MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Yizahi | 2026-01-08 22:52:55+00:00
Neither is democratic. Democratic is direct rule of citizens, or at least some significant fraction of citizens. Only Switzerland is partially a democracy nowadays. Western countries are oligarchies, where elected elites are ruling however they deem necessary, but possibly with some caution because of elections. China is not even an oligarchy, it's a despotic regime, completely severed from the citizens.
by nfw2 | 2026-01-08 22:53:12+00:00
One thing I find really funny is when blue-sky-theorists makes claims that the sky is blue it's always entirely anecdotally based on their own subjective experience, but when others make claims that the sky is red, there is some overwhelming burden of proof that has to be reached in order to make any sort of claims about the sky's color. So which is it?
by fkhasiyev | 2026-01-08 22:53:42+00:00
Did you read the caption clearly? I said I created this for just a prototype. there can be an errors, it's not a game created till the finest details. just a tech demo. if I spend more time on this, I clearly will make it better and better. Making bus not the train, is just a artistic choice. yes, you are right that sometimes it's buggy, but its happening on the first play after loading screen. then its working good.

its just a beginning, through the end of this year, there will be a lot better ai models capable of creating beyond tech demos.
by palmotea | 2026-01-08 22:53:49+00:00
> One thing I find really funny is when AI enthusiasts make claims about agents and their own productivity its always entirely anecdotally based on their own subjective experience, but when others make claims to the contrary suddenly there is some overwhelming burden of proof that has to be reached in order to make any sort of claims regarding the capabilities of AI workflows. So which is it?

Really? It's little more than "I am right and you are wrong."
by al_borland | 2026-01-08 22:53:54+00:00
The problem with extensions on Safari is that they now need to go through the App Store. So you can’t just code it up and run it. It would require signing up for a developer account, paying $99/year, and all of that stuff.

You can run temporary unsigned extensions for development purposes, but they are removed after 24 hours or whenever you quit Safari, which would make using it daily a non-starter.
by 9dev | 2026-01-08 22:54:07+00:00
Most JetBrains IDE's include the database tools actually, we use Phpstorm and PyCharm, and they come with fully-fledged database connection support; that includes in-editor completion of queries against your schema, by the way, in addition to the myriad of features DataGrip and the DB plugin provide. I wouldn't switch to any external tool anymore
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-08 22:55:29+00:00
One of the things I admire about many top mathematicians today like Terence Tao is that they are clearly excellent mentors to a long list of smart graduate students and are able to advance mathematics through their students as well as on their own. You can imagine a half-formed thought Terence Tao has while driving to work becoming a whole dissertation or series of papers if he throws it to the right person to work on.

In contrast, Gauss disliked teaching and also tended to hoard those good ideas until he could go through all the details and publish them in the way he wanted. Which is a little silly, as after a while he was already widely considered the best mathematician in the world and had no need to prove anything to anyone - why not share those half-finished good ideas like Fast Fourier Transforms and let others work on them! One of the best mathematicians who ever lived, but definitely not my favorite role model for how to work.
by supern0va | 2026-01-08 22:56:28+00:00
The parent said: "Of course, by then we'll have much more capable models. So if you want SOTA, you might see the jump to $10-12. But that's a different value proposition entirely: you're getting significantly more for your money, not just paying more for the same thing."

SOTA improvements have been coming from additional inference due to reasoning tokens and not just increasing model size. Their comment makes plenty of sense.
by x0x0 | 2026-01-08 22:57:20+00:00
And I'm sure there will be some excuse for sf's clearance rates -- and that juiced by people not bothering to report crime here -- being horrific.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/police-sfpd-san-fr...

We're now at the point where Geico doesn't even ask you to cosplay working government by filing a police report. Because everyone knows that nothing will happen.
by mrandish | 2026-01-08 22:57:39+00:00
That link was somewhat clearer, thanks.

As a software guy who follows chip evolution more at a macro level like: new design + process node enabling better cores/tiles/units/clocks + new architecture enabling better caches, busses, I/O == better IPC, bandwidth, latency and throughput at given budget (cost, watts, heat, space) - I've yet to find anything which gives a sense of Rubin's likely lift vs the prior generation that's grounded in macro-but-concrete specs (such as cores, tiles, units, clocks, caches, busses, IPC, bandwidth, latency, throughput). If that exists, I'd love a link.
by ewoodrich | 2026-01-08 22:57:59+00:00
Exactly, if a comment just feels a little off but you're unsure, just do a quick scan of the profile, takes 15-30 seconds at most to get sufficient signal.

If it's actually AI, the pattern becomes extremely reading them back-to-back. If not, I'll happily give them the benefit of the doubt at that point.

The other day on Reddit I saw a post in r/sysadmin that absolutely screamed karma farming AI and it was really depressing seeing a bunch of people defending them as the victim of an anti-AI mob without noticing the entire profile was carbon copies of generic "Does anyone else dislike [Tool X], am I alone? [generic filler] What does everyone else think?" posts.
by venndeezl | 2026-01-08 22:58:38+00:00
Leadership that signed off on it still there though.

In fact this NY Times article suggests long time head of software at Apple is also on the short list of candidates.

Anecdotally every tech company I have worked for run by a CEO with real world skills; like hardware engineering or in one case, a former surgeon; were great to work at.

Whenever my employer has leadership that only relates to the world entirely through abstraction; like MBAs, software engineers; those companies crashed and burned.
by palmotea | 2026-01-08 22:59:13+00:00
> Email seems like not only a pretty terrible training data set, since most of it is marketing spam with dubious value

Google probably even has an advantage there: filter out everything except messages sent from valid gmail account to valid gmail account. If you do that you drop most of the spam and marketing, and have mostly human-to-human interactions. Then they have their spam filters.
by randycupertino | 2026-01-08 23:00:01+00:00
> California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington already allow people to practice law within their states without attending law school, but via "reading the law" type apprenticeships.

Famously this is how Kim Kardashian tried to become an attorney without ever attending undergrad, let alone law school. However, to date she has not be able to pass the bar exam.

https://people.com/kim-kardashian-cries-has-mental-breakdown...

Her boyfriend already got a "My girl's a lawyer" tattoo though so hopefully she will pass on her next attempt!
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kim-kardashian-pe...
by kristianp | 2026-01-08 23:00:15+00:00
The failure mode of returning code that only appears to work correctly is one I've encountered before. I've had Sonnet (3.5 I think) generate a bunch of functions that check if parameter values are out of valid range and just return without error when they should be a failing assertion. That kind of thing does smell of training data that hasn't been checked for correctness by experienced coders.
by ezst | 2026-01-08 23:00:47+00:00
It's even worse and sadder. Consumers already paid a premium for that, because the monopolists in place made it unavoidable. And now, years later, engineers (who usually are your best advocates and evangelists when it comes to bringing new technologies to the material world) are desperate to find any reason at all for those things to exist and not be a complete waste of money and resources.
by ctoa | 2026-01-08 23:00:50+00:00
Well, that's exactly the problem with focusing too hard on one macro nutrient recommendation out of context of other balanced diet recommendations.

Adding lean meat, dairy, eggs to protein poor diets is good, I love all of those things. Trying to hit a high protein target and understanding this to mean having to eat all or mostly meat is simply over correcting in a different direction.

And meat isn't a perfect PDCAAS! Beef is 0.92 close to soy at 0.91. Milk, eggs, soy protein (isolate), whey are 1. Beans are 0.75.

There's even more nuance, beans are partly lower because they are low in methionine, the essential amino acid that adults needs far less of than any other amino acid and that you don't need more of. In the context of a whole diet, it's not 92% of every gram for beef and 75% of every gram for beans, it doesn't work that way.

Relatively small servings of animal foods add up to a lot of protein, like some other comment was freaking out about needing to eat 4 hamburgers or a 16 oz steak to hit the (very modest) goal of 90g in a day. But something like, 1 egg + 1 can tuna + 1 serving Greek yogurt == 42g, is already at half the goal, much of the rest of it will fill out just fine from a balanced set of other non-empty calorie sources.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-08 23:00:51+00:00
> Sure, now define "total". Which accesses does that affect and which ones does it not? Is device memory included? PCIe memory? Are there ordering guarantees between mappings with different permissions?

At a basic level TSO is a model for how cores interact and devices are weird, so I'd say those get to be unspecified.

> Does it affect loads in any way? Or simply just stores?

Depends on what you mean by "affects". Loads in one core might not see stores from another core that have not yet reached the global/total list.
by shuntress | 2026-01-08 23:01:37+00:00
"What meals can I make with a given amount of money?" is a reasonable way to shop.

You said:

> Franks and beans are not the best meal on the cheap. Sounds more expensive than cooking fresh and you're missing out on better nutrition.
> For the most bang for your buck you want to be eating less expensive real protein like chicken and pork and filling up on salads.

I gave you math on how you can take the money you would have spent on chicken and get essentially the same "bang for your buck" by spending it instead on canned beans and cheap sausage for the protein portion of your meals.

It is completely reasonable to allow people who receive money for food assistance to buy hot dogs.

It is completely unreasonable to disallow people who receive money for food assistance from purchasing anything "Ultra Processed" because "Ultra Processed" is a category too broad and loose to determine whether or not a given food item is "healthy".
by vanpelt | 2026-01-08 23:01:56+00:00
Oooo nice, not really yet... Claude stores your session history in ~/.claude/projects/-Path-to-git-repo on your local machine. I should definitely add a "teleport" command like the one claude itself has which let's you move sessions between machines. It's a little tricky with git state & un commited changes but definitely possible. I'll consider this an upvote for that feature.
by loeg | 2026-01-08 23:02:19+00:00
Would be nice to have a different wrapper around Claude, even something bare bones, as long as it's easy to modify. Claude code terminal has the jankiest text editor I've ever used -- holding down backspace just moves the cursor. It's something about the key repeat rate. If you manually press backspace repeatedly, it's fine, but a rapid repeat rate confuses the editor. (I'm pretty sure neither GNU readline nor BSD editline do this.) It makes editing prompts a giant pain in the ass.
by phatfish | 2026-01-08 23:02:19+00:00
It's a rational way to deal with their energy needs, reduce pollution and their impact on the climate.

They have small gas and oil reserves if I remember. Unfortunately, if they were sitting on Venezuela or Russian style reserves or oil/gas the story might be different. But unlike Europe, the Chinese can see that being beholden to foreign states to keep the lights on is asking for trouble.

They seem to have avoided the ideology the big fossil fuel companies push in the west to make fossil vs green a political/class discussion, not a rational one. Rationally it makes most sense for a nation to generate their energy needs in a way they control with wind/solar/nuclear.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-08 23:02:29+00:00
My aunt is a republican lobbyist. She is also a drunk. She regularly texts my family things like how my other aunt, who is disabled, should kill herself rather than take medicaid money. She has told her daughter, who has attempted suicide twice, that she'd be better off dead than be bisexual. She texts us things about how every somali person in the US is going to get what is coming to them.

How should I talk with her to learn things?

Frankly, I'm absolutely fucking sick of leaders within the GOP saying that a woman is a domestic terrorist trained in using cars as weapons after an ICE goon murders her. Call me when the republicans send Trump to the gallows. Then I'll consider opening my heart up.
by rjh29 | 2026-01-08 23:02:43+00:00
Doesn't help that many people use AI to assist with autocompleting boilerplate crap or simple refactors, where it works well, or even the occasional small feature. But this is conflated with people who think you can just tell an AI to build an entire app and it'll go off and do it by itself in a giant feedback loop and it'll be perfect.
by solid_fuel | 2026-01-08 23:02:45+00:00
The nature of our current political crisis is changing by the minute, and with every fascist act this administration emboldens the next wave of left wing opposition.

The moderate position for future liberal candidates is now the full dissolution of ICE.

The more radical position - which is rapidly gaining support - is the arrest and prosecution of everyone involved in this administration. Starting with the president but including his cabinet and the oligarchs who spent the last year fomenting corruption and enriching themselves.
by palmotea | 2026-01-08 23:03:03+00:00
> The other way around, but a month or so ago Claude told me that a problem I was having was likely caused by ny fedora version "since fedora 42 is long deprecated".

Well, obviously, since Fedora 42 came out in 1942, when men still wore hats. Attempting to use such an old, out of style Linux distro is just a recipe for problems.
by stavros | 2026-01-08 23:03:16+00:00
The problem is that you can slice representation every which way. It could be "I only identify with 6'3" males who live in Idaho and like trains", or it could be "I identify with humans".

The fact that US culture chooses to identify with people of the same colour is telling, though I don't know, maybe that's a human thing and my country is too homogeneous for me to think otherwise.
by lovich | 2026-01-08 23:03:46+00:00
I feel no shame in anything I felt about Charlie Kirk’s death after seeing their response to this, and that looks like it was a team kill from conservatives.

One side of the political aisle in this country is screaming about how violent the other side is, while they are committing murder and telling us that our eyes are lying to us.

Gonna be a fun decade ahead
by generalizations | 2026-01-08 23:04:19+00:00
NPUs were pushed by Microsoft, who saw the writing on the wall: AI like chatgpt will dominate the user's experience, edge computing is a huge advantage in that regard, and Apple's hardware can do it. NPUs are basically Microsoft trying to fudge their way to a llamacpp-on-Apple-Silicon experience. Obviously it failed, but they couldn't not try.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-08 23:04:34+00:00
this is very interesting since I also know people who have been diagnosed with adhd and in manifests in completely different ways that's why I like to ask these questions, there are currently 6 known types of ADHD the latest one being inattentive ADHD.

thanks for sharing, the coffee part is mostly for the claim that it has the opposite effect on people with ADHD or no effect at all.
by helloaltalt | 2026-01-08 23:04:42+00:00
yes, my ex gf from iran also used Psiphon, I didn't trust psiphon that much but it seems that its decently well

In the end I had suggested her protonvpn as psiphon had some issues.

How does Psiphon work and how does it compare with protonvpn? I still trust protonvpn (which has free access as well) more than Psiphon fwiw.
by tsoukase | 2026-01-08 23:05:01+00:00
Long before any LLM becomes useful to people/patients, it will become an indispensable tool for doctors, that are able to usefully evaluate and safely apply the feedback to carefully and specifically posed context. Currently doctors are gaining some value from LLMs but generally it is still small and of limited importance. "Amateur doctors on a keyboard" definitely have a lot to lose next to the possible benefit. Doctors use AI to diagnose and treat, people just to obtain more food for thought to discuss with their doctors while getting a sense of imaginary safety due to a feeling of having total knowledge about their condition.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-08 23:05:06+00:00
I’ll just say that I fully expect American police to shoot people in that situation. Not because it’s justified but because their whole deal is:

“Sir, stop resisting. I gave you a lawful order”

“Sir, sir, BANG BANG”

“I feared for my life”

It’s like a pitbull, right? It’s right there most of the time. Then one day it eats a baby. But you kind of knew it had baby eating ready to go. It’s sitting there ready to eat babies. Just a question of when. Then the baby gets eaten and you’re upset. But most people just stay away from the baby eater.

One day you’re walking down the street and your baby gets eaten. Justifiable? No. Your fault? Also no. But there’s baby eaters out there. Such is life.
by MisterTea | 2026-01-08 23:05:20+00:00
> Ai are tools, getting into a personal relationship with them is ridiculous. No point in shilling them

Well you have people who work in vocational jobs who develop brand loyalties to tools such as John Deere, Caterpillar, Snap On, and so on. These companies sell branded merchandise such as apparel and other trinkets to promote the brand via their fans. Visit a vocational forum and you will see how people can be rabid tool brand fanatics, smack talking each others favorite tool brands.

I do believe there is AI shilling for sure. But I also believe there are people who really want AI to level the playing field for them so they too can be/feel like a 10x engineer or whatever. They invest themselves in the technology using a branded product which they can form an emotional attachment (e.g. Claude helped me feed my family. Thanks Claude!) So you get these gushy posts that feel like shilling but might be an emotional outburst of support for their favorite brand.
by MarsIronPI | 2026-01-08 23:05:42+00:00
Let me start by saying that I really like this idea.

Obviously social apps like this are faced with a chicken-and-egg dilemma of how to acquire users. I'm no marketer, so I don't have any suggestions on how to solve this one.

For myself, I avoid non-free/open-source programs in general, but especially chat apps. I think that especially the programs we rely on to communicate should at least be transparent on the client-side. That being said, I would absolutely try this out if the app were released as FOSS (which it doesn't look like it is?).
by hug | 2026-01-08 23:05:42+00:00
Because in its brevity it loses all ability to defend itself from any kind of reasonable rebuttal. It's not an actual attempt to continue the conversation, it's just a semantic stop-sign. It's almost always used in this fashion, not just in the context of LLM discussions, but in this specific case it's particularly frustrating because "yes, you're holding it wrong" is a good answer.

To go further into detail about the whole thing: "You're holding it wrong" is perfectly valid criticism in many, many different ways and fields. It's a strong criticism in some, and weak in others, but almost always the advice is still useful.

Anyone complaining about getting hurt by holding a knife by the blade, for example, is the strongest example of the advice being perfect. The tool is working as designed, cutting the thing with pressure on the blade, which happens to be their hand.

Left-handers using right-handed scissors provides a reasonable example: I know a bunch of left-handers who can cut properly with right-handed scissors and not with left-handed scissors. Me included, if I don't consciously adjust my behaviour. Why? Because they have been trained to hold scissors wrong (by positioning the hand to create opposite push/pull forces to natural), so that they can use the poor tool given to them. When you give them left-handed scissors and they try to use the same reversed push/pull, the scissors won't cut well because their blades are being separated. There is no good solution to this, and I sympathise with people stuck on either side of this gap. Still, learn to hold scissors differently.

And, of course, the weakest, and the case where the snark is deserved: if you're holding your iPhone 4 with the pad of your palm bridging the antenna, holding it differently still resolves your immediate problem. The phone should have been designed such that it didn't have this problem, but it does, and that sucks, and Apple is at fault here. (Although I personally think it was blown out of proportion, which is neither here nor there.)

In the case of LLMs, the language of the prompt is the primary interface -- if you want to learn to use the tool better, you need to learn to prompt it better. You need to learn how to hold it better. Someone who knows how to prompt it well, reading the kind of prompts the author used, is well within their rights to point out that the author is prompting it wrong, and anyone attempting to subvert that entire line of argument with a trite little four-sentence bit of snark in whatever the total opposite of intellectual curiosity is deserves the downvotes they get.
by forty | 2026-01-08 23:05:58+00:00
What if we run out of GPU? Out of RAM? Out of electricity?

AWS is already raising GPU prices, that never happened before. What if there is war in Taiwan? What if we want to get serious about climate change and start saving energy for vital things ?

My guess is that, while they can do some cool stuff, we cannot afford LLMs in the long run.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-08 23:06:07+00:00
Look at a map, China doesn't have open access to the ocean. They have Japan, Taiwan in their way, the only help out they have is the South China Sea, but even that is crowded and relies on Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia not being again them. They can only really get oil from the middle east through the straight of Malacca (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacca_dilemma), which is really easy to cut off. It doesn't matter if you can build lots of ships if the US navy can take them out as they leave port into the open ocean.

So overland is their best option, but Russia is huge, lacks infrastructure (no oil pipelines in the far east), and anyways, isn't always China's friend. Western China abuts some Central asian countries with oil (and Iran in the middle), but again, not so friendly, lots of mountains to get trains through, and it is still far away from East China where the oil is actually needed.

So...they have lots of coal and are really pushing into renewables and nuclear. Nuclear is the kind of thing where you can stockpile a few thousand years worth of fuel with a few ships from Australia in peacetime. And if your economy relies more on electric trains and cars, you are going to be ok if someone cuts off or restricts your oil supply.