MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-08 16:18:01+00:00
Another data point: my generally tech savvy teenage daughter (17) says that her friends are only aware of AI having been available for last year (3 actually), and basically only use it via Snaphhat "My AI" (which is powered by OpenAI) as a homework helper.

I get the impression that most non-techies have either never tried "AI", or regard it as Google (search) on steroids for answering questions.

Maybe more related to his (sad but true) senility rather than lack of interest, but I was a bit shocked to see the physicist Roger Penrose interviewed recently by Curt Jaimungal, and when asked if he had tried LLMs/ChatGPT assumed the conversation was about the "stupid lady" (his words) ELIZA (fake chatbot from the 60's), evidentially never having even heard of LLMs!
by lagniappe | 2026-01-08 16:18:08+00:00
Go is a pleasure to use. The stdlib is one of the most complete, while keeping the keyword count low. LLMs understand it very well, project size stays low, line count stays low (if err nil included), doesn't need a bunch of scaffolded boilerplate in the project directory, and it compiles very quickly for a ton of OS and architectures. Very seldom do I ever need to go outside of the stdlib.

Is it perfect for everything? no. Is it the fastest compiled language out there? no. But, it'll do most things very well, and for me that's good enough. I choose go because when I need to make something, it steps aside and lets me build, and for that I have great respect and appreciation for it.

I will be defering all detractors and negative comments ;)
by theptip | 2026-01-08 16:18:17+00:00
They are not getting worse, they are getting better. You just haven't figured out the scaffolding required to elicit good performance from this generation. Unit tests would be a good place to start for the failure mode discussed.

As others have noted, the prompt/eval is also garbage. It’s measuring a non-representative sub-task with a weird prompt that isn’t how you’d use agents in, say, Claude Code. (See the METR evals if you want a solid eval giving evidence that they are getting better at longer-horizon dev tasks.)

This is a recurring fallacy with AI that needs a name. “AI is dumber than humans on some sub-task, therefore it must be dumb”. The correct way of using these tools is to understand the contours of their jagged intelligence and carefully buttress the weak spots, to enable the super-human areas to shine.
by sosodev | 2026-01-08 16:18:17+00:00
That idea is called model collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse

Some studies have shown that direct feedback loops do cause collapse but many researchers argue that it’s not a risk with real world data scales.

In fact, a lot of advancements in the open weight model space recently have been due to training on synthetic data. At least 33% of the data used to train nvidia’s recent nemotron 3 nano model was synthetic. They use it as a way to get high quality agent capabilities without doing tons of manual work.
by gjm11 | 2026-01-08 16:18:25+00:00
I don't think you should be posting the answer to the current question unobfuscated, especially when there's no way for curious readers to get any other question after having that one spoiled (other than waiting for, at the moment, 7 hours or so).

It's not quite true that "it genuinely could have been from any OT book". First, when you make a guess it doesn't just tell you whether you got the book right, it also tells you whether you got the right section (major prophets, gospels, etc.). So if you guess that something's from Isaiah, after that you will at least know whether it's from Ezekiel or not.

I agree that this one could be from almost-but-not-quite anywhere in the OT, but bear in mind that the target audience (1) may well have read the whole thing multiple times and (2) may well have a good idea of the "tone" of various different books.

(I've been a godless heathen for many years, though I was a Christian for many years before that. In the present case my first guess was the same as yours but I didn't try your second guess, not only because of the can't-be-in-that-section thing but because I have a pretty good idea what sort of thing is in that book and I don't think there's much there that reads like this verse. It did, none the less, take me quite a lot of guesses. If I were still in the habit of reading the Bible a lot I expect I'd have done better. Which is kinda the point.)
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-08 16:18:31+00:00
To be fair, we could also just optimize the runtime engines for interpreted languages.

I do enjoy golang, but Rust gives me nightmares. I make my living in higher level languages.

When I started learning to program JavaScript was just starting to gain popularity outside of the browser. It was the first language I could actually grasp, and I largely think it for giving me a career.

No more evictions for me!

The only real downside to JavaScript, you know being used as a tool for native apps with stuff like electron is it eats ram. Everything needs to a ship a full chrome binary.

But if we go back to native applications, we don't get things like quality Linux ports. If you would have told me 15 years ago that Microsoft would create the most popular IDE on Linux I'd assume that you had misspoke.
by Xeoncross | 2026-01-08 16:18:45+00:00
One of the things I wish more people talked about isn't just the language or the syntax, but the ecosystem. Programming isn't just typing, it's dealing with dependencies and trying to wire everything up so you can have tests, benchmarks, code-generation and build scripts all working together well.

When I use modern languages like Go or Rust I don't have to deal with all the stuff added to other languages over the past 20 years like unicode, unit testing, linting, or concurrency.

I use Go where the team knows Java, Ruby or TypeScript but needs performance with low memory overhead. All the normal stuff is right there in the stdlib like JSON parsing, ECC / RSA encryption, or Image generation. You can write a working REST API with zero dependencies. Not to mention so far all Go programs I've ever seen still compile fine unlike those Python or Ruby projects where everything is broken because it's been 8mo.

However, I'd pick Rust when the team isn't scared of learning to program for real.
by jerezzprime | 2026-01-08 16:18:47+00:00
Let's imagine a scenario. For your entire life, you have been taught to respond to people in a very specific way. Someone will ask you a question via email and you must respond with two or three paragraphs of useful information. Sometimes when the person asks you a question, they give you books that you can use, sometimes they don't.

Now someone sends you an email and asks you to help them fix a bug in Windows 12. What would you tell them?
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-08 16:18:48+00:00
Yeah, so many of us with stories of angry parents over too large an AOL bill. If I recall correctly, my month where I did that was in Modus Operandi, the detective themed text game. I don't remember exactly how I spent all that time in MO one month, but I know part of how I spent that many hours was logging into my AOL account from my grandparents' place and a friend's place, in addition to what I was doing at home, which contributed to why my parents hadn't tracked that much "screen time" in that era. Amazing to consider how many things changed since then, but also how many of those concerns are the same even if the reasons for the concerns are different.
by graemep | 2026-01-08 16:18:49+00:00
You can guess from the content and style. For example, I could easily see today's quote was Old Testament even though its not one I know, although I did not guess the book, successfully.

I do not know the Bible particularly well compared to many other people, and I know the New Testament better than the Old (not uncommon - its both smaller and more important to Christians).
by arcfour | 2026-01-08 16:18:51+00:00
My understanding of modern Bose kit based on RTINGS reviews is that it's fairly competitive in its price range. Still a touch pricey for what you get, but not bad by any means—like 2nd/3rd best, and occasionally punching above its weight for their midrange offerings. They seem to be #1 for comfort (headphones) though.

I don't own any, I've just read reviews from when I was in the market for new headphones and earbuds.
by matkoniecz | 2026-01-08 16:19:27+00:00
It is possible and likely that some data was not yet mapped in OpenStreetMap. So it is missing in OpenStreetMap-based map.

Feel free to edit it if you can!

(even if this specific data is not possible to be added by you - feel free to add say nearby shop or park)

ad: if you have Android I can recommend StreetComplete (great for newbies)

if you have iPhone - GoMap!! is great though a bit more complicated to use

Vespucci is more complicated and more powerful than StreetComplete editor for Android phones

or you can edit directly on osm.org from desktop

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disclaimer: I am a walking conflict of interest as far as OSM goes (for start, I am StreetComplete contributor)
by ktg0215 | 2026-01-08 16:19:34+00:00
Completing a full rotation in under 2 minutes at 710 meters diameter is insane. The fact that it holds together at that spin rate tells us a lot about its composition - it can't be a rubble pile.

Rubin Observatory is already delivering results in just 7 nights of commissioning data. The full 10-year survey is going to be incredible for solar system science.
by trevor-e | 2026-01-08 16:19:49+00:00
I'm dealing with a severe health ailment with my cat right now and ChatGPT has been pretty invaluable in helping us understand what's going on. We've been keeping our own detailed medical log that I paste in with the lab and radiology results and it gives pretty good responses on everything so far. Of course I'm treating the results skeptically but so far it has been helpful and kept us more informed on what's going on. We've found it works best if you give it the raw facts and lab results.

The main issue is that medicine and diseases come with so many "it depends" and caveats. Like right now my cat won't eat anything, is it because of nausea from the underlying disease, from the recent stress she's been through, from the bad reaction to the medicine she really doesn't like, from her low potassium levels, something else, all of the above? It's hard to say since all of those things mention "may cause nausea and loss of appetite". But to be fair, even the human vets are making their own educated guesses.
by bombcar | 2026-01-08 16:19:56+00:00
More importantly, there's huge tracts of land that could be new cities.

In the past, we had that incidentally or almost "accidentally" as new industries would create or vastly expand existing towns, and development would occur around them.

Now most "work" is more fluid, and doesn't build company towns, instead you get endless suburbs expanding off an existing city, even when they're technically their "own legal framework".

Even after we moved off the "factory town" type new cities, the suburb development wasn't a major issue because each new exurb usually involved a new highway direct to the city center - but new highways have been rare mainly because all the "reasonable" ones have been built now.

You could either create demand for cities somehow (look at Las Vegas, built out of nowhere) or you could use high-speed commuter rail to empty areas to give room for a seed to grow.
by h14h | 2026-01-08 16:20:06+00:00
Given how inexorably tied the US economy is to SFH prices, a drop may do more harm than good.

Many families have the majority of their wealth tied up in their home, and another significant portion of it (knowingly or not) in the SFH MBS market via their retirement investments. If prices fall quickly enough to impact the MBS market, a large number of households could suddenly see big dips their two biggest sources of wealth.

A gradual drop may be fine, but the financialization of housing at the national is a big mess. Sadly it makes the market dynamics of giving people places to live way more complex than it should be.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-08 16:20:07+00:00
It's related to John 2:23-25. He's not saying you should not have friends or trust anyone. He's saying you should not seek or hope anything from humans that only God can actually provide. It's related to codependence and similar character flaws. I think even atheists would agree that it's not healthy to want the objective approval and validation of inconstant people with imperfect judgment.
by nradov | 2026-01-08 16:20:16+00:00
I generally agree (and sympathize with your wife), but let's not present an overly rosy view of government run healthcare or single-payer systems. In many countries with such systems, extensive therapy simply isn't available at all because the government refuses to pay for it. Every healthcare system has limited resources and care is always going to be rationed, the only question is how we do the rationing.
by egglemonsoup | 2026-01-08 16:20:31+00:00
Based on my initial audience, it's definitely not common. The Christians I know have different levels of familiarity with the books of the Bible.

Personally, I know Genesis/Exodus, Psalms, and the Gospels well. I can recognize Epistles on sight, but identifying the exact one is really just a guessing game. Most everything else I am not familiar with and will take me a while to guess.

I think that's why people have enjoyed it so far, because of the tradeoff of getting a verse you recognize (so you can guess the book quickly) or getting an unfamiliar verse (so you get to expand your familiarity with the Bible).
by woodruffw | 2026-01-08 16:20:38+00:00
> The other difference is being subjected to a whitelisting approach. That wasn't previously the case.

You are not being subjected to one. Again: you can always use an API token with PyPI, even on a CI/CD platform that PyPI knows how to do Trusted Publishing against. It's purely optional.

> All we ever really needed was a standardized way to limit the scope of a given credential coupled with a standardized challenge format to prove possession of a private key.

That is what OIDC is. Well, not for a private key, but for a set of claims that constitute a machine identity, which the relying party can then do whatever it wants with.

But standards and interoperability don't mean that any given service will just choose to federate with every other service out there. Federation always has up-front and long-term costs that need to be balanced with actual delivered impact/value; for a single user on their own server, the actual value of OIDC federation versus an API token is nil.
by tczMUFlmoNk | 2026-01-08 16:20:54+00:00
> I don’t see your joke as being in any way harmful towards Sanjay aside from potential knock on effects of Jeff Dean being more popular

I mean… yeah. When two people are peers and comparably well regarded, and one is elevated above the other and enjoys increased popularity, familiarity, and respect, and the elevation is because that person's name comes from a culture that is more aligned with the dominant culture and easier for them to engage with… that is a pretty textbook example of systemic racism.

I'm not at all saying this to demonize Kenton. We can make mistakes and reflect on them later, and that's laudable. But it is important to recognize these systems for what they are, so that we can notice them when they happen all around us every day.
by demosito666 | 2026-01-08 16:21:01+00:00
> Does my uncle having an argument with his doctor over needing more painkillers, combine with an anecdote about my sister disagreeing with a midwife over how big her baby would be, combined with my friend outliving their stage 4 cancer prognosis all add up to "therefore I'm going to disregard nutrition recommendations"?

Not sure about your sister and uncle, but from my observations the anecdotes combine into “doctor does not have time and/or doesn’t care”. People rightfully give exactly zero fucks about Bayes theorem, national health policy, insurance companies, social dynamics or whatever when the doctor prescribes Alvedon after 5 minutes of listening to indistinct story of a patient with a complicated condition which would likely be solved with additional tests and dedicated time. ChatGPT is at least not in a hurry.
by vivzkestrel | 2026-01-08 16:21:09+00:00
- What is code?

- Oh, baby, don't crash me Don't crash me, no more

- No, I don't know why you're not there I pushed to Main,

- but you don't care Is it the bracket? Or is it the path? Math.random() wrath! Give me a sign!

- I want no other, no other framework This is our Sprint, our time When we’re together, I need you forever Is it... Clean Code?

- Oh, baby, don't crash me Don't crash me no more

- Oh, baby, don't crash me Don't crash me, no more What is code?

- I'll see myself out
by starkparker | 2026-01-08 16:21:37+00:00
If this is exciting and you don't need the EMR stylus but you want a project instead of a product for a Macbook: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805921231769.html

If this is exciting because of the EMR stylus but you want a project instead of a product for a Macbook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537489, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igVscvWAR1s
by Delk | 2026-01-08 16:22:01+00:00
If humans are considered apex(-ish) predators, it's because there's mostly nothing "above" us in the food chain. We aren't typical prey for any other animal, so we are at the top-ish.

It doesn't mean the diets of humans are biologically supposed to consist of huge amounts of meat.

Most apex predators are of course obligate carnivores. But humans are probably near the top because the use of weapons and tools makes us highly dangerous, so most land animals are wary of humans. Even many predators don't prey on humans for food.

(Although some large land predators do, mostly when they're desperate for food.)
by cthalupa | 2026-01-08 16:22:14+00:00
The results quite explicitly show how lacking the training is for these ICE agents.

It was unnecessary to shoot the woman even if doing so could potentially be a good way to stop someone that is driving towards you, but it also patently is not a good way as evidenced by the fact that doing it caused the car to accelerate significantly more than it ever did before she was shot, before it crashes into the parked cars.

Many police departments have explicit policies here.

The DOJ does:

https://www.justice.gov/jm/1-16000-department-justice-policy...

ICE is part of DHS, and DHS has policies as well, though not as explicit as the DOJ's:

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mgmt/la...

They're explicitly prohibited from using deadly force unless they reasonably believe their life is in danger or they are under threat of significant bodily harm, which is obviously not the case here. It's also explicitly prohibited to use it just because a subject is fleeing, unless they have reason to believe the subject fleeing will allow them to kill or significantly injure others - again, obviously not the case here.

The ICE agent acted in a way that goes against DHS policy, against standard policy in general, and in a way that would have zero productive outcomes even ignoring the fact he murdered some poor lady.
by wordisside | 2026-01-08 16:22:35+00:00
> It's not easier in C++. Nothing is.

The implementations of sort in Rust are filled with unsafe.[0]

Another example is that of doubly linked lists.[1] It is possible to implement a doubly linked list correctly in C++ without much trouble. In Rust, it can be significantly more challenging.

In C++, pointers are allowed to alias if their types, roughly said, are compatible. In Rust, there are stricter rules, and getting those rules wrong in an unsafe block, or code outside unsafe blocks that code inside unsafe blocks rely on, will result in breakage of memory safety.

This has been discussed by others.[2]

Based on that, do you agree that there are algorithms and data structures that are significantly easier to implement efficiently and correctly in C++ than in Rust? And thus that you are being completely wrong in your claim?

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/main/library/core/src...

[1] https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/

[2] https://chadaustin.me/2024/10/intrusive-linked-list-in-rust/
by bombcar | 2026-01-08 16:22:41+00:00
Changing the excessively huge (and probably financially needed) capital gains deduction for selling a home and buying a new one to only work if you literally buy new construction - would probably spur something.

Existing stock would be depressed in value as the pool of buyers would be smaller, but they'd be more likely to be first time buyers anyway (no capital gains to deal with) and demand for new would increase.

But you could end up with insane inversions where existing stock was pulled down to build new to take advantage of the gains exclusion.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-01-08 16:22:57+00:00
“Wer mit Windows kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Windows wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Startmenü blickst, blickt der Startmenü auch in dich hinein.” (“He who fights with Windows should see to it that he himself does not become Windows. And when you gaze long into the Start Menu, the Start Menu also gazes into you.”) - Aphorism 98se, Jenseits von Linux und Windows: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der zukünftige Computertechnologie, with profound apologies to Nietzsche.
by freedomben | 2026-01-08 16:23:27+00:00
Don't let perfect be the the enemy of good. I fully agree with you on what the bare minimum should be, but the reality is that our definition of bare minimum is currently a fantasy. Any steps taken toward our vision is good and should be applauded IMHO. Especially when it's a major player like Bose that hopefully sets a positive precedent and gets other manufacturers to realize this is not only possible but leads to applause and hopefully more sales.

Evolution v. Revolution. I'd prefer the latter, but realistically the former is the more likely to succeed short of people like us getting control of regulatory bodies and forcing it.