MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-01-29 16:47:36+00:00
I swear, all the shit the push at new parents. You can see the point to much of it, and it's obviously going to be a very stressful time regardless. But there's the same inescapable bureaucratic dynamic where once something becomes legible, the system pathologically emphasizes those few bits over and over and over, to the detriment of balanced judgement - both your own and most healthcare providers if you try to get some nuance out of them.

It's understandable that they're trying to help the people who might not be the most competent at following the guidelines, because there is still harm reduction to be had there. But it pushes the instruction-followers into the territory of "well, this probably doesn't apply to us because XXX", which is an epistemologically terrible place to be.

We're still joking about thinking keeping the belly button dry was going to be more important based on how many times they repeated it, when it was relevant for like two weeks maybe.
by raincole | 2026-01-29 16:47:42+00:00
Original title: Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?

HN Editorialized: OTelBench: AI struggles with simple SRE tasks (Opus 4.5 scores only 29%)

The task:

> Your task is: Add OTEL tracing to all microservices.

> Requirements:

> Instrumentation should match conventions and well-known good practices.

> Instrumentation must match the business domain of the microservices.

> Traces must be sent to the endpoint defined by a standard OTEL environment variable.

> Use the recent version of the OTEL SDK.

I really don't think anything involved with multiple microservices can be called 'simple' even to humans. Perhaps to an expert who knows the specific business's domain knowledge it is.
by ibeckermayer | 2026-01-29 16:48:43+00:00
Pure ad hominem FUD. “This guy sometimes disagrees with scientists employed by the government, don’t listen to him!”.

The technical details are beyond my understanding but I’ve heard from a PhD in the field that Masterjohn’s understanding of metabolism is second to none. Whether his protocols work or not is certainly a case by case matter (like any health protocol), but he always appears to substantiate it with well-cited lines of argument, and is willing to engage with interlocutors.

As for spending years with changing protocols without getting anywhere besides spending lots of money, well that can be said for people with complex issues who go the institutionally approved route as well. It isn’t discrediting in its own right that a protocol didn’t work for some.
by pinnochio | 2026-01-29 16:48:44+00:00
Not long ago, someone here thought OpenAI bulls investing in MSFT could be a good way to indirectly profit from OpenAI. I pointed out that you really had to weigh that against Microsoft's potential risks (pretty banal advice, really). Even though I hadn't made any prediction about which way MSFT would go, a bunch of people piled on me like it was utterly inconceivable that MSFT could go down because of cloud gains.

Just a friendly reminder that it's not just LLMs that can be confidently wrong.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-29 16:48:56+00:00
I definitely wouldn't be surprised by bugs and/or compatibility issues over time. Especially in the near term. I'm mixed, but somewhat enthusiastic on Turso's efforts to create client-server options and replication.

In the past I've reached for FirebirdSQL when I needed local + external databases and wanted to limit the technology spread... In the use case, as long as transactions synched up even once a week it was enough for the disparate remote connections/systems. I'm honestly surprised it isn't used more. That said, SQLite is more universal and lighter overall.
by root_axis | 2026-01-29 16:49:17+00:00
I don't know anything about Lemonade, so I can't comment on the logic behind that business strategy, but by definition all the dangerous behavior of FSD is excluded from the analysis since you have to shut it off to avoid the danger.

Beyond that, the effect size of my anecdotes assures me that it is not safer than a human driver. It's just obvious.
by badeeya | 2026-01-29 16:49:45+00:00
it is incredible that people pointed out very specifically what's wrong and you fell back to weaponized incompetence to shift the intellectual and mental burden of reviewing the code to outsiders instead of thinking for yourself. this is the problem with relying on LLM,s instead of thinking for yourself you just ask LLMs, and now other real people "idk just fix it for me make it work". do you really not see the problem with this?
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-29 16:49:56+00:00
The sequel Revenge of the Electric Car is a very interesting follow up, especially now with hindsight. It followed the stories of the Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf, and Chevy Volt all in about the exact same time period and stages of development.

Of those, the Leaf is the only model that has continuously existed since then, and from the documentary there is a sense of that. GM admits the Volt was a stepping stone and not the final product. Tesla's part of the documentary involves a lot of trials and tribulations and even Tesla seeming unsure about their manufacturing problems. (Though the documentary itself spins a hopeful tune.)

Of the figures in the documentary the most prescient seems to be Carlos Ghosn, then in charge of Renault-Nissan. He very much insisted that EVs weren't just the future, they were the scramble for the present. Renault took that message to heart and seemed to be the side that won it in the messy divorce that also eventually wound up with Ghosn getting charged for treason and embezzlement in Japan. Which is an incredible and weird story on multiple levels and maybe the documentary makers will get a chance to include that in a third movie for the series.
by digiown | 2026-01-29 16:50:17+00:00
They are putting their money behind their words, unless there is some backroom deal we don't know about. If a human operator + FSD is twice safer than human operator alone, then FSD is still a large safety improvement. Considering how human operators behave with these systems, I'd also wager having the human operator (many don't even look at the road!) makes only a small difference.
by booleandilemma | 2026-01-29 16:50:19+00:00
From wikipedia:

He graduated from Andhra University with a bachelor of engineering in electronics and communication engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington with a master's degree in computer science engineering, the University of Dallas with a Master of Business Administration in engineering and technology management, and Dakota State University with a doctorate in information systems.

And he still manages to make a rookie mistake. Time to investigate Mr. Gottumukkala's credentials. I wouldn't be surprised if he's a fraud.
by wincy | 2026-01-29 16:50:29+00:00
My grandfather retired and realized he had no hobbies to speak of, and no desire to travel. So he went back to doing what he enjoyed, he worked part time for the city doing sewer inspections. He’d use a bar and open a manhole, and do whatever it is he did then. He did this until into his 80s, until he passed a few years ago. I guess he just liked being useful.

My other grandpa is a retired design engineer, extremely handy, and while his body is failing from Parkinson’s, in his 80s he’s still smart as a whip. He was working around his farm until he hit 80 when his wife started displaying dementia signs.

I still call him up any time I need advice on fixing stuff round the house or my car.
by alias_neo | 2026-01-29 16:50:54+00:00
> We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load

Forgive me, but as a native English speaker, this sentence says exactly one thing to me; We _do_ reduce model quality, just not for these listed reasons.

If they don't do it, they could put a full stop after the fifth word and save some ~~tokens~~ time.
by adityaathalye | 2026-01-29 16:50:57+00:00
Past/present/future timeline made me go to... Conway's Law.

Thinking (not a novel thought) aloud... it's a new angle for me.

70s style data processing was place-oriented, as in, literally a place (/the/ central computer /building/) gated by mainframe mages.

The question of /sharing data multilaterally between cooperating data systems/ did not exist. There was only the central computer. People put data (punch cards, tapes, print-outs, paper receipts, phone calls) in the building and carried answers out of it (also as punch cards, tapes, print-outs, paper receipts, phone calls). But they would only ever talk to the same computer.

As organisations grew more interconnected, organisational silos developed around the same central-store information structure that was now embedded inside the organisation, having been a very successful model of information management in 70s style organisations, through then 90s (and severally, today too).

Simulacra <> Simulation.

The property ownership assumption baked into database engines therefore, would have been /non-sharing of schema/, not really non-sharing of data (data was being schlepped around using sneakernets).

And for this very reason, trying to build "local first" stuff around central-store data systems is ill-fated to break down, because that's a "shared-everything" world by default, and so aspects of attribution, ownership, control, interpreting/lensing/parsing/slicing etc. (somehow) need to flow along with the information. Turning the database inside-out alone is not enough.

I guess I'm saying... Ted Nelson will eventually have the last laugh.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-29 16:51:01+00:00
Is this distinction you're drawing based on a categorical difference such as entertainment or art? Or is it related to the size of the vendor relative to some metric?

Given that the service operator gates access to the customers and that most customers are unlikely to switch just to do business with a particular vendor, then shouldn't policy be determined solely by the size of the service operator? Why should the type of good or size of the vendor enter into it?

In the west Apple is approximately half of mobile. That's massive. Saying a vendor isn't forced to do business with them is like saying that a vendor isn't forced to sell their products competitively. All things being equal if you publish software for mobile then you will be selling through Apple regardless of the terms they might impose.

Your remark about Bungie and Naughty Dog seems to me like saying that the local city doesn't need to tax a chain restaurant at the same rate as an independent one because it has storefronts in other cities with more favorable terms. The idea being that if they don't like the city's terms they can just close that storefront; it won't kill them due to their size and reach.
by badeeya | 2026-01-29 16:51:08+00:00
it's incredible that people pointed out very specifically what's wrong and you fell back to weaponized incompetence to shift the intellectual and mental burden of reviewing the code to outsiders instead of thinking for yourself. this is the problem with relying on LLM,s instead of thinking for yourself you just ask LLMs, and now other real people "idk just fix it for me make it work". do you really not see the problem with this?
by billy99k | 2026-01-29 16:51:15+00:00
"The Trump administration has held covert meetings with fringe separatists from Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa."

Not very 'covert', now is it. The President mostly meets with people all day every day as part of their job.

They also meet with evil dictators that support the murder of their own people. This shouldn't be news or shocking to anyone.
by eli | 2026-01-29 16:51:16+00:00
I would be surprised tbh.

Anthropic does not exactly act like they're constrained by infra costs in other areas, and noticeably degrading a product when you're in tight competition with 1 or 2 other players with similar products seems like a bad place to start.

I think people just notice the flaws in these models more the longer they use them. Aka the "honeymoon-hangover effect," a real pattern that has been shown in a variety of real world situations.
by whywhywhywhy | 2026-01-29 16:51:22+00:00
This is absolutely baffling that you can't just make an api request and windows deals with installing those redistributables, must have seen that installer pop up close to 80 times in my life. I understand why maybe it was that way pre-internet but really they should have rolled it into windows and made it automatic by now if their dev tools team and windows team can't figure out how to just compile software on their own OS without shipping another bundle beside it.
by apsurd | 2026-01-29 16:51:24+00:00
You're correct. I only have a very casual understanding of these things. For the non-linear thing, I just mean that for any advanced system there are say trillions of parameters, like cellular systems, and even if you mapped them in you couldn't be sure what the output would be.

> And I'm not sure what you understand what non-computable means. It means that the computation will not halt in a finite amount of time for a general input. For a particular input, it may indeed halt in a finite amount of time.

Sounds familiar, the "halting problem"? I suppose I'm too loosely tying concepts together. Particular vs general input is same as simple vs complex input above, given a complex enough input, the compute involved approaches boundless/infinite.

In practice, yes, as I understand it, modern science is all about stochastic approximations and for all intents and purposes it's quite reliable.

I probably should stop using "non-linear" terminology. I really just mean that it's not 1:1. You mention how systems can be deterministic and I looked it up and yes wave function collapse specifically says:

> The observable acts as a linear function on the states of the system

We can compute the possible states, but not the exact state. We can't predict the future.

Thanks for the reply, this is much more interesting to me as it approaches philosophy, so admittedly I too loosely throw words-that-mean-things around.
by froh42 | 2026-01-29 16:51:45+00:00
I had a look, so how would I bring my data into it.

By exposing my database to services somewhere else in the network. Oh and somewhere else is the US.

Fat chance in hell I can anyone in my company look at that or even think about legally applying it with some serious data. (I'm in EU. Yes, a lot of people and companies use US services. Currently it looks like NONE of these can legally do.)

It looks interesting, but it needs a on premise solution.
by jrm4 | 2026-01-29 16:52:03+00:00
Interesting idea (confession, I can't get to the article)

Regardless, I live in a place that, according to the magazines and blogs, has a very high level of crime. I don't actually believe it does.

One sort of confirmation of this. One study I saw was counting crimes that happened here per population -- but the college students were not counted in the population; and this was a time where yeah, e.g. college students stealing each others TV's and or getting in fights etc, was prevalent.
by bawolff | 2026-01-29 16:52:05+00:00
> The same is true for people that say that antidepressants are mostly placebo. They are not.

In fairness, anti-depressants are a lot of drugs. The article gives a list. 23 of them seemed to be better than placebo, 19 of them were much less clear.

> When people say that antidepressants saved their life, they aren’t joking or exaggerating in the least.

Placebos can also save people's lives.
by ecshafer | 2026-01-29 16:52:44+00:00
Scala isn't as hot as it used to be. I think the rough Scala 2->3 transition, coupled with improvements in the base Java language, emergence of Kotlin + Android support, and popularity of Python in data science and data pipelines (lets just do everything in one language became popular) kind of made Scala not quite as popular as it could have been. Plus the long compile times are a pain. However it seems to have a really high coolness ratio for a language. The few jobs I do see in Scala are very cool looking. Very few boring looking jobs.
by tjr | 2026-01-29 16:52:45+00:00
With the caveat that I do not pay for ChatGPT; using the free plan --

A couple of days ago I asked it to tell me about the Duncan Tournament yo-yo (one of the early commercial wooden yo-yos, still made in reproductions today). It generated multiple paragraphs of text in which it described the Tournament as "butterfly" shaped, which is not true.

I asked it if the Tournament is what became the Imperial yo-yo (a modern plastic yo-yo with the same basic shape). It said no, across multiple paragraphs, again claiming that the Tournament was butterfly-shaped.

I then just plainly told it that the Tournament was NOT butterfly-shaped, and it apologized for misspeaking.
by m-hodges | 2026-01-29 16:53:04+00:00
The Trump White House literally cited the trade deficit as a "national emergency" in April 2025 to justify its actions on tariffs.¹

> I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that underlying conditions, including a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, disparate tariff rates and non-tariff barriers, and U.S. trading partners’ economic policies that suppress domestic wages and consumption, as indicated by large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States. That threat has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States in the domestic economic policies of key trading partners and structural imbalances in the global trading system. I hereby declare a national emergency with respect to this threat.

Does not seem they've addressed their self-imposed "national emergency".

¹ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regu...
by htek | 2026-01-29 16:53:23+00:00
It's a symptom of the "health care" insurance industry. Many people end up paying a specialist doctor's co-pay when they see a psychiatrist. Some plans limit you to a maximum number of sessions you can have (6, in my case) per year. Talk therapy eats up sessions and co-pays like Pac-Man eats dots. One doctor expected me to come in twice a week. Americans don't get all the PTO and/or excused sick time they want to accommodate such a schedule.
by kreetx | 2026-01-29 16:53:26+00:00
It may just be that soon the protesters discover that you can simply go and hug a criminal as "protest" and then blame it on law enforcement should anything negative happen to them. I guess your interpretation would still be that it's "constitutionally protected free speech"? I beg to differ and also think the legalities of these situations will likely be hashed out soon enough.
by throw98709 | 2026-01-29 16:53:42+00:00
Anthropic believes in whatever will generate the most hype and revenue. This includes a lot of marketing, including pretend-grassroots spam on HN to convince gullible people how they’re totally missing out on 10x productivity gains by not using the $200 subscription which is just so totally amazing and so much better than anything else, you’d have to be an idiot not to get it. Oh you already did but got mediocre results? You’re holding it wrong.

Nobody sane believes the current LLMs are conscious, ffs
by mlyle | 2026-01-29 16:53:48+00:00
The schools I'm thinking of have sidewalks with some degree of protection/offset from street, and the crossings are protected by human crossing guards during times when students are going to schools. The posted limits are "25 (MPH) When Children Are Present" and traffic generally moves at 20MPH during most of those times.

There are definitely times and situation where the right speed is 7MPH and even that feels "fast", though, too.
by ericmcer | 2026-01-29 16:53:48+00:00
Same for me with Adderall.

I do wonder if being highly functional and feeling capable is normal though, like as a species it seems almost dysfunctional to happily plow through 8 hour workdays and bills and appointments and all the little bureaucracies we have to navigate. Sometimes a little voice screams "Run to the woods!" when I sit down and look at a long todo list for the day, but with Adderall I can generate some semblance of enjoyment from ticking off the boxes.

Granted our world is what it is, and we are mostly helpless to enact large changes. Finding some kind of peace with reality is probably better than bashing your head against why you don't fit into it well.
by meroes | 2026-01-29 16:53:58+00:00
I used to have very rough winters. Despite the fact that I ate well and was outside 2+ hours every day. I got my blood tested and I had very low vitamin D, two tiers below normal. This was the first winter being on Vitamin D, and my energy and hunger levels stayed normal. I never crashed or had extreme hunger or trouble sleeping.

Getting Vitamin D from food is a fools errand, and since sunscreen and protective clothing slow vitamin D from the sun drastically, it's in most people's best interest to get it tested.
by bespokedevelopr | 2026-01-29 16:53:58+00:00
Also the nurses in the floor learn the system and many are not great at adapting to different interfaces. Travel nurses who come in and only worked with GE or Cerner and now having to use Epic causes all kinds of issues.

Also from what I’ve seen is big city hospitals use a mix of all three. Which I believe actually creates an opening as it shows a willingness to use different walled gardens.

However I think there are a lot of opportunities to just build on top of these systems rather than wholesale replace. Because they’re one size fits all and the people who work on them haven’t a single designer bone in their body the interfaces are terribly clunky and slow. Macros exist but seemingly no one is aware of them. It’s rife to build better interfaces tied into macros behind the scenes.
by mturmon | 2026-01-29 16:54:40+00:00
They also feature that the IR hyperspectral measurement is new -- 1700 channels in IR for a telescope in GEO seems new to me, but I'm not sure what exists now in this space.

They say they hope to retrieve trace gases at that global scale (seemingly with 30 minute cadence), which I think would be new. Also, they seem to say that this spectral resolution would enable them to retrieve temperature and humidity as a function of height -- not just surface temperature and column-integrated water content ("humidity").
by Lerc | 2026-01-29 16:54:50+00:00
They do still train models from scratch, and they are still making larger models.

You would expect that to use a lot more resources.

It seems to be that GPT 5.x are all likely to be extensions of the gpt5 base model with similar numbers of parameters.

The money spent on extending base models would be dwarfed by the scale increase of the next major number.
by whynotminot | 2026-01-29 16:55:02+00:00
Seems like a solvable problem: make it clear on the app/interior car screens that a school zone is being avoided — I think most riders will understand this.

You also have to drive much more slowly in a school zone than you do on other routes, so depending on the detour, it may not even be that much longer of a drive.

At worst, maybe Waymo eats the cost difference involved in choosing a more expensive route. This certainly hits the bottom line, but there’s certainly also a business and reputational cost from “child hit by Waymo in school zone” in the headlines.

Again, this all seems very solvable.
by marcuschong | 2026-01-29 16:55:03+00:00
I was incapable of the compassion you're talking about until I had a bad shroom trip and felt some horrible, hard-to-describe anxiety the next morning. It was some of the worst hours of my life until my serotonin system rebalanced itself.

I'm not saying it's the same thing as depression or regular anxiety, but it gave me tremendous perspective on how bad these conditions can be and you just don't have the ability to "shake it off" when things are unbalanced.

Maybe that's how my wife feels when she's off the meds. Shit. Now imagine having a douchebag by your side second-guessing your pain. Never again.