MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joe_the_user | 2026-01-22 21:29:04+00:00
So consider these quotes:

Early exceptional performers and later exceptional performers within a domain are rarely the same individuals but are largely discrete populations over time... and Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, and chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Together.

A simple explanation: high performance requires quite a bit of specific preparation. But "exceptional" performance is mostly random relative to the larger population of high performers in terms of the underlying training-to-skills-to-achievement "equation". Especially, being at the top tends to get someone more resources than those nearly at the top who don't have visible/certified achievements.

I'd that billing your work "the study of the very best" really gives you strong marketing spin and that makes people tempted to find simplistic markers rather than looking at the often random processes involved in visible success. IE, I haven't touched on reversion to mean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean).
by gyanchawdhary | 2026-01-22 21:29:09+00:00
yeah, no.

Here is the original quote from their head of equity stratigy ..

AI technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, which it isn’t designed to do.
- Jim Covello

“complex problem” isnt an objective standard, and some rando GS "stratigist of equities" certainly doesn’t get to define it .. reality already disagrees with him .. and plenty of real usecases show AI solving interesting non-trivial problems ..
by bonoboTP | 2026-01-22 21:29:28+00:00
We are on the comment section about an AI conference and up until the last few years material/hardware costs for computer science research was very cheap compare to other sciences like medicine, biology etc. where they use bespoke instruments and materials. In CS, up until very recently, all you needed was a good consumer PC for each grad student that lasted for many years. Nowadays GPU clusters are more needed but funding is generally not keeping up with that, so even good university labs are way underresourced on this front.
by djeffbee | 2026-01-22 21:30:22+00:00
Author here.

I am a Senior Research Engineer working on systems theory and digital provenance.

The Problem: The current industry standard for AI disclosure is a binary ("Did you use AI? Yes/No"). This is insufficient for professional workflows. It fails to distinguish between using an LLM for spell-check (Augmentation) vs. using it to generate raw text (Generation).

The Solution: I developed the Authorship Transparency Statement (ATS) Framework v1.0.

It anchors disclosure on a mechanical "Bright Line": The Origin of the First-Pass Prose.

- ATS-0/1: Human writes the draft (AI used for refinement).

- ATS-2+: AI generates the draft (Human edits).

- ATS-4: Agentic Generation.

The Repo includes:

- The full Technical Standard (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18091713).

- Minimal JSON and Extended JSON-LD schemas for embedding this metadata into digital files.

- An institutional intake template (CSV).

I released v1.0 specifically to stress-test the logic against edge cases. My goal is adoption and utility, not dogmatic adherence to my first draft. If you have suggestions for optimizing the schema or the classification logic, I’d love to see them opened as Issues or Pull Request on the repo.

Happy to answer questions about the "Bright Line" logic or the C2PA interoperability.
by ACS_Solver | 2026-01-22 21:30:46+00:00
No, people will never be switching to ReactOS. For some of the same reasons they don't switch to Linux, but stronger.

ReactOS aims to be a system that runs Windows software and looks like Windows. But, it runs software that's compatible with WinXP (because they target the 5.1 kernel) and it looks like Windows 2000 because that's the look they're trying to recreate. Plenty of modern software people want to run doesn't run on XP. Steam doesn't run on XP. A perfectly working ReactOS would already be incompatible with what current Windows users expect.

UI wise there is the same issue. Someone used to Windows 10 or 11 would find a transition to Windows 2000 more jarring than to say Linux Mint. ReactOS is no longer a "get the UI you know" proposition, it's now "get the UI of a system from twenty five years ago, if you even used it then".
by kilington | 2026-01-22 21:31:14+00:00
Certainly but correlations not working make it unlikely that sitting is a dominant factor in current health problems. Looking at the details described it makes sense that sitting is a form of idleness and idleness is possible in a standing job. Therefore idleness could more reasonably be the dominant factor with other correlations then contributing more for idle standers than idle sitters, etc.
by eightysixfour | 2026-01-22 21:31:22+00:00
Sorry, I disagree here. For the specific flow I'm talking about - monthly recurring payments - the UX is about as highly optimized for success as it gets. There are ways to do it via the web, on the phone with a bot, bill pay in your own bank, set it up in-store, in an app, etc.

These people don't want the thing done, they want to talk to someone on the phone. The monthly payment is an excuse to do so. I know, we did the customer research on it.
by hirvi74 | 2026-01-22 21:31:31+00:00
Something about this blog really rubbed me the wrong way. The whole piece gave me the impression of someone that is rather pretentious attempting to masquerade as being vulnerable.

I am also suspicious of some of the details that were omitted. One in particular -- how did the author happen to get an interview in the first place despite being 6 months into to maternity leave? The author stated that her husband worked for Amazon during that time. It's entirely possible neither her husband nor his network had any impact on the author getting an interview, but leaving out such a detail does conveniently help construct a certain narrative.

Also, the author was previously employed by a well known startup in the Seattle tech scene, that no one happens to have heard of, yet she was automatically placed into an L6 role? While the author pretends she is some sort of state schooled and misunderstood outsider that companies do not like to hire, I am not certain that is actually the case -- assuming there was no referral. In fact, she might be more of the opposite.

I believe it is unfair to judge a person I have never met based on a single blog post, however the general tone I am left with from this blog is that I would likely rather work at a Trader Joe's than a Big Tech company.
by j2kun | 2026-01-22 21:31:33+00:00
The author calls the mistakes "confirmed hallucinations" without proof (just more or less evidence). The data never "speak for itself." The author curates the data and crafts a story about it. This story presented here is very suggestive (even using the term "hallucination" is suggestive). But calling it "100 suspected hallucinations", or "25 very likely hallucinations" does less for the author's end goal: selling their service.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-22 21:32:24+00:00
Yep. At one point I expected the software I needed to work for a reasonable time range, possibly up to a decade. Best if you could buy it once and use it from then on.

Now crap has turned into revenue sucking subscriptions, at most yearly licensing, feature flutter. And the worst is being bought up by VC/PE and milked for anything useful and thrown away.
by shadowgovt | 2026-01-22 21:35:12+00:00
To my mind, this is the huge bit that should not be overlooked.

So much infrastructure is there to support doing "it" in the Cloud, for all definitions of "it." If we can vibe-code bespoke one-offs to solve our problems, a lot of that Cloud interaction goes away... And that stuff is expensive and complicated.

Hypothetically, open source app stores (I'm counting apt here) address this, but then it's someone else's solution to my problem, which doesn't quite fit my problem perfectly.

This approach to software engineering could be what 3D printing is to tangible artifacts (and I mean that including the limits of 3D printing regarding tangible artifacts, but even still.)
by indigoabstract | 2026-01-22 21:35:14+00:00
Yes, the main churches can only stick to the traditional interpretation. What else could they do? Anything else would be pretty much well, blasphemy.

But I think my favourite interpretation that I've heard so far is that the stories in the Bible are like the protective husk that preserves the kernel of truth. The stories are catchy and have stuck, unwittingly allowing the truth to be carried across the centuries, safely hidden in the minds of men who did not understand it, until the day comes when people grow up enough, to the point where they could crack the shell and eat the fruit.

I really like how that sounds like, but of course, there are probably not many others who see it in that light. Luckily for me, these days they don't burn heretics any more (at least where I live :)).
by bonzini | 2026-01-22 21:35:15+00:00
To be honest, validating bibliographies does not cost valuable time. Every research group will have their own bibtex file to which every paper the group ever cited is added.

Typically when you add it you get the info from another paper or copy the bibtex entry from Google scholar, but it's really at most 10 minutes work, more likely 2-5. Every paper might have 5-10 new entries in the bibliography, so that's 1 hour or less of work?
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-22 21:35:24+00:00
having a specific negative experience can be interesting, why don't you talk about that instead? generally, having been both the "design thinker" and the thinkee, in both the formal big corporate setting you are lamenting and in a less formal research environment, my and my colleagues experiences have been unequivocally positive. nobody is thinking about things in terms of, "perception of themselves as something special over software developer." that may be a problem unrelated to "design thinking," i can see how any creative thinking exercise can test people's interpersonal relationships differently than say, telling Claude what to do.
by hatsix | 2026-01-22 21:35:39+00:00
Biblical Scholarship is a lot like kindergarten art scholarship... I can look at my kid's art and identify the changing themes, influences of substitutes, changing friend groups, and step functions introduced by art class... And all of those are real and intensely interesting to me... but a random stranger will take a glance and notice that it's clearly in crayon by someone obsessed with the idea of cat and unicorn hybrids...

What I'm saying is that just because I could spend untold hours analyzing kindergarten art projects and present it to the parents in the class who will also find it intensely interesting, cat-icorns aren't real... they're just my child's way of imagining what's beyond their perceptions.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-22 21:35:49+00:00
Recurring monthly payments I set to go automatic, but setting that up in the first place I usually do through a phone call. I know some people just want somebody to talk to, same as going through the normal checkout lines at the grocery store, but I think an equally large part of this is people just wanting somebody else to do the work (using the website, or scanning groceries) for them.
by kevinsync | 2026-01-22 21:36:04+00:00
I keep seeing versions of this soliloquy on here, sometimes multiple times every day. They make fine blog posts, it's something to say and something to read, but ultimately remind me more of piling into a Tiktok trend than anything else: everybody's doing it, so I will too!

End of the day, much like when photography went digital (and smartphones got good cameras), yes, there were a LOT more photos taken, but the relative proportion of outsized, lauded photographers remained fairly constant. The upshot is that WAY more people are exposed to the possibility of creating excellence than before, the downside is the market gets flooded with utility and mediocrity. Said excellence never goes away, and the same will apply to software.

The very idea that SaaS (or packaged software, or whatever) "will die" because "anybody" can prompt their way to a "personal tool" (as a mainstream exercise) is so far-fetched to me because the only people who will prompt their way to a tool ARE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS!

Professionals who need functionality will always pay for it.

Boomer dads who can barely work a DVR will always pay for it.

Business owners who need less friction and more reliability will always pay for it.

IMO, this "I'll just replace Salesforce with my own personal CRM for $200 for a month of Claude" thing is just a hobbyist's pipe dream lol -- not that there's anything wrong with it, some people will do it, but, man, there's a reason that Netflix is Netflix, and Plex isn't Netflix.
by rosefutures | 2026-01-22 21:36:23+00:00
Thanks for your interest in this piece, I am happy to hear that the restoration of this work has been completed! aaronstreet over at https://www.oskarjwhansen.org has been doing great work in documenting Hansen's work and Im sure will have an update on that soon.

I am happy to answer any questions about this and if you want to see any of my other writing please take a look at:
https://medium.com/@zander_longnow
and
https://www.rosefutures.com
by neutronicus | 2026-01-22 21:36:32+00:00
Hmm. Well.

I'll admit I gendered it because that's the discourse I always see.

But anyway - you're speaking to whether Walter's actions were moral. I'm more interested in what is the show's attitude towards his actions. Is the show condemning, or glorifying. I think it's closer to the latter, regardless of how poorly things went for Walter in the end.

> The whole point is that he's so brilliant that he can take over a whole regional drug trade in like a year. Well I'm sorry, but if he could do that, he could also have put his brilliance toward some other wildly successful business venture that would not have required blowing people up and putting his family in danger from like three different gangs of violent criminals.

Sure. But, again, I think this is just another implicit thesis of the show. It's easier and more fun to be an amoral asshole without regard for any of your obligations to anyone else.
by spankalee | 2026-01-22 21:36:58+00:00
I'm working on a TypeScript/Swift/Dart style language, and currently this hello-world is 1444 bytes:

export let main = () => {
console.log("Hello, World!");
};

I'm trying to make that smaller. The binary includes the Console class, which is needed (I may be able to tree-shake the non log() methods away), but also the Error and IndexOutOfBoundsError classes which aren't needed because there are no catch() expressions.

I think it really helps to have a language designed from the ground-up to obsess over bytes for WASM. Trying to do that with a familiar high-level language with a rich standard library is tricky.
by luk4 | 2026-01-22 21:37:13+00:00
I think it's worth mentioning the Open Web Search initiative [1] and the Open Web Index [2] specifically.

> 14 renowned European research and computing centers have joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. The initiative is contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market. [1]

> The Open Web Index (OWI) is a European open source web index pilot that is currently in Beta testing phase. The idea: Collaboratively and transparently secure safe, sovereign and open access to the internet for European organisations and civil society. The index stores well structured open web data, making it available for search applications and LLMs. [3]

[1] https://openwebsearch.eu/

[2] https://openwebindex.eu/

[3] https://openwebsearch.eu/open-webindex/
by gond | 2026-01-22 21:37:38+00:00
> So what do you mean by "Design Thinking does with its sole existence what Systems Thinking tried to avoid"?

It’s its approach to Systems. Take the 5 stages. Why 5, not 10 or 3? Why stages at all? Who’s to say? Why not enable people to create stages themselves and run from there? Or whatever fits their business.

Why not teach methodology instead of method?

>I'm not sure why you think it's relevant here.

I can only repeat myself:
The value is in the process of inquiry itself. Systems Theory is not a set of methods. It is an epistemological based theory and requires a shift in how a person perceives reality, the often cited worldview. How do you know what you know? By assuming 5 stages? Is that objectively induced? What happens to that if looking through the lens of radical constructivism? The theory requires to incorporate multiple worldviews and with that, negates the assumption of an objective truth.
by pbar | 2026-01-22 21:37:43+00:00
Unfortunately with SSH specifically, the dissectors aren't very mature - you only get valid parsing up to the KeX completion messages (NEWKEYS), and after that, even if the encryption is set to `none` via custom patches, the rest of the message flow is not parsed.

Seems because dumping the session keys is not at all a common thing. It's just a matter of effort though - if someone put in the time to improve the SSH story for dissectors, most of the groundwork is there.
by tanseydavid | 2026-01-22 21:37:59+00:00
IMHO you are thinking too much in the near term.

I strongly believe that if you extrapolate 5-10 years then at that point the really big revenue stream(s) that self-driving cars will be funneling to themselves will revenue poached from the legacy auto manufacturers and adjacent industries.

And I also think this is a good thing.
by lejalv | 2026-01-22 21:39:04+00:00
I do time my dishwasher and washing machine to align with peak solar where I live.

I'd like to appeal to you to evolve that frame of mind. To help avoid first world problems (I can't wash a dish by hand, I need it now) devolving into third-world ones (power cuts, crop failures, torrid tropical nights on mid latitudes, mountains disintegrated).

Sometimes its important to remind we're on a generational mission, and it's not maximising Netflix time.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-22 21:39:06+00:00
Fintech exuberance was a symptom of zirp. Brex enabled more credit to folks who couldn't otherwise get credit without a personal guarantee. Zirp and exuberance is over at this point in the credit super cycle. AI doesn't help those fundamentals. Valuations are trending towards fundamentals (based on interest rates, discounted cash flows, etc).

Capital One is paying a fair price for the customer base and infra imho to add to their business customer portfolio.

Congrats to Brex et el on their incredible journey.
by DANmode | 2026-01-22 21:39:35+00:00
> Where does that leave you and this project? Does it really matter that much that the project couldn't exist without genAI? Maybe it shouldn't exist then at all. As with alot of the areas AI touches, the problem isn't the tools or use of them exactly, it's the scale. We're not ready for it. We're not ready for the scale of impact the tech touches in multitude of areas. Including the artistic world. The diminished value and loss of opportunities. We're not ready for the impacts of use by bad actors. The scale of output like this, as cool as it is, is out of balance with the loss of huge chunk of human activity and expression. Sigh.

If you don’t see these tools as a way for ALL of us to more-intimately reach more of our intended audiences,

whether as a musician, marketer, small business, whatever,

then I don’t know if you were really passionate or excited about what you were doing in the first place.
by gwbas1c | 2026-01-22 21:40:26+00:00
I think it requires emotional intelligence to know if you should ask or guess.

I've encountered a few people that just won't stop asking for unreasonable things, and it destroys the relationship very quickly, because they just won't take no for an answer. I also have one child that I used to have to firmly say "stop asking for things" once it would get out of hand.

But those are extremes in ask vs guess.
by rafram | 2026-01-22 21:41:01+00:00
> This project is far from perfect, but without generative models, it couldn’t exist. There’s simply no way to do this much work on your own

100 people built this in 1964: https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/panorama-of-the-city-of-...

One person built this in the 21st century: https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/truckers-viral-scal...

AI certainly let you do it much faster, but it’s wrong to write off doing something like this by hand as impossible when it has actually been done before. And the models built by hand are the product of genuine human creativity and ingenuity; this is a pixelated satellite image. It’s still a very cool site to play around with, but the framing is terrible.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2026-01-22 21:41:12+00:00
I read this merely as not likely corresponding to any psychedelic compound known to occur in nature, not that it isn't psychedelic. Of course, even that isn't a given, since there could be some interaction between a known compound and a second compound affecting the metabolism of the first one. Although the description of its effects doesn't really sound like any psychedelic I've tried either, and I've tried quite a few

I'm still open to it being psychedelic(primarily acting on the 5-HT-2 receptor family) though. It could just be that there's enough folklore surrounding these mushrooms in the local culture to explain the very specific effects. After all, cultural beliefs are a part of "set and setting".
by pjsg | 2026-01-22 21:41:33+00:00
I picked Vitamin D as it was an option on the main page. The cheapest offered was $1.1/mg.

Costco (https://www.costco.com/p/-/kirkland-signature-extra-strength...) sells Vitamin D at less than half that price. On Amazon, the two pack of those is even cheaper.

Just an observation.
by omoikane | 2026-01-22 21:41:43+00:00
> send all typed characters at 50ms intervals

Wouldn't this just change the packet interval from 20ms to 50ms? Or did you mean a constant stream of packets at 50ms intervals, nonstop?

I think the idea behind the current implementation is that the keystrokes are batched in 20ms intervals, with the optimization that a sufficiently long silence stops the chaff stream, so the keystroke timing is obfucated with an increased error bar of 20ms multiplied by number of chaff packets.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-22 21:42:11+00:00
Thought not well grounded in objective evidence has a place, both on matters that are not subject to empirical inquiry and in preliminary speculation about matters that are.

But it also runs the risk of building palaces of elaborate BS with no relation to reality and pure garbage filler content, like article presenting three different non-evidence-based ideas of how a dichotomy itself not grounded in evidence supposedly plays out in reality, with no effort to do look at any evidence or do any analysis as to whether any of them or the underlying dichotomy is connected to reality.
by tevans3 | 2026-01-22 21:42:17+00:00
Thanks! And thanks for that suggestion.

I added a limiter to the output and an envelope to my synth object, but after a bunch of experimenting with different settings for each, the flatlining effect was still there. Throttling beyond the note+release's duration did fix it, but that also removed the layering effect of overlapping chords. I think some of those were interesting and wanted to keep them. The last thing I tried was setting the attack to 0.01 and I think that fixed the flatlining issue?