MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bink | 2026-01-29 21:18:37+00:00
I performed these types of physical pen tests years ago. If we were testing security for something like a courthouse we would've had a card on each of us with the personal cell phone number of the county clerk along with a statement of work that described exactly what we were authorized to do, with signatures. In some cases we'd have a backup contact number for more dangerous stuff. The idea that the emergency contact would not answer the phone would've seemed ludicrous. They were always aware of where we were and what we were doing at all times.

Damaging property was never approved. Drinking alcohol before a test would never happen. The insurance risk alone would've been nuts, not to mention the reputational damage if someone smelled it on your breath. Hiding from law enforcement? I'd need to know more about that. If a cop shows up with a gun you absolutely do not hide. If it's a security guard on rounds and you're waiting for them to move on... sure.

It was often dangerous though. Some security and law enforcement types take it personally that they're being "tested" and do not react well. We always tried to have some former law enforcement or military with us because they were less likely to be targeted for abuse than us hackers/nerds.
by observationist | 2026-01-29 21:18:44+00:00
To me, it's 100% clear - if your tool use is reckless or negligent and results in a crime, then you are guilty of that crime. "It's my robot, it wasn't me" isn't a compelling defense - if you can prove that it behaved significantly outside of your informed or contracted expectations, then maybe the AI platform or the Robot developer could be at fault. Given the current state of AI, though, I think it's not unreasonable to expect that any bot can go rogue, that huge and trivially accessible jailbreak risks exist, so there's no excuse for deploying an agent onto the public internet to do whatever it wants outside direct human supervision. If you're running moltbot or whatever, you're responsible for what happens, even if the AI decided the best way to get money was to hack the Federal Reserve and assign a trillion dollars to an account in your name. Or if Grok goes mechahitler and orders a singing telegram to Will Stancil's house, or something. These are tools; complex, complicated, unpredictable tools that need skillfull and careful use.

There was a notorious dark web bot case where someone created a bot that autonomously went onto the dark web and purchased numerous illicit items.

https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.or...

They bought some ecstasy, a hungarian passport, and random other items from Agora.

>The day after they took down the exhibition showcasing the items their bot had bought, the Swiss police “arrested” the robot, seized the computer, and confiscated the items it had purchased. “It seems, the purpose of the confiscation is to impede an endangerment of third parties through the drugs exhibited, by destroying them,” someone from !Mediengruppe Bitnik wrote on their blog.

In April, however, the bot was released along with everything it had purchased, except the ecstasy, and the artists were cleared of any wrongdoing. But the arrest had many wondering just where the line gets drawn between human and computer culpability.
by MisterTea | 2026-01-29 21:19:13+00:00
From 2012 so AI doesn't factor in which would be more interesting in comparison.

Having watched the Jetsons as a kid I remember that George Jetson worked for Spaceley Sprockets where his only job was to push a single button. He worked with a computer personality called Rudy (an AI) who from memory was always depressed and had a crush on a female computer personality of rival company Cogsworth Cogs.

It would be interesting to revisit this with a focus on the relationship and interactions between humans and their AI/robotics.
by tetha | 2026-01-29 21:19:23+00:00
> I would wager the main reason for this is the same reason it’s also hard to teach these skills to people: there’s not a lot of high quality training for distributed debugging of complex production issues. Competence comes from years of experience fighting fires.

The search space for a cause beyong a certain size can also be big. Very big.

Like, at work we're at the beginning of where the powerlaw starts going nuts. Somewhere around 700 - 1000 services in production, across several datacenters, with a few dozen infrastructure clusters behind it. For each bug, if you looked into it, there'd probably by 20 - 30 changes, 10 - 20 anomalies, and 5 weird things someone noticed in the 30 minutes around it.

People already struggle at triaging relevance of everything in this context. That's something I can see AI start helping and there were some talks about Meta doing just that - ranking changes and anomalies in order of relevance to a bug ticket so people don't run after other things.

That's however just the reactive part of OPS and SRE work. The proactive part is much harder and oftentimes not technical. What if most negatively rated support cases run into a dark hole in a certain service, but the responsible team never allocates time to improve monitoring, because sales is on their butt for features? LLMs can identify this maybe, or help them implement the tracing faster, but those 10 minutes could also be spent on features for money.

And what AI model told you to collect the metrics about support cases and resolution to even have that question?
by bluegatty | 2026-01-29 21:20:02+00:00
It's amazing that all those other companies have not figured out that their apps are generally bloat, and they release all sorts of models to Apple's fairly tight lineup.

The winning example of tight product management is right there for them, but they continue to act like 'feature factories' without any concious 'whole product' design philosophy.

Probably many people within these organizations are aware, but they don't have the power to resist ingrained operational culture.
by jobs_throwaway | 2026-01-29 21:20:14+00:00
> You need way more data, like orders of magnitude more. There are trillions of miles driven in the US every year.

Absurd, reductive, and non-empirical. Waymos crash and cause injury/fatality far less frequently than human drivers, full stop. You are simply out of your mind if you believe otherwise, and you should re-evaluate the data.

> Those miles often include driving in inclement weather which is something Waymo hasn't even scraped the surface of yet.

Yes. No one is claiming that Waymos are better drivers than humans in inclement weather, because they don't operate in those conditions. That does not mean Waymos are not able to outperform human drivers in the conditions in which they do operate.

> I see an environment forming where we ignore the hard problems and pray these corporate overlords solve the problem on their own. It's madness.

What's madness is your attitude that Waymos' track record does not show they are effective are reducing crashes. And again, working on policy does not prevent us from also improving technology as you seem to believe it does.
by greiskul | 2026-01-29 21:20:15+00:00
It's not about power users. It's about regular users and the patterns they have learned.

The mobile ecosystem was built in a way to funnel all users into apps. That's the experience that is optimized for use, that's the experience users feel safe and secure. Barriers were put in place on what apps are even allowed to do (like not having alternative app stores, or a browser in iOs that is not just a webview of Safari). This created an enviroment where developers and companies are forced to develop to this ecosystem, and pay the Apple tax, since that's where the users are. And an alternative system is impossible to be created since Apple uses it's power at the hardware and operating system level to make alternatives impossible.

And someone will probably come and say that this is all users choice to be locked down in the walled garden. That the walled garden is keeping the users safe, so therefore it is only fair that Apple gets to capture 30% of all digital economical activity.
by arcfour | 2026-01-29 21:20:48+00:00
Their ability to drive being impaired is somewhat dubious since they are under the legal limit in all of the states I have heard of.

W/r/t drinking and working, I personally dislike the puritanical zero tolerance for alcohol approach that people here in the US seem to take by default. Most people can have one or two drinks and work just fine, with obvious exceptions.

I don't think we should judge people who have to travel to a boring small town in Iowa and have to go to work in the middle of the night for having a drink or two.

If you can't have just a drink or two, or have to do it every day, that's a bigger issue that goes beyond work vs. simply having a drink and doing work on occasion.
by derefr | 2026-01-29 21:21:11+00:00
In countries with public healthcare + doctor shortages (e.g. Canada), good luck even getting a family doctor, let alone having a request to switch you family doctor "when you already have one!" get taken seriously.

Everyone I know just goes to walk-in clinics / urgent-care centres. And neither of those options give doctors any "skin in the game." Or any opportunities for follow-up. Or any ongoing context for evaluating treatment outcomes of chronic conditions, with metrics measured across yearly checkups. Or the "treatment workflow state" required to ever prescribe anything that's not a first-line treatment for a disease. Or, for that matter, the willingness to believe you when you say that your throat infection is not in fact viral, because you've had symptoms continuously for four months already, and this was just the first time you had enough time and energy to wake up at 6AM so you could wait out in front of the clinic at 7:30AM before the "first-come-first-served" clinic fills up its entire patient queue for the day.
by yunohn | 2026-01-29 21:21:18+00:00
> This is why it never has been and will never be considered a premium android phone.

You are entitled to your opinion, but the S series is objectively considered a premium android phone by basically everyone. By your standard, the only possible contender is Google’s Pixel lineup, but I get the feeling you might consider Google’s forced 1st party apps as intrusive too.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 21:21:18+00:00
The website is really bad. If one moves from Python to curl in the website, one really sees how much noticable lag there is.

Like holy Cow, I am not sure what to say seeing such noticable lag

The time to go from python to curl. I have seen websites load faster, heck I feel like even 2-3 whole websites can actually be loaded in the noticable lag time we observe.

Absolutely crazy to witness.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-29 21:21:31+00:00
A stark difference with that analogy is that with a bicycle, the human is still doing quite a bit of work themselves. The bicycle amplifies the human effort, whereas with a motor vehicle, the vehicle replaces the human effort entirely.

No strong opinion on if that's good or bad long term, as humans have been outsourcing portions of their thinking for a really long time, but it's interesting to think about.
by kburman | 2026-01-29 21:21:43+00:00
Thanks for answering! Regarding cardinality, I was actually thinking more about high-cardinality dimensions on the NLU side, e.g., if a user asks for "Sales for [Obscure Company Name]," and you have 10M distinct customers. Does the Knowledge Graph have to index all those values for the mapping to work?

On the adaptive plans, Is that execution logic handled entirely by your deterministic compiler, or does it loop back to the LLM to interpret the intermediate results?
by whalee | 2026-01-29 21:21:45+00:00
This was a common argument against LLMs, that the space of possible next tokens is so vast that eventually a long enough sequence will necessarily decay into nonsense, or at least that compounding error will have the same effect.

Problem is, that's not what we've observed to happen as these models get better. In reality there is some metaphysical coarse-grained substrate of physics/semantics/whatever[1] which these models can apparently construct for themselves in pursuit of ~whatever~ goal they're after.

The initially stated position, and your position: "trying to hallucinate an entire world is a dead-end", is a sort of maximally-pessimistic 'the universe is maximally-irreducible' claim.

The truth is much much more complicated.

[1] https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.03750
by jobs_throwaway | 2026-01-29 21:21:53+00:00
> This is goalpost moving 101. The question isn't would a human driver also struggle but _would it be better_? You have zero data.

It is not moving the goalpost to say "so would a human". Comparison to human drivers is exactly the stated goalpost (and it should be).

> You have zero data.

Outrageously uninformed take. We have mountains of data that show Waymos in aggregate are safer drivers than humans.
by 3rodents | 2026-01-29 21:21:56+00:00
The comment being discussed advocates for people to use ChatGPT and push their doctor to follow its recommendations. Even if we assume the OP is an average representation of people in their life, that means half of the people they are recommending ChatGPT to for medical advice are not going to be interrogating the information it provides.

A lazy doctor combined with a patient that lacks a clear understanding of how ChatGPT works and how to use it effectively could have disastrous results. A lazy doctor following the established advice for a condition by prescribing a medication that causes high blood sugar is orders of magnitude less dangerous than a lazy doctor who gives in to a crackpot medical plan that the patient has come up with using ChatGPT without the rigour described by the comment we are discussing.

Spend any amount of time around people with chronic health conditions (online or offline) and you'll realise just how much damage could be done by encouraging them to use ChatGPT. Not because they are idiots but because they are desperate.
by testing22321 | 2026-01-29 21:21:59+00:00
Most people^ don’t actually want to own a car and deal with breakdowns, maintenance, repairs, fender benders, etc etc.

They want the convenience and freedom a car provides. Right now in many places the best way to get that is ownership, so we suck it up and buy a horribly depreciating asset that causes headaches.

That could quickly change if someone can figure out how to make using a car just as convenient while also cheaper.

^ of course there are car enthusiasts who will always want to own, but that’s a tiny fraction of car owners.
by tgtweak | 2026-01-29 21:22:10+00:00
Much like talking to your doctor - you need to ask/prompt the right questions. I've seen chatgpt and gemini make one false assumption that was never mentioned and run with it and continue referencing it down the line as if it were fact... That can be extremely dangerous if you don't know enough to ask it to reframe or verify, or correct it's assumption.

If you are using it like a tool to review/analyze or simplify something - ie explain risk stratification for a particular cancer variant and what is taken into account, or ask it to provide probabilities and ranges for survival based on age/medical history, it's usually on the money.

Every other caveat mentioned here is valid, and it's valid for many domains not just medical.

I did get hemotologist/oncologist level advice out of chatgpt 4o based on labs, pcr tests and symptoms - and those turned out to be 100% true based on how things panned out in the months that followed and ultimately the treatment that was given. Doctors do not like to tell you the good and the bad candidly - it's always "we'll see what the next test says but things look positive" and "it could be as soon as 1 week or as long as several months depending on what we find" when they know full well you're in there for 2 months at minimum you're a miracle case. Only once cornered or prompted will they give you a larger view of the big picture. The same is true for most professional fields.
by noitpmeder | 2026-01-29 21:22:27+00:00
So I can pass on contact breaches due to bugs in software I maintain due to hallucinations by the AI that I used to write the software?? Absolutely no way.

"But the AI wrote the bug."

Who cares? It could be you, your relative, your boss, your underling, your counterpart in India, ... Your company provided some reasonable guarantee of service (whether explitly enumerated in a contact or not) and you cannot just blindly pass the buck.

Sure, after you've settled your claim with the user, maybe TRY to go after the upstream provider, but good luck.

(Extreme example) -- If your company produces a pacemaker dependent on AWS/GCP/... and everyone dies as soon as cloudflare has a routing outage that cascades to your provider, oh boy YOU are fucked, not cloudflare or your hosting provider.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-29 21:22:29+00:00
I guess I hadn't heard this news. Who defected? I mean, you said "prominent" so presumably we're talking a few US senators or a Governor or something ? People I'd have heard of?

About half of Reform's parliamentary party were elected as Tories. Was Josh Hawley previously a Democrat ? Did Mitch used to be Bernie's best friend and then Trump swayed him to join the GOP ? Maybe Rand Paul or Tom Cotton ? No ? So we're not talking about the same thing at all.
by arcfour | 2026-01-29 21:23:15+00:00
I don't see how that relates to, say, software engineering or physical pentesting though. And 1/3 people is still a fairly significant number that do not suffer ill effects. I also said heavily impaired—not that they were categorically not suffering from any effect of the alcohol.

My point is not that they definitely should have done it. It is simply that, in this context, it's really not a big deal & is not really germane to the discussion at all. They did nothing wrong, stone cold sober or not.
by Izikiel43 | 2026-01-29 21:23:24+00:00
I was having wrist pain from using the mouse, and switched to a trackball, issue solved, if the wrist doesn't move/flex, it doesn't get strained, therefore no pain.

The only thing that moves is my thumb, and it's much better for flexing than the wrist, also it has a tiny load to manage vs the wrist.
by senfiaj | 2026-01-29 21:23:27+00:00
I still hope that modules become mature and safe for production code. Initially I coded in C/C++ and this header #include/#ifndef approach seemed OK at that time. But after using other programming languages, this approach started to feel too archaic. No sane programming language should require a duplication in order to export something (for example, the full function and its prototype), you should write something once and easily export.
by doublerabbit | 2026-01-29 21:23:36+00:00
Debian is out-of-date with packages although for good reasons and Ubuntu is a corporate lobotomized version Debian.

Fedora is bleeding edge not recommended for anything other than testing and is of corporate RedHat now owned by IBM and Arch is Gentoo's jealous cousin.

It's why I use FreeBSD and keeping close tabs on Haiku.
by al_borland | 2026-01-29 21:23:40+00:00
Is the issue you're seeing that a 400V car is taking up the space that an 800V car could use, so the 800V car has to wait longer for the 400V car to finish?

If all chargers are 800V+ that would become a moot point to a degree.

We also need to keep in mind that most people will ideally be charging at home. So these public chargers would be for people taking a trip or for people with parking situations that can't accommodate home charging.
by rluna828 | 2026-01-29 21:24:02+00:00
So you agree that 50mm Han Chinese dead makes the CCP brutal, correct? Every brutal regime thinks they are justified. Ask the US if they think they are justified. Woke is dead. China is much smaller than the west. The G7 is maybe 1/4 of the west. The west includes EU, US, first island chain (japan, s. korea, Philippines, etc), all of the western hemisphere.) China has no allies, it probably doesn't need them. However, China doesn't control its vital sea-lanes. It has less water per person than Saudi Arabia. China has more old people than the west and Confucianism prohibit to "great leap forward" them. China is not escaping the middle income trap.
by abraxas | 2026-01-29 21:24:33+00:00
> if you wanted imagination you don't need to make a video model. You probably don't need to decode the latents at all.

Soft disagree. What is the purpose of that imagination if not to map it to actual real world outfcomes. For this to compare them to the real world and possibly backpropagate through them you'll need video frames.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2026-01-29 21:24:39+00:00
Stadia was lightyears ahead, but pro-Microsoft media assassinated it with FUD

While "journalists" were busy bootlicking a laggy 720p Android only xCloud beta, Stadia was already delivering flawless 4K@60FPS in a web browser

They killed the only platform that actually worked just to protect Microsoft

This will be a textbook case study in how a legacy monopoly kills innovation to protect its own mediocrity

Microsoft won't survive the century, they are a dinosaur on borrowed time that has already lost the war in mobile, AI, and robotics

They don't create,, they just buy marrket share to suffocate the competition and ruin every product they touch

Even their cloud dominance is about to end, as they are already losing their grip on the European market to antitrust and sovereign alternatives
by thangalin | 2026-01-29 21:24:46+00:00
> An alternative is self-hosting by running a Kroki container.

Exactly, which is why KeenWrite has a "Diagram server" setting:

https://i.ibb.co/LXxm33cb/diagram-server.png

> they're just for different use-cases

Sure. A software system could support one plain text diagram format, or support a multitude without tons more effort, architecturally speaking.
by gambiting | 2026-01-29 21:24:53+00:00
>>Samsung annoy me with all the bloatware etc but the hardware is decent

I used to buy every S Ultra phone every year, thinking the same - this year I bought the latest Oppo instead and wow, what a bubble I used to live in. The battery alone blows the Ultras out of the water, the chip is just as fast but stays cool, the camera and the screen are just better. The only thing that Samsung had over this was the anti reflective coating. Oh and it actually charges like a modern phone not something from 2015.
by cyanydeez | 2026-01-29 21:25:05+00:00
I think people really misunderstand what racism is, and how Trump used the delusion of racists to make them all think they were gonna get "their" racism satisfied, when in fact, he was only refering to his and his staffs racism, which is mostly the same as Nazis.

The fact that he was hispanic is in fact why he was harassed. The fact that some hispanics align with racism in the duty of Trump isn't confusing when you understand they might've thought he was venezualan while they're all cuban or whatever. They might have easily be enforcing their brand of racism.

The reason thinks like "LatinX" were rejected by latinos wasn't cause they hated liberals, it was because most of the south/central Americans have their own ethnographic racisms, and Trump tapped into that by essentially convincing them that he'd go after the "illegal" ones, and all the racists replaced illegal with whatever ethnographic/nationalist they hated.

So after all that, I assum you have no idea why hispanics deputized with federal power would pick on other hispanics, do you? Cause what you're demonstrating is the nazi POV of racism.