MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-25 22:35:10+00:00
There seem to have been a lot of attempts to support GPU programming from Java and they always so far struggled to get adoption. HAT and TornadoVM look great, and it would be exciting if they took off. It's very impressive that TornadoVM in particular apparently has implemented pure java versions of a wide range of quite current models for inference and claims near-to-native performance on them. It's hard though to pull the trigger on investing time in these until we see actual adoption and usage start to take off in a major project somewhere.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-25 22:35:26+00:00
> If you are debating whether to read this article, read it. It’s comprehensive and precise, and although political in substance […]

Also perhaps worth noting that David Frum, former speech writer to Dubya Bush, writes for The Atlantic (and has been against Trump from the start: see his book Trumpocracy):

* https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-frum/

So we're not just talking about 'leftists' criticizing these actions and policies.
by somat | 2026-01-25 22:35:47+00:00
Perhaps, I don't really program much c/c++. but in my experience most of the subsequent errors are due to the first error. So even where there might be several places I could fix the code my standard operating practice is to find the first error, fix that and see what it cleans up.

But like I said, I am not much of a C programmer. The compiler authors feel strongly about pushing past all possible errors and keep doing it so perhaps there is merit to this practice. but it bugs the heck out of me.
by maxerickson | 2026-01-25 22:35:58+00:00
Michigan had unlimited lifetime coverage from 1978 to 2019. That it was no fault doesn't really matter all that much, there's enough people driving and enough collisions that it reflected the cost of doing it, even if there's disagreement about whether the placement of that cost was fair.

Then in 2019 they made unlimited coverage opt in. Now ~Medicaid is gonna cover those injuries. A victory for the supposedly libertarian leaning Michigan House Republicans, moving Michigan from a user-fee type of system to the dole.
by dpc050505 | 2026-01-25 22:36:28+00:00
When I'm cleaning highrise windows I put a looot of force crimping window frames to move laterally. I haven't broken anything yet.

I've also done a facade inspection on a building where massive sheets of metal had been badly installed. The vast majority of them weren't connected to the structural steel beams, they were just held together by single screws (with no nuts!) that were falling off due to wind making the screws bore a bigger hole. A sheet had fallen off the 12th floor right onto the busy boulevard below.
by boothby | 2026-01-25 22:37:23+00:00
Aha, so you've misunderstood my joke entirely. We agree about the math, please reread my original comment with the understanding that I'm insinuating that the article has deviated from "ordinary map area" and is instead measuring the fractal surface area contained within Estonia's perimeter.

[now that the joke is explained, feel free to laugh]
by bnewbold | 2026-01-25 22:37:45+00:00
fair enough, the did:web flows are not documented even for technical atproto developers, and there needs to be a self-serve way to heal identity/account problems elsewhere in the network (the "burn" problem).

I do think that did:plc provides more pragmatic freedom and control than did:web for most folks, though the calculus might be different for institutions or individuals with a long-term commitment to running their own network services. But did:web should be a functional alternative on principle.

I'm glad that the PDS was easy to get up and running, and that the author was able to find a supportive community on discord.
by eichin | 2026-01-25 22:38:11+00:00
The engineers using svn were the ones who were pushing for git - I was the one saying "we can't, because none of the conversion tools competently preserve branch history, and it's even worse on repos that started in CVS". Noone responsible for repos was pushing for git, it was end-users pulling for it (and shutting up when they learned how much work it would cause :-) That looked nothing like the drug-dealer-esque LLM push I've been seeing for the last 3 years.

(Likewise with CVS to svn: "you can rename files now? and branches aren't horrible? Great, how fast can we switch?" - no "pushing" because literally everyone could see how much better it was in very concrete cases, it was mostly just a matter of resource allocation.)

In the context of this discussion, it feels more like ipv6 :-)
by SirMaster | 2026-01-25 22:38:50+00:00
I can't think of the last time I've willingly gone to a store to shop. I do all my shopping online and everything is delivery including groceries. Going to a physical store feels like a huge waste of time to me.

I drive quite a bit for work as I drive around and calibrate and repair lab equipment so it just seems like a major inconvenience to my schedule to have to go places to charge for awhile so often and hope they are working and hope they are not being used.
by xzjis | 2026-01-25 22:39:01+00:00
German pastor Martin Niemöller:

"First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
by keeda | 2026-01-25 22:39:09+00:00
Even if we're being charitable and assuming it's group-think, it is still a form of collusion. The group of competitors collectively decides on specific outcomes that are beneficial to the group as a whole even if they know that the individual outcomes are sub-optimal.

Look at the evidence: Most of these companies had been highly and ever-increasingly profitable even before the layoffs, and they knew they were burning employee goodwill. Are you saying their actions haven't been coordinated and just accidentally happened to all follow the same practices at the same time? Including things like RTO, which their own internal data proves does not improve productivity and industry data actually shows increases attrition?

Sure, there's not been a written industry-wide memo laying out a playbook (that we know of), but everyone is following the same steps. And you would assume there is no secrecy, rather than (as sibling comments point out) "they have learned from the last time they got caught colluding"?

That's more charitable than I would be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by steveklabnik | 2026-01-25 22:39:18+00:00
> Which part of these required a new protocol and couldn’t be built before @at existed? Seems to me we’re reinventing the wheel for I’m not entirely sure which benefit.

The atproto folks went and categorized all of the other attempts to do this at the time. (They even had some I hadn't heard of!)

All of them make various tradeoffs. None of them were the set of tradeoffs the team wanted. So they needed to make some new things. That's really the core of it.

My sibling has one of the largest and most specific things, but this is the underlying reason.
by Muromec | 2026-01-25 22:40:21+00:00
>What exactly is it comparing? What is the “firmware embedded version number”? With an unlocked bootloader you can flash boot and super (system, vendor, etc) partitions, but I must be missing something because it seems like this would be bypassable.

This doesn't make sense unless the secondary boot is signed and there is a version somewhere in signed metadata. Primary boot checks the signature, reads the version of secondary boot and loads it only if the version it's not lower than what write-once memory (fuse) requires.

If you can self-sign or disable signature, then you can do whatever boot you want, as long as it's metadata satisfies the version.
by cortesoft | 2026-01-25 22:40:36+00:00
There was an article about targeted advertising a number of years that really changed my perspective on it called, "Targeted Advertising Considered Harmful": https://zgp.org/targeted-advertising-considered-harmful/

The basic idea is that the real value in advertising is as a signaling mechanism, and targeted advertising removes most of that signal.

I feel like personalized pricing has some of the same issues, in that it erodes consumer trust and makes it more and more difficult for consumers to confidently spend their money in the market. I am not sure how we fix the problem, though, because it is a collective action problem; any individual company will need to use personalized pricing to compete, but that behavior will hurt the economy as a whole.

I don't know the solution to this problem.
by hedora | 2026-01-25 22:40:56+00:00
Price hasn't been a particularly compelling difference between iOS and Android for a while. Here in the states, you can get a new iPhone 13 for $200 USD, which is 170 euros at today's exchange rate.

https://www.metrobyt-mobile.com/cell-phone/apple-iphone-13?i...

That's a prepaid cell phone company (no contracts); not sure how many months (if any) you have to pay for to unlock the phone. Renewed and unlocked ones are about $270 on amazon.
by gambutin | 2026-01-25 22:41:03+00:00
Here’s the YouTube video description:

Tim Maudlin - On the Methodology of Actual Physics

Physicists and philosophers often allow themselves the luxury of contemplating the methodology of a sort of idealized physicist. One such tempting model of how physicists make predictions is provided by Laplace's (or more accurately Bošković's) demon: the complete physical state of the universe at a moment is fed into some fundamental dynamical equation and then one calculates what will-or might-happen. Of course, everyone knows that this is an idealization. The requisite initial condition cannot, in fact, be known. And even if it were, the calculation could not be done. So arriving at actual predictions must involve idealizations and simplifications. But the extent and nature of those idealizations and simplifications has not, I think, been properly acknowledged, especially in the context of quantum-mechanical predictions.

I will consider the problem at a somewhat abstract level, and then make specific remarks about predictions of arrival-place and arrival-time predictions that are based in quantum theory. There, the conceptual foundations of the predictive methods are more shaky and contestable than is generally recognized.
by amrocha | 2026-01-25 22:41:09+00:00
I’m Canadian, have lived in 4 different continents, and there’s plenty of countries that are just as good or better than Canada out there.

Case in point, I live in Japan. Some things are worse than Canada, but the things that are better line up with my priorities in life.

Don’t fall for the americanism of being blind to the rest of the world and thinking we’re the best. There’s plenty of areas for Canada to improve on.
by KittenInABox | 2026-01-25 22:41:10+00:00
> Every single one of the tens of millions of people who have illegally immigrated to the United States over the past few decades is a criminal who can be legally deported.

I 100% agree with this sentiment and that is why I strongly support speeding the asylum application process through redirecting immigration enforcement funding to bolstering the courts. Our backlog should be 0 before we start knocking door to door and stopping people for the suspicious behavior of being brown at Home Depot.
by manuelabeledo | 2026-01-25 22:41:32+00:00
I think it’s fair to say that a SoC should perform better at higher wattages, so my comment is definitely relevant.

Regardless, I don’t understand how you can say that I’m moving goalposts when I mention performance per watt, which is absolutely relevant when talking about smartphone SoC performance, and then you bring up battery capacity, which is not.
Ask HN: Do FAANG recruiters look at your personal data when hiring someone?
by shadowjones | 2026-01-25 22:41:43+00:00
When applying to big tech companies(FAANG or similar, or even smaller multibillion dollar companies), would they check any accounts and the private data you may have on personal accounts on their platform when you apply or interview with them?(for example emails account at gmail or outlook, social media accounts private data, LLMs conversations etc...)

As some kind of additional background check.

Is this something that a recruiter may be able to do during, before or after some hiring process?

My gut feeling is that it wouldn't be legal in most places, but do some of them do it anyway?

Has any of you been part of hiring decisions at those type of companies and saw it happen or did it yourselves?
by ARob109 | 2026-01-25 22:41:48+00:00
Firmware (XBL and other non OS components) are versioned with anti rollback values. If the version is less than the version burned into the fuses the firmware is rejected. The “boot” partition is typically the Linux kernel. Android Verified Boot loads and hashes the kernel image and compares it to the expected hash in the vbmeta partition. The signature of the hash of the entire vbmeta metadata is compared to a public key coded into the secondary boot loader (typically abl (fastboot before fastbootd was done in user space to support super partitions))

The abl firmware contains an anti rollback version that is checked with the eFuse version.

The super partition is a bunch of lvm logical partitions on top of a single physical partition. Of these, is the main root filesystem which is mounted read only and protected with dm-verity device mapping. The root hash of this verity rootfs is also stored in the signed vbmeta.

Android Verified Boot also has an anti rollback feature. The vbmeta partition is versioned and the minimum version value is stored cryptographically in a special flash partition called the Replay Protected Memory Block (rpmb). This prevents rollback of boot and super as vbmeta itself cannot be rolled back.
by mistermaster1 | 2026-01-25 22:41:55+00:00
Thank you for your personal, individual wisdom that exceeds that of 230+ million eligible US voters in the 2026.
That about settles it, we are past the point of no return so we should do absolutely nothing. In fact any action would be irrational, a waste of effort and a misallocation of time and energy vs spending it with our families and/or on ourselves.
And somehow, I am the person who is defending the so-called fascists and ensuring a place “shining their jackboots” (your peer here used this expression to try to denigrate/attack me)?
It must really hurt to be so smart and to be able to see all of the future perfectly.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-25 22:41:57+00:00
That's a misreading of Chenowith's argument which itself is heavily based on Timur Kuran's Revolutionary Thresholds concept.

The thesis is once mass mobilization of non-violent protesters occurs, it reduces the threshold for elite defection because there are multiple different veto groups within a selectorate, and some may choose to defect because they either view the incumbent as unstable or they disagree with the incumbent's policies.

I also recommend reading Chennowith's discussion paper clearing up the "3.5%" argument [0]. A lot of mass reporting was just sloppy.

[0] - https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2024-05/Eric...
by cesarb | 2026-01-25 22:42:31+00:00
> I take the opportunity to let people know that there are alternatives to Google/Apple duopoly on mobile.

In my country (which will AFAIK be one of the first ones to get the new app install restrictions), so far I haven't found any.

You're not allowed to import phones which are not certified by ANATEL, and AFAIK all currently sold certified phones are either Android (from several hardware brands), Apple, and feature phones.

> To me it's like being back when there was only Windows and Macs as viable home computer OS, and people were getting their feet wet with Linux and all its flavours. Now, it's the same but for mobile.

There's one VERY IMPORTANT distinction: back then, you could easily take a Windows or Mac computer and install Linux in it. For mobile, it's never been that easy; strong cryptographic signing of the operating system, combined with endless churn of the hardware design (there's no "PC compatible" equivalent for phones), and there being no way to keep the data partition intact when installing a custom ROM, make it much harder for people to "get their feet wet" with alternative operating systems.
by mschild | 2026-01-25 22:42:32+00:00
This is why I refuse/back out of eshops that require accounts.
Has the unintended upside that I often think twice about buying something and often dont.
If I really need something though, ill create an account with a filler email, receive my product, and then make a really tedious (for the company) GDPR request because sometimes I like to be petty. Then I delete my account. If I need something from that store again, I will repeat that process.
by novok | 2026-01-25 22:43:25+00:00
You can't buy heat lamps? They are even more infrared and last longer.

Also LED lighting can have infrared, have a significantly more smoother spectrum curve and still last +20k hours without burnout. The cheaper bulb spectra that they show is a blue led + phosphor coating, but there are infrared LEDs, UV leds, and more. You can make quite the convincing sun simulation, even better than any incandescent bulb, but there is almost no demand for UV + Infrared super full spectrum lighting unfortunately. Only movie & theater lights come close.
by bananaboy | 2026-01-25 22:43:32+00:00
Yeah! I posted one of his recent entries to a compo separately but should have just posted it in this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyB5cvA6f78

He also made this amiga demo and wrote the music for it too. He’s multitalented! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc8f7zg3-v8
by vog | 2026-01-25 22:43:47+00:00
This is far from meaningless, because if you are too far below those 3.5%, you'll fail to make a change for the better, despite having a good cause with no real opposition.

Those 3.5% are encouraging for all social movements, who suffer (and/or have friends/family who suffer) from some issue in the system, have perhaps developed a good plan out of it, but think they are too small to make a difference.
by RealityVoid | 2026-01-25 22:44:03+00:00
I saw the video, it was horrifying. My (admittedly, attempting to be as charitable as possible to murderers) take is that the one taking the weapon must have said he has a gun, and the first shooter reacted to that. It's a very sad day for the US, Alex Pretti seemed like a great person and what happened was disgraceful.

I still think that the most dangerous thing from this whole situation is how this admin frames it and effectively encourages ICE to kill people further, because there will be no consequence for them. Essentially, same thing they did with the Jan 6 protesters.
by acdha | 2026-01-25 22:44:09+00:00
I meant that they get to choose whether and when they have children, and can have full careers. Think about it in terms of opportunity cost: much over a century ago, women were expected to marry and be wives with a handful of exceptions like religious service. They did not have many opportunities for education and there were limited opportunities for independent employment with entire professions off-limits. When those were your choices, even women who didn’t really want kids that much went down that path because only a few people had the drive and social clout not to, and without modern birth control that almost inevitably lead to more kids (necessary, because mortality was shockingly high in pre-vaccine times).

Now, however, there are tons of other opportunities available. Instead of kids just happening, couples can plan them and are making decisions about their finances and other life impacts such as the case you mentioned where people might realize that they can’t afford a larger home. Prospective mothers, even if they really want kids, are also being told advanced education is key or that mothers tend to have lower lifetime earnings even adjusted for field, so the questions aren’t just “can we feed them?” but “would I avoid future layoffs if I finish a masters degree before becoming a parent?”

I think that’s great, everyone should control their life trajectory, but it means that to the extent we want to reverse the trend we need to be lowering the costs so people aren’t looking at trade offs like permanently lowering their career trajectory or locking themselves into a limited, highly-competitive corner of the housing market.
by geor9e | 2026-01-25 22:44:17+00:00
This has been a commonplace feature on SOCs for a decade or two now. The comments seem to be taking this headline as out‑of‑the‑ordinary news. Even cheapo devices often use an eFuse as anti-rollback, so you can't go back to older firmware. We do it at my work whenever root exploits are found. If we don't do it, then it becomes trivial for someone to decrypt and steal your personal data from your little gizmos with a USB cable, by flashing old signed firmware and using the exploit.
by sgenov94 | 2026-01-25 22:44:41+00:00
Hey everyone!

I wanted to share a project I've been working on called [*ReplacedBy*](https://replacedby.net). It's a simple site with a straightforward goal: to track the stories of people who have been replaced by AI, automation, or robots. The idea isn't to hate on AI (I don't!), but to create a space to talk about the human side of this big technological shift.

If you've been impacted, please come share your story. I've kept things simple... There's no user authentication, just some basic rate limiting and cloudflare to prevent spam. All posts are manually approved to keep the content respectful and on-topic. After enough posts are submitted, you will be able to see a very simple post carousel (that will be expanded on in the future).

The entire project is open source. You can find the source code on [GitHub](https://github.com/Michaelpalacce/ReplacedBy). I'm not a designer, so a lot of the UI is AI-assisted (I hooked up the components, made them reactive, then AI placed it nicely... even tho honestly it kept messing up, but whatver). You can also find the AI disclosure in the repo's README.

There is a bit of data pre-seeded, a sort of best-effort research on my end and based on articles that wre concrete in who and how was impacted. The list is by no means complete, so if you feel strongly about a mass layoff that happened, do open an issue and I will add it.

There's a [roadmap](https://github.com/Michaelpalacce/ReplacedBy?tab=readme-ov-f...) in the repo if you're curious about what's next.

I plan to do monthly posts with how the site has grown and the data collected.

Let me know what you think!
by wat10000 | 2026-01-25 22:45:54+00:00
They haven’t turned against their principles. Party is the principle. You’re just confused because you thought their stated principles were real.

I spent too much of the 90s listening to Rush Limbaugh and consuming other conservative media and the exact same contradictions were prominently on display then. They absolutely excoriated law enforcement for things like the Waco siege. The phrase “jack-booted thugs” got used. But when LAPD beat the shit out of Rodney King on video, suddenly police could do no wrong.