MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ukv | 2026-01-05 19:04:07+00:00
> Your prior comment was dismissive. [...] Your new comment is broader. [...]

As in the lack of mentioning those "aware and agreeing with the implicature/associations" in my prior comment? Notably my prior comment was replying to your:

> > If it was co-opted, then why did 49% of blacks take a neutral to supportive view of the phrase in the poll? Explain that.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood your point there to be "there wouldn't be enough black people who agree with its supposed alt-right usage to make up to 49%", so I gave two alternate reasons people would agree making with the statement (those unaware of the alt-right usage, and those aware but choosing to interpret the poll as asking about the literal meaning).

I'm not ruling out that some of the black respondents responded "agree" because they're aware of and agree with the statement's implicature/associations, it was just already the context of the prior comment that there wouldn't have been enough of them alone (for the alt-right associations).

> I don't get it and presume most people wouldn't place that label either. I agree that would be weird.

Similar is the idea here - people can/will disagree with a slogan because of its implicature and associations without disagreeing with its literal meaning.
by avidiax | 2026-01-05 19:04:38+00:00
> Humans need to remain 100% accountable for their own actions

People undergoing psychotic delusions are definitionally not 100% culpable. If you say that people are 100% culpable despite mental state outside their control, I'd like to have you sign some things after you drink this scopolamine.

> it being the fault of a chat bot

It's contributory negligence. The chat bot could be designed to recognize psychotic delusions and urge the individual to seek help. Instead, it is negligently allows to reinforce those delusions.
by watchthedemo | 2026-01-05 19:05:03+00:00
I think you are missing the sarcasm of the parent comment.

I am also fairly certain you have yet to actually watch Tao "demonstrate" his interaction with these technologies because if you had you would know in those demonstrations he formally verifies theorems that already have proofs, and even more importantly, that he had already formally verified twice before 'off camera'. Despite these two realities he still spends a lot of time correcting the LLMs or completely ignoring their suggestions while expressing a mostly polite appraisal of the tech's use and capability.

Of course the hype machine takes his politeness, which has more to do with his specific personality than anything to do with the tech, as universal endorsement for the tech and all of its externalities.

I called it when he started getting in bed with these malevolent tech companies that they were laundering their misdeeds through his reputation, and here we are.
by dsubburam | 2026-01-05 19:05:10+00:00
Maybe we can distinguish craftmanship from creativity. This case can then be cast as one of deploying creativity without embodying the traditional craftmanship (ability to play guitar, sing low notes). I don't see that as illegitimate, so long as no false credit is taken about the said guitar playing, low note singing.

Can an artist be good if they can't draw a good circle by hand? Yes. Except they can't take credit for the goodness of circles that appear in their work, if not drawn by them.

[Edit: "responsibility" -> "credit"]
by VoidWhisperer | 2026-01-05 19:05:36+00:00
There isn't vitriol, or atleast I didn't mean it that way. The point I was trying to make is that I've seen malicious code like viruses and keyloggers and rootkits being distributed via github and they use the 'this is for education' as a cop-out when the rest of the repo makes it extremely obvious what the real intention is
by YossarianFrPrez | 2026-01-05 19:05:43+00:00
What a terrible, awful tragedy!

A few months ago, OpenAI shared some data about how with 700 million users, 1 million people per week show signs of mental distress in their chats [1]. OpenAI is aware of the problem [2], not doing enough, and they shouldn't be hiding data. (There is also a great NYT Magazine piece about a person who fell into AI Psychosis [3].)

The links in other comments to Less Wrong posts attempting to dissuade people from thinking that they have "awoken their instance of ChatGPT into consciousness", or that they've made some breakthrough in "AI Alignment" without doing any real math (etc.) suggest that ChatGPT and other LLMs have a problem of reinforcing patterns of grandiose and narcissistic thinking. The problem is multiplied by the fact that it is all too easy for us (as a species) to collectively engage in motivated social cognition.

Bill Hicks had a line about how if you were high on drugs and thought you could fly, maybe try taking off from the ground rather than jumping out of a window. Unfortunately, people who are engaging in motivated social cognition (also called identity protective cognition) and are convinced that they are having a divine revelation are not the kind of people who want to be correct and who are therefore open to feedback. Because one could "simply" ask a different LLM to neutrally evaluate the conversation / conversational snippets. I've found Gemini to be useful for a second or even third opinion. But this means that one would be happy to be told that one is wrong.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2290.full
[2] https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-de...
by borghives | 2026-01-05 19:05:50+00:00
The irony did not lost on me that an article about superfluous visual elements is overlayed by an unnecessary distraction. But maybe the point is to not be 100% utilitarian but to weave in a "warm" feeling of the season. It did give me that a fuzzy feeling for the first few second. Then I was bored; then annoyed. Which pretty much follow my feeling of using Tahoe: Cool -> Meh -> Uggg!
by josephg | 2026-01-05 19:06:03+00:00
It’s rarely the thought that counts. It’s the committed effort. Presents aren’t just nice because they needed those socks. More importantly, they’re a signifier that you consider the person to be worth thinking about. You value them enough to spend time and effort thinking about them. Thinking about what they’d like and then you followed through. This is why we don’t just give people money as a present.

The effort that you put in is often what people like most about a gift. Don’t try too hard to hack around that.
by felipelalli | 2026-01-05 19:06:19+00:00
I think it's time for a big move towards immutable databases that weren't even mentioned in this article. I've already worked with Datomic and immudb: Datomic is very good, but extremely complex and exotic, difficult learning curve to achieve perfect tuning. immudb is definitely not ready for production and starts having problems with mere hundreds of thousands of records. There's nothing too serious yet.
by cdrnsf | 2026-01-05 19:06:24+00:00
I'd credit the agencies and military more than I would the administration directing them. The president couldn't run a casino, I doubt he run can much of anything effectively (though he can channel the nation's id).

Tanking the economy by managing tariffs like a toddler manages a light switch doesn't speak to competence. Nor does blindly cutting staff only to rehire them.

I suppose letting ICE loose to trample civil rights speaks more to cruelty, though their continual inability to win court cases goes to incompetence.
by hadlock | 2026-01-05 19:06:25+00:00
Did they commit to additional production of the Vision Pro? I read their announcement as quiet cancellation of VR products. They announced some kind of vaporware pivot, but I didn't read a single analyst projection that Apple ever intended to bring another wearable to market. Customer usage statistics of the Vision Pro are so low Apple hasn't even hinted about reporting on them.

Wearable products, outside of headphones, have a decade-long dismal sales record and even more abysmal user retention story. No board is going to approve significant investment in the space unless there's a viable story. 4x resolution and battery life alone is not enough to resuscitate VR/AR for mass adoption.
by cmiles74 | 2026-01-05 19:06:34+00:00
It's difficult for me to believe that you might be arguing all of the icons in the drop-down menus are beautiful... I know I have found them distracting.

In my opinion, this article had very clear and direct criticisms; they were hardly "anti-design bias". The increase in visual clutter is, for sure, a net loss for MacOS Tahoe.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-05 19:06:46+00:00
One I've seen pop up a lot is the LLM encouraging/participating in delusions specifically related to a supposed breakthrough in physics or math. It seems these two topics attract lots of schizos, in fact they have for as long as the internet has existed, and LLMs evidently got trained on a lot of that stuff so now they're very good at being math and physics kooks.
by roadside_picnic | 2026-01-05 19:06:48+00:00
> AI video isn't "enabling people to be more creative," it is quite literally removing creativity from the process all together.

This is very much not the case with the Stable Diffusion/Wan/general open diffusion models space.

The amount of effort and creativity that goes on in creating complex workflows, custom LoRAs, fine-tunes etc is genuinely a new area of art imho. Sure a lot of it is going to produce things that most people might not consider "art", but it's unfair to lump the work happening in this space with people randomly prompting Sora and dumping it on TikTok.
by chaboud | 2026-01-05 19:06:57+00:00
If you have reliability and accuracy (big if) then the practical usability and cost become performance problems.

And this is a bit of a sliding scale. Of course users want the best possible answer. However, if they can get 80% (magic hand-wavey fakie number) of the best answer on one second instead of 20, that may be a worthwhile tradeoff.
by matthewkayin | 2026-01-05 19:07:06+00:00
People care about authenticity, though. There are people who get bothered by things like fake DJs, ghostwritten songs, lip synced live performances, and manufactured artists (such as many kpop groups).

And as for single-player aimbots, I agree that it doesn't do anyone any harm, but what's the point? It's like running the course of a marathon on a segway. If you're just doing it by yourself, then I suppose it doesn't hurt anyone, but you can't really say that you ran a marathon, can you?
by mikepurvis | 2026-01-05 19:07:17+00:00
On some level it's the role of the publisher to pick winners and guide them over the finish line. See for example the hit machine that is Devolver: https://www.devolverdigital.com/games

I'm not an indie dev, but if I was I would happily give up a chunk of my potential profit to be listed on there, knowing the size of the market that says "oh yeah... a Devolver title, I would blind-buy this, it's probably pretty good."
by adastra22 | 2026-01-05 19:07:38+00:00
> Historically, they were better jobs due to a strong labor movement, but that movement has been largely destroyed.

This is a widely believed narrative, but not necessarily true. The competing narrative that better living and working conditions arise from better technology and cheaper energy is just as supported by the data. Perhaps even more so because it also explains the post-1971 decline.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-05 19:07:44+00:00
> they don't matter as much these days

True, but you were talking about voting Trump/Harris, which pretty much implies the wide electorate, no matter who the real selectorate may be.

(speaking of selection, I completely forgot to include the judiciary in previous models. Would the whole Civil Rights thing have even happened if it hadn't been for the Warren Court?)

[Not that Warren was an angel, but despite his bigotry in other ways —or maybe because of it?— he was able to win state office by just winning both party's primaries, which I hadn't even known was a thing]
by triceratops | 2026-01-05 19:07:46+00:00
> Why we would trade away our comparative advantage in things like designing widgets

As China has shown over the past 20 years, that advantage erodes quickly if you stop making widgets altogether. It's very easy for widget makers to move up the value chain into widget design. And once they do, you're cooked, there's nowhere to hide.

Not to mention, widget design can't absorb as much labor supply as widget production. And many people can't do widget design, still need a living, and would be perfectly competent widget makers. So...you gotta solve for that if you focus only on widget design.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-05 19:07:47+00:00
Just as an FYI, that is a massive outlier based on available data.

My employees are about $500 per month in a major metropolitan area, and a family of 4 can run up to $2000 a month for the most expensive plans (I cover individuals and their spouses in full for standard plans, and could cover one dependent for basic plans).

I looked at marketplace plans in WA because I was curious, and it looks like it's about the same as where I am but nowhere near what you were quoted 5 years ago.
by lgleason | 2026-01-05 19:08:43+00:00
The political dance of NVIDIA:

1. Offshore jobs, maximize profits and take advantage of incentives to offshore.
2. Political winds shift.
3. Talk a good game about needing to onshore, make some token moves to move a small token amount of manufacturing back to the US. (You are here).
4. Once the admin changes and/or mid terms, continue to spend more on offshoring.
by empath75 | 2026-01-05 19:09:30+00:00
I have been blocking and reporting 90% of the "new" youtube channels that get recommended to me by the algorithm. Kids youtube is also an absolute wasteland of garbage AI generated crap now.

Weirdly, I actually enjoy flipping through Sora every once in a while. Where it is upfront about being AI and a lot of it is quite entertaining.

I would not mind if youtube added an "AI" section where you can generate your own videos or watch AI generated videos, but they need to start banning people that post AI generated videos in normal youtube channels.
by noumenon1111 | 2026-01-05 19:09:42+00:00
I've been doing this. I've been a poet/songwriter for a while, but I'm no musician. This lowers the bar and provides a great deal of relief from the "creative boilerplate" necessary when booting up a song from zero using a DAW, especially for me, a non-musician.

So, I get a good song by throwing spaghetti at the wall until something sticks. Then I can export the stems to the DAW and replace the AI vocals with my own. A little audio processing and mixing later and the whole song is mine.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-05 19:10:01+00:00
> I have very little sympathy towards "Open"AI, but in the same time, I think there will be always people in bad mental state who will unfortunately commit suicide after some interaction.

The way you phrase this makes the ChatGPT use seem incidental to the murder-suicide, but looking at exactly what the LLM was telling that guy tells a very different story.
by hu3 | 2026-01-05 19:10:09+00:00
> I know the solution. Starting this year, students will be forced to contribute to a project they use, care about or, at the very least, truly want to use in the long term. Not one they found randomly on Github.

I expect that most of the open-source projects the students care about will be in GitHub.

So perhaps a better solution was to teach them to setup their own git repo in a cheap or free uni server.
by kmike84 | 2026-01-05 19:10:26+00:00
I'm not sure I want AI to touch me emotionally.

It feels insincere and manipulative, especially when I don't know upfront if the content (music, video, text) is from another human being or from AI.

AI will become good enough to write songs better than humans; it's a matter of time. But it feels like someone tries to hack my mind, exploit my human instincts, it doesn't feel like genuine art the way it was for the whole human history - people expressing themselves, creating and sharing something beautiful with each other.

The end result is an automated personalized "enjoy" button, and this is sad.
by gf000 | 2026-01-05 19:10:35+00:00
> "If you're using Wayland, go back to xorg, it'll probably fix the problem you're seeing."

Well, I will be honest, I have had enough "edit this xorg.conf files to boot to a black screen" for a lifetime, so that's not the rebuttal you think it is.

If anything, the (gnu/)linux desktop has certainly matured over the years and on well-selected hardware it more often than not "just works" nowadays, which was certainly not something you could tell before.
by snyy | 2026-01-05 19:10:44+00:00
> Chunking is generally a one-time process where users aren't latency sensitive.

This is not necessarily true. For example, in our use case we are constantly monitoring websites, blogs, and other sources for changes. When a new page is added, we need to chunk and embed it fast so it's searchable immediately. Chunking speed matters for us.

When you're processing changes constantly, chunking is in the hot path. I think as LLMs get used more in real time workflows, every part of the stack will start facing latency pressure.
by aliibrahim123 | 2026-01-05 19:10:52+00:00
Hello HN,

I would like to present a new concept frontend framework called NeoComp. It is a JavaScript framework that favors lightweight, simple vanilla JavaScript over the heavier, extended JavaScript used in other frameworks, while remaining both reactive and declarative.

It is heavily inspired by Solid, Lit, and Ripple. It revisits old concepts from a modern perspective, merging declarative definition with imperative flow.

Here is an example:

class Example extends Component {
constructor() {
super();
const { $temp } = this.createTop();
$temp`<div>`;

let text = this.signal('');
$temp`
1 + <input on:input=${(el) => text.value = el.value}>
= ${() => 1 + Number(text.value)}
`;

this.counter($temp, 'counter 1');
this.counter($temp, 'counter 2');

for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++)
$temp`<div>${i}</div>`;

$temp`</div>`;
this.fireInit();
}

counter ($temp, name) {
let count = this.signal(0);
$temp`<button on:click=${() => count.value++}>${name}: ${count}</button>`;
}
}

Features:

- It is vanilla JavaScript with no additional syntax.

- Markup is declared in its natural form (HTML) inside tagged templates.

- Fully reactive with deep state reactivity.

- Powered by fine-grained reactivity, with implicit bindings inferred from the templates.

- Driven by imperative construction; the structure is built once, not re-evaluated on every update.

- Uses chunked templates: templates are created in multiple parts instead of one big blob. Each section is inlined within its logic and can use normal control flow.

- Defined inside classes to maintain their own scope and to act as regular objects that can be interacted with (not abstract functions).

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- Lightweight: 7.5 kb gzip.

- Optional bundle-time optimization (parsing templates)

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if you are looking for more about the philosophy behind: https://aliibrahim123.github.io/recomputed/web-dev/

Looking for your feedback on this framework and its approaches.
by measurablefunc | 2026-01-05 19:11:05+00:00
Smoking doesn't cause cancer either. It's just a coincidence the people w/ lung cancer tend to also be smokers. You can not prove causation one way or the other. While I am on the topic, I should also mention that capitalism is the best system ever devised to create wealth & prosperity for everyone. Just look at all the tobacco flavors you can buy as evidence.
by shwaj | 2026-01-05 19:11:20+00:00
It seems like a cheaper model could be asked to review transcripts, something like: “does this transcript seem at all like a wacky conspiracy theory that is encouraged in the use by the LLM”?

In this case, it would have been easily detected. Depending on the prompt used, there would be more or less false positives/negatives, but low-hanging fruit such as this tragic incident should be avoidable.
by pqtyw | 2026-01-05 19:11:24+00:00
To be fair they had kind of started implementing the Morgenthau Plan until they realized that maybe it wasn't the best idea (and the British played a significant role in convincing the US government about that...)

1945 to ~1947 were very rough in Germany even in the allied occupation zones (and that was at least partially an outcome of a conscious decision by the allies to not allow German industry to recover)
by cben | 2026-01-05 19:11:36+00:00
That's not how I understood it. Full clones are big but simple — the server just sends all the packfiles. A first shallow clone needs some server work, but that's cachable, OK.

But then on subsequent interactions between a git client that made a shallow clone various time ago and the git server, it's AFAIU actually expensive for the git server to compute the portion this particular client doesn't yet have.

Intuitively, and very hand-wavingly, I suspect things could be improved by:

(1) clients relaxing "exact depth" requests to "give me approximately N days of stuff, over-sending being OK", and server relaxing "minimal traffic" to roughly map time ranges to whole packfiles — CPU/traffic tradeoff.
(2) allowing servers to under-send too (makes (1) tradeoffs easier), by client asking for missing parts right away and/or later — needs on-demand fetch ability to be transparent to user. With "promisor" mechanism in "partial clones" this sounds more realistic?
(3) storing history/trees/blobs in entirely separate packfiles(?) I suspect recent years work on bitmaps & MIDX move in this direction, only less naively?

I'm not saying Git can scale as well as a DB, but I do feel we sat on an effectively frozen Git format & protocol for a ~decade, and are now exploring more of the design space so hope future will be less clear-cut...

And specifically, partial clones remove the hard "fully offline vs. centralized" dichotomy we long clinged to. Assuming you stay online (necessary anyway if you consider HTTP/DB), things that used to be up-front UX decisions can now be matters of perf tuning!

* The most dramatic win is if you had to fetch info from every package's separate repo, like Go did. Then, a central DB/caching proxy can build global indexes, unlocking huge wins, no question. It's like "1+N" issues. However, most examples other than Go in the article talk of a single Git repo already storing a global view (still leaving opportunity for custom indexing and querying).