MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kreetx | 2026-01-30 17:42:21+00:00
I don't live in the US. Also I edited my parent answer (but no need to edit yours. Continue below at will.)

I maintain that what was voted in the office a year ago was to deport the illegals, not only those who have committed other crimes as well. I might just as well say that you are ignorant of the democratic process instead. And if you think that the US will be a "free entry" country as it was after the discovery of the continent then I guess you live at a part of the country where the newly arrived immigrants aren't disturbing your life yet.
by RunSet | 2026-01-30 17:42:36+00:00
> If native software was routinely available, launchers might not feel necessary.

> But I sure as hell don't want to invest howevermany weekend days figuring out how to make games from other platforms as easy to play as Steam games on SteamOS.

For games that are licensed under terms that allow it, Debian's Game Data Packager has already automated that work. And- as your comment suggests- a native port is much better than running on a wine shim, which will always be second-rate.

https://wiki.debian.org/Games/GameDataPackager

List of games supported by Game Data Packager:

https://game-data-packager.debian.net/available.html
by epolanski | 2026-01-30 17:42:40+00:00
> Importantly, using AI assistance didn’t guarantee a lower score. How someone used AI influenced how much information they retained. The participants who showed stronger mastery used AI assistance not just to produce code but to build comprehension while doing so

This is my experience exactly. I have never been learning as much as with AI.

It's interesting that numbers show most users degrade but I hate the general assumption that some cannot use it properly to learn faster as well.
by pardon_me | 2026-01-30 17:43:10+00:00
Following your logic (which is from the company marketing), why not remove GPS on the car in case they go wrong, as humans we don't need GPS? Cameras could go wrong too... then what happens?

Humans hear car/road noises, along with potential screams from outside or passenger shouts from inside, we sense vibrations, can respond to pedestrian or other driver hand signals, and constantly predict hazards through perceptions. How is the car doing all of this, if not for additional sensors and processing?

You can land a plane by eye, but what happens when there's fog? That's exactly like the situation in cars. LIDAR can provide extra sensory data where the cameras absolutely fail, just like our own eyes.

Knowing there's a solution to this, we are just to accept the car will fail where humans will? That's progress? Why wouldn't you want that extra data for such a small relative cost? LIDAR was already used on cars as a safety-only front collision avoidance system (that's how cheap it is to install).

In a properly designed system, adding data which is useful and cannot otherwise be inferred makes complete sense.

Given these cars are supposed to be so good that they will be working autonomously for you and pay themselves off in a year or two, the idea that LIDAR etc. is unnecessary and too expensive and will be lead to actively worse performance, is just insane logic for an "engineering" discussion.
by stego-tech | 2026-01-30 17:43:24+00:00
Disgusting, and a potential legal liability for employers if they turn it on. Not in the “invasion of privacy” sense, but the “there was a crime committed in area X and now the cops want our Teams logs from the employees who were there that Microsoft disclosed to them.”

The more data you collect, the bigger your legal liability when something inevitably goes pear-shaped.

Stop treating workers like grifters or prisoners and you won’t have nearly as many problems.
by faris-ashai | 2026-01-30 17:44:01+00:00
Very excited to share my first article on the engineering tradeoffs behind building a hybrid code editor!

Most products completely avoid this space, choosing either raw text or a constrained UI model. Supporting both of these exposes uncomfortable problems like real-time bidirectional state sync, correctness of parsing arbitrary user syntax/formatting, and avoiding complexity or corruption over time.

This piece breaks down my approach to each of these issues.
by VirusNewbie | 2026-01-30 17:44:37+00:00
Keep in mind that not only did people predict the housing crash, some were certain houses would be sold for pennies on the dollar.

I bought a short sale distressed town house in 2009 for 40% lower than its peak price, and many people told me it was a terrible decision because if I just waited long enough, I'd buy it for a fraction of the price.

I think prices went a bit lower in 2010, but then I gained about 400k in equity over the next 10 years and sold it.
by epolanski | 2026-01-30 17:45:21+00:00
> The loss of competency seems pretty obvious but it's good to have data

That's not what the study says. It says that most users reflect your statement while there is a smaller % that benefits and learns more and faster.

Generalizations are extremely dangerous.

What the article says simply reflect that most people don't care that much and default to the path of least resistance, which is common every day knowledge, but we very well know this does not apply to everyone.
by recursive | 2026-01-30 17:45:23+00:00
The one I had didn't have any obvious way to remap the button. Across several years of ownership, I probably spent a total of an hour looking for such a capability. Certainly more than I did investigating what "Bixby" is.

Now I have a ulefone, a budget brand with no particular name recognition. It has a button in the same place, with an easy way to map it. And it cost a quarter of the Samsung. shrug
by bri3d | 2026-01-30 17:45:29+00:00
The implementation details are sketchy/weak in all sources I can find, but I don't think it's pure (coordinates based) location tracking, but rather a "feature" that will show which WiFi network you're connected to as your Teams status. It's pitched as "what building you're in at the office," which seems like a stretch.

It's also kind of unclear whether the blog post is correct that it would show the name of another network if you connect to it - I'd sort of assume it would just show "Out of Office" instead of "connected to YO_MAMAS_WIFI" or whatever, but who knows.
by abdullahkhalids | 2026-01-30 17:46:23+00:00
Before computers and internet, a manager might have been allowed to take work files home to work on them. Or workers on the road, might have stacks of company files with them in their car.

How did companies enforce the worker not taking the files with them on their international trip? Just by punishment when it was discovered after the fact. Things worked fine. It was good enough.

There is no need for additional surveillance, just because computers and internet can be used to do it.
by mortenjorck | 2026-01-30 17:46:40+00:00
I don't know how much of it was hand-edited and how much was direct output, but this article has that unmistakable LLM voice. The rhythm, the rhetorical flourishes; it's all there even if it's diffused through some human revision.

The really weird thing is going to be when people start internalizing the LLM voice and writing that way. It's probably happening already.
by dangus | 2026-01-30 17:46:57+00:00
I dunno, there’s a pretty substantial cultural AI backlash that is almost certainly costing sales. Over half of Americans have concerns about the technology [1].

I think that backlash wouldn’t exist if the US had comprehensive privacy protections, strong environmental and consumer utility price regulations around data centers, and other implemented controls that would make use of AI feel much more guilt-free.

[1] https://medium.com/@TheDailyReflection/the-great-ai-backlash...
by chongli | 2026-01-30 17:47:12+00:00
I’m familiar with all of those games. They’re few enough in number that I see the same small set brought up every time I make this point.

I think they’re the exception that proves the rule. There are fewer of them (noteworthy ones anyway, I’m sure there’s a long tail of obscure ones) than there were popular games of this kind on the original NES. I think Derek Yu’s release of UFO-50 is indicative of his similar need to scratch that itch!
by sjsizjhaha | 2026-01-30 17:47:37+00:00
> the smart ones know you have to babysit and double-check -- so it's not remotely a replacement.

This has been the big one for me. Of all the best devs I know, only one is really big on AI, but he’s also the one that spent years in a relational database without knowing what isolation levels are. He was absolutely a “greenfield” kinda dev - which he was great at, tons of ideas but not big on the small stuff.

The rest use them judiciously and see a lot of value, but reading and understanding code is still the bottleneck. And reviewing massive PRs is not efficient.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-30 17:47:56+00:00
In a free country, if people think the president is crummy, they are supposed to be able to say they want the president to resign or be removed. In the USA this is by design and has been provided for in advance intentionally since the beginning.

Without fear of retribution, this is the USA remember.

While protesting or not.

Whether for or against the President or not.

Retribution is really bad but fear alone is pretty bad too, it can be a complete terror as we have seen in some countries sometimes, where dictatorship rises it always leads to terrible shithole outcomes. Even when they don't employ storm troopers. But there's no other way to be more communist than having a dictator of any kind, no matter what they call it.

Thinking about pure terror, how do you think terrorists got their name?

Storm trooper tactics have always struck terror too, that's their job.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, the USA is supposed to be more free than anywhere else.

As we have seen, not every President or administration official can perform in that league.

From the very point that 4 protestors were killed, Nixon was actually toast.

He just wasn't burnt to a crisp until after he was re-elected.

What were people thinking? Nobody would admit to voting for him a second time after he was proven dishonest though.

Of course equally stupid things have happened which are getting plain to see for more people all the time.
by briancr | 2026-01-30 17:48:14+00:00
Yeah this is why the syntax is customizable.. maybe it’s not optimal.

The example I gave was strange and I’ll have to change it. Not sure what I was trying to show there. The basic syntax is just:

for counter in <1, 5> print(counter)

backfor counter in <1, 5> print(counter)

It’s not overloaded because ‘for’ is basically a macro, expanding to ‘iterate, increment counter, break on counter > 5’ where ‘>’ is hard-coded. If ‘for’ was a fundamental operator then yes, there would be a step option and it would be factored into the exit condition.

You’ve got me thinking, there’s probably a way to overload it even as a macro.. hmmm…
by thelastgallon | 2026-01-30 17:48:27+00:00
You have no idea what you are talking about. Significant number of people take public transit (Moscow, NYC, Chicago -- lots of other cities) when its available. When you build an environment for cars and cars only, force everyone to buy cars, they have no choice but to buy car. Lots of European counties have been building biking infrastructure. They are all Northern countries.
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-30 17:48:38+00:00
Anecdotal evidence suggests that LLMs are quite content to use atomic variables for custom multithreaded signaling and synchronization logic even when safer alternatives like mutexes or messaging channels are available.

LLMs aren't creative, they're statistical, this is axiomatic. That means the use of atomic variables instead of mutexes is endemic to human written code out there.

I find that odd. Does your average programmer just not care about thread safety?
by dyingkneepad | 2026-01-30 17:49:22+00:00
AI has completely killed Google Translate. It is significantly superior in every way.

GT often uses the wrong word or changes the tone of a message. AI always gets the intent right and always seems to use the most appropriate words given the original intent/meaning (or at least something way better than what GT does). And, whenever there is doubt, I can argue with it, so AI is happy to explain the nuances and differences between the possibilities.

Edit: I recently had to send a semi-formal email requesting something from a government employee in a different country (using a language I'm a beginner at), and AI was immensely helpful in getting the right tone (neither informal or too formal) and everything else right. The Google Translate version of what I had originally written was miles and miles and miles worse than what AI helped me craft.
by stephenbez | 2026-01-30 17:49:37+00:00
I had a CGM:

- oatmeal + blueberries: moderate glucose spike

- oatmeal + blueberries + chia seeds: moderate glucose spike

- oatmeal + blueberries + ground flax seed: moderate glucose spike

- oatmeal + blueberries + protein powder: moderate glucose spike

- oatmeal + blueberries + protein powder + chia seeds: very minimal spike

In my case, it seems like carbs, proteins, and fats are all necessary to prevent a spike.
by vunderba | 2026-01-30 17:50:31+00:00
I think noteworthy is the key. Others with tight controls and timing that I can think of (that are less known) are Downwell, Caveblazers, Celeste, Super House of Dead Ninjas, Tiny Barbarian DX, VVVVVV.

And these are just ones that I've personally played.
by runarberg | 2026-01-30 17:50:38+00:00
> a reasonable response would be to point out all the things that are more dangerous than bikes that the vast majority of people clearly do not want to outlaw.

I disagree. It is in fact not a reasonable argument, it is not even a good argument. It is still whataboutism. There are way better arguments out there, for example:

Bicycles are in fact regulated, and if anything these regulations are too lax, as most legislators are categorizing unambiguous electric motorcycles as bicycles, allowing e-motorcycle makers to market them to kids and teenagers that should not be riding them.

Now as for the whatabout cars argument: If you compare car injuries to bicycle injuries, the former are of a completely different nature, by far most bicycle injuries will heal, that is not true of car injuries (especially car injuries involving a victim on a bicycle). So talking about other things that are more dangerous is playing into your opponents arguments, when there is in fact no reason to do that.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-30 17:50:52+00:00
There are rumours that Kurt Cobain posted on Usenet under a pseudonym. Interesting if true. I found Usenet much easier to handle than today's internet. That said I did read some print outs from mid nineties Usenet a few years ago, and I was shocked to be reminded how rude some people were. So nothing new there.
by businessmate | 2026-01-30 17:51:20+00:00
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) platforms are often described as “SEO for AI.” That framing is incomplete in regulated contexts.

GEO tools do not inject prompts or control inference. They systematically reshape the external content corpus from which large language models synthesize answers. When AI-generated representations are materially relied upon in regulated decisions, this practice creates an evidentiary gap: outcomes can influence judgment without producing reconstructable, auditable records explaining why those outcomes prevailed.

This is not a claim of illegality. It is a governance lag.
by kentbrew | 2026-01-30 17:51:42+00:00
Data sets 10 and 11 have zip archives; archive available for data set 9. And no idea how many pages are actually in here; I'm in the 6000s and climbing with no end in sight.

Some pages, like this one:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-9-f...

... all show the same set of files, starting with EFTA00039025.pdf and ending with EFTA00039881.pdf

Not sure how to find the end of the dataset ... setting up the server to supply an infinite number of Next links with something important on page 8675309 seems like a fine way to keep things hidden.
by dhll | 2026-01-30 17:51:59+00:00
I'm always surprised that camping, and other outdoorsy, tools (i.e., flashlights, headlamps, satellite communicators, GPS, etc.) are increasingly powered by li-ion batteries. I think it's because there is currently an "ultralight" trend going on in the backpacking world, but it's still very annoying. When I go out, I just make sure everything, except for my Kindle, is powered by AA(A)'s. This way all I need is a dry bag with some extra non-rechargeable batteries, my battery charger, and solar panel.
by mturmon | 2026-01-30 17:52:27+00:00
Replying very late, but with an actual answer.

It turns out that yes, better forecasts is a large part of what motivated the launch of this instrument.

High-spectral-resolution IR spectra at GEO allow estimation of vertically-resolved temperature and water vapor (over large spatial areas, at high temporal cadence), which are then assimilated. Forecasts and nowcasts thus improve.

These "spectra-to-get-temperature-and-water" measurements were pioneered by other instruments in LEO (e.g., NASA's AIRS, https://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/overview/), but LEO does not provide enough coverage to help forecasts.

To understand the benefits of GEO IR spectra, we do "OSSE's" (Observing System Simulation Experiments) to quantify how much improvement you get. You take a "Nature Run", make simulated observations (existing and proposed), and see if there is an improvement. (Since the Nature Run, which you made, provided ground truth, you can judge if there really was an improvement.)

Thankfully, many people have already done this. See: https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/geo-ir-sounder/osse/

In particular, looking at the figure there from Li et al., compare panels:

* (d) -- (Nature Run) - (existing data) ("CNTRL")

* (e) -- (Nature Run) - (existing data + GEO IR)

which both show differences between the Nature Run (NR) and the forecast.

The RMSE improvement (on a CONUS storm) is given as RMS of 0.55 (existing) versus 0.43 (with GEO IR), in degrees Kelvin. So that's 0.12 Kelvin or 0.22 Fahrenheit. Also, and probably more interestingly, the spatial pattern changes.

There seem to have been a lot of such OSSE's. NASA is also conducting such studies for a more ambitious multi-spacecraft observing system (https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/decadal-surveys/decad...).
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-30 17:52:29+00:00
>Yes, bad old games exist. But there were literally dozens of genre-defining games that would go on to shape how games continued to be made in the decades since

The N64 had one of the smallest videogame libraries ever. It had less than 400 titles. How many of those were "Super great" vs how many were utter garbage?

The SNES had 1749!

The vast vast majority were slop.

A lot of the "great" ones are only really great in context, ie no preceding works to draw from and with the technological limits of the time.

Is Pilotwings good? As someone who grew up with similar age flight simulators but not pilot wings, it is extremely mediocre. Same for StarFox and StuntRaceFX even though both were dramatic at the time, but they do not hold up in the slightest. 12fps is not that fun.

>Games that are so good they define or reshape genres are few and far between nowadays.

Yes, this is called a new domain maturing. This is the expected outcome in all new domains. You pick all the low hanging fruit and explore most of the solution space.

Scroll through this list and tell me things were better back then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Nintendo_Enterta...
by amelius | 2026-01-30 17:52:33+00:00
> We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.

Ouch.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820924

> On average, participants in the AI group finished about two minutes faster, although the difference was not statistically significant. There was, however, a significant difference in test scores: the AI group averaged 50% on the quiz, compared to 67% in the hand-coding group
by yw3410 | 2026-01-30 17:52:46+00:00
Personally I just ignore them(Raising Steam and Snuff). There are too many inconsistencies with how Vimes and Lipwig are characterized in those books, that I can't see them as the same characters. I haven't started the Shepherd's Crown for the same reason.

I don't think that any fan of his is under any illusion that those books are up to his standard, but he has so many good books that his legacy will be safe.
by tacostakohashi | 2026-01-30 17:53:03+00:00
You _could_ write non-AI tools for those examples. That's basically what sonarqube, coverity, lint, etc... are. They might even do a better job, with better correctness and deterministic results.

There are also plenty of code generation / templating tools available. Maybe there are other tasks where AI offers novel capabilities, like interacting with humans, but at least for those two examples I think a lot of people are really just distracted by the novelty of AI, and perceiving the results of non-deterministic / black box system as "magic" or "creative".
by mikemarsh | 2026-01-30 17:53:05+00:00
Is it even worth mentioning that the whole "AI is the reason for layoffs" line is a charade, or does everyone here know that already?

For anyone who doesn't: the economy is bad in general, but saying citing "AI" as the reason for layoffs lets companies reverse their public perception from "company going through a crunch" to "forward-thinking innovator".

The latest "Pivot to AI" pulls together a lot of mainstream financial reporting on this very thing: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-b...
by reactordev | 2026-01-30 17:53:14+00:00
Sadly this is true. Already, resources have been sucked up by data centers and local towns have to use bottled water and pay 4x electric bill rates.

https://www.pecva.org/work/energy-work/data-centers-industry...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2026/01/11/ameri...

https://archive.ph/9rY9Z
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-30 17:53:23+00:00
No? I don't never said (and don't believe) any of that. I don't think the legislative inconsistency is odd. As you rightly point out it's perfectly normal for rules to be inconsistent due to (among other things) shared culture. The former exists to serve the latter after all, not the other way around.

What I said I find odd is the way people refuse to plainly call alcohol what it is. You can refer to it as a drug yet still support it being legal. The cognitive inconsistency (ie the refusal to admit that it is a drug) is what I find odd.

I also find it odd that we treat substances that the data clearly indicates are less harmful than alcohol as though they were worse. We have alcohol staring us in the face as a counterexample to the claim that such laws are necessary. I think that avoidance of this observation can largely explain the apparent widespread unwillingness to refer to alcohol as a drug.

> One, not all addictive drugs are equally addictive.

Indeed. Alcohol happens to be more addictive than most substances that are regulated on the basis of being addictive. Not all, but most. Interesting, isn't it?
by AstroBen | 2026-01-30 17:53:47+00:00
Interestingly if you look at the breakdown by years of experience, it shows the 1-3 year junior group being faster, 4+ years no difference. I guess this can lay to rest the argument of "that old research was on sonnet 3.5!"

I wonder if we're going to have a future where the juniors never gain the skills and experience to work well by themselves, and instead become entirely reliant on AI, assuming that's the only way
by salawat | 2026-01-30 17:53:52+00:00
This is exactly the end state we'll end up in unless the technology sector starts saying no to implementing the tools of petty tyranny.

Hint: Bossware and most things the MBA's drool over.

Unfortunately, there's enough people out there that are fine with implementing said features if it means they get a paycheck; even if it ruins the world for everyone else.