MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcianx | 2026-01-13 20:40:13+00:00
I think it makes some sense to allow leeway for intelligent "signal processing" using AI (separating out individual tracks, clean-up, etc) vs generating new content with AI.

Similarly, say, for video editors, using AI to more intelligently rotoscope (especially with alpha blending in the presence of motion blur - practically impossible to do it manually), would be a great use of AI, removing the non-creative tedium of the process.

It's not clear where the line is though. I was quite impressed with Corridor Crew's (albeit NVidia+Puget-sponsored) video [1] where they photographed dolls, motion-captured human actors moving like the dolls, and transferred the skeletal animation and facial expressions to those dolls using GenAI. Some of it required nontrivial transformative code to accommodate a skeleton to a toy's body type. There's a massive amount of tedium being removed from the creative process by GenAI without sacrificing the core human creative contribution. This feels like it should be allowed -- I think we should attempt to draw clearer lines where there are clearly efficiency gains to be had to have less "creative" uses be more socially acceptable.

[1]: https://youtu.be/DSRrSO7QhXY
by rconti | 2026-01-13 20:40:20+00:00
I'm on NEM2.0 so I can generate more than I use at peak hours and push into the grid for higher credit value than I consume overnight to charge my car.

Still, I don't see the value proposition for batteries on NEM2.

If I wasn't using _any_ electricity at my house, and I could 100% charge the batteries off-peak and push the power back to the grid at peak, I'd only be arbitraging like 5-10c/kWh * 15kWh per pack.

So, $1.50 per day, per pack. Unless I'm totally thinking about this wrong. The spread between peak and off-peak rates is just too small.
by BigParm | 2026-01-13 20:40:22+00:00
Children aren't being produced. Birth rates are declining.

People conflate the carrying capacity of the economy with GDP, but these are different. The economy grows but requires fewer workers over time. As the carrying capacity decreases, the population decreases. On the ground, this manifests as the inability to afford child rearing.

The excerpt you cited assumes that this race of workers must afford to perpetuate itself in order to be viable. It cannot perpetuate itself, and it is not viable.
by jatora | 2026-01-13 20:40:55+00:00
Do you really think a human creating something isn't the output of assimilating the outputs of countless humans that came before them?

Your argument implies creativity is confined to humans or brains. So no creativity existed before that? Weird. Lucky for us that evolution spawned creativity then!

If you could answer that question then that should help me understand, since you say it is trivial to verifiably prove my position wrong
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-13 20:40:59+00:00
I got a different impression, because you also wrote:

> If only it was that simple T_T

Which to me sounded like _for you_ it's not simple because reasons, which led me to believe, that you _do_ want to take it into your own hands, making it not simple, ergo not being able to let the OS do it, for reasons. Now I understand what you mean, thanks!
by puzu | 2026-01-13 20:41:05+00:00
I am not against AI art but this would better to be contained in specific platforms, you could browse Suno for AI music and Bandcamp for human music.
You would'nt display some generative art piece next to a Rembrandt. Also, Bandcamp could enshittified by a flood of AI music and change the fees or terms, so please no.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-13 20:41:10+00:00
Nothing I said in my comment comes from news media: it’s court precedent, reaching up to the Supreme Court decisions and stretching back to 1989.

This isn’t “current administration” changes - the standards for use of force by law enforcement are very clear in this situation.

It’s no surprise the side that wants to ignore established immigration law also disregards that established legal standard in favor of their feelings.
by literallyroy | 2026-01-13 20:41:29+00:00
Thanks for the reply :]

That seems better as long as you can keep it standard across the team. I don’t usually check each commit when reviewing since frequent iterative commits mean folks change their mind and I’d review already removed logic when looking at early commits.

I’ve been scraping by on basic git usage so didn’t know about fix-up commits, that’s excellent.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-13 20:41:34+00:00
> In what US city can someone on minimum wage raise two children? On the US federal minimum wage?!

Federal minimum wage is a strawman in large cities.

I'm in a medium cost of living city and I doubt I could find a minimum wage job listing if I tried. Fast food places and government buildings even advertise $15-20/hr jobs because they can't hire enough people.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-13 20:41:46+00:00
> Ok, but please just do a quick search and check your facts before kicking off a long discussion thread on a false basis.

My facts here would have been previous HN discussions that would have been very hard to find.

> I promise you that a lot of the pushback you're getting from Brits is down to the factual inaccuracies and exaggerations in your posts

No, that isn't the case, and you're not in a position to promise that; it's an assumption you're making, and I would ask you to question your motivation for doing so.

In the previous posts I was using as an example discussion the coronation, people were downplaying protestors being arrested for holding up signs. Nothing was being exaggerated, all the facts were accurate as they had just happened - sources were abundant.
by sillysideprojs | 2026-01-13 20:42:00+00:00
Location: United States

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I have 12 years of experience and have worked on a lot of zero to one greenfield projects.
by oscaracso | 2026-01-13 20:42:03+00:00
It is a shame they are indifferent to the degree of AI slop ('Then came the order. Not a shutdown-- something worse. The routers didn't go silent. They screamed. Filtering rules conflicted. Routes flapped. The network began eating itself alive.') as it neither lends credibility to the source nor respects the humanity of the story's subjects. It would be far better were other HN readers more discerning.
by zahlman | 2026-01-13 20:42:43+00:00
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ice-agent-shooting-video-minne...

> He's engaged in a petty argument with the driver

No; the argument occurs outside the vehicle, and is with the driver's partner. And it is not so much of an "argument" as him being repeatedly provoked with statements such as "You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead."

> tries to block her car with his body

No, he does not. He happened to move around the front of the car, which is consistent with circling the car to get video footage of it from all angles which would be part of expected evidence-gathering protocol. The car can be seen (including in other video) to move back and realign as he is walking in front.

> then says "fuckin' bitch!" after he's killed her.

Even left-wing sources like the CBC concede that "It is unclear who said those words."
by bayarearefugee | 2026-01-13 20:42:51+00:00
> I think we need to press harder for verified privacy at inference.

Who are we going to press for this (if we're in the US)... the AI companies who have spent the last 3-5 years ingesting all the data they can find, legality be damned?

Or the presidential administration... the only branch of our supposed 3 branch system that hasn't abdicated its own power and who very obviously doesn't give a shit what you think about anything if you have nothing to offer them?
by simonw | 2026-01-13 20:43:04+00:00
Us board members voted to put Dawn in that position.

The position doesn't have much additional power at all - the chair spends a little more time with the executive director and gets to set the agenda for the board meetings, but board actions still require a vote from the board.

If we felt like an employee of a specific company was abusing their position on the PSF board we would take steps to address that. Thankfully I've seen no evidence of that from anyone during my time on the board.

If anything it's the opposite: board members are very good about abstaining from votes that their employer might have an interest in.
by SoftTalker | 2026-01-13 20:43:08+00:00
I disagree that there is not enough value in local journalism that people are willing to pay for it. I used to pay for my local paper, I stopped when they stopped doing local reporting. Now I pay another guy who is doing that.

There may be a question as to whether enough people will do this to make it sustainable, but so far it's working at least in this case.
by ck2 | 2026-01-13 20:43:20+00:00
two wrongs don't make it right but just to document that ICE has been using their facial scan and plate scan apps meant to determine immigration status on non-violent protestors and then following them home (or even more creepy, leading them to the protestor's home) and calling them out by full name and details

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/ice-using-private-d...

I'd settle for the middle-ground law enforcement can't wear masks and cover their agency/badge number (or use fake plates)

Extreme powers has to come with extreme responsibility, they are heavily armed and also using their cars to ram people on purpose, they don't have to follow rules because they know no-one knows who they are
by Aurornis | 2026-01-13 20:43:24+00:00
> If the result of their protest is that the site is less useful for you, the user, then in fact it served its purpose, as the entire point was an attempt to boycott Reddit, ie. get people to stop using it by removing the user contributions that give the site its only value in the first place.

In practice I just give them more page views because I have to view more threads before I find the answer.

Reddit's DAU numbers have only gone up since the protest.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-01-13 20:43:26+00:00
I know what you mean, I'm ambivalent about AI since I perceive both advantages and disadvantages which balance out to be about neutral.

Well, as neutral as can be for someone who put lots of effort into ML way back in 1980 for a while there before the crash.

That's a pretty long time to be considering things like this, but it's so far removed from today that by now more decades have been spent as an outside observer with a bit of a unique background than anything else.

On any one subtopic I may still have a knee-jerk reaction more positive or negative than neutral, where I might not be that well-informed or have a full grasp of the implications. Regardless of how flexible I am as things emerge faster than ever, at times it could just as easily be lumped in with either the doomers or those who feel AI can do no wrong.

Maybe a few decades is not enough to come up with the really hard answers. Or even all the right questions?

I'm first to admit that about the main thing I do is respond to prompts for more than a decade without even trying. Without any AI at all and that's not likely to change.

If that's confusing, oh well.

OTOH the huge advances in language models make it easier for non-English speakers to make their messages more readable which can help a lot. And with computer languages being languages themselves progress here is remarkable too.
by Espressosaurus | 2026-01-13 20:43:29+00:00
Hard power still matters. It gets access to things like fiber closets, upstream dependencies, subtle flaws in encryption schemes that take years to figure out, information linking your networks, and more than I can think of.

Cute tech can slow them down until they go through the effort of controlling most of TOR's exit nodes and point the Eye of Sauron at you.
by lamontcg | 2026-01-13 20:44:07+00:00
It really seems like all the complaints about firefox are mostly ego-deflection.

People know it is wrong to stay on Chrome and empower Google to the extent that it is, but they're stuck on that workflow and don't want to change, so they find nits to pick about firefox and get very LOUD about that. Then it becomes Mozill's fault that they're still using Chrome, and you can't blame them for anything.
by hinkley | 2026-01-13 20:44:33+00:00
Specialization is one of the reasons my call trees are just a little bit deeper than what one would expect given my loud but moderate stance on function splitting. Uncle Bob is nuts for espousing one line functions. But the answer to Bob being a lunatic is not two page functions. I think you can say a lot in five to six lines, and not overshoot meaningful names into word salad because you’ve run out of ideas. That’s still small enough for branch prediction, inlining, and specialization to kick in per call site, particularly if some callers follow one conditional branch and the others favors the other.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-01-13 20:44:57+00:00
> one trick is to at most minimally use the under seat storage [...] Then, you can put your feet in that space

Oh, interesting. I've always done that, it never really occurred to me that others might not. Even if you have a bigger bag you can always take it out during the flight to make space for your feet. That, plus crossing my legs allows me to have my legs flat against the chair (and therefore my knees well below the level where the person in front reclining would make much difference).
by internet_points | 2026-01-13 20:44:58+00:00
> you're still exposing your data to Confer

They use a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment and iiuc claim that your client can confirm (attest) that the code they run doesn't leak your data, see
https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/

So you should be able to run https://github.com/conferlabs/confer-image yourself and get a hash of that and then confer.to will send you that same hash, but now it's been signed by Intel I guess? to tell you that yes not only did confer.to send you that hash, but that hash is indeed a hash of what's running inside the Trusted Execution Environment.

I feel like this needs diagrams.
by tim333 | 2026-01-13 20:45:00+00:00
I'm not sure if the whole thing isn't a bit unfair. Lots of people in America want to live in fancy low crime neighbourhoods rather than getto like but know not say a lot of their thinking so as to not be cancelled. The "ok to be white" thing was based on some dumb 4chan trolling, and quite likely got misinterpreted.
by chiengineer | 2026-01-13 20:45:09+00:00
I built a .net / c# / avalonia privacy hardening project/ telemetry blocker

with vs code + github copilot just in the past month - because everything that already exists is old not updated - for the most part -

If anyone is interested Ill upload it and share - but its still in project mode - it works - has over 95+ ways to harden + more features coming down the pipeline

- it works so well - I had to wipe my OS - because I destroyed all the features that are tied into the telemetry -
by MrDarcy | 2026-01-13 20:45:10+00:00
Two very useful use cases for rebase: 1) rewrite history to organize the change list clearly. 2) stacked pull requests of arbitrary depth.

You’ve never run a bisect to identify which commit introduced a specific behavior?

This is when I’ve found it most useful. Having commits merged instead of squashed narrows down and highlights the root problem.

It’s a rare enough situation I don’t push for merge commits over squashed rebases because it’s not worth it, but when I have had to bisect and the commits are merged instead of squashed it is very very useful.

Those commit authors are who I noted as clear thinkers and have tracked over my career to great benefit.
by RHSeeger | 2026-01-13 20:45:14+00:00
> It's not really a big deal in coding LLMs

Challenge. Given that you're not nailing down _EVERY_ detail in your descriptions (because that's not possible), the results can vary a fair amount. Especially as the model changes over time. And if there was anything else in the context; I've gotten different results from the exact same prompt 60 minutes apart after reverting the code, because there were some failed attempts to get it to fix what it broke.
by clydethefrog | 2026-01-13 20:45:19+00:00
See also the protests in Serbia [1] led by university students, that have been also mostly ignored by both the EU and the USA. The EU commented "they will not accept or support a violent change of power in Serbia", and the USA claimed they do not support "those who undermine the rule of law or who forcefully take over government buildings."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%93present_Serbian_a...
by Terr_ | 2026-01-13 20:45:23+00:00
Right, confirmed translation is the responsible way to use LLMs, as opposed to stuffing them in everything willy-nilly like informational asbestos mad-lib machines.

Another positive example would taking layperson-input of "articles about Foo but not Bar only in the last seven days" and suggesting (formal, deterministic) search parameters for the user to view and hopefully understand before approving.

Granted, that becomes way trickier if the suggestion can be "evil" somehow, such as if you're suggesting SQL somehow the dataset has been poisoned so that it "recommends" destructive commands... But even that isn't nearly the same degree of malpractice as making it YOLO everything.
by strangecasts | 2026-01-13 20:45:31+00:00
I think any line is necessarily going to be arbitrary, a blanket ban on any ML model being used in production would be plainly impossible -- using Ozone's EQ assistant or having a Markov chain generate your chord progressions could also count towards "in substantial part", but are equally hard to object to.

But we also live with arbitrary lines elsewhere, as with spam filters? People generally don't want ads for free Viagra, and spam filters remain the default without making "no marketing emails" a hard rule.

The problem isn't that music Transformers can't be used artfully [1] but that they allow a kind of spam which distribution services aren't really equipped to handle. In 2009, nobody would have stopped you from producing albums en masse with the generative tech of the day, Microsoft's Songsmith [2], but you would have had a hard time selling them - but hands-off distribution services like DistroKid and improved models makes music spam much more viable now than it was previously.

[1] I personally find neural synthesis models like RAVE autoencoders nifty: https://youtu.be/HC0L5ZH21kw

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research_Songsmith as ...demoed? in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0l7f25bhU
by cess11 | 2026-01-13 20:45:38+00:00
They can get their "AI" music in many other places, there's no reason for Bandcamp specifically to provide it.

As of yet Bandcamp hasn't tried to become an 'everything is here' kind of distributor, but rather more tailored to small, niche, quality &c. artists, and not consumers. Kind of the opposite to Spotify.
by damnitbuilds | 2026-01-13 20:45:43+00:00
Some companies invested in the young internet. That created "The Internet Bubble". We still had the internet after that bubble burst.

Some companies are investing trillions in LLM AIs. It is probably a bubble. But we will still have LLM AIs if that bubble bursts.

Some companies are investing billions in humanoid robots. It may be a bubble. But we will still have humanoid robots if that bubble bursts.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-13 20:46:15+00:00
> 3. Some of these patches are accepted

> 4. They intervene at this point and reveal that the patches are malicious

> 5. The patches are then not merged

It's not clear to me that they revealed anything, just that they did fix the problems:

> In their paper, Lu and Wu claimed that none of their bugs had actually made it to the Linux kernel — in all of their test cases, they’d eventually pulled their bad patches and provided real ones. Kroah-Hartman, of the Linux Foundation, contests this — he told The Verge that one patch from the study did make it into repositories, though he notes it didn’t end up causing any harm.

(I'm only working from this article, though, so feel free to correct me)
by yellowapple | 2026-01-13 20:46:19+00:00
Along the same lines, the anti-AI attitude among musicians today reminds me quite a bit of the anti-synthesizer attitude of the 60's and 70's, down to the same exact talking points: fears of “real” musicians being replaced by nerds pushing buttons on machines that can imitate those musicians.

I think the fears were understandable then, and are understandable now. I also think that, just as the fears around synthesizers didn't come to fruition, neither will the fears around AI come to fruition. Synthesizers didn't, and generative AI won't, replace musicians; rather, musicians did and will add these new technologies into their toolsets and use them to push music beyond what was previously understood to be possible. Synthesizers didn't catch on by just imitating other instruments, but by being understood and exploited as instruments in their own right; so will generative AI catch on not by just imitating other instruments, but by being understood and exploited as an instrument in its own right.

The core problem right now is that AI (even beyond just music) ain't being marketed as a means of augmenting one's creativity and skills, but as a means of replacing them. That'll always be misguided, both in the practical sense of producing worse outputs and in the philosophical sense of atrophying that same creativity and skills. AI doesn't have to produce slop, but it will inevitably produce slop when it's packaged and sold and marketed in a way that actively encourages slop — much like taking one of those cheap electric keyboards with built-in beats and songs and advertising it as able to replace a whole band. Yeah, it's cool that keyboards can play songs on their own and AI can generate songs on their own, but that output will always be subpar compared to what someone with even the slightest bit of creativity and skill can pull out of those exact same tools.
by atomicnumber3 | 2026-01-13 20:46:44+00:00
I think the main problem with online recipes is that there's a lot of stuff that "cooks" and "people who cook" learn that carries over VERY STRONGLY from dish to dish that is just totally absent from online tutorials. Things like what done (but not dried out) chicken looks like, and how to position chicken in a pan so the thicker parts get more heat, and why your chicken went right from "looks plain" to burned with no maillard reaction.

I think foods/culinary courses should be mandatory in high school. I took one as an elective, expecting it to be a blow-off class, but I ended up being shocked by how much I - honor student and all that - didn't know about browning hamburger, much less actual cooking. I ended up taking the subsequent 3 classes in the "foods" line.
by svat | 2026-01-13 20:46:48+00:00
Thanks for making this site; I love it and have returned to it many times. (I don't mind the layout with all translations even on mobile; I just rotate my phone or decrease font size.) I read through the whole thing recently. (https://twitter.com/svat/status/2004591889010643102)

Thanks also for making it open-source. I used it for a blog post about a story I remembered from my school textbook :) https://shreevatsa.net/post/bazin-letter-box/ -> https://shreevatsa.net/bazin-letter-box/

Stephen Walton's translation is actually my favourite! I omitted it here because this is HN and likely someone would complain the translation is clearly incorrect because it talks about “Your neighbor’s car gets hit in a parking lot”. But to include it too just for completeness :) https://enchiridion.tasuki.org/display:Code:e,ec,twh,twr,gl,...