MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by boogrpants | 2026-01-28 17:06:29+00:00
It's fiat wealth so... write the ledger however.

The majority don't care so long as they have enough food and shelter and healthcare.

The whole scoreboard based on bank accounts is all made up wankeroo.

Let's just have AI avatars fight for gloating rights; Goku beat Superman on PPV so Japan gets to host the inter dimensional cable world cup! And otherwise keep the biologically essential logistics flowing cause that collapse is when the meat suits will toss aside socialized truths of history and go crazy primate.
by godzillabrennus | 2026-01-28 17:06:41+00:00
Given the push to monetize user data it seems Microsoft is demphasizing their focus on key piracy. I bought a computer with a 55" touch screen. The company selling it said it was a Windows 11 computer. The computer was a 14 year old Intel CPU/Mobo that was never designed to run Windows 11. The company selling it had hacked Windows to run on this old computer. They didn't have a license key. I report it to Microsoft and crickets. The company ghosted me on the issue. In 2003, with XP in it's prime, they were cracking down hard on piracy... now it's part of the business model...
by rvnx | 2026-01-28 17:06:58+00:00
As far as I remember, Google does the final signing of the APK, which is eventually the signature verified by the OS to verify if an update is valid or not.

So Google can, if ordered or willing to help, create a new release track (e.g. experimental-do-not-deleted) and add specific e-mails to that track with the "improved" version.

Nobody would be able to see that in real world, and you know what, if WhatsApp themselves are ordered, they can also create their own "test" track, it's just less covert but it would technically be working.

In all cases, Google and Apple have to respect US laws, and the laws of earning money too.

If you do not cooperative with intelligence / police services of your country, only bad things can happen.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-28 17:07:01+00:00
When I was in primary school, the librarian used a computer this way, and it worked fine. However, she had to back it up daily or weekly onto a stack of floppy disks, and if she wanted to serve the students from the other computer on the other side of the room, she had to restore the backup on there, and remember which computer had the latest data, and only use that one. When doing a stock–take (scanning every book on the shelves to identify lost books), she had to bring that specific computer around the room in a cart. Such inconveniences are not insurmountable, but they're nice to get rid of. You don't need to back up a cloud service and it's available everywhere, even on smaller devices like your phone.

There's an intermediate level of convenience. The school did have an IT staff (of one person) and a server and a network. It would be possible to run the library database locally in the school but remotely from the library terminals. It would then require the knowledge of the IT person to administer, but for the librarian it would be just as convenient as a cloud solution.
by hajile | 2026-01-28 17:07:13+00:00
There haven't been any meaningful attacks on H1b visa. When running for office, Trump said very clearly that H1b was good for his companies (saving money), but bad for the American people.

Today, he's claiming that we need H1b because we don't know how to build computer chips (~75% come from India with zero advanced production and another ~12% come from China which is also far behind).

His "massive" $100k increase over 7 years is just a bit over $14k/yr. I had a former H1b programmer (now legal immigrant) I worked with tell me about his experience. Getting paid less than $40k to live in Austin, TX and living with a half-dozen other H1b indenured servants/slaves in a tiny shared apartment just so they could survive the 7 years and get on the path to citizenship.

Do you think those companies would bat an eye about increasing their expenses from $40k to $54k per year when median dev salary back then (2015) was around $92k/yr? After a decade of inflation, that $14k is even less important.

Over-immigration with H2b and illegal immigration suppresses blue-collar wages (Bernie Sanders famously called open borders a "Koch brothers proposal"). H1b and outsourcing to India centers suppresses white-collar wages.

Do you see prices dropping as they cut worker salaries and outsource? Can you even buy things when you don't have a job?

Trump (and the rest of the uniparty) has enabled corporate theft on a scale that's never been seen before and the chickens are going to be coming home to roost really soon.
by radicalethics | 2026-01-28 17:07:36+00:00
I think they are going all in on Alexa+ and cutting many other teams (speaking fully as an outsider). The new Echo Dot Max makes controlling your TV/Browsing youtube with natural language really nice (same for exploring Amazon Music - Spotify needs to catch up with this fast). Subscriptions for AI in the living room is what they are first movers of at the moment.
by godelski | 2026-01-28 17:07:42+00:00
This is a solvable problem and there's even pacman hooks around to do it for you

But also don't blame Linux. Even your comment says the problem is Microsoft. We need to be collectively mad at the right entity if we're going to get them to change. Otherwise they'll keep bullying people and they've found that they can bully people so much it gives them Stockholm Syndrome, where they feel they can't leave.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...
by brockers | 2026-01-28 17:07:59+00:00
Remote attestation requires a great deal of trust... I know this comment is likely to be down-voted, but I can't think of a Lennart Poettering project that didn't try to extend, centralize, and conglomerate Linux with disastrous results in the short term; and less innovation, flexibility, and functionality in the long term. Trading the strength of Unix systems for goal of making them more "Microsoft" like.

Remote attestation requires a great deal of trust, and I simply don't have it when it comes to this leadership team.
by ck33 | 2026-01-28 17:08:04+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the author.

Breiman and Cutler's original Random Forest implementation (early 2000s) included far more than what modern libraries provide — classification, regression, unsupervised learning, proximity-based similarity, outlier detection, missing value imputation, and visualization. When scikit-learn implemented Random Forests they only included classification, regression, and overall permutation importance.

I wanted to fix that, so I implemented the full original vision and extended it with something new: Native Explainable Similarity. The model can now answer "what makes this sample similar to it's neighbors?" directly via Proximity Importance — as far as I am aware this is the first native explainable similarity in ML.

The practical result is that a single trained model (one set of trees grown once) is now a comparative alternative to situations that require 3-5 separate tools. For example, a recommender system that would normally need FAISS + XGBoost + SHAP + Isolation Forests + custom code can be done with 1-2 RFX-Fuse models.

Special thanks to Dr. Adele Cutler for sharing original Breiman-Cutler source materials, which made this possible.

Written in C++/CUDA with Python bindings. GPU and CPU versions available.

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or methodology.
by benjiro | 2026-01-28 17:08:07+00:00
Its not ... The problem is that people do not realize that devices like Steam Deck are also considered Linux desktop devices in those numbers. Chrome tends to also inflate those numbers. Yes, they are Linux desktops but not in the way people are comparing Windows to Linux.

The real number is closer to 2.5% somewhere. What is still growth but nowhere the "year of the Linux desktop".

You tend to see a rather vocal minority that makes you feel like there is some major switch but looking here in the comments, people that switched 8 years, 12 year, 20 years ago are people that are part of the old statistics. There are some new converts but not what you expect to see despite Linux now also being more gaming compatible.

It still has minor issues (beyond anti-cheat), that involve people fixing things, less then the past. But its still not the often click and play, works under every resolution, has no graphic issue etc etc. That is the part people often do not tell you, because a lot of people are more thinkers, so a issue pops up, they fix it and forget about it.

Ironically, MacOS just dominates as the real alternative to Windows in so many aspects. If Apple actually got their act together about gaming, it can trigger a actual strong contender to Windows.
by triceratops | 2026-01-28 17:08:14+00:00
> where am I getting $50 for a bread maker

Save up? Buy it from a thrift shop? Whatever it is, it's cheaper than your previous assertion that breadbaking is impossible without a $300 stand mixer.

> Why am I motivated to spend my scarce money on making my own bread?

To save money and eat better.

Again I take your point. Being poor is mentally taxing and is the result of many things having gone wrong in one's past. Often things out of one's control. All I'm saying is bread is the wrong example to illustrate that point. Try literally any other food.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-28 17:09:41+00:00
>I also think the second amendment should be applied encryption for the same reason. Encryption is essential to the people's ability to mount a defense against tyranny.

The second amendment only protects the right to arms. Firearms certainly, others as well (swords, if anyone gave a shit about them, body armor for sure, perhaps even others not normally considered to fall under its protection like grenades). If the Constitution protects encryption or un-pre-sabotaged vehicles, the 2nd amendment isn't the portion that does so.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-28 17:09:48+00:00
> Windows is the only one that does this properly. Windows handles high pixel density on a per-application, per-display basis.

This is not our [0] experience. macOS handles things on a per-section-of-window, per-application, per-display basis. You can split a window across two monitors at two different DPIs, and it will display perfectly. This does not happen on Windows, or we have not found the right way to make it work thus far.

[0] ardour.org
by geophile | 2026-01-28 17:10:12+00:00
For a long time, I had a MBP (this is in Intel days), with a Linux VM. It was like a reverse mullet, party in front (multimedia), work in back (dev).

And then:

- Butterfly keyboard
- Touchbar
- M-series CPUs, which, while technically awesome, did not allow for Linux VMs.

So I switched to System76/Linux (Pop OS) and that has been wonderful, not to mention, much cheaper.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-28 17:10:18+00:00
> over 3 billion people to message securely each and every day.

Whatsapp is a chat application with 3 billion daily active users.

For those of you in the US (where Whatsapp is seldom used), this is a fact worth remembering.

If you want to build products for the rest of the world, you need to know how those users think and breathe - and for 3 billion of them, Whatsapp is how they talk.
by tenzo | 2026-01-28 17:10:28+00:00
Product is very rarely the moat. It also depends on what you're building. A software startup can not win solely by just having a great product (of course there are exceptions). Finding a niche community, being able to distribute your product to them, how you price it, frequency of updates etc... all things that were just as important in building a moat pre agentic coding
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-28 17:10:40+00:00
2008 didn't really impact tech sector much though. Companies continued to hire through it, and in fact those that didn't often had a headcount deficit afterwards.

And also the worst of 2008 was confined to the US.

What we have now is more like 2001.

Also most of these big companies were completely dysfunctional on their hiring through 21/22, just going completely apeshit. Now they're making everyone suffer for it.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-28 17:10:49+00:00
> then the victims gun went off which triggered police starting shooting.

None of the videos show that at all, the victim's gun is safely brought away, clearly visible from multiple point of view

What's also clearly visible is that a masked gentleman from ICE get his gun out, instantly put his finger on the trigger and aim for the victim's back/head

> rather than your judgement from the high horse of perfect information.

Again, they're not a biker gang, they should be well trained and not shoot when someone yells "gun". Some seem to have been scared by their shots coming from their fellow brain dead colleagues.

> don't interfere nor resist law enforcement.

Yes, lick the boot and let the popo do whatever they want regardless of legality

Of course when all you do is gargle the popo's balls, follow orders, believe state propaganda and turn a blind eye when provided with video evidences the whole thing is a simple "unfortunate sequence of events", meanwhile in any other advanced societies it would be an instant scandal with severe repercussions on everyone involved
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-28 17:10:51+00:00
I don't know, my personal windows install which I use for photoshop, lightroom, and the occasional game also has similar issues, and it only has the included windows defender. I've noticed on many computers that whenever there are a bunch of files in a directory, the explorer grinds to a halt.

At work we use clownstrike for our driving-around-with-the-handbrake-on needs, which I have installed on both Linux and Windows, and the former flies while the latter lags all the time (I dual boot, so it's the same exact hardware). Doing something which is fully equivalent, like installing an IntelliJ update takes around a minute on Linux and many more on Windows.

The fan also comes on much more often on Windows than Linux, even though most of my job is done on remote servers via SSH. Under Linux I only hear the fan when I compile something. This morning I booted windows and the fan was running constantly while I was just catching up with a few mails in outlook.
by mrexcess | 2026-01-28 17:11:02+00:00
While I adore Woz - Apple fanboy from way back - it's a bit unusual for an aggregator and discussion site to "embody the spirit" of a guy who says that he hates business and politics, and doesn't like participating in discussions involving disagreement.

I can certainly see why he would be the "model employee" of the new tech elite/political class, though, and what they desperately want all of us to be! Sit down, shut up, and get back to work!
by rustyhancock | 2026-01-28 17:11:11+00:00
The problem is the LLMs are exceptionally good at producing output that appears good.

That's what it's ultimately been tuned to do.

The way I see this play out is output that satisfied me but that I would not produce myself.

Over a large project that adds up and typically is glaringly obvious to everyone but the person who was using the LLM.

My only guess as to why that is, is because most of what we do and why we do it we're not conscious of. The threshold we'd intervene at is higher than the original effort it takes to do the right thing.

If these things don't apply to you. Then I think you're coming up to a golden era.
by LTL_FTC | 2026-01-28 17:11:15+00:00
I started off using gpt-oss-120b on cpu. It uses about 60-65gb of memory or so but my workstation has 128gb of ram. If I had less ram, I would start off with the gpt-oss-20b model and go from there. Look for MoE models as they are more efficient to run.
by sedatk | 2026-01-28 17:11:22+00:00
My story is simpler. Microsoft dropped the support for Windows 10 and gave me no upgrade path to Windows 11 because my CPU was 5 years too old apparently.

So I installed Fedora on that machine, I learned the process, I went through the hurdles. It wasn’t seamless. But, Fedora never said “I can’t”. When it was over, it was fine.

Only if Microsoft had just let me install Windows 11 and suffer whatever the perf problem my CPU would bring. Then I could consider a hardware upgrade then, maybe.

But, “you can’t install unless you upgrade your CPU” forced me to adopt Linux. More importantly, it gave me a story to tell.

There is a marketing lesson there somewhere, like Torvalds’ famous “you don’t break userspace”, something along the lines of “you don’t break the upgrade path”.
by bopbopbop7 | 2026-01-28 17:11:24+00:00
Well you would think if there is increased productivity there would be at least a couple studies, some clear artifacts, or increased quality of software being shipped.

Except all we have is "trust me bro, I'm 100x more productive" twitter/blog posts, blant pre-IPO AI company marketing disguised as blog posts, studies that show AI decreases productivity, increased outages, more CVEs, anecdotes without proof, and not a whole lot of shipping software.
by godelski | 2026-01-28 17:11:38+00:00
Fwiw I've been playing Hogwarts Legacy lately, though single player. Only problem I ever face is sometimes in a cave if I'm facing a certain direction I'll get blinding light as if I have ray tracing enabled and it's badly implemented. Though considering it's a AAA game and other things I've seen, I don't think that's exactly a Linux problem. Much like Starfield...
by Nihilartikel | 2026-01-28 17:11:49+00:00
My quick rebuttal is that gaming is pretty close to 'there' if you pick a distro that prioritizes it.
I run bazzite-DX (nvidia rtx4070) for dev and pleasure and gaming there is ON POINT. I don't play any anti-cheat games, but Cities Skylines, Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk (with full raytracing and HDR), GTA5-Remaster, etc, all run like champs. As of last month, full HDR10 mode started working in chrome and video players too, so hdr videos get those popping brights.
by jcgl | 2026-01-28 17:11:52+00:00
I'm not sure I understand why you think the solution proposed there is so bad.

The question in that issue is around the semantics of time-sync.target. Targets are synchronization points for the system and don't (afaik) generally make promises about the units that are ordered before them (in this case chrony-wait.service.

Does that answer your specific objection of "proposing that the solution to that is breaking Requires is just wild to me"? Basically, what is proposed in that issue is not breaking Requires=. The proposition is that the user add their own, specific Requires= as a drop-in configuration since that's not a generally-applicable default.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-28 17:11:52+00:00
First family PC was a used IBM PC XT, 8088 w/ 640kb ram and a cga card with an amber monochrome monitor attached. I remember getting a 14.4 modem on it, and it would freeze, had to force it to 9600bps. Then managed to wranle a 486sx w/ 4mb ram and an EGA card and display.

First decent computer I built was an AMD 5x86 133mhz with the larger cache module and a whopping 64mb ram that I'd traded for some ANSi work. The irony is for some things it ran circles around the Pentiums that friends had, for others it just slogged. Ran OS/2 warp like a beast though. Ever since then, I've mostly maxed out the ram in my systems... I wend from 128gb down to 96GB for my AM5 build though since the most I've ever used is around 75gb, and I wanted to stick to a single pair at a higher speed.
by newsoftheday | 2026-01-28 17:12:09+00:00
I've used Ubuntu since 2006 and started using Kubuntu (I prefer KDE) about 2 years ago. Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) are very solid for gaming. It puzzles me how often I see highly customized distros like Bazzite and CachyOS touted for gaming after looking into some of the wild tweaks those distros do; it's amazing to me that they run at all.

PS I keep Snap disabled.
by wsve | 2026-01-28 17:12:14+00:00
I tried to make this shift, but managed to somehow brick Linux Mint, so now I'm back on Windows for now...

I was already not very impressed when I attempted to okay a video file, and VLC told me I didn't have the right codec installed, and I had to run a shell command to get the codec... I have to open a shell to watch a common video file?

But then while attempting to install some packages to install Steam (which I also needed shell commands for...), I updated some kernel package, as instructed, rebooted my machine, and now Mint just sits there doing nothing right after I get through the bootloader. Can't seem to run any commands to recover either.

Bricking Mint is annoying, but I was much more astonished that I saw so many people hold up Mint as this beacon of user friendly Linux distros, but to do even the most basic things, I had to start running commands on the shell. That is NOT user friendly. I'll probably try again soon, but I'm pretty disappointed in my first experience.
by a_vanderbilt | 2026-01-28 17:12:17+00:00
So much of it is a problem of execution. If people could use Linux without ever having to know what a terminal is (much like the average Windows user doesn't know what PowerShell is), then it would actually be quite successful. It has gotten better over the past decade, but it still suffers from endless paper cuts and the odd issue that requires a shell session to fix. I will say that Valve's SteamOS has come the closest to avoiding this trap. You can use a deck without ever having to touch a CLI.
by the__alchemist | 2026-01-28 17:12:25+00:00
UV (And a similar tool I built earlier) does solve it. With the important note: This was made feasible due to standardizing on pyproject toml, and wheel files. And being able to compile a diff wheel for each OS/Arch combo, and have the correct one download and installed automatically. And in the case of linux, the manylinux target. I think the old python libs that did arbitrary things in setup.py was a lost cause.
by tmoertel | 2026-01-28 17:12:31+00:00
> When you get bullied in American public schools for being a "nerd" and liking science and math, your country doesn't exactly produce a lot of state-of-the-art STEM professionals. You get a small handful of exceptional people who overcame the adversity but that's it.

Is bullying nerds still happening? It was commonplace when I was young in the 1980s. (In fact, it was so common that it was the basis of the 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds.) But I had thought the social status of nerds and geeks had leveled up a few times since then. Did the level-ups not happen?
by kreetx | 2026-01-28 17:12:39+00:00
You should not carry a gun to a protest, not engage physically with an officer nor resist when they start arresting you after that.

You should watch the video. While seem to be an accident, a way to avoid it would have just been not bring a gun in the first place nor engage physically with law enforcement.

These actions in general to restrict law enforcement to do their job isn't helping either. Protest in front of government buildings, not follow police around.
by vidarh | 2026-01-28 17:12:42+00:00
Or they just move their "headquarters" and the US part of the business will be a subsidiary.

This is an old, and well tested strategy.

E.g. Commodore International formally had its head office in The Bahamas, but the entire leadership team worked out of the US.

You can try putting more constraints on what will get a company considerd a US company to catch those kinds of structures, but as you indirectly point out, there are really only downsides to playing that game.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-28 17:12:46+00:00
> But bullion has done even better (particularly past month).

No wonder, people are fed up with the US administration and its constant firehose of bullshit. But there are no viable contenders to the US Dollar as reserve asset - the Eurozone is too fractured, China is under currency controls, Germany on its own outclasses India, and Japan's economy is headed for some serious BS once it follows their population age graph.

That only leaves gold... the question is, is it physical gold? (And my opinion is: as long as it's not in a vault under your control, you're buying IOUs, not gold)