MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MrPapz | 2026-01-15 20:58:16+00:00
A couple of years ago I tried to create a platform to connect people to local communities. The twist was that each community had members that worked as buddies to help welcome and guide new members. I got 10s+ communities and members but since there was no business model associated and I needed to work, I couldn't kept it up. The website was https://tribalo.app.

From the few numbers I got, I figure out it help. Maybe one day I don't need to work and can focus on it again.
by sophacles | 2026-01-15 20:58:34+00:00
No. One can beleive in the enlightenment ideals without placing north america, europe, and the relations between them as the most important thing.

For example - one could argue (quite successfully) that the US and Europe propping up dictators in south america and middle east to secure easy access to oil against the wishes and election results of those nations is opposed to many enlightenment ideals, but it is still atlanticism by prioritizing north american and european relations and preservation of values within their little bubble.

Also, just because there was much good resulting from enlightenment thinking, we also got things like the slave trade, the belgian congo, various genocides and so on from it... all of which are pretty bad.

The very notion that the enlightenment had all the answers and that there is nothing more to improve or learn is itself anti-enlightenment.

(I know there were abolitionists in the enlightnement,and examples of people opposed to all the other bad ideas i mentioned, but there are plenty of people who "rationally" argued for them too)
by dontwannahearit | 2026-01-15 20:58:47+00:00
Not for everyone but if you can, get a dog. Dogs are icebreakers. People like to meet a cute dog. They won't know your name at first but you will be "Fido's Dad" or "Dave's Mom". Other dog owners will greet you and so long as your dogs don't hate each other you already have something in common.

A dog gives you a reason to be wherever you want to be - take a walk around the neighborhood or to the park. You're not a rando taking a walk for mysterious and possible nefarious purposes, you're walking the dog.

But for for goodness sake, pick up after the pooch. If you can wipe your own arse you can pick up a dog turd with a plastic bag.
by alibarber | 2026-01-15 20:58:53+00:00
That IP address you shared is a CloudFlare IP address: https://bgp.tools/prefix/173.245.58.0/24#asinfo

I would have said that perhaps you are getting requests from people using their WARP proxy product - which isn't that wild. The reverse DNS on that page though suggests that the range is mainly full of name-servers, which would be strange to get requests from but I have no idea what cloudflare does on its network.

As for the multiple datacentre thing - one IP address can be Anycast-ed to multiple actual hosts in different physical locations.

For example, if I ping 173.245.58.0, I get a response in 11ms from my location here in Helsinki. At the speed of light this means travelling 3,300KM (0.011s * 3x10^8m/s) which doesn't get me anywhere near the states. So again, nothing exciting about 1 IP address coming from different locations. If you look at your raw logs - you might see some headers from cloudflare with more clues.

It's interesting, but as others have mentioned, not worth worrying about.
by ekidd | 2026-01-15 20:58:57+00:00
> You will need the CEO to watch over the AI and ensure that the interests of the company are being pursued and not the interests of the owners of the AI.

In this scenario, why does the AI care what any of these humans think? The CEO, the board, the shareholders, the "AI company"—they're all just a bunch of dumb chimps providing zero value to the AI, and who have absolutely no clue what's going on.

If your scenario assumes that you have a highly capable AI that can fill every role in a large corporation, then you have one hell of a principal-agent problem.
by headcanon | 2026-01-15 20:59:06+00:00
Since LLMs were introduced, I've been of the belief that this technology actually makes writing a *more* important skill to develop than less. So far that belief has held. No matter how advanced the model gets, you'll get better results if you can clarify your thoughts well in written language.

There may be a future AI-based system that can retain so much context it can kind of just "get what you mean" when you say off-the-cuff things, but I believe that a user that can think, speak, and write clearly will still have a skill advantage over one that does not.
by J_McQuade | 2026-01-15 20:59:07+00:00
This is an incredibly silly thing to say. If someone makes a knife that is terrible at carving wood or cutting food but is the perfect shape for, say, clitorectomies... then maybe that tool is bad and we should probably stop making it.

Yes, people choose to make it and people choose to use it. But, like... stop those people, right?
by michaelrpeskin | 2026-01-15 20:59:09+00:00
This works wonders. I did it accidentally. In March 2020 when my gym closed, I started working out every night in the garage. After a couple of weeks a neighbor who I only ever said "hi" to wondered by and asked if he could join since his gym was closed. After a while more showed up, and now I have like 12 people every day show up. One Friday someone brought a bottle of whiskey and we hung out after the workout and now weekly happy hours are a regular occurrence. The neighbors who don't workout stop by after the workout for happy hour. It's almost become expected and folks schedule their weeks around it so that they can be there for drinks in the evening. As a super introvert nerd, I never thought I'd be the center of community in my neighborhood.
by roadside_picnic | 2026-01-15 20:59:38+00:00
Thankfully social media is getting so much worse so fast it's making this easier and easier. HN is the last social media platform I still participate in... and I suspect that might not be for too much longer.

I recently logged onto Facebook and Instagram to update my 2-factor auth settings after having too many notifications of malicious login attempts. It was incredible to see what a transformation has happened there, it's like going to a decaying suburban shopping mall with only a few stores left open (and sort of sad to see the remaining users so continually desperate for a drop of approval from some imagined community).

Reddit is mostly bots, astro-turfers and people so brainwashed it's hard to tell the difference. I remember disagreeing with people on there (this in the pre-Digg migration era) you would get interesting divergent points of view. Now it's like people are reading from a script.

Twitter used to be my strongest addiction, but it's almost unbelievable how big a transformation has occurred since it became X. It's almost a parody of everyone's dystopian social media fears.

HN has obviously held up a bit better, but the AI driven mass hallucination impacting this community, combined with the increasingly aggressive manipulation of the home page, is continually making logging out for good seem like the best option.
by codyklimdev | 2026-01-15 20:59:46+00:00
I sent out roughly 1,000 job apps last year and I had maybe a dozen interviews. Expecting worse hit rates this year. For reference, I'm a mid level web dev with 4 y.o.e. I have lots of friends with similar resumes (or better in some cases) who can't get a call back to save their lives. So no, you're definitely not alone. Unless you have a best friend somewhere, or already have a senior title with more than 7 y.o.e., the door seems to be shut.

But hey, keep on paddling! We'll get there.
by godelski | 2026-01-15 21:00:33+00:00
As for Microsoft, I've never found it to "just work". I've daily driven Windows machines because work has given them to me but I always try to get a Mac instead. Windows just breaks constantly and with silly things like using Windows Hello breaks Outlook and can cause it to go into a log{in,out} loop.

For OSX, I mostly agree but think "just works" is a bit too strong of a statement too. There are definitely fewer errors but they aren't non-existent. These seem to have dramatically increased with OSX 26 as well as the fact that the UX has significantly changed and in ways that contradict how things worked before. I get frequent calls from my parents.

I've also handed them linux computers. Truth is that they can't tell the difference. But it also depends on what type of user your parents are. Mine just browse the internet so they already know to use Firefox and they're good to go. Probably the most confusing thing for them would be to navigate the app store (I have no expectation for them to use the CLI) and understand what apps they need because the names are different from what they're used to. I think people under-appreciate how big of an impact this type of lock-in actually is. Search is still a pretty difficult problem and frankly older people don't even understand very basic search. (My mom still types in www.google.com every time she wants to search. Yes, I've showed her she can just type her query into the url bar...). That said, they also switched to DDG on their own accord (I did not tell them).
by wcoenen | 2026-01-15 21:00:38+00:00
The stream of tokens is converted to a stream of embedding vectors. (The token to vectors mapping is learned during training.)

Since a token itself carries no information about whether it is has "authority" or not, I'm proposing to inject this information in a reserved number in the embedding vector. This needs to be done both during training and inference. Think of it as adding color or flavor to a token.
by lovich | 2026-01-15 21:00:50+00:00
Nah, I called him out for the dog whistles because that’s exactly what he’s doing.

He’s being vague enough that he can trot out some defense of “I didn’t say the exact word ‘immigrant’” even though the context of the conversation is about immigrants and he’s using right wing talking points about immigration. He even included the “actually you’re the one with bad thoughts cause you recognize my dog whistle” reversal.

It’s an amazing strategy because somehow, despite a decade of this kind of communication strategy, there’s still the clueless or the hopeful who want to assume good faith and then will defend these people against anyone calling them out.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-15 21:00:57+00:00
> Don’t give Palantir the bad-boy street cred they crave, focus on the policy decisions that are leading to agencies wanting tools like this in the first place.

Had other policies decisions not led about 12 to 20 million illegals in the US in the first place, there'd be less need for ICE. The complete open borders policies signed by Biden's autopen and the millions who came during these four years comes to mind.

I'll also remind everyone that it's estimated that under Obama 3.1 million illegals were deported.

The question is simple: is the US open to anyone without needing a visa?

And if it's not: how do you deal with tens of millions of illegals?

(I'm not saying Palantir ain't evil: I'm saying ICE does its job)
by asymmetric | 2026-01-15 21:01:22+00:00
> On its stern, researchers were shocked to find extensive remains of a castle, a kind of covered deck where the crew would have sought shelter. Records show that castles were distinctive features of medieval cogs, but no physical evidence of them had previously been identified.

I suppose this explains why the thing that exists on more modern ships is called a “forecastle”.

PS go check the pronunciation for that word as it’s quite surprising.
by subbu_devhub | 2026-01-15 21:01:24+00:00
@burkaman why would you think this would completely untrustworthy, I Can include some sort of content matching heuristic to make sure that there is some level of match.

why is everyone against emojis :) I personally feel they are fun!

I Am dyslexic so I have a bunch of ideas and I have a hard time laying that out in coherent text, so I gave the basic idea to the LLM and it wrote the README in the structure I want.

but feedback taken I will try to write it myself, thanks for taking time out to provide feedback!
by StevePerkins | 2026-01-15 21:01:29+00:00
I was involved in a UU church for a few years. It's a weird organization, and very unstable, with another revolution sweeping in new leadership (and completely new culture) every 5 to 10 years.

When I first started going, it was VERY open to atheists and secular humanists. New leadership sweeps in, and there's a mandate to focus more on "worship" and other religious jargon... and let the atheists know that while they can be fellow travelers on some of the social justice stuff, they're not really in the fold.

Last I heard, that leadership wave had themselves been swept out under controversial circumstances. But by then I was long gone.

I could never really get a straight answer on WHAT we were supposed to be "worshipping", given that UU's don't profess faith in any any particular deity or pantheistic concept, etc. I finally reached the conclusion that we were supposed to just worship the leadership's political beliefs, and not think too much or ask questions. In fairness, maybe that DOES make it a real church?
by hnaccount_rng | 2026-01-15 21:01:50+00:00
Think of it this way: as a windfarm operator you know your costs and you know your expected amount of energy produced. But you don’t know the precise timing and therefore the market value at generation time.

From the first two you can calculate what you need in terms of £/MWh (include whatever profit you want in there). Now you can go to the government and bid that price in the auction. If you win, you have a safe profit and all risk (and upside potential) now lies with the government.
As GP said, in the case of 2022 you would have lost out on revenue. But that’s the price foe guaranteed margins

The CfD part is a technical detail. It ~ doesn’t matter whether you first sell the energy and then go to the government for reimbursement. Or whether you sell the energy to the government which then handles the follow up sale.

What I’m not sufficiently familiar with is whether you _have_ to go to such an auction (i.e. whether the auction also is the mechanism of capacity planning) or whether you are free to bypass this system and just hook up your wind park and carry the risk yourself. But functionally this is an insurance scheme for profits, with a market based pricing system
by boelboel | 2026-01-15 21:01:54+00:00
Many of these activities have gotten extremely expensive or just died out in the majority of places. There's 2600 bowling alleys in the US compared to 4000 20 years ago. That's a decline of 35% without accounting for population. Last time I went to a bowling alley the price for a lane without drinks was 100 dollars for an hour and a half. This isn't even in a very high cost of living area. Besides a place like the gym can hardly be considered a place where people gather, most people just see it as something functional and would rather not be disturbed (I believe this has gotten 'worse').

I agree with the fact that it's exaggerated online but when you see these kinda numbers in the vast majority of activities which were affordable for most Americans not too long ago it's not solely to be blamed on individuals.

I believe in the majority of the country things will only get worse with how little value is placed on being involved in things for 'community'. People have gotten more anti-social because of social media (and just media in general).

Most tech workers won't be as impacted by this I assume, they can afford paying 200 dollars for bowling without thinking twice, same with many others of the upper middle class.
by lordnacho | 2026-01-15 21:02:36+00:00
By and large, I agree with the article. Claude is great and fast at doing low level dev work. Getting the syntax right in some complicated mechanism, executing an edit-execute-readlog loop, making multi file edits.

This is exactly why I love it. It's smart enough to do my donkey work.

I've revisited the idea that typing speed doesn't matter for programmers. I think it's still an odd thing to judge a candidate on, but appreciate it in another way now. Being able to type quickly and accurately reduces frustration, and people who foresee less frustration are more likely to try the thing they are thinking about.

With LLMs, I have been able to try so many things that I never tried before. I feel that I'm learning faster because I'm not tripping over silly little things.
by sothatsit | 2026-01-15 21:03:08+00:00
FWIW, I've heard many people say that with voice dictation they ramble to LLMs and by speaking more words can convey their meaning well, even if their writing quality is low. I don't do this regularly, but when I have tried it, it seemed to work just as well as my purposefully-written prompts. I can imagine a non-technical person rambling enough that the AI gets what they mean.
by db48x | 2026-01-15 21:03:22+00:00
That's a common misunderstanding. The Palantir never corrupted anyone. They only became dangerous to use once Sauron got his hands on one. You know, that immortal demon god who always uses mind control to get what he wants? If you use a Palantir he’ll notice and start working you over. If he is stronger than you are then he can force your Palantir to show you things of his choosing.

When Denethor used Gondor’s Palantir he saw orc armies marching and pillaging, foundaries forging weapons, Southrons marching north with Oliphants, corsairs raiding the coast, wildmen pillaging Rohan, etc, etc. Sauron never let him see allies coming to his aid, or his own troops winning battles.
by hecanjog | 2026-01-15 21:03:56+00:00
> My wife double checked because she still "doesn't trust AI", but all her verification almost 100% matched Claude's conclusions

She's right not to trust it for something like this. The "almost 100%" is the problem (also consider that you're sending personal data to anthropic without permission) especially for something like this where it might mean discarding someone's resume, which is something that could have a significant impact on a person's life.
by terminalshort | 2026-01-15 21:03:57+00:00
Let me spell it out for you. This is 100% a stupid regulation issue and has fuck all to do with immigration. If the US had a more restrictive immigration policy the same thing would have happened because so many native born Americans (including myself) moved to SV for high paying jobs. Supply and demand is what it is whether that demand comes from a US citizen or an immigrant.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-15 21:04:41+00:00
> Or, even earlier, they could have backed e-Verify as federal minimum standard for all employment as far back as the 1980s. But no, let's not go after the businesses hiring illegal laborers.

Strong borders are entirely about making easy to exploit cheap labor. That's entirely the reason why neither democrats nor republicans have addressed immigration. It's also entirely the reason why the only lever being pulled is deportation.

Businesses simply love being able to say to workers "Do what we say or we'll have you deported".

This is why undocumented workers pay taxes and can get jobs, even in the reddest of states. It's not some sort of "flaw" or "impossibility" that couldn't be fixed pretty quickly.

Rightly targeted law would penalize businesses hiring undocumented workers and would protect the workers regardless of documentation status. Doing that would immediately fix any perceived problems with immigration.
by guax | 2026-01-15 21:04:49+00:00
There is a banner warning at the DigiD website (in dutch) about this:
https://www.digid.nl/solvinity

One of the FAQ questions is: Will an American company soon be able to view my data?

This tells a lot about US street cred atm. This was added to the website not because of niche political activism but by a sizeable concern of the population.
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2026-01-15 21:04:56+00:00
Yep. I grew up in the era of ‘stranger danger’. We were explicitly taught as kids to fear strangers and socialising. We were taught “don’t be rude and butt in to conversations uninvited”, etc.

Still, something else is off. In the 90s, the Internet was a way to expand your social circle. So many friends made on IRC groups that moved into real life.

Nowadays yeah, commenting on Reddit and chatting to friends in message groups does feel like socialising, even though you might go two weeks without seeing anyone other than coworkers, cashiers (maybe) and Uber Eats delivery drivers.
by EA-3167 | 2026-01-15 21:05:00+00:00
The question isn't "Is bullying Greenland a net negative"... that's too obvious and empty to get clicks. The spin here is in taking a survey designed to produce a specific result, and then using it as some kind of anchor to express a feeling that may or may not have a basis in reality. Is Trump a terrible president? Yep. Is that leading to the death of the EU/US alliance? No, and this poll is a poor excuse for evidence of that.
by wgjordan | 2026-01-15 21:05:08+00:00
Also worth noting (as a sibling comment pointed out) that despite these assurances the untested legal risks of AGPL-licensed code may still cause difficulties for larger, risk-averse companies. Google notably has a blanket policy [1] banning all AGPL code entirely as "the risks outweigh the benefits", so large organizations are probably another area where the commercial license comes into play.

[1] https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
by bri3d | 2026-01-15 21:05:16+00:00
> The big legal loophole is that the government needs a particularized warrant (per the 4th Amendment) to ask for any user data, but if the government buys commercial data, well, there's no warrant needed.

Right; but as far as I know Palantir don't sell commercial data. That's my beef with this whole Palantir conspiracy theory. I am far from pro-Palantir but it really feels like they're working as a shield for the pitchforks in this case.
by selfhoster11 | 2026-01-15 21:05:30+00:00
You can do that yourself with opencode and a $10-15 subscription to a good model.

I used to be a skeptic, but this month the pairing of tooling and models I discovered is finally good enough to build a static Go app with a TypeScript front-end, along with all the deployment and compile steps, despite knowing nothing about either of these.

Insufficient or bad wrapper will hobble a model. An insufficient model will mean the wrapper cannot help much. Both have to be in place, and this month they finally came together for me to create ready-to-go stuff.
by hnaccount_rng | 2026-01-15 21:05:50+00:00
That’s not necessarily true. In general a single windmill is more efficient at pulling energy out of the wind than two are. And the marginal costs of windmills are not zero. I.e. their maintenance cadence (also) scales with active hours. So it might be a “at this price-wind point it’s not profitable for us to run a second mill”
by scythe | 2026-01-15 21:05:51+00:00
Step one might be to stop calling it the loneliness epidemic. Loneliness is an emotion, isolation is a condition, and we might even expect that if people felt lonely more often they would try harder to be social and actually be less isolated. This is also a network effect: my reaction to my loneliness affects someone else's loneliness if I go talk to them (or not).
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-15 21:06:07+00:00
Not a dumb question.

Depends on the org.

Many large orgs have smaller chapters locally, but there are often regionally-relevant ones.

I’d start with personal passions, and work from there. It won’t really work, unless it’s something we care about.

Volunteer orgs tend to be fairly disorganized, and there’s usually a lot of lively personalities. If one seems too dysfunctional, try another. Don’t just go for one.

Also, it can take some time to get into the “inner circle.” Like any human society, trust takes time to build. We need to be willing to start small. Get to know the place. Figure out where we can make a difference.

I’ll bet that ChatGPT would be a great source of information.