MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-23 08:15:09+00:00
> whether capping is here a way to increase reliability

Almost certainly so, and you wouldn't even need to halve the wattage; even a smaller drop ought to bring a very clear improvement. The performance profile you mention is something you see all the time on CPUs when pushed to their extremes; it's crazy to see that pro-level GPUs are seemingly being tuned the same way out of the box.
by retube | 2026-01-23 08:15:11+00:00
The calendly thing is interesting. I get a fair amount of prospecting outreach on LI, and if anyone asks me to book a slot myself, it's an instant no. I feel like you can't be bothered to actually engage with me, that you are not prepared to do this tiny bit of work. It almost feels disrespectful?

Am I alone in this?

Anyway, is not an approach I would take.
by jraph | 2026-01-23 08:15:21+00:00
> Having to use circumlocution like that—and thus making the meaning unclear—seems like an aspect of a Guess, or high-context, culture, doesn't it? ^_^

Ah ah :-)

Well, not really. Scientifically stating something doesn't exist is very bold, usually you can't formally do this. Your best way is to say "so far, we have no evidence of this existing".

Several studies or a meta analysis stating "we have no proof of this existing" is a strong hint towards this indeed not existing, usually that can't be for sure.

To prove something wrong usually you need a counter example, but in this stuff it's hard even imagining what's a counter example.
by gwern | 2026-01-23 08:15:53+00:00
> It's like how software engineers who are at Google are worse if they're better competitive programmers.

That's not true. It didn't replicate and Norvig has said as much somewhere on HN, IIRC.

(I also agree with the other criticisms that this 'old vs young' setup in OP is obviously at least partially, and perhaps entirely, regression to the mean and Berkson.)
by f1shy | 2026-01-23 08:15:55+00:00
I've seen very often people with good memory will be regarded as intelligent. They integrate "knowledge" by just recording verbatim phrases. That takes them a very long way... But when the time comes to analyze something, they break down. I've fallen in that myself, people I regarded as intelligent, because they "knew" so much things, could not keep up with the most basic syllogism, they were just stupid.
by larodi | 2026-01-23 08:16:06+00:00
Sure. Revolutions of the past mostly. Some had succeeded with less bloodshed also. But let’s think for a moment / internet is the first thing going down when modern revolts ignite - not only in Persia, but also in India, Africa, Mianmar and others…

So perhaps being able to organise is much more challenging to the status quo than having a pistol in every house. I would also argue 21st century revolutions are perhaps a little different from others before.

I can easily imagine a very massive cyber revolt where communications are brought to a standstill for the ruling elite. But while imaginable is hard to enact in practice and someone else in the comments noted many top Iranian officials had an IT or engineering backgrounds which makes them better prepared and the whole effort much more challenging.
by oasisbob | 2026-01-23 08:16:29+00:00
I'm not accusing you of dishonesty, I just don't understand the evidence you're putting forward to support your claim.

Have you, as an experienced Wikipedia editor ever used AI to revise articles? What was your experience?

Telling a story about editing an article once and thinking that AI could do it isn't as compelling.

Establishing ethos isn't the same thing as an appeal to authority.
by spullara | 2026-01-23 08:16:46+00:00
when I joined twitter in 2011 there was a single mysql master user (not tweets) database and a few dozen read replicas. it was writing about 7000 updates per second and during bursts it would go too high for the single-threaded replication in mysql at the time to keep up with the master which would cause replication lag and all kinds of annoying things in the app. you just have to pick the right time to make the switch before it is an emergency.
by LucaMo | 2026-01-23 08:16:53+00:00
Legit point and agreed with everything, however wait until an email address of yours reaches the database of lead generation websites and you will see that you will never be able to keep count of the violations. Newsletter lists add your email in automatically and people sell you stuff without the unsubscribe button in the email, so no way to block them... I understand your concern but dealing with far worse
by irjustin | 2026-01-23 08:17:05+00:00
There's a lot of speculation about how different rounds will get paid out.

Unless someone has insider information and is willing to post, we have absolutely no idea who was made whole, who lost and who gained.

At the size of Brex, anything is possible and it depends on how much leverage they had at each priced round.

Guaranteed payout, equal, founders multiplier. All possible.
by Tade0 | 2026-01-23 08:17:32+00:00
> Russia has always been selling it's oil and gas at a discount

No. Urals blend used to closely track Brent, now it's $10-20 below that. Chart here details the discount over time:

https://energyandcleanair.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/...

Overall there's a clear trend of Russia's fossil fuel revenue declining:

https://www.russiafossiltracker.com/

> nobody refuses cheap energy

Only Russian gas was really cheap. The EU found other suppliers who don't pose such a geopolitical risk.
by Fomite | 2026-01-23 08:17:37+00:00
From someone who has been part of the hobby for a long time, I think a couple of reasons:

1) Total Warhammer, Space Marine, and an otherwise highly successful video game licensing program.

2) Being well positioned to ride the overall rise of nerdier hobbies being acceptable

3) A marked shift in the company towards being more open and...friendly? It's hard to overstate how much the "old GW" sort of viewed its customers with a vibe that sometimes came close to hostility. There's much better engagement now, and a business built on something other than "A mom will buy this for their 12 year old, and will lose them when they discover girls."
by abbassix | 2026-01-23 08:17:47+00:00
I bought the latest Intel MacBook Air and after few months they released M1 MacBook Air. Then they release an update, I did as I should, and it broke my laptop! I lost all my data! They fixed it for me in a couple of weeks without providing me a substitute! And they were arrogant enough to behave like they did a favor to not charge me for the repair! It was 2020! My MacBook Air never became like before, and it died a couple of times in a year, which it recovered by itself. And some months ago it died, and it didn't recover! I lost lots of data I spent thousands of hours and I trusted that I can have them even if my laptop dies. Now, I have no way to recover my data!
by nandomrumber | 2026-01-23 08:18:03+00:00
> despite successive governments that were (likely monetarily* ) opposed to solar and wind,

What are you talking about?

> Both were due to government incentives,

How can the government be opposed to it, while also providing rebates to rooftop solar?

Anyway, it was all a big bait and switch manoeuvre, as the solar feed in tariff per kWh is only a fraction of what you pay, but it didn’t start out that way.

That continued existence of any incentive to add rooftop solar is dependent on continued electricity price hikes that out pace general inflation.

That’s how intelligent Australian voters are.

We have the world’s largest known uranium deposit, which we’re happy for others to use, but instead we voted for this shit.

Rooftop solar is a scam.

What it does is shifts the long term maintenance costs from the industrial sector, or government if you’re a socialist, to the owner of the roof owner, the residential / business customer. All the while leaving the affordability of the entire fiasco up to whichever bunch of wankers are in Canberra this week deciding the feed-in tariff.

Why would anyone think any of that is a good idea.

And I say that as someone who recently installed solar.
by qcnguy | 2026-01-23 08:18:38+00:00
That phrasing sounds like you're not yourself outraged by it. It wouldn't be surprising given the institutional attitudes seen at the BBC (and Channel 4 which got caught doing something even worse) - clearly, leftists have decided that framing politicians and publishing entirely fake news is acceptable if it's to attack right wing people.

Anyone who knows about that event and is still watching the BBC afterwards is saying they don't care about the truth of their own beliefs. Dangerous stuff.
by tromp | 2026-01-23 08:18:48+00:00
> One thing is certain, and that is economics will force a change in how we actually use the main Bitcoin blockchain. In the future, using the primary chain will feel a lot more like sending a bank wire transfer. It will become the settlement layer where only large, high-value transfers take place, because the transaction fees will be too high for anything else.

This makes the unwarranted assumption that there will still be a large backlog of txs, which is what makes people pay higher tx fees to get their tx processed faster. But as soon as that backlog clears, people will go back to paying minimal fees. There is no future where txs will remain extremely high for months at a time.
by menaerus | 2026-01-23 08:19:36+00:00
> It's not something you can do if you have a full-time job

> I find it unreasonable to ask a candidate to spend that much time

And same for some reason does not apply to leetcode style interviews?

> It would take something like one week full time to work on this

I am not sure if this is satire or what? You need months of continuous preparation to be ready for the leetcode style interview.

> Optimizing some generated code is certainly fun, but it's as useless as leetcode for your average programmer.

No, it is not. This is specifically the type of job you would be doing tomorrow at Anthropic team if hired. And they are specifically hiring people who are already good enough at that very task. The same cannot be said for the leetcode, not even remotely comparable.
by specproc | 2026-01-23 08:20:49+00:00
The problem with tech is that there's absolutely zero accountability.

Marketing is, to some extent at least, regulated. There's so little consumer protection in the tech industry, it's a joke. We've got GDPR (in Europe) and I'm really struggling to think what else. Imagine if other forms of engineering had the same level of control.

There's this absolutely fallacious notion that in a free market, customers can just vote with their feet.

From big players with vendor lock-in and network effects, to specialists (I know of few decent competitors to Proton), the average consumer is not sufficiently protected from malpractice.

We may say, "oh, it's just a marketing email", but TFA perfectly encapsulates the relationship we have with our suppliers.
by Dev_Master | 2026-01-23 08:21:03+00:00
AutoDateInserter is a small desktop utility I built to safely batch-rename files by prepending or appending timestamps.

It’s written in Python with Tkinter/ttkbootstrap and focuses on being predictable and undoable rather than “one-shot” scripting. Features include preview before rename, dry-run mode, pause/resume for long jobs, throughput + ETA, automatic conflict resolution, drag & drop, recursive folders, and a persistent undo history (JSON-based).

I originally needed a reliable way to timestamp large mixed file sets (photos, reports, backups) without writing ad-hoc scripts each time. Sharing in case it’s useful or sparks feedback on the design or implementation.
by curiousgal | 2026-01-23 08:21:35+00:00
Okay, literature aside, I've often discussed this with my SO. I feel like Americans are obsessed with heroes/villains. Every single issue that arises and is discussed online, is always viewed from the angle of "who do we support and/or who do we hate". During COVID it was Fauci and Dolly Parton, now it's Bovino and Good. I feel like Americans often have a need to put a single person on a pedestal as if they yearn for a symbol. A true cult of personality, for better or for worse.
by InMice | 2026-01-23 08:21:51+00:00
That you cant jump to the beginning or end of search results in gmail. You can only click page by page and only know the end is near when you know when the results get close to your account creation date. The only work around is to guess ahead with editing the results page number in the URL string. It's been this stupid annoying way since day 1 of gmail.

Also now seeing the stupidest copying of liquid glass in google's web interfaces. Like adding transperancy to some of their pop up info boxes just so ugly and pointless.
by rstuart4133 | 2026-01-23 08:21:55+00:00
> In the current paper systems you don't have to,

True. But the "secret ballot in a polling booth using paper" systems are disappearing. 32% if Australian votes aren't done that way now.

> In theory, yes. In practice, barely. If it was easy/practical it would be intrinsically susceptible to coercion.

It can be reduced to scanning a QR code in an app. It is a bit of a mystery to me why you think that isn't easy, practical or is susceptible to coercion.
by pelalmqvist | 2026-01-23 08:22:46+00:00
I also came with a similar resolution which is that building just for the sake of building will not motivate me to actually build.

I'm adding CSS, JavaScript, PHP, whatever, to my website because it's required to accomplish what I want. Not because my website must have all of that to be on par with what's whateverGPT is able to produce.

Building a CI pipeline which will automatically convert the linted markdown I'm pushing to a beautiful HTML blog post will surely be helpful to my technical growth.

But I know for sure that I won't have any motivation to do it without having written an actual post to share to the internet.
by pella | 2026-01-23 08:23:06+00:00
retroactively - create Lightweight Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) by reconstructing key decisions from the available sources, then make it a habit to maintain them for all future changes.

- https://github.com/peter-evans/lightweight-architecture-deci...

- https://adr.github.io/

- https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/lightweight-ar...
by usefulposter | 2026-01-23 08:23:36+00:00
Hey, that sounds like Signal!

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4590

>We're not going to remove the reminders.

>If you don't want to provide that access, you still don't need to – you can simply tap remind me later once a month

(See also: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4373, https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/5809, ...)
by plomme | 2026-01-23 08:23:46+00:00
> It doesn't matter what you make or how you make it. What matters is why you make it and what you have to say.

I want to add one point: That you make/ ship something at all.

When the first image generating models came out my head was spinning with ideas for different images I'd want to generate, maybe to print out and hang on the wall. After an initial phase of playing around the excitement faded, even though the models are more than good enough with a bit of fiddling. My walls are still pretty bare.

Turns out even reducing the cost of generating an image to zero does not make me in particular churn out ideas. I suspect this is true for most applications of AI for most people.
by d0lphin | 2026-01-23 08:23:57+00:00
What's weird, and I'm not sure if it's a documented or undocumented feature, but the account I am logged into on the App Store differs from the one logged into on the system. The system Apple ID is setup with Family Sharing, and the users are able to use apps purchased with the secondary Apple ID.

I haven't transferred the purchases or anything either. The two Apple IDs have different purchases on them, and those on Family Sharing are able to access both.
by radicality | 2026-01-23 08:24:32+00:00
that Contacts one hits hard, no idea how many hours I wasted trying to figure out what the hell it’s doing.

Just today was looking at Activity Monitor Disk tab, for an unrelated reason - sorted by Bytes Read, lo and behold ‘contactsd’ - the Contacts daemon, is in 2nd spot at ~400 _gigabytes_ read, right after mediaanalysisd. I don’t even remember last time I opened the Contacts app on my Mac.
It felt like it’s gonna be another time sink with no solution, so I didn’t even bother to investigate more.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-23 08:25:03+00:00
I feel this has causality reversed. I'd say they are good at analogies because they have to compress well, which they do by encoding relationships in stupidly high-dimensional space.

Analogies then could sort of fall out naturally out of this. It might really still be just the simple (yet profound) "King - Man + Woman = Queen" style vector math.
by mlitwiniuk | 2026-01-23 08:25:27+00:00
Understanding what a control actually means is the first "aha" moment. And it feels like you've cracked the code.
Then you realize that's maybe 10% of the work.
Each control needs sub-controls (because "Access Control" is actually 15 different things). Those sub-controls need evidence. That evidence needs to be versioned (auditors love asking "show me this policy as it existed 6 months ago"). Your policies need to map to controls. Your controls need to map to risks. Your risks need treatment plans.

Oh, and you'll need vendor assessments - because your auditor will ask about that AWS subprocessor you forgot you were using.

And business continuity plans. And an incident management process.

And then, right at the end, you discover the System Description — this dense narrative document that ties everything together and somehow needs to exist before your Type I audit.

I went through ISO 27001 in 2019 and thought "never again." Then I built a tool to make it survivable and got SOC 2 Type I using it (humadroid.io). Took way longer than I expected, and I already knew the domain.

Not trying to discourage — just a heads up that the iceberg goes deep. Happy to answer questions if you're heading down this path.
by joha4270 | 2026-01-23 08:25:39+00:00
All of Mr. Devereaux's work is wonderful including the series you linked, but I think that one its overly focused on the household. I think his two part series on "Lonely Cities"[1][2] is a lot better at giving you a feeling for a city. It is both less in depth and in that one he spends half his time complaining about how Hollywood gets it wrong, so of course YMMV.

[1]:https://acoup.blog/2019/07/12/collections-the-lonely-city-pa...
[2]:https://acoup.blog/2019/07/19/the-lonely-city-part-ii-real-c...
by j1elo | 2026-01-23 08:25:43+00:00
Yesterday's submission explained the choice of subscription precisely due to the need if ongoing development: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=46716385

Part will be for new features, but no doubt that another big part will be for platform support over time. There's just too little backwards compatibility guarantees nowadays from the big players. We need more Microsofts in that sense!
by danielhep | 2026-01-23 08:25:50+00:00
This problem, along with general annoyances at Proton’s lack of focus on a good email experience pushed me over the edge to move to Fastmail. I’m so much happier. Proton Mail Bridge would often pin one core of my laptop CPU, draining my battery, and it was still slow to sync new email. With Fastmail, incoming mail is so fast that the verification codes are already there before I can alt tab over.
by anthk | 2026-01-23 08:26:40+00:00
As a Spaniard, I have to say that medieval ages are very different over centuries. The 7th century has nothing to do with the 13th one, which is a bit closer on mindset with the Enlightenment than the obscurity times.

Of course you have no way to get some/improvement in your life as a peasant except if you wanted to join a church which could give you some education and literacy. And a granted dinning table for sure.
by stackghost | 2026-01-23 08:26:57+00:00
Signal is an interesting case study in UX failure. I and a bunch of other tech forward people were on it in its heyday but after they removed SMS support and implemented shitty UX like that nag dialog: Neither I nor a single person I know uses it any more. Everyone is on Whatsapp or iMessage.

It may be cryptographically superior, but does that matter at the end of the day if nobody uses it?
by genewitch | 2026-01-23 08:27:14+00:00
i think i have a proton email address, but i never used it. i wonder.

but i pay fastmail a whopping $15/yr to give me mailboxes on my domain, which i have always heard is a good way to track who's selling your data.

So far, nothing has made it past the spam filter, and i don't check spam (how many valid emails have you found in spam in the last 5 years?); that being said apparently no one is selling my email address anymore. or, and this is a significant possibility: when i tell them companynickname@mydomain.li they just ignore the domain and put in gmail? For instance i gave Take5 "take5@" as my email and i never received anything from them. The guy even said "No; your email address" with a weird half smile; then i explained it's my own website and email, i can use any email address i want; that it will alert me if someone sells my email address.

I doubt there's a flag on the auto oil shop's CRM or POS or whatever for "customer states they're proactive about email spam and their privacy"
by eesmith | 2026-01-23 08:28:43+00:00
My Dad was convinced by the marketing that its 16-bit CPU was the wave of the future, unlike those old-fashioned 8-bit CPUs.

It had a smidge more than 4 games. I broke several joysticks playing TI Invaders, and my favorite was Parsec, which was also one of the games which supported the optional speech synthesizer. I also had Tunnels of Doom, Car Wars, and Tombstone City, and remember playing Alpiner.

That's 6 games right there, ... or in other words, a drop in the bucket compared to my friend's Apple ][. Alas. And he could use a floppy disk, while I only had cassette tape or cartridges.

One of my game cartridges was Extended Basic. That probably got the most use.
by alexhans | 2026-01-23 08:29:40+00:00
The fact that you have to dig through things to find it should give you good hints in what is desired for your own code. You want your WHY comments very contextual and findable.

1. Either literally as a comment in the code. Immediately findable

2. As a description in the commit (easy to find with git blame).

3. As a comment in the Code Review/Pull Request system. This works for very stable things but is more brittle than the other ones. Usually exposes the discussion among parties but the outcome of that discussion should probably be in 1. And 2.

Another benefit of keeping comments in the context of where they happen is that you'll actually remember to update them. Otherwise, they're duplication (code smell) and introduce a risk of divergence.

That's why WYSIWYG standalone word docs or similar for design or manually written wikis are so dangerous for code that lives and keeps changing. The thing that keeps teams tidy is often single sources of truth where you can generate/render other things easily.

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Reading tests or talking to someone is possible but if you had to do that for everything you might waste a lot of time so while it can be extremely beneficial I don't consider it my thought process.
by VistaCatalina | 2026-01-23 08:29:53+00:00
This exact thing happened to me with the update to Catalina. Had to send to fix, they were pricky arses over the ordeal. Sent back, it was never the same. Actually started seeing rainbow loaders.

The most damning permanent damage was that the wifi card never worked properly again and I had to connect an adapter, then a usb to ethernet adapter and use that. Which meant I had to sit in a specific disk at work if I wanted to use that computer.

To me, Catalina is the Vista of the mac world.