MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bri3d | 2026-01-08 17:25:02+00:00
They're not really "open-sourcing" anything in the sense that I would think about it. As far as I can tell they're doing two things:

* Removing cloud-server dependency from the app.

* Publishing API documentation for the speaker.

I actually think this is worth noting not so much in a "well aktshully it's not open source!" kind of way, but as a good lesson for other manufacturers - because this is meaningfully good without needing to do any of the things manufacturers hate:

* They didn't have to publish any Super Secret First or Third Party Proprietary IP.

* They didn't have to release any signing keys or firmware tools.

* They get to remove essentially all maintenance costs and relegate everything to a "community."

But yet people are happy! Manufacturers should take note that they don't have to do much to make customers much happier with their products at end of life.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-08 17:25:27+00:00
<< It was unnecessary to shoot the woman even if doing so could potentially be a good way to stop someone that is driving towards you

Full disclosure. I have/had some cops in my extended family so I might come across as biased. If someone is driving towards you and there is an indication it may hurt you, all bets are off. It is a simple question of survival. Now, a lot will rest on that 'reasonably', but based on the video alone, it is not nearly as clear as some would have you believe that he could not reasonably believe that his life was in danger.

You may disagree with it, but that is the current state. We can talk about adjusting the policy, but thats day after considerations.
by agwa | 2026-01-08 17:25:50+00:00
It gets its data from Open Street Map, so it's only up-to-date if volunteers are keeping it up-to-date.

That said, https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrale_Hemweg says the plant was converted to natural gas, not decommissioned, in 2019, and this is correctly reflected in Open Street Map / Open Infra Map. Do you have a citation that contradicts this?
by rhfhfbdbd | 2026-01-08 17:25:51+00:00
Dang and the power users would keep flagging “politics” off the front page from their employer’s private bunkers, even if every major American city were under occupation and civilians were being shot in the hundreds, it’s not concerning to them as long as they’re not personally at risk.

PG’s hacker ethos seems to have been boiled down to “fuck you, got mine”.
by forbiddenvoid | 2026-01-08 17:25:54+00:00
Not the person you asked but:

ADHD is a debilitating neurological disorder, not a mild inconvenience.

Believe me, I wish that just drinking coffee and "trying harder" was a solution. I started medication because I spent two decades actively trying every other possible solution.

> what would you recommend if one is against the idea of medication in general for neurological issues that aren't deterental to ones life?

If your neurological issues aren't impacting your life negatively, they aren't neurological issues. I don't know what else to say to this. Of course you shouldn't treat non-disorders with medication.

> do you feel the difference between being medicated and (strong?) coffee?

These do not exist in the same universe. It's not remotely comparable.

> have you felt the effects weaken over time?

Only initially, after the first few days. It stabilizes pretty well after that.

> if you did drink coffee, have you noticed a difference between the medication effects weakening on the same scale as caffeine?

Again, not even in the same universe. Also, each medication has different effects in terms of how it wears off at the end of the day. For some it's a pretty sudden crash, for others it tapers, and some are mostly designed to keep you at a long term level above baseline (lower peaks, but higher valleys).

> is making life easier with medication worth the cost over just dealing with it by naturally by adapting to it over time (if even possible in your case)?

If I could have solved the biological issue "naturally" I would have. ADHD comes with really pernicious effects that makes adaptation very challenging.
by perihelions | 2026-01-08 17:25:59+00:00
The primary source this seems to be reporting on is this link, which was posted earlier today and now 404's,

https://dps.mn.gov/news/bca/bca-statement-regarding-investig... ("BCA statement regarding investigation of ICE fatal shooting in Minneapolis")

https://web.archive.org/web/20260108163819/https://dps.mn.go...
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-08 17:26:28+00:00
Cops who perceive a threat don't just swarm a suspect's car on foot like that unless it's been hemmed in by police cruisers or whatever...

I'm gonna say the same thing I said the last time someone made national news by dying on camera at the hands of law enforcement officers in Minneapolis: The world may by some people's estimation be better without the deceased in it but that does not excuse the keystone coppery that cause it to happen when, where and how it did at the hands of law enforcement.
by eqvinox | 2026-01-08 17:26:32+00:00
> Also, I think it was a mistake switching street lamps over to cool color tones, something that happened amid the clean energy push.

I believe this was a combination of coincidence (newer lighting technologies just happening to be a cooler white) and other intent (cooler light being supposed to keep you awake). I'd say the connection to clean energy is strenuous at best.

Also there are AFAIK various initiatives to go to more yellow LED lighting.
by benrazdev | 2026-01-08 17:26:44+00:00
Thanks for all of the comments!

I want to clarify that I think very highly of Go as a language. I think it gets most things right. It's hard to introduce an abstraction into a language while still making sure that it's not abused. Rust's trait and type system, while powerful have been abused to create some absolutely incomprehensible and long types. Go, on the other hand, doesn't suffer from this issue. If I was too harsh against Go, that was certainly a mistake.

I think that the criticisms of my section on error handling are, for the most part, spot on. My impression was that type erasure for errors was the idiomatic solution, which is patently untrue. When writing the blog post, I was unaware of the functions in the `errors` module as well as the syntactic sugar and general acceptance of downcasting errors. While I would still maintain that Rust errors are more convenient to work with, I must admit that there really isn't any good excuse for my ignorance on this.

When it comes to enums, I stand by my statements on them.

I still believe that it is useful to restrict the values a type might have. And no, I am not using the term enum to mean a rust-style "enum" (tagged union). I am talking about classical enums, more or less as they appear in C.

As an aside, I am not terribly surprised that my website doesn't work well on some browsers. I hacked together the website including the HTML and CSS a couple of years ago and some of the hacks I used I ought to be ashamed of.
by chneu | 2026-01-08 17:27:13+00:00
Little off topic but I just got done cleaning up my friend's dad's estate. He had dementia the last ~5 years of his life.

The amount of random fucking subscriptions this senile old dude was paying is mind boggling. We're talking nearly $10k/month in random shit. Monthly lingerie subscription? Yup, 62 year old dude. Dick pill subscription? Yup. Subscription to pay his subscriptions? Yup.

It makes me really wonder how much of the US economy is just old senile people paying for shit they don't realize.

We also found millions in random accounts all over the place. It's just mind boggling.
by dosinga | 2026-01-08 17:27:22+00:00
Google-as-the-new-Microsoft feels about right. Windows 1 was a curiosity, 2 was “ok”, and 3.x is where it started to really win. Same story with IE: early versions were a joke, then it became “good enough” + distribution did the rest.

Gemini 3 feels like Google’s “Windows 3 / IE4 moment”: not necessarily everyone’s favorite yet, but finally solid enough that the default placement starts to matter.

If you are the incumbent you don't need to be all that much better. Just good enough and you win by default. We'll all end up with Gemini 6 (IE 6, Windows XP) and then we'll have something to complain about.
by wsxiaoys | 2026-01-08 17:27:35+00:00
OP here - I've talked in detail about how we rendered NES suggestions using only VS Code public APIs.

Most tools fork the editor or build a custom IDE so they can skip the hard interaction problems.

Our NES is a VS Code–native feature. That meant living inside strict performance budgets and interaction patterns that were never designed for LLMs proposing multi-line, structural edits in real time.

In this case, surfacing enough context for an AI suggestion to be actionable, without stealing attention, is much harder.

That pushed us toward a dynamic rendering strategy instead of a single AI suggestion UI. Each path gets deliberately scoped to the situations where it performs best, aligning it with the least disruptive representation for a given edit.

If AI is going to live inside real editors, I think this is the layer that actually matters.

Happy to hear your thoughts!
by ibejoeb | 2026-01-08 17:28:07+00:00
That's too generous because even that document says that there that data is used for other purposes without detailing any of that. There are no timelines. Even when they say "temporary," when is that? Until 2300? Temporarily stored on the device until it's been stored remotely? Temporary until the NN is trained?

The cat's out of the bag, anyway. They already have a perfect dataset and surveillance mechanism. But it'd be nice to stop continuing to perfect it.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-08 17:28:07+00:00
if they controlled even a notable minority share this might make sense, or the majority of a specific region or type of stock where there are limited alternatives, but I don't see any examples of this. We didn't even see this type of phenomenon in the biggest US crash markets where banks owned entire neighbourhoods; even they were not immune to overall market forces. To suggest PE has anything like infinite money and/or time totally ignores that everyone is subject to opportunity cost. A fund that under performs for any length of time because they're playing some sort of marginal long game won't exist for long.

You just haven't presented any evidence or even a hypothetical where this does or could happen.
by imvetri | 2026-01-08 17:28:12+00:00
This isn't good. A good and efficient is to build better code generator. Current stack of programming languages and platform is heavy.

Let's assume a state of computing where all computations are done and cached.

In such a system, the programming languages or transpilers become obselete, as the computer results are available from storage readily.

Now the challenge is different. Depending on the reader or the user, the same memory data will appear different.

The paradigm shifts from parsers, to readers.

Example, an image data appears as binary to computer person, and meanings to an artist, etc.

Conclusion: what crap I have commented!
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-08 17:28:28+00:00
Fwiw it becomes really really obvious when companies have someone at the top pushing for initiatives like this and when they don't.

A great example is how Apple used to be great at this. These days.the.keyboard.is.practically.unusable. As in it still doesn't type out the letter you tapped and you can see this via slow motion video recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

It's not at all wrong to call out subordinates in the company for quality feel. It may seem like it leads to misprioritization (everyone in the company scrambles to fix the issue you saw) but not doing this at all is far far worse. Look at this issue BillG raised and the fact that no one cared until it was raised. Big companies are very siloed by nature. The only thing that breaks these silos is the leadership doing things like this.
by skyriser | 2026-01-08 17:28:41+00:00
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by kraftman | 2026-01-08 17:28:42+00:00
I'm on some anti rejection meds post-transplant and chatgptd some of my symptoms and it said they were most likely caused by my meds. Two different nephrologists told me that the meds I'm on didn't cause those symptoms before looking it up themselves and confirming they do. I think LLMs have a place in this as far as being able to quick come up with hyphotesese that can be looked into and confirmed/disproved. If I hadn't had chatGPT, I wouldnt have brought it or my team would have just blamed lifestyle rather than meds.
by jedberg | 2026-01-08 17:28:50+00:00
That's just because they wanted to eliminate variables. But they are adding snowy/icy places now.

And given how hard it is for humans to drive safely in the snow/ice, I wouldn't be surprised if they outperform humans in the snow just like they do in their current markets. Especially given that their radar sensors can "see" better in the snow than a human.
by margalabargala | 2026-01-08 17:29:10+00:00
> We have to take the Presidents Statements are credible, firstly, because it's the closest thing to the truth anyone has. He has no real strategy, he makes things up on the spot.

I'm sorry, this is nonsense. "He makes things up, therefore we have to take the things he says as credible"?

The President is not an oracle of truth, nor are his words the most accurate representation we have on the intentions of US government actions.

Let's say he had said directly, "The January 3rd operation in Venezuela was a best-effort attempt by the US to take control over Venezuela".

Now let's say he had instead said "The January 3rd operation in Venezuela was a best-effort attempt by the US to take control over Madagascar".

You would genuinely, truly believe that in that moment, the capture of Maduro from Venezuela was the most effective thing the US government could do to take control of Madagascar?
by vincentdu2025 | 2026-01-08 17:29:17+00:00
Author here. Correct link: https://github.com/VincentDu2021/uring_sync
Key findings:

- 4.2x faster than cp for 100K × 100KB files (local NVMe)
- 58% faster than rsync using kTLS for network transfer
- Single worker + deep queue beats multi-threading

Happy to answer questions about io_uring quirks or benchmarking methodology.
by hightrix | 2026-01-08 17:29:25+00:00
Well, there's the playbook they will use. Allow ICE to do anything it wants to anyone it wants following no rules and attempting to incite mass violence. Then, when one of them kill someone in cold blood, the FBI forces jurisdiction to federal so no matter the outcome of the case the murderer can be pardoned by trump.

With the massive increase in ICE funding this year, I expect this is only the beginning and things will continue to get much worse.

This is not a safe country.
by godzillabrennus | 2026-01-08 17:29:31+00:00
No, but if I hear you telling someone you have the flu and are picking up flu medicine after work then I have a portion of your medical records. Why is it hard for people on HN to believe that normal people do not protect their medical data and email about it or search Google for their conditions? People in the "real world" hook up smart TV's to the internet and don't realize they are being tracked. They use cars with smart features that let them be tracked. They have apps on their phone that track their sentiments, purchases, and health issues... All we are seeing here is people getting access to smart technology for their health issues in such a manner that they might lower their healthcare costs. If you are an American you can appreciate ANY effort in that direction.
by hvenev | 2026-01-08 17:29:45+00:00
> Jeff once simultaneously reduced all binary sizes by 3% and raised the severity of a previously known low-priority Python bug to critical-priority in a single change that contained no Python code.

This sounds really plausible. A change to the C toolchain/library (for example, specialized/inlined memcpy) may affect binary sizes significantly, and may change the behavior of something the C standard leaves undefined (for example, memcpy with overlapping arguments).
by rawgabbit | 2026-01-08 17:30:07+00:00
Quote:

For much of the past 12 months, extremely high uncertainty (from sweeping policies such as those related to tariffs); dramatic shifts in the nation’s immigration flows; and, to a much lesser extent, companies testing the AI waters, have resulted in muted employment gains – or even outright losses – across most industries.

The lone exceptions have been health care – an industry growing as a result of an aging population – and leisure and hospitality, which has reaped some of the spoils from an increasingly bifurcated economy.
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-01-08 17:30:28+00:00
Bingo. It’s pretty annoying. My tribe can do no wrong (in fact my tribe will freely point out its faults because again, it can do no wrong). Anything from the other tribe isn’t just wrong, it’s evil and all that is wrong with everything. Those guys are Neanderthals, not even worthy of telling the time to. My tribe is incredibly smart and gifted. We can do no wrong!

Unfortunately the only way to opt out is to basically stop participating at all. No more consumption of tribal news media and since most news media is incredibly tribal (even saying it’s not tribal is in fact tribal)… it basically means no more news media consumption. Which makes you uninformed instead of merely misinformed.

I dunno the solution to this. It’s a complex web of everybody playing to their incentives including the algorithms that aggregate things for consumption.

Again though, I’ll firmly emphasize that it is the other tribe that is wrong. My tribe isn’t biased or hateful or outrage driven. We say we aren’t so clearly it’s not possible.
by mindslight | 2026-01-08 17:30:36+00:00
No, you do not get to tone police the word "murder" from people rightfully outraged with some above-it-all "impartial" appeal to narrow legal definitions. We all know the legal system has been thoroughly corrupted, and there is the good chance this murderer will not actually be criminally charged and convicted of any types of legally-defined murder. This does not matter - in the eyes of We The People this is fucking Murder.

And the emotion here most certainly matters - this is an American mother, gunned down in broad daylight, by chickenshit masked gangs who don't have an ounce of respect for the citizens of this country they're claiming to serve. And then an administration and its state media mouthpieces, instead of taking a moment to step back and reevaluate and try to prevent this from happening again, doubles down on nonsense narratives about how this American mother deserved to be summarily executed - full-throated support for the murderer. Anybody with half a brain that isn't caught in an info bubble of reactionary propaganda should be fucking angry.
by rafaelm | 2026-01-08 17:30:51+00:00
This is CANTV they are talking about. This is the company I requested a new phone line from and it took 9.5 years to get it installed.

After waiting for 3 years, I gave up ended up paying one of their technicians I randomly found working in the street. He gave me a phone line that apparently used to belong to a taxi company, judging by all the wrong number calls I got. All that just to get 4mbps DSL service in 2019.

Last year, out of nowhere, I finally got a call from the company saying they were ready to install it.

Thankfully, a bunch of companies appeared out of nowhere (a lot of them with links to people in the govt, surprise) in 2020 and we got fiber.

Oh and a couple of years ago, my parents "lost" their phone line and have been without POTS ever since. Maybe it's karma for me paying for a phone line all those years ago...
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-08 17:30:58+00:00
According to this NPR article, it currently is legal for ICE to detain you if you are visibly ethnic:

A federal court agreed, ruling that agents can't rely on factors such as race, speaking Spanish, wearing workman-like clothes, and location [...] to meet the standard of "individualized suspicion."

But in September, the Supreme Court paused that previous ruling, saying immigration agents can use those factors as reasonable suspicion to stop someone. (Legal proceedings continue on this case, however.)

https://npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5517998/ice-arrest-rules-ex...
by BalinKing | 2026-01-08 17:31:10+00:00
> Compare to software verification: when you prove a sorting algorithm correct, the hard work is the loop invariants and the model, not the final QED. Tedious proof steps usually indicate you're fighting your abstractions.

This is a false statement when working with an interactive theorem prover like Lean. Even trivial things require mountains of effort, and even blatantly obvious facts will at least require a case analysis or something. It's a massive usability barrier (and one that AI can hopefully help with).
by wincy | 2026-01-08 17:31:38+00:00
My wife normally isn’t one to splurge but after her Bose headphones died, we tried a couple other brands, returned them, and went with the QC-35 II despite them being more expensive. The “comfort” part is key, she’s on the spectrum and has a hard time with headphones irritating her, and these are hands down the most comfortable.

We also like the Bose soundbar as it has a mode that makes dialogue more intelligible on our TV.
by Zigurd | 2026-01-08 17:31:42+00:00
For the Ipace-based Waymos, Magna was assembling them. They already built the Ipace for Jaguar. IIRC there's a plant in Arizona where Magna does this. So it's plausible that they are assembling the Zeeker van there, too. For whatever value of "assembling" gets around the tariffs. That and a few dozen solid gold Pixel Folds should do the job.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-08 17:31:44+00:00
The crates.io ecosystem for Rust... is like the amazing girlfriend that you go head over heels for, make her your wife, and then you meet the in-laws ... but it's too late now.

Unlimited access to a bunch of third party code is great as you're getting started.

Until it isn't and you're swimming in a fishing net full of code you didn't write and dependencies you do not want. Everything you touch eventually brings all of tokio along with it. And 3 or 4 different versions of random number generators or base64 utilities, etc. etc.
by everdrive | 2026-01-08 17:31:50+00:00
So this is getting to be pretty real and pretty scary. How many of you have actually considered just not using your mobile phone any longer? Turning it off, only powering it on when you need it, and not bringing it when you leave your home?

Within a lot of our lifetimes, this was the norm. Are these devices so useful that put up with carrying a tracking / listening device on us at all time?
by icameron | 2026-01-08 17:31:58+00:00
When I first heard the advice to ditch your phone when you go a protest, I thought maybe that's a little extreme. But it's a real threat. We already knew post Snowden there is an extensive big brother apparatus. We saw post 911 that all rights can be taken away in the name of counter-terrorism. Now with a government that's operating outside the law and labeling peaceful protesters as terrorists, I don't think we can rely on telcos to protect our identity. The mass surveillance will fingerprint a device, and the telco will know your name so it's not at all an extreme precaution to ditch your phone.