MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by recursive | 2026-01-09 20:14:53+00:00
I addressed that. You should read a book to learn the definition of intervals. But in addition, there's no substitute for ear training. Grinding on interval identification is just as valid as this. Once you get to a level where you can identify intervals on the keyboard, the skills are pretty transferable. But there's just no way to learn what a fifth sounds like by reading a book. You need something like this. There is probably room to add a mode that says "this is a fifth" after you identify a fifth. Or to choose a named interval or chord quality based on hearing it. But I don't think any of that diminishes the utility of what's here.

FWIW I think it's probably more useful to play what you hear than it is to be able to name it. Although they're both good.
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-09 20:15:06+00:00
But it’s not really an argument, it’s a statement about feelings. Some people really do prefer coding with AI. Is that so strange? Often we’ve spent 1 or 2 decades writing code and in our day jobs we don’t see a lot of novel problems come our way at the level of the code anymore (architecture, sure, still often novel). We’ve seen N number of variations on the same thing; we are good at doing them but get little joy in doing them for the N + 1th time. We find typing out api serializers and for loops and function definitions and yaml boilerplate just a little boring, if we already have a picture in our head of what we want to do. And we like being able to build faster and ship to our users without spending hours and extra brain cycles dealing with low-level complexity that could be avoided.

I am happy to accept that some people still prefer to write out their code by hand… that’s ok? Keep doing it if you want! But I would gently suggest you ask yourself why you are so offended by people that would prefer to automate much of that, because you seem to be offended. Or am I misreading?

And hey, I still enjoy solving interesting problems with code. I did advent of code this year with no LLM assistance and it was great fun. But most professional software development doesn’t have that novelty value where you get to think about algorithms and combinatorical puzzles and graphs and so on.

Before anyone says it, sure, there is a discussion to be had about AI code quality and the negative effects of all this. A bad engineer can use it to ship slop to production. Nobody is denying that. But I think that’s a separate set of questions.

Finally, I’m not sure painting is the best analogy. Most of us are not creating works of high art here. It’s a job, to make things for people to use, more akin to building houses than painting the Sistine Chapel. Please don’t sneer at use if we enjoy finding ways to put up our drywall quicker.
by chrneu | 2026-01-09 20:15:07+00:00
you are falling into the trap of ignoring the pandering. cloudflare bro is clearly pandering here and showing that, in the moment, he will say/do whatever to whomever to get what he wants. cloudflare kind of has a history of doing this.

there was zero reason to name drop vance and elon besides appealing to their rabid fans to bolster support.

it's just more hypocrisy.
by abraxas | 2026-01-09 20:15:23+00:00
And I'm the counter anecdotal case of your anecdotal case.

I have a page long list of failed psychiatric regimens that included drugs alone and drugs combined with talk therapy. None of them effective.

I won't say that I'm cured of depression now or will ever be. But a strict and persistent exercise routine lessened it to the point where I can function day to day. This was never achieved with presrciption drugs or therapy (of which I have developed a dim opinion).
by ploxiln | 2026-01-09 20:15:30+00:00
I think, practically, everyone will need at least a cheap-ish android or iphone, perhaps $300 (and a new one every few years ...), to be their locked-down "agent" for using financial or government services. It's not for you, it's for the government/banks, it is their agent for talking to you.

Kinda weird, if you think about it. But that seems to be the way it's heading.
by tucnak | 2026-01-09 20:15:54+00:00
Both examples you have provided are not exactly pertaining to chess POSITION, but rather technicalities to put an upper bound on the time a game may take. Yes, there are rules like 75-move rules, or three-fold repetition, but they have no material bearing on the pieces. On the other hand, FEN does capture information like whether you're eligible for castling, which does make a difference in terms of chess position.
by somebehemoth | 2026-01-09 20:16:40+00:00
I do think a huge number of people are infatuated with the idea of programming but hate the act itself. I have tried to teach a lot of people to code and it is rare to find the person who is both enthusiastic and able to maintain motivation once they realize every single character matters and yes, that bracket does have to be closed.

Of course not everyone who programs AI style hate programming, but I do think your take explains a large chunk of zealotry: It has become Us v. Them for both sides and each is staking out their territory. Telling the vibe coder they are not programming hurts their feelings much like telling a senior developer all their accumulated experience and knowledge is useless if not today, for sure some day soon!
by agonza | 2026-01-09 20:16:44+00:00
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by AnthonBerg | 2026-01-09 20:16:53+00:00
To my surprise, it has been my experience that this turns out to be pulmonary. It was always the chicken-and-egg of... breathing.

Seems like this has been my story:

Severe prolonged stress floored me. Turns out that the autonomous control of bronchoconstriction and dilation had gone out of wack, into dysregulation. My lungs were basically clamped shut. (Muscular tension and sundry dysregulation from severe prolonged stress makes sense, right? Applies to the lungs too!)

Exercise worked when I could get myself to do it... because exercise forces lungs to open.

And the nervous system and brain, well it requires lots of oxygen. In order to learn. And unlearn.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-09 20:17:24+00:00
> So blocking Kiwifarms took.. months of activism and loud complaining.

Kiwifarms isn't a pirate site. It's just another site that you think is legitimate to censor.

> However a fine that amounts to ~0.7% of the annual revenue and they threaten to block an entire country?

What's going to be next weeks fine? Of course they should block the entire country. Even if they pay the fine (I could imagine there's some way that the EU could force that on pain of forcing them out of Europe), they should block the country.

Shouldn't Italy want lawbreakers to leave?
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-09 20:17:26+00:00
That is the expectation but no way to enforce it of course.

What happens a lot, at least for me, is that people will start reading the comments to see if they want to bother reading the link. Then they might start commenting on what's already been said. It's easy to slip into that pattern.

Though you also frequently see top-level comments that appear to be based on the headline alone.
by starkparker | 2026-01-09 20:17:32+00:00
> If you're not a US citizen, you're fair game

US citizens detained or released from ICE detention in the last week:

Twin Cities area (Robbinsdale), Thursday morning: https://www.startribune.com/us-citizen-arrested-ice-day-afte...

Twin Cities area (Richfield), Thursday afternoon: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/pattern-emerging-o...

Minneapolis, Thursday morning: https://sahanjournal.com/education/border-patrol-detains-min...

Twin Cities area (Brooklyn Park), Monday: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/us-citizen-ice-encoun...

Baltimore: https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-ice-detentio...

Salisbury, NC: https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/rowan-county/...

On a Carnival cruise ship docked in Miami: https://www.azfamily.com/2026/01/07/phoenix-veteran-says-ice...

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ProPublica report on 170 citizen detentions as of October: https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...

WaPo report on citizen detentions ("DHS ... has not provided any figures") in December: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/12/07/trump-...
by shehackspurple | 2026-01-09 20:17:33+00:00
Why can’t people just “do the right thing” all the time? Can’t they just try hard, have some willpower, and behave perfectly? I don’t know about you, but I am certainly not perfect all the time. I’m in a rush. I skip steps. It compiles, so I commit. We are not robots, we are human beings, and we have a lot going on. But…. There’s more.
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by chrneu | 2026-01-09 20:17:52+00:00
> Therapy can be an enabler of bad behavior

Be aware that a lot of therapists are aware of this and actively try not to do this.

Unfortunately, services like BetterHealth allow clients to select their therapists in ways which results in people doctor shopping to get what they want. Doctors want to get paid so they'll say/do whatever to keep clients.

It's like the antibiotic issue with internal medicine. People will see a bunch of doctors until they get what they want.
by daringrain32781 | 2026-01-09 20:18:01+00:00
I wanted badly to keep my 12, but it was too slow. I missed many things because the camera wouldn’t open most of the time. I changed the battery but it didn’t help. I had plenty of free storage. I almost wonder if it was a dud, I never observed the same on other of the same phone. I got the 17 and it’s been a great upgrade.
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-09 20:18:03+00:00
A simple way to wade through political propaganda is to just observe what is actually happening and who politically benefits in the end. In other words, judge politicians by what they do (and achieve from it), rather than what they say. I am not a fan of Trump's politics, but to me he is doing nothing different, politically (end results), to what previous Democrat administration tried to do with their foreign policy.

Note that while Trump may not be a political genius, the US administration has some of the finest and experienced bureaucrats to work on his policies.
by nextaccountic | 2026-01-09 20:18:16+00:00
Also professionals that need powerful computers ("workstations") in their jobs, like video editing

A lot of them are incorporating AI in their workflow, so making local AI better would be a plus. Unfortunately I don't see this happening unless GPUs come with more VRAM (and AI companies don't want that, and are willing to spend top dollar to hoard RAM)
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-09 20:18:27+00:00
I lived in Germany for a while, and thus had a DB card, which allowed me to get discount tickets and stuff to go anywhere I needed in the Deutsch region.

It was pretty fun, I used it a lot, those beer/disco clubs on the train between Düsseldorf and Bonn and Frankfurt, whoa, just .. really used to be fun.

So its real sad to hear of, what was once a great institutions’, demise ..
by nkmnz | 2026-01-09 20:18:51+00:00
> Economic growth or lack of thereof is absolutely irrelevant here

It absolutely is. Being right (and more so, being righteous) is expensive. When you cannot afford to put your money where your mouth is, everyone knows that sooner or later you cannot or will not follow through on your words. Europe hast lost ~30% of power vs. the US in just ~12 years.
by antonymoose | 2026-01-09 20:19:08+00:00
I don’t think depression is a universal root-cause diagnosis so I’m inclined to agree.

I’ve been diagnosed clinically several times in life with depression and the pills never did anything for me. Sometimes exercise worked, sometimes it was of little or no use.

With retrospect, all of my episodes of depression were a function of environment. As a child, growing up in a broken home situation and bad school environment, of course there is going to be depression. Life sucks. Further, no pill or weight lifting schedule is going to fix that either. Only breaking out of that situation will.

As an adult, I’ve absolutely had and broken out of a long episode of depression with exercise. Bad breakup, startup failure, then introduce chronic drinking and subsequent weight gain. Guess what, cutting back on drinking, bicycling to work 30 minutes each way, doing martial arts in the evenings, it was a great fix. It enhanced self image, added a new community of positive people, and broke a cycle of depression.
by bdcravens | 2026-01-09 20:20:12+00:00
I received one, though it was for adding a footer honoring MLK. I kinda thought it was odd, but did't think much of it, since I'm apparently not in the group that would be offended in any way. I wonder if the variation they use is random, or in any way location-based to maximize response (I'm in Texas).

I've also received a bunch of API failure phishing emails, as well as some implying we needed to change our auth to Sinch.
by vunderba | 2026-01-09 20:20:48+00:00
Hey RyanOD,

If you're looking to improve your sight-reading and don’t mind playing church music, I highly recommend picking up a second-hand copy of an old Episcopal Church hymnal (I like the 1940 edition). All the pieces are four-voice and the rhythms are relatively simple, so you can concentrate on sight reading. Good luck!

https://hymnary.org/hymnal/HPEC1940
by jacobthesnakob | 2026-01-09 20:20:59+00:00
The technology-as-entertainment approach is poison. Reddit is the worst of it; even the tech addicts that see themselves as intellectuals mostly can’t be bothered to read. The (intentional) lack of reading comprehension in order to misconstrue comments and pick arguments would make an observer believe that most Redditors are functionally illiterate. I read a good criticism once that reading a single quality book on any topic, puts one far ahead of the knowledge base of the subreddit dedicated to that topic.

Even HN isn’t great anymore. I frequently change my password to gibberish and abandon my account to the ether, to spend several month stretches completely disconnected from the “social” internet.
by falloutx | 2026-01-09 20:21:15+00:00
AI development for me is not fun. It may be faster and more productive, jury still out on that. But typing code and understanding each line has its advantages. AI also takes out a lot of creativity out of programming and climbing the abstractions isnt for everyone.

Do we want everyone to operate at PM level? The space for that is limited. Its easy to say you enjoy vibe coding when you are high up the chain but for most devs we are not as experienced or lucky to be able to feel stable when workflows change every day.

But I dont feel I have enough data to believe whether vibe coding or hand coding is better, I am personally doing tedious task with AI, and still writing code by hand all the time.

Also the author presents rewriting Numpy in rust as some achievement but the AIs most probably trained on Numpy and RustyNum, AI are best at copying the code so its not really a big thing.
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-09 20:21:39+00:00
Hey now, you have to read the details in the train booking, or if you think you need help - go to the Info desk - which is for sure there for you at most of the main train stations - they should have explained to you that you should switch locations on the carriage, because after all, trains can be split up… as any good German knows.

And also about the cards, just use cash, I mean, come on. Visa some local coins at the airport lounge or wherever…
by stuffn | 2026-01-09 20:21:43+00:00
Or avoid medication for anything but treatment resistant depression.

SSRIs are not well understood. Their side effects are not great. Getting off them is miserable. I had them. I felt dead inside. Mission accomplished. Depression was gone, so was my desire to eat, have sex, or do anything else. I wasn’t depressed, I was a zombie. 8 adjustments and medications later I got off them and realized they’re yet another pill to fix a problem 98% of people can fix other ways if they tried.

I do not understand this intense desire to be medicated. Exercise, go outside, talk to people. Get good sleep. Once the rest of your life is squared away get some meds if necessary. Psychiatrists and psychologist walk the razors edge of quackery every single day. Talk therapy is a program to take tremendous amount of money from people and funnel it into their account. It’s absolutely nuts the average talk therapist bills at over 300 dollars an Hour. There is no reproducibility in mental health. in their “science”. Therefore, there’s no reason to believe their magical pills will fix problems they barely understand at a biological level.

As a final note people in the military do a ton of cardio because running and rucking is hard work you train for. It is certainly not to “stay sane”.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-09 20:21:59+00:00
You're conflating rights with freedoms, which is the same category error as confusing legality with morality.

Your rights are, by their nature inalienable. They are recognized (or not) by individual power structures, granting you freedoms.

Under an authoritarian regime, your freedoms maybe be limited, for example, your right to free speech may be curtailed by men with guns. Killing those men is illegal, but not unethical, exactly because they are infringing your rights.

This all may seem academic to the person with a boot on their throat, but it dictates how outsiders view one's actions.
by awfulneutral | 2026-01-09 20:22:02+00:00
It feels like this to me too, whenever I give it a try. It's like a button you can push to spend 20 minutes and have a 50/50 chance of either solving the problem with effortless magic, or painfully wasting your time and learning nothing. But it feels like we all need to try and use it anyway just in case we're going to be obsolete without it somehow.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2026-01-09 20:22:03+00:00
There are transposition tables for that though. They don't store the board state actually. For Stockfish, transposition table entries are 10 bytes each, 16 bits of which are the low bits(or high? Can't remember) of a zobrist hash of the board state. The other 48 bits of the hash are used for addressing into the hash table, but aren't stored in it. The rest of the entry will be stuff like the best move found during the previous search(16 bits), the depth of that search(8 bits), evaluation(2 different ones at 16 bits each), and various bits of data like node type and age of the entry(for deciding which entry to replace, because this table is always full). Collisions can occasionally happen, but saving a full board state to eliminate them would cost far too much, since no matter how big you make the table, it'll never be big enough to cache all the board states a search visits.

In Stockfish, there will only be one full-fledged board state in memory per search thread. So the size of the board state is pretty much irrelevant to performance. What's important is reducing the overhead of generating possible moves, applying those moves to the board state, and hashing the board state, which is what magic bitboards are for.
by bananabiscuit | 2026-01-09 20:22:21+00:00
This seems like an intentional misunderstanding to me, but I’ll clarify anyway:

What I said was that she was looking directly at the officer while having her wheels pointed in his direction and accelerating hard (to the point that she lost traction). The looking detail is important because then you can’t claim she didn’t see the officer was in her way because she was still looking back from her reversing maneuver. It makes it more clear that she was intentionally trying to hit the officer with her car.
by satvikpendem | 2026-01-09 20:22:40+00:00
Batching is essentially running multiple instances at once, ie bundling 8 segments and running them simultaneously on the processing unit, but which obviously takes more RAM to do. Notice, however, that if you drop the precision to int8 from fp16, you use basically the same amount of RAM as whisper.cpp yet it completes in a fraction of the time using batching [0].

Yes, if you check their community integrations section on faster-whisper [1], you can see a lot of different CLIs, GUIs, and libraries. I recommend WhisperX [2], it's the most complete CLI so far and has features like diarization which whisper.cpp does not have in a production-ready capacity.

[0] https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#benchmark

[1] https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#community-integrat...

[2] https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
by noo_u | 2026-01-09 20:22:51+00:00
Did I use the word "all" anywhere in my comment? There are good developers in Europe. What I am saying is that there would have been even more of them had the incentives not been so lackluster. More talent seems to generally result in a greater competitive ability.

Fwiw, I have doubts that currently Europe can compete with the US at the startup level, let alone at the bigco one.

I am not trying to drag Europe down - it worries me that sophisticated complacency, overconfidence based on the achievements of previous generations, and addiction to comfort, will start eroding the very aspects that make it a great place to live at.
by rayiner | 2026-01-09 20:23:16+00:00
> The other thing is due to the K-shaped economic recovery, where companies realized the bottom 90% have no money and don't bother to try for their business at all. Concert tickets have similarly increased in price and decreased in supply.

You see this all over the economy. Since 1980, income of the top 10%, subtracting the top 1%, has increased much more than the income of the middle 20%. That’s why every brand is trying move upmarket. Disney World ticket prices have increased vastly more than inflation, because the company is willing to ditch middle class customers to chase a more affluent customer base: https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/disney-world-prices-up-3871-in...

This is also why “middle class luxury” chains like Sizzler have gotten squeezed out.