MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vld_chk | 2026-01-13 19:13:16+00:00
While general vibe of Sam and OpenAI losing steam is correct for me; I genially disagree with all “hate” of GPT-5. It was indeed not a crazy breakthrough, but, honestly, 5.2 model at extended thinking path in Pro version is utterly scary to me. I can give it some complicated multi-tier question which requires modeling, abstract thinking, computation, and rationality; it can walk away for 45 minutes, produce CoT with a length of Empire State Building and give me fairly good and well written response. I can’t speak for all industries, but 5.2-Pro-extended is really scarce when it comes to math and reasoning. Here I am a bit on Sam side when he said that most of people severely underutilize modern AI by using it same as in 2023. The capability of recent models sounds to me way beyond current typical use cases.
by ajolly | 2026-01-13 19:13:18+00:00
You want to change the
ForegroundLockTimeout registry key or set it via power shell.

by default if you haven't typed anything for a little bit Windows allows an application to steal focus. If you change that value you can prevent windows from ever stealing focus or change how long they have to wait before they're allowed to.

Windows has a ton of little settings you can tweak like this if it's not working quite how you like it.

I personally tweak it the other way to allow a window to pop up and still focus sooner .

If you set up via PowerShell you can do it more dynamically and if you're doing it via the API there's behavior in there too force a lock
by cheald | 2026-01-13 19:13:27+00:00
Yogurt's been a staple of mine ever since I started eating clean years ago. It's high in protein, can be mixed with all sorts of protein powder, fruit, nuts, and seeds, and is always quick and easy to prepare. The probiotic effects are an excellent benefit, but the real trick for me is that it offers that junkfood-like "quick snack" availability while being actually pretty nutrituious. It makes a pretty solid default snack.
by mkroman | 2026-01-13 19:13:42+00:00
I don't understand how they expect offline LLM models to work in a meaningful capacity for users.. Isn't there a single multilingual person working at Mozilla?

All of the small LLM models break down as soon as you try to do something that isn't written in English, because - surprise - they're just too small.

There would need to be a hardware breakthrough, or they would have to somehow solve the heavy cost of switching the models between pages.

Instead of useful AI stuff that is a clear improvement to accessibility, they're insistent on ham-fisting LLM solutions that no one have even asked for.

Off the top of my head, they could instead:

1. Integrate something like whisper to add automatic captions to videos or transcribe audio

2. Integrate one of the many really great text to speech models to read articles or text out loud
by QuantumGood | 2026-01-13 19:13:59+00:00
"the US is nowhere close to having a revolution or civil War."

“It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform....”
—Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

(59 new detention facilities since inaugeration, 77 more reopened, $45 billion planned for 41,000+ beds targeting 100,000+ capacity, dozens of deaths reported.)

The language of the goverment has shifted to "war" such as:

• DHS New Year's Eve launch of the $100M "wartime recruitment" campaign.
• Ads portray joining as a "sacred duty" to "defend the homeland" from "foreign invaders," using war-like imagery such as Uncle Sam posters and action movie-style videos.

A few other factors from a choice of dozens:

• The several lies from the administration about the shooting of Renee Good, such as that the shooter was run over and is recovering in the hospital, besides the actual shooting itself.
• Minneapolis has thousands of volunteers for rapid response teams to show up wherever ICE shows us, militarized on both sides.
• The biggest No Kings protests ranged from 5-7million.
• Congress' check on presidential powers is not happening
• Abducting, beating and dropping off those abducted far from where they were abducted.

Recent lawsuits:

• January 12, 2026, Mark Kelley vs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Department of Defense, and the Navy.
• Minnesota AG Ellison et al. v. DHS/ICE (Jan 12, 2026): State, Minneapolis, and St. Paul sue over "Operation Metro Surge," alleging unconstitutional raids, excessive force, and viewpoint discrimination; seeks restraining order.
• Illinois AG Raoul & Chicago v. DHS/ICE/CBP (Jan 12, 2026): Challenges violent tactics like tear gas use, warrantless detentions, and targeting sensitive locations; seeks prohibitions on enforcement practices

I wouldn't say the US is "nowhere close", recognizing that "getting close" is not the same as "happening", and recognizing that "revolution" and "civil war" are not the only possible terms, and that it is a matter of degree.
by necovek | 2026-01-13 19:14:58+00:00
Isn't this obvious?

Yes, per-adult, multi-generation family homes are even more cost-effective than for couples (even accounting for smaller pensions compared to salaries), and both are more cost-effective compared to singles.

Apart from growing prices, my experience (not in Canada though) is that living spaces are growing too, as we are not satisfied to live in the same cramped 20m2 studio as singles were 30 or 50 years ago.
by ebbi | 2026-01-13 19:15:02+00:00
I won't continue, but it's great you clearly highlight your hypocrisy, and proves my thoughts on how people in the West get so easily led by their governments and media.

"no need for me to do so" or because you just can't? I'm not waiting for an answer. Just ask yourself that. Because at the moment, your methodology doesn't seem to be truth seeking.
by gz09 | 2026-01-13 19:15:34+00:00
> It's pretty clear that the security models that were design into operating systems never truly considered networked systems

Andrew Tanenbaum developed the Amoeba operating system with those requirements in mind almost 40 years ago. There were plenty of others that did propose similar systems in the systems research community. It's not that we don't know how to do it just that the OS's that became mainstream didn't want to/need to/consider those requirements necessary/<insert any other potential reason I forgot>.
by aiauthoritydev | 2026-01-13 19:15:54+00:00
I am not a lawyer. But OF models using O1 visa is totally fine. It is the intended purpose. The visa itself is meant for researchers, scholars who have job offers, athletes, actors etc. it has no cap and clear criteria. OF models who make a lot of money should totally qualify for this.

Also this visa in uncapped so giving visas to OF models does not take away anything from scientists and others.

O visa's original intent was to help pretty ladies from Eastern Europe to be brought into the country as indentured workers. That is why it is so easy to get this visa for an actor or a fashion model but very tough to get someone for their research.

So all this is working as intended.
by hmokiguess | 2026-01-13 19:16:12+00:00
I would have no problem with that. I wouldn't maybe call the AI an artist though, it wouldn't have sentient knowledge to be an artist. It would be art made by a machine. In fact, we have several of those examples already, and there's lots there are really fun and appreciated out there. This new one just happens to be quite more complex and eerie to digest at first.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-13 19:16:21+00:00
What's silly about it? I am neither unnatural nor supernatural, and my nature is who I am.

>But that doesn't mean we should embrace them or proudly wear them as a badge.

Maybe. But it also means that I shouldn't be ashamed of them or try to suppress myself into neuroticism. And since the left has made a point of that for decades now, has tried to bully people into doing just that, the pendulum was primed to swing the other way. So yeh, I think I will be proud. It feels good.

>Violence is entirely natural.

It is, but also something to be avoided unless there is no other reasonable option. I would recommend not trying to drive an SUV over the top of me. That's caused some strife recently. I can remain nonviolent indefinitely.
by volkk | 2026-01-13 19:16:22+00:00
I don't believe the rigidity of the comparisons matter within the broad context of my point. Regardless of whether OP didn't directly compare pro soccer to OF, the point is that allowing the degradation of expectations of Visas will only incentivize low effort crap. And yes, one can sit here and argue all day that OF fans, or TikTok creators are the same thing as Victorias secret models or Cinematic actors (and I would argue that's far from true) but I think most of us can all feel societal erosion happening and the decline of average IQs and the fact that a huge generation of growing young adults can barely read. Let's not pretend this has nothing to do with multiple epidemics like porn addiction, gambling, and general disregard of trying to better yourself because 90% of people are using 80% of their days staring at said TikTok creators
by tptacek | 2026-01-13 19:16:25+00:00
I don't even understand the point of writing something like this. Did you think you were going to call me names and I was just going to internalize that and shrivel up? I disagree with what you're saying. I do not find you persuasive. If the existence of people who disagree with you is that destabilizing, I think you have some soul-searching to do.

On the other hand, if the reason you're engaging on HN is to evangelize a particular geopolitical position, I can imagine disagreement is more problematic, but you should know that's an abuse of the site.
by danaris | 2026-01-13 19:16:39+00:00
These things are not equivalent.

This is really not that far off from the argument that "well, people make mistakes a lot, too, so really, LLMs are just like people, and they're probably conscious too!"

Yes, doctors make mistakes. Yes, some doctors make a lot of mistakes. Yes, some patients get misdiagnosed a bunch (because they have something unusual, or because they are a member of a group—like women, people of color, overweight people, or some combination—that American doctors have a tendency to disbelieve).

None of that means that it's a good idea to replace those human doctors with LLMs that can make up brand-new diseases that don't exist occasionally.
by niemandhier | 2026-01-13 19:16:41+00:00
The parent comment is provocative and impolite, so you are right to refute it.

On the other hand, I’d like to point out that few countries have foreign policies as obsessed with Illinois as the US government is with Iran.

The average person probably also has no political opinion on Illinois or their governments policy with respect to Illinois, something which I would assume to be different with respect to Iran in the US.
by stevetron | 2026-01-13 19:16:44+00:00
That's how I did it in GradSchool. I took over the web page another student started for the grad-level algorithms class I was taking. The student who started it discovered he had volunteered for too many things. I jumped on it when they needed to change because I needed the extra credit.

Armed with a CD copy of the web site, I moved it over to my hosted space. I setup password-access, and setup the syuidy group, and from there on, I frequently put in one-liner paragraphs from the professor, she sometimes managed to get them to me soon enough that I could put them in before class started that day.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-13 19:16:55+00:00
Cool way to self-host archives.

What I'd really like is a plugin that automatically pulls from archives somewhere and replaces deleted comments and those bot-overwritten comments with the original context.

Reddit is becoming maddening to use because half the old links I click have comments overwritten with garbage out of protest for something. Ironically the original content is available in these archives (which are used for AI training) but now missing for actual users like me just trying to figure out how someone fixed their printer driver 2 years ago.
by newman8r | 2026-01-13 19:17:08+00:00
If I have an exact idea of what I want something to sound like, and I'm able to use an automated system to create that, is that creative expression? Obviously AI isn't entirely capable of that, but eventually with BCI devices it might be.

I've spent many hours learning to play guitar and ukulele but I'm really not very good, and probably never will be - but I can hear the music in my head I want to create. I'm not interested in monetary gain at all, just being able to hear it for real and maybe share it with some people.
by armchairhacker | 2026-01-13 19:17:20+00:00
The ones protesting for a regime change.

It will inevitably involve foreign intervention, which tends to work out badly. But I don't accept the alternative, that keeping a suppressive and violent regime is the best case. And I'd rather have the least amount of intervention possible, I don't even intrinsically care about breaking the regime; I want to directly support the protestors as much as possible.
by bbor | 2026-01-13 19:17:31+00:00
Wow, I didn't know you got a spot on the board, that's a great choice on their part! Thanks for giving your time.

Yes, I was talking about Wages -- the day-to-day is surely complex, but I'm sure you'd agree that the president of the board is ultimately "above" the chief executive if push ever came to shove, at least on paper. I will grant that I used "running", which is quite unclear in hindsight! "Responsible for" or "leading" seems more accurate.

She seemed great as policymaker and person, but when I last checked her job was literally to be Microsoft's Python community liason, and that just struck me as... dangerous? On the nose? Giving the reigns to someone from a for-profit, $1.5B corporation whose entire business depends directly upon the PSF's work also seems like an odd choice. Again, I'm sure they're great as an individual, and during normal operations there's no competing interests so it's fine. It's just...

I guess I just have a vision for the non-profit org guiding the world's most popular programming language that doesn't really mesh with the reality of open source funding as it exists today, at the end of the day; the "no 2 representatives from the same company" rule seems like a comforting sign that they(/y'all!) share that general philosophy despite the circumstances.
by bdavisx | 2026-01-13 19:17:37+00:00
>It's much easier to successfully bribe/coerce/undermine a single individual running an independent newsletter like this than it is an entire newsroom.

Except the problem in the US now is that newspapers are owned by corporations that own a bunch of newspapers, or very rich individuals/families - and a single individual can dictate what an entire newsroom says.

I don't see much of a difference when it comes to corruptibility.
by coronapl | 2026-01-13 19:18:15+00:00
I'm glad to see useful features like easily adding userId and sessionId to logs. That said, I wish it wasn't limited to just these properties. From my experience building enterprise SaaS, you need more metadata for proper filtering: tenantId, operation, and others. With Winston, I typically create child logger instances and pass them around to ensure all logs contain the right metadata, but that workflow is pretty annoying.

Quick question out of curiosity: why does the example include an API key when initializing the logger? I couldn't find an explanation on the GitHub page. Some people might be put off seeing that in the first example, thinking the logger requires a paid subscription.
by shawnz | 2026-01-13 19:18:22+00:00
I don't agree that this is end to end encrypted. For example, a compromise of the TEE would mean your data is exposed. In a truly end to end encrypted system, I wouldn't expect a server side compromise to be able to expose my data.

This is similar to the weasely language Google is now using with the Magic Cue feature ever since Android 16 QPR 1. When it launched, it was local only -- now it's local and in the cloud "with attestation". I don't like this trend and I don't think I'll be using such products
by steve1977 | 2026-01-13 19:19:31+00:00
My point was more that creators will often use more than one tool.

I know Logic is widespread amongst beat producers and songwriters, especially in the US. But you will also often see tracks getting produced on Logic but the final mix then happens on Pro Tools (by professional mixing engineers).

But that's why I explicitly mentioned Logic, I think it's the one pro app from Apple that still deserves the moniker, at least in regards to where it is used. The video stuff not so much anymore.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-13 19:19:47+00:00
Learning to appreciate someone's art while disagreeing with their politics is a rite of passage in the age of the internet.

There are a few artists whose output I can't even enjoy any more because their vitriol became so out of control that I couldn't see their work without thinking of their awfulness, though. (Note: I'm not talking about Scott Adams. I'm honestly not that familiar with his later life social media)
by rekabis | 2026-01-13 19:20:02+00:00
I would still do a job, but it would be something that is important to me.

And $10M would require some up-front management and ongoing maintenance to develop an index-tracked revenue stream from it. I mean, aside from an initial disbursement meant to wipe out harmful debts and get a few small toys, the vast majority of that $10M would go towards being productive revenue-generating assets. No, not from the backs of other members of the working class like rental homes, but via stocks that generate dividends.

For one, I would likely adopt one or more open-source projects that have people struggling to be maintainers, and to fund them in some manner via the dividend income. Kind of like a “you no longer have to worry about food and shelter needs anymore” type of support.

It’s not like I would be able to support oodles of projects like this, but a choice project or three that is vital to the entire tech ecosystem and which desperately needs to remain independent of corporate influence… yeah. I already know of a few.
by xxpor | 2026-01-13 19:20:09+00:00
Unfortunately a video but this covers it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aH3ZTTkGAs It talks about the meme about "pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand, sold in the US"

Gemini's summary about the shipping CO2 sections:

Shipping accounts for 80% of all international transport but only 37% of transport's carbon emissions (9:13 - 9:18).

Road transport is highlighted as the "King of pollution," making up less than 10% of international transport but over half of emissions (9:26 - 9:32).

Ferrying pears across the Earth is actually less carbon intensive than driving them in a truck to a packing plant across one's own country (9:48 - 9:52).

All international shipping combined is responsible for only 2.5% of global emissions (9:58 - 10:15).
by hatmanstack | 2026-01-13 19:20:20+00:00
I've always been a Dilbert fan, didn't get to any of his books until later. I think Scott was someone unafraid to share his thoughts, unfiltered.

They were valuable to me because it gave me perspective on a way of thinking I would never have considered. I disagreed with the majority, but some had the subtle beginnings of truth that helped to expand my world view.

I'm grateful he was part of the world, and will miss his comedy.
by encom | 2026-01-13 19:20:24+00:00
As a former Firefox user, I got fed up with the constant change for the sake of change. Why change the tabs? They were fine the way they were. People got mad about the addon situation since it broke their workflows because of vague technical reasons. And Mozilla usually ignored user protests while pointing at telemetry, and did whatever they wanted to, users be damned.

At least that's how it looked from this side. I switched to Vivaldi some 4-5 years ago, and it looks and works pretty much the same since I started using it. New features and changes have happened, but they've been able to be ignored/disabled/hidden without doing CSS brain surgery.

If/when the Google Adblockerblocker changes trickles down to Vivaldi I may have to crawl back to Firefox, but I dread the prospect.
by csours | 2026-01-13 19:20:25+00:00
I feel like there's a difference between AI used as a tool and AI used to make slop. Also, most AI music has weird noise in it that drives me insane.

I have to imagine* that we will figure out what that difference is, but it will be difficult and costly.

* I have to imagine that or else I will lose all hope in the future.
by svat | 2026-01-13 19:20:28+00:00
“Ignoring” is not the same as “noticing”; the difference is right there in the words!

You are right that it is undesirable to be a slave to one's emotions, to keep having emotional outbursts or “expressing” all emotions impulsively. But at the other extreme if you try to address this by building a habit of dissociation and “ignoring” your feelings (as you propose), that is also not good, and not how Stoicism or meditation address it. (To use an analogy: it would be bad for a parent to be a slave to their children, or for a charioteer to be led by their horses instead of controlling them. But ignoring them isn't great either!)

Stoicism addresses this preemptively, building a practice of having a proportionate response to things outside our control. Meditation also addresses this by, as you said, noticing emotions when they arise, recognizing them for what they are (creating some distance), and letting them pass instead of indulging them. Ignoring your emotions or letting them burst out are both different from letting them pass/seeing them through.
by Grosvenor | 2026-01-13 19:20:50+00:00
Oh I think you may be right here. I was thinking originally 2000/onyx 2 which were basically the same system just with or without graphics pipes.

And you’re right origin had three models (maybe more) a tower system (o200), a deskside system (same as onyx2) and a rack (same as onyx2).

For Indy impact so you mean the teal/purple indigo2? Weirdly the teal desktop was named indigo2..

Weird but cool stuff.
by ebbi | 2026-01-13 19:21:02+00:00
Do you have a source for these counter protests being organized and dictated by IRGC?

I agree with your other points. This current regime has degraded Iran to very unfortunate levels.

I really hope for a regime change for Iran, I sincerely do. The only reason I'm being quite particular about sources and facts is that I just don't want to see another Iraq and Afghanistan where the regime change causes more deaths, and then it leaves a power vacuum for all sorts of other violence and degradation.