MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2026-01-17 03:36:02+00:00
Wow, I-don't-even. My short comment contained only two claims:

1. Nominal dollars held is a "record" that will get regularly broken by default even when nothing interesting happens, therefore it being "broken" tells us very little.

2. Instead, what we should be tracking and concerned-about is the proportional distribution.

I didn't expect either to be controversial, but somehow you've created something wildly different in your mind in order to be excitedly outraged over it.

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> You provided zero evidence for that claim.

In a thread about economics, you should already be aware that (A) inflation is typical and (B) the American economy is typically growing rather than shrinking. If you need to cry "SOURCE!?" over these concepts, then something is wrong.

> the numbers clearly show that the top is going up while the bottom is going down... percentage-wise!

Yes, looking at proportional amounts is exactly what I told you to do, and it's consistent with the numbers I quoted from the article showing an uptick for the 1%. I just don't know why you're acting like it's a surprise.

> there's no way [percentage records] can be "regularity broken", ad infinitum

Oh, I see, you've just imagined-up a dumb thing nobody said. I explicitly referred to the headline, and headline is in dollars, not percentages.

Incidentally, you're also wrong: There are infinitely-many opportunities to exceed a real-number by infinitely small amounts.

> the conclusion is the opposite of your "nothing interesting to see here".

*looks down at notepad* Is the "conclusion" inside the room with us now?

Can you point to it's exact-words, so that the rest of us can see it?
by k310 | 2026-01-17 03:36:33+00:00
He that claimed weaponization of the DOJ is eager to weaponize it [0]

Pure projection, 100% of the time.

> Trump Is Weaponizing the DOJ Just Like He Accused Democrats of Doing

> Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign season, Donald Trump accused his Democratic opponents—President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris—of using the levers of power against him.

> "The Biden regime's weaponization of our system of justice is straight out of the Stalinist Russia horror show," he told rallygoers in March 2023 after being indicted in Manhattan for violating election law. In a September 2024 debate against Harris, Trump even blamed Democrats' rhetoric for the assassination attempt he survived weeks earlier, saying "I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me."

> But now that Trump is firmly ensconced back in office, his administration seems to have no interest in stopping government weaponization. Rather, it seems keen to wield that power for itself. Looking back now on Trump's complaints, it appears less that he was upset than that he was jealous.

Just for the record. 34 felony convictions and adjudicated rape.

[0] https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-weaponizing-doj-just-accuse...
by sowbug | 2026-01-17 03:38:29+00:00
And the person on the other end of the line often doesn't realize how uncivil the situation is. They might know they're on speakerphone, but they actually can't see that they're interrupting the trains of thought of dozens of people around them. This means the content of the conversation is more likely to be inappropriate for public consumption, making it even more distracting for the forced participants.

The person holding the speakerphone is to blame, of course, but they often seem to go into a state of pathological flow where they're almost as oblivious as their conversation partner.
by cellis | 2026-01-17 03:38:46+00:00
While directionally correct, the article spends a lot of time glorifying jquery and not enough on what a horrible, no good, unoptimized mess of a framework jquery was, and by extension what kinds of websites were built back then. I remember those times well. The reason to use React isn't because it was new, far from it. It was because it won vs. Ember, Angular, et. al. in 2014-2015? as the best abstraction because it was easiest to reason about. It still wasn't great. In fact, still isn't great. But it's the best blend of many leaky abstractions we use to code against the browser apis.
by kldg | 2026-01-17 03:39:41+00:00
interesting. I assume the things I host at home (which is everything) will be recoverable by family at time of my death if they're so interested. I left some instructions in will, but not for things I ought to, on reconsider, like "what" the thermostat is and how to access it beyond the web interface...

-but I do not plan for longer-term than that; I assume if kid cares, she'll bother repackaging it. I am curious about some of the non-book solutions. I think you might be able to rig up a solar solution, burying a box underground with an SBC/mini-PC with SATA or NVMe connectors; the SSD should be fully read from at least once a year. The solar should be degraded-but-fine after 50 years (excluding animal damage, which I find is pretty substantial if you keep them close to the ground... will want redundancy), but the battery will not be, but I haven't been around for long enough to really have a "feel" for how long LiFePO4/other cells will last... I wouldn't be surprised if they could go >20 years with very shallow discharge cycles in a degraded state (perfectly usable for having an SBC read drives once a year), but I'd be very surprised if you could get a standard cell to 50 years.

I tried getting a tape drive a few years ago. I bought a used one off Amazon, but HPE refused to give me the software for it; I wound up refunding it rather grumpily. It'd be pretty surprising if the tape drive lasted for 100 years (edit: interfaceable probably the bigger issue), but under careful conditions with ~no use, the tape cartridge itself should last 30-50 years (with no guarantees; you'll want redundancy on different batches/brands).

I would also add software solutions like PaperBack to the pile of paper storage ideas. Essentially, you create a giant compressed QR code printed to a sheet of paper, and this is like going from storing audio as uncompressed audio on CDs/DVDs to mp3 (DVD-MP3 was underrated!); instead of storing 500 words, you can store an entire book. There's not terrible complexity here, so it should be trivial to reverse-engineer, especially if you include a couple page of notes on how the algorithm works. -or heck, in 100 years, maybe a 50-year-old LLM can simply look at it and read it like you wrote words.
by hinkley | 2026-01-17 03:40:30+00:00
Necessary but insufficient. On several projects where I was the lead I started honoring the QA lead's attempts at vetoing a release. I was willing to explain why I thought changes we had made answered any concerns that QA had, or did not, but if the lead said No then I wasn't going to push a release.

If you're consistent about it, you can restore a sizable chunk of power to the QA team, just by respecting that No. With three people 'in charge' of the project instead of two, you get restoration of Checks and Balances. Once in a while Product and QA came to me to ask us to stop some nonsense. Occasionally Product and Dev wanted to know why things were slipping past QA. But 2/3rds of the interventions were QA and Dev telling Product to knock something off because it was destroying Quality and/or morale.

God do I miss QA and being able to go 2 against one versus the person whose job description requires them to be good at arguing for bullshit.
by slashtom | 2026-01-17 03:40:59+00:00
I purchased this as soon as it was announced, I was surprised they had it ready to ship on the day of the CES announcement.

I do enjoy it, with Fancyzones, I can set up Unreal Engine Editor, Rider, discord/teams and a small corner window for searching and/or youtube watching on the side. At first I thought the pixel count was going to be too low but from my position it 'feels' retina at 125% windows scaling. Yes you can do the same with multiple monitors but I don't get the fatigue of turning my physical head, it's the perfect size to sit in middle and use your eyes to adjust/focus if that makes sense..

120hz and fast motion helps a lot. DCS World looks amazing on this, it feels like it's your full fov when playing games. Granted this isn't an OLED panel, I wouldn't play anything competitive on here but EU V and/or RTS games are very nice at 6k/52.

This replaced my dual 4K 120hz monitors. Recommend if you're not gaming.
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-17 03:41:38+00:00
It’s all context. Some cultures are loud, some are quiet; some people are loud, some are quiet; some places are supposed to be loud, and so on.

The people being quiet in an normally-loud place create no problems. The people being loud in a normally-quiet place are causing problems for others by violating the quiet.

Loud people also tend to be oblivious to this and then get defensive when it’s pointed out. Not always - I’ve known some naturally-loud people who had figured out that being shushed meant they were in the wrong.
by legitster | 2026-01-17 03:42:28+00:00
> The subpoenas suggest that the Justice Department is examining whether Walz’s and Frey’s public statements disparaging the surge of officers and federal actions have amounted to criminal interference in law enforcement work.

The Justice department is literally arguing that free speech is enough to impede an investigation.

This will surely be shot down in court, but this is just all noise to try to interfere in MN's midterm elections.
by hansvm | 2026-01-17 03:45:10+00:00
This is good. It covers the two easiest dominant methods people use. It even touches on my main complaint for the one they seem to recommend.

That said:

- Constrained generation yields a different distribution from what a raw LLM would provide. This can be pathologically bad. My go-to example is LLMs having a preference for including ellipses in long, structured objects. Constrained generation forces closing quotes or whatever it takes to recover from that error according to a schema, nevertheless yielding an invalid result. Resampling tends to repeat till the LLM fully generates the data in question, always yielding a valid result which also adheres to the schema. It can get much worse than that.

- The unconstrained "method" has a few possible implementations. Increasing context length by complaining about schema errors is almost always worse from an end quality perspective than just retrying till the schema passes. Effective context windows are precious, and current models bias heavily toward earlier data which has been fed into them. In a low-error regime you might get away with a "try it again" response in a single chat, but in a high-error regime you'll get better results at a lower cost by literally re-sending the same prompt till the model doesn't cause errors.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-17 03:45:42+00:00
"You're not the customer, you're the product being sold."

It's all very "free" until ICE rams my car and drags me away because someone sold them the geolocation and facial-recognition data being automatically collected by that "excellent" software.

OK, sure, that's a dramatic example, but the same principle holds for plenty of other scenarios involving employers, insurance rates, etc.
by taurath | 2026-01-17 03:47:21+00:00
Yes I’ve noticed that at certain times it gets very stuck, with the exact same setups. If I keep trying with new context windows it will still have poor performance, but if I come back in 30m or an hour it returns to normal. I don’t think it’s my context window changing, it seems to truly be degradation.

FWIW, I experienced it with sonnet as well. My conspiracy brain says they’re testing tuning the model to use up more tokens when they want to increase revenue, especially as agents become more automated. Making things worse == more money! Just like the rest of tech
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-17 03:49:26+00:00
>Post-Grok going full gooner pedo

Almost afraid to ask, but anytime grok or x or musk comes up I am never sure if there is some reality based thing, or some “I just need to hate this” thing. Sometimes they’re the same thing, other times they aren’t.

I can guess here that because Grok likely uses WAN that someone wrote some gross prompts and then pretended this is an issue unique to Grok for effect?
by garciasn | 2026-01-17 03:51:35+00:00
There are colleges that target working age adults for continuing ed, advanced degree programs, etc; they’re just not as popular as those who primarily cater to those in the 18-23 age group.

Working in higher ed for the first part of my career, it was known for two decades that college enrollment was going to reduce once the millennials exited the age range; this is no surprise to anyone in higher ed.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-17 03:53:28+00:00
The Reuters frame by frame analysis shows the Renee Good shooting was a murder. The vehicle was moving away from the agent. His body was to the side of the vehicle when he fired his first shot. Their graphics are well organized, labeled clearly, and have the time noted for every single frame.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/MINNESOTA-RECONST...
by jaggederest | 2026-01-17 03:54:40+00:00
The best QA people I've worked with were effective before, during, and after implementation - they worked hand in hand with me both to shape features testably, work with me on the implementation for the harness for additional testing they wanted to do beyond what was useful for development, and followed up with assistance for finding and fixing bugs and using regression tests to prevent the category of error from happening again.

At the very least I want someone in QA doing end-to-end testing using e.g. a browser or a UI framework driver for non-web software, but there's so much more they do than that. In the same way I respect the work of frontend, backend, infrastructure, and security engineers, I think quality engineering is its own specialized field. I think we're all poorer for the fact that it's viewed as a dumping ground or "lesser"
by dang | 2026-01-17 03:55:00+00:00
That's a chance to plump Peter Naur's classic "Programming as Theory Building"!

What Naur meant by "theory" was the mental model of the original programmers who understood why they wrote it that way. His argument was that the real program was the theory, and the translation of the theory into code was lossy. He used this to explain why software teams didn't do as well when they lost access to the original programmers, because only they knew the theory.

[editing - bear with me...]
by com2kid | 2026-01-17 03:56:24+00:00
For awhile now I've had in mind a locally ran AI ADHD assistant. Using always on ASR for interactions (removing friction) it would keep track of todos, help refocus from distractions, and work as a personal knowledge base to aid with memory.

The key to this would be everything running locally, privacy preserving. The LLM would observe everything that is happening on screen, notice when someone is distracted by reddit (or HN!) and help refocus people.

Perfectly doable on even a moderately spec'd MacBook now days.
by frumper | 2026-01-17 03:57:05+00:00
That is a self reported survey of households that doesn't lend itself to capturing all of the people. One, participants need to respond, which a busy and tired person isn't likely to do. Two, it doesn't define job, so if you don't think of your side hustle/gig work as a job, then you won't say it is. In the survey, if you did answer, and you do have 2 jobs, but you didn't work both in the exact week that you were surveyed, then you also aren't counted. IRS data, ADP private payroll estimates are much higher, but have their own issues.
by acrooks | 2026-01-17 03:57:31+00:00
In my experience (enterprise software), customers buy our products not because we have a moat or some hard-to-achieve technical advantage but because they can speak to us in their words, they know we care, and we try solve their problems quickly.

Just yesterday I was speaking with the COO of a $200M/yr revenue company in the supply chain space. He'd learned Claude Code and built a couple apps to solve internal problems but reached out to talk to us. I asked him "you've been able to build some really impressive tools, clearly you can solve your own problems, why are you talking to me?" And he said "I have a business to run. I shouldn't be coding. I need somebody who understands my business & can solve my problems without taking a lot of my time."

Is there a cheaper way for him to solve his problems? Absolutely. But he wants to put the key in the ignition and know the car will turn on every time without thinking about it. There is an endless list of problems to solve; I don't think software businesses are going anywhere anytime soon.
by mr_vile | 2026-01-17 03:58:09+00:00
Not trying to be pessimistic here, but I feel like the author is being a bit loaded with the marketing text. There's many pieces of TUI software that do this exact same thing with "color and clarity" and the same fuzzy search, etc.

This repository here has a pretty exhaustive list of these softwares: https://github.com/indigane/git-graph-drawing

Anyway, congratulations to the author for actually releasing their work.
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-17 03:59:18+00:00
Question for the well-informed people reading this thread: do SoTA models like Opus, Gemini and friends actually need output schema enforcement still, or has all the the RLVR training they do on generating code and json etc. made schema errors vanishingly unlikely? Because as a user of those models, they almost never make syntax mistakes in generating json and code; perhaps they still do output schema enforcement for "internal" things like tool call schemas though? I would just be surprised if it was actually catching that many errors. Maybe once in a while; LLMs are probabilistic after all.

(I get why you need structured generation for smaller LLMs, that makes sense.)
by EnPissant | 2026-01-17 03:59:57+00:00
I currently have the 8020D + 7040A. It's pretty much perfect sound with room correction applied, but the 7040A is kind of big and ugly. I'd be willing to give up some low-end to simplify the setup. Also a subwoof doesn't play nicely with a standing desk because it can't go on the desk so the coords from the sub to 8020D have to be really long.
by hristov | 2026-01-17 04:00:42+00:00
In the northeastern towns of la county there entire flocks of wild parrots flying around, that are escaped or freed pet parrots or descendants from such pet parrots.

I guess parrots would not survive in the wild in canada, but if you have parrot you can no longer care for, maybe you could consider releasing it in the la foothills. He will have friends there.

Maybe is the key word here. I am not a parrot expert.
by valine | 2026-01-17 04:01:03+00:00
The allegations of fraud made by the people invading my home and terrorizing my friends? I’ll take those with a grain of salt.

And for the record, I’m not afraid of ICE, never said I was. ICE is racially profiling people, arresting them without cause, and deporting them without due process. I happen to be white, so that doesn’t apply in my case.

ICE just gunned down a US citizen in the street though, and that should scare everyone.
by helterskelter | 2026-01-17 04:02:39+00:00
Honestly I would love to go back to college for studying $THING. And then I think about the kids there and decide I'd rather stay away. That and the stupid shit schools do to make sure you aren't using AI.

No thanks, I'd rather watch lectures on YouTube and go to the library. I don't need any diploma, I only want enrichment.
by antonvs | 2026-01-17 04:03:17+00:00
Your question is essentially equivalent to "Why are you scared of the Gestapo if you aren't a Jew?"

It's not a coincidence that a winner of the Nobel Prize gifted his medal to the then Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels[1], exactly as María Corina Machado gifted her Nobel medal to Trump. History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. If you close your eyes to all these similarities, you're going to be in for a big surprise.

[1]https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/the-nob...
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2026-01-17 04:03:31+00:00
When you say assistive technology, what kind of things are you thinking about?

I don't have ADHD myself but I'm heavy into home automation and am just interested in it in general, since I think there's so much potential for smart tech to actually improve the lives of those with ADHD.

Some things that come to mind:

- Washing machine alerts you if you have accidentally done washing and forgotten to take it out.

- Household lights change colour consistently throughout the day to assist with time blindness; house goes into wind-down mode at night automatically at the same time. Music starts automatically when you should be getting up out of bed. Coffee machine starts brewing coffee (if that's your thing).

- Doomscrolling pits like Instagram and Tiktok are disabled except for very specific times of the day.

- Extremely low friction note taking (eg- smartwatch, recorder pin) that's instantly available, searchable and automatable.

- Airtags for finding misplaced items quickly.

Also goes without saying -- when you know one person with ADHD.... you know one person with ADHD. What works for any particular person is going to be mostly unique, or at least a unique combination of things.

Essentially, anything that a) puts cues in your environment to help steer you in the right direction and b) requires very little executive function to access.

Is that on the right track?
by compounding_it | 2026-01-17 04:04:35+00:00
https://youtu.be/pcz0R6eEWNA?t=345

I think it's called Displaylink. yet to try it with this particular benq but I know it can be done. The total output pixels are limited though so I doubt what the limitation of the Air is. but 2 24 inch 1080p should be doable.
by compounding_it | 2026-01-17 04:06:43+00:00
we have become used to retina displays these days so 1080p 24 inch looks 'pixelated'. I sit about 18 inches from the monitor and it looks okay. I find this distance and size most comfortable for me. The 27 inch 4k was too big for my setup and the scaled 2560x1440 is something I would not recommend (was warned about it but didn't listen :P).
by gffrd | 2026-01-17 04:06:56+00:00
Yeah, nobody’s saying a 5k monitor has more pixels than a 6k.

I think what people are trying to communicate, but struggling to, is that high pixel count on a huge display can be deceptive.

I think grandparent was trying to say “comparing a low-poi display to a high-ppi display is not a direct comparison.”
by dhosek | 2026-01-17 04:10:04+00:00
This is one of the things that I like about BlueSky. The only algorithmic feed I use is one that highlights quiet posters (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkhqolt662uhesyj6nxm7ys/fe...). I’ll go to the main feed once in a while, but the “discover” feed is one I ended up unpinning entirely.
by willtemperley | 2026-01-17 04:12:04+00:00
Supposedly and reportedly that is true. For now.

We still have Google models running on hardware people pay thousands of dollars for, under the impression it wasn't a Google device.

Imagine the gigantic temptation of gigantic wads of cash Google would pay Apple to allow Gemini to index and produce analytics about your data on your machine.

Now Google have a foot in the door.
by shubhamjain | 2026-01-17 04:12:25+00:00
You mean the big companies who still haven't moved away from abominations like SAP and Oracle? The ones where you require twenty approvals to get a small pilot done? Instead of moving to saner and cheaper alternatives, they would just say, "hey, why don't we just start making our own software?" Every effort like this—if it had any takers—will fail spectacularly.

I get it people are skeptical about the future. But I can't imagine any scenario where people would like taking responsibility of building and mantaining their own software for everything vs. paying marginal amount of money (relatively speaking) to let someone else take the headache.