MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eschu | 2026-01-28 20:47:04+00:00
It was brought to our attention that it would be interesting to have a good interface for ROM models. It seems like POD-based dimensional reduction is widely used in the industry.

On the other hand, PLECS does have clever way to simulate thermal losses from ideal switch models:

https://www.plexim.com/products/plecs/thermal

Since simulation with standard PLECS ideal switches is so much more efficient than SPICE, it allows validation of thermal behavior at system-level.

But PLECS Spice does come in the picture here. What the above technique needs is a LUT table (XML) for the losses, and this can be extracted from SPICE. Now that PLECS Spice is part of PLECS, you can do it in the same tool. The idea is to prepare a simulated test bench for a double pulse test with the detailed SPICE model provided on the semiconductor manufacturer's website.

Then, you can use the data sheet impedance data (or generate the step-response curve yourself from experiment, the finite-elements method, etc) and fit an RC thermal network to it. I built a python tool for that available here:

https://thermal-network.pages.dev/

I wish I had a little more time to improve on the API, but I think it's very convenient. It is also possible to fit impedance data directly in PLECS. Cross-talk for spacial coupling can also be modeled there using similar strategy. The end result is a high accuracy thermal simulation at system-level.

There are some limitations to the approach, and if a full bi-directional coupling is needed (where the energy is taken out of the analog system) you can get more complex behavior by staying within PLECS Spice and modeling the thermal behavior there. It is slower though.
by caminante | 2026-01-28 20:47:09+00:00
> Okay, so you're admitting that they're inflationary but choose to rattle off a list of random stuff that somehow, magically, offsets the increased costs from tariffs.

Haha! I haven't seen someone try to dismiss counterarguments as "magic." I should've said that more when I got answers wrong on my tests in high school.

> So.. you were agreeing with my point then?

If not "magic," then the objector "actually agrees" with you.
by Aldipower | 2026-01-28 20:47:24+00:00
They _all_ offer Dynamic EQ, all the phase modes (linear, minimal and derivatives), freq matching, collision detection, side chaining, etc...
Absolutely comparable imho. And cheaper. ZL Equalizer even is open source!

https://www.toneboosters.com/tb_equalizer_pro.html
https://tal-software.com/products/tal-eq
https://zl-audio.github.io/plugins/zlequalizer2/manual/
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-28 20:47:28+00:00
The disturbing part isn't the bug in time-sync.target or documentation, the disturbing part is how casually he brushes the issue away.

To me this is a huge red flag for a senior contributer to a core systems component, signalling some fundamental lack of understanding or imagination.

I very much disagree with not fixing time-sync.target, but if he had instead written a well-reasoned explanation for why time-sync.target should not propagate failed states and flagging it as a documentation bug, then that's something I'd respect and would be fine with. Or, even better IMHO, he'd fix time-sync.target and state that users who wants to boot regardless should use Wants instead.
by somat | 2026-01-28 20:47:41+00:00
It is probably obvious, so obvious that no one starts with it? but it took me an absurdly long time to put together that an airplane lifts by moving air down.

Admittedly there is an amazing amount of fluid-dynamic subtly on top of this simple Newtonian problem. But I am surprised that almost no one starts with "An airplane produces lift by moving air down, for steady flight it needs to move exactly as much air mass down as the plane weighs. here are the engineering structures that are used to do this and some mathematical models used to calculate it"
by zabzonk | 2026-01-28 20:47:44+00:00
Ah, but what if one your clients needs to use, let us say, Excel...

My mistakes with the training course code would have been fixed if the company would have bought Excel licenses fof our customer workstations.

And I just remembered it was DDE (dynamic data exchange), not OLE. OLE was much better specced than DDE. Like I said, it was way back when. But the basic rule (don't test using both a home-grown client and server) still applies.
by tempaccsoz5 | 2026-01-28 20:47:58+00:00
Have a look at the Steam Hardware [and software] Survey [0] results. Linux has been trending upwards whist Windows has been trending down for a wee while. And the population this looks at is primarily interested in gaming, which means that this is despite a compatibility layer being needed for a large amount of the software used. I imagine in other communities (software, old people) it's trending much faster.

E.g. I recently installed Linux Mint for my grandma so she could use email and an up-to-date web browser on her old laptop that can't run (secure) Windows anymore. The UI differences are marginal for her, and she can do everything she needs to much better than she could before (which was not at all).

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
by zzrrt | 2026-01-28 20:48:07+00:00
> Renee Good pressed the accelerator while her car's wheels were still pointed at the ICE agent

This is something I can agree with, but it does NOT prove that Good was trying to hurt the agent (I believe she made an error while trying to leave), it raises the questions of whether he should have simply hopped away or noticed her turning the wheel as he fired, nor does it justify the two rounds he shot from the SIDE of the vehicle after it missed him, nor does it justify him violating multiple police guidelines in walking around the vehicle and firing into it. I don’t know exactly what position you’re taking, but those are some of the things people are saying, and it does make a difference whether this was an attack or a confrontation where both sides made bad choices.

> check the the slow-motion bodycam video

Is there an actual bodycam? This situation has been criticized over the lack of bodycams and the sloppiness of the agent filming with his phone in one hand while confronting someone.

> cities defying federal immigration law

I don’t know your take, but it’s rich how many Repubs will rant about “states’ rights” and then flip as soon as they agree with the federal government’s agenda more than a state’s in a particular case.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-28 20:48:14+00:00
Deno has a similar tool to npm scripts called "tasks" in deno.json. It even has a nice mini-advantage in that it encourages including a one-line description which shows up in the `deno tasks` list of all configured tasks and various IDE integrations.

Most Deno tasks though, more so than a lot of npm scripts in my experience, tend to just be `deno run …` commands (the shebang line in the article) to a script in a directory like `_scripts/` rather than written as CLI commands.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-28 20:48:16+00:00
It's not about the quality of banner itself. It's about my concerns that this is the tip of the camel's nose.

I'm certainly not going to stop buying from GOG over this one incident. That said, this does reduce the esteem I had held them in. Now I'll have to be on alert about them, where I didn't have to before.

Even though it does make me think less of them, if they limit this kind of nonsense to ephemeral banner ads, I can put up with it. If it expands, though, I'll definitely be less likely to continue spending money with them.
by gtoubassi | 2026-01-28 20:48:17+00:00
Hackers by Steven Levy is an incredible story of the industry’s early years (60-80’s) and the characters that were in it for the “love of the game” vs what is more common now (“status and money”). A lot of heroes like woz, but who are less well known in this day and age (Gosper and Greenblatt!). If you are familiar with and a fan of Dealers of Lightning or Dream Machine, check out Hackers! (this is not a paid endorsement).
by ddtaylor | 2026-01-28 20:48:19+00:00
So happy to see so many new Linux users as a long time user and developer for the platform. I want to welcome anyone and PLEASE feel free to use AI to make awesome stuff or solve problems. The FOSS community is still adapting to the new influx of developers and tools, vibe coders, etc.

Be cautious with running commands or making package changes based on suggestions from AI tools. Ask clarifying questions and it may realize doing so would either break your system or be attempting to vastly modify it.

My advice is get Docker installed and do most of your stuff in there. If you mess up and expose a Postgres container it will get hacked, but not escape the container, whereas if you install Postgres as a system package and make that same mistake you will be fully owned.
by jerf | 2026-01-28 20:48:20+00:00
Weight training equipment lasts decades all the time. It's just big piles of metal, it's not hard to get right.

What actually prompted the engineering-CYA "should" is if the Android tablet is controlling some sort of robotic system for selecting weight sizes, that that system might have an expected life span on par with a tablet, being a physical thing moving around some pins or something in a potentially hostile user environment. That'll break long before anything else would.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-28 20:48:24+00:00
I'm on the topic of a hypothetical AI future where the economy is disrupted, a small group of capital owners become ultra rich and some significant fraction of the population is permanently dispossessed. Then, in this hypothetical future, the government becomes wholly unresponsive to the needs of the citizenry and instead becomes an vestigial appendage of capital, merely protecting the oligarchs from the poor.

This can apply to pretty much any government, doesn't have to mean the US.
by evanelias | 2026-01-28 20:48:55+00:00
Yikes, the "[contraction] just" phrases on that campaign website alone are really over the top. Horrendously inauthentic writing, whether it's AI or not:

"wasn't just a job; it was a profound responsibility"

"This isn't just a statistic; it's a sign that we need to re-evaluate how we support those who serve"

"My experience isn't just about past success; it's about understanding the logistics, technology, and economic realities that shape the job market now and how we can create future opportunities right here."

"This experience didn't just teach me about law and order; it taught me about managing complex operations under pressure, the critical need for clear strategy, and the importance of unwavering integrity when the stakes are high – lessons desperately needed in Congress today."

"This campaign isn't just about me; it's about us."

All from the same page. Pretty nauseating.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-28 20:49:26+00:00
I use whatever package is shipped by arch, so I think I'm fairly up to date.

I did look a bit into this at one point, but I've found that it's mostly QT apps which work fine with different scaling (telegram comes to mind). GTK apps never did, but I admit I never went too deep in the rabbit hole. Didn't know there was supposed to be some kind of daemon handling this. I do run xsettingsd, but for unrelated reasons. I'll have a look if it can update things.

In any case, except for work, I always used everything at 100% and just scaled the text as needed, which worked well enough.

> I've bothered to look at (and play with) what's actually going on under the hood, and the underlying systems totally expose per-display scaling factors...

Would you care to go into some details? What systems are those and how do you notify them there's been a change?
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-28 20:49:26+00:00
Yes, but also salary minimum at top industry percentile to prevent use for wage suppression domestically.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45229180 (Top 40 H-1B employers)

Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223719 - September 2025 (526 comments)

Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44892321 - August 2025 (108 comments)

H-1B Middlemen Bring Cheap Labor to Citi, Capital One - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398978 - June 2025 (4 comments)

Jury finds Cognizant discriminated against US workers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385000 - December 2024 (65 comments)

How middlemen are gaming the H-1B program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123945 - July 2024 (57 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454509 (additional citations)
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-28 20:49:38+00:00
>- Which counties you're talking about?

Pick any you like, since the userbase is relatively similar since the limitation is the low income and they all have that in common. Income/GDP is more important metric rather than which specific country.

>- Why are those countries important to think about in this case?

Why are you asking me? Ask the people who brought up third world countries as the target user base. I'm the one not agreeing with this point.

>- Why doesn't this feature help people from regions that can afford a mid-to-top range smartphone?

I explained already below in detail why. But to reiterate in short, if your monthly income is in the ~200$ a month ballpark, you're not gonna be spending 300$ on a mid-to-top range smartphone for the video output feature.
by watwut | 2026-01-28 20:49:47+00:00
> Because everyone alive today has the same perspective, and none of us have experienced a wide breadth of anything.

Is the author living in completely different alternative reality then I do?

> The average ancient historian led troops, tutored a prince, governed a province, advised a king, made a fortune, fell from favor, was exiled, and buried 7 of their 10 children. The average modern historian passed a few tests then wrote a book on their laptop next to their cat.

Who are all those ancient historians author talks about? Isnt actually studying history better background for writing about history then "making a fortune, being politician and having many dead kids"?

But obviously what you wont find in the books of these super high level people ... is experience majority of the people who lived earth never had. Nor even had option to have. Frequently because of their lives suffered greatly by actions of these great conquerors.

So tldr, Mary Beard is bad at being historian, because she studied history. Also, because she credits feminism for her own understanding of what it is being a woman. Also, because she is estimated to have liberal opinions on climate change, democracy and religion. In the world where everyone is having the same opinions on those ... we will ignore the fact that fascism is currently not just on the rise, but literally winning the institutions.
by jjordan | 2026-01-28 20:50:23+00:00
Microsoft is progressively making everything an instance of Chrome. They've seemingly altogether given up the notion of native platform rendering. The win32 api for native ui elements hasn't been touched in two decades. There have been a few failed attempts to move on from it like Siverlight, WinForms, UWP, LightSwitch, etc, but they never bothered to revisit their native UI library. So now everything is a Chrome instance.
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-01-28 20:50:30+00:00
As a datapoint, when I read this headline, the very first thing i thought of as "wasn't PRISM some NSA shit? Is OpenAI working with the NSA now?"

It's a horrible name for any product coming out of a company like OpenAI. People are super sensitive to privacy and government snooping and OpenAI is a ripe target for that sort of thinking. It's a pretty bad association. You do not want your AI company to be in any way associated with government surveillance programs no matter how old they are.
by NekkoDroid | 2026-01-28 20:50:35+00:00
podman quadlet doesn't seem to support running at a "system level" as a non-root user, at least according to their docs[0]. I assume they make some assumptions which wouldn't hold up if the user actually changed when running at a system level, dunno.

Setting up the user namespace would be part of the container manager and not the containers themselves, so they shouldn't need any rebuilding or special handling (possibly the files might need to be shifted into the "foreign ID" range[1, 2], but I might be lying with this and this isn't necessary for this usecase) but the container manager needs to be specifically make use of nsresourced.

I really think currently the best option is to go with either systemd as your "container manager" (e.g. just regular system files with sandboxing or nspawn images or maybe systemd-portabled[3]) or podman as your container manager. As much as I too would love to mix them, I don't think it's the best idea (at least in the current state) and just go with what is more suited for the task (in your case it sounds like podman would be the most suited option).

> there seems to be problems with informing systemd (as a non-root user) that the running process is different from the one it started.

Yea, I don't think systemd likes double forking. The best option would be to keep the process that spawned your actual process alive until the child exists and just bubble up the exit code. There is the `PIDFile=` option with `Type=forking`, but I haven't used it, nor looked much into it.

[0]: https://docs.podman.io/en/v5.7.1/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...

[1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

[2]: https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS/#special-systemd-uid-ranges

[3]: https://systemd.io/PORTABLE_SERVICES/
by godelski | 2026-01-28 20:50:56+00:00
This is HN, so don't write as if this was Twitter. We don't need to be shallow. I'm not AI, so I mean this with all due respect and not just because an AI won't say this: you can fuck off.

> When the phone is taken from you, you'll not be typing them in anyway.

Your phone can be compromised without it being taken from you. You're smart enough to be able to figure that out :)
by NewsaHackO | 2026-01-28 20:51:05+00:00
>Android Chrome not having extensions is just a build option toggle. It doesn't have extensions because Google doesn't want it to, not for technical reasons.

The leak screenshots are from the dev version of the app. It has not been confirmed to actually have extensions enabled in the prod version, which is what the parent poster was talking about. It would have been prudent to actually read the post I was replying to and the actual article, not just look at pictures.
by anonym29 | 2026-01-28 20:51:16+00:00
I'm really glad I bought Strix Halo. It's a beast of a system, and it runs models that an RTX 6000 Pro costing almost 5x as much can't touch. It's a great addition to my existing Nvidia GPU (4080) which can't even run Qwen3-Next-80B without heavy quantization, let alone 100B+, 200B+, 300B+ models, and unlike GB10, I'm not stuck with ARM cores and the ARM software ecosystem.

To your point though, if the successors to Strix Halo, Serpent Lake (x86 intel CPU + Nvidia iGPU) and Medusa Halo (x86 AMD CPU + AMD iGPU) come in at a similar price point, I'll probably go with Serpent Lake, given the specs are otherwise similar (both are looking at 384-bit unified memory bus to LPDDR6 with 256GB unified memory options). CUDA is better than ROCm, no argument there.

That said, this has nothing to do with the (now resolved) issue I was experiencing with LM Studio not respecting existing Developer Mode settings with this latest update. There are good reasons to want to switch between different back-ends (e.g. debugging whether early model release issues, like those we saw with GLM-4.7-Flash, are specific to Vulkan - some of them were in that specific example). Bugs like that do exist, but I've had even fewer stability issues on Vulkan than I've had on CUDA on my 4080.
Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?
by piratesAndSons | 2026-01-28 20:51:27+00:00
It seems to me that Show HN is filled with low-effort see-what-I-prompted-Claude posts—no innovation, no real creation, just yet another copy of a copy. If you’re going to prompt an LLM, at least come up with something original, not the millionth text editor.
by nehal3m | 2026-01-28 20:51:27+00:00
Headless daily driver? Hardcore. What do you use for a browser?

I've tried it as a challenge for a couple of days (lynx, mutt, some other TUI stuff) and it made some things like Vim stick (although that may have as much to do with that challenge as Tridactyl did). But I couldn't last longer than a week. It does free you from the burden of system requirements. CPU: Optional.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-28 20:52:03+00:00
The bulk of deposits in those banks don't come from individual retail and thus the individual's got no sticking power.

Citibank interest rate on savings accounts is less than 1%, more like 0.1%, and there are account fees too. They're telling you load and clear "We don't want your money" - you can't argue with that empirical evidence, straight from the horse's mouth.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-28 20:52:20+00:00
Right. But even over HTTPS it's not rocket science to figure out that connecting to www.email1.hsbc.co.uk pretty strongly suggests you've opened an e-mail with an image. And the number of times you request the same URL tells someone... what exactly? Because HTTPS still tells people the number of times you access any URL on a domain.
by legitster | 2026-01-28 20:52:24+00:00
> But Amodei argues that AI increasingly matches the full range of human cognitive abilities, so it will take away jobs drafting memos, reviewing contracts, and analyzing data that might otherwise emerge. A customer service rep who retrains as a paralegal would find AI waiting there, too. "AI isn't a substitute for specific human jobs but rather a general labor substitute for humans," he wrote.

A) This is a bunch of marketing hype disguised as performative commiseration. "Our product is so good we need to think about changing laws". Maybe that's true, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. We don't even know the true costs associated with AI or how much better it's even going to get.

B) All of these previous inventions were also touted as "general labor substitutes" and none of them ended up being true.

Let me make an alternate case - coffee in this country used to be an entirely automated process. Every has a dedicated coffee robot in their house. But our tastes have so shifted that now the average person gets multiple cups of handmade coffee a week. An entirely new job category called "barista" was introduced, and today we have over half a million of them. They are not high wage jobs, but they are comparable to something like the customer service rep job that Amodei is apparently worried about.

Even if AI were to take away massive swathes of white collar jobs (I'm still skeptical), the historical expectation is that new, unforseen labor categories open up. Just like nobody inventing a computer thought QA tester or video game streamer or spreadsheet technician was going to be a job in the future.

It's like an inverse Baumol's Cost disease - if AI does tank the value of all of these services, all of the services that require, I dunno - physical hands, go up in value. All of the niche things AI can't do suddenly become all the more valuable.
by Mordisquitos | 2026-01-28 20:52:26+00:00
> Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical tendency of most sufficiently intelligent, goal-directed beings (human and nonhuman) to pursue similar sub-goals (such as survival or resource acquisition), even if their ultimate goals are quite different. More precisely, beings with agency may pursue similar instrumental goals—goals which are made in pursuit of some particular end, but are not the end goals themselves—because it helps accomplish end goals.

'Running the planet' does not derive from instrumental convergence as defined here. Very few humans would wish to 'run the planet' as an instrumental goal in the pursuit of their own ultimate goals. Why would it be different for AGIs?