MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fidotron | 2026-01-16 19:26:04+00:00
What has astounded me about all this is the extent to which so much of our industry fall crisply into one of two groups: 1. Chinese stuff is cheap incompetent rubbish anyway, anyone near it is by definition a loser, so who cares? 2. Chinese stuff is perfect, amazing and we should just stop doing everything and buy what they're selling. They'll totally open factories here and give us jobs too!

The actual reality, which people like your asset inspection firm are dealing with, is the Chinese have leapfrogged the west in so many important respects, but to preserve security we have to live in an expensive technological backwater since the leaders of our society are so resistant to internal disruptive competition that may result in other people displacing them.
by mywittyname | 2026-01-16 19:26:18+00:00
The two-party system is fine. We have to be honest about the fact that parliamentary systems can give massive power to a tiny fraction of the population when that small party becomes the deciding vote.

The problems with the USA political system are: electoral college, senate being 2 votes per state, and the supreme court being 7 people for life. But nothing can be done about the last two now. Especially now that the Supreme Court made a decision limiting how amendments can be ratified.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-16 19:26:19+00:00
More accurately, you have spotted not a Linux user in general, but a user of certain Linux distributions, which in my opinion have inadequate display configuration settings.

I am also using only Linux on all my desktops and laptops, and I have never used any display with a resolution less than 4k, for at least the last 12 or 13 years.

Despite of that, I have never encountered any problems with "scaling", because in Linux I have never used any kind of "scaling" (unlike in Windows, which has a font "scaling").

In the kind of Linux that I have been using, I only set an appropriate dots-per-inch value for the monitor, which means that there is no "scaling", which would reduce graphic quality, but all programs render the fonts and other graphic elements at an appropriate size and using in the right way the display resolution.

I configure dots-per-inch values that do not match the actual dpi values of the monitors, but values that ensure that the on-screen size is slightly larger than the on-paper size, because I stay at a greater distance from the monitor than I would keep a paper or a book in my hand (i.e. I set higher dpi values than the real ones, so that any rendering program will believe that the screen is smaller than in reality, so it will render e.g. a 12 point font at a slightly bigger size than 12 points and e.g. an A4 page will be bigger on screen than an A4 sheet of paper; for instance I use 216 dpi for a 27 inch 4k Dell UltraSharp monitor).
by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 19:26:44+00:00
> app that plays back the same audio it hears, delayed by ~2 seconds.

> idk i'm not a neuroscientist. all i know is it makes people shut up and that's good enough for me.

Is it happening for the right reasons?

What is going through the minds of those people in that moment, when they hear an audio recording of what just happened played back to them?

Are they thinking they're being recorded? Are they nervous? Do they feel threatened? Might they act out on this in an unexpected and perhaps escalating way?

These are why I would not use this app.
by M4R5H4LL | 2026-01-16 19:26:48+00:00
I have the Apple 6K 32” Pro Display XDR and a Kuycon 5K 27”. Both are great. Apple was $6,500 and the Chinese version was $400 on EBay plus the $100 stand. Kuycon has more types of input, and a remote. Frame and display quality are on par for a dev.
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by steveBK123 | 2026-01-16 19:27:02+00:00
The problem is usually in the company culture and hiring process.

Are the QA people & team treated like partners, first class citizens, and screened well the way you would an SWE?

Or are they treated like inferior replaceable cogs, resourced from a 3rd party consulting body shop with high turnover?

You get what you hire for.
by bonesss | 2026-01-16 19:27:08+00:00
There is a substantial difference between people talking amongst themselves and one person on a phone.

Humans are social animals, we tune out conversations easily. Half conversations are just one interrupting, attention-grabbing … jarring start … … after … … … … another. It’s a series of unpredictable spontaneous one-sided outbursts, behaviours that otherwise belong to disturbed individuals.

Listening to people in the phone is inherently more annoying, backed by decent research IIRC.
by officehero | 2026-01-16 19:27:54+00:00
Don't have a book but here's some quick thoughts: 1. Biographies on, e.g., Chinese pianist Lang Lang. When he was ~9 he 'retired' (it's an extreme case but telling, can recommend). 2. If you want formal/mathematical/CS perspective, study Reinforcement Learning (e.g. Rick Sutton).
by alexpotato | 2026-01-16 19:28:23+00:00
> they need someone to initiate the interaction, and they need to know the rules of the interaction, since this is mainly the reason they don't feel comfortable with freeform interactions with strangers and so avoid them.

You hit the nail on the head with the above.

It's why things like square dancing where so popular back in the day.

It gave men and women an easy to learn, simple to follow set of rules for interacting with the opposite sex with as little ambiguity as possible. e.g someone was literally calling out what to do next so you could enjoy the moment rather than thinking "oh no, I'm not sure what to do next!"
by aziaziazi | 2026-01-16 19:28:33+00:00
He seems not trying to mimic apostles but follow personal reasons not directly tied to religion :

> For reasons of spirituality, morality and health, I stopped eating all animal products (meat, fish, dairy, eggs, etc) adopting instead, the diet of my great grandparents: Plants; local, seasonal and whole.

Loosely related : this documentary brings new and interesting points regarding Jesus’s animals consumption. It stands that todays bible traduction inherits past’s conflicts of interests of monks, but none of the originals clearly depict Jesus encouraging fish, meat or milk consumption - quite the opposite in fact, with a brillant relecture of the cleansing of the Temple.

Christspiracy: https://m.imdb.com/fr/title/tt29630794/
by brightball | 2026-01-16 19:28:50+00:00
I live in the southeast so I'm friends with a lot of the people you describe and nothing could be further from the truth of your description.

Most people I know who voted for Trump this time around did it specifically because of what a train wreck the Biden administration was, the terrible candidate that the Democrats tried to put up to replace him and that Trump ran on essentially fixing all of it. Cult of personality and/or hero worship had nothing to do with it.

The man is absolutely abrasive, there's no question about that. But the stock market is at all time highs, the trade deficit is the lowest it's been since 2009, GDP is up 5.5%, inflation has leveled off, gas prices are the lowest I've seen in many years (I just filled up for $2.39 / gallon), the border was closed on day 1 despite years long calls that it couldn't be helped without legislation and today I saw that drug overdose deaths have been cut in half nationally in a single year.

People voted for him to clean up a mess. The cult of personality stuff has been the algorithm at work from everything I've observed to this point.
by jfengel | 2026-01-16 19:29:45+00:00
The current government can still claim to have a democratic mandate. At least for the moment, it relies on the goodwill (even of its opponents) to at least pretend that elections matter.

If it loses a large number of supporters, and is forced to suspend even the illusion of democracy, a lot of things would change. It's hard to predict exactly what, but it would be ugly.

That's not to say that they won't. As you observe, they will do what they think they can get away with. But shutting down the entire Internet might be something that they can't get away with.
by latexr | 2026-01-16 19:29:49+00:00
https://shokz.com

There you go. Quite comfortable, don’t have to stick them inside your ears, and still allows you to perceive the sounds around you.

In the spirit of fairness, I’ll also share the cons from my experience: First is battery life isn’t as good as headphones. That’s somewhat obvious as they’re much smaller, but they will still last you the whole day so not really an issue for hiking. Second one is that because they don’t block outside sounds, they’re not appropriate for audiobooks/podcasts while walking in the city. Again, not an issue for hiking.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-16 19:29:59+00:00
It'd be pretty interesting to compare how much the amount of information one can cram onto their ~27" screen has changed between 2005 and 2025, with the comparison points between between a Mac running OS X 10.6 and a Mac running macOS 26, which I think is a particularly salient and apples-to-apples comparison since Apple was selling 30" 2560x1600 displays back then, which are close cousins to modern 27" 2560x1440 displays.

My gut feeling is that the difference would be around 30-40%. Information density of the UI of OS X 10.6 and contemporary software was much higher than today's tabletized "bouncy castle" style UI.
by krick | 2026-01-16 19:30:07+00:00
As a matter of fact, I do NOT understand the overwhelming opposition to this. What's your deal if a guy is good at multitasking and people on the other end of the wire don't mind it? It isn't like he is desecrating a temple, or intruding into your home and using your toilet, or jerking off in the public... Wait, actually I'd say even the latter shouldn't be your business, unless he stains something. Why cannot people mind their own business?
by hoyhoy | 2026-01-16 19:30:25+00:00
There are a cluster of issues. macOS is linked against Xcode's libcxx. LLVM 21 changed the ABI compatibility because they upgraded the hashing algorithm from murmur to something even fancier. Homebrew has it fixed allegedly, but I keep getting gh notifications from people having issues. My solution is not for the weak of spirit... https://gist.github.com/hoyhoy/492cf3077239baececb6b838bf620...
by mrandish | 2026-01-16 19:30:48+00:00
I've found ideal monitor size and resolution depends greatly on viewing distance and relative position. I use a 38" ultra-wide and it's almost too wide - but I have it 'floating' on an adjustable monitor arm so it's only about 24" from my eyes and a bit higher than most monitor stands would allow. The monitor arm is key because once I put a full ergo split keyboard at a comfortable arm-rest distance, a normal monitor stand sitting on the desk would force the monitor to be too far back.

For the full breadth of a 52" monitor to be comfortably viewable for detail work, I'd have to be farther back enough that the difference between 4K and 6K wouldn't be meaningful. It's kind of like how 8k resolution can provide meaningful value in a head-mounted display two inches from your eyeballs, but 8k on a 65" living room TV seven feet away from your couch viewing position is pointless because even those with 20/10 vision can't resolve the additional detail at that distance.

For detail work I find my best ergo seating position is up close with my legs tucked well-under the desk and my stomach almost touching the edge of the curved desk inset. This allows my forearms to be supported comfortably on the desk. I also have my desk surface a little lower than most and my Aeron chair a little higher, putting the top of my legs almost touching the underside of the desktop.
by soundwave106 | 2026-01-16 19:31:38+00:00
This is a much longer running issue than the Obama administration.

Market distortions favoring heavy trucks include:

* The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), enacted in Congress in 1975 under the Ford administration in reaction to the Arab oil embargo, with its tiered structure on passenger vehicles vs. trucks.

* The "Chicken Tax", tariffs on light trucks enacted by Lyndon Johnson as a reaction to French / West German tariffs on chickens. While much of this trade war was repealed, the light truck tariff never was.

* Section 179 tax deductions, which are biased in favor of heavy vehicles. As I understand it, this particular deduction was inserted into the tax code via the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 under Reagan, for the purpose of aiding small businesses that might rely on such.

So it's been, from my perspective, a fairly non-partisan desire from all of US politics, with protectionism as perhaps part of the goal, but perhaps due to other goals that had unintended effects.

Personally, I think that government regulations can only explain so much. Even with the market distortions, trucks tend to be rather expensive compared to smaller vehicles sedans, and that's before factoring in the bad gas mileage. My presumption is that America's vastly more rural landscape contributes just as much to the preference for trucks as government policy.

I do surmise from articles, though, that the above US policies have impacted the ability for lighter pickup trucks to entering the market. I suspect that some smaller pickups, like the small "kei trucks" that seem to have a bit of a following in the US even with all the regulatory hassle, would be much more present if a lot of these protections were removed.
by wilsonzlin | 2026-01-16 19:31:54+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. There were some build errors which have now been resolved; the CI test that was failing was not a standard check CI, and it's now been updated. Let me know if you have any further issues.

> On twitter their CEO explicitly stated that it uses a "custom js vm" which seemed particularly misleading / untrue to me.

The JS engine used a custom JS VM being developed in vendor/ecma-rs as part of the browser, which is a copy of my personal JS parser project vendored to make it easier to commit to.

I agree that for some core engine components, it should not be simply pulling in dependencies. I've begun the process of removing many of these and co-developing them within the repo alongside the browser.
A reasonable goal for "from scratch" may be "if other major browsers use a dependency, it's fine to do so too". For example: OpenSSL, libpng, HarfBuzz, Skia. The current project can be moved more towards this direction, although I think using libraries for general infra that most software use (e.g. windowing) can be compatible with that goal.

I'd push back on the idea that all the agents did was wire up dependencies — the JS VM, DOM, paint systems, chrome, text pipeline, are all being developed as part of this project, and there are real complex systems being engineered towards the goal of a browser engine, even if not there yet.
by Ethee | 2026-01-16 19:31:58+00:00
This article is such a weird take in my opinion and I think it actively proves why our current media environment is harmful. It seems to be making the assertion that people are over reacting about microplastics due to the challenge made in the paper about the way these things were being measured. Note: no where does this paper challenge that microplastics are 'actually' harmful, only that we aren't measuring that properly. To then extrapolate that to "Our stance towards modern technology is toxic" is kind of wild considering we just came out of the lead gas era...
Show HN: Agentify Speak: Make Codex Speak After a Turn (Mac)
by agentifysh | 2026-01-16 19:32:00+00:00
After you install it, codex will start speaking after a turn by summarizing what it did. It intelligently skips over large block of codes and tries some cleverness.

You can change the voice, volume, speed from the tool bar.

https://github.com/agentify-sh/speak
by gibletsh | 2026-01-16 19:32:08+00:00
As well as making the claim that woman and men are merely identities, most genderists also rely on sexist stereotyping to support this belief.

Such as, displaying a photograph of a man wearing makeup, styling his hair long and wearing attire more typically worn by female people, and asking incredulously, "so are you saying she isn't a woman?!"

Or citing childhood memories recalled by men who call themselves women, of "playing with Barbies" and suchlike, supposedly on the basis that boys don't do that so they must be girls.

Genderism isn't just a ludicrous, reality-denying ideology, it's fundamentally sexist too.
by zardo | 2026-01-16 19:32:09+00:00
> Anyone who spends five minutes thinking about the consequences of deliberately transmitting interstellar beacon signals will conclude that the only safe, sane thing to do is STFU.

Even if we credit the idea that it's unsafe to transmit, there are reasons to do it anyway, e.g. you have a holy text and a mission to share it with the universe.
by ronsor | 2026-01-16 19:32:21+00:00
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by dpark | 2026-01-16 19:32:43+00:00
> Most people are reasonable, and act in anti-social ways due to lack of awareness not malice.

Sometimes. I’m pretty sure that very often it’s because they simply do not care that they are being rude/inconsiderate/whatever. But even the willfully rude will likely lower the volume if you ask them nicely because not caring about being rude is not the same as wanting confrontation.
by overfeed | 2026-01-16 19:33:08+00:00
Traditionally, hobbies cost money. I'm yet to hear anyone harangue folk on the ROI of their sourdough, blacksmithing or Storm Trooper cosplay hobbies. Perhaps this hobby is a little to close to sysadmin work for some, but I'm yet to see single-user SaaS weekend projects catch any flak on HN yet, instead, they are celebrated in "Ask HN: What are you working on" threads.

The point is the satisfaction you get in return of effort you put in, and perhaps kudos from like-minded folk when you execute particularly well.
by yibg | 2026-01-16 19:33:11+00:00
It'll be interesting to see how the Chinese EVs compete "fairly" in Canada. North America has had a lack of choice in automobiles at least as long as I can remember. There are so many cars that are available in Europe or Asia that I wish were available here. But at the same time consumer choices are also very different. So will be interesting to see what the uptake of Chinese EVs are like.
by t-3 | 2026-01-16 19:33:30+00:00
They never change their minds, that's because the police are willing to beat the protesters for them. The Civil Rights movement is an example of (mostly, but not always peaceful) protest that changed things within living memory. Gay rights advances in recent decades definitely owe a lot to demonstrations and public organizing that put the issues into public conversation. Women's suffrage movements also featured many protests. Policy effects are everywhere.

What has no effect pretty much ever is protesting foreign policy, because the majority of people in any country neither care nor know what happens anywhere else.
by zackmorris | 2026-01-16 19:33:37+00:00
With nobody at Apple handling the engineering problem of implementing user requests, we're stuck with what we got. So I highly recommend App Tamer by St. Clair Software (no affiliation), which lets you set how much CPU percentage each process can use:

https://stclairsoft.com/AppTamer/index.html

It does cost $14.95 USD, but it's given me my computer back for years now. I have Spotlight Indexer set to 10%, although I'm using an old version of macOS and don't know if that's mdutil now or if Apple has outsmarted its throttling. I also set web browsers to 10% when they're in the background. And you can always message the developer with feature requests.

A bit of a rant: I honestly feel that we've done process scheduling wrong in most OSs and apps. It should have always been up to the user, along with granting permissions as needed. And I can't believe that no web browser has implemented turning JavaScript off after perhaps 10 seconds for example, so that we can have as many tabs open as we want. Instead we've let the technology order us what to do. It's all just so wrong. But the barriers to entry for writing a new browser are so high that only large organizations can do it, and they choose not to, so help isn't coming. Although I think with the arrival of AI, we're going to start seeing real software again that makes a mockery of the status quo and hopefully eats its lunch.
by mgh95 | 2026-01-16 19:33:53+00:00
> Also - There aren't many more things that are more toxic in Canada politics than Trump and Annexation. He single handedly handed the Federal election to the Liberals - it was the Conservatives who were going to win until he but his thumb on the scale.

Watching these discussions from the outside are statistics like four in ten (43%) Canadians age 18-34 would vote to be American if citizenship and conversion of assets to USD guaranteed [1]. I don't think the political similarities or differences between the American right and the Canadian right are what can result in one or more Canadian provinces joining the US; I think it's economic discontent.

[1]: https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/43-percent-canadians-would-vote-...
by _heimdall | 2026-01-16 19:33:56+00:00
Interrupting the source can work, I'm not saying that wouldn't help. I'd liken it to trauma care, sometimes you do need to just stop the bleeding first.

My point there was only that its risky. I see the risk on two fronts, in the moment its hard to recognize the root cause and there are some people who will take advantage of the fear to point "the mob", as it were, at the wrong cause for their own gain.
by rdtsc | 2026-01-16 19:34:18+00:00
> We keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, and we never sell your data to advertisers.

Are they mincing words here? By selling your data they mean they'll never package the raw chats and send them whoever is buying ads. Ok, neither does Google. But they'll clearly build detailed profiles on every preference or product you mention, your age, your location, etc. so they know what ads to show you? "See this is not your data, it's just preference bits".
by KomoD | 2026-01-16 19:34:19+00:00
> But I can honestly say that in the past 25 years I have never, ever seen them saying anything remotely like this to another Swede.

Let me guess, you live in Stockholm? :)

As a Swede, I have definitely seen Swedes (usually older people) telling-off other Swedes and I even do it, recent examples: driving/parking like an asshole, being obnoxious, walking in the bike lane, not looking where they are going. I don't care if they're a Swede or a martian, it makes no difference to me.
by tadfisher | 2026-01-16 19:34:51+00:00
I don't know what it is about LLM-generated text, but when I read it I cannot understand the meaning it is trying to convey. The words are all there, but it is fatiguing to repeatedly parse phrasing like "it's not X but Y" and "you aren't just X, you are Y". The entire article is organized as a sequence of these statements, and this is not hyperbole.