MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dworks | 2026-01-20 13:22:52+00:00
A few times in my life I have found job opportunities that would have been my dreamjob and I was uniquely qualified due to a cross-disciplinary background, previous experience and education, language skills and such. I was an SME with technical skills and I had so much knowledge of the company's products, industry and competitors that I could have done their marketing strategy and product strategy in a couple of weeks. Maybe it wouldn't all have been correct from the start, but I had so much knowledge that I could have done this by heart.

I spent a lot of time on targeted applications for these places, re-doing my CV and spending weeks iterating on my cover letter. I never heard back from any of those places.

Instead I've been hired into industries I knew nothing about. Sure, I was a decent candidate, but I was just another candidate. This has worked out fine.

Why did these places hire me and not the others? Because they were growing so they had a need to hire. The former places did not.

So for me the only real advice is to apply to places that are growing. When places are growing and really need to hire to expand, all the bullshit in the process is eliminated. Decisions are made fast. It's easier and more pleasant.
by oliwarner | 2026-01-20 13:23:06+00:00
The generous explanation is that Russia could be a cheap mineral supplier. That a destabilised West strengthens the offerings of US to its neighbours. That domestic xenophobia forces domestic hiring, manufacturing, job creation.

But historically, he apes Putin's strongman routine. He wants to be him. Bibi too. Too powerful to be prosecuted.

He's got a few years left, doesn't give a shit, and knows he can strip mine the US for his family before he goes.
by spidermonkey23 | 2026-01-20 13:23:16+00:00
I had a go at finding a launcher that suits my preferences, and ended up back to square 1, the native launcher on Samsung Oneui. the killer feature is stackable widgets so you can reduce the real estate used for each one.

That said,my other top picks are :
Lawnchair +Lawnicons
YAM Launcher (foss and minimal)
Fossify launcher beta (bare bones typical launcher).
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-20 13:24:21+00:00
There's a massive industry built around this on YT, exemplified by the OP's post about his parents. To a first-order approximation, every story with a theme of "X does sexist/racist/ageist/abusive thing to Y and then gets their comeuppance" on YouTube is AI-generated clickbait. The majority of the "X does nice thing for Y and gets a reward or surprise" dating from the last year or two are also AI-generated clickbait, but far more of the former. Outrage gets a lot more clicks than compassion.
by tootie | 2026-01-20 13:24:29+00:00
I am kinda the same only I'm not clear how the author describes useful. Being useful to my team, my employer my clients is ok but a lot of my career has been building software for businesses I did not understand and sometimes actively disliked. I'm unofficially retired after 25+ years in industry and look back at a spotty record of building anything lasting and positive. I had plenty of great teams and received praise for being effective at delivery but honestly it feels hollow in retrospect.
by nobleach | 2026-01-20 13:24:44+00:00
Yup, agents LOVE Tailwind+ShadCN. Even when I've explicitly told them not to use it, it still creeps in. There's a lot of prior art out on GitHub and LLMs can't help themselves. FWIW, the result does tend to look nice enough. For a POC I can't complain. If I'm really going to roll up my sleeves and get into the code though? I don't think I'd enjoy all of it.
by incomingpain | 2026-01-20 13:25:27+00:00
If the USA sent 100,000 troops to Greenland. 2 soldier per person there. That's not an invasion; the usa has an unrestricted military treaty. They can legally do any military thing they please. So you can ignore any military reasoning for why the USA needs Greenland. This is purely about economics and not really getting all that involved with their politics.

I have no say or influence over whether Greenland becomes part of the usa. For significantly less money than what the USA has sent ukraine, they could could give 100,000$/person to those in greenland for the purchase. Not to mention that afterwards Greenland probably ends up one of the wealthiest places in the world per capita; assuming not a significant change in population.

What's even crazier, the USA budget for this purchase is more like $9 million/person, they'll hold out for much more than $100,000/person but it will happen because the bigger picture for why the usa must have greenland is that vietnam and brazil arent going to join. If Greenland doesnt go to the USA, the USA will be forced to invade Canada. Obviously that means annexing greenland with military is an option.

What's crazy to me, Canada holds the cards for Greenland. Making a deal with Trump would defuse the entire issue.
by syntaxing | 2026-01-20 13:25:39+00:00
Huh? 3D printers haven been cheap and reliable for a while now. You can get an Bambulab A1 mini for $200 USD and it’s a work horse. If things break, get a new part online from them and it’s usually plug and play. I’m north of a thousand hours on my P1S and it’s still going strong.
by supermatt | 2026-01-20 13:26:05+00:00
In the example they are just using an empty <RadioGroup.Indicator/> for the pip as it is easy to target with a classname, but you can put any content in there instead for e.g. card-style radios (as used for complex selections, like a subscription tier).

By using radix, the underlying behaviour is compliant and identical for each of those implementations - you just change the content. Radix isn't looking at it like an html radio element, it is looking at it as a completely unstyled unique item selector.

The pseudo-element styling approach limits you to 3 layers - the container, and the 2 pseudo elements, none of which you can provide with meaningful content besides plain text. The best you can do is provide a basic styles and set background image. For anything else you need to use labels to either wrap the radio (in which case you can access state via sibling selectors) and/or ref them with "for" (in which case you cant access the state).
by simiones | 2026-01-20 13:26:41+00:00
> we perceive as Dark Energy in our 4D world

This is a bit of a technicality, but we don't live in a 4D world, we live in a 3+1D world - the 3 spacial dimensions are interchangeable, but the 1 time-related dimension is not interchangeable with the other three (the metric is not commutative).

I'm bringing this up because a lot of people seem to think that time and space are completely unified in modern physics, and this is very much not the case.
by 4ggr0 | 2026-01-20 13:26:53+00:00
Sports Betting Scandals have been a thing for probably almost as long as sports exist, i don't get why you think that this was a thoughtcrime 10 years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_betting#Famous_betting_...

wouldn't surprise me to find out that even cavemen were manipulating outcomes of stone-throwing contests to earn some more meat.
by pear01 | 2026-01-20 13:27:32+00:00
Sorry but you're just wrong, and shockingly so.

"In democracies, they are just protesters protected against the retaliation by laws and constitutions"

This is a mind numbing statement to make in context. What do you think the civil rights fight was about? You think black people marching around freely in the pre civil rights South were treated as "just protestors"? You realize for a long time the Constitution outrightly failed to protect people who were black, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches#%2...

This is just one example. And sorry, it was part of their philosophy that exposing the country to this brutality would awaken the conscience of the nation. As it eventually did. That meant accepting the police brutality they knew was waiting for them. You are simply wrong, and frankly again, shockingly so.

1. Don't seem to understand the nature of civil disobedience - disobedience being a key word here.

2. Don't seem to understand how engaging in civil disobedience invites severe consequences - especially in the face of an aggressive state. We aren't just talking criminal penalties we are talking risk to life and limb.

3. Don't seem to understand the nature of nonviolence - it wasn't just about not being violent. It was about exposing the barbarity of the state as they attacked nonviolent people not responding even remotely in kind.

4. Don't seem to understand the nature of democracies in reality. Engaging in outright fiction re how democracies treat protestors vs autocracies, as if there is some obvious invisible line. Apparently ignorant of the fact that especially in King's time, protestors rights were often not protected by local authorities in the South.

5. Don't seem to understand that's kind what the entire movement was about, rights for me but not for thee.

I was kind of expecting this response given it was the only logical rejoinder after your previous statements, but it rests on a real misstatement and misunderstanding of the facts that even though was anticipated, is still disappointing.

Democracies can abuse protestors too. Always have, always will. It's why the founders feared the people's temptation for mobs as well as tyrants.

Have a good day
by regularfry | 2026-01-20 13:27:52+00:00
It's in the ollama library at q4_K_M, which doesn't quite fit on my 4090 with the default context length. But it only offloads 8 layers to the CPU for me. I'm getting usable enough token rates. That's probably the easiest way to get it. Not tried it with vllm but if it proves good enough to stick with then I might give it a try.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-20 13:28:01+00:00
The 80-bit format was included in the IEEE standard since the beginning.

The IEEE standard had included almost all of what Intel 8087 had implemented, the main exception being the projective extension of the real number line. Because of this deviation in the standard, Intel 80387 has also dropped this feature.

Where you are right is that most other implementers of the standard have chosen to not provide this extended precision format, due to the higher cost in die area, power consumption and memory usage, the latter being exacerbated by the alignment issue. The same was true for Intel when defining SSE, SSE2 and later ISA extensions. The main cost issue is the superlinear growth of the multiplier size with precision, a 64-bit multiplier is not a little bigger than a 53-bit multiplier, but much bigger.

Nowadays, the FP arithmetic standard also includes 128-bit floating-point numbers, which are preferable to 80-bit numbers and do not have alignment problems. However, few processors implement this format in hardware, and on the processors where it would need to be implemented in a software library one can obtain a higher performance by using double-double precision numbers, instead of quadruple precision numbers (unless there is a risk of overflow/underflow in intermediate results, when using the range of double-precision exponents).

In general, on the most popular CPUs, e.g. x86-64 based or Aarch64 based, one should use a double-double precision library for all the arithmetic computations where the traditional 80-bit Intel 8087 format would have been appropriate.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-01-20 13:28:57+00:00
I dislike the macho framing of much of this, talk of trade "weapons" and "striking back".

It more like a friend having a schizo episode and trying to help them. And now they've pulled a knife.

Yes that's an escalation and needs responded to in a new way for your own security, but it's not a cage match to be cheered on. It's a sad situation where everyone is losing for no good reason.
by rahoulb | 2026-01-20 13:29:12+00:00
That's the demand for GROWTH.

They've hit the limits of iPhone sales - and upgrade cycles are slowing. Hardware products in general are "streaky" - ie. demand and sales drop in the period after a new product is released, so how often can you produce a new version and what happens if that new version isn't a hit?

Whereas subscriptions provide recurring revenue. And services, in general, can bring in more money without an equivalent increase in costs.

I recently read "Apple in China" and one of the things I hadn't realised is how many people at Apple came from IBM under Tim Cook's reign. What he's done for Apple is turn them into a predictable, consistent, revenue machine.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-20 13:29:30+00:00
Still, browsing the Skoda website, I see Skoda offering lane assist for 450 to 750 euros (one is a "plus" version for some reason), a "headlight assist" for 990 euros, and CarPlay/Android Auto support for 450 euros. 250 euros for heated seats, 350 for adding a phone charging port, 800 euros for satnav, 150 euros for a plastic tray between the seats. That is, of course, after selecting one of six "editions" of the same model that all come with different extras for a markup of several thousand.

The equivalent BYD comes with all of that included for free in the cheapest SKU. The biggest differentiator is that the heated seats are only available in BYD's most luxury version of the car, but the most luxury option is still 22% cheaper than the Skoda with equivalent options. BYD does charge more for a lick of paint, to be fair, so if you're looking for a specific colour you may pay a little more.

Perhaps BMW and Mercedes are worse at this, but the 150 euro plastic tray with cup holder says everything that needs to be said.
by vee-kay | 2026-01-20 13:29:52+00:00
When your ICE vehicle breaks down on the highway, you can get it towed and repaired at any half-decent car mechanic. If you don't like his cost quote or his service/repairs, you can get your car taken elsewhere (usually the mechanic can get it running in a short while, unless it is a major breakage problem) for a second opinion or service/repairs.

When your EV breaks down, you won't even bother to get it towed, because the only ones who can repair it are the (very expensive) showroom of the car manufacturer you bought it from, or their authorized (and very expensive) service center (and those will be very few of them in a city, and forget about getting such EV Service centers in the suburbs or rural areas). And you have to accept whatever cost quote and dependencies (additional upgrades to "fix" the "issue") he specifies. Good luck trying to figure it out or getting a second opinion, unless you have an EV industry expert as a friend or family member.

The EVs are white elephants. They look good while they last. But once they start breaking down, you will be paying through your nose just to keep it ticking along.

Whereas that 30-years old ICE car of your grandpa? That rustbucket can be repaired (eventually to full functionality and best looks) in your home garage by you and family/friends if you have the knowhow (or want to learn it), and can afford the time and spare parts cost (which are affordable for middle class, except if it is a vintage car or sports/luxury car).

EVs will be the deathknell for the hobbyist market and small-scale auto shops.

And don't even get me started on how easily and dangerously EVs can be hacked/hijacked by hackers.
Show HN: Tycostream – turn Materialize views into real-time GraphQL APIs
by chrisanderson85 | 2026-01-20 13:30:15+00:00
Hey HN,

What is it: A GraphQL server that turns Materialize (materialize.com) views into real-time APIs.

Key features:

Real-time subscriptions: Expose views as GraphQL subscriptions with Hasura-style filters.

Event triggers: Define conditions that fire webhooks when data changes

Fast configuration: YAML config -> GraphQL APIs.

Why I built it: I was exploring whether Materialize could power a financial markets UI, and found getting data to the front-end was the hardest part.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-20 13:30:35+00:00
>Would you agree that fictional stories about how blacks want to and commit rape and murder are fine?

"Fine" in what sense?

>Is it OK to 'grok' out simulated undressings of small children because the image technically no longer depict them and instead are fantasy?

Why would it not be OK? There is nobody being harmed.
by lime66 | 2026-01-20 13:30:38+00:00
Quick start (macOS):

- brew tap coni-ai/coni

- brew install --cask coni

Demos:

- Search latest news → generate a website: https://youtu.be/94HyUKrR1nA

- Book an event on calendar: https://youtu.be/nWBmBheGRqQ
by account42 | 2026-01-20 13:31:16+00:00
> That's assuming one cares about "attribution" and "people following other links on your site". I.e. that's still being a salesman, maybe with extra steps.

No, it's called being part of a community.

Soup kitchens provide free food without requiring anything in return. That doesn't make it OK for you to take as much as you can get and resell it.

> In the alternative case, no value is being taken, you're left exactly with what you had before - nothing gained, nothing lost - but some user somewhere gains a little. Apparently even in 2026, the concept of positive-sum exchange, is unfathomable to so many.

It's not a positive sum exchange. The community is what is lost.
by mejutoco | 2026-01-20 13:31:20+00:00
> I know people love to make UIs stateless and functional. But they just aren’t. IMO UIs are fundamentally a bunch of state, graphically represented. So naturally all of the functional frameworks are full of escape hatches.

Functional does not mean no state, just constraining state to inputs and outputs. Breaking that is a choice, and not good design.

Elm, for example, provides all of that with one escape hatch: ports. It is really well-defined and that not fall into any of the impossibilities you mention.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-20 13:31:22+00:00
"New spaces for trade and natural resource extraction" doesn't sound like "unbelievably, stupendously critical to US security" to me.

As for conflict, what? The US already has military bases there and the only threat to continued military access to the area is that the US is acting like a fucking two year old and pissing off all of its allies.

And imagine the worst case scenario. The US loses access to the land and sea in the entire region. How specifically does this dramatically change US security? Is a naval invasion launched from Greenland actually a thing people are worried about? Surely a better approach to maintain US security is, you know, a stable global order and military alliances with other powerful nations in the region?
by poulpy123 | 2026-01-20 13:31:23+00:00
Their cheapest iPhone in my country is 719€, the cheapest Google pixel is 399€, the cheapest Samsung Galaxy is 149€. I can install firefox with addons from the play store. I can still for now install whatever software I want on my android phone. If I'm not happy with an android brand I can switch with minimal effort to another brand next time. So no, iPhone are not superior to the competition on all situations
by self_awareness | 2026-01-20 13:31:26+00:00
Git history doesn't explain it unfortunately

https://github.com/soc/soc.me/blame/main/assets/js/turnBack....

Although, when we inspect author's profile on lobste.rs, we'll see that he's banned:

https://lobste.rs/~soc [Banned 4 years ago by pushcx: Troll.]

Maybe he's banned from HN as well. And this 'undesirables' is a method of taking some kind of revenge.
by risyachka | 2026-01-20 13:31:27+00:00
>> But despite all that, I’m still having a blast

This is proves its mostly over for the high income industry.

There are no good paying jobs where you are having a blast. Otherwise there is a lot of those who want to do that job which drives wages waay down.

High paying jobs are tough/stressful/not fun. Which was the case with software before.
by n4r9 | 2026-01-20 13:31:43+00:00
I wrote a long answer, but I realised that even advanced C users are unlikely to have memorised every possible value of errno and what they all mean when fopen errors. There's just no point as you can easily look it up. You can understand that there is a maximum allowable number of opened files without remembering what exact value errno will have in this case.
by Loudergood | 2026-01-20 13:32:05+00:00
Like me, you're not buying new cars on that budget anyway.
6 years ago when my ICE car became unreliable I bought a used Chevy Bolt for less than $20k. They're closer to $10k now. Plenty of range.

People aren't being asked to dump their current reliable vehicles.

What we want is for people to think about EVs when it's time to replace them.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-20 13:32:39+00:00
> Modern cars are far more reliable than old 'analogue' cars ...

Define "modern". My 1988 Porsche 911 Carrera is now 38 years old (and I own it since 1999, it used to be my daily back in the day). It's considered one of the most reliable car ever built. Mine is sure still running strong and, well, we have to wait until year 2064 (I'll be long gone I guess) to see if any modern car proves as reliable.

Also: there are still Porsche 356 from the 1950s on the road. They do rust a lot (body had no treatment against rust back then) but many are still in working condition. Mechanic and bodyshops know how to keep these on the road. If after 38 years my 911 Carrera is still on the road, I'm sure the knowledge is out there to keep it on the road for another 38 years.

Do we know if all these Chinese cars sold today, say in the EU, shall still be usable in 38 years? What about the batteries? Shall there be compatible ones? Batteries that fail every x years and needs replacement is already quite a stretch from a "reliability" point of view compared to a 38 years cars whose engine has never been opened.

Thing is: my 911 is mostly analog except for the electronic fuel injection. A good old Bosch part.

Funnily enough that part is a typical part that fails. That and all the little sensors (but thankfully there aren't too many). But they're easy fix.

I think there's that sweet spot where cars were still simple enough and yet had already electronic fuel injection: that made for some extremely reliable cars.

Note that I don't use it as a daily car anymore: I now drive maybe only about 1000 miles / 1500 km a year with my old Porsche. But I totally could use it everyday: the reason I don't is not reliability, it's that an old Porsche from the 80s is a real gas guzzler (not as much as an american V8 from the 80s but still a gas guzzler). One of my favorite thing is the relatively short drive to go pick my kid at school then go groceries shopping. Every time I use I'm thinking "it's crazy to think it could be my daily".

And when my regular car has to go to the garage/maintenance, the good old trusty 1988 Porsche 911 Carrera gets to be a daily for a while.

38 years old.

My modern car has sensors for everything. It's very convenient to know what is the problem, but there are still problems. In seven years it's been something like seven times to the garage (in addition to maintenance / tires) for a variety of problems. Under warranty but still.
by bartread | 2026-01-20 13:32:59+00:00
I get the impression that what the Chinese want out of a car is different and, realistically, a bit more aligned with the trajectory of human progress as well.

I remember the (UK) Top Gear episode, which I'd guess must be at least 15 years old now, where they were talking about Chinese car brands, like Roewe, and they were ripping on them for being a bit crap in various ways (performance, not that fun to drive, etc.), but they also highlighted that what's important to Chinese car buyers is equipment level and having the latest tech[0] so, even though the cars at the time weren't the best, they were packed with gadgets and creature comfort.

Add 15 years of rapid progress onto that and it's not surprising that China is dominating in the EV space, because it aligns so well with what Chinese buyers might be looking for in a vehicle.

[0] And having seen what traffic jams in Chinese cities can look like it entirely makes sense to optimise for comfort and engagement whilst sitting still or in stop go traffic, than for driving experience when you're never really going to experience the handling anyway.