MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-01-25 18:51:09+00:00
I don't disagree with where you're coming from. But to be fair, our system did have separation of powers and legal accountability for most of the time it was accruing so much power. The fascists just managed to get enough of the Supreme Council on board to sweep these away under the guises of unitary executive theory and blanket immunity for the new president-king.
by sheikhnbake | 2026-01-25 18:51:16+00:00
The true problem is that it happens no matter who is in charge. It's like that old phrase about weapons that are invented are going to be used at some point. The same thing has turned out to be true for intelligence tools. And the worst part is that the tools have become so capable, that malicious intent isn't even required anymore for privacy to be infringed.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-25 18:51:18+00:00
You misunderstand the nature of newspapers. Playing devil's advocate just a little here, I absolutely can see the financial benefit of an author taking a single epitome out of a group of near clones, even a random one among them at that, and placing him right on top of a pedestal positioned just before a podium. The more details the audience drowns in, no matter how truthful, the more you simply clutter your narrative with unfortunate facts and drown out the whole point. I'm not saying the author is lying, nor advocating it. But sometimes a slice of the truth is more useful than the whole pi of it in a given moment for a given story.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-25 18:51:22+00:00
This is partly a problem with our workplace laws.

In the eyes of the regulators and courts individual low level employees can not take responsibility. This is the logic by which they fine the company when someone does something you shouldn't need to be told not to do on a step ladder or whatever.

What this means is that low level employees become liability sinks. Show them all the warnings and make them figure it out. Give them all sorts of conflicting rules and let them sort out which ones to follow. Etc, etc.
by palata | 2026-01-25 18:51:40+00:00
> Last time I tried Android I had to sign my rights away to everything the app wanted just to install it.

Sounds like it was years ago... I remember that it was being introduced like... more than a decade ago? Of course maybe it took longer than iOS because of how Android works. iOS can just force everybody to use liquid glass with one update, Android has to think more about backward compatibility.
by baggy_three | 2026-01-25 18:51:46+00:00
If you're British then I pity your obsession with USian politics to the point where you're referring to their executive as "the government".

As for the rest of your comment, I advise you work on both your reading comprehension and your sense of nuance. Hint: someone being irritated by exclusionary groupthink in a subset of the left doesn't mean they are right-wing. If you weren't such a cretinous fool, this would be obvious.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-25 18:52:19+00:00
You mean ZIP?

Zip has 2 tricks: First, compression is per-file, allowing extraction of single files without decompressing anything else.

Second, the "directory" is at the end, not the beginning, and ends in the offset of the beginning of the directory. Meaning 2 disk seeks (matters even on SSDs) and you can show the user all files.

Then, you know exactly what bytes are what file and everything's fast. Second, you can easily take off the directory from the zip file, allowing new files to be added without modifying the rest of the file, which can be extended to allow for arbitrary modification of the contents, although you may need to "defragment" the file.

And I believe, encryption is also per-file. Meaning to decrypt a file you need both the password and the directory entry, which means that if you delete a file, and rewrite just the directory, the data is unrecoverable without requiring a total rewrite of the bytes.
by rustyhancock | 2026-01-25 18:52:30+00:00
I read the NIH policy and it seems quite reasonable to me.

The rule usually applied to datasets with broad consent is the surprise principle. Even if you have consent if the person is subsequently surprised by how it was used it's not informed consent.

To put it simply, how do we get samples from marginalised groups if we plan to allow to use that data for them to be marginalised?

If the NIH didn't actively oppose it how can they expect to get more participants ?

But the article is also about groups engaging in academic dishonesty to bypass NIH policy. It really makes me question their motives and that they aren't simply scientists seeking truth.
by snailmailman | 2026-01-25 18:53:05+00:00
It does work reliably enough though. A huge portion of games on Linux do so via pretending to be windows via wine/proton. It’s what allows the Steam deck to exist as a product at all.

And Linux on those handheld devices out-performs windows to such a degree that Microsoft has noticed and is trying to make windows perform better on those devices, basically making a gaming mode / handheld mode for their Xbox Ally.
by barkerja | 2026-01-25 18:53:41+00:00
Opus 4.5 with Elixir has been remarkably good for me. I've been writing Elixir in production since ~2018 and it continues to amaze me at the quality of code it produces.

I've been tweaking my skills to avoid nested cases, better use of with/do to control flow, good contexts, etc.
by thangalin | 2026-01-25 18:54:23+00:00
> I've got nothing to hide.

Some retorts for people swayed by that argument:

"Can we put a camera in your bathroom?"

"Let's send your mom all your text messages."

"Ain't nothin' in my pockets, but I'd rather you didn't check."

"Shall we live-stream your next doctor's appointment?"

"May I watch you enter your PIN at the ATM?"

"How about you post your credit card number on reddit?"

"Care to read your high-school diary on open mic night?"
by garciansmith | 2026-01-25 18:54:59+00:00
What I had always wanted was a drive that played both music Minidiscs and MD data discs so I could also use the discs for both. At least I don't think there were any dual-use decks or recorders, and I couldn't justify getting a data drive when I already had a recorder. Back in the 90s I always assumed that was because Sony was paranoid about piracy; I even had to buy some kind of device so I could record digital audio from my computer directly onto audio MDs. (If I recall correctly, it's been a while!)
by CraigJPerry | 2026-01-25 18:55:24+00:00
>> EV have far more tire wear because they are heavier

Is this true?

If an EV were 30% heavier than an ICE, would it produce 30% more tyre wear emissions? Or would it produce more or less than 30%? Is the primary factor in tyre wear weight and is the relationship linear?

The types of tyres appear to be quite different, the EVs seem to have smaller contact patches (narrower wheels) and they're made of different "less grippy" compounds that drag less. Does this change the equation at all?
by asveikau | 2026-01-25 18:55:42+00:00
They sold us on a lie about the extent of the illegal immigrant "problem". It's numerically impossible to make the promises they made and not deport people who it's hard to argue should be deported.

Immigrants also commit crimes at fewer rates than US born people and crime is at all time lows. Yet they sold us for years on a crime moral panic and phantom "migrant crime".

So you said, propose a solution that also involves deporting people, and I will say NO. You are wanting to target a mostly fake problem.
by dekhn | 2026-01-25 18:55:53+00:00
I guess I use the term "authoritarian cosplay" or maybe "authoritarian LARP" but he's taken it further than just play and posturing. He seems to truly idolize and identify with the authoritarians of the past.

That said, even our (US) military leadership wore outfits like that (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/style/gregory-bovino-ice-...)

What I also find extraordinary is that there is no consistent uniform, for example if you watch the video this post refers to, all the agents are wearing random combinations of personal clothing ("tactical" or "hunting") which makes them look more like a militia than federal officers.
by Rygian | 2026-01-25 18:55:58+00:00
It hovers depending on how my foot modulates the speed. I don't want or need "exactly zero power readout", I only need to reach my target speed at my target spot on the highway, without having to action the physical brakes at any time.

Whether that is more or less efficient than a zero-power coast followed by some kind of braking exactly at the end... I assume the difference is so tiny that it makes no difference.
Show HN: Uv-pack – Pack a uv environment for later portable (offline) install
by davnn | 2026-01-25 18:56:00+00:00
I kept running into the same problem: modern Python tooling, but deployments to air-gapped systems are a pain. Even with uv, moving a fully locked environment into a network-isolated machine was no fun.

uv-pack should make this task less frustrating. It bundles a locked uv environment into a single directory that installs fully offline—dependencies, local packages, and optionally a portable Python interpreter. Copy it over, run one script, and you get the exact same environment every time.

Just released, would love some feedback!
by t-3 | 2026-01-25 18:56:24+00:00
The Gaza numbers are confirmed deaths, with bodies and identities and all, it's not counting people they can't identify or who are missing and presumed dead (buried under rubble and the like). The confirmed death tolls are considered to be a vast undercount of actual total deaths. This 30k number is much less rigorous and we have no way to know it's accuracy.
by arthurcolle | 2026-01-25 18:56:36+00:00
I was unable to ever get it to fly reliably without GPS. It was probably stupid to drop $7K on drone GPUs and all kind of gadgetry (6 battery bay for rapid charging, etc), but it was just really really hard to pilot around in Maryland (Montgomery County). I would constantly have it throw up warnings and alerts, even only hovering a few feet above the ground for small scale testing. I would have to disable the GPS to do small scale testing, and then with GPS enabled, it would straight up not allow me to pilot it. When I moved to Miami, brought it down there, but I managed to find an apartment right smack-dab in the MIA no-fly zone as well. The smaller drone was allowed to fly though, so I eventually got a small Mini 2 IIRC, which was a lot easier to pilot, but I was just so disappointed in not being able to use the larger scaled up version. I wanted to do realtime facial recognition (not at scale, just to show that commercial drones can be turned into research demonstrators) on the onboard GPU (apparently just a NVDA Jetson from 2017 era)

The irony is the M100 is genuinely great hardware - the payload capacity, the SDK access, the flight time with extra batteries. But DJI's geofencing treats the entire DC metro like a no-go zone, which makes sense from their liability perspective but means the thing is basically a $7K shelf ornament unless you want to deal with LAANC authorizations for every single flight.
by newsoftheday | 2026-01-25 18:56:36+00:00
> while the Play store is an equally ad-riddled

That made me realize how little I go to the Play store these days to just browse compared to the early days of Android.

I personally can't stand Apple products ... dbut with Google doing their crap and Samsung acting like Microsoft with all the crap they load in I have to disable just to make the phone usable; I've seriously thought about moving to iPhone the past couple of years.
by iambateman | 2026-01-25 18:56:41+00:00
This is becoming less of an issue, but there’s no question it’s a barrier.

To be honest, the bigger barrier I see is around political will to charge the true social cost of gasoline.

Some nonprofits think the true cost of burning gas is $10-15/gallon. If filling up with gas cost $250 and charging an EV was 85% cheaper, I’d be willing to wait 30 minutes for an occasional charge.
Show HN: Decompile and deminify Bun using an LLM
by shepherdjerred | 2026-01-25 18:56:56+00:00
I'm working on a tool that wraps Claude Code. In the process, I wanted to know some implementation details of the Claude Code CLI.

Claude Code is just a Bun CLI app, so I figured it could be decompiled.

This program will:

1. Decompile a Bun app

2. For each minified method, it will call an LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) with the method and some context

3. The LLM will reply with suggested names for methods/variables/etc

4. Babel will apply those renames in a deterministic manner, so that functionality cannot be broken
by kernal | 2026-01-25 18:57:13+00:00
Android gets a bad rap because of security and Apple has exploited this in their marketing campaigns to the max. So the moment Google does something to address this glaring hole in their security model the 1% vocal minority throws a fit. You’ll still be able to side load, but because it has extra friction they’ll threaten to switch to iOS. To which I say - go for it. Google doesn’t care about people who side load apps like an automatic reloading the chamber. You’re an insignificant percentage of their base.

Personally, I would rather see Android only run signed and sanctioned apps to prevent the technologically illiterate from getting pwned. If you want to be able to side load then sign up to be a developer and go to town on your device.
by gruez | 2026-01-25 18:57:16+00:00
>Yes, well I don't think we should deport people and I think immigrants improve the US, so I would be in the latter category

Which would put you in the minority (16%).

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/03/26/am...

Even without getting into a debate of whether we should do immigration enforcement at all (a sibling reply goes into it in better detail), there's the practical effect that most people do, and if Democrats don't oblige, people like Trump will get in power instead.
by tw04 | 2026-01-25 18:57:17+00:00
> The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases.

Which has literally happened already for anyone who thinks “there’s controls in place for that sort of thing”. That’s with (generally) good faith actors in power. What do you think can and will happen when people who think democracy and the constitution are unnecessary end up in control…

https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/nsa-snooping/
by taurath | 2026-01-25 18:57:21+00:00
It gets down to the definition of political which is basically anything that might have a human cost, including to the people here. I have many coworkers having to upend their lives, some can’t currently leave the country. This is not worthy of discussion, but an esoteric library update is. Paul Graham posts are not political topics for some reason, but H1B people is.

Technology, technology leaders, and technology companies are literally driving politics, buying elections, driving the whole US economy.

Saying what “political” topics are IS political - and it’s decidedly a right wing position. Only those with the powers protecting them get to avoid politics.
by locao | 2026-01-25 18:57:48+00:00
I also had the same experience, but I could only make them restart during the night. So I wrote a monitor to check if any of the Pis lost USB before restarting.

When our business grew, even restarting every night, we would get one or two lost USB warnings every day. One day I didn't receive any warnings. I was really happy, I had fix the issue! Three days later a client calls screaming the service is not working for two whole days and we did nothing. After getting every Pi restarted, I went to check the monitor. Shut down. I asked my business partner about it. "The alarms made me anxious, so I decided to shut down the monitor".

Obviously I sold my shares and never looked back.
by whatshisface | 2026-01-25 18:57:52+00:00
People do not have justifications for most choices. We watch YouTube when we would benefit more from teaching ourselves skills. We eat too much of food we know is junk. We stay up too late and either let others walk over us at work to avoid overt conflict or start fights and make enemies to protect our own emotions. If you want to know why Americans are allowing themselves to be gradually reduced to slavery, do not ask why.
by dangoodmanUT | 2026-01-25 18:57:56+00:00
For looking up the IP or whether you are permitted for some host?

For the former you don't, it's just DNS. The local DNS server respects TTL, and is no more expensive than a normal DNS lookup. It just proxies it to take the resolved IPs and push them into the eBPF map.

For the latter, the default expectation is that you push the rules to the "Attachment", typically in the "SyncAck". If you need to make updates, you push down deltas (add/remove rule).

You _can_ do dynamic DNS resolution, and there you'll be paying either 1x or ~2x DNS depending on whether your control plane already knows the IPs.
by seec | 2026-01-25 18:58:15+00:00
> A lot of businesses and even retail has moved online or out of town to deal with rates. Most of the town centres round here I have seen are deserts filled with vape shops, tanning salons and hairdressers/barbers.

I think there is a mix of factors. Boomers started the giant supermarket trend, and there has been a giant megastore for everything that followed them. In my relatively small town, many things have moved to the city periphery because people like having a lot of choices and cheap stuff. Most of the offering is low-quality crap, but they don't mind; they actually like to buy more and more. The less it lasts, the better.
Then you have the increased taxation by cities, of course, but this also applies to the megastore. It's just that they deal with much bigger volumes and exploit cheap labor, so it's easier to cover them.
Finally, many things have moved online indeed, and very often it's not worth physically going to a store if you need a specific item because there is a 50/50 chance a store will have it or it's going to be the same cheap Chinese crap, just marked up.

There are still some decent stores in the cities; the problem is that their volumes are so low that the pricing is very high, and funnily enough, the people most likely to afford them (rich boomers) don't go there and instead flock to the megastore. You can't fix a problem with the "intelligence" that created it.

In the big EU cities it's a bit different; since most people will be on foot, it's very impractical to drive around even if you have a car.
by t0mas88 | 2026-01-25 18:58:28+00:00
This is a big topic in aviation. But the example you link to is about ACARS messages which are sent to the ground via data link, not visible to the crew.

The ECAM system is what displays issues to the crew. There is a lot of logic there on what to show and what to inhibit. For example some errors aren't shown during takeoff since it's more important to focus on safely starting the climb, they would only be shown once past 400ft altitude.

There is also a priority order based on criticality, they don't just show up in chronological order. Engine fire for example is a red warning and would always come above a yellow caution message. It's designed in a way where the results of the major problem (e.g. engine on fire, and then loosing electric power from that side) are lower priority than the problem itself.
by sosomoxie | 2026-01-25 18:58:55+00:00
> obviously can lead to unmanageable waves of immigration that strain a country’s housing, healthcare, schools, welfare, and other resources, among other effects.

I don't agree that this is "obvious". Immigrants bring important social and cultural capital. Who do you think is building a lot of the infrastructure in the US? The people putting a strain on the system are actually the aging baby boomer generation.

I have many other reasons for supporting open immigration that are less transactional, but the suggestions that immigrants "strain" our infrastructure is incorrect.
by DrSAR | 2026-01-25 18:59:06+00:00
No horse either but here is an attempt (ignoring criminal record as you say): Opening the border and letting her rip is clearly not sustainable in the medium term. So you try to make it (reasonably) hard to get in incl. turning people away at the border.

Once they are in (incl illegally so) you concede you have lost on this instance. Now you admit that forcefully removing immigrants carries too high a cost (literally + damage in the communities you remove the immigrants from + your humanitarian image). So you don't.

Somehow that balance seems really hard to get right and edge cases (criminal record) matter.
by hvb2 | 2026-01-25 18:59:43+00:00
Not sure what age your kids are, but if they're below 10 I can guarantee you that your kids will be slowing you down, bit the car. Kids need to use the bathroom would be filling up the battery well over 25% if it wasn't almost full.

The one thing people that have never owned an EV seem to miss is the benefits that you get to experience every day.

No gearbox, so seamless acceleration.
No maintenance on, spark plugs, timing belts, gearbox. No oil changes.
A quieter ride, especially nice on a road trip.
by PlanksVariable | 2026-01-25 19:00:45+00:00
The question is about deporting illegal immigrants specifically, i.e. people who are in a country in violated of its immigration laws.

I think the main benefit is the same as with any law: if you have a law with no consequences for the people who break it, you don’t really have a law. If we don’t have immigration laws, we have an open border and with an open border, we can’t regulate the rate at which people enter the country. This rate can easily exceed the amount that the country reasonably accommodate, which negative impact on housing, healthcare, welfare, transportation, civic cohesion, and education systems.

Immigration law is standard around the world, with deportation being the standard response to people who violate that law. The more interesting question here is how you think a modern country will function and continue serving the needs of its citizens when it stops enforcing its immigration laws.
by cpursley | 2026-01-25 19:01:02+00:00
Try these:

- https://github.com/agoodway/.claude/blob/main/skills/elixir-...

- https://github.com/agoodway/.claude/blob/main/agents/elixir-...

- https://github.com/agoodway/.claude/blob/main/agents/elixir-...

Getting pretty good results so far.
by steveklabnik | 2026-01-25 19:01:09+00:00
Unfortunately, academia is subject to the same sorts of social things that anything else is. I regularly see people still bring up a hoax article sent to a journal in 1996 as a reason to dismiss the entire field that one journal publishes in.

Personally, I would agree with you. That's how these things are supposed to work. In practice, people are still people.
by kakacik | 2026-01-25 19:01:20+00:00
Better mobile hardware is highly specific. Crappy batteries worse than literally all competition? Check for first what, 5 or 6 generations? For many people, battery life is single most important attribute of their phone.

Also USB-C ain't some differentiating feature of android, rather rest of the world and electronics. Fully apple's fault here, it could have been their standard as the one, but greed is greed.

Screens were always better on Samsungs flagships (apple buys screens there too) - mildly higher resolution, refresh rate and contrasts but these are rather unimportant. As an non-apple tech user, apple phone hardware has very few things that interest me or put them above the others.

Its better integration with software that did put them above, since it was optimized for a very narrow band of hardware so could get far even with subpar hardware (till M chips came but these days they are almost on par with Snapdragons). But that software has a list of issues much bigger than hardware above so no, thank you.