MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arjie | 2026-01-25 09:41:09+00:00
Ah I see. Thank you. I think to get the sort of functionality I want for the amount of effort I'd have to put in, I'd have to get a tape autoloader and so on. My cabinet is not conveniently located for me so I can't be swapping tapes and so on. I can see that they are quite good for long term offline storage. It's just that I have more of an online backup type target.
by cheema33 | 2026-01-25 09:41:18+00:00
>> And any attempt at computer use has fallen by the wayside.

> You're totally right! I mean, aside from Anthropic launching "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work" 5 days ago. :)

Claude Cowork does not do "computer use" in the traditional sense. e.g. it cannot use your computer to drive the interface of Adobe Premiere. It is not taking screenshots of your computer desktop, like a traditional "Computer use" product does.
by n_u | 2026-01-25 09:41:32+00:00
As I understand, Comma.ai is focused on driver-assistance and not fully autonomous self-driving.

The features listed on the wikipedia are lane-centering, cruise-control, driver monitoring, and assisted lane change.[1]

The article I linked to from Starsky addresses how the first 90% is much easier than the last 10% and even cites "The S-Curve here is why Comma.ai, with 5–15 engineers, sees performance not wholly different than Tesla’s 100+ person autonomy team."

To give an example of the difficulty of the last 10%: I saw an engineer from Waymo give a talk about how they had a whole team dedicated to detecting emergency vehicle sirens and acting appropriately. Both false positives and false negatives could be catastrophic so they didn't have a lot of margin for error.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openpilot#Features
by paganel | 2026-01-25 09:42:03+00:00
They’ve just moved the pollution out of the gentrified areas that can afford to purchase EVs at scale. Which was part of the initial goal when pushing for this insanity, as the plebs were polluting with the air of the much better off by using their 20-years old clunkers (or at least that was the discourse here in Europe). Mission about to be accomplished, those plebs now can take the bus if they still want mobility.
by spwa4 | 2026-01-25 09:42:42+00:00
Well you misunderstand enshittification. It will never get better again. Both Google and Apple have enshittified their phones. You can verify this on the App Store, on the Play Store, both of which have now more than 50% of search result screen space dedicated to ads, more when it comes to scams [1]. AND you can verify this in the financial statements of Apple and Google, where you see what we've always seen in Google: steadily increasing at a fixed rate profits from ads on the play store in Google's case, and steadily increasing at a fixed rate profits from "Services", which is App Store ads.

In Apple's case this has been the only Apple business to grow at all in several of the recent years. In fact there's quite a few Apple businesses that look like they are "revenue neutral", most famously iPads. Google is better, but not by much. Cloud is growing fast ("but why?" is a question that's unanswered. I mean, "because of AI", of course, but ... seriously?)

So not only are they enshittified, and you see them getting worse and worse over time, but the financial statements show: if you're expecting this to get any better either in the Apple or Google case, you're insane. Because clearly ads for scams are worth it for advertisers, and most other types of ads are not worth it. The situation evolves more and more towards the cable channel situation of 20 years back.

You could also reverse the view. The simple question: "are people willing to compromise on hardware quality to get less ads?" has a very clear NO answer. "Are governments/institutions that are totally dependent on these systems willing to pay to either improve phones or make an alternative available?", again has boatloads of evidence that the answer is NO, in all caps.

[1] Search for "credit card" or "lose weight" and judge for yourself. Top results are promoting Apple or Google themselves, everything else are ads, and very bad deals that trivially will neither accomplish the promised financial independence nor weight loss. Or should I put it like this: the credit card deals advertised are so bad they might achieve weight loss. By the way ads designed to mislead, which the top ads for either search obviously are, are what both Google and Apple promised time and again never to do.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-25 09:42:57+00:00
That is neither true of healthcare or car ownership specifically. It’s the Pareto Rule. 20% of participants drive 80% of the costs. This is expanded across the population via averaging from insurance.

Law describes this as the thin skull problem. If you accidentally tap someone that had a thin skull and their head explodes you are still guilty of manslaughter even though the action is both completely benign and unintentional. The extreme alternative is to eliminate high risk people until no risks remain in the system. Insurance is a nice balance in the middle, but that doesn’t mean ownership is otherwise unaffordable for most people.
by oorza | 2026-01-25 09:43:28+00:00
I'm not sure you need AGI to clear that bar; I'm not sure you need more technology than currently exists beyond iterative improvements to things like how expensive it is to train a model.

But let's say it's free-ish to train a model, so you decide that that's how you're going to write the next Marvel movie. You train an LLM specifically on screeplay writing, teaching it to cross reference literary techniques with audience reaction, you teach it the sum total of Marvel canon, you teach it the sum total of the American cinema canon, you train it on all the social media reaction to either, and so on. You teach it to specifically engineer screenplays for Marvel movies that Marvel audiences will do maximum Marvel fanboy shit about. Do you genuinely believe such a dedicated model couldn't output a Marvel movie that everyone would love as much as Endgame?

Obviously, in the economy of 2026, it is cheaper for Disney to hire flesh-and-blood writers instead of doing this madness. But one day it won't be - and this is hardly even the tip of the iceberg. The ability to finely hone models quickly and on-demand (potentially on a per-prompt basis) would unlock another tier of accuracy and performance from LLMs, and for some/most artistic tasks, I think that gets you to "indistinguishable from mass market media."
by trinix912 | 2026-01-25 09:43:42+00:00
> Yet the West made absolutely no attempt to calm the Russians down and for some reason announced in 2008 plans to expand to Georgia and Ukraine, despite even Western experts warning about that being utterly provocative.

It is the right of any sovereign country to freely join any military alliance, including NATO. The fact that this upsets Putin says more about him than the alliance and its (potential) members.
by anthonj | 2026-01-25 09:44:29+00:00
Germany always surprise me with continuous contradiction in their society.

Largest economy in eu but very unstable and riddled with wierd burocracy.

Strongest worker protection, but very large amount of lobbysm.

Most advanced railway system in eu, transformed into a joke by interdiction from said lobbies.

You have to pay a "radio tax" to help funding press and keep it independent, but then fuck net neutrality.

And I could continue with more point, but I don't want to get too political.
by karlgkk | 2026-01-25 09:44:37+00:00
Honestly, you’re so wrong about the app situation that it’s almost staggering. iOS apps tend to be more stable, better polished, have better integration with system features (like the Dynamic Island), and even often have more features. This isn’t even an unfounded opinion, it’s a material problem for Google and led them to vastly investing in automated testing and quality efforts

App addressable user base is another problem for Google, one that they have mentioned in developer conferences. It’s a big part of why they’ve been trying to ship a tablet and unify android and Chromebook. If Google isn’t careful they could find themselves in a downward spiral situation, stuck between apple on one side, and android forks on the other.

And the last answer is, as always, money

- browser is deemphasized on iOS, and so it’s weaker feature set matters less

- iOS is generally easier to develop for because of less device differentiation

- on average iOS has significantly wealthier users who tend to be higher return or paying customers (seriously, look it up). This in turn leads companies to invest more heavily in iOS.

- easier integration due to a narrow system services ecosystem (no Google vs Samsung slapfights)

- unified platform advantage (apps written for iOS easily port to the watch and tablet, unlocking larger markets, and justifying greater spend in developing apps)

- apples review process is significantly stricter (for better or for worse)

Yes, Apple doesn’t have something like fdroid, and that’s really disappointing and honestly a legitimate dealbreaker for a lot of people
by Narciss | 2026-01-25 09:45:56+00:00
I opened it in the morning while my partner was sleeping next to me.

I see the big red “press me” button sitting in a corner, and when I pressed, a rich farting sound blasted out of my phone’s speakers, which coincidentally were on full volume. It was LOUD enough to hear it throughout the house.

My partner’s only reaction was to say “great” in a low voice :)))

Thanks for the laugh!
by trinix912 | 2026-01-25 09:46:36+00:00
Russia (or Putin, to be precise) has repeatedly threatened to invade EU members in the Baltics (rebuilding the SU/Russian Empire/etc), as well as threatened EU with stopping gas supply, which would've been a direct hit to the economy. These two are confirmed facts, there's also a lot more stuff speculated which you can freely find online.
by samiv | 2026-01-25 09:46:55+00:00
In summary because:

- They're beholden to Wall Street and stock price is the only metric
- They've been laying off staff even up to senior/principal engineering levels.
- Shifting towards vibe coding instead of engineering.

Gonna get a lot worse still and things will continue to deteriorate until Wall Street picks up on the issues and thinks it'll start hurting their next quarter results. (And it's not going to happen since Windows is nothing but a side note at this point)
by p4bl0 | 2026-01-25 09:47:26+00:00
This is a nice idea but while the home page was correctly localized in French as my browser is, I couldn't find a way to see "teaching" or "learning" parts of the website in French. At least on mobile, there's no way to tell the site to change language, and it doesn't properly do that on its own based on the browser's preferences. This defeats the whole idea…
by JackSlateur | 2026-01-25 09:49:02+00:00
"may I suggest studying even elementary school level humanities or philosophy"

"face the truth of your existence"

"We have so many systems of meaning that exist across the planet"

Your words are empty. I gave you several leads to actual people who gave actual thoughts with serious conclusions (that matches the world you can see). You gave nothing except meaningless words. What is the truth of our existence ? What systems (there are so many!) are you speaking about ? Why none of them are implemented right now, and why everybody still have the need to do things in their lives ?

And the most important question: how do you keep 8 billions people occupied ?
by allreduce | 2026-01-25 09:49:18+00:00
Honestly, no. Not for everyone.

As someone from Germany, I don't want Google to nanny family members computing devices. They don't want it either.
It is completely absurd for an ad company in a surveillance state an ocean away to play IT services for everyone. This has already gone to far.

Rather, there should be tools for value-aligned IT services and technically minded family members to help.
by ccozan | 2026-01-25 09:49:54+00:00
Telekom is well known for the crappy service - but they have a de facto monopoly. For example, when it rains, the line goes down where I live.

Solution: I got my Starlink. 3x speed. No crappy service. Weather independent. And surprinsingly cheaper ( 40 euros vs 45 ) .

[ as much as I do not like Musk & co, this is a real useful thing he build for the mankind - internet everywere from sattelite ]
by kqr | 2026-01-25 09:50:11+00:00
Money! He has a family to provide for and his unique skillset is "climbing below his grade but with no support", so that's the service he offers the world.

(I get that there are more motivations underneath free soloing in general, but I doubt Taipei 101 with a million cameras is the climb he'd choose if it were not for the money.)
by lance_ewing | 2026-01-25 09:50:15+00:00
For a couple of reasons: The first is that there are already a couple of projects using FPGA to create a VIC chip replacement, e.g. Victor by Jon Brawn, and FATVIC by Thomas Lövskog. The main trigger to try a Pico 2 version was when I saw sodiumlightbaby's OCULA project for the Oric. The ULA in the Oric is the equivalent of the VIC chip in the VIC 20, i.e. the main custom chip. When it dawned on me that he was using the Pico 2 for the OCULA, I thought, "Hey! Why not try the same thing for the VIC chip?". So we've been collabing on it over the past 12 months. I think you're right though, that devices like the Victor that use FPGA will be able to get closer to 100% compatibility. The PIVIC will be an alternative that might not be 100% compatible but is very close and would suffice for most.

Yeah, the PIVIC is pin compatible, and the same size as the original chip, so no overhanging bits. The PCB is as big as the original VIC chip.
by bonesss | 2026-01-25 09:50:37+00:00
Engineer: “It will take me two days [of work].” Sales:”We will have your fix ready in three calendar days [today + 2].”

Actual work that week gives employee 3 hours of non-meeting time, each daily meeting adds 0.5 hours of high-urgency administrative work. Friday’s we have a mandatory all-hands town halls…

Repeat that cycle for every customer facing issue, every demo facing issue, and internal political issue and you quickly drive deep frustrations and back talking.

I think there’s a fundamental truth: no one in their right minds, not even motivated engineers, actually hears anything but calendar when getting “days” estimates. It’s a terrible misrepresentation almost all the time, and engineers do a disservice when they yield to pressure to deliver them outside the broader planning process.

Project schedules should be the only place that time commitments come from, since they’re informed with necessary resource availability.
by danaris | 2026-01-25 09:50:53+00:00
And wouldn't you say that when a comment is made in bad faith, or misrepresents (deliberately or not) a major component of its argument, that it adds little to the discussion?

It's all well and good to have high-minded ideals of pure intellectual discussion, but in the real world, there are many people who are coming into the comments with a strong political agenda in mind, and are both willing and able to make disingenuous and bad-faith comments to support that agenda.

Presenting the increased tire dust of heavier vehicles as being an exclusive property of EVs—a bright-line differentiator between them and ICE cars—is disingenuous and misrepresents the facts. I think it's reasonable to say that makes it "add little to the discussion".
by zjaffee | 2026-01-25 09:51:40+00:00
The iOS version of most social media apps is better. IOS simply has better API integration to it's hardware, where with android, many OEMs (hell this was even the case to a certain extent with older pixel phones), do a number of things that make the hardware not as easily accessible as quickly from the OS API for said feature.

This is especially relevant for the camera, but also various other sensors and hardware modules that exist inside these phones.

That said, in recent years there are just a number of other areas that android is much better at such as deeper AI integration, which goes back to even prior to the current LLM craze.
by haunter | 2026-01-25 09:51:51+00:00
Not sure it’s the same issue but in Hungary they (DT) refuse to use/pay Cloudflare so in peak hours every single site outside the country loads incredibly slow because of the constant re-routing. Everything has to go through Frankfurt even though CF would have alternate direct route

https://old.reddit.com/r/programmingHungary/comments/1ngv2pt...

https://telex.hu/techtud/2024/06/21/deutsche-telekom-cloudfl...

At least they are cheap. 25€ a month for 2gbps/1gbps so I can’t complain about that

They also offer 4gbps/2gbps for 40€ but at this point I’m not even sure what to use that for (besides torrent seeding)
by dgxyz | 2026-01-25 09:51:55+00:00
The one that always gets me is security and privacy paranoid and lecture me on the Stasi and using Apple phones and how they aren't repairable but then goes and uses unpatched rotten old Android they can't fix anyway and sticks fingers in ears. Nearly every German I know does this and I know a lot of Germans as half my family is German and my ex-partner is German.
by jordanbeiber | 2026-01-25 09:52:31+00:00
Even if we still make a mess I think centralization of the mess is better than distributing it - what I mean is that polluting cities where millions sleep, eat, drink and breathe will probably be worse, net effect, than containing energy pollution to select places.

Running EVs in densely populated regions is probably a lot better for the population on the whole even if the net pollution would stay the same, IMO.

Still no EV is even better, but we’ve created a world where transport is often required so, one step at a time I guess.
by maxglute | 2026-01-25 09:52:38+00:00
PRC veto = no algo transfer = bytedance/tiktok US can't be "sold" / total divestiture. New "sale" basically US conceded to PRC JV model, i.e. US companies operating in PRC has local data warehousing requirements, company gets to keep algo and ip, country gets technical custody over data. That's basically extend of thumb on skills PRC had to apply, they're fine with sovereign cloud etc, they weren't with forced divestiture (trying to coerce entire PRC company to flip).
by krokodil-byte | 2026-01-25 09:52:51+00:00
UPDATED TO V5.0.0
Now outperforming CuPy by 50% on Transformer Blocks. Benchmarks show 1.5x speedup over CuPy on Transformer blocks and up to 1800x on small-batch MatMul. No CUDA, no vendor lock-in, just pure SPIR-V efficiency.

pip adamah still legacy, use :
pip install git+https://github.com/krokodil-byte/ADAMAH.git
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-25 09:54:10+00:00
That used to be true; it no longer is. In the EU, some of the cheapest cars on the marker in 2026 are now electric. There are a few nice options in the 15K-20K Euro segment. These are the opposite of luxury cars. There are a quite a few new more joining the half dozen or so that were for sale last year. The trend here is that EVs are becoming the cheapest option.

A few cars from Stellantis that are available in ICE and EV variants are now actually cheaper in the EV variant. This reflects the reality that batteries are now cheap and EVs don't have a lot of moving parts. So, they should be easier and cheaper to assemble. That's a trend that is spreading across all price segments in the next few years. Driven by component and cheap battery availability.

Used EVs are widely available now as well. You can get some amazing deals on cars that mostly still have their drive trains + batteries under warranty. Lots of cars coming out of lease programs are sold on second hand. EVs have been very popular for car leasing for the last 6-7 years now. These are mostly still the relatively expensive models from a few years ago.

The cheap EVs that are now on the market will inevitably start penetrating the second hand market in larger and larger numbers. Cheap ICE cars are disappearing rapidly from the market as models are being discontinued by manufacturers and as the market shares for ICE vehicles keep on shrinking. That means they'll also start getting more scarce in the second hand market in a few years. You'll still be able to get your Ford Fiesta. But it will be a model from before it was discontinued a few years ago. Or the new electric model that they are rumored to launch soonish.
by rdtsc | 2026-01-25 09:55:01+00:00
Since we’re going with Kyiv equivalence, presumably there not air raid sirens, veterans coming back from war, mobilization vans grabbing people from the streets. I just don’t see how “Kyiv is the exact same way” is plausible.

> Like what exactly would you want them to do? Run around screaming all day

And I didn’t suggest they should “do something or other” I was wondering what the situation was since I am not there in person and figured enough HNers might be.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-25 09:55:39+00:00
> it will probably act as "quality signaling", because it is becoming more difficult every year to tell the difference

Note that this only applies to something like a translation where there's some notion of a "correct answer". For other cultural products it's irrelevant (as you say, if it quacks like a duck ...).

Quality signaling is really only necessary in situations where an upfront investment is required and any deception is only revealed sometime later upon use. Safety critical systems such as airbags are a model example of this - a counterfeit of deficient functionality won't be discovered until it deploys, which in most cases will never happen.

That said, while I certainly can't speak to business or diplomatic translations, when it comes to cultural works (ie entertainment) the appeal of machine translation to me has been gradually increasing over time as it gets better. I don't generally find localization desirable and in some cases it even leads to significant confusion when a change somehow munges important details or references. Confusion which I'm generally able to trivially resolve by referencing machine output.
by rcxdude | 2026-01-25 09:57:01+00:00
I broadly agree that both are important, but I think the difference lies in the level to which the person feels about the two scenarios you post. Some people are far more upset about the former than the latter (and also consider what happens if you modulate it by the crime committed).

(And of course it's not a strict either/or as well: you can have a rules of engagement for such things. e.g. in the UK the police are not blanket banned from pursuing a fleeing vehicle, but they need to have had appropriate training and do so only in particular circumstances)
by ddtaylor | 2026-01-25 09:57:30+00:00
My guess is that something that looks like the "teacher and student" model. I know there were methods in the past to utilize the token distribution to "retrain" one model with another, kind of like an auto fine-tuning, but AFAIK those are for offline model usage since you need the token distribution. There do appear to be similar methods for online-only models?