MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cryptonector | 2026-01-25 17:05:52+00:00
> (IMO also it requires quite a lot of time investment, and that’s not always valuable, eg startups usually aren’t willing to implement the heavyweight process/rituals required to be accurate.)

Maybe, just maybe, it's because "the heavyweight process/rituals required to be accurate" might not be productive, and because being startups, and therefore small organizations, it's easier for everyone to know who's pulling their weight and who isn't, therefore "heavyweight process/rituals" add nothing and cost too much.

Mature organizations tend to "implement the heavyweight process/rituals required to be accurate" precisely because they are too large for everyone to know everyone, and so senior management loses touch with reality and starts feeling anxious about whether their R&D spend is yielding value. This is totally understandable, and we have to have empathy for executives, but there is tremendous danger in this approach. How many mature market leaders have had their lunch eaten by disruptive innovators (invariably startups)? And why? Maybe those "heavyweight" processes kill innovation! That urge to accurately measure what the org's devs are doing can be counterproductive.

All measures but one (so far) are gameable. So far only KTLO fraction, which one should couple with promoting a management culture that allows subjective value judgements to make it up and down the chain. Management of knowledge work essentially is a social problem, not a scientific one.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-01-25 17:06:13+00:00
> "Unions might be able to bargain against h1b..."

Remember, H1-Bs and immigrants, that a union would be not be on your side. They would have a large percentage of pro-nativists that affect their policies, regardless of what they say officially. There's a long, long history of unions in the United States opposing immigrant labor that is worth reading up on and, even on supposedly worldly and well educated HN, you will see that there isn't much pushback against posts with anti-H1-B sentiment.
by lmeyerov | 2026-01-25 17:06:24+00:00
I don't know at these scales, but at the 1M-100M, we found switching from out-of-box embeddings to fine-tuning our embeddings gave less of a sting in the compression/recall trade-off . We had a 10-100X win here wrt comparable recall with better compression.

I'm not sure how that'd work with the binary quantization phase though. For example, we use Matroyska, and some of the bits matter way more than others, so that might be super painful.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-25 17:07:51+00:00
Smug -and- illiterate? You really are a catch.

You know perfectly well that a question-mark does not a question make.

And, apparently you also see the utility in posting very short, dumb sections of content.

So, by your own standards, you should be able to do the math and answer your own so-called question.
by mitstake | 2026-01-25 17:07:59+00:00
Hi everyone. This is a library I’ve wanted to build and open source for years. This is not vibe-coded and every line is backed by over a decade of my experience in the quantitative modeling field.

Anyone working in quantitative/computational modeling should consider taking a look as I think it provides a lot of features you either wanted or might not have known you wanted. Happy to talk about it in depth with you all!
by vel0city | 2026-01-25 17:08:01+00:00
> A 1988 report by the Australian Road Research Board stated that the rule is a good approximation for rutting damage, but an exponent of 2 (rather than 4) is more appropriate to estimate fatigue cracking.

> The accuracy of the law of the fourth power is disputed among experts, since the test results depend on many other factors, such as climatic conditions, in addition to the factors mentioned above.

It's incredible one agency in the '50s did some small limited tests and everyone will parrot it as if it's tablets handed down from God.
by tucnak | 2026-01-25 17:08:14+00:00
I happen to own a Precursor, and indeed used it for some experiments, but it's unfortunately limited by Xilinx Spartan-7 availability, which is one of the few FPGA's that have been reverse-engineered, and they probably don't make it anymore... Another one that has been RE'd is Lattice ECP5 but it's in the same category. I'm pretty sure you couldn't make 50 million devices like that. I know they've been looking into alternatives, but haven't caught up yet.
by thomasmg | 2026-01-25 17:08:22+00:00
Schubfach, Ryū, Dragonbox etc support round-tripping and shortest-width, which (it sounds like) is not important for you. The idea of round-tripping is that if you convert a double to a string and then parse that, you get the exact same value. Shortest-width is to correctly round and generate the shortest possible text. I tried to implement a version that does _just_ round-tripping but is not shortest-width, it is around 290 lines for both parsing and toString [1]

[1] https://github.com/thomasmueller/bau-lang/blob/main/src/test...
by R_D_Olivaw | 2026-01-25 17:08:27+00:00
I sit along this fence and the only real "wrong" I can garner from it is that the economic model simply hasn't updated to reflect this shift.

I think the "wrongness" would go away, for me anyways, if we found a way that everyone was still remunerated in some way when this sharing occurred.

A lá, the vision of what crypto ought to have been: Every single thing created and shared has a .000xx cent value and as it makes it's way around being used/shared/iterated upon just sends those royalty checks to the "creator" always, forever.
by hoistbypetard | 2026-01-25 17:08:48+00:00
I don't know about categories overall, but I'm attached to my iPad and won't switch to Android in part because Affinity is not available there, nor is there any near equivalent as far as I can tell.

I still think Overcast is nicer to use than Antenna Pod.

Microsoft Office apps work much better on iDevices, in my experience. (I know they exist for Android, but I've never had much luck editing there, where it actually works pretty nicely on iDevices.)

I don't game much, but my kids like gaming on iDevices much better than Android. (I have an Android tablet that I use for testing things, and they consistently reject it in favor of iPhone or iPad.)

Flowkey (music instruction app) works much better with my MIDI keyboard on iDevices than on Android (where it doesn't work and has to resort to microphone, which is buggy as hell).

I'm sure some of this is just a matter of the platform being more polished in general, but these are some apps that keep people in my house on iDevices despite having plenty of access to Android. The quality of the Youtube app doesn't move anyone, nor do the browsers.
by eigenspace | 2026-01-25 17:08:54+00:00
In March 2025, I sold most of my American stocks that were sitting in my Canadian TFSA from before I moved to Germany, and converted the cash to Euros which then went into a mixture of European stocks, and interest earning accounts.

While some of those American stocks saw some pretty good gains over the year that made me feel some FOMO, when you account for how much value the USD lost over that time period (and how well Rheinmetall performed), I definitely came out ahead. But I would have done it even if I had lost some money.

For me, this was mostly about insulating myself from Trump's erattic behaviour, and retaliating in my own very limited capacity for the threats he was making against Canada's sovereignty.
by boothby | 2026-01-25 17:09:00+00:00
Technically, if you're measuring surface area, it' important to remember that the earth is not a sphere. There's a bit of a paradox measuring shorelines: the shorter your ruler, the longer it gets, because you're able to capture more complex features. Pethaps the authors took an extremely precise measurement of the surface of Estonia, counting everything down to the sinus cavities of dogs sleeping in alleys...
by modeless | 2026-01-25 17:09:05+00:00
The security of the E2EE in Android's cloud backup system was audited by NCC group with the results published publicly. And as one of the most widely used messaging apps in the world, using a standardized protocol for E2EE, Google's Messages app has been studied by security researchers who almost certainly would have discovered this by now. OTOH, Apple's iMessage is documented to do non-E2EE backups that Apple can read.
by mlady | 2026-01-25 17:10:26+00:00
If you’re using AI tools now, congratulations, you’re early. If you use them and don’t give up on them, congratulations, you’re going to have a ridiculous, potentially insurmountable advantage in output moving forward compared to AI “doomers”.

We talk about vibe coding doomers and analogous technological revolutions. We are factory farming code now.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-25 17:10:29+00:00
The biggest differentiator is price. An entry level Android phone is about $300 while an iPhone is in the $1000 range. And to be honest, anything more than an entry level Android is luxury these days. I say that because that's what I have and I have never felt held down, except maybe for pictures, but it is good enough for my (lack of) skills as a photographer.

So, Android may actually benefit from a lack of differentiation: like iOS, for a third of the price seems like a good value proposition.
by thadk | 2026-01-25 17:11:00+00:00
this Nov video talks thru via Cursor renegotiation, how in important ways a token != a token (not even within types like reasoning, output, or a model) because attention can lead to expensive logic loops. https://www.oreilly.com/videos/live-with-tim/0642572259488/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXMO2dW0LI&list=PL055Epbe6d...
by Saline9515 | 2026-01-25 17:11:20+00:00
You are just arguing that Russia is applying censorship in a more harsher way than the EU, but the underlying negation of your self-proclaimed "values" is the same.

You cherry-pick an example: posting online or holding a sign with "Merz is a liar" would expose you to a lawsuit and jail. Just like saying the N word in private in France. You get jailed for crimes without a victim.

Each territory has forbidden speech: in many countries, for instance holocaust revisionism is forbidden and punished with jail sentences. It's tolerated to justify the murder of Palestinians, including in national media, of Jews, it isn't.

It's funny that you mention protests: French military police commonly kills or cripples protesters with semi-lethal weapons, and the government uses similar tactics as the Russian one to justify crackdowns (forbidding problematic protests).

The issue with such thinking is that, just as the frog in the kettle, the water will heat up and heat up as politicians increase their use of this very convenient tool, just like Putin did. Singapore is an advanced version of this, where problematic criticism of the government action is met with diffamation lawfare.

You can see this happening in Germany, with the drastic increase in lawsuits against the AFD, or diffamation against politicians. Same with the UK, which before was good example of spotless freedom of speech.

By the way, I hate to mention this but since you are German, I'd like to remind you that the Weimar republic had stringent hate speech laws and censorship. It didn't work at all. When will you start to learn?
by kyralis | 2026-01-25 17:11:26+00:00
Confirm/Cancel (like Yes/No) for dialog buttons has been known to be confusing and detrimental for decades now. The button names should always describe action to be taken, not a response to the text above.

My point is that the operator may be genuinely confused by a poor interaction model. Removing that interaction model entirely is certainly an option, but it's not clear that comparing "no dialog" vs "bad dialog" is a strong argument for "dialogs bad, better to have none" - you don't have data for the "good dialog" case, which may be better still.
by fallingfrog | 2026-01-25 17:11:31+00:00
Any equipment eventually fails. Designing it to fail safe- in a way that does not threaten the human operator- costs money. But a little warning message costs nothing and ensures that the human can be blamed when something goes wrong. The company can point to the message and say, "see, you should have known."

The message was never intended to help the human operator. It was intended to allow the company to avoid responsibility for cutting corners.

If the goal of the message was to communicate something important to the human operator, extraneous messages would be a serious problem. But if the goal is simply to cover the ass of the company, then extra error messages are not a problem at all. Thats why they never get fixed or pruned.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-25 17:11:35+00:00
Here’s a direct link to the tweet from the White House deputy communications director that said this, after being caught red handed altering photos to spread propaganda and lying to the public:

https://xcancel.com/Kaelan47/status/2014410500096856358

Even crazier is the reply further down on that post from the deputy press secretary, Abigail Jackson, making fun of people who debunked that post like Snopes:

https://xcancel.com/abigailmarone/status/2014411002561863790

It’s horrifying but shows that they’re completely shameless about lying. And shameless about being aggressive and obscene. You see this from the other people too like press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who regularly abuses journalists asking reasonable questions.

And more horrifying are all the accounts replying in support of this. That’s evidence of the hardcore MAGA base that’ll support Trump no matter what he does, I guess.
by armchairhacker | 2026-01-25 17:12:42+00:00
The victim has to paste the command to trigger the XSS, it doesn’t happen if they connect to the server.

From the linked issue:

> if their code includes any console.log statement that references any game object someone else has any control over, such as logging the name of someone else's creep, that's all an attacker needs to gain access.

So the user can be tricked in a less obvious way than “here, run `console.log(“<script>hackMe()</script>”)` to make your creeps move faster”, but they still must be tricked. In response to this post, the developers added `logUnsafe`, which doesn’t prevent the trick but makes it more obvious.

Personally, I side with the developers here. I liked that the article mentioned Screeps and even the RCE, but I don’t like the ranty tone; I’d rather read (with details) “here’s Screeps, here’s how you can be tricked to run an RCE if you’re not careful, the developers made it harder but still possible, never run untrusted code even in a video game”.
by tanelpoder | 2026-01-25 17:12:44+00:00
I went with an overkill approach at first (as I often do :-) and bought some expensive nicely designed "active chair" / stool that was adjustable high enough so that I could lean on it even when using my desk as a standing desk. It was interesting, but not a game changer at all for me. I don't use standing desks now at all.

But what I have now is this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FL3LY4

Just don't assemble the backrest at first. If sitting up straight, I just lean wrists on my keyboard wristpad and part of forearms on the desk, no armrests needed either.

Edit: I still use my height-adjustable standing desk, but now it's value is that I could adjust it for the perfect height for my sitting-up-straight position (so no chair armrests needed) and it's been fixed at that height for the last 7 years...
by secabeen | 2026-01-25 17:13:03+00:00
Slander and libel laws are complicated, but she should have a pretty good case:

- The defendant knew or should have know that he or she was making an untrue or defamatory statement about you. (Yes, they edited the photo.)

- The false statement must clearly identify you. (It's a clear photo.)

- The defendant must have spread the false information to at least one third party who is not the target. For a libel case, they must do so in print, and for a slander case, they must do so verbally. (They posted it on Social Media.)

- The false statement must have damaged your character in some way. (Probably? This is the hardest one, but it's reasonable that the message that a "Far-Left" agitator would cry when arrested, rather than being stoic and strong could cause damage to her reputation or character.

https://askalawlibrarian.nycourts.gov/legalresearch/faq/3677...
by vel0city | 2026-01-25 17:13:04+00:00
I think a lot of the smaller gas stations will slowly die off and we'll see continued growth of those kinds of fuel stations known for their food adopt EV charging as well and grow to offer food + energy whether that be gas or electric.

Buc-ees these days has tons of rows of EV charging, often both Tesla and Mercedes brands. I imagine we'll see a similar thing with other brands.
by GregarianChild | 2026-01-25 17:13:23+00:00
I would phrase it a little different.

Simplifying a bit, a compiler tr(.) translates from a source language L1 to a target language L2 such that

semantics(P) == semantics(tr(P))

for all programs in L1. In contrast, and again simplifying a bit, extraction extr(.) assumes not only language L1 and L2 as above, but, at least conceptually, also corresponding specification languages S1 and S2 (aka logics). Whenever P |= phi and extr(P, phi) = (P', phi') then not just

semantics(P) == semantics(P')

as in compilation, but also

semantics(phi) = semantics(phi'),

hence P' |= phi'.

I say "at least conceptually" above, because this specificatyion is often not lowered into a different logical formalism. Instead it is implied / assumed that if the extraction mechanism was correct, then the specification could also be lowered ...
by lizknope | 2026-01-25 17:14:07+00:00
If the change is under 1000 logic cells and no new flip flops then we do a it as an ECO. If there are tons of new flip flops we resynthesize and start over.

Lots of chips have metal spins to fix errors. The blank areas of the chips are filled with filler cells but most of them are special "ECOFILLER" cells that are basically generic pairs of N/P transistors like a gate array. These can then be turned into any kind of cell just by using metal. They are a little slower but work fine.

I've worked at one huge company where they planned 3 full base layer mask sets and 1-2 metal spins for each full base layer set. This was when doing a chip on a brand new process node where you couldn't always trust the models the fab gave you so you wanted more post silicon characterization to recalibrate models.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-25 17:14:09+00:00
Or simply that the current ICE and Border Patrol agents are too poorly trained to act as law enforcement.

Which, given the statistic that a decent percentage of ICE applicants can't get a passing score on an open book test [0] doesn't surprise me.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-is-reportedly-hiring-p...
by rdiddly | 2026-01-25 17:14:20+00:00
You presumably read the piece. There was no remedy. In fact the lavishly generous appreciation of all those complexities arguably is part of the reason there was no remedy. (Or vice versa, i.e. each person's foregone conclusion that there will be no remedy for whatever reason, might've later been justified/rationalized via an appeal to those complexities.)

The act itself, of saying something other than the truth, is always more complex than saying the truth. ← It took more words to describe the act in that very sentence. Because there are two ideas, the truth and not the truth. If the two things match, you have a single idea. Simple.

Speaking personally, if someone's very first contact with me is a lie, they are to be avoided and disregarded. I don't even care what "kind of person" they are. In my world, they're instantly declared worthless. It works pretty well. I could of course be wrong, but I don't think I'm missing out on any rich life experiences by avoiding obvious liars. And getting to the root cause of their stuff or rehabilitating them is not a priority for me; that's their own job. They might amaze me tomorrow, who knows. But it's called judgment for a reason. Such is life in the high-pressure world of impressing rdiddly.
by catketch | 2026-01-25 17:14:26+00:00
scam is a bit of hyperbole. also, ZEV has always explicitly referenced tailpipe emissions, which is also why there's been the odd sounding "partial zero emissions vehicle" category. It's certainly valid to be concerned about additional sources of fine particles, but eliminating engine emissions is not something to be dismissed as a scam.

Further, particle emission from brake dust is mitigated in EV's that use regen braking. One of my ev's can go days without phycical brake usage, and another uses the brake pads so infrequently it has an automatic mode to touch the discs occasionally just to keep them from building up rust.

tire particles --- different compounds can effect that, but will always be a side effect of tires on vehicles.
by oooyay | 2026-01-25 17:14:59+00:00
I think the point they're making is that the ICE cars that OP is complaining about also aren't supposed to be driven in a functional society. The difference is that mostly wealthy people can afford EVs: https://ampo.org/electric-vehicles-are-out-of-reach-for-most... thus they stay maintained and have a polished image.
by zahlman | 2026-01-25 17:15:21+00:00
LEO are also individuals who get due process rights. The law will generally require considering whether Y or Z happened if there's reason to suppose that it might have.

More importantly, when X is phrased in a way that implies intent or motives not in evidence, or plays up the injustice of X in legally irrelevant ways, that's reason to push back in an open Internet discussion.
by rdslw | 2026-01-25 17:15:31+00:00
Congrats on the app.

I'm seeing that "great-ai-unlock" is happening. I see in last month a lot of new software being codeveloped with claude/codex/gemini/you-name it.

Before, it was too costly to do sth like the Posture app: here, you would have to know Swift and apple apis to write such tool. Would you be C# (very good) programmer with free weekend, and an idea: no cookie for ya.

These days, due to "great-ai-unlock" your skills can be easily transferred and used to cross platforms boundary and code such useful app in a weekend or so.

Jevons paradox is indeed working (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox).
by whatevermom5 | 2026-01-25 17:15:39+00:00
This is the best solution. Actually, if you have money, in my experience, the best is to have an iPhone dedicated to that. Sometimes even on stock Android (Pixel 10 Pro) you get weird incompatibilities. E.g. trying to connect to a DJI drone, paying with Google Wallet, getting a train transit card in Japan… An iPhone supports all daily life use cases with predictability. So my solution right now is to have one iPhone where I keep things clean, and one Android where I do whatever I want. :)

(I do get the odd look when I take out my second phone to do something else in public and questions about it :))
by manuelmoreale | 2026-01-25 17:15:42+00:00
Not sure which one the parent was referring to but personalizing I've been using one of these for more than a decade at this point (I'm sitting on it right now) https://www.varierfurniture.com/en/products

The one I have does have a backrest but because of the way it's shaped you don't actually use it to slouch. It's more there to support when you lean back and want to take a break from typing or something like that.