MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pstuart | 2026-01-29 17:53:22+00:00
Please note that my objective in this discussion is to try and reach some sort of consensus, and that text communication can easily be misconstrued even when both parties know each other and are "on the same side".

The situation with ICE is in a sense uncharted territory (even with traditional abuses by police there's ostensibly some accountability, but ICE has been declared by the administration to have carte blanch in their operations -- explicitly told that they can act with impunity).

From the goog ai:

The First Amendment protects the rights to free speech and peaceable assembly, allowing public protest in traditional forums like streets, sidewalks, and parks. While peaceful protest is protected, the government can impose content-neutral "time, place, and manner" restrictions, such as permits for large, disruptive, or traffic-obstructing events.

> If I assault someone with a gun, I should be prepared that they might use that gun, especially when they can't think straight because I'm yelling in their faces, blowing whistles at them, kicking the lights off their cars, etc.

It should also be noted that Pretti was absolutely within his rights and had permits to carry and never brandished it. I'm not a gun nut and think that bringing a gun to a protest is a good idea, but it's a non issue on the justification of his murder.

ICE's presence and actions are not in good faith -- they are not there to catch "murderers, rapists, and other bad guys". They are hunting for any possible bounty regardless of legality and have detained US citizens.

> If I choose to be a part of a group that's doing those things, I should be prepared to be treated as a member of that group.

It's been shown that "being a part of that group" has been loosely applied where people in the vicinity who are not protesters are also being attacked by ICE.

Note that ICE was enforcing the law and removing "bad guys" in the previous administrations without going to the extremes they are now.

And most importantly, it's clear that the Trump administration wants some sort of violence to occur so that it can "justify" notching up enforcemnt even further -- likely martial law.

If you evaluate whats happening as if the government is acting legally and in good faith you are either misinformed or a supporter of the administration and have no loyalty to the Constitution.
by ghaff | 2026-01-29 17:53:25+00:00
It's not just the gap. The platform can also be a somewhat significant step up from the car. Normally not a big deal but a couple years back I had both real dress clothing and clothes for a long walk in my luggage on a fairly long trip overall.

Agree that the Underground is good in general. I've used it a lot. That particular trip was just a case of having heavier luggage than I usually carry and I should have handled things differently.
by archerx | 2026-01-29 17:53:36+00:00
Well maybe we are doing different things. Back in those days Javascript and CSS were much simpler people would cry about the position of elements and easy stuff like that. However I have to manually manage web audio api memory because if you don't release the buffers and other things the memory won't get released until the tab in closed, so it's easy for a tab to inexpertly take up 6gigs plus of ram (1min of audio is ~80mb), it's impossible to know that, that is happening unless you know, so you have this missive memory leak that even refreshing the tab won't fix and you have no idea why it happening, that is true frustration. You have to manage memory in canvas too especially if you are using bitmaps and if you are on iOS because it will crash the page because you looked at it wrong. I don't know anything that would have crashed the page in IE back in the day. So no, it is not hyperbole :)
by seanhunter | 2026-01-29 17:53:47+00:00
> EPFL is not even in EU

For people who don't get this, EPFL is the Swiss Federal Technical Institue in Lausanne. Switzerland isn't part of the EU or EEA but has instead integrated itself with the EU very closely via a mindboggling number of bilateral agreements with the EU members and the Schengen agreement which allows for free, borderless movement. This has the effect of making it seem very much like they are part of the EU without actually being as such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland%E2%80%93European_U...
by gustrigos | 2026-01-29 17:53:52+00:00
We are using AgentMail for sourcing quotes here at scale with various top shippers. It’s not about letting the agent act in fully deterministic ways, it’s about setting up the right guardrails. The agents can now do most of the job, but when there’s low confidence on their output, we have human in the loop systems to act fast. At least in competitive industries like logistics, if you don’t leverage these types of workflows, you’re getting very behind, which ultimately costs you more money than being off by some dollars or cents when giving a quote back.
by mft_ | 2026-01-29 17:53:59+00:00
1. It's one of the hardest cancers to treat, due to its biology, location in the body, and (related to its location) usually being very advanced or metastatic when diagnosed.

2. Mice =/= humans, as noted.

However we're heading into a new era of treatments for some cancers including pancreatic. New agents targeting RAS/KRAS pathways will likely deliver the first meaningful treatment advances in decades.

Daraxonrasib (which was used in the linked study) is leading the charge, but there are multiple other drugs (including agents that are a little more targeted, and therefore likely slightly better tolerated, like pan-KRAS or KRAS G12D inhibitors) in development too.
by kakacik | 2026-01-29 17:54:07+00:00
Yes and no. Tons of situations where this is simply not possible, whole traffic goes full allowed speed next to row of parked cars. If somebody unexpectedly pops up distracted, its a tragedy guaranteed regardless of driver's skills and experience.

In low traffic of course it can be different. But its unrealistic to expect anybody to drive in expectation that behind every single car passed there may be a child jumping right in front of the car. That can be easily thousands of cars, every day, whole life. Impossible.

We don't read about 99.9% of the cases where even semi decent driver can handle it safely, but rare cases make the news.
by joopie | 2026-01-29 17:54:25+00:00
This is a really cool project, and incredible traction - great job! I can see how this would work well with Claude Code to quickly explain what's going on.

I've worked on a similar project, but instead of going the ASCII route, we decided to lean into interactivity for code exploration. The angle is more around empowering human understanding, instead of agent understanding. We also chose D2 (and are looking to support Mermaid soon too).

Would love to hear others' thoughts on whether interactivity for humans is more valuable vs context for agents.

https://github.com/unslop-xyz/noodles
by funkyfiddler369 | 2026-01-29 17:54:33+00:00
> no one on either side of the political spectrum wants these systems to be fixed voluntarily with corporate altruism

Right on. But that's exactly the wiggle room where voters could pull some of those cards like "climate change mitigation (of consequences)", "climate change preparation", "upcoming waves of climate change refugees", "AI dividing the population", "Universal Basic Income", all of which are things companies like Apple won't do anything for (or against) while their goods are still mostly for proper earners and not for people who buy stuff at a discount (I'm exaggerating).

Since corporate altruism is definitely not on the menu, government institutions and NGOs will have to pick up way more than they are currently prepared for.

We are in a strange phase of calm before the storm, despite all those wars and conflicts--or in spite of them, I don't know. Shits' gonna hit the fan sooner or later and it's up to the voters to demand adequate preparation.

Big Corps caused significantly more damage than they had to cause for all those profits, whether as a side effect or not, and they did that long enough.

Job cuts, whether due to AI or not, will remain a thing while no "new" giants will rise for quite a while ... and corporations will sing the song "it's what the people want" only as long as voters will stay quiet.

Sure, bribes, corruption and blablabla, but it doesn't change how votes work and none of it changes how the devoted clerks in the administration do their jobs and write laws (if they have to have to) ...
by dlisboa | 2026-01-29 17:54:47+00:00
Maybe. It's hard to know what kind of issues that test suite covers. If memory safety is the main source of instability for the C implementation then the Rust implementation won't be too affected without the test suite. Same if it focus a lot on compatibility with niche embedded platforms and different OSes, which Turso won't care to lose.

"Stability" is a word that means different things for different use cases.
by hiddencost | 2026-01-29 17:54:57+00:00
Are you thinking of civil liability or criminal liability?

Waymo is liable in a civil sense and pays whatever monetary amount is negotiated or awarded.

For a criminal case, some kind of willful negligence would have to be shown. That can pierce corporate veils. But as a result Waymo is being extremely careful to follow the law and establish processes which shield their employees from negligence claims.
by hocuspocus | 2026-01-29 17:55:07+00:00
Scala's decline started before Scala 3, which brought its share of breakage (sometimes for dubious reasons, like the new syntax) but also fixed many warts. Tooling has improved a lot lately, but it's too late.

> if you are not bound to the JVM I really don't understand why you would go with Scala today.

Scala's metaprogramming abilities coupled to a powerful type system are still unmatched. Among mainstream languages, only TypeScript gets somewhat close. For your typical service oriented architecture, libraries such as Tapir or ZIO HTTP are pretty nice. I haven't found anything as pleasant in other languages.

That said if an LLM can write 95% of your code today, this point is a bit moot, sadly.
by bossyTeacher | 2026-01-29 17:55:10+00:00
Mozilla has great ideas but just because YOU have a great idea it does not mean that you are the best entity to implement it. Mozilla is going to bankrupt itself by spending an excessive proportion of its money on moonshots. They would have way more impact if they redirected all that money into a great browser AND educating normies about privacy. Like way bigger impact.

Right now, Mozilla keeps fighting wars it cannot win.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-29 17:55:19+00:00
> What's the troll here?

The troll is making up the demonym "USian," using it on a public forum populated with Americans, and expecting not to get a derailing response from Americans. The word itself is bait; it invites people to call it out.

> Are you offended? Why?

Yes. It's American, not USian, and it's disrespectful to try to rename us. Simple as that.
by AlexandrB | 2026-01-29 17:55:21+00:00
1 is the real reason. 2 is really down to things like a big brain and opposable thumbs. Our trunk/legs are evolved for persistence hunting and long distance walking - activities that drive approximately 0% of the economy at this point. If robots didn't have to navigate an environment built for bipeds, other configurations would be far more reliable/efficient.

For instance: a quadruped base can be statically stable in case of power loss - a biped really can't.
by unnouinceput | 2026-01-29 17:55:27+00:00
I feel Windows 11 is in the initial phase of Windows 10. Remember beginning of years for 10? Sluggy, clunky, full of bugs? And everybody and their cat was holding to 7? I was the same, I was holding down the fort with 7. This year 7, next year 7 and so on until at one time I, like countless times before, spun a new virtual machine for a client and as usual I had to put 10 in there. Except this time 10 felt faster. No more clumsiness, no more slop. 2 months later I fully switched to 10 as my host OS.

I am currently on 10 so much that I installed the LTSC version that has support until 2032. Keep hammering Microslop, they deserve it. We need to keep bugging them, throw dirt on their face until they actually fix it. Seems that's the way with them nowadays. So I don't feel any shame to call them names at every corner.

But I am still not switching to Linux. Maybe in '32 when LTSC stop being supported and they still didn't fix 11. Oh, and from my experience, Debian will be the way to go. I like a proven distribution even if their repository is not the greatest and the latest.
by mholt | 2026-01-29 17:55:51+00:00
The autonomous vehicle should know what it can't know, like children coming out from behind obstructions. Humans have this intuitive sense. Apparently autonomous systems do not, and do not drive carefully, or slower, or give more space, in those situations. Does it know that it's in a school zone? (Hopefully.) Does it know that school is starting or getting out? (Probably not.) Should it? (Absolutely yes.)

This is the fault of the software and company implementing it.
by reify | 2026-01-29 17:56:12+00:00
Wouldn't worry about a few BPA chemicals.

worry about the water you have been drinking, supplied and owned by private companies more interested in profit than quality water.

I have always filtered my tap water with 4 ceramic candle filters to drink and use for cooking. fuck would I drink out of any tap.

This has been going on for years

from 2000

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/sep/07/wildlife.pollution
by drillsteps5 | 2026-01-29 17:56:20+00:00
I have a spreadsheet I've been using since 2017 to track all my spending and savings accounts on a weekly basis, plus some trend analytics, plus some simple graphs on multiple sheets. A few hundred rows and columns, both entered and calculated values (simple formulas, nothing fancy). Haven't noticed any slowness. When I have some data to look at (like .csv or even .xlsx), I always use Calc. I work with Excel at work all the time, it might be faster on larger data sets, but Libre's Calc is more than enough for many use cases.
by chaps | 2026-01-29 17:56:26+00:00
This is definitely not a context problem. Very simple things like checking for running processes and killing the correct one is something that models like opus 4.5 can't do consistently correct... instead of recognizing that it needs to systematize that sort of thing -- one and done. Like, probably 50% of the time it kills the wrong thing. About 25% of the time after that it recognizes that it didn't kill the correct thing and then rewrites the ps or lsof from scratch and has the problem again. Then if I kill the process myself out of frustration it checks to see if the process is running, sees that it's not, then gets confused and sets its new task to rewrite the ps or lsof... again. It does the same thing with tests, where it decides to just, without any doubt in its rock brain, delete the test and replace it with a print statement.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-01-29 17:57:00+00:00
An LLM will behave the way you treat it, for better or for worse.

From an objective, empirical, scientific point of view, consciousness and feelings are not really fantastically defined.

But looking at diverse tests that ARE available, modern LLMs seem to get interesting scores on a number of them.

The counter-argument being -of course- that no one ever made those tests with LLMs in mind. But that's not something you should come up with post-hoc. Define better experiments instead!

(The ethical issues you mention should probably be (re-)evaluated once systems have continuous memory/context)
by acdha | 2026-01-29 17:57:01+00:00
You have to actively maintain a state of ignorance to say this isn’t different. Go look at all of the public reporting starting in January about the way appointees in the Pentagon, DOGE, etc. blew through the normal policies and procedures controlling access, clearing people, or restricting sharing.

For example, this wasn’t just “oops, I used the wrong number” but Hegseth getting a custom line run into a secure facility so he could use a personal computer of unknown provenance and security:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/politics/hegseth-signa...

That’s one of the reasons why one of the first moves they made was to fire CISOs and the inspectors general who would normally be investigating serious policy violations.

This isn’t “big government”, it’s the attitude that the law is a tool used to hurt their opponents and help themselves but never the reverse.
by burningChrome | 2026-01-29 17:57:13+00:00
Co‑opetition?

Some have used the term "Strategic accommodation".

Interesting you bring this specific Mozilla/Google example up since this is the closet thing to seeing this happen in real time:

https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/09/court-ruling-secures-...

"Courts and press have noted that Mozilla relies heavily on Google’s search‑default payments, which keep Firefox viable. Recent antitrust proceedings have wrestled with whether (and how) to restrict these payments: a judge ultimately allowed Google to continue non‑exclusive payments to distribution partners like Mozilla while barring exclusivity and some tying/bundling—an outcome many observers said preserved Mozilla’s “lifeline” without materially threatening Google’s core position. That is textbook co‑opetition coupled with what many would call strategic accommodation."
by timpera | 2026-01-29 17:57:13+00:00
> Microsoft has now confirmed in a statement to The Verge that it has received this negative feedback loud and clear, and is planning to make some important changes in 2026.

> “The feedback we’re receiving from our community of passionate customers and Windows Insiders has been clear. We need to improve Windows in ways that are meaningful for people. This year you will see us focus on addressing pain points we hear consistently from customers: improving system performance, reliability, and the overall experience of Windows.”

https://archive.is/Ru5Ls
by pengaru | 2026-01-29 17:57:55+00:00
In recent weeks I've found myself driving in downtown SF congestion more than usual, and observed Waymos doing totally absurd things on multiple occasions.

The main saving grace is they all occurred at low enough speeds that the consequences were little more than frustrating/delaying for everyone present - pedestrians and drivers alike, as nobody knew what to expect next.

They are very far from perfect drivers. And what's especially problematic is the nature of their mistakes seem totally bizarre vs. the kinds of mistakes human drivers make.
by adamzwasserman | 2026-01-29 17:57:55+00:00
This is exactly right. Client-side processing for sensitive data like contacts eliminates the trust problem entirely. Most migration tools want you to upload your entire contact database to some random server when the extraction can happen locally in milliseconds.

Pure client-side tools like this should be an option for any personal data processing.

This is what I have done for my users: an option to import their emails to an in-browser db for guaranteed privacy.
by Talanes | 2026-01-29 17:58:44+00:00
>If the patron found them through the patreon iOS app and use the app to consume the artist's content, then clearly the patron has indicated that they prefer the iOS experience.

I hate IOS enough that I'm running at least a full numbered version behind with updates turned off and never plan to buy another IOS device, and I'm subscribed to multiple Patreons started through the IOS app merely because it was the device in my hand and they automatically funnel Patreon links to it.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-29 17:59:09+00:00
Hamas is an idea. Hamas is the idea that Israel must be destroyed. If you want people to stop thinking Israel is evil and must be destroyed, it would greatly help if Israel stopped killing their families. Usually, when you see someone kill your family and the people around you, you start thinking they are evil and must be destroyed. This is pretty basic human psychology.

To make people believe that Israel is a good thing instead, they could start by delivering lots of food and fresh water. Even more easily, they could start by letting in the food and fresh water that's lined up outside of the border.
by aurumque | 2026-01-29 17:59:49+00:00
I would think that building a environment which can be managed by a game engine is the first pass. In a few years when we are able to render more than 60 seconds it could very well replace the game engine entirely by just rendering everything in realtime based on user interactions. The final phase is just prompts which turn directly into interactive games, maybe even multiplayer. When I see the progress we've made on things like DOOM, where it can infer the proper rendering of actions like firing weapons and even updating scores on hits and such it doesn't feel like we're very far off, a few years at most.
by coryrc | 2026-01-29 18:00:22+00:00
First, it's still the automobile's fault.

At least it was already slowed down to 17 mph to start. Remember that viral video of some Australian in a pickup ragdolling a girl across the road? Most every comment is "well he was going the speed limit no fault for him!" No asshole, you hit someone. It's your fault. He got zero charges and the girl was seriously injured.
by Edman274 | 2026-01-29 18:00:39+00:00
I can't figure out your position, then. You were saying that human eyes suck and are inferior compared to sensors because human eyes require interpretation by a human brain. You're also saying that if self driving isn't possible with only camera sensors, then no amount of extra sensors will make up for the deficiency.

This came from a side conversation with other parties where one noted that driving is possible with only human eyes, another person said that human eyes are superior to cameras, you disagreed, and then when you're told that the only company which is approaching self driving with cameras alone has cameras with worse visual resolution and worse temporal resolution than human eyes, you're saying you respect the grind because the cameras require processing by a computer.

If I understand correctly, you believe:

1. Driving should be possible with vision alone, because human eyes can do it, and human eyes are inferior to camera sensors and require post processing, so obviously with superior sensors it must be possible
2. Even if one knows that current automotive camera sensors are not actually superior to human eyes and also require post processing, then that just means that camera-only approaches are the only way forward and you "respect the grind" of a single company trying to make it work.

Is that correct? Okay, maybe that's understandable, but it makes me confused because 1 and 2 contradict each other. Help me out here.
by simoncion | 2026-01-29 18:00:41+00:00
> That's fair, but I would also read it as a sign of things to come for the rest.

Given this statement from the announcement that I linked to previously

The Plasma X11 session will be supported by KDE into early 2027.

We cannot provide a specific date, as we’re exploring the possibility of shipping some extra bug-fix releases for Plasma 6.7. The exact timing of the last one will only be known when we get closer to its actual release, which we expect will be sometime in early 2027.

I expect that I will get at least a year's notice before they stop actively working on the rest of the parts of KDE that interact with X11... whenever that ends up being. A year is more than enough time to find replacements for things that might eventually stop working one day.

Were I sixteen, I'd be very excited to preemptively move to something else. Now? The folks who work on it say that they'll keep it working for the forseeable future, and their behavior suggests that I'll get ample notice before they stop working on it.

The software in question works now (AFAICT) and will continue to work for quite a while. I see no reason to switch. I have much better things to do with my time.