MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2026-01-29 17:45:16+00:00
That's pretty hyperbolic. At less than 20 mph, car vs pedestrial is unlikely to result in death. IIHS says [1] in an article about other things:

> As far as fatalities were concerned, pedestrians struck at 20 mph had only a 1% chance of dying from their injuries

Certainly, being struck at 6 mph rather than 17 mph is likely to result in a much better outcome for the pedestrian. And that should not be minimized; although it is valuable to consider the situation (when we have sufficient information) and validate Waymo's suggestion that the average human driver would also have struck the pedestrian and at greater speed. That may or may not be accurate, given the context of a busy school dropoff situation... many human drivers are extra cautious in that context and may not have reached that speed; depending on the end to end route, some human drivers would have avoided the street with the school all together based on the time, etc. It's certainly seems like a good result for the premise, child unexpectedly appears from between large parked vehicles, but maybe there should have been an expectation.

[1] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicle-height-compounds-da...
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-01-29 17:45:22+00:00
Amanda Askell is a student of Chalmers' (The philosopher who goes on about 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'); and the soul file is pretty much in line with Chalmers' thinking here. Which is to say 'we can't be sure'. Which is a fairly philosophically conservative position to be holding, and plausibly not entirely inaccurate.

(I'm more of the Dennett persuasion. Let's NOT discuss the empirical facts here, because they add up funny and I don't like it)
by montebicyclelo | 2026-01-29 17:45:52+00:00
Reminds me of this [1] HN post from 9 months ago, where the author trained a neural network to do world emulation from video recordings of their local park — you can walk around in their interactive demo [2].

I don't have access to the DeepMind demo, but from the video it looks like it takes the idea up a notch.

Edit: ah original Genie paper is 2024 [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43798757

[2] https://madebyoll.in/posts/world_emulation_via_dnn/demo/

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15391
by hiciu | 2026-01-29 17:46:07+00:00
OK so those processes are launched not by systemd, but by dbus itself.

There's probably a /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.IBus.service file in your system and if dbus sees something that tries to talk to IBus, and IBus is not running yet, dbus will launch it for you as directed in that file. In it's own namespace unless directed otherwise.

There's an optional integration between dbus and systemd, look for SystemdService in man dbus-daemon. IBus does not set it. Perhaps it should. I don't know.

> I ran into this problem because ibus runs later than setxkbmap and undoes the keyboard settings.

that must've been pain to debug :). I can see on my system that there's a systemd user service that I could launch with `systemctl --user start org.freedesktop.IBus.session.generic.service`, maybe that would work better than on-demand via dbus in your case.
by biddit | 2026-01-29 17:46:10+00:00
> Agents that source quotes, negotiate prices, and get the best deals.

Didn't Alexa fail miserably with the "have AI buy something for me" theory?

There is a significant mental in allowing someone else make purchase decisions on my behalf:

- With a human, there is accountability.

- With deterministic software, there is reproducibility.

With an agent, you get neither.

FWIW - I am not anti-LLM. I work with them and build them full time.
by rustyhancock | 2026-01-29 17:46:16+00:00
We've yet to clearly define what consciousness is or an agreed test.

But we absolutely believe we are conscious.

Perhaps it's a useful idea.

Even our decision making as I understand it, from the functional MRIs we know our subjective perspective of how and why we made simple decisions is wildly inaccurate.

Obviously free will and feeling like you control your actions is hugely important for us. But in a physical sense free will does not exist.
by gethly | 2026-01-29 17:46:24+00:00
"I am tired of using linkedin to find a new job", "Anyone know some sources to search" - totally wrong approach.

If you want to succeed in life, you must be pro-active, not re-active. Instead of browsing job offers, look for companies that interest you and simply contact them directly. Let them know who you are and what you can do and find out whether they might have a job available for you with your skill and experience. Keep it brief, no need to send a whole CV, but have some online version of it that you can share as a link.

PS: but ignore large corporations. Go for small and medium sized businesses. Those are the best to work for, despite lower salaries, and easier to get hired by. Often you can get in touch directly with the CEO or founder without must trouble. And best way to approach it is to seek companies that specifically interest you for one reason or another. People respond way more positively to such contact than just sending a random email.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-29 17:46:51+00:00
I think my problem is that it reacted after seeing the child step out from behind the SUV.

An excellent driver would have already seen that possible scenario and would have already slowed to 10 MPH or less to begin with.

(It's how I taught my daughter's to drive "defensively"—look for "red flags" and be prepared for the worst-case scenario. SUV near a school and I cannot see behind it? Red flag—slow the fuck down.)
by KronisLV | 2026-01-29 17:47:08+00:00
> but a PHP script[0] on an apache server[0] you access via a web browser

I've seen plenty of those as well - nobody knows exactly how things are setup, sometimes dependencies are quite outdated and people are afraid to touch the cPanel config (or however it's setup). Not that you can't do good engineering with enough discipline, it's just that Docker (or most methods of containerization) limits the blast range when things inevitably go wrong and at least try to give you some reproducibility.

At the same time, I think that PHP can be delightfully simple and I do use Apache2 myself (mod_php was actually okay, but PHP-FPM also isn't insanely hard to setup), it's just that most of my software lives in little Docker containers with a common base and a set of common tools, so they're decoupled from the updates and config of the underlying OS. I've moved the containers (well data+images) across servers with no issues when needed and also resintalled OSes and spun everything right back up.

Kubernetes is where dragons be, though.
by emptybits | 2026-01-29 17:47:28+00:00
Waymo hits you -> you seek relief from Waymo's insurance company. Waymo's insurance premium go up. Waymo can weather a LOT of that. Business is still good. Thus, poor financial feedback loop. No real skin in the game.

John Smith hits you -> you seek relief from John's insurance company. John's insurance premium goes up. He can't afford that. Thus, effective financial feedback loop. Real skin in the game.

NOW ... add criminal fault due to driving decision or state of vehicle ... John goes to jail. Waymo? Still making money in the large. I'd like to see more skin in their game.
by dataflow | 2026-01-29 17:47:44+00:00
Not even that. If I give you a fake number (by whatever definition) and you report it... the number is still fake, regardless of whether you had any inkling it might be, or whether you tried to verify it in any way.

I'm trying to think of a definition, and the best I can come up with is this: fake means the number was modified at some point without an auditable trail. For example, if I see 1 deer on a sq km and I extrapolate linearly to a 100 sq km area that there are 100 deer in that area, then the number is fake if I don't disclose the extrapolation -- and this is true even if the actual number is in fact 100 in reality.

Actually, I don't even think this covers all the bases, because it assumes there was an initially factual measurement. For example, if it that one observed deer was in fact a statue, the numbers are all fake even if everyone documented everything and acted in good faith and accidentally came up with true correct number at the end...
by hombre_fatal | 2026-01-29 17:47:58+00:00
Well, you have to balance it with how much you want to line the coffers of malicious actors.

If you go all the way to "everyone should have the freedom to get pwned", then you are also funneling the money of innocents into the pockets of some of the worst people in the world, and that's not a great outcome just to make life more convient for some HNers.

The question is about what trade-off makes sense for most people.
by 0xcb0 | 2026-01-29 17:48:03+00:00
I keep on repeating myself, but it feels like I'm living in the future.
Can't wait to hook this up to my old Oculus glasses and let Genie create a fully realistic sailing simulator for me, where I can train sailing with realistic conditions. On boats I'd love to sail.

If making games out of these simulations work, it't be the end for a lot of big studios, and might be the renaissance for small to one person game studios.
by makapuf | 2026-01-29 17:48:03+00:00
I really think we should converge to semantic codes. By example Background is zero, standard is 7, positive / negative, highlight, colored1,2,3 .. with correct defaults, and let the user have a common 8 or 16 colors palette in the terminal for all textmode apps. Imagine having some kind of unified color themes in the terminal.
by 93po | 2026-01-29 17:48:45+00:00
> Free speech shouldn't be extended to the people who actively work against it

Okay but then we disagree on what behaviors count as working against free speech, and then we're creating a legal basis to disallow free speech, which is horrible. For example I believe your comment to be against free speech ideals, which by your logic means we should legally restrict your right to free speech and not allow you to post what you just post.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-29 17:48:49+00:00
> I'm disheartened by this "good riddance" attitude. Do others here feel the same?

I feel the same. One of the surprising things I learned with the advent of these tools is how many devs there are who really hate programming. I assume they got into it for the paycheck rather than passion. I can't think of how else to explain it.
by DWakefield | 2026-01-29 17:49:10+00:00
I had a chance to meet Cliff Stoll a couple summers ago. He was giving a presentation to a quilt society and it was great. If you ever have a chance to see him in person, no matter the topic, you will be greatly rewarded! He is such an energetic and enthusiastic person and he finds the beauty in all sorts of everyday things. I was captivated by him the entire time on a topic I only had a passing interest in at the beginning.
by markstos | 2026-01-29 17:50:09+00:00
My city of Bloomington appears to have almost a third of the population living in poverty according to the US Census, but you'd have a tough time seeing that if you drove through.

What we have is a large university with almost half the population being college students.

https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US1805860-bloomingt...
by kilotaras | 2026-01-29 17:50:22+00:00
> But if there are a bunch of children milling about an elementary school in a chaotic situation with lots of double parking, 17 mph is too fast, and the Waymo should have been driving more conservatively.

UK driving theory test has a part called Hazard Perception: not reacting on children milling around would be considered a fail.

[0] https://www.safedrivingforlife.info/free-practice-tests/haza...
by enragedcacti | 2026-01-29 17:50:24+00:00
> They are putting their money behind their words, unless there is some backroom deal we don't know about.

Their product is dynamically priced and individualized, and there is no guarantee of what the base rate will be. I don't see any reason they can't keep offering the 50% discount and then adjust the base rates to reverse engineer a sustainable price regardless of FSDs real safety.

> Considering how human operators behave with these systems, I'd also wager having the human operator (many don't even look at the road!) makes only a small difference.

Lemonade will likely be getting driver monitoring telemetry and calculating rates accordingly, but in either case I'm convinced that we are still on the left hand side of the Valley of Degraded Supervision [0]. Operators may not pay full attention at all times but they likely still have pretty good heuristics for what situations are difficult for FSD and adjust their monitoring behavior accordingly.

Tesla could of course release detailed crash and disengagement data to prove FSD safety. That they do not is itself a form of evidence, and in lieu of that we have to rely on crowdsourced data which says FSD 14.x still has a very long way to go to be safer than the average driver [1].

[0] https://www.eetimes.com/disengagements-wrong-metric-for-av-t...

[1] https://teslafsdtracker.com/Main
by kayodelycaon | 2026-01-29 17:50:45+00:00
> Maybe that’s how my wife feels

The good thing is it isn’t necessary to know how someone else feels to have compassion.:)

It’s enough to accept you don’t understand the other person‘s thought process and stop trying to tell them what they are thinking. You don’t need to fix things, you just need to listen and not make them justify or explain themselves to you.

Doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing.
by davidcollantes | 2026-01-29 17:50:52+00:00
> Btw for those wondering about reposts: reposts on HN are just fine after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), and reposts of classics every now and then are good because it's important for new users to learn the classics!

It would be nice if HN would simply "float" to the front page the classics, a year or two after their submission. That would avoid duplication (specially of comments!), and allow people in the lucky 10,000 group know about it.
by throwaway132448 | 2026-01-29 17:51:15+00:00
Principles and morality are not the same thing, so no, incorrect. I could have completely amoral principles. Morals are grounded in social consensus, principles are not.

Spend less time trying to be right and more time learning.

Of course, a complete lack of self awareness is also a common principle-free, sociopathic trait.
Show HN: 41 Stars New AI – MIT License. Zero Hallucinations (For Real)
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-29 17:51:22+00:00
The problem with LLMs isn't intelligence; it's amnesia and dishonesty. Hey HN, I’ve spent the last few months building Remember-Me, an open-source "Sovereign Brain" stack designed to run entirely offline on consumer hardware.
The core thesis is simple: Don't rent your cognition.

Most RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) implementations are just "grep for embeddings." They are messy, imprecise, and prone to hallucination. I wanted to solve the "Context integrity" problem at the architectural layer.

The Tech Stack (How it works):

QDMA (Quantum Dream Memory Architecture): instead of a flat vector DB, it uses a hierarchical projection engine. It separates "Hot" (Recall) from "Cold" (Storage) memory, allowing for effectively infinite context window management via compression.

CSNP (Context Switching Neural Protocol) - The Hallucination Killer: This is the most important part. Every memory fragment is hashed into a Merkle Chain. When the LLM retrieves context, the system cryptographically verifies the retrieval against the immutable ledger.

If the hash doesn't match the chain: The retrieval is rejected.

Result: The AI visually cannot "make things up" about your past because it is mathematically constrained to the ledger. Local Inference: Built on top of llama.cpp server. It runs Llama-3 (or any GGUF) locally. No API keys. No data leaving your machine.

Features:

Zero-Dependency: Runs on Windows/Linux with just Python and a GPU (or CPU).

Visual Interface: Includes a Streamlit-based "Cognitive Interface" to visualize memory states. Open Source: MIT License. This is an attempt to give "Agency" back to the user. I believe that if we want AGI, it needs to be owned by us, not rented via an API.

Repository: https://github.com/merchantmoh-debug/Remember-Me-AI

I’d love to hear your feedback on the Merkle-verification approach. Does constraining the context window effectively solve the "trust" issue for you?

It's fully working - Fully tested. If you tried to Git Clone before without luck - As this is not my first Show HN on this - Feel free to try again.

To everyone who HATES AI slop; Greedy corporations and having their private data stuck on cloud servers.

You're welcome.

Cheers, Mohamad

Authors note: Updated successfully.

Framework 50 is active.

For anyone passing by - yes this is a big deal. Eliminating AI hallucination is a 60 billion dollar market problem and I'm giving THAT + sovereign control of your DATA plus the capability to do high-end research via framework 50 (including advanced scientific research) for FREE - under an MIT license. If you don't take advantage of this - you are an idiot.

If you do - welcome to the future.

P.S: What do I get from lying? I got 41 stars on the repo - many from high-end senior engineers at fortune 500 companies. If you're too stupid to tell the real deal from a lie then keep it moving son.
by ngriffiths | 2026-01-29 17:51:42+00:00
Because research on real humans and real diseases is exceptionally difficult. Clinical research is notoriously expensive, results are likely to differ from non-human (preclinical) models, and trials take forever to get started, gather enough data, and get a drug actually reviewed and approved. So even when everyone is excited by the preclinical data, there are so many barriers (both scientific and non-scientific) that getting to an approved drug is pretty unlikely.
by tolciho | 2026-01-29 17:51:53+00:00
A confused user once stopped by, they had a blank terminal, so I showed them how to select all which revealed the helpfully black on black text. These days I compile colour support out of st, or set *colorMode:false for xterm. "But you can customize the colours" is a typical response, to which one might respond that one has grown weary of pushing that particular rock, and moreover one may be busy with other things at a drag-out monitor in a server room at three in the morning that has helpfully dark blue text on a black console, or worse if some high-minded expert has gone and rubbed the backside of a unicorn everywhere so that they may improve the "legibility".
by epiccoleman | 2026-01-29 17:52:05+00:00
Which companies do you expect to be taken out?

Google and Microsoft will obviously remain. I have a hard time envisioning that OpenAI or Anthropic will go under - especially Anthropic, who are reportedly raking in billions from Claude subscriptions.

Just from my armchair predictions, it's not really any of the juggernauts who have to worry, but rather the many companies springing up to try SaaS offerings with LLMs at the core. A bubble pop there could certainly cause some strife, but I'm just not seeing the mechanism by which these too-big-to-fail tech companies and the heavily invested "frontier AI companies" are going to suddenly cease to exist.

I think the dotcom bubble is a fairly apt metaphor in the key sense that the web didn't go anywhere - just a lot of small players lost their tickets on the gravy train. "Big tech" as it existed at the time of the bubble pop trundled along and continued making gobs of money.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-01-29 17:52:07+00:00
> Depression is deceptively common

I didn't even know I had it, but when I was diagnosed, my psychiatrist was very concerned and made a point of encouraging me to keep in touch, making sure I worked through things and engaged with the problem. I initially thought something like "I'm fine, just a little down here and there, I wonder if this person is inventing work for themselves?"

Same with anxiety. I would have told you something like "I'm not an anxious person at all. I don't even know what that's like, though I can sympathize with people who suffer with it". As it turned out, I was suffering pretty severe anxiety. In retrospect it's as clear as day, but at the time it was just... The way life was.

The thing is, all of my assessments remarked that I demonstrated relatively high self awareness and openness. My experience being diagnosed with ADHD and depression made me seriously concerned for people who 1) can't afford this process and support, and 2) will just continue to grind like I was, living half-dead without knowing it can be any other way.

I suspect there are a ton of these people—I think I notice them quite often—and I was arguably accidentally pulled from that stupor and would likely still be there, unaware, if it weren't for a chance encounter that caused me to think slightly differently about the possibility of having ADHD.
by chaps | 2026-01-29 17:52:17+00:00
Not to add fuel to the fire, but a lot of what you're saying is hard to take seriously when Obama himself's been known to brag about how good at killing he is.

You're right that things are significantly worse now, but it's important to recognize that what came before was still bad and in many ways is the foundation for where we are.

https://slate.com/business/2013/11/double-down-obama-said-he...
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-29 17:52:28+00:00
> John Smith hits you -> you seek relief from John's insurance company. John's insurance premium goes up. He can't afford that. Thus, effective financial feedback loop. Real skin in the game.

John probably (at least where I live) does not have insurance, maybe I could sue him, but he has no assets to speak of (especially if he is living out of his car), so I'm just going to pay a bunch of legal fees for nothing. He doesn't car, because he has no skin in the game. The state doesn't care, they aren't going to throw him in jail or even take away his license (if he has one), they aren't going to even impound his car.

Honestly, I'd much rather be hit by a Waymo than John.
by blibble | 2026-01-29 17:52:52+00:00
> Instead the EU is engaging in increasingly protectionist activity to build more domestic industry.

yes, this is why it was created, it's why it exists!

I have absolutely no problem with the US deciding to re-balance its economy using tariffs, that is its sovereign right

but I have a problem with it using them as a tool of coercion against its "allies" to achieve foreign policy objectives

and not to mention the direct threats of annexation

> But if the EU "decouples" from the US, there's no incentive for the US to not, for example, take over Greenland.

if you assume the decoupling has completed, then the rest of the west would by definition be capable of defending itself without being subject to coercion/blackmail

(there's also the the two nuclear powers treaty bound to defend it)
by arjie | 2026-01-29 17:53:00+00:00
My wife and I bought a Bambu P1S and I think the machine has had a duty cycle of 30% (excluding when we weren’t in town). It’s great fun. The majority of the models are ones we get from the Internet, it’s true.

But my wife used some base open source components to design a block that goes into the bits of a playpen that we used to have and transform it into something that docks with the wall instead of only with itself[0].

And I have designed with Claude a few small things like card holders for the board game power grid[1].

I wish there were better AI tools for interacting with modeling software. As it stands I use OpenSCAD with Claude and that seems as good as it can be. There are Solidworks AI startups but they’re like for professionals.

The Bambu P1S I have is quite low friction to set up. And I have an AMS2 Pro on top of it that feeds different kinds of filament (material and color) into the printer. I have just the one but now I wish I had more AMS hooked up.

0: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2026-01-15/Modeling_Wit...

1: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2026-01-11/Modeling_Wit...