MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MisterTea | 2026-01-08 19:14:42+00:00
I was a big BeOS user and have my R4 and 5 CD's somewhere. It was impressive to open a bunch of videos or the video cube thing as a demo and watch pulse peg to full CPU while the system and UI remained snappy. Another cool thing was the universal codec where you drop a PNG codec into the codec directory and now all your image programs can open PNGs. I really enjoyed it but the magic died when Palm bought it and I never looked back.
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-08 19:14:58+00:00
>Is completely incoherent in the context of the thread

Ah, well it seemed cogent and straightforward to me: the OP suggested that your indication that grain feeding was driven by consumer taste preference seemed to lack evidence.

It seems like something that will have been tested (certainly for low-n values), it also seems likely to vary by culture/region substantially.

One of my "if I were in charge" ideas is for origin marks that provide all information about inputs into any product made available for sale. Under sight a system one could look up whether the farmer bought grain feed.
by dijit | 2026-01-08 19:16:32+00:00
And?

When presented with information that you're acting in bad faith, if you choose to change: that is praiseworthy.

It's very brave to take that in, and not worry about "brand damage" or "appearing weak". It's brave to even challenge yourself when someone tells you you're wrong. It's entirely admirable.

It's the default human behaviour to double-down.
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-08 19:16:36+00:00
None of the things you perceived are what I think the H1B should be for though

so I can see how we're talking past each other

in neither my model or the current model, a salary percentage over what the government publishes has nothing to do anything. that's not a factor.

your wage being lower than what a US candidate for that role is not a factor either.

regarding the talent pool, I think you have it backward to rationalize how it benefited you, companies are often looking for candidates in many places and then retroactively decide whether to accomodate special circumstances such as visa sponsorship

I'm glad you felt valued, empowered, had a nice compensation package, and a naturalization path you were looking for

now to my model:
in 2013 the minimum salary for the H1B with a master's degree should have been ~$113,000. Solely based on the 1989 $60,000 number adjusted for inflation. if the company wouldn't have justified that for their inability to fill the position domestically then it still shouldn't have occurred. or systems programming was that valuable would have pushed up salaries faster because of the actual shortage.
by swat535 | 2026-01-08 19:17:08+00:00
Iran can end up in a much more dire state. It can end up another Syria / Libya.. or worse another aggressive group like Taliban can take hold of the central government.

I also fear that the looming, imminent war between Israel and Iran is going to make things works. I'm expecting Israel to start a conflict within the next 6 months (or sooner) with the aid of United States.

This is the weakest IRGC have been. Many of their allies have been crippled, they have water issues, economical issues and now protests.

I think that securing Venezuela's oil aids this, should IRAN attempt to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, it will allow Israel and United States to maintain reserves (to what extend, I don't know).

I think things are going to get difficult for Iranian people, no matter what.
by xnx | 2026-01-08 19:17:08+00:00
Google now sponsors Tailwind:

"I am happy to share that we (the @GoogleAIStudio team) are now a sponsor of the @tailwindcss project! Honored to support and find ways to do more together to help the ecosystem of builders."

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
by utopiah | 2026-01-08 19:17:13+00:00
Does it though? I'm using my QC on my phone without any app, just BT. Sure I can't adjust all settings but enough to be usable.

Also FWIW first step for QC35 support on https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/headphones/bose/?h=bose which is IMHO the way to go.
by helloaltalt | 2026-01-08 19:17:41+00:00
If black market's the only reason that activism/journalism/outside contact is even possible in the country

It doesn't seem much of a plan (very sadly, I wish there was) which could be uncensored that much, some other comment pointed this point too but if black market's the case, then they would just hide whoever is using this

They would also most likely be very less in amount, journalists etc.

But the average person, they are stuck without proper internet

I thought that there are materials which can build starlink and the only thing then you need is just subscription or something

It's just sad to see that black market is the only way.
by fainpul | 2026-01-08 19:17:44+00:00
> transformed the devices into dumb-speakers/amps

Isn't that still gonna happen now?

From [1]:

What will no longer work:

• Presets (preset buttons on the product and in the app)

Of course Bluetooth and AirPlay continues to work, but isn't that what a "dumb speaker" is?

[1] https://www.bose.com/soundtouch-end-of-life
by throwawayround | 2026-01-08 19:17:58+00:00
If you read my post carefully you can see that the problem is not the cost of the models or the way I use them but something that is not just hidden from the Cursor UI but misleading. It keeps displaying a 200k context limit and also uses summaries to manage the context. You can only see that it pulled 21M tokens worth of data from Anthropic cache for a 4000 token prompt if you export your usage as a csv and analyse.
by pseudosavant | 2026-01-08 19:18:58+00:00
I don't know how many others here have a CoPilot+ PC but the NPU on it is basically useless. There isn't any meaningful feature I get by having that NPU. They are far too limited to ever do any meaningful local LLM inference, image processing or generation. It handles stuff like video chat background blurring, but users' PC's have been doing that for years now without an NPU.
by em-bee | 2026-01-08 19:18:58+00:00
daily, regardless of how important, works better as a tab. could even be a pinned tab.

"long-term & !daily" is the only thing that could be a bookmark. the problem then is categorization. tagging helps. but before i bookmark something i open it as a tab to look at it, which makes bookmarking a extra step over "i want to keep this, so i'll just not close the tab". somewhere the impulse from "i want to keep this" to "bookmark this" is missing.
by averysmallbird | 2026-01-08 19:19:34+00:00
There's no single mechanism. Iran's internet is diverse at the edge, and bottlenecked at the international gateway.

Censorship, throttling, and (presumably) surveillance occurs at both layers. In some cases, also the region matters (Sistan and Baluchistan for example have experienced extended blackouts). In part that heterogeneity is because they still ideally want to keep businesses or VIPs online to mitigate the economic loss or logistical issues.

Consequently, the actual means of blocking tends to be on an ISP basis: some will simply drop packets, some will have left certain endpoints open, some will leave international DNS open, etc etc. All that changes when activists notice, exploit the opening, and then the ISP finds out. And then sometimes the TIC (the gateway) will impose blanket limitations or throttling.

My impression is that Iranian intelligence cares less about means than effectiveness, and ISP operators want to keep their license, livelihoods and lives, so they figure out how to meet the mandate. Given that this is something like the fourth blackout in recent years, they've gotten enough practice that there's few options out (that aren't Starlink).
by mattmm11 | 2026-01-08 19:19:36+00:00
This is now top of my list as one of my favorite data visualizations I've ever seen. I remember spending some time with data for Capital Bikeshare data in DC, which was also public at one point, though looks like it only goes through 2016: https://capitalbikeshare.com/system-data. Would love to see the Lime/Bird version of this. Thanks for sharing.
by jlfazio57 | 2026-01-08 19:19:42+00:00
It can prove citations exist. It can't prove the AI accurately characterized what the citation says—did it confuse dicta with holding? Misstate the outcome? Invert the reasoning? That's still on the lawyer to verify, which is where the "Truth Tax" comes from.
But even that's not the main point. The article is about detecting what's missing from a document production—broken email threads, suspicious timing gaps, custodians who should appear but don't. No amount of citation checking helps you find evidence that was never produced.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-08 19:19:44+00:00
A boxing referee says "Protect yourself at all times."

They do this not because it isn't their job to protect fighters from illegal blows, but because the consequences of illegal blows are sometimes unfixable.

An encouragement for patients to co-own their own care isn't a removal of a physician's responsibility.

It's an acknowledgement that (1) physicians are human, fallible, and not omniscient, (2) most health systems have imperfect information sync'ing across multiple parties, and (3) no one is going to care more about you than you (although others might be much more informed and capable).

Self-advocacy isn't a requirement for good care -- it's due diligence and personal responsibility for a plan with serious consequences.

If a doc misses a diagnosis and a patient didn't spend any effort themselves, is that solely the doctor's fault?

PS to parent's insinuation: 20 years in the industry and 15 years of managed cancer in immediate family, but what do I know?
by iamnothere | 2026-01-08 19:19:47+00:00
If you are ok with the low quality, you could use a radio to transmit fast scan TV to a nearby receiver. Use a repeater if you need to get some real distance.

FPV drones often use this and could be a good source of parts. Or encode the feed and send through a small portable ham radio if you want a challenge. https://irrational.net/2014/03/02/digital-atv/
by utopiah | 2026-01-08 19:19:47+00:00
That's because of financial links. They are so intertwined propping up the same bubble they are absolutely going to share quotes instantly. FWIW just skimmed through and the TL;DR sounds to me like "Look at the cool kid, we play together, we are cool too!" without obviously any information, anything meaningful or insightful, just boring marketing BS>
by not_wyoming | 2026-01-08 19:19:53+00:00
The "natural cycle" argument is one of the most common points around climate change denial. It's also one of the most commonly debunked. See the following:

UN - https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/debunking-eight-...

MIT - https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/todays-climate-change-simila...

Columbia University - https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2017/04/04/how-we-know-cli...

It's also unclear to me how scientists might not have enough data to validate climate change in the last several hundred years, but they do have enough data to validate the natural cycle hypothesis spanning thousands of years.

I'm not going to engage more deeply here because this post has the smell of trolling to it, but if you're engaging in good faith, there are hundreds of reputable reports refuting the natural cycle hypothesis:

https://www.google.com/search?q=natural+cycle+arguments+on+c...
by gameboy45 | 2026-01-08 19:20:13+00:00
interesting hearing his justification for working w Saudi but not Israel:
He says he would never work with Israel now. “I think it’s an illegitimate and criminal government,” he told me during our gun safety training. “I mean, [Benjamin] Netanyahu is a war criminal.”

When I pointed out that Saudi Arabia has its own abysmal human rights record, Masad drew a contrast.

“I just think about how Replit is going to be used. Like, Israel is actively committing genocide and ethnic cleansing, and if you sell to the government there, it’s possible that they’re going to use it for that,” he said, pointing to the country’s use of Microsoft cloud services to track Palestinians’ phone calls. (After an investigation by The Guardian, Microsoft said it disabled the services that made the tracking possible in September."
by publicdebates | 2026-01-08 19:20:29+00:00
> readily discard short or nonsensical input

When "asdfasdf" is actually a package name, and it's in reply to a request for an NPM package, and the question is formulated in a way that makes it hard for LLMs to make that connection, you will get a false positive.

I imagine this will happen more than not.
by Telemakhos | 2026-01-08 19:20:31+00:00
Electricity, light, and heat aren't magic: they're science. Science is something well understood. Something that seems magical is something poorly understood. When I ask AI a question, I don't know whether it will tell me something truthful, mendacious in a verisimilitudinous way, or blatantly wrong, and I can only tell when it's blatantly wrong. That's magic, and I hate magic. I want more science in my life.
by helloaltalt | 2026-01-08 19:21:15+00:00
I hate the guy but I will genuinely let it pass if this means that we outside people can know what the fuck is actually happening at ground level in Iran and starlink adds even a 0.1% contribution to it.

I hate Elon a lot. but I will hold my grudge some other day if that means that starlink can help outside world to know more and raise internal resistance and support.

Edit: thanks for the downvotes team, turns out that the world is really short and I was reading an forbes article sent to me by someone in here and Ima quote it

The protests inspired the U.S. Treasury and State Departments to provide an exception to sanctions for communications services, and three days later, Musk turned on Starlink service in Iran.

“It requires the use of terminals in-country, which I suspect the government will not support, but if anyone can get terminals into Iran, they will work,” he said at the time. Musk and SpaceX did not respond to a comment request.

So tldr: US made special exception considering the protests (the protests are of the "People had taken to the streets over the police killing of 22-year-old Mahsa"
by OakNinja | 2026-01-08 19:21:24+00:00
"IBM Bob is IBM’s new coding agent, currently in Closed Beta. "

Promptarmor did a similar attack(1) on Google's Antigravity that is also a beta version. Since then, they added secure mode(2).

These are still beta tools. When the tools are ready, I'd argue that they will probably be safer out of the box compared to a whole lot of users that just blindly copy-paste stuff from the internet, adding random dependencies without proper due diligence, etc. These tools might actually help users acting more secure.

I'm honestly more worried about all the other problems these tools create. Vibe coded problems scale fast. And businesses have still not understood that code is not an asset, it's a liability. Ideally, you solve your business problems with zero lines of code. Code is not expensive to write, it's expensive to maintain.

(1) https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exf...
(2) https://antigravity.google/docs/secure-mode
by chaoskanzlerin | 2026-01-08 19:22:10+00:00
Archive link (SZ): https://archive.ph/bQ8E4 // Tagesschau link: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/bnd-gesetz-be... // Machine translation: https://www-tagesschau-de.translate.goog/investigativ/ndr-wd...
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-08 19:22:50+00:00
> Yes they may lose an election here or there, but I don't see any indication that MAGA is anywhere close to becoming politically toxic.

I think we're on the cusp of it right now. The ICE murders make it more and more untenable and indefensible for the average American to defend without sounding crazy. But even if this doesn't do it, or an invasion of Greenland somehow doesn't do it, the big question will be: can MAGA even survive as a movement without Trump?

> Until a post-WWII style reckoning can be had, I am not optimistic that reputational repair can happen.

I fully agree. A third Reconstruction is needed in this country.
by soupfordummies | 2026-01-08 19:23:11+00:00
I really dream of doing it. I gave it a soft-run a few years back when mine was stolen and it was really hard. Not just creature comforts and habits like GPS etc but even things like so much of the modern world assumes you have a phone on you. Things like parking, event tickets, restaurant QR code menus (thankfully this one seems to be actually getting better though.)
Ask HN: QR code generator that doesn't require sign up
by aosaigh | 2026-01-08 19:23:18+00:00
Every time I have to generate a QR code I have to wade through 10s of spammy apps that ask for your email after you've tried to create a QR code.

Does anyone recommend a simple Mac app or web app for generating SVG QR codes where I don't have to sign up?

I don't mind paying for a Mac app, but I'm absolutely not signing up for a SAAS for something so simple.
by onesandofgrain | 2026-01-08 19:23:37+00:00
This last week man... the amount of Gemini,Codex,Claude-shilling has been through the f* roof. Literally everyday someone is talking about how "mystically good" Claude is, how Claude is different. Wow Claude, wow codex and gemini, never going back to Qwen blabla. It's nauseating I should probably take a Meclizine to deal with it,
by ariwilson | 2026-01-08 19:23:50+00:00
Hi Kenton! I was the recent grad you handed this web app off to after you built it, so I expanded Jeff Dean Facts so that anyone could create and rate facts about anyone at Google :). There were a ton of team in-jokes added before I stopped working on it - O(5k) IIRC! :)

This web app was also how I learned the pain of maintaining a live web service with a lot of ever-changing dependencies. How I sighed when the AppEngine version changed and I had to fix things again...

I handed it off again before I left Google but I have no memory of who that was to unfortunately :(.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-08 19:23:59+00:00
> with little return

It's like they don't realise the bulk of their power is a consequence of the rest of the world agreeing that some kind of world order, no matter how flawed, is more desirable that a world of empires fighting for power and bullying everyone else into submission.

That's going to be an interesting century, and I very much doubt the US will be as relevant as today by the end of it.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-08 19:24:20+00:00
> Not particularly? For example there's no particular cost if I accept email from outlook today but reverse that decision and ban it tomorrow. I don't immediately see a technical reason to avoid a default accept policy here.

Accepting email isn't really the same thing. I've linked some resources elsewhere in this thread that explain why OIDC federation isn't trivial in the context of machine identities.

> The value is that you can do away with long lived tokens that are prone to theft. You can MFA with your (self hosted) OIDC service and things should be that much more secure. Of course your (single user) OIDC service could get pwned but that's no different than any other account compromise.

You can already do this by self-attenuating your PyPI API token, since it's a Macaroon. We designed PyPI's API tokens with exactly this in mind.

(This isn't documented particularly well, since nobody has clearly articulated a threat model in which a single user runs their own entire attenuation service only to restrict a single or small subset of credentials that they already have access to. But you could do it, I guess.)

> What's the difference between "set of claims" and "private key" here?

A private key is a cryptographic object; a "set of claims" is (very literally) a JSON object that was signed over as the payload of a JWT. You can't sign (or encrypt, or whatever) with a set of claims naively; it's just data.
by brailsafe | 2026-01-08 19:24:29+00:00
I think you've captured how I feel about it too. If I try to go beyond the scopes you've described, with Cursor in my case and a variety of models, I often end up wasting time unless it's a purely exploratory request.

"This package has been removed, grep for string X and update every reference in the entire codebase" is a great conservative task; easy to review the results, and I basically know what it should be doing and definitely don't want to do it.

"Here's an ambiguous error, what could be the cause?" sometimes comes up with nonsense, but sometimes actually works.
by danaris | 2026-01-08 19:25:14+00:00
I just flew from the US to Europe; at each point where I had to get my picture taken, the machine had a label on it that clearly said they would delete my data after 24 hours. (Or after use, I don't remember the precise time frame.)

Were they lying? Possibly. But this is not a matter of them trying to use weasel wording to trick you into thinking they're claiming something they're not.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-08 19:25:29+00:00
> It keeps displaying a 200k context limit

Some radiometers cap-out at 3.6 roentgen because they assumed that nobody would need a larger figure. That doesn't mean that 3.6 roentgen is the hard-limit on radiation, though.

Again - any PAYG product requires very explicit discipline to avoid getting smacked with a shady bill. AWS, Vercel or Claude.
by divan | 2026-01-08 19:26:29+00:00
Your last sentence makes sense only if you consider “happy path” to be what you call “understanding how function works”. A lot of programmers are annoyed that Go forces them to think about “error path” as equally important. Later many say that Go forces you to be the better programmer. But it takes time. In any case, saying “language has a problem” is a wrong frame for thinking about this design choice.
by pwrsysengineer | 2026-01-08 19:26:42+00:00
Ultra-high voltage is an industry term. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_voltage#Definition

> ANSI C84.1-2020 defines high voltage as 115 kV to 230 kV, extra-high voltage as 345 kV to 765 kV, and ultra-high voltage as 1,100 kV.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2026-01-08 19:26:46+00:00
I am endlessly frustrated about that.

A good friend of mine who also works on tech is utterly disconnected from current events. Whenever I offer a discussion or say “hey did you hear about X?” his response is always skepticism that such a thing could occur. He has a newborn and now he’s even more disconnected (somewhat more understandable given the child).

It seems like a lot of people in tech are like that, or increasingly like that. I have a diverse stable of publications, journalists, subject matter current events podcasters, and other sources in my feed readers and my circle. Sitting between these things, it seems like there is a widening gulf.
by hackernews_7364 | 2026-01-08 19:26:59+00:00
This is a fraud.

The magnitude of their unsupported claims is a good indication but I suggest checking out their LinkedIn. They employ a handful of people none of them with a chemistry background, most of them don't have an engineering/science background at all.

The final data point: here's the CEO of Donut Lab also announcing "The World's First True Artificial Superintelligence" in a company where supposedly he is the chairman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilgJKjiDLV8 (for contrast here's Donut Lab's video announcement of the SSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-aPS2AwMbc).
by ilamont | 2026-01-08 19:27:21+00:00
The US and China regularly use export controls (like the Nvidia ban), joint ventures, and legislation as levers of power over the other side.

For American and other non-PRC companies thinking of using Chinese models, doesn't this have to be balanced with the risk that the US or its leadership may kneecap the Chinese models through export controls, an executive order, or some other means?