MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by huntergemmer | 2026-01-21 18:30:04+00:00
Really appreciate you taking the time to look, Leon - uPlot has been a huge inspiration for proving that browser charts don't have to be slow.

Both points are fair:

1. LTTB peak elimination - you're right, and that PR is a great reference. For the 1M demo specifically, sampling is on by default to show the "it doesn't choke" story. Users can set sampling: 'none' for apples-to-apples comparison. I should probably add a toggle in the demo UI to make that clearer.

2. Idle CPU - good catch. Right now the render loop is probably ticking even when static. That's fixable - should be straightforward to only render on data change or interaction. Will look into it.

Would love your deeper dive feedback when you get to it. Always more to learn from someone who's thought about this problem as much as you have.
by grayhatter | 2026-01-21 18:30:18+00:00
> Cards on the table: this stuff saps the joy from something I loved doing, and turns me into a manager of robots.

Pick two non-trivial tasks where you feel you can make a half-reasonable estimate on the time it should take, then time yourself. I'd be willing to bet that you don't complete it significantly faster with AI. And if you're not faster using AI, maybe ignore it like I and many others. If you enjoy writing code, keep writing code, and ignore the people lying because they need to spread FUD so they can sell something.

> But I don't get to put this genie back in the bottle.

Sounds like you've already bought into the meme that AI is actually magical, and can do everything the hype train says. I'm unconvinced. Just because there's smoke coming from the bottle doesn't mean it's a genie. What's more likely, magic is real? Or someone's lying to sell something?
by hamdingers | 2026-01-21 18:30:53+00:00
Late reply but in case you come back to this, the thing that helped me out of clinical depression was 150mg of bupropion twice a day for a few years, then I was able to get out of bed reliably enough take up cycling.

If you feel you're clinically depressed get diagnosed and treated in a clinical setting ASAP. Diseases need treatment.
by stefan_ | 2026-01-21 18:31:24+00:00
As I understand it, you can not actually deploy a fTPM (in embedded and other scenarios) unless you run your own full PKI and have your CA signed off by Microsoft or some other TPM consortium member. So sure the code exists, but it's also just a dummy implementation, and for any embedded product that is not super cost conscious I will forever recommend to just buy the $1 chip, connect it via SPI and live happily ever after. Check the box, in embedded most non-technical people can't even begin to understand what FDE means anyway.

If you don't need the TPM checkbox, most vendors have simple signing fuses that are a lot easier than going fTPM.
by aroman | 2026-01-21 18:32:27+00:00
I don't understand what this is really about. Is this:

- A) legal CYA: "see! we told the models to be good, and we even asked nicely!"?

- B) marketing department rebrand of a system prompt

- C) a PR stunt to suggest that the models are way more human-like than they actually are

Really not sure what I'm even looking at. They say:

"The constitution is a crucial part of our model training process, and its content directly shapes Claude’s behavior"

And do not elaborate on that at all. How does it directly shape things more than me pasting it into CLAUDE.md?
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-21 18:32:48+00:00
>We treat the constitution as the final authority on how we want Claude to be and to behave—that is, any other training or instruction given to Claude should be consistent with both its letter and its underlying spirit. This makes publishing the constitution particularly important from a transparency perspective: it lets people understand which of Claude’s behaviors are intended versus unintended, to make informed choices, and to provide useful feedback. We think transparency of this kind will become ever more important as AIs start to exert more influence in society.

IDK, sounds pretty reasonable.
by eli | 2026-01-21 18:33:32+00:00
Seems like an open question as to whether that violates any laws.

Another way to look at it is that if you publish a service on the web, you have limited rights to restrict what people do with it.

Isn't that the logic Google search relies on in the first place? I didn't give permission for Google to crawl and index and deep link to my site (let alone summarize and train LLMs on it). They just did it anyway, because it's on a public website.
by linkregister | 2026-01-21 18:33:42+00:00
[American perspective] In February I looked toward Euro bond markets as a safe haven for increasing Treasury yields, but the choices did not look good. For starters it appears to be impossible to even trade in foreign bonds with traditional brokerage accounts in the United States (hosted by E-trade, Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab, etc).

Additionally, French bonds, while likely less-correlated with US Treasuries than other instruments, suffer from its own government having high debt levels; it's not a suitable safe-haven asset. Swiss and German bonds appear to be obvious alternatives. However, Swiss and German bonds' interest rates are low and in practice are little different than holding cash.

While gold appreciated in the short term, it is not simply inversely correlated with the value of the US Dollar. Its volatility is also driven by investors mitigating strict currency controls, mining productivity, and central bank activity. An unrelated downturn in one market could lead to a sell-off and wipe out gains. Gold also has no yield. Personally I think it's useful only in its physical form as a hedge for medium-term catastrophic events. Even then, a stockpile of food and clean water is likely far more valuable, if not substantially more difficult to store and maintain.

I ended up giving up, learning to love the S&P 500, and white-knuckling it ahead. Of the investable markets, the US one still generates the highest returns. (Chinese GDP growth is higher but its equities have low returns compared with other markets, due to political risk.)
by kyboren | 2026-01-21 18:33:59+00:00
You are right, it is a global coordination problem. There are two moves: Cooperate (i.e. reduce your CO2 emissions) or Defect (burn baby, burn).

Obviously there are many global actors but we can model it simply as a two-player game: Europe and the-Rest-of-the-World.

Its economic payoff matrix looks something like (oversimplified and with direction only; scale appropriately):

v Europe/RoW --> Cooperate Defect
|-----------------------------------------|
| Cooperate | (0,0) | (-1,0) |
|----------------+-------------+----------|
| Defect | (0,-1) | (-1,-1) |
|-----------------------------------------|

If Europe cooperates and the RoW cooperates, nobody gains a relative economic advantage and our world doesn't burn.

If Europe cooperates and the RoW defects, Europe loses relative economic advantage and our world still burns.

If Europe defects and RoW cooperates, Europe gains relative economic advantage and our world (maybe) still burns.

If Europe defects and RoW defects, nobody gains an economic advantage and our world burns to a RCP8.5 crisp.

Obviously the preferred siutation is everybody cooperating so our world doesn't burn and nobody gains or loses an economic advantage. But the Schelling point is everybody defecting and burning our world to a crisp.

Everyone ought to push for global cooperation; we've all gotta live here and it'd be nice not to burn our only planet. But if Europe cooperates while the rest of the world defects (i.e. the current situation today), you're an idiot.
by nine_k | 2026-01-21 18:34:06+00:00
"Customary units" are a varied bunch.

The inch-foot-yard-mile scale are not uniform, and not easy to calculate. Their only convenience is easy divisibility by 3. The practical example of uniform scale of this kind is seconds-minutes-hours, which, I suppose, go all the way down to the Sumerian 60-based scale. The mm-cm-m-km are much easier in practice.

Sub-inch units are an honest binary system, and as such is pretty practical. The fact that it's written as a ratio of decimal numbers is sometimes unhelpful though, comparing 7/16" and 1/2" takes either mental gymnastics or memorization. Millimeters are somehow more convenient here, but not by such a large margin as with inch-foot-yard scale.

The Fahrenheit scale is uselessly arbitrary; 0°F does not match anything useful, and 100°F is not that useful either.

The only mile that makes sense is the nautical mile, 1 nm matches 1" of arc on the map / globe, the same way as 1 km is 1/40,000th of the arc.
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-21 18:34:09+00:00
>We use the constitution at various stages of the training process. This has grown out of training techniques we’ve been using since 2023, when we first began training Claude models using Constitutional AI. Our approach has evolved significantly since then, and the new constitution plays an even more central role in training.

>Claude itself also uses the constitution to construct many kinds of synthetic training data, including data that helps it learn and understand the constitution, conversations where the constitution might be relevant, responses that are in line with its values, and rankings of possible responses. All of these can be used to train future versions of Claude to become the kind of entity the constitution describes. This practical function has shaped how we’ve written the constitution: it needs to work both as a statement of abstract ideals and a useful artifact for training.

>We use the constitution at various stages of the training process. This has grown out of training techniques we’ve been using since 2023, when we first began training Claude models using Constitutional AI. Our approach has evolved significantly since then, and the new constitution plays an even more central role in training.

>Claude itself also uses the constitution to construct many kinds of synthetic training data, including data that helps it learn and understand the constitution, conversations where the constitution might be relevant, responses that are in line with its values, and rankings of possible responses. All of these can be used to train future versions of Claude to become the kind of entity the constitution describes. This practical function has shaped how we’ve written the constitution: it needs to work both as a statement of abstract ideals and a useful artifact for training.

The linked paper on Constitutional AI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08073
by ghm2199 | 2026-01-21 18:34:10+00:00
> Building a comparable one from scratch is like building a parallel national railroad..

Not too be pedantic here but I do have a noob question or two here:

1. One is building the index, which is a lot harder without a google offering its own API to boot. If other tech companies really wanted to break this monopoly, why can't they just do it — like they did with LLM training for base models with the infamous "pile" dataset — because the upshot of offering this index for public good would break not just google's own monopoly but also other monopolies like android, which will introduce a breath of fresh air into a myriad of UX(mobile devices, browsers, maps, security). So, why don't they just do this already?

2. The other question is about "control", which the DoJ has provided guidance for but not yet enforced. IANAL, but why can't a state's attorney general enforce this?
by lithocarpus | 2026-01-21 18:34:25+00:00
If you have a fertile abundant landscape covered in old growth forests and marshes, and then cut all the forests, put roads everywhere, and plough up the marshes for farming, the landscape then holds a lot less water and the weather becomes less stable, which can exacerbate natural fluctuations in rainfall and temperature making droughts more common and more severe.

This is effectively what happened to large parts of the middle east that were once fertile and lush. It's a trend all over the world really.

There are many ways humans can work the opposite direction to increase the ability of the land to stabilize the weather and increase hydrological robustness to mitigate droughts, e.g. regenerative agriculture or projects in asia and africa to green the desert, I don't know enough about them but it's a good idea and I hope it's executed well.
by acdha | 2026-01-21 18:34:26+00:00
I wouldn’t see it as having a “right” to a business model but more like an accelerated tragedy of the commons. LLMs can’t reason but they can chip away at the easiest parts of the job, which is great initially if you can take advantage of that but it means fewer people will put free things in the commons or develop the skills needed to do what LLMs fail at. This feels like the way bars changed their “free lunch” specials a century ago to prevent people from costing them money: nobody has a right to it, etc. but the free loader problem leads to something many people like going away.
by neciudan | 2026-01-21 18:34:28+00:00
I just released an interview with Daniel Roe (Nuxt Core team lead at Vercel) and thought folks here might find it interesting.

We talked about:

*His journey into Vue*
- Started in the Laravel world (shoutout to Laracasts)
- Moved from WordPress to Laravel to Vue/Nuxt
- Went from being a Nuxt user → contributor → core team lead

*On building frameworks and DX*
- Why being your own target audience makes you a better framework developer
- The importance of staying connected to actual user pain points
- How he debugs: "You don't start with knowledge of everything. You start with just a clue."

*Nuxt best practices and technical deep dives*
- Rendering strategies: "Always go for static rendering if you can"
- Common mistakes teams make with SSR vs ISR
- The new Nitro 3 server engine (insanely fast, web API based)
- Moving to Vite environment API – from 3 dev servers to 1
- How the module ecosystem empowers the community

*On contributing to open source*
- "Contributing to open source is about joy and giving. Do it because you want to, not because you feel like you have to."
- No gatekeeping – issues, PRs, docs, Discord help all count
- He has an open calendar if anyone wants to chat about contributing

Some interesting quotes:
- "It's easier to be your own target audience"
- "A lot of framework development is about developer experience"
- "Modules empower the ecosystem to build things"

Full episode here:
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/WRcqhuTL6y4
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xTPxvS3WHjEkz16rSHj7I

Whether you're already building with Nuxt, considering it for a project, or just curious about framework design philosophy, thought this might be worth a listen.

Would love to hear your thoughts or answer any questions!
by jjmarr | 2026-01-21 18:34:49+00:00
The revealed preference of players is for terrible AI so games are easier. That's why AI has been going downhill.

Payday 2 is my favourite example since they've had a bug since Day 1 that lobotomizes the AI subsystem.

Specifically, there's a global cap of 1 action for all enemies per game tick, so when there's too many enemies the reaction time is 5 seconds.

The mod Full Speed Swarm fixes this bug and the game is unplayable without collaboration and a lot of skill.

It's also unnoticeable until you die or if you do a ton of research on the AI. I used to host pubs with the mod to troll other players who suddenly found the game impossible to play at lower difficulties.

I think it's possible we get an AI driven RTS but the demand is too small right now unless its a recruitment vehicle for the military.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-21 18:35:04+00:00
> Do you honestly notice the difference in comfort between 20°C and 20.5°C?

Yeah, it's noticeable. That 0.5C move is roughly a 1F move. And there's definitely a noticeable difference between 71F, 72F, and 73F.

But I'd say that it ultimately only matters in human comfort and only when you are talking about room temps. Once you get outside that 70->75 range the exactness starts mattering a lot less. 80 and 85 both feel hot. 65 and 60 both feel cold.
by staplung | 2026-01-21 18:35:30+00:00
Not really. The axis of the earth's rotation is not affected by plate tectonics and the star map is recording where the earth's northern axis is pointing as precession slowly moves it around a circle. The star map could certainly move around or get broken up by plate tectonics over that timescale but it's not really aligned with anything in a meaningful way so that doesn't matter.

The stars themselves will move - relative to us - and eventually some of them will disappear but nothing much is expected on that front for much longer than 10ky timeframes.
by ktm5j | 2026-01-21 18:35:45+00:00
It's close, but there are some missing pieces I think. The way it manages storage pools would fit your use case, if you import a zpool, for example, it will scan the datasets and can figure out what zvols should be attached to which VMs..

but there's also VM config info under `/etc/pve` or something similar. I'm pretty sure that's some kind of FUSE filesystem, it's supposed to be synchronized between cluster members.. you might be able to host that externally somehow. But that'll probably take some effort.

You'll also need to figure out how to configure `/etc/network/interfaces` on boot for your network config. But that's doable.

Would be pretty neat.
by SilentM68 | 2026-01-21 18:35:59+00:00
Semi-polished Response:
Oh, believe me, this very old but bored squishy human brain dreamed up the whole pigeon relay twist. Mr. AI just polished my prompt into coherent words since aging has an effect on people's ability to think clearly, especially in the "Information Superhighway." Sorry if it robbed you of that authentic chat vibe, that always-in-a-hurry young'uns seem to thrive on.

Unpolished Comment:
In other words, my comment was not levity. Learn to read the room, listen, close your mouth (e.g. flies may get in) and try to understand the deeper meaning in what others say or post before making an assumption.

More AI Polishing: (oh, I know you know)
In case you missed the point, "pigeon relay" is a historical messaging system where homing pigeons carried notes in stages across long distances.
Pigeons were raised at stations along a route. A message was attached to one bird and released; it flew home to the next station. There, the note was transferred to a fresh pigeon headed to the following station, and so on—like a relay race.
Genghis Khan used this to span Asia and Europe. It was fast, hard to intercept, and worked when other methods failed.

Another Unpolished Comment:
In other words, this could be a viable option to transfer information in places where regimes have instituted information blackouts that block all forms of modern electronic and digital communications, such as "Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea" and other places where crime is a daily occurrence, civil and human rights violations contine and remain unchecked or acknowledged by "Biased People" covertly embedded inside media outlets, especially the Western Media.

Extremely Unpolished Point of View:
Inexperienced and younger people--hint, hint--are usually the first to criticize points of view like mine because they have been taught to think or feel a certain way by listening to a single source of news or point of view. Since I have lived thousands, hundreds, er tens of decades, I have learned the game, thus I prefer to bypass all that crap, ignore TV, ignore most if not all media outlets, and use word of mouth (e.g. people, shortwave radio) to verify what's going on in the world.

Hopefully this should convince you that I am a cyborg and not an AI :)

Sigh, my brain hurts :(
by agentcoops | 2026-01-21 18:36:07+00:00
Most of my use cases these days are for hobby projects, which I would bucket into the "data science"/"data journalism" category. I think this is the easiest audience to develop for, since people usually don't have any strict disciplinary norms apart from clean and sensible design. I mention double y-axes because in my own past library I stupidly assumed no sensible person would want such a chart -- only to have to rearchitect my rendering engine once I learned it was one of the most popular charts in finance.

That is, you're definitely developing the tool in a direction that I and I think most Hacker News readers will appreciate and it sounds like you're already thinking about some of the most common "extravagances" (annotations, reference lines, double y-axis etc). As OP mentioned, I think there's a big need for more performant client-side graph visualization libraries, but that's really a different project. Last I looked, you're still essentially stuck with graphviz prerendering for large enough graphs...
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-21 18:36:18+00:00
The point was that turning NAT on or off doesn't affect whether your LAN is reachable or not. NAT just edits the source address of your outbound connections. It's irrelevant to how your inbound connections behave.

> Correction: It will have ONE publicly-routable IP, and if I assign it to my router, but don't use NAT, then none of my devices on the network will be able to talk to the Internet, either in or out.

Right, and then if you add NAT you'll be able to make outbound connections, but inbound connections will be unaffected and will still not work. So what is NAT doing here to prevent inbound connections, given that the exact same connections already didn't work before you were NATing?
by mrcwinn | 2026-01-21 18:36:36+00:00
Pay per crawl of StackOverflow wouldn't encourage me to post more on StackOverflow. (Not that I was anyway.) Presumably you'd need to pay content creators, but that seems quite inefficient:

1. I pay OpenAI
2. OpenAI rev shares to StackOverflow
3. StackOverflow mostly keeps that money, but shares some with me for posting
4. I get some money back to help pay OpenAI?

This is nonsense. And if the frontier labs are right about simulated data, as Tesla seems to have been right with its FSD simulated visualization stack, does this really matter anyway? The value I get from an LLM far exceeds anything I have ever received from SO or an O'Reilly book (as much as I genuinely enjoy them collecting dust on a shelf).

If the argument is "fairness," I can sympathize but then shrug. If the argument is sustainability of training, I'm skeptical we need these payment models. And if the argument is about total value creation, I just don't buy it at all.
by lithocarpus | 2026-01-21 18:36:37+00:00
If you have a fertile abundant landscape covered in old growth forests and marshes, and then cut all the forests, put roads everywhere, and plough up the marshes for farming, the landscape then holds a lot less water and the weather becomes less stable, which can exacerbate natural fluctuations in rainfall and temperature making droughts more common and more severe.

This is effectively what happened to large parts of the middle east that were once fertile and lush. It's a trend all over the world really.

There are many ways humans can work the opposite direction to increase the ability of the land to stabilize the weather and increase hydrological robustness to mitigate droughts, e.g. regenerative agriculture or projects in asia and africa to green the desert, I don't know enough about them but it's a good idea and I hope it's executed well.

The idea that California is now "free of drought" is funny, it may be technically correct by the way the word drought is used, but it doesn't mean the underlying factors that contributed to the likelihood and severity of recent decades of drought have improved - it just means we got a lot of precipitation now, but another dry year and we'll be back in drought again.