MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lukan | 2026-01-02 20:30:42+00:00
This one was moderated, though.

"The main part of the workshop consists of a moderated deliberative discussion with the audience."

I think it is a bit ironic, that Joshua got canceled because of a private conversation - and the debate about it is not recorded, so .. in effect people are more free to express their opinions without getting canceled.

Disapointing to me. Joshua seems to have points of views I find debatable (I don't know much about him) But canceling to not have to stand his opinions? That is very much against the hacker spirit to me and he is a smart guy who knows a lot about AI.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-02 20:30:44+00:00
> I would say its more "Wireless only ISPs are the only ones using it"

So… the largest ISPs.

Recent number show about 94% of Americans have cell phones and 92% of American households have Internet connections. In raw numbers, that’s about 300M cell phones and 111M households.

If zero fixed ISPs support IPv6, that’d still be about 75% of total Internet connections that do.
by sedatk | 2026-01-02 20:30:48+00:00
> to achieve "globally unique" host part that isn't really all that useful characteristic of the protocol.

That's the essential part of self-configured addresses in IPv6 that does away with DHCP in most cases. DHCP is a stateful system that has to track every device's addresses individually. You don't need that with IPv6 thanks to this.
by acbart | 2026-01-02 20:31:00+00:00
I've had colleagues argue (prior to LLMs) that oral exams are superior to paper exams, for diagnosing understanding. I don't know how to validate that statement, but if the assumption is true than there is merit to finding a way to scale them. Not saying this is it, but I wouldn't say that it's fair to just dismiss oral exams entirely.
by ska80 | 2026-01-02 20:31:02+00:00
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by ericmay | 2026-01-02 20:31:36+00:00
> I feel the world currently is too hyper-capitalistic and I don't think I fit in well

1) Grow up. The economic system makes no difference and you are projecting your desire to hide from being an adult on to external concepts so you can hide from the fact that you need to go and take control of your own life. If your failures are because of “capitalism” great, easy, nothing you can do or need to do. It’s not my failures, it’s someone else’s fault. Again, grow up.

2) Just go apply at remote companies or find task-oriented contract work. Do the minimum required until you get fired, then rinse and repeat. Or even better, make “tech” your hobby and go get a job doing something else.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-01-02 20:31:44+00:00
> Grok can't apologize, but it also can't do anything without being told.

If you mean being told by the end user, this famously hasn't been the case. Dialing back the only restriction was enough for Grok to create nsfw material (w/o any request to create that).

[Grok] didn’t hesitate to spit out fully uncensored topless
videos of Taylor Swift the very first time I used it
without me even specifically asking the bot to take her clothes off.
by mkleczek | 2026-01-02 20:31:44+00:00
The question is: how do you define "national security" and "other strategic value"? At the end of the day both really mean economic interest. Especially in case of US.

So if someone says "national security" is above economic interest of US, I would say these people mean _their_ economic interest is above economic interest of US and use both terms as a cover.
by roywiggins | 2026-01-02 20:31:53+00:00
It's 50-80% because they are RLHFed into talking with "I". This was far less of an issue when it was just GPT-3 in a completion UI. But people find LLMs trained to produce text that looks like it's coming from a personality to be more compelling: ChatGPT is when the tech exploded into popularity.

LLMs that aren't chat tuned are just not as easy to anthropomorphize.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 20:32:47+00:00
> SpaceX is in fact not profitable

This is false.

> Depending on how you price internal transactions for manufacturing and launching Starlink satellites you can fudge the hell out of the term "cash flow positive.”

This is nonsense. In accrual accounting, yes, there is room for fuckery. In cash accounting, you can shift cash around within the system, but the system is cash constrained.

SpaceX is cash-flow positive.

> SpaceX continued to take outside investments in 2025

Sure. It raised in its Series J. It has bought back more than that total round, secondary included, in stock.

It will probably raise massive amounts in 2026. It’s making large capital investments.

But for a few years, it didn’t. It was largely coasting. And in those years, up to now, it’s been cash-flow positive. It could have paid a dividend if it wanted.
by wiether | 2026-01-02 20:32:56+00:00
I'm an European no-Whatsapp guy and so are my friends that I go on holiday with so no issue.

Meanwhile at the last work retreat they did everything through Whatsapp and it was so relaxing to be out of the loop.

I just checked with my roommate in the morning to get the planning for the day, and I wandered as I wished.

I missed a lot of impromptu events, sure. I also missed a few official events that changed place at the last minute. I went walking on the beach instead.

And for the events I was expected to be active in, organizers just made sure that I was where I needed to be when I needed to.

So I was able to completely relax and enjoy my stay.

In the end everybody was exhausted while I was refreshed like after actual personal holiday!

Enjoy your Whatsapp!
by compsciphd | 2026-01-02 20:33:15+00:00
wondering out loud.

In the past with these CD referene libraries, you could either install a stub on the machine and have it use the CD as the store, or you could install the whole library on the hard disk for faster access. Presumably this check is to prevent "piracy" by ensuring that the user has the CD but allowing it to operate faster with the on hard disk db.

However, since its check is so superficial, one doesn't even have to bother installing it fully. Image the. CD, keep the CD image on your hard disk, and keep the CD image mounted as a drive and install in the thin install manner that expects the CD to be present. Performance should be basically the same (its just going to be reading off the hard drive), even if it takes slightly more storage in the modern world the 10s of MBs this might be are close to irrelevant.
by collingreen | 2026-01-02 20:33:17+00:00
I'm a bit concerned by that, yes. Your portrayal isn't very accurate, as this thread shows clearly, but yes it's a bad situation.

Regardless, you're doing a hero's version of moving the goalposts here, which tends to undermine the point.

The small point I'll make for you is that white nationalist / neo nazi agenda is unforgivably bad, regardless of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

The small point I'll make for myself is that war is complicated and nasty and we, the world of folks not currently at war, aren't doing enough to shape this conflict according to our stated values.
by eli_gottlieb | 2026-01-02 20:33:31+00:00
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by gjsman-1000 | 2026-01-02 20:33:42+00:00
This is poorly thought through, as it requires a fundamental tenant: “If there is a God, he automatically has a duty to ensure there is no suffering, of any kind, for any reason, from any cause, or he is not good.”

No religion believes that. Every religion also has an explanation for suffering. Enough of the stupid cheap shots that were worn out centuries ago.
by WireScreenNYC | 2026-01-02 20:34:13+00:00
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by sciurus | 2026-01-02 20:34:32+00:00
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by dddrh | 2026-01-02 20:34:44+00:00
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by scroot | 2026-01-02 20:35:09+00:00
> treating the economic world as a gross external thing

Well, a _specific_ kind of economic world in this case. Is it not a matter of fact that big tech companies largely guide how computing is used a developed, and that they are beholden to ever-expected increases in value to their shareholders? You have still have an "economic world" that doesn't operate that way.
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-02 20:35:18+00:00
Exactly. Spectrum delivers good IPv6 service in my area. I tried it when I upgraded my gateway. All of my devices are assigned 4 IPv6 IPs, hostnames are replaced by auto assigned stuff from the ISP, and lots of random things don’t work.

I went from being pumped to learn more to realizing I’m going to invest a lot of time and I could not identify and tangible benefit.
by marttt | 2026-01-02 20:36:47+00:00
Side question: please suggest login-free alternatives to Microsoft's Parental Control for Windows 10. I used Timekpr-next [1] on Linux and liked it very much (as did our son!), but we've yet to find a comparable alternative on Windows. Preferably a tiny, lightweight "one thing well" app, that would keep count of total daily usage in minutes and set restrictions based on this.

I've used the 'net user <teeny-tiny-child> /times:' command, but that's too permissive in the end.

Funny thing is, if Microsoft would issue a login-free oldschool-style no-bullshit single-purpose shareware application, I'd very probably buy it. Now I'm looking for alternatives solely because I can't stand how they're pushing the M$ account on their users.

Thanks very much for any suggestions!

[1] https://mjasnik.gitlab.io/timekpr-next/
by alexanderkoch | 2026-01-02 20:37:43+00:00
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by kierangill | 2026-01-02 20:37:51+00:00
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by sedatk | 2026-01-02 20:38:06+00:00
IPv6 has already won on mobile and gaining fast traction in IoT space with Matter. The reason IPv4 is still around everywhere else is because we came up with ingeniuous techniques that squeezed the heck out of IPv4 address space. Also, IPv4 addresses are easier to type. That's pretty much it.

I had mentioned some of that in my post: https://ssg.dev/ipv6-for-the-remotely-interested-af214dd06aa...
by mywittyname | 2026-01-02 20:38:17+00:00
The only current VLC issue I encounter regularly is the subtitles one. I'm a lite video user, so I'm not sure the technical details, but some subtitle formats render black-on-black in VLC, but work fine on Plex/TV.

I've also encountered the odd "this video is corrupted" error that persists even after re-encoding. But I've never thought to troubleshoot to see if it's a VLC, and instead just get a different version.
Show HN: Sk` – manage AI agent skills across Claude, codex, opencode, et all
by alizainf | 2026-01-02 20:38:39+00:00
I love skills, I have a whole collection of skills I've built myself for problems I experience while using AI agents. but the current method of managing skills in codex/opencode is pretty garbage (copy skills into the correct folder).

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by andrewjneumann | 2026-01-02 20:38:53+00:00
The digital landscape of 2025 was defined by a paradox: vanishing barriers to entry but exponential barriers to attention.

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-Scientific Friction: The widening gap between breakthrough research, such as Alzheimer’s reversal, and a public psyche defined by mistrust.

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by WarOnPrivacy | 2026-01-02 20:38:56+00:00
The gist is down the page. I believe the assertion is sound and is worthy of consideration.

Here’s the thing: Grok didn’t say anything. Grok didn’t
blame anyone. Grok didn’t apologize. Grok can’t do any
of these things, because Grok is not a sentient entity
capable of speech acts, blame assignment, or remorse.

What actually happened is that a user prompted Grok to generate
text about the incident. The chatbot then produced a word sequence
that pattern-matched to what an apology might sound like, because
that’s what large language models do. They predict statistically
likely next tokens based on their training data.

When you ask an LLM to write an apology, it writes something that
looks like an apology. That’s not the same as actually apologizing.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-01-02 20:39:04+00:00
The American Cancer Society seems to advise differently:

There are no safe UV rays[1].

Exposure-incidence models agree[2].

1. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/sun-and-uv/sun...

2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25213656/
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-01-02 20:39:35+00:00
I think many accountants would laugh at saying accuracy is a requirement. They have full time jobs because the books for any major company are a disaster that are kept together by prayer and duct tape. Accuracy is the ideal, but when you have hundreds of revenue streams, discounts, rebates, deprecation, tax structures, salesmen actively trying to sell out the company, etc keeping the books in order is a tall order.
by graphitemaster | 2026-01-02 20:39:36+00:00
I mostly agree. Null pointer de-references aren't a dominant or hard-to-detect failure mode for my code either. Removing them does meaningfully complicate language design and ergonomics too. It's reasonable to call them a "problem" in the same sense that any invalid memory address is a problem. I also see value in making invalid states unrepresentable which would mean disallowing null pointers right? The real question is whether that gurantee is worth the cost in ergonomics, compiler surface area, and C compatibility. Every invariant a compiler enforces consumes complexity budget. I agree with the author that it's better to keep the core language small and spend that budget on higher-impact guarantees. And the thesis here seems to be that null pointers aren't high-impact enough (and at least for the code I've read and wrote, this seems to hold true). I suspect that part of the appeal is that null pointers are low-hanging fruit. They're easy to point out and relatively easy to "solve" in the type system, which can make the win feel larger than it actually is. The marginal benefit feels smaller than spending that complexity budget on harder, higher-impact guarantees that target the logical traps programmers fall into with clever, highly abstracted code, where bugs are more subtle and systemic rather than immediate and loud.
by f30e3dfed1c9 | 2026-01-02 20:39:43+00:00
"In general, under law, dogs are considered property. That's just a fact."

No. Again, this is obviously wrong on the facts. There are hundreds of millions of dogs in the world that are no one's property and that are not considered property by any law.

This is why I say the comparison is deeply confused and unhelpful. It starts with a statement about dogs being "property" that is obviously wrong and then completely ignores the fact that a running AI is someone's property.

If you want to get anywhere, you've got to drop the comparison with dogs and deal with the fact that an AI is someone's property.