MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurk2 | 2026-01-09 01:43:05+00:00
> How could it be based on anything else?

The point is that the capability is measurable but the capabilities we consider to be essential are based on normalcy and thus effectively arbitrary. Eugenicists make the argument that evolution demonstrates that the classification is not arbitrary because deafness and blindness confer obvious fitness disadvantages, but they don’t actually bridge the gap of deriving an ought from an is.

> Obviously?

If the answers to these problems are obvious to you, perhaps you’d consider writing a book instead of participating in a discussion forum. I would encourage you to review the site guidelines.
by giantg2 | 2026-01-09 01:43:14+00:00
I suppose, if you just want to take someone's word for what is important rather than understand the underlying concepts and mechanisms. HN has historically been about learning new and interesting things. It feels different when people attack you for sharing additional information in a higher quality article than the OP. I guess that's why the post got flagged - low effort political flame bait that doesn't actually explore a topic.
by Alex2037 | 2026-01-09 01:43:25+00:00
because 90% of people raving about 1000% productivity boost from LLMs are students and junior-level programmers, whose productivity was nonexistent in the first place. for programmers with 5+ years of experience with the tools they're using, LLMs are a 10-20% boost, at most, and I'm saying that as a very AI-positive individual.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-01-09 01:43:53+00:00
> The latter exists for matrix compute, but only in the latest version of AVX which has yet to reach consumer CPUs.

As far as I am aware, AMD implemented has implemented many parts of AVX-512 in their consumer CPUs since Zen 4:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AVX-512&oldid=133...

On the other hand, Intel still does not support AVX-512 in Raptor Lake, Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_Lake

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Lake

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Lake_(microprocessor)
by chiengineer | 2026-01-09 01:44:12+00:00
2022 rog strix i9

- took a full year to release the proper updates that allowed me to use my GPU to begin with

- And then one month before warranty was up My screen went black And then they asked me for over $800 for repairs

I actually like their brand s*** laptops do exist but if they know they made something broken it shouldn't be $800 to repair it even without warranty
by ryandvm | 2026-01-09 01:45:49+00:00
You could certainly create a pro-user EULA that specifically locks in your company's ideals and forbids reneging on them in the future. This is essentially what the GPL is - it's an end user license agreement that is exceptionally user friendly.

Pro-user EULAs just aren't popular because they limit future monetization paths for the company, but it sounds like that is exactly what you want.
by Steltek | 2026-01-09 01:46:18+00:00
I'm immediately reminded of this:

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The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

---

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...
by georgecmu | 2026-01-09 01:47:00+00:00
Full text: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/the-godfather-arthur-sc...

The movie casts a spell far beyond its merits. Warner Brothers would have made it thirty-five years ago as a hundred-minute feature, lively, brilliantly paced, and economical. Now, in the reverent hands of Francis Ford Coppola, it has swelled into an overblown, pretentious, slow, and ultimately tedious three-hour quasi-epic. Gangsters at last have their Greatest Story Ever Told, but minus George Stevens. Inflation does not always assure survival. My guess is that three years from now we will still remember scenes from Raoul Walsh’s The Roaring Twenties (1939) while The Godfather will have become a vague memory.
by williamcotton | 2026-01-09 01:47:38+00:00
I mean, a DSL packed full of features, a full LSP, DAP for step debugging, profiling, etc.

https://github.com/williamcotton/webpipe

https://github.com/williamcotton/webpipe-lsp

https://github.com/williamcotton/webpipe-js

Take a look at my GitHub timeline for an idea of how little time this took for a solo dev!

Sure, there’s some tech debt but the overall architecture is pretty extensible and organized. And it’s an experiment. I’m having fun! I made my own language with all the tooling others have! I wrote my own blog in my own language!

One of us, one of us, one of us…
by ggm | 2026-01-09 01:48:28+00:00
"Put a body under it, and its irreversible IPR theft with no recourse"

Da Vinci wasn't around to sue. But the gallery was. Where's Miles's estate in this anyway? Or are we stuck on the photographers moral right to a repro of Miles?

(I hated the hairdo. That wet look does nothing for me. Got no complaints about the music)
by devilsdata | 2026-01-09 01:48:47+00:00
I don't think a regular Raspberry Pi counts as embedded, although from Embassy's documentation, there is a version of embassy for the Rapberry Pi Microcontroller.

https://docs.embassy.dev/embassy-rp/git/rp2040/index.html
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/
by spondyl | 2026-01-09 01:48:51+00:00
This will be a standard Apple Developer code-signing certificate used in the signing and notarision process: https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/security/sec3ad8e6e53/...

Without a signature, Gatekeeper will throw up a dialog saying "This app could contain malware" or something to that effect.

If you're using other libraries, such as the Sparkle Framework (a popular macOS Objective-C(?) library for updater logic), I believe you have to sign those as well.

That said, the autoupdater may have technically been a second .app bundled within the main one and trying to launch it resulted in a failure to recognise the certificate.

As far as I understand, certain compilers such as Go are signed themselves and technically fiddle with created binaries in an above-board way that they pass Apple's requirements, otherwise you would have to explicitly allow them to run every time.

Having signed some open-source apps myself though, I didn't realise that certificates could retroactively expire. I haven't tried but I assumed that you would just be unable to sign new versions.
by mise_en_place | 2026-01-09 01:48:55+00:00
This is not at all surprising. Immigrants can never truly assimilate. This is the case even for the old new immigrants during the Ellis Island days; many of Irish descent provided financial support and weapons to the IRA for example, despite being American for several generations at that point. Same with the Italians and the Jews. The list goes on and on.

The idea of a propositional nation is simply unrealistic; in the cases where it does exist today, it can only exist on a small scale, like Singapore (a city-state) or Dubai (another economic zone). There is no magic soil; only the ties of familial blood and shared ancestry.
by coder543 | 2026-01-09 01:49:17+00:00
Every app that uses tailwind builds a custom CSS bundle. Tailwind (the organization) does not host those; whoever is making the app has to figure out their own hosting. So I’m not seeing the significant infrastructure costs?

Even if Tailwind were a shared hosted system like the bootstrap of old… CDNs are dirt cheap for a small text file, even if it were loaded billions of times a month.

Some back of the napkin math shows that it would cost about $300 per billion downloads for the current bootstrap.min.css file (gzip compressed, naturally) at North American network prices on one CDN I’ve used before. With browser caching, even split per domain, a billion downloads covers a very large number of users for a very large number of page loads.
by wilg | 2026-01-09 01:49:27+00:00
1 - the moral calculus is different if you were already doing so and then suddenly shut it off

2 - i was happy with the arrangement of the government doing it on my behalf, and in doing so making the united states stronger and have allies around the world

3 - elon musk did this illegally

4 - elon musk also caused additional deaths by virtue of supporting trump, rfk, and these other lunatics which he was definitely affirmatively a part of doing
by quadrifoliate | 2026-01-09 01:51:21+00:00
I feel like most of us understand roughly what 'kentonv means. He unconsciously put Sanjay in an out-group and feels bad about it. I for one comment Kenton for owning up to it. It's a hard thing to do.

For what it's worth, I personally regard Sanjay in just as much awe as Jeff and understand that the meme is just an Internet meme and nothing more.
by SilentM68 | 2026-01-09 01:51:23+00:00
Ah, but that's where our opinions differ. I'm a Twitter expatriate, cast out for daring to have a simple, different, honest opinion. Tried and tried, but the Twitter gods continue to ban me. If you look at my recent past comments, you'll note the negative Twitter influence that reaches, even here. Corruption is everywhere, in my view.
by basilikum | 2026-01-09 01:51:33+00:00
I've had submissions and comments of mine on this very account shadowbanned before I got some karma. It's just how the spam detection system works. So no, it's not just for bad actors, but for anyone an automated system suspects to be spammy enough. It's also easy to see whether your submission was shadowbanned by just looking for it while being logged out; only works if you know you might be shadowbanned though. So unsuspecting people who just got falsely flagged might never find out they are not being displayed to others.
by d4rkp4ttern | 2026-01-09 01:52:22+00:00
This is consistent with how I've defined the 3 core elements of an agent:

- Intelligence (the LLM)

- Autonomy (loop)

- Tools to have "external" effects

Wrinkles that I haven't seen discussed much are:

(1) Tool-forgetting: LLM forgets to call a tool (and instead outputs plain text). Some may say that these concerns will disappear as frontier models improve, there will always be a need for having your agent scaffolding work well with weaker LLMs (cost, privacy, etc), and as long as the model is stochastic there will always be a chance of tool-forgetting.

(2) Task-completion-signaling: Determining when a task is finished. This has 2 sub-cases:
(2a) we want the LLM to decide that, e.g. search with different queries until desired info found,
(2b) we want to specify deterministic task completion conditions, e.g., end the task immediately after structured info extraction, or after acting on such info, or after the LLM sees the result of that action etc.

After repeatedly running into these types of issues in production agent systems, we’ve added mechanisms for these in the Langroid[1] agent framework, which has blackboard-like loop architecture that makes it easy to incorporate these.

For issue (1) we can configure an agent with a `handle_llm_no_tool` [2] set to a “nudge” that is sent back to the LLM when a non-tool response is detected (it could also be set as a lambda function to take other possible actions). As others have said, grammar-based constrained decoding is an alternative but only works for LLM-APIs that support.

For issue (2a) Langroid has a DSL[3] for specifying task termination conditions. It lets you specify patterns that trigger task termination, e.g.

- "T" to terminate immediately after a tool-call,

- "T[X]" to terminate after calling the specific tool X,

- "T,A" to terminate after a tool call, and agent handling (i.e. tool exec)

- "T,A,L" to terminate after tool call, agent handling, and LLM response to that

For (2b), in Langroid we rely on tool-calling again, i.e. the LLM must emit a specific DoneTool to signal completion. In general we find it useful to have orchestration tools for unambiguous control flow and message flow decisions by the LLM [4].

[1] Langroid https://github.com/langroid/langroid

[2] Handling non-tool LLM responses https://langroid.github.io/langroid/notes/handle-llm-no-tool...

[3] Task Termination in Langroid https://langroid.github.io/langroid/notes/task-termination/

[4] Orchestration Tools: https://langroid.github.io/langroid/reference/agent/tools/or...
by ajross | 2026-01-09 01:53:22+00:00
> Are you really suggesting that an armed federal law enforcement officer doesn’t have the ability to detain someone that they suspect is interfering with one of their operations?

Well, gosh. It's a little rusty, but I'm pretty sure I was taught in school that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized

Something like that, anyway.

To be blunt: your assertion is batshit. NO, the cops can't just "detain" people on random "suspicion". They need probable cause of a crime in progress. Period. There are no exceptions. There never have been. If you want to argue that they clearly have the ability, you need to explain why that car in its perfectly legal travel lane was somehow a criminal violation. You seem extraordinarily inclined to split hairs on the other side of this argument, so it seems... odd that you're being so cavalier on this one.

No, ICE can't detain anyone on a "traffic infraction". No one can. That's not criminal, and you know it.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-09 01:53:43+00:00
Someone with a tendency towards racist generalisations might start disliking a particular group due to the zeitgeist identifying "disliking the behaviour of a political entity" with "disliking all members of an ethnic group", though. If they previously didn't hold any such views, then they would go from "not racist" to "racist". (If you disagree with my category boundaries, you can construct your own similar example for your preferred category boundaries.)

Just because something's wrong, that doesn't mean it's illogical. A logical conclusion from flawed premises is still logical.
by cj | 2026-01-09 01:54:06+00:00
Except nearly every restaurant I frequent. Restaurants in my area of New York routinely charge a fee for using credit cards (often more than 3%). And minimum purchase amounts.

It's a "discount" in the sense that you get the privelege of not paying the credit card "convenience fee". Real world example: https://misslucyskitchen.com/menu
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-01-09 01:55:06+00:00
Its fascinating to watch you twist yourself into knots justifying all types of contradictory actions after they have happened. You are certainly committed to the bit. This is another case where you failed to do any research and are provably false. The Republican Party of Texas wrote an actual party platform in 2024 and limited government is an explicitly stated part of that platform. [0]

Since you brought up Trump, even though he isn't involved in this action. Here is a video of him from February 2025 stating that he is making government smaller. [1]

I'm sure you will come back with some new red herring, but the evidence is here for others to view.

[0] https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-RPT-Pla...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ucen_wGy2mY
by dtkav | 2026-01-09 01:57:27+00:00
This is the way. If you symlink the .claude directory (so Obsidian can see the files) then you can also super easily add and manage claude skills.

I've spent 20 years living in the terminal, but with claude code I'm more and more drafting markdown specs, organizing context, building custom views / plugins / etc. Obsidian is a great substrate for developing personal software.
by tehjoker | 2026-01-09 01:57:59+00:00
I will remind you that most of the world and many Americans consider what is happening in Gaza a genocide: the intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. Israel intends ethnic cleansing by genocidal means and continues to attack civilians despite a "ceasefire". Just today I got a terrified text message from a teacher as they airstriked in her camp while she lives in a partly destroyed house that cannot be repaired. They previously bombed the ppl in tents outside who had run from the north with nothing.

I hope there is some humanity left in this country and not just a primal lust for aggression and exclusion.
by trhway | 2026-01-09 01:58:02+00:00
buying - capital expenditure with amortization (and usually goes through centralized IT, etc.), subscription - expense, frequently decided upon and paid directly by the Line-Of-Business/dept. Expense is generally better, so it is chosen by business when possible (it is all very generic of course, and there are niche cases where situation is different)

That matches on the supplying side as subscription revenue is also generally better.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-01-09 01:58:16+00:00
> On 12 September 2024, the French icebreaking cruise ship Le Commandant Charcot became the first ship to reach the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility.

Recent. And impressive. Still more impressive is the fact that Le Commandant Charcot is a luxury cruise ship: https://en.ponant.com/cruise-ships/le-commandant-charcot
by Gathering6678 | 2026-01-09 01:58:39+00:00
This number is wrong. Instead, ~70-75%[0] of China's oil demand is met by importing.

[0]: "2024年，中国...石油对外依存度71.9%，同比下降0.5个百分点。" (In 2024, China's ... dependence on foreign oil was 71.9%, a year-on-year decrease of 0.5 percentage points.)(https://finance.sina.cn/2025-01-24/detail-inefzsek2941040.d....)
by mamcx | 2026-01-09 01:59:02+00:00
Poor.

My dream is to build such tool, I slowly doing in the side (https://tablam.org). Probably need to ask for funding too.

In concrete, what I want is a real alternative to Fox/Access that work, unrestricted, locally (including inside a phone/iPad). I don't mind have support for cloud stuff (that is what pay the bills mostly) but that is secondary IMHO.

Current computers, even mobile, have far much power than most need, and is a shame not much tools actually exploit it.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-09 01:59:13+00:00
Are you debating my interpretation of the HN guidelines or the HN guidelines themselves?

It seems a bit like you are shifting the goalpost here. I was clarifying how the decision to flag this submission can be explained by the HN guidelines.

I agree with your statement in principle, but it's irrelevant to my point or yours about this submission being on-topic.

I regularly discuss these kinds topics in groups with people that have diverse viewpoints, but also can maintain civil dialog. The problem is that anonymous people on the Internet can't seem to discuss these topics and stay civil, so HN made a decision to call them out of scope. Personally I think it was a good decision and it's part of what makes HN unique and valuable.

If you want to discuss these topics there are lots of other places to go.
by heartbreak | 2026-01-09 01:59:39+00:00
I have a family member with an uncommon (1/1000) genetic condition. The only doctor they have ever been to that didn’t google it in the exam room with us was the PI of a study on the condition.

The best part is they always immediately start badly explaining it to us like we’ve never heard of it either.

Between that and having concerns repeatedly dismissed before we secured a diagnosis has sincerely changed my view of Dr. Google.
by nsomani | 2026-01-09 01:59:42+00:00
Hi HN, I built this side project earlier this week. It executes an English auction on Solana with a reserve price of 0.1 SOL. Auction losers get refunded (minus a <$0.01 processing fee). The Codex agent operates in a sandbox and can only output HTML/JS/CSS.

The project is open-source: https://github.com/neelsomani/the-daily-auction
by oceanplexian | 2026-01-09 02:00:02+00:00
What are you even talking about? My family is Argentine and 100% assimilated, speak English, love and embrace American culture and values. No one has ever treated us any differently in any context both in middle America and on the coasts.

It’s not a racial issue either, because my friends who are first generation Asian, Indian, etc, would all share the same sentiment. America is the most welcoming place on Earth for immigrants who are willing to put up even the smallest effort to assimilate into the culture.
by slabtickler | 2026-01-09 02:00:42+00:00
imo the fragmentation argument is very flaky. this is not like, e.g. the old ARM big endian mode which accidentally created a separate ISA for really dubious reasons. the only thing that really have a need for alternate store orders on ARM at this point are just (x86) emulators. This argument may have made more sense 10, 15 years ago but ARM has become so ubiquitous that the idea of “oh my port of this originally x86 userland software crashes on ARM due to a synchronization bug, better use this TSO thing as a get-out-of-jail-free card “ really doesn’t have much water to it now
by defrost | 2026-01-09 02:01:20+00:00
> That is why my first question is: why was she there to begin with?

It's my understanding she and the other onlookers live there in that city.

Unlike the masked bandits airdropped in from elsewhere.

Further, IIRC, there was a note on Letters from an American to the effect that the woman had registered herself and had some minimal credentials at least as Constitutional Observer (?) and was there to watch and record the ICE activity.

That seems like an admirable patriotic concerned active citizen thing to do.

Again, that hardly matters - from a wide angle and looking at the footage from minutes before the shooting occured, she was set upon by masked thugs who were eager to kick doors, breach windows, and shoot fellow citizens at the drop of a hat for kicks.

It's a flawed country that allows that to happen.

> Look at the bright side, if there is a chance to limit some of the police powers at federal level

That sounds so last year, TBH - the US has deeper problems now that the veneer of safeguards, checks, balances has been thoroughly ripped open .. if I were a citizen there I'd be looking for some wider deeper constitutional reforms and restructuring - just as Benjamin Franklin advised when he signed off on the first draft as being a decent draft and sufficient until a despot ignores it.

We run a Washminster system, it has it's issues, but it was built upon looking at both the US and the UK systems and tweaking them; it's a lot easier to swap out the active head of state here if they're not serving the broad interests of the majority and grifting hard.
by SanjayMehta | 2026-01-09 02:01:30+00:00
So this link was posted by someone and flagged within seconds.

"American Samoa is the only U.S. state or territory where people are born without automatic citizenship, and without the right to vote in state, federal, and most local elections anywhere outside of American Samoa."

Hypocrisy, institutionalised.

https://boltsmag.org/prosecuted-for-voting-american-samoans-...
by KK7NIL | 2026-01-09 02:01:50+00:00
> The majority of Americans are of British ancestry

No they aren't.
Even if you narrow it down just to white Americans, British ancestry is almost even with German and does not hold a majority once you include Irish, Italian, etc. [1]

I don't blame you for thinking they are tough, as Anglo culture and language has been unusually dominant, probably because the original 13 colonies were very Anglo and the whites that trickled in later largely assimilated.
"Albion's seed" is an interesting book on this topic.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/10/2020-census-d...

Edit: British doesn't usually denote an ethnic group so I took it to mean Anglo, but if you take it to mean Anglo+Celtic then it would indeed make a majority of whites in the US due to the very large Irish population.