MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akst | 2026-01-17 15:16:30+00:00
Idk if this how it came off but just tbc my point also wasn’t indirectly promoting traditional media.

I think a lot if ppl are rightly sceptical of traditional media, but I feel I see more people giving Wikipedia a pass or placing it on a higher pedestal as a resource than it should be at times.

Admittedly I think I would prefer Wikipedia to traditional media in most cases. Although that wasn’t really what I was getting at
by mhb | 2026-01-17 15:16:33+00:00
" Internet disruptions, bandwidth throttling during crackdowns, and infiltration of online networks have been reported again and again, including in the current protest wave. This can seem like an unglamorous and technical contribution, but it’s fundamental. Connectivity is everything. Iranians don’t need Westerners to give speeches or deploy armadas of clever new hashtags on X. They need the ability to talk to each other; circumvention tools; mirror networks; VPN access; satellite connectivity; rapid response support when shutdowns happen."
by eastbound | 2026-01-17 15:16:55+00:00
You’re talking about VC startups.

I disagree with the sour mindset, as I don’t feel those games were necessary for my startup, although I admit mine was bootstrapped (0$), and didn’t grow as far as the others, it still made me millionaire, has paid my employees a high-than-average salary and has the potential of adding them a few hundred thousands each.

I admit the old market (do web apps to manage records! or notes!) is saturated but the IA market is brand new and fresh open.
by solatic | 2026-01-17 15:18:12+00:00
Yeah but that's kinda my point. OK you can write policy to control the Kubernetes configuration with CUE. What about policy to control the Dockerfile, let alone the policy to control the cloud infrastructure? No? So the Security folk writing policy need to learn two languages - one for general-purpose policy, plus CUE specifically for Kubernetes manifests? Why not write the policy for Kubernetes manifests in the general-purpose language they're using for the rest of the policy? And so on and so forth, which make CUE's value proposition dubious in the enterprise.
by michaelbuckbee | 2026-01-17 15:18:52+00:00
I have two kids (sophmore in HS and a middle schooler) and in both their individual studies and when I'm helping them with homework we use AI pretty extensively now.

The one off stuff is mostly taking a picture of a math problem and asking it to walk step by step through the process. In particular this has been helpful to me as the processes and techniques have changed.

It's been useful in foreign languages as well to rapidly check work, and make corrections.

On the generative side it's fantastic for things like: give me 3 more math problems similar to this one or for generating worksheets and study guides.

As far as technological adoption goes, it's 100% that every kid knows what ChatGPT is (even maybe more than just "AI" in general). There's some very mixed feelings from the kids with it: my middle schooler was pretty creeped out by the ChatGPT voice interface for example.
by krapp | 2026-01-17 15:19:11+00:00
That just means the people flagging politics are biased and inconsistent, not that people don't flag politics.

We know they do. Numerous people have stated outright that they flag every thread they consider political, because they consider all political content to be off topic, and that they intend to continue doing so. And Hacker News is designed so that it only takes a few flags to apply to a thread.

But since you know seem to better, do please enlighten us all on the real answer.
by alibarber | 2026-01-17 15:19:34+00:00
Well, not for public bodies at least: “ Administrative fines cannot be imposed on public organisations, such as the government or state-owned companies, municipalities and parishes” [1]

But luckily this sort of thing never happens in the public sector. Except for when it does: https://yle.fi/a/74-20094950

[1] https://tietosuoja.fi/en/corrective-powers
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-01-17 15:19:43+00:00
There's quite some more of the kind, and of about that time.. 80ies-90-ies.

Like the 3 levels of audience (known for milennia as shu-ha-ri):

https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreeLevelsOfAudience

and 4 levels of knowledge:

https://wiki.c2.com/?FourLevelsOfCompetence

or this from Dijkstra, 1989:

Surely, our computers would unscramble all the secret code of all our enemies and guide our missiles with unfailing precision right on their targets. Robots would take over the tedium of production, guaranteeing a positive balance of trade for all nations. Office automation would multiply the productivity of the white-collar worker, information systems would enable management to avoid waste and to make the right strategic decisions, and finally, the giant brains would not only relieve us from the tedium but also from the obligation to think about hard problems and from the painful responsibility to take difficult decisions. In short: computers were tolerated because they promised a well protected and prosperous paradise for the lazy, the incompetent, and the cowardly.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD104...
by AshKaashh | 2026-01-17 15:20:07+00:00
i'd say yes but if you're concerned of people being able to access it then you might consider giving this article a read - https://medium.com/@robertwiblin/google-photo-is-making-your...

quite unrelated but did you ever get around this your reddit issue here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624367#43624544
by uep | 2026-01-17 15:20:42+00:00
> What is interesting that while 'Dilbert empire' fell in the process for not accepting white inferiority, full blown resistance marketing market is taking ( or maybe has taken already ) shape fueled largely by highly polarized populace.

I must be daft. There must be some cultural context I'm missing so that I don't even understand what you're saying. Accepting white inferiority? Full blown resistance marketing market? Huh?
by briHass | 2026-01-17 15:20:43+00:00
Labor for anything is expensive in the US.

Parts/materials costs in contractor quotes are often padded so they aren't completely overshadowed by the labor portion. In any job where there's specialized knowledge or license restrictions (HVAC) or risk (walking on a roof), the floor for labor rates is usually 2-4x the materials cost.

But, the real issue is that almost nobody pays cash upfront for their solar install. Between incentives, loans, and/or predatory PPAs, the prices lose touch with reality. See healthcare, college tuition, housing prices, etc. for similar scenarios where credit or third-parties distort the market.
by latexr | 2026-01-17 15:21:27+00:00
I would expect it to be obvious that caring about making money above fixing a problem means the problem won’t be solved that well compared to the alternative.

Are you really going to claim you never encountered a startup that is obviously shitting on customers and degrading the experience to make a buck? Do you honestly believe all startups are created to solve a problem (the original claim I responded to) and none are created with the intent of being the next “unicorn” to make the founders rich? If that is the case, search the term “enshittification”. Surely you’ll have encountered it by now. Pick whatever example helps you understand the point.
by onesociety2022 | 2026-01-17 15:22:08+00:00
This is such a weird take - why do you have to personally use something for that to be useful? I could be at AWS working on their metering/billing system. I’d never use a billing system of that scale in personal life but that doesn’t mean it’s not a useful thing to build. And I think AWS as a whole is a very useful product for the world.

Working to make your home more efficient is not going to suddenly make anyone retire early. That’s the stupidest take I have heard. If you have some cool idea which makes home energy usage lower like a revolutionary heat pump, you should build your own company and sell that to everyone and scale up. You sound like a FatFIRE person that has quit professional life and is now trying to justify why sitting at home and helping your family members is a virtuous thing to do as opposed to working for some BigTech.

A lot of the danger with BigTech is just the fact they are very big and so have accrued a lot of power. A simple solution is to use the anti-trust laws to break them up into smaller entities. I don’t think the problem is the products/services they build.
by matthewsinclair | 2026-01-17 15:23:05+00:00
Is “software startup” the right term? I understand that you might want to “use software” in the startup but surely, in the most successful startups, the thing that makes them successful is that they solve a real problem, that real people/businesses have, and are prepared to “pay” [1] you to solve for them.

If the startup is just “software for the sake of software” then I think that’s a different thing entirely. And to be fair, sometimes software for the sake of it is more like art or fun. And it’s true, sometimes something wonderful comes out of that. Sometimes. :)

[1]: Obviously “pay” can mean _very_ different things in different contexts.
by swiftcoder | 2026-01-17 15:23:22+00:00
Big companies are not your worry in most cases. They have so much bureaucracy and internal politics that it's often cheaper for them to buy out the up-and-coming startups than it is to build in-house.

Instead, if you achieve success without much of a moat, you will be cloned by one of the "App Store mills". These are companies who employ multiple small teams (think 3-4 people), and each team is charged with cloning one of the most popular apps - they have really abbreviated development cycles, on the order of 6 weeks, and they just keep churning till they've drowned every app on the leaderboard in clones. And because they are astroturfing the whole space, they don't actually need most of these clones to be individually profitable.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-17 15:23:22+00:00
> Wow, I would expect there would at least be a single mention of "born Dagny Benedict" somewhere at the beginning of the background section as is typical in other pages. If this is intentional, to omit this entirely seems like it unnecessarily politicizes the issue rather than documenting the history of a person.

It's all very 1984-esque; I'm seeing shades of "We were never/always at war with Oceania/Eurasia".

This is revisionist history, and the scrubbing of previously correct but now incorrect "history" should be viewed with suspicion.

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The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth.
by greenacred | 2026-01-17 15:24:29+00:00
> Considering there is very little moat left in software and big companies can copy your product in no time?

Whenever you have doubts about your ability to do something enough to ask for advice from random people you don’t know, and if that thing is unnecessary and will be significantly difficult, like a startup that is just some option for you to work on, the answer is probably no.

You have to feel the true desire to make something happen because you must. Anything other than that is probably a bad idea.
by Ericson2314 | 2026-01-17 15:24:34+00:00
This is why I think the maximally from source bootstrap that Guix did, and that Nixpkgs is about to do too https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479322 is so important.

These bootstraps essentially speedrun software history, and so they tell us a lot about how we got here, and why we write the things we write. But they also create perfect game to weite greenfield alternative bootstraps. The shortest, most readable bootstrap, is proof of the best abstractions, the best way of doing things.

It's a chance to finally put the sort of software stack / tech tree stuff on a more apples-to-apples basis.
by 9rx | 2026-01-17 15:24:53+00:00
If, knowing what you know now, you could go back in time and be the one to create Slack would you not do it? Even if everyone is using Teams now (they're not), it took a really long time to show up that Slack's founders were able to capitalize on.

The change in the software landscape today is the apparent ability to develop a competitor faster thanks to LLMs. But, as the parent points out, the bottleneck was never code writing. It was waiting on the people involved to get past their egos. LLMs have done nothing to change that.
by tmtvl | 2026-01-17 15:25:06+00:00
I like being able to work at the office because then I don't have to pay for electricity and internet, although commuting is bad for my ecological footprint.

I will never support forcing RTO on people who prefer WFH, nor the opposite (unless dire circumstances mandate it, like a pandemic or other natural disaster).

I can tolerate open offices, but prefer plans with private spaces which make it easier to go into and maintain full focus mode.

I've never done pair programming, but I imagine I would like it, if me and my colleague use my computer (set up how I like it, Dvorak layout and everything) for my part of the programming and we switch to my colleague's computer when it's their turn.
by zzzeek | 2026-01-17 15:25:32+00:00
there are two facets to "is rationalism good".

one is, "is there a rational description of the universe, the world, humanity, etc.". Some people think there isn't, but I would like to think that the universe does conform to some rational system.

the other, and important one is, "do humans have the capability to acquire and fully model this rational system in their own minds" and I don't think that's a given. the human brain is just an artifact of an evolutionary system that only implies that its owners can survive and persist on the earth as it happens to exist in the current 50K year period it occurs in. It's not clear that humans have even slight ability to be perfectly rational analytic engines, as opposed to unique animals responding to desires and fears. this is why it's so silly when "rationalists" try to appear as so above all the other lowly humans, as though escaping human nature is even an option.
by el_pa_b | 2026-01-17 15:25:36+00:00
Yes there is a requirement to work with the vendor format. For instance, TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas - a large dataset of 12k+ human tumor cases) has mostly .svs files (scanned with an Aperio scanner). We tend to work with these formats as they contain all the metadata we need.

Sometimes, it happens that we re-write the image in a pyramidal TIFF format (happened to me a few times, where NDPI images had only the highest resolution level, no pyramid), in which case COGs could work.
by tristenharr | 2026-01-17 15:25:51+00:00
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by TrajansRow | 2026-01-17 15:26:00+00:00
My experience is quite a bit different than what the author is citing. I live just outside of Minneapolis, and have a bunch of friends who live in the city. I have never heard anyone express concern about what ICE is doing. The biggest worries are around commute disruptions due to protesters. It might be because this is a self-selected circle of white collar types, but I can say the report in this story is not universal.
by nkrisc | 2026-01-17 15:26:01+00:00
I will concede, proactively, that "up to" could refer to some maximum possible bound, even if the current set doesn't include a value at that bound, though I would argue that's likely deceptive wording. For example, you could say that each carton of of eggs on a pallet contains up to 12 eggs, because that's the maximum capacity of the carton, even if none of the actual cartons on this pallet actually have 12 eggs in them.
Show HN: Video-to-Grid – Analyze videos with one Vision API call
by haasiy | 2026-01-17 15:26:05+00:00
What if you could show an AI your entire video in one image?

This turns a video into a 2D thumbnail grid—like a contact sheet. 48 frames, one image, full video context. Built on VAM Seek, a thumbnail grid I made for human video navigation. Turns out the same format works for AI too.

Prototype. Feedback welcome.
by OutOfHere | 2026-01-17 15:26:25+00:00
It used to be that tech workers were utopian, but now a good half of them, including on this site, are plain fascists. This site is not a utopian dream.

ICE is an extremely unprofessional agency and has no business existing at all in its current form. Abductions of citizens by ICE is real and it crosses a line.
by senko | 2026-01-17 15:26:31+00:00
Had a few Xiaomis and a few Pixels (9a now). Pixels are better, but more expensive.

Xiaomi bangs/buck was pretty good. Lately they've been upping the price so nowadays they're not clearly the budget option, but a few years ago they were (at least in my part of the world) the best in their price segments.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-17 15:26:31+00:00
The problem is that both constructive logic and "normal" logic are part of the training data. You might be able to say "using constructive logic, prove X". But even that depends on none of the non-constructive training data "leaking" into the part of the model that it uses for answering such a query. I don't think LLMs have hard partitions like that, so you may not get a purely constructive proof even if that's what you ask for. Worse, the non-constructive part may be not obvious.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-17 15:27:24+00:00
It’s true that they don’t send their best

Between US pilots having to lie about their mental health and then having average pay far lower than people who use Claude code daily, they really aren’t sending their best.

Unironically whatever you think pilot training involves, we should probably double it. This would be extra good as raising the prices of flights will make fewer people fly. Far too many people right at this moment who shouldn’t be flying are flying.

If we could finish by forcing all airline seats to be at business class quality (thus average flight ticket costs are about 2X now as economics of scale kick in), than flying would become a humane practice rather than war crimes in the sky.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-17 15:27:26+00:00
Then read further

The White House is seeking caps on the amount existing power plants can charge in the PJM capacity market.

The agreement would also require data centers to pay for the new generation built on their behalf – whether they show up and use the power or not - rather than buying up existing power. The concept is called BYOG, or "bring your own generation."
by mistersquid | 2026-01-17 15:27:36+00:00
> Apparently, rationalism isn't obviously correct. Unfortunately, I don't really have enough of a background in philosophy to really understand how this follows, but looking at how the world actually works, I don't struggle to believe that most people (certainly many decision makers) don't actually regard rationality as highly as other things, like tradition.

Other areas of human experience reveal the limits of rationality. In romantic love, for example, reason and rationality are rarely pathways to what is "obviously correct".

Rationality is one mode of human experience among many and has value in some areas more than others.
by Tomte | 2026-01-17 15:28:29+00:00
It reads a bit like my current position after two decades of on-and-off-GTD and ~three years of PARA: the project/area/resource distinction is practical, but not earth-shattering.

But what‘s really working is GTD, which the article doesn‘t call out, but implicitly lumps together with PARA: actionable next tasks and collecting everything in some kind of inbox.

I haven‘t found much use for PARA itself in my personal life, but for organizing my work OneDrive it shines.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-17 15:28:37+00:00
> those fully-paid-up members of the "AI revolution" cult

Ah ok, so an overly simplistic tribal take by someone with a clear axe to grind and no desire to consider any nuance. Anyone who disagrees with his take -- regardless of their actual positions on various AI-related topics -- is "fully-paid-up" and in a "cult". Is it so hard to consider the _possibility_ that Salesforce making a bad AI rollout doesn't imply the whole industry is doing the same thing? This doesn't completely ignore how varied real deployments are and how messy the reporting around them tends to be?

Overhyped claims abound -- Cursor, Google tweets about math problems being solved, agents cheating in SWEBench because they didn't sanitize git logs, etc. Some of it is careless, some probably dishonest, but the incentives cut both ways. When claims get debunked (e.g., the LMSYS/LMArena confusion around Llama 4 results), the reputational damage is immediate and brutal. No one benefits from making these bad claims that are easy to fact check, no one ever wants to do this. Lots of different stances and claims about how _close we are_ to various capabilities can easily be considered misleading -- fine! But you're going to completely ignore actual measured progress? The accomplishments that are defensible? The industry analysis that is careful and well thought out (see e.g. Epoch)?

> this dramatic deployment, followed by a rapid walk back, is happening across the entire economy.

Which companies? What deployments? Zero concrete cases. Firms make bad calls about AI for the same reason they make bad calls about M&A, pricing, org design; leadership everywhere constantly misjudge reality...will be true until the end of time... Pretty big leap to conclude this implies systemic delusion and anyone detracting is in a cult.

Yet another completely ignored core issue is how distorted the coverage of these things are. I read everything about the company I work for, stories routinely flatten nuanced, defensible, even boring decisions into morality plays because that's far more readable and engaging. Benioff could easily be overselling ordinary layoffs as AI transformation, it gives cover while also a great opportunity to make Salesforce look extremely competent (idiotic and has completely backfired). Yet none of that tells us what is actually happening operationally...
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-17 15:28:37+00:00
Most of the married women on Wikipedia didn't get the choice of keeping their own name, so we cannot really compare it to someone who changed their name.

Same for stage names, people don't use stage name because they want to escape their former name, they use stage names because it's cool.

And when people use a pseudonym and want to keep their real identity secret for personal reasons, their name doesn't appear on Wikipedia, and nobody is ever complaining about that! It's as if people were obsessed by trans people in particular…
by spwa4 | 2026-01-17 15:28:55+00:00
Even that is the wrong question. The whole promise of the stock market, of AI is that you can "run companies" by just owning shares and knowing nothing at all. I think that is what "leaders" hope to achieve. It's a slightly more dressed get-rich-quick scheme.

Invest $1000 into AI, have a $1000000 company in a month. That's the dream they're selling, at least until they have enough investment.

It of course becomes "oh, sorry, we happen to have taken the only huge business for ourselves. Is your kidney now for sale?"