MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EngineerUSA | 2026-01-29 03:12:27+00:00
If I ignore it, it is as if it never happened. Part of it is willful ignorance though. For Ross, he is deeply religious and views the security of Israel as that of the Jewish people (having a home to run away to if shit hits the fan). Children dying is a sacrifice he is willing to make. For the majority of America though, I believe they are a) either scared, because they saw a witch hunt orchestrated by people in power (like Ackman). If 3 female deans, many of them minorities, can get ousted at the whim of a billionaire, then the typical engineer or employee will be easily labeled antisemitic for defending those who are denied their rights to life and property, and will lose their job. Canary Mission and other groups are funded by successful billionaires like Ackman, Adelsons etc and harass students on campuses for protesting. They doxx them, blacklist them (no boss will hire someone on those letters, at the expense of being labeled an antisemite, and you are in it for a suprise once you notice how many of our tech companies and finance sectors are run by religious sociopaths). I know a few victims of those efforts. Interestingly, 90% of them are white middle class, and I think they are mostly women. Their courage is to be admired. Or b) people are okay with it, because Ghaza is so far away and because of Israel's blockade on the media covering ghaza (Israel has already killed more journalists last year than all other nations combined btw. I do not know of any democracy that does this).
by gedy | 2026-01-29 03:13:40+00:00
You are right, but I think at the moment, a lot of people are confusing "software engineering" with "set up my react boilerplate with tailwind and unit tests", and AI just is way better for that sort of rote thing.

I've never felt comfortable with the devs who just want some Jira ticket with exactly what to do. That's basically what AI/LLMs can do pretty well.
by LPisGood | 2026-01-29 03:14:59+00:00
> Financial analysis is not easier than programming. You don't feed in numbers, turn a crank, and get out correct answers

It’s not, but if software engineering is solved then of course so is financial analysis, because a program could be written to do it. If the program is not good enough, then software engineering is not solved.

I think this what you were getting at with this part, but it’s not clear to me, because it seems like you were disagreeing with my thesis: “ because AI can write 1000 programs to do 1000 different things, it doesn't mean that we can write the million other programs that do a million other things”

I’m not sure if you’re saying that people weren’t using computers to solve problems before, but that’s pretty much everything they do. Some people were specifically trained to make computers solve problems, but if computers can solve X problem without a programmer, then both the computer programmer and the X problem solver are replaced.
by cj | 2026-01-29 03:15:34+00:00
If that's the case, the winner will likely be cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) who do compliance and enterprise very well.

If Open Source can keep up from a pure performance standpoint, any one of these cloud providers should be able to provide it as a managed service and make money that way.

Then OpenAI, Anthropic, etc end up becoming product companies. The winner is who has the most addictive AI product, not who has the most advanced model.
by furyofantares | 2026-01-29 03:15:46+00:00
I didn't use my skills really to guide it, beyond knowing what test suite exists, and knowing it could reliably port a good HTML/CSS parser (to golang).

I burned through a week of codex max subscription quota with it making slow progress. Slower than I wanted, but consistent slow progress. Not long after though it hit a brick wall and the second week+ of quota did not really make much progress. It can churn for hours and get one test working, or churn for hours and fail.

I might give it a go with more guidance, because I actually really would like an html/css renderer with some specific properties about how I interact with it from code.
by mcdeltat | 2026-01-29 03:16:32+00:00
On one hand I can see where you can draw this argument from. But on the other hand I don't think daily consumption of the huge quantity of news that exists is necessary for having a decent political opinion, especially given that most news is inflammatory junk (at least in my country). I just don't need a 5 page breakdown of every single event that some corpo decided to shove down our throats.

Also - and maybe I'm naive for this - I don't really need news to inform my political opinion because the current state of affairs is so far from my ideal world. Like no matter what could reasonably occur in the news, I still know who I'm voting for on polling day.
by alterom | 2026-01-29 03:17:46+00:00
> Does no one care that this is potentially a murder case?

I'd say, a very low chance of murder, and a near-certainty of at least manslaughter (unintentional killing), with a zero chance of prosecution due to lack of evidence.

Plus, I hardly see any value of jailing any of the caregivers for this. Whether an investigation should be made, I don't disagree.
by FilosofumRex | 2026-01-29 03:18:20+00:00
> 1. Cuts were global 2. Cuts in US also include H1B employees

Hell no, Amazon has been a top 10 filer of H1-B LCAs for decades. The only H1-Bs being laid off, if any, are the older ones (over 39) to be replaced with cheaper models
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS8LNhxJq9Q
by brikym | 2026-01-29 03:18:20+00:00
That automation will be owned by a few and they're known for avoiding taxes not supporting something like a UBI. The masses a mostly likely to be kept busy watching propaganda on Tiktok not painting.

Food continues to go downhill the more agritech progresses and the planets population grows. Proteins are replaced by carbs with savoury flavouring, fats are replaced by thickeners etc. Eating good food like a good cut of steak requires out bidding other people which requires income.
by digiown | 2026-01-29 03:18:48+00:00
Meh, I'm ok with not having root on my phone. What I'm not ok with is not being able to flash whatever I want to run on it later without unlocking and wiping. For this reason I have an automated script to verify Graphene's signatures and replace them with my own. This would give me the ability to extract data using root at a later date, for example.
by SJC_Hacker | 2026-01-29 03:19:03+00:00
> Software Development as a field is strange: it can only produce value when it is used to make production of real goods more efficient. We can use AI to cut out bureaucratic work, which then means that all that is left is real work: craftsmanship, relationship building, design, leadership.

Thats a really odd take. Software is merely a way of ingesting data and producing information. And information often has intrinsic value. This can scale from simple things like minor annoyances of forgetting your umbrella, to avoiding deaths/millions of dollars in losses due to ships sinking in storms.

Now the long term value of software does approach zero, because it can usually be duplicated quite easily.
by bandrami | 2026-01-29 03:19:58+00:00
The recipe to Coca Cola is not copyrighted (recipes in general can't be) but is protected by trade secret laws, which can notionally last forever.

The recipe also isn't that much of a secret, they read it on the air on a This American Life episode and the Coca Cola spokesperson kind of shrugged it off because you'd have to clone an entire industrial process to turn that recipe into a recognizable Coke.
by mmh0000 | 2026-01-29 03:20:10+00:00
Foobar2000 is ... tricky through WINE. Though I will proudly say that I did it, it took a lot of research into obscure wine configs. These are my notes from last time I did it, maybe you'll find them helpful:

```bash
export WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/.wine-foobar2000
winetricks allfonts
for packg in vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 vcrun2012 vcrun2013 vcrun2015 vcrun2017 vcrun2019 vcrun2022; do winetricks -q $packg; done
winecfg # Set Windows version to 11
```
by josephg | 2026-01-29 03:21:06+00:00
A few years ago my laptop died while I was travelling. I was going to back to back tech conferences - and not having a computer would be a disaster. So, I went to best buy and picked up a brand new $500 HP laptop. It was running windows 11 or 10 or something - whatever was current at the time. And a recent enough intel CPU and 4gb of ram. It was way faster than my desktop machine from 10 years earlier. I figured it'd be plenty fast enough.

Nope. The experience was just rubbish. Out of the box, the machine was incredibly slow. It would get warm to the touch while sitting idle, and the battery would die in about 45 minutes. I quickly figured out there was some HP audio process running all the time to do noise cancellation on input from the microphone. For some reason it was active all the time, and it needed about 30% of a core to do its thing. So I got rid of that. But windows explorer was still slow... of course, it was some HP antivirus rootkit program preinstalled doing who knows what. I spent hours clearing crap off that machine. Anything with HP in the name, to start. It probably would have been faster to reinstall windows completely, but I didn't want to do that from a hotel room over wifi.

By the time I was done, it was ... ok. The machine still lagged when you opened programs for some reason. But the battery life went up to 3-4 hours, and it was fast enough I could get work done.

I think about that laptop a lot. Imagine all the people who buy those laptops. What % will spend the hours it took to clear the crapware off them? I can easily imagine my mother buying a laptop like that and just assuming that's how fast computers are.

I think this might be the #1 benefit for regular people to buying a mac. When you buy a computer from apple, there's no 3rd party who installed a bunch of crap on the computer before you got your hands on it. The only people who install crap software are Apple. And as much as I hate apple's greedy background processes, they tend to pause while you're running on battery.

> You can repro this on demo Surface laptops at Costco.

Never underestimate how much bloatware is running on that costco laptop. Open up task manager. You'll see.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-29 03:21:44+00:00
Since most of these ADS-B collection sites are patchworks of unofficial/best effort, that seems like a great attack vector for nation state-level spoofing to interrupt flight planning, capacity planning, other tertiary air transport operations, and make civilians nervous. It's analogous to "hobby" code running key infrastructure of the internet without serious processes and auditing, testing, and verification.

It would be far better and more reliable to have the FAA do it by providing authoritative single source of truth as (selectively) open data rather than depend upon the whims / greed / sloppiness of an over-privatized utility. ATCs need and/or have this data anyhow, so in the future, it should be provided.

How do less neoliberal European countries do it?
by 0dayz | 2026-01-29 03:21:48+00:00
All your post is showing is that you haven't watched the video.

So at least stop lying and spreading an alternative fantasy world.

On top of this you didn't answer the question: is now any person killed by an officer justified if they got a legal gun on them?

There is no gun shot before the ice office opens fire in any of the 5 different angles of footage we got.

And not only that you change the story midway, first it was heard a gun shit now it's being shot at.

And the guy shooting clearly saw the gun as it was right next to him.

The mental gymnastics you display is worthy of Olympic gold I'll give you that.
by jerlam | 2026-01-29 03:21:49+00:00
Yes, flagship models aren't intended to be good sellers. They often are where new features are tested out on customers willing to overpay to be early adopters. Tesla did test out the new steering yoke and removing the control stalks in the S: both features were met with tepid reception and partially rolled back. This is also bad for the 3 and Y, since there will be low confidence in any changes before they are released.
by Animats | 2026-01-29 03:22:17+00:00
I struggled with this in Wine. "malloc" type memory allocation involves at least two levels of spinlocks. When you do a "realloc", the spinlocks are held during the copying operation. If you use Vec .push in Rust, you do a lot of reallocs.
In a heavily multithreaded program, this can knock performance down by more than two orders of magnitude. It's hard to reproduce this with a simple program; it takes a lot of concurrency to hit futex congesion.

Real Windows, and Linux, don't have this problem. Only Wine's "malloc" in a DLL, which does.

Bug reports resulted in finger-pointing and denial.[1] "Unconfirmed", despite showing debugger output.

[1] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54979
by EngineerUSA | 2026-01-29 03:22:19+00:00
Sudan is a civil war. Ghaza is a genocide orchestrated by one group against another. It is completely different. The Syrian civil war claimed 500k lives. Civil wars are different and more complicated. In Ghaza, the bad actors are clear though. One of them is rightfully labeled for their war crimes. The other enjoys white house visits and the support of billionaires (Ackman), a diaspora that would excuse murder and cover for it. Just listen to bari Weiss, or those influencers that in Netanyahu's own words, must spread israeli propaganda at all costs. In a fair world, the israeli gov and the militias in ghaza would both be side by side at the Hague or in Guatanamo. The world does not work that way, for some are more equal than others, when rich backers in the West would put Israel first, and America and the free world last
by necovek | 2026-01-29 03:22:44+00:00
I believe everybody understands that a percentage means exactly that.

But if you account for minimum living expenses M, if you are under M, 30% of M is "more" than if you are at 10x M for the quality of your life. What scheme is "fair" is harder to figure out, though.

Yes, I object to that type of language too, but let's not ignore the context.
by VladVladikoff | 2026-01-29 03:24:00+00:00
I send over 1M transactional (user opt in only) emails per day for one of my websites. We have to be pretty strict how we handle bounces and complaints or it can tarnish our sending rep. Sometimes people accidentally flag mail as spam, or maybe their client does, or maybe their server does, and this comes back to us as a complaint. Under the ToS of my email gateway I must stop sending to that address until the user updates their email.
There is a lot of assumptions in this post about tracking pixels etc, without any concrete evidence. The truth could be far simpler.
by defrost | 2026-01-29 03:24:04+00:00
* yes, but payment after the fact doesn't count.

* "amateaur" meaning independantly wealthy, or supported by patron or state.

It's rare to see a kid from the lowest demographics on the gymnast team unless they've been scouted and picked up by a state or national institute.

Similarly horse racing is about the fastest horse with a certified pedigree.

It's about the bloodline, the trainers, the owners, and not about a Waler that can run four miles into a machine gun nest.
by milch | 2026-01-29 03:24:26+00:00
I'm not sure where you're getting that from in my comment. I never said US citizens should want H1Bs for everyone with zero vetting, only that they are a net tax positive.

It's not a dichotomy of maintaining the status quo or getting rid of H1b completely. At least in big tech companies, they do follow labor market tests and prevailing wage tests and so on that are designed to vet that there is an unmet need and that visa holders aren't underpaid. I won't deny there are visa mills and consultancies that game the system and pretty much explicitly just hire cheap foreign labor, but this is a thread about H1B in the context of Amazon layoffs, not InfoSys layoffs.
by an0malous | 2026-01-29 03:24:48+00:00
> How many children are dying/starved/killed in the sudan war? Why don't these same protests make the same kind of statements for that?

Because the United States isn't funding and supplying the weapons for that atrocity, and we don't have American congressman and presidents visiting Sudan to pay homage, or have US officials saying "Sudan first" and "Sudan is our greatest ally" and putting the Sudanese flag in their offices. The US president's son-in-law isn't pitching investors on buying beachfront property in Sudan.

> is very specifically socially engineered imho - because there's an actor behind it with purpose

Who do you think is socially engineering these protests and how? There's far more evidence that Israel is manipulating public perceptions, but they're failing at it because there are too many alternative sources of media to control them all now.
by gcr | 2026-01-29 03:24:57+00:00
The current administration is “rejecting the idea of electric cars out of stubbornness or politics.” See: Trump moving to withhold funding for EV chargers, terminating EV mandates and government support, etc. I don’t know what Musk is thinking by supporting this administration so steadfastly as they work hard to undermine his own efforts and initiatives.
by baby_souffle | 2026-01-29 03:25:14+00:00
> The fact that you do not have to pull a card or even your phone could make the transaction faster.

My watch was already there for those situations where literal seconds matter.

Ironically, they were 'retrofitted' onto the payment terminals at the local whole-foods. They used the same "magnetic stripe simulator" tech that samsung was shipping in their phones for a few years about a decade ago.

If you had jumped through the hoops to set it up to associate a palm print with payment details, the system is still just swiping a virtual card in the payment terminal which is objectively less secure than the chip/nfc that has more or less replaced the old mag stripes.
by rekabis | 2026-01-29 03:25:42+00:00
America in the 1950s had a 90% tax on the top tier. No-one of consequence fled the country.

No matter how you tax, the asset-owning class is almost guaranteed to remain in place, because the vast majority of their assets are physical, and cannot be easily moved except at much greater expense than any tax.

I mean, if offshoring took 75 years to achieve, what makes you think that any member of the Parasite Class will be able to pack up and leave within a decade, much less a half decade?

It costs ridiculously insane amounts of money to move a business down the street, and you’re keeping the same employees, and not re-training an entirely new batch of replacements in the new location.

About the only “asset” that can “leave” with anything approaching sub-decade immediacy are the purely digital ones, with a business that is 100% Internet-based and without any physical assets of any kind, where you can spin up a new offshore server and migrate the services to it with just a few mouse clicks.

And those are vanishingly few in number. Most so-called “Internet companies” still have oodles of physical assets, from offices (where return-to-office mandates force employees back into) to land to physical servers sitting in data centres.

And in the end, we have the most telling question: what is the difference with the wealthy leaving due to a tax, and failing to implement that tax in the first place?

NOTHING.

There are no downsides, only upsides. Either they leave and open up room for another entrepreneur to thrive in that spot, or they stay and pay the tax.

Either way, nothing of value is lost by wealth taxation.
by FilosofumRex | 2026-01-29 03:26:35+00:00
> want the loopholes on H1Bs to be closed. H1B is a great concept...

There are no loopholes on H1B, it's working exactly as it was intended - replace, not just supplement - American workers with cheaper, more obedient tech slave workers dependent of their master-employer for their survival.

The talent visa is called O-1 not H1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=envbbUc4LhU
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-29 03:28:13+00:00
This is fantasy land.

Yeah, a rural farmer who’s never exposed to AI except when it made it possible for her to communicate with someone visiting the farm who dint speak the same languages isn’t worried about AI.

But policy makers, technologists, economists, the elite abs other educated people aware of more than the basics of AI are all concerned about its impacts.
by jcparkyn | 2026-01-29 03:28:15+00:00
In the programs I write probably about 80-90% of variables are immutable, and I think this probably corresponds to most other code. Except in certain domains and programming styles, not that much stuff tends to need mutability.

This is why the syntax "encourages" immutability by making it the easiest option (similar to e.g. Rust, F#). On the other hand, if it was an extra keyword nobody would use it (e.g. like Java).
by zbentley | 2026-01-29 03:28:33+00:00
> why not tax the military?

Narrowly: because they're a utility funded by taxes, not an independent entity benefiting from tax-funded infrastructure. Having a military for defense/power projection/whatnot is one of the infrastructural benefits of being part of a state (and one of the things that a company that grows in that state "owes" the state tax money for--whether that's owed on growth or just capital).

Like, do I personally think my country's military should have a vastly different funding profile, incentives, and behavior? Absolutely. But that doesn't change the fundamental dynamic: $state provides $thing (security, clean water, cheap gas, whatever) that makes being in $state good for many people, people who do well financially within $state owe it money back on the basis that their doing well is at least partially a result of $thing being available to them.

> Any investor or entrepreneur would be a fool to invest in making a big company.

Not true. A growth tax need not be a 100% tax, so growth would still be an advantageous thing to do. Many countries have tax brackets today; that doesn't discourage people from getting rich.
by Fnoord | 2026-01-29 03:28:55+00:00
This is why I went with a Hackberry Pi CM5 [1]. I insert the CM5 I want to, and there's that.

It comes with a good, proven BB keyboard. No option for GPIO pins or gamepad module, but I don't need such anyway. Instead, what I have in it is a USB hub which fits nicely in the side.

Unfortunately, the RPi CM I had lying around were CM4 with eMMC or CM5 w/o WiFi/BT. So I bought a new CM5, with 16 GB RAM. That was end of last summer. I'm not sure I'd bother now, given the RAM prices which surely affected CM5 prices. Actually, I should probably sell those for profit, since they're not doing anything.

[1] https://github.com/ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5
by acdha | 2026-01-29 03:29:07+00:00
In 2001, there were a ton of non-dotcom jobs where big companies, non-profits, governments, etc. wanted to move online for the real benefits it offered but had struggled to lure people away from bubble money. The people I knew who were laid off got jobs pretty quickly once they were looking outside of SF startups—not always the same money, but sometimes better and never much worse, and still building relevant career experience.

The market is mature now, and most sectors of the economy are getting hammered at the same time: tariffs have most industries cautious about new commitments if they aren’t already cutting, academia is reeling from grants being rescinded, large chunks of federal spending are gone or frozen, and state/local governments are getting less federal funding at the same time everything else is affecting tax revenue and increasing demand for social services. With so much uncertainty affecting the entire economy, you hear from people who have hundreds of interviews because even established companies in stable industries are unsure what tomorrow will look like after the next whim of an unstable octogenarian.