MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noitpmeder | 2026-01-25 08:08:09+00:00
I don't think the sentiment the poster you're interacting with is anything novel or surprising to find on HN. To be honest it's largely the prevailing outlook from what I understand (maybe with some more reserved language) ESPECIALLY for those not intimately connected with SV in America.

I'd definitely be having these thoughts a bit more often if I was someone in another country that found out my govt is using their services, even more so with the recent migrate-off-us-tech momentum.
by hdjrudni | 2026-01-25 08:08:53+00:00
Its not the same. You have to explicitly declare the errors and if you want to ignore/propagate them, you have to do so explicitly as well.

You cant invoke a function and pretend it'll never fail.

Also, try/catch with long try blocks and a the error handling at the very end is just bad. Which of the statements in the try is throwing? Even multiple perhaps? Each should be handled individually and immediately
by potato67 | 2026-01-25 08:10:31+00:00
I'm so confused why there is no discussion about RJ45 connector being backwards compatible with RJ11 (the RJ11 connector fits appropriately into the RJ45 socket) and that the G4201TM should have a RJ45 socket (like G4202TCP) instead of RJ11 to be most widely functional/compatible (even though you still can use a RJ11 cable with a RJ45 wall socket to overcome this, but you could use RJ45 cables too)...

(models https://www.gigacopper.net/wp/en/home-networking/ )
by LarsAlereon | 2026-01-25 08:11:03+00:00
Those would be more similar to hot steam humidifiers, which tend to leave any minerals or impurities behind as deposits inside the machine. That said, I'm not buying the original premise here that water-soluble minerals are in inhalation hazard. Our lungs have robust systems for cleaning out stuff we inhale, it's the exceptions where this doesn't work that get a lot of attention.
by e145bc455f1 | 2026-01-25 08:11:18+00:00
>And... What about accountability for hosting distributing spyware, malware loaded apps from Google Playstore and hundreds of copy cat, misleading apps?

The rules don't apply to billion dollar corporations. Meta is showing 15 billion scam ads per day.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-25 08:11:38+00:00
I find it funny that as these systems become better at something (i.e. "basic ass CRUD"), people still maintain that they're only good at those and nothing else.

Case in point - https://github.com/NVlabs/vibetensor/blob/main/docs/vibetens...

> VIBETENSOR is an open-source research system software stack for deep learning,
generated by LLM-powered coding agents under high-level human guidance. In
this paper, “fully generated” refers to code provenance: implementation changes
were produced and applied as agent-proposed diffs; validation relied on builds, tests, and differential checks executed by the agent workflow, without per-change manual diff review.
by MisterMower | 2026-01-25 08:11:41+00:00
I am having a hard time understanding why Walz and Fey won’t cooperate with ICE in removing some seriously bad people.

These aren’t DACA kids they’re after, they’re people who have committed serious crimes and are dangerous. They are actively encouraging people to create incendiary situations to antagonize ICE agents.

At the same time, ICE is clearly acting unprofessionally and dangerously.

Hopefully this event can lead both sides to compromise. ICE should be able to remove criminals, Minnesotans should be able to expect them to do their job respectfully and lawfully.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 08:11:49+00:00
I may not understand any of those things, but I also can't understand someone who straps on a weapon and extra ammo--I am sorry: a concealed weapon, then runs headlong into a war zone, without regard for personal safety or safety of those around him, and his cheerleaders on the sidelines are like "muh muh muh rights!!1!"

"Rights" honestly don't matter in a war zone. You cannot shout "fire!" in a crowded theater. You cannot just dogpile onto law enforcement when they are taking down a criminal.

These law enforcement criminals are going out against child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners. You and your ilk are defending these child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners. You are literally defending thousands of child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners when you impede and obstruct law enforcement operations.

They are trying to remove child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners from the country. Because the pretext to remove them is the immigration status. But lest we forget that they are also child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners? It is not their mere immigration status at issue here.

You can clearly see, in practically every video every activist releases, that there is a "task force" team going out on every raid. There is HSI, there is DEA, there is ICE and CBP, there is BATF. There are all kinds of agencies cooperating in a Task Force, not merely ICE but all together, because they have spent years building cases against the illegal criminals who are child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners. Years collecting evidence and doing investigations against child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners. This is the culmination of multiple years of work when a task force hits the streets to take someone down. One of these child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners. Who should never have been admitted to the United States borders.

If someone wants to go in with a couple dozen bullets and try to "help" some pepper-sprayed chick, they're going to find out what it's like when trying to protect child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners.

Please, by all means, continue to defend and protect child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners for us. We admire your courage when you are on the side of child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners. You are doing a great job of keeping them in the country, keeping them free, and keeping justice at bay for these child molesters, drug smugglers, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sex offenders, gun runners.

Congratulations. To a really good man, a male nurse from an ICU. Who can't nurse anymore because he FAFO'd.
by diroussel | 2026-01-25 08:12:29+00:00
Who should accept responsibility when a conversion is not as expected?

There are very few ‘lossless” conversions possible if you consider the loss of a data or metadata could affect the result. So if printer did accept a file that needed to be converted, and then during printing and converting they found conversion could lead to unexpected results should they cancel the print run? There is just too much to go wrong in printing already without these extra problems.

The print industry has a long and storied history, and for whatever set of reasons, printers only accept very specific profiles of specific formats.
by ubertaco | 2026-01-25 08:14:41+00:00
I've had quite a few folks in my semi-rural north Georgia deep-red county (where our congressional rep wins landslide elections while literally saying Trump is like Jesus) who are convinced by my F150 Lightning.

It's not a hard sell: no more oil changes, no more annual emissions-testing bill, no transmission to ever worry about, and a massive chunk of storage under the hood where the gas engine would be – plus a bunch of outlets all over for powering or charging tools. When I then tell them that I spend about $30/month on charging the thing (at home) compared to my former gas budget of ~$150-200/month, it becomes even more of a no-brainer.

And none of this has anything to do with climate change. It's just plain and simple practicality.

They tend to ask about range. I get around 300 miles on a full charge when road-tripping, and Buc-ees has some pretty cheap chargers (still cheaper than gas would be) that get me back on the road in about the time it takes me to use the bathroom, grab and eat some brisket, and change the baby's diaper. I've done some shortish road-trips a few times now, and not had any problems. I've got some longer ones planned this year, now that I know that I can find chargers along the way.
by throw310822 | 2026-01-25 08:15:20+00:00
I wasn't talking about Bytedance's point of view, but that of the Chinese government. As a private company without state backing, I agree that selling might have been the best decision to maximise their profits. But could have been politically advantageous for China to veto the sale- even if the platform were politically neutral- because it was basically untouchable, as was already proven by years of delay. They might have used it as a bargaining chip, and then I'd be curious to know what they got back.
by tech234a | 2026-01-25 08:16:05+00:00
Even that won't last forever. Notably, Edge is only guaranteeing updates until October 2028 [1], coinciding with the end of Windows 10's 3-year ESU period. Previously, Chromium ended support for Windows 7 at the end of its ESU period (which was also the end of support for Windows 8.1) [2]. However, Firefox continues to support Windows 7/8.1 by providing security updates for an older ESR version of Firefox 115; they appear to be re-evaluating whether to continue support every 6 months, currently set to end in March 2026.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...

[2]: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/185534985/sunsettin...

[3]: https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr
by tamimio | 2026-01-25 08:16:21+00:00
Interesting, not too useful as I doubt most of the readers here have that Xray machine.

I remember years ago I had similar issue, I got one of those FTDI USB cable to interfere with a drone payload, and it was simpler to just plug in the USB cable into the jetson rather than having a small exposed circuit around, but I ended up having performance issues and interruptions that eventually I replaced it with traditional FTDI exposed circuit, I still have the cable till now but I don’t have the X ray machine to check!
by black_puppydog | 2026-01-25 08:17:08+00:00
I disabled google's spam filter years ago for this sort of issue. The final straw was that it flagged a response from my boss, to an email I had sent earlier that day, resulting in a missed meeting.
Installed thunderbird to access the company mail, never looked back. Private gmail is unused, only ever created it for android sign-up back in the day.

As with search, I don't get why people still use google.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-25 08:17:27+00:00
As the fleet of EV's age, I'm sure we'll see equivalents...

"The high voltage wires were just dragging on the street sparking, presumably with all the safety features disabled"

"They were driving with a 10 gallon coolant tank on the roof, presumably because the coolant loop had a big leak and needed continuous topping up".
by wqaatwt | 2026-01-25 08:17:40+00:00
> egregious error

This would imply it was an unintentional mistake which is far from obvious. If they recognized it was an egregious error the perpetrators would be prosecuted and they won’t be.

> training of the ICE/BP officers

What makes you think it’s something they want to avoid repeating in the future? (Not /s)
by AuryGlenz | 2026-01-25 08:17:41+00:00
It’s not as simple as that and you know it. There are upsides and downsides to both systems.

Personally, I’d be fine with universal healthcare on the state level, but not the federal. The fact that I have thoughts like that shows it’s not as simple as “durr everyone deserves healthcare.” Of course they do, but a universal healthcare system implemented poorly means that everyone gets really bad healthcare.
by bbwbsb | 2026-01-25 08:17:50+00:00
Responsibility is to those that give status. Duty of the pro-social sort is what you buy status (regard) with.

Neither subjective or consensus accounts of truth (neither of which correspond with postmodernism or utilitarianism in the way you imply) are obviously inconsistent. Philosophers would not bother talking about them if that were the case.

Funnily enough, I can't tell which of Stalin and Mother Theresa you are worried will be confused with the other, given that many people have opposite ideas of which was moral and which was immoral.

Modern religions define objective morality, not objective truth (excluding metaphysical assertions, which are not what one usually means by truth).
by swe_dima | 2026-01-25 08:20:13+00:00
I am not very well educated when it comes to alternative stores landscape.
But I do know that in Russia there's now Rustore: https://www.rustore.ru/en
which functions by automatically downloading and updating APKs for you.

During the APK install, however, you do see the ugly Android prompt about how this app may be dangerous.

Rustore has its own app payment system, which obviously circumvents Google Play fees.

This works on regular Android phones.

Are there other examples of such stores? Perhaps it's Google's answer to that.
by nullc | 2026-01-25 08:20:48+00:00
> But 99% of what they produce seems feasible enough.

This being a big part of the problem-- their false answers are more plausible and convincing then the truth. The output almost always seems feasible-- true or not is an entirely different matter.

Historically when most things fail they produce nonsense. If they do they are producing something related to the truth (but perhaps biased or mis-calibrated). LLM output can be both highly plausible and unrelated to reality.
by slg | 2026-01-25 08:21:12+00:00
We were discussing post level moderation and not comment level moderation. I'm suggesting the site allow more politics, I'm not condoning abandoning all the site’s rules. I don't think the level of discourse in the comments is being improved by the current level of post level moderation. The most noticeable impact is simply prompting tangents into the post level moderation itself like it did here which arguably lowers the level of discourse.
by Slothrop99 | 2026-01-25 08:21:54+00:00
> Baker Electric type of stuff

In the 1920s, a lot of auto startups had a unique idea. Then they got crushed by Henry Ford's and GM's production lines. And then the depression.

The Model T was a farm car. 50% of the population lived in rural areas, and they didn't have electricity. There was a market for an urban electric short-range car, it just didn't hit the economy of scale at the right time. But not because it was a bad idea.
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-01-25 08:22:27+00:00
Offtopic...

* Do this with "<0" and ">=0" to only test the sign of the result. A
* good compiler would generate better code (and a really good compiler
* wouldn't care). Gcc is currently neither.

It's funny the love-hate relationship the Linux kernel has with GCC. It's the only supported compiler[1], and yet...

[1] can Clang fully compile Linux yet? I haven't followed the updates in a while.
by ares623 | 2026-01-25 08:24:44+00:00
Social media is unlike any other problem parents are facing. It is not enough to stop your own children from accessing it or educating your own children. It needs collective action from _all_ parents or else your child will be an outcast. And what is regulation if not enforced collective action. The corporations had 15 years to figure it out themselves and they decided to make it as worst as possible for everyone, and now parents are turning to their elected officials for help.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-25 08:25:09+00:00
Being implacably stubborn is underrated. People can trivially have two messaging apps on their phone, which means they can all still contact you while using WhatsApp with other people. Then they all slowly end up with Signal on their phone, at which point who needs WhatsApp at all?

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
by wqaatwt | 2026-01-25 08:25:18+00:00
> conscious

Depends on how you define the word. But yes?

Their decision to escalate the situation in the first place is a clear indication of that.

> no longer posing a physical threat?

Can you show a video of the gun leaving its holster before that then? Or are you saying that merely possessing a firearm regardless of circumstances is grounds for an immediate execution?
by mahmood726 | 2026-01-25 08:25:23+00:00
Just open-sourced Burhan (TruthCert): a fail-closed “ship gate” for LLM outputs.
Goal: cut false-ships (shipped-but-wrong) in coding + research workflows using multi-witness verification + validators + provenance.
Repo: https://github.com/mahmood726-cyber/Burhan
by NoteyComplexity | 2026-01-25 08:25:44+00:00
This is also my usual understanding to TikTok although I know some people found new hobbies with it like the other replies, but the contents don’t click me because they are way too flashy and stimulating, and these really make me visually and mind fatigue.

Your situation is similar to why I have quit Pinterest. Memes and jokes are fun, and some of the images are inspiring, but it simply wastes too much valuable time which I can learn something new or take a deep rest.
by gyanchawdhary | 2026-01-25 08:27:03+00:00
imn a software engineer/entrepreneur .. and i’m british, and that article is about UK public services ... so this isn’t distant or abstract for me .. aslo, SV isnt some monolith I’m disconnected from .. even without living there .. its companies (especially those ones that can be seen from this original poster (imbecile ?) view point as evil have materially shaped my career and opportunities in ways that wouldn’t have existed otherwise .. btw .. you can be skeptical of Palantir or US tech influence without collapsing everything into an us verus them narrative or assuming disagreement maps cleanly to geography ..
by idk1 | 2026-01-25 08:28:01+00:00
This is a great idea, however, for the voice dictation app. They're very hard to get right, and the quality varies across them massively. I've tried both Wisper Flow and Aqua (the one I'm typing this with, which is, in my opinion, the best at the moment) - they're so exceptionally sophisticated that I think it would be very difficult to get right in a short amount of time.
by csomar | 2026-01-25 08:28:14+00:00
> Do you want to use a different search engine other than google?

I've been on Kimi now for 3 months. I rarely used Google in that time. Kimi is largely free though sometimes when I run of the free quota I fallback to DeepSeek/Perplexity. I have no idea where they are getting their index from though.

> Is there another email provider than gmail (for the non-technical person - i know you can run your own).

There is microsoft/apple/yahoo mailboxes. However, I think most people should pay for their email especially that it's cheap and also critical (2FA).

> Is there another browser other than chrome (and dont say firefox or edge - because both don't compete)?

Firefox is a solid fallback and also webkit (Apple) is now basically a different browser (ported to Linux on GNOME Web). Not the best situation though it could be worse (given Firefox situation).

For me personally, the only two things I still use Google for are chromium and maps. I am unlikely to move from Chromium anytime soon but might consider alternative for maps (though might still need maps for reviews/photos/street view).

I am the most bullish I've ever been on Google losing its monopoly especially after they botched AI and hyper-scaling.
by tombert | 2026-01-25 08:28:51+00:00
"Please, senpai Alex, please notice me! I've been so loyal to you!"

I'm not "hiding" behind anything. I made the assertion that what Palantir does (and discusses publicly [1] [2] [3]) is "creepy". I'm disappointed in your second grade teacher if you don't know what an "opinion" word is, but I guess I will assume the duty: subjective terms, like "creepy", are terms that typically describe a subjective perspective. As there's no claim of objectivity there's also no need to "prove" this, though it can be justified by specific claims, as were linked below. You are of course free to not think that stuff is creepy, that's fine, but I do think it's creepy and I doubt I'm the only one.

I don't accuse everyone who disagrees with me as simping. I'm accusing someone who thinks that a really, really ugly T-Shirt with the word "dominate" written on it as "absolutely killer" of simping. You would not think that that shirt was "killer" if Daddy Alex weren't on there.

That or you're one of those "social media consultants" that directly works for Palantir, in which case I have some other, less polite ways to describe you if you'd prefer.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/palantir-delivers-ice-doss...

[2] https://www.thestreet.com/politics/palantir-ceo-makes-anothe...

[3] https://www.inverse.com/input/tech/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-sa...
by wao0uuno | 2026-01-25 08:28:56+00:00
Nobody sane buys a Pi to do regular computing stuff. People buy Pis because:

- They are small and can be powered with PoE.

- They come with GPIO.

- They can be paired with a small display and turned into appliance.

- They use very little power and generate very little heat.

Building Raspberry Pi clusters with kubernetes is just something youtubers do for clicks. Normal people buy Raspberry Pis because they want an open and hackable Home Assistant control panel built into their wall or they enjoy playing with servos and LEDs.
by dijit | 2026-01-25 08:29:17+00:00
The real scandal isn’t just battery degradation… it’s that manufacturers have zero incentive to solve it. Your car becoming worthless after a decade suits them down to the ground.

Battery swapping changes the game entirely. Imagine a national network of exchange stations (co-located with existing petrol infrastructure, you can use the overhead canopy for solar). Standard pack sizes scaled by vehicle class: compact cars get 2 cells, vans get 4, lorries get 8.

Whoever owns these battery packs now has skin in the game for longevity. Their profit depends on keeping packs in service for 20+ years, not selling you a new car.

Suddenly the R&D money flows towards batteries that last, obsolescence now costs them money, and isn’t a happy accident that keeps you hooked on buying more cars.

You’d still have the option to buy your own packs outright if you only ever charge at home, but the network creates the economic pressure for genuine improvement of longevity in battery tech that’s completely missing today.

I’m aware that a company called “Better Place” failed. But they were a startup trying to strong-arm the automotive industry. A nationally coordinated infrastructure concern is different, and the air quality data from this study suggests we can’t afford to keep muddling through - and I really think that peoples concerns about batteries are not misplaced.

Perfect is the enemy of good, but damned if we can’t at least align incentives for better.
by spaceman_2020 | 2026-01-25 08:29:37+00:00
My take is that the kind of SaaS you're likely to replace with a vibecoded local setup are unlikely to be anything overly complicated or proprietary. Think of all the timers and todos and note organization apps you use - nothing particularly complicated or esoteric about the code itself.

What is valuable is the data you store in these things. Ergo, it makes more sense to vibecode these because the code is routine, but the data you save in them is worth protecting