MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rcbdev | 2026-01-24 10:34:20+00:00
Interestingly, I've never heard the term 'DevUx' before. I suspect it's the same concept as Developer Experience, which I also find supremely important and historically underappreciated. Companies like JetBrains for example make a killing by being a company that really takes this aspect seriously.

On the other hand I've had a fellow developer laugh at me when trying to explain how this is important, so I'm unsure this is as important to others as it is to me.
by rhdunn | 2026-01-24 10:34:31+00:00
Kotlin does have interop with Java, but is limited by either the features not existing in Java (non-nullable types) or behave differently in Java (records, etc.).

You have to explicitly annotate that a Kotlin data class is a Java record due to the limitations Java has on records compared to data classes [1]. This is similar to adding nullable/not-null annotations in Java that are mapped to Kotlin's nullable/non-nullable types.

Where there is a clean 1-1 mapping and you are targeting the appropriate version of Java, the Kotlin compiler will emit the appropriate Java bytecode.

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/jvm-records.html#declare-records...
by andrepd | 2026-01-24 10:35:23+00:00
> I think he's not very much to blame for taking the money from degenerate gamblers, and the cryptocurrency idiots are mostly to blame for their own mistakes.

So drug dealers are not to blame for taking the money from degenerate addicts! Let's free everyone and disband the DEA, we'll save billions of dollars.

Oh wait nvm this line of thinking only applies to sv people
by Joker_vD | 2026-01-24 10:35:29+00:00
There are still I/O libraries that play with read/write buffers really fast & dirty, which C standard explicitly allows for with its "However, output shall not be directly followed by input without an intervening call to the fflush function or to a file positioning function (fseek, fsetpos, or rewind), and input shall not be directly followed by output without an intervening call to a file positioning function, unless the input operation encounters end-of-file" wording.
by nezhar | 2026-01-24 10:37:07+00:00
The first rule covers it best: it is crucial that you know what you are doing in order to benefit from these tools.

Regarding the second and third rules, I like to work with two terminals. One is for my agent, isolated in a container, and the other one I use for `git`. This way, I can assess whether my changes are moving in the right direction.

The PLAN.md files have also proven to be a good approach. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to keep them aligned with the application without polluting the context, but they hold significant value for documentation purposes.
by edude03 | 2026-01-24 10:37:22+00:00
On iOS 26 (and I think before that as well) if I enable the sleep focus and disable it later it usually stays in sleep focus despite showing no focus is selected. Therefore I don’t get notifications and the wall paper on the main screen is dimmed. Requires a reboot to fix it but it defeats the purpose of having a phone if no one can contact me until I notice
by saispas | 2026-01-24 10:37:30+00:00
Other way round, IMO of course …

For me the books have depth that the TV series doesn't – and can't – have: some of the plots are dumbed down a bit to give more visual impact, and of course you don't get the same depth of characterisation, or the insights into Lamb's and the others' pasts because much of it comes out in interior monologue, and it's much harder for the shows to, erm, show.

And you miss one of the glories of Herron's writing: as a stylist is on a par with Terry Prachett for cramming wisdom into short witty phrases. He is very good at memorable phrases skewering contemporary life, and particularly politicians. The shows bring some of this out, but there's only so much that you can do in dialogue.

Take this passage from the first book:

> Peter Judd. PJ to his friends, and everyone else. Fluffy-haired and youthful at forty-eight, and with a vocabulary peppered with archaic expostulations – Balderdash! Tommy-rot!! Oh my giddy aunt!!! – Peter Judd had long established himself as the unthreatening face of the old-school right, popular enough with the Great British Public, which thought him an amiable idiot, to make a second living outside Parliament as a rent-a-quote-media-whore-cum-quiz-show-panel-favourite, and to get away with minor peccadilloes like dicking his kids’ nanny, robbing the taxman blind, and giving his party leader conniptions with off-script flourishes. (‘Damn fine city,’ he’d remarked on a trip to Paris. ‘Probably worth defending next time.’) Not everyone who’d worked with him thought him a total buffoon, and some who’d witnessed him lose his temper suspected him of political savvy, but by and large PJ seemed happy with the image he’d either fostered or been born with: a loose cannon with a floppy haircut and a bicycle.

Herron, Mick. Slow Horses: The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 1) (p. 187). (Function). Kindle Edition.

That is a brilliant piece of characterisation, and if you know anything about British politics, you know exactly who he's describing, and how accurate a character assassination this is. The TV show's Peter Judd goes out of its way to make the character a lot more generic – their Judd is merely 'typical cynical nasty venal politician' and it loses a bit of force accordingly.

Or take the set piece descriptions which start every book: they recreate the seedy world of Slough House in a way that the shows can only hint at.

Not to say the shows aren't very good – they are one of the best things on TV – but the books are even better.

IMO, of course…
by torginus | 2026-01-24 10:37:41+00:00
for your own and everyone's sake, please don't make unqualified statements like this. Glue toxicity goes from relatively benign (the white stuff children use at school), to 'literally has the skull symbol on the packaging' (some industrial glues used in electronics and clothing).

A rule of thumb is to do this stuff in a well-ventilated area. Theres a million kinds of glues Wood glue is mostly safe, superglue is generally okay, epoxies are not.

And yes, paints and solvents are the kinds of chemicals that the common man will encounter the nastiest chemicals (VOCs) which can permanently and irreparably damage your brain. Not immediately, but depending on how much you use it, and how much precaution you take, this is definitely something to be aware of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_solvent-induced_enceph...
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-01-24 10:38:25+00:00
I spent a few days on similar scenario without much success (scenario where one person speaks and then their speech is translated, and I want juts the original or both).

An API call to GPT4o works quite well (it basically handles both transcription and diarization), but I wanted a local model.

Whisper is really good for 1 person speaking. With more people you get repetitions. Qwen and other open multimodal models gives subpar results.

I tried multipass approach, with the first one identifying the language and chunking and the next one the actual transcription, but this tended to miss a lot of content.

I'm going to give canary-1b-v2 a try next weekend. But it looks like in spite of enormous development in other areas, speech recognition stalled since Whisper's release (more than 3 years already?).
by baalimago | 2026-01-24 10:39:21+00:00
WDYM? I don't want to train a model, only use inference. From what I know it must be much cheaper to buy "normal" ram + a decent CPU vs a GPU with similar amounts of vram.

The bottleneck of the inference is fitting a good enough model into memory. A 80B param model 8bit fp quantization equates to roughly ~90GB ram. So 2x64GB DDR4 sticks is probably the most price efficient solution. The questions is: Is there any model which is capable enough to consistently deal with an agentic workload?
by seec | 2026-01-24 10:40:23+00:00
Same. Even cruise control is kind of useless because people in front of you don't necessarily use it and are very inconsistent in their speed.
So you end up constantly having to engage/disengage, rendering the whole thing moot.

I think something like autopilot could be implemented at the infrastructure level (sensors and emitters along the road), but people wouldn't like that because it would mean being unable to set your speed or overtake.
The car exists for "freedom," but it is really an inefficient mode of transportation from both a time-use and energy-use perspective.

What we really need is a mix between rail/train and car/road.
by antonvs | 2026-01-24 10:41:23+00:00
It's a version of a motte and bailey argument (named after a medieval castle defense system):

> "...philosopher Nicholas Shackel coined the term 'motte-and-bailey' to describe the rhetorical strategy in which a debater retreats to an uncontroversial claim when challenged on a controversial one."

-- https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/the-motte-and-the-bailey-a...
by jjav | 2026-01-24 10:42:32+00:00
> "Microsoft gave"

While it is true that NSLs or other coercion tactics will force them to give out the keys, it is also true that this is only possible because Microsoft implemented a fatally flawed system where they have access to the keys.

Any system where a third party has access to cleartext or the keys to decrypt to cleartext is completely broken and must not be used.
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-24 10:43:46+00:00
This is a fantastic result, but I am dying to know how the G.hn chipset creates the bit-loading map on a topology with that many bridge taps. In VDSL2 deployment, any unused extension socket in the house acts as an open-circuited stub, creating signal reflections that notch out specific frequencies (albeit usually killing performance).

If the author is hitting 940 Mbps on a daisy-chain, either the echo cancellation or the frequency diversity on these chips must be lightyears ahead of standard DSLAMs. Does the web interface expose the SNR-per-tone graph? I suspect you would see massive dips where the wiring splits to the other rooms, but the OFDM is just aggressively modulating around them.
by jakub_g | 2026-01-24 10:43:50+00:00
> Basically, you need to follow the tracking regularly until the package is tagged as lost or failed delivery, which is the cue to pay import fees.

> It’s the normal procedure to buy things from Europe since Brexit 2020. It’s actually quite shocking that Royal Mail still hasn’t updated their tracking system to be able to give a status “waiting on import fees to be paid online”. They had 6 years!

Wow.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-01-24 10:44:11+00:00
An invasion from who? I agree with you that Canada couldn't defend against an invasion from the US, but I also don't think that any country without nuclear weapons could defend against an invasion from the US. But I think that Canada could probably defend itself from an invasion from most other countries—the Canadian military is generally competent, and NATO and NORAD would almost certainly offer assistance.

Even then, who would want to invade Canada? Despite the recent political blustering, it seems incredibly unlikely that the US would invade Canada, and the only other plausible invader that I can think of right now is Russia, but their military isn't doing very well at all right now.
by retired | 2026-01-24 10:45:20+00:00
I had a similar issue but instead I opted to replace all the wiring with CAT5E. I used the old phone wiring as a pull-wire to get the CAT5E through the walls very, very slowly. CAT5E was used as I needed all the flexibility I could get and 1Gbit was enough at the time.

The RJ11 panels on the wall were replaced with RJ45, crimped everything. Took a full day of carefully pulling wires but in the end I got gigabit all over the home.

The next owner will probably call me an idiot for using CAT5E in 2019.
by cdecker | 2026-01-24 10:45:26+00:00
Stores of value are, for the most part, societal constructs. Anything has value as long as there is somebody willing to exchange something of theirs for it. That's also what makes value intangible as there is a built-in subjectivity in this.

Gold falls into the category "has always had value, so it will always have value" type of thoughts. And that's just what gives it value, out confidence that we can exchange it for something when you need it.
by xg15 | 2026-01-24 10:45:30+00:00
I think it might be a good decision though, as it might keep the context aligned with what the user sees.

If the reasoning tokens where persisted, I imagine it would be possible to build up more and more context that's invisible to the user and in the worst case, the model's and the user's "understanding" of the chat might diverge.

E.g. image a chat where the user just wants to make some small changes. The model asks whether it should also add test cases. The user declines and tells the model to not ask about it again.

The user asks for some more changes - however, invisibly to the user, the model keeps "thinking" about test cases, but never telling outside of reasoning blocks.

So suddenly, from the model's perspective, a lot of the context is about test cases, while from the user's POV, it was only one irrelevant question at the beginning.
by csmantle | 2026-01-24 10:45:44+00:00
> AI?

Probably not; this point is well justified by both theory and practice. Supporting suitably larger operands is indeed what naturally comes following the increase of computation demands.

One point I do differ from the author is that register width don't necessarily correlate with the size of address space. Even 8bit machines can address a large space by splitting apart the logical address and using multiple registers. Likewise, having a wide register does not imply the same address width.
by jlaternman | 2026-01-24 10:46:10+00:00
And by the way, this still IS the software market I participate in, because there’s a lot of great indie software still adhering to it. It’s still possible. I have weeded out almost all unnecessary SaaS. I do actually have Fastmail and 1Password, which is funny since those were mentioned here a lot.

A few recent example purchases (macOS): BBEdit, Base, A Better Finder Renamer, Nitro (that’s lifetime, though I actually prefer “until the next major version”).
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-24 10:46:25+00:00
Well, LLMs are an engineering breakthrough of the degree somewhere between the Internet and electricity, in terms of how general-purpose and broadly-applicable they are. Much like them, LLMs have the potential to be useful in just about everything people do, so it's no surprise they've dominated the conversation - just like electricity and the Internet did, back in their heyday.

(And similar to the two, I expect many of the initial ideas for LLM application to be bad, perhaps obviously stupid in hindsight. But enough of them will work to make LLMs become a lasting thing in every aspect of people's lives - again, just like electricity and the Internet did).
by stavros | 2026-01-24 10:46:42+00:00
Unfortunately I didn't manage to figure out how to make their hardware to work without a HA installation. I'd really love to do that, if anyone has any info on how their protocol works, please do tell.

I looked at their Wyoming docs online but couldn't really see how to even let it find the server, and the ESPhome firmware it runs offered similarly few hints.
by netsharc | 2026-01-24 10:46:59+00:00
The guy, Geoff Marshall (edit: the guy on the video on the main page, I've assumed for a while he's also the maker of this gadget, but it seems not) is also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd18OhMfRmjMjzSHP7Zrzmw . I like experiencing London/the UK through the scenery of his videos...

One time he and his girlfriend did a journey to visit every train station and stop in the UK (posted on a different channel): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4PdgT_AV_nXshM-I7xjY...

Sadly for the romantics, they've since broken up...
by doug713705 | 2026-01-24 10:47:01+00:00
I would say that "true" intelligence will allow someone/something to build a tool that never existed before while intelligence simulation will only allow someone/something to reproduce tools that already known. I would make a difference between someone able to use all his knowledge to find a solution to a problem using tools he knows of and someone able to discover a new tool while solving the same problem.
I'm not sure the latter exists without sentience.
by meowface | 2026-01-24 10:47:03+00:00
This initially sunk my heart, but in all his replies there are like 50 very clearly unintelligent crypto grifters telling him he needs to be killed for scamming them, so I am unsure who to root for at this point. It's depressing he accepted it, but I might partially forgive it due to him making a lot of them lose money.
by hdgvhicv | 2026-01-24 10:47:32+00:00
Another Brexit bonus

It’s no coincidence those that championed Brexit are those that wanted a weaker Europe and weaker U.K.

That’s why the majority of tax payers were against it, the majority of educated people voted against it, the majority of working people voted against it, the majority of people alive today who voted voted against it

Yet we still got it.
by Y-bar | 2026-01-24 10:47:47+00:00
Yes, it seems you are correct. For example this one is 180g including batteries: https://www.1001hifi.info/2025/01/sony-wm-20-1983-worlds-sma...

Though I stand by my implied argument that older devices were not as heavy as we might remember them to be. And it is okay to consider 240g a bit too heavy in the context of a digital music player with no need for cassettes or mechanical parts.
by lukan | 2026-01-24 10:49:03+00:00
"Nobody these days surprised that producing stuff in China and delivering it 10000km is cheaper than producing locally"

Actually people do see the madness in this, hence all the "produce local" initiatives instead.

The only reason it made sense, was not caring about external costs from fossil fuels and bad worker conditions in china.

"You could use the energy needed for a rocket start to melt and seperate it from allmost any rock here on earth way easier.

good luck getting permit :)"

Not hard. What do you think recycling smelters do?

It just does not make economical sense to melt and separate any rock and purify the elements. You use the ones you know have already high amounts of iron, copper, .. and you seperate them before as much as possible as smelting is energy intense and handling molten elements is hard and therefore expensive.

And the other point, yes, if there is a automated space industry, that can produce cheap reentry vehicles, some space mining might make sense. But if we would have that tech, we might as well use it on earth. Because you cannot just point a lump of iron towards earth. That would be called a asteroid and would be a weapon of mass destruction. You need spaceships. Going down .. and then up again, unless you use throwable spaceships?
by snuxoll | 2026-01-24 10:50:38+00:00
> Note that password-based Bitlocker requires Windows Pro which is quite a bit more expensive.

Given that:

1. Retail licenses (instead of OEM ones) can be transferred to new machines

2. Microsoft seems to be making a pattern of allowing retail and OEM licenses to newer versions of Windows for free

A $60 difference in license cost, one-time, isn't such a big deal unless you're planning on selling your entire PC down the line and including the license with it. Hell, at this point, I haven't purchased a Windows license for my gaming PC since 2013 - I'm still using the same activation key from my retail copy of Windows 8 Pro.
by gnfargbl | 2026-01-24 10:51:26+00:00
You're the reason why the author's assertion that there is a huge untapped market for this in the UK is probably wrong; most of the people technical enough to set this up are also going to be technical enough to pull new cables.

There might be some market for a simple point-to-point device sold by the likes of Argos, zero config and including all the right cables already, aimed at people who can't or won't upgrade their cabling but want to enable their kid to play Fortnite.

But... there is no clear patent protection available, so as soon as someone successfully creates and markets that device, the Tiktok Shop clones will appear.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-24 10:52:05+00:00
In response to discovering this any competent IT department would immediately move to ban the use of any offending apps and blacklist the MS servers from the relevant backends. Also I guess rather than drop the connections ideally you would want to accept the initial request, record the provided credentials, and then lock said account because the credentials have clearly been compromised and the user is now known to be making use of a banned app.
by lpcvoid | 2026-01-24 10:52:23+00:00
Wake me up when we jail people for holding up blank signs [0] or for demonstrating for gay rights. You try so hard to paint the EU in the same unhinged way as the Kremlin, but all your comparisons don't survive scrutiny. I can go and stand in front of the Bundestag saying "I hate Friedrich Merz" and nothing will happen, in fact people will probably want selfies with me and the sign. Try that in Russia and see how fast you have OMON splintering your kneecaps.

As for your other points: Democracy must not fall to the Paradox of tolerance.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protest...
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-24 10:53:22+00:00
I genuinely don't understand what role lane centering serves if you really do keep your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. It doesn't steer the car if you're steering the car yourself, not when I drove cars that had it. What am I missing?

The only point of cruise control is to take your foot off the peddle and to zone out and stop paying attention to how fast you're going. This is already Not Great to have in cars, but adding the same to the steering wheel, making drivers feel emboldened to look away, is probably a big part of the reason so many cars on the road today seem like they're being driven by deranged psychopaths; the drivers are actually tuned out doing other shit!
by gambiting | 2026-01-24 10:54:49+00:00
>>Phones are wireless, which is too slow to test anything.

As a random aside - I've been surprised by this recently. I got a new shiny Wifi 7 router(TPlink BE550) and my Samsung S24 Ultra can sustain 2.2Gbps over wifi, both to and from the router. At this point I'm not sure if that is the actual limit or if it's limited by the 2.5GbE port on the router since that had my NAS connected to it and I was testing transfer to and from it. And it wasn't like an inch from the router either - it did it while in my hand, on the other side of the room with me sitting on our sofa.
by nasmorn | 2026-01-24 10:54:54+00:00
I travelled for 3 months out of a backpack with my wife and then 10 months old daughter. Needing to carry all your stuff necessitated a brutal prioritization. The strongest emotion on coming back to my really not all that full apartment was being overwhelmed with all the stuff.
It has just become worse with my now two children growing up. My dream as an an empty nester is to emphasize the empty part.