MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scotty79 | 2026-01-08 17:06:28+00:00
> "You're right, I fucked up on all three counts:"

It very well might be that AI tools are not for you, if you are getting such poor results with your methods of approaching them.

If you would like to improve your outcomes at some point, ask people who achieve better results for pointers and try them out. Here's a freebie, never tell AI it fucked up.
by egypturnash | 2026-01-08 17:06:46+00:00
I'm an artist and haven't used a mouse since somewhere in the 00's when I developed some RSI in my index finger while working in the Flash animation mines.

Annoyances: games that require you to push the cursor against the edge of the screen to move the view, app/website developers who force tiny scrollbars that constantly hide themselves despite me setting the OS to never hide scrollbars, having to restart the tablet drivers most of the time when I move between having the laptop docked with the big screen and big tablet on the desk, and taking it out to a cafe or the park and using the smaller tablet that lives in my laptop bag.
by stouset | 2026-01-08 17:07:11+00:00
> typing this repetitive (for a reason) pattern became not a problem at all

Code is read 10x more than it is written. The noise this pattern introduces inhibits reading and rapid comprehension.

Things are getting marginally better now that go has errors.Is and errors.As, and also now that go is starting to get some functional iterators. But go is one of the least quickly-understandable of the modern languages currently in use.
by moshegramovsky | 2026-01-08 17:07:13+00:00
> There are 800000k patients who die or are seriously injured by a misdiagnosis every year.

Yes, I once sat in a recovery room with my Mom after she had been given too much propofol during an endoscopy. Despite the fact that her breathing was labored, the clinic she was at didn't want to do anything so I called 911. I'm not sure what happened, but I can see that side of your point. I did learn to be much more careful about how I saw to my parents medical care after that.
by adam_patarino | 2026-01-08 17:07:15+00:00
There are lots of companies that do this. Doesn't make it right.

The real "evil" here is that companies like Meta, Google, and now OpenAI sell people a product or service that the customer thinks is the full transaction. I search with Google, they show me ads - that's the transaction. I pay for Chatgpt, it helps me understand XYZ - that's the transaction.

But it isn't. You give them your data and they sell it - that's the transaction. And that obscurity is not ethical in my opinion.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-08 17:07:17+00:00
These are pretty much all about mandatory locking. Which giveth and taketh away in my experience. I’ve had substantially fewer weird file handling bugs in my Linux code than my Windows code. POSIX is very loosey-goosey in general, but Linux’s VFS system + ext4 has a much stronger model than the general POSIX guarantees.

`FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE`’s equivalent on Posix is just rm. Windows doesn’t let you open new handles to `FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE`ed files anyway, so it’s effectively the same. The inode will get deleted when the last file description is removed.

NFS is a disaster though, I’ll give you that one. Though mandatory locks on SMB shares hanging is also very aggravating in its own right.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-08 17:07:24+00:00
ah I guess I should have been clearer: I am friends with a lot of people - sure it's pretty bad in some states, but america is huge and nothing really changed for them within the decade.

I can't really speak for decades, none of us have been alive that long to live that difference - people generally live wealthier lives than 2 decades ago, at the cost of losing the ability to repair your own shit, being locked into buying new things when old ones work fine. but that's the failure of capitalism and legislation to subdue these issues.

What I am really trying to say is that I believe in time everything will be okay as long as we manage to survive the hardest challenge we have right now: AI causing major distruption in every single business causing further imbalance between people and coorperations.
by filoleg | 2026-01-08 17:08:18+00:00
> "Bose blows" is a popular comment amongst the audiophile community but, to me, it seems like they don't blow at all[0]

That comment is not wrong, you are imo just not making an important distinction that the criteria on which audiophiles judge Bose as “blowing” (which is almost purely the sound profile + a few other smaller things like physical comfort/connectivity/price/etc.) vs. what you judge it on (which is more in the long-term technical user/community product support, idk how to describe that area much better) are almost entirely disjoint.

It is perfectly fine and valid for an audio product to “blow” from an opinionated audiophile perspective, while being exceptionally great from the long-term product/user/community product support perspective.

I heavily agree with you btw, Bose should be heavily lauded for making a decision to open-up their speaker firmware after it reaches the official end of support deadline. The fact that this is an exceptional practice is imo, a little bit sad, because I believe that it should be way more common.
by LatencyKills | 2026-01-08 17:08:22+00:00
It wasn't that it was "new" (you're correct, it wasn't). The complaint was that Microsoft engineers were going to use it "as a crutch".

Also, VS (codename Boston) was used as the de-facto internal development IDE for a few years before it we released it to the public. There were also arguments about shipping those types of features publicly.
by reactordev | 2026-01-08 17:08:45+00:00
Are you asking if a drug and sex fueled lifestyle is still pursued today by musicians? The answer sadly is yes. There are lots of musicians that don’t go full throttle but most of the highly famous ones are running the red line. This is the OP’s point. Whether it’s the person amplified by the lifestyle that makes them famous or it’s the fame that enables the lifestyle that allows them to destroy themselves.

The road is littered with smashed guitars.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-08 17:09:18+00:00
Sure, except this time also add on US pressuring Korean companies to not sell their old equipment to Chinese manufacturers, so the supply could actually keep up. But no no, it's all OpenAI's fault for behaving like the capitalistic swines they are. Both suck, but one has a long-lasting impact, the other is just what capitalists always done, and will continue in the future.
by Minor49er | 2026-01-08 17:09:53+00:00
To be fair, the author says it's the "_supposed_ difficulty of writing err != nil" and says that the verbosity isn't an issue here. But he also earlier says that he "[hates] having to write pub all the time in Rust" to denote public visibilities. So typing seven extra characters in one place = tolerable, but four extra characters elsewhere = detestable
by Supermancho | 2026-01-08 17:09:53+00:00
I have used it for GDScript, C++, Java, and other more general questions.
Specifically, comparing it to other LLMs responses ESPECIALLY after incremental narrowing by prompt. Claud seems to randomly change approaches and even ignore context to the point you get the same circular issues you see in Copilot (do A because B is bad, then do B because A is bad or worse ignore everything before and do C because it's nominal). It seems more primitive in my sessions from the last time I used it (for a couple days) ~45 days ago.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-01-08 17:10:06+00:00
Personally I don't care either way about RFK Jr's new food pyramid.

I think the bigger danger of giving this credit is lending any legitimacy to RFK Jr who is actively undermining actual medical advice and wrecking havoc on our childhood vaccine programs.

Just because a broken clock is right twice a day, doesn't mean you need to give the broken clock credit for being right.

By doing this "oh it's just tribalism" lends legitimacy to RFK Jr and furthers his ability to kill kids with preventable disease and further damage the credibility of modern medical science.

"Oh he has some good ideas" Yeah? Which ones? Does the average american have the time/curiosity/capability to sort through which of his ideas are good and which ones will kill their kids?
by gs17 | 2026-01-08 17:11:07+00:00
> Now, they're using it for facial recognition. They didn't get a facial recognition system by deleting photos, so we know based on the premise that some representation of the data in the photo (your likeness) exists in persistent form.

If we want to be truly generous in interpreting it, the new sample would be deleted and the comparison is done against the photos they have on file from your ID/passport (although, since a foreigner can do it on their first visit to the US, it might just be based on scanning the document you provide). Of course, single-sample-per-person facial recognition is pretty limited, but it's security theater anyways.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-01-08 17:11:26+00:00
and it's pretty obvious that whoever was said that quote was going for shock/cleverness and sacrificed truth and understanding

It's not obvious from the quote, which just states something that is obviously true, and doesn't attempt to explain it.

But ... Andreessen has elsewhere claimed it's due to regulation: https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-wont-cause-unemployment

But ... more recently his firm has explained they know what Baumol's cost disease is: https://a16z.com/why-ac-is-cheap-but-ac-repair-is-a-luxury/
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-08 17:11:29+00:00
Your logic would defend the Boston massacre that started our country.

Bro you shit posted FAFO to a 37 year old mom being murdered because she turned down a street that ice randomly had an unmarked car parked in the middle of. You aren't rational. You aren't middle of the road. You literally smuggly posted FAFO as your response to a mom with her call full of her childs stuffies, because she drove down the wrong street and ended up blocked by an unmarked car. That isn't normal. Like I said, check yourself, because you are lost. I left California for a red red state because I was middle. I know what 'middle' means. Middle means default being against arbitrary federal government use of force, especially when lethal. You can lie to yourself that you are middle. Don't lie to me, thanks.

Your totally rational position:
If ICE blocks the road with an unmarked car like in this case, if you stop, you are interfering with their activities.
If you don't stop, you are a threat to their life and they can kill you.

Normal people get emotional when that becomes the new normal from their government. Not post FAFO. And you never address anything contradictory to your position. You are purely posting talking points. You aren't middle of the road. You are all in on this. You own it as much as any MAGA bro.

ARMED GOVERNMENT AGENTS YELLED AT HER TO MOVE MOVE MOVE. THE AGENT IN QUESTION VIOLATED HIS TRAINING AND PROCEDURE. THE AGENT IN QUESTION STEPPED UP IN NO FEAR FOR HIS LIFE WHEN SHE WAS BACKING UP, HE DID NOT MOVE AWAY LIKE SOMEONE IN FEAR WOULD. SHE WAS A RANDOM MOM THAT DROVE DOWN THE WRONG STREET. You are a crappy American trying to justify/normalize this. You are a crappy American saying FAFO is valid procedure for law enforcement in the USA. You are allowing our country to devolve into something awful. You are cool with that. You are NOT middle of the road.

The government/cops can defend themselves. The middle position is to hold our government accountable. Not justify a government where a mom can be murdered because she drove down the wrong street.
by theamk | 2026-01-08 17:11:46+00:00
Libreoffice will likely download the whole file.

But many others clients won't. In particular, any video player will _not_ download entire file before accessing it. And for images, many viewers start showing image before whole thing is downloaded. And to look at zip files, you don't need the whole thing - just index at the end. And for music, you stream data...

Requiring that file is "downloaded in full before program access them" is a pretty bad degradation in a lot of cases. I've used smb and nfs and sshfs and they all let you read any range of file, and start giving the data immediately, even before the full download.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-08 17:11:48+00:00
They are all over the place, especially small businesses. A cash only (paper money) price is typically less than debit card or other electronic “cash” discounts because tax evasion is assumed.

Next time you have an independent contractor do some work, after they give a price, ask them if they will accept 90% or even less if you pay cash.

My barber has a sign with a cash price, a Zelle/Venmo price, and a credit card price.
by aftbit | 2026-01-08 17:12:09+00:00
The one thing they relied on "my buddy told me" for is actually not really in dispute as they say. Between CALEA, the Snowden leaks, and the earlier stuff (like the beamsplitters in Room 641A), we have known clearly based on a number of public and verifiable sources that the US government has its fingers deeply into the data streams that flow through US companies. This is a reasonable inference even absent all of this information.

Now ... I don't think any of this actually supports the parent comment's implication that Cloudflare took some anti-Venezuela action at the request of the US government, just that your criticism is kinda unfounded.
by wrenky | 2026-01-08 17:12:13+00:00
They are an improvement over most languages, but the are _not_ better than sum types for the reasons listed above. Way less flexible and forces a lot more verbosity when compared to more functional languages.

Hes definitely wrong on how the error types can help account for that but it would be best in class if we could properly chain them AND use all the greatness from interfaces.
by tarentel | 2026-01-08 17:12:53+00:00
A lot of it comes down to what the person you're responding to said, seasonality. I grew up in a very rural farming area and now live in a very large city. While the produce at the grocery store is generally inferior to that of being near a farm, when things are in season, it is at least comparable. That apple you buy in July is never going to be as good as one bought in the fall, it doesn't matter where you buy it from.
by criddell | 2026-01-08 17:12:54+00:00
How are you calculating that?

Google tells me that 2 lbs of steak contains between 225 and 270 grams of protein. That would be well over the threshold that the article I linked to a couple of posts up mentions:

> Your kidneys process all the extra nitrogen from the protein, and when you’re eating 200 grams a day, sometimes they just can’t keep up and they get stressed.
by bflesch | 2026-01-08 17:12:55+00:00
Good luck! Maybe do a short holiday with her or simply take her outside for a full day and see if she improves.

You could also take some pictures of the suspected rooms especially the walls/ceiling and the bathtub/shower area and post them online to reddit.com/r/toxicmoldexposure and they can give you feedback. If you dont want to post online feel free to send to my email but I'm a layman without special training in this.

Also there are dogs who can smell mold, not sure how many of them are in Spain but maybe you are lucky and one is close to you.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-08 17:12:56+00:00
You guys are getting downvoted but you're 100% right. You never hear the stories about someone typing symptoms into ChatGPT and getting back wrong, bullshit answers--or the exact answer their doctor would have told them. Because those stories are boring. You only hear about the miraculous cases where ChatGPT accurately diagnosed an unusual condition. What's the ratio of miracle:bullshit? 1:100? 1:10,000?
by Krutonium | 2026-01-08 17:13:28+00:00
It's even worse than that.

The ARM Core starts up, does crypto, Loads the SecureOS and the BIOS, then it starts the x86 CPU - In 16 bit mode! Which then boostraps itself through 32 then 64 bit mode.

So in the first couple sends of power on, your CPU is at various points ARM, i386, x86, and x86_64.
by some_furry | 2026-01-08 17:13:29+00:00
Yeah, I do something similar with my blog (except via JavaScript). The motivation is similar to Cendyne's.

(Because it's exhausting to have to explain for the 1000th time that I'm not going to make my blog non-furry just because some rando hates furries and thinks being a part of a nerd community is pornographic.)
by tdeck | 2026-01-08 17:13:54+00:00
Your description reminds me of a blind guy I know who is interested in architecture, and began to collect scale models of famous building so he could feel them and experience their architecture. Eventually he took an interest in buildings that were less famous or didn't have high quality models, and started commissioning an artist to model them in CAD and 3D print them. Now he has a business producing and selling these tactics models.

https://evengrounds.com/about/
by rahimnathwani | 2026-01-08 17:14:05+00:00
but I suspect that the people working in the TV factory do not find that the TVs are cheaper than finding a local plasterer

I wonder whether this is true of Tesla factories in the USA? If you have a very badly wrecked Tesla with some valuable salvageable parts, would it be cheaper to buy a new Tesla or to pay someone to replace the 80% of parts that need replacing.

I suspect the new one would be cheaper.

Automation and economies of scale matter, not just labour costs.
by aembleton | 2026-01-08 17:14:55+00:00
Even the original margarine (before the invention of hydrogenation) is more processed than the best bread and butter.

To quote from Ultra-Processed People:

Mège-Mouriès took cheap solid fat from a cow (suet), rendered it (heated it up with some water), digested it with some enzymes from a sheep stomach to break down the cellular tissue holding the fat together, then it was sieved, allowed to set, extruded from between two plates, bleached with acid, washed with water,warmed, and finally mixed with bicarb, milk protein, cow-udder tissue and annatto (a yellow food colouring derived from seeds of the achiote tree). The result was a spreadable, plausible butter substitute.
by Sam713 | 2026-01-08 17:15:17+00:00
If you watch the close up video from the 7pm angle, you can clearly see that the tires don’t spin out by looking at the speed of the rims. Furthermore, imagine yourself in a situation where an aggressive, masked, armored, and armed person is trying to pull your door open while screaming in your face. You’re in full fight or flight mode, tunnel vision, scared, and confused. At this same time, unbeknownst to the driver, another agent had circled around counterclockwise behind the rear of the vehicle, up the right side in the vehicle’s blind spot, and across the front of the vehicle. Driver is still focused on the other ICE agent trying to yank her door open. Driver decides on the flight option, as obviously fight would be insane, and tries to leave the scene. Driver clearly turns to the right, trying to AVOID the agent that had crept around to the front while her back was turned. The driver isn’t a person with a violent criminal past and felony warrant. There is absolutely no reason for this level of aggression, corralling tactics, or escalation of force. This is not an appropriate way for law enforcement to interact with civilians in any sane society. The shooter immediately draws his weapon at the first sign of vehicle movement, while also placing his body at a 45° angle to the front corner of the vehicle. As the driver attempts to slowly turn away at a relatively slow vehicle, shooter brings weapon up, pushing shooting stance forward into the vehicle, even though he has an easy step away from the vehicles path. Even if he did get bumped by the vehicle, by the time the first shot is fired, he’s already positioned to the side of front quarter panel, out of the vehicles path (you can clearly see this not only in the video, but also in photos of the angle and placement of the bullet hole in the windshield). The threat of serious bodily injury or death is literally already passed, yet the shooter fires two more rounds point blank through the driver’s side window. It is after these final two rounds are fired that the vehicle actually accelerates. I speculate that the driver was likely already dead or incapacitated at this point, and lack of motor control caused weight of their leg to push into accelerator. It doesn’t matter if this person was protesting ICE, or blocking traffic. This is not justified self defense (the threat of death or serious bodily injury had already passed), there was no threat to anyone else, and this is not an appropriate way for law enforcement to interact with general civilian population. At a minimum this is a reckless disregard for public safety, manslaughter, and lack of professional discipline.

Edit: bellingcat did a video sketching overhead reenactment of the event. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTPraD7DGZh/
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-08 17:16:16+00:00
> Although the sentence is itself a bit awkward and strange on its own, and really needs context.

Absolutely, but in this case and in many others we just don't have that kind of context. So we do what comes naturally and make assumptions based on past experience. We assume that the most frequently encountered form of it is the right one. From one perspective it can be said that LLM's are doing the same.

It's interesting to note that jokes are absolutely riddled with confusing and syntactically vague language like this. If you're ever looking for a good NLP test find some children's joke books. Those old dad jokes are mostly just about the vagaries of the English language and how easily you can be surprised when the "solution" to a sentence is not the most common one.
by aftbit | 2026-01-08 17:16:31+00:00
Pretty much as you say. Legal exists within a system of laws. Hypothetically these laws might not have a carve-out for "CTO doesn't like the behavior" but they almost certainly do have a carve-out for "national security reasons". You'll pretty much never find a lawyer advising a client to break the law because it would be more ethical to do so.
Show HN: StatefulSet Backup Operator – Automated K8s PV Snapshots via CRDs
by lep_qq | 2026-01-08 17:16:44+00:00
I built a small Kubernetes operator that automates PV snapshots for StatefulSets using custom resources for scheduling and retention.
It's at v0.0.1-alpha and very experimental. The idea was to explore a pattern where backup configuration lives as CRDs alongside StatefulSet definitions, rather than using external tooling.
Obviously Velero is more mature and feature-complete for production backup/DR needs. This is narrower in scope - just StatefulSet snapshots via the K8s VolumeSnapshot API.
Would love feedback on whether this approach makes sense for any real-world scenarios, or if it's solving a problem that doesn't really exist.
by tarentel | 2026-01-08 17:17:52+00:00
I am not sure if you're disagreeing with the original poster here but you're both saying the same thing in different units. 1g/kg != 1g/lb which is A LOT more protein and a complete waste of time. As a mostly vegetarian who lifts regularly, I am targeting a bit more than 1g/kg but being from the US it is a lot less than 1g/lb. :p
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-08 17:17:59+00:00
> There is nothing magical about topological sort and calling constructors in the right order, which is all DI is.

Lol... That's exactly the kind of thing we call "magic" in software development.

Anyway, if your framework is entirely based on DI, everybody that uses the framework will use DI, and the LLMs will generate code for it that uses DI. That does not contest my point in any way.