MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eldaisfish | 2026-01-25 18:36:29+00:00
right, but airbags, seatbelts, etc. are not internet connected. That's the critical distinction. I do not want the risks that come with my car connecting to the internet.

A much more reasonable ask would be for your car's systems to use your phone to place a call to emergency services. I absolutely do not want yet another internet connected device in my life, especially one like a car, where examples exist of hackers being able to disable the electronics remotely.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-25 18:36:53+00:00
> how badly things can go if the wrong people end up in positions of power

This is why there shouldn’t be any organization that has that much power.

Full stop.

What you described is the whole raison dêtre of Anarchism; irrespective of whether you think there’s an alternative or not*

“No gods No Masters” isn’t just a slogan it’s a demand

*my personal view is that there is no possible stable human organization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_symbolism#No_gods,_n...
by filoeleven | 2026-01-25 18:37:02+00:00
Could downvoters explain why this is incorrect?

To me, this looks very much like testing the waters. Stephen Miller said, "To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity." ICE has blocked state law enforcement from investigations into the killings. ICE has said they're done with their investigation of the last one, and those fuckers are still working.

Aside from scale, what's the difference?

15-minute video that lays out the evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThhm1-g1a8
by yks | 2026-01-25 18:37:45+00:00
How about this: no masks, no weapons (if they feel they are in danger they can call the cops who already have more weapons than they possibly need). Every time a citizen is detained in jail, detaining agent and their manager lose their paycheck for that period. Family with kids jailed and separated? No paycheck. You know, do it in the Christian compassionate way, not in the shooting single moms way.
by rustyhancock | 2026-01-25 18:37:51+00:00
The simple answer is that Race science is pointless because race is not a clean objective concept. We are fooled by our remarkable capability to assign racial labels into thinking it must be simple to cleanly deduce race from a generic test.

But it's obvious that races do have genetic differences.

The way scientists resolve this conflict is to bypass race entirely. And focus on genetics.

Genome wide association studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study) is the answer.

You create statistical models from large caches of genetic data and find association's. Then you can provide a risk score for an individual and if you want estimates based on ethnicity.

It's the genetic test that makes it useful like Duffy Null testing before starting people or African descent on Clozapine, HLA-B*1502 testing before starting Asians on Carbamazpine.

Where risks are lower you can do crude heuristics like calcium channel blockers before ace inhibitors for black people.

But just having people check a box in a questionnaire and doing their IQ is just pointless scientifically.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-25 18:37:58+00:00
> So it's hard to fund research with no purpose, that scientists aren't particularly interested in conducting.

But that's not what happened. They didn't just decline to fund such research. The NIH banned it on their data set even if you had your own funding. You don't explicitly ban things that people are not interested in doing. e.g. the NIH doesn't ban using the data set to perform research on astrology. If I want to do research on the difference between Libras and Scorpios and I come up with the money, the policy is "OK, you do you."
by subscribed | 2026-01-25 18:38:15+00:00
I don't think it's easy to replace ENTRA feature-wise with European provider.

Or github if you're using a bit more than self-hosted gitlab can provide.

It's not always about the location, it's usually about features (how it integrates into other hardware/software) rarely prices.

For example, can you suggest firewalls for offices that aren't either American or Israeli? We'd need something to replace Palo Alto, Bluecoat, Fortigate and Juniper. Also it'd be good to replace Cisco VPNs to be honest.

But it kind of must be feature parity, because (European) regulators hold our balls over hot coals.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-25 18:38:17+00:00
That's the question, isn't it? Why not just do that? Who are you trying to keep out of the country, and for what end, and is that end best attained by removing people from the country who aren't the ones you are trying to keep out?

For instance, if you believe the border should be strict to keep out serial killers, what does that have to do with removing Korean car factory workers who aren't serial killers?
by j45 | 2026-01-25 18:38:21+00:00
That's a bit of a surprising postulation.

If there's a reputation, that means it's reasonably widespread. 5% doesn't seem like much.

Does this mean there are so many advanced users sideloading apps to compromise them?

Except users aren't so advanced that they are getting scammed because of side loading?

Or might it be the cascading delays in security updates that don't seem to reach devices between Google, manufacturers, and telcos? This is a much more massive (the 95%) of security hole and backdoors for scams to enter.

These arguments don't really seem to fit together or make sense.

Happy to get some links to read more about all of the statements.
by maybe-tomorrow | 2026-01-25 18:38:28+00:00
Creator here. It is not Conway’s Game of Life.

Soup of Life is an artificial life simulation with moving agents that have genomes, energy, and heritable traits like size, morphology, and behavior. Organisms are born, feed, reproduce with mutation, and die in a continuous 2D world with different ecological zones that bias evolution in different directions.

Unlike Conway’s Game of Life, which is a deterministic cellular automaton on a fixed grid, this is an evolving ecosystem. You see predator–prey dynamics, trait trade-offs, niche specialization, boom–bust cycles, and extinction events. There is no explicit notion of species. Lineages and niches emerge naturally from reproduction and environmental pressure.

For most people it works best if you go in unprepared and just watch what happens.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-25 18:38:59+00:00
Is it though? Engineer can optimize on different manifold. Company can succeed/fail for different reasons. Getting destroyed for legal suit because didn’t place alarm is small peace when you did better engineering.

After all, read any post-mortem comments on HN. Many of those people can be hired as expert if you like. They will say “I would have put an alert on it and had testing”. You will lose the case.

“Oh but we are trying to keep error rate low”. Yes, but now your company is dead when high error rate company is alive.

In revealed preferences, most engineers prefer vendors who have CYA. This is obvious from online comments. This is not because they are engineer. It’s because most people want to believe that event is freak accident.

Building system for error budget is not actually easy. Even for engineer who say they want it. Because when error happens, they immediately say it should not have happened. Counterfactual other errors blocked, and business existing are not considered. Every engineer is genius in hindsight. Every person is genius in hindsight.

Why these genius never make failure proof company? They do not. Who would not pay same price for 100% reliable tech?
by tolerance | 2026-01-25 18:39:04+00:00
Please don't post snark to HN threads. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(I felt the same way when I read this paragraph and the one about Jack being a target of abuse but I couldn’t resist an opportunity to ‘dang’ a ‘dang’ thread. At the same time it is touching how Jack has forged some semblance of a real world community out of this. I still can’t take what he does serious as a whole and I’m not warm to the idea that the “World’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok” and I do have a sort of apathy toward the cultural intrigue borne from people in their twenties today. Like dang I was expecting a hit piece and was no less impressed to find it the opposite—fluff. Both poignant in some ways and pathetic in most per my own sensibilities.)
by jamiek88 | 2026-01-25 18:40:15+00:00
I was born in 88 you weirdo. Use your real account, coward. Also I’m British. 3/3 wrong there, sparky who’s scared of ‘leftists’ mocking them so deeply they become right wing? Make that make sense.

You are saying your beliefs are so shallow, so little thought through that kids on the internet mocking them are enough for you to become the opposite and join the culture war?
by palata | 2026-01-25 18:40:24+00:00
One thing with the sandboxed Play Services being that Google has fewer permissions on the device, so presumably they can collect less data.

Which I believe is GrapheneOS' argument when people praise microG: microG being open source does not fundamentally add privacy: apps using microG will phone to Google's servers (that's the whole point of microG). What microG solves is that it removes the Play Services that are root on your device, and it turns out that sandboxed Play Services do that as well.

> The idea for more privacy is you run open source apps instead that just don't collect data.

Yep exactly, I just wanted to add about the sandboxed Play Services, because it was not obvious to me at first :)
by dangus | 2026-01-25 18:40:31+00:00
It is financially predictable what will happen:

1. OpenAI will continue the Ponzi scheme and swindle further investors until the bottom falls out, which could be as soon as this year, especially if a wider recession starts.

2. A large player like Apple or Microsoft will buy them or their assets for pennies on the dollar.

3. The only companies with enough capital to be AI companies will be mega tech giants, who will sink their excess profits into it until it’s clear saturation has been reached (e.g., Meta’s current VR divestment)

4. The products will be greatly compromised compared to present state and improvements will slow drastically. AI will be a somewhat useful product but the pricing will not support frivolous widespread use with the exception of very light/dumb models that are essentially “web search 2.0.”
by cdrini | 2026-01-25 18:41:22+00:00
Depends on how you define power, and the article is defining it as influence. Do Jack Edwards reviews influence a substantial population of people to buy/read certain books? Seems like yes. If he's the world's most powerful, that depends on if others are _more_ influential. I personally don't know of any individual who has as big a following that influences reading. So the claim holds for me and doesn't seem hyperbolic.
by dandadan4567 | 2026-01-25 18:41:30+00:00
I never get the appeal of T3 Chat. I get that you get to use different models in one place but I never had a problem to juggle for cross checking or different use cases. It's advertised to provide a better user experience which I don't see. It claims to be "faster" and I don't see UI rendering is the perf bottleneck in LLM.
by al_borland | 2026-01-25 18:41:39+00:00
There are some natural things than humans have been able to understand and control, like fire, fermentation, and evolution (domestication of animals, various crops), which are all very significant.

The printing press, as you mentioned, cannot be understated. Related to this would be the ballpoint pen, which had a massive impact on democratizing literacy. The humble Bic Cristal being the foundation of much of this.
by 05 | 2026-01-25 18:42:58+00:00
You’re talking about bargain bin analog FPV drones? Most people can’t operate them and even for an experienced operator it’s far from the best tool for the job of filming armed thugs..I mean ICE..

You’d need a digital system with a gimbal, and the DJI O4 Pro alone will run you $200+. For dual lenses with different zoom levels and feed switching it’s getting pretty expensive very fast.
by mindslight | 2026-01-25 18:43:21+00:00
Buying into the framework that any of this is about illegal immigrants is a red herring. Immigration is merely a pretext for enabling an unaccountable fascist police state using big data from the consumer surveillance industry to both keep enough people believing the regime's abject reality-insulting lies (the carrot), while extralegally punishing anybody who might be too effective at speaking out (the stick).
by kakacik | 2026-01-25 18:43:47+00:00
When your whole system works by giving absolutely ridiculous amount of power to a single individual who has nobody above or at least on the side capable of interfering and changing things, this is what you eventually get. Crossing fingers and praying given person isn't a complete psycho or worse is not going to cut it forever, is it. Especially when >50% of population welcomes such person with open arms, knowing well who is coming.

Given what kind of garbage from human gene pool gets and thrives in high politics its more surprising the show lasted as long as it did.

Now the question shouldn't be 'how much outraged we should be' since we get this situation for a year at this point, but rather what to do next, how we can shape future to avoid this. If there will be the time for such correction, which is a huge IF.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-01-25 18:44:36+00:00
The phrase "ai teammate" feels popularized as a marketing strategy to position individual agents as comparable in value to a human worker. When I think about how they are actually used however, it seems like an incredibly unproductive framing. An agent is a computer program. You can copy them 100 times on the spot if you find the need. You can modify, delete, upgrade, or replace them instantly. You can keep them up 24/7 or run them only on user request. The "teammate" framing obscures all the software-type things you can do with it. Imagine Excel processes or crawler bot instances being given little human names and pictures; being slotted into an org chart. Absolutely the wrong way of thinking about it.
by nvanbenschoten | 2026-01-25 18:45:28+00:00
(author here) The 92% mentioned in this post is showing recall@10 across all 100B vectors, calculated by comparing to the global top_k.

turbopuffer will also continuously monitor production recall at the per-shard level (or on-demand with https://turbopuffer.com/docs/recall). Perhaps counterintuitively, the global recall will actually be better than the per-shard recall if each shard is asked for its own, local top_k!
by gruez | 2026-01-25 18:45:38+00:00
>but she seemingly wasn't trying to get in anyone's way.

You admit that she blocked the road, but then later make it sound like she wasn't trying to intentionally block anyone. What do you think she was doing then? It doesn't seem like her car broke down. From the videos it looks like she positioned her car perpendicularly to the road at the start of the encounter. Do you need to position your car perpendicular to the road to "exercising their legal right to record their activity"?
by raydev | 2026-01-25 18:46:57+00:00
imo The final hurdle for mass adoption is solving the refueling planning problem.

I was in the market for a new car in 2024. Thought seriously about a few electric options but opted for another ICE vehicle because 2025/2026 are years of many road trips, and the issue that kept coming up for me was "can I just pull off any random highway and refill my car in a few minutes?"

Unfortunately for the environment I guess, I prefer not being forced to strictly plan my trips around distance and availability and speed of chargers. I can go pretty much anywhere in North America and be reasonably certain there's a gas station just off any highway, let alone an interstate.

"Oh, do the kids need to use the bathroom ASAP? Might as well fill up a quarter tank while we're there" opportunities would also vanish.

And even if charging stations were magically placed across the country to match gas stations, there'd still be the "time to charge" problem.
by enigmo | 2026-01-25 18:47:11+00:00
having a local simulator (DynamoDB, Spanner, others) helps me a lot for offline/local development and CI. when a vendor doesn't off this I have often end up mocking it out (one way or another) and have to wait for integration or e2e tests for feedback that could have been pushed further to the left.

in many CI environments unit tests don't have network access, it's not purely a price consideration.

(not a turbopuffer customer but I have been looking at it)
by irl_zebra | 2026-01-25 18:47:18+00:00
> Because we are all capable of the same actions, some of us have just not done them

> And yes, I am saying that I have the same capacity for wrong as the person you are thinking about...

No one is disputing any of this. The person who is capable, and who has chosen to do, the bad deed is morally blameworthy (subject to mitigating circumstances).
by codyb | 2026-01-25 18:47:44+00:00
Tons of young people either voted for Trump or didn't vote at all this time around.

Undoubtedly influenced by social media, they're now realizing that what they voted for was their own future's destruction and are now abandoning him in droves.

We'll see if it's too late or not.

Delete your social media, shit is poison.
by palata | 2026-01-25 18:48:05+00:00
> Unless you're running Graphene or a similar security minded distro the sandboxing isn't very good. Okay let's be honest it's fairly abysmal at preventing fingerprinting.

Hmm... the sandboxing is a security feature, it's not there to prevent tracking (not sure what "fingerprinting" includes here). The sandboxing of Android is actually pretty good (a lot better than, say, desktop OSes).

There is pretty much nothing you can do against an app requesting e.g. your location data and sending it to their servers. Fundamentally, the whole goal of apps is that they can technically do that. Then you have to choose apps you trust, and it's easier to trust open source apps.

What GrapheneOS brings in terms of sandboxing is that the Play Services run sandboxed like normal apps. Whereas on Android, the Play Services run with system permissions.
by hanialshater | 2026-01-25 18:48:38+00:00
Author here.

I've just published a technical book exploring the "Tongue-Ear Problem" in AI: LLMs can generate plausible text about a tongue touching an ear, but they lack the body to run the experiment to verify it. They have linguistic competence without grounded meaning.

The book tests this philosophy with two real-world experiments:

1. The Algorithm Vortex (Ch 2): Instead of writing solvers, I "hired" agents to invent them. Using a "zero framework" approach (just bash + an evaluator), an autonomous agent discovered a "Diagonal Layering" strategy for circle packing. It matched the state-of-the-art results from DeepMind's AlphaEvolve (2.636 vs 2.635), but without the complex evolutionary framework.

2. System 3 Architecture (Ch 4): To fix the grounding issue in coding, I built an "epistemic" agent with an external verification scaffold (tracking tool reliability and failure memory). I ran it against a baseline on SWE-bench Verified:
- Solve Rate dropped: The baseline solved 50%, my epistemic agent only 40%.
- Code Hygiene skyrocketed: The epistemic agent’s patches were 57% smaller on average (269 lines vs 620 lines).

The agent traded raw capability for surgical focus. It stopped guessing and started checking its "trust stack."

It is free on Leanpub (set slider to $0). I'd love feedback.
by PlanksVariable | 2026-01-25 18:48:45+00:00
Why? Deportation is a reasonable response when a person violates a country’s immigration laws. That is the standard around the world.

Alternatively, you have an essentially open border, which obviously can lead to unmanageable waves of immigration that strain a country’s housing, healthcare, schools, welfare, and other resources, among other effects.

Disruption to peoples’ lives happens when we have administrations who arbitrarily decide not to enforce the immigration law (e.g. the previous administration). It sends mixed signals to potential immigrants, and leads to the outcomes we have today when we decide to resume enforcing our laws.
by dlahoda | 2026-01-25 18:48:46+00:00
i was using wsl2. and got weird slowness and high cpu. appeared it was their built in antivirus(av). i disabled av, but it autoenabled later and did same.
it is possible to secure windows other way without active protection btw.

i used git on wsl2. it got weird issues with git connectivity over wifi.
github ticket not solved. one of most popular and essential dev tools is not stably working in wsl2.

many rust crates supported only mac, bsd and linux. nobody cared windows.

so even without ux of recent version, i had to leave.

for my wife is still run windows.

but. she had fully official surface laptop with official office. not 3rd party or pirated things.

and... office became very very slow just typing... it was 3 years ago.

i have run script disabling all things. it good for 3rd year now.

but how they managed to make their laptop new one, with all their things so bad?
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-25 18:49:24+00:00
As far as I've been able to determine, Pagnotti Enterprises has owned land in that area for a very long time and has no apparent plans to mine there anytime soon. They got this new bit of land because the state renounced the right of way and sold it to the owners of the adjacent land. This wasn't a huge meaningful investment to Pagnotti, but they did get rid of the ruined road itself, probably because it was a tourist attraction and a lawyer said to get rid of it.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-25 18:49:27+00:00
I'd love to know how they compare versus MixedBread, what relative strengths each has. https://www.mixedbread.com/

I really really enjoy & learn a lot from the mixedbread blog. And they find good stuff to open source (although the product itself is closed). https://www.mixedbread.com/blog

I feel like there's a lot of overlap but also probably a lot of distinction too. Pretty new to this space of products though.
by tinyhouse | 2026-01-25 18:49:28+00:00
Well, if a Korean car factory worker live and work illegally in the country, then it makes total sense to remove them, regardless if they are serial killers or not. A company shouldn't even hire anyone who is not eligible to work legally in the country. There are laws that need to be followed like everything else.

It sounds like you're saying that you want the country to have open borders so that everyone can come live and work here given they pass some basic checks (no criminal history for example). I am not saying that is wrong, but that's not how pretty much every country in the world operates.
by efitz | 2026-01-25 18:50:21+00:00
Blameless postmortems are for processes where everyone is acting in good faith and a mistake was made and everyone wants to fix it.

If one party decides that they don’t want to address a material error, then they’re not acting in good faith. At that point we don’t use blameless procedures anymore, we use accountability procedures, and we usually exclude the recalcitrant people from the remediation process, because they’ve shown bad faith.
by pfdietz | 2026-01-25 18:50:51+00:00
> I was under the impression they capture the evaporation, let it cool, and recycle it?

So, how do they get rid of the latent heat of evaporation that's released when the water recondenses?

The whole point of evaporative cooling is to soak up that latent heat and release it later, out in the environment, when the water recondenses somewhere else.

It's kind of like why Dune's stillsuits don't work.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-25 18:51:08+00:00
> Getting destroyed for legal suit because didn’t place alarm is small peace when you did better engineering.

Indeed it is. That's why I said it's a larger societal problem in how we manage risk and react to failures.

> Why these genius never make failure proof company?

Because this is mostly a matter of unknown unknowns and predicting the future, so even a founder who makes zero mistakes is more likely than not to fail.