MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tstrimple | 2026-01-13 18:19:21+00:00
This is my experience as well. If CC does something, and I get broken results and reply with just an image it will almost always reply with "X is working!" response. Sometimes just telling it to look more closely is enough, or sometimes I have to be more specific. It seems to be able to read text from screenshots of logs just fine though and always seems to process those as I'd expect.
by gs17 | 2026-01-13 18:19:39+00:00
> and an _alternative theory of gravity_

For people who haven't read The Dilbert Future: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32627/has-anyone...

It's a weird book and not in a great way. He presents a bunch of very strange "theories" in a way where he kind of says "haha just a silly lil thought... unless it's true", which I remember seeing in some of his early Trump stuff too.
by Retric | 2026-01-13 18:19:47+00:00
As long as you already have ductwork you lower complexity, instillation costs, and maintenance issues by also cooling or heating the air inside that ductwork rather than just using ductwork for heat recovery ventilation. Further moving air allows you to use dramatically less material for heat exchangers.

Net result higher efficiency, fewer things that can break, fewer locations something can break, and lower risks of water damage to your home.
by areoform | 2026-01-13 18:19:53+00:00
Disclaimer: I don't mean this comment as an insult to you or anyone else here. It's meant to be slightly tongue in cheek.

I hate to be that person, but the fact that so many people on HN think OF is prostitution is revealing of the site's demographics (i.e. older). It is, as some may put it, boomer thinking.

You're misunderstanding what these people - esports athletes, successful streamers, influencers, OF models etc - actually do. They create and maintain parasocial relationships.

The point isn't just the gameplay or nudes / sex videos or commentary. For e.g., I (and a bunch of other young women for some reason) love to watch Temet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go8EJbNaIHg while working. It's the way they reflect back to their audience and allow them to become a part of their performance.

It's kind of like the place where everyone knows your name? These are digital third places and the content (whether it be neon blue bunny hopping characters or a graphic video of someone having sex) is a mechanism for bonding / a part of the activity. Kind of like the alcohol at the pub, I suppose.

That's where real influence comes from in this age.

If you think OF is prostitution, you're fundamentally misunderstanding what will drive power and culture in this century.
by ivell | 2026-01-13 18:20:11+00:00
I can understand that point of view from a U.S. citizen's (and allied West) point of view that you think US is really ideological. But as a non-US person, even when US pretended to be ideological, there is an underlying reality of maintaining hegemony, access to resources, etc.

When there was a large scale genocide in Bangladesh by Pakistan, US not only implicitly supported Pakistan, but also attempted to block/attack India (not clear the intentions, but Soviets got involved). There are many such cases.

For rest of the world to believe that US has only best intentions, they have to be really naive. In case Saddam, would US have the same enthusiasm for democracy if it was not for oil? US has toppled democratic governments when they were not aligned to its interest.

To put it in personal terms, would anyone trust someone with their money to person who only cheats 70% of times, while is honest 30% of times? The conclusion to be had is that those in incidents of honesty aligned with the interests of the person. Not because he or she was actually a good person.
by repiret | 2026-01-13 18:20:24+00:00
You can use too few bits of color depth to get lossyness in PNG. More generally, I can't find myself very sympathetic to "I don't want a format that can do X and Y, because I might accidentally select X when I want Y in my software". You might accidentally choose JPG when you want PNG too. Or accidentally resample the image. Or delete your files.

If you want a robust lossless workflow, PNG isn't the answer. Automating the fiddly parts and validating that the automation does what you want is the answer.
by Terretta | 2026-01-13 18:20:27+00:00
Agree...

Look at “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems” (Royce 1970) Figure 10 on scanned page 338:

https://www.praxisframework.org/files/royce1970.pdf

Whatever you do, do not stop on Figure 2's infamous waterfall!

Understand Royce understood Figure 4, and in Figure 7 proposed prototyping with code to inform the product (and iterate the product).

This was elaborated in the Spiral Model (Boehm 1988):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_model#/media/File:Spira...

And then '90s DSDM (under various stripped-down flavors clustered around agile claiming to be True Agile™) turned into basically WGLL spanning 2 decades going into LLMs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_systems_development_me...

Note that DSDM purports to "fix" cost but not through estimation per se, but rather by flexing the backlog cutoff:

“DSDM fixes cost, quality and time at the outset and uses the MoSCoW prioritisation of scope into musts, shoulds, coulds and will not haves to adjust the project deliverable to meet the stated time constraint.”

Cost is just headcount, quality should be in your + user's success criteria, and time is (generally) driven by some real-world requirement (event, opportunity, runway, competition, whatever). Varying scope means you didn't plan and roadmap every task up front.

Most everything since are variations on this, tailoring to the needs of the variant's author.

Doing all of this in text-as-code (Markdown, Mermaid, etc.) makes it machinable. Any number of shops were already doing this in text-as-code before the LLMs, giving them a spec-driven LLM context leg up.
by yawaramin | 2026-01-13 18:20:29+00:00
> when we ask a person for a favourite tool

I think you're focusing too much on the word 'favourite' and not enough on the fact that they didn't actually ask for a favourite tool. They asked for a favourite how-to for using the suggested options, a Dev Container or a VM. I think before asking this question, if a person is (demonstrably in this case) into LLMs, it should be reasonable for them to ask an LLM first. The options are already given. It's not difficult to form a prompt that can make a reasonable LLM give a reasonable answer.

There aren't that many ways to run a Dev Container or VM. Everyone is not special and different, just follow the recommended and common security best practices.
by blamestross | 2026-01-13 18:20:43+00:00
That is a dissociating mode, a more mindful one, but still intentionally distancing yourself from your experiences. It works great for improving your perception of yourself and being mindful. Its a meditation.

It also isn't really available in a crisis, in the moment. All our long term work is really to train the anxious idiot part of ourselves who runs the show most of the time how to cope with what the world and body are doing right now. That person is very much connected to their emotions, no matter what story we make up about it. You need practice being that person feeling those emotions as well as practice analyzing them.
by LargeWu | 2026-01-13 18:20:51+00:00
Adams claimed Black Americans were a hate group and that white people should "get the hell away".

As to ICE deporting criminal aliens, that's not what they're doing. They're kidnapping people off the street and out of their homes and cars, with no warrants. They're literally doing "Papers, please" style stops of anybody they even suspect could be an immigrant, including Native Americans. Just a few days ago in Minneapolis they abducted four homeless men who are members of the Oglala Nation. This all sounds pretty Gestapo like to me.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-01-13 18:20:52+00:00
The argument from cinema is flaky and a moral critique of Hollywood's influence is unavoidable. But we're talking about porn here, not cinema. This is decadence and depravity. How can you confuse cinema with the construction of an international whoredom? The numbers are also incommensurate.

And TikTok is the antithesis of culture. It's consumerist rubbish that encourages a vapid, thoughtless, and illiterate consumption of shallow material. The article even mentions the monetary motivations of those posting. Any gimmick will do just to make a buck.

Let us not relativize culture. If you relativize it, then your argument falls apart anyway. Authentic culture serves human beings. It involves learning from, developing, deepening, refining, and correcting what came before. Trash content doesn't do this. It is cultural poison. It ruins people's minds and wrecks society.

This use of O-1 visas is merely another sign of the downward trajectory of our polity. We are following Plato's description of social decline perfectly. Perhaps aesthetically, it is fitting that Trump is the poster boy of this abuse of O-1 visas, but he is at best an emanation and a catalyst of broader and deeper social and cultural processes. In the absence of a minimum of sound moral authority, you can expect the poison that lurks in the mud to hatch out and begin to dominate the polis.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-13 18:21:06+00:00
> "People often claim that the Electoral College protects small states, but the evidence is that it just penalizes people for not living in a swing state," said Professor McLaren

IMO it's a design-problem that the small-pop states also exert disproportionate power on the decision of how big all other states may be, meaning their can use their privilege to monopolize their privilege.

I don't think any of the people involved thought the original join-up bribe for smaller states would or should still be around for ~250 years.
by cudder | 2026-01-13 18:21:12+00:00
Unfunded is kind of a stretch, but at least libxml2.

Essentially "povertyware" as you call it when you consider the trillion dollar companies built on top of them? Now that's way easier: SQLite, PostgreSQL, ffmpeg, imagemagick, numpy, pandas, GTK, curl, zlib, libpng, zxing or any other popular qr/barcode library, etc...
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-01-13 18:21:13+00:00
Sure, and there will continue to be hackers that love programming and want to share.

But the article was kind of about how to control access, the licensing, and bad actors. And that is out the window, anybody can steal your code regardless of the license, and North Korea can use it in missiles if they want, nothing can stop it if it is openly shared.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-13 18:21:18+00:00
Everyone that argues about this misses the point.

It isn't about doing and publishing apps without having to buy a mac.

Rather having a more powerful development experience that isn't as constrained as Swift Playgrounds, useful for prototyping ideas.

I do not care if in a similar vein, to a Smalltalk like environment I would always need to run the app from inside the dev env, and then use a Mac, or some cloud build workflow if I ever would like to actually publish it.

Just like I use several other coding on the go environments.
by pjbk | 2026-01-13 18:21:21+00:00
Yet he did a lot of good leaving his money to academia and medical research.

I think the Egyptians had it right. Ultimately your heart will be weighted against the feather of Ma'at, and it is up to the goddess to decide. We mere mortals don't know the true intentions and circumstances of other people and their lives to judge, nor to throw the first stone.
by almosthere | 2026-01-13 18:21:27+00:00
I used to love watching Family Matters when I was a kid. I grew up in the 80s/90s. There was nothing "DEI" about Family Matters because it was just a show they made that focused on black families. However it was wildly popular for everyone because the things the families experienced were universal. Skin color does not matter.

Things changed drastically in 2020 (or probably even 2014). People started picking specific events to showcase black hatred. Some kind of specific moment where a cop killed a black person. That stuff happens and it does suck. But again, all of the people being accused of black hate literally loved "in living color" just a couple decades before.

A family friend's husband was shot to death because he didn't open a door to the police as he was going through an "episode" in his bedroom. His wife had called the police because he was yelling threatening things at her. The couple was white. Why didn't that make the news - it didn't fit all the narratives.

I would say most people on the left are in a cult created by the mainstream media and told exactly what to think in all these situations. The leftist cult needs to enrage people to support its causes. It's causes are linked to pulling at your empathy, not at pulling at good policies. Even if there is a grain of truth to "climate change", the selling of it was designed to get votes. The other side of it all has been reactionary. At this point people on the right are just like - ok, what's the new rage going to be this month, and why do I even care anymore. And for the most part its because every rage cycle is entirely predicated on the right combination of ingredients they can mix together to whip people into emotional thinking.

You don't have to EXCUSE Scott Adams for knowing this truth and then start speaking it.

Did AOC get leftist backlash as large as Good when she said to stop chanting for Hamas the other day? That's what the right has been saying for 3 fucking years.

Did Iran protests where reports of 12k people dead get encampments on the lawn of Columbia?

What about when Hamas murdered a bunch of Palestinians on a video a few months ago?

What FAKE rage cycle do you all want to keep participating in?
by zbentley | 2026-01-13 18:21:30+00:00
Bisect is one of those things where if you're on a certain kind of project, it's really useful, and if you're not on that kind of project you never need it.

If the contributor count is high enough (or you're otherwise in a role for which "contribution" is primarily adjusting others' code), or the behaviors that get reported in bugs are specific and testable, then bisect is invaluable.

If you're in a project where buggy behavior wasn't introduced so much as grew (e.g. the behavior evolved A -> B -> C -> D -> E over time and a bug is reported due to undesirable interactions between released/valuable features in A, C, and E), then bisecting to find "when did this start" won't tell you that much useful. If you often have to write bespoke test scripts to run in bisect (e.g. because "test for presence of bug" is a process that involves restarting/orchestrating lots of services and/or debugging by interacting with a GUI), then you have to balance the time spent writing those with the time it'd take for you to figure out the causal commit by hand. If you're in a project where you're personally familiar with roughly what was released when, or where the release process/community is well-connected, it's often better to promote practices like "ask in Slack/the mailing list whether anyone has made changes to ___ recently, whoever pipes up will help you debug" rather than "everyone should be really good at bisect". Those aren't mutually exclusive, but they both do take work to install in a community and thus have an opportunity cost.

This and many other perennial discussions about Git (including TFA) have a common cause: people assume that criticisms/recommendations for how to use Git as a release coordinator/member of a disconnected team of volunteers apply to people who use Git who are members of small, tightly-coupled teams of collaborators (e.g. working on closed-source software).
by gadders | 2026-01-13 18:21:38+00:00
Me.

The Grooming Rape Gangs and their cover-up was absolutely appalling.

I don't think the UK has hit US-level of extremes in terms of DEI for hiring etc, but I think it is undeniable that there is two tier policing in place - EG the banning of Maccabee fans from the Aston Villa game.

I think the fact that people are getting prison sentences for tweets/facebook posts is very, very bad. I don't think this is just Labour though - I think the Wet Tories were just as bad in terms of freedom of speech.
by tdeck | 2026-01-13 18:21:39+00:00
> half a dozen Black Lives Matter protests, one of them attended by Michael Moore.

A whole half dozen, you say? And who could forget those iconic Michael Moore protest videos from 2020.

For anyone who wasn't paying attention somehow, these protests happened day after day for weeks in many major cities. And many smaller cities and towns had protests and vigils as well. This statistic is so unimpressive it makes this sound irrelevant.
by spankalee | 2026-01-13 18:22:17+00:00
This is a post about a public figure who was extremely public about their absolutely horrible views. Not addressing that would be weird.

And I was responding to a comment that suggested avoiding that by saying that we shouldn't. Hardly random.

As for US politics - it's quite obvious that ignoring or tolerating racism and xenophobia has lead to more bigots and assholes feeling comfortable expressing their views publicly. I think we should shame them out of the public sphere again. That includes talking about someone's abject vileness when they die, like with Scott Adams.

You, on the other hand, bring up a random unrelated website. Which is random?
by tialaramex | 2026-01-13 18:22:46+00:00
So, fun fact, I actually reported a crime last week.

A few days later I got a "Caller ID blocked" call and was like "Scammers?" but I'm the kind of person who at least answers the call to say "Fuck off" if they're scammers and it wasn't a scam it was some nice lady whose job is to sift this endless pile of crime reports.

She didn't treat me with contempt, though of course she's not going to magically make the crime not have happened, or - given I wasn't sure who did it - even commit to having somebody actually do anything about it. But hey, that's statistics for you.

I disagree that somehow picking up litter is different. You're not going to magically make there not be any litter are you? No. But nevertheless in aggregate it has an effect.
by mmooss | 2026-01-13 18:22:51+00:00
> I guess replies on this thread are evident that Mozilla has lost much of the trust and goodwill it once enjoyed. Admittedly I am also very skeptical that Mozilla has the ability or genuine interest to make this work.

That reverses cause and effect to a great degree. Many are very skeptical because they read everyone slamming it. It's a mob psychology.
by dandellion | 2026-01-13 18:23:15+00:00
I don't know why people left Firefox, but I know why *I* did. And it was three or four years ago (after using it for 15 years) because I got annoyed at them for removing many features that I used over the years, and because I tried a Crommium based browser and it just had better performance and better ad-blocking. That's just one anecdote, but feel free to correlate it with other anecdotes to find some patterns and reach your own conclusion.
by ALittleLight | 2026-01-13 18:23:24+00:00
The first email I ever wrote was to Scott Adams. He actually replied!

I was a child and had just read and enjoyed one of his older books, maybe the Dilbert Principle. I came from a religious household and I was surprised by something in the book that revealed him to be an atheist.

I looked up his email, or maybe it was in the back of the book, and wrote him a quick message about how and why he should convert. He replied to me (unconvinced) and I replied back, at which point he realized I was a child and the conversation ended.

When I heard he was dying of cancer I wrote him another email, again offering my own unsolicited thoughts, this time on cancer and experimental treatments. He did not reply, but I thought there was a kind of symmetry to it -- I wrote him towards the start of my life and again towards the end of his.

Interesting guy, I've enjoyed several of his books and the comics for many years. He had a big impact. Tough way to die.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-13 18:23:36+00:00
I lived in South London a few decades ago, it was the exact same situation.

Lived in central London, close to 100% of the crime was happening from one area. Police refused to go into that area because of "community relations". No crime in areas that didn't abut this location but no desire to fix. Police pretend to police.

Moved to South London, crime more prevalent but, again, certain areas are worse. Police won't go to these areas, "community relations" even worse. Cash machine near housing estate treated like lootbox. Next election comes round, candidate spends most of their time canvassing on estate. Police only go onto the estate to attend events with "community" telling them they are bigots. Crime continues.

Everyone who works this out either leaves or, if they get enough money, move to safe areas of West London. Today's Londoners do not realise everyone has left, it is just a bunch of people who moved there in the last ten years telling everyone how brilliant it is and pretending they have lived there for years before being forced to leave too. Property prices suggest that actual long-term citizens are continuing to leave in large numbers.
by whatshisface | 2026-01-13 18:23:49+00:00
Social drinking and smoking can also pull you forward. What pulls you back is having something else to do (in other words a greater life to go back to), and that is why behavior problems fit in to a larger picture of a not-having-anything-to-do crisis, which is referred to in the media as a mental health crisis, a loneliness crisis, alienation of labor, or anything that involves the natural cycles regulating normal human behavior (socializing, working to make stuff, having balanced views) being interrupted.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-13 18:24:00+00:00
You don't actually need real looking accounts. Almost all of this stuff is done with the most superficial and obvious accounts.

You don't need any reputation at all because the sites do very little actual work to block literal nation state level information warfare campaigns (because that would cost money and reduce their metrics)

You also don't need any reputation because the real humans who will be boosting your false narrative or "information" are the type that take someone else telling them "No, that's fake because <reason>" to be high quality evidence that it is "The real truth THEY don't want you to know"

Like, these accounts will quite literally only be active from 9-5 Moscow time despite being "In the US", and yet that is apparently not a strong enough signal for companies to target them for review or bans?
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-13 18:24:19+00:00
If you consider your denominator to be the population of practitioners, rather than "everybody", top quartile would be pretty good. To use chess as an example, the 75th percentile of the global population probably knows the rules and nothing else. The 75th percentile of chess players would be an Elo of 1800 and change.
by diydsp | 2026-01-13 18:24:53+00:00
It's a communications skill, like, say, making powerpoint slides. If you get good at it, you will swear by it. But if can't gain skill, it's easy to think it's bogus. If you're deeply interested I can go into detail as to what it's about and not about. Or you can buy some books, get a trainer, or take a class.

Tl; dr: it's about adding a second layer to your communication which attends to the subconscious, not unlike art. It was originally for therapy, but unfortunately a lot of businessdorks in the 90s got into it and perverted it.
by mamonster | 2026-01-13 18:24:53+00:00
Being able to completely turn off the Internet in your country seems to be a non-negotiable capability to develop for any non-democratic state.

I think a lot of them took a look at how Twitter and Facebook were used for organising during the Arab spring and decided that it was by far the most dangerous non-military threat.

Still wonder how exactly they are interdicting Starlink, I've seen rumors that they are using Russian EW systems but those same systems are not so effective jamming Starlink-guided drones on the frontlines.