MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alterom | 2026-01-29 19:34:13+00:00
> I'll let you find the video, it's brutal

This Daily Mail article¹ has it. It.. doesn't look brutal to me?

Just looks like the minibus driver, who was driving on the median, veered across it into the oncoming lane to crash with the semi.

He wasn't in a lane to begin with.

> Allegedly caused by lane assist activating out of the blue

Yeah dawg, imma need a second opinion on this.

This is alleged* by the survivors of the crush.

Which is weird, because the passengers wouldn't know about what happened in the split-second that resulted in the crash.

Particularly, the passengers wouldn't know about whether lane assist interfered.

And the driver, who would, also happened to be drunk and high AF on cannabis, cocaine, and yet-to-be-identified stuff found in the vehicle at the moment of accident⁴.

Methinks, these allegations might be a lil' biased.

* * *

EDIT: the other comment revealed the news that the vehicle did not have a lane assist feature.

Such surprise.

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¹ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-15503545/...

² https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-15503545/...

³
https://www.romaniajournal.ro/society-people/law-crime/new-u...

⁴ https://agerpres.ro/english/2026/01/29/toxicology-tests-reve...
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-29 19:34:22+00:00
It's not funny how people make judgments like this without any factchecking, just by their gut.

Talk to any actual healthcare worker from an oncology ward. (A nurse will do.) With most cancers, your chances of survival are non-trivially better now than even in 2010. Immunotherapy absolutely exploded in the meantime. For example, the vast majority of monoclonal antibodies (not just for treatment of cancer) were only approved in the last 15 years.

There are some notable holdouts like glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer, and these tend to draw attention. But there is real progress.
by arionmiles | 2026-01-29 19:34:33+00:00
If that's the goal, the technology for how these agents "learn" would be the most interesting one, even more than the demos in the link.

LLMs can barely remember the coding style I keep asking it to stick to despite numerous prompts, stuffing that guideline into my (whatever is the newest flavour of product-specific markdown file). They keep expanding the context window to work around that problem.

If they have something for long-term learning and growth that can help AI agents, they should be leveraging it for competitive advantage.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-29 19:34:37+00:00
> The effect size for antidepressants is 0.4

What the article states, then fails to take into account, is that is the mean effect size, and there is huge variation.

Anti-depressants are notorious for producing different effects for different people.

What that high variance means in practice, is for any anti-depressant, the people who get good results are getting a much higher effect than 0.4. And the other people move on to try something else.

So to keep comparing 0.4 directly to the effect of Vitamin D and Omega-3 directly is very misleading.
by dzhiurgis | 2026-01-29 19:34:45+00:00
You might be surrounded by people who stopped thinking. My friend said "hell no" to Tesla right around backlash started and ordered a PHEV. Thankfully, somehow, someone convinced him to upgrade to EV. I keep begging him for a drive, but I suspect he's embarrassed by how shitty BYD is (same with other mate who somewhat regrets with all the issues he had, albeit they were far cheaper back then).
by burningChrome | 2026-01-29 19:35:04+00:00
Absolute classic if anybody else is interested in reading:

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

Mel was for sure on another level:

It was a long time before I understood that remark.
Since Mel knew the numerical value
of every operation code,
and assigned his own drum addresses,
every instruction he wrote could also be considered
a numerical constant.
He could pick up an earlier "add" instruction, say,
and multiply by it,
if it had the right numeric value.
His code was not easy for someone else to modify.
by CMay | 2026-01-29 19:35:13+00:00
I think you're confused. Someone died. They contributed to their own death with their actions as did many other factors. It was an unnecessary death that could have been avoided. The officers might have made mistakes as well.

You weren't in Alex's head. You weren't in the officer's head. All you know is what you think you know, but aren't even sure you can know it. That is what investigation is for.

You keep using words like murder despite there not being sufficient evidence for that.

Alex broke many federal laws, spit at officers, laid hands on them, attacked their vehicles and broke their tail lights while they were in the vehicles and so on.

I do not know what kind of person Alex was when he was being civil in his own life, but in his most public representation he has shown himself to be an unhinged criminal. Maybe he thought his criminal behavior was justified, but that is a separate matter. It also doesn't mean he deserved to die.

Acting that way though, makes it a lot easier to make the case that officers believed he was a credible threat to their lives in a court case. It doesn't even only have to be valid in court, it could have legitimately been true in that recorded moment that in all of the chaos and with this guy's crazy behavior, they really believed he might have had another weapon and would have used it.

Don't get manipulated into using words like complicit to try to divide the country.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-29 19:35:19+00:00
It's an article, not a 20 page research analysis. It provides detail aappropriate to its scope.

If you disagree, it's up to you to provide additional evidence to the contrary. The article devotes a paragraph on why the UN didn't release the report. If you want to argue that the UN shelved it for reasons of accuracy rather than for political reasons, please provide the explanation for why the article is wrong and why you're right.

I mean, maybe you're right. I certainly don't know. But the article is going into a degree of depth to defend its reporting, and you're not.
by neelc | 2026-01-29 19:35:20+00:00
This is true.

We use ASRock Rack servers, mainly because the only option for our industry are OEMs like Supermicro and ASRock. Dell and HPE are non-starters, except for our "storage" offering.

Back in 2019, HPE was a good midrange option. Then came ASRock Rack who obliterated HPE with the X470D4U, relegating HPE to high-end enterprise servers. But also made Ryzen-based VPS hosts including yours truly, BuyVM, et al.
by nuclearm | 2026-01-29 19:35:28+00:00
A proposed class-action settlement filed Jan 23, 2026 (N.D. California, San Jose) would have Google pay $68M to resolve claims that Google Assistant sometimes activated on “false accepts” (misheard wake words), recorded private conversations, and allegedly shared/used the resulting data (including for ad targeting). Google denies wrongdoing; the settlement still needs court approval (a preliminary approval hearing is set for March 19, 2026)
Background: reporting in 2019 described contractors transcribing snippets of Assistant recordings, including some captured accidentally.
What architecture would make “false accepts” provably non-exfiltrating (on-device wake word, local buffering, strict opt-in upload)?
If human review is needed to improve models, what’s the least-bad consent + auditing model?
by michaelrpeskin | 2026-01-29 19:35:36+00:00
I was having almost this exact same discussion with a neighbor who's about my age and has kids about my kids' ages. I had recently sold my old truck, and now I only have one (very old and fragile) car left with a manual transmission. I need to keep it running a few more years for my kids to learn how to drive it since it's really hard to get a new car with a stick now...or do I?

Is learning to drive stick as out dated as learning how to do spark advance on a Model T? Do I just give in and accept that all of my future cars, and all the cars for my kids are just going to be automatic? When I was learning to drive, I had to understand how to prime the carburetor to start my dad's Jeep. But I only ever owned fuel injected cars, so that's a "skill" I never needed in real life.

It's the same angst I see in AI. Is typing code in the future going to be like owning a carbureted engine or manual transmission is now? Maybe? Likely? Do we want to hold on to the old way of doing things just because that's what we learned on and like?

Or is it just a new (and more abstracted) way of telling a computer what to do? I don't know.

Right now, I'm using AI like when I got my first automatic transmission. It does make things easier, but I still don't trust it and like to be in control because I'm better. But now automatics are better than even the best professional driver, so do I just accept it?

Technology progresses, at what point to we "accept it" and learn the new way? How much of holding on to the old way is just our "identity".

I don't have answers, but I have been thinking about this a lot lately (both in cars for my kids, and computers for my job).
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-29 19:35:38+00:00
It's not really moot though. The primary benefit of concise but robust frameworks like ZIO is that they are easy to read (like the program is mostly business logic with minimal syntax noise/programming language bookkeeping), not that they're easy to write (though that's true too). Metaprogramming also works nicely with LLMs because you get the expressiveness of something like Python (or better) while retaining a strong type checking layer to give a feedback loop to the LLM. In fact, it kind of shines with an LLM because you largely don't care if things like macros are ugly as long as they produce correct code to present to the typechecker/compiler, so it makes more sense to vibe code the metaprogramming layer to give yourself whatever you need to have straightforward business logic. Conciseness and direct encoding of business logic also helps to keep context focused.

Really this is all true with humans too, but IMO it's multiplied with LLMs because they are insanely capable at dealing with the guts of metaprogramming wizardry if they need to, so you don't end up in a world where that one guy that understands it leaves and then no one can possibly maintain it.
by nickelpro | 2026-01-29 19:35:39+00:00
import std; is an order of magnitude faster than using the STL individually, if that's evidence enough for you. It's faster than #include <iostream> alone.

Chuanqi says "The data I have obtained from practice ranges from 25% to 45%, excluding the build time of third-party libraries, including the standard library."[1]

[1]: https://chuanqixu9.github.io/c++/2025/08/14/C++20-Modules.en...
by lamename | 2026-01-29 19:35:56+00:00
Maybe. Those could be the case. But ignoring all confounding factors, this phenomenon is possible with numerical experiments alone. One of the meanings of "the Law of Small Numbers".

Basically, the possibility that the small study was underpowered, and just lucky...then the large studies with more power are closer to the truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
by XorNot | 2026-01-29 19:36:09+00:00
This is a bizarre analogy.

For one thing: if your car is overheating, don't open the radiator cap since the primary outcome will be serious burns.

And I've owned my car for 20 years: the only time I had to refill coolant was when I DIY'd a water pump replacement, which saved some money but only like maybe $500 compared to a mechanic.

You could perfectly well own a car and never have to worry about this.
by ares623 | 2026-01-29 19:36:31+00:00
Imagine a ZIRP 2.0 where a vast majority of the population already knows what to expect and how to game the system even harder. If you think the pump-and-dump happening in now in a non-ZIRP environment are bad...

It ain't coming back. Not in a similar form anyway. Be careful what you wish for, etc.
by usefulposter | 2026-01-29 19:36:33+00:00
>(Edit: a survey of OP's relatively new account suggests a singular focus on anti-AI stories.)

Grokipedia is on topic for HN. Please feel free to discuss its evolution from v0.1 -> v0.2 or the pros and cons of this LLM-assisted model or anything else that is on topic, not cross-examine the submitter or make assumptions about them.
by lkbm | 2026-01-29 19:36:46+00:00
I mostly see 25 mph for school zones, though I'm in NC. Checking California, it sounds like 25 is standard there as well.[0] Some will drop to 15, but 25 is the norm as far as I can find.

[0] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/california-driver-han...
by echelon | 2026-01-29 19:37:33+00:00
The more I see of this, the faster I want it to go!

I'm developing filmmaking tools with World Labs' Marble world model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJCJYdGdpHg

https://github.com/storytold/artcraft

I think we'll eventually get to the point where these are real time and have consistent representations. I've been excited about world models since I saw the in-the-browser Pokemon demo:

https://madebyoll.in/posts/game_emulation_via_dnn/demo/

At some point, we'll have the creative Holodeck. If you've seen what single improv performers can do with AI, it's ridiculously cool. I can imagine watching entertainers in the future that summon and create entire worlds before us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYH3FIFH55s

(If you haven't seen CodeMiko, she's an incredibly talented engineer and streamer. She develops mocap + AI streams.)
by insane_dreamer | 2026-01-29 19:37:38+00:00
This is generally the problem with self-driving cars, at least in my experience (Tesla FSD).

They don't look far enough ahead to anticipate what might happen and already put themselves in a position to prepare for that possibility. I'm not sure they benefit from accumulated knowledge? (Maybe Waymo does, that's an interesting question.) I.e., I know that my son's elementary school is around the corner so as I turn I'm already anticipating the school zone (that starts a block away) rather than only detecting it once I've made the turn.
by lateforwork | 2026-01-29 19:38:14+00:00
> Just look at how Waymo is struggling to grow and scale.

Are they? They seem to be growing fine.

Regardless, they are approaching it the right way. They start with a safe solution, even though it is expensive, then bring the cost down over the years as technology improves. The wrong way to do it is to start with a less expensive but unsafe tech then add a safety driver in every car. That approach is wrong both because the "tech" of the safety driver will never improve, and you'll kill a few people along the way, like Tesla.
by goda90 | 2026-01-29 19:38:24+00:00
I wonder how long until we'll start seeing these breakthrough cancer treatment articles for clinical trials done in dogs. Oncologists think dog research is a better fit than mice because of greater genetic similarities to humans and the fact that pet dogs live in similar environments as their owners. I think in general people definitely wouldn't be as ok with inducing cancer in dogs as in mice, but finding volunteers owners of dogs with existing cancer is certainly easier.
by bcrl | 2026-01-29 19:38:24+00:00
Please read the article in full. The GPU die where all the computations occur and the majority of power is spent will remain on TSMC.

TSMC plans their A14 process to be in high volume production in 2028. It will include backside power delivery introduced in their A14 process (expected 2026/2027 high volume production), which means it will be quite competitive with Intel.

https://semiwiki.com/wikis/industry-wikis/tsmc-a14-process-t...
https://semiwiki.com/wikis/industry-wikis/%F0%9F%A7%A0-tsmc-...

There's an older article at https://www.igorslab.de/en/350-watts-for-nvidias-new-top-of-... which shows the breakdown of power consumption for GPUs. The GPU die itself is only 230W of the entire power budget.
by daxfohl | 2026-01-29 19:38:29+00:00
Same situation (50 last week, 2 kids) though have been unemployed for a year. Part of me thinks that, rather than taking jobs, AI is actually the only reason a lot of jobs still exist. The rest of tech is dead. Having worked in consulting a while ago, you can kind of feel it when you're approaching the point where you've implemented all the high value stuff for a client and, even though there's stuff you could do, they're going to drop you to a retainer contract because it's just not the same value.

That's how the whole industry feels now. The only investment money is flowing into AI, and so companies with any tech presence are touting their AI whatevers at every possible moment (including during layoffs) just to get some capital. Without that, I wonder if we'd be seeing even harsher layoffs than we already are.
by samrus | 2026-01-29 19:38:45+00:00
Exactly. I go back to a recent ancestor of LLMs, seq2seq. Its purpose was to translate things. Thats all. That needed representation learning and an attention mechanism, and it lead to some really freaky emergent capabilities, but its trained to trainslate language.

And thats exactly what its good for. It works great if you already solve a tough problem and provide it the solution in natural language, because the program is already there, it just needs to translate it to python.

Anything more than that that might emerge from this is going to be unreliable sleight of next-token-prediction at best.

We need a new architectural leap to have these things reason, maybe something that involves reinforcement learning at the token represention level, idk. But scaling the context window and training data arent going to cut it
by Nevermark | 2026-01-29 19:38:46+00:00
I go on regular long walks and it is a huge help.

A few months ago I tried walking with a weighted vest, and my body and brain got completely shocked in a really good way. Wakes up everything. So that is in my mix now.

Walking with 20 then 40 lbs was a lot easier than I expected, and the results were much greater.
by jjk166 | 2026-01-29 19:39:02+00:00
The only one of those that is an example is Nigeria. All the others are just listed as examples of countries that have not conducted a census in an extremely long time. While that's a good reason to think the numbers are probably inaccurate, it's not a good reason to think they are fake.

> there's obvious fakery in the number of significant digits. If the numbers are approximations to the nearest ten million (or worse), it's a form of scientific fraud to provide a number like "94.9 million"

The numbers aren't approximations to the nearest ten million. Just because they're inaccurate doesn't mean they're imprecise. For comparison if my bank statement is missing a large transaction it may be off the true value by hundreds of dollars, but that doesn't mean they didn't count the cents for the transactions they're aware of.
by Karrot_Kream | 2026-01-29 19:39:36+00:00
I've largely stopped commenting here because I feel the community is broken. There's definitely truth to what you say, that an educated audience can have a consensus. But one thing makes the HN community (and many Reddit communities) particularly bad: A lot of these threads have repetitive comments with insults or silly name calling get upvoted. Even if consensus is around the earth being round, there's no need to pettily insult flat earthers. We just ignore them and move on leaving their content to languish at the bottom. On the other hand these threads bring a lot of childish insults that get upvoted just because they hit the right buttons.

This to me is one (of many) sign that the community here cannot healthily discuss these topics. IMO the community here isn't healthy at all. That's why I don't post here much anymore. It's a sign to me that too many discussions in this community are about seeking emotional catharsis. And I'm sorry but for my own mental health, I'm not going to listen to someone else's panic attack resulting from political uncertainty.

I feel for dang and tomhow. It seems that most of their work is doing emotional labor. And emotional labor can grind a person down quickly.
by megous | 2026-01-29 19:39:45+00:00
Yeah, likely not. There are all kinds of shaes of gray in between that and windows style OS instalation, though.

Arch Linux just sits somewhere in the middle, where you don't build anything, but you get a guided tour of partitioning and formatting a disk, installing some set of packages and setting up a bootloader, from a fairly rich adn comfortable command line environment of a USB live distro.
by AuthAuth | 2026-01-29 19:39:56+00:00
Cory can write one hell of a presentation. I felt nationalist for Canada sitting on the otherside of the world. Dude is a treasure, I wish people in my country were saying this kind of stuff. Instead we're arguing over access to the internet and removing user digital freedom.

Would this work though? Ireland's tax haven isnt a model to be replicated it was a race to the bottom and hurt everyone involved. For some industries I can see this being great but for others mainly digital ones I can see it completely destroying the industry. If I make digital content and I put it behind a subscription, the 3rd party starts offering a way for their users to view my content with a valid subscript. Ok now another 3rd party makes a client to allow their users to view my content without a valid subscription and what can I do?
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-29 19:40:02+00:00
It's a relative to self-hosting. If a language can be compiled in itself the compiler also becomes one of the first tests of language compatibility. Similarly, if you can write low-level pieces like a garbage collector in the the higher-level language itself you can maybe save transitions to and from lower level code and help prove the language is useful in lower level scenarios. It's maybe backwards to expectations but a lot of .NET improvements over the years has just been moving low level code from C++ to a low level subset of C# to avoid thread stack transitions and/or gift the JIT and AOT compilers with more tools to inline low level code. There have been experimental GCs in the .NET Runtime written in C# for the exact same reason. There likely will be again.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-29 19:40:17+00:00
Mice are very short-lived compared to us. In humans, the usual standard of judgment when it comes to cancer is "5 year survival". No mouse has ever lived for 5 years yet, that would be like 180 years for us.

Prolonging a mouse's life by a few months is non-trivial and hints (only hints) at potential efficiency of such treatment in other species as well.
by kiney | 2026-01-29 19:40:19+00:00
First of all TÜV isn't a single org but a shared brand of multiple independent companies.
And while "TÜV" is used colloquially for the mandatory car inspection in germany even all TÜV named companies together aren't anywhere near a monopoly:
all of them combined(!) have 37,5% market share in the german vehicle inspection market. The largest single org in that market is actually DEKRA with 32,5%.

People say "Ich bring mein Auto zum TÜV", but they actually mean "I'm gonna drop it at my dealership and let him inspect it by whatever company he has a deal with"

src:
https://www.kba.de/DE/Statistik/Fahrzeuge/Fahrzeuguntersuchu...