MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by srean | 2026-01-09 16:50:34+00:00
You are absolutely right about your commentary about basis functions and eigen-decomposition

You may well be right about neural networks. Sometimes models that seem nonlinear turns linear if those nonlinearities are pushed into the basis functions, so one can still hope.

For GPT like models, I see sentences as trajectories in the embedded space. These trajectories look quite complicated and no obvious from their geometrical stand point. My hope is that if we get the coordinate system right, we may see something more intelligible going on.

This is just a hope, a mental bias. I do not have any solid argument for why it should be as I describe.
by jepj57 | 2026-01-09 16:50:51+00:00
Looks like much ado about nothing. This was already proposed and shot down on 2020, and Justice Scalia has already commented in a 2013 case that this is not a good idea.

Call your Congress critters and let them know how you feel. This is just institutional creep that, like an invasive plant, needs to be pruned back from time to time.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-09 16:51:04+00:00
It's also currently only a subset of JS GC requirements at that. It's the bare minimum to share references between JS and WASM to byte arrays like Int32Array. It's like basic OS-level memory page sharing only for now.

Some of the real GC tests will be strings support (because immutability/interning) and higher-level composite objects, which is all still in various draft/proposal states.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-09 16:51:10+00:00
Has the EU commission still not understood that becoming a paid-by Washington lobby group, does not work for Europeans? So, why are they so slow in pushing into action here? Rather than money going into US corporations, have EU citizens work on specific open source projects, many of them, with clear goals. Simple example: libreoffice - improve interfacing with it. ALL governments, universities etc... would benefit from this. Not only in the EU but elsewhere too. I don't understand this insane slowness here, unless lobbyists run Brussels already.
by magicalist | 2026-01-09 16:51:21+00:00
> I’d like to think that I would without hesitation drive far out of my way to bring a sick traveler to the hospital (in the Philippines), but I am having trouble seeing myself emptying my bank account to purchase a boat ticket for someone who has more money than I do. And if I were a cold drink seller in Oman, I would definitely not give cold drinks away for free just because the recipient was a guest in my poor country. But those kind of illogical blessings happen when you are open to a gift.
by jedberg | 2026-01-09 16:51:24+00:00
It uses NFC, where the NFC tag carries a payload to tell the brick what to do. So in theory they can develop new skills for the brick and release new "trigger" blocks for it.

But to your point of: "seeing limitless possibilities in what you can build or pretend is one of the keystones of Lego", the first comment I saw on the instagram post about this was "but I like to make the pew pew noised myself".
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-09 16:51:25+00:00
This isn’t surprising. The administration has shown they have no respect for the law, including basic constitutional rights. I doubt rules about safe public markets matter to them.

More simply, I feel like many of the actions the administration takes are simply about making Trump and his family richer. It’s not about making America better or making the world better. For example, I am sure they made a lot of money, trading stocks on every single change to the tariffs. This is no different.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-09 16:51:33+00:00
We need to keep the physical dimensions and material properties of the quarter, but why not change the face value? Demote them to 20 cents, or even better, make them 50 cents because the real half dollar coin is obnoxiously huge and impractical.

What of the economic impact of doubling the value of all quarters? Eh, it'll probably be fine. We'll just write it off as an AI datacenter loan somehow
by hnthrow0287345 | 2026-01-09 16:51:39+00:00
How many tech people deep into open source are also going to be able to build convincing cases for governments? More importantly, to be more convincing than the sales people of MS/Amazon/Google who also have financial incentives to give away?

I don't think you'll get a complete switch here, this is looking more like "let's cultivate a backup option in case they really do start turning stuff off"
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-09 16:52:14+00:00
I did the hitchhiking thing in my 20's. Up to Alaska and back. I know what he describes.

I wish everyone could have some experience like this. Because, like Kevin, I also have a positive view about strangers, about my fellow humans. And I have met a lot of people (friends, coworkers) where I recognize in them a fearfulness of the world. And I used to be like that too.

It really is a different and a wonderful world I think when you lose your fear of it.
by cbeach | 2026-01-09 16:52:22+00:00
In the 2017 Charter, Hamas states its claims, such as making Jerusalem its capital. However, nowhere in the charter does Hamas state that it will recognise Israel. In fact the document explicitly rejects recognition of Israel and aims for “liberation of all of Palestine”

Note also that Hamas never repealed their 1988 charter that called for the annihilation of Israel and contains openly antisemitic language.

For a two-state solution to work, Hamas will need to recognise Israel's right to co-exist alongside a Palestine state. And Hamas will need to stop killing innocent Israeli citizens.
by runjake | 2026-01-09 16:52:34+00:00
It's not exactly the most elegant solution, but you can buy USB-C to Lightning adapters in bulk and shove one in your wallet.

Here's one much like the ones I bought: https://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Adapter-Certified-Charging-...

I bought 10 of them on AliExpress for a similar price.
by mattforrest | 2026-01-09 16:52:50+00:00
SpatialBench is an open benchmark suite for spatial SQL. The goal is to compare engines on price-performance, since serverless makes raw “x times faster” claims hard to interpret.

I used it to compare Databricks SQL Serverless (Medium) vs Databricks Jobs clusters with Apache Sedona 1.7 across 12 queries (from simple filters to joins, distance joins, multi-way joins, KNN) at SF100 and SF1000 (SF1000 is roughly 500GB uncompressed Parquet).

TLDR apart from one query, Sedona was up to ~6x better on cost per query, and also covered more queries under the same 10 hour timeout guardrails. Some queries didn’t finish or errored on either side, so there is a capability matrix in the post.
by gnarlouse | 2026-01-09 16:52:58+00:00
In the sense that a dark pattern is anything designed to trick people into doing something they didn't necessarily consciously want to do, the entire AI industry is an oligarch's wet dream of a dark-pattern: every day we're teeing them up latent information on human-level patterns of control that I promise you LLM providers are foaming at the mouth to replicate. Like if you've got an effective "doing" system, and you've got an effective "orchestrating" system, that's AGI. Deployed at scale, at competitive cost, and even a 1.1x improvement over regular workforce, that's game for anybody but billionaires. There will be a slow dynamic deplatforming of regular people, followed by an extermination. Palantir is building the rat poison and maid service.
by danudey | 2026-01-09 16:53:08+00:00
Those people aren't being tread on; as long as the government is only treading on "others" (i.e. liberals, and minorities) then they're completely fine with throwing out the entire constitution. They've been told that these people are trying to destroy their country. and they're happy with the government burning down everything that makes America "America" if it means that the people they've been taught to hate end up suffering.

I can guarantee that the people who argue that the second amendment is more important than keeping people from mass-murdering school children would happily cheer on the government if they started confiscating guns from "the enemy".
by pstuart | 2026-01-09 16:53:21+00:00
That's a wide brush you're painting with. While I could be easily characterized as being on a particular side because of the values I hold, I abhor tribalism and hew to the truth of the values as I best understand them.

I've had extremely respectful dialog with others who don't embrace my values and I find their reasoning to be specious at best.

I have respect for old school conservatism that advocates for limited government but contemporary conservatives no longer seem to care about that (except if it's programs they don't like).

My initial comment still stands: the governmental action of the OP is intended purely to be oppressive and it will not be wielded with any sense of propriety.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-09 16:53:23+00:00
My kids will build a set according to the instructions and then a day or two later it's disassembled for parts so they can build something else.

The reason they sell sets is because the people who buy these are parents, uncles, grandmas, and other people. The sets make it easy for them to identify something that seems like kids would love it and possibly intersects with some brand the kids like, such as the Marvel crossover sets.

Once the bricks get in the kids' hands, they can do whatever they want with them.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-09 16:53:31+00:00
To hide parts of JavaScript my best recommendation is to just not send the undesirable JavaScript to the browser in the first place. There are performance and security improvements to that which would be lost when trying to remove this same code after it does arrive to the browser.

That modification could be as simple as opening the concerned code file in your back end application as a large string and slicing out the parts you don't want. This will likely require some refactoring of the JavaScript code first to ensure the parts you wish to remove are islands whose absence won't break other things.
by roughly | 2026-01-09 16:53:44+00:00
I picked up a binocular microscope a bit back and it’s one of my favorite nerd purchases - it’s 20x, which is enough to be interesting, but not enough to require a lot of sample prep, and the binocular setup gives you depth perception, so it feels like you’re “there” with whatever you’re looking at. I’ve mucked around with microscopes in the past, but the binocular is genuinely just fun.
by wxce | 2026-01-09 16:53:47+00:00
> this is a RL problem where you have to balance the chance of an infinite loop (it keeps thinking there's a little bit more to do when there is not) versus the opposite where it stops short of actual completion.

Any idea on why the other end of the spectrum is this way -- thinking that it always has something to do?

I can think of a pet theory on it stopping early -- that positive tool responses and such bias it towards thinking it's complete (could be extremely wrong)
by CharlieDigital | 2026-01-09 16:53:54+00:00
Depending on my projects, I tend to keep it pretty simple.

For personal projects, usually Firebase (+ occasional Cloud Run mixed in) which makes it relatively easy.

For professional projects, it's pretty easy now on AWS with their (unfortunately named) Copilot CLI [0] (highly, highly recommended).

But mostly, I keep my infra simple and bias towards modular monoliths [1] which ends up being the majority of my infra work (container packaging and deployment of the initial runtime infra).

[0] https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/

[1] https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2024/01/a-practical-guide-to-modul...
by lukan | 2026-01-09 16:54:02+00:00
"Is absolutely not the same being poor, in contrast to having money and not using it as part of a kind of game."

It is definitely not the same if there is a safety net you always can call and go back to. A true poor person does not have that. But if you have done the livestyle and know that you can get by without money, you do loose some fear of loosing money. That is indeed a liberating feeling and did helped me grow. But I also did not go around bragging how liberated I am, so I cannot judge on the person you met.
by A_Duck | 2026-01-09 16:54:19+00:00
Congratulations on building a nice-looking app that addresses a legitimate need.

I'd like to see some proof that this is able to accurately measure noise level across a range of devices. The CDC have a sound meter app [1] which has been tested to 2db accuracy, and they only make that available on specific Apple devices because calculating noise level depends on the hardware.

I'm sorry to ask, but I'm seeing many cases of AI apps making accuracy claims based on the author’s ‘reasonableness spot checks’ but with no statistical testing that the outputs are accurate.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/noise/about/app.html
by Culonavirus | 2026-01-09 16:54:31+00:00
I mean just go over v4.x.x release changelogs [0].

The "web platform" is evolving at a decent pace in general [1][2]. You can sometimes do the same thing in 50 different ways (thanks to the breadth of css features and js apis and backwards compatibility), but there may be a much more elegant and robust solution on the horizon and when it hits the baseline, chances are it would likely lead to a simpler framework codebase and/or shrinked output if integrated... and therefore such a feature should be integrated. Now do this a zillion times over the life of the project. You have to keep up.

Less hacks, less code, smaller outputs.

And THEN you have all the bug reports and new feature requests.

And THEN you're supposed to work on something built on top of Tailwind that you can actually sell so you have something to eat tomorrow.

[0]: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases

[1]: https://web.dev/blog

[2]: https://developer.chrome.com/new
by ryandrake | 2026-01-09 16:54:48+00:00
> Today, we have near infinite content in our pockets. The marginal utility of a stranger's story has plummeted because the competition is Joe Rogan or an endless algorithmic feed.

Not just strangers. The content tentacle reaches even deeper. You can go to a restaurant and see two people (presumably partners, who know and love one another, or friends who at least like to hang out together) sitting together separately scrolling their phones, lost down their own personal content-holes. When Joe Rogan is more interesting than talking about your day with your spouse or friend, I think it's pretty sad, and indicates a even bigger problem.
by iLemming | 2026-01-09 16:54:51+00:00
btw, I have failed to make the proper use of either of them - claudecodeusage keeps saying that I'm not signed in (I have Claude Desktop and CLI installed and signed in on both). CodexBar keeps saying "Claude usage probe timed out", even though it does show some numbers. I don't have a subscription, I just use the API.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-09 16:55:02+00:00
X has also falsely classified itself as a “news” app. It’s social media not journalism. This deceptive move has made it a lot more visible. The size of its user base means it is number 1 in many countries in the News category, which Musk brags about in daily posts, when he’s not posting explicitly supremacist content (this has become a thing with him in the last month).
by sbarre | 2026-01-09 16:55:18+00:00
Branding and customer relationships matter as much or more than the "billable service" part of Claude Code.

It's not unheard of for companies that have strong customer mindshare to find themselves intermediated by competitors or other products to the point that they just became part of the infrastructure and eventually lose that mindshare.

I doubt Anthropic wants to become a swappable backend for the actual thing that developers reach for to do their work (the CLI tool).

Don't get me wrong, I think developers should 100% have the choice of tooling they want to use.

But from a business standpoint I think maintaining that direct or first-party connection to the developer is what Anthropic are trying to protect here.
by baumy | 2026-01-09 16:55:23+00:00
I think you have to be careful with this as well, the word "blocking" in particular reminds me of a protest over the Israel/Gaza war that happened at my alma mater a couple years ago.

Protesters camped out at a central campus thoroughfare, and some protesters tried to stop people from walking through it. Not every protester did this and it wasn't done consistently by those who did, although some people avoided the area entirely just because they didn't want to deal with it. There were certainly other ways to travel from point A to point B on campus, just slightly longer and less convenient ones.

Were people "blocked" from walking through campus? Without disagreeing on any of the above facts, whether people agreed that someone was "blocked" largely came down to who was on each side. So you end up in this annoying semantic argument over what "blocked" means, where people are just using motivated reasoning based on who they want to be the bad actor.

Then you have another layer of disagreement - is it the responsibility of someone walking through campus to make a tiny effort to walk a few minutes out of their way and avoid instigating or escalating? Or do they have every right to walk through a public campus they're a student at, and anyone even slightly getting in their way is in the wrong? This feels closer to a principle people could have a consistent belief about, but again, people's opinions were 100% predictable based on which side of the protest they agreed with
by gruez | 2026-01-09 16:55:59+00:00
I'm not claiming that those people are right, only that the "videos ... speak for themselves" claim isn't true. If people can watch the same video and come to entirely different conclusions, how can you say it "... speak for themselves"? If so, can we also say ambiguous studies on whether ivemectin was effective against covid "speak for themselves"? Or does it just become a no true scotsman where you can say whatever evidence "speaks for themselves", and anyone who disagrees are lunatics?
by pflanze | 2026-01-09 16:56:13+00:00
> So AFAICT Embassy doesn't do this at all?

I haven't used Embassy, but the README mentions "Tasks on the same async executor run cooperatively, but you can create multiple executors with different priorities so that higher priority tasks preempt lower priority ones" and links to an example that shows how a higher priority task runs even though a lower priority one runs a long time job (does not yield), thus understanding and infrastructure seems to be there.

So, Embassy may in its entirety replace an RTOS / be one, but it's not the async mechanism that can provide the RT part (and I guess you're right to point out the dangerous sentence as it could mislead people to use only async and believe it's RT).

OTOH the sentence would be right if it were something like "async multitasking is an alternative to preemptive multitasking, and can replace the use of a preemptive OS if real-time guarantees are not needed (note that Embassy separately allows running multiple executors to allow to pre-empt tasks running in lower-priority executors)". They should probably also describe what the reason for not needing per-task stack size tuning is.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-09 16:56:22+00:00
The difference being that racists who do so are factually incorrect, when they blame the victims. You've just pointed to the actions of individuals (those who trained the racist in the racist culture) as a potential cause, and I'm inclined to agree with you: does that make us racists? I think not.

I don't think we should treat extremely powerful men as powerless victims of antisemitism who've done nothing to stoke the flames, a priori. Maybe they haven't: I certainly don't blame George Soros for the George Soros conspiracy theories (even though he partly does). But people in charge of states and militaries, who've been accused of war crimes by rather a lot of international justice bodies, who rarely let a chance to say "if you hate our decisions, you hate all members of this group" pass them by? They might be contributing to the bigotry. If a racist said something like that, we'd rightly condemn it as stoking the flames of hatred: why should it be any different, if someone else says it?
by al_borland | 2026-01-09 16:56:36+00:00
GitHub seems like an easy one, as you don’t really need a 3rd party for this.

Bitbucket is also an option, as Atlassian has a headquarters in Australia (but also one in San Francisco).

But ultimately, if things break down to the point where you lose access to the Visa network, you have bigger problems. I don’t expect that to happen, and suspect the news you’re receiving is catastrophizing things.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-09 16:56:58+00:00
The Pi Zero is a full SoC which naturally runs Linux. Any Linux SoC with USB (so basically all of them) could use used in the same way.

This article is about the RP2350's microcontroller cores. It doesn't even have an MMU, so running Linux on it is much more interesting. It's not as capable as the normal Linux we run on bigger boards, but it's still interesting.
by jcims | 2026-01-09 16:57:20+00:00
Nice! Thank you!

I just did an experiment yesterday with Opus 4.5 just operating in agent mode in vscode copilot. Handed it a live STS session for AWS to see if it could help us troubleshoot an issue. It was pretty remarkable seeing it chop down the problem space and arrive at an accurate answer in just a few mins.

I'll definitely check out the video later. Thanks!
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-09 16:57:22+00:00
"I've learned from experience that people who aggressively denounce others publicly sometimes have stuff going on that isn't readily visible."

Wolverton seems to be publicly denouncing Jobs and Powell Jobs aggressively

Powell Jobs and Jobs' sister are not publicly denouncing Brennan-Jobs aggressively

They said they have different memories

By Wolverton's account, Brennan-Jobs is not publicly denouncing Jobs aggressively

Wolverton writes that she recalls memories of Jobs not to "condemn him" but to "make peace" with Jobs and Powell Jobs

Did Jobs ever publicly denounce anyone aggressively

Did he have "stuff going on that isn't readily visible"

Who knows

But we have to honor and accept what is "readily visible"

For example,

https://people.com/parents/all-about-steve-jobs-kids/

"But people should be cautious trusting a report of one person's disputed report."

Jobs admitted to lying about being "sterile and infertile" to avoid paying child support

Such dishonesty would make some folks hesitate to trust any prior "reports" from Jobs

They might think, "If he was willing to lie about that, then what else was he willing to lie about"

That sort of caution seems justified

Powell Jobs and the sister might have a personal interest in questioning the accuracy of Bernnan-Jobs' memoir

Especially if the book describes what might be interpreted as abuse
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-09 16:57:28+00:00
"…and then admits he is not willing to be so generous himself"

That was not my impression. The confessed feeling guilt that he might not be able to have done the same—but I don't recall him saying that he absolutely would not have.

(And in fact I believe he can put his doubts aside— he probably would have done the same. Considering it in the abstract is different than when you come face to face with the choice.)
by alooola_ryan | 2026-01-09 16:57:34+00:00
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