MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wincy | 2026-01-14 02:58:53+00:00
I used to sing dumb songs like when changing my kids diaper I’d sing “you got a STINKY DIAPER, you got a stinky diaper and it smelled like pee, oh don’t you knoooow what I mean” sung to Deo’s Holy Diver. Just dumb stuff like that.

I still sing songs like that, only now I’ve got almost an hour of dumb songs that Suno has made, like my kid asked “what if we just put in gibberish and the word poop a lot?” As kids do, and we got this absolutely bizarre Europop song where a dude sings his heart out about poopy poop, and my kids now sing this tune. It’s been nonstop laughs. My daughter is into Harry Potter and we made a song together just about her turning her hair green in potions class, with harpsichord and a theremin. We’re having a great time. I’m never going to be an artist and never going to try to make money off this stuff. I’m just making weird little bespoke memories with me and my kids.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-14 02:59:13+00:00
I think demotivating people is incredibly easy, see any Dilbert cartoon featuring the PHB ever.

That doesn't mean that motivating people is also easy. They're not equivalent.

Motivating people requires understanding their psychology, their values, what they want from their life, etc, and then applying that knowledge to create a workplace culture that feeds all of that. Demotivating them just requires not understanding any of that, or ignoring it in favour of feeding your own ego or psychology. It's a lot easier to demotivate.
by gamblor956 | 2026-01-14 02:59:26+00:00
Banks aren't the primary lenders to PE firms, but yes, the general PE business model for debt-financed acquisitions is entirely premised on using the collateral of acquired businesses to take out loans to pay themselves "dividends" and then letting the business fall into bankruptcy. This has been covered in extensive detail by WaPo, WSJ, The Economist, and the NYT. Mark Levine has some good articles on this.

It's okay for you to admit that you don't understand how PE firms work. I've been on both sides; as their tax advisor and at a PE-owned company and I've got firsthand experience with it.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-01-14 03:00:27+00:00
I think it’s for good reason. I’m a bit at a loss as to why every time this guy rages into the ether of his blog it’s considered newsworthy. Celebrity driven tech news is just so tiresome. Marcus was surpassed by others in the field and now he’s basically a professional heckler on a university payroll. I wish people could just be happy for the success of others instead of fuming about how so and so is a billionaire and they are not.
by defrost | 2026-01-14 03:00:45+00:00
I condemn all excessively authoritarian behaviour.

While I'm certainly not a "literal communist" by any stretch I do urge you to watch a very short clip that specifically highlights your response:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7Ol0gz11k

If it helps, I'm not a US citizen and view all US administrations through the lens of not entirely reliable partners.
by pchew | 2026-01-14 03:01:21+00:00
I'd love to know why you'd choose an EG4 18k (which is actually a 12k AC inverter, with a questionable track record on support and warranty) over a Sol-Ark 15k (which is actually a 15K AC inverter, and has tech support that responds) now that Sol-Ark dropped the price on 15ks to sub $5,000 MSRP.

I'd rather land wires in a Sol-Ark, it has better support, it has a higher AC output, it has a higher battery charge rate, and it's the same price.
by Induane | 2026-01-14 03:01:23+00:00
Part of the problem is that with habius corpus being ignored we don't know how many people who were successfully deported without incident should have been.

50 bad cases also doesn't really summarize it well. Chainsawing through a fence and going through an entire apartment complex and zip typing kids together after violently breaking in really isn't "one" incident. Every single interaction there is potentially bad. Just because people were later released because they weren't illegal or in a gang or whatever does not justify going into people's private space and detaining them in a scary way, especially without warrants. That stuff is going to frighten and traumatize those kids. Home will no longer feel safe. This incitement of fear is in itself a huge part of the point and part of why it's very very bad.
by pigpop | 2026-01-14 03:01:42+00:00
Yes, it is possible to do those things and there are benchmarks for testing multimodal models on their ability to do so. Context length is the major limitation but longer videos can be processed in small chunks whose descriptions can be composed into larger scenes.

https://github.com/JUNJIE99/MLVU

https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenGVLab/MVBench

Ovis and Qwen3-VL are examples of models that can work with multiple frames from a video at once to produce both visual and temporal understanding

https://huggingface.co/AIDC-AI/Ovis2.5-9B

https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-VL
by adrianwaj | 2026-01-14 03:02:10+00:00
Look no further than x402 micropayments as both the solution and opportunity here.

And then a way to return a portion to humans.

These AI companies are loaded too (maybe not the long-tail as yet) and the crypto ecosystem is mature.

Come one, come all. Make money.

Need a Wordpress plugin to start the ball rolling and provide ping endpoints for the AI companies to leach from. They can pay to get those pings too.

Give them what they want and charge them. Lower their costs by making their scraping more efficient.
by strken | 2026-01-14 03:02:22+00:00
I misread the article too, but it states that with 3 or 4 on the jury the probability has increased to 0.9, instead of 0.8 with 1 or 2. It's just that an incremental extra jury member from odd to even never increases the information, even when it's 9999 to 10000.
by volkk | 2026-01-14 03:02:26+00:00
> A cashier at McDonalds is providing more absolute value to the world than even the most esteemed athlete.

Do you actually believe this or are you just ragebaiting?

> That's not to say that athletes are bad, entertainment and games are important. But you can't just say one form of mindless entertainment is more valuable than another form.

Sport isn't mindless entertainment--that's just objectively false. The "dumb" entertainment you're speaking of is built _around_ sports (e.g gambling) while physical competition is as old as time. Porn is also the exact opposite of this. It's just a byproduct of entertainment and boredom/vice. For sports, humans have pushed themselves to the extreme limit through discipline for a millennia--which inspires many, creates stronger people, gets some out of poverty, or depression, or countless other things. The fact that you're comparing porn to sports or the most esteemed athletes to random low level cashiers at McDonalds in value creation for society tells me you're an advanced troll and I already just spent too much time replying.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-14 03:02:52+00:00
By the time there is a revolution, i'd imagine that most engineers will have fallen to the working classes where they are technically a part of.

Again, they are not part of the capital class. They were lucky to come across a special moment in time where there was a paradigm shift bringing with it enormous wealth and the capital class did not part with some of their wealth out of charity but out of greed because they realized that in order to capture this new found fountain of wealth they needed engineers...at least for the time being.

This allowed one generation (maybe two) to live a dignified solid upper middle class life but since the beginning there has always been a push to eliminate them.

Things such as low/no code, "learn to code", bootcamps, and now AI are attempts to destroy this avenue for people to rise above anything more than just worker class.
by SnowingXIV | 2026-01-14 03:02:57+00:00
It needs to be more than that, I want to hear musicianship that has been honed and crafted. The struggle to find their sound. I'm fine with even an amateur musician learning their way around an instrument and being able to put something together that they tracked and mixed.

If a prompt returned the most perfect song, I would still not care to listen as that to me has completely divorced any human element that I would be interested in. Would not find it to be inspiring nor aspirational no matter how "good" it sounded so the models themselves could get exponentially better, but the manner in which it was created will prevent me from ever listening or caring about. It will always be hollow and lifeless.

Again, this is personal preference. If it makes others happy, that's great. In other many other mediums, I'm probably fine with that reduction in human-ness (where others may not be).
by zahlman | 2026-01-14 03:03:09+00:00
> Losing points in a debate competition does not invalidate the belief for which one is arguing.

I did not make this argument. I simply pointed out the difference between my conduct and that of others, and between the logical validity of my argument and that of others.

> You're not going to suddenly change your mind strictly because you realized you made a bad argument

Of course I am not going to change my mind, because I did not make the argument you ascribe to me.

>This is all you've managed to do as well, despite using more words

This is blatantly untrue. I provided evidence and reasoning. You provided neither.

> Of course, that is what we are both doing. Oftentimes it's called a "discussion".

This is not a discussion. It has not at any point been a discussion. It has just been me pointing out where you (and others) are factually incorrect, where you (collectively) have hypocritically made emotional appeals while falsely accusing me of doing so (which again does not make you incorrect, but hypocrisy is a moral failing), and so on. It could not possibly be a discussion, because you repeatedly ignored that I was focused on a legal analysis while incorrectly accusing me of conflating that with a moral analysis, while engaging in a moral analysis that I repeatedly told you I was no concerned with. Again, my only interest in morality here is because my moral character has been unfairly impugned.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-01-14 03:03:12+00:00
> I have enjoyed it thoroughly although I am a little skeptical how the upgrade process for Fedora will go when Fedora 44 eventually comes out.

I've updated my current system to every release from Fedora 36 through Fedora 43, and I've had minor issues twice (as in, things that were unexpected/annoying, but I was still able to boot, log in to a GUI, and use Firefox without any problems), but the other 5 updates had zero issues. The updates are usually so uneventful that once my server automatically upgraded to the next version (which is my fault because I misconfigured it), and I didn't even notice until 3 days later.

> One of the concerns is the package delays on the RPM Fusion repo. I've heard it can take weeks before updated packages are shipped, a package without a valid Fedora 44 compatible package will prevent the update from being installed.

I nearly always update the first week that a new release is available, and I have most of the RPM Fusion packages installed, bu I don't remember ever being held up by this. The RPM Fusion packages are often delayed behind the official Fedora ones, and this can lead to some annoying errors in dnf if you don't use the right flags, but usually this is only for a few days—I can only remember a week-long delay happening once. (And right after a new release is usually when RPM Fusion is the most up-to-date, since the main Fedora repos are frozen for a few days before a new release, giving RPM Fusion time to update)

> COPR is another can of worms, most people just recommend disabling all COPR packages before upgrading.

I definitely concur with this advice; COPR causes enough problems that I'd recommend avoiding it entirely unless it has something really important or your technically savvy enough to fix any problems yourself.

> What is the upgrade process like when lots of Terra packages are installed?

I only have two Terra packages installed, and I've only used it for a bit under two years, but I don't remember it ever causing any issues while upgrading.
by elzbardico | 2026-01-14 03:03:14+00:00
There's no silver bullet. I’m not a researcher, but I’ve done my best to understand how these systems work—through books, video courses, and even taking underpaid hourly work at a company that creates datasets for RLHF. I spent my days fixing bugs step-by-step, writing notes like, “Hmm… this version of the library doesn’t support protocol Y version 4423123423. We need to update it, then refactor the code so we instantiate ‘blah’ and pass it to ‘foo’ before we can connect.”

That experience gave me a deep appreciation for how incredible LLMs are and the amazing software they can power—but it also completely demystified them. So by all means, let’s use them. But let’s also understand there are no miracles here. Go back to Shannon’s papers from the ’60s, and you'll understand that what seems to you like "emerging behaviors" are quite explainable from an information theory background. Learn how these models are built. Keep up with the latests research papers. If you do, you’ll recognize their limitations before those limitations catch you by surprise.

There is no silver bullet. And if you think you’ve found one, you’re in for a world of pain. Worse still, you’ll never realize the full potential of these tools, because you won’t understand their constraints, their limits, or their pitfalls.
by maxbond | 2026-01-14 03:05:16+00:00
> In a perfect world they drift less than a minute per day...

A minute per day would be far too much drift for navigation, wouldn't it?

From Wikipedia [1]:

> For every four seconds that the time source is in error, the east–west position may be off by up to just over one nautical mile as the angular speed of Earth is latitude dependent.

That makes me think a minute might be your budget for an entire voyage? But I don't know much about navigation. And it is beside the point, your argument isn't changed if we put in a different constant, so I only mention out of interest.

> Having three lets you know which one failed.

I guess I hadn't considered when it stops for a minute and then continues ticking steadily, and you would want to discard the measurement from the faulty watch.

But if I just bring one watch as the expression councils, isn't that even worse? I don't even know it malfunctioned and if it failed entirely I don't have any reference for the time at the port.

My interpretation had been that you look back and forth between the watches unable to make a decision, which doesn't matter if you always split the difference, but I see your point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_chronometer
by zzzeek | 2026-01-14 03:05:22+00:00
Anubis is the only tool that claims to have heuristics to identify a bot, but my understanding is that it does this by presenting obnoxious challenges to all users. Not really feasible. Old school approaches like ip blocking or even ASN blocking are obsolete - these crawlers purposely spam from thousands of IPs, and if you block them on a common ASN, they come back a few days later from thousands of unique ASNs. So this is not really a "roll your own" situation, especially if you are running off the shelf software that doesn't have some straightforward means of building in these various approaches of endless page mazes (which I would still have to serve anyway).
by raincole | 2026-01-14 03:05:51+00:00
It's (obviously) a random number pulled out from someone's ass. However, I think top 25% isn't that off. It means top 25% of people who actually tried.

If it still sounds easy, try to reach top 25% rank of a video game that you are not familiar with (diamond in Starcraft II or whatever). You'll find it's literally the workload of a full-time job.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-14 03:06:49+00:00
Related today:

90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603910

What we know about Iran's Internet shutdown https://blog.cloudflare.com/iran-protests-internet-shutdown/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602066)

Among a number of other posts previously getting into it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591974

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542683
by selcuka | 2026-01-14 03:07:10+00:00
> The Sirens of Titan [1] is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history, with much of the story revolving around a Martian invasion of Earth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan
by JimDabell | 2026-01-14 03:07:20+00:00
A huge feature of copyright is that it is time-limited. When the copyright period expires, it passes into the public domain and belongs to everybody.

There are two major things that undermine this for software: copyright durations, and lack of source code. Software copyright durations should be at most a few years, and to be eligible for copyright, software should have its source code published or at minimum held in escrow, so that when the copyright expires it is still useful.

We already require patents to be published in exchange for the protection we give them; software copyright needs to be the same.
Show HN: Overengineered recommender (activity/game/series/etc.) (57 knobs)
by arthurstarlake | 2026-01-14 03:07:40+00:00
Find the exact activity you wish to perform by setting the desired 0/0-10.0 value of how much you need each of these dimensions:
Flow Accessibility
Challenge Alignment
Discovery Amount
Ease of Discovery
Novelty Seeking
Risk/Thrill Level
Interactivity
Response Intensity
Feedback Clarity
Sensory Richness
Randomicity
Repeatability
Perspective Mode
Session Duration
Engagement Frequency
Commitment Level
Entry Barrier
Financial Investment
Collaboration Depth
Competitive Intensity
Teaching/Learning Ratio
Audience Presence
Physical Exertion
Tactile Engagement
Spatial Needs
Physical Accessibility
Cognitive Load
Mindfulness Potential
Intuitiveness
Objective Clarity
Learning Curve
Reaction Speed
Planning Required
Parallelism
Autonomy Level
Personalization Depth
Avatar Agency
Consequence Weight
Mastery Ceiling
Real-World Utility
Skill Transferability
Output Tangibility
Legacy Potential
Cathartic Release
Nostalgia Factor
Root Chakra
Sacral Chakra
Solar Plexus Chakra
Heart Chakra
Throat Chakra
Third Eye Chakra
Crown Chakra
Physiological Need
Safety & Security
Social Belonging
Esteem & Status
Self-Actualization

Activities automatically filter based on the selection. The initial data holds about 100 everyday activities, 60 videogames and 30 movies and series.

There is a selector for how tightly you want to filter selections.

You can add new activities locally, edit dimension values (locally only) and eventually will be able to add new dimensions to filter on. You can also reset any filter or local edit.
by cthor | 2026-01-14 03:08:18+00:00
This demonstrates where a lot of the mismatch in impressions of this tech arise. The thousandth amateur Wonderwall rendition is not at all interesting as a piece of recorded music, but for the performer (and those listening around them) it can be a fun and playful experience. The same could be said for AI generated music: it could be a fun and playful experience in the present moment, even if the resulting product is totally worthless to the market. This would still be a valuable thing for the human experience.

Arguably this is a return to a more traditional way of experiencing music from before the invention of recorded music. Before this, music was an entirely transient and often communal experience. Once the musician stops playing, the music is over. Songs from these times have largely unknown authors, and likely don't even have any single author or for that to even be a coherent concept. They were simply part of the shared culture that many had contributed to. Now music is owned by specific people and you can play back their performance as much as you like (for an increasingly insignificant price).

This tech may be a negative thing for the market of recorded music, but it needs to be argued that recorded music is the only authentic way to experience music, and that this is why that's how most people experience music currently, rather than that being an historical anomaly due to the technology available. Once you step away from treating music like it's only valid when it's a product for a market, the problems of AI music seem a lot less catastrophic.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-01-14 03:08:21+00:00
Bad compilation options, and/or bad driver/firmware interactions.

I'm using it on CachyOS with on old intels(Kaby Lake Core i5-7500t/Core i7-7700t) with old intel integrated graphics(HD630), and it never did that. Since early Plasma6/late Plasma5 times. Cant recall exactly anymore, for about 2 years now. In fact, since Plasma6 it reminded me of the good old KDE3 days, again. Except for the memory usage maybe. OTOH the systems have much more memory since the times of KDE3, so shrug?

If everything else fails, there is still https://www.trinitydesktop.org btw.
by karakoram | 2026-01-14 03:08:40+00:00
Yeah a CEO can obviously make this happen but VPs of departments, principal/senior engineers, even senior hiring managers can make this happen.

Most don't know this but people in business/operations/HR roles in tech companies have a lot of pull and direct access to CEOs or even boards.

Regional Directors/Heads are also very influential and can get you in e.g. Head of EMEA, Director of APAC, for big tech I have seen these roles based in Ireland, Switzerland and Singapore.

In the AI/ML world, senior researchers can make this happen too, if you were together during research days at university or the senior researcher was your PhD advisor etc.

say a team is working on some core product, consisting of PMs, Engineers, etc. If you are the senior most engineer in that team, you could go up to the right person and say "Hey, someone I know really well just applied and I need that person on this team to make this product a success. No questions asked."

Remember, reputation is everything here. If you get hired this way and not perform, you not only ruined your reputation but the reputation of the person who vouched for you.
by jabwd | 2026-01-14 03:09:53+00:00
I might be very wrong in every way but, string parsing and or manipulating and memoiziation... sound like a super strange combo? For the first you know you're already doing expensive allocations, but the 2nd is also not a pattern I really see apart from in JS codebases. Could you provide more context on how this actually bit you in the behind? memoizing strings seems like a complicated and error prone "welp it feels better now" territory in my mind so I'm genuinely curious.
by text0404 | 2026-01-14 03:10:12+00:00
> ICE is most definitely federal law enforcement

Cool, how do I identify them? They don't have badges and refuse to give ID. They cover their faces and use excessive force. Should I just immediately give up my rights and do whatever is asked of me from someone in a vest and ski mask with a gun because they claim to be a government agent?

We've seen videos in the past 72 hours showing blatant illegal activity and constitutional violations. You're literally commenting on an article about an ICE agent stealing an underage victim's property. Is this the American Freedom you guys always talk about? "Comply and get in the van with the armed, masked men and maybe you'll make it out alive"?
by zzo38computer | 2026-01-14 03:10:25+00:00
I had seen GitHub node IDs, although I had not used them or tried to decode them (although I could see they seem to be base64), since I only used the REST API, which reports node IDs but does not use them as input.

It looks like a good explanation of the node IDs, though. However, like another comment says, you should not rely on the format of node IDs.