MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dpark | 2026-01-01 00:40:42+00:00
I get what you’re saying, but this is incorrect. The author exercised a third choice, which was to say no. This isn’t speculation. This is what the author said actually happened.

What killed this deal is that the author did not set aside enough time to do the work, and then lost interest. This seems pretty clear from the post. From my reading, it looks like the author was missing deadlines before they even brought up the topic of AI. And then continued missing deadlines and pushing out the schedule even after they said no to the AI ideas. And then ultimately put the whole thing on hold and never picked it back up.

If the publisher said “put AI in this or we kill the project”, your reading would be correct. But I don’t see that anywhere in this write up. I see an author who didn’t deliver. Not even the first third, so there wasn’t even an advanced payment.

And to be clear, I am not hating on the author here. Life happens. Interests change. All I’m saying is that this project was not canned because of the refusal to put AI into it.
by rocketvole | 2026-01-01 00:40:52+00:00
I've been trying out different distros, but still using windows 10 ltsc as my main OS. I've got 2 additional partitions containing popos with cosmic and kde fedora that I've narrowed it down to, but both need just a little more bugfixing to to become perfect for me. LTSC is still supported for a while, but if my computer stopped working, I feel like macOS would be a no-brainer for most people.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-01 00:41:39+00:00
> There's just no way in hell ChatGPT at its current level is going to guide you flawlessly through all of that if you start with a simple "I want to build a raytracer" prompt!

I mean, maybe not "flawlessly", and not in a single prompt, but it absolutely can.

I've gone deep in several areas, essentially consuming around a book's worth of content from ChatGPT over the course of several days, each day consisting of about 20 prompts and replies. It's an astonishingly effective way to learn, because you get to ask it to go simpler when you're confused and explain more, in whatever mode you want (i.e. focus on the math, focus on the geometry, focus on the code, focus on the intuition). And then whenever you feel like you've "got" the current stage, ask it what to move onto next, and if there are choices.

This isn't going to work for cutting-edge stuff that you need a PhD advisor to guide you through. But for most stuff up to about a master's-degree level where there's a pretty "established" progression of things and enough examples in its training data (which ray-tracing will have plenty of), it's phenomenal.

If you haven't tried it, you may be very surprised. Does it make mistakes? Yes, occasionally. Do human-authored books also make mistakes? Yes, and often probably at about the same rate. But you're stuck adapting yourself to their organization and style and content, whereas with ChatGPT it adapts its teaching and explanations and content to you and your needs.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2026-01-01 00:41:47+00:00
it is still cheaper. In the past decade, China has gone from their electricity being from 66% coal to under 58% this year, with the amount of wind and solar climbing from <5% to >12% over the same period. Their coal usage has gone up in absolute terms, but at current rates of solar and wind expansion that will reverse itself in the next 5 years with coal plants used increasingly as peaker plants. The only reason China is building coal plants still is that global pv production isn't sufficient to transition all power to it immediately.
by ramses0 | 2026-01-01 00:42:12+00:00
"Instant Hot" is a tap you can install that's like a mini-thermos/water heater to give you some amount of "instant hot" water.

There's a decent caled a "pot watcher" (aka: boiling-rattler) that is a mechanical "hey, it's boiling" indicator.

Anytime I'm cooking or thinking of cooking, I'll always throw water into the tea kettle (countertop boiler) and start it off, for exactly the reasons stated.

I'm very thumbs up (and already follow) almost all of his advice, including the "use two boiling elements to get water boiling faster".
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-01 00:42:19+00:00
> Everybody I know... has a negative opinion of these brands.

Not uncommon but they still use them, that's how monopolies work. I mean, people do hate monopolies but that changes absolutely nothing.

The network effect is real and cannot be broken without a concerted media push, which is another can of worms I'd rather not open this year.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-01 00:42:32+00:00
This is always said as if the buggy whip maker successfully transitioned to some new job. Please show me 10 actual examples of individuals in 1880 that successfully adapted to new jobs after the industrial revolution destroyed their old one, and what their life looked like before and after.

'Sure the 1880 start of the industrial revolution sucked, all the way through the end of WW2, but then we figured out jobs and middle class for a short time, so it doesn't matter you personally are being put at the 1880 starting point, because the 1950s had jobs'. Huh?
by hakfoo | 2026-01-01 00:42:55+00:00
If the commission system was completely transparent, it could be part of a trust system.

A reviewer that said "I stand to receive $2.76 kickback if you buy the Magnavox TV, and $3.04 if you buy the Zenith, and I still recommend the Magnavox" would be a strong recommendation.

I'd also love to see the CPC/CPA price next to lead-generation ads. For example, that whole Medicate Advantage media blitz you see every year. I wouldn't be surprised if they generate triple-digit commissions per referral, and if customers knew there was that much money being thrown at the process, what impact would that have on their credibility?
by kristianp | 2026-01-01 00:43:04+00:00
This paper precedes the VPRI, which was incorporated in 2001 (1). The work was done while they were at Apple.

Squeak was bootstrapped from Macintosh Smalltalk-80 and the kernel was in C to make it portable. Related projects to squeak are etoys, scratch and lively (2).

(1) https://vpri.org/
(2) https://computerhistory.org/profile/dan-ingalls-2/
by Trenthug | 2026-01-01 00:43:07+00:00
Haven't read this completely though, but the arguments presented in these quoted passages does seem to suggest that the above posted model of consciousness is a refined method saying the same things as , consciousness is related to complexity and the internal model(evolved for evolutionary purposes)which is evolving over time (it might also be considered an analogue of subjective experience as presented in the paper).The contents of this debate seem to agree with what is being said in the consciousness model presented above, feel free to express any thoughts or questions about if the desire arises.
by andrekandre | 2026-01-01 00:43:39+00:00
slightly off the main topic, but if you wanna run dark forces II with gpu acceleration and texture filtering etc, try out OpenJKDF2

i got this working on my linux install (on risc-v nonetheless!) with a compile and some small tweaks it works well (getting 100+fps with filtering and ssao etc)

[0] https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2
by momoschili | 2026-01-01 00:44:10+00:00
The raw materials: diffractive optical elements and single mode fibers from a materials perspective are all quite easy to manufacture. The primarily limitation with miniaturization is the single-mode fibers, which are limited by the optical wavelength you are using and the index of the fiber. For a conventional silica optical fiber, this is probably around ~100 nm diameter at a minimum. Newer materials can definitely change this 2-3x, but I'm not aware of anything more fundamental.

So in general this would be something that you would potentially be able to see in cars, but unlikely consumer electronics or handhelds without a modification in the operational principle (eg time-multiplexing to reduce the required number of fibers).

My personal opinion is that competing on low-power and small-scale is a lost cause for photonic computing. In terms of absolute energy efficiency and absolute miniaturization, photonics will never win. But at larger energy scales and larger systems, photonics can reach a regime where higher parallel throughput will dominate.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-01 00:44:26+00:00
> Can we talk about how literally every single paragraph quoted from ChatGPT in this document contains some variation of "it's not X — it's Y"?

I mean, sure, if you want to talk about the least significant, novel, or interesting aspect of the story. Its a very common sentence structure outside of ChatGPT that ChatGPT has widely been observed to use even more than the the high rate it occurs in human text, this article doesn’t really add anything new to that observation.
by AussieWog93 | 2026-01-01 00:47:08+00:00
A lot of people arguing the philosophy here, but I'm willing to bet that sneak simply had very strong negative experiences around gift giving growing up.

For a lot of people, a gift is not a gift but an invitation to abuse, and it's hard to be rational or pro-social about it when you were on the receiving end of that as a child.
by MKuykendall | 2026-01-01 00:47:10+00:00
This is a small experiment showing per-record runtime independent of the number of compiled obligations in a single-pass boundary execution model.

The demo focuses on behavior, not throughput tuning. Startup cost scales; runtime does not.

Details available under NDA. I’m reachable at: michaelallenkuykendall [at] gmail [dot] com
by xsourcesec | 2026-01-01 00:47:32+00:00
Hi HN! After a year of AI red teaming, I published our internal security baseline as an open standard.

The Baseline covers:
- Pre-deployment (threat modeling, prompt injection testing)
- CI/CD integration (automated security gates)
- Runtime protection (I/O filtering, rate limiting)
- OWASP LLM Top 10 mapping

Tools to implement it (free to try):
- AgentAudit: https://app.xsourcesec.com - 650+ attack vectors
- BreachLab: https://breachlab.xsourcesec.com - Gamified prompt injection training

Happy to answer questions about LLM security!
by SecretDreams | 2026-01-01 00:47:39+00:00
Have you ever read Elon's wiki? Or any other individual rich enough to curate whatever views they choose?

Warren buffet did good and he came up with a winning strategy. Momentum was ultimately his friend and what drove his success. When ETFs are great today and their popularity largely because of Warren, I think a lot of what's increasingly becoming obviously wrong with the markets ties back to the original strategy behind ETFs.

There's no more self selection or focus on fundamentals. All pensions are now exposed and regular contributors to the markets, so winner and losing picking doesn't really exist in the same way and performance is no longer tied to reality. I dread what that means as populations stagnant since it puts some risk on future pensions and their somewhat ponzi-esque structure.

All the pessimistic rants aside - it's insane to refer me to a billionaire's wiki as an attempt to get to know them. I largely look at people based on how they might treat family, friends, strangers, etc. In that regard, I'm mixed.
by jLaForest | 2026-01-01 00:48:45+00:00
That's a misreading of the term in the same way saying that the phrase 'black lives matter' imply white lives don't matter

The point is that this type of environmental pollution only is allowed to happen in poor areas that are disproportionately black because of decades of systemic racism like red lining.

If that concept makes you uncomfortable, that's a good thing, it should. But you should resist the urge to deny the existence of ideas that are inconvenient
by scsh | 2026-01-01 00:49:05+00:00
The GDPR lets someone request deletion of their data and there are legal teeth to force a business to comply, but that's 1:1. Maybe I need to dig deeper, but this specifically applies to data brokers it seems. That's great and it being a one to many request is fantastic, but sounds like it may not apply to just anyone who has data on you like the GDPR...
by ianlevesque | 2026-01-01 00:49:12+00:00
Yes but it’s barely usable. I ended up making my own Dockerfile and a bash script to just ‘docker run’ my setup itself, and as a bonus you don’t need Docker Desktop. I might open source it at some point but honestly it’s pretty trivial to just append a couple of volume mount flags and env vars to your docker run and have exactly what you want included.
by metalman | 2026-01-01 00:51:32+00:00
aviation occupies a great deal of my attention, and there is a logic to everything that is done, based on actual provable, repeatable results.
anything involved in high volume passenger aviation has to pass reliability tests that will dry your eyes out just reading through the synopsis, nothing is making it to the PR stage.
I splain little bit, pick some fancy country full of rich people flying around, tell them that the US has just ripped the lid off airspace restrictions (again¹), and is now letting some kind of ubber drone thing loose , and quite litteraly instantly there will be calls for all flights going to the US to turn around as all insurance policys for commercial flights to the US will be null and void.

¹one of the few times the US has been forced to back down admit fault, and agree to changes.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/17/united...
by conradev | 2026-01-01 00:51:43+00:00
He tasked that to his kids:

He turned 95 years old on August 30. He was 75 when he began giving away his fortune, announcing plans in June 2006 to give away the bulk of his wealth to five foundations, primarily the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He changed his will in 2024, designating 99.5% of his remaining fortune after his death to a charitable trust overseen by his three children and also announcing in June 2024 that donations to the Gates Foundation would cease upon his death.

https://www.omahamagazine.com/giving/buffetts-6b-gift-a-hist...
by varenc | 2026-01-01 00:52:37+00:00
Excited to see this! Because completing the CCPA "delete my data" process for 300+ data brokers just isn't feasible.

Though I wonder what the second order effects of this might be. Imagine a service that vets tenants for landlords. If I've had all my data deleted, might I start failing background checks because the sketchy data brokers have no records of me? I fear a future where the complete absence of my data leads to bad side effects.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-01 00:52:54+00:00
>Win7Pro

I have multiple systems set up, but my second-favorite is still my Win7Pro Core2Duo with 4GB RAM. It sits next to one of my typewriters, and still handles official/govt/tax forms quite well. It is my only machine that I allow access to Google services (it has its own with a very basic ruleset), all others being heavily PiHoled.

But this year I did finally convert an older dual core Xeon into a Linux-only box, which runs local Ollama quite well for predating ChatGPT by several years.

Lastly, I sold all of my MSFT over this past year. I had only bought in, late 2022, because I had high-hopes for their integration of AI assistants... boy did they fumble that...

>walking away from iOS on the iPhone

Have you considered walking entirely away from smart phones? I don't even carry a cell phone, anymore (it is heavenly), but voice/text-only flip phones could be a sobering life experience for you.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-01 00:53:49+00:00
This topic came up at Christmas dinner with family. I had no luck coming up with a reason why they should care.

"Control" would not be a better argument with them. Everything is already controlled. What amazon, google, youtube, facebook, instagram, tiktok, netflix, spotify, recommend to you is all controlled. Various insurance (health, car, etc) is relatively controlled. Through an employeer you usually get health insurance. If you're self or un-employed they require, or did require, extensive health info before they would let you sign up.

And, I'm not entirely sure I disgree with that. Why should my premiums be higher because someone else wants to participate in risky behavior?

Like many here I go though lots of trouble to stay anon. VPNs, multiple unrelated browser profiles, multiple browsers, never use the same email address twice, differnt passwords, etc.... But I can't really think of a truely compelling reason to to give to my family why they should do anything similar.

I can mention things like the girl who's parents discovered she was pregnent when advertisers started sending her baby care ads. But, that's just not relevant to them.
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-01 00:54:12+00:00
Right. Maybe they’ll make it more cab-like with more, smaller, simpler helicopters? Still won’t work. Even if they manage to make one like a drone or something that’s a million times easier to fly than a regular helicopter, good luck finding enough pilots qualified to fly shit that big in some of the world’s busiest airspace. Hell, they have a hard time finding bus drivers.
by petcat | 2026-01-01 00:54:17+00:00
> They adopted gdpr some years ago.

The CCPA is far better than the GDPR. For one, they actually managed to make an effective privacy law that didn't have the knock-on effect of polluting the entire internet with pointless cookie banners. The EU is already making moves to scrap huge parts of their misguided privacy regulations and adopt rules more like what California did with the CCPA.

California lawmakers "adopted the GDPR" only insofar as they studied it to learn what not to do.
by d-us-vb | 2026-01-01 00:54:30+00:00
This. Muscles can be optimized for volume/endurance or power, or some balance between them. Taking legs as an example: Powerlifters obviously go for pure power, whereas runners need a bit of power but mostly endurance, whereas cyclists need more power than runners but more endurance than powerlifters.

All of these benefit from weight training, but depending on the sport, the programming will be very different.
by flyinglizard | 2026-01-01 00:54:52+00:00
See, that's exactly the bias. The adjectives you used are all entirely subjective and politically charged. None of these represent an objective quality.

Is Israel an apartheid state? of course not; 25% of its population are Arabs who enjoy equal rights by the law (in comparison, 0% of Saudi Arabians are Jewish).

Is Israel a "rogue nuclear state"? It is a nuclear state, but so are France and Britain. What makes it anymore rogue than them?

Does Israel have "an history of terrorism"? You'll need to expand this one as I'm not sure what is the terrorism you mean.

Is Israel "carrying out a genocide"? Well the number of people in Gaza increased during the war. Don't believe me, hear out Hamas leaders [0].

Israel is in a tough neighborhood. Never before has any country faced such a campaign of ongoing hostility and delegitimization from its neighbors and far away countries alike. Israel is doing very well though.

[0] https://youtu.be/3qp_oXxzrcM?t=40
by jazzyjackson | 2026-01-01 00:56:06+00:00
Finding good people to live with is a miracle and not a permanent one. All it took is one good roommate to decide he didn't need to take his antipsychotics anymore for me to never want a roommate again.

So enjoy your situation while the good times roll, no shade, but people have their own reasons to never consider living in an SRO besides mere materialism.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-01 00:56:40+00:00
You have misunderstood what it means to make invalid states unrepresentable.

data UnvalidatedFoo = UnvalidatedFoo
{ unvalidatedOmfg :: String,
unvalidatedBar, unvalidatedBaz :: Int
}

data ValidatedFoo = ValidatedFoo
{ validatedOmfg :: String,
validatedBar, validatedBaz :: Int
}

validate :: UnvalidatedFoo -> Maybe ValidatedFoo
validate UnvalidatedFoo {..} = do
when ("wtf" `isPrefixOf` unvalidatedOmfg) $ do
guard (unvalidatedBaz > 20)
if unvalidatedBaz > 10
then guard (unvalidatedBar >= 1 && unvalidatedBar <= 42)
else guard (unvalidatedBar >= -42 && unvalidatedBar <= 1)
pure ValidatedFoo {validatedOmfg = unvalidatedOmfg, validatedBaz = unvalidatedBaz, validatedBar = unvalidatedBar}
by cyberax | 2026-01-01 00:57:18+00:00
This is really terrible advice that just discourages people.

You absolutely can get significant improvements without (much) pain. DOMS during the initial stages is going to be the most uncomfortable part. Once you're past it, you don't need to push yourself to a breaking point, just to the point of mild exhaustion.

This will provide you enough resistance to gain muscle mass and improve the bone density to healthy levels.
by badc0ffee | 2026-01-01 00:57:24+00:00
I just looked, and you're right. It's in an industrial area several km from homes, and near existing NG facilities, including one where they flare gas.

https://www.facebook.com/abacustrategic/posts/pfbid02rrUwoWM...

I don't doubt that it is a source of pollution, but I agree that this is overblown in the same was as the claims that datacentres are using up all the fresh water.
by AndyNemmity | 2026-01-01 00:58:27+00:00
It does make a big difference in the sense that the less you tell it about things that aren't relevant to it's task, the better it performs.

This has been found in all sorts of variations, and is accepted. It's not just my word, it's the standard understanding. But also, it's true in my experience.

You also limit the session work when you are offloading to agents, which are calling skills. So it does do that as well.

But that's what we're talking about, having agents do things in smaller chunks. Maybe I didn't explain that clearly enough?

It's just a complex topic. It's hard to cover everything. But yet, that's part of the idea. We're making context very specific to the task, and cutting things up into smaller chunks with dedicated context windows only for that task.

I almost completely ignore Claude.md - there are very few rules I want every subtask to know about.

the main system is for cordination, of the many agents with their own dedicated Claude.mds which call their own skills with their own dedicated instructions.

It's like Russian dolls. Now, I do use much, much MUCH larger Agent mds than anyone else. I've been doing this for 10 months, and I believe it's the correct way to do it.

I intend to write a blog post on it, it's a topic in it's own part.

Even your small Claude.md - I would have in several files. The Typescript agent is the only one that needs to know about the Typescript details. This is the kind of thing I mean.
by tim333 | 2026-01-01 00:58:57+00:00
That wasn't their main thing. The main one was to buy stocks or companies for less than they were worth, either because the market mispriced them or because company owners wanted to retire and sell to Berkshire. They also were big into insurance float which is getting insurance premium money that doesn't have to be paid out for a while which provides a kind of free leverage. Buffett did a lot of other things too.
by throwup238 | 2026-01-01 00:59:09+00:00
> 1798.99.80. (c) “Data broker” means a business that knowingly collects and sells to third parties the personal information of a consumer with whom the business does not have a direct relationship. [1]

If you want to be both obtuse and pedantic about it, the answer is (probably) yes to all three.

You can quibble about what "collects" and "sells" and "third parties" means but by all accounts Facebook shadow profiles, Google's dragnet, and so on qualify.

[1] https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB362/id/2845350
by throw1235435 | 2026-01-01 00:59:54+00:00
Tbh this whole AI thing is probably a negative ROI but it will pay off. Even if the debt is written off the AI enhancements that this whole misallocation of capital created are now "sunk" and are here to stay - the assets and techniques have been built.

There's an element of arms race between players, and the genie is out of the bottle now so have to move with it. Game theory is more driving this than economics in the short term.

Marginal gains on top of these investments probably have a ROI now (i.e. new investments from this point).