MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by victoriak77 | 2026-01-15 23:03:34+00:00
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by tyleo | 2026-01-15 23:03:42+00:00
I disagree, and I think this advice can be actively harmful. You shouldn’t ignore a problem when you’re in a position to help. At the same time, you also shouldn’t take on the emotional burden of other people’s projects.

If I see something heading toward failure, I let people know they may want to consider a different approach. That’s it. There’s no need to be harsh or belabor the point but it’s better to speak up than to quietly watch a train wreck unfold.
by well_ackshually | 2026-01-15 23:03:48+00:00
>I don't think I have "blood on my hands" and rather instead think that people who use that tactic are resorting to strange emotional manipulation in place of a salient argument.

Yes, yes, the little hands at the gestapo that were just filling up forms for deportation do not have blood in their hands, we know. Tried and failed defense, many times.
by al_borland | 2026-01-15 23:03:57+00:00
I’ve been casually looking for another job for years now. Nothing ever seems worth the risk.

At this point I feel like I should just ride things out and cross that bridge when it’s forced upon me, if it ever is. In the meantime, I’ve sought to keep my cost of living low and save as much as I can, in an effort to derisk.
by mynameisash | 2026-01-15 23:04:19+00:00
> You have to be the one who creates things to do.

> You have to do it on a regular cadence.

I've posted about this before, but my wife and I sort of accidentally started a trivia team that's been going strong for like four years. Nearly every single week for four years, we get together with some subset of about 15 people. Most the regulars are there most days.

I also started cold plunging and have been doing it with the same regularity as trivia -- nearly every single week. It's a much smaller group, but it is absolutely part of our routine. Rain or shine.

Both these things have given several of us some really great friend time that makes that loneliness fade away.
by yencabulator | 2026-01-15 23:04:58+00:00
> How about hauling away customer's old plumbing or any number of filthy things you don't want in a car interior?

Funny story, the guys who demolished an old bathroom for us hauled the crap & dust away in a very dirty beater van (either a small cargo van or a minivan with rear seating removed, can't remember). It was their designated demolition vehicle.
by jmye | 2026-01-15 23:04:59+00:00
> Our culture is totally bankrupt if companies are now pretending to be worse than they're in reality able to be.

I mean, yeah - it’s “he’s not hurting the right people” turned into a product or enterprise and then sold specifically to people who really like that message, and which employs people who desperately want to be in charge of hurting those people as much as possible.

It doesn’t even have the plausible deniability of being a social media company.
by yosito | 2026-01-15 23:05:18+00:00
I'm very skeptical of using AI in this way. I've given Claude access to calendars and travel plans and asked it to do similar analytical tasks cross referencing documents that would take days for me to do manually. Since it was about my own plans and life that I knew well, it was possible for me to spot subtle errors that seemed correct at the surface level but actually weren't the conclusions I would make. I've attempted these types of tasks 10-20 times with similar experiences each time. In the end, it's made me very skeptical, like your wife. I don't trust any AI output without a thorough review. Hallucinations are still a frequent problem.
by gulugawa | 2026-01-15 23:05:24+00:00
As someone who has tried to host events for specific board games, I completely agree. Most games I play are best with 3 to 4, and I will flat out refuse to play them with more than 5.

Now, I host meetups which typically get 8-15 people and multiple games, so an unpredictable player count is not an issue.
by tubs | 2026-01-15 23:05:28+00:00
You explain well so what I never understood is how the Jacobians aren't the first derivatives themselves?

Also if you have happen to have any suggestions for linear algebra for someone who uses it without really understanding it (I can write a measurement function for an EKF from scratch OK, but I don't really understand why the maths does what it does) I would really appreciate it.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-15 23:05:45+00:00
What does it mean to "surround Canada" and why would anyone want to do it?

Almost the entire population of Canada is huddled against the US land border. Greenland is very far away from where the action would be if the US "takes" Canada. There would likely be few shots fired; Canada lacks the ability to put up a credible defense. The EU has no capacity to resupply Canada in any case. The whole scenario makes bizarre assumptions.

I don't think most Canadians consider the US "taking" Canada to be a serious scenario outside of echo chambers among the "too online" crowd. What would that gain the US that it doesn't already have?
by ajkjk | 2026-01-15 23:05:53+00:00
Letting it die is the self-serving, career-optimizing, amoral take. But it's more ethical to stand up for what's right even at personal cost. A bunch of people wasting years of their life, not to mention all the resources, is a tragedy worth avoiding.

Of course, the wisdom of taking the person risk is a continuum. In some cases it is and in some it isn't. But.. To omit the ethical angle entirely seems like a bad take.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-15 23:06:41+00:00
There are many, many, many different types and designs of vapes. There are plentiful ASICS on the market specifically for vapes and e-cigarettes.

The cheapest variety is a tiny PCB built into the microphone. It's three wires for the battery and heater, and that's it. Sometimes they include a cheap and nasty battery charger. All in a single grain of sand for almost free.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 23:07:28+00:00
Trust me I am in 2025 and I am in senior high school and whenever I try to talk about open source or linux or anything others. Friends have point blank said that they aren't interested in it. (only one friend showed interest/shows interests at times)

the most ironical part is that they want to become software engineers for just the money aspect but fundamentally they really don't know anything about the field or are even interested to talk about.

So in a sense this still happens :) This happened so much that I had to cut off my friends because the only thing that they were interested in talking about were woman or insta shorts and very few intellectual discussion could happen (atleast with that friend group and I would consider that friend group to be more intellectual among other peers but for some reason they just never wanted to discuss intellectual topics other than some very few occasions, mostly just shitposting being honest and I didn't enjoy the shit posting aspect that much if I am being honest as well)
by phs318u | 2026-01-15 23:07:45+00:00
The top marginal tax rate in 2024 (assessed 2025) was 50%. But that's not the total tax take - that's the marginal rate of tax for income above 48320 euro.

You can see the Belgian tax scale here:

https://fin.belgium.be/en/private-individuals/tax-return/inc...
by janalsncm | 2026-01-15 23:07:57+00:00
In general, I think when we are evaluating fuzzy things like this we should come up with specifications for what we would like to see before performing the eval. Not saying it happened here, but very often I see people impressed with “answer-shaped” answers rather than objectively assessing the actual quality. The latter is harder and requires specific expertise.

It is probably a good lesson on how far confidence can get you in life. People are often highly biased by the presentation of the thing.
by its_ethan | 2026-01-15 23:07:59+00:00
I think there is reason to think that we will reduce energy consumption.

US energy consumption per capita peaked in 1975 and has trended down even as population has increased. There's going to be a peak in global population, likely before 2100 (and it keeps getting revised sooner, not later).

So it stands to reason that as we become more energy efficient (already happening) and we start to have fewer people on earth (likely to happen in your/ your children's lifetime) that overall consumption will in fact go down.
by observationist | 2026-01-15 23:08:19+00:00
This is fantastic - it creates a taxonomy of features and characteristics of neural networks, and provides a framework with predictive power. Something like this could be integral with the next big breakthrough in architectures, by framing things generally enough that you can start to pick apart the differences in principle, instead of looking at all these different model types and approaches and engineering tweaks in a kind of fuzzy, abstracted way.

Great writing, as well!
by whazor | 2026-01-15 23:08:21+00:00
A language is normally defined by a grammar and can be parsed. The definition can be very formal.

Alternatively a library is a construct in a pre-existing programming language. For example in Python you pip install a package, import some classes and functions.

But where these concepts can overlap is that you could define your domain logic as a language, or by calling functions in a library. In the past, I was a big believer in domain specific languages. However, AI will outperform when generating Python code with using a new library.
by WhyNotHugo | 2026-01-15 23:08:34+00:00
Weird fun fact (as an Argentinian who went to school in England for a few years): in English-speaking countries, America is not a continent in the same way as in Spanish. In English they have two continents: South America and North America.

So the word "American" in English does not mean the same as "Americano" in Spanish.

There's really no natural word in English to refer to someone from "El continente Americano", because no such continent exists in English. That's why they use the word "American" to refer to someone from USA exclusively.
by throwawayiceout | 2026-01-15 23:08:38+00:00
Well said, thank you, and keep safe.

What I feared would happen appears to be happening on Saturday: anti-immigrant anti-muslim folks from outside the city and outside the state are gathering to rally in the Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside neighborhood and cause trouble.

The federal administration will use this to ratchet up the violence against peaceful protesters like myself, who are simply trying to stand up for our neighbors and friends and our city and our state. We have whistles and cell phones. The federal government has guns and is killing us.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-15 23:09:06+00:00
So what? This was never about the moral culpability of the inanimate object itself. (Charitably ignoring, for the moment, that the One Ring was instead a part of Sauron, infused with his own life force. )

This is about the morality and judgment of any person who'd consciously choose to found "One-Ring Controls" (ORC inc.) selling the "Ringraith 3000" that spies on employees and punishes them for not working hard enough.

"Don't criticize me for my branding because fictional crystal-balls and rings are just objects" is not a credible defense.
by simianwords | 2026-01-15 23:09:41+00:00
> That conversation showed how ChatGPT allegedly coached Gordon into suicide, partly by writing a lullaby that referenced Gordon’s most cherished childhood memories while encouraging him to end his life, Gray’s lawsuit alleged.

I feel this is misleading as hell. The evidence they gave for it coaching him to suicide is lacking. When one hears this, one would think ChatGPT laid out some strategy or plan for him to do it. No such thing happened.

The only slightly damning thing it did was make suicide sound slightly ok and a bit romantic but I’m sure that was after some coercion.

The question is, to what extent did ChatGPT enable him to commit suicide? It wrote some lullaby, and wrote something pleasing about suicide. If this much is enough to make someone do it.. there’s unfortunately more to the story.

We have to be more responsible assigning blame to technology. It is irresponsible to have a reactive backlash that would push towards much more strengthening of guardrails. These things come with their own tradeoffs.
by 9rx | 2026-01-15 23:11:39+00:00
> People move to different communities all the time

Although now considerably less than in the past. Peak mobility occurred during the mid-1900s. Most, and increasingly more as time marches forward, will stay close to where they were born.

> That's the essential problem.

It is a problem for individuals in that situation, but does it explain a population-wide epidemic when most never actually leave their familial roots?

> If all those people were in the same city there'd be a lot more socializing.

I am among those who still live near where I was born and have known a lot of the people my whole life. Color me skeptical. Nobody has the time to. They're at work all day and when that's done it is into the car to drive their kid to who knows where to play in a sporting match thinking they are going to become a professional some day.

It was a little different 15-20 years ago. You used to be able to go down to the community centre on a Saturday night and the whole town would be there, ready to mingle. But it turns out the draw was really alcohol, and when police started cracking down on drunk drivers and health concern messaging started to gain attention, it all dwindled pretty quickly.

It's all about priorities, and socializing just isn't a priority for most people anymore. There are so many other things also vying for attention.
by gruez | 2026-01-15 23:12:06+00:00
All of this conveniently ignores the question of whether the ICE agent's act was legal or ethical, and is bordering on victim blaming. And the record, I am against the women's behavior. I just think the ICE agent's response was totally disproportionate, and that we shouldn't be killing people for such activities. I'm also against stealing, but that doesn't mean I'm going to cheer if a shoplifter gets summarily executed by a cop, or think "the shoplifter has the choice not to throw their life away by not screwing with the cops" is an acceptable excuse for the cop's behavior.
by dlubarov | 2026-01-15 23:12:12+00:00
I would say it absolutely violates the NPOV policy, and it's worth noting that both Wikipedia founders share this view [1] [2]. It's the only thing they've agreed on in many years.

Ultimately it's just a numbers game - Wikipedia almost always follows consensus, even when the consensus is to (effectively, without admission) throw neutrality or other rules out the window.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gaza_genocide/Archive_22#...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gaza_genocide/Archive_22#...
by fittingopposite | 2026-01-15 23:12:22+00:00
Went into a rabbit hole and found this: https://github.com/notune/android_transcribe_app
Solid app that uses Parakeet V3.
With these random apps on the internet I am always a bit sceptical. Checked it with adb and it is really fully local. I now have a voice keyboard that is a lot better than Google's and has local multilanguage support. I am stoked :)
by tialaramex | 2026-01-15 23:12:46+00:00
The vast majority of UK consumers have a pretty simple plan where they're not demand responsive. If it's pitch black and dead calm one Winter's night they pay the exact same price as midday in the summer if it's blazing sunshine and simultaneously blowing a gale across the whole country. Their retailler has done some estimates and figured on average they can sell power for, say, 25p per kWh all day, every day. Some days they're raking it in 'cos they paid a lot less than that, other days they wish the day would end, but if their team did the sums right it comes out profitable at year end.

There are people, especially people with EVs and who can do that sort of "turn on a dime" lifestyle where you do laundry when it's cheaper not because it's Thursday who pay 0p per kWh some hours and 45p per kWh for that bleak winter's night.

For now that second group are a minority but they do exist.

The enabling technology is a bit more sophisticated than your French red lamp. "Smart" meters relay your usage constantly so you can be charged in 30 minute chunks, the same way the wholesale electricity market works. This also means you can see at a glance what's going on. So that's nice. The usual conspiracy people insist this is a future tool of control by government, just like almost everything that has ever been invented, bar codes on groceries, mobile phones, newspapers, parking tickets, everything.
by pcthrowaway | 2026-01-15 23:13:15+00:00
The counterexamples given above were caregivers, health workers, and those are ones which I think are easy to see as mostly doing good.

But given that we're on a tech forum, I think most people should reflect deeply on the companies they work for and the systems they exist in. If those companies are not already mostly doing evil (as the companies which employ a majority or near-majority of tech workers are), then they're probably venture-capital funded or owned by investors, which means their goal is to maximize profitability over any real metric of doing good. So they will be doing evil in the future, if they're not already, because doing evil is necessary for competing with other companies also doing evil.

Reflecting on a top-level comment from another user about OP using the basic technologies to do things people would often use other tools for, I noticed wild.gr doesn't even use google fonts or other tracking scripts. Its fancy text effects in the hero ("Wild & alive" "& raw" etc) are done entirely with SVG!

Most would certainly provide more data to Google for convenience
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-15 23:13:40+00:00
> How would nuclear deterrence work for small entities like Denmark or Taiwan against huge entities like US or China? it only works at similar sizes

It works as long as the harm that can be threatened is sufficient to outweigh any perceived gain of winning. Small states may not be able to sustain as large of an arsenal, but they also rarely offer as much value to a victor.
by reena_signalhq | 2026-01-15 23:13:40+00:00
Interesting question! I think it depends on how you use it.

*Potential benefits for ADHD:*
- Reduces context-switching (AI handles boilerplate )
- Helps with task initiation (just describe what you want)
- Keeps momentum going when you're stuck

*Potential downsides:*
- Can be distracting if you keep tweaking prompts
- Might encourage shallow understanding instead of deep focus
- Easy to fall into "one more feature" trap

My take: Use it for boring stuff (boilerplate, tests, docs) but write the core logic yourself. That way you stay engaged with the hard problems.

What's your experience been?
by reena_signalhq | 2026-01-15 23:14:30+00:00
This is hilarious and creative! Love the idea of gamifying the contributions graph.

Does it use the actual commit data (like number of commits = enemy count ) or is it just random?

Would be cool if different types of contributions (PRs, issues, reviews) spawned different enemy types!

Great way to make the contributions graph actually fun to look at.
by DavidPiper | 2026-01-15 23:14:36+00:00
I'm hopeful that the advent of the Teals might generate some momentum here. I believe there are some very large wind farms in progress across NSW too, which is good news. Home solar / battery installations also seem to be on the rise in low density areas (I don't have hard data to back that up though).

I'd also love to see solar panels on top of every Bunnings, Westfield, and other warehouses/complexes, as well as above every outdoor carpark, which would have the added bonus of preventing hand roasting in summer.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-15 23:14:37+00:00
The more broad and general the claim of value the heavier burden there is on trust.

It's the same for products. Products with very narrow niche value props are immediately attractive to the few people with those specific needs. When you sound like everything to everyone, people are naturally less likely to believe you and the only way around that is a strong recommendation/referral. (Not a name you list on resume, but someone the hiring person trusts saying "you should really consider hiring this person, they are exceptional").

The more specifically relevant you can be to their needs, the more you will stand out.

This is as true for products as it is for resumes, especially when considering that people "hire" products.
by BikiniPrince | 2026-01-15 23:15:04+00:00
Reminds me of one of my managers who said, “Sometimes, you have to let people fail.” It does take a lot of energy to keep some people afloat. My hope has always been they learn to swim as it were, but sometimes it’s just effort better spent elsewhere.

I know one project did not have my involvement and couldn’t have succeeded without my knowledge. They were so bad they would work in questions casually to their actual work.

I started avoiding all of them when I found out management had been dumping on my team and praising theirs. It’s just such a slap in the face because they could not have done well and their implementation was horrible.
by mxwsn | 2026-01-15 23:15:21+00:00
The Jacobian is first derivatives, but for a function mapping N to M dimensions. It's the first derivative of every output wrt every input, so it will be an N x M matrix.

The gradient is a special case of the Jacobian for functions mapping N to 1 dimension, such as loss functions. The gradient is an N x 1 vector.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-15 23:15:45+00:00
Bayesian methods are incredibly canonical in most fields I’ve been involved with (cosmology is one of the most beautiful paradises for someone looking for maybe the coolest club of Bayesian applications). I’m surprised there are still holdouts, especially in fields where the stakes are so high. There are also plenty of blog articles and classroom lessons about how frequentist trial designs kill people: if you are not allowed to deviate from your experiment design but you already have enough evidence to form a strong belief about which treatment is better, is that unethical? Maybe the reality is a bit less simplistic but ive seen many instantiations of that argument around.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-15 23:15:52+00:00
Isn’t the purpose of all thought experiments to define something that is relevant to what you’re trying to philosophize about? “Fitting a narrative” is a thought-terminating cliché.

If we agree that there exists at least one thing theoretically whose invention would be unequivocally evil - without a morsel of moral justification, then surely there exists a moral spectrum on which all inventions lie, and the inventors (and builders) are not absolved of their sins by virtue of not having actually used their inventions. Maybe you disagree that even in the case of the Torment Nexus the inventor has no moral reckoning (yikes). Maybe you disagree that it’s a spectrum, and rather binary: Torment Nexus immoral, everything else moral (weird).

That’s why I invoked the Torment Nexus.