MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by michaelt | 2026-01-04 02:25:31+00:00
There are two giant loopholes in the statement "In general, I always draw and paint by hand and sometimes incorporate standard digital tools"

The first is there can be 'non-general' cases, and this could be one of them.

The second is a lot of 'standard digital tools' include AI features these days. A person can use generative AI without leaving photoshop.
by lemming | 2026-01-04 02:25:39+00:00
This is not the largest in the world but it is enormous, and is also amazing for having been built by a 15-year old to answer the question: "When I was 14 I asked my piano teacher how long a bass a string would need to be if it had no copper on it at all".

I love this follow-up quote: "I think because I was so young I absolutely knew it was totally possible to do, I was fully determined and without consulting any professionals I had no barrier stopping me."

https://www.alexanderpiano.nz/page/the-alexander-piano

There's also something quintessentially New Zealand about the whole story - making it in a mate's garage, and then moving the project to a farm tractor shed when it got too big and the inaugural concert that looks like it's still in the same shed, the photo of the tractor moving it for the outdoor concert...
by antonvs | 2026-01-04 02:26:00+00:00
> by allowing for the possibility you open up more flexibility.

The problem is that flexibility is often the enemy of security, and that’s certainly true here. Corporate networks don’t want to allow even the possibility of devices that are supposed to be private being publicly addressable. Arguing that it’s “simpler” or “more flexible” is like arguing that we don’t need firewalls, for the same reasons. And in fact, that argument used to be made quite regularly. It’s just that no-one who deals with security has ever taken it seriously.
by KetoManx64 | 2026-01-04 02:26:55+00:00
How about you do some research on the kind of healthcare that people in countries with socialized healthcare receive.
6 month waitlists for a cancer screenings, multi day emergency room waits for broken bones, maybe you've heard of the oh so wonderful death pods in Canada?
Our system is by no means the best, but I'll take it any day over socialized systems.
by komali2 | 2026-01-04 02:27:18+00:00
What frustrates me is the justification I hear for this from those opposed to the kidnapping of Maduro, an illegitimate president.

Somehow it's not ok for the USA to violently meddle in the internal affairs of another country, but it is for the PRC because... Taiwan is nearby? Because the people speak the same language? Because the ghosts of the CPC's past are here on the island? It's frustrating.
by meowface | 2026-01-04 02:27:57+00:00
I absolutely believe that asylum claims from Venezuela are completely legitimate and that Maduro completely deserved to be arrested. I am just saying under international law and norms, the United States government did not have the legal or moral right to go in and abduct him to arrest him. And also, I am not necessarily sure if he deserved to be arrested to be charged with the odd charges the United States is saying they'll charge him with (drug-related offenses) as opposed to all the things related to human rights violations and being a despot. And double-also, Trump's motives here are almost entirely ulterior and impure, as opposed to a moral desire to bring a horrible dictator to justice and free a nation from his clutches.
by mihael | 2026-01-04 02:31:10+00:00
It’s a different approach with different goals.

SwifDroid is about native Android development in Swift. You’re not writing cross-platform UI. You’re writing Android-specific UI in Swift, using Android’s own view system and APIs directly. The goal is to enable full, idiomatic Android apps entirely in Swift, including activities, fragments, AndroidX, and Material, without touching Java, Kotlin, or XML.

While the others focus on “write UI once, run anywhere,” often with trade-offs in UX, SwifDroid focuses on writing natively for Android and having full control from Swift.
by manytimesaway | 2026-01-04 02:32:21+00:00
That's not what the Wikipedia page says and it's not even sourced.

Production of the movie started right at the end of the lengthy recording sessions (reminder that Discovery started being a thing late into the Homework recording sessions, with Short Circuit & One More Time being early productions) but it's rather uncertain how this process started. The one thing that I'm 100% sure of, is that the entire production was funded by DP themselves, and they are probably the only owners of the golden master of the movie. (Hence their media team's fault about the absolutely crappy 4K remaster and noise around it, that led to that awful Epic collaboration).

Singles were released at rather odd intervals for Discovery in particular (according to Bangalter, all songs were conceived as potential singles) and music videos were released after the singles.

EDIT : To be honest, it's a bit tricky to be 100% sure about the actual process, with most of the claims being unsourced random internet shenanigans, and the tendency of some people (hi Pedro) to rewrite history whenever they wish.
by jphorism | 2026-01-04 02:32:49+00:00
I wonder if the premium on consistent writing quality is different than the premium we place on consistent novelty.

I'd hazard a guess that from the writer's perspective, novelty scales with volume of thought / connections, which is (at present) a fragmented process and not that well-assisted by AI. OTOH, can "writing quality" be better approximated by LLMs?
by komali2 | 2026-01-04 02:32:59+00:00
> How does Maduro being ousted change the physical realities of an amphibious invasion of Taiwan?

Taking the beaches here would require spilling the blood of tens of thousands of PLA troops, but as demonstrate two days ago, the only real barrier to blockading us was the threat of the USA showing up.

Xi's hunger for Taiwan shouldn't be underestimated. It's utterly irrational but it is his obsession. It's becoming clear he intends to die in office, and he's seeing his legacy as a mirror of that of the entire communist revolution - he wants to be the next Mao, with a permanent framed photo on the wall of every school and many houses in the PRC. Mao was happy to waste millions of PLA in every conflict the PRC engaged in as an outright military strategy, he called it something like "drowning the enemy in a sea of bodies," Xi will be the same.
by rkeene2 | 2026-01-04 02:33:16+00:00
I do not understand the point you are making. You cite a treaty that countries explicitly agree to protect diplomats while they are guests in another country -- I'm not sure what relationship this has with one sovereign nation using force to rendition someone from another country.

The only country that has agreed to the terms of the ICC here is Venezuela -- but there is no ICC arrest warrant for anyone involved, nor is the US acting on behalf of the ICC nor does it have any authority to do so.

The invasion (which was required to perform the arrest, since it was within the territory) was definitely an invasion and morally wrong.

As noted several times, there are many ways that this could have been done that are in accordance with civil society it. It wasn't, and that is bad.
by elcritch | 2026-01-04 02:33:34+00:00
The comment I was replying to is also whataboutism from Europe. It was Nazi's who didn't like free speech. Shutting down any sort of debate by yelling "far-right" at everything isn't a functioning democracy either. My grandfather tried to fight in WWII against the actual Nazis, but his politics would be labelled "far-right" now. That's just absurd.
by ciupicri | 2026-01-04 02:33:48+00:00
> we rescued Europe from fascism, and they will never forgive us for it

Yeah, they "rescued" it alright. Like they rescued, err stolen, Moldova from Romania and they kept it for more than 40 years. Heck, they're still messing with it. Then at the end of the war they robbed and raped civilians from the countries they "liberated".
by BoppreH | 2026-01-04 02:33:55+00:00
The graph is scary, but I think it's conflating two things:

1. Newbies asking badly written basic questions, barely allowed to stay, and answered by hungry users trying to farm points, never to be re-read again. This used to be the vast majority of SO questions by number.

2. Experiencied users facing a novel problem, asking questions that will be the primary search result for years to come.

It's #1 that's being canibalized by LLM's, and I think that's good for users. But #2 really has nowhere else to go; ChatGPT won't help you when all you have is a confusing error message caused by the confluence of three different bugs between your code, the platform, and an outdated dependency. And LLMs will need training data for the new tools and bugs that are coming out.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-04 02:34:42+00:00
> Apparently population control is anathema to most people

Well yeah that too, but first and foremost when a population shrinks it leads to a demographic crisis. The government actively attempts to prevent that.

But also the issues you point to aren't inherently due to population. Most of our activities don't need to impact the environment to the extent that they currently do. We just cut corners to save money on a massive scale.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-04 02:34:48+00:00
> I disagree with most comments that the brusque moderation is the cause of SO's problems, though it certainly didn't help. SO has had poor moderation from the beginning.

I was an early SO user and I don’t agree with this.

The moderation was always there, but from my perspective it wasn’t until the site really pushed into branching out and expanding Stack Exchange across many topics to become a Quora style competitor that the moderation started taking on a life of its own. Stack Overflow moderator drama felt constant in the later 2010s with endless weird drama spilling across Twitter, Reddit, and the moderator’s personal blogs. That’s about the same time period where it felt like the moderation team was more interested in finding reasons to exercise their moderation power than in maintaining an interesting website.

Since about 2020 every time I click a Stack Overflow link I estimate there’s a 50/50 chance that the question I clicked on would be marked as off topic or closed or something before anyone could answer it. Between the moderator drama and the constant bait-and-switch feeling of clicking on SO links that didn’t go anywhere the site just felt more exhausting than helpful.
by aristofun | 2026-01-04 02:37:26+00:00
Landau these days doesn’t look like a “broad coverage” at all.

More like “many specific topics and areas covered in a set of books under same authors”.

Also Landau was one of the last (probably the last) polymath physicists who covered a wide range of fields.

I doubt it is even technically possible to cover even 30% of all modern theoretical physics in a single course with depth comparable to Landau books.
by mindcrime | 2026-01-04 02:39:43+00:00
Even so, the issues I am referring to go all the way to the top (POTUS) and descend down through everybody in the reporting chain to various degrees. And even for people who are Trump supporters, just ask yourself the question "What happens if the ONE PERSON I HATE MOST gets elected POTUS in a world where I depend on the federal government for health care?"

I know in years past we all though the US government was somewhat immune for really radical swings in direction and what-not, but I think now we have an existence proof that really sudden and radical changes can happen.
by rhelz | 2026-01-04 02:40:23+00:00
:-( I really don't want to be negative here, but really, the essay gets off on the wrong foot almost immediately. Propositional knowledge, i.e. knowledge which is described by true/false statements, just cannot be conscious experience.

Jackson's thought experiment sets this up. Mary has lived her life entirely in a black and white room, has never seen any other colors. But she's put the time to good use: she has learned every true proposition about how the brain works, how it processes dolors, even detailed descriptions of the neural processes which give rise to the conscious experienced of color.

After this, somebody at long last brings red rose into the room. Question: has Mary learned anything? Answer, no. By hypothesis, she already knows every true proposition about her present experience of the rose.

But what she does have is a non-propositional conscious experience which she's never had before. This has to be the correct answer, because of the work of another Philosopher, Wilfred Sellars. His (in)famous essay "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" gives a knock-down argument that conscious experiences of things like color cannot have propositional content. They are not like sentences, they are more like rocks and trees, i.e. real objects, but they cannot be true or false, and therefore they cannot be propositions.

Alas, reading the essay "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" is a journey that many start, but few finish :-( It is very definitely the hardest thing to understand that I ever read. But indeed, it does inescapably prove that proposition just can't be used to make conscious experiences.
by lukebechtel | 2026-01-04 02:40:28+00:00
certainly. Maybe tomorrow I'll make a post laying it out, but here's how I did it.

I did this using cursor. You can use other methods[1], but I'll describe mine.

1. Grab the text contents of a style guide you like (I used Strunk, which is easily available on internet. Use whatever you like.)

2. Paste that into Cursor as a txt file.

3. Paste your target text into Cursor as another txt file.

4. In the AI Pane, switch your model to Gemini 3 Pro (for its intelligence + long context)

5. Prompt it thusly:

""""""""""""

Can you please create a paragraph-for-paragraph rewrite of NAME-OF-TARGET-TEXT using NAME-OF-YOUR-STYLE-GUIDE?

All the original ideas must be maintained -- we are simply trying to create a version that matches the style guide better. The paragraph ordering must be matched.

Please output this in OUTPUT-FILE.txt

Before doing so, I want you to create a todo list (it will be quite long) of the form:

- Convert Book X Part Y

- Convert Book X Part Z

And so on, exhaustively covering all parts.

You will have to view the entire file to do this.

You must ALWAYS output a new part after the old part, never overwrite.

You must always convert a part, output it, and then move on.

Your flow should be:

(1) view NAME-OF-YOUR-STYLE-GUIDE (if they are no longer visible)

(2) view part of NAME-OF-TARGET-TEXT you're converting

(3) output converted part into OUTPUT-FILE.txt

(4) check it off on your todo list

(5) begin next part

""""""""""""

[1] Though I used cursor, you should be able to script the whole "paragraph for paragraph" thing if you wanted to, which I might do later. (If you do this, let me know!)
by nopassrecover | 2026-01-04 02:40:31+00:00
Agreed this was well expressed, and I value this sort of reflection and cultural introspection, even if I lightly disagree with elements of the author's piece (that perhaps I'm wrongly overreading).

Per the well-expressed article, I agree there's a problem that lies can be bundled as truth through elegance (and I have strong views that there are broader forms of this, as the author alludes to, effectively style over/instead of substance, for instance in our ability to discern capability through hiring processes or overweight our assessment of the merit of ideas based on who expresses them and how), but I challenge (1) the premise that many situations are effectively represented by a singular "truth", in which case the representation of truth may be relevant even if possible to game, (2) that style / aesthetic is pointless (it might be "useless" for a definition of utility, but I contest a philosophical perspective that sees humanity and culture best exemplified by reductionism and efficiency), and (3) that style and beauty cannot be truth itself (stare at a painting that moves you, listen to a favourite song or one of the great works, look upon a beautiful scene in nature, or experience any of the myriad forms of love, and consider how that resonates with truth as much as any proof; indeed this last point is one of the themes across pg's work that still resonates strongly for me despite feeling increasingly detached from many of his other positions over time, and is well reflected by his book title of Hackers and Painters).
by Mawr | 2026-01-04 02:40:56+00:00
At the point you want to interface with people outside of your direct influence. That's the value of a language — a shared understanding.

So long as only you use your custom C dialect, all is fine. Trouble starts when you'd like others to use it too or when you'd like to use libraries written by people who used a different language, e.g. C.
by baubino | 2026-01-04 02:41:08+00:00
I appreciate the ambition behind this and I think the concept of the project warrants discussion. The flaw here is one I see so often with AI projects, which is that there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the mode of knowledge that you seek to replicate (or supplement) with AI.

First, no doctoral program in the humanities is pedagogically based in reproducing existing knowledge. Conversely, every doctoral program is built around producing new knowledge. This is important because the point of doctoral study is to generate insights that don’t yet exist.

AI absorbs information and they can remix, summarize, and share that information. AI cannot produce new information (i.e., novel interpretations that generate new knowledge) because AI cannot reason. Doctoral study has as its aim the production of new knowledge and (in the humanities) we use reasoning to do that.

If doctoral study trains students to produce new knowledge through reasoning and AIs cannot reason, how will an AI assess a student’s outcomes? If an AI generates a kind of simulation of logic with its next-likely-token structure, how can it assess intellectual productions that are unlikely and thus actually novel?

All this to say, your project sounds like it could be a great learning tool. It’s unlikely though to provide the framework for producing new knowledge that is offered by a doctoral program.

- My thoughts as a PhD holder (though not in philosophy) and as a longtime teacher/advisor of doctoral students.
by komali2 | 2026-01-04 02:41:27+00:00
I'm still not convinced removing Hitler before his invasion of Poland would have been a good idea, it seems possible someone like Himmler would be just as capable of picking up Mein Kampf as an ideological framework to continue imperialism and kick off genocide. "Look what the Jews and communists did when we tried to stand up to them, they killed the leader of our movement," etc etc.

Once the genocide started though I do thing all considerations, including national stability and continuity, are lower priority than ending the genocide as fast as possible.
by abigail95 | 2026-01-04 02:42:09+00:00
If they have evidence he violated US law smuggling weapons and drugs into the domestic USA, he should be tried under such law. It's neither ironic, funny, strange, or anything else. What law should he be tried under if he did these alleged things?

They extradited him by force because Venezuela wouldn't. They don't have an extradition treaty. If Venezuela doesn't want this to happen again - negotiate a treaty.

The USA doesn't "accept" the ICC because it's not a party to the agreement. There are not-insignificant constitutional problems with the USA being a party. It's because they have such strong civil protections that those issues come up.

The ICC is also complementary - you misunderstand what it is for. If the USA is able to prosecute this guy themselves, you don't need an ICC, because it doesn't apply in this case.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-01-04 02:42:19+00:00
But, we also still enjoy all of the benefits of being like this. Cheap oil(that impacts you even if you don't drive), globally very high income, resources of all varieties from all over the world, relative security etc. All these things don't happen to use because we're a nation of swell people. They happen because we do awful things to people around the world in a variety of ways in order to maintain our way of life.

The truth is Americans do want this, they just don't like that they want this.

Another comment was discussing how shocked they were with how brazen a move this was for oil, and that in the past the government wouldn't have been so honest. As though the issue were being honest with what we are doing.
by konaraddi | 2026-01-04 02:42:37+00:00
Isnt it an intentional choice? The show Pluribus has a not-so-subtle analogy to an LLM that has access to the world’s knowledge, doing its best to give whatever we ask it for, and not being the brightest tool in the shed. I think the artist accomplished what they wanted to in the context of the show.

EDIT: I stand corrected, the show’s analogy to AI is coincidental.
by cy1414569 | 2026-01-04 02:42:41+00:00
If you’re exploring AI tools to streamline video production and motion design, Kling Motion Control offers an interesting approach. It’s an AI-powered platform that helps users generate dynamic motion visuals, automate scene transitions, and enhance video content without the need for traditional editing software or deep technical skills.
Kling Motion Control uses intelligent algorithms to interpret simple prompts or uploaded media and produce polished, motion-rich content that feels professionally edited. This can be especially useful for creators and teams looking to accelerate workflows, improve engagement on visual media, or prototype motion content during product development.
For anyone interested in practical applications of AI in video editing and motion design, Kling Motion Control is worth a look.
by m463 | 2026-01-04 02:42:50+00:00
I think their cars are more and more hostile to the driver, sort of like windows 11. Each car has fewer displays and controls and it makes it harder to be a good driver.

For example, model s had a dashboard. Model 3 comes alone without one, and crams all the status on the left side of a central screen. It had fewer stalks and cheapened less friendly steering wheel controls.

ok, so model S is more expensive and you get more stuff, right? But then the updated model s goes from 4 stalks to zero and gets a smaller central screen.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-04 02:44:44+00:00
> The fundamental value proposition of SO is getting an answer to a question

But the horrible moderation was in part a reason why many SO questions had no answers.

I am not saying poor moderation caused all of this, but it contributed negatively and many people were pissed at that and stopped using SO. It is not the only reason SO declined, but there are many reasons for SO failure after its peak days.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-04 02:45:47+00:00
https://baptistcourier.com/2025/01/five-reasons-why-2025-wil... (“About 15,000 churches will close. Many of these churches held on tenaciously, but the number of congregations facing imminent closure has grown. For the first time in modern church history, 15,000 of the churches will cease to exist in a period of one year. Notice that we are projecting that 15,000 churches will close and that 15,000 will move from full-time pastors to part-time pastors. Those 30,000 churches represent about 1 out of 12 existing churches. The change is dramatic.”)

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2024/08/13/tsunami-church-c... (“The vice president of research and planning of the National Council of Churches estimates that 100,000 U.S. churches will be closed over the next several years – an estimated one-quarter of those in operation.”)

https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-archdiocese-cutting-par... (“Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese, the nation’s oldest, will cut the number of parishes in the city and nearby suburbs by about two-thirds as part of a realignment plan responding to falling attendance and aging infrastructure.”)