The EPA was founded in 1970, and OSHA was founded in 1971.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-28 13:40:14+00:00
> I'm referring to mobile phones, software that constantly spies on you, location tracking, and mass data fusion without any regard for legal limitations or privacy

None of that is relevant to the article. It’s about HHS data being queried to give ICE probable addresses. What you’re doing is indistinguishable from whataboutism.

I don’t think that’s your intent. But we have an actual abuse of public data at hand here. Going on a tangent about dragnet surveillance is off topic and misleading.
by vladms | 2026-01-28 13:41:09+00:00
What is the heuristic though? Not giving "normal data" still makes you an outlier, yes, probably they are not very smart, but at some point someone will say "let's round up people that gave us too few data, they are suspicious".

I bet that if all conspiracy theorists will be more worried that their neighbors become crazy and would try to do something positive about it (talk to them, befriend them, influence them, etc.) the outcome might be better for everybody.
by cowboylowrez | 2026-01-28 13:41:11+00:00
Legal constructs are just nintendo level mario brothers obstacles for Trump to speed run lol, I remember specifically the turtle that you could jump on to get some sort of points or something.

It would be interesting to consider if there is a form of democracy such that voters themselves can't vote their way out of, I personally doubt it, rules themselves are chosen by votes. If you insist on voting for hostility for the current system of rules, there's a chance you'll win a majority and those rules can go away.

We in the US need to suck it up and accept the truth, voting Trump has consequences, doing it twice lol good luck with that.